Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1. the VNSH holster? I actually got one, it is a decent product if you have a gun that fits it (works fine for Glocks), although buying it is a bit of a hassle with all the stupid crap they try to sell you along the way.
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  2. ​@wurst1284 you mean 1 death of a totally unrelated bystander or biker
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  3.  @Maximilian1990  So you believe that everyone who pirates a piece of media is able to pay for that media? If I release a game only in US and Europe, someone in China who pirates my game is not even a blip on my radar. I would have never sold my game there, thus, that person did not make me lose money. This is to say nothing of the fact that your initial reply is completely made up on the spot. Nobody defines "theft" in that manner, except similarly interested and similarly ignorant C-level executives.
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  4. ​@ChanceandChoice it is indeed mad max out there. I know it's hard for people who drive cars to understand sometimes but everyone from bikers to pedestrians has to feel like they're staring down the barrel of a gun on a regular basis.
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  5. The fact that there are public servants zealous enough to do this in the first place always blows my mind.
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  6. gun buybacks are an utter sham, the fact that you think they do anything for the community at all belies how ignorant you are
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  7. That's a great example, actually. There's a FedEx print shop within spitting distance of where I live, and I ended up installing their app just so I don't have to deal with real printers anymore.
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  8. It's speculated that many if not most EULAs would not be admissible in court, but end users typically don't have the money or willpower to challenge them
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  9.  @ohnoitschris  They didn't at first; streaming shows and movies is indeed more convenient than piracy on paper. While it's possible to stream content on torrent, it requires good seeds. However they've gotten stuck in their ways and started making the same stupid mistakes their predecessors did; making it difficult for paying customers to access the content they already paid for.
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  10.  @raemeijer  Glad I went with a Lennox AC when I replaced it earlier last year.
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  11. Reusing containers like that is often a bad idea. A cheap container like one that might be used for sour cream isn't microwave safe. It will almost certainly warp in the microwave or a dishwasher. Your average consumer basically needs to be a material scientist to make this doctrine work, unless it's something obviously reusable like metal.
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  12. Germany is smaller than Texas. They also invented the street car. While yes, auto makers do sometimes conspire to prevent public transit from developing, it still helps to try using your brain before commenting on infrastructure issues like this. Public transit still tends to win out in the end if enough people want it, as it finally has in Dallas. They're renovating the old Cotton Belt rail line like the transit authority wanted to 50 years ago originally, but it was lobbied against by auto makers and those making money off of tollways. Public transit in Dallas was already pretty decent before that -- the new line mostly serves the more well-to-do areas of Dallas in the northern part.
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  13.  @Windowsfan100  Most cities in the US do have functioning public transit. There are some exceptions, like Houston which is laughably bad. However, Houston is laughably bad in general. The average distance between towns in a nation with ~1200 years of history like Germany is a few kilometers. The average distance between towns in the US is closer to 15 miles and that's assuming that you are in a metroplex going to a suburb. If you're out in the country, it's worse. So yes, it does make a difference, especially when you're asking for transit to "neighboring towns."
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  14.  @StormsparkPegasus  I don't use margarine because I don't like it very much, so I'll have assume you're correct there. And I very rarely buy ice cream except to celebrate. I live alone, so I wouldn't ever buy that much. Personally I have reused "Simply" brand juice containers to make iced tea in many times.
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  15. I haven't played an Ubisoft game since Far Cry 5 and I regretted that purchase
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  16.  @JR_MacD  Ahh but you didn't purchase the content in perpetuity, you bought a license to access the content according to their specific terms. I'm no lawyer, so I don't know how well this argument holds up in court (and I think our culture is ripe for a Supreme Court case to settle this nonsense once and for all), but even back in the physical days you never owned software or data. You bought a license to use that copy of the data.
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  17.  @heavyhauler426  Shoo shoo, corporate personhood shill.
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  18. I'm convinced that anyone who says stuff like this is jaded and knowingly trying to deceive people into not doing "the bad thing" by putting a bad label on it. Linus is not an idiot, he knows adblock is not piracy.
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  19.  @rb032682  It sounds like you're not long for this world, no offense, so your earlier statement about "not leaving CA 'til you die" has virtually no weight.
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  20.  @solderbuddy  Don't worry. They bought a Superbowl ad.
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  21.  @kriswillems5661  How exactly would the Chinese economy keep growing if their biggest buyer stops buying their shit?
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  22. When everyone is moving slowly, risk is low.
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  23. Games are a tragic industry due to how many people that fundamentally cannot wrap their minds around software, as a concept, manage them. The sad thing is people just like him work as C-level executives, paying firms like Denuvo reams of money just because it makes them "feel good" and prevents piracy for roughly a week. They don't see the irony of paying Denuvo hundreds of thousands of dollars either.
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  24.  @TheRelevantUnknown  The only problem is, that point is debatable; his salary may not be affected, or some cases may even be bolstered, by ignoring piracy.
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  25. I'll do it for $50 million, and I'll throw in a warranty where I'll fix the button if it ever breaks even when I am no longer employed for another $50 million. Can't beat a deal like that.
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  26.  @BryanLu0  Then he's bad at communicating. Piracy is illegal. Doing illegal things is bad for you. This is not hard to understand.
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  27. Yeah, but they also release DVDs, meaning they expect you to pay for the recorded content
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  28.  @LightSilver7  Take your meds.
