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So many wonderful subcultures have been culturally appropriated and destroyed by mainstream invasion.

There are also subcultures that have died off because no one new came in.

Remember that white girl who wore the Chinese dress to prom?

First, no, I have no idea what you're talking about.

Second, what? Chinese culture isn't a subculture. There are more chinese people than westerners.

I think he might be talking about https://www.today.com/style/te...

Cultural appropriation. One of the least sane aspects of far leftists, where you are permitted to go nuts on a person because you aren't from the culture, and somehow this beautiful young lady in a beautiful dress isn't actually wearing the dress because it looks great, but wearing it to insult the Chinese.

Some of these people take it the whole way to believing that their culture's food be not "appropriated" This person took a shitfit about bone broth, which apparently using the gelatin contained in bones is Chinese only. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Then there is https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/... A mother who threw her daughter a geisha themed tea party was being abused by these whackos until a Japanese person chimed in and informed them all that Japanese culture borrows aspects from other cultures, and is actually flattered by others borrowing aspects of theirs.

tl;dr version - the person you are replying to is one of those people who loves to keep the "we" and "them" to just "we".

I think this is illegal ... see below:
https://www.today.com/money/fe...

Or maybe was illegal before Trump watered down protections against such things.

Reject cashless business as much as you can.

Except in a lot of cases, you can't. If the local grocery store stops carrying or hides your favorite brand of sandwich cookies, for instance, you'll probably have to resort to buying them from Amazon. Likewise with unlocked phones or other electronic products that no brick and mortar store within cycling distance carries. Would you find it practical to routinely pay cash for Amazon gift cards?

My x- wife bought one of these. Should I be concerned?

Great value and great for hauling dead bodies. No more bloody mess either. Leaving no trace of any corpse in your trunk!

People who bought this, also bought:
Duck Tape
...snipsnip...

Hydrofluoric acid. Or maybe not.

And that is why everyone believes in unicorns.

I dated one. Unicorns exist and I have proof.

However, most don't look related to horses (except for maybe from behind).

As movies are art, this goes for many movies as well. If I see or feel anything the makers of the movies did not intend, does not make my feelings and ideas about the movie false, just different.

Don't let George Lucas hear you say that. From a 2004 interview in response to "Why not release both the originals and special editions on DVD?"

The special edition, that’s the one I wanted out there. The other movie, it’s on VHS, if anybody wants it. ... I’m not going to spend the, we’re talking millions of dollars here, the money and the time to refurbish that, because to me, it doesn’t really exist anymore. It’s like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I’m sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it. But I want it to be the way I want it to be. I’m the one who has to take responsibility for it. I’m the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they’re going to throw rocks at me, they’re going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished.

Some artists really don't like it when you see something they did not explicitly intend.

The only way to get out of paying a student loan is to die.

Unless your parents (or someone else) co-signed it ... After daughter’s death, parents plead for forgiveness of her $200K student-loan debt, then they're stuck with it. (Probably not surprising, but worth mentioning.)

I've gone to a small physical therapy clinic and have ran into another patient that started physical therapy on the exact same day that I started with my exact full name and exact same date of birth. That was at just one (independent) clinic in one city.

Define "exact full name", as in "spelled identically"?

Your claim is you met someone with the same first and last name (ignoring middle name, which is part of your legal name on your birth certificate and voter record, which is what we are talking about in the case of the Indiana law),

Typically "exact full name" means first, middle, last (and any other name parts you may have), spelled identically. There are hundreds of adults meeting this requirement that I've seen in the State of California based on an unclaimed property search from the State Controller's website.

and who not only shared your birthday (mm/dd), but was also born in the year as you? I find that doubtful - possible, yes, but very unlikely when birth year is considered.

You do realize that names go into and out of fashion, correct? For instance, I know someone who named a baby Noah one year and five other acquaintances used the exact same boy's name that year. I've never met any other Noah's any other year. Obviously that is a very small sample size, but pop culture has a huge influence on how common a specific name is in a given year. Obviously, pop-culture has no control over surnames. For instance, in 2015 there supposedly 20,355 girls named Emma born (Today). If they were distributed evenly throughout the year, that means that there were 55 girls named Emma born every single day. Names are typically paired based on how they sound together. So, I'd be willing to bet that there is a very short list of middle names used in conjunction with Emma. Now, that has been the most popular first name for a girl for 5 or 6 years straight. This means you've had the chance for one of those 55 girls to be given the exact same name every single day for almost 2000 days at this point.

If we include the city of birth, the likelihood of a false match drops even further.

In what state are you required to provide city or state of birth when registering? I don't recall ever providing such information when registering to vote.

The first name Michael is shared by 180,000 Americans, the last name Bolton is shared by 32,000 Americans, but how many Michael Boltons have you met - ignoring birthday/birthdate?

Why would you even consider using those two names when Bolton is one of the lowest ranking last names on your own links provided? I would consider that to be a bit disingenuous on your part. You also have to consider the fact that neither one of these people has to be born in the US to fall afoul of this program. They just have to have immigrated to the US at some point in their life.

