If I could get away with it, then yes

inb4breakingbad

Quote from: Kinder_ on September 30, 2014, 05:32:37 PM

Quote from: challengerX on September 30, 2014, 05:19:38 PM

Quote from: Lord Commissar on September 30, 2014, 03:36:37 PM

Kinder, Challenger

Can the two of you just not devolve into shit flinging fests? If one of you starts throwing out the personal insults just report and don't fling any back.

I don't really want to hurt either of you, but I'll give you both a time out if the two of you keep it up.

No offense, but I don't give a fuck. Do you what you gotta do and I'm going to do the same.

If I disagree with any of his posts, no matter how respectfully I do it, he'll go full retard. I don't really give a shit that everybody seems to think I attack him or that I start anything. Having a debate is not against the rules.

Wanna ban me for having a debate which he turns into a shit flinging contest because he dislikes me? Go ahead. I'm not going to avoid his posts and censor/sugar coat my opinions and not respond to the retarded shit he says because he gets unbelievably butthurt. Ban the first person to use personal insults. I guarantee you it'll be him every single time. But I'm not gonna bend over and take it up the ass from you and the rest of the mods because you guys lock threads instead of banning somebody that doesn't know how to be civil or debate properly. Fun Fact: It's Kinder

Dude, that's EXACTLY what you do. You either talk about me or respond to me disrespectfully and throwing insults around at me and I only resort to them because you did it first. Just look at your comment saying that you can't call ME out on MY SUPPOSED RETARDED BULLSHIT. If that isn't being rude or shitflinging then I honestly don't known what is

I made a thread the other day and you cam in calling me a fascist, racist, and saying I'm uneducated. You need to get out of this denial that you don't do anything wrong, because every time I post something your jimmies get popped and you have to comment on whatever I say or post with insults that lead to thread derailments

Except me saying what you said is retarded bullshit does not equal me saying you are retarded.

I post a reply to someone I disagree with to try and get them to see reason. In your case, it's incredibly rare that you'll change your opinion no matter how wrong you are.

Why are you even replying to me right now? I'm talking to Commissar. It's funny you say I just HAVE to respond to every post you make, yet here you are trying to argue with me when I'm still not talking to you and wasn't to begin with. You responded to me for no reason, because I was talking to Icy, Meta, and some other guy. You call me immature when anybody disagreeing with the stupid shit you were saying you responded by saying "LOLMAD".

Stop projecting.

It actually does. A person's character is defined by their opinions. Calling what I think as "retarded bullshit"  is an attack on my character and ultimately me

You know, there's a difference between responding to a person in a civil manner rather than straight up calling them a fascist. And hoe exactly can an OPINION be WRONG? Opinions can not be wrong. And as if you will so easily change your opinion. Everybody has them, trying to change a person's opinion because you don't like it is not a civil thing to do; it can considered a form of censorship

Why am I responding to you? Because you said I do all that shit you listed in your previous response, forming a lie and defaming my character. I have the right to respond and correct you, or anybody else, when they are wrong. If you don't want me to respond to you then don't make insults or lies

Quote from: Lord Commissar on September 30, 2014, 03:36:37 PM

Kinder, Challenger

Can the two of you just not devolve into shit flinging fests? If one of you starts throwing out the personal insults just report and don't fling any back.

I don't really want to hurt either of you, but I'll give you both a time out if the two of you keep it up.

No offense, but I don't give a fuck. Do you what you gotta do and I'm going to do the same.

If I disagree with any of his posts, no matter how respectfully I do it, he'll go full retard. I don't really give a shit that everybody seems to think I attack him or that I start anything. Having a debate is not against the rules.

