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			<h1>I failed to complete the discussion assignment.</h1>
			<p>Day 00746: Wednesday, 2017 March 22</p>
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		My <a href="/a/canary.txt">canary</a> still sings the tune of freedom and transparency.
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		I spent the day catching up on coursework.
		Everything&apos;s done now aside from the learning journal assignments and the final exams.
		Both learning journal entries and one of the final exams <strong>*must*</strong> be completed tomorrow.
		I&apos;m having trouble on one of the learning journal entries though, as I haven&apos;t been able to access the online textbook this week.
		The other learning journal entry is nearly complete, and just can&apos;t be quite finished until I take the final exam tomorrow.
		My discussion post for the day was as follows:
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			I&apos;ve been having trouble with the textbook all term.
			Much of the time, it refuses to load, though I eventually get the server to let me connect and complete the reading assignment.
			However, this week, I haven&apos;t been able to get the textbook to load at all.
			I eventually had to write up this discussion post as I&apos;d run out of time, but I haven&apos;t been able to read the assigned chapters, so the contents of this post may be a bit ... incomplete.
			I apologize for that.
			I&apos;m really hoping I can get the textbook to load by tomorrow, when the learning journal assignment is due.
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			As long as the movie is locked under copyright, the general welfare is <strong>*not*</strong> being served.
			Copyright is censorship and creates monopolies, both of which are noxious to society.
			With nothing positive to counterbalance the negatives of the movie (the censorship, the monopoly, the paying massive amounts of money to the already-wealthy, et cetera), I see no ethical justification for the creation of the movie.
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			As for arguing <strong>*against*</strong> the movie, that&apos;s much easier.
			As the discussion question mentions, it does cause wealth distribution in the wrong direction; that is, it makes the wealthy actors even more wealthy.
			However, that&apos;s not even the worst of it.
			The even-wealthier producer makes a killing on the movie too, and due to noxious copyright laws, this wealth is the product of censorship and a monopoly on the film.
			No one is allowed to make money on the film without the copyright holder&apos;s permission, which likely comes with a condition of royalties paid back to said copyright holder (likely the producer), furthering the wealth misdistribution.
			The film isn&apos;t allowed to even be incorporated into other cultural works without consent from the copyright holders and likely royalties paid; copyright prevents us from expressing ourselves.
			Being allowed to express ourselves is a basic human right; copyright law is an abomination.
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			Unfortunately, as I haven&apos;t been able to complete that part of the reading assignment, I don&apos;t know what the star system is, so I can&apos;t argue against it.
			Web searches have proven unhelpful, instead showing me info on a different concept, one dealing with stellar bodies.
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			I&apos;m not at all envious of Montana&apos;s life.
			My life may not have been the best, but I strongly value my ... well, values.
			I&apos;d rather be unsuccessful than be a drug-dealing murderer.
			I&apos;m an impoverished young adult paying rent to people that have been described by my coworkers as &quot;slum lords&quot;.
			I don&apos;t have a home Internet connection, I have no television services, and I often have to ride my bike to work in the rain.
			I&apos;ve just escaped an abusive home life, and am now trying to recover from the damages done by it.
			But you know what?
			My life&apos;s pretty sweet.
			I live in a very green (as in lots of trees) area because of all that rain, I can afford to buy small luxuries such as music files, and I get to study at an awesome university with very low tuition.
			(I&apos;m amazed that tuition is only $100 <abbr title="United States Dollars">USD</abbr> per course!)
			I don&apos;t have to deal drugs and I don&apos;t have to kill anyone.
			I&apos;m a freakin&apos; vegan, I don&apos;t like death.
			I&apos;ll take what I have now over what Montana had any day.
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		Due to the foolish system in place at University of the People, we can&apos;t post our other responses until waiting five minutes after our initial post.
		In those five minutes, I got distracted by other coursework, and later thought I&apos;d finished the discussion assignment entirely.
		As such, I failed to actually complete the discussion assignment, which was due today.
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