An idea in your head is priceless. An idea mentioned to others could be wort less.
Don't put any idea in writing if you don't mind losing it. Write a song? Only play it live. Or only let people have "dibs" on seeing you live IF they have an official CD. There are infinite ways to profit from a song without copyright.
Have a movie? Only show it in theatres with metal detectors. Don't release movies on insecure formats.
I write articles and books and sell My personal services for the real movie. Just writing a song (1 hour) and recording it (4 hours) shouldn't be worth more than a few grand, tops. Copyright is BS.
If you give an idea out on paper, film or CD, its no longer yours. If I sold licenses to skateboards, I'd go out of business.
...no U.S. politician has been able to fly out of Israel.
I found out how the lie detector works. Bend suspect over, shove device in rectum. I only hope that everyone (including officials) has to go through it, equally.
FWIW, does anyone see this story as actually a decent rated-G Hollywood movie? I'm sure you'd need some artistic license, but the entire time reading it I was wishing that I had actual footage of some of the experimenting. A real life Willy Wonka sort of movie.
"Girlfriend" has the connotation that it is a temporary description. "Wife" has the connotation that government licensed our bonding, and as an AnCap I don't want that. Growing up in Chicago, the word "broad" had a goombah root, but it was funny. I picked a new word to give my relationship a different meaning, and guess what? The broad loves it.
I buy it from Albertson's or Target. They're the people who confirm my Pepsi is real (some Indian and Mexican stores sell fakes). They also make sure my lamps are UL tested and that my toilet paper isn't sand paper.
I'm always here decrying the value is striking copyright, patents and trademark rights. At the most basic, they're a way to gain government's monopoly on force for yourself.
Legos. Plastic bricks. The value in their logo is held up by showing consumers that Lego makes the most consistent blocks, with the easiest instructions and with the most fun creations. The State-granted monopoly that gave Lego sole use of the design isn't the power behind the brand.
I'd normally get replies saying "Without protections, no one would write music/invent/make plastic blocks!!!" But this is not true.
If you open a restaurant, do you get a monopoly for running a restaurant in your area? Isn't it wrong for someone to open a restaurant in a new community, build a customer base for years and then have some whipper-snapper open a new restaurant across the street and steal your customers?
I own retail stores (board sports and paintball). It costs about $25 in marketing to get a new customer into the sport and into my store. At least yearly I have someone see our good fortune and open a few miles away. They underprice me, steal some business and then go bankrupt and sell everything at half price. In 3 years I've outlived 7 such competitors.
Why is my time (or my managers' time) building my product different than a song writer or a book writer? It isn't. Yet they're legally protected with monopoly powers.
Trademark (and copyright) is bunk. Freedom means the freedom to compete.
Create a product. If it's copied easily, find a way to make yours better.
When news of the criminal root kit hit full blast, I figured it would immediately get nuked by the AV companies. As things progressed and no one but MSFT came to the rescue, it made wonder if there was fear or maybe even collusion.
Yet the bigger story here in the fact that a blogger was the breaking source.
My media is 75% blogs now. Many use links to back their opinions (I'd love to see a standard bibliogtaphical Wiki for referencing). They're faster than the daily news and less likely to be afraid of corporate threats.
BTW, anyone know a way for me to toggle link text format fron standard (blue w/ underline) to normal (black no underline) and back, quickly?
I love my XPMCE network. I don't watch much TV, but I have nearly every movie ripped, 2 HD tuners and 2 SD tuners (had 4 as a test but it recorded too much).
I'm getting HD cable right now. I use timmmoore's Firewire mod and its perfect. I don't believe the firewire input transfers any broadcast flag, which I fear CableCard will.
This is the #1 requested MCE feature. MS came under a ton of angry rants because it was missing from RU2, yet it was the content provider's holdup.
Me? I'll stick to RU1 and Firewire. No DRM, no broadcast flag and gorgeous HD from cable. You can wait until Xmas 2006 if you need official industry support.
I'd love to see HD via an extender (other than the XBox360), or user-sorted Recorded TV.
