Kubuntu is based on Ubuntu. Ubuntu is based on Debian. So you were running the offshoot (roughly) of Debian Testing - which runs KDE 4.3.
Try Debian stable - boot with "desktop=kde" and you'll have the KDE that you want - I'm certain others will point out ways to do the same with Ubuntu/Kubuntu - probably make Ubuntu minimal (base packages only then "apt-get xorg kde-core kdm (or slim)". Most, if not all, of your newer hardware will be supported. I run the latest trunk build kernel on my KDE3.5 boxes so I don't know where your get the "aging kernels/old distros" crap.
At first I thought you were just another newby with poor social skills who doesn't understand that you catch more flies with honey. Then I thought you were just another "the world owes me respect" troll - now I realize that you are an unrepentant arseclown.
How do I add one more song into an existing playlist
There's at least three ways. Try dragging the song from the left-hand panel to the playlist in the right-hand panel...
How can I prevent amarok from hiding my playlists near the bottom whenever I start it up?
Do you mean down the bottom of the left-hand side? What distro are you using?
And is there a way to enable it to share the audio device with other apps (mplayer, firefox,...).
I don't understand why you'd want to use Amarok to share the audio device... What "audio device" - the sound card?? Your mp3 player?? What sound system are you using - ALSA, JACK, OSS??
Good Open Source projects require users that don't bitch and whine. Nothing useful requires bitching and whining. Period. Constructive criticism, feature requests, bug reports, and suggestions are what is required. The ability and desire to learn would serve you well - harping on about your "right" to get what you want - as if the right exists, and that all developers instinctively know WTF it is that you want, will get you nowhere but Coventry.
You misunderstand the versioning system. 5 will be completely different in core features - as 4 is from 3.
Nobody "made" you move from 3.x to 4.x - you elected to. People like you need governments to pass laws against bad weather an d furniture with sharp corners.
Hopefully, that day, the distros will be smarter,....
You clearly mistake the meaning of "smart" - and show little understanding of how guis, indeed software, works. If the distros get any smarter they'll need to be watered daily. Ditto some of the aptly named "users".
If you are such an expert perhaps you'd like to show the developers how its done - instead of flinging dung and pissing in corners
you are committing the only real sin in free software/open source:
OK - I'll grant you that one illusion.
tricking people.
People? I suspect you are the "people" - trying to legitimise the shame you feel for getting cut on - the bleeding edge. So much emotional investment, so much fantasy and misplaced anger.
KDE4 was a development branch. It should have been labeled as such, instead of "KDE4."
Perhaps you should undertake a 5-minute research project and learn how version numbering works. I'm sure it's not your intention to come across as a pathetic whiner - but that's how you read.
So much is different with 4 that I need learning time before I use it as a work desktop. But for my non-work desktop it seems much lighter that 3.5 - a lot less productive too!(lots of distracting shiny shiny things to play with).
I look forward to moving all my desktop to 4, the semantic desktop, strigi, and plasma are IMHO 'the way to go'. Mostly what is holding up the move is my lack of knowledge and testing of requirements, rather than bugs in 4. Amarok is much nicer in 4 - or will be over the next year. Took me a little while to figure out how to use new aspects of 4 (and Amarok interface) - but then, I didn't bother reading the man....
You make it sound like there is no choice between using 3.5 or 4.
Wheres the correction? You just described exactly the same as I did, but just prove that its more harder to see as it's not a charge per transaction.
Exactly means "exactly". Whilst the maths maybe the same - the conclusion is different. Perhaps you are very, very tired??
Let me put it another way - this posts is taking me time to write... if you read it the amount of time it took me to write it means nothing to you - it "costs" you nothing.
The payment amount is now $5 for every site
No! (don't you get it?)
You then follow that erroneous presumption with
Now the 10% administration fees are added
No - it's a flat rate.
The rest of your post is too sophistic and wrong to warrant further comment. Good luck with your business plan.
