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2 days agoIf most pirates are the kind who sail around drinking rum and chasing booty, patent trolls are the kind of pirates who blow a big hole in the side of a supertanker to steal a few barrels of oil and let the rest drain into the ocean.
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2·5 days agoIt’s interesting to see that Linux has gotten popular enough that a few of the most user-hostile devs are going out of their way specifically to stop people using it. Other than ignorance it’s unclear what their motivations could be. I for one will remember the names of the studios that do it and try my best never to buy or talk about their games.
9·7 days agoIs it a good article? I don’t know. There’s some truth in there, but I’m pretty sure there are a hell of a lot more suburban Trump voters than there are rural Trump voters. And in my experience of it the people who live in small towns, medium-sized cities, suburbs, edge city, and even actual rural areas are in general not nearly as monolithic and politically unified as they’re portrayed there. Even if it’s always clear which party is going to get the majority of votes, they most often don’t get all the votes. Perhaps like the writer of that article many of them like to romanticize the idea of being “rural” because they mow their own lawn and could drive to a farm in half an hour if they wanted to, but although there’s some truth in there I think it’s mostly foolish rationalizations. Big cities are alien to me too, that’s not a real reason to buy into all that cheap right-wing mythology that gets used to explain why we should vote against our own interests.
4·8 days agoEveryone who is aware of the facts agrees that the big terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 were the result of a conspiracy. That the American president was in on it seems unlikely. Some of your “reasonable” questions seem ridiculous, such as the idea that a person having “limited flight time” makes any difference at all. The invasion of Iraq was the result of another conspiracy, one which was ongoing at the time and ready to use any convenient excuse to get started.
To be fair, Mozilla does have a lot of problems. It’s just that starting out with an unsupportable premise like “Firefox is just a puppet for Google” is not the way to do a good job of describing them accurately or in a way that’s going to convince anyone.
Your opinions are bad, you should feel bad, and you posted this to the wrong community.
Piracy will end when copyright ends.
I wonder which word would fit better than “assisted” there if we knew all the details. Bribed, or blackmailed?
Z-Library. Despite reports of its demise I’ve seen no interruption of service. And of course if there’s one I want to pay for I’ll buy a printed copy.
Disappointing, Germany. How can we trust you to find the best pirate sites when not even thepiratebay.org is on the list?
We need someone to write a fediverse manifesto that explains it for the uninitiated like the GNU Manifesto did for free software.
More science facts: Salt water has higher density, so if you put the Pacific Ocean into a cup of tap water, it will sink to the bottom.
Canada just gave them another big copyright term extension a couple years ago. The more you give in, the more they’ll want. I say they should get nothing more out of Canada for the life of Bob Iger plus 70 years.
Just use your VPN provider’s DNS.
Not really. Now they’re old and controversial.
Plutarch’s biography of Cicero notes that:
Again, in a dispute with Cicero, Metellus Nepos asked repeatedly “Who is your father?” “In your case,” said Cicero, “your mother has made the answer to this question rather difficult.”
I’m glad to see that. There are reasons why debian didn’t choose to increase their default limit beyond 256, but some games require it and if you happen to find one it can be tricky to figure out what went wrong.