And I, too, agree that copyrights should just die. I'm a scientist, and I am appalled at the science that is being swallowed up by the for-pay journals, at the journals that require me to renounce any copyrights to my own work. And I hate it that even very old scientific papers are still behind fucking paywalls.
Generally speaking, though, you get out what you put in. That's not a flaw of the system just because you've decided you want the high life for middling input.
Not in the USA, where social mobility is essentially dead:
Several studies have been made comparing social mobility between developed countries. One such study (âoeDo Poor Children Become Poor Adults?")[10][11][12] found that of nine developed countries, the United States and United Kingdom had the lowest intergenerational vertical social mobility with about half of the advantages of having a parent with a high income passed on to the next generation. The four countries with the lowest "intergenerational income elasticity", i.e. the highest social mobility, were Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Canada with less than 20% of advantages of having a high income parent passed on to their children. (see graph)
And the very critical part of the story which takes the wind out of the whole "overcoming her drastic odds" part is she wasn't homeless 13 days ago. She and her family were evicted on Jan 1st, 2012.
Of course, that doesn't make for a good human interest story, most news outlets initially failed to mention that fact.
Slashdot desperately needs a "-1: Disinformative/misguiding/false" moderation. And the above post deserves a lot of it.
I think yours is an amazing post, and I must commend you for the words you practically took from my mouth. However, I take issues with the last sentence:
Most Americans in their place would do the exact same thing.
No, the great majority of Americans wouldn't, because they aren't psychopaths. But psychopaths have a tendency to percolate onto positions of power (because they are ready to do whatever it takes, manipulating and lying to the greatest extent). Hence you end up with a congress full of people more than willing to bend the truth and their own "principles", if it makes them any profit and advances their position of power.
While I have not been doing any serious coding since quite a while, it's encouraging to see that the four programming language I learned many years ago, are still in this top 20 list, and have not changed position since last year: Java, C, Pascal and.. BASIC:)
Thanks dissy, that was quite interesting. I storngly disapprove of Wales waiting it out, isntead of immediately switching registrars away from Go Daddy. The move would be a symbolic gesture anyway, from a financial point of view. By waiting 3 years, the symbolic effect is lost completely.
I hope they make this optional, at least opt-out (if not opt-in). I like my G+ friends, but when I search with Google, I don't want their crap appearing in my searches.
Perseverance really is key to success. Google tried Buzz, Waves and now, with Google+, it seems the social networking (and related) initiatives have brought some benefits.
Microsoft also didn't give up with the XBox, and is finally doing OK.
in my previous post (parent of this) I mentioned that I had still access to TPB. Well that was from our academic network - not sure who the provider is. Now I am at home, and we use DNA (which, apparently, isn't quite the same as Elisa), and I still can access TPB without issues.
This is strange, because I was under the impression that almost all providers (DNA included) use Elisa's WAN network infrastructure.
It appears that the block isn't functional yet. I can normally access thepiratebay.org. It's rather hilarious, as I am greeted with a demotivational poster featuring the "sponsor" of the legal action by IFPI.
By the way, if anyone in IFPI is reading: FUCK YOU IFPI YOU USELESS PIECE OF SHIT! HOPE THE INEVITABLE NEW TIMES WIPE YOU UNDER THE GROUND WHERE YOU ALWAYS BELONGED! Thank you for reading. Also, if you do work for IFPI, please consider a more honourable profession, such as drug trafficking or prostitution.
The only true solution will be point-to-point community networks. ( mainly neighborhood wifi mesh )Get rid, and get around, the need for a link to the 'public internet' except for perhaps your online banking and buying stuff from amazon.
Who all here remembers BBSs and FidoNet?
I do. Strange, now that you mention FidoNet, I find some kind of fascination and liking to that old, slow network. I have no idea how it would be implemented nowadays, except by a community of private or semi-private LAN networks connected in one of more internets (lowercase "i").
If you want to boycott, then you can't selectively boycott.
Says who? Your lazy, uninterested, pro-SOPA ass? Fuck you, we'll boycott whomever we can, and if one company happens to be the lowest hanging fruit, we will damn well kick that one in the nuts, and proceed from there.
