I have nothing particularly against piracy, but if you think that making entertainment isn't work, then I cordially invite you to enter the industry and pay your dues. You will enjoy not having a family life anymore, when you're pulling 12+shifts sitting in front of a screen doing repetitive tasks without any glamour whatsoever. Just because it's fun to watch movies doesn't mean it isn't real work to make them. The vast majority of people who work in entertainment don't make millions. For every wealthy actor there's thousands of people you never see behind the scenes.

My reasons against hating piracy are that 1: I think it's gone too far, it stifles innovation and breaks with thousands of years of history where humans could freely share ideas 2. If you are a student and want to break into a field, the cost of educational materials can be kind of shocking---you may have no other means to be competitive other than to pirate software, or the hundreds of movies you might need to watch to become knowledgeable in your field. 3. broke people can't afford to buy the movie anyway

Piracy would be if I looked at the car, took detailed notes and photos and then made a copy of it. Theft is depriving you of your property--hopping in the car and driving away. They have entirely different consequences, and as far as I know most legal systems rightly distinguish between them, which is why p2p is charged under civil, not criminal law (so far).

If someone steals my music, that means they've come into my studio and stolen the multitrack files off my hard drive, or claimed my work as their own, for profit.

Just because two things might be (debatably) bad doesn't mean they are equivalent, and just because Hollywood makes videos about piracy equaling theft doesn't mean they are true.

I'm an analog piracy purist. I only pirate my movies on Beta tapes.

Sorry to rain on the buzzword parade,but I'm pretty sure version 1.0 was copying sheet music and forging paintings, and 2.0 was copying cassette and VCR tapes. If I've missed a step there please feel free to fill me in.

Yes and maybe that's the point. Some say that just addressing this issue perpetuates it. But if you want equality, you're never going to have it if you put your fingers in your ears and pretend this doesn't happen.

Glad to know there's some sanity left on /. these days. Can't say I've ever had any issues with women in IT positions either. Not surprisingly when there's mutual respect, there's no real problems.

"Shhh...someone at AVFM told me 'mangina' was a dire insult.. weapon deployed! Impact in 5..4..3..2.. *fizzle*"

(because the best way to prove you like women is to think that "pussy" and "mangina" are insults) Can't say I feel guilty about anything. Your rage might indicate you've some subconscious guilt though.

You're right, diversity as meaning hiring unqualified people is not a straw man.. it's an anti-intellectual conspiracy theory, us vs those horrible universities who shut us out.. and it's supported with fringe evidence from outlying cases.

I don't admit that chemtrails have any bearing on my health either.

Are you sure you aren't creating the divisiveness? Easy to point fingers.

That's argumentum ad absurdum, which isn't inherently good or bad, it just depends on whether or not the issue is adequately represented.

For example, if out of two hundred applicants ten are more than qualified, diversity doesn't lead to lower quality applicants. 'Best' can depend on subjective things like how you tickled the interviewer's fancy or whether or not you woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

"I'm gonna straw-man 'diversity' to pretend it means hiring people who aren't qualified. Look at how stupid and oversensitive women are.

Y'all better listen quietly and agree with me, or you're an SJW"

FTFY

All we need is a way to fix the horrible drift problem that plagues cardboard... and a way to stream 4k to that screen without lag and I'm sold :)

Yeah, the responder to you is clueless. In large enterprise situations (such as where I work) lots of people bring in their own laptops for presentations.
Popups and forced updates are extremely disruptive.

Updates should be in the background, seamless, and not hijack your computer for 10-15 minutes at a time when they install, inevitably right before a student is in front of their PhD committee or the admin staff is about to unveil their latest strategy.

This doesn't help the users I support, you know, business people, professors, students, administration, who aren't down on registry keys, use their own laptops, and whose classes, thesis presentations and meetings are inevitably interrupted by popups and restarts.

Yeah, as a person who works in a school, not only do I agree with your points but I find the rest of the argument moot: the average person doesn't know anything about this stuff, and they're the ones we're going to be supporting.
I just can't wait for the next time a high profile presentation is interrupted by updates *sigh*