Here in the U.S., we have to 'vote with our dollars' or nothing is going to change.
Except that if you don't buy it they assume you downloaded it and cry piracy.
It isn't that people are set on getting "free shit"
Yes it fucking is. I've been seeing these stupid arguments on Slashdot and other "tech" blogs for the better part of two decades, and every time, every single fucking time, it is obvious that the detractors of intellectual property, copyrights, and patents, and the like flat-out feel entitled to the fruits of others' labor without compensation. That's all it's ever about. From the DVD deCSS decryption stuff to the Pirate Bay to the rates of pay for streaming, it has always and ever shall be about the Free Shit (free as in beer, yuk yuk). No matter how much a bunch of basement-dwelling nerds try to dress it up in lofty principles, when it comes down to it they simply want access to every single thing anyone has ever created, at the push of a button, for zero money. That's it. These conversations would be a lot shorter if at least a few people would come clean and just acknowledge it once in a while.
Maybe that might be the kids mentality but for most of the people I know that download stuff it's because they're unable to buy what they want. CD/DVDs out of print. Shows locked to Netflix/hulu/streaming site x in the us only, DRM, people who travel, stuff not available in your region etc etc. So it's on a distribution method (the internet) that has no reason we can't get the stuff other than they won't let us so no wonder people say well it's available for free right there so fuck you. Most people who can afford to buy what they want would if they could. Kids cant buy crap anyway that's why they gorge when they can get it for free, but make what we want easy to buy and we'll certainly fucking buy it.
Fuck those money-grubbing artists. Tell them to vote for a basic income, funded the same way the private sector funds itself, through money creation. Then let ppl make music because they love it, not to get paid.
Fuck those money grubbing labels. They're the ones that rape every facet of the industry and keep all the riches for themselves. Support the artists, fuck the labels.
You certainly don't plan to inflict 1000 civilian casualties
Not always, but targeting civilians is still an option in warfare.
FTFY
Look at how many people think they're scientifically literate because they think --
Then what does it do? From any point of reference the sun is the centre of this solar system and everything in this system orbits the sun.
So just to be clear, the solution to the problem that visual voicemail doesn't work over the internet is to get a phone which doesn't have visual voicemail,
What the fuck is visual voicemail? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
I got a bunch of Monster video and audio cables, with really nice machined, gold plated RCA ends. They're great, mostly because they were also free out of a dumpster in back of a Best Buy. (I was there looking for a large piece of cardboard for a project)
Niiiice
So now we're assuming dark matter exists and we know how much of it is in any given galaxy?
I'm far from an expert in the subject but as I understand it's pretty simple. Total Mass (or whatever) or a galaxy - visible/known mass = assumed dark matter mass.
If we weren't assuming it wouldn't be dark.
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