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The Jerky Boys had to get their victims to sign releases. See http://www.deuceofclubs.com/write/jerky.htm.

If this dude had managed to get his victims to sign releases, he would have been OK too.

peruse the contents of this "golden" book beforehand, and the experiments will be much more fun....

My handy prediction - if a single thing goes wrong during his speech it'll be on the net the same day.

you're a real criswell aren't you? ;p

http://www.negativland.com/audio.html

http://www.deuceofclubs.com/write/negativl.htm

A satellite/wi-fi booth seems cool, but somehow lacks something the old wired booth had.

Hmm, I seem to remember you saying something like:
They can play it smart and evolve or they can die, and that's the way it should be.

i did say that, and it does not conflict with the fact that i don't think they're going to be destroyed. they're married to the profits. they will be forced to evolve. again, that's the way it should be.

If the industry isn't there, there is simply less music out there.

that is a fallacy. the music created the industry. the industry did not and does not create the music. (ac/dc said it best - "who made who?") if people want to hear the music, if it deserves to be heard, people will find a way to hear it. if the record companies disappear, and then x music still manages to reach my ears, then x music has won by way of virtue and not by way of propaganda, which is the preferable way to win, isn't it? more music does NOT necessarily mean more good music, because when the "superstardom" lure vanishes, most of the crap music vanishes with it.

think about who you are defending - the artists? no, because many (i don't know if it's most) artists have no problem with their music being copied and shared. in fact they often encourage it, and that is becoming more and more common. if their heads are on right, sharing their musical creativity comes before profiting. that is also the way it should be.

so it is the record conglomerates' and the riaa's profit-motivated version of "ethics" which you are really protecting.

i'm not asking for preferential treatment because i'm an "ethical file sharer". in my opinion, the RIAA are greedy scum, by and large, and they don't deserve to write the laws that govern me or you or the 80 million christina aguilera distributors out there. (and by the way, what part of those people do you suppose are attempting to hijack the record companies' profits by reselling the music they download? almost none, but shouldn't that be the issue?)

what the RIAA aren't realizing as they try to close the curtains tighter is that the "window" is magically growing wider. plus more "windows" are appearing all the time. they're fighting a losing battle, and it's for the reason of DOLLARS, not morals, that they're fighting so hard. screw them.

Just because they are successful dooesn't mean they deserve to be ripped off.

who's ripping them off? the people who share their music? or the record company leech-people who take most all of their profits and the best part of their creative lives away from them? i really, really suggest you read Fair Use by Negativland. it's an excellent book that could very well change your opinion about this whole thing. here's a very good link: http://www.deuceofclubs.com/write/negativl.htm

I don't know why he bothers. U2 isn't exactly giving their music away for free... Seems like a conflict of interest to me.

I know this was meant as a joke, but U2 isn't exactly into free speech anyway.

Is this the same Criswell who predicted that all people would be wearing nude bodysuits by the 1980s, and the world would end on Aug. 18, 1999?

I'm getting sick of this guy and his predictions. But I'm not getting rid of my bodysuit.

Negativland tried this and had to settle.

The people who administer the national park system have become very territorial and don't really like the fact that other people visit there. In fact, a staffer of the park service in California removed the Mojave Desert Phone Booth because too many people were visiting it!

The message to visitors-- you are just a grudgingly accepted guest. Now get out as quickly as possible and don't you dare tell any of your friends about this place.

That was exactly my point.

"The U.S. is not as highly urbanized as Canada"
Numbers please.

Also I added the other questions to illustrate that the U.S. has had plenty of time and has the technological know-how to fill in the empty spots between cities.

Hell, if you can put a telephone booth in the middle of the Mojave desert in the 40's, you should be able to get broadband everywhere in the 21st century.

--sex

Yeah it's gone, but not before my boss while on vacation called my lab from it. Luckily there was one person not playing hooky who was there to answer it. I have a goofy boss. Anyway another site on it can be found here.

Like this one.

Minor nitpick-24 is way down in walnut creek. You want 4. 242 is close as well but the part separating the storage area from the bay is 4. See, I'm intimately familiar with it, as I drive all of the above on my commute from Antioch to San Carlos (ouch).

There's a rather amusing writeup by some folks that took photos of it for the confluence project at this locale...

We have the guy with the same name as a noted Ed Wood hanger-on and crackpot psychic spouting "broadcast electricity will save the world" theories" straight out of the mind of Nikolai Tesla! It's quite the tech-loony smorgasbord. Where do the tinfoil hats fit in?

You mention Wagner and then completely fail to link to Deuce of Clubs! You should be ashamed.

What do I do, when it seems I relate to Judas more than You?