Consider this scenario: User creates a subscription to pay a total amount of $20 per month. Along the month he browsers and clicks the Flatrr button on 4 sites. The payment amount is now $5 for every site. Now the 10% administration fees are added, which makes the payment amount $4.50 for every site. The seller is still charged directly, but its just more transparent than lets say PayPal because of the percentage system.
If, as suggested, payments were monthly, and the list of sites and amounts to receive payment were posted on the flattr home page.... and I had a site - I'd be checking my income against the amount that flattr claimed to have paid me.
In combination with the suggestion that flattr emails donators with their donation details, the system could work well. Hell - many sites (ego bloggers too) would use their flattr stats as a measure of their appreciative audience, and to garner more visitors.
Just a thought... I wonder how many bloggers, marketer etc would donate to themselves just to inflate their own status (if they could display a real-time link to their flattr status in their blog)?? If this applied to twitter - how many "twits", desperate to be "followed" would spend their entire welfare cheque on "flattr-ing" themselves??:-)
Troll? Redundant? Who the hell modded my post? If we all modded like this Cowboy'd have to rename the site 4chan.
Redundant? - show me where... Troll - hardly, it's a joke Narelle. The author of the parent is unlikely to be upset - he/she understands "irony". (no - that got nothing to do with ferrous content).
Hey I wouldn't complain if it was tagged "Off Topic".
Can anyone think of a historical (as in pre-internet:) ) example of something similar?
Christians.
Wrong answer - thinking is something you do with your "brain". Christians became well - dead - wiped out and every effort made to obliterate them and their records. See Dead Sea Scrolls - did you think they were hidden from the Buddhists??
Or do you believe the whole Constantine line.
Try "heretics" "gnostics". Next you'll be confusing "first birth" with "virgin".
Try history over shooting your mouth.
Wishing you peace, love. and a very Merry Christmas.
American?? Most of the Americans I've met (and I lived there for a couple of years) were pretty smart and decent people. But then I never visited any trailer parks so I can't claim to have met them all.
You seem to think America invented the internet...
A you for fucking real??
Allowing them to collect rust underground unused
Stop right there! Open the windows, stop snorting that shit, get off my fucking lawn you hoser. Neither optic fibre nor copper rust!
Do you smell shit everywhere you go?? Surely it's because you have your head up your arse!
DARPA is not, and never has been the entire internet. Nor was it set up entirely by people from Berkley.
Get a life you moron and check your history. One day you may want to leave the basement without people throwing dung at your head.
Oh, and peace out, fatboy - for patriotism surely is the last refuge of scoundrels.
Ever considered that imposing your views on other might be - patronizing?
That your failure to clean up your own back yard first might be - hypocritical?
That the rationale the Australian government uses for censoring "our" internet is just a front for a system of control orchestrated by "your government" (think ACTA).
Like Bacon and Eggs - Anonymous make, at most, a contribution, and threaten the work of those of us that make a commitment.
You are an arseclown,
Sincerely, I'll not use my real name - 'cause I'm in it for the long haul.
Ask someone in the army if they need more people like him.
OK. Will anyone in particular at ADFA do?
Now where're both confused. Apparently Rambo is a very short guy, who doesn't wear a shirt, likes to body wax and oil - and what's that? Huh - I though you blokes weren't allowed to discriminate??
Well, whatever point you're trying to make is lost around here. Disclaimer - we are not as smart as you - we are not even sure what WOW is all about. Or "Leet".
Apparently some of this forum has been printed out and put on the fridge in the CyberWarfare section - next to Dilbert. - you've got fans. Maybe
to use your car analogy...think of Canberra as a series of circular roads, one within another, with a series of spokes radiating out from the center (see maps.google.com.au parliament house and zoom out) - imagine all those roads have a ban on heavy traffic and further, that the AFP monitor those ring and spoke roads to stop heavy traffic. (Actually - that is the case). Think of those spokes as being both (paralleled) private and public roads (they are not - but the data equiv is). While you "think" you are reaching the center you are just tickling the top floor of a big pink building by a lake in Southern Canberra (hint town starts with T) while a bunch of people in a big room with a two story screen (hint Sam T used to be their boss) in far off Melbourne re-route you. Sorry that's where your analogy and the real life (continuing) attacks crap out. Those are leased lines with layers of redundancy. The closest you guys got was a printer server in a basement in Brindabella Park (DEWHA). While there are individuals and groups out their capable of penetrating and controlling the system - they clearly are not involved in this attack - or I wouldn't have been working this afternoon. Some private school guy from a building the other side of the lake (think due north) with a liking for what they call "active agents" would be calling the shots.
