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Has everyone seen today's FoxTrot?

"I feel like I should send Microsoft some of this."

Heh.

-Russ

Lol, I remember a couple of years ago in the Foxtrot comic strip. Jason and his friend Marcus went trick-or-treating wearing t-shirts that said, "IRS Audit Team".

The problem is rouge reviewers...

That's why I only trust reviews written by blanc and bleu reviewers.

Nothing like some good french-bashing to start your day.

Old people don't like change.

And now you probably know more about TAFKATAFKAP (as I like to call him), than you ever cared to.

Actually, I prefer Glenn McCoy's version:
"The artist who until recently was referred to as the artist formerly known as Prince"

(Sorry, I can't find the exact Duplex strip this appeared in, but it's in the archives somewhere.. 1998 or 1999, IIRC)

And now you probably know more about TAFKATAFKAP (as I like to call him), than you ever cared to.

Actually, I prefer Glenn McCoy's version:
"The artist who until recently was referred to as the artist formerly known as Prince"

(Sorry, I can't find the exact Duplex strip this appeared in, but it's in the archives somewhere.. 1998 or 1999, IIRC)

a memorable Doonesbury strip by Gary Trudeau effectively doomed the device.

The Comic

=-Jippy

To have "jumped the shark" pretty much means to have "gone to hell" - based on a Happy Days show where Fonzie waterski-jumped a shark. The show was pretty much game over from then on. More definition and I'll also bet the above poster reads Boondocks.

Heh. Reminds me of a Tom the Dancing Bug comic, where he exposes the immoral trade in library books (and the evils of the Dewey Decimal System).

In the last panel the RIAA raids a guy's house because he's singing in the shower.

Let's hope they avoid this mistake

"A man may write at anytime, if he will set himself doggedly to it...No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." - Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1776

"Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free?" - Bill Gates, 1976

There must be a lot of blockheads out there. If the above quotes were true, then only blockheads would ever write music that they know will never get signed to a major label. Only blockheads would ever write books or essays that they didn't expect to get paid for publishing. And only blockheads would ever write software that they never intend to sell.

What Samuel Johnson, Bill Gates, and you don't seem to understand is that money is not what motivates authors, musicians, and other artists to perform their art. Many of the greatest music composers of all time were literally compulsive about their writing. I vaguely remember a story from my music appreciation classes (yes, I'm too lazy to look up the details ;) about one composer who was fired from his (non-music-related) job because he used work time and materials to write several hundred variations on a theme given to him by his music instructor (the tutor told him that quantity was as important as quality). Another story was about a child prodigy (who later became a great composer) whose parents restricted him from writing or playing; they removed the restriction when he shattered a window - he was banging his fingers against it, pretending that it was a piano, and he was playing a piece that he had composed.

I won't argue that you have to have OCD to be an artist; I will, however, argue that artists are compelled to express their art because it is part of their nature. Lack of government sponsorship may have kept Mozart from creating as many works as he did, but it would not have stopped him from composing. Many of the greatest painters of all time were unrecognized and penniless their entire lives, yet their works are considered masterpieces. If they didn't do it for the money, then why did they?

I could go on now about how artists through time have lamented the moral dilemma of needing to be true to their art and also please their patrons, but I think I've jabbered enough. I assert that true artists take money for their work because they need money to be able to perform their art, and thier art is all that they have to sell. If they perform their art in order to become rich, then they truly are blockheads: they would have better luck as bankers.

As they say, a picture is worth 1000 words:

Non Sequitur from 6/3

If you're thinking patriotism, you may be interested in yesterday's and today's editions of The Boondocks. I'm eagerly waiting to see it evolve over the week...

If you're thinking patriotism, you may be interested in yesterday's and today's editions of The Boondocks. I'm eagerly waiting to see it evolve over the week...

...on Non Sequitur (highly recommended web cartoon, BTW!)

just ask The Fifth Wave.

Today's Boondocks seems absurdly appropriate here.

Foxtrot beat you to it.

Sums it up nicely:
In the courtroom at the stand ...
Gates: The proposed restrictions are too severe!
Gates: If they're imposed, I bet we'll have to stop selling Windows altogether!
Judge (banging gavel): Order in the court.
Judge: Everybody put your money away. I don't think Mr. Gates was literally offering that bet.
(Standard Tom Toles Small Print -- Gates: You can't give our competitors our most valuable asset ... an unfair advantage.)

Reminds me of this cartoon.

Good ol' FoxTrot.

And often UNIX jokes. See this one from feb 25th. Or they poke fun at the RIAA with ones like this one from mar 4th.

And often UNIX jokes. See this one from feb 25th. Or they poke fun at the RIAA with ones like this one from mar 4th.

A fox trot strip on the subject...

That strip wasn't tasteless, you're just a whiney bitch.

And remember, the Muslims hate your freedom and democracy, this whole terrorism thing has NOTHING AT ALL to do with your unfaltering support of Israel's crimes. You fucking idiot.

Weird how the universe works. Today's Foxtrot knocks the CD copy protection garbage.

Sometimes I wonder if Amend is a /. reader... His "UNIX Underpinnings/UNIX Underpants" strip really makes me think so...

Weird how the universe works. Today's Foxtrot knocks the CD copy protection garbage.

Sometimes I wonder if Amend is a /. reader... His "UNIX Underpinnings/UNIX Underpants" strip really makes me think so...

As usual, the comic strip Doonesbury is way ahead of the curve. Check out a week's worth of strips starting on April 12, 1982 . Obviously, computer simulations of social phenomena can be more or less productive.

Oh good! you read your Sunday morning Doonesbury! Bonus points if you know what the Boondocks' Huey said today about the 15th amendment.

Was the Lone Gunmen episode the one where they hacked the cookies? :-D

Those links are a bunch of crap. Get real - when directtv and dish networks join together, the subscription costs will go up. Don't expect otherwise. When TCI started gaining 'economies of scale' did the average customer benefit with lower costs or better service? No. Take a look at This

Well there's a nice Boondocks strip about the DMCA (Part 1, part 2 and part 3).

Well there's a nice Boondocks strip about the DMCA (Part 1, part 2 and part 3).

Well there's a nice Boondocks strip about the DMCA (Part 1, part 2 and part 3).

but if you like Foxtrot, take a look at this

Salut!

Here you can find nice comics on-line, including my all-time favourite, Foxtrot.

Here you can find nice comics on-line, including my all-time favourite, Foxtrot.

Posted so late, I doubt that anyone will read this. However, my favorite comic strip in the whole world was pertinent, and I thought you might like to see it.

It seems that foxtrot is catching on.
:) haha.
I just thougt it was funny that I read this story and the comic at the same time. :)

My pleasure. The series began on Jan 8, 1990 (skip the Sundays) and continues to February 1, 1990.

Ted Rall had a comic with a similar topic a few weeks back.

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It's quite impressive, I think, as it's the only mainstream media coverage of the DMCA/DeCSS deal that actually gets the details right, let alone comes across on the hackers' side.

Check them out, they're hilarious. As an added bonus, the past two weeks' editions have been refering to Napster.

Check them out, they're hilarious. As an added bonus, the past two weeks' editions have been refering to Napster.