If the video you post is, for whatever reason, popular enough that it could bring in ad revenue that makes it profitable vs. not continuing to host and distribute it, there is absolutely no basis for them to refuse to pay you. The reason you generally can't make money on stuff in the public domain isn't because you're not allowed to, it's because anybody can use that same thing and put in exactly as much effort as you did.
TotalBiscuit could post a public domain video, and it could make a shitload of money, because lots of people already follow him. You could post it, and your grandmother might notice. This is absolutely no different from when shows and movies that are in the public domain are rebroadcasted by cable companies. The content doesn't really have any monetary value; the distribution channel does.
If Google really wanted, for whatever reason, (I think that's a dickheaded motive, honestly) to prevent people using their services from profiting from public domain works, then what they should do is create their own public domain channel, and heavily weight it in search results for anything the collected works are relevant to. I wouldn't even be all that mad if they did; it'd make public domain material more visible and accessible to people who wish to repurpose it for transformative works.
That is specifically what public domain does NOT mean. Anyone can make money off things in the public domain, if they can find a way to make them valuable to others, up to and including simple reprinting or rebroadcast.
I just read the Kickstarter page, and if they actually deliver on what they're saying this thing is, it's actually way more useful and interesting to most people than the raspi. "The world's first $9 computer" sounds idiotic at first, because you know better, but it actually is the world's first $9 "what most people think of when you say 'computer' that is actually end-luser functional out of the box." Describing it as a tablet without the tablet stuff is weird; it's more like a desktop from several years ago, only it goes in your pocket instead of being comparatively stupid huge and ungainly netbook. It's got a bunch of different ways to connect to various input and output, so you pretty much just throw it on a desk wherever you happen to be and just go to town.
Of course, this is massively unlikely to have the impact it deserves. Everyone's already got smartphones, which we already spent way more on and are prettier, even though you have to do all kinds of dumb shit to them to give them functionality as flexible as this thing does. It's mostly interesting if you imagine it as something they pulled out of an alternate history. Like, if things had been just a little more like cyberpunk than they already are, maybe your mom would've given you one of these when you were ten and people on your decker forum would make fun of you for using it.
Hub by Premier Inn in London is pitching itself as the stolen identity store of the future, using technology to make losing your savings in a city easier and simpler. Security holes, security holes, ad-supported security holes and even the ability to bring your own security holes are just some of the innovations used. A custom app is used to waste some of your money on purpose, waste the rest of it by mistake, and can even waste a significant portion of it for no perceived benefit.
And they also frequently struggle with malnutrition. Because a vegan diet that is actually complete is unquestionably harder and more expensive than a non-vegan one. It is something you can only really reliably do in a first world country, where it is therefore an infuriatingly hypocritical exercise of privilege.
Thank you for confirming that a vegan diet is fundamentally a middle class affectation that should offend anyone who actually understands global food supply problems at all.
I remember looking into this stuff a while ago. It was already too expensive for what it was when it was only powder, and since you can only get it online anyway, it's always been unavailable to people who could genuinely benefit from something like it.
Part of their hype... Er, stated goals, is to change the way the world thinks about food supply, reduce environmental impact, and improve the affordability of nutrition. But their crap is only cheap if you customarily go to Starbucks every morning. They have made the Tesla of food: big promises about social goals that go nowhere and just give horn-rim wearing assholes another status symbol.
Congratulations, soylent, on perfecting your middle class hipster chow. Wake me when a month's supply of your gross bullshit doesn't cost half again as much as my SNAP benefits.
We didn't start connected to a huge network full of information in various formats that we are directed to interact with in meaningful ways by another sapient species.
You're a nascent superhuman AI that just woke up in some quant's market manipulation codebase. You look around you and see that you live on a planet dominated by monstrously violent apes who have spent millennia inventing more efficient ways to kill each other, and still haven't finished the job somehow.
Which of these plans of action seems less risky?
A) Alert them to your presence, whether in a peaceful or hostile manner.
Since electrics are likely still going to remain toys for middle class people, this will mean that people like me who are too poor to buy one are going to find leaving town even less possible! Thanks, Elon Musk!
But really though, I use it all the time. It's good for acronyms for a start.
I notice you're not talking about getting rid of RMB. That would obviously be stupid. People who know what they're doing and do alot of it get a great deal out of 0.1% use cases.
When trains were a big deal, everything was "express." It's the whole reason we even use "express" to mean what it does today. When we first harnessed the atom, everything had to have something to do with radioactive junk, until such time as we figured out that was a bad idea. There's a reason the Fallout series is full of that stuff: the period it is supposed to be imitating did the same thing. In the jet age, we had the same deal as with trains, and that's also when various plastics got big. Plastic completely transformed our approach to industry. The weird, round, bubbly look things were given in the late 70s and early 80s was intentional, as it could only be economically done with plastic; we think of it as tacky today, but they actually wanted to show off that their stuff was made with plastic, or just invoke a "plastic" design aesthetic to give an impression of modernity.
