But see that's what they are trying to ban right now: the ability for a friend or family member to tape a show for anything but their own personal use!
So let me ask you what is the difference between the following scenarios:
I wanted to see the Sunday night special episode of Good Eats in Paradise, but couldn't because I was out of the house because of a prior committment.
Scenario 1, I program my VCR, it records the show, I watch it later at my leisure.
Scenario 2, I forgot to program my VCR, I call my brother and ask him to record it for me on his VCR, so that I can watch it later at my leisure.
Scenario 3, my brother has a Tivo, records it and lets me download it through our mutual broadband connections.
Why can't the industry understand the similarity and reasonableness of these cases? Beyond that, if my brother wants to share it with the rest of the internet, why is this a problem? It was a broadcast show! Anyone could have recorded it! *IF* the show is available for sale on DVD/Video *THEN* it would be a clear violation of the copyright holder's rights over distribution to still be sharing the show. Aside from that, the only thing that sharing does "to" the copyright holder is allow more people to see the work. How is that bad?
Let's try one more example: I'm a huge fan of Invader Zim, but Friday nights are a terrible time for me to stop my world to watch a TV show. So I generally try to download copies from the net and burn them to VCD (because my wife wants to watch them too, and we don't want to sit in front of the computer to do it). Unfortunately, most of the copies are really bad, but I do it anyway as a fan of the show. When and if these episodes become available on DVD, it will be my pleasure to go buy high-quality copies and discard the relevant VCDs.
This is just like music sharing; I use it to judge what I want to buy, not to steal things I would otherwise buy. The quality of product on the internet is not as good as the quality of the product from the originator, in any case I've seen so far. If it's really good enough for me to want to buy it, I'll still want to buy it despite having "pirate" copies around.
I think the failure of the Drug War proves you wrong. While only a bare minority are actually fighting against the war on (some) drugs, there is widespread disgregard for the letter of the law.
Obviously sllort wasn't paying attention when it was announced that the source code to windows had been compromised by Russian hackers. Hardly "never".
Um...Food 911 is where one guy goes around and shows people how to cook things they have difficulty with. Door Knock Dinners is where a different (and very annoying) guy goes to people's homes and has a chef cook them things with what's on hand. That guy is now doing Follow that Food, so I presume DKD is dead (thank god).
Good Eats is one of the few TV shows that I regularly make time to watch. It's amusing, offbeat, and educational. My favorite bit was in the Oatmeal episode, when Alton took 3 minutes to get into pictish drag and describe making haggis with a scottish accent.
It's worth noting that Cookwise as referenced above is by Shirley Corriher, a food chemist who also is a semi-frequent guest on Good Eats. Alton & Shirley are definitely birds of a feather. And yes, we bought this book the minute it came out, and my wife and I both buzzed through it (she a bit more thorougly than I).
Just because my employer [b]has[/b] to transport several large heavy things between cities doesn't magically give me the right to drive an 18 wheeler without the necessary license. Just because your employer needs you to rapidly travel across the country does not magically mean you don't need to show an ID to board a plane.
You're making the same mistake as everyone else. Driving an 18 wheeler or any other motor vehicle requires proof of competency to do so. Being a passenger in any particular vehicle does not require proof of competency to do so--being a passenger doesn't typically require any competency anyway. It is not the same thing.
In other words, I don't get a drivers license so I can have ID before I drive a car/motorcycle/18-wheeler, I get it to prove my competency to do so. NO ONE checks my ID when I'm driving unless I do something that is apparently against the law.
Requiring me to prove my identity before flying is not the same thing as requiring me to have demonstrated past competency to drive a car. And no one requires me to prove my identity before driving a car, taking a bus, train, etc.
If I have to fulfill my employer's requirement that I get from Chicago to San Francisco in less than 2 days, I have to take an airplane.
And 2 days by car would be just barely doable by myself.
Or do you really think my employer would let me take my sweet time getting somewhere by car or train if they had a strong business reason to need me in S.F. now?
It all depends on what the demands of your job are. If your job requires you to get across the country in less than 3 days, it's not very easy without an airline.
This is a ludicrous approach to the issue. You require a drivers license because you are the driver. You can ride IN a car without a drivers license. You can ride IN a bus without a drivers license. Why the hell do you need a license to ride in a plane?
Um...last time I checked, I'm in that same group of "backslappers" I was talking about. We're all geeks here. We of course discuss things in the geek way here. A congressional or governmental hearing is not a gathering or forum of geeks, and other standards apply.
I can guarantee you that you do not want to scare the government. Look at what they're doing to muslim-americans in the name of terrorism, when that scared them. You think that your rights are being trampled now, you ain't seen nothing on what will happen when you "scare them".
Finally, I really am skeptical that any of the geeks "scared" anyone so much as they annoyed them with their rudeness. That leads to the dismiss them because their crackpots reaction, not listen to them because they're right/know what they're talking about.
