What first world problem did you have today?

[Red Squirrel]

if you search, you'll often see that people upload videos with flipped video, or audio that is slightly out of pitch. this is because youtube has an automatic copyright system that does video recognition....

Yeah, but these were not even flipped. So why can someone uploaded but I can't? I just used something that was already on Youtube (like I ripped it from YT with a tool). The whole copyright stuff has gone way too far. It's one thing if I was uploading a full movie or episodes, or trying to claim someone else's work as being mine, but just using clips/music for my own creation should not be considered infringement imo. If anything they should just make it a rule that if you do use someone else's work you need to give credit. This is how copyright should work. It should be to protect someone from taking someone else's work and taking credit for it. Not for censoring that work completely.

 

[IronWing]

What I always wondered is where fruit flies even come from. Sure, they come from something rotten but I mean, where did they come from before that? A living thing does not just randomly manifest itself without parents having sex and/or laying eggs.

In a world where millions accept creationism, spontaneous generation is surely a valid hypothesis.

 

[Charmonium]

Are you sure they are fruit flies and not sewer flies? They will come out if there's a dried out drain catch in your basement or something. I had 'em last year when the catch below our laundry sink dried up after not using it for a while.

That's a scary thought. But they seem to be concentrated in the kitchen with a few flying elsewhere. I haven't done laundry in a while so they could be coming from the basement but I haven't noticed any down there.

I got rid of all of the trash today. So we'll see. That's the one downside to having a big ass kitchen garbage can.

 

[Imp]

I have really dumb fruit flies. I mean, I do understand that a fruit fly's brain is probably only a couple of interconnect neurons, but still.

I don't know where these are coming from. My best guess is an old banana peel in the garbage. But wherever they originate, they don't seem too bright.

They are definitely stupid. I'm a night person and having the only two lamps on in the house, they swarm me at night. Every other night, they fly into my nostril... Other times, they fly into the tap while I'm washing my hands.

Pretty sure they come from all the plants that the hoarder in the house keeps.

 

[CZroe]

Yeah, but these were not even flipped. So why can someone uploaded but I can't? I just used something that was already on Youtube (like I ripped it from YT with a tool). The whole copyright stuff has gone way too far. It's one thing if I was uploading a full movie or episodes, or trying to claim someone else's work as being mine, but just using clips/music for my own creation should not be considered infringement imo. If anything they should just make it a rule that if you do use someone else's work you need to give credit. This is how copyright should work. It should be to protect someone from taking someone else's work and taking credit for it. Not for censoring that work completely.

LOL! No. That's not how it works and not how it's supposed to work.

If I make something and upload it to YouTube it does not mean you are allowed to download it and used music or video from it. As the original owner, I can assert my copyright to prevent you from doing that. By your logic it is OK to download the most popular videos on YouTube, reupload them, and steal all the views and advertising dollars from the original author as long as you say "I didn't make this!"

I chuckle every time I see I see one of those "I didn't make this no copyrights intended" kiddies on YouTube because they CLEARLY don't know how this works. It isn't about credit. Where did they get that idea?! It's about control and profit. Fair use often requires credit but giving credit to the original creator does not make a particular use "fair use."

 

[Imp]

LOL! No. That's not how it works and not how it's supposed to work.

If I make something and upload it to YouTube it does not mean you are allowed to download it and used music or video from it. As the original owner, I can assert my copyright to prevent you from doing that. By your logic it is OK to download the most popular videos on YouTube, reupload them, and steal all the views and advertising dollars from the original author as long as you say "I didn't make this!"

There are so many of those... Missed something on TV 30 minutes ago? There will be 50 uploads of the episode within an hour. Even better, 48 of those will be rips of the first two uploads with crappier quality and some weird edits. And most will be taken down by the next morning.

 

[Charmonium]

There are so many of those... Missed something on TV 30 minutes ago? There will be 50 uploads of the episode within an hour. Even better, 48 of those will be rips of the first two uploads with crappier quality and some weird edits. And most will be taken down by the next morning.

If you're trying to pirate content from youtube, you're doing it wrong.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

I read posts by people complaining about the force awakened on ATOT

 

[Red Squirrel]

LOL! No. That's not how it works and not how it's supposed to work.

If I make something and upload it to YouTube it does not mean you are allowed to download it and used music or video from it. As the original owner, I can assert my copyright to prevent you from doing that. By your logic it is OK to download the most popular videos on YouTube, reupload them, and steal all the views and advertising dollars from the original author as long as you say "I didn't make this!"

