You'd do well to educate yourself a bit more on the subject. You are buying into a centuries old propaganda campaign. Places where the industrializers didn't undercut skilled workers wages by buying orphans to operate the machinery didn't suffer from the sabotage and destruction that the ones who did suffered.
I'd highly recommend reading 'Blood in the Machine' by Brian Merchant. It is a extremely timely look at the Luddite movement and how it intersects with our current woes.
The fact is that crypto is chock full of scams which is because the entire concept is scam adjacent. Only the foolish and willfully ignorant get in to it in the first place which makes them prime targets for preying on their ignorance.
I read the first couple sentences of this article and thought that it was hyperbolic and stretching to connect the right's latest outrage to the ongoing war against encryption. While I'm already a convert on both subjects I hate the hyperbole and doom-casting so common to news so I went in expecting to be typing a response denouncing the article.
That said, I was convinced by the writing that there is a sound and reasonable connecting between abortion and encryption rights and that the threat against one does indeed exacerbate the threat against the other. It is rare for me to find an article that actually compellingly argues it's point and can change my mind from the first sentences to the end. Bravo.
For just 33% of your revenue you can give someone else all the intellectual property rights to your game AND don't get to use the name of IP you are developing for without permission from Paradox.
While it is ludicrously permissive the license is simultaneously so restrictive that it is of little use to actual developers. It will serve the fan community and the game jam community pretty well though, but not any commercial developer.
In terms of how likely they are to pass it depends on the exact letter of the agreement the New Democrat Party made to support the ruling Liberal Party until 2025. If support of major legislation was part of that (and it almost certainly was) then these should pass easily on a simple majority vote.
They are all guaranteed to be challenged in court however and that is where the real questions would lie. While Canada doesn't have the same anything goes commitment to Free Speech that the US does, there remains a strong legal and historical foundation for Freedom of Expression which the link tax certainly violates. The online harms probably also has a fair likelihood of successful challenge forcing at least modification of the legislation. The copyright thing however is pretty likely to successfully avoid legal challenge.
My child's psychologist says she sees waves of self-reported psychiatric problems as the subject becomes popular on TikTok or Instagram that are largely imagined because the descriptions of the condition being given are broad enough to cover many completely normal teenage feelings and experiences. So while most of them are explained what ACTUALLY the condition is like and realize that they don't have it, some few are able to put a name to an experience they didn't realize others were having. Really the problem is the exact same thing we see with adults looking up stuff on WebMD and thinking that they have unusual conditions because of normal everyday symptoms.
There is a strong argument to be made that Pepe's association with alt-right racism is a commercial issue. It certainly damages the original market in which Furie wishes to use the character by tinging the interpretation of anything that character is associated with with the racist fringe that have co-opted him, in violation of Furie's copyright, as their own.
While Steam doesn't technically have free trials they will refund almost any purchase for the reason 'This isn't what I thought it would be' which allows for users to be a little riskier in trying out titles that sound interesting but they would otherwise pass on due to lack of knowledge of the developer.
As much as I would like to see him get his just desserts he will almost certainly land a cushy job with Verizon or ATT. The cost of a comfortable salary doesn't really hit their bottom line for 'lobbying' and ensures that future flunkies know that they will be paid out without ever having to make an agreement that could be proven in court.
1. Show up to the clinic with a live chicken tucked under your arm. 2. Have a friend with a camera film the ensuing chaos. 3. Become viral video sensation 4. Take money from monetizing video and pay the doctor to give you a damn checkup already.
Not sure about this particular case but it is very, very common for courts to verbatim use the same language when ruling on similar issues. The main reason is that they are often referencing or directly quoting the prior decision (since while not bound by out of circuit decisions they offer significant deference to them) and because doing so prevents pedants from trying to argue that two extremely similar decisions are actually functionally different because they used marginally different verbiage.
Yup people thinking that someone is a bigoted asshole is exactly the same as those people treating others as lesser simply because of their skin. Glad you've contributed this deeply intelligent piece of thought here rather than using the toilet to dispose of it like a normal person.
I text a couple friends every time I head to Costco since it requires a membership and I happen to know that they like some things there and it gives them a chance to ask me to pick them up for them. The deep limitations of your imagination shouldn't be the limit of everyone else's life.
Boy those zeroes of violent counter protesters sure caused those Nazi's to equip themselves with riot shields, gas masks, and pepper spray before showing up and are very responsible for inciting the violence of allowing themselves to be run over. Monsters, those people are!
