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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Renegade on November 29, 2014, 05:34 PM »I got a chuckle and a half out of this:
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I make a living by hitting things with my Huge Ship. This book is absolutely DESTROYING my business! Please do not buy this!
I live near a park and frequently walk around the local area. Given the amount of dog mess that is on the pavements I thought this book would be the ideal read to stop me having to scrape my shoes on the grass before going home. It was only after it arrived that I looked closely at the title and realised it said 'How to Avoid Huge SHIPS'. A simple error that means I am still treading on massive examples of canine excrement. Having said that, I read the book anyway, and I'm pleased to say I'm not even having near misses with huge ships anymore. No sir, they aint getting anywhere near me!
I think these would be great for programming and I'd very much like to have a pair.That's what they said about pyjamas!-phitsc (November 28, 2014, 05:21 AM)-cranioscopical (November 29, 2014, 12:08 AM)
"I am fighting for my son," says Lyn Ulbricht, the mother of 30-year-old Ross Ulbricht, who faces life in prison as the alleged creator and operator of "Silk Road," an illicit online marketplace that was shut down by the feds last year. "But [this fight] is bigger than Ross, and I think one website is far less dangerous than the government trampling on our rule of law and the consitution."
Ulbricht sat down with Reason TV's Nick Gillespie to talk about why she believes the government's case against Ross broadly violates his constitutional rights and threatens online freedom.
For more on Ross Ulbricht and the government's case against Silk Road, read Brian Doherty's feature story in the December 2014 issue of Reason magazine, "How Buying Drugs Online Became Safe, Easy, and Boring:" http://goo.gl/eRjtJh
^Yeah, and name it the Van Gogh model.-bit (November 28, 2014, 03:46 PM)
Eerie and sad. Sun in the Nightime.-40hz (November 27, 2014, 07:10 PM)
Situations where it’s okay to laugh when you’re covered in blood
1. You’re a newborn baby.
2. You’ve just delivered a newborn baby and everyone else has started laughing from pure joy.
3. You’re a bear and you’re great at being who you are.
4. You’re an actor working with a director who a) insists on using real pig’s blood during scenes involving blood and b) jokingly sprays people with blood between takes.
5. You’re a very good MMA fighter.
6. You’ve just made the Iron Chef blooper reel.
7. You’re a butcher and a colleague has engaged with you in witty banter.
8. You deserved it.
9. It’s the 1300s.
I wish, me and my Mrs just took a walk down the Sea Front and then came back through town and half the shops have people queuing up outside them for Black Friday Sales...Last I checked, we live in England...why the HELL do we have this crap now?
-Stephen66515 (November 27, 2014, 06:05 PM)
BTW: the Obama administration probably has a job for you, gentlemen. They love the art of "nuancing" definitions as much as you do.
-40hz (November 27, 2014, 10:23 AM)
The interesting thing is whether something is right/wrong or ethical/unethical or moral/immoral/amoral or something along those lines. That's the direction I'm trying to steer the conversation in.
And unfortunately that's where you lose me because those terms have close to zero meaning for me.-4wd (November 27, 2014, 12:16 PM)
You seem to have jumped on the side of the content providers ... me, I don't care.-4wd (November 27, 2014, 12:16 PM)
So my original reply to your Netflix post still stands except my remark about 'summary execution under DMCA' was wrong.-4wd (November 27, 2014, 12:16 PM)
It's just a few strokes of a pen away at any given time! There is a strong case for opposing intellectual property. There are a number of negative consequences of the ownership of information, such as retarding of innovation and exploitation of poor countries. Most of the usual arguments for intellectual property do not hold up under scrutiny. In particular, the metaphor of the marketplace of ideas provides no justification for ownership of ideas. The alternative to intellectual property is that intellectual products not be owned, as in the case of everyday language. Strategies against intellectual property include civil disobedience, promotion of non-owned information, and fostering of a more cooperative society.
Do I have you summed up right here?
"Legally purchased = not pirated"-Renegade (November 27, 2014, 04:20 AM)
No, I meant legally purchased as in all the middle men get their extortion while the artist gets a pittance.-4wd (November 27, 2014, 04:50 AM)
Remember the Russian site that wasn't paying royalties but was selling music? People bought there.
You seem to be trying to tie payment to whether or not something is piracy. "Paid = not pirated?"
