... and innovation without reward is a fool's errand.
It's sad that you believe financial compensation is a necessary motive for improving society. "Downloads" are not "discouraging innovation" they're just not-encouraging it. "Discouraging innovation" would be locking up information so no one else could build upon it.
You totally miss the point of the "information is free" philosophy: If I tell you an idea, now you have an idea and I still have the idea. I loose nothing you gain an idea, for free. Our collective knowledge is greater and it cost nothing.
Information is free. Your argument is moot. You've swallowed the "sharing is theft" propaganda. You're mother smells of elderberries.
Actually, I know this, but most people have a hard time swallowing that idea. My intention is to promote a mentality that 3rd parties are a better option.
er... why do we "need" to reward creativity? Why should this be a fundamental principal of society? Why do people take it for granted that artist need laws to create artificial markets so they can be "rewarded".
You can't just throw dollars at someone and say: "create art now". True art come from a persons deisre to express himself and communicate. Pop music comes from a persons desire to make money by securing a monopoly on his $-motivated "art".
Art will not die without copyright and it was around long before it.
The sooner "piracy" kills off the record labels and their marketing machine, the sooner independant bands will get a fair go. Music will then be popular based on HOW GOOD IT IS rather than how much it's shoved down peoples throats.
We just need a torrent search on a tor hidden server. Does anyone know of one? Or a freenet site which indexes torrents. Combine this with lots of smaller trackers and bittorent is basically impossible to shut down without banning encryption.
This kind of foible really turns me off xml. Not to say XML doesn't have its place, but for AJAX applications I think JSON is much more appropriate. Also, parsing the dom tree is a real pain in the ass (not the donkey).
seriously, RTFM . This code registers an onclick callback to objects with css class cat. Try doing that with the built in dom methods in less than 10 lines of code.
No. Copyright law is preserving the right of the artist to attempt to profit from their work without the active interference of others.
What "right of the artist"? What the grandparent is saying is that they have no inherit right to monopolize an idea. This is a right merely given them by law. If the people disagree with said law and we live in a democracy, then it is moot.
Your problem is that you assume they have this God given right in the first place and that the law just reflects this. Whereas the "right" is only a consequence of the law which the people made.
Musicians don't HAVE TO make money of distribution of their work. It's not necessary or, as it seems, even desirable as an ideal for our society. I'm sick of these apologists with their "I download music but at least i admit it's wrong" bullshit. illegal != wrong. It's only wrong if you think it is.
Open your mind for a minute and try to imagine a world where all ideas are free. Where people create and innovate to SHARE and EXPRESS THEMSELVES as a motive instead of greedily trying to secure a monopoly on a concept and extort their brothers. I looks like a much nicer place to me. Imagine.
Don't trust quackwatch. they are quacks! Their purpose it to protect the profits of the pharmecutical industy by discrediting cheap effective alternative cures which they otherwise can't compete with. Colloidal silver is a good example of this.
I really enjoyed this article. It reminds of the lectures of Alan Watts
"Human beings are not really individuals; theyâ(TM)re communities of organisms,"
This ties back to the illusion of separate self. The whole universe is a community of organisms; How can you distinguish self from other?
... microbiologists focused mainly on "isolating" bacteria: removing them from their natural contexts and growing them in culture dishes in the lab. This approach was the only way to observe and understand bacterial cells in great detail. But it also created huge gaps in knowledge about bacterial life. It focused on the fraction of microorganisms that can be grown in culture, and it overlooked the highly complex and diverse ways in which they actually live togetherâ"âan approach akin to studying humans by confining them in prison cells while ignoring the cities and communities that make up their natural habitat.
Microbiologists have long understood that you can't define an organism without it's environment.
"In some ways, weâ(TM)re an amalgam and a continuously evolving collective," Relman says.
Extend this idea to human communities. Is a city not a continuously evolving collective. Perhaps humans are just the symbiotic bacteria of a city. Consider the whole planet, solar system, universe; are we not all just one being?
Science becomes aware of the fundamental interconnectedness of all life.
The very force that makes the windmill spin is also pushing the boat backwards. If the boat has 0 wind resistance and the windmill is 100% efficient, the boat will remain stationary. This arrangement will never result in a positive net force.
If the boat is moving at an angle to the wind, then yes; the windmill will make the boat move faster, but no more than a simple sail would.
I don't want to come off as a nutjob here, but this country is falling down hard. A new revolution in the next 100 years appears to be more than possible at this point. Laws are getting absolutely ridiculous.
Slashdot Mirror
sheesh! drop the metaphors guys.
try: "I like X", "I hate Y". The we're clear about where we stand.
I just have to say: TV sucks, the Internet is awesome. Death to TV!
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Television: forming public opinion since 1930.
... and innovation without reward is a fool's errand.
It's sad that you believe financial compensation is a necessary motive for improving society. "Downloads" are not "discouraging innovation" they're just not-encouraging it. "Discouraging innovation" would be locking up information so no one else could build upon it.
You totally miss the point of the "information is free" philosophy: If I tell you an idea, now you have an idea and I still have the idea. I loose nothing you gain an idea, for free. Our collective knowledge is greater and it cost nothing.