It's really simple: those who didn't even bother to boycott GoDaddy, have really no say in the issue. Some of us did at least a little bit to knock down the first domino (GoDaddy) and a few other dominos followed.
Society should be about more than pop music and blockbuster films. Frankly the Pirate Party has to convince me that laws which deter people from sharing such things are actually bad. Perhaps they are actually a positive influence because they nudge people into doing something productive instead of passively consuming. Maybe someone decided to go outside and play football with their kids because they couldn't find a copy of a film to download; in that instance, society benefits.
Do I care that Cliff Richard's recordings won't reach the public domain in my lifetime? Not at all. Society will continue with or without music.
Well, music and the arts in general are part of human life. Living for the sake of living is pointless, for a human being. Moreover, pop music is not the only art that is affected by copyright - literature is, as well, as well as all other kind of music (including classical, Jazz, Rock, etc.), visual arts, films and so on. And moreover, copyrights affect the sciences as well. I can't tell you how many times I felt hatred towards the institution of copyrights, when I had to give up copyrights to my scientific work to a cocksucker scientific journal, that will then lock up the scientific work for the next several decades. Fuck that. That's not why I am doing research, to make some fat executive even more rich.
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And I, too, agree that copyrights should just die. I'm a scientist, and I am appalled at the science that is being swallowed up by the for-pay journals, at the journals that require me to renounce any copyrights to my own work. And I hate it that even very old scientific papers are still behind fucking paywalls.
Copyright has to end. It has to go away.
A moment of silence for a bright little star winking out, no more to lend its brilliance to our future.
Very nice words. Worth quoting, thank you - and I feel the same way (though am not so articulate).
No doubt someone will be along to state that the Danes, Finns and the rest are godless commies.
We must be, since we have universal healthcare and free higher education.
Generally speaking, though, you get out what you put in. That's not a flaw of the system just because you've decided you want the high life for middling input.
Not in the USA, where social mobility is essentially dead:
Several studies have been made comparing social mobility between developed countries. One such study (âoeDo Poor Children Become Poor Adults?")[10][11][12] found that of nine developed countries, the United States and United Kingdom had the lowest intergenerational vertical social mobility with about half of the advantages of having a parent with a high income passed on to the next generation. The four countries with the lowest "intergenerational income elasticity", i.e. the highest social mobility, were Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Canada with less than 20% of advantages of having a high income parent passed on to their children. (see graph)
From Wikipedia
And the very critical part of the story which takes the wind out of the whole "overcoming her drastic odds" part is she wasn't homeless 13 days ago. She and her family were evicted on Jan 1st, 2012.
Of course, that doesn't make for a good human interest story, most news outlets initially failed to mention that fact.
Slashdot desperately needs a "-1: Disinformative/misguiding/false" moderation. And the above post deserves a lot of it.
I think yours is an amazing post, and I must commend you for the words you practically took from my mouth. However, I take issues with the last sentence:
Most Americans in their place would do the exact same thing.
No, the great majority of Americans wouldn't, because they aren't psychopaths. But psychopaths have a tendency to percolate onto positions of power (because they are ready to do whatever it takes, manipulating and lying to the greatest extent). Hence you end up with a congress full of people more than willing to bend the truth and their own "principles", if it makes them any profit and advances their position of power.
While I have not been doing any serious coding since quite a while, it's encouraging to see that the four programming language I learned many years ago, are still in this top 20 list, and have not changed position since last year: Java, C, Pascal and.. BASIC :)
Wait, I forgot one: where's FORTRAN!?
Apparently, of all the Android gadget manufacturers, only B&N had the balls to tell MS to fuck off.
Strange that *all the others* have folded like a cheap hooker. Really strange.
Thanks dissy, that was quite interesting. I storngly disapprove of Wales waiting it out, isntead of immediately switching registrars away from Go Daddy. The move would be a symbolic gesture anyway, from a financial point of view. By waiting 3 years, the symbolic effect is lost completely.
Fuck Bono, he's probably behind this shit. He was whining about pirates taking "his" money since several years now.
Make it opt-in instead of opt-out.
I don't even think there is an opt-out setting. If there is, I would love to know about it.