Confederate statues have been a 'big deal' for many years - we aren't responsible if the hole you've been hiding in prevented you from knowing that. The fact that the decades long struggle to remove them from the public square and stop lionizing men who committed treason and killed hundreds of thousands on both sides of the civil war for the right to own brown people achieved another victory and the 'only concerned with fairly portraying history' white supremacists murdered someone last week while throwing a public tantrum about it doesn't make it something new. I first heard about the movement to remove Confederate glorifying statues in the late 80s but, as both a foreigner and under 10 at that time, I'm quite my awareness was late to the party and the movement predated it - likely back to roughly the end of the civil war.
Whether it be 10 years ago or today, if for example, someone approached a publication about a story that x major politician was snorting coke every day while embezzling funds to pay for that habit, no one would publish that unless it could be 100% sure it was true.
Active duty military personnel with the 'Proud Boys' threatened the protestors and disrupted their peaceful protest. Thankfully since Canada is reasonably sane they've all been suspended from duty and are all likely to be fired or demoted.
Hopefully some free speech favouring Canadian lawyer will step up and take this pro-bono rather than letting this person self represent before the court of appeals and create bad precedent that we will be stuck with forever. While I wish people could self represent successfully as it would make access to justice more equitable mostly they just wreck it for themselves AND everyone else who has similar cases in the future.
The kitapsun article DOES, in fact, say that Moriwaki claims Rynearson is sending him many harassing text message which is why I specified that those particular actions, and not any of his other postings, seemed to constitute harassment. Now I don't actually trust Moriwaki's claim without some further verification since he seems like the sort of idiot who would set up Twitter text alerts for his own name and then complain he was 'being harassed' by getting the notifications he asked for.
In what way did they 'invite' the court to commit constitutional error?
They vigorously opposed the idea that the court could and should issue an injunction that acted as prior restraint on speech. Having lost that argument based on the judge not understanding the First Amendment they continued to represent their clients interests by asking the court to apply the (improper) ruling to both sides so that at least their client wasn't handcuffed while letting their opposition free to do and say as they wanted.
You'd do well to educate yourself a bit more on the subject. You are buying into a centuries old propaganda campaign. Places where the industrializers didn't undercut skilled workers wages by buying orphans to operate the machinery didn't suffer from the sabotage and destruction that the ones who did suffered. I'd highly recommend reading 'Blood in the Machine' by Brian Merchant. It is a extremely timely look at the Luddite movement and how it intersects with our current woes.
The fact is that crypto is chock full of scams which is because the entire concept is scam adjacent. Only the foolish and willfully ignorant get in to it in the first place which makes them prime targets for preying on their ignorance.
Well Argued
I read the first couple sentences of this article and thought that it was hyperbolic and stretching to connect the right's latest outrage to the ongoing war against encryption. While I'm already a convert on both subjects I hate the hyperbole and doom-casting so common to news so I went in expecting to be typing a response denouncing the article. That said, I was convinced by the writing that there is a sound and reasonable connecting between abortion and encryption rights and that the threat against one does indeed exacerbate the threat against the other. It is rare for me to find an article that actually compellingly argues it's point and can change my mind from the first sentences to the end. Bravo.
Terrible License
For just 33% of your revenue you can give someone else all the intellectual property rights to your game AND don't get to use the name of IP you are developing for without permission from Paradox. While it is ludicrously permissive the license is simultaneously so restrictive that it is of little use to actual developers. It will serve the fan community and the game jam community pretty well though, but not any commercial developer.
In terms of how likely they are to pass it depends on the exact letter of the agreement the New Democrat Party made to support the ruling Liberal Party until 2025. If support of major legislation was part of that (and it almost certainly was) then these should pass easily on a simple majority vote. They are all guaranteed to be challenged in court however and that is where the real questions would lie. While Canada doesn't have the same anything goes commitment to Free Speech that the US does, there remains a strong legal and historical foundation for Freedom of Expression which the link tax certainly violates. The online harms probably also has a fair likelihood of successful challenge forcing at least modification of the legislation. The copyright thing however is pretty likely to successfully avoid legal challenge.