I chuckle every time I see I see one of those "I didn't make this no copyrights intended" kiddies on YouTube because they CLEARLY don't know how this works. It isn't about credit. Where did they get that idea?! It's about control and profit. Fair use often requires credit but giving credit to the original creator does not make a particular use "fair use."

I know it does not work that way,but it SHOULD. That's what I'm saying. Copyright has just gone too far these days and gotten ridiculous. You should be allowed to use other work, as long as you don't try to say it's yours. But now, it's closer to censorship than anything. Unless you make something 100% from scratch you practically can't even upload it... but they're so selective about it, because I see tons of copyrighted stuff on Youtube that does NOT get taken down yet the second I upload even a 2 second clip of something it gets taken down. They should at least be consistent about it, but it's all about money. Of course they're not going to pull down someone's video if it's getting millions of views because YT is making money off it, but someone with <100 views, they'll take it down.

Heck I heard of artists uploading their own content even getting nailed. It's completely absurd. The parody clause also does not exist anymore. Before, you used to be able to use copyrighted work if it's for a parody.

 

[pete6032]

I read posts by people complaining about the force awakened on ATOT

There seems to be a number of posters here who believe their one duty in life is to spread negativity across AT Forums and ridicule other members for no reason. These posters seem to get especially mad with the everything during the holiday season.

Minor plot hole in new Star Wars movie? OMG what a piece of shit film! Don't even know why anyone would go to see it! If you do go then you're a dumbass for spending money on a crap movie!

Get a Christmas card? OMG what is wrong with people? Don't they know I hate them and am now totally inconvenienced by their kind gesture towards me? How dare they! I'm not even religious! Fuck the world!

Eat at a chain restaurant? What a poor little bastard you are! You don't even deserve to exist because you are so stupid and have terrible taste in food! I'd rather go hungry and die before eating at a restaurant that has more than 10 locations!

 

[John Connor]

Could of had 300 billion in chips instead of 170 billion in online poker. Bluffed a few times and won a shit load. Not too shabby.

 

[CZroe]

I know it does not work that way,but it SHOULD. That's what I'm saying. Copyright has just gone too far these days and gotten ridiculous. You should be allowed to use other work, as long as you don't try to say it's yours. But now, it's closer to censorship than anything. Unless you make something 100% from scratch you practically can't even upload it... but they're so selective about it, because I see tons of copyrighted stuff on Youtube that does NOT get taken down yet the second I upload even a 2 second clip of something it gets taken down. They should at least be consistent about it, but it's all about money. Of course they're not going to pull down someone's video if it's getting millions of views because YT is making money off it, but someone with <100 views, they'll take it down.



Heck I heard of artists uploading their own content even getting nailed. It's completely absurd. The parody clause also does not exist anymore. Before, you used to be able to use copyrighted work if it's for a parody.

LOL! So if I or you make a popular YouTube video but it only gets popular after someone stole it from your YouTube channel and uploaded it to theirs, it's totally OK as long as they don't claim to have made it?! Bull.

The reason some get pulled instantly is because they are already on file as belonging to someone else who has specified what you and YouTube are allowed to do with it. They aren't policing it for copyrighted stuff, they are policing it for SPECIFIC copyrighted stuff that the owners have asserted copyright to (sometimes inappropriately). It has nothing to do with inconsistency. It's actually pretty consistent.

You can't just rip audio from a Vevo video and use it in your own video and say "but they allowed Vevo to upload it!" Vevo has permission from the copyright owners/record companies. Heck, they practically ARE the record companies. You should expect them to have it flagged. Even if it was original content produced for YouTube by independent content creators it's not OK to just take it. Period.

https://youtu.be/L6A1Lt0kvMA

https://youtu.be/t7tA3NNKF0Q

It's NOT "OK" and, no, it should NOT work that way. Using it for non-commercial purposes shouldn't be criminal and shouldn't have to be removed unless the copyright owner wants it, but that's exactly how the current system is: It doesn't have to be tolerated by the copyright owner but it CAN be and, by default, nothing happens to your video.

There are plenty of wrongfully-asserted copyrights on YouTube, but that's a completely different issue. For example, Ichinisan played Ninja Gaiden live and got slammed by some record company claiming that he used one of their artist's songs just because their artist made a track which sampled the game. They don't own the copyright to it, the developer (Tecmo) does. I would have no issue with Tecmo asserting their copyright but not this record company that thinks it's OK for their artist to use and not OK for us to use. ImPat the NES Punk has been nailed for Ninja Gaiden music in his videos too.