I hope they make this optional, at least opt-out (if not opt-in). I like my G+ friends, but when I search with Google, I don't want their crap appearing in my searches.
I have DNA at home, and nothing is blocked. But doesn't DNA use Elisa's Internet infrastructure also?
Also:
Domain Name:WIKIPEDIA.ORG
Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR)
Wow! Fuuuck, it's true! At first I thought you were trolling, since Wikipedia announced long ago they'll be leaving GoDaddy.
What the fuck Jimmy Wales, grow a pair. Heck, this doesn't even require balls, just keep your damn word.
These testimonies will fall on deaf ears. Or better say, ears fully clogged with stacks of dollar bills.
In the meantime, I am organizing an anti-Adidas campaign on Google+ Wish me luck.
Perseverance really is key to success. Google tried Buzz, Waves and now, with Google+, it seems the social networking (and related) initiatives have brought some benefits.
Microsoft also didn't give up with the XBox, and is finally doing OK.
Does this mean I can't use the quote button?
There is a quote button?
in my previous post (parent of this) I mentioned that I had still access to TPB. Well that was from our academic network - not sure who the provider is.
Now I am at home, and we use DNA (which, apparently, isn't quite the same as Elisa), and I still can access TPB without issues.
This is strange, because I was under the impression that almost all providers (DNA included) use Elisa's WAN network infrastructure.
I am currently in Aalto's premises. I don't know which provider they use.
Fuck, this makes me sad :(
It appears that the block isn't functional yet. I can normally access thepiratebay.org. It's rather hilarious, as I am greeted with a demotivational poster featuring the "sponsor" of the legal action by IFPI.
By the way, if anyone in IFPI is reading: FUCK YOU IFPI YOU USELESS PIECE OF SHIT! HOPE THE INEVITABLE NEW TIMES WIPE YOU UNDER THE GROUND WHERE YOU ALWAYS BELONGED!
Thank you for reading. Also, if you do work for IFPI, please consider a more honourable profession, such as drug trafficking or prostitution.
Yep, universal healthcare is pretty awesome.
I wonder how would a young 21 year old academic with ALS fare in the USA.
The only true solution will be point-to-point community networks. ( mainly neighborhood wifi mesh )Get rid, and get around, the need for a link to the 'public internet' except for perhaps your online banking and buying stuff from amazon.
Who all here remembers BBSs and FidoNet?
I do. Strange, now that you mention FidoNet, I find some kind of fascination and liking to that old, slow network. I have no idea how it would be implemented nowadays, except by a community of private or semi-private LAN networks connected in one of more internets (lowercase "i").
If you want to boycott, then you can't selectively boycott.
Says who? Your lazy, uninterested, pro-SOPA ass? Fuck you, we'll boycott whomever we can, and if one company happens to be the lowest hanging fruit, we will damn well kick that one in the nuts, and proceed from there.
It's really simple: those who didn't even bother to boycott GoDaddy, have really no say in the issue. Some of us did at least a little bit to knock down the first domino (GoDaddy) and a few other dominos followed.
Society should be about more than pop music and blockbuster films. Frankly the Pirate Party has to convince me that laws which deter people from sharing such things are actually bad. Perhaps they are actually a positive influence because they nudge people into doing something productive instead of passively consuming. Maybe someone decided to go outside and play football with their kids because they couldn't find a copy of a film to download; in that instance, society benefits.
Do I care that Cliff Richard's recordings won't reach the public domain in my lifetime? Not at all. Society will continue with or without music.
Well, music and the arts in general are part of human life. Living for the sake of living is pointless, for a human being. Moreover, pop music is not the only art that is affected by copyright - literature is, as well, as well as all other kind of music (including classical, Jazz, Rock, etc.), visual arts, films and so on. And moreover, copyrights affect the sciences as well. I can't tell you how many times I felt hatred towards the institution of copyrights, when I had to give up copyrights to my scientific work to a cocksucker scientific journal, that will then lock up the scientific work for the next several decades. Fuck that. That's not why I am doing research, to make some fat executive even more rich.
I don't know whether Lyonnaise de Garantie are crooks, but this is the mother of Streisand effects.