Information is free. Your argument is moot. You've swallowed the "sharing is theft" propaganda. You're mother smells of elderberries.
Actually, I know this, but most people have a hard time swallowing that idea. My intention is to promote a mentality that 3rd parties are a better option.
how about C) third party that actually represents the constitution
What's with the political party fanboyism. It's the two party system, people! When are you going to learn that they are both just out to fuck you.
It's called the Free Market.
er... why do we "need" to reward creativity? Why should this be a fundamental principal of society? Why do people take it for granted that artist need laws to create artificial markets so they can be "rewarded".
You can't just throw dollars at someone and say: "create art now". True art come from a persons deisre to express himself and communicate. Pop music comes from a persons desire to make money by securing a monopoly on his $-motivated "art".
Art will not die without copyright and it was around long before it.
The sooner "piracy" kills off the record labels and their marketing machine, the sooner independant bands will get a fair go. Music will then be popular based on HOW GOOD IT IS rather than how much it's shoved down peoples throats.
Doesn't anyone else see this as just a system for tracking ordinary citizens?
Tracking citizens: the hallmark of the totalitarian state.
Piracy is nothing more than thoughtful humans who question the premise of copyright law and want to end the corporate stranglehold over culture.
There, fixed that for you.
We just need a torrent search on a tor hidden server. Does anyone know of one? Or a freenet site which indexes torrents. Combine this with lots of smaller trackers and bittorent is basically impossible to shut down without banning encryption.
Try a list
JSON:
{
listofstuff: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
properties: { x: "asdf", y: "qwer" }
}
XML: />
<root>
<listofstuff>
<i>1</i>
<i>2</i>
<i>3</i>
<i>4</i>
<i>5</i>
<i>6</i>
</listofstuff>
<properties x="asdf" y="qwer"
</root>
This kind of foible really turns me off xml. Not to say XML doesn't have its place, but for AJAX applications I think JSON is much more appropriate. Also, parsing the dom tree is a real pain in the ass (not the donkey).
seriously, RTFM . This code registers an onclick callback to objects with css class cat. Try doing that with the built in dom methods in less than 10 lines of code.
... and voting for 1 of 2 corrupt socialist parties is a vote well spent?
"vote 3rd party is a wasted vote": this is the rhetoric of the 2 party system; the intention is to disempower you.
No, but we can help them by not buying any music or movies for a couple of months.
"a couple of months"??? What about ever!
No. Copyright law is preserving the right of the artist to attempt to profit from their work without the active interference of others.
What "right of the artist"? What the grandparent is saying is that they have no inherit right to monopolize an idea. This is a right merely given them by law. If the people disagree with said law and we live in a democracy, then it is moot.
Your problem is that you assume they have this God given right in the first place and that the law just reflects this. Whereas the "right" is only a consequence of the law which the people made.
Musicians don't HAVE TO make money of distribution of their work. It's not necessary or, as it seems, even desirable as an ideal for our society. I'm sick of these apologists with their "I download music but at least i admit it's wrong" bullshit. illegal != wrong. It's only wrong if you think it is.
Open your mind for a minute and try to imagine a world where all ideas are free. Where people create and innovate to SHARE and EXPRESS THEMSELVES as a motive instead of greedily trying to secure a monopoly on a concept and extort their brothers. I looks like a much nicer place to me. Imagine.
Don't trust quackwatch. they are quacks! Their purpose it to protect the profits of the pharmecutical industy by discrediting cheap effective alternative cures which they otherwise can't compete with. Colloidal silver is a good example of this.
I really enjoyed this article. It reminds of the lectures of Alan Watts
"Human beings are not really individuals; theyâ(TM)re communities of organisms,"
This ties back to the illusion of separate self. The whole universe is a community of organisms; How can you distinguish self from other?
Microbiologists have long understood that you can't define an organism without it's environment.
"In some ways, weâ(TM)re an amalgam and a continuously evolving collective," Relman says.
Extend this idea to human communities. Is a city not a continuously evolving collective. Perhaps humans are just the symbiotic bacteria of a city. Consider the whole planet, solar system, universe; are we not all just one being?
I'm not sure if this is a joke.
The very force that makes the windmill spin is also pushing the boat backwards. If the boat has 0 wind resistance and the windmill is 100% efficient, the boat will remain stationary. This arrangement will never result in a positive net force.
If the boat is moving at an angle to the wind, then yes; the windmill will make the boat move faster, but no more than a simple sail would.
reminds me of Escher
Just hash everyones voter ID and match it with the result set. This is easy to brute force because there is only a small set of IDs to be hashed.
I don't want to come off as a nutjob here, but this country is falling down hard. A new revolution in the next 100 years appears to be more than possible at this point. Laws are getting absolutely ridiculous.
perhaps sooner that you think. It seems you're not the only nutjob:
State Sovereignty Movement Quietly Growing.
more .
...it doesn't mention what you were allegedly (or actually, what your connection was used for) downloading. That's right, they don't tell you.
Sounds like Kafka, but at least Kafka had a trial at the end.
Vote for the Pirate Party next election and NEVER pay for another movie or song EVER!
Exactly, centralizing power is like centralized computing: single point of failure, not scalable.
This is what the constitution is supposed to achieve with a minimal (central) federal government and most power to the states.