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  • Walk into a room and the lights are on, why? Just why?

    Every room has a different need depending on what I am doing, so even that makes no sense.

    If I had to set a timer to adjust when the house is at various temperature I could, but the savings is negligible, just let it be comfortable all the time. If anything the best addition to the house is solar power instead of trying to squeeze 20 euros a month out of some automation system.












  • You keep focusing on the least interesting part.

    Focus on the fact that two people could be married, and the government STILL doesn’t give a shit about your life partner. A contractual marriage must allow ANY consenting adults. Focus on the point that matters! Because the part you are focusing on is NOT the marriage part at all.

    When one of the people you married is in a coma in the hospital and the spouse wants to make conscientious medical decisions on the partner’s behalf, the hospital will refuse to grant these wishes because these people are not recognized as married by any actual institution that matters.

    By the way, your personal bias is showing. There are lots of places in the world and many situations where what you said is not true.



  • It is not a contract. It is simply an agreed thing between people. Only much later did it become a legal thing, and that still isn’t everywhere. Overall, governments have tried to fuck around with transnational, inter racial, same sex, same sect, same community, regionalism, forced, age, arranged etc.

    A broken government is one that interferes with marriage. Next thing you know they are going to start picking and arranging for genetics and other bullshit.

    No. The government should not be involved at that level. A citizen may enter into a contract with the government if they wish. Thats it. I can get married today, and there is no legal bond unless I want one.

    Taxes, ownership of property are all other scenarios, and can be assigned in a freely entered contract.

    Legal residency does not matter and should not matter.

    Perhaps if they have a contract, then they can establish sponsorships. Again, my main point here is citizen a can get a marriage contract as can citizen b. Do not discriminate based on any of the things I mentioned before.

    What school district a child attends is relative to where they live of course, married parents or not.

    I am saying all of this to point out that governments need to treat any citizen the same if they form a contractual union. That is the point Obama trying to get across.

    I can legally marry people. For some of them they involve the government, others don’t care.

    A failed government is one that allows some citizens into legally binding contracts but not others based on arbitrary reasons.

    Maybe that helps you see what I am trying to say.


  • They shouldn’t though. The only thing they should care about are contracts. You want to get married? Go ahead no one cares. The government shouldn’t care. You want to have a method to divide up property allocate for child support, you get a contract. There is a difference.

    Government should encourage people to enter into a legally binding contract for obvious reasons, but they should not care what religion or what sex the people are. Citizen a forms a contract with b. That is all there should be to it.


  • Well we can’t agree. Credit card numbers in this context would be one that is like all credit card numbers.

    To try an explain this as my particular number doesn’t make sense in the context that no one is giving away an exact copy.

    But since you can’t seem to give it up: I do give out my credit card number all the time, obviously, and the use of it is either valid or fraud. As in misrepresentation, not that the number itself is special, the use of it is. Which is what I said in the first place: intent of fraud.

    I get what you are trying to do, but it just doesn’t fit this analogy, nor the analogy of information wants to be free.

    But you seem to not understand much, so the conversation is difficult. In saying a painted something similar to someone else, I meant a copy as in a I learned a style or a method, not an exact copy. Plagiarism is a specific word.

    You are you, but someone writing a book and in need of a cover, someone wanting concept art for a game, someone with a YouTube channel in need of a logo/avatar, or many other examples don’t care about what the artist have to say, they just need a piece of art to be a part of the thing they’re trying to sell.

    So you are saying the person now can make those things themselves? Welcome to progress. Graphic artists saw the invention of clip art (they used to be sold in physical form by the book, hence the name), the press, the copy machine, ink makers, mechanics change and fade away over time. People could make cheap newsletters, ads, etc that they couldn’t do before.The press changed everything, photography changed everything, then computers changed everything. A light table wasn’t an idea, it was a real thing. All of those positions, all of those devices, all of the people who maintained and worked on those went away. People could draw and erase a thousands times, hit undo over and over, use tools the mimicked everything that was done by hand, without spending a thing. It already happened to all those people, it is happening again. But it enables another group of people to do it themselves, and another group of people to stand out above their peers because they are good at it.

    It makes the cheap things easy to do. But if you want to make a real poster, avatar, a large game and can afford the help, an artist is worth the pay. AI does’t know what it is doing, it has no vision. Making something cheap is cheaply made of course.