Exactly. My preferred pronoun is "gigantic cock" and if my coworkers didn't refer to me as this, I would be highly offended.
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Your first version should be very simple with very few layers.
They get hacked because of poor password choices.
You are fighting against a changing tide and the benefits of the cameras vastly outweigh the privacy concerns.
The tough part is finding clients.
Ie: the content of our character and not the color of our skin.
I need socialization at least once/week or I start getting depressed.
Nobody wants to admit that the only real way to limit energy consumption is a horrible dystopian future.
Why would a company pay a CEO millions if they have no talent? If that were the case, they would just find a random person and pay them minimum wage.
This sounds like the reasoning of a worker that thinks managers don't actually do anything all day, when the reality is much different.
Paying by ability is foolish. I know many people that have the ability to get a good job, but choose to smoke copious amounts of weed and instead sit on the couch all day. It would be like valuing companies based on the idea only.
The biggest issue is that there isn't any way to really know if it's a counterfeit unless you send them to the publisher. Many are so good, you can't really tell the difference unless you really know what to look for.
I tried this once and in response they sent me a cease and desist letter claiming I was knowingly selling counterfeits.
They went away after I got my attorney involved, but it isn't really helping the publishers because I still don't really know how to spot counterfeits, besides the obvious signs.
The publishers really want to get rid of the secondary markets because they don't make any money on it...so they are using attorneys to squash it instead.
Conservatives/republicans/trump supporters face overwhelming discrimination in silicon valley.
It's why I know all of these movements are complete bullshit and just a way to get voting power and push out anyone you dislike.
The government will squander the money like they always do, with absolutely no accountability.
Wealth taxes do nothing but push the wealthy out and leave the middle class to foot the bill.
You can't have it both ways.
Streaming services are only popular and accepted by big companies now because piracy reduced CD/album sales so much, they had no choice.
A sliver of the Indy artists got popular and signed with a big label after getting pirated so much (which was my point about requiring a label).
The rest make nothing on streaming sales (fractions of pennies) and forget about trying to sell an album. I suppose begging for donations on patreon might work, but it's not a very good way to make a living.
The culture acceptance of music piracy pushed all music in the hands of big corporations. To not admit this is not accepting the truth about your actions. It seems you want to justify your own piracy and ignore all of the negative effects it had on companies...which most likely led to the loss of many jobs.
I connect SAAS to software piracy because I've been in countless meetings over the past 5 years with business owners of software companies saying exactly what I told you.
If software can be turned into a service, it will be..because companies don't want to deal with lost sales, people that somehow think they can get free support with a pirated copy, and the spreading of misinformation when a pirated copy filled with viruses and malware is attributed to them.
Not to mention organic google keywords that lead to the pirated copies rather than the original..causing confusion, more lost sales, and harm to the company reputation.
As for the Immigration issue, blame the Democrats. When you have politicians pushing for open borders, it's difficult not to pay attention.
If you are going to infringe on someone's copyright, at least be honest about its effects.
This can be seen with music today. Rampant sharing made it so you can't really sell albums anymore. If you want to make a living, you almost have to go with a big label.
It's also why most software companies have now have SAAS and we now are renting software by the month instead of being able to buy a copy.
All of those people I remember a decade ago who claimed they were sharing music to help the indy artist are nowhere to be found and their actions have only hurt any chances of an Indy artist to make a living.
My point is that nobody wants do do anything about the other 80%. No punishment and excuses are given that they are 'developing nations', so they can freely pollute the earth and destroy the environment.
We really should be concentrating o n that 80%, and we aren't, which makes me question the motives of things like the Paris agreement.
While we bend over backwards to save the environment, these nations just use it as a way to boost their own economies while continuing to pollute and break every agreement and lie about it.
I lost a good business a few years back because Amazon refused to respond to me (aside from automated bots) and sided with a scam artist (that I think now was a competitor) that complained and kept my item. Even after I bent over backwards to help them.
Amazon kept almost $50,000 of my money for 3 months and it nearly bankrupted me.
I learned my lesson: never build a business on a third-party platform.