RTE also hasn't got the same freedom from government pressure that the BBC has. If the current party in power says "jump" RTE says "How High". This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQsR09ER4Yk so offended poor old brian that RTE had to issue an apology, when it comes to things that matter does anyone think they'd be any more than lapdogs?
The quality of their shows is shocking, I mean really bad.
RTE is a worthless institution and personally I'm not mad on the idea of handing over cash just because I have a phone which can in theory handle youtube videos to fund the production of the next series of some godawful homegrown soap about Paddy the farmer, mary the lass and their goat in a town that's gone overboard on the "rustic and shitty" look. This and the news is all that RTE seems to produce.
I'll get my news from slashdot thank you very much and my shows from some decent subscription service.
A sob story from the same people who brought you "help the electric light companies are putting my candle store out of buisness" and "Oh no! Why does nobody wants to buy betamacs any more!"
It's depressing really. I used to think that if we ever created nanotech(in the sci fi style, the kind of goop which can create anything out of raw material) then we'd have a chance at fixing most of the worlds problems. Now I know when someone learns how to build a house for free someone else will sue them for using some variation on a "4 walls and a roof" patent.
Governments who don't understand the technology will be lobbied to ban it much as they are lobbied to ban P2P. It will probably be justified on the basis of stopping paedophiles or terrorists or drug dealers or whatever the enemy of the day is.
I think these PaperSharing M2M(Mailbox2Mailbox) systems which allow just anyone to swap files, folders and even whole books should be banned immediately before they destroy all that is good and pure with our country!
define "generally available". If some college student working at one of the publishers he sends it to leaks it in a torrent has it been made "generally available"? If he then sues that publisher and the draft becomes part of publicly available court records has it been made "generally available"? What about changes between publications? If at age 10 I write a short story and the teacher pins it on the classroom wall for everyone to read or it gets included in some student publication and at age 20 I decide to flesh it out into a better written longer short story will I still have copyright? How big does the change have to be to get my 10 years back?
sense of achievement is relative. If I log on to a server and someone keeps gets me 20 times the one time I manage to get him first is much better than the sense of achievement from topping 20 newbies on another server.
psychopaths exist, there has to be something very wrong with you in the first place to make you pick up a gun and start shooting people.
games are just the latest scapegoat, it used to be TV that was making kids into killers, before that it was rock music, before that it was catcher and the rye and if you go back far enough it was motzart and his scandalous music corrupting the young. Every generation is certain that the next generations entertainment is somehow evil, that sure their parents were just being idiots when they thought rock music was going to make them want to drink blood and kill people but this new media, why it's a completely different afair which should be banned because it's more immersive or it's more realistic or it makes you think more or think less or engages different senses or or or...
Lets try putting "I like cats" into a profile and see if it leads to a ban.
Personally I think anyone who admits to being black in their profile should be banned. I mean what the fuck would that have to do with playing halo?It serves NO purpose!
Honestly I think that it would have made more sense to leave space alone until tech reached a point where private enterprise could get there profitably but there was that whole international pissing contest.
On the upside it gave a generation an interest in science.
And there are sometimes things which while not profitable are still worth doing like certain kinds of research.
On the other hand- US healthcare VS UK NHS Somehow the US private healthcare is vastly more costly per person per year and worse at actually treating people who are sick.
Yes for the majority of things private enterprise is better at providing it (as in the case of tfa) but it isn't always the case.
Not perfect but if it's something people can want and then save up to afford it then private enterprise works great.
I want Xbox,I don't have the money,I work hard, I save up, I buy it.
On the other hand if part of that chain falls out...
I get sick, I don't have the money, I need healthcare, I work hard... wait I'm sick and can't work... I die.
I want education for my kids,I don't have the money, I work hard but I'm not educated so my labour is worth little, hence I can't save up much, my kids get a crappy education, end up in the exact same position.
You forgot the last bit. If the ISP's make it so that child porn isn't accesible then the people who bitch and whine can pretend that it isn't happening. If there's no proof that it happens then they can pretend that that kind of thing doesn't actually happen.
And some people need a wakeup call now and then to remind them that if you're a teacher there is a decent chance that one or more of your students is being abused at home and to fucking watch for the signs. But if everything looks alright on the surface then it's all ok as far as most people are concerned.
I may be cynical but after playing spacestationsim which proclaimed on the cover to be made in collaboration with NASA I am convinced that this will suck just as much.
That was one awful game. I mean the interface was one of the worst I've ever seen. Good idea but I could see it had been designed by a committee which had no members who knew how to make a game playable.
True but you could get some decent results with small buisness grants and low interest loans. Handing people a sack of money isn't the way to go but making those investments just a little less risky would be a good thing.
If you've been following this thread apparently a surprisingly large percentage of the files in the torrents on TPB are perfectly legal. Throw up a torrent with 500 pornographic pics of yourself? that's 500 legitimate files. Throw up 1.avi file along with a text file with a description? 1 copyrighted file and one uncopyrighted one.