I am an AmEx accepter at all my businesses and taking AmEx can double some of my sales.
I've found some of my businesses cash strapped ($100,000 short for 30 days) and being a gold member was a great experience.
We stopped our old accounting mechanisms which allowed us a better forecast of cash flow needs. Once I stabilized my cash flow (3 rocky months) I dropped my AmEx account, but I still give them accolades and will always support the payment option.
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"The Machinery of Freedom"
Yes, I have!
It didn't make a big dent in my thinking, but I can respect Friedman as a fellow Market Anarchist. He's maybe a minarchist libertarian to some degree, and I think he's wrong in a few key areas:
1. He doesn't hate the State. I do. In my mind he's too soft in denouncing the damage of the central authority.
2. I'm unsettled about his desire for slow change. I can't support school vouchers or minor cuts in budgets. Sure, it's a reasonable idea, but it lets people become neutral to the damages incurred.
3. Friedman's views on how to handle citizen security isn't solid enough for me.
While we're birds of a feather, we're not on the same timetable.
I'm on of the few who dispute the economic equilibrium theory. As an Austrian economist, I hold a stronger belief in Mises' evenly rotating economy (ERE). Reading any writings on time preference helps dispel the thought behind EE.
Since presumably Amazon is already pricing the product at the optimal point
This is a bad presumption. My record store sold everything at keystone (100% over cost). Most Amazon prices were 20%. Some small sites sold at 5%.
. But my point is- the consumer isn't going to benefit.
Correct me if I'm wrong?
The selling price of a product wil always seek out its cost now that the Internet cuts of so many middle men. In some direct markets (writing, music recording, etc) I think the artist has to sell direct. Other items (hard goods) will definitely come down in price as profits get chased to near zero.
In both situations you have the consumer paying less, leaving them with more money to spend on other things. Yet if the retailers fail, the consumer's job might lose its customers. The new circle of economical life will be interesting!
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The war between states is what the southerners like to call the civil war as they viewed things with an emphasis on state rights
I'm not a Southerner. I was born in Chicago to "a hindu and a polock."
Big government did not come in until the 20th century under Theodore Rosevelt. I do not even recall a national income tax before ww1.
Read "The Real Lincoln" by Thomas DiLorenzo. Search it at LRC as DiLorenzo has dozens of articles about the Great Tyrant.
Lincoln hated blacks. He created the Illinois law barring blacks from citizenship. He wanted to deport every black to the Caribbean. His Emancipation Proclamation did not free slaves in the North, only in the seceded South.
Lincoln's primary goal was to turn the U.S. into a mercantilistic all-powerful central governed body. He wanted to tax and spend. He wanted Henry Clay's "American System" of government coin, government banking and a welfare-warfare State.
Buy a copy of The Real Lincoln. If you don't like it, I will buy it back including all shipping. Your jaw will drop.
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Am I the only one who saw that as a disturbing statement? You spend 40 hours a week, which amounts to having a second job
I'm an owner in various businesses and find myself with a lot of "free time" between jobs. The 3-6 hours a day I spend researching human action pays greater dividends than any business, considering it increases my worth in publishing and speaking deals. I never went to college and I'd say the 4-7 years wasted in college learns nothing but socialist indoctrination is far scarier.
First off, if you wanted an informed opinion, wouldn't reading the opposition make more sense?
I do. I read writings and attend speakings regarding the entire political spectrum. Some friends spend 15 hours+ a week at a bar, I socialize at numerous gatherings where I hear every opinion imaginable. Those functions are part of my "study time."
Sounds a bit too much like brainwashing for me - certainly if someone else was shoving their point of view down your throat that's the word I would use.
I consider it reinforcing against brainwashing. Every day we get beaten down with information regarding our need for government. For the children! Save the teachers! The FDA says... The IRS is your friend... War for freedom...
It is tempting to believe, but I won't let my freedom lose out to the majority's opinion of the week.
