No: same crime, different victim sympathy. In case you don’t know, there are “pure” software solutions being developped by and from medical centers that don’t directly save lives (but arguably more useful in everyday life). It’s still stealing from a “virtuous” company as opposed to a designed bad guy like Nintendo.

While I agree that the punishment is disproportionate (in this case), it’s comment like yours that ensure white collar crime is not recognized as a real problem.

So if we replaced Nintendo with, for example, a research hospital and medical devices, that would be a reason to pirate medical devices in order to “stick it” to the big bad research hospital?

Unfortunately it’s not: white collar crime was and still is less prosecuted or recognized as such, and that’s because of lobbies and overall pressure from corporations against better regulation of this kind of crime. It’s also less “visible”: no clear-cut victims (like a murder vitim against multitudes of other people…

Let’s put the emphasis on another point then: in any other developped country (read: another legal system), he would still have been recognized as guilty of a crime, an organized and elaborate fraud.

Saying “white collar” crimes are victimless is ignorant at best.
Using whataboutism to compare it to entirely different crimes (and their own failings) does not help anyone, not even you trying for virtue signaling.

I have so many second-hand mangas of lesser-known artists that have series of only a few volumes, tragically cut short because of editorial fiat. 5 volumes of build-up and then BAM! the story is finished with so many unresolved plots.

It really depends on the province AND the kind of job. Unions are very frequent in government jobs (municipal, provincial, federal), public services, education and health care, a bit less in manufacturing, even less so in purely service-driven (such as shops, particularily franchises), even less so (same as US) in…

I really dig the way the “original 8" have aged a bit:
- Ryu: Really a wanderer look.
- Chun-Li: wizened middle-aged chinese look. Not a perky 20-something anymore.
- Dhalsim: Old Indian ascetic.
- Honda, Guile, Blanka, Zangief: Were already middle-aged (blanka is a bit hard to tell), and remain mostly the same.
- Ken: It…

Some go overboard, no question about it. But the struggle for continued existence is the defining factor of every single minority. The question is more: how? And that’s where most frictions happen.

Not to mention there are other competing organisations elsewhere in the world for language specifications, like the “Office de langue française” in Québec.

Don’t worry: “Quebec” is the official term in English. It’s a first nation word in Algonquin meaning “where the river narrows”, or a strait.
It’s however appreciated that you take the time to create an “é”.

Still relevant in 2020:

What’s more, the Académie purview does not extend beyond France. Here in Québec, we have our own guidelines for “imported” terms, and, yes, we even invent our own from time to time, even if the Académie does not recognize them.
Also note the difference between “International French” (A.K.A. common French in France) and…

But, according to the greys, that’s facism/communism/liberty destroying/censure/woke/everything bad....

Well, there are stories about international calls between police departments to that effect. Can’t replace the anectode I have in mind with links, but I remember a woman being contacted by a suicidal person, in a case of mistaken identity on a social forum, the two being in different countries.

UNfortunately, Silicon Knigths Denis Dyak, the owner, kept the IP and then proceeded to ground his reputation to the dust because of hubris and general incompetence.

You mean a world where cryptobros claim being “anon” is a positive, disclaim only the basest possible information about oneself and it’s “qualifications” while simulteanously claiming to be the most trusable person, really, for a project that’s too good to be true on it’s face. Based on a system where no guardrails…

I’m so happy someone made that joke :-)

Or maybe because, you know, working conditions were trash. I bet it was the latter.