No, I don't tie payment to legal. Paying for heroine doesn't make it legal does it?-4wd (November 27, 2014, 04:50 AM)
And that's what I want to eliminate - any kind of "legal" argument as to whether or not copying is illegal. Legal arguments are just silly, which I think I've shown above.
Yes, but your definition of legal is twisted, mine encompasses the whole transaction not just the handing over of money.-4wd (November 27, 2014, 04:50 AM)
Yes, but your definition of legal is twisted, mine encompasses the whole transaction not just the handing over of money.-4wd (November 27, 2014, 04:50 AM)
And I'm still sure I could get a trebuchet to throw a flaming rock 30km ... so duck-4wd (November 27, 2014, 04:50 AM)
Theft is a case where the thief deprives the victim, of something.
Copyright infringement does not necessarily lead to deprivation.-eleman (November 27, 2014, 05:27 AM)
EDIT: Actually I think I just painted myself into a corner there ... I'm going to shutup now-4wd (November 26, 2014, 11:20 PM)
No, but if they buy the legally available DVD while in Aruba and then take it home, that's not piracy.-4wd (November 26, 2014, 11:20 PM)
If they buy it online while in Australia, that's not piracy either.-4wd (November 26, 2014, 11:20 PM)
And while I think of it, if I'm in a country where it's legally available for download online, buy it and download it - you're saying I should hand it in when I get to the airport?-4wd (November 26, 2014, 11:20 PM)
Are you going to leave anything behind in Australia, that you have legally bought, that is regionally restricted to Australia when you leave the country?
I don't think so.-4wd (November 26, 2014, 11:20 PM)
I'll go out on a really thin limb here:
Piracy is theft, pretty simple and pretty much illegal everywhere - your non-copyright countries included. Whether or not it's enforced is another matter.-4wd (November 26, 2014, 11:20 PM)
However, if I can legally acquire anything, anywhere on this planet that's not illegal to own/use within Australian law then, broadly speaking, as far as Australian law is concerned I can own and use it.-4wd (November 26, 2014, 11:20 PM)
Actually, I don't believe the answer is that clear cut. Broadly speaking, in Australia if you can find a product cheaper anywhere in the world and you can get it to Australia to use then that's OK as far as the governing body in Australia is concerned, which is the ACCC.-4wd (November 26, 2014, 08:40 PM)
What you would be violating would be Netflix' and their distributors Terms & Conditions.-4wd (November 26, 2014, 08:40 PM)
That's not piracy, that's bypassing regional restrictions-4wd (November 26, 2014, 08:40 PM)
Countries with no known copyright law: Afghanistan, Anguilla, Aruba, the Cayman Islands, Eritrea, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, San Marino, São Tomé, Turkmenistan, and Vanuatu.
...which is probably summary execution under DMCA.-4wd (November 26, 2014, 08:40 PM)
Must have Witch Hunt (1994) in amongst your old VHS tapes alsoDetective Philip Lovecraft lives in Los Angeles in the 1950s when an ambitious Senator is holding hearings, on Magic. Magic is the new influence in Tinsel Town. Lovecraft is unique in that he is the only one who refuses to use magic in his work. Shortly after he is hired, he finds his client, Kim Hudson, accused of the murder of her husband, a film executive. Philip uses the tallents of a local witch, Kropotkin, to explain what is happening only to see her accused of the murder and sentenced to be burnt at the stake.-4wd (November 26, 2014, 10:09 PM)
One of the key topics that heads and governments will discuss is how to crack down on tax avoidance and tax evasion.
Jean-Claude Juncker will represent the European Commission at an awkward moment.
A series of leaked documents show that major multinationals took advantage of Luxembourg’s lax fiscal rules to trim their own tax bills.
Juncker was the prime minister of the Grand Duchy for 18 years until last year.
Speeches he gave during his tenure indicate that he led the charge in tempting the likes of Amazon and Apple to set up shop there.
World leaders are expected to endorse an OECD plan to ensure company profits are taxed where they are generated.
Euronews’ Efi Koutsokosta spoke with Pascal Saint-Amans, the OECD’s director of tax, who is at the summit on Australia’s east coast.
^Really? I don't even own a gun. Nor do I have any desire to use one.-40hz (November 24, 2014, 11:36 PM)
And to people who think it cannot work -- in one of Antonopoulos's videos he talks about politicians already accepting bribes in bitcoin and this being the start of the end so-to-speak (do you remember which vid that was Ren?).-tomos (November 25, 2014, 02:41 PM)
