They most certainly did have a choice. They could have said "Get fucked and if you ever come to us with something like this again, we'll have the press on speed-dial."
No way in hell would the government have been willing to risk airing its dirty laundry enough to prosecute.
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You sure about that? Last I checked, most PC games with a single-player mode still do not require online DRM and without that you very much can buy and sell games.
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For chemists, electronics engineers, and medical careers I agree. These are proper science and engineering fields and should remain as they are, more or less.
Things that are not proper science or the application of it though? They're better taught in trade schools or learned on the job. Spending years and thousands of dollars on a degree for them is foolish beyond belief and does no good for anyone except the universities.
The humanities? They're another discussion entirely; a fair number of their degrees have no career path whatsoever outside teaching them to the next batch of students.
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Some do but quite a lot of them pay better than you'd think. Plumber, electrician, and HVAC guys all make a hell of a lot more than I did at my first sysadmin job, as do most union jobs. For that matter, sysadmin isn't really helped by having a degree beyond basic coding ability and that can be picked up for free online.
Most business positions have no need of what they had to learn for a business degree. Accountants and lawyers being pretty much the only exception.
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College is also entirely unnecessary for the vast majority of jobs. If you want a better baseline education, improve K-12 education and leave college for those it will actually benefit.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 25 Apr 2013 @ 11:59pm
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They would have already had that rude awakening if it weren't for this one holdup. We can't agree which of the bastards will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 11 Apr 2013 @ 10:24am
Eh, I'm not particularly upset by this request. With a colo server or two, it's quite possible to commit any number of crimes within the borders of a nation that you've never been to physically and have no one acting as a representative in.
Good on Dotcom for finding the loophole but, last I checked, we were big on paying attention to unintended consequences around here and leaving the law as it stands has plenty of them.
There are plenty of unintended consequences to be had to saying all US laws apply to any company with any hardware located in the US too though. This mess needs some very careful wording to straighten out.
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Yesterday via Twitter:
@NathanFillion "@PirateKnits:Captain, looking to unload illegal hats. pic.twitter.com/fR1V0wJA9b" You got a job? We'll do it. Don't much care what it is
tl;dr Don't selv-censor because this kind of stuff should never be shown, self-censor because this is not the kind of stuff we want to be known for showing.
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No way in hell would the government have been willing to risk airing its dirty laundry enough to prosecute.
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Things that are not proper science or the application of it though? They're better taught in trade schools or learned on the job. Spending years and thousands of dollars on a degree for them is foolish beyond belief and does no good for anyone except the universities.
The humanities? They're another discussion entirely; a fair number of their degrees have no career path whatsoever outside teaching them to the next batch of students.
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Most business positions have no need of what they had to learn for a business degree. Accountants and lawyers being pretty much the only exception.
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Sage advice in these times.
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Good on Dotcom for finding the loophole but, last I checked, we were big on paying attention to unintended consequences around here and leaving the law as it stands has plenty of them.
There are plenty of unintended consequences to be had to saying all US laws apply to any company with any hardware located in the US too though. This mess needs some very careful wording to straighten out.
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