I'm no zealot, just an opinion writer. I don't want to make anyone agree ith me, I'd like people to think about their beliefs deeper.
I hate the State. I've worked hard to succeed without taking advantage of the State that takes advantage of everyone.
I was reading on a link from LRC about Nature's Nuclear Reactor, so the timing of this/. post comes just as I was thinking about the potential energy inside the ground.
I've ran the numbers for solar cells and windmill generators and can't see the overall savings. Taking into account the manufacturing, installation and maintenance costs, are these techniques better for the environment or any cheaper?
Geothermal seems like it would work well, if you can store the energy or throttle back the generation during lulls in need. The setup costs seem huge and I wonder how often they'll tap out a given dig's heat (if ever).
I think money will be better spent in more efficient storage of energy. Batteries, salts and event heat tanks all interest me. I'm not seeing any long term viability of anything but coal, gasoline and natural gas until the storage exceeds the unit per dollar ratio of the 3 gases mentioned.
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An idea in your head is priceless. An idea mentioned to others could be wort less.
Don't put any idea in writing if you don't mind losing it. Write a song? Only play it live. Or only let people have "dibs" on seeing you live IF they have an official CD. There are infinite ways to profit from a song without copyright.
Have a movie? Only show it in theatres with metal detectors. Don't release movies on insecure formats.
I write articles and books and sell My personal services for the real movie. Just writing a song (1 hour) and recording it (4 hours) shouldn't be worth more than a few grand, tops. Copyright is BS.
If you give an idea out on paper, film or CD, its no longer yours. If I sold licenses to skateboards, I'd go out of business.
I found out how the lie detector works. Bend suspect over, shove device in rectum. I only hope that everyone (including officials) has to go through it, equally.
Thanks, Tom, err Tom's neighbor :)
This guy is going to be a billionaire over this technology.
Makes me think of the circle on the bar napkin. You know? For kids?
FWIW, does anyone see this story as actually a decent rated-G Hollywood movie? I'm sure you'd need some artistic license, but the entire time reading it I was wishing that I had actual footage of some of the experimenting. A real life Willy Wonka sort of movie.
"Girlfriend" has the connotation that it is a temporary description. "Wife" has the connotation that government licensed our bonding, and as an AnCap I don't want that. Growing up in Chicago, the word "broad" had a goombah root, but it was funny. I picked a new word to give my relationship a different meaning, and guess what? The broad loves it.
My broad just told me I was smiling like a freak and asked what was so happy-inspiring.
Who would have guessed bubbles can make a grown man giggle still?
Great story. I digg.
Our name and our logo is not us.
Are we cheaper? No.
Are we better stocked? No.
Are we located in the best spot? No.
We have the best service and most knowledgable staff. Name and logo is nothing.
Our sign says "Paintball" not our logo. I welcome my competition to use my name.
You buy your Pepsi on the cit streets?
I buy it from Albertson's or Target. They're the people who confirm my Pepsi is real (some Indian and Mexican stores sell fakes). They also make sure my lamps are UL tested and that my toilet paper isn't sand paper.
The market protects Pepsi. Not a law.
Right. Which is why the market is the best judge.
I'm always here decrying the value is striking copyright, patents and trademark rights. At the most basic, they're a way to gain government's monopoly on force for yourself.
Legos. Plastic bricks. The value in their logo is held up by showing consumers that Lego makes the most consistent blocks, with the easiest instructions and with the most fun creations. The State-granted monopoly that gave Lego sole use of the design isn't the power behind the brand.
I'd normally get replies saying "Without protections, no one would write music/invent/make plastic blocks!!!" But this is not true.
If you open a restaurant, do you get a monopoly for running a restaurant in your area? Isn't it wrong for someone to open a restaurant in a new community, build a customer base for years and then have some whipper-snapper open a new restaurant across the street and steal your customers?
I own retail stores (board sports and paintball). It costs about $25 in marketing to get a new customer into the sport and into my store. At least yearly I have someone see our good fortune and open a few miles away. They underprice me, steal some business and then go bankrupt and sell everything at half price. In 3 years I've outlived 7 such competitors.
