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Gringostar posted:there is actually a r ally good argument to be made that ip laws being as strong as they are right now has seriously stifled the development of music since before recording became a thing everyone stole from everyone else and genres of music would start from offshoots of what others did before hand Yes, but it's not the "strength" of the IP laws, since they are, by design, supposed to allow a temporary monopoly for the creator. The key issue is that the "temporary" monopoly is being lengthened into perpetuity.
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the really terrible thing is that our IP laws aren't even that unusual compared to any other wealthy country's
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:behind every fortune is a crime ethereal voice on the wind as it rustles thru the trees ] : property is theft
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Gringostar posted:jungle is pretty much entirely based on a couple second drum break that's been sliced up and used over and over again Is it that drum break in Smack My Bitch Up perchance?
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hackbunny posted:Is it that drum break in Smack My Bitch Up perchance? originally recorded in the song amen, brother by the winstons in 69 nice
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:the really terrible thing is that our IP laws aren't even that unusual compared to any other wealthy country's The unusual part is that ours keep getting amended because of Disney
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:the really terrible thing is that our IP laws aren't even that unusual compared to any other wealthy country's that's because we've been pushing hard for international treaties to make them match, and of course ip owners everywhere are going along with it because hell yeah, 20 year monopoly on a drug i found in a plant? don't mind if i do!
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Also jesus loving christ, stop going to disney world, what the gently caress is wrong with you.
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If I went to a Disney property, I feel I would get felt up by the staff plus the usual sloppy sunburned crowds. I've seen Disney World - a sulfurous scar on the pristine wetlands. Build the mousetrap.
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GodFish posted:http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/school-creates-playground-rich-poor-11828453?ICID=FB_mirror_main On a similar note I was waiting for friends to visit a museum exhibit near one of those art districts where blighted industrial areas get gentrified. Right at the border of skid row and expensive condos there was a beautiful public park proudly emblazoned with the metropolitan funding measure that built the park. It was well maintained with modern and new swings and play sets. It was also gated with access code controlled doors. You know, so none of the dirty poors would use it or deface the beautiful greenery. It wasn't solely reserved for the rich nearby of course, I'm sure anyone with a residential address from the neighborhood could apply for an access code. Why yes, that was the only residential building nearby, why do you ask?
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Makes me think of the Nashar Sculpture Center situation in Dallas. Basics are that the Museum was built as part of a revitalization project/the land was a bit more affordable. After it was built the area became nicer, development came with luxury condos nearby - including a really tall one right across from the museum that reflects sunlight so strongly it makes the greenspace around the art center to hot to enjoy and actually could damage/destroy the art. The developer (which fittingly is owned by a pension fund for police and firefighter unions) decided it has no responsibility to change the building to not actively destroy the museum that made the location desirable to begin with. article about the mess: https://www.archdaily.com/773066/search-ends-for-solution-to-museum-towers-glare-problems-at-nasher-sculpture-center
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tower time posted:Makes me think of the Nashar Sculpture Center situation in Dallas. Basics are that the Museum was built as part of a revitalization project/the land was a bit more affordable. After it was built the area became nicer, development came with luxury condos nearby - including a really tall one right across from the museum that reflects sunlight so strongly it makes the greenspace around the art center to hot to enjoy and actually could damage/destroy the art. The developer (which fittingly is owned by a pension fund for police and firefighter unions) decided it has no responsibility to change the building to not actively destroy the museum that made the location desirable to begin with. article about the mess: Why the gently caress does a pension fund own a luxury condo
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Anything Scott Pruitt does counts I'm pretty sure
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Main Paineframe posted:Why the gently caress does a pension fund own a luxury condo Investment?
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When you think about it, the poor are the real privileged class.
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They did it. They cracked the code
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quote:Regarding businessmen, for example, we should condemn those who lie, cheat, and steal. But we should condemn them as individuals for their dishonest and predatory actions. By the same token, we should praise individuals who earn their wealth through ingenuity and effort—not make them pay for other people’s sins. Ahahahahaha I'm dying
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Disney announces they’ll be casting a wealthy person as a sidekick in the next Star Wars movie, in a risky move for diversity and inclusion in Trump’s America
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The Rich just aren't people like you and I. We should keep them confined to resorts and Trump hotels with carefully trained staff to keep them docile.
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Jeffrey Loria not sharing profits with county or city from $1.2 billion Marlins sale force it at gunpoint
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Main Paineframe posted:Why the gently caress does a pension fund own a luxury condo Big pension funds splash money almost like private equity firms, in fact they frequently co-invest in private equity ventures
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WampaLord posted:Ahahahahaha I'm dying if you think about it, admitting that economic class is assigned at birth and impossible to change (just like sexual orientation or ethnicity) is pretty woke
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Replace "Nazis" with "Jews" throughout this passage. Mind blown yet?
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Vox Nihili posted:Big pension funds splash money almost like private equity firms, in fact they frequently co-invest in private equity ventures the big public pension funds like Calpers are some of the biggest investors in PE and other big hedge funds usually its because the pension funds invest in the hedge funds managed by campaign donors
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Taintrunner posted:Disney announces they’ll be casting a wealthy person as a sidekick in the next Star Wars movie, in a risky move for diversity and inclusion in Trump’s America Leia may be a general now but don’t kid yourself, she’s literal royalty and the daughter of a senator. She could have financed the rebel army herself before everything she owned got blown up.
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those born into wealth are no more to blame for their affliction than a rabid dog, and it is not with hate in our hearts that we must put them down but rather love and compassion, for by their very nature they must be destroyed regardless of their innocence
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WampaLord posted:Ahahahahaha I'm dying quote:Sanders contends “the business model of Wall Street”—which employees hundreds of thousands of productive Americans—“is fraud.” Wall Street is not productive. They literally produce nothing. The best thing you can say for their labor is that it is a bureaucratic effort to guide capital allocations for the economy. For once I'd like to see someone make the case that all financial sector profit should be treated as overhead for the economy as a whole.
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disney's not all bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vLrTNKk89Q
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The Nastier Nate posted:Leia may be a general now but don’t kid yourself, she’s literal royalty and the daughter of a senator. She could have financed the rebel army herself before everything she owned got blown up. its the royal familys own fault for not insuring their planet why does star wars have so many entire planets that are rules by kings Salvor_Hardin posted:Wall Street is not productive. They literally produce nothing. The best thing you can say for their labor is that it is a bureaucratic effort to guide capital allocations for the economy. For once I'd like to see someone make the case that all financial sector profit should be treated as overhead for the economy as a whole. their argument is that the financial industry makes the economy more efficient by allocating capital to the most productive opportunities, and that they have expertise that makes them be able to tell where money should go better than the layperson or the government. therefore the gdp is higher than it would be if investors like pension funds or other capitalists had to pick their investments themselves this argument is of course ridiculous on its face since financial investment is disproportionately invested in rent extraction and racketeering rather than anything productive
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Larry Parrish posted:If the finance industry wasnt paying a bunch of quants to pretend to work all day, well, what would be the point of going to Harvard? Insular sneering.
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Larry Parrish posted:If the finance industry wasnt paying a bunch of quants to pretend to work all day, well, what would be the point of going to Harvard? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiRJaa1wbzg
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Gringostar posted:disney's not all bad Yes their propaganda cartoons are well known, not sure how that is a counter-example, but cool i guess.
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Shear Modulus posted:if you think about it, admitting that economic class is assigned at birth and impossible to change (just like sexual orientation or ethnicity) is pretty woke
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