The ones that would go to work high if drugs were legal are the ones going to work high now, so there wouldn't be any difference.
This and if drugs were treated as a social disease instead of criminal activity, more help would be available to those who needed it. I wonder how many people suffer in silence because if they stepped forward and said they needed help, the police would put them in jail for a class 1 felony instead of turning them over to someone who can actually help them (not that police do that, but the fear has to be there.)
I'd be happy to see employers push random drug tests on their employees instead and offer help and counselling then turn it into a public housing problem (we don't have enough jail space as it is so we're releasing criminally insane, violent offenders, etc to make room.) And just like alcohol, those who drive under the influence will do so regardless, and the more effort should be made to stop this.
What I said is that if there is no legal alternative, then it is an unmet demand and a poor business decision.
If there are no legal streaming options available other than buying a cable box, then it sounds like unmet demands by customers and a poor business decision.
And even if there was no legal alternative, why do you still think you're entitled to it?
Did I say I was?
Yup...reading comprehension, you don't gots it.
What I said is that if there is no legal alternative, then it is an unmet demand and a poor business decision. Whether folks turn to piracy or not is their own choice (I personally don't care, as I have no interest in American Football,) but if I was a business person responsible for this, I'd be trying to figure out the best way to make the most amount of money by offering the customers who I am not meeting their demand with a legal option so that I could maximize my profits instead of ignoring them. But you can go on being dense, I believe in natural selection, and those who don't adapt tend to disappear like the Dinosaurs.
There is no legal alternative for me to view these events
Thus we return to the core issue. You (and other freeloaders) are too fucking cheap to pay, yet are so self-entitled, you don't think you should have to forgo a program or game. All of this talk of censorship and freedom of speech demean those terms.
So, what part of English is hard for you to understand?
Or is it just that you rail so hard against your perceived enemy "pirate" that you just don't care to read what the other person says and just yell "But...But...Piracy." If there are no legal streaming options available other than buying a cable box, then it sounds like unmet demands by customers and a poor business decision.
Many, if not most, government agencies outlaw or discourage the use of personal laptops while at the government facilities. Smartphones are prohibited in any sensitive areas as well. There are some facilities where employees are told to leave their smartphones and other personal devices in their cars.
Then again, the warning banner specifically says that they can monitor everything done on their systems. Best bet would be to drive your car outside of the fence and use your smartphone there, or use your laptop/desktop at home.
Yeah, he owns the Simpsons´ sound but not the related pictures :P
But aren't the related pictures just mental interpretations of photons received by his eyes? I think he owns his brain and his eyes. Nevermind the fact that the photons are being generated by equipment he has purchased which receives unencrypted electromagnetic radiation broadcast to everyone within line of sight.
Why can't we just say that the universe owns everything and we're just lucky enough to live on a rock that hasn't been swallowed by a black hole?
They don't let you access their content because it is the sugar they use for you to consume advertisements. Once you understand how the model works, then you understand why it is the way it is.
Last I checked, HULU had advertisements. So, using HULU works in to this logic. Of course, DVRs could remove the commercials, so that is probably why the companies hate DVRs so much.
Paid petition gathers are nothing new. They have been used for quite a few things. Here in Oklahoma, they are used to gather petition signatures for new political parties and to get questions added to the ballot. They come in handy when you have a strict deadline to get a minimum number of signatures. Often times, voluntary gathering doesn't work.
The funny thing about this is that the unions here tried to use this as a reason why signature-gathering was nefarious a while back. They actually had ads saying that those gathering signatures for petitions were being paid (along with them being criminals,) and thus people should never sign a petition or they were opening themselves up to fraud and identity theft. The goal was to keep people from signing petitions that the unions didn't like, but unfortunately it backfired for them because when they actually wanted people to sign petitions for stuff they wanted, the people wouldn't sign because of fears of identity theft and fraud.
Your analogy is fatally flawed in that TPB exists primarly to distribute illegal content.
You keep saying that, despite numerous people here challenging you on that. As others have said, show me one thing that TPB has illegally distributed? TPB provides links to other people illegally distributing content (in the form of Torrent files,) and does not actually distribute stuff themselves. It would be like accusing the phone book of distributing illegal drugs because they list the phone numbers of drug dealers.
So since you can't afford something, you think you're magically entitled to just illegally obtain it for free?
So, since you aren't going to legally provide your product to me during a reasonable time period and using a well known and trusted distribution mechanism that you are entitled to my money? I'm sorry.
A number of years ago, I bought movies on the fly when they sounded cool or there was a lot of buzz around them. Then I bought Three Kings, which in my humble opinion, sucked. And then I bought several more DVDs that sucked even more. I then decided I'd never buy DVDs ever again without first renting them, deciding that I liked them and would watch them again, and then bought them. Your paymasters have decided that they are now going to penalize me more for being a prudent customer and not buying every movie they make without first watching them to see if I really want to spend the 18-24 dollars to add them to my collection. While I have not been driven to piracy -- I will say that I have no intention of ever buying another WB movie, ever!