Why is my time (or my managers' time) building my product different than a song writer or a book writer? It isn't. Yet they're legally protected with monopoly powers.
Trademark (and copyright) is bunk. Freedom means the freedom to compete.
Create a product. If it's copied easily, find a way to make yours better.
My other and I are dumping all our Sony artists CDs at the resale shop. I'm also done with future artists dumb enough to support Sony BMG.
Why do this?
You can get record stores to stop selling Sony artists.
You can't get Sony to stop.
You can't change the RIAA which came to power through the voterd in the US (I don't vote/rape).
You can hurt the artists. I'm amazed how many artists are on Sony. I e-mailed the ones I could, and I will never support Sony BMG again.
The $1000 I save on my PS3+games will be spent at more indie shows now.
When news of the criminal root kit hit full blast, I figured it would immediately get nuked by the AV companies. As things progressed and no one but MSFT came to the rescue, it made wonder if there was fear or maybe even collusion.
Yet the bigger story here in the fact that a blogger was the breaking source.
My media is 75% blogs now. Many use links to back their opinions (I'd love to see a standard bibliogtaphical Wiki for referencing). They're faster than the daily news and less likely to be afraid of corporate threats.
BTW, anyone know a way for me to toggle link text format fron standard (blue w/ underline) to normal (black no underline) and back, quickly?
Ahh good post.
Now I understand why every channel has 5c=0 (copy freely) instead of 5c=1 (copy once).
I've enough HD on my HDD to be happy when the two Bobs fix the problem.
I do it now from MCE to DVD. I believe RU2 does it automatically, I use Nero as I prefer RU1.
I love my XPMCE network. I don't watch much TV, but I have nearly every movie ripped, 2 HD tuners and 2 SD tuners (had 4 as a test but it recorded too much).
I'm getting HD cable right now. I use timmmoore's Firewire mod and its perfect. I don't believe the firewire input transfers any broadcast flag, which I fear CableCard will.
This is the #1 requested MCE feature. MS came under a ton of angry rants because it was missing from RU2, yet it was the content provider's holdup.
Me? I'll stick to RU1 and Firewire. No DRM, no broadcast flag and gorgeous HD from cable. You can wait until Xmas 2006 if you need official industry support.
I'd love to see HD via an extender (other than the XBox360), or user-sorted Recorded TV.
This guy is a lucky builder.
The Radio Shack LCD he buys just happens to have NiMH batteries in its base.
The same LCD has a memory socket supplying enough 5V juice to run the 800.
He cuts a chunk out of the mobo to fit a hard drive that he later cans. The aforementioned NiMH batteries fit perfectly in that space.
Anyone think his tinfoil "mouse" will fail in short order?
Great article though. I'd love to make a portable Aquarius (4K) with Utopia. Screw Civ4 Bugs.
...of Rochambeau ever!
Yes, the root problem is finding a way to obtain $sys$pollution.
So you agree that voting is a loser's venture, as everyone you can vote for is in office to hurt you, right?
Sony's power in a free market comes from making customers happy. Sony's power in a mercantilist market is by buying the power of government.
I am an AmEx accepter at all my businesses and taking AmEx can double some of my sales.
I've found some of my businesses cash strapped ($100,000 short for 30 days) and being a gold member was a great experience.
We stopped our old accounting mechanisms which allowed us a better forecast of cash flow needs. Once I stabilized my cash flow (3 rocky months) I dropped my AmEx account, but I still give them accolades and will always support the payment option.
"The Machinery of Freedom"
Yes, I have!
It didn't make a big dent in my thinking, but I can respect Friedman as a fellow Market Anarchist. He's maybe a minarchist libertarian to some degree, and I think he's wrong in a few key areas:
1. He doesn't hate the State. I do. In my mind he's too soft in denouncing the damage of the central authority.
2. I'm unsettled about his desire for slow change. I can't support school vouchers or minor cuts in budgets. Sure, it's a reasonable idea, but it lets people become neutral to the damages incurred.
