Copyright is an 'agreement' - its a fiction. Intellectual property is not 'stuff'. IP is to property as FoolsGold is to Gold.
When the 'mass' accepts the idea that they would rather reclaim their right to copy music, when they realize that it no longer acceptable for them because the other party isnt providing them the benefits to outweigh their detriment, this *DEAL* ceases to exist.
So, instead of addressing the issue at hand: Copyright is no longer an acceptable situation to the citizens who empower the concept. They have ended their compliance to this fiction and are distributing and manufacturing (mail && cp respectively) copies of the music.
We can either
Accept that the RIAA/MPAA will whore our plutocratic government into making law that will protect their asses ($$$). The world has rendered their former function (publish, promote, manufacture, distribute) unnecessary, so they seek an artificial control on technology, personal freedom and the Capitalist Free-Market.
Reduce, Change, Rethink or Abolish copyright altogether.
I vote the latter.
People who refuse to buy DVDs, CDs and VHS and ONLY dload the works of Artists are practicing Civil Disobedience - this is justified, reasonable and unquestionably within the realm of honesty, I also ACTIVELY encourage others to do the same.
I am a citizen of a Democracy, I disagree with the law, as do most citizens, if we all disagree with the law... it should be changed... unless of course we dont live in a Democracy any longer... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm makes you wonder dosnt it. My new favorite word is:
plutocracy (pl-tkr-s) n.
Government by the wealthy.
A wealthy class that controls a government.
A government or state in which the wealthy rule.
In Canada, we collect a levy on CDR media, rigthly or wrongly this allows us the RIGHT as a citizen to make copies of any music CD for our own personal use.
I can take YOUR NSync CD and make a copy for myself (%insert_your_own_joke_here%).
So, does this mean that this 'version' of the NSync CD wont be sold here in Canada? Or will I have to start buying and returning CDs and showing them that their product infringes my rights as a Canadian according to the Copyright Act...
One more thing, if you want people to take the dangerous of Microsoft seriously, then refer to them as Microsoft. If you choose some bastardization of their name, people will immediately write you off and not even pretend to think about what your saying.
I disagree, in fact Id say that is absolutely untrue. By bastardizing the Microshaft name, we very intentionally use their massive marketing muscle against them.
Doing these association techniques we are purposefully meddling with their mind control program (marketing) by dropping their name proper and forcing people to read "MS" but see "M$", or read Microsoft but see/think "Macroshaft".
The NIMBY crowd in the US is more vocal than elsewhere and holds up new infrastructure installations
This is most certainly NOT the case. Business interst from locations of towers, power lines, drilling wells and billboards are under FAR greater community control than in the US.
No one bows to business like the American public... so this idea of NIMBY 'strength' in America is a little baseless.
in these countries so that these people can't have jobs at all...
I suppose your one of these people who think that you do someone a favour by exploiting their slave labour than pat yourself on the back for it, all the while refusing to do the same work because you are 'above it' and becoming right irate at the some body suggests you should work for the same wages, under the same conditions, with the same labour 'rights' (complete lack of)
Do you know that most production in poor nations occurs in Export processing zones where these poor nations suspend taxation, labour law and tarriffs in effort to squeeze just a little money from the richer nations..? do you also understand that this system will (is) be used to keep the standard of living in these countries from raising. So stop patting yourself on the back as a humanitarian and realize that the system allowing these poor nations to bootstrap themselves is bullshit, the WTO and the rest are willing to encourage the abandonment of labour standards in order to facilitate the exploitation of the worlds poor.
But if I want more, who cares what anyone else thinks
Because your ridiculously stupid consumption fucks up my world: it causes pollution, it fucks up the economy, it causes exploitation of people working in sweatshops abroad, it fucks up my ability to seek a sane and reasonable balance of work/life (because you are willing to work 90 hours a week to by your 123131 fucking consumer-bit), it generally fucks up my ability to live happily. By having 300 million selfish americans driving the worlds economy no one else can do anything other than bear down and adopt the system because if we DONT you'll eat everyone out of house and home (very fucking literally) - leaving others with nothing and not caring a whit.
You are not living in a vaccume, you are a member of the global village, and everyone has got to become a little more aware of what their own actions create and what they destroy.
