If you feel like you need a drink, no you don’t.

But what does it sound like?

“How do we pay artists”

What if we didn’t pay anyone? What if farmers gave crops to cooks, who cooked for the people, some of those people are artists or authors, who create art for the people. Some of the people are musicians or singers or performers who entertain the people. Some of the people are builders and lumberjacks who build shelters for the people.

I think this could scale. A government could oversee production and create jobs where needed, such as being able to have factories that produce phones that only come with what you want or need, none of the bloat or adware we get now. No new version every year, or if they do, they can pass down older versions to next generations, and recycle the oldest or broken phones.

What if everyone had a laptop to network and be digitally productive, with a reliable connection to the internet. We would be right where we are now, except everyone is thriving. They dont get to be picky, but their needs can be met.

The dangers of that statement allow a person to take as much as they want and claim nobody owns it.

I see what you’re saying. I think a better way to express it is saying that the person who created it is acknowledged as the creator, and derivative works should be a certain amount of “different”, otherwise they are reproductions rather than original.

I disagree with that logic, but using things for non-commercial use is fine. It’s not yours, you dont own the rights to it, but you are free to borrow it for personal purposes, artistic sampling, or similar.

Nothing is owned, everything is borrowed, hoarding is immoral. Give back to your community.

Edit: My tone/intent is not to be critical of your comments, but to add additional context.

The US has no mandatory time off. PTO is uncommon, but also a “benefit”, not mandatory.

Washington State has mandatory sick time accrual (1 hour per 40 worked), which is paid time off. But that equates to less than 12 days per year.

I agree with you that we need to do better, but with everything else going on, I’m inclined to change countries if/when i can afford to.

I have my original gamecube and games still. Controller got replaced a couple times. With emulation being accessible as it is, I think only a collector (or a speedrunner) would be interested now.

Indeed, it is a 2-way conversation. You are not at their mercy, you are equals.

If you’re not a fan of it, you can use Nair to maintain it.

If you want your call to be used for training, either you or the employee have to do something crazy.

Training folks don’t care about the mundane, they want to show what not to do (if the employee fucks up) or how to handle calls properly (irate customers).

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Tone is difficult to convey over text, it was more of a modest curious question, but this thread showed up in All/Hot so a random like me just saw it for the first time.

Softly Don’t.

Ok fine, im storing passwords as plaintext on a public facing database hosted locally…

…without sanitizing inputs

If I told you it wouldnt be secure.

If you could see exactly where the ball is going, or where it will land, and others cant, then its a slight advantage. Not as much as wall hacks or god mode, but statistically significant.

It would be like having a reticle on Goldeneye 64. A recording of the game would make the user look better at prediction.

I explained them in the case that OP forgot or didnt learn yet. This is a situation where “when am i gonna use that” applies, and its possible someone may know how to do percentage calculation, but not know how to apply it to a real-world example, or not know that it can be used in this way to divide a value into unequal portions.

I typed it up before going to bed. Im glad it was a typo rather than my math being wrong.

Also: Th’air