Not quite...he likes to act on his impulses...I enjoy imagining them. After all, I can keep someone alive in my imagination a lot longer than in real life
I work in cubicles next to people. I work with cancer patients, Narcolepsy patients, Alzheimers patients, you name it patients all day 5 days a week. To the people here, I am a loving and caring guy willing to put my own work aside to help you with your work. They see the 7/16ths (000 ga) tunnels in my ears and they know I'm not "normal", but they also know that I'm a really nice guy and a hard worker and have a good work ethic.
I don't care what the person next to me does behind closed doors. If they aren't hurting anyone, why SHOULD I care?
As far as feeding it regularly, I find it healthy because again it provides a place as an output. I can easily imagine in my head chopping the arms off of someone very slowly and smile at them and help them with their work at the same time.
My ACTION will always be to help them with their work. It will NEVER be to chop their arms off. It's not because I could get in trouble for doing it, it's because I understand and realize that this would cause them great pain. I have absolutely ZERO desire to be the cause of someone's pain, be it physical or mental.
If you don't know what I am thinking, why does it matter? I have absolutely no intention of hurting you, and frankly couldn't even if I WANTED to. So why worry?
Granted, most "sick" people aren't like that....or are they? There are more of us around than most folks realize...
But I enjoy games like the one in TFA...not because I want to go on a murderous rampage, good lord no. I am quite sane and can differentiate between "right and wrong" and "real and fantasy" I think it is because I accept and acknowledge that I have a sadistic side. I enjoy seeing people in pain.::shrug:: I can't help it, I do. I love gore for the sake of gore movies, the whole "torture horror movie" movement going on...hell, Men Behind the Sun is one of my favorite movies despite the appaling part of history that it covers.
I love games like manhunt, where you stalk your prey. Games like The Warriors where you can beat someone until they puke. I love ultra-violence, the more realistic the better. I have been watching Faces of Death since I was 8. I have perused ogrish.com (before it changed to an "uncensored media resource") for countless hours. I love watching videos of real death, destruction, and violence.
In real life? I would never hurt a fly. I hate hurting people, either physically or mentally; purposly, or accidently. I don't like being mean to people. I like helping people. I like helping people recover from trauma, be it physical or mental. In my every day "real life" persona, I am a great guy that will give 20 bucks to a stranger so he can eat a nice meal.
But I also have a dark side to me. Thankfully I have a playground for those dark desires. A place where I can go without harming anyone or anything. Now, I'm not saying that if I didn't have video games that I would harm people; All I need is my imagination and I'm fine...ever read JTHM from Jhonnen Vasquez? In interviews with him, he says that he draws the things he always wishes he could do to people but never personally could.
I have a sick and twisted mind. I know this. I do not deny it. But I also do not supress it; I allow it to come out in a controlled, harmless, and entertaining manner. Don't get upset reading this; deep down inside you is the same dark little monster inside everyone else.
The question is, are you able to accept that and move on, or do you continue to deny it until one day you actually do something stupid and kill a bunch of people like at columbine?
I mean, it's not like lobbyists don't exist elsewhere...tobacco? Oil? Gun ownership? Various unions? Alcohol?
What about all the "bloggers" (holy vaginal discharge I hate that word) who would be considered a lobbyist under this new rule? Do they have to register as well?
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Again, read further up...I didn't really make my point very clearly...I didn't mean in general, I meant to people you know I.E. coworkers, family, whatever...::arrive home from the polling station:: "So who did you vote for, honey?" "None of your damn buisness, cunt."
and I'll say it again. Pharmecueticals are about MONEY, first and foremost. And to those in previous threads that have asked me how pharmaceuticals would resist certain potential cures due to more money being in the treatment than in the cure...
Now you have your answer, assholes.
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Well, you answered a part of the question I wasn't asking lol...I agree with everything you said though, I understand why the need for an anonymous election in terms of voting...not arguing that.