In the high of righteous anger you folk have forgotten this country is at war, the hawks (Canberra IT folk will know I'm not just making allusions to towers) will use any reason to call a state of emergency. If those IL cousins from J*O weren't so busy looking for taxi drivers to lock up for terrorism they would ALREADY have declare Anonymous a terrorist attack by drug lords and child molesters, and shut down the east coast. These are the same folk who "vanished" the contents of a garbage truck from AFP evidence (see Hilton bombing) as part of a campaign for more power.
This will not end well - admirable intentions, piss poor judgement and those that speak on the part of Anonymous, clearly, don't.
Monitor which routes with adjacent routes to your target network carry the most VoIP data. (Vonage and pals)
Perhaps you impress your little friends - but I call bullshit, Canberra is not that bloody small that I'm the only one who knows the architecture - hint - think circle, redundant
Initiate a coordinated ARP poisoning attack, to redirect that flow of heavy, high QoS demanding traffic from the routes they currently use, through a new route through the network you want to cripple. (say, the ISP, or datacenter that hosts the AU govt websites, or access)
Wrong again. This is hardly Top Secret. "THE ISP, THE datacenter. Arseclown - you are not just talking through your arse, you're trying to take credit for events THAT HAVE NOT occurred..
actively maintain the ARP poisoning to keep the route from switching back.
Four servers - you are dosing four servers. Sure thats a lot of page reloads but it's not what you claim or even close to it
Sit back with a margarita, and enjoy the fireworks.
How do you get your head through the door? Does your mum make you leave the hat in the garage?
Shutup and let some of the real participants state their case. Much as I disagree with their attack at least they are not chronic onanists claiming credit for every bloody sunrise.
And the size of the Anonymous Legion involved grows with every telling, like - members of the French Resistance, and Korean World Tai Kwon Do Champions....
Now, if only they'd use there powers for good - reverse engineer flash (properly) - fix f..king Windows - kill Clippy etc
You could say that slashdot is the "Bastard hybrid of a punch of bored 18 year old CS students, a completely misinformed group of editors, and a legion of bored in-IT-for-the-money near or middle aged men.
Says you, bubba. The demographics you propose don't match any of the posters I know - but then you don't actually know any non-blood related women do you? So if you are not describing us - who is you describe with such feeling?? Too much emotional content I suspect.
The only difference between Slashdot readers and Anonymous is that Anonymous makes an impact on the world.
All the impact of those that paint in brown on toilet walls...
Anyone who thinks that stopping public servants from doing what little work they do each day, and conforming to the stereotype "hacker" that The Embalmer, The Pearly Gates, and Rupert - Call Me God have been FUDing about... are just bound to discover that history does repeat. Name once in history when civil disobedience ended well?
So - whatever your views about them are, positive or negative, realize that they do earn some merit.
Perhaps when puberty arrives you'll learn otherwise - the future is a boot stamping on your face. Forever. The only way to beat it is from within. (subversion)
Next stop compulsory "computer licence" and total surveillance. You and your ilk just mean the state will now have the support of the pensioners... game over arseclown.
Unless you print out the digital picture, then scan it - you cannot remove all "identifying" material from the image.
Different manufacturers have characteristic pixel anomalies, and I wouldn't want to bet that forensics couldn't match the image to the device that took the picture. Eg. the photo shows a alleged drug crime in Australia - reversal of onus means that to be "not guilty" you must must prove reasonable doubt... bit hard if the forensics shows it's "highly unlikely" that the picture (with altered or removed EXIF data) was produced by your device.
Better make sure you've got your timezone set right when a year down the track you are accused of murder and some investigator thinks the incorrect time in EXIF date embedded in the pic you posted to Flicker blows your alibi...
