Comment Re:This should be YRO (Score 1) 432
And you please continue to bring down the level of discussion even further by being a pedantic asshole who is clearly more interested in word usage than on a discussion of morality.
And you please continue to bring down the level of discussion even further by being a pedantic asshole who is clearly more interested in word usage than on a discussion of morality.
Since Apple makes so much money from their app store
[Citation Needed]
Just about every one of their earnings reports puts their revenues from the iTunes Store at about equal with the costs of running it.
How in the hell does someone seeking compensation for their time and effort deprive you of any rights whatsoever?
At the same time, the fallacy of your argument is the fact that while there is not a 1:1 correlation between piracy and lost sales, for the amount of pirates of a work, P, there exists a non-zero subset of P that would have paid for it if it wasn't easily pirated.
And quite frankly, your argument is stupid anyways. It doesn't matter if they had no intention of paying for it. They are still enjoying the fruits of someone else's labor for free. How many of you are willing to work for free?
Slashdot is (or once was) an intellectual site, people with intelligence can see just how wrong the system is because, unlike the sheep, we can see just how wrong copyright is.
So your solution to the "wrong" system is to simply take the fruits of someone else's labor without compensating them? Are you willing to work for free?
Blah blah blah, I'm going to come up with some bullshit justifying me not paying for stuff by using religion. That will make me look better on
And yet, why is it right that you get to enjoy the fruits of someone else's labor for free? Are you willing to work for free?
Maybe they just don't want to be associated with distributing gun plans? I would bet $10,000 that if this was about sex toys, or homoerotic art, that most of those decrying this as "censorship" or "idiotic because you can find those anywhere else on the internet" would be supporting them, because it's their right.
False Premise #3> That a private site choosing not to distribute something they don't want to be associated with is somehow a "prohibition" on that item.
I like how libertarians are all in favor of liberty, until you do something they don't like. Especially because, if this wasn't about guns, but rather, say, sex toys, the libertarians would be supporting their right to decide what content they host unquestionably.
If a libertarian group would dis-invite someone for exercising their rights and liberty, then that group is clearly NOT a libertarian group.
Why do the libertarians on Slashdot always talk about how it's a private business's "right" to decide what they do regarding hiring, selling, discrimination, buying elections, etc, for everything else, but when it comes to something they disagree with, suddenly it's "censorship".
Maybe they just don't want to be associated with printable guns? I would imagine they know full well that you can get 3D model files from places other than their site. They just don't want to be associated with the distribution of those files.
These comparisons to countries still subject to the English crown, with no speech rights, and barely any other personal rights are patently absurd.
The idea that those countries are any less free than you is what's patently absurd.
I'd rather lose that additional 3 people per 100,000 than lose the ability to kill anyone who breaks into my home.
I'm sorry, but that stance makes you a complete pile of shit.
I don't care what you have in your home, how valuable it is. It is NOT worth a human life to stop someone from taking it.
Health issues. Completely different.
The 11 is for people with the pride of a 10 and the pocketbook of an 8. -- R.B. Greenberg [referring to PDPs?]
