Duplicated question, I’m closing the topic.

If they count VBa as Visual Basic is not surprise.

You’ll be amazed on the amount of development that’s being made over MOffice in not technology companies.

You made my knees hurt.

I grew up with XP, vista was worse and windows 7 was ust better. Windows 8 was terrible. Windows 10 better than 8 but worse than 7.

I haven’t even try windows 11.

IP law firms tried to get their cases into my country and they only got a 50% success rate on court so they stopped trying (cost benefit thing I suppose).

Also private trackers in my country do not allow the use of VPN (why do they care IDK, they say it is to have more control on who join), so there’s little point on getting a VPN for piracy here.

Colonize is not the same as terraform.

Mars could be colonized without terraforming it. Closed habitats could be permanent thus providing a way of colonization.

Terraforming is a trouble without magnetosphere that’s true. But not impossible. As there are tech concepts on how it could be possible to shield mars atmosphere. And doesn’t seem imposible, just expensive and complex.

I agree with all those points.

I don’t know if adding exceptional cases to de equation adds to the argument or not. But there are many instances where the ones selling the product are not the ones that made it, and the ones that made it will never see a penny of what you paid for. This is true in old games/media, where rights were bought long ago by corporations and creators see nothing. Also true in any big production made by a big corporation with many workers. The workers who actually create the IP were paid by hour, while corporations and investors get to keep milking the product after creators had been paid.

This will invalidate any argument about creators getting compensated for their work. For those cases at least.

I’m pretty sure that telegrams do collaborate a lot when it comes to crimes.

Pretty sure that this is a copyright thing as always. I get several scams tries each month on WhatsApp and phone call. But they don’t care about people trying to steal actual money, they just care if I use telegram to watch a TV show without letting Disney murder my wife.

Oh no! Putin please do not take homophobes away from my country, oh no…

I would be so mad if suddenly homophobes went to Russia. They would really own me if they all decided to go to Putinland.

All my homies search for apps first in F-Droid and only use google play if there is no other option.

I sporadically use it. Sometimes it can pin point the specific algorithm I need that I didn’t know about.

Can we give him a Olympic medal in hide and seek?

He sneaked out in front of everyone while being recorded live.

Windows 7 was windows peak.

I don’t know how they fucked up so bad since then.

Well. I know. Capitalism breed innovation, what they don’t say is that it breeds like the european monarchy.

What I mean is what is already happening in some countries, that is having laws that makes extra easy for copyright lawers to sue anyone using torrent for sharing their IP.

You use a vpn to other country without that ban. Once enough countries apply that ban. Where are you going to VPN to?

Ask Germany. Torrenting without VPN is almost imposible, you’ll get sued by copyright lawyers.

I do not avoid hoarding.

I’m like a dragon with a media treasure stored in high capacity industrial HDDs.

Someday the age of pirates may come to an end, and I want to be prepared.

Enough countries ban torrenting so you cannot even uses vpn to get around it.

Due some special circunstances a few years ago I was one year without a job and without the need to find a job because I had my finances and laboral future secured. At no point I was without anything to do. I just did a bunch of personal projects that were not driven by money but for my own enjoyment and the need to create some things. Also did a lot of exercise and took on trekking.

I could live all my life like that if I needn’t a job for sustaining myself.

In a better world machines would do the work and humans just would share the wealth and live life in peace.