I have to say, when I visit a site entitled "ninjavideo.net" I have certain expectations... and those expectations were not met by what I received!
I challenge you to try and photograph a ninja, let alone film one in action. UFO's, Bigfoot, and unicorn poop have nothing on these guys ability to never be seen.
USA, everyone knows it, is the land of freedom, right? At this point, it's going to be very difficult for the president to have human rights talks with countries like China. USA is not a good example any more, it's one of the worst.
Absolutely! Just last week dozens of Occupy protesters were gunned down in a Bloody Sunday-like massacre by the US military, in much the same way as they have been in Egypt, Syria, and Libya! Worst of the worst, America is! Oh, and I heard that families of factory workers are being threatened just so the owners don't have to improve working conditions! Boy, I wish I lived in China where I can access only state sponsored media and speaking against the government gets you "disappeared".
Your groupthink mentality is exceeded only by the hyperbole in your post. Please, don't say the US is one of the worst places on earth when they're not gunning down their own civilians in the streets.
Another way of putting it: A private citizen putting a sign reading "Romanes ite domum" on their front lawn is perfectly fine. The mayor putting "Romanes ite domum" on the lawn of the town hall in a town that's in the middle of a zoning dispute involving the Catholic Church, not so much.
That's "Romani"; Vocative plural of "annus". Now right it out a hundred times!
So, even though you say you're for "free speach", you're really only for the free speech of people with whom you agree? Unpopular opinions are precisely the ones you should be fighting for. That's the whole and the entirety of the point of having free speech.
Regarding Chesley Sullenberger, does anyone else think that being "... awarded with honorary lifetime membership in The Seaplane Pilot's Association." is a little close to the bone?
Antonio Stradivari was an artisan, an expert craftsman of string instruments. There is no big secret to his construction of violins; You can take one apart and see exactly what was done, and it's listed on Wikipedia (larger pattern, darker varnish). He was, however, the best at doing it, so his works were most sought after.
This is all moot, however; You are, presumably, talking about someone attempting to duplicate a Stradivarius violin and selling it as the genuine article. This is disingenuous to the point; The name "Stradivarius" would be Trademarked, yet this is a discussion of copyright. If Antonio had said to other luthiers "You may make instruments under my name, here is a certificate saying so." then it would be a copyright issue, as only those with the license could copy his work.
Anonymous have never recognised Barrett Brown as their spokesperson.
If you want to know what position Anonymous has on a subject, join their IRC channels and ask them yourself. You can get the details easily from a Google search, and you can connect to them through anonymising services like I2P or Tor, should you so wish.
Expect to have your mother's sexual proclivities questioned. It's just their way.
Which is why civil disobedience needs to be undertaken by thousands of people; Make arresting and charging everyone impossible.
I don't think the police could do much about 15k people walking down $BigCityStreet in the middle of the day, especially if, when confronted with shield and baton, they simply walked forward and didn't stop. What can a single line of men do against the press of thousands?
Worried about getting shot? Google "Bloody Sunday" for why this won't happen.
"**AA and friends" don't make their money through their website any more than Ford or GlaxoSmithKline do. It's nothing more than impotent rage.
If you want to demonstrate against a business entity, you need to affect the revenue stream. Post links to CC licensed music which isn't shit (because most of it is). Organise boycotts and public demonstrations where you give away CC licensed music. You can buy a stack of 100 CD-Rs for under £20, spend a night putting some rock, jazz, pop, whatever on a few, and ask people if they want some totally free music instead of buying their next album? Include details, or a link, or QR code, to the artist in the sleeve. Hand them out in front of your local record store. When the police turn up, hand them a piece of paper listing the artists, and explaining the license terms.
"**AA and friends" don't make their money through their website any more than Ford or GlaxoSmithKline do. It's nothing more than impotent rage.
If you want to demonstrate against a business entity, you need to affect the revenue stream. Post links to CC licensed music which isn't shit (because most of it is). Organise boycotts and public demonstrations where you give away CC licensed music. You can buy a stack of 100 CD-Rs for under £20, spend a night putting some rock, jazz, pop, whatever on a few, and ask people if they want some totally free music instead of buying their next album? Include details, or a link, or QR code, to the artist in the sleeve. Hand them out in front of your local record store.
In your defence, it is mere minutes between the posting of that story and your comment, so you could be forgiven for writing this while/. editors posted that. Either way, you should probably say "Shucks, sorry guys."
It's the Broken Glass fallacy again. The game dev already has his payment for the game, so he's square. Buying a used game instead of a new one does three things directly; It gives the store owner revenue to prop up his business and keep his people employed, it gives the person who bought the game originally more disposable cash to spend, potentially, on a new game, and it gives the person who bought the second hand game more disposable income (by buying the second hand game at a lower price) to pay for, potentially, a different new game.
Society benefits from a second hand market. Individuals may be worse off, but they probably won't. They're just greedy fucks.