I'm talking about Joe Shmo...you know, like you ask someone (in most cases someone who you know personally) "who did you vote for" and they get all defensive...that to me is rather dumb. I'm not some goon who is going to break your legs, nor am I some government spy...
I'm Adam, from three cubicles up the row from you. Also, like I said, two minutes in a political conversation with someone will GENERALLY (not always of course) tell you where they stand politically and if they do or do not support the current president (whomever that may be.)
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try actually reading my reasons, moron. I KNOW FOR A FACT the independent is not going to win, and I do not want to contribute to someone being in the whitehouse that is basically saying which TEAM they are on.
Fuck teams. We are AMERICAN. Not republican. Not democrat. I do not politically support anyone that labels themselves as being anything other than American.
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...why the fuck do people care if someone knows how they vote? I mean, two minutes of a conversation with someone politically usually tells you 1. Where they position themselves on the left/right/middle spectrum 2. Whether they support the president currently in power 3. If they do not support that president, the person they WOULD support
(For the record, I always vote "write-in" and leave it blank, or just simply vote for whomever the independent is...the current two-party system makes me really hate this fucking country sometimes.)
People are so quick to say "it's none of your damned buisness who I voted for" and yet allow their political (or anti-political) views to hang out there, and in some people's cases get pissed and pushy about it.
Well the reason for the Gatorade is to provide electrolytes...some people have a problem eating when they have a fever (case in point, my fiance...she never gets a fever that is not accomponied by trouble keeping food down)
If you cannot get the electrolytes from food for whatever reason, gatorade (or any other sport drink that increases the electrolytes in your body) works just as well. Not to mention it is easier to keep a bottle of gatorade around at all times than it is to keep hot soup around all the time;-)
This is why they reccommend when you have a fever you drink Gatorade or some other sport drink...because these help keep your electrolytes high, the chances of your dying from (or being affected by) over-hydration are reduced drastically
It would be silly to assume that. However, I also believe that the people that want to copy something WILL find a way. Geeks will use the net, prior knowledge, friends, whatever. Non-geeks (or the simply uninformed) will try random different things until they get something...granted this is a broad assumption because it assumes that EVERYONE will try until they figure it out, which could take quite a while and thus becomes unlikely.
Still, if they truly want to copy something...people will find a way. Just because it isn't the same thing that we think of in regards to "hacking" or "circumvention" does not mean that it still isn't exactly that. It is still something that is actively pursued by the general public, as it has always been.
Much like prescription pain medication, or anti-depressents...people have no problem with those because it's legal to do. However, that doesn't make it any better. Illegal or not, they still do the same action. People that are non-geek or the simply uninformed will still discover a way which to them is not illegal. It's not illegal because they aren't so called "hackers", in whatever perverse modern definition you want to apply to THAT word. It's not illegal to them because I mean who is it harming? They just want to make a copy of what they bought...is that asking so much?
Your average innept consumer wants the same thing we do...free access to that which is ours. We go about it in our way, and they go about it in theirs. We actively pursue that which we desire to the fullest extent of our abilities...they sneak around the system and do it in secret making sure no one knows about it.
So who's way is more right? The geek? Or the innept?
oooo, thank you. I was unaware that these were even around...::evil grin:: who am I kidding, I can barely do VB...I can put together a PCB no problem, but if you ask me to program anything more than hello world, forget it lol.
Still, thanks for the links, should make for some interesting reading
Say a company created a console with the sole intent of KNOWING people were going to hack it. I can udnerstand the companies wanting to prevent people from playing downloaded ISO's, but that's not what I'm referring to. I'm refering to the Xbox DVR or Linux Box, things like that.
If word gets out into the hacking community that the new Gametron 3000 is designed in such a way to ENCOURAGE people to muck with the innards...well, it might do something good.
Take the PS3 for example. Nearly every discussion on the PS3 has the fact that linux is easily loaded to it popping up. It's a shame there is so much negative thinking about the system...in fact, in retrospect, the PS2 was rather simple as well.
