Interesting take.
Can I ask how long something must exist before we can love and appreciate it?
I still miss my old school flip phone, but mobile phones haven't been a thing for half as long as cars so I guess I can't be a technology lover?
You're weird.
..... I'M JUST SAYING.
I get what you're saying, and I think it's more that the copyright folks want the ISPs to banhammer whole households when violations happen.
First, that's going to punish a whole lot of people who have nothing to do with the piracy. Imagine having family over for a weekend, and their snot nosed tweenager brings their laptop, gets on your wifi and their torrent program fires up.... Come Monday, after they've gone home, you try to sign in to your work at 9AM for your work from home job and you have no internet because of a copyright troll.
Second, they already know which subscriber it is. I dunno if you've downloaded a ~~car~~ movie illegitimately ever, but the ISP spams your inbox with notifications about "cease and decist" bullshit about it. Usually this goes to the ISP provided mailbox which nobody uses, so a lot of people don't realize it's happening, nor care, but they're already legally required to forward that shit on to you. They know who is doing it. They send those messages and I'm sure have systems that tally up how many of their subscribers get them and at what frequency they are recieved.
Third, ISPs are not the police. They're literally the messenger that carries your traffic to and from the rest of the internet. They just want to happily continue doing that for the ludicrous amounts of money they're paid to do it.
ISPs are already bearing the cost of upgrading all their stuff to support the ever growing sets of standards they have to meet to continue being an ISP, set forth by the FCC and other regulatory bodies that they previously stole millions of dollars from promising to upgrade their networks to fiber, then paid themselves insane amounts instead.... They want to afford their next yacht and live life in luxury, not be the security guards for some copyright troll with a grudge.
Not to mention "ISP" is an incredibly broad term. You can consider international transit providers as ISPs. If they're headquartered in the USA, they have to abide by the rules too. That means the "ISP" for the dedicated server farm for your local online delivery place could be shut down, because someone logged into one of their "cloud" desktops to watch finding Nemo on popcorn time, causing the datacenter ISP to cancel their internet. Poof. No more delivery because Jim doesn't know how to hit "sign out" before setting up his work laptop to be a babysitter for his kids.
The implications of this are huge.
I haven't read the text and maybe there's exceptions for service networks and connections. Maybe it's only targeting residential connections. IDK. But from what I've heard so far, that's not the case. Given that this is patent trolls and government representatives writing this garbage, I doubt they know enough to exclude those groups.
If I'm right on that, and I hope to all fuck that I'm not, and they didn't exclude service/business networks, then this legislation will be the single most disruptive thing that happens to the internet.
Services like Dropbox and other "cloud" storage systems will jump up and down, going offline regularly because people want to share x movie with so-n-so, and don't know how, so they dump it wholesale into Dropbox, getting their internet service cancelled.
Even if I'm wrong, and it's only targeting residential subscribers, it's still a massive pain point. Work from home will be difficult at best, and most people won't have internet service regularly. Given that the internet is presently regarded as more important than the fucking telephone, which the government annexed as an essential service when it was the only "fast" method of communication, and we've since dogpiled most of what was considered an essential service into the internet (like telephone calls), this really really can't, and shouldn't happen.
To continue my analogy to telephones, this is very similar to having your phone line cut because you played a copyrighted song for a friend over the line. Now you can't call 911. Get fucked. In an era when telephone is the only game in town (before the internet), that would have been completely unacceptable. You got cut off because you called your friend to play him the new hit "enjoy the silence" by Depeche mode over the phone (in 1990), and now you can't call 911 to get an ambulance for your visiting elderly relative who just had a heart attack, and they die.
gg copyright trolls, you sure "won".
No. Fuck that. The internet is a critical communications network, not something you get grounded from because time/Warner/Disney (?) got angry about your use of it. Fuck them. Fuck this shit. Fuck the government for even considering it. Fuck everyone who supports this garbage. Access to the internet should be immutable. You can't cancel someone's connection because you take issue with how they live their life.
I understand what the copyright holders are doing and it makes me sick. They want to take away your internet because you didn't pay full fucking price for some bullshit they're peddling. You're a source of entertainment at most, stay in your goddamned lane fuckers. You'll take the exorbitant amounts of money the majority of people are willing to pay for your shit stain of a streaming service, and you'll like it just the way it is. They want to make us comply through fear of losing access to shit like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and all the crap we browse on the internet to bring us some iota of joy, so that the public will be so fearstricken of losing it, they they'll fork over whatever they need to, in order to do things "legally" and we'll be screwed into using their service.... or else.
It's a fucking money grab because they're to chicken shit to prosecute people individually like the RIAA did during the Napster incident.
Either sit down and shut up, or sue the people responsible the way the RIAA did, which already has a judgement on record that you can't hold the individual who is named as the subscriber for the illegal use of the service they're subscribed to.
No really.... At least one of those Napster RIAA cases went to a judge, and IIRC it was deemed that there was too much opportunity for it to be not the named subscriber that the named subscriber couldn't be reasonably held liable for the actions of someone else connected to the internet through their connection. Wifi, pretty much guarantees that outcome.