BTW for all the complaints and comparisons to Windows activation? I have NEVER had MSFT refuse an activation on a legit key EVAR. Hell the machine I'm typing this on is a Win 7 HP I installed in OCT 09 when i built the thing and I have changed out every. single. piece. of the hardware, and I do mean EVERY piece. the HDDs, the RAM, the graphics card,the PSU, the motherboard, and the CPU. The ONLY original piece left is the case yet I've only had to reactivate ONE time and that was when i switched out the ECS motherboard and quad CPU for an Asrock and 6 core Thuban.
Go read the terms of the licensing agreement; "One PC" is defined as a specific set of components (motherboard, cpu, hard disk, memory, graphics card etc). Changing any more than 3 of these requires that you purchase a new license for Windows 7.
Don't ever think that Microsoft is a good example of how to be good to your customers. Yeah, they might not send the Stasi around because you upgraded your rig, but you're still technically breaking those (now legally enforceable in the US) shrinkwrap Ts and Cs.
[B]ut actually, single-payer and guaranteed healthcare coverage are GREAT for the working class...
Kind of shot yourself in the foot there, chum. What the fuck does your boss, his boss, and the CxO care what's good for the working class? Yes, it's the modern equivalent of indentured servitude, but nobody can help those who won't help themselves. "Horse to water..." and all that. It's nobody's fault except the working class (of which I am a member) that these things are allowed to continue. Wholesale refusal to accept lowest-bid working conditions is probably not the only way, but it's a damn good start. Selling your soul for a nickel because the next guy wanted a dime just continues the trend to drive down the working wage, and the CxO laughs all the way to the bank with his 3rd Audi of the year and his salary-pension.
It's a race to the bottom, and we're picking up speed at a ferocious rate.
Be honest, you don't want to lose your job while your well documented code is shipped to an Indian man-farm in a cost-saving (read: Bonus increasing) exercise, so you don't.
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I have to say, when I visit a site entitled "ninjavideo.net" I have certain expectations... and those expectations were not met by what I received!
I challenge you to try and photograph a ninja, let alone film one in action. UFO's, Bigfoot, and unicorn poop have nothing on these guys ability to never be seen.
USA, everyone knows it, is the land of freedom, right? At this point, it's going to be very difficult for the president to have human rights talks with countries like China. USA is not a good example any more, it's one of the worst.
Absolutely! Just last week dozens of Occupy protesters were gunned down in a Bloody Sunday-like massacre by the US military, in much the same way as they have been in Egypt, Syria, and Libya! Worst of the worst, America is! Oh, and I heard that families of factory workers are being threatened just so the owners don't have to improve working conditions! Boy, I wish I lived in China where I can access only state sponsored media and speaking against the government gets you "disappeared".
Your groupthink mentality is exceeded only by the hyperbole in your post. Please, don't say the US is one of the worst places on earth when they're not gunning down their own civilians in the streets.
Muphry's Law strikes again!
Best one I've seen is "paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin" (a ficticious drug which cures almost everything, and causes most side-effects)
FTFY. It is still unknown if this drug can cure the burger-van smell of Northerners.
Another way of putting it: A private citizen putting a sign reading "Romanes ite domum" on their front lawn is perfectly fine. The mayor putting "Romanes ite domum" on the lawn of the town hall in a town that's in the middle of a zoning dispute involving the Catholic Church, not so much.
That's "Romani"; Vocative plural of "annus". Now right it out a hundred times!
So, even though you say you're for "free speach", you're really only for the free speech of people with whom you agree? Unpopular opinions are precisely the ones you should be fighting for. That's the whole and the entirety of the point of having free speech.
I disagree, and that's my right!
Regarding Chesley Sullenberger, does anyone else think that being "... awarded with honorary lifetime membership in The Seaplane Pilot's Association." is a little close to the bone?
Proving your point
No, it's like protesting the TSA by shooting spitballs at a TSA poster until you can't see it any more.
Stop with the hyperbole-laden faux analogies already.
Antonio Stradivari was an artisan, an expert craftsman of string instruments. There is no big secret to his construction of violins; You can take one apart and see exactly what was done, and it's listed on Wikipedia (larger pattern, darker varnish). He was, however, the best at doing it, so his works were most sought after.
This is all moot, however; You are, presumably, talking about someone attempting to duplicate a Stradivarius violin and selling it as the genuine article. This is disingenuous to the point; The name "Stradivarius" would be Trademarked, yet this is a discussion of copyright. If Antonio had said to other luthiers "You may make instruments under my name, here is a certificate saying so." then it would be a copyright issue, as only those with the license could copy his work.
Anonymous have never recognised Barrett Brown as their spokesperson.
If you want to know what position Anonymous has on a subject, join their IRC channels and ask them yourself. You can get the details easily from a Google search, and you can connect to them through anonymising services like I2P or Tor, should you so wish.
Expect to have your mother's sexual proclivities questioned. It's just their way.
