So why are you more interested in 'shafting' Mike, rather than acknowledging the 'evil' of the labels?
"Look, Mike's being evil in a tiny tiny fraction of the way that the big bad labels are, everyone see how eeeevil he is! What, no the labels being evil doesn't matter, you've got to see how eeeevil Mike is!"
Whilst at face value you look like you have a point (minus the childish name-calling - wouldn't it have been easier to ask him nicely about it instead of pointing and laughing?), you are to a large extent comparing apples with oranges. Just about any company will have venue-specific language in contracts - otherwise you'd have even more idiot stuff happening, like someone in NY being sued by some company from CA in a venue like, say, East TX...
Mike is involved in a company based (solely as far as I am aware) in California, so it makes sense that it operates in this jurisdiction. If I ran a company, I'd expect it to operate under a Scottish jurisdiction and not be subject to random whims of US law. However, the labels are pretty ubiquitous and likely have offices in most major cities - but you can probably safely bet that a NY artist is given a contract based in CA, and vice versa.
Again, it's also a matter of scale as well. Mike isn't 'scamming artists' that we are aware of, let alone on the scale and in the multiple ways the labels are.
Well, look at the Star Trek: Next Gen episode involving whether Data counted as 'alive' and worthy of rights - and this was in a universe with super-intelligent shades of the colour blue (oops, wrong universe ;)!
The whole point of the Hierarchy is that we are advanced enough to treat a being as a mindless animal, a hated enemy, or another being to be understood - even if kept at a (safe) distance. So we treat animals according to a hierarchy already, as we do humans - and we would aliens. So why not robots? Just like most people don't worry about a fish's rights, they probably shouldn't worry about the average car machine-line robot.
However, even if a robot isn't self-aware or requesting rights, it 'de-humanises' us to treat it like garbage, and teaches those around us to do so too. Respect begets respect. For more to think about, there's the Broken Windows Theory.
So what about all the sites showing violent or macabre stuff - you know, like beheadings and people run over by trains? Is that 'porn' of a sort? Is it worse? Where does the censorship stop?
Ah, the East German Stasi and the Romanian Securitatae would be proud. Sounds just like stuff my wife told me about her childhood in Eastern Europe. America, be proud of your glorious slide into totalitarianism!
The quote is quite common in British parlance. Sorry if it's not made it all the way across the pond. So try not to snark at bob too much, you were doing quite well up til then.
They aren't confusing one product with another, they have been told by crApple that the competitor's brand is 'so identical' to theirs as to be a massive 'infringement'. But the competitor's brand is much cheaper and uses a friendlier ecosystem...
There's the damage to mental health and for younger long-term users, damage to brain function/IQ. Quite aside from any risks associated with smoking it...
Your time is worth your money, so if they want my money, they need to make my time worth it. Plus, my time might actually be worth it to them if they had a clue, if I were to get other people to devote time and money to their product, instead of to other things.
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Mike is involved in a company based (solely as far as I am aware) in California, so it makes sense that it operates in this jurisdiction. If I ran a company, I'd expect it to operate under a Scottish jurisdiction and not be subject to random whims of US law. However, the labels are pretty ubiquitous and likely have offices in most major cities - but you can probably safely bet that a NY artist is given a contract based in CA, and vice versa.
Again, it's also a matter of scale as well. Mike isn't 'scamming artists' that we are aware of, let alone on the scale and in the multiple ways the labels are.
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The whole point of the Hierarchy is that we are advanced enough to treat a being as a mindless animal, a hated enemy, or another being to be understood - even if kept at a (safe) distance. So we treat animals according to a hierarchy already, as we do humans - and we would aliens. So why not robots? Just like most people don't worry about a fish's rights, they probably shouldn't worry about the average car machine-line robot.
However, even if a robot isn't self-aware or requesting rights, it 'de-humanises' us to treat it like garbage, and teaches those around us to do so too. Respect begets respect. For more to think about, there's the Broken Windows Theory.
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