But they were the ones who put the word pirate in the name of their site.
Originally PirateBay published economic trends. They used the price of Four'n'Twenties as a cost of living indicator.
Hence the name - "Pi Rate" which translates into English as "cost of a meat pie".
the city would be called Boozer City.
Which I think does exist somewhere in Australia
There is no city in this fine and fair land called "Boozer City". You fool! (perhaps you've just come back from BongBong - hopefully Mount Camel was not on the way)
All the towns are called "Boozer Town". The cities, going clockwise from the bottom-south, are Shooter City, Underbelly City, City of Colour and Movement, PartyCrash City, Big Stubby City, Bundaberg City, Ice City, and (my city) Tired And Emotional Politician City.
Don't listen to the talking Polar Bear on the bottle - he studied at the school of Tallho Rolling paper trivia.
Hmm, and I am currently downloading some TV episodes at the moment
Wrong again! You are watching the dishwasher (and that is a mouse in your hand).
Being able to support small FOSS projects financially in an easy way and expressing appreciation for thinghs like XKCD is whats its about.
Agreed. And the critical thinkers can fund (and thus promote) good independant journalism. Developers (FOSS and other) can get an income. Call it "direct funding". Money spent on direct funding could be money not spent on corporatised crap.
It'd truly be a New World Publishing Order. Discerning consumers could fund better content - and without the robber barons acting as middle men, the producer (musician/author) could get more money, more control and satisfaction, and, the consumer gets a better and lower cost product. The uncritical can watch re-runs of Big Brother and Australia's Biggest ArseClown Videos...
Given those outcomes, I, still, think it won't happen. Too many robber barons know about tipping points... Hope I'm wrong.
Pity that it's unlikely that anyone contracted to the major content distributors will be taking it up - I suspect the studios and publishers would bang that on the head. They (sic) like total control over the money flow.
Earlier this year when "well known musicians" came out to damn piracy - and it was covered by bbc, abc (Oz) and others I posted the suggestion (on those sites) that artists create a blog with a paypal account, so that people who download music and movies illegally (like me) could directly send the artists money. The posts were immediately pulled.
I (for one) welcome a New World Publishing Order - where the consumer determines the rewards for the artist/author/whatever, instead of the existing model where the studios/publishers tell the artist/author and the consumer "what market wants".
Closer to what you're talking about is what Zen refers to as "makyo" that arise in meditation practice. These are considered hallucinations that should not be pursued.
Except breathing right makes those hallucinations go away...
Slashdot Mirror
Try Debian stable - boot with "desktop=kde" and you'll have the KDE that you want - I'm certain others will point out ways to do the same with Ubuntu/Kubuntu - probably make Ubuntu minimal (base packages only then "apt-get xorg kde-core kdm (or slim)". Most, if not all, of your newer hardware will be supported. I run the latest trunk build kernel on my KDE3.5 boxes so I don't know where your get the "aging kernels/old distros" crap.
At first I thought you were just another newby with poor social skills who doesn't understand that you catch more flies with honey. Then I thought you were just another "the world owes me respect" troll - now I realize that you are an unrepentant arseclown.
How do I add one more song into an existing playlist
There's at least three ways. Try dragging the song from the left-hand panel to the playlist in the right-hand panel...
How can I prevent amarok from hiding my playlists near the bottom whenever I start it up?
Do you mean down the bottom of the left-hand side? What distro are you using?
And is there a way to enable it to share the audio device with other apps (mplayer, firefox, ...).
I don't understand why you'd want to use Amarok to share the audio device... What "audio device" - the sound card?? Your mp3 player?? What sound system are you using - ALSA, JACK, OSS??
Good Open Source projects require users that don't bitch and whine. Nothing useful requires bitching and whining. Period. Constructive criticism, feature requests, bug reports, and suggestions are what is required. The ability and desire to learn would serve you well - harping on about your "right" to get what you want - as if the right exists, and that all developers instinctively know WTF it is that you want, will get you nowhere but Coventry.
However, I dread the day when they'll release 5.0
You misunderstand the versioning system. 5 will be completely different in core features - as 4 is from 3.
