You are kidding right? I'm the only person I ever met who morally cared about "stealing content." That was way back when I was young and naive. Everyone else I knew were passing around floppies or trying to hook two VCRs together to copy ET: The Extra Terrestrial, or making mix tapes off the radio for their friends.
Heck, even people I know in the music/other creative businesses do this, nobody thinks its some big sin to copy files. Nobody cares.
Here's an anecdote: I know a guy with an external hard drive full of pirated media. We got into a discussion about the public domain. I made the argument that things should become public domain after a reasonable time for the benefit of society. He made the argument that as long as someone is making a profit from it it should never become public domain.
It's this cognitive dissonance that's the problem.
Perversely, however, this makes me sardonically pleased about the copyright crackdown. How is anything ever going to change when people's personal morality is so out of whack with their public morality? Perhaps a crackdown will shake them out of their lethargy.
Once upon a time Harlan Ellison was asked to do some commentary on a DVD of one of his stories. He responded by asking how much he would be paid for this service. The person asking said "Nothing" and he responded, "What, did you think I just fell off of a turnip truck?"
If the answer to both of those questions is "yes" then doing extra work on your own time for the job merely as a value add without additional compensation is permissible. The goal in this case would be an investment in job security, rather than direct compensation.
On the other hand, unless you are desperately afraid of facing the job market, there's no reason to do extra work when you are unhappy or underpaid. What it does is set up a precedent that you'll work lots of extra hours for no compensation.
Oh, also, if this means that it will add extra work for you going forward you might want to think twice about giving it to them.
"You're wrong, kid. It's not a crime to kill an elephant. It's bigger than all that. It's a sin to kill an elephant. You understand? It's the only sin you can buy a license for and go out and commit... do you understand me? Of course you don't. I don't even understand myself."
Hacking into the Chamber of Commerce would let you know which government officials had shown themselves open to graft and bribery to sell out their constituents.
This is useful information for a foreign power to have.
Why hack the government, when you can hack the ones who really control the government?
Real economists tend to call the kind of economists that you are talking about "theoclassical" economists. That's because they tend to mock neoclassical economics, which is faith based an fails every time it is tried.
You need to check out folks like Bill Black and Michael Hudson to get real economics, and not Chicago School worship of the wealthy that passes for economics in this country.
However, it will take the political equivalent of a Hercules to clean out the Aegean Stables of the American Economics Profession, considering what the Chicago School boys have been doing to it all these years (Hint: the same thing the cattle were doing in the Aegean Stables that required Hercules to clean them.).
And clearly, this Hercules is not the current occupant of the White House.
Anna Ardin is a CIA Asset, always has been. You can tell this because of her association with the anti-Castro group "The Ladies in White." The link is from her own thesis, incidentally.
This pretty much tells you all you need to know. Assange basically joined the same club as Mordechai Vanunu, albeit by a different route.
It's food for thought for anyone who can say, "I've just publicly embarrassed a corrupt and ruthless world power, and suddenly beautiful girls are throwing themselves at me. Life is good."
I also have an English degree, though later on I got a Computer Science degree. (A B.A. and a B.S., respectively.)
I've never regretted the English major, but I've often regretted the Computer Science degree.
One of the things I've run into is a level of contempt bordering on mania from my fellow I.T. professionals regarding my English degree, though it is respected by management.
"it is like this never ending pattern when people talk about financial matters. everyone goes off their own personal experience instead of approaching it like a hacker: : : how does the system work? what are it's major pieces? how do they fit together? what is the flow in between those pieces? if people would just ask those basic fucking questions we wouldnt be in this fucking recession."
Quite literally, gigantic amounts of money are going to pay very smart people to make sure that this is the case. The advertising budget for "blame the victim, not the predator" is incredibly large and spent in diverse and effective ways.
A smart author hires an editor who he/she trusts. Robert Heinlein was driven nearly insane by his publisher when he was publishing his juvenile novels, because his editor was like an extreme version of TV's standards and practices.
He finally had to change Starship Troopers into an novel for adults to escape her.
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Was the Judge in this case name "Constance Harm" by any chance?
You are kidding right? I'm the only person I ever met who morally cared about "stealing content." That was way back when I was young and naive. Everyone else I knew were passing around floppies or trying to hook two VCRs together to copy ET: The Extra Terrestrial, or making mix tapes off the radio for their friends.
Heck, even people I know in the music/other creative businesses do this, nobody thinks its some big sin to copy files. Nobody cares.
Here's an anecdote: I know a guy with an external hard drive full of pirated media. We got into a discussion about the public domain. I made the argument that things should become public domain after a reasonable time for the benefit of society. He made the argument that as long as someone is making a profit from it it should never become public domain.
It's this cognitive dissonance that's the problem.
Perversely, however, this makes me sardonically pleased about the copyright crackdown. How is anything ever going to change when people's personal morality is so out of whack with their public morality? Perhaps a crackdown will shake them out of their lethargy.
Hmm, does it let you update your billing information?
Try making the credit card number all 0's or just replacing some of the digits randomly. The charge will fail to go through.
I'm thinking of Tony Soprano's crew dumping asbestos off in the New Jersey wilderness.
