They were dead to me ever since the Napster thing, they stay dead to me after this - nothing changed. Except the channel, whenever I hear them on the radio, immediately, no exceptions. They say excuses are like asses - everyone has one. Metalliwho...?
I'm a bit puzzled - once you shred something with a proper wiping tool such as mentioned, how exactly do you prove WHAT was there before? It can't be illegal to just install / uninstall a wiping tool, can it?!?
Wait, you mean you _don't_ put all your daily thoughts neatly in order side by side every evening then pick which one to keep and which one to throw away, according to what the voices are telling you?!?
Remember kids, it's only called robbery if you do it, otherwise it's perfectly legal. I'll leave you with a quote from Shakespeare: "Something's rotten in the state of Denmark"...
There is one other "entertainment sector" that is also well and truly embracing crowd-funding: free-to-view webcomics. By now pretty much everyone with any audience to speak of is on Patreon trying to make a buck and some of them even make a rather nice living off it, each month, while the comic gets updated regularly and stays free for anyone else to view.
Personally, I see that as the only acceptable future for all creative work - interested parties should make sure the creator gets to do his thing, and the result should be free to share (and guess what reality already proves wrong those saying nobody would then bother to contribute). People with an actual job have to keep working every day if they want to keep eating - neither musicians, writers nor any other artist should expect a lifelong rent for something they once did - and their "estate" even less so!
So if telling your readers how much you value comments while you shut down comments isn't the very definition of Doublethink, then what is...? Orwell, did you REALLY need to give them ideas?!?
Somewhere along that narrative I stopped cheering for the argument defending the use of crypto, and started to get seriously concerned for the fate of anyone who might disagree with anything those in power might prefer to keep under a rug. I wonder how long will it take until things get so bad that people will find the very idea of dissent preposterously unthinkable...
Exactly. I do care about this sort of thing, but there's a line in the sand and all my personal details in exchange for the privilege to fill out a poll of questionable honesty is on the other side of that line. Sorry, that's a non-starter.
An excellent reason to check the [x]no [x]no [x]No [x]NO [x] NO!!! [x]HELL NO YOU FUCKERS!!! boxes on your "would you like to share some tracking / diagnostics info with us?" questionnaire if there ever was one. Denying or admitting a car-related event is -== MY ==- choice, not my car's, full stop.
How about mandating that anyone wishing to discuss cryptography in a legislative context MUST first complete a "stop the tide by shouting at it" exercise...?
...tipping is quite alive and well in Europe - at least in Eastern Europe it certainly is. And not as an exceptional reward either - it's simply expected by both parties to occur, you're simply more generous if you are pleased...
I have a better idea - revoke the firm's license to do business (in any field) permanently and bar anyone personally involved in the sale from ever owning or managing a business in any shape or form, at any level. That should definitely help...
You mean as opposed to watching only what is on, when it's on, in bite-sized weekly increments peppered with stupid cliffhangers...? Because that's the only "advantage" TV offers. Gee, I wonder what's not to like...?!?
Here's a question for you: when have you last heard the sentence "Scientists have found the cure for "? I'll even accept "...a highly efficient treatment"! Well...? Yeah, that's what I thought.
From where I'm standing it look like we have picked most of the low hanging fruit, cured everything that could be cured with hygiene, antibiotics and vaccines, and now we're thumbing our noses at the rest - without the faintest idea what to do about them. With all the "advanced science" of the last half century - where's the cure (or a satisfactory treatment) for AIDS? Cancer? Alzheimer's? Parkinson's? Psoriasis? Ebola? C'mon, these are just the popular ones, none of them new...!
...you haven't got a fucking clue what you're doing, isn't it - and obesity is no different.
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Meh...
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Re:
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Disgraceful
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Uhhhh, about that...
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Personally, I see that as the only acceptable future for all creative work - interested parties should make sure the creator gets to do his thing, and the result should be free to share (and guess what reality already proves wrong those saying nobody would then bother to contribute). People with an actual job have to keep working every day if they want to keep eating - neither musicians, writers nor any other artist should expect a lifelong rent for something they once did - and their "estate" even less so!
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Re: Warning:
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Hell no...
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Okay, new proposal:
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I can assure you...
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One search result found:
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Huh?
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Re: Re: Mole-hill hiding a mountain?
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Yeah right...
From where I'm standing it look like we have picked most of the low hanging fruit, cured everything that could be cured with hygiene, antibiotics and vaccines, and now we're thumbing our noses at the rest - without the faintest idea what to do about them. With all the "advanced science" of the last half century - where's the cure (or a satisfactory treatment) for AIDS? Cancer? Alzheimer's? Parkinson's? Psoriasis? Ebola? C'mon, these are just the popular ones, none of them new...!
...you haven't got a fucking clue what you're doing, isn't it - and obesity is no different.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....
...suuuure, mate.
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You're just another brick in the wall
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