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When Looge becomes God. It'll happen, oh yes.. But nobody knows quite when...

Of course, CafePress has to keep their costs down so they only offer a limited selection of items and styles (I'd kill for black or blue shirts instead of white) and the base price for most items is a little too high. That notwithstanding, it's still a good idea that eliminates the risk of printing your own shirts and the hassle of running a Web shopping cart. Definitely a way to increase revenue for your site.

You can get a Mousepad from the Museum of E-Failure and look all you want.

(sarcasm) But if I do, how can I justify my continued wailing & gnashing of teeth about what "free" means / open vs. closed source / FSF vs. everyone ? (/sarcasm)

Thanks for interjecting a bit of common sense :)

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I DON'T HAVE FUCKING TIME TO PERSONALLY AUTHORISE EVERY LITTLE DOWNLOAD!

_Apologies_ to anyone who is offended by this strong language- but I am _very_ angry here. As copyright holder it is UP TO ME how I want to license my stuff. As it happens, I use the statement "All commercial rights reserved- noncommercial copying OKAY", because I fully intend to completely permit ALL FORMS of fair use copying and EVERY sort of copying and sharing and trading that doesn't actually involve someone charging people for my stuff. That is MY RIGHT under the law. _I!_ am the one who says what people can do with it.

Even _if_ the idea of this isn't 'submit your song to the RIAA to have Napster given permission to let YOU host it on YOUR computer only', even if the idea is that Napster keeps the records, I am really angry and finding this suggestion absolutely intolerable. As copyright holder _I_ have the right to authorise every listener I have to share my stuff on Napster. I've even asked people to do just this, repeatedly- I thought it would not only help me but would also add to the argument that Napster links to lots of different kinds of content.

I am not trying to get a free ride off the RIAA, okay? I'm not even _seeking_ fame and money and record contracts that are fair. I am perfectly content to do all the work for producing my own music, to seek out places like besonic and ampcast that aren't ripping me off, to accept that I may not sell zillions of CDs even once I finish the work of making them available from Ampcast. I'm not asking for help with all this, and I'm not getting any. I have to do it all myself and that suits me fine.

But I draw the line at having to be a _fucking_ performing rights organisation too, just because OTHER PEOPLE can't deal with the idea that people can exchange their artworks without paying. I am completely offended at this to the point that I begin to understand the feelings of some slashdotters and anarcholibertarians when confronted with unions: I am more socialist myself but here's a situation where I am forbidden to license my stuff under my own rules because that would mean people could legally share it on napster without my _personal_ authorisation. And I'm looking at a possible future where, every time some new sharing program or P2P thing comes around, I have to PERSONALLY go and give them an 'it's okay to share my music' before they're permitted. Goddammit, I write that on my CDs! I do not have TIME to piddle around being a performing rights organisation. The record companies have time and resources to do this kind of crap, and I do _not_.

And I am _pissed_ that they are even suggesting it. Sorry for all the strong language. I am _so_ pissed at this suggestion. I'm sorry, I put a great deal of effort into checking out the resources available to me (like ampcast, and for that matter CafePress) that let me offload some of the work in being an active, productive Internet artist and musician, and this ability is absolutely central to increasing the fluidity and efficiency of the Internet age and allowing people like me access to the world's commerce and media. It is _crucial_ that I am allowed to set my own terms on copyright and that this is _respected_: requiring me to authorise each new little P2P startup is refusing to honor the copyright licensing I already make that specifically authorizes noncommercial copying! I _must_ be allowed to authorise just-plain-listeners to share my stuff on P2P networks etc, do anything with it as long as it's noncommercial- because _I_ don't have the time to run around being a Publishing Rights Organisation and an IANAL and a publicist and an advertising flack and a suit. It's just not reasonable. Why the hell can't they at least let _me_ do my work and allow the random forces of the net to bring me whatever publicity or sales turn up? Why do they effectively plan to _force_ me to operate as a rights agent and individually authorize every little P2P thing that might turn up? I am so angry...

OK, that was messy and a lot of extrapolation but I've got a lot of work to do which these nice people at the RIAA are _not_ helping me do in any way shape or form, so I'd better go off and do it and hope other people can keep the RIAA from loading even _more_ compulsory work on me for the privilege of trying to distribute MY OWN music... I _so_ don't have the time to track down the relevant people and scream at them... if anyone wishes these views cleaned up for broader publication I'd be more than happy to do so and promise not to say F**K...

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I personaly think that the open source movement will never die(as long as their are lazy people and there are non lazy programmers).

That's an interesting take on the community. I don't see why the general populace needs to be lazy to support the open source movement. I mean, really...wouldn't it be better if NO ONE was lazy?

If everyone did diligent bug-squashing for the lizard, if everyone contributed to Darwin, wouldn't that be better than a few non-lazy programmers doing the work?

That's just my opinion. And I almost forgot to mention, ALL YOUR JON KATZ ARE BELONG TO SATAN . Thanks for your time.

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Started on the somethingawful.com forums... someone posted the quote from the game, and it kinda caught on, so, yeah, we ended up with a HUGE thread of people photoshopping pictures to include that caption.

After the hundreds of pics, and TShirts, it caught on to other forums, and one thing leads to another, everywhere is infected.

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A goatse channel?! Why not just a goatse poster. It may look like it moves, but trust me, it doesn't. Or if not a poster, perhaps a T-Shirt?

The browsing area isn't obvious from the home page. To be more precise, what you want is the store index listing shirt "stores" by type.