HDAdvance + Network Adapter + 200 gig hard drive = fun. Add in a flip top, and it's even more fun. (Altho sony seemed to learn from that mistake by making a slot-loading mechanism this time)
Something that I find to be funny, and something I have noticed few people think about: a PC or laptop is basically a tool that is sold that encourages people to fuck with it...it's a blank slate, a universal tool to be done with whatever someone wants. No restrictions, no nothing (unless of course you are trying to overclock most brand name computers).
You haven't proved that his parents wrote his code or gave him ideas that the computing world would adopt. You haven't proved that his parents suggested designing a GUI in the particular way that he did.
You proved something that I didn't even ask about...
If someone wants to get something for nothing, they will find a way regardless of how much time, effort, or money you put into trying to stop them.
However, the honest man who won't do any of these things...well, what does it matter if his stuff is "locked"? I mean, after all...if someone isn't going to enter my house uninvited, then the locks on my doors and windows are meaningless.
Try reading my whole post next time. It might help.
and those rich parents, did they tell him how to convince 90% of the computer users to use his products? Or grow a multi-billion dollar buisness that would make him one of the richest if not the richest man in the world? No, I think not.
I liken DRM to the locks on my house: they keep the honest man honest.
If someone wants to "steal" music, movies, tv shows, whatever, they will. No amount of copy protection is going to stop them.
Tapes, CD's, DVD's, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, XP Authentication, Serial Numbers...doesn't matter. If someone wants to get something for nothing, they will find a way regardless of how much time, effort, or money you put into trying to stop them.
However, the honest man who won't do any of these things...well, what does it matter if his stuff is "locked"? I mean, after all...if someone isn't going to enter my house uninvited, then the locks on my doors and windows are meaningless.
Yes, people change, and yes everyone who "steals' media starts somewhere...but still, you get my point. The only thing DRM (and things like it) does is inflate the cost of things for people that plan on legally purchasing it anyway. The people that plan on not obtaining it legally...well, you can finish that sentance.
Galactic Civilization II is a PERFECT example. Shipped with ZERO protection on it, it still managed to sell many thousands of copies...if you perused their forums around the time of it's released, many cited the reason they bought it was SOLEY because it shipped with no copy protection, and they support that idea.
Music corporations (and movie studios, for that matter) will NEVER return to the days where they had total control over how people obtained their media and what they do with it. The honest people will do the exact same thing they did years ago, and the non-honest people will always find a way around it. A waste of time, money, and effort.
"Now please return to the topic at hand, which is philanthropy, and not microsoft's business practices."
Very well.
I think measuring something like if he has done more harm than good with his investments is something that would be very difficult to do, and the answer would change depending on who you asked.
On the one hand, it seems a lot of the charity that Gates gives (which measures in the millions, if not nearly a billion, if I'm not mistaken) is done in an attempt to improve his image. Beyond that, the amount he has given away (and raised) is a drop in the bucket for him.
On the other hand, no one is making him do it. Whatever his REASONS for doing it are, he is supporting good causes. People tend to gloss over those things. He has the means to do it, so he does it.
I know what my answer would be, but how many people do you think would do the same in his position? Well, obviously there are two answers:
-Few, because people are generally greedy and want everything for themselves. They feel "I earned this not you, so why should you get a free ride off it?" While many people may see this as boring selfish, they really have no legal or moral obligation to help the less fortunate...they have indeed "earned" it (by whatever definition you apply to those words), and have every right to keep it for themselves.
And the other answer being:
-Alot, because people have good intentions and want to help their fellow human. Many people can look past issues that are conjured up to keep us fighting such as class, religion, sexual orientation, income, political affiliation...all things designed to keep us fighting with each other. Many people can see past that and want the human SPECIES as a whole to flourish.
