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OK, guys, now what you have to remember for the next 4 years is that papers and documents are not what forms a society. People are. And if the system was built well enough, people will be able to restore it after the next election.

Ah, yes, of course. That's also the distinction of Russia's situation from more classical kinds of fascism. Bad things happen, but the regime doesn't put them under your nose. Intimidation happens, but there are no public executions Nazi-style. Propaganda happens, but it's boring and one would think ineffective, except it still sticks, similar to advertising, - they've learned some lessons. Nazis were more interesting and imposing, but less efficient. This is state of the art.

Same with today's monopolies, oligopolies, rotten electoral systems, censorship.

Everything has been optimized to the last cent. Not the good old days, when the bad guys were generous with impressions.

Reminds me of Boussenard's sentiment on new uniforms in his children's book on the Boer war - no more nice glares and colors, just khaki everywhere - a symbol of efficiency, because camouflage now is treated seriously enough.

Like Intel's tick-tock. Worker movements and fascisms 100 years ago were the "tick", and now is the "tock" - boring, depressing, deadly efficient.

I think I've read US military and navy etc have their own parallel Internet, a few actually.

Not in the sense of it being an American company, but in the sense of it being a bit less of a mess.

Intentional spying yes of course.

Has been done before by whom and for what?

Say, the particular case could have been a failure because of Android not being a very good desktop OS, or the hardware being too weak. I can't think of a precedent though, even such.

Deemed impractical by whom and for what?

Say, if it was a braindead monkey or an Apple fanboy, then irrelevant.

It's an intentionally designed system, so that everyone falling out of line by themselves would hurt only themselves. It's the point of governments and militaries than everyone can be replaced.

It was always so.

Strikes are supposed to be "suicidal".

The problem is that western cultures after 60s manufactured expectation that there's no such thing among necessary ones in life. That you live for feeling nice, comfort, good things, peaceful politics. That risking your life to make a statement won't be required from you. That was initially counterpropaganda to communism, I think.

I'll dare note that in the beginning of the previous century financial implications of such a strike for a worker were not just that, and it involved also possibly serious physical damage (without easily available surgery and care) and detention.

I would really like to find it in myself to do something like that, it takes a certain state of mind and a certain feeling in the air, because how do you start when nobody is yet doing it.

I would personally argue that fixing the law means getting rid of the notion of intellectual property all together.

Perhaps now - yes. 20 years ago one could argue, but today in practice it, as it was intended, simply already doesn't exist. Those holding the IP are those having enough power to insert themselves in a right place. The initial purpose is just not achievable.

In my own reasoning someone copying me is the highest form of flattery and i would still have an edge understanding the properties of own idea better then the copycat does.

Yes, if the artist thinks that. And no, if the artist expects to make some money from every copy.

Its a huge limiter on human progress and absolutely non sensical in situations where multiple people just happen to have a similar idea.

That's true for patents and technologies, but not true for art and software, where it's improbable to just come up with the same thing.

Naturally such idea of abolishing copyright receives lots of criticism from many people because we would have to solve other problems that copyright now aims to fix but i don’t think that justifies the damage it does.

Now - maybe. There are a few traditional ways, like authors reading aloud pieces of their creations and people buying tickets to such performances, same with music. And models with paying forward for a request, like crowdfunding or an order.

But personally I still think some form of it should exist. Maybe non-transferable to companies and other people other than via inheritance. Intellectual work is work, and people do it to get paid. It's just not good enough if the returns don't scale with popularity.

Fanfiction and non monetised use is not at all exempt from these laws but rather tolerated by the copyright holder.

Should fix that in law, based on the commonality of such use.

IP companies use every such opening, we should too.

combination of plausible deniability (wizard uk boarding school isnt that orginal)

Except they even use character names from HP.

Publicity - maybe, would be funny.

I agree. I had a "pleasure" to experience the difference.

That also involved learning that human society consists of apes, real danger is always very close and no police will help you against it, thus right to carry arms is paramount. Preferably allowing you to kill a tank.

What the other guy provided is as good as I will find

He also considers himself a marxist iirc

It's important propaganda-wise, because it supports a subconscious association between unauthorized copy and and capturing a vessel with its crew. I agree.

What I meant is - unauthorized copying is sometimes too morally very similar to a robbery. There are people, not living very rich, who depend on it happening more rarely. Of course they are being robbed by intermediaries always and by us sometimes, but they still feel it.

A small box you can stick into 3 different cases, one looking like a laptop, another like a tablet and another like a phone, can.

Or a phone you stick into the former two, like a dock station. One could do this with Ubuntu Phone, sadly they failed.

One can argue that the case of a MacBook and its screen and the keyboard account for much of its cost, but I think the fact itself that it's a single device with different UIs would make many situations more convenient. No need to synchronize files - it's already the same storage medium. No need to charge 3 separate devices. No need to stop your work when switching.

And yeah, I still think the "computer" part costs a lot.

Multitasking is a feature of an operating system that is already there.

And window management on a touchscreen - I guess tiling is fine. Maybe.

It depends. Pirating a specific thing created by someone I think is not good. Ask almost any creator on the Web.

While using motives, aesthetics, characters, universes ... is usually something that shouldn't be subject to IP law, but in fact is, because the law is not written with any creators in mind, it's intended to create convenient conditions for big businesses.

How so? Isn't it the same for the financial purposes?

It's quite illustrative of DE's universe's relevance to our world though.

(I'm more partial to SW KotORII: TSL, even if DE feels more like my life, even I wonder if Harry's ex is too not just a blindingly bright and quite f-ckable picture, but also a murderer ; too autistic to look for authors' contacts to ask them about it.)

Barred from expressing with monetizing it, you certainly mean? Otherwise most of fan fiction would have to be censored, having IP owners not willing competition.

And even then it's in question, there are plenty of crowdfunded and later paid for indie games set in Harry Potter universe. Those I'm thinking about are NSFW though.

You seem to not want any people to teach you anything.

No, I don't seem that. I don't like being ascribed opinions I haven't expressed.

I wouldn’t define flipping coins as decision making. Especially when it comes to blanket governmental policy that has the potential to kill (or severely disable) millions of people.

When your goal is to avoid a certain most harmful subset of such decisions, and living humans always being pressured by power and corrupt profit to pick that subset, flipping coins is preferable, if that's the two variants between which we are choosing.

Even an RNG does decision-making.

I know what LLMs are, thank you very much!

If you wanted to even understand my initial point, you already would have.

Things have become really grim if people who can't read a small message are trying to teach me on fundamentals of LLMs.