What is X? It is a bunch of sequential bits, right? Now, consider I change a bit in that sequence from 1 to 0. To a human looking at the thing those bits represent, an image, movie, or song, minor changes will be unnoticeable. But to a computer, that sequence of bits is no longer X.
You cannot just equate Society and Government that way. That is only an ideal. The fact is that Govt right now does not reflect what me and my friend and their friends and everyone else (Society) have mutually agreed upon.
You can imagine "right" and "privilege" are synonyms all you want, but that doesn't make it so.
defn. priv-i-lege [noun] A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to one person or group of people.
You might want to consider that your imagined definitions of words goes against the mutually agreed upon understanding of them. :)
Once the *AA figures this out, they will just call for more laws limiting the size of disk drives and/or requiring a tariff to the *AA for every MB over a certain size.
I was brainwashed from early childhood in the beliefs of Christianity. My mother thought she was doing the right thing, so it is hard to blame her. But what was done to me was wrong!
There is a couple of things... one is that people are weak willed. Games are fun and people want to play them. Even with the DRM restrictions, you at least get to play the game. Appliances aren't fun.
Another thing, and an important one I think many game makers are missing, is that people want to pay for games. Maybe not always the price they are asking, but in principal they want to reward the producer of a game they enjoy. There is also in humans a tendency to feel obligated when somebody does something for them. So what happens is people purchase the game and then also download the crack so they can use it as nature intended. For your appliance example to be comparable to the situation we have with games, people would need to know there is an unrestricted appliance out there that they can just take for free. That there is a pirate ecosystem for PC games is probably the only reason games with restrictive DRM sell well at all.
It should be mandatory that police record every encounter with the public. Why rely on he-said/she-said given that we have the technology? Also, if you are always recording yourself anyway, it is hard to get startled if you notice someone else recording you.
There was a show on PBS that asked a room full of MBA students if they thought executive pay was too high or unfair. None of them thought it was. When asked why not, the answer was because they themselves wanted the opportunity to become a CEO making that kind of money. The selfishness of the human being knows no bounds. It is all about how does this affect me. The good of the many never comes into it.
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1. exercise the revolving door between congress and industry, 2. destroy the world economy by enacting lax lending standards for banks, 3. just generally be a dumb-ass
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You seem to be the one with a bias. Apple CEO is being a hypocrite in public so he is being called out for it.
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it is not his privacy to trade with
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You can imagine "right" and "privilege" are synonyms all you want, but that doesn't make it so.
defn. priv-i-lege [noun] A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to one person or group of people.
You might want to consider that your imagined definitions of words goes against the mutually agreed upon understanding of them. :)
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this calls for more laws!
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Another thing, and an important one I think many game makers are missing, is that people want to pay for games. Maybe not always the price they are asking, but in principal they want to reward the producer of a game they enjoy. There is also in humans a tendency to feel obligated when somebody does something for them. So what happens is people purchase the game and then also download the crack so they can use it as nature intended. For your appliance example to be comparable to the situation we have with games, people would need to know there is an unrestricted appliance out there that they can just take for free. That there is a pirate ecosystem for PC games is probably the only reason games with restrictive DRM sell well at all.
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recording arrests should be mandatory
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Forgetting Something
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1. exercise the revolving door between congress and industry, 2. destroy the world economy by enacting lax lending standards for banks, 3. just generally be a dumb-ass
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