That is the exact opposite of healthy advice in Germany where the police aren't actually out to get you on minor details to raise money or to put you away in prison to appease the prison industry complex.

I don't know the ratio of good/bad US police, but here are some examples of good US police:

Big-hearted cop hailed for buying homeless man a new pair of boots - TODAY.com

Caught on Camera/ CHP Officer Had This Stranded Pleasanton Motorist's Back - Pleasanton, CA Patch

Homeless Man in Florida Discovers Forgotten Bank Account Collecting Pension With Cop's Help

Ohio cop praised for restraint, refusing to shoot suspect

Ohio cop takes homeless family to Walmart, books them in hotel - TODAY.com

Police officer beats teen in dance off, does the "Nae Nae" - CBS News (with video)

Police Officer Caught in Random Act of Kindness, Internet Falls in Love - Temecula, CA Patch

Police Officer Has 'Tea Party' With Toddler Whose Life He Saved - ABC News

Police officer helps woman who couldn't afford a birthday cake for her son - TODAY.com

Police officer shares meal with homeless man/ 'Nobody wants to eat alone' - TODAY.com

Police Sergeant Buys Clothes for Third Grade Bicyclist Struck by Car - San Leandro, CA Patch

Strangers Join Police Officers to Buy 95-Year-old New Air Conditioner - Good News Network

Sweet photo of police officer comforting lost boy goes viral - TODAY.com

Video Captures Police Officer Buying New Shoes For Barefoot Man | HuffPost

That is the exact opposite of healthy advice in Germany where the police aren't actually out to get you on minor details to raise money or to put you away in prison to appease the prison industry complex.

I don't know the ratio of good/bad US police, but here are some examples of good US police:

Big-hearted cop hailed for buying homeless man a new pair of boots - TODAY.com

Caught on Camera/ CHP Officer Had This Stranded Pleasanton Motorist's Back - Pleasanton, CA Patch

Homeless Man in Florida Discovers Forgotten Bank Account Collecting Pension With Cop's Help

Ohio cop praised for restraint, refusing to shoot suspect

Ohio cop takes homeless family to Walmart, books them in hotel - TODAY.com

Police officer beats teen in dance off, does the "Nae Nae" - CBS News (with video)

Police Officer Caught in Random Act of Kindness, Internet Falls in Love - Temecula, CA Patch

Police Officer Has 'Tea Party' With Toddler Whose Life He Saved - ABC News

Police officer helps woman who couldn't afford a birthday cake for her son - TODAY.com

Police officer shares meal with homeless man/ 'Nobody wants to eat alone' - TODAY.com

Police Sergeant Buys Clothes for Third Grade Bicyclist Struck by Car - San Leandro, CA Patch

Strangers Join Police Officers to Buy 95-Year-old New Air Conditioner - Good News Network

Sweet photo of police officer comforting lost boy goes viral - TODAY.com

Video Captures Police Officer Buying New Shoes For Barefoot Man | HuffPost

That is the exact opposite of healthy advice in Germany where the police aren't actually out to get you on minor details to raise money or to put you away in prison to appease the prison industry complex.

I don't know the ratio of good/bad US police, but here are some examples of good US police:

Big-hearted cop hailed for buying homeless man a new pair of boots - TODAY.com

Caught on Camera/ CHP Officer Had This Stranded Pleasanton Motorist's Back - Pleasanton, CA Patch

Homeless Man in Florida Discovers Forgotten Bank Account Collecting Pension With Cop's Help

Ohio cop praised for restraint, refusing to shoot suspect

Ohio cop takes homeless family to Walmart, books them in hotel - TODAY.com

Police officer beats teen in dance off, does the "Nae Nae" - CBS News (with video)

Police Officer Caught in Random Act of Kindness, Internet Falls in Love - Temecula, CA Patch

Police Officer Has 'Tea Party' With Toddler Whose Life He Saved - ABC News

Police officer helps woman who couldn't afford a birthday cake for her son - TODAY.com

Police officer shares meal with homeless man/ 'Nobody wants to eat alone' - TODAY.com

Police Sergeant Buys Clothes for Third Grade Bicyclist Struck by Car - San Leandro, CA Patch

Strangers Join Police Officers to Buy 95-Year-old New Air Conditioner - Good News Network

Sweet photo of police officer comforting lost boy goes viral - TODAY.com

Video Captures Police Officer Buying New Shoes For Barefoot Man | HuffPost

That is the exact opposite of healthy advice in Germany where the police aren't actually out to get you on minor details to raise money or to put you away in prison to appease the prison industry complex.