Which is why civil disobedience needs to be undertaken by thousands of people; Make arresting and charging everyone impossible.
I don't think the police could do much about 15k people walking down $BigCityStreet in the middle of the day, especially if, when confronted with shield and baton, they simply walked forward and didn't stop. What can a single line of men do against the press of thousands?
Worried about getting shot? Google "Bloody Sunday" for why this won't happen.
"**AA and friends" don't make their money through their website any more than Ford or GlaxoSmithKline do. It's nothing more than impotent rage.
If you want to demonstrate against a business entity, you need to affect the revenue stream. Post links to CC licensed music which isn't shit (because most of it is). Organise boycotts and public demonstrations where you give away CC licensed music. You can buy a stack of 100 CD-Rs for under £20, spend a night putting some rock, jazz, pop, whatever on a few, and ask people if they want some totally free music instead of buying their next album? Include details, or a link, or QR code, to the artist in the sleeve. Hand them out in front of your local record store. When the police turn up, hand them a piece of paper listing the artists, and explaining the license terms.
How has nobody thought of this yet?!
"**AA and friends" don't make their money through their website any more than Ford or GlaxoSmithKline do. It's nothing more than impotent rage.
If you want to demonstrate against a business entity, you need to affect the revenue stream. Post links to CC licensed music which isn't shit (because most of it is). Organise boycotts and public demonstrations where you give away CC licensed music. You can buy a stack of 100 CD-Rs for under £20, spend a night putting some rock, jazz, pop, whatever on a few, and ask people if they want some totally free music instead of buying their next album? Include details, or a link, or QR code, to the artist in the sleeve. Hand them out in front of your local record store.
Maybe a day of rampant and ubiquitous torrent seeding and downloading?
Bringing Europe to a standstill for a day would seem like a reasonable response to this.
Legislators would pay a whole lot more attention if Kodak gave them a couple hundred grand in "campaign contributions".
Sure, but even after changing all that shit, it's still the same PC, with the same copy of Windows on it.
You should probably search Google for "Trigger's Broom". Remember, we're talking about legal documents, not logic.
I've never read the whole speech before. Thank you for posting it.
Might want to check this recently posted story
/. editors posted that. Either way, you should probably say "Shucks, sorry guys."
In your defence, it is mere minutes between the posting of that story and your comment, so you could be forgiven for writing this while
It's the Broken Glass fallacy again. The game dev already has his payment for the game, so he's square. Buying a used game instead of a new one does three things directly; It gives the store owner revenue to prop up his business and keep his people employed, it gives the person who bought the game originally more disposable cash to spend, potentially, on a new game, and it gives the person who bought the second hand game more disposable income (by buying the second hand game at a lower price) to pay for, potentially, a different new game.
Society benefits from a second hand market. Individuals may be worse off, but they probably won't. They're just greedy fucks.
The leading political party is liberal, so I'd say it's more of a blue shift. This very handily brings us back to the Half Life comments at the top.
Apparently a side effect of resonance cascades is pre-destination and determinism.
BTW for all the complaints and comparisons to Windows activation? I have NEVER had MSFT refuse an activation on a legit key EVAR. Hell the machine I'm typing this on is a Win 7 HP I installed in OCT 09 when i built the thing and I have changed out every. single. piece. of the hardware, and I do mean EVERY piece. the HDDs, the RAM, the graphics card,the PSU, the motherboard, and the CPU. The ONLY original piece left is the case yet I've only had to reactivate ONE time and that was when i switched out the ECS motherboard and quad CPU for an Asrock and 6 core Thuban.
Go read the terms of the licensing agreement; "One PC" is defined as a specific set of components (motherboard, cpu, hard disk, memory, graphics card etc). Changing any more than 3 of these requires that you purchase a new license for Windows 7.
Don't ever think that Microsoft is a good example of how to be good to your customers. Yeah, they might not send the Stasi around because you upgraded your rig, but you're still technically breaking those (now legally enforceable in the US) shrinkwrap Ts and Cs.
Unless you're on IPv6 already.
[B]ut actually, single-payer and guaranteed healthcare coverage are GREAT for the working class...
Kind of shot yourself in the foot there, chum. What the fuck does your boss, his boss, and the CxO care what's good for the working class? Yes, it's the modern equivalent of indentured servitude, but nobody can help those who won't help themselves. "Horse to water..." and all that. It's nobody's fault except the working class (of which I am a member) that these things are allowed to continue. Wholesale refusal to accept lowest-bid working conditions is probably not the only way, but it's a damn good start. Selling your soul for a nickel because the next guy wanted a dime just continues the trend to drive down the working wage, and the CxO laughs all the way to the bank with his 3rd Audi of the year and his salary-pension.
It's a race to the bottom, and we're picking up speed at a ferocious rate.
Be honest, you don't want to lose your job while your well documented code is shipped to an Indian man-farm in a cost-saving (read: Bonus increasing) exercise, so you don't.
Y'all made your bed.