Remember: this is an ENTIRELY different issue and not what you were unjustifiably complaining about. Don't want your videos pulled? Make your own content or host the copyrighted content yourself (exposes you to liability and limits your audience). Them's the ropes. Deal with it.

 

[Fire&Blood]

Figured out what some of the abbreviations kids on hip sites use actually stand for without googling them but was reminded that I'm getting old in the process.

 

[shortylickens]

Figured out what some of the abbreviations kids on hip sites use actually stand for without googling them but was reminded that I'm getting old in the process.

WWYBYWB?

 

[Imp]

Figured out what some of the abbreviations kids on hip sites use actually stand for without googling them but was reminded that I'm getting old in the process.

You no da HBB and da FA?


My current problem... Got my new toaster set up, not I have to do the initial burn in, and it's supposed to stink. Everything appears to be stainless steel or galvanized, nothing non-stick. Hope it goes easy on me. Going to run all the exhaust fans but it's freezing outside so can't open the windows.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I wanted to get a bag of Candy Cane Tootsie Pops -- http://shop.tootsie.com/Candy-Cane-...-Bag/p/CHR-TP047504&c=TootsieRoll@TootsiePops

. . . but my grocery store does not carry them. THE HORROR!

I got a bag of Kiku apples instead, but it's just not the same.

 

[IronWing]

F'in FF F'ed up an update and disabled adblock and noscript.

 

[nageov3t]

this cookie dough batter is too thick to mix by hand, but too big to fit inside the mixer.

 

[Imp]

Toaster burn-in should be done. Left the room, turned on 3 exhaust fans, opened the front door for 30 seconds -- left them on for an extra half hour. Smell only seemed bad in the first few minutes, pretty much done ten minutes in. Totally have to remember to buy these things during the summer.

 

[Svnla]

Went to several places earlier today just to look for sale items and it was crazy today. People, especially middle age and older white women in large SUV and vans, did not know how to drive. They were on the left lane, drove so slow while were on the phones and then cut you off because they almost missed the turn due to not paying attention.

Unnecessary stressful situation.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm at a point where I hate driving during certain times of the day and avoid certain roads/intersections. I can't stand dealing with the traffic. I don't know how people in big cities do it because the traffic is 100x worse than here.

 

[OverVolt]

I'm at a point where I hate driving during certain times of the day and avoid certain roads/intersections. I can't stand dealing with the traffic. I don't know how people in big cities do it because the traffic is 100x worse than here.

I don't think it always used to be so bad. They haven't truly expanded the highways in forever and the population has increased.

I went on a road trip of mostly smooth sailing on two lane roads only to get back to my area with a congested 8 lane highway (4 lanes each side, sometimes even 5) and I was like having a holy shit moment even though I grew up around there. It took a day or two to get used to it again.

 

[Imp]

I'm at a point where I hate driving during certain times of the day and avoid certain roads/intersections. I can't stand dealing with the traffic. I don't know how people in big cities do it because the traffic is 100x worse than here.

You lose your shit and then you change to a closer job that pays substantially less...

My last commute was shit despite the fact that I was leaving town when everyone else was coming in, or the opposite. It was stupid seeing the couple mile long line-up to get onto the freeway everyday going home from that job.

 

[Charmonium]

I'm at a point where I hate driving during certain times of the day and avoid certain roads/intersections. I can't stand dealing with the traffic. I don't know how people in big cities do it because the traffic is 100x worse than here.

I hear that. If I try to do something after 2PM I have to mentally prepare myself. I don't know what time all these people are going to work but unless they have part time jobs they have to be going in at 5 or 6 in the morning. After 4pm is when it's really bad. Then it finally clears up around 7.

 

[Jeff7]

- Ordered several things from Chefs. "Orders typically arrive in 3-7 days."
- 10 days later, notification finally is given to FedEx for pickup from their warehouse.
- Delivery was to be today for the first of three packages in the shipment.

"Delivery Exception: Street number. Contact us to provide delivery information."

Good job, everyone. I wonder what FedEx customer service hold times are like this time of year.



Edit: Hold time was minimal. I did call at a somewhat off-peak hour though.
Hopefully this stuff finally gets delivered. The address they allegedly tried to deliver to matches my address, so....?????


Edit 2: Stuff got delivered. Woo.