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  29.  @StormsparkPegasus  You must live in a vastly different society from mine. In the US, ice cream containers are made from thick paper. They would disintegrate in the dishwasher. The sour cream containers I was thinking of are Daisy brand, which are quite thin and cheap.
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  30. Yep, that was my immediate thought. EV skeptics shouldn't acknowledge this because it's simply bad engineering. They should acknowledge it because there's no reason this can't happen on an ICE. Sure there would probably be some way for you to bypass it, while also voiding your warranty and at some risk to your car.
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  31.  @itrytobeanonymoustoo5289  Piracy is very rarely "about" depriving profit from a business. There are very few pirates that download data illegally out of principle. The vast majority do it because the product or service is not available in their market or they can't pay for it. Or, as in this case, the service is more burdensome than piracy; as Gabe Newell once said. And he's right, I usually buy games on Steam because it is convenient. Piracy out of principle is a privilege for first-world people with an interest in software/data and a significant chunk of free time.
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  32. I had the runaround, bad, when I tried to cancel monthly payments to ADT. The only way to cancel, and I mean only, despite them having an online portal to manage your account, is via phone. And you must be transferred to the cancellation department; there is no direct number. Twice I tried, one time I was on hold for 45 minutes and the second time 30 minutes. I decided to tell my bank to stop paying them. This results in me racking up over $200 of unpaid fees. I started getting calls from their collection agency. The first time, they had no idea what to do about my situation. The second time, they actually canceled me. The third time, I got to the next rung in the ladder and after it became clear I wasn't budging he cleared the overdue fees.
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  33. I had an ADT subscription, once upon a time. Decided I didn't want to use it anymore because they pushed an update for their (cr)app which forced you to install it to use the keypad and alarms which was working just fine before the update. Even the motion/door alarms, which are entirely localized, will not work unless you use this app. On top of that it made an annoying beeping sound for no damn reason at seemingly random intervals, so I unplugged it. So I call ADT and wait on the phone for 45 minutes for a representative to cancel. Nothing. Waited again for 30 minutes 1 or 2 days later, still nothing. So I told my bank to block all charges from that vendor on my card. Couple of months later they call me and tell me I owe them something like $263. I told them, I tried to cancel but you made it impossible. I'm not paying. This phone call happens 2 more times until finally it's escalated to a supervisor. He clears the charges and finally cancels my account.
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  34.  @TojiFushigoroWasTaken  Yes, it helps to have a good faith effort to cancel. I was on the phone for, cumulatively, over an hour waiting for someone from the "cancellations department" to receive me for ADT security services. I got sick of that, and then just told my bank not to pay them. 3 months later, they tried to call me for collections 3 times, and the 3rd time a supervisor finally cleared the fees and canceled my subscription.
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  35.  @hombreg1  "Your cities." So I presume you are a foreigner. It's ironic that on this channel where people think they are very well-informed and savvy about business and political issues like this, that you seem to take mainstream media slander like this at face value, filtered through the lens of foreign bias no less. I would never read an article from Fox News about Britain, Germany, or any other foreign nation and assume that I'm well-informed. Yet we have to suffer the "wisdom" of foreigners all the time. And we still get the reputation of being arrogant. Funny, isn't it?
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  36.  @avananana  You're blowing the issue way out of proportion. Vast majority of users will never pirate because, despite what Rossman says, the service from pirated media is usually of lesser quality for one major reason: obscurity. There have been ups and downs; music piracy for example was really huge until services like iTunes and Spotify came around. But it is usually less convenient for a non-tech-savvy user to pirate things.
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  37. I just don't have the attachment to physical disks and cartridges that most people do. If I want something with physicality, I play a tabletop game. CDs and cartridges are flawed, fragile devices that will eventually be unusable unless preserved very carefully. Or, the devices used to read them will wear out first.
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  38. Theres a problem with the refund strategy. The Chinese companies that make these products must, ostensibly, return the product to the place where they were manufactured from -- back overseas. This, as you might imagine, is expensive and would likely make the cost of selling the product not worth it. But they've come up with a solution -- forward the returned items to a completely random address domestically. There have been news stories about this. Many are so lazy that they won't even use a random address for each item and hundreds of garbage items pile up at a hapless person's home. Chinese companies exist to put out nothing but trash it seems.
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  39. It sounded like you said "I'm your hosed, Louis Rossman" which I'm not sure wasn't intentional since we are indeed, getting hosed.
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  40.  @pvanukoff  The Bud Light one did something.
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  41.  @GristleMcThornbody-x5u  You have to have some real blinders on if you think we've had any better candidates over the past couple of decades. Voting for Trump at this point is a cry for help. It's plain to see that we are headed towards a slow, inglorious death, like drowning, or starving. Taking any risk seems necessary to get us out of the hole we're slowly digging for ourselves. And when I say "we" I mean both parties.
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  42. System of a Down's "Steal This Album!" comes to mind. The CD print was made to look like a storebought CD-R with the title written on it with a Sharpie.
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  43.  @karstentopp  Gee, where would we be without television and radio? Truly, the pillar of our modern culture... oh wait...
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  44.  @dntfrthreapr  it's crazy that people like you think that people like them are going to fix our problems. Bernie is a grifter, he's sat in the government for his entire life doing nothing. he's a good orator, i'll give him that, that's why he keeps getting elected. he bought a nice new lakeside property after his presidential campaign, after he clearly got cheated by clinton and did absolutely nothing about it. it blows my mind that people like you have faith in the system
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