The tracker never touches those files so it doesn't care one bit about how big they are, so on that count the vast majority of files linked to by TPB are totally legal for the uploader to distribute.
Anyone, you seem to be too dim to understand this but a torrent tracker is no more responsible for what people upload than the DNS system is for what people put on websites. If you find a site hosting illegal content do you sue your DNS server owners? You'd never have been able to reach the site without their help! The bastards! And you know what? It wouldn't matter even a little bit if 90% of the sites returned by your local DNS server were hosting illegal content because the rest of us aren't willing to lose the other 10% just because idiots like you want an easy target.
Just keep it simple, base it on their assets including trust funds and the like and income including gifts, sure a rich daddy or friend who hasn't passed anything on to the person in question might step in but it doesn't have to be perfect, just better than the current system which is deeply flawed.
You might have a certain amount of people who have no assets at all and live on daddies money but how many in that situation don't have trust funds or get anything valuable from their parents.
Hospitals sometimes have a set limit on how much they'll spend to save a life. If it's private it's whatever the person in question can cough up, if it's public then it's more reliant on what the government will cough up.
I'd probably set a much higher dollar amount for rape or murder than the straightforward impact on the people involved but there's nothing particularly bad about giving violent crimes a dollar value.
And don't forget the makers of the phone book. I tried calling them up and complaining about how they listed a number for the drugdealer down the street, thereby facilitating people contacting him and commiting crimes!!! They refused to remove his number!
They are certainly not in innocent in a moral or ethical sense!
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I sometimes wonder why there isn't more effort made to collect genetic material from endangered species.
I consider killing the last of a species similar to burning the very last copy(in any media) of a book. So much information lost.
Quality? We're talking about the people who brought the world Killinaskully!
RTE also hasn't got the same freedom from government pressure that the BBC has. If the current party in power says "jump" RTE says "How High".
This
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQsR09ER4Yk
so offended poor old brian that RTE had to issue an apology, when it comes to things that matter does anyone think they'd be any more than lapdogs?
To give a small sample of the utter crap that RTE produces:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Ones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK2vrKXwM-8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin's_Daily_News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41QjBFkXiT0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenroe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=criYNyAL658
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_with_Hector
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnHKMdND5XM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dare_Ya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9P483JGEqQ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Name_of_the_Fada
And the worst of them all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killinaskully
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZOTBoUzGUM
Just for your information RTE has ads already.
The quality of their shows is shocking,
I mean really bad.
RTE is a worthless institution and personally I'm not mad on the idea of handing over cash just because I have a phone which can in theory handle youtube videos to fund the production of the next series of some godawful homegrown soap about Paddy the farmer, mary the lass and their goat in a town that's gone overboard on the "rustic and shitty" look.
This and the news is all that RTE seems to produce.
I'll get my news from slashdot thank you very much and my shows from some decent subscription service.
A sob story from the same people who brought you "help the electric light companies are putting my candle store out of buisness" and "Oh no! Why does nobody wants to buy betamacs any more!"
It's depressing really.
I used to think that if we ever created nanotech(in the sci fi style, the kind of goop which can create anything out of raw material) then we'd have a chance at fixing most of the worlds problems.
Now I know when someone learns how to build a house for free someone else will sue them for using some variation on a "4 walls and a roof" patent.
Governments who don't understand the technology will be lobbied to ban it much as they are lobbied to ban P2P.
It will probably be justified on the basis of stopping paedophiles or terrorists or drug dealers or whatever the enemy of the day is.
I think these PaperSharing M2M(Mailbox2Mailbox) systems which allow just anyone to swap files, folders and even whole books should be banned immediately before they destroy all that is good and pure with our country!
define "generally available".
If some college student working at one of the publishers he sends it to leaks it in a torrent has it been made "generally available"?
If he then sues that publisher and the draft becomes part of publicly available court records has it been made "generally available"?
What about changes between publications?
If at age 10 I write a short story and the teacher pins it on the classroom wall for everyone to read or it gets included in some student publication and at age 20 I decide to flesh it out into a better written longer short story will I still have copyright?
How big does the change have to be to get my 10 years back?
well they could have done a find and replace on the text to make every period into a character not valid in URL's.
perhaps the editors of wikileaks weren't too keen on the idea of looking at hundreds of childporn images themselves.
sense of achievement is relative.
If I log on to a server and someone keeps gets me 20 times the one time I manage to get him first is much better than the sense of achievement from topping 20 newbies on another server.
psychopaths exist, there has to be something very wrong with you in the first place to make you pick up a gun and start shooting people.
games are just the latest scapegoat, it used to be TV that was making kids into killers, before that it was rock music, before that it was catcher and the rye and if you go back far enough it was motzart and his scandalous music corrupting the young.
