I don't think you're accurately representing the argument made. The claim was that it is better (though, I think nearly everyone would agree, still not good) that people use endlessly recycled old child pornography than that they go out and make more.
As for the witch hunts...there are still occasional articles about people who take what they say are innocent pictures of their own children and have them developed, only to find themselves arrested or their children taken away. Not having seen any of the photos in question (or really caring to, for that matter--I personally wish they'd get rid of ads for diapers featuring babies' posteriors), I can't judge the particular cases, but I'd say that indicates at the very least that there's some of the same kind of hysteria as surrounds the "War on Drugs."
In my real world, Faraday responded to "What good is this electromagnetism?" with "What good is a newborn baby?", and G.H. Hardy said with disdain that he had never worked on anything useful...only to be proven wrong about the utility of his mathematics later on. This is what makes all the blather about committees deciding what research is beneficial or most in need of being done idiocy--if we can't predict the consequences, then we can't predict the good ones any more than we can the bad ones, so at best such attempts are meaningless, at worst oppressive. If p2p is going to fail, let it--but it's hard to believe someone isn't going to simplify the configuration for Aunt Ethel.
No, you're not the only one. I recall reading that H-B were notorious for churning out truly lousy animation, cutting corners wherever possible. (OK, not as bad as the infamous Clutch Cargo, but certainly in comparison with WB or Disney.) And what were The Flintstones but a "Honeymooners" ripoff set in a twisted cross between the 50s and prehistory?
I'll forgive them about anything, though, for the original Jonny Quest (emphasis on original, not the recent attempt at updating), which had the coolest theme music ever written this side of Mr. Henry Mancini himself.
You nailed it. Only in retrospect can we go back and do a James Burke, showing the chain of events that lead to what looks in isolation like a "revolutionary innovation." People are putting together the pieces of the next "revolution" now...we just don't know what they are. (If I did, I'd be making a lot more money than I do now!)
Of course, the real answer is that with web browsers, we're all looking for pr0n instead of innovating.:-)
Hey, Lucas is an "early adopter" as marketroids say. People like him are essential so that the technology can percolate down to, as Apple would say, "the rest of us." This is/.; we all remember Moore's Law, right? Five or six years ago, people would be saying the same thing about Poser: it'll never be feasible--too expensive, too slow.
Computer generated actors won't age, won't be constrained by the laws of physics or biology except where we want them to be, and won't demand bathtubs full of green M&Ms--and kids dreaming of making movies will eventually be able to use them while sitting up late clicking away at their mice some summer night in the future to let the rest of us see their visions and perhaps start a career.
According to the agreement, you can't use the API to write any program that has "...chat ability, presence indication, 'buddy-system-like' functionaliity or instant messaging capabilities," which ICQ considers a "competing product." Just out of idle curiosity, what does this leave?
Friend, if you want to know to what extent the "Church" of Scientology will go, head for a search engine and look up either "scientology" and "fair game" or "Operation PC Freakout". Loathsome as MS is, I have not heard of their ever having gone that far.
Nothing to do with nobility; "van" and "von" just means "of" or "from," so originally it was just a way to specify which of a bunch of people with the same name you meant. "Which Joe?" "Oh, you know, Joe from the woods (ten Bosch)." Same thing in French. "Which Bill?" "Oh, you know, Bill from over in Machaut (de Machaut)." Ditto for German. "Which Hildegarde?" "Oh, you know, Hildegarde from Bingen (von Bingen)." (Apologies to early music fans.)
Either they're going after the companies they think they can intimidate or bankrupt with legal fees first (Sony makes a PalmOS-based PDA), or they're doing it to wipe out non-WinCE PDAs.
I think the phrase the Founding Fathers had for what you describe is "tyranny of the majority." They didn't trust the people ("Your 'People,' Sir, is a great beast." -- A. Hamilton to T. Jefferson) any more than they did the government. If rights are truly inalienable, then majority vote can't take them away any more than a king's decree can.