Many people believe a single person cannot make a big impact. This isn't entirely true; however, when you look at the number of people that have made a massive contribution to the world as a single person, compared to the number of people that have made little contributions, you will find there are many more people that do a little bit here and a little bit there. There have been billions of people making little contributions; there have comparitavely been a handful of people that have changed history.
Personally, I would prolly go with answer number 2. I see all people as a fellow human being, regardless of where they come from or what their opinion is. yes, I know, there are some really fucked up people out there...and yes, I know my opinion is a bit of a pipe dream, but still; overall, my opinion of humanity as a whole is a positive one. I think people are GENERALLY good and GENERALLY wish for the good of our species.
The more people that follow the philosophy of accepting and supporting the person next to them, the fewer problems there are in the world.
I didn't mean that literally. If you notice, thoughout my post I said put aside your personal opinions of the man. Since you seem to think I am some kind of fanboy (or whatever geek-trendy word you wish to label me as), I can tell you that I personally despise the mans ethics. I think he is ruthless, and fucks over WAY too many people.
However, that doesn't mean that I cannot acknowledge that his company is SUCCESFULL.
I despise the iPod. I despise Apple. But I will NEVER EVER say that they havn't done something aamzing with the electronics market. I despise them with all my heart, but they have done a damn good job at what they are doing.
Christ, people act like Gates is the only person who has ever fucked people over to get ahead. Welcome to America.
"You don't own the music that you buy. You own the physical media, or the file, but you are only purchasing the license to play the music. That is the crux of this entire matter"
Semantics, the argument still would be said the exact same way, considering I never said they tell you what you can do with the MUSIC you buy...just what you buy. It was purposely left as a more general statement to include things beyond iTunes (and it's ilk)
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Not quite...he likes to act on his impulses...I enjoy imagining them. After all, I can keep someone alive in my imagination a lot longer than in real life
I work in cubicles next to people. I work with cancer patients, Narcolepsy patients, Alzheimers patients, you name it patients all day 5 days a week. To the people here, I am a loving and caring guy willing to put my own work aside to help you with your work. They see the 7/16ths (000 ga) tunnels in my ears and they know I'm not "normal", but they also know that I'm a really nice guy and a hard worker and have a good work ethic.
I don't care what the person next to me does behind closed doors. If they aren't hurting anyone, why SHOULD I care?
As far as feeding it regularly, I find it healthy because again it provides a place as an output. I can easily imagine in my head chopping the arms off of someone very slowly and smile at them and help them with their work at the same time.
My ACTION will always be to help them with their work. It will NEVER be to chop their arms off. It's not because I could get in trouble for doing it, it's because I understand and realize that this would cause them great pain. I have absolutely ZERO desire to be the cause of someone's pain, be it physical or mental.
If you don't know what I am thinking, why does it matter? I have absolutely no intention of hurting you, and frankly couldn't even if I WANTED to. So why worry?
Granted, most "sick" people aren't like that....or are they? There are more of us around than most folks realize...
While it isn't as crisp as DVI, there is a first-party connector for the 360 that allows hookup via VGA...
But I enjoy games like the one in TFA...not because I want to go on a murderous rampage, good lord no. I am quite sane and can differentiate between "right and wrong" and "real and fantasy" I think it is because I accept and acknowledge that I have a sadistic side. I enjoy seeing people in pain. ::shrug:: I can't help it, I do. I love gore for the sake of gore movies, the whole "torture horror movie" movement going on...hell, Men Behind the Sun is one of my favorite movies despite the appaling part of history that it covers.
I love games like manhunt, where you stalk your prey. Games like The Warriors where you can beat someone until they puke. I love ultra-violence, the more realistic the better. I have been watching Faces of Death since I was 8. I have perused ogrish.com (before it changed to an "uncensored media resource") for countless hours. I love watching videos of real death, destruction, and violence.
