LOL, you start off in bad faith asking bullshit ‘gotcha’ questions, and now you have the utter fucking gall to try to claim moral high ground?
What I’ve done isn’t a devolution; it’s self-defense. You’re just butthurt I didn’t fall for your ploy.
But sure, if that’s what you want, I’ll make it explicit: you’re a toxic POS and have been since our first interaction.
Well those are the only two legitimate possibilities, so what the fuck are you saying if not one of them? That you’re just an antisemitic (note: Palestinians are Semites too) genocide-denier? I’m only asking to find out what your actual position is so I can know if we disagree on facts or on feelings.
So are you saying that you think you can calculate ethics using arithmetic, or are you ignorant of the progression of the Holocaust (e.g. how the reason the “final solution” was called “final” was because previous “solutions” to removing Jews et al. from German-occupied territories proved more logistically difficult than expected) and how the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians seems to be following in lockstep?
Star Trek: Enterprise got canceled just when we were finally getting to the part folks wanted to see, about how the Federation got founded.
Yes, thanks, that’s the more culturally-sensitive name for it that unfortunately didn’t come to mind when I wrote my previous comment.
No, that’s not how copyright works. Decompiling creates a derivative work, which is still copyrighted the same as the original. In order to have a proper clean reimplementation, you need to use a “Chinese wall” procedure whereby one person documents the behavior of the original program and then another person writes a new program from scratch using that description, without ever looking at the original program’s source code.
I don’t claim to know what Nintendo or its lawyers are thinking, but the law is pretty crystal clear that merely decompiling a proprietary program doesn’t magically make it not proprietary anymore.
You do know the code is copyrighted too, right? Reverse engineering isn’t the issue here; uploading the result to GitHub is.
Whatever – whoever holds the copyright hasn’t bothered to take it down yet. Point is, even if it’s abandonware it’s not legitimately “free.”
(Also, I’m technically correct anyway: Microsoft owns GitHub, so it’d be the one acting on the copyright holder’s DMCA request. 😛)
It’s not “completely free;” it’s just pirated proprietary software that Microsoft hasn’t bothered to take down yet.
The definition of Free Software (a.k.a. “open source”) is having the legal right to read, modify, and redistribute the source code, not merely the technical capability.
I’m so patient I haven’t played The Witcher 1 or 2 either. Should I get W3 Complete + W1 + W2 for 9.99 + 1.49 + 2.99 = 14.47, or get the trilogy bundle with only the W3 base game for 1.49 + 2.99 + 3.99) * 0.9 = 7.62 and wait for the W3 expansions to be more than 70% at some future date? (In other words, are W1 and W2 likely to keep me busy for a long time, and does a playthrough of W3 need the expansions installed at the start or is it more of a ‘complete the base game and then to the expansion content afterward’ sort of thing?)
Also, are “The Witcher Adventure Game” and “Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales” worthwhile/important?
Based on frequency/amount of use, cumin.
Based on my favorite flavors, mustard seed, oregano, smoked paprika, lemon thyme, dill.
(The above excludes the obvious salt and pepper, as well as onion and garlic since I use those in enough quantity to be considered full-blown veggies, not spices.)
Microsoft employees/protestors should take that as a challenge.
Wait, what? Didn’t it have a pile of GPL code in it to begin with? Were they violating those licenses until now?
you can see some of the original contents here:
Thanks, that’s been more useful than anything else in helping me figure out which side to support.
Spoiler: it’s not yours.
Removing comments saying things like “just create a secular state that respects people’s right” should’ve been your “are we the baddies?” realization moment.
in essence they say comparing the Gaza genocide to the Nazi era, downplays the Nazi era
The underlying assumption there is that the Gaza genocide isn’t as bad as the Nazi genocide, which is itself racist against Palestinians.
In reality, they’re not downplaying the Nazi genocide, but instead trying to make a point that the Gaza genocide is really really bad too.
I’m reading it as the 9-month loss of signal being due to construction at the ground station (DSN Canberra), not anything to do with the spacecraft itself.
To stop the production of Russian fiber-optic-guided drones, I’m guessing?
Ironically, human males do that to impress other males.
Examples:
It’s literally not worth the electricity to keep computers that old running. You could replace one with a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero or maybe even a $2 microcontroller and recoup the cost in lower power bills within a month or so.
Bullshit! You had zero intention whatsoever of having a productive conversation; that would’ve required accepting the possibility of your opinion being changed. Instead, you came in with the condescending attitude and explicitly stated goal of figuring out precisely how you were right and I was wrong:
You basically asked “so anyway, are you ignorant or just plain stupid?” That’s fighting words and you fucking know it, so don’t try to pretend otherwise now!