I don't know the ratio of good/bad US police, but here are some examples of good US police:

Big-hearted cop hailed for buying homeless man a new pair of boots - TODAY.com

Caught on Camera/ CHP Officer Had This Stranded Pleasanton Motorist's Back - Pleasanton, CA Patch

Homeless Man in Florida Discovers Forgotten Bank Account Collecting Pension With Cop's Help

Ohio cop praised for restraint, refusing to shoot suspect

Ohio cop takes homeless family to Walmart, books them in hotel - TODAY.com

Police officer beats teen in dance off, does the "Nae Nae" - CBS News (with video)

Police Officer Caught in Random Act of Kindness, Internet Falls in Love - Temecula, CA Patch

Police Officer Has 'Tea Party' With Toddler Whose Life He Saved - ABC News

Police officer helps woman who couldn't afford a birthday cake for her son - TODAY.com

Police officer shares meal with homeless man/ 'Nobody wants to eat alone' - TODAY.com

Police Sergeant Buys Clothes for Third Grade Bicyclist Struck by Car - San Leandro, CA Patch

Strangers Join Police Officers to Buy 95-Year-old New Air Conditioner - Good News Network

Sweet photo of police officer comforting lost boy goes viral - TODAY.com

Video Captures Police Officer Buying New Shoes For Barefoot Man | HuffPost

That is the exact opposite of healthy advice in Germany where the police aren't actually out to get you on minor details to raise money or to put you away in prison to appease the prison industry complex.

I don't know the ratio of good/bad US police, but here are some examples of good US police:

Big-hearted cop hailed for buying homeless man a new pair of boots - TODAY.com

Caught on Camera/ CHP Officer Had This Stranded Pleasanton Motorist's Back - Pleasanton, CA Patch

Homeless Man in Florida Discovers Forgotten Bank Account Collecting Pension With Cop's Help

Ohio cop praised for restraint, refusing to shoot suspect

Ohio cop takes homeless family to Walmart, books them in hotel - TODAY.com

Police officer beats teen in dance off, does the "Nae Nae" - CBS News (with video)

Police Officer Caught in Random Act of Kindness, Internet Falls in Love - Temecula, CA Patch

Police Officer Has 'Tea Party' With Toddler Whose Life He Saved - ABC News

Police officer helps woman who couldn't afford a birthday cake for her son - TODAY.com

Police officer shares meal with homeless man/ 'Nobody wants to eat alone' - TODAY.com

Police Sergeant Buys Clothes for Third Grade Bicyclist Struck by Car - San Leandro, CA Patch

Strangers Join Police Officers to Buy 95-Year-old New Air Conditioner - Good News Network

Sweet photo of police officer comforting lost boy goes viral - TODAY.com

Video Captures Police Officer Buying New Shoes For Barefoot Man | HuffPost

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/17/02/02/2251214/mexican-surgeon-uses-vr-headset-to-distract-patients-during-surgery

As long as the dog is clean enough, an option is to use a trained comfort dog.

As a trained comfort dog, JoJo calms patients in the hot seat. She sits on their laps, tenderly rests her face on their bodies, and patiently distracts them from anything unpleasant happening in their mouths.

Ticket sales are way more complicated than that for most musical acts.

It's spelled out pretty well here:

http://www.today.com/news/why-...

True, but there are different levels this can be taken to. I just looked this up out of curiosity because I read the book a few years back: Daughters of demanding 'Tiger Mom' Amy Chua open up about their childhood

School systems can't become the Tiger Mom, but I do feel they can do a little more to encourage kids to achieve their potential. Part of that starts with a longer school day and a heavier focus on academics. Recess is fine as long as there's time for sufficient study.

As for those two Tiger Mom daughters, they're at Harvard and Yale now. From this point forward, there is very little stopping them from having a lucrative career. Once you're in that club you're golden - investment banks only hire from the Ivy league, same with management consulting firms. Both of those careers have an extremely high return on investment, as their former employees often mysteriously wind up as executives in the corporations they work with. In addition, the potential to become a respected academic or go to one of the 14 "good" law schools that will still get you a Biglaw job is much higher than a kid who goes to an average state school. It's the equivalent of being born into a high caste in India or knowing the right Party officials in China.

As the world continues to automate away jobs, it's even more important that we turn out educated kids regardless of background.

and NBC, CNN, FOX, NY Times. This has been all over the news.

How would anyone be able to tell? What can be more disgusting than a McDonalds hamburger and fries that looks the same after 6 years?

Eating it.

How would anyone be able to tell? What can be more disgusting than a McDonalds hamburger and fries that looks the same after 6 years?

A regular hamburger made from fresh ingredients from the store will exhibit the same behaviour. The key is that the beef is thin, well cooked (i.e. sterile), and that it rapidly loses moisture. So this is natural.

http://www.snopes.com/six-year...

How would anyone be able to tell? What can be more disgusting than a McDonalds hamburger and fries that looks the same after 6 years?

Bullshit.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH...

http://www.today.com/food/your...

http://www.allaboutwater.org/t...

https://youtu.be/saSgpX186MM

In many cases, bottled water is coming from a municipal water source. It's treated and filtered the same way all municipal water is. About the only thing that happens is that the companies sometimes re-introduce minerals to enhance the flavor.

