You've hit on the biggest underlying problem with copyrighting art.
You see, beauty, and pleasure are subjective. Therefore, a movie/song/painting/performance that one person may enjoy, I may find complete shit. When you produce a widget who's value to the consumer is subjective and does not follow normal economics, you shouldn't be allowed to claim your widget has any value at all. At that point it's your opinion that your widget has a monetary value. If anything, the actual value would be in a strict sense, your man hours spent in production along with the cost of the raw materials... As anything above and beyond that, as I said, is subjective.
I produced a music album; I think it's worth $10,000,000USD; I think if people steal copies of it I should sue for unconstitutional damages because I lost $10,000,000. Sound familiar?
Art is not a normal commodity, it does not have an intrinsic value. The price of art is subjectively assigned only by people that value it. Ie, if I pirate 1 million copies of THE WORST selling, worst rated, album, did the distributor really lose 1,000,000 * retail price?
This is exactly why pirating digital art doesn't hurt anyone. Period. Software is a completely different story...
Seems like I could rig a MakerBot to run on solar or other renewable energy. So I must ask the question, why not buy 1 MakerBot kit and use it to make a FunitureMakerBot?
You could power it with solar, mechanical, hydro, etc etc etc... Just a thought.
Today's republicans are like democrats from 50 years ago, today's democrats are like liberals from 50 years ago, and today's liberals are like libertarians from 50 years ago. I myself prefer to be independent and back any good ideas and shun any bad ones.
50 years from today, I imagine politics will still suck.
Hello.... Government....
Don't you have more important things to be thinking about than `internet poker`?
Like an economy on the rocks?
or maybe nearly 10% of the folks in this nation who have no source of income?
Honestly, I'll never understand who goes through our governments minds... they do nothing but waste time, thus waste money... and people wonder why this nation is on the verge of collapse...
Hello... retards...
Companies that operate outside of the USA (while directing their business inside) such as these "online gambling" sites are making unarguably billions of tax free dollars.
I believe my federal government has a vested interest in recovering those lost tax dollars, and I offer you tax cheating assholes a very Simpson's Nelson "HA-ha!" for having your assets seized. The only other viable option is to keep raising taxes on the working middle class, which is something us non-socialists have been known to spill blood over.
You've obviously never played an instance based MMO. Kinda hard to steal kills and loot in DDO, and with the voice chat and friends system it's easy to mark a griefer and avoid them.
Lawyers aren't a profession imho they are a racket. I never think of lawyers as professionals, simply because they need not exist. Imho a long long time ago, a group of clever men sat down and decided they could extort money from the general public, if the general public could no longer decipher the laws.
It was posted before, and it saddens me to think anyone *needs* a lawyer, but the simple fact that lawyers exist should logically mean that ignorance of the law is a valid excuse.
people with opinions can and do edit content. People with no discipline and over-sized egos can and do break into computer systems and edit content. I already don't like the idea of making my medical records available to the black market online; let alone giving the black market the ability to directly influence my children's learning capabilities. My neighborhood, city, state, country, and society have no business teaching my children anything unless I allow it. Period. No matter how fucked up people think that is.
I would disagree and say that they stood on the shoulders of others and probably paid hundreds of millions in advertising.
There were other cell phones before the iphone. There were other mp3 players before the ipod. And there were certainly other PDAs with touch screen interface before either.
Materials list:
1 CPU
1 ACPI enabled motherboard
1 Aluminum ATX case
1 Copper heatsink
1 UPS
1 hand crank A/C generator
1 set of bicycle pedals
Process:
Build PC using CPU, motherboard, heatsink, and case. Attach bike pedals to hand crank generator. Attach generator to UPS. Pedal your way to "greener" computing and a healthier life.
Sorry to reply to myself, but in reviewing that link again... I think I'm actually more sickened by the "riotous laughter and applause" from the Apple sycophants in response to the Hitler joke. Bad fanbois, BAD BAD fanbois!
