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Oh noooooo 18 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
Thank you! If/when I can put it all together, I will link it here. :)
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Oh noooooo 18 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
What we have here is a debate that has its origin in two different world views. I am reminded of the painting "The School of Athens," by Rapheal. In the center of this painting are Plato and Aristotle, with Plato pointing up and Aristotle with his hand reaching out. Plato held the position that right and wrong was based on some universal code, while Aristotle held that right and wrong were determined by the impact on the world around us.
From our discussion, it appears that I am taking Plato's side, and you and @bethorian are taking Aristotle's side.
Question: I am in the process of making some teaching videos on various subjects, and one of them is going to be on how our decision making is based on our world view. Would you have any objection to me using this discussion as an example?
Oh noooooo 18 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
We are starting to find some common ground here. What I see are two different discussions:
First : Would it be wise for businesses like Netfli and Disney allow password sharing? If they did so, would it be to their financial benefit?
Second: Given that they currently do not allow password sharing, are people justified in doing so anyway?
I would suggest that the answer to the first one could very well be yes, depending on the setup and market conditions.
However, on the second, I would stand by my original assessment: no, they are not justified in doing so. If you are going to derive benefit from a service, you need to support that service. After, as you say, we are talking about "just entertainment," not something that is essential for life, even if, as you are certainly correct in pointing out, it's not costing these businesses huge amounts of money.
Cheers!
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Oh noooooo 18 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
I agree with everything you have written here. However, password sharing is still "theft of services." You are getting something for free when the provider of said services is expecting its customers to actually pay for the service.
Another analogy would be hopping a city bus without paying the fare. Technically, the city is not out any money for having one more person on board, paid or not. Yet you are still utilizing someone else's resources without compensating them. It costs money to maintain a bus system, just like it costs money to maintain a streaming system, and to use either system without supporting it is simply wrong.
Oh noooooo 18 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
Oh I read it, I just don't buy any of it.
While an intelligent case can be made for such things as "piracy is not really a bad thing," you are still stuck with the fact that by sharing passwords you are not only violating the terms of service which you agreed to when you signed up, you are also helping someone steal from the service in question.
In other words, while a solid argument can be made that a company such as Disney or Netflix would benefit from allowing customers to share their passwords with friends, they have chosen not to do so. This is their prerogative.
If you share your password with someone outside your household, you are giving something away without the permission of the owner, which is a kind of theft.
Oh noooooo 18 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
You can type all day long, but at the end of the day, stealing is still stealing. If you password share, you are getting something from someone without paying the expected fee. Just because it is commonly done and people routinely get away with it doesn't make it any less wrong.
Oh noooooo 18 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
I know it's hard to generate any sympathy for billion dollar corporations, especially ones that are as money hungry as Disney, but sharing passwords is like going to an "All you can eat" buffet, paying for one person, and then slipping enough food out the door to feed your entire family.
Stealing is stealing, period.
If you were wondering the size of the Enigma 3 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
Actually, this is "an American-made version of the Bombe, a machine developed in Britain for decrypting messages sent by German Enigma cipher machines during World War II."
An actual Enigma machine was about the size of a typewriter.
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Okay mcdonalds 3 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
Really? You think?
Okay mcdonalds 3 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
The rest of the week, apparently, not so much.
I tried to do a twist on this trend and took me so long to find just a few good things 5 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
@bethorien, You may be thinking WW1. What you posted pretty much sums up US involvement in that war.
As for WW2, when the US officially joined the war in December of 1941, Germany and Japan were at the height of their power, in terms of real estate under their control. Unoffically, the US had been providing materials to Britain and the USSR for quite some times, but until Pearl Harbor, we didn't have a legitimate reason to join the actual fighting.
While a good case can be made that Germany was primarily defeated by the USSR, Japan was defeated by the US pretty much on its own.
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The nerve of some critics 4 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
The critics who panned those movies were kinda missing the point: it's all about watching giant monsters tear apart one city after another. Nothing else really matters.
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World War [iced] Tea 4 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
If you come to the south eastern US, where iced tea is predominant, and experience one of our summers, you will see very quickly why we ice our tea.
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It was commonly known among the animators as “getting Shrek’d” 4 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
True, but misleading. The final product that hit the movie screens was nothing like what the "Shrek'd" animators put together. When the higher-ups saw it, they immediately fired the whole crew, and then, when Chris Farley (originally cast as Shrek) died, it was almost scrapped. Thankfully, with a revamped cast and crew, Shrek was remade, and the rest, as they say, is history.
nypost. com/2010/05/16/ugly-green-montrous/
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Double Dad 8 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
With these DNA tests, some serious skeletons are coming out the family closets. (Turns out, my whole family is the skeleton in someone else's closet).
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Happy Easter my dudes and dudettes 1 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
Ok, for the record, this is NOT a picture of what Jesus looked like. The second picture is simply a recreation of a typical person from Jesus's day that lived in the area around Jerusalem. No one who had anything to do with the creation of this image has ever claimed it to be a picture of Jesus himself.
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One Coke to rule them all! 4 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
Need I say this? The "winner take all" approach to our elections lends itself to having only two parties. However, as @famousone points out, both parties are coalitions. When one part of those coalitions shift their votes, such as the blue collar workers in 2016, you have some rather surprising results.
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Shoutout to my history professor 3 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
When I was in High School, a history class had been working for a number of weeks on research papers. The day they turned them in, the teacher accidentally left them on top of his car when he drove off, scattering them everywhere. He wound up giving everyone a 100 on it (including those that hadn't even turned one in) since he could not be certain that he recovered all of them. This really irritated the ones that had put a whole lot of effort into it.
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Electrician in the Making [WholesomeSubstance] 6 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
They know my sense of humor, which obviously went right over your head.
Electrician in the Making [WholesomeSubstance] 6 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
If they wanted to also give him a lesson in how the world works, they could have deducted a certain amount for taxes.
Because you said no. 12 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
What can we say, but No means No.
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Life goals 2 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
I'll just take the large stone cottage at the edge of the woods.
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The day has finally come 2 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
I wonder how long the Dad had been waiting to pull that.
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Broad useful Coyote 1 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
I would think that using dice that can be seen by everyone would be a requisite for participating in the game to begin with.
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meirl 3 comments
married_dude · 3 years ago
Seeing all of the first three sites that are pictured would be quite a trip. They are all quite some distance from each other, especially the first one.