Due process isn't an absolute. It doesn't mean that you can keep committing the crime over and over until completely convicted and all appeals to the supreme court completed. If you are a drug dealer selling illegal drugs from your car, your car, the drugs, and all that goes with it are seized when you are arrested. You don't get anything back until much later (and you surely won't get the drugs back).
I am so happy you aren't a police officer or someone in authority. The world can sleep better knowing your shoot to kill, let God sort them out attitude isn't something they have to risk. Our system of law states that every time a person is arrested for committing a crime, they get their chance in court, and I hate to break it to you, but there are quite a few folks who get arrested, brought down to the station and booked, and then released on bond, only to be caught again committing a crime before they even get their day in court. Just recently a guy here where I live was arrested three times for DUI before he got to court for his first case. And yet, that is the way the system works. He like everyone else gets due process.
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Demand is in reference to the demand curve.
Heh. I guess the standard disclaimer IANAE would have worked here then. It makes sense, having demand be a function of price and quantity, but I never saw it that way. Learn something new every day.
Call me a windbag, like I care. My opinion is based on what Mike has posted here over 10 years. You may not like my opinion, but geez, respect my right to have one. Argue the points, not what you think of me personally. Add something to the discussion.
Pot, I'd like you to meet my best friend Kettle.
I especially like how you tongue-wag Greevar for not adding something to the discussion and only attack you personally when all he was pointing out was that all you do is make pretty broad accusations and attack people personally. Is there a maximum point to your hypocrisy or is it a race to the bottom?
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A lower price increases quantity demanded, not demand.
Huh? While I'd agree that a lower price might increase the quantity demanded by a particular user, I disagree that it would have no impact on the overall demand. It doesn't make sense mathematically and it certainly doesn't make sense economically.
If I want something, there is a demand for it. However, if I am not really interested in something, but would procure it if it cost lest, despite not really wanting it, how do you quantify the demand in that case. I really don't care to have it, and am only picking it up because the cost is right. Obviously I have some demand for it otherwise I'd ignore it altogether, but not enough of a demand that I'd pay for it at the higher level.
And that doesn't even work for virtual goods, because once I have something, there is no demand for me to have more because I already have it. So in that case, quantity is 1 because I already have it.
If you mean that more people will buy it because it is cheaper, than both quantity demanded and demand are the same thing.
Better yet, he could take the lead role and shoot himself.
Might as well, he's already shot himself several times in the foot. I hope to see justice at some point when he gets raked over the coals for bribery charges. Fat chance -- but that movie would take some of the pain away.
Please, at least include a version number. And it would be better to say "One nation under IPv6!" because the number of IP addresses in IPv4 are just about all used up.
At least you didn't say "One nation under LANE!" or we would have had to giggle derisively at you.
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This and if drugs were treated as a social disease instead of criminal activity, more help would be available to those who needed it. I wonder how many people suffer in silence because if they stepped forward and said they needed help, the police would put them in jail for a class 1 felony instead of turning them over to someone who can actually help them (not that police do that, but the fear has to be there.)
I'd be happy to see employers push random drug tests on their employees instead and offer help and counselling then turn it into a public housing problem (we don't have enough jail space as it is so we're releasing criminally insane, violent offenders, etc to make room.) And just like alcohol, those who drive under the influence will do so regardless, and the more effort should be made to stop this.
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SOPA/PIPA next?
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If there are no legal streaming options available other than buying a cable box, then it sounds like unmet demands by customers and a poor business decision.
This is what you said numb nuts.
Yup. That is what I said.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: This sucks
Did I say I was?
Yup...reading comprehension, you don't gots it.
What I said is that if there is no legal alternative, then it is an unmet demand and a poor business decision. Whether folks turn to piracy or not is their own choice (I personally don't care, as I have no interest in American Football,) but if I was a business person responsible for this, I'd be trying to figure out the best way to make the most amount of money by offering the customers who I am not meeting their demand with a legal option so that I could maximize my profits instead of ignoring them. But you can go on being dense, I believe in natural selection, and those who don't adapt tend to disappear like the Dinosaurs.
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Re: My choice...
"Ceci n’est pas un box" means "This is not a box" in French.
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Re: Re: This sucks
Thus we return to the core issue. You (and other freeloaders) are too fucking cheap to pay, yet are so self-entitled, you don't think you should have to forgo a program or game. All of this talk of censorship and freedom of speech demean those terms.
So, what part of English is hard for you to understand?
Or is it just that you rail so hard against your perceived enemy "pirate" that you just don't care to read what the other person says and just yell "But...But...Piracy." If there are no legal streaming options available other than buying a cable box, then it sounds like unmet demands by customers and a poor business decision.
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Many, if not most, government agencies outlaw or discourage the use of personal laptops while at the government facilities. Smartphones are prohibited in any sensitive areas as well. There are some facilities where employees are told to leave their smartphones and other personal devices in their cars.