Oh, and of Marge Simpson's pretzel business.
Should the US government be registered as the US agent of multiple foreign governments and stateless entities?
However, Netflix is making a version that will run on Chrome OS (a Linux-based operating system ) in Chromebooks.
Just not for the rest of Linux users.
The also have a version that works on Android.
Harlan Ellison -- Pay the Writer
Oh I forgot to add an anecdote:
Once upon a time Harlan Ellison was asked to do some commentary on a DVD of one of his stories. He responded by asking how much he would be paid for this service. The person asking said "Nothing" and he responded, "What, did you think I just fell off of a turnip truck?"
Actually, for me this is very simple:
1. Do you like your job?
2. Are you making enough money to be satisfied?
If the answer to both of those questions is "yes" then doing extra work on your own time for the job merely as a value add without additional compensation is permissible. The goal in this case would be an investment in job security, rather than direct compensation.
On the other hand, unless you are desperately afraid of facing the job market, there's no reason to do extra work when you are unhappy or underpaid. What it does is set up a precedent that you'll work lots of extra hours for no compensation.
Oh, also, if this means that it will add extra work for you going forward you might want to think twice about giving it to them.
"DRM is the reason Netflix isn't available on Linux."
I hate DRM, but when Netflix tells you that's why Netflix isn't available on Linux, they are lying.
HBOGo - Available on Linux
Amazon Prime - Available on Linux
Hulu Plus - Available on Linux
On the plus side, Netflix's lies further tarnish the reputation of DRM, which is agreeable to me.
"You're wrong, kid. It's not a crime to kill an elephant. It's bigger than all that. It's a sin to kill an elephant. You understand? It's the only sin you can buy a license for and go out and commit... do you understand me? Of course you don't. I don't even understand myself."
Hacking into the Chamber of Commerce would let you know which government officials had shown themselves open to graft and bribery to sell out their constituents.
This is useful information for a foreign power to have.
Why hack the government, when you can hack the ones who really control the government?
China now has a significant amount of the world's industrial base, and all the things that go along with it. Like unions, and military might.
The US has been deindustrializing, turning into a weak nation, of weak people... a people ripe for destruction.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my Killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
Animals do tell jokes after they've been taught sign language though. Gorilla humor seems to involve a lot of jokes about monkeys.
Must be blooood.... must be fresh....
Scientist: "Kroll, attach the electro-slave device to this fool!"
Victim: "No, no, anything but that!"
Kroll: "Yes, Master!"
Scientist: "Now, dance for me my puppet! Dance!"
Victim dances....
=====
Oh, sorry, I was just daydreaming there for a moment....
I just assumed that the Tanooki suit was a friendly Tanuki that had transformed itself into a suit to help Mario on his quest.
That's what any sane person would think, of course, but this is PETA we're talking about.
Real economists tend to call the kind of economists that you are talking about "theoclassical" economists. That's because they tend to mock neoclassical economics, which is faith based an fails every time it is tried.
You need to check out folks like Bill Black and Michael Hudson to get real economics, and not Chicago School worship of the wealthy that passes for economics in this country.
However, it will take the political equivalent of a Hercules to clean out the Aegean Stables of the American Economics Profession, considering what the Chicago School boys have been doing to it all these years (Hint: the same thing the cattle were doing in the Aegean Stables that required Hercules to clean them.).
And clearly, this Hercules is not the current occupant of the White House.
Anna Ardin is a CIA Asset, always has been. You can tell this because of her association with the anti-Castro group "The Ladies in White." The link is from her own thesis, incidentally.
This pretty much tells you all you need to know. Assange basically joined the same club as Mordechai Vanunu, albeit by a different route.
It's food for thought for anyone who can say, "I've just publicly embarrassed a corrupt and ruthless world power, and suddenly beautiful girls are throwing themselves at me. Life is good."
I also have an English degree, though later on I got a Computer Science degree. (A B.A. and a B.S., respectively.)
I've never regretted the English major, but I've often regretted the Computer Science degree.
One of the things I've run into is a level of contempt bordering on mania from my fellow I.T. professionals regarding my English degree, though it is respected by management.
"it is like this never ending pattern when people talk about financial matters. everyone goes off their own personal experience instead of approaching it like a hacker: : : how does the system work? what are it's major pieces? how do they fit together? what is the flow in between those pieces? if people would just ask those basic fucking questions we wouldnt be in this fucking recession."
Quite literally, gigantic amounts of money are going to pay very smart people to make sure that this is the case. The advertising budget for "blame the victim, not the predator" is incredibly large and spent in diverse and effective ways.
Call it "Evil, Incorporated."
Actually, that's interesting. Who is America's worst historical figure?
I'm thinking Nathan Bedford Forrest.
I doubt most of the Iranian scientists even believe in "their horrible" religion, but you have to profess belief to get ahead.
It will be the same here, when Rick "Pray for Rain" Perry gets in.
A smart author hires an editor who he/she trusts. Robert Heinlein was driven nearly insane by his publisher when he was publishing his juvenile novels, because his editor was like an extreme version of TV's standards and practices.
He finally had to change Starship Troopers into an novel for adults to escape her.