Bullshit on your bullshit.

It is completely intellectually dishonest to the point of a LIE to assert that water delivered via a sterile, new, plastic container is the equivalent of what runs through the often old, sometimes lead, sometimes infused with bacteria and sediments stuff tossed through underground lines prone to breakage and then on premise, subject to the neglectful landlord's, and cheap ass developer's habits.

You never had the fire department flush their lines and all of a sudden your water is brown for a day? Try shaking a bottle of bottled water, if it becomes brown afterward I'll concede the piped in water is the same as the bottled stuff.

Water from the tap may be "as safe" but it is NOT "as good" most of the time. How come I can go to my neighbor's apartment and the water tastes different? How come the water at the office tastes like there's a goddamn garden hose in the loop somewhere? (Probably because there IS somewhere. ick.)

The water delivery to the tap is completely different, and it's different in a way that's old, broke down, and full of flaws to the point that many consumers routinely filter it to make it semi-palatable again.

That's not "about the only thing that happens". Lie, lie, and then LIE again.

Maybe if you had bottled water, you'd drink it instead of coke and other nasty things.
Despite popular belief, tap water, even with a Britta, is nothing like bottled water which is actually nice to drink.

Bullshit.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH...

http://www.today.com/food/your...

http://www.allaboutwater.org/t...

https://youtu.be/saSgpX186MM

In many cases, bottled water is coming from a municipal water source. It's treated and filtered the same way all municipal water is. About the only thing that happens is that the companies sometimes re-introduce minerals to enhance the flavor.

the famous scene in breaking bad has to do with hydrofluoric acid, not "chlorine acid" (assuming they mean hydrochloric acid)

in the breaking bad scene, jesse puts the body in a bathtub, instead of a plastic bin like he was was instructed to by walt. HF, unlike HCl, dissolves glass and ceramics. and so the partially dissolved body comes crashing through the ceiling

http://breakingbad.wikia.com/w...

mythbusters busted this though:

http://www.today.com/popcultur...

there is a nice combination of acids that apparently works great for dissolving bodies, but neither mythbusters nor breaking bad is going to tell us (probably some mix of acids, paying attention to the molar concentrations)

furthermore, the mafia has been dissolving bodies in acid for decades. breaking bad did not invent the concept, and these french goons did not necessarily get the idea form breaking bad

so the connection of this crime to breaking bad is complete bullshit, invented by some reporter who doesn't know his history of organized crime and is only familiar with tv shows

Dear coward

I've only worn glasses since I was thirty. Two years ago I had to get a second pair for distance. And this year I had to get a third pair for close up.

Posts like yours are a profoundly annoying form of narcissism. You convey no useful information by referencing relative time intervals without a baseline. For all we know you could be 33 or 116.

Insightful.

You read /. anecdotes authored by pseudonyms looking for facts to base your medical opinions on? Your ironic accusation of narcissism is the least of your failings.

I've only worn glasses since I was thirty. Two years ago I had to get a second pair for distance. And this year I had to get a third pair for close up.

Posts like yours are a profoundly annoying form of narcissism. You convey no useful information by referencing relative time intervals without a baseline. For all we know you could be 33 or 116.

I've always been surprised that homoesexuals WANT to get married.

Why wouldn't they? Married couples are wealthier, tend to live longer and describe themselves as happier then their unmarried peers.

It may not be to your liking, but there's no question that getting married is a statistically beneficial life choice.

http://www.today.com/money/why...

http://www.mensjournal.com/hea...

Mind aside, your neck is not designed to be pointed down at your chest the whole day.

http://www.today.com/health/te...

Sure (it's not direct a direct study on recession vs pollution, but supports the fewer cars on road aspect. Fewer cars on road equals less pollution.)

Boomer Esiason. The player was Daniel Murphy and Boomer suggested that Daniel should have had his wife get a C-Section before opening day so that he wouldn't miss any games. Because having your wife have invasive surgery is a valid response to missing a game or two. http://www.today.com/parents/radio-host-rips-mlb-player-paternity-leave-suggests-c-section-2D79476676

Co-host Craig Carton also implied that Daniel should have just left his wife and newborn son after 24 hours and "get your ass back to your team and you play baseball." Because, apparently, that's all these sportscasters think dads are good for: Earning money for their families. Actually helping out in other ways is not a dad's job in their minds. (I'm sure my wife is glad that I disagree with them and took as much time as I could.)

Virgin Airlines has a video instead of flight attendants do the safety spiel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtyfiPIHsIg

A lot of them have been.

Not all of them are as interesting as the Virgin Airlines video (and some are just a video of the standard lecture) but they're not uncommon.

JP Aerospace thought enough of the idea to study it and run computer simulations:
http://www.today.com/id/502538...

About 2/3 down the page under the heading "Getting to Orbit"

""What if you flatten it out and give it a little bit of aerodynamic shape, and point it up a little bit so you have some of that thrust turned into lift?" Powell asked. "As you climb up, your drag is dropping, and now you're accelerating. The question comes, can you get aerodynamically clean enough, while still supporting the lift enough to slowly get faster and faster ... to get all the way to orbit? Is there a drag-power combination to do that? We think there is. It looks like there's a wide margin.""