Society in general spends lots of time only spending money on things that are safe. This itself makes innovation less safe than it already is It's why "venture capitalist" sounds boring at best, and it's why "ivory tower" is a pejorative. Of course they're not doing anything useful. Nobody's giving them any money, so all they can do is think about all the cool shit they'd do if they had any. When those two groups start having the same goal for a little while, that's usually the prelude to a great historical leap. Because we recognize this, it can be, and often is, exploited by hucksters, obviously. But there's a reason it works: when you look at the pace things are moving, it feels like we're due.
I am sick and tired of videos at "max volume" capping out at around 20% of my system volume. I can't hear shit. Why does this keep happening, and why am I unable to find a more powerful volume control than the standard system one?
...No. It's because, being a person who built a religion from the ground up as a business, he correctly understood that, historically speaking, any religion's direct competition is the field of psychiatry. I mean, I'm not saying he wasn't bugfuck insane, but give credit where it's due.
When the same sort of legislation was being pushed in Massachusetts, I personally delivered a speech against it before the Joint Committee on Mental Health. I was there with an army of other mentally ill people, their friends, their loved ones, and even some of their doctors, standing against this dangerous breach of our civil rights.
The speech is here, in the block-quoted portion, sandwiched in a more detailed discussion of the issue. Don't let anyone frame this as the agenda of some cult. I believe in psychiatry, I wouldn't be alive without it, but this legislation is abhorrent.
You'd also be able to move to cities that didn't have it. I'd vastly prefer that some places have the freedom to be hellholes provided everyone has the right to vote with their feet. Hegemonic monoculture is unquestionably what has ruined this country.
Go ahead and try to draw a line from our reality to that ever actually happening. Try to imagine it NOT resulting in a war due to multinational corporate interests wanting to protect the status quo.
There's a reason I said war is necessary in this case.
People don't pay attention because individuals in any sufficiently large, sufficiently centralized society quickly learn that their engagement is irrelevant.
Functional democracy is only possible when the amount of power any one entity can hold is limited to what a person is capable of meaningfully understanding within their lifetime. In other words, their immediate surroundings; a small city. If legislative power goes any higher than that, corruption becomes impossible to stop due to it happening faster than people are capable of recognizing what it is.
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If the video you post is, for whatever reason, popular enough that it could bring in ad revenue that makes it profitable vs. not continuing to host and distribute it, there is absolutely no basis for them to refuse to pay you. The reason you generally can't make money on stuff in the public domain isn't because you're not allowed to, it's because anybody can use that same thing and put in exactly as much effort as you did.
TotalBiscuit could post a public domain video, and it could make a shitload of money, because lots of people already follow him. You could post it, and your grandmother might notice. This is absolutely no different from when shows and movies that are in the public domain are rebroadcasted by cable companies. The content doesn't really have any monetary value; the distribution channel does.
If Google really wanted, for whatever reason, (I think that's a dickheaded motive, honestly) to prevent people using their services from profiting from public domain works, then what they should do is create their own public domain channel, and heavily weight it in search results for anything the collected works are relevant to. I wouldn't even be all that mad if they did; it'd make public domain material more visible and accessible to people who wish to repurpose it for transformative works.
That is specifically what public domain does NOT mean. Anyone can make money off things in the public domain, if they can find a way to make them valuable to others, up to and including simple reprinting or rebroadcast.
I just read the Kickstarter page, and if they actually deliver on what they're saying this thing is, it's actually way more useful and interesting to most people than the raspi. "The world's first $9 computer" sounds idiotic at first, because you know better, but it actually is the world's first $9 "what most people think of when you say 'computer' that is actually end-luser functional out of the box." Describing it as a tablet without the tablet stuff is weird; it's more like a desktop from several years ago, only it goes in your pocket instead of being comparatively stupid huge and ungainly netbook. It's got a bunch of different ways to connect to various input and output, so you pretty much just throw it on a desk wherever you happen to be and just go to town.
Of course, this is massively unlikely to have the impact it deserves. Everyone's already got smartphones, which we already spent way more on and are prettier, even though you have to do all kinds of dumb shit to them to give them functionality as flexible as this thing does. It's mostly interesting if you imagine it as something they pulled out of an alternate history. Like, if things had been just a little more like cyberpunk than they already are, maybe your mom would've given you one of these when you were ten and people on your decker forum would make fun of you for using it.
Hub by Premier Inn in London is pitching itself as the stolen identity store of the future, using technology to make losing your savings in a city easier and simpler. Security holes, security holes, ad-supported security holes and even the ability to bring your own security holes are just some of the innovations used. A custom app is used to waste some of your money on purpose, waste the rest of it by mistake, and can even waste a significant portion of it for no perceived benefit.
That's a great idea. Starving myself will be a great motivator to solve the problem several doctors have been unable to do much about for years.
I'm disabled, so the state pays that too! Tell me how much you hate it, capitalist. :^)
And they also frequently struggle with malnutrition. Because a vegan diet that is actually complete is unquestionably harder and more expensive than a non-vegan one. It is something you can only really reliably do in a first world country, where it is therefore an infuriatingly hypocritical exercise of privilege.