My child's psychologist says she sees waves of self-reported psychiatric problems as the subject becomes popular on TikTok or Instagram that are largely imagined because the descriptions of the condition being given are broad enough to cover many completely normal teenage feelings and experiences. So while most of them are explained what ACTUALLY the condition is like and realize that they don't have it, some few are able to put a name to an experience they didn't realize others were having. Really the problem is the exact same thing we see with adults looking up stuff on WebMD and thinking that they have unusual conditions because of normal everyday symptoms.
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There is a strong argument to be made that Pepe's association with alt-right racism is a commercial issue. It certainly damages the original market in which Furie wishes to use the character by tinging the interpretation of anything that character is associated with with the racist fringe that have co-opted him, in violation of Furie's copyright, as their own.
Re: Steam needs a free trial
While Steam doesn't technically have free trials they will refund almost any purchase for the reason 'This isn't what I thought it would be' which allows for users to be a little riskier in trying out titles that sound interesting but they would otherwise pass on due to lack of knowledge of the developer.
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As much as I would like to see him get his just desserts he will almost certainly land a cushy job with Verizon or ATT. The cost of a comfortable salary doesn't really hit their bottom line for 'lobbying' and ensures that future flunkies know that they will be paid out without ever having to make an agreement that could be proven in court.
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You missed the rest of this plan:
1. Show up to the clinic with a live chicken tucked under your arm.
2. Have a friend with a camera film the ensuing chaos.
3. Become viral video sensation
4. Take money from monetizing video and pay the doctor to give you a damn checkup already.
Re: Two Courts Said the Exact Same Thing?
Not sure about this particular case but it is very, very common for courts to verbatim use the same language when ruling on similar issues. The main reason is that they are often referencing or directly quoting the prior decision (since while not bound by out of circuit decisions they offer significant deference to them) and because doing so prevents pedants from trying to argue that two extremely similar decisions are actually functionally different because they used marginally different verbiage.
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Yup people thinking that someone is a bigoted asshole is exactly the same as those people treating others as lesser simply because of their skin. Glad you've contributed this deeply intelligent piece of thought here rather than using the toilet to dispose of it like a normal person.
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I text a couple friends every time I head to Costco since it requires a membership and I happen to know that they like some things there and it gives them a chance to ask me to pick them up for them. The deep limitations of your imagination shouldn't be the limit of everyone else's life.
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Boy those zeroes of violent counter protesters sure caused those Nazi's to equip themselves with riot shields, gas masks, and pepper spray before showing up and are very responsible for inciting the violence of allowing themselves to be run over. Monsters, those people are!
Re: Re: Re: Too speculative
Confederate statues have been a 'big deal' for many years - we aren't responsible if the hole you've been hiding in prevented you from knowing that. The fact that the decades long struggle to remove them from the public square and stop lionizing men who committed treason and killed hundreds of thousands on both sides of the civil war for the right to own brown people achieved another victory and the 'only concerned with fairly portraying history' white supremacists murdered someone last week while throwing a public tantrum about it doesn't make it something new. I first heard about the movement to remove Confederate glorifying statues in the late 80s but, as both a foreigner and under 10 at that time, I'm quite my awareness was late to the party and the movement predated it - likely back to roughly the end of the civil war.
Re: What link?
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Active duty military personnel with the 'Proud Boys' threatened the protestors and disrupted their peaceful protest. Thankfully since Canada is reasonably sane they've all been suspended from duty and are all likely to be fired or demoted.
Hopefully some free speech favouring Canadian lawyer will step up and take this pro-bono rather than letting this person self represent before the court of appeals and create bad precedent that we will be stuck with forever. While I wish people could self represent successfully as it would make access to justice more equitable mostly they just wreck it for themselves AND everyone else who has similar cases in the future.
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The kitapsun article DOES, in fact, say that Moriwaki claims Rynearson is sending him many harassing text message which is why I specified that those particular actions, and not any of his other postings, seemed to constitute harassment. Now I don't actually trust Moriwaki's claim without some further verification since he seems like the sort of idiot who would set up Twitter text alerts for his own name and then complain he was 'being harassed' by getting the notifications he asked for.
Re: Re: Re: Clues
In what way did they 'invite' the court to commit constitutional error?
They vigorously opposed the idea that the court could and should issue an injunction that acted as prior restraint on speech. Having lost that argument based on the judge not understanding the First Amendment they continued to represent their clients interests by asking the court to apply the (improper) ruling to both sides so that at least their client wasn't handcuffed while letting their opposition free to do and say as they wanted.