Agreed about changing the copyright law.
Until that happens though, they must not be allowed to have it both ways - call us “pirates” when we copy their shit without paying for it, and tell us that paying for shit they copy is “impossible”.
Libraries are still a thing. You can still go there to borrow a book, read it, and return it, so that others can read it.
Public libraries are under assault from every direction.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/book-bans-librarians.html (apologies for nyt link)
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/5/23711417/republicans-want-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans
Pretty soon you either won’t find the books, or even the libraries themselves. Piracy is the only way they are leaving to us.
Itanium jokes are never going to be not funny!
It’s a trap!
But Russia isn’t going to deal with the agreement
I’m pretty sure Putin is gonna have to deal with it.
Chaotic evil is “makes you create a ticket, doesn’t work on it, and then blames the ticket for the downtime to the CEO.”
Also, at least 27 percent of bears shit in the woods.
I mean what other choice is there? The way US elections are designed (electoral college, distribution of state representatives, re-drawing local districts on whims, unlimited amount of money being able to be poured into campaigns without any oversight or even reporting requirements, etc.,) voting for a third party is throwing your vote away. So you vote for the lesser evil. Unless you are so brainwashed as to vote against your own self-interest out of fear of the other side.
Do NOT let them recite their poetry to you!!!
Putin was elected too.
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Bwahahahah! Sorry, almost made it through with a straight face.
Louis Rossmann’s 20-minute rant on needless cloudification of shit incoming in 3… 2… 1…
Other motions proposed included a call to “abolish abortion by immediately securing the right to life and equal protection of the laws to all preborn children from the moment of fertilization.”
Do my preborn children count towards car passengers in the HOV lanes? Can I claim every fertilized egg as a dependent on my state tax forms?
“Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto. … supporters of the Texas Nationalist Movement, which wants the Lone Star State to become an independent country, were photographed holding signs which read TEXIT NOW!”
So the Brexit disaster is their role model now?
Nothing and I mean nothing will kill this faster than some leaked chats, emails, and browsing history of a few politicians.
Pichai & Co would totally have blocked videos if Hitler demanded it back during WW2. They should embrace their new motto - “Anything for a buck!”
Grow a pair, you spineless shits, and stop kowtowing to brutal dictators!
Good advice. Take it up a notch. Why bother going to another country first? Just shoot yourself in the head before being sent to the front lines.
Glorified autocomplete. That, and Clippy.
I see what you did there. Had to zoom in a little.
They have a long history of speaking out of both sides of the mouth.
Both sides of the ass, you mean.
They probably mean comic books.
Easy solution. “The Internet Archive” should rebrand itself to “Archiving the Internet” to confuse everyone who talks about how “AI” should be able to steal books.