Alien Nathan Edward

I WAS THE FIRST TO ADD A 9 TO A C NOW EVERY ACOUSTIC COVER FROM 1988 TO 2004 OWES ME $6

Sexual assault victims have a time limit. Copyright infringement “victims” do not. Tracks.

honestly at this point bundle the dock w rechargeable wireless controllers and let me convert the deck I already love into a pseudoconsole.

rules aren’t there to be enforced, they’re there so that when you break them you take a second to think about why.

Oman I know where this is going

once again - not a ban, a seizure. Steve Mnuchin is heading a group of government insiders who want to buy TikTok, and this bill bans it if and only if they don’t sell. The government has decided that TikTok is a dangerous propaganda and espionage network and intends to steal it and run it themselves. Even if you think that TikTok is that dangerous you have to ask yourself: why is it legal for everyone else and why does our government want so badly to do it themselves?

bizarre restrictions around background play

there’s nothing bizarre about it - the free version is shitty on purpose

because you use the root account on linux occasionally to do one thing but when you’ve got a rooted phone everything is done with the root account

yeah, PascalCase is the worst

windows update kept downloading these bloated “updates” that included brand new software that I didn’t want or use, broke my settings, added a bunch of spyware, adware and other shit and slowed down my system

installing linux fixed that instantly and permanently

take note urban planners: even in the sky, trains work better

puts me in mind of the old guru meditation error messages that popped up in the stone knives and bearskins era of computing.

Precisely this. The few rights that feudal peasants did have are being ferreted out as “inefficiencies”

okay but land ownership and rent seeking are inherent, inevitable parts of capitalism. Even Smith talked about how rent-seeking is an unavoidable outcome of a system where one person can own what another needs, and about how in order to succeed capitalism will require some way of discouraging or taxing rent-seeking. “As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its natural produce.” This isn’t a new phenomenon and it’s not a return to pre-capitalism, it’s capitalism doing what we all new it was going to do from the beginning.

Silicon Serfdom?

No that’s still capitalism. Capitalism is still the problem. To call it anything else is apologetics, the core issue is that the private ownership of the means of production leads to a concentration of power in the hands of precisely the wrong kind of people after selecting for and reinforcing the most selfish behaviors in them. It then allows them to essentially usurp whatever form of government exists.

only through private ownership of property and capitalist competition can good ideas emerge and be adopted

They generalized the problem and then released the solution. OP may own the discs they’re backing up but this solution is designed not to care whether you own the discs.

kinda feels like selling someone a burger and fries, taking away the fries and then going “no one lost a burger”. the digital copy is part of what was purchased, and its been taken away from purchasers with no recourse. The digital copy was part of the deal.

Piracy is really easy to compete against. Ask GabeN. Steam has singlehandedly taken me out of the piracy game because they have what I want, it’s super easy to get and if it’s not reasonably priced today I’ll wishlist it until it goes on sale (and it will). If it sucks, or my hardware can’t run it, I just dm someone and I get my money back. I know they can disappear shit from my library like any online store but they haven’t abused that privilege with me yet and that makes me confident they won’t.

With Netflix, there’s a small chance that they actually have what I want. If they do, it’s gonna disappear soon. Prices only ever go up, not down, and that series you love is gonna be cancelled as soon as it stops driving new subscriptions. To watch everything I want I can spend a hundred dollars a month on a rotating set of accounts on several streaming services or I can go LOOK for the MOVIE 2 stream for free without even messing with a DOT TOrrent file.

Piracy is easy to prevent if you provide a better service than the pirates. What he meant was that it’s hard to get people to pay you to shit in their mouths when someone else is giving out sandwiches.

his “putting on a show of being angry for the cameras” is a bit below average tbh. people who’ve never been in a kitchen find it shocking, and the rest of us are like “well he didn’t actually break anything and the idiot sandwich thing was really funny”