-this post is completely on-topic and should not be modded down.

does anyone know how I can get goatse put on a t-shirt?

Sure do. There's a great company online called CafePress that you just upload images to, and they create a free storefront for you - you decide how much over the base price the user's cost is, and they do all the manufacturing, processing, and shipping, and cut you a check for the difference at the end of the month. Yes, there's NO OUT OF POCKET COSTS. Pardon the french, but it's a fucking brilliant business model. Wish I had thought of it!

My favorite t-shirt was from Apple. It was done up as a MacOS error dialog, and read:

The Apple engineer "unknown" has unexpectedly quit.
[[Do something]] [Cancel]

with the arrow positioned over the [Cancel] button.

More generally, you can also get any shirt you want printed up and made available for sale at CafePress.com. Need a shirt printed up for your Quake clan? Toss 'em some artwork and they'll crank 'em out for you for $9.95 each. Go spelunking through their t-shirt index sometime; some of them are quite neat.

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MCSE = Must Consult Someone Experienced ;->

Get yer KDE-logo goodies at
http://www.cafepress.com/kde

And the great thing is that, with each rev. of KDE, we get more of both. ;)

Blatant plug: Get yer Konqi/KDE logo goodies right here - all profits donated to the KDE Project.

You can already get a T-shirt (here) and other items that say, "Don't blame me, my vote was lost in Florida!" Unbelievable. http://www.cafepress.com/vote2000

I doubt you'll be able to buy it, but the developers do suggest supporting them by picking up some parsec swag here.

First of all, let me say I enjoy your work Baptist Death Ray. I have "Pharisee" and I listen to it on a regular basis...I really should check out the rest of what you've done.

I agree with about 50% of what you have to say, and I respect it because you are a musician, so you know what you're talking about, and you believe it. But I think on the main point you're wrong.

Perhaps I'm just a helpless idealist, but I think all information should be free, mine and yours included. Obviously, there should be some rules of ethics regarding the use of the information -- like cite, don't plagurize -- but for the most part, these already exist.

I was going to go on about how Napster and Gnutella change everything, whether you like it or not, but from your other posts, it's clear that you understand that. I also agree that these are going to be merely tools for promotion of the big bands -- because people need to hear about a song to download it. Even I, avowed pretentious indie rock and punk fan, found out about your music from my subscription to Listen.com's newsletter (before it started to totally suck, by the way). This is a problem, and it affects MP3.com et. al just as much as napster.

The solution is collaborative filtering. Even a basic form a la Amazon.com's "people who like this also like these..." would be a great improvement. If you want to make some bucks, I'd find a good domain name and set up a system like this. Make it like Listen.com, but not shitty (read: easy to use...don't seperate the artist's info into four different pages just so you can rack up the banner hits). Offer a rating service. Display the most recent, the most downloaded, and the most highly rated songs on the front page.

That can get an artist's name out. This helps a lot. By getting more listeners, you reach many deaf ears, but you may also find true fans. True fans will support their artist and buy t-shirts, CDs, posters, etc. Offer this. A service like cafepress.com could do this. Let the artist set the prices, or point to their own merchendise page. The idea is to get as many artists as possible invovled, so treat them like gods.

Fans can buy stuff and be happy. But what if they don't want to pay $15 for a t-shirt? I don't think "true" mircopayments will ever work, because they are not volentary, and hence, not ethical, but a "give this artist $1" link might work great!

I think it would rule if there was a site like this. Anyone want to help me make it? :)

Cafe Press is one. There're probably others.

I live in the Bahamas, and host OneBahamas.com which actually is on a server in the states. The service is for Bahamians to get free, no ad, web hosting. The reason why we host in the states is that there is no infrastructure to host it here. I have a cable modem, but it only runs at 128kB/s. The telecommunications company is going to be implimenting DSL in the near future, but get this. The cable company, Cable Bahamas, who I get my cable modem from now is going to be running a wide fibre optic pipe to the states. Very soon, you should be able to get up to T3 access in the Bahamas. The poorly implimented copyright laws, as well as poor legal inforcement of anything, along with the fact that no one here besides a friend and I know anything about computers would be an excellent reason to come here to avoid free speech problems. Now the only problem that I can see lies in the TOS of the cable company, but I can tell you this: we didn't have to sign anything when we got our cable modem, so watch for it. The Bahamas will be an excellent place to avoid everything. Email me if you want any more information or anything.

P.S. Bahamian Sunset t-shirt and mousepad here for just $12.99. They're cool, just look at them.

Declaimer: I don't have any affliation with them other than their "storefront" for my Tshirt, which I ain't even linking to here, so there. I just have to admire them as a neat idea.

I suppose that depends on how you define success. If you define it in terms of code merit alone, I might agree with you. If you define it in terms of broad acceptance and use, I couldn't agree less. When I got my first taste of Linux, by downloading the Slackware distribution from ftp.cdrom.com in the early 90s, it was definitely by and for "gearheads" -- yet finding anyone who had heard of it, much less would consider using it for anything remotely important, was difficult (to put it mildly).

In terms of broad acceptance and use, what little success I've seen in Linux recently has only come from the "commercialization" of it, i.e., strongly advocating it to the non-gearhead corporate world. Sure, it's still by and for gearheads -- and it's also a relatively-obscure OS for the "man on the street." The code may be great -- and that can be a valid definition of success for some -- but without qualifying what you mean by success it's virtually impossible to prove that Linux has been successful at all to begin with.

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Here are some I like:

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Another cool idea:
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