Nobody "made" you move from 3.x to 4.x - you elected to. People like you need governments to pass laws against bad weather an d furniture with sharp corners.
Hopefully, that day, the distros will be smarter, ....
You clearly mistake the meaning of "smart" - and show little understanding of how guis, indeed software, works. If the distros get any smarter they'll need to be watered daily. Ditto some of the aptly named "users".
Get off my lawn!
When you say "New! Improved! Awesome! v4.0!!!"
Who said that? Someone on the bus?
and then it fucking sucks,
If you are such an expert perhaps you'd like to show the developers how its done - instead of flinging dung and pissing in corners
you are committing the only real sin in free software/open source:
OK - I'll grant you that one illusion.
tricking people.
People? I suspect you are the "people" - trying to legitimise the shame you feel for getting cut on - the bleeding edge. So much emotional investment, so much fantasy and misplaced anger.
KDE4 was a development branch. It should have been labeled as such, instead of "KDE4."
Perhaps you should undertake a 5-minute research project and learn how version numbering works. I'm sure it's not your intention to come across as a pathetic whiner - but that's how you read.
I loved KDE3 so much
So why don't you keep using it??
I run 3(.5) for my laptop and workboxes.
So much is different with 4 that I need learning time before I use it as a work desktop. But for my non-work desktop it seems much lighter that 3.5 - a lot less productive too!(lots of distracting shiny shiny things to play with).
I look forward to moving all my desktop to 4, the semantic desktop, strigi, and plasma are IMHO 'the way to go'. Mostly what is holding up the move is my lack of knowledge and testing of requirements, rather than bugs in 4. Amarok is much nicer in 4 - or will be over the next year. Took me a little while to figure out how to use new aspects of 4 (and Amarok interface) - but then, I didn't bother reading the man....
You make it sound like there is no choice between using 3.5 or 4.
Wheres the correction? You just described exactly the same as I did, but just prove that its more harder to see as it's not a charge per transaction.
Exactly means "exactly". Whilst the maths maybe the same - the conclusion is different. Perhaps you are very, very tired??
Let me put it another way - this posts is taking me time to write... if you read it the amount of time it took me to write it means nothing to you - it "costs" you nothing.
The payment amount is now $5 for every site
No! (don't you get it?)
You then follow that erroneous presumption with
Now the 10% administration fees are added
No - it's a flat rate.
The rest of your post is too sophistic and wrong to warrant further comment. Good luck with your business plan.
Consider this scenario: User creates a subscription to pay a total amount of $20 per month. Along the month he browsers and clicks the Flatrr button on 4 sites. The payment amount is now $5 for every site. Now the 10% administration fees are added, which makes the payment amount $4.50 for every site. The seller is still charged directly, but its just more transparent than lets say PayPal because of the percentage system.
Do you work in retail? :-)
Let me correct you, please.
User subscription = $20pm
User clicks flattr x 4
flattr charge is %10 (charged to user)
flattr processing fee = 20 x .1 = 2 (leaving 18 for donations)
Site donations = 18 / 4 = 4.5 (never 5 for every site)
There is no charge to the seller.
In combination with the suggestion that flattr emails donators with their donation details, the system could work well. Hell - many sites (ego bloggers too) would use their flattr stats as a measure of their appreciative audience, and to garner more visitors.
Just a thought... I wonder how many bloggers, marketer etc would donate to themselves just to inflate their own status (if they could display a real-time link to their flattr status in their blog)?? If this applied to twitter - how many "twits", desperate to be "followed" would spend their entire welfare cheque on "flattr-ing" themselves?? :-)
Redundant? - show me where... Troll - hardly, it's a joke Narelle. The author of the parent is unlikely to be upset - he/she understands "irony". (no - that got nothing to do with ferrous content).
Hey I wouldn't complain if it was tagged "Off Topic".
Can anyone think of a historical (as in pre-internet :) ) example of something similar?
Christians.
Wrong answer - thinking is something you do with your "brain". Christians became well - dead - wiped out and every effort made to obliterate them and their records. See Dead Sea Scrolls - did you think they were hidden from the Buddhists??