"To achieve orbital flight, the craft would require a spaceworthy propulsion system — something more substantial than helium and propellers. Powell would turn to the type of continuous-thrust ion propulsion system used on NASA's Deep Space 1 and the European Space Agency's SMART 1 moon probe. Based on computer simulations with different configurations, he contends that such engines could drive the mega-balloon to orbit in three to nine days."

We don't have to wait for "one day", it happens quite often right now. I can recall at least a dozen cases off the top of my head where footage from dash cams, personal phones/computers/cameras & CCTV systems was deleted, obscured, modified or "failed to record". Unfortunately I can't recall a single case of an officer being meaningfully punished for destruction of evidence, at most a few were fired.

http://www.today.com/id/322668...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.dailytech.com/Cops+...

Ask the author of this article, who says, "The switch to such floor plans in offices is partly a generational thing. Younger workers, especially in their 20s and 30s, like being social and working in groups, and companies are doing what they can to attract them. That includes revamping office layouts to be more flexible and let in more natural light -- a perk for sustainable-minded Millennials, says Chris Corrado, president of Environments, a 30-year-old office furnishings supplier in Portland, Ore."

BTW

I'd rather not have computer assist.

Ice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

Bad Maintenance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroper%C3%BA_Flight_603

Defective systems
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/asiana-airlines-december-plane-crash-partially-caused-faulty-warning-systems-article-1.1740576

over reliance on technology
http://www.today.com/news/are-airline-pilots-relying-too-much-automation-1B11170594

computer problems
http://www.stratfordbeaconherald.com/2013/08/14/two-dead-in-ups-cargo-jet-crash-in-birmingham-ala

Also, as a programmer, I assure you that the code running your systems in the cockpit still has bugs. They usually won't show up until certain conditions are met - the old "Q:Why didn't you catch this in testing? A: Because it worked fine on my machine".

You're a douchebag... http://www.today.com/money/5-lessons-learned-target-security-breach-2D11803343 "After the Target breach, a few banks took the unprecedented step of limiting how much customers could spend at stores or withdraw from ATMs using their debit cards. No such restrictions were put on credit card customers."

Well, probably depends on the context in which you meet them. I pretty much always lose courtesy competitions at doors and traffic intersections. They supposedly have a reputation for being awesomely passive-aggressive, but I have yet to hit any examples anecdotally. But I'm from Thailand, which is even more passive-aggressive by any account, so maybe I'm just oblivious to it by now. I know I certainly notice how rude people are in person and in traffic whenever I travel back East now.... what you mean I have to force my way into this merge lane?

Also: http://www.today.com/news/ohio-most-foul-mouthed-state-washington-least-report-says-2D11691625

pity their hate-on bush didn't identify the financial black hole he was creating for his amusement of invading iraq etc

Oh, it did:

Example One
Example Two ...took all of 45 seconds on Google to find it.

The BBC reported the same:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23487928

Car break-ins using it are already in the news:
http://www.today.com/news/police-admit-theyre-stumped-mystery-car-thefts-6C10169993
http://jalopnik.com/whats-the-secret-device-thieves-in-california-are-usin-471782175
http://news.msn.com/science-technology/high-tech-car-thieves-break-into-vehicles-without-leaving-a-trace

Here is the device built using the same code these researchers discovered:
http://www.vag-info.com/BMW%20Group%20products.htm
and a video how to use it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVmPfCFFkqQ

the problem is remote bricking is software based. software can be defeated via jailbreak/rooting

even something like this has limited effect because phones are still usable (just not for voice communication)
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/us-stolen-phone-database-goes-live/

besides, it takes time for the buyer to figure out the phone won't work as a phone, but the thief still got their money (therefore will keep stealing)

tracking and going after the perp is the best way to curb thefts. If I was a thief, and knew there was a reasonable chance I could be found, i might think twice. a better approach is password to turn off.. or remote ENABLE (can't find a phone if it's not on the network, and in order to be on the network it has to be on). report phone stolen.. then, any time it's on, it starts chirping away "i'm here, i'm here" - don't forget people could get hurt during a mugging - that's what you really need to stop.

two busts, on one day for one phone:
http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2013/01/28/16739259-double-trouble-iphone-thief-busted-when-his-stolen-iphone-is-stolen-again?lite

What?

Yes. Why is this on Slashdot? We could be discussing whether Justin Timberlake brings his sexy self back with Grammys performance?

As a cancer patient, I can tell you to ask Steve Jobs about such risks if he were still alive. Surgery 9 months earlier may have well saved his life and he would still be around today.

Your basic premise is faulted, and circular.

