Eh... I'm afraid I'd have to go with the "suicide mission" crowd.
Mars is about half of Earth's size, meaning it has about half the atmosphere as well, but still plenty of gravitational pull, so there's not enough air to help cushion you from the planet's gravity during landing maneuvers. That means parachutes barely work and rockets become a liability because of all the heavy fuel they need. You can't land more than a single robot at a time on that planet. And you can only launch toward the planet when it's in alignment with Earth, i.e. once every fifteen years, plus the price for a settlement trip would be about the same as the combined GNP of the Earth's largest countries.
Even if you overcame all that and landed on Mars, there's no water there and, again, not enough atmosphere, which not only means not enough oxygen to breathe no matter how much of it you synthesize, but no protection from the sun's ultraviolet and gamma radiation and not enough pressure keeping your muscles from going soft, such as your heart or even your eyes. How does spontaneous cardiac arrest or blindness sound to you? It could be before or after you develop cancer.
Yeah, that's why Julia Reda's response rubs me the wrong way. It overplays the victimhood card and implies that people should not have to take steps to educate themselves about the technology they rely on every day.
Course, she's also directing those remarks toward a person who SHOULD be focusing on protecting people from these incidents, but it still sounds like no one on either side wants to takes responsibility for their actions.
It's not cool to break into an online cloud and swipe what isn't yours, but at the same time I'm not sure I understand what would make people want to take nude pictures of themselves in the first place. I can understand if you're a porn star and getting paid for it, but... yeah, this is a thoroughly gray situation for me that both sides should learn from.
What hard work? You didn't say that they built the whole darn house by themselves, and even if they had, it wouldn't be the same thing. A house occupies a very finite amount of space, for one, while music spreads all around the globe. Can you reasonably claim the whole world to yourself?
I'm not sure I understand why whenever a dozen people debunk you, you only respond to one of them. It's not like a single response is going to help your argument at all when you clearly need to scrap all your logic, do more research, and start over.
Why should ISPs listen to consumer complaints? It's not like they can cancel their service and give another ISP their business since there's no competition, and starting a new ISP is nigh impossible.
It's been proven that a lot of networks are artificially throttled by ISPs these days and there are no technical problems keeping the United States' internet infrastructure as one of the worst in the modern world. As soon as a business like Google Fiber threatens to move in, they suddenly open up their channels and try to provide the better service that they should have been offering all along.
News Corp is one of the most damaging businesses the world has ever seen. A good system of news and journalism is like a nation's nervous system. If it doesn't work properly, a nation becomes paralyzed, unable to accomplish anything, as we've seen in the United States for the past... how many years now?
The difference between propane and natural gas is like the difference between gasoline and crude oil. It's just better and more useful all-around when refined from its natural state. Of particular note, methane is a harmful greenhouse gas while propane is not.
It's pretty hard to take you seriously with such a sensationalist mantel though. Do you want to be an effective commenter, or do you just want to shout at the hills all day? Do you want to actually change peoples' minds and improve things or do you just want to hear yourself talk?
After Animaniacs was canceled, there didn't seem to be any point to it anymore. What good shows have come along since then have been worth waiting out for their DVD box sets or similar collections.
True. But then again, look what happened when Microsoft tried to put DRM in the Xbox One. They ended up doing the fastest backpedaling ever. Never underestimate the power of angry things in large numbers. It's as if in a roundabout way, democracy is always the system of government in place everywhere, even if it's only a question of how long until the people get well and truly fed up.
To be fair, piracy is more of a continuum than a binary, having little to no effect on the big businesses that influence the law, but often greater effect on smaller businesses that the big businesses would rather see die anyway. The more niche or nuanced you are, the greater the chance that piracy will be a problem, although that can be easily mitigated just by being a kind and understanding human being to your fans.
Actually, that seems to be the rub. Communication with your audience is key, and big businesses have a tendency to be like autistic kids living in a basement who have never interacted with another human being before. It's an open, connected world, so you have to be open and connected to survive in it. Rare is the business that can be aloof, mysterious, and yet maintain enough of a hardcore following that its fans won't mind if some DRM is slipped into its products.
It doesn't matter though. Cops have a horrible image problem they need to correct. They separate themselves from the communities they're supposed to serve, they see civilians as the enemy, as potential problems or threat assessments instead of people, and they try to be badass about it, which scares the people around them.
Saying it's more complex than that is technically correct, but does nothing to help the discussion. People do tend to be mean and stereotype, but... isn't projecting a stereotype part of the reason officers wear a uniform and badge? Isn't it the police's responsibility to change their stereotype for the better?
And the thing is, people would be more sympathetic to it being part of the job if the cops behaved more like Andy Taylor (and maybe Barney Fife) and less like The Terminator.
You don't get people to cooperate by throwing the book at them for a misdemeanor. That just breeds more contempt. That's why the university is being held to task here; they aren't having the punishment fit the crime.
There effectively isn't any difference though when the outcomes are the same. The details you provide are irrelevant. We're supposed to be able to trust police to not fly off the handle like that.
Saying that they are human like the rest of us doesn't work as an excuse though. People in positions of power must be held to higher standards so they don't abuse the power they have. If your excuse for misconduct is that you're just an average joe, why shouldn't you lose your job and become one again?
I'm hoping to keep this discussion to the actual law, not someone's wishful-thinking version of it.
You seem to be saying that something that is broken should be discussed as if it's working well and/or functioning as originally intended. That's rather short-sighted.
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Mars is about half of Earth's size, meaning it has about half the atmosphere as well, but still plenty of gravitational pull, so there's not enough air to help cushion you from the planet's gravity during landing maneuvers. That means parachutes barely work and rockets become a liability because of all the heavy fuel they need. You can't land more than a single robot at a time on that planet. And you can only launch toward the planet when it's in alignment with Earth, i.e. once every fifteen years, plus the price for a settlement trip would be about the same as the combined GNP of the Earth's largest countries.
Even if you overcame all that and landed on Mars, there's no water there and, again, not enough atmosphere, which not only means not enough oxygen to breathe no matter how much of it you synthesize, but no protection from the sun's ultraviolet and gamma radiation and not enough pressure keeping your muscles from going soft, such as your heart or even your eyes. How does spontaneous cardiac arrest or blindness sound to you? It could be before or after you develop cancer.
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Course, she's also directing those remarks toward a person who SHOULD be focusing on protecting people from these incidents, but it still sounds like no one on either side wants to takes responsibility for their actions.
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It's been proven that a lot of networks are artificially throttled by ISPs these days and there are no technical problems keeping the United States' internet infrastructure as one of the worst in the modern world. As soon as a business like Google Fiber threatens to move in, they suddenly open up their channels and try to provide the better service that they should have been offering all along.
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Actually, that seems to be the rub. Communication with your audience is key, and big businesses have a tendency to be like autistic kids living in a basement who have never interacted with another human being before. It's an open, connected world, so you have to be open and connected to survive in it. Rare is the business that can be aloof, mysterious, and yet maintain enough of a hardcore following that its fans won't mind if some DRM is slipped into its products.
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Saying it's more complex than that is technically correct, but does nothing to help the discussion. People do tend to be mean and stereotype, but... isn't projecting a stereotype part of the reason officers wear a uniform and badge? Isn't it the police's responsibility to change their stereotype for the better?
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You seem to be saying that something that is broken should be discussed as if it's working well and/or functioning as originally intended. That's rather short-sighted.
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