You're also turning into the same reason why nobody listened to the hippies saying "stop the war in viet nam".
The fact is you have to KNOW HOW TO ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE. It has been proven time and again, that being right is absolutely not enough. It would be nice to live in a world where that wasn't true, but we don't. Get over it. If you want to effect change, make your change effective, don't just pretend that your rants mean anything outside your circle of backslappers.
Given that the communications medium of the time was letters, aka "papers", I'd say your argument is ridiculous. To be secure in your papers in 1776 is to be secure in your communications.
Unfortunately, often patients who question their judgement are NOT fidiots. And they're usually polite enough to not come out and say "Doctor you're wrong!" (that WOULD be a fidiot) and still get hostile reactions. The doctor needs to not assume everyone who isn't a doctor is a fidiot. And you'd think that having a patient who's actually trying to pay some attention to what's going on would be a good thing.
I'm a computer support person, and I can guarantee you, despite being "the expert", I really appreciate customers who actually bother to try and understand the problem themselves, even if they go off in wacky directions sometimes.
Doctors that have their professional judgement questioned by patients are FREQUENTLY hostile. Many of them suffer from expert's disease: "how can you possibly have a valid opinion about this matter, you're not the expert, I am!" Which is not to say such attitudes are acceptable, only that they're prevalent.
The Orb (any release, but especially the first one, Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld). Make sure you get the 2 CD version (dunno if the 1CD is still floating around, but it was an edited-down US release). The Orb helped define ambient dance.
The Future Sound of London (again, any release, but Accelerator and Lifeforms are among the best). They do a harder trancey but still ambient thing.
I don't really have time to do little summaries for everything I have, but here are a bunch of others:
A Positive Life, Natacha Atlas, Air Liquide, Banco de Gaia (older stuff), Biosphere, The Black Dog, Bleep & Booster (good luck finding them), Brother Sun Sister Moon (similar to Portishead), Chemical Brothers, Coldcut, The Crystal Method, Jack Dangers/Meat Beat Manifesto, Dimensional Holofonic Sound, Divination or anything else by or with Bill Laswell (massive Bass), The Herbaliser or anything else on the Ninja Tune label, Haruomi Hosono, Tesuo Inoue, Howie B, The Irresistable Force, Kruder & Dorfmeister, DJ Shadow, Plastikman, Portishead, Renegade Soundwave (In Dub in particular), Scarab, Tweaker (a guy from Nine Inch Nails), Young American Primitive.
Not only that, but Anheuser Busch freely admits that their bud products are there to appeal to the lowest common denominator. They actually do brew and ship better beers (perhaps not any truly excellent ones, but I can drink a Michelob Hefeweizen that doesn't make me want to go throw up--unless I drink too many).
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But see that's what they are trying to ban right now: the ability for a friend or family member to tape a show for anything but their own personal use!
I wanted to see the Sunday night special episode of Good Eats in Paradise, but couldn't because I was out of the house because of a prior committment.
Why can't the industry understand the similarity and reasonableness of these cases? Beyond that, if my brother wants to share it with the rest of the internet, why is this a problem? It was a broadcast show! Anyone could have recorded it! *IF* the show is available for sale on DVD/Video *THEN* it would be a clear violation of the copyright holder's rights over distribution to still be sharing the show. Aside from that, the only thing that sharing does "to" the copyright holder is allow more people to see the work. How is that bad?
Let's try one more example: I'm a huge fan of Invader Zim, but Friday nights are a terrible time for me to stop my world to watch a TV show. So I generally try to download copies from the net and burn them to VCD (because my wife wants to watch them too, and we don't want to sit in front of the computer to do it). Unfortunately, most of the copies are really bad, but I do it anyway as a fan of the show. When and if these episodes become available on DVD, it will be my pleasure to go buy high-quality copies and discard the relevant VCDs.
This is just like music sharing; I use it to judge what I want to buy, not to steal things I would otherwise buy. The quality of product on the internet is not as good as the quality of the product from the originator, in any case I've seen so far. If it's really good enough for me to want to buy it, I'll still want to buy it despite having "pirate" copies around.
You really shouldn't judge the series by the mega-edited crap calling itself Cowboy Bebop on Cartoon Network.
I think the failure of the Drug War proves you wrong. While only a bare minority are actually fighting against the war on (some) drugs, there is widespread disgregard for the letter of the law.
Obviously sllort wasn't paying attention when it was announced that the source code to windows had been compromised by Russian hackers. Hardly "never".
I suppose my viewpoint is skewed by living in a house that is old and was badly rehabbed....
Um...Food 911 is where one guy goes around and shows people how to cook things they have difficulty with. Door Knock Dinners is where a different (and very annoying) guy goes to people's homes and has a chef cook them things with what's on hand. That guy is now doing Follow that Food, so I presume DKD is dead (thank god).
