The reality is that even if we assume the problems are widespread within the company, there’s always gonna be a certain percentage of the workforce within the protected classes who either won’t receive bad treatment (it’s not gonna happen to me), feel the bad treatment is made up for by the job (I’ve got bills to…

They didn’t lose money off the customer who always goes there cause it’s his favorite hangout and watches the PPV because it’s what’s on TV that night. He wasn’t buying that PPV anyway.

Exactly.

The PPE system was an absolute disgrace and a backhanded subsidy to scores of business, big and small, who misused the money and have been, thus far, fortunate to not be caught.

Not to defend what she did, but considering the vast amounts of money that far wealthier people have claimed via PPE loans and other Covid-related financial assistance, this does seem like a political vendetta that has finally snagged something to chew on.

Also, looking at the requirements, if she’s the top attorney…

Reading on Reddit about this, it appears that my last point has come to fruition in regards to the upstream sellers of the supposed box now lawyering up, making the situation muddy.

So Logan might be in the clear financially, now it’s a matter of the other people involved who profited off of the enterprise attempting…

I’ve had the good fortune of seeing Cedric and DL live. Both were very good (and DL was excellent, especially for a free college performance).

However, I always wanted to see Bernie since he was my favorite since I was younger, and was dismayed when he passed away. Thankfully, his last movie “Soul Men” had some of the…

That money is gone, probably converted to some form of crypto and in multiple wallets encrypted to the point that the police would spend more money and time trying to find it than they would recover.

Not only that, but his lawyers would have to prove that either BCE knew the cards weren’t Pokemon cards, or that they…

Sure they do, in the downstream.

UFC has a PPV. A person at home can buy it for $50. A bar owner (or restaurant, or club, or any commercial venture) pays 10-20x that amount (if not more). Why? Because the UFC (or HBO for boxing, or any PPV sporting event) knows that they’d lose a significant amount of revenue due to…

And shit, you mention video game development of all things, where agrressive copyright enforcement has taken the form of DRM and actively taken away from revenue. Look at Denuvo, there are a significant number of players that will stay away from buying a game until Denuvo has been removed. In many cases the…

Except, it isn’t exactly the same. Because you likely have their face somewhere on the screen along with whatever commentary they add to it.

Has there ever been any solid proof that enforcing copyright directly leads to increased revenue for the creators?

It’s wonderful that you and other creators do so without any sort of profit motive, but it’s incredibly presumptuous to apply that modus operandi to other people without their input.

That’s the same argument used when it comes to most forms of piracy, particular video games, with a big difference.

You’re an active participant in playing a videogame. Your experience watching someone play might be vastly different than playing yourself, not to mention pirating certain games renders certain features…

Fayetteville Police Chief Gina Hawkins said in a press conference Sunday that at some point the windshield wiper had been torn off the truck and used to break the windshield, although it is not clear at what point in the altercation this took place…

The first would be who the PR would hurt the most. AB is definitely going to take a huge hit but, like, is that really going to affect him? He should have been canned twice this season already and they kept him and a couple of league sources have already said “he’ll have a place to play next year, if not sooner.”…

Thank you for the reply and the clarification. Let me take this point by point.

The idea the Bucs did him dirty flies in the face of all the evidence.

1. You can be cut for almost anything at anytime in the NFL. The Bucs wouldn’t need to manufacture some controversy to cut AB (and how could they manufacture him storming off the field and leaving the stadium anyways?)

2. AB was on a cheap, 1-year…

It’s quite possible he has a fucked up ankle, and MRIs and the words of named doctors to prove it. If so, release them. You’ve already dropped the names of at least one doctor into this entire mess (who is probably groaning at the thought of being involved in the first place), so what’s stopping AB from releasing the…

I actually was responding specifically to A Olson’s point concerning vitriol against bankers being a left-wing talking point, and how many left-wingers (specifically young ones) no longer have a conception of “bankers” that’s specifically in-line with old anti-Semitic tropes.

That being said, you can’t deny that the…

Truth be told, the popular left-wing conception of what constitutes a “banker” is more likely a hodge-podge of stodgy, WASPy Blue Bloods in Brooks Brothers living in Gilded Age mansions in Newport, and Silicon Valley types in jeans, a t-shirt, and driving a Tesla. Not the least of which because the technological…