Me too. Gimp is awesome. I can do everything I want and more really easily. I just don't get the hate. Photoshop is cancer, it's slower than Gimp and it's not even worth pirating. It hurts Adobe more if you use open source alternatives.
PeterPoopshit
HP can go fuck themselves
Imagine hosting an event so lame that it makes international news solely because of how incredibly lame it was. Just damn.
You can pirate media that uses that new blu ray drm by plugging a capture card into the overpriced compatible DVD player and recording the video. Also, it's a way to transfer saved content from a dvr as their hard drives are always encrypted (do those still exist). The video stream on all this stuff is encrypted with hdcp to prevent this but there exist hdcp strippers. It seems to still be possible to buy them even on Amazon. Stock up before they get banned. Frankly I'm surprised they aren't banned already.
Your choice
There is no level of lying and cheating you can do that is unethical when done against HOAs. HOAs are almost the lowest scum there is and should be given no quarter.
I hope they actually end up calling it the Very Big Disc (tm)
I don't really subscribe to the whole if civilization collaspes there will be no technology in anyone's lifetime again thing. You aren't going to go back to ordering shit off amazon from your smartphone or anything. However the knowledge that things like refrigeration, radio transmission, internal combustion engines, water treatment and such are possible is going to drive people to eventually find out how to get it by any means necessary.
How quickly this happens is a question of whether the majority of people adopt a "technology is dangerous/a sin against God" idealogy or not.
The soil where I live is only good enough for 5.25in floppy plants to grow.
OK fine. I just went outside and poked at the grass for several minutes. Now what?
This is a valid preference I'm and tired of pretending it's not. Vagina, penis, doesn't matter. I am attracted to feminine features and a penis doesn't get in the way of that.