Zwuzelmaus
@Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
- Comment on How common were video game scalpers in the 1990s? 17 hours ago:
As far as tickets to sporting events and concerts, back then it was illegal to resell them for more than face value in my state. That changed 10-15 years ago thanks to lobbying from Ticketmaster and affiliates.
I think that it was the other way round for games. Laws have been developing all the time towards advantages for copyright owners.
- Comment on How common were video game scalpers in the 1990s? 19 hours ago:
We did everything in the 90s. Even if I don’t know what you mean :)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Make a copy, or two. Write today’s date on it.
Keep the copies for 10 years. Most CDs last for 10 years or more, but not all. Therefore, after 5 years already make a new copy. And so on.
- Comment on Why do we assume paper towels are sterile, or at least clean? 2 days ago:
The industrial process of making paper is pretty sterile (Nobody checks and guarantees it, though).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Send pics of yourself with a whip.
/s
- Comment on War attention priorities 2 days ago:
No list. It is just en vogue in a certain corner of the political spectrum, and many of the lemmy bosses and mods live in that corner.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
It is easy:
You just have to flatten the earth, and already everybody is in the same time zone.
- Comment on If you take a water balloon filled normally at the surface of the ocean and take it down, like 100 meters would it deflate due to the higher water pressure? What if you popped it? 5 days ago:
Liquid Water does not change it’s density much with pressure, but yes.
- Comment on Why does the Grim Reaper hold a scythe? Was he or she farming or something when they became the grim reaper? 5 days ago:
It separates grass from ground, and heads from bodies. Wooosh!
- Comment on why do we punish people when nothing bad happened ? 1 week ago:
punish people when nothing bad happened ?
Well, we don’t. We just make them pay a fine.
But where are you from, where is it a punishment?
- Comment on Would moving/shifting in the 4th (spacial) dimension be fatal? 1 week ago:
Would moving/shifting in the 4th (spacial) dimension be fatal?
You would disappear immediately. That’s all. Noone of us would have a way of knowing if you’re still alive or not, so it makes no difference :)
(Usually we call time the 4th dimension, but you want to use a 4th spatial dimension, which isn’t even defined in physics, only in math)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Money is just paper (or old blue jeans, if Usa) with funny things printed on it.
It is nothing unless some people believe in it’s value. And first it needs someone who guarantees for the value.
Governments do that, by tradition. Usually they also make a rule that XY shall be the only official currency in a country.
Cryptos make an exception: it is private entities who tell people to believe in their value. And so their value is usually less stable.
If you, private xyz, invent your new “region-free” currency, you are going to have a hard time with making anyone believe in it’s value.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
USD? Never. It has been in the past, but that time is over, and will only come back after the USD is broken and gone, and they have a brand new currency.
- Comment on Can you purchase a burner phone anonymously in the US? 1 week ago:
Why would you burn the phone anyway? Isn’t it enough to burn the SIM card?
- Comment on Is anyone else skeptical of the story about a 13 year old dying after eating 3 packs of raw noodles? 1 week ago:
I have read that the English term for “Sommerloch” is “silly season”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Best: Norway. Or Denmark (only for the ones who absolutely cannot stand the cold even though it’s so good for your health). Why? Honest and satisfied people live there.
Worst: Hell. It is worse than you think.
- Comment on What would happen if I just started replying to everytthing, even accusations, with "maybe..." like in some old Zen Buddhist koan? 1 week ago:
You would get asked a lot:
“What do you call a bee that can’t make up it’s mind?” - Comment on XCancel and Nitter: Why bother with US Law? 2 weeks ago:
The US doesn’t respect sovereignty.
That doesn’t change the principle of sovereignty.
Usa has yet to learn. - Comment on XCancel and Nitter: Why bother with US Law? 2 weeks ago:
Most specifically, 1 + 1 = 2.
- Comment on XCancel and Nitter: Why bother with US Law? 2 weeks ago:
“I’m not in the US it doesn’t effect me”
That’s not what I said. It is about your doing business there, or not.
- Comment on XCancel and Nitter: Why bother with US Law? 2 weeks ago:
What’s the basis for this?
The simple principle that a country’s law is in force in this country, while in another country it is that other country’s law. It is also called sovereignty.
- Comment on XCancel and Nitter: Why bother with US Law? 2 weeks ago:
The harmonisation does not mean much.
The Us copyright counts if the new company is doing business in Usa (regardless where the company is).
If they do not care about any users from there, and do not take money from there (for example from ads) they can show them the finger.
- Comment on Are US cops (or sheriffs) able to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction? 2 weeks ago:
This would also apply to the US sherrif on vacation.
And this would also create an incredibly dangerous situation for everybody.
The Us cop would act according to his own (non-German) training and daily routine, which includes lots of violence that he uses (because he would have the right to do this at home) on the suspected person and maybe on other persons standing in his way. The US cop would also expect and fear violent reactions. But people would react very differently. He would surely misread most people’s reactions and then probably escalate his violence far too much, and far beyond all that is allowed for such an “everybody detainment”. In the end he could be the only one charged with crime, and pay for many people’s hospital bills.
- Comment on Are US cops (or sheriffs) able to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction? 2 weeks ago:
Imagine one of them choking to death a black man on the streets of London
…or in Nigeria…
- Comment on Are US cops (or sheriffs) able to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction? 2 weeks ago:
Cops aren’t superhuman. They are people, just with more rights given to them by some authority (a city, a district, a country). Their rights end where this authority ends.
- Comment on Would SpaceX continue to be immoral without Musk? 2 weeks ago:
Then I also need a link to the definition of “arrogance”
- Comment on Would SpaceX continue to be immoral without Musk? 2 weeks ago:
Can you tell the name of that law again?
- Comment on Would SpaceX continue to be immoral without Musk? 2 weeks ago:
Which law is that?
- Comment on What's the origin of the many phrases that include a person's name? 2 weeks ago:
Many phrases have many origins.
- Comment on How does one become a Royal Expert from here in the states? Isn't it just reading tabloids, condensing it, and telling everyone about it? Does this get a person paid? 2 weeks ago:
First, you need a king. A real one, that is.