I'm not a doctor, but I highly doubt there are any clauses in the Hippocratic Oath that prevent doctors from providing patient care because the power is out, or because the patient doesn't have insurance, or can't speak, or in this case because they themselves can't be bothered to fill out a form.
Some people can see a difference in frame rates. I know not everyone can as I argue with people all the time about what I can see that they cannot.
For someone that actually knows what they are doing, I would rather overkill it than end up sub-par. As the margin increases, so does the lack of information in the difference. 20 frames might not mean anything to you, but to me it might mean that I now have 20 frames to out think and out maneuver you.
Yes, you can in fact play any game out there with no hardware video acceleration too. Your definition of play is obviously very loose compared to mine. Video games are not playable for me unless they consistently exceed 60fps.
Self doping is quite a bit different than government sponsored doping. But I suppose if you are an ignorant doper it shouldn't, and probably doesn't, matter to you how the government tries to control your actions and your very thoughts.
Also... Troll? Because I called out someone trying to beat around the bush? Lame. No one really cares that you love Pbo, but just because someone else doesn't, doesn't mean they are trolling when they call shenanigans on you.
See how they altered the document by redacting the certificate number? Then see at the bottom where it says "ANY ALTERATIONS INVALIDATE THIS CERTIFICATE?"
So, can someone show us Obama's genuine birth cirtificate? Or can we just keep "ignorantly" claiming he is illegally holding office as a non-natural born citizen?
Call me ignorant.
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I already have a time warping machine. I use it once daily to skip ahead 8hrs into tomorrow.
You've hit on the biggest underlying problem with copyrighting art.
You see, beauty, and pleasure are subjective. Therefore, a movie/song/painting/performance that one person may enjoy, I may find complete shit. When you produce a widget who's value to the consumer is subjective and does not follow normal economics, you shouldn't be allowed to claim your widget has any value at all. At that point it's your opinion that your widget has a monetary value. If anything, the actual value would be in a strict sense, your man hours spent in production along with the cost of the raw materials... As anything above and beyond that, as I said, is subjective.
I produced a music album; I think it's worth $10,000,000USD; I think if people steal copies of it I should sue for unconstitutional damages because I lost $10,000,000. Sound familiar?
Art is not a normal commodity, it does not have an intrinsic value. The price of art is subjectively assigned only by people that value it. Ie, if I pirate 1 million copies of THE WORST selling, worst rated, album, did the distributor really lose 1,000,000 * retail price?
This is exactly why pirating digital art doesn't hurt anyone. Period. Software is a completely different story...
Seems like I could rig a MakerBot to run on solar or other renewable energy. So I must ask the question, why not buy 1 MakerBot kit and use it to make a FunitureMakerBot?
You could power it with solar, mechanical, hydro, etc etc etc... Just a thought.
Today's republicans are like democrats from 50 years ago, today's democrats are like liberals from 50 years ago, and today's liberals are like libertarians from 50 years ago. I myself prefer to be independent and back any good ideas and shun any bad ones.
50 years from today, I imagine politics will still suck.
That's too close to pig-fu, and you certainly don't want to piss off a 300lbs tusked boar with martial arts training!
Only if you care about history and the future. If you only care about the present, like a greedy selfish bastard, then no.
Hello.... Government.... Don't you have more important things to be thinking about than `internet poker`? Like an economy on the rocks? or maybe nearly 10% of the folks in this nation who have no source of income? Honestly, I'll never understand who goes through our governments minds... they do nothing but waste time, thus waste money... and people wonder why this nation is on the verge of collapse...
Hello... retards...
Companies that operate outside of the USA (while directing their business inside) such as these "online gambling" sites are making unarguably billions of tax free dollars.
I believe my federal government has a vested interest in recovering those lost tax dollars, and I offer you tax cheating assholes a very Simpson's Nelson "HA-ha!" for having your assets seized. The only other viable option is to keep raising taxes on the working middle class, which is something us non-socialists have been known to spill blood over.
