nimpnin

The difference in intent makes sense. The difference in primary function does not, killing a person with a kitchen knife is no better than with a gun.

The problem with car accidents is that it’s difficult to know the intent of a person, especially carelessness kills a lot more people via cars than via kitchen knifes, and we can’t know for sure when it was an honest mistake by the driver.

When he is forced to.

cato institute

Lol

I mean it can work, at least in theory. I’d have to take a more comprehensive look at Estonia’s case. I will not take that source at face value though.

But recently I’ve seen analyses of both the UK and the southern EU countries’ austerity policies being failures. And that’s multiple countries with very different economies.

I understand your point. I just don't share the pessimism, I come from finland where the population density is less than half that of the US and our trains run fine. That's why I think the US could both build infrastructure that would bring about different kinds of traffic flows, as well as just build rail infrastructure for current traffic flows that would work just fine.

Don't know if we can reach an agreement on this topic though. There are arguments both for and against, and we can't really get closer to the truth without trial and error.

Austerity doesn’t work

Thats a lot of cigarettes

Days long doesn’t work if there’s not enough wind and sun, for example in the winter in the north (here in finland we have exhausted our hydro potential already btw)

Given that the general population doesn’t even know how allergies work half the time, it makes even more sense to ban peanuts on flights

The problem is that the producer’s business model is based on making and selling copies

This is all too vague to actually understand the effect of piracy. The economic impact depends how much piracy replaces actual purchases.

When I was a teenager, I would pirate a lot of music. At the time, I had very little money to spend. This copying did not replace any purchases. On the other hand, me not buying music right now is a lost purchase since I could spend money. That's why I spend some money every month actually buying music from bandcamp or whatever, which offsets the revenue that the musicians would otherwise lose.

Also, if the artist has other revenue streams, it doesn't matter as much. Musicians for example don't make a lot of money off of streaming nowadays, and a lot of their revenue comes from merch and concert tickets etc. So if you spend money there, copying doesn't really bankrupt the artist.

Of course each type of media has slightly different mechanics, but in general there are a lot of ways you can do piracy without really undermining the business model of the artists. And very rarely are the effects the same as for theft.

whose hegemony results in most of the world conforming to the same

Does it really? I know there are significant differences between US and EU copyright law, fair use comes to mind

maybe all the stats have eroded any intuition I had for these words

Probability is a numeric value between: 0 and 1 of how likely an event is going to happen. Depending on the definition, I would say that possibilities and plausabilities are both events with a nonzero probability. Colloquially, possibilities are more likely than plausabilities I guess. Source: two thirds of a stats phd and C2 level english skills lol