"But Plumage from Pegasus is fun because it takes a central concept we talk about a lot—that copyright law is out of sync with technological realities—and pushes it to an exaggerated extreme in the way that only sci-fi can"
And just because it's harder to detonate a nuclear device in Chino, Nevada does not mean we should stop looking for those who infringe that law! (and fine them $500).
Well, how long do you reckon will be until a treaty is signed so that we aren't being at war with Eastasia always, and stop always having been at peace with Eastabia, um, never?
Bullshit. I can run, and often do, BitTorrent on my phone when I'm not at my home computer, even when I have a computer tethered to it. I use way more bandwidth directly from the phone than I use from that computer.
Unlimited is unlimited. By setting a cap for tethering, they're basically charging you from the bits that go from the phone to the computer thru the USB cable or WiFi connection (which is none of their damn business). That's no different from selling you "unlimited electricity" which goes to some battery in your house, but then charging you extra money for each kilowatt that goes to actually power a device.
Also, by having those caps, they're telling me I can watch as many YouTube videos as I want, AS LONG as I use a small screen (even if I still watch them at super-mega-HD and discard the extra pixels). They're effectively charging extra from the amount of light that goes from the screen to my eyes.
The thing about bias, is that everyone is biased. If you're not biased, you might as well be a robot, and place "sources say" before every single sentence like a good little mainstream newspaper, and try to show "both sides of each story" as equally valid, and never having to ask any sharp questions.
You can be biased and still say things that make sense... but some, like Fox networks, will say things like "teachers are fatcats, oh lawks woe is me, I'm just this millionaire and I have to pay taxes, how unfair" :P
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All your base are belong to us.
Move ZIG.
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"But Plumage from Pegasus is fun because it takes a central concept we talk about a lot—that copyright law is out of sync with technological realities—and pushes it to an exaggerated extreme in the way that only sci-fi can"
Unless you didn't mean to. Still looks weird tho.
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Nice math skills they teach you over the Gatekeepers Institute.
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Unlimited is unlimited. By setting a cap for tethering, they're basically charging you from the bits that go from the phone to the computer thru the USB cable or WiFi connection (which is none of their damn business). That's no different from selling you "unlimited electricity" which goes to some battery in your house, but then charging you extra money for each kilowatt that goes to actually power a device.
Also, by having those caps, they're telling me I can watch as many YouTube videos as I want, AS LONG as I use a small screen (even if I still watch them at super-mega-HD and discard the extra pixels). They're effectively charging extra from the amount of light that goes from the screen to my eyes.
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Wait... we're talking about Disney now? I thought this was about Star Wars and Topher Grace.
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AC comment was mine.
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Oh wow, this site never ceases to amaze!"
So we're back to "chubby", eh? It's getting a bit old.
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No wonder he's always so flustered. Maybe he should try sending his comments in the form of a erotic pulp novel.
Here, I'll give you a head start:
"Grabbing me by my thighs he lifted me up and pressed me against the wall, as I wrapped my legs round his chubby body..."
You know what to do.
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You can be biased and still say things that make sense... but some, like Fox networks, will say things like "teachers are fatcats, oh lawks woe is me, I'm just this millionaire and I have to pay taxes, how unfair" :P
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This is begging, plain and simple. Begging!
BEGGING!!!!!!!!!!111
/shill
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blah blah blah you freetards enjoy your movies of dogs licking each other blah.
premium content blah blah something cord cutting.
(troll end)
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