Nah, tools for house maintenance and improvement are quite a bit broader & more powerful thank kitchen toys. That's second home, kitchen is third.
It's worth noting that Cookwise as referenced above is by Shirley Corriher, a food chemist who also is a semi-frequent guest on Good Eats. Alton & Shirley are definitely birds of a feather. And yes, we bought this book the minute it came out, and my wife and I both buzzed through it (she a bit more thorougly than I).
Just because my employer [b]has[/b] to transport several large heavy things between cities doesn't magically give me the right to drive an 18 wheeler without the necessary license. Just because your employer needs you to rapidly travel across the country does not magically mean you don't need to show an ID to board a plane.
You're making the same mistake as everyone else. Driving an 18 wheeler or any other motor vehicle requires proof of competency to do so. Being a passenger in any particular vehicle does not require proof of competency to do so--being a passenger doesn't typically require any competency anyway. It is not the same thing.
In other words, I don't get a drivers license so I can have ID before I drive a car/motorcycle/18-wheeler, I get it to prove my competency to do so. NO ONE checks my ID when I'm driving unless I do something that is apparently against the law.
Requiring me to prove my identity before flying is not the same thing as requiring me to have demonstrated past competency to drive a car. And no one requires me to prove my identity before driving a car, taking a bus, train, etc.
The point is I need no ID to ride a bus or a taxi or a car.
And 2 days by car would be just barely doable by myself.
Or do you really think my employer would let me take my sweet time getting somewhere by car or train if they had a strong business reason to need me in S.F. now?
It all depends on what the demands of your job are. If your job requires you to get across the country in less than 3 days, it's not very easy without an airline.
Except that I can ride in a car without a similar system of identification. Isn't this case about riding in a plane?
This is a ludicrous approach to the issue. You require a drivers license because you are the driver. You can ride IN a car without a drivers license. You can ride IN a bus without a drivers license. Why the hell do you need a license to ride in a plane?
"they're" not "their". Damn spellchecker. :-)
I can guarantee you that you do not want to scare the government. Look at what they're doing to muslim-americans in the name of terrorism, when that scared them. You think that your rights are being trampled now, you ain't seen nothing on what will happen when you "scare them".
Finally, I really am skeptical that any of the geeks "scared" anyone so much as they annoyed them with their rudeness. That leads to the dismiss them because their crackpots reaction, not listen to them because they're right/know what they're talking about.
The fact is you have to KNOW HOW TO ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE. It has been proven time and again, that being right is absolutely not enough. It would be nice to live in a world where that wasn't true, but we don't. Get over it. If you want to effect change, make your change effective, don't just pretend that your rants mean anything outside your circle of backslappers.
Given that the communications medium of the time was letters, aka "papers", I'd say your argument is ridiculous. To be secure in your papers in 1776 is to be secure in your communications.
I'm a computer support person, and I can guarantee you, despite being "the expert", I really appreciate customers who actually bother to try and understand the problem themselves, even if they go off in wacky directions sometimes.
Which is why I labelled it "expert's disease" not "big ego doctor's disease", 'cos doctors are hardly the only ones of us to have this problem.
Absolutely. My doctor is like that and I love her for it. Well, not literally :-)
Doctors that have their professional judgement questioned by patients are FREQUENTLY hostile. Many of them suffer from expert's disease: "how can you possibly have a valid opinion about this matter, you're not the expert, I am!" Which is not to say such attitudes are acceptable, only that they're prevalent.
The Orb (any release, but especially the first one, Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld). Make sure you get the 2 CD version (dunno if the 1CD is still floating around, but it was an edited-down US release). The Orb helped define ambient dance.
The Future Sound of London (again, any release, but Accelerator and Lifeforms are among the best). They do a harder trancey but still ambient thing.
I don't really have time to do little summaries for everything I have, but here are a bunch of others:
A Positive Life, Natacha Atlas, Air Liquide, Banco de Gaia (older stuff), Biosphere, The Black Dog, Bleep & Booster (good luck finding them), Brother Sun Sister Moon (similar to Portishead), Chemical Brothers, Coldcut, The Crystal Method, Jack Dangers/Meat Beat Manifesto, Dimensional Holofonic Sound, Divination or anything else by or with Bill Laswell (massive Bass), The Herbaliser or anything else on the Ninja Tune label, Haruomi Hosono, Tesuo Inoue, Howie B, The Irresistable Force, Kruder & Dorfmeister, DJ Shadow, Plastikman, Portishead, Renegade Soundwave (In Dub in particular), Scarab, Tweaker (a guy from Nine Inch Nails), Young American Primitive.
Not only that, but Anheuser Busch freely admits that their bud products are there to appeal to the lowest common denominator. They actually do brew and ship better beers (perhaps not any truly excellent ones, but I can drink a Michelob Hefeweizen that doesn't make me want to go throw up--unless I drink too many).