The premise is hardly faulted, nor circular: Art is a form of expression, all humans have some intrinsic desire to express and innovate upon those expressions (rare exceptions, of course). This will never end, despite the current structure of law. Creating formal art, on the other hand, is a different story. The expression must conform to some standards of the medium, and when current law standards offer protection for a formal art piece there is more incentive to flood the market on that medium.

It essentially comes down to "If it isn't one of my %x motives, then it isn't a real motivation." It's a form of a no true scottsman. It rejects nearly the entire spectrum of reasons in favor of just 3, and does so without justification or evidence. While you may hold such an opinion, this does not in fact make said opinion true.

The glory of the English language is its ability to be specific and vague at the same time. I did not claim those were the only three groups of artists, just that those three groups are clearly identifiable, with the exact wording "Three large groups of artists exist". It is difficult to argue there isn't a group of people more pre-disposed (via nature or nurture) to creative output than others; it is difficult to argue that many humans don't creatively express themselves on occasion for personal consumption or for the enjoyment of those around them; and it is even more difficult to argue that there isn't a group of humans that create formal art for monetary purposes. This does not exclude whatever other motivations you might believe you have, but given your descriptions on this thread you seem to fall within these parameters (your fire burning analogies especially with the second one). This does not suggest these are the only form of artists, or true artists. There are plenty of sources about the types of personalities and make-ups that are more prone to involvement in specific expressive domains, here is one random one from a UCAL Davis Dean.

Being the one who is making the assets, and donating them, I should think that nobody other than myself has any claim to state what *MY* motives and reasons for those motives *are.*

I believe that since you created the asset, you should have a right to decide where and how that piece enters the market. The 'right of first sale' is an important component to a stable pragmatic approach away from copyright and the limits of the Creative Commons group. For more on the right of first sale in the absence of copyright, consult Boldrine and Levine. However, if copies of that asset are easily made and you have chosen to give/sell that property to someone else, I do not believe you should maintain a downstream distribution monopoly. It is likely that society can more efficiently distribute your work than you can, and society will be better off as a result.

As for asserting that I am an interchangable part; take a look at the sisteen chapel's fresco. Then ask yourself, could this lady?

Artists are not interchangeable.

While its good and fun to continue to make fun of this woman and it has likely spawned many useful memes, her painting is her form of expression. I'll agree that her restoration doesn't fit with the standards of the restoration industry, but her re-envisioned piece really isn't that far off many expressionist genre works and there is certainly no formal definition for what is "good art". The best consensus is "being unique" and to be honest, this woman's restoration is really quite unique -

Your basic premise is faulted, and circular.

It essentially comes down to "If it isn't one of my %x motives, then it isn't a real motivation." It's a form of a no true scottsman. It rejects nearly the entire spectrum of reasons in favor of just 3, and does so without justification or evidence. While you may hold such an opinion, this does not in fact make said opinion true.

Being the one who is making the assets, and donating them, I should think that nobody other than myself has any claim to state what *MY* motives and reasons for those motives *are.*

As for asserting that I am an interchangable part; take a look at the sisteen chapel's fresco. Then ask yourself, could this lady?

Artists are not interchangeable.

An no, I would simply not release. The art would find the dumpster first. I enjoy the creation process itself, not the finished product. I derive additonal pleasure from seeing it used in ways I like. If I can't get this second shot of pleasure, I won't make it available.

Really, what right do YOU have to tell me how I should treat my own things? The argument here is that art is not owned, only the medium it is stored on, due to it's ability to be copied readily. This is only true if I make the art into such a format. Being the creator, I have immediate physical ownership of that medium, and can copy, hoarde, or destroy it at will. If I cannot gain pleasure from the work, I will not copy it, nor will I hoarde it. I will instead destroy it, because I only have so much space in my home.

It is innately due to the fact that artists are *NOT* interchangable that people lacking such skills will pay premium prices for the unique expressions of others. If people want my art, I would share them, but only to good homes. Giving a "oh yes, do whtever you want to it!" Type license is a lot like selling a child into prostitution. I simply cannot condone it. This is a personal opinion, but thankfully, the only one that needs to agree to it is me, and I do by default. (It is *my* opinion, afterall.)

If I were to write a book, then burn it in a fire immediately afterwards, it is my right to do so, and nobody else's. You have no authoritative standing to break into my house to copy it, despite it being copyable. I could copy your driver's license and use it to buy meth ingredients and cause you to get arrested too. The license is easly copied. No more than you would be willing to allow me to copy your ID for that purpose, am I willing to let you copy my artwork for yours.

Seriously, I burn artwork all the time. You will never have it. That is my perogative and not yours. You miss out by losing an oportunity, by hamfisting terms I would never agree to.

That is the stick of it.

The online encyclopedia, knowledge base, social networking site, essay repository, blog, search engine, news aggregator, dessert wax and floor topping Wikipedia has reached its three millionth article and ceased all editing as everyone gives up this "free" foolishness and goes home, to read newspapers and watch network television for the rest of their lives.

