...but not legal. Being poor doesn't necessarily mean you're inclined to break the law. Besides, Linux is useful if you perhaps want to later get a job in the tech field.

It says "sysadmins should prioritise patching", but... has it been patched yet?

I agree that Epic Games should have never allowed them in the tournament in the first place. That's a mistake on Epic's part and it does make them seem like they're trying to weasel out of paying prize money.

This is discrimination. But not all discrimination is unjustified. I discriminate against people all the time. I discriminate against unpleasant people when choosing whom I interact with. I discriminate against companies that have a history of doing bad things. Epic discriminates against residents of a country that broke a decades-long peace in Europe. I believe it is justified.

I think a good compromise solution would be to donate the prize money to a humanitarian organisation. That way it doesn't seem like Epic is only doing it because of the money.

Yes, it's called torrenting software. If you are just downloading regular things using a "download" button, that's amateur piracy.

In my opinion, all companies essential to national security should be nationalised. I mean the likes of Lockheed Martin as well. There should be no profit from war and we can't afford companies to chase profits against the interests of national security if we end up needing it.

Reactionary take in response to billionaires being put in their place by a working class that is gaining back the union culture of the 20th century and pro-labour fervour of the 19th, assisted by the technology of the 21st.

I agree completely. I think this is the best solution to the AI replacing human artists problem. Big companies can't use AI to replace humans because if they do, whatever they make will be ineligible for copyright and everyone will be free to rip them off.

Originally my mum moved my brother and I into the same room and rented out the empty room for $40 a night. The cleaning fee was $20 and we still cleared $2,000 in one summer.

My brother and I each got a 5% cut and we bought ice creams from Safeway every day for a week until we got wicked stomach aches

I remember my aunt (lawyer) coming up with some insane conspiracy-level solution to this problem:

The Supreme Court has ruled in Allen v. Cooper that Congressional attempts to make US state governments liable for copyright infringement are unconstitutional. In other words, US states can't be sued for copyright infringement under US federal law without their permission. Under standard federal jurisprudence, all subdivisions and departments of a state are considered to be the state they are a part of for the purposes of sovereign immunity. This also applies to organisations that receive most of their funding from and are wholly dependent on state government agencies as well.

The solution would be to have a friend state government either:

• donate a copious amount of money to the Internet Archive to make it "financially dependent" on that state government, or
• in cooperation with the Internet Archive, pass a law that makes the Internet Archive an independent state agency of that government (probably safer in terms of keeping the IA independent)

This would make the IA fully immune from copyright lawsuits because they would benefit from their patron state's sovereign immunity. But it comes at the cost that the patron state has a lot of power over the IA. A considerable trade-off.

My father used to love saying: "It takes two to tango"

In my city (Portland, Oregon, USA), consistent nagging finally got us improved bus service and frequency, road diets, and "express" buses that have signalling priority over cars. One of my friends' father works for a local organisation that advocates against car infrastructure in favour of better public transportation and biking infrastructure. In the past ten years, we have had:

• Entirely new light rail line extending south into the suburbs
• Scrapped motorway expansion in exchange for improvements to a commuter rail line that runs parallel to it
• "Frequent service" bus routes that run every 15 minutes or better during peak hours
• Free public transportation for students during the school year and over the summer
• Tolls on a major motorway to offset maintenance and improvement costs
• "FX" express bus routes with nice bus shelters, signalling priority, and those long accordion busses
• Big pay rise for bus drivers, up to $25/hr now I think
• Road diet on a large arterial street in the southeast, adding bike lanes and a median
• Lowered speed limits across the city
• Designated "neighbourhood greenway" bike routes
• Major downtown arterial shrank to 2 lanes, with a segregated bike path installed in the freed space
• Improvements to the Springwater Corridor bike trail (use for commuting also)