When you eat 5 mcblondanlds meals in a day, you drive up meat prices, you increase demand, rainforests are slashed, methane is produced, anti-biotics become useless... its a simple analogy but true none-the-less.
Where is the easonable balancing force? Nothing without market-value lives today. Where is the market for peace? goodwill? happiness? joy? freedom? democracy? nature? bio-diversity? greenspace? clean air? clean water? community? love? understanding? Where is the efforts to create more of these things? There isnt any - and because Capitalism only deals in $$$, and the world is forced to care for their $$$ least they have none, these other things take a back seat...
Those in the drivers seat of the worlds present empire are getting drunk, fat and ignorant... when we alone are capable of creating any real value and stearing the future to something we can be proud of...
Well sir, I guess we have reached the reality of our problem.
I am dumbfounded.
Tell me, what ideals do you find morally acceptable? If this is your opinion of your role in this world, if this is your reaction to the problems your actions create, tell me, what higher-order morality do you subscribe to?
even though I have hundreds of t-shirts already and sure don't need any more of them.
The contract between publishers and society is that publishers have the right to distribute their works as they see fit and then the consumer can do whatever they want with the physical copy of the work they have purchased.
Backup a moment, part of this 'deal' is that we allow them to abridge freedoms because it encourages them to create. To clarify, we volunteer to *not* do something that is very easy and honest in every sense, that is create a simple copy of some information. we do this because it seems reasonable considering a free-market is supposed to be involved and balance this by dropping prices, increasing features and encouraging innovation (the real kind, not the MS kind).
Now, today, we have the RIAA, a collusive group of plutocrats, buying legislation and agreeing to not compete. They dont innovate: they dont embrace new technologies like the internet to lower costs and lower prices. They dont increase features: instant-cheap-streaming music. What the RIAA dosnt do is provide the balancing act that an agreement like copyright relies on to achieve some sense.
The RIAA acts in concert to control the music industry. It acts in concert to control prices (already found guilty). It acts in concert to not compete on price, technology or distribution methods. It acts in concert to wrangle artists into a do-or-die (see this salon article) contracts. It acts in concert to exclude others from the industry in any way: mp3.com, napster (after it promised to reform).
The RIAA is a syndicate amounting to an effective monopoly. This is also illegal.
So, again, to the issue of what 'rights' the publishers are entitled to... if they were willing to behave as honest business people, and not like a mafia, I might be willing to entertain the idea that we should continue to extend them the privilege of copyright. As it stands today, Id say that the detriment is BY FAR outweighing the benefit people used to find acceptable in exchange for a breach of basic freedom.
cp my.mp3|wav formyfriend.mp3|wav Makes me a manufacturer, the historical role of a 'publisher'. mail -s Enjoy this great new music < formyfriend.mp3|wav makes me a promoter and a distributor, the historical role of a 'publisher'
In light of our new reality, both the state of the industry and the reality of the digital world, I believe, we should simply abolish copyright.
Simple, easy, honest and very reasonable act on the part of a free and conscience person. (that is cp and mail)
1) figuring out how to move the Windows95-style taskbar from the left side to the bottom, and 2) figuring out how to change the layout of said task bar. Things like that should not be that difficult.
Why just last night, when i was adding OpenNIC's root server to my home sytems, I had to change the IP addresses of my client's DNS servers...
On my Windows PC, i had to find 'network settings' by clicking start, settings and then control panel. Where I had to then click the "Network" icon. I then had to choose TCP/IP from a list and choose 'properties'. Once there I had to click "DNS settings", then choose and click the 'remove' button for all the IPs there, then type in each new one followed by clicking the 'add button'. Phew, ill tell you it was a daunting task...
On my GNU/Linux laptop i edited the file at/etc/resolv.conf with a simle text editor and restarted the named process.
it sure was alot easier with GNU/Linux, I dont know how anyone figures out how to fix Windows when it isnt working...
What do you mean? Are you asserting that some scientific theories require assumption because they are not provable? Ie: Although it is based on provable theories, The Big Bang requires some conjecture, and therefore 'faith' (to use your term)... and thus science is religion.
On the other hand, Science, as a 'dogma' or a unifying mythos can be viewed as a 'religion' because it creates a set of 'morals' or 'codes' or a unified framework of understanding... ie: people who 'believe' in science are more likely to accept Evolution as truth even though it is not exactly repeatable (like: 100 deg., at sea level is boiling point of water, and is observable, repeatable and requires little 'faith')... and thus science is religion.
