Comment Re:What could go wrong? (Score 1) 162
Big brother is probably a pedo if he wants to see everything from a 12 year old girl, but at any rate he's a really sick pervy peeping tom.
Big brother is probably a pedo if he wants to see everything from a 12 year old girl, but at any rate he's a really sick pervy peeping tom.
Information must not be illegal. Acting on that information, ok. But outlawing information itself is dangerous, at best.
So what? The threat from pedos is insignificant compared to the threat from politicians.
Depends only on whether those basement dwellers have the money and are willing to buy some virtual bling for their virtual pony farm.
I'm mostly on the "people stop being people and start being corpses when they die" bandwagon. And corpses have no right but the right to decompose in peace.
If he doesn't agree, he's free to protest it.
Huh? Oh, he's dead? Then why the fuck should he care? Oh, his kids (or whoever inherited the "rights" to it)? Why the fuck should they have any rights to it in the first place? What rights do the kids of the architect designing my house have, what's their say when I decide to tear down part of it and remodel it? Huh? What do you mean, not even the architect himself has no say?
What's the difference between an author, painter or composer and an architect, bricklayer, plumber or carpenter? "Art"? Please listen to contemporary music and show me how this is more "art" than a carpenter's creation of a table. If anything, the latter is more art and less "handiwork" than the former.
Nobody understands copyright law.
They can walk, and they can work cheaply.
But
Say what you want about BlackBerry, but BBM is actually one of their strongest products.
And yet nobody knows about it. Tells you more about BlackBerry than anything else.
Hey, we live longer than we did back then.
No harm in global warming, by that numbers the climate could get another 20 or 30 degrees hotter before we'd have to worry about health. Well, if we don't mind dying around 35 on average again.
They were already fat enough that getting any fatter wouldn't change a thing.
Even if it doesn't work out, it's worth trying.
Those who can, do.
Those who can't, sue.
The problem WAS earlier, before people were stupid enough to post such things online, that such bias STILL existed, STILL influenced decisions, but could not be identified and rectified.
What is research but a blind date with knowledge? -- Will Harvey