Wanna ban me for having a debate which he turns into a shit flinging contest because he dislikes me? Go ahead. I'm not going to avoid his posts and censor/sugar coat my opinions and not respond to the retarded shit he says because he gets unbelievably butthurt. Ban the first person to use personal insults. I guarantee you it'll be him every single time. But I'm not gonna bend over and take it up the ass from you and the rest of the mods because you guys lock threads instead of banning somebody that doesn't know how to be civil or debate properly. Fun Fact: It's Kinder

Dude, that's EXACTLY what you do. You either talk about me or respond to me disrespectfully and throwing insults around at me and I only resort to them because you did it first. Just look at your comment saying that you can't call ME out on MY SUPPOSED RETARDED BULLSHIT. If that isn't being rude or shitflinging then I honestly don't known what is

I made a thread the other day and you cam in calling me a fascist, racist, and saying I'm uneducated. You need to get out of this denial that you don't do anything wrong, because every time I post something your jimmies get popped and you have to comment on whatever I say or post with insults that lead to thread derailments

Not the real Silent Bob I bet. Blonic doesn't want anything to do with the offsite

Quote from: Kinder_ on September 30, 2014, 04:23:31 PM

Quote from: IcyWind on September 30, 2014, 03:55:51 PM

Quote from: Kinder_ on September 30, 2014, 03:27:29 PM

The Constitution specifies that States have the power to elect officials, nothing actually about the people.

Link to the passage?

http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei

Actually worded that incorrectly. The people of the States have the power to vote officials

So again. Fuck the voters!

Nope. The Constitution doesn't say everybody can elect people to Congress, only people living in states can vote people to Congress. It's not a state, nor will it ever be. You can't ask a question, somebody give an answer, and say "well fuck the voters!" because if that was your premeditated answer, what was the point in asking a question?

Good afternoon

Quote from: Kinder_ on September 30, 2014, 03:10:51 PM

Quote from: challengerX on September 30, 2014, 03:01:31 PM

Quote from: Kinder_ on September 30, 2014, 02:58:34 PM

Quote from: challengerX on September 30, 2014, 02:57:34 PM

Quote from: Kinder_ on September 30, 2014, 02:56:38 PM

Quote from: challengerX on September 30, 2014, 01:35:37 PM

And I get a fucking warning if I call him out on his retarded bullshit.

Stay mad at somebody stating the truth

I'm not mad, and you rarely state the truth.

You are mad. I stated a fact, not all laws make or have to make sense. I state the facts all the time

Would you like to provide proof on how exactly I'm angry? All I posted is it's ridiculous I got warned yesterday when all I do is call you out on the bullshit you say, yet everybody else in the thread does the same.

You're the only immature person in this forum. Your last two posts have been "lolumad". Want to derail another thread?

Because

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And I get a fucking warning if I call him out on his retarded bullshit

shows you being angry and upset. And how do you not know they have not got warned themselves? I got warned yesterday.

Nah, you're the immature one who has to criticize me whenever I say something. And just about all your posts are LOLOLOLOOOOOOL. You're the one derailing this thread for stating a comment that has no purpose with the question. You ought to change your name to Conductor Challenger for all the threads that you cause to be derailed. Maybe next time you'll post something relating to the OP if you don't something derailed

>personal insults
>trollish post
>skewing what is say
>over exaggerating the few times I said LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

I'm not upset. I think it's ridiculous I got warned yesterday and the rest of the people in this are doing the same that I do. I'm well aware you got warned yesterday as well, that was the mods telling us to stop this back and forth every thread.

Your move man. I wasn't even talking to you this thread. You decide if you want to get banned over nothing, because I wasn't even replying to you. You just get all defensive every time I post. Go ahead and reply again and say the exact same thing you said this post with slightly different wording. I'm not getting banned because you have an obsession with arguing.

Later.

And as I said, how do you know if people have not been warned? You don't unless you ask them. You're making assumptions

You were talking about me and calling what I post retarded bullshit. Stop trying to damage control. You should be old enough that when you talk shit about a person, they're going to respond. You have an obsession with me

And I love how your only retort is "hur trul post and persunel inselts" when I'm responding to you in a serious manner and not calling what you say as "retarded bullshit". Not skewing anything; it's plain as day your motive and intention for calling me out and now you're playing this victim card

Child porn, in the sense of like actual children (not 16 or 17 year olds) needs to stay illegal. The person viewing it may not be doing any harm but it's enabling the harm of young children by the people who produce these images and films

And just because a person is mentally ill, that doesn't mean they can avoid a prison sentence. A person has to prove they are legally capable of insanity to do so and that involves a person unable to distinguish fantasy from reality; a pedophile knows well enough what they are doing is illegal and can get help to stop it

loloneworldcurrency

The world would be shit because of the economic issues in Africa, Asia, and eastern Europe. Just look what Greece did to the loleuro

Quote from: Meta Cognition on September 30, 2014, 11:40:23 AM

Quote from: Kinder_ on September 29, 2014, 10:57:24 PM

Guess what, it's the law. Laws don't have to make sense either.