- OR -
Are you saying that the scientific method, the idea that the world around us is explainable via experimentation, the Scientific Method in itself is a religion because it is a method to 'seek truth'... and thus science is religion.
I propose banning all non-consentual commercial communication. That means public billboards, telephone calls and spam. etc etc.
Why should the population have to endure a bombardment of unwanted messages when they almost universally detest them?
Consumption (demand) drives capitalism, what are we going to do now that we understand the planet will never enable an equal opportunity (exploitation of the poor is the method that NorthAmericans and the G8 use to facilitate our own unreasonable waste and consumption)... let alone that the planet is incapable of supporting 6 billion 'NorthAmerican lifestyles'.
So, here is the problem, we allow* business to lie (market) in every way, using every channel at their own desire, to drive UP consumption - making our very real problem worse.
I recognize that telling the sheeple they need to consume *less* is very difficult to do, but allowing a powerfull elite (plutocrats) to prevent a more sobering message, one encouraging reduction/adjustment/re-alignment/reassessment, does not play well... especially echoed in a chorus of 'buy now buy now buy now buy now buy now buy now buy now'.
So, back to my original point: If we are to ever make reason again of our modern society we must come to grips with rampant consumerism. In order to do this we must re-assess the benefits our community - as a whole - gains by accepting the very real manipulation that un-solicited commercial messages manufacturers.
Would we be able to put a computer in every north american home, which allowed for open and full discourse on the marketplace of both products and ideas if we chose to spend our resources there instead of say, 20" x 40" billboards blaring garbage at the population.
Which would people prefer? Certainly the former - but without a realistic approach to the marketplace, one that dosnt simply encourage mindless consumption (which leads the planet to literal oblivion) - where to begin? how do you change the course of the economy without being slaughtered under the ignorance of ignorant, misinformed, mislead masses.
Without restraining the ability of a reckless, self-interested minority (the powerfull rich) to restrict and contain public discourse, how do you ever have a public debate on the issue itself... its is a mind-numbingly inescapable rabid incestuous viscious circle.
So again, in order to break this circle, we should, as a community, dissolve the practice of allowing ignorant, unhealthy messages to be broadcast (in all channels (spam, billboards, bench-ads) to our community....
* Sounds radical dosnt it... im very serious. There are surely to be alot of free-market libertarians to take serious offence to this idea... but again, free-market libertarians believe voting-with-your-dollars is an acceptable way to run a democracy... and no, that is not flamebait, it appears as the basic ideal behind alot of arguments ive heard in the past.
I know this idea is a bit radical, but it certainly is not flaimbait... so moderators, please weigh your disagreement with the idea against your desire to stiffle the idea and remember the purpose of moderation is not the latter.
Reason #1232 I just applied for my Citizenship in Portugal. My mother was born there but came to Canada when she was 12.
Sensible, Citizen centered policy.... not the usual big-biz cow-toeing im getting used to in Canada. I am proud of Canada's past, but i am weary of its future... my citizenship is my escape hatch, it is my retirement plan, it is what I will finally do when the borders drop between Canada and the US... unless I can stop the slow slide into Canadian Plutocracy... or encourage my American neighbours to act up(!) against their own...
Filler. Your comment violated the postercomment compression filter. Comment aborted. Filler. Apple. Potato. Tomato.
Which brings up another, slightly OT point, What the Hell is the Lamness filter supposed to accomplish? I mean with the AC posting, what great harm does the Lameness Filter intend to save us from...?
Well rounded educations build enlightened people. Trade-Based educations build employees.
I cannot even believe someone would make this suggestion, the world needs people to think LESS of their business and careers and more about the important ideas around them... what a profoundly, supremely TERRIBLE idea.
Imagine a world where ONLY capitalistic function is relevant... more so than now, extended all the way to our education systems... branded, maximized, cost-structured all for building soul-less and ignorant employees.
I am really incapable of understanding why anyone would consider this... have we finally begun the wholesale-sale of all of Humanity? Would we stoop so low as to welcome only "job-function-learning"? Can you imagine a world completely without wisdom or context where everyone has been given a corporate-centered education - will we loose our ability to function in our community and devolve into endless sterile business dealings.