In real life? I would never hurt a fly. I hate hurting people, either physically or mentally; purposly, or accidently. I don't like being mean to people. I like helping people. I like helping people recover from trauma, be it physical or mental. In my every day "real life" persona, I am a great guy that will give 20 bucks to a stranger so he can eat a nice meal.
But I also have a dark side to me. Thankfully I have a playground for those dark desires. A place where I can go without harming anyone or anything. Now, I'm not saying that if I didn't have video games that I would harm people; All I need is my imagination and I'm fine...ever read JTHM from Jhonnen Vasquez? In interviews with him, he says that he draws the things he always wishes he could do to people but never personally could.
I have a sick and twisted mind. I know this. I do not deny it. But I also do not supress it; I allow it to come out in a controlled, harmless, and entertaining manner. Don't get upset reading this; deep down inside you is the same dark little monster inside everyone else.
The question is, are you able to accept that and move on, or do you continue to deny it until one day you actually do something stupid and kill a bunch of people like at columbine?
I mean, it's not like lobbyists don't exist elsewhere...tobacco? Oil? Gun ownership? Various unions? Alcohol?
What about all the "bloggers" (holy vaginal discharge I hate that word) who would be considered a lobbyist under this new rule? Do they have to register as well?
Again, read further up...I didn't really make my point very clearly...I didn't mean in general, I meant to people you know I.E. coworkers, family, whatever... ::arrive home from the polling station::
"So who did you vote for, honey?"
"None of your damn buisness, cunt."
and I'll say it again. Pharmecueticals are about MONEY, first and foremost. And to those in previous threads that have asked me how pharmaceuticals would resist certain potential cures due to more money being in the treatment than in the cure...
Now you have your answer, assholes.
Well, you answered a part of the question I wasn't asking lol...I agree with everything you said though, I understand why the need for an anonymous election in terms of voting...not arguing that.
I'm talking about Joe Shmo...you know, like you ask someone (in most cases someone who you know personally) "who did you vote for" and they get all defensive...that to me is rather dumb. I'm not some goon who is going to break your legs, nor am I some government spy...
I'm Adam, from three cubicles up the row from you. Also, like I said, two minutes in a political conversation with someone will GENERALLY (not always of course) tell you where they stand politically and if they do or do not support the current president (whomever that may be.)
try actually reading my reasons, moron. I KNOW FOR A FACT the independent is not going to win, and I do not want to contribute to someone being in the whitehouse that is basically saying which TEAM they are on.
Fuck teams. We are AMERICAN. Not republican. Not democrat. I do not politically support anyone that labels themselves as being anything other than American.
...why the fuck do people care if someone knows how they vote? I mean, two minutes of a conversation with someone politically usually tells you 1. Where they position themselves on the left/right/middle spectrum
2. Whether they support the president currently in power
3. If they do not support that president, the person they WOULD support
(For the record, I always vote "write-in" and leave it blank, or just simply vote for whomever the independent is...the current two-party system makes me really hate this fucking country sometimes.)
People are so quick to say "it's none of your damned buisness who I voted for" and yet allow their political (or anti-political) views to hang out there, and in some people's cases get pissed and pushy about it.
Christ people. Learn some fucking consistency.
Well the reason for the Gatorade is to provide electrolytes...some people have a problem eating when they have a fever (case in point, my fiance...she never gets a fever that is not accomponied by trouble keeping food down)
If you cannot get the electrolytes from food for whatever reason, gatorade (or any other sport drink that increases the electrolytes in your body) works just as well. Not to mention it is easier to keep a bottle of gatorade around at all times than it is to keep hot soup around all the time;-)
exactly. If you can't eat to balance out your electrolytes...sport drinks are the next best thing
This is why they reccommend when you have a fever you drink Gatorade or some other sport drink...because these help keep your electrolytes high, the chances of your dying from (or being affected by) over-hydration are reduced drastically
It would be silly to assume that. However, I also believe that the people that want to copy something WILL find a way. Geeks will use the net, prior knowledge, friends, whatever. Non-geeks (or the simply uninformed) will try random different things until they get something...granted this is a broad assumption because it assumes that EVERYONE will try until they figure it out, which could take quite a while and thus becomes unlikely.
