By copying that fish, he took business away from the fisherman who caught it. If it weren't for his piracy, many people would have been hungry and bought fish from him. Copying fish is stealing.
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You wouldn‘t download a cod
Isn't it like 200gb?
Jesus had admin commands.
God mode.
Do you think he has sudo privileges or does he su in?
Well he was only granted admin privileges by his father so he likely had a set of AWS (Apparently the World Started) credentials rather than just raw root access. The documentation is the Bible of course
if the bible was about 3 sysadmins who are all somehow also the same guy I would actually sit down and read all of it.
Oh duh. Forgot about Appendix D.
Jesus: “System call…”
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He didn't once think of the poor baker and fisherman he was depriving of wealth
Something I've learned is that :
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Aside from Indie Devs who keep their properties long term, any money you pay for a game gets split between retailers, distribution chains, and publishing companies and NOT the people who made that game. It doesn't matter how many copies of FO:NV you buy, Obsidian gets none of it, they were already paid (and denied bonuses).
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Piracy increases games awareness and promotes them, so by allowing some amount of piracy the developers actually boost their sales. E.G. Factorio distributes standalones which, obviously, does lead to friends giving each other copies.
Also I used to never believe people actually end up buying games they "just pirated to check if it runs on my pc or not."
Then I got my first job and gradually bought a bunch of games on GoG that I used to play as a kid.
There is actual incentive to buy the game later on once money problems are slightly better and you want to play a game you really liked before.
Piracy increases games awareness and promotes them,
MS used this to full effect making their software so easy to pirate and all keys were easily found online. It didn't affect them but only help because every student trained on MS office, taking those skills into the workforce and for which companies paid for a commercial licence.
and look how he was penalised for it.
A commuted death sentence? Anyone else would have been dead for way longer than 3 days
The only hell you might get from pirating and other "easy sources of excess pleasure" is the hedonic treadmill. I'd say Steam sales are more likely to cause this at this point but we're definitely seeing the effects of easy entertainment on the general population. Brainrot and all that. It's not fire and brimstone but the world ain't looking great. But personally I'd take notes from Buddhism rather than Christianity as the latter is way more preoccupied with what happens after this life (the religion of kicking the can down the road).
It's not the easy entertainment that's causing brainrot, it's the convenient sacrifices. The ads. The pollution. Time spent in cars. The plastic crap. The noise. The horrible news. The apoliticism. The talking machine that thinks for you.
Those aren't entertainment or luxuries, they're daily micro-tortures that are easy to get used to, easy to tolerate, easy to ignore, but still carve out pieces of your soul. People are being worn down to nothing as surely as if by any addiction. It's not the high that kills you, it's the side effects. Weed isn't a tenth as dangerous as tobacco cigarettes, and one's got more high, one's got more side effects.
It's both. And I say this as a consumer of easy entertainment (within limits, because I know the effects). We really struggle with tolerating boredom these days and that's not good for the brain. We're extremely overstimulated and exhausted but we crave constant stimulation anyway to ward off the "down" moments, the boring moments.
Yeah. I bet we're going to find that it increases dementia rates by a lot.
I wonder what the effects are on brain development as well. I could see it doing something similar to children raised in warzones, fucking up adrenals and stress responses.
Ads have taught people that every blank space and every moment of quiet should be filled with attention grabbing manipulative bullshit. If it weren't for ads, people would have an easier time slowing down. They can't calm down for the same reason an abuse survivor can't. They think the next hit is coming as soon as they're not ready for it.
🔥"Worth it!"🔥
Asking for a friend, how is gaming on linux with pirated games and the whole virus situation? About a decade ago I read that viruses could break out of the VM sandbox.
Assuming you installed a virus through wine/proton, it's entirely possible for it execute if it has what it needs to run from the wine prefix.
Whether or not it can do any real damage depends on the virus, but there's nothing stopping it from getting access to anything your user can.
To me, that is quite funny: the windows emulation is now so good, even the windows viruses can run on linux! Yay!
Jokes aside, it all depends. There are ways to sandbox things, and every now and then some clever kid figures out how to break out of sandboxes. A lot of the perceived linux security comes from the fact that most virus authors target the biggest chunk of the market, windows pcs. Most bang for the buck.
You wouldn't download a pizza
AAAAAAAGH WHY DID I MAKE CONCORD