So come at me bro. Good fucking luck you dillholes. Unless they catch you specifically in possession of the illegally obtained products, you're fine. Just be sure to memorize the "erase everything and catch fire" command for your particular storage. As soon as you get the legal notice they must give you for the lawsuit, run it. They won't have shit for evidence and the courts will throw out the case, forcing them to pay your legal fees.
And that's exactly what they're trying to avoid doing, by punishing people with this legislation. This is essentially a slap suit against the whole fucking country.
It must not pass.
It's situational, but you're not the only one.
I lived with my dad for many years because he slowly lost the ability to take care of himself. My brother and I were there to handle whatever he needed and since I was working full time, I'd cover bills when it was required, either because he forgot or because he was struggling.
We eventually made the decision to have him moved to a care facility where he could get the care he needed, and far better care than we could hope to provide. He's passed on now, but it happens. That was a crazy time in my life. Now I live independently.
For the record, I'm over 40 now, and I'm the youngest of his children. He died a few years back at this point.
All bodily freedoms, including that pesky bodily autonomy thing that some people seem to struggle to understand, should be freedoms granted by the constitution (or similar document in other countries).
We passed laws that have made things more equal here in Canada. The US should do the same.
I keep thinking about America's obsession with freedom, and from what I see, y'all aren't very free.
I'm in a very far southern area in Canada, and I'm here to report, it's not something that happens here either.
So heading further north, let's see, more rare than "I have never witnessed nor heard from anyone who witnessed it".... Uhhh. I feel like this is like dividing by zero.
It just doesn't happen.
The fact is, it should be legal. It's sexist if it's not legal. Whether anyone chooses to exercise the right to do it, is an entirely different matter.
It's hard to compete when you're basically a warehouse and your market is the literal population of the internet.
Yeah, microcenter, even if it's the only computer/electronics store for 100 miles, can still only hold so much, and they only reach people in/around their city at most. It's not like people are crossing state lines to get to a computer store.... Unless you live on the border of your state, I suppose.
Amazon has, at the very least, dozens of warehouses across the country that can deliver whatever it is you want with remarkable efficiency because postal/parcel services have been systematically improving over the past 50+ years.
I'm not saying I'm a fan of Amazon, but bluntly, is it really surprising, in the slightest, that Amazon can out price everyone else?
I think I watched a summary of it by a YouTuber.
The same reason that filament based incandescent bulbs burned out. Planned obsolescence.
There's a very real conspiracy (not just a theory) about the "arms race" in light bulbs for long lasting bulbs. Eventually, they made bulbs that lasted so long that they stopped making money.
Lighting manufacturers intentionally made worse bulbs to simply improve profits. They realized that they were driving themselves out of business. Everyone in the light bulb industry agreed to stop development of even longer lasting bulbs, just so they could continue to move units and make money.
Also, with LEDs, the thing that burns out fastest isn't the LEDs (there's usually a dozen... ish, in an LED bulb)... It's the electronics. The power needs to be converted from line power to something the LEDs can handle, which is usually DC. So there's a full power supply in the bulb to convert AC to DC, with a certain voltage to power the LEDs.
Sometimes this conversation is simple, a full bridge rectifier with little more than a filtering capacitor, other times it's very complex.
The power supply in the bulb is usually what fails first.
Only you....
Jeez.
Accurate, but jeez.
I hope they all get the punishment they deserve for not only posting that, but thinking it was an ok thing to do in the first place.
That said, I have zero weight in the discussion, but I'd like to see such racially charged words, lose all their power. I understand why people from certain races have issues with such words, though I kind of see it as giving the racists some measure of control over you and your emotional state. IMO, that gives them power that they do not deserve to have and they can, will, and do, use it against the people who take issue with it.
Like I said, I have no weight in the discussion at all, and even if the power of such words is stripped from them, I still don't think it's okay to return such words to people's common vernacular. These words should be all but stricken from record and forgotten. The only record that should exist is in history books saying that it existed and that it should never be used, and why.
It's not a good chapter in anyone's books that humans were owned by other humans, regardless of race, but race seems to be permanently tied to owning people. Non-African slaves existed, and still exist, but it's not what people think of when someone says "slavery". Regardless, it shouldn't happen, but it did.
Fact is, reparations are long overdue.
The reality that people like the kids in the picture are basically being groomed to be the next generation of asshole racist motherfuckers we're fighting so hard to keep away from any position of power, is sickening. Fuck everyone involved in the production of this photo.
I'm not a POC, and bluntly, I don't see why anyone treats anyone any differently because they have more, or less melanin. What a stupid thing to judge someone on.
My partners car has a touch screen, but knobs dials and buttons for all the climate features.
The touch screen is just the infotainment stuff.
That's about as far as I want it to go. I don't need a large format display in my vehicle. I don't want my speed, turn signal indicator, and climate controls on a massive display that takes up 1/3rd of the dash. Their car has a 8" or so, infotainment display.... Great for Android auto/Apple carplay, with navigation so I can get my directions without having to meddle with my phone, or a clunky phone mount wobbling around.
But that's where I draw the line. Just give me the fancy infotainment screen, leave everything else the way it is.