Or do you believe the whole Constantine line.
Try "heretics" "gnostics". Next you'll be confusing "first birth" with "virgin".
Try history over shooting your mouth.
Wishing you peace, love. and a very Merry Christmas.
You seem to think America invented the internet...
A you for fucking real??
Allowing them to collect rust underground unused
Stop right there! Open the windows, stop snorting that shit, get off my fucking lawn you hoser. Neither optic fibre nor copper rust!
Do you smell shit everywhere you go?? Surely it's because you have your head up your arse!
DARPA is not, and never has been the entire internet. Nor was it set up entirely by people from Berkley.
Get a life you moron and check your history. One day you may want to leave the basement without people throwing dung at your head.
Oh, and peace out, fatboy - for patriotism surely is the last refuge of scoundrels.
Ever considered that imposing your views on other might be - patronizing?
That your failure to clean up your own back yard first might be - hypocritical?
That the rationale the Australian government uses for censoring "our" internet is just a front for a system of control orchestrated by "your government" (think ACTA).
Like Bacon and Eggs - Anonymous make, at most, a contribution, and threaten the work of those of us that make a commitment.
You are an arseclown,
Sincerely, I'll not use my real name - 'cause I'm in it for the long haul.
Hmm... have you seen any rambo movies lately?
No. Never. But I've heard of them.
Ask someone in the army if they need more people like him.
OK. Will anyone in particular at ADFA do?
Now where're both confused. Apparently Rambo is a very short guy, who doesn't wear a shirt, likes to body wax and oil - and what's that? Huh - I though you blokes weren't allowed to discriminate??
Well, whatever point you're trying to make is lost around here. Disclaimer - we are not as smart as you - we are not even sure what WOW is all about. Or "Leet".
Apparently some of this forum has been printed out and put on the fridge in the CyberWarfare section - next to Dilbert. - you've got fans. Maybe
In the high of righteous anger you folk have forgotten this country is at war, the hawks (Canberra IT folk will know I'm not just making allusions to towers) will use any reason to call a state of emergency. If those IL cousins from J*O weren't so busy looking for taxi drivers to lock up for terrorism they would ALREADY have declare Anonymous a terrorist attack by drug lords and child molesters, and shut down the east coast. These are the same folk who "vanished" the contents of a garbage truck from AFP evidence (see Hilton bombing) as part of a campaign for more power.
This will not end well - admirable intentions, piss poor judgement and those that speak on the part of Anonymous, clearly, don't.
DDoS in 3 easy steps:
Monitor which routes with adjacent routes to your target network carry the most VoIP data. (Vonage and pals)
Perhaps you impress your little friends - but I call bullshit, Canberra is not that bloody small that I'm the only one who knows the architecture - hint - think circle, redundant
Initiate a coordinated ARP poisoning attack, to redirect that flow of heavy, high QoS demanding traffic from the routes they currently use, through a new route through the network you want to cripple. (say, the ISP, or datacenter that hosts the AU govt websites, or access)
Wrong again. This is hardly Top Secret. "THE ISP, THE datacenter. Arseclown - you are not just talking through your arse, you're trying to take credit for events THAT HAVE NOT occurred..
actively maintain the ARP poisoning to keep the route from switching back.
Four servers - you are dosing four servers. Sure thats a lot of page reloads but it's not what you claim or even close to it
Sit back with a margarita, and enjoy the fireworks.
How do you get your head through the door? Does your mum make you leave the hat in the garage?
Shutup and let some of the real participants state their case. Much as I disagree with their attack at least they are not chronic onanists claiming credit for every bloody sunrise.
Mod up - informative (surrounded by ego)
Now, if only they'd use there powers for good - reverse engineer flash (properly) - fix f..king Windows - kill Clippy etc
You could say that slashdot is the "Bastard hybrid of a punch of bored 18 year old CS students, a completely misinformed group of editors, and a legion of bored in-IT-for-the-money near or middle aged men.