Dr Felipe Ortega reported that only 1% of edits by random users were kept. "They were all unspeakable shit," said burnt-out administrator WikiFiddler451. "All of them. No, I'm not exaggerating. Go to Special:Newpages and read a day's entries some time. You'll start by deleting the whole database, before you get onto plotting the doom of humanity. Christ, why go on?"

Recent media coverage has highlighted the "inclusionist/deletionist" wars of 2005, including enquiries from Endemol looking for a "passionate deletionist" to join Big Brother 11, "preferably one with big tits." It is thought that Wikipedia could have had ten million articles by now had they not viciously abused their editorial powers by deleting your valuable contributions about you, your teacher at school, your garage band or your dog or the many cameraphone pictures you uploaded of your penis.

"Everything's already been written," said WikiFiddler451, burning the last of his Star Wars figurines before leaving for his rehabilitation course in social interaction skills and basics of hygiene. "Do you have any idea how big THREE MILLION articles is? A BILLION GODDAMN WORDS! Are you going to read more than a droplet of that in your life? No you aren't. You're following your goddamn Twitter.

"But hey, only two million articles are The Simpsons in popular culture or Doctor Who in popular culture. No-one actually reads this stuff, they just write it. We have LiveJournal for stuff people write that no-one wants to read. 'Oh, I wandered lonely as a cheeseburger/ My passionate angst filling my Coke with darkness.' Or Knol. KNOL! I'll just Bing that one."

Shell-shocked veterans of Wikipedia are at a loss now that it's all over — wandering the alleyways of the Internet, mumbling to themselves about "ANI" and "we had to delete the village in order to save it," threatening the policemen moving them on with "arbitration" and bursting into tears when the policeman answers "citation needed." Mere children, sent into the culture wars to save knowledge from horrors they barely understood, and coming home as crippled wrecks. No victory parades for these brave men and women. There is only so much Citizendium, Uncyclopedia and 4chan can do for these child heroes. With your help, we can build Potemkin wikis for these honorable veterans, where they can safely ban and unban, revert and edit-war, and correct the naming of Danzig^WGdansk^WDanzig^WGdansk without the possibility of damage to actual human readers. Please donate so that they may never bug you again.

The online encyclopedia, knowledge base, social networking site, essay repository, blog, search engine, news aggregator, dessert wax and floor topping Wikipedia has reached its three millionth article and ceased all editing.

Palo Alto Research Center reported that only 1% of edits by random users were kept. "They were all unspeakable shit," said burnt-out administrator WikiFiddler451. "All of them. No, I'm not exaggerating. Go to Special:Newpages and read a day's entries some time. You'll start by deleting the whole database, before you get onto plotting the doom of humanity. Christ, why go on?"

Recent media coverage has highlighted the "inclusionist/deletionist" wars of 2005, including enquiries from Endemol looking for a "passionate deletionist" to join Big Brother 11, "preferably one with big tits." It is thought that Wikipedia could have had ten million articles by now had they not viciously abused their editorial powers by deleting your valuable contributions about you, your teacher at school, your garage band or your dog or the many cameraphone pictures you uploaded of your penis.

"Everything's already been written," said WikiFiddler451, burning the last of his Star Wars figurines before leaving for his rehabilitation course in social interaction skills and basics of hygiene. "Do you have any idea how big THREE MILLION articles is? A BILLION GODDAMN WORDS! Are you going to read more than a droplet of that in your life? No you aren't. You're following your goddamn Twitter.

"But hey, only two million articles are The Simpsons in popular culture or Doctor Who in popular culture. No-one actually reads this stuff, they just write it. We have LiveJournal for stuff people write that no-one wants to read. 'Oh, I wandered lonely as a cheeseburger/ My passionate angst filling my Coke with darkness.' Or Knol. KNOL! I'll just Bing that one."

Shell-shocked veterans of Wikipedia are at a loss now that it's all over — wandering the alleyways of the Internet, mumbling to themselves about "ANI" and "we had to delete the village in order to save it," threatening the policemen moving them on with "arbitration" and bursting into tears when the policeman answers "citation needed." Mere children, sent into the culture wars to save knowledge from horrors they barely understood, and coming home as crippled wrecks. No victory parades for these brave men and women. There is only so much Citizendium, Uncyclopedia and 4chan can do for these child heroes. With your help, we can build Potemkin wikis for these honorable veterans, where they can safely ban and unban, revert and edit-war, and correct the naming of Danzig Gdansk Danzig Gdansk without the possibility of damage to actual human readers. Please donate so that they may never bug you again.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer played down the news of Googles new Chrome OS, designed to outdo Microsoft in quickly and efficiently boiling babies on netbooks.

Yo Sergey, shouted Ballmer, Imma really happy for you, Ill let you finish, but Windows 7 is one of the best baby roasters of all time. He slowly and lumberingly rolled a seven-foot-tall baby boiler with a Windows logo on the side onto the stage. One of the best baby roasters of all time!