Still, if they truly want to copy something...people will find a way. Just because it isn't the same thing that we think of in regards to "hacking" or "circumvention" does not mean that it still isn't exactly that. It is still something that is actively pursued by the general public, as it has always been.
Much like prescription pain medication, or anti-depressents...people have no problem with those because it's legal to do. However, that doesn't make it any better. Illegal or not, they still do the same action. People that are non-geek or the simply uninformed will still discover a way which to them is not illegal. It's not illegal because they aren't so called "hackers", in whatever perverse modern definition you want to apply to THAT word. It's not illegal to them because I mean who is it harming? They just want to make a copy of what they bought...is that asking so much?
Your average innept consumer wants the same thing we do...free access to that which is ours. We go about it in our way, and they go about it in theirs. We actively pursue that which we desire to the fullest extent of our abilities...they sneak around the system and do it in secret making sure no one knows about it.
So who's way is more right? The geek? Or the innept?
oooo, thank you. I was unaware that these were even around... ::evil grin:: who am I kidding, I can barely do VB...I can put together a PCB no problem, but if you ask me to program anything more than hello world, forget it lol.
Still, thanks for the links, should make for some interesting reading
Say a company created a console with the sole intent of KNOWING people were going to hack it. I can udnerstand the companies wanting to prevent people from playing downloaded ISO's, but that's not what I'm referring to. I'm refering to the Xbox DVR or Linux Box, things like that.
If word gets out into the hacking community that the new Gametron 3000 is designed in such a way to ENCOURAGE people to muck with the innards...well, it might do something good.
Take the PS3 for example. Nearly every discussion on the PS3 has the fact that linux is easily loaded to it popping up. It's a shame there is so much negative thinking about the system...in fact, in retrospect, the PS2 was rather simple as well.
HDAdvance + Network Adapter + 200 gig hard drive = fun. Add in a flip top, and it's even more fun. (Altho sony seemed to learn from that mistake by making a slot-loading mechanism this time)
Something that I find to be funny, and something I have noticed few people think about: a PC or laptop is basically a tool that is sold that encourages people to fuck with it...it's a blank slate, a universal tool to be done with whatever someone wants. No restrictions, no nothing (unless of course you are trying to overclock most brand name computers).
Interesting to think about things like that...
OK, so you proved he still would have been rich.
You haven't proved that his parents wrote his code or gave him ideas that the computing world would adopt. You haven't proved that his parents suggested designing a GUI in the particular way that he did.
You proved something that I didn't even ask about...
If someone wants to get something for nothing, they will find a way regardless of how much time, effort, or money you put into trying to stop them.
However, the honest man who won't do any of these things...well, what does it matter if his stuff is "locked"? I mean, after all...if someone isn't going to enter my house uninvited, then the locks on my doors and windows are meaningless.
Try reading my whole post next time. It might help.
and those rich parents, did they tell him how to convince 90% of the computer users to use his products? Or grow a multi-billion dollar buisness that would make him one of the richest if not the richest man in the world? No, I think not.
I liken DRM to the locks on my house: they keep the honest man honest.
If someone wants to "steal" music, movies, tv shows, whatever, they will. No amount of copy protection is going to stop them.
Tapes, CD's, DVD's, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, XP Authentication, Serial Numbers...doesn't matter. If someone wants to get something for nothing, they will find a way regardless of how much time, effort, or money you put into trying to stop them.
However, the honest man who won't do any of these things...well, what does it matter if his stuff is "locked"? I mean, after all...if someone isn't going to enter my house uninvited, then the locks on my doors and windows are meaningless.
