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caslon
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
The top 1% of people make 20.7% of the country's income. Given progressive tax rates, they should be paying a lot more than 40% of Federal income tax revenue, but rates don't scale enough, and aren't lax enough on other classes.
caslon
·3 lata temu·discuss
A pirate didn't steal content, though. Nobody lost any content! There was no transaction involved. Piracy isn't zero-sum.
caslon
·3 lata temu·discuss
I agree with you that porn is disgusting, and that the people who view it are immoral. However, there are a lot of arguments to be made against capital punishment, murder, and other forms of vigilante violence. No nation with capital punishment is a stranger to wrongful execution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution

Encouraging state violence based on the fact that something is "disgusting" is not a good idea. Law needs to be grounded in concrete harm. The lines currently seem ill-defined, and existing laws in this area have been used against children (see State of Washington v. E.G., where an autistic child was charged and convicted with distribution of child pornography for taking a selfie and sending it to an adult).
caslon
·4 lata temu·discuss
You're deliberately applying the least intelligent light you can to everyone in this thread's comments.

With Gopher, you don't have to worry about whether someone is ideologically-opposed to JavaScript, and you don't have to only read the works of people who write about being ideologically opposed to JavaScript.

Your solution isn't a solution at all.
caslon
·4 lata temu·discuss
John wants to read a blog over HTTP. John reads the blog. There is a link. It is to a social media website. He clicks on the link. The social media website requires JavaScript. John has no context for the blog he was reading, and is saddened by the fact that his experience has been ruined.

John wants to read a blog over Gopher. John reads the blog. There is a reference to another piece of content. It is either made to work with the form or is self-contained, so as to be usable in the context of a Gopher browser. John is happy.

A platform's total capabilities matter, because there will be links to the edges of its capabilities. If you have a blog over Gopher, you probably aren't going to link to a JavaScript-heavy site, because an author posting over Gopher is more likely to be ideologically-opposed to JavaScript. If you have a blog over HTTP, you probably are.

A platform's intentions matter.
caslon
·4 lata temu·discuss
With that in mind, you just might have posted this comment on the wrong account.
caslon
·5 lat temu·discuss
Not true in classic or Blizzard's modern "Classic."

It's a pretty easy speedrun, and the community's been doing it since literally 2004. Here's a really fast example from 2006:

https://www.joanasworld.com/azeroth.php
caslon
·5 lat temu·discuss
The UK's production capabilities are more or less irrelevant. Why not just ignore it? It's not like they're going to suddenly become some massive economic force.
caslon
·5 lat temu·discuss
People already do ignore US IP law. It's pretty much entirely ignored by the single other meaningful competitor in the world: China.
caslon
·5 lat temu·discuss
ARM also gives the UK strategic leverage in any trade negotiations. Would we knowingly allow Rolls-Royce Jet Engines to be flogged off? No. Ditto ARM.

Doesn't this/shouldn't this basically encourage countries like the United States to completely ignore intellectual property laws? If not, why not?