You've obviously never played an instance based MMO. Kinda hard to steal kills and loot in DDO, and with the voice chat and friends system it's easy to mark a griefer and avoid them.
Lawyers aren't a profession imho they are a racket. I never think of lawyers as professionals, simply because they need not exist. Imho a long long time ago, a group of clever men sat down and decided they could extort money from the general public, if the general public could no longer decipher the laws.
It was posted before, and it saddens me to think anyone *needs* a lawyer, but the simple fact that lawyers exist should logically mean that ignorance of the law is a valid excuse.
people with opinions can and do edit content. People with no discipline and over-sized egos can and do break into computer systems and edit content. I already don't like the idea of making my medical records available to the black market online; let alone giving the black market the ability to directly influence my children's learning capabilities. My neighborhood, city, state, country, and society have no business teaching my children anything unless I allow it. Period. No matter how fucked up people think that is.
While the consumer may usually be poised to win; in reality the retailer usually always wins.
I would disagree and say that they stood on the shoulders of others and probably paid hundreds of millions in advertising.
There were other cell phones before the iphone. There were other mp3 players before the ipod. And there were certainly other PDAs with touch screen interface before either.
Because that's the most important "feature" I look for when I buy a new $600 device.
Materials list:
1 CPU
1 ACPI enabled motherboard
1 Aluminum ATX case
1 Copper heatsink
1 UPS
1 hand crank A/C generator
1 set of bicycle pedals
Process:
Build PC using CPU, motherboard, heatsink, and case. Attach bike pedals to hand crank generator. Attach generator to UPS. Pedal your way to "greener" computing and a healthier life.
PS) I fscking HATE the term "green." Meh.
Sorry to reply to myself, but in reviewing that link again... I think I'm actually more sickened by the "riotous laughter and applause" from the Apple sycophants in response to the Hitler joke. Bad fanbois, BAD BAD fanbois!
I like how Apple's COO ended the rant about suing everyone with a Hitler joke... You know, because making light of the Holocaust is ever-so-hilarious.
How about one with multitasking?
I'm not a doctor, but I highly doubt there are any clauses in the Hippocratic Oath that prevent doctors from providing patient care because the power is out, or because the patient doesn't have insurance, or can't speak, or in this case because they themselves can't be bothered to fill out a form.
Shenanigans of the highest degree. Meh.
None, otherwise I would have posted:
:)
Note to self:
Remember to flip the USB kill-switch before using MY thumb drives.
Almost interesting, but only supports bluetooth. Feh.
Remember to wire USB pins to secret kill-switch designed to dump excessive current into said USB device.
Some people can see a difference in frame rates. I know not everyone can as I argue with people all the time about what I can see that they cannot. For someone that actually knows what they are doing, I would rather overkill it than end up sub-par. As the margin increases, so does the lack of information in the difference. 20 frames might not mean anything to you, but to me it might mean that I now have 20 frames to out think and out maneuver you.
Yes, you can in fact play any game out there with no hardware video acceleration too. Your definition of play is obviously very loose compared to mine. Video games are not playable for me unless they consistently exceed 60fps.
I think the bigger contradiction here is that a "netbook" OS is going to eat up some of the "PC" OS market share.
That's a bit like saying that my trusty HP calculator is going to eat some of Windows market share because Windows comes with calc.exe.
Nice try.
Self doping is quite a bit different than government sponsored doping. But I suppose if you are an ignorant doper it shouldn't, and probably doesn't, matter to you how the government tries to control your actions and your very thoughts.
Also... Troll? Because I called out someone trying to beat around the bush? Lame. No one really cares that you love Pbo, but just because someone else doesn't, doesn't mean they are trolling when they call shenanigans on you.
See how they altered the document by redacting the certificate number? Then see at the bottom where it says "ANY ALTERATIONS INVALIDATE THIS CERTIFICATE?" So, can someone show us Obama's genuine birth cirtificate? Or can we just keep "ignorantly" claiming he is illegally holding office as a non-natural born citizen? Call me ignorant.