And while they keep bickering over the amount of money they *want* to get, not the amount that is fair, people blissfully pirate the songs and nobody gets a penny. Gotta love how IP freaks leave tons of money on the table because of slice of the slice they are already getting.
This of course but if you focus on providing welfare to the masses with good public health, education and justice you are already a long way into fixing this issue. I'm not against billionaires, I'm against them existing while there are people in total misery. If everybody has the minimum to live with dignity then by all means go buy your yachts and planes.
I have a better idea. Why don't we acknowledge that 100% crime prevention is impossible anyway and that shit happens and then start dealing with what is actually causing such extremism by teaching tolerance in the schools, weeding out bigotry from the government, police, legislative, courts? Ah, it's easier to advocate for a mythical, magical solve all switch. Ok, carry on.
The escalation of extremism everywhere, from white supremacists and Jesus followers in the West, through radical Muslims in the middle-east to lunatic tyrants in Asia we humanity are ripe for mutual assured destruction.
Seriously? Violence? And then you have FIGHTING in the middle of the sports and it's ok? I mean, come on gramps, at least be consistent and replace the fighting tournaments with "pony combing tournaments" or something. Much more family-friendly!
Marijuana is a good example of how the US Government is completely out of touch with the country and is just working for itself. Not to mention the FCC case and many other aspects. This lack of respect for the law is just a symptom of this disconnection. And then they just change the rules when they can to fit what they want, use secret interpretations of the law etc, not what's best for the people. That when they don't just flat out ignore whatever. What's it called again, when Governments act like this?
Eventually the software and hardware will get to better accuracy so while it's kind of funny to mock the failure, the privacy implications still remain. Ask people from last century if they were ok with being monitored wherever they go and have such data saved for as long as they live if they'd feel comfortable. I'd guess not. Why are these same people forcing such thing in the younger ones?
I wonder if they could build some sort of reputation system that shielded accounts from takedown. For instance, an account that had 2FA enabled, regular tweeting and steady following base would not be blocked but rather flagged for human review. It's not a panacea but it should somewhat reduce the harm because these accounts would not be blocked automatically. Same for DMCA.
And amusingly, the solution passes through a human reviewing it, not an algorithm.
Using a disaster like this to grandstand is particularly despicable Sessions. Other than that I'm with TechDescartes. The equipment IS needed. But it should be operated by the military.
None of them will contain anything substantial to the discussion according to Pai while the gazillion exactly equal comments generated by bots will all be very thoughtful and nuanced.
Sadly I do believe this has a very real chance of happening.
Good Lord they're still at these flimsy bullshit claims?
I'll fix the little story for him:
As a child, I learned a fable about a hen that finds some wheat grains and asks other animals for help in planting them. Nobody is willing to help but some will give it money via crowdfunding campaign, so the hen does the work itself hiring some people to help. At every stage of the process – harvesting the wheat, threshing it, milling it into flour, and baking the flour into bread – it keeps building and people keep financing it as they are interested in the results. But when the work is finished, everyone wants to eat the bread. So the hen makes infinite copies of that bread and everybody is happy, some even pay for some copies! Seeing how successful the bread is, hen decides to go for Bread 2.0 with new pepperoni fillings. The end.
Color me impressed. I will be cautious though. Words are nice but it's the actions that matter. Taking the US as the supposedly shining beacon of freedom, their Constitution sounds awesome and modern but when you look at what's actually happening there you'll see it's just a word soup Govt couldn't care less when it matters. So let's follow the development of things before popping up our champagnes.
I'd go further and say that HBG could strike deals with other streaming platforms as well. I'd just say fuck you to managing the infra-structure needed to serve millions and strike partnerships with several streaming services. They could ask for added $ to have access to HBO content. You know, tiered services for sports, HBO, whoever. Even if the ending price is a bit higher it would still be valuable compared to traditional cable. But at the very least they got their streaming option up and running.
Took them too long to introduce some features and the lack of balance for new, non-hardcore users is heavy these days. I do think the game will be around for a long time though as they are evolving. It's just that they could have retained more people if they were faster and listened to their players a bit more.
They don't care about the victims. The supporters of this atrocity of a bill just care about the grandstanding and the votes.
The problem is it will be much harder to mount opposition like what happened with SOPA because sex trafficking is a bogeyman, just like the "for the children!" mantra. The result will be like inserting the police where they shouldn't be: kids incarcerated for normal, dumb kid actions. For the children!
Just have a cable box that can get the stream, capture it and retransmit. Full quality. The official *stream* had grainy, poor quality for many people trying to use it.
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The escalation of extremism everywhere, from white supremacists and Jesus followers in the West, through radical Muslims in the middle-east to lunatic tyrants in Asia we humanity are ripe for mutual assured destruction.
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And amusingly, the solution passes through a human reviewing it, not an algorithm.
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Sadly I do believe this has a very real chance of happening.
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I'll fix the little story for him:
As a child, I learned a fable about a hen that finds some wheat grains and asks other animals for help in planting them. Nobody is willing to help but some will give it money via crowdfunding campaign, so the hen does the work itself hiring some people to help. At every stage of the process – harvesting the wheat, threshing it, milling it into flour, and baking the flour into bread – it keeps building and people keep financing it as they are interested in the results. But when the work is finished, everyone wants to eat the bread. So the hen makes infinite copies of that bread and everybody is happy, some even pay for some copies! Seeing how successful the bread is, hen decides to go for Bread 2.0 with new pepperoni fillings. The end.
Yes, I would download a bread.
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The problem is it will be much harder to mount opposition like what happened with SOPA because sex trafficking is a bogeyman, just like the "for the children!" mantra. The result will be like inserting the police where they shouldn't be: kids incarcerated for normal, dumb kid actions. For the children!
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