Yes, people change, and yes everyone who "steals' media starts somewhere...but still, you get my point. The only thing DRM (and things like it) does is inflate the cost of things for people that plan on legally purchasing it anyway. The people that plan on not obtaining it legally...well, you can finish that sentance.
Galactic Civilization II is a PERFECT example. Shipped with ZERO protection on it, it still managed to sell many thousands of copies...if you perused their forums around the time of it's released, many cited the reason they bought it was SOLEY because it shipped with no copy protection, and they support that idea.
Music corporations (and movie studios, for that matter) will NEVER return to the days where they had total control over how people obtained their media and what they do with it. The honest people will do the exact same thing they did years ago, and the non-honest people will always find a way around it. A waste of time, money, and effort.
Out of curiosity, why WOULDN'T you want a subscription model?
Paying $20 a month for unlimited music downloads sounds like a MUCH better deal to me than $1 a song or $10 an album...
"Now please return to the topic at hand, which is philanthropy, and not microsoft's business practices."
Very well.
I think measuring something like if he has done more harm than good with his investments is something that would be very difficult to do, and the answer would change depending on who you asked.
On the one hand, it seems a lot of the charity that Gates gives (which measures in the millions, if not nearly a billion, if I'm not mistaken) is done in an attempt to improve his image. Beyond that, the amount he has given away (and raised) is a drop in the bucket for him.
On the other hand, no one is making him do it. Whatever his REASONS for doing it are, he is supporting good causes. People tend to gloss over those things. He has the means to do it, so he does it.
I know what my answer would be, but how many people do you think would do the same in his position? Well, obviously there are two answers:
-Few, because people are generally greedy and want everything for themselves. They feel "I earned this not you, so why should you get a free ride off it?" While many people may see this as boring selfish, they really have no legal or moral obligation to help the less fortunate...they have indeed "earned" it (by whatever definition you apply to those words), and have every right to keep it for themselves.
And the other answer being:
-Alot, because people have good intentions and want to help their fellow human. Many people can look past issues that are conjured up to keep us fighting such as class, religion, sexual orientation, income, political affiliation...all things designed to keep us fighting with each other. Many people can see past that and want the human SPECIES as a whole to flourish.
Many people believe a single person cannot make a big impact. This isn't entirely true; however, when you look at the number of people that have made a massive contribution to the world as a single person, compared to the number of people that have made little contributions, you will find there are many more people that do a little bit here and a little bit there. There have been billions of people making little contributions; there have comparitavely been a handful of people that have changed history.
Personally, I would prolly go with answer number 2. I see all people as a fellow human being, regardless of where they come from or what their opinion is. yes, I know, there are some really fucked up people out there...and yes, I know my opinion is a bit of a pipe dream, but still; overall, my opinion of humanity as a whole is a positive one. I think people are GENERALLY good and GENERALLY wish for the good of our species.
The more people that follow the philosophy of accepting and supporting the person next to them, the fewer problems there are in the world.
I didn't mean that literally. If you notice, thoughout my post I said put aside your personal opinions of the man. Since you seem to think I am some kind of fanboy (or whatever geek-trendy word you wish to label me as), I can tell you that I personally despise the mans ethics. I think he is ruthless, and fucks over WAY too many people.
However, that doesn't mean that I cannot acknowledge that his company is SUCCESFULL.
I despise the iPod. I despise Apple. But I will NEVER EVER say that they havn't done something aamzing with the electronics market. I despise them with all my heart, but they have done a damn good job at what they are doing.
Christ, people act like Gates is the only person who has ever fucked people over to get ahead. Welcome to America.
well at least not in what you quoted..further up I did indeed say "...the music that you purchase."
"You don't own the music that you buy. You own the physical media, or the file, but you are only purchasing the license to play the music. That is the crux of this entire matter"
Semantics, the argument still would be said the exact same way, considering I never said they tell you what you can do with the MUSIC you buy...just what you buy. It was purposely left as a more general statement to include things beyond iTunes (and it's ilk)