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  • Hmm, it’s strange grey area. Sometimes piracy is the only way to make the book not disappear. There are niche, low circulation books and magazines which without piracy would disappear and became almost unavailable.

    Sometimes the book is no longer in the print because of many reasons:

    1. Author changed her / his mind and no longer wishes to publish it, at least in the original edition / version.
    2. Copyrights are being taken over and the final copyright owner ceases to republish it even when paid.
    3. Copyrights owner doesn’t know that his the owner of some books and it leads to the legal limbo.
    4. Low circulated books & magazines don’t survive until the copyrights expire - owners of the books die and their next heirs believe the books / magazines are just garbage and burn it or throw it away.

    Ethics & piracy is pretty strange combination and there is no easy answer for it




  • Seriously, if you do take one verse from the whole response, you get straw men you fighting with.

    I just told you that jabber / xmpp was created in the times almost nobody knew or believed mobile phones can be a thing. Thus it got created in that way: many similarities of xmpp and e-mail, irc or icq which didn’t stand the passage of time.

    Of course, you’re right xmpp evolved to get PubSub extension as an “optional feature” but because of its availability (or rather lack) - most servers didn’t support it even the client did support, xmpp didn’t win the acceptance of the end-users. It got some attention in the business world (cisco jabber) but not in the retail.

    Business cannot work forever without clients willing to pay or at least use, so it died off even in the business.

    End of story, try not to fighting with the straw men you created.







  • Whole country was anticommunist scumbags? 68, 80, 82? People were protesting because high prices of groceries, basic products, lack of flats, no work opportunities for educated people. You have no slightest idea what you’re saying. My father and mother were protesting as students, but my father’s father was in the party, director of the cheese factory and even that fact didn’t protect my father. You’re really commie scumbag for advocating violence for the protesting people. Allegedly protesting and human rights were guaranteed in those communist countries constitutions



  • Free Healthcare as long as you manage to survive the queues and not to die in between. Same with everything. Good propaganda bloke, people kept waiting for own flat 30 years and even after that you didn’t get it without connections. My parents weren’t in the party, the all bought the flat in that bad capitalism.

    Not mentioning my father beaten down by prison guards because taking part in students protests. So called “path of health”


  • Can’t you understand the feed for the animals is the grain which doesn’t meet human consumption criteria? Certain amount of grain comes with the defects and is a by product of the normal grain growing process. Also the quality of the soil doesn’t allow to grow grain for human consumption because of its bad quality. Do you know that there are various levels of soil quality? The feed for animals is grown on the worst soils


  • Still you even touched any single argument I proved in your response. That’s the dead end of this conversation. Going vegan reducing fertilizers usage? The simple logic will tell you that it will increase the demand on plants ( going vegan, we cannot eat the feed of animals because thats very poor quality of plants, even harmful to people). So we’ll need more fertilizers on top what we already use. That’s a simple economics. We can’t feed the current 8 billion population without using the industrial way of agriculture and farming. Even with going vegan. Every economist will tell you this. That’s pure fantasy world