I must confess to not remembering much of any of the plots of Buck Rogers episodes, but I remember Erin Gray, and your recollections of her are very much on target. Oh, yes... (The woman who played Princess Ardala was no slouch, either.)
Re Battlestar Galactica: I have gratefully repressed all recollections of the show, save that I couldn't pass up buying a copy of the paperback The Tombs of Kobol, because I'd recently gone through the obligatory COBOL course in college and I wouldn't have minded seeing the tombs of COBOL at the time. (The custom among student assistants at the university computing center for those making it through the COBOL course was the COBOL Card Deck Burning Party.)
Space: 1999, good?!?! I'm sorry. I liked UFO, but with Space: 1999, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson didn't just hit rock bottom, they went a major part of the way to the earth's core. Cheesy Rudi Gernreich outfits; comptuer output on adding machine tape; acting not just wooden, but petrified (Al Gore would've been an improvement)...good grief. My favorite recollection of Space: 1999 stupidity was the episode where the head of the aliens that Moonbase Alpha approached that week told his or her subordinate, before having communicated with the humans, to destroy the humans' ships, using the name that the humans called them before having communicated with them!
I'll agree that she came up with a hypothesis, an experiment to test it, and documented her findings. (And I can say that my science fair experiments were dull and pointless.:-)
But does she deserve an A? I'm not sure; the real trouble here is how to find out what people really think. The adults may have just given the PC answer, to avoid getting the "racist" label.
I'm reminded of a story I read of a book publisher who did a survey of what people's favorite book was; people said "the Bible," or "Shakespeare," etc...but then they did another survey. Unknown to the participants, the answers they gave weren't important, save for the very last one, given in response to "Thank you for taking the time to take this survey! We'd like to give you a book in appreciation of your time and trouble; pick one from this list." The most frequently chosen book: Death of a Stripper by Gypsy Rose Lee.
I would have to disagree in two respects. First, Charles Schulz once owned that airspace. Towards the end it was almost painful to read Peanuts, but when he was good, he was unbeatable. Second, I think that Trudeau is now rummaging around the tailings of the vein he once mined. (For that matter, considering Trudeau's ripping off of pop culture (and even Charles Schulz, come to think of it), it's not clear he has much standing to be perturbed with Breathed.)
The net will be the medium for marketing. Just as Matt Drudge makes his living now ferreting out and pointing us at news items, people will be able to make a living finding and pointing us at worthwhile pieces of music. What's "worthwhile"? That depends. We'll each seek out those reviewers whose tastes we agree with.
Alternatively, artists can band together. (Heck, isn't that how United Artists started?) Check out Todd Rundgren's PatronNet. Some will be musicians that major labels have dumped or given a raw deal (is that redundant?); go look at the November Project page. Once the momentum develops, media like MTV will notice or get left behind...(as if they play much music these days anyway).
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You might ask Milton Friedman about confirmation...he recounts this sort of story at the beginning of the chapter of Free to Choose about unions. He was being interviewed, and the reporter who interviewed him said that the interview had to fit on one side of the tape; if it went over, and the reporter flipped the tape to record what went over, he would be doing the job that belonged to some union electrician, and the entire tape would be wiped.
"...'Twas I who did arrange/To pay my union dues so I'd/Not have to learn or change..." --Todd Rundgren, "Honest Work"
Actually, there's a page on OS/2 Netscape that mentions various options, one of which, turned on with user_pref("browser.bidi.bidi_enabled", true), allows it to view Arabic and Hebrew pages even if you're not on an Arabic or Hebrew OS/2 system, if I understand it correctly.
For that matter, there's a version (not the latest, alas) of StarOffice for OS/2--can it import some of those other proprietary-format files people foist on him?
It's bad because it's a very short step from the system proposed to one which will let your car travel be monitored constantly. Do you really want the government to know where you are (or at least where your car is) at all times?