Says you, bubba. The demographics you propose don't match any of the posters I know - but then you don't actually know any non-blood related women do you? So if you are not describing us - who is you describe with such feeling?? Too much emotional content I suspect.
The only difference between Slashdot readers and Anonymous is that Anonymous makes an impact on the world.
All the impact of those that paint in brown on toilet walls...
Anyone who thinks that stopping public servants from doing what little work they do each day, and conforming to the stereotype "hacker" that The Embalmer, The Pearly Gates, and Rupert - Call Me God have been FUDing about... are just bound to discover that history does repeat. Name once in history when civil disobedience ended well?
So - whatever your views about them are, positive or negative, realize that they do earn some merit.
Perhaps when puberty arrives you'll learn otherwise - the future is a boot stamping on your face. Forever. The only way to beat it is from within. (subversion)
Next stop compulsory "computer licence" and total surveillance. You and your ilk just mean the state will now have the support of the pensioners... game over arseclown.
Different manufacturers have characteristic pixel anomalies, and I wouldn't want to bet that forensics couldn't match the image to the device that took the picture. Eg. the photo shows a alleged drug crime in Australia - reversal of onus means that to be "not guilty" you must must prove reasonable doubt... bit hard if the forensics shows it's "highly unlikely" that the picture (with altered or removed EXIF data) was produced by your device.
Better make sure you've got your timezone set right when a year down the track you are accused of murder and some investigator thinks the incorrect time in EXIF date embedded in the pic you posted to Flicker blows your alibi...
Just - saying....
But they were the ones who put the word pirate in the name of their site.
Originally PirateBay published economic trends. They used the price of Four'n'Twenties as a cost of living indicator.
Hence the name - "Pi Rate" which translates into English as "cost of a meat pie".
the city would be called Boozer City.
Which I think does exist somewhere in Australia
There is no city in this fine and fair land called "Boozer City". You fool! (perhaps you've just come back from BongBong - hopefully Mount Camel was not on the way)
All the towns are called "Boozer Town". The cities, going clockwise from the bottom-south, are Shooter City, Underbelly City, City of Colour and Movement, PartyCrash City, Big Stubby City, Bundaberg City, Ice City, and (my city) Tired And Emotional Politician City.
Don't listen to the talking Polar Bear on the bottle - he studied at the school of Tallho Rolling paper trivia.
Hmm, and I am currently downloading some TV episodes at the moment
Wrong again! You are watching the dishwasher (and that is a mouse in your hand).
F..ck major content producers,
Agreed!
they have other revenue sources.,
What? You mean like "get a real job"??
Being able to support small FOSS projects financially in an easy way and expressing appreciation for thinghs like XKCD is whats its about.
Agreed. And the critical thinkers can fund (and thus promote) good independant journalism. Developers (FOSS and other) can get an income. Call it "direct funding". Money spent on direct funding could be money not spent on corporatised crap.
It'd truly be a New World Publishing Order. Discerning consumers could fund better content - and without the robber barons acting as middle men, the producer (musician/author) could get more money, more control and satisfaction, and, the consumer gets a better and lower cost product. The uncritical can watch re-runs of Big Brother and Australia's Biggest ArseClown Videos...
Given those outcomes, I, still, think it won't happen. Too many robber barons know about tipping points... Hope I'm wrong.
Just saying....
Pity that it's unlikely that anyone contracted to the major content distributors will be taking it up - I suspect the studios and publishers would bang that on the head. They (sic) like total control over the money flow.
Earlier this year when "well known musicians" came out to damn piracy - and it was covered by bbc, abc (Oz) and others I posted the suggestion (on those sites) that artists create a blog with a paypal account, so that people who download music and movies illegally (like me) could directly send the artists money. The posts were immediately pulled.
I (for one) welcome a New World Publishing Order - where the consumer determines the rewards for the artist/author/whatever, instead of the existing model where the studios/publishers tell the artist/author and the consumer "what market wants".
Just saying...
Closer to what you're talking about is what Zen refers to as "makyo" that arise in meditation practice. These are considered hallucinations that should not be pursued.
Except breathing right makes those hallucinations go away...
Just saying....