3. Friedman's views on how to handle citizen security isn't solid enough for me.
While we're birds of a feather, we're not on the same timetable.
I'm on of the few who dispute the economic equilibrium theory. As an Austrian economist, I hold a stronger belief in Mises' evenly rotating economy (ERE). Reading any writings on time preference helps dispel the thought behind EE.
Since presumably Amazon is already pricing the product at the optimal point
This is a bad presumption. My record store sold everything at keystone (100% over cost). Most Amazon prices were 20%. Some small sites sold at 5%.
. But my point is- the consumer isn't going to benefit.
Correct me if I'm wrong?
The selling price of a product wil always seek out its cost now that the Internet cuts of so many middle men. In some direct markets (writing, music recording, etc) I think the artist has to sell direct. Other items (hard goods) will definitely come down in price as profits get chased to near zero.
In both situations you have the consumer paying less, leaving them with more money to spend on other things. Yet if the retailers fail, the consumer's job might lose its customers. The new circle of economical life will be interesting!
The war between states is what the southerners like to call the civil war as they viewed things with an emphasis on state rights
I'm not a Southerner. I was born in Chicago to "a hindu and a polock."
Big government did not come in until the 20th century under Theodore Rosevelt. I do not even recall a national income tax before ww1.
Read "The Real Lincoln" by Thomas DiLorenzo. Search it at LRC as DiLorenzo has dozens of articles about the Great Tyrant.
Lincoln hated blacks. He created the Illinois law barring blacks from citizenship. He wanted to deport every black to the Caribbean. His Emancipation Proclamation did not free slaves in the North, only in the seceded South.
Lincoln's primary goal was to turn the U.S. into a mercantilistic all-powerful central governed body. He wanted to tax and spend. He wanted Henry Clay's "American System" of government coin, government banking and a welfare-warfare State.
Buy a copy of The Real Lincoln. If you don't like it, I will buy it back including all shipping. Your jaw will drop.
Am I the only one who saw that as a disturbing statement? You spend 40 hours a week, which amounts to having a second job
I'm an owner in various businesses and find myself with a lot of "free time" between jobs. The 3-6 hours a day I spend researching human action pays greater dividends than any business, considering it increases my worth in publishing and speaking deals. I never went to college and I'd say the 4-7 years wasted in college learns nothing but socialist indoctrination is far scarier.
First off, if you wanted an informed opinion, wouldn't reading the opposition make more sense?
I do. I read writings and attend speakings regarding the entire political spectrum. Some friends spend 15 hours+ a week at a bar, I socialize at numerous gatherings where I hear every opinion imaginable. Those functions are part of my "study time."
Sounds a bit too much like brainwashing for me - certainly if someone else was shoving their point of view down your throat that's the word I would use.
I consider it reinforcing against brainwashing. Every day we get beaten down with information regarding our need for government. For the children! Save the teachers! The FDA says... The IRS is your friend... War for freedom...
It is tempting to believe, but I won't let my freedom lose out to the majority's opinion of the week.
I'm no zealot, just an opinion writer. I don't want to make anyone agree ith me, I'd like people to think about their beliefs deeper.
I hate the State. I've worked hard to succeed without taking advantage of the State that takes advantage of everyone.
I was reading on a link from LRC about Nature's Nuclear Reactor, so the timing of this /. post comes just as I was thinking about the potential energy inside the ground.
I've ran the numbers for solar cells and windmill generators and can't see the overall savings. Taking into account the manufacturing, installation and maintenance costs, are these techniques better for the environment or any cheaper?
Geothermal seems like it would work well, if you can store the energy or throttle back the generation during lulls in need. The setup costs seem huge and I wonder how often they'll tap out a given dig's heat (if ever).
I think money will be better spent in more efficient storage of energy. Batteries, salts and event heat tanks all interest me. I'm not seeing any long term viability of anything but coal, gasoline and natural gas until the storage exceeds the unit per dollar ratio of the 3 gases mentioned.