Windows is not free with PCs; just because it's basically impossible to get a mass-market PC without Windows doesn't mean it's free, any more than the fact that they come with hard drives means that the hard drive is free.
Other people have already pointed out your other fallacies, so I'll stop here.
What gives you the idea that they are run by "thugs"?
Oh, I don't know...probably the Teamsters, or things like hearing about the kindly actions of union members towards so-called "scabs." Whatever else one can say about Microsoft, I've never heard anyone say that it sends out people to physically beat up potential competitors--that's SOP for unions.
Gee...here on/. what's the main thing ranted about? The MS monopoly. Among the general public, OPEC is another target of people's wrath. What is it about labor that makes a monopoly or cartel in it, which is exactly what a union is, noble and virtuous, unlike monopolies and cartels in other goods?
Well...we hear Beach Boys songs extolling the virtues of what the PC or environmentalists would call overpowered cars that invite one to speed or drag race, both potentially dangerous activities. People make EPROMs that tweak computer-controlled engines for higher power. Do those count?
The answer to your question is that there's a lot more direct evidence that someone has incited a riot than there is for the others.
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As for the witch hunts...there are still occasional articles about people who take what they say are innocent pictures of their own children and have them developed, only to find themselves arrested or their children taken away. Not having seen any of the photos in question (or really caring to, for that matter--I personally wish they'd get rid of ads for diapers featuring babies' posteriors), I can't judge the particular cases, but I'd say that indicates at the very least that there's some of the same kind of hysteria as surrounds the "War on Drugs."
In my real world, Faraday responded to "What good is this electromagnetism?" with "What good is a newborn baby?", and G.H. Hardy said with disdain that he had never worked on anything useful...only to be proven wrong about the utility of his mathematics later on. This is what makes all the blather about committees deciding what research is beneficial or most in need of being done idiocy--if we can't predict the consequences, then we can't predict the good ones any more than we can the bad ones, so at best such attempts are meaningless, at worst oppressive. If p2p is going to fail, let it--but it's hard to believe someone isn't going to simplify the configuration for Aunt Ethel.
Duh. Astro's real name is, of course, Tralfaz. (Yuck!)
I'll forgive them about anything, though, for the original Jonny Quest (emphasis on original, not the recent attempt at updating), which had the coolest theme music ever written this side of Mr. Henry Mancini himself.
Of course, the real answer is that with web browsers, we're all looking for pr0n instead of innovating. :-)
Computer generated actors won't age, won't be constrained by the laws of physics or biology except where we want them to be, and won't demand bathtubs full of green M&Ms--and kids dreaming of making movies will eventually be able to use them while sitting up late clicking away at their mice some summer night in the future to let the rest of us see their visions and perhaps start a career.
According to the agreement, you can't use the API to write any program that has "...chat ability, presence indication, 'buddy-system-like' functionaliity or instant messaging capabilities," which ICQ considers a "competing product." Just out of idle curiosity, what does this leave?
Friend, if you want to know to what extent the "Church" of Scientology will go, head for a search engine and look up either "scientology" and "fair game" or "Operation PC Freakout". Loathsome as MS is, I have not heard of their ever having gone that far.
Nothing to do with nobility; "van" and "von" just means "of" or "from," so originally it was just a way to specify which of a bunch of people with the same name you meant. "Which Joe?" "Oh, you know, Joe from the woods (ten Bosch)." Same thing in French. "Which Bill?" "Oh, you know, Bill from over in Machaut (de Machaut)." Ditto for German. "Which Hildegarde?" "Oh, you know, Hildegarde from Bingen (von Bingen)." (Apologies to early music fans.)
Either they're going after the companies they think they can intimidate or bankrupt with legal fees first (Sony makes a PalmOS-based PDA), or they're doing it to wipe out non-WinCE PDAs.
If we don't have some sort of timing mechanism, how do we manage to play music, jump rope, or do anything else that requires regular periodic action?