Early paid press coverage for Windows 7 lauded its theoretical likelihood of boiling babies in the near future, as compared to the effects of Vista, which left many of the babies with frostbite. But we are fully confident that with Windows 7, we can get the baby up to 90, 100 degrees every time! The fine print on the benchmark results revealed these figures were Fahrenheit, not Celsius.

Microsofts derision of Chrome OS as unimportant follows Microsofts derision of the iPhone, the iPod, Google Search, the Chrome browser, Mozilla Firefox and Linux and any other competitor thats ended up kicking their lazy fat asses. With Windows 7, Microsofts baby boiling operations will leave that Jobs asshole in the dust. In the dust!

Steve Jobs snorted in derision at his rivals pathetic attempts to do something useful, before revealing Apples new iBoil, which fits in your pocket and will lightly sautee the baby with a bechamel sauce and garnish.

Microsoft is discussing paying News Corporation for the media company to remove its websites from Google and have them exclusively searchable via Microsoft Bob Hope, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry, which has yet to construct an online business model that adequately replaces vast local monopoly ad revenues.

Rupert Murdoch, News Corp chairman, has said that he would use legal methods to prevent Google "stealing stories" published in his papers, including allowing Microsoft to pay him to add Google to a robots.txt file. "I'm always happy to do a deal with a careful, considered bloke like Steve Ballmer. His restraint is well-known, and he certainly wouldn't blow a massive cash surplus — I'm sorry, that's now a massive debt surplus — in a series of Hail Mary passes to try to fight Google on its heavily-defended high ground. His decision to give me buckets of cash is entirely reasonable and should be encouraged."

Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google. "Wow," said the Wikimedia Foundation, "we could get a million dollars for our charitable and educational site not to be findable in Google! Tell you what, we'll get back to you sometime maybe never. Have you considered an exclusive deal with Conservapedia? They'd fit right in with Fox News. Sorry, did I say that with my outside voice?"

Microsoft is aiming for a direct assault on Google to put pressure on the search engine to start paying for content. "Google's abuse of their position is legendary," said Mr Ballmer. "Ninety-five percent of desktop computers are running Windows, most people are browsing with Internet Explorer and only ten percent of those use our Bob Hope search engine. The only possible explanation is Google abusing its monopoly to make people type 'google.com' into their address bar and not just leave it at the default Microsoft search. The fiends!"

Google did not comment for this story, being too busy snickering and selling installations of Gmail and Google Applications to businesses sick of Office and Windows upgrades.

Microsoft Windows has once again trounced all comers in security, with a recent survey showing 59% of all Windows machines on the Internet being infected with malware and under the control of botnets. Malware rose 15% just from August to September this year.

Windows users continued to be stupidly complacent Typhoid Marys, telling Mac and Linux users that they were every bit as susceptible to viruses and Trojans, despite the Windows:Mac:Linux virus proportions in the wild continuing at approximately 100%:0%:0% for the fifteenth year in a row, and pumping out gigabytes of spam and denial-of-service attacks from their thoroughly 0wn3d computing cesspits.

“The truth is out,” said Steve Ballmer, taking care not to wash his hands when preparing the food for his Windows 7 House Party. “Mac and Linux users are just too pussy for viruses. Gotta keep your immune system up! What are you, some sort of faggot? Too artsy or nerdy for MANLY food?”

The time on the digital clock behind him changed at random as he foamed slightly at the mouth. “Windows — we’re NUMBER ONE! And here you were saying Windows was a load of ‘number two.’”

Microsoft today announced the release of version 4.0 of its world-beating Silverlight multimedia platform for the Web. As a replacement for Adobe’s Flash, it is widely considered utterly superfluous and of no interest to anyone who could be found.

“We have a fabulous selection of content partners for Silverlight,” announced Microsoft marketer Scott Guthrie on his blog today. “NBC for the Olympics, which delivered millions of new users to BitTorrent. The Democrat National Convention, which is fine because those Linux users are all Ron Paul weirdos anyway. It comes with rich frameworks, rich controls, rich networking support, a rich base class library, rich media support, oh God kill me now. My options are underwater, my resumé’s a car crash, Google won’t call me back. My life is an exercise in futility. I’m the walking dead, man. The walking dead.”

Silverlight was created by Microsoft to leverage its desktop monopoly on Windows, to work off the tremendous sales and popularity of Vista. Flash is present on a pathetic 96% of all computers connected to the Internet, whereas Silverlight downloads are into the triple figures.

“But it’s got DRM!” cried Guthrie. “Netflix loved it! And web developers love us too, after all we did for them with IE 6. Wait, come back! We’ll put porn on it! Free porn!”

Similar Microsoft initiatives include its XPS replacement for Adobe PDF, its HD Photo replacement for JPEG photographs and its earlier Liquid Motion attempt to replace Flash. Also, that CD-ROM format Vista defaults to which no other computers can read.

In a Microsoft internal security sweep, Guthrie’s own desktop was found to still be running Windows XP.

I don't recall where it originally appeared, but I've seen it a number of different places over the past year or so.

Earliest I could find

People never give credit to their sources anymore