I issued a (valid) DMCA notice to a small corporation who used the intellectual property of a colleague but did not pay them for it (they promised payment in writing, then just... didn't pay for a year or more). Their whole business website was down for a week or more as a result, as their registrar just took down their website without checking anything, and they didn't really have technical staff to resolve it.
The whole DMCA system is quite a broken mess, and is often (usually?) used unethically. However, it is possible to use correctly, even by private individuals. I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it a little, that day.
One time I stole a balloon on free balloon day. The guilt still keeps me up at night.
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
With helium or no?
Well it floated, but it was also underwater so we will never truely know
Asking the important question here!
think of the poor kid who you deprived of a balloon, you monster!
I hope you at least spent a few moments in jail to learn your lesson
I am an apartment building manager. Once, years ago, I was brought in to clean up after another manager who had quit/been fired for... let's just call it incompetence.
Anyway, there was a unit in the building that was occupied by a guy I never met or even saw, and the rent was months overdue. So I followed the required legal procedure to declare the unit abandoned. I spoke to neighbors who hadn't seen the guy either. I posted notices, etc. Eventually, the unit was legally declared abandoned and I started the task of clearing out any property left behind.
The unit was very neat and tidy and full of nice stuff. Not the usual state of a rental that someone abandoned, and this should have tipped me off. But it didn't, and so I had everything hauled away. Furniture, electronics, clothes, the lot.
Then after 6 months I moved on to a different building. Later, I learned that the person who lived there was on active duty in the military, and that's why no one had seen them for months. Apparently, a neighbor had been entrusted to pay the rent but they had just kept the money for themselves, and lied to me when I inquired about the neighbor's whereabouts.
So, this poor guy comes back from overseas military service to discover that not only has he lost his apartment but also everything in it. And since I had followed the legal procedure, no law was broken (by me.)
Ah man. I'm sorry that happened. That's not your fault. You couldn't have know.
Copied an example source code, which was under MIT+Apache 2.0 license, and created a derivative work under GPL, maybe that's questionable?
After a quick research, this should be fine. It means that the original is theirs and licensed under MIT and Apache 2.0, and your modifications are yours and licensed under GPL
Tracing art back in highschool for an ungraded art project since it was just for the front and back of a crummy "sketch book" made entirely of white paper and staples.
For the vast majority of my life, I regularly paid mega corporations in a corrupt and evil industry to rape females with machines to impregnate them, then separate the children from their mothers shortly after birth so that I could drink the mammary secretions meant for those children (who were then murdered if they were male, or raised in deplorable conditions to become part of the process themselves if they were female).
And vegans wonder why they have a reputation for being overly dramatic and preachy 🤦
If you want sane people to listen, maybe take it down several hundred notches..
I mean to be fair what he said is exactly how the milk industry works.
I say this as a meat eater, that intensive production shit should be illegal even at the cost of reducing meat supply as traditional, more ethical, methods are insufficient to meet our (unsustainable) meat demand. Well at least until lab-grown meat becomes mainstream enough.
Sane people usually don’t listen, though. No matter how you put it, you’re always the crazy preachy vegan. Insane people respond by saying how they’ll order and extra steak just to spite you. It’s weird.
Also, RE: climate change. Normal arguments don’t do anything for the average person. That’s why you get the crazy stuff nowadays.
Sorry, I don’t find any of the actions I described above to be sane. And if you think I’m being sensational, you haven’t watched Dominion yet, and you should. I was actually just describing the “normal” aspects of the dairy industry; the reality of the conditions these living, thinking, feeling beings live in are even worse.
“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” -Krishnamurti
We have this reputation solely because people feel threatened and offended when you tell them that you refuse to eat animal products. They suddenly start being confrontational and refuse to listen to your reasoning.
It's like arguing with little children who plug their ears and sing while you're trying to explain that 30% of the reason we're in a climate crisis is their overconsumption of animal products, derived from creatures capable of emotion, able to see, hear, and smell not unlike you and me.
And those conversations do not come up unsolicited but provoked by meat eaters asking "but why would you do that to yourself?"
But maybe I'm being overly dramatic and preachy 🤦
If I didn't completely kill your interest in the topic, check out Ed Winters on YouTube.
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Love to see a fellow based vegan on here 🌱
I put out some bait last month to get rid of an ant problem I had in my kitchen, I guess I'm as guilty of mass murder as you are
Being legally raped by a corporate machine...yeah that sounds about right.
It really is. Check this out:
CW: violence
meat is murder. tasty, tasty murder.
So did I, then I decided to stop eating corpses and eat even more of these secretions. One chapter into Jesus Ed's book and I don't think I'm ever going back to this lifestyle.
People think I'm crazy and extreme for not participating but I enjoy my "frozen dessert" and "nut/seed drink" without feeling like having blood on my hands.
Same here, and I’d rather be down-voted into oblivion than pretend my past actions weren’t “questionable”. I’d love to say I’m a proud vegan, but truthfully, I’m not proud of being vegan; I’m ashamed and regretful of how long it took me to become one.
I, too, regrettably, participate in Capitalism. But rather then taking a counter-productive individual approach based on inconsistent morality and twisting myself into knots as a victim of this society, I took a systemic approach, got to the root of the problem and became anti-capitalist instead. This let's me enjoy the fruits of tens of thousands of years of human agricultural and animal husbandry while enjoying some of the best cuisine's human culture has produced.