This kind of thinking is so glued to American Capitalism Ethos that im sure my ranting sounds crazy to those living in the Belly-of-the-Beast, but please people, there is more to life than work and money.... remember all those things that they TAUGHT YOU IN SCHOOL... remember your WELL ROUNDED and BROAD education?
It appears you suffer from a classic case of jelousy
HA! This isnt the Opraph Winfry show, this isnt the after-school-moral-lesson-of-the-moment Television show - inspite of what moronic, simplistic, ignorant, shallow, and idiotic grade school scenario that has been played out a million times in your life, my concern with your country isnt a result of my 'jeAlousy'. IN fact, your response is almost laughable(!) - what would make you believe that this would be true?
I hope you realize that 'the only reason people make fun of you is to make them feel good about themselves' "lesson" is a obvious method to appease simple minds into quickly releasing their hostility; usually told to those who are incapable of introspection, true and meaningfull self-confidence.
Your response only betrays you to be incapable of understanding the nuances of your own reality.
You like psycho-babble? You like arm-chair psychology? Deal with this:
Your response says this to everyone outside the USofA: "I dont know anything about the outside world. I have been diluted by nationalistic propaganda. Capitalism is unquestionable because Communism is evil. U!S!A! is NUMBER ONE! WHOTT WHOTT".
Seems pretty silly dosnt it.....
98% of Americans support a "War on Terrorism(TM)". 98% of Americans obviously agree with your statement above...
Because 'image' is worthless. Substance is relevant. Encouraging, or extending the ability for corporate interests to oppress public discouse in exchange for maintaining their 'image' does two things:
It re-enforces the ill-logic that says 'image is important' by justifiying and supporting its pursuit (which leads to a death spiral of irrelevance)
It puts broad and arbitrary powers in the hands of the selfish and greedy, those who would not curb their usage for the good of the public, which is what legislation must be responsible to primarily.
Remember, copyright law, although it comes from the past, is not self-evident and undebatably just. It is a contract, an agreement made between public and private enterprise.
That may be all fine and good - but where do we draw the reasonable line in extending monopolies via copyright?
Do we justifiy the general and wide reaching oppression that is a 'look and feel' copyright simply because Apple wants it this way to maximize their mind-control (advertising) methods?
I dont feel it is reasonable, with this 'look and feel' logic, we can grant ourselves monopolies on seeminlgy mundane objects and copyright their look and feel... present Plutocratic interests aside, where is the reason in this? Has capitalism begun the big-crunch where the barrier to entry is so unbelievably high that the present powers that be will simply buy and sell new enterprises and legislate the rest into oblivion?
If i were American Id be very scared for the future.
Because Im Canadian Im very scared that my own country cannot resist the empty and shallow influence from from the empire to the south...
Bwhahahahah Copyright does not (should not) cover a 'look and feel'.
Apple's property
What if Picasso had 'copyrighted' all works that 'looked like his' what if Elvis had copyrighted the '2-3-2' tempo and 'rock-&-roll music'?
Apple's copyright on the look of aqua is ridiculous - i encourage everyone to ignore it... if your American, I encourage you to reign control away from your Plutocratic Government... until you do so you can expect more absurdity.
Not until my wife can open up the PowerPoint files that her professor has on the class web site.
Ill take issue with this concept. MS purposefully breaks their file-format standards to A) encourage a needless upgrade cycle & B) keep others from being interoperable.
It would be ridiculous to think GNU/Linux (whoever) should set this is a goal.
DO you think that maybe your wife could educate herself, and her prof to understand that they have adopted an unwise technological paradigm? MS stearing PPT to be what it is makes it useless to anyone wise enough to understand that it is being used as a marketing/business tool and has NOTHING to do with technology, software or anything else of cluefull relevance.
Using PPT, when its major goal is not being a good presentation package but instead being a money machine should tell you what you should choose... StarOffice, CorelOffice, KOffice or anything else that is not engineered to F-you.
After we receive your written request along with the above items ($14.95 & A S.A.S.E), we will process it and promptly send you the disc when it becomes available.
Seems like they want to not make it as easy as possible for people to get the code...
So, brtb, when you receive the disk, could you set up a sourceforge project and upload the files..? so otehrs can have a peak without the $ and snail-mail bother...