What.

The.

Fuck.

It's Kinder. Do you expect something different?

Aw, somebody is upset

So there's this guy that's like 30 years old in my history course. Every class he has to raise his hand every 5 minutes asking questions and try to put input what the professor os saying. Just gets kinda cringy. Oh, he also wears a damn fedora

Anyway, he comes in just now speaking Spanish to greet the class and somebody just asked where his fedora was and said he's riding his bike to school from now on. He also said his fedora gives him like +3 intelligence points

fuking nuke this guy from orbit for me

Alright, I'll try to keep this brief.

Basically, the current European situation is as follows: it is completely legal for you to make a parody of virtually anything. Only when you directly use source material that happens to be copyrighted (fragments of a movie, show, song, image...), it is possible that you're infringing on the rights of others and are breaking the law.

The holder of the copyright has the sole rights to whatever he has copyrighted. He is the only one who can reproduce, spread and monetise it. If others wish to do so, they require the explicit permission of the holder. Now, member states of the Union have the choice to include a whole bunch of exceptions to this rule. All of the exceptions can be found in the link below, but the most common ones include the use for educational/scientific purposes, "fair use" and charity. The one most relevant to this topic is, of course, parody, which can be found in article 5.3(k) of the current European Copyright Directive, which reads:

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5.3: Member States may provide for exceptions or limitations to the rights provided for in Articles 2 and 3 in the following cases:

(k) use for the purpose of caricature, parody or pastiche;

However, this is an entirely free choice. Member states are free to include all of those exceptions, or none at all. It's all at their own discretion. And unlike Belgium for example, the UK, for reasons that I don't care to look into, decided not to include parody as a valid exception to copyright.

Now, in response to Dustin: as said above, parody most definitely is legal in the EU. This is exclusively about the direct usage of copyrighted source material, which was only illegal in certain EU countries such as the UK. This new Directive will "force" the UK (although force isn't the right word as it seems unlikely to me that the UK voted against this piece of legislation) to allow parodies of copyrighted material as long as they're fair, do not aim to compete with the original and do not convey a discriminatory message. This has already been the case in several other EU countries.

For reference, it isn't all that different from the US situation, where they basically made it more abstract by just calling it all "fair use" and leaving it to the judge to decide. That has its benefits, but on the other hand, there have been US cases where people doing a parody were successfully sued because of it. Definitely not a perfect system either.

In response to Mr. P and Kinder: it is not up to the judge to decide whether or not he personally thinks it's funny. He merely has to rule on whether the parody has any sort of potentially humorous value to it. The CJEU has decided on the revelant legal elements of a parody, which are "‘first, to evoke an existing work while being noticeably different from it, and, secondly, to constitute an expression of humour or mockery".  The parody can be done in the poorest taste imaginable, but as long as it holds any element of humor or mockery, it'll be passable. It has nothing to do with how funny the judge thinks it is, it's all about whether it's an actual (attempt at a) parody, or sheer plagiarism of a copyrighted material.

I hope someone actually reads and responds this, because it took me like half of the first part of the class I'm in now to write, lol.

It's the stereotypes that Germans don't have sense of humor

ITT Fangirlin'

bunch of noobs

ew

Hate the feel of them

Quote from: Flee on September 30, 2014, 03:02:03 AM

Out of those, definitely Nintendo. Their constant Mario, Metroid and Zelda spin-offs is what keeps them going.

Sequels =/= remakes.

Come on now, we all now Pokemon has followed the same formula. It's the same game with different graphics, new sprites, and new locations