I really don't have an issue with giving $10 to Netflix for the good content they're offering. The reason I only recently joined though is their insistence on controlling every aspect of the stream by employing the atrocity called DRM. This and them taking content down after it has been published keeps rendering their service worse than it could be. So I go back to the venerable El Dorado of pirate streams for the occasional unavailable movie. DRM meanwhile just leaves a sour after taste. While it obviously shackles me, it has yet to really annoy me, but I'm sure it will happen.
States (and governments in general) rule by force, and force alone. German points it out nicely:
force = Gewalt power = Gewalt
Do you see the similarity? That power needs to managed. That's where division of power comes in. There are many different kinds of implementations, e.g. the battered version called dictatorship or the somewhat better version "democracy", some implementations indistinguishable to dictatorship.
In either implementation, power is abused. In dictatorship the ratio between legitimate and illegitimate cases tends to be high, but democracy isn't failsafe either. I wouldn't write it on incompetence, rather I see judges wielding power with a firm grip.
While you raise valid points (free speech impediment, public land), DPRC also has a valid point wanting to protect the few green places in cities. True, the ordinance is overly restrictive. It would be better to create hefty fines and imprisonment for environmental damage.
Browder may throw away the data after 10 days, but Facebook being Facebook certainly doesn't. This creates privacy concerns. Though I suspect it was done with the best intentions. Refugees often have a smartphone, but no notebook or other gear. Doing it via Facebook Messenger is easier for users and less hassle for the developers, because they don't need to create a graphical interface.
Anyway it's great to see one person stepping up against bad legislators. They would deserve punishment but unfortunately they are immune (clever hack). So I consider Browders actions very important in the light of adverse governments and their servants. More of the bots, please!
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Satisfactory but still
I really don't have an issue with giving $10 to Netflix for the good content they're offering. The reason I only recently joined though is their insistence on controlling every aspect of the stream by employing the atrocity called DRM. This and them taking content down after it has been published keeps rendering their service worse than it could be. So I go back to the venerable El Dorado of pirate streams for the occasional unavailable movie. DRM meanwhile just leaves a sour after taste. While it obviously shackles me, it has yet to really annoy me, but I'm sure it will happen.
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States (and governments in general) rule by force, and force alone. German points it out nicely:
force = Gewalt
power = Gewalt
Do you see the similarity? That power needs to managed. That's where division of power comes in. There are many different kinds of implementations, e.g. the battered version called dictatorship or the somewhat better version "democracy", some implementations indistinguishable to dictatorship.
In either implementation, power is abused. In dictatorship the ratio between legitimate and illegitimate cases tends to be high, but democracy isn't failsafe either. I wouldn't write it on incompetence, rather I see judges wielding power with a firm grip.
Now Stallmann can convert his OGG files
Or which reasons do you see to keep OGG, or replace MP3 with OGG?
DPRC: misguided but
While you raise valid points (free speech impediment, public land), DPRC also has a valid point wanting to protect the few green places in cities. True, the ordinance is overly restrictive. It would be better to create hefty fines and imprisonment for environmental damage.
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Oh wait, forgot who is president for a moment -_-
> but they'll be on the hook for the inevitable lawsuits this mass exoneration will produce.
Hopefully it will! Those "war on drug" idiots are just as criminal as the ones they criminalize.
Re: Re: Crowdfund copyright
Technically they didn't lie. They were bullied by their publishers and gave in. Question remains, why do you need publishers if you crowdsource it?
10 day data retention with Facebook? No way.
Browder may throw away the data after 10 days, but Facebook being Facebook certainly doesn't. This creates privacy concerns. Though I suspect it was done with the best intentions. Refugees often have a smartphone, but no notebook or other gear. Doing it via Facebook Messenger is easier for users and less hassle for the developers, because they don't need to create a graphical interface.
Anyway it's great to see one person stepping up against bad legislators. They would deserve punishment but unfortunately they are immune (clever hack). So I consider Browders actions very important in the light of adverse governments and their servants. More of the bots, please!