Every generation is certain that the next generations entertainment is somehow evil, that sure their parents were just being idiots when they thought rock music was going to make them want to drink blood and kill people but this new media, why it's a completely different afair which should be banned because it's more immersive or it's more realistic or it makes you think more or think less or engages different senses or or or...
Lets try putting "I like cats" into a profile and see if it leads to a ban.
Personally I think anyone who admits to being black in their profile should be banned.
I mean what the fuck would that have to do with playing halo?It serves NO purpose!
Honestly I think that it would have made more sense to leave space alone until tech reached a point where private enterprise could get there profitably but there was that whole international pissing contest.
On the upside it gave a generation an interest in science.
And there are sometimes things which while not profitable are still worth doing like certain kinds of research.
On the other hand- US healthcare VS UK NHS
Somehow the US private healthcare is vastly more costly per person per year and worse at actually treating people who are sick.
Yes for the majority of things private enterprise is better at providing it (as in the case of tfa) but it isn't always the case.
Not perfect but if it's something people can want and then save up to afford it then private enterprise works great.
I want Xbox,I don't have the money,I work hard, I save up, I buy it.
On the other hand if part of that chain falls out...
I get sick, I don't have the money, I need healthcare, I work hard... wait I'm sick and can't work... I die.
I want education for my kids,I don't have the money, I work hard but I'm not educated so my labour is worth little, hence I can't save up much, my kids get a crappy education, end up in the exact same position.
You forgot the last bit.
If the ISP's make it so that child porn isn't accesible then the people who bitch and whine can pretend that it isn't happening.
If there's no proof that it happens then they can pretend that that kind of thing doesn't actually happen.
And some people need a wakeup call now and then to remind them that if you're a teacher there is a decent chance that one or more of your students is being abused at home and to fucking watch for the signs.
But if everything looks alright on the surface then it's all ok as far as most people are concerned.
I may be cynical but after playing spacestationsim which proclaimed on the cover to be made in collaboration with NASA I am convinced that this will suck just as much.
That was one awful game. I mean the interface was one of the worst I've ever seen.
Good idea but I could see it had been designed by a committee which had no members who knew how to make a game playable.
I'd have to agree.
Open source is fantastic but it doesn't mesh well with that kind of setup.
I wouldn't say the open source community should get nothing though.
Perhaps treat it like a particularly social minded club that does charity work.
True but you could get some decent results with small buisness grants and low interest loans.
Handing people a sack of money isn't the way to go but making those investments just a little less risky would be a good thing.
If you've been following this thread apparently a surprisingly large percentage of the files in the torrents on TPB are perfectly legal. .avi file along with a text file with a description? 1 copyrighted file and one uncopyrighted one.
Throw up a torrent with 500 pornographic pics of yourself? that's 500 legitimate files.
Throw up 1
The tracker never touches those files so it doesn't care one bit about how big they are, so on that count the vast majority of files linked to by TPB are totally legal for the uploader to distribute.
Anyone, you seem to be too dim to understand this but a torrent tracker is no more responsible for what people upload than the DNS system is for what people put on websites.
If you find a site hosting illegal content do you sue your DNS server owners?
You'd never have been able to reach the site without their help! The bastards!
And you know what? It wouldn't matter even a little bit if 90% of the sites returned by your local DNS server were hosting illegal content because the rest of us aren't willing to lose the other 10% just because idiots like you want an easy target.
What a well reasoned and substantiated post.
I'm sure you've convinced many people that your position is the more logical.
Is the purpose of the phone book to facilitate drug dealers dealing drugs?
It's to facilitate communication between people for whatever reason they choose.
It might be illegal, it might not.
Is the main purpose of TPB really something other than facilitating transfer of copyrighted files?
It's to facilitate communication between people for whatever reason they choose.
It might be illegal, it might not.
Is there really no legal use for a drug dealer's telephone number?
Is there really no legal reason to set up torrents of anything you want to distribute?
Is there any significant legal use for a torrent of an infringing file?
is there any significant legal use for a torrent of an non infringing file?
Just keep it simple, base it on their assets including trust funds and the like and income including gifts, sure a rich daddy or friend who hasn't passed anything on to the person in question might step in but it doesn't have to be perfect, just better than the current system which is deeply flawed.
You might have a certain amount of people who have no assets at all and live on daddies money but how many in that situation don't have trust funds or get anything valuable from their parents.
Doesn't have to be perfect, just better.
Hospitals sometimes have a set limit on how much they'll spend to save a life. If it's private it's whatever the person in question can cough up, if it's public then it's more reliant on what the government will cough up.
I'd probably set a much higher dollar amount for rape or murder than the straightforward impact on the people involved but there's nothing particularly bad about giving violent crimes a dollar value.
And don't forget the makers of the phone book.
I tried calling them up and complaining about how they listed a number for the drugdealer down the street, thereby facilitating people contacting him and commiting crimes!!!
They refused to remove his number!
They are certainly not in innocent in a moral or ethical sense!
Wait, so if I tell people where drug dealers live I'd be commiting a crime?