The weird part is, it wouldn’t even have mattered if I did it or not.
I was living with roommates and the contract with the ISP for the house’s internet connection was in my name.
So according to German law at the time, I was legally on the hook for copyright violations by anyone on the shared WiFi.
By the time all the legalese letters back and forth were done and the opposing law firm would have had to officially charge me in court, the law had changed.
The old law would still have technically been applicable for my case, but I guess my push-back with a lawyer, and the risk of a judge being sick of the useless workload, made it too risky to be profitable for the copyright vultures.

Yeah, that’s another angle: Now that the bubble is about to pop, let’s quickly tie profitability (positive and negative) to the public purse.

When he talks about sharing profits with “The Public”, he isn’t thinking of people like you and me (he never is).
He’s thinking about himself and his friends.

It’s real enough to use as collateral to borrow actual money from banks.

His wealth isn’t imaginary when he uses it as collateral to borrow actual money, though.
That’s the weird part, when billionaires use their money, it’s real.
But when you discuss taking it away or taxing it, it’s suddenly just an imagination.

That’s every month, at the local drag strip.
(Not to be confused with the local drag strip club)

I’m guessing the water at the poles was already close to freezing temperatures.
So it isn’t affected by melting ice.
But at latitudes affected by the warm Gulf Stream, melting ice is colder than the surrounding water, so it would cool it down.

One of my proudest moments was climbing the fence to get into a Metallica concert for free.
I pirated their live music.

I got a cease and desist letter that forced me to get a lawyer and start court proceedings which stretched over three years, to avoid paying a monthly income in “damages”, for torrenting The Hurt Locker (allegedly).
So now I use a VPN.

We’re not talking about a little drop in temperature you can tough out.
We’re talking about a permanent ice cover that makes agriculture impossible in all of Scandinavia.

Behind every sign there’s a story.

Fun fact: A real space elevator would need to be 458x as long to reach geostationary orbit.
At the speed of earth’s current fastest elevator, it would take almost a month to reach the top.

That’s not cultural difference, that’s different laws.
You can be executed if you take weed to Singapore, something that may be perfectly legal where you live.
Educate yourself before you travel.

Replacing the statue of liberty with a huge golden Trump statue and putting his “They’re not sending their best” quote on the plaque would be on brand.

Power Rangers?

Has there ever been a mixed-gender group of adult friends where there are no romantic entaglements within the group?

This one however, isn’t one of them.
It’s not based on stupidity, just wrong information.

Don’t you fucking dare suggest that I as a sysadmin must now attend every single meeting in the company.
I mean I could do that, while playing games on the second monitor, and getting no other work done.
Just don’t complain when everything comes crashing down in a month from lack of maintenance.

Mine wraps around a pecker’s head regularly.

It’s Dublin, New Hampshire