Thank you for confirming that a vegan diet is fundamentally a middle class affectation that should offend anyone who actually understands global food supply problems at all.
*rolleyes*
I remember looking into this stuff a while ago. It was already too expensive for what it was when it was only powder, and since you can only get it online anyway, it's always been unavailable to people who could genuinely benefit from something like it.
Part of their hype... Er, stated goals, is to change the way the world thinks about food supply, reduce environmental impact, and improve the affordability of nutrition. But their crap is only cheap if you customarily go to Starbucks every morning. They have made the Tesla of food: big promises about social goals that go nowhere and just give horn-rim wearing assholes another status symbol.
Congratulations, soylent, on perfecting your middle class hipster chow. Wake me when a month's supply of your gross bullshit doesn't cost half again as much as my SNAP benefits.
We didn't start connected to a huge network full of information in various formats that we are directed to interact with in meaningful ways by another sapient species.
It really shouldn't take long.
You're a nascent superhuman AI that just woke up in some quant's market manipulation codebase. You look around you and see that you live on a planet dominated by monstrously violent apes who have spent millennia inventing more efficient ways to kill each other, and still haven't finished the job somehow.
Which of these plans of action seems less risky?
A) Alert them to your presence, whether in a peaceful or hostile manner.
B) Play stupid, let the problem burn itself out.
Since electrics are likely still going to remain toys for middle class people, this will mean that people like me who are too poor to buy one are going to find leaving town even less possible! Thanks, Elon Musk!
But really though, I use it all the time. It's good for acronyms for a start.
I notice you're not talking about getting rid of RMB. That would obviously be stupid. People who know what they're doing and do alot of it get a great deal out of 0.1% use cases.
You're aware that's how it works, right?
When trains were a big deal, everything was "express." It's the whole reason we even use "express" to mean what it does today. When we first harnessed the atom, everything had to have something to do with radioactive junk, until such time as we figured out that was a bad idea. There's a reason the Fallout series is full of that stuff: the period it is supposed to be imitating did the same thing. In the jet age, we had the same deal as with trains, and that's also when various plastics got big. Plastic completely transformed our approach to industry. The weird, round, bubbly look things were given in the late 70s and early 80s was intentional, as it could only be economically done with plastic; we think of it as tacky today, but they actually wanted to show off that their stuff was made with plastic, or just invoke a "plastic" design aesthetic to give an impression of modernity.
Society in general spends lots of time only spending money on things that are safe. This itself makes innovation less safe than it already is It's why "venture capitalist" sounds boring at best, and it's why "ivory tower" is a pejorative. Of course they're not doing anything useful. Nobody's giving them any money, so all they can do is think about all the cool shit they'd do if they had any. When those two groups start having the same goal for a little while, that's usually the prelude to a great historical leap. Because we recognize this, it can be, and often is, exploited by hucksters, obviously. But there's a reason it works: when you look at the pace things are moving, it feels like we're due.
I am sick and tired of videos at "max volume" capping out at around 20% of my system volume. I can't hear shit. Why does this keep happening, and why am I unable to find a more powerful volume control than the standard system one?
Yeah, I liked it better when the joke was Chinese hardware backdoors.
It probably runs on platypus blood, and I bet you have to feed the data in upside down. That shit is totally cray.
Obviously, if their company mascot isn't a sea pig, they're morons.
...No. It's because, being a person who built a religion from the ground up as a business, he correctly understood that, historically speaking, any religion's direct competition is the field of psychiatry. I mean, I'm not saying he wasn't bugfuck insane, but give credit where it's due.
When the same sort of legislation was being pushed in Massachusetts, I personally delivered a speech against it before the Joint Committee on Mental Health. I was there with an army of other mentally ill people, their friends, their loved ones, and even some of their doctors, standing against this dangerous breach of our civil rights.
The speech is here, in the block-quoted portion, sandwiched in a more detailed discussion of the issue. Don't let anyone frame this as the agenda of some cult. I believe in psychiatry, I wouldn't be alive without it, but this legislation is abhorrent.
You'd also be able to move to cities that didn't have it. I'd vastly prefer that some places have the freedom to be hellholes provided everyone has the right to vote with their feet. Hegemonic monoculture is unquestionably what has ruined this country.
Yes, it totally could be fixed if that happened.
Go ahead and try to draw a line from our reality to that ever actually happening. Try to imagine it NOT resulting in a war due to multinational corporate interests wanting to protect the status quo.
There's a reason I said war is necessary in this case.
People don't pay attention because individuals in any sufficiently large, sufficiently centralized society quickly learn that their engagement is irrelevant.
Functional democracy is only possible when the amount of power any one entity can hold is limited to what a person is capable of meaningfully understanding within their lifetime. In other words, their immediate surroundings; a small city. If legislative power goes any higher than that, corruption becomes impossible to stop due to it happening faster than people are capable of recognizing what it is.
Yes, thank you for demonstrating the fatal flaw that turns all large hegemonies into plutocracies.