Then again, the warning banner specifically says that they can monitor everything done on their systems. Best bet would be to drive your car outside of the fence and use your smartphone there, or use your laptop/desktop at home.
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Re: Re: HAHA Thats Funny
Darryl has never had a clue before -- why would he change now?
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But aren't the related pictures just mental interpretations of photons received by his eyes? I think he owns his brain and his eyes. Nevermind the fact that the photons are being generated by equipment he has purchased which receives unencrypted electromagnetic radiation broadcast to everyone within line of sight.
Why can't we just say that the universe owns everything and we're just lucky enough to live on a rock that hasn't been swallowed by a black hole?
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Last I checked, HULU had advertisements. So, using HULU works in to this logic. Of course, DVRs could remove the commercials, so that is probably why the companies hate DVRs so much.
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The funny thing about this is that the unions here tried to use this as a reason why signature-gathering was nefarious a while back. They actually had ads saying that those gathering signatures for petitions were being paid (along with them being criminals,) and thus people should never sign a petition or they were opening themselves up to fraud and identity theft. The goal was to keep people from signing petitions that the unions didn't like, but unfortunately it backfired for them because when they actually wanted people to sign petitions for stuff they wanted, the people wouldn't sign because of fears of identity theft and fraud.
http://libertarianpeacenik.blogspot.com/2011/08/california-radio-ad-hinders-petition.html
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Re: Re: Re: Revenue?
You keep saying that, despite numerous people here challenging you on that. As others have said, show me one thing that TPB has illegally distributed? TPB provides links to other people illegally distributing content (in the form of Torrent files,) and does not actually distribute stuff themselves. It would be like accusing the phone book of distributing illegal drugs because they list the phone numbers of drug dealers.
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So, since you aren't going to legally provide your product to me during a reasonable time period and using a well known and trusted distribution mechanism that you are entitled to my money? I'm sorry.
A number of years ago, I bought movies on the fly when they sounded cool or there was a lot of buzz around them. Then I bought Three Kings, which in my humble opinion, sucked. And then I bought several more DVDs that sucked even more. I then decided I'd never buy DVDs ever again without first renting them, deciding that I liked them and would watch them again, and then bought them. Your paymasters have decided that they are now going to penalize me more for being a prudent customer and not buying every movie they make without first watching them to see if I really want to spend the 18-24 dollars to add them to my collection. While I have not been driven to piracy -- I will say that I have no intention of ever buying another WB movie, ever!
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I am so happy you aren't a police officer or someone in authority. The world can sleep better knowing your shoot to kill, let God sort them out attitude isn't something they have to risk. Our system of law states that every time a person is arrested for committing a crime, they get their chance in court, and I hate to break it to you, but there are quite a few folks who get arrested, brought down to the station and booked, and then released on bond, only to be caught again committing a crime before they even get their day in court. Just recently a guy here where I live was arrested three times for DUI before he got to court for his first case. And yet, that is the way the system works. He like everyone else gets due process.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What about income per-creator?
Heh. I guess the standard disclaimer IANAE would have worked here then. It makes sense, having demand be a function of price and quantity, but I never saw it that way. Learn something new every day.
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Pot, I'd like you to meet my best friend Kettle.
I especially like how you tongue-wag Greevar for not adding something to the discussion and only attack you personally when all he was pointing out was that all you do is make pretty broad accusations and attack people personally. Is there a maximum point to your hypocrisy or is it a race to the bottom?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What about income per-creator?
Huh? While I'd agree that a lower price might increase the quantity demanded by a particular user, I disagree that it would have no impact on the overall demand. It doesn't make sense mathematically and it certainly doesn't make sense economically.
If I want something, there is a demand for it. However, if I am not really interested in something, but would procure it if it cost lest, despite not really wanting it, how do you quantify the demand in that case. I really don't care to have it, and am only picking it up because the cost is right. Obviously I have some demand for it otherwise I'd ignore it altogether, but not enough of a demand that I'd pay for it at the higher level.
And that doesn't even work for virtual goods, because once I have something, there is no demand for me to have more because I already have it. So in that case, quantity is 1 because I already have it.
If you mean that more people will buy it because it is cheaper, than both quantity demanded and demand are the same thing.
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Re: Re: Not an MPAA member
Might as well, he's already shot himself several times in the foot. I hope to see justice at some point when he gets raked over the coals for bribery charges. Fat chance -- but that movie would take some of the pain away.
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Poor Polly -- come on, she lost both of her parents -- leave her alone.
Just do what the MPAA does and sue Douglas Adams. Since he is dead, it will be easier to keep him from testifying on his own behalf.
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Please, at least include a version number. And it would be better to say "One nation under IPv6!" because the number of IP addresses in IPv4 are just about all used up.
At least you didn't say "One nation under LANE!" or we would have had to giggle derisively at you.
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