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Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
Did she think it was ice-coffee? Had she ordered an ice-frappe and been delivered hot coffee which is typically made with freshly boiled water?
Comment · 12 years ago
Is your argument that certain crimes are not crimes in your eyes?
You must see how that is completely incompatible with any functioning society. You have decided arbitrarily, in opposition to the majority of society according to our legal and civic models, that you are going to ignore the law regarding DRM?
That is fine. But you would be the first to call the police if people decided to ignore the law and it negatively impacted you. Your hypocritcal attitude is equalling breathtaking and juvenile.
Ultimately you believe "the law should stand except when I want something; then I should be allowed to steal it because the internetz and copyright is slaveries and yada yada...
Honestly. Grow up.
Comment · 12 years ago
It's not crude. The comment was stupid. It was ill informed, blunt and a complete lack of understanding.
I don't need a source to prove it. The comment speaks for itself.
Comment · 12 years ago
"You need to Google your way to success"
I suppose that says it all! What a brilliant demonstration of exactly why you should be ignored.
Keep up the good work, you are a fine example of modern reasoning.
Comment · 12 years ago
Nope it's a piracy debate. Zero Freedom of Speech applicability. FoS is also not absolute.
Comment · 12 years ago
It's not a slippery slope at all. It's quite clear cut.
If a shop was distributing fenced goods or human traffic we wouldn't allow it to remain in business because they also distribute free and legitimate groceries.
Do you see how slippery the slope is? You have left from the tiny tiny tiny niche use of file transfer for free content to the massive industrious downloading of intellectual property.
As long as you are still being paid your salary though...easy to have a faux-morally superior position when it is not your efforts being ripped off.
Comment · 12 years ago
Yes. Unless you think someone should be allowed to post videos of themselves breaking into your house and raping your family?
A crime is a crime. That's it. If you don't like copyright then advocate it's removal but we live in a consensus based society so if you lose you shut up about it.
Also - teenage mortality has reduced drastically[1]. It's hard to argue that could be a bad thing.
It is probably because we don't let them (wherever possible) carry out activities that might kill themselves.
I am a parent of 3; I will happily take my children mountain climbing, skiing, snowboarding, trekking, wild swimming. In a few years we plan to trek to Everest Base Camp and they are coming with me to the Andes.
We engage in controlled risk. If they break a limb skiing then they break a limb skiing. They pushed beyond their abilities in some way. I don't need to give them wrappers of cocaine from a criminal and a handgun to be a better parent.
There is also a very real risk of the "Tom Sawyer" bias. Each generation thinks their generation took greater risks and had more vivid adventures than the one previous. The cognitive dissonance curiously avoids the higher levels of child abuse, abduction, injury, poisoning, asphyxiation, malnutrition and disease. My father used to have great adventures playing as a child in asbestos riddled houses. You can talk to his friends about it sometimes...well the few that have not died before 60.
Oh look here is a group of kids that used lethal asbestos as chalk. [2] They really learned a valuable lesson about ad-hoc citizenry there.
[1]http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/themas/gezondheid-welzijn/publi... [2]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-24942338