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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I don't have an answer to your exact question but I want to emphasize...

    NOTHING in the history of humankind has ever existed like computer data. A 100% identical copy of videos, pictures, and music can be made almost instantly at what is essentially zero cost to the original holder of the data. Any comparison to "stealing" or to a physical object (a car lol) just falls flat because the situation is just so different.

    Practically speaking, the world we live in, with computers everywhere, cheap storage, and easy fast internet access for so much of the world, has only been around for about two decades, maybe three. NOTHING like this has ever existed before, and businesses, culture, and laws have been very slow to catch up.

    I'm not saying pirating is right or wrong, just that the whole idea is still so new that society hasn't caught up to it yet.






  • I assume you mean the Japanese thick blanket futon and not the American fold out bed futon?

    I slept on a futon in Japan for two years. It was a couple of months before my body got used to it, but I was still turning throughout the night due to sore shoulders.

    I can't imagine sleeping on one without a true tatami flooring, since in essence it's part of the bed.



  • In The Phantom Menace, the entire podrace scene. Yes, it's goofy as heck, but man does George Lucas know how to make some pure campy exciting fun.

    In A New Hope, the trench runs. God, they're just SO COOL, especially on a big screen.

    In The Force Awakens, Han being rescued by the Resistance, from the time Han Solo is captured to the time Leia shows up, is a masterclass example of editing and music.