SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
For the past several years, copyright holders in the US and Europe have been trying to reach out to file-sharers in an effort to change their habits.
Whether via high-profile publicity lawsuits or a simple email, it's hoped that by letting people know they aren't anonymous, they'll stop pirating and buy more content instead.
Traditionally, most ISPs haven't been that keen on passing infringement notices on. However, the BMG v Cox lawsuit seems to have made a big difference, with a growing number of ISPs now visibly warning their users that they operate a repeat infringer policy.
But perhaps the big question is how seriously users take these warnings because – let's face it – that's the entire point of their existence.
Sixty-five thousand five hundred thirty-five but if they sent one more I'd start again.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/how-many-piracy-warnings-would-get-you-to-stop-180422/
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 24 2018, @02:54AM (8 children)
Most people want to believe they are intelligent. And, of course intelligent people are harder to brainwash. But, your assertion that you are intelligent doesn't make you intelligent. Just how high did you rank on all those tests you took in high school and/or college? How many of them did you just blow out of the water? Were you suspected of cheating because you got impossibly high scores on the tests?
Again - I don't accept the narrative being forced down society's throat. It's bullshit. If you choose to believe the bullshit, so be it. Paying for a record does NOT put money into your favorite artist's pocket. Again, you'll do artists more good by tipping the band at your local bar, than offering up your hard earned cash to a record label.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @03:09AM (4 children)
How high did I score? Full scholarship off my pre-SAT. Never took the SATs and I graduated as a junior (I even skipped the 5th grade). Never was suspected of cheating because tests always came easy. What about you? Or do you not like the term "cheating" to describe getting around the test rules because it sounds bad?
Your assertions that people who disagree are not intelligent are comical. They remind me of someone who continually claims they are smart. Very smart. Smarter than anyone else.
IMNSHO, paying for a CD is the right thing to do. If the artist failed to secure an advantageous contract it is not my problem. I should not have to worry that they have their shit together before making a purchase. Refusing to pay for a CD because you suspect that the artist may not get what you feel they deserve is disingenuous ... unless you are sending them cash directly.
(Score: 3, Funny) by archfeld on Tuesday April 24 2018, @08:16AM
I am so smrt, so very smrt....SMRT
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 24 2018, @02:25PM (2 children)
Dear parents or guardians of RUNAWAY1956,
We aren't sure if your child cheated, or should be sent straight to college. No child gets scores like your child got. In fact, few of our staff can get that high a score, and they created the test. Please don't enroll your child for any more of our tests. We will trash the test as soon as we see his name on it.
Thank you,
Staff of NEDT school testing
_______________________________
The ACT wasn't quite so bad -a few other people actually score as high as I did. ASVAB, very much the same, except for one little hole. That being linquistics and code.
Full scholarship, you say? Mine for the taking. Two of my sons also won full scholarships. I'm not terribly impressed with your scholarship. Some of us walk away from those scholarships, because they don't fit what we want or need to do in life.
(Score: 2, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday April 24 2018, @03:20PM (1 child)
I guess we’ll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win. The best linquist.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 24 2018, @03:39PM
That's possible - depending on which test, and how it's weighted. STEM people don't spend a lot of time talking to their creations, and they certainly don't expect their creations to answer in some foreign language.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @03:33AM (2 children)
What, you mean the ones that require only rote memorization to solve? The ones that any moron with a tiny bit of motivation could ace? What do those have to do with his intelligence, exactly? They neither prove nor disprove that one is intelligent; they are only good for eliminating people who didn't even bother to rote memorize the material.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 24 2018, @03:04PM (1 child)
Different times, I guess. There was little rote memorization when I was in school. Sure, there was some - the times table, spelling rules, some more, I suppose. But, back then, education actually required some thinking. Besides which, I always wanted to know why things were this way or that. It wasn't good enough to memorize names, dates, facts, and figures. Always, "Why?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @10:28PM
America's education system is and always has been based on Prussia's (even though it was modified), which was designed to churn out obedient worker drones, so I guarantee you that you're wrong. You simply failed to spot the problem. There are no 'golden age' of the American education system; sorry.
But you're not alone in thinking this. Even to this day, many people fail to see that what they're doing is actually just rote memorization because it's dressed up as something else. If one doesn't know what a real education looks like, then chances are one won't be able to spot the problem.
If you meant to say that schooling required some thinking, well, you're still wrong.
Maybe you, but it was by no means required. And that's the issue.