I think the phrase the Founding Fathers had for what you describe is "tyranny of the majority." They didn't trust the people ("Your 'People,' Sir, is a great beast." -- A. Hamilton to T. Jefferson) any more than they did the government. If rights are truly inalienable, then majority vote can't take them away any more than a king's decree can.
Re Battlestar Galactica: I have gratefully repressed all recollections of the show, save that I couldn't pass up buying a copy of the paperback The Tombs of Kobol, because I'd recently gone through the obligatory COBOL course in college and I wouldn't have minded seeing the tombs of COBOL at the time. (The custom among student assistants at the university computing center for those making it through the COBOL course was the COBOL Card Deck Burning Party.)
Space: 1999, good?!?! I'm sorry. I liked UFO, but with Space: 1999, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson didn't just hit rock bottom, they went a major part of the way to the earth's core. Cheesy Rudi Gernreich outfits; comptuer output on adding machine tape; acting not just wooden, but petrified (Al Gore would've been an improvement)...good grief. My favorite recollection of Space: 1999 stupidity was the episode where the head of the aliens that Moonbase Alpha approached that week told his or her subordinate, before having communicated with the humans, to destroy the humans' ships, using the name that the humans called them before having communicated with them!
But does she deserve an A? I'm not sure; the real trouble here is how to find out what people really think. The adults may have just given the PC answer, to avoid getting the "racist" label.
I'm reminded of a story I read of a book publisher who did a survey of what people's favorite book was; people said "the Bible," or "Shakespeare," etc...but then they did another survey. Unknown to the participants, the answers they gave weren't important, save for the very last one, given in response to "Thank you for taking the time to take this survey! We'd like to give you a book in appreciation of your time and trouble; pick one from this list." The most frequently chosen book: Death of a Stripper by Gypsy Rose Lee.
I would have to disagree in two respects. First, Charles Schulz once owned that airspace. Towards the end it was almost painful to read Peanuts, but when he was good, he was unbeatable. Second, I think that Trudeau is now rummaging around the tailings of the vein he once mined. (For that matter, considering Trudeau's ripping off of pop culture (and even Charles Schulz, come to think of it), it's not clear he has much standing to be perturbed with Breathed.)
Alternatively, artists can band together. (Heck, isn't that how United Artists started?) Check out Todd Rundgren's PatronNet. Some will be musicians that major labels have dumped or given a raw deal (is that redundant?); go look at the November Project page. Once the momentum develops, media like MTV will notice or get left behind...(as if they play much music these days anyway).
"...'Twas I who did arrange/To pay my union dues so I'd/Not have to learn or change..." --Todd Rundgren, "Honest Work"
Actually, there's a page on OS/2 Netscape that mentions various options, one of which, turned on with user_pref("browser.bidi.bidi_enabled", true), allows it to view Arabic and Hebrew pages even if you're not on an Arabic or Hebrew OS/2 system, if I understand it correctly. For that matter, there's a version (not the latest, alas) of StarOffice for OS/2--can it import some of those other proprietary-format files people foist on him?
It's bad because it's a very short step from the system proposed to one which will let your car travel be monitored constantly. Do you really want the government to know where you are (or at least where your car is) at all times?
Other people have already pointed out your other fallacies, so I'll stop here.
Oh, I don't know...probably the Teamsters, or things like hearing about the kindly actions of union members towards so-called "scabs." Whatever else one can say about Microsoft, I've never heard anyone say that it sends out people to physically beat up potential competitors--that's SOP for unions.
Gee...here on /. what's the main thing ranted about? The MS monopoly. Among the general public, OPEC is another target of people's wrath. What is it about labor that makes a monopoly or cartel in it, which is exactly what a union is, noble and virtuous, unlike monopolies and cartels in other goods?
The answer to your question is that there's a lot more direct evidence that someone has incited a riot than there is for the others.
Don't forget Alexei Panshin...It's only a small part of Rite of Passage, and not at all explicit, but I'm sure that won't stop would-be censors.