'It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.
For instance, at the very moment that an Anonymous Coward said "I will move to Italy if they believe in, and provide these protections," a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried his words far far back in time across not-quite infinite reaches of Earth to a distant country where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of frightful international battle.
Unfortunately, in the Italian tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries.'
You're right, people shouldn't talk amongst themselves what needs to be changed. They should just link up telepathically and go to congress in a big mass of unified thought and lobby for change.
I don't see what's the big deal. There's a solution that anyone can apply, it's really simple, everybody wins and the corporations are happy:
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We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
So, if they pay a music video producer/director/filmmaker to make a video and then gives it away for free, then it is all good, but if they do it themselves on the cheap, then it's not OK?
Yeah, the people's silly mentality of wanting to have things whenever they want them is preventing them to effect the change to be able of having things when they want them!
If only people were patient and waited until the release of the DVD, which is whenever someone else wants it, they would be able to convince the studios that they'll wait all the time necessary to buy the DVDs and that the studios can release them whenever they want!
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For instance, at the very moment that an Anonymous Coward said "I will move to Italy if they believe in, and provide these protections," a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried his words far far back in time across not-quite infinite reaches of Earth to a distant country where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of frightful international battle.
Unfortunately, in the Italian tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries.'
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Re: a sure way to lose
I can play too!
They who can force others to give up essential liberty to obtain a little profit, deserve neither liberty nor profit.
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Re: so hes says
who carried an email in a bucket...
but his daughter thought it was defamatory
and sued his ass
and stuff happened. Nantucket.
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Or you could get a real job, hippie!
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(wave hands) These are not the scarce goods you're looking for...
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(scroll down for solution:)
We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
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It only works if you use candy to promote a shop, but do not give away candy to promote the product!
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Great logic there.
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Re: Short clips are not US only
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Re: Short clips are not US only
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Someone didn't give it away, but then someone did give it away!
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If only people were patient and waited until the release of the DVD, which is whenever someone else wants it, they would be able to convince the studios that they'll wait all the time necessary to buy the DVDs and that the studios can release them whenever they want!
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: seriously, you're not even reading the source articles anymore
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Now go sit to the back of the bus.
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