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Hey guys!

Yesterday, I tried to upload a file via QTM a few times, but after all the torrent creation and images uploading was completed, the app simply didn't make any torrents at all, and the "upload" button then became enabled again for clicking, as I hadn't clicked on it the first time...

So I decided to upload it manually, but when I clicked on the "Upload" option on the website, it showed me the following message:

"Due to our receiving a multitude of takedown requests regarding material you have uploaded, your upload privileges are hereby revoked for 90 days."

I wasn't even aware of such rule! I've had "a multitude of takedown requests" many times after uploading several files by the same studio (sometimes by totally different ones) in a short period of time.

Anyway, I'd never been suspended because of this before. I haven't posted anything against the rules, they're all only DMCA takedowns...

Has anyone else ever had this issue?

This is not a point of view. The Human Rights state that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and it wasn't through submission that we achieved this universal consensus. Your right to speak your mind ceases where my dignity begins. Once it is unlawful to insult people because either you'll say words that aren't true or you'll hurt them; it is unlawful to say that gays are filthy, nasty, perverted, etc., because once it's not true, you can't say it. You might claim that if you believe it, it's true to you. However, if everyone starts imposing their beliefs, the world will become a chaos, that's why you have to prove it before you say it.. You call it dictatorship; I call it equality. Dictatorship is not about being unable to act like you want, it is about having part of the population acting like they want, and the rest sucking it up.

I do wish everybody were able to speak their minds at will, but that would cause the world to fall apart. People are forced to do things all the time and there's nothing wrong about it. If I'm using a priority seat, I'm forced by law to give it up to the elderly and disabled, even if I think they're in better shape, and that's because most citizens agree that my right to be weary must not come before people with difficulty standing up. It doesn't matter, in this case, If I think that a middle-aged man who worked all day deserves the seat more than a retired man who spends his time in front of a TV. The same way, I may think I have to the right to treat people like I want to, but the majority says I don't. That's why we have the Human Rights. Again, it's not a point of view.

Of course stepping back is an important daily life strategy, but you must resist. Had the blacks moved out every time their neighbors mistreated them, had they accepted to be thrown out of every bus and given up every job; they might have been exterminated from the Americas.

@mhorndisk1:

That's why so many Mexican and Latin words are SANSKRIT - like Chihuahua Desert. ShivaVa - Shiva's Temple. It's because Columbus confused us.

Man, you're pathetically insane. Sorry I bugged you trying to have a rational conversation…

Did you believe Da Vinci Code as well?  ;D

I've googled "India Once Ruled the Americas" and it is nothing but a laughable fairy tale! Only an untrained reader will buy his loose views.

The peoples of Americas couldn't have developed a completely different culture across the continents between the 15th and the 19th Centuries. Had Americas been populated by "Indian rejects", the languages spoken there would still be close to the Indian Languages. Once we're talking about a recent period, many aspects of the Asian culture would have remained to this day. They would be flagrant and obvious. This book is a fraud.

The Indus Valley Civilization dates back approximately to 5500 BCE. The Asian peoples crossed the Bering Strait from 23000 to 9000 BCE. Thus, it's not possible that India ever ruled the Americas.

Many words are alike, but they don't necessarily share a common root. Scholars have proposed that Japanese and Korean belong to the Turkic language family. They show some similarities, indeed. However, the earlier forms of any related languages must be closer than their modern forms, and that's not what happens when we compare Japanese and Mongolian, e.g. Their evolution shows different morphosyntactic patterns.

Once we can't know how Nahuatl evolved, it's not possible to realiably compare it to Sanskrit. Moreover, according to what I have read about the Aztec language and Tupi syntax, both are very different from Sanskrit's. Did the author even use phonology reconstruction?

DNA analyses suggest the indigenous peoples of Americas have Siberian roots.

If you like theories, see the new hypotheses based on more recent DNA studies which proposes that the indigenous peoples of America have Australian and Polynesian background. It also claims that Clovis wasn't the only paleoamerican culture.

It's you who don't have the knowledge to refute my arguments. Why don't you refute them like a true scholar? Because you can't. You haven't done that once.

I study languages and make a living as a translator. So, yes, I know something about etymology and I can recognize a serious language research. We don't know what the early Nahuatl was like prior to the 16th century, and without a proper reconstruction, no honest scholar would claim to prove that the two languages are related. Resemblance is not enough. If you believed that Chihuahua and Shivava are related only because they look similar, I'm sorry for you.

Given that we can't see how the Mexican language evolved, the option left is comparative reconstruction. We take the later form of the languages, and by comparing the features they inherent from their ancestor, we infer the traits that the proto-language possessed. it's a way to prove relatedness. However, I insist; evolutionary/diachronic comparison doesn't work in this case.

The book just isn't feasible, you can tell by the title. Anyone capable of a critical analysis and willing to compare the facts will see it is loose material, at least.

No. I showed arguments why I think it isn't possible. Once dates don't match, I've found no DNA analysis and the language comparison that you provided is too little and general, I thought no further arguments were needed. If mere comparisons were enough to prove something, how many writers wouldn't be scientists?

Before you copy "facts" from a book and paste them here, please think it through.