Afghanistan has already said they would extradite him to an international court if they (or 3 other friendly countries) were given sufficient evidence. Why would you expect them to do anything else.. sounds pretty reasonable to me. Do you think the US of A would extradite someone if Afghanistan 'demanded' it without evidence?
If there is to be any force in Afghanistan it should be a UN led team of INTERNATIONAL forces with its mission to go into Afghanistan peacefully, more as police, and arrest him.
Who would support him except the cultists amoung him? no other international body could support NOT doing this if the evidence had been given least they look like they support murder of innocents... and the Taliban ALREADY said they would send him out (conditions above).
The key here is that America not, YET AGAIN, act with their own interests irrationally placed above reason.
I don't pretend to understand the psychology of people like you who are filled with hatred
Ummmm please re-read that sentance. You dont even wait till the next sentance to contradict yourself!
Good god, man, Bin Laden is Hitler reincarnated!
Ding Ding. Straws. Grasping. Confusion.
Does he need to nuke a city?
I suggest he start with Nagasaki or Hiroshima... oh wait...
anything positive politically about the US?
Yes, that The Ideals that founded the country are very enlightened, then as today.
PS. You dont really think Chomsky is a "nutcases" do you? you were using this as a point of argument to refute my point... Chomsky is pretty dead on. I mean really, suggesting Chomsky a 'power monger' is really pretty off-base.
Never-the-less, this argument bit is tiring.. how are you today?
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Copyright is an 'agreement' - its a fiction. Intellectual property is not 'stuff'. IP is to property as FoolsGold is to Gold.
When the 'mass' accepts the idea that they would rather reclaim their right to copy music, when they realize that it no longer acceptable for them because the other party isnt providing them the benefits to outweigh their detriment, this *DEAL* ceases to exist.
So, instead of addressing the issue at hand: Copyright is no longer an acceptable situation to the citizens who empower the concept. They have ended their compliance to this fiction and are distributing and manufacturing (mail && cp respectively) copies of the music.
We can either
Accept that the RIAA/MPAA will whore our plutocratic government into making law that will protect their asses ($$$). The world has rendered their former function (publish, promote, manufacture, distribute) unnecessary, so they seek an artificial control on technology, personal freedom and the Capitalist Free-Market.
Reduce, Change, Rethink or Abolish copyright altogether.
I vote the latter.
People who refuse to buy DVDs, CDs and VHS and ONLY dload the works of Artists are practicing Civil Disobedience - this is justified, reasonable and unquestionably within the realm of honesty, I also ACTIVELY encourage others to do the same.
I am a citizen of a Democracy, I disagree with the law, as do most citizens, if we all disagree with the law... it should be changed... unless of course we dont live in a Democracy any longer... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm makes you wonder dosnt it. My new favorite word is:
plutocracy (pl-tkr-s) n.
Government by the wealthy.
A wealthy class that controls a government.
A government or state in which the wealthy rule.
In Canada, we collect a levy on CDR media, rigthly or wrongly this allows us the RIGHT as a citizen to make copies of any music CD for our own personal use.
d s
I can take YOUR NSync CD and make a copy for myself (%insert_your_own_joke_here%).
See more about this here: http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml#copy_for_frien
So, does this mean that this 'version' of the NSync CD wont be sold here in Canada? Or will I have to start buying and returning CDs and showing them that their product infringes my rights as a Canadian according to the Copyright Act...
This could be seriously fun...
One more thing, if you want people to take the dangerous of Microsoft seriously, then refer to them as Microsoft. If you choose some bastardization of their name, people will immediately write you off and not even pretend to think about what your saying.
I disagree, in fact Id say that is absolutely untrue. By bastardizing the Microshaft name, we very intentionally use their massive marketing muscle against them.
Doing these association techniques we are purposefully meddling with their mind control program (marketing) by dropping their name proper and forcing people to read "MS" but see "M$", or read Microsoft but see/think "Macroshaft".
Go read a little about memetics, culture jamming and propaganda. Then move on to some Chomsky
It is very usefull vaccine to the marketing mess they blast at humanity.
The NIMBY crowd in the US is more vocal than elsewhere and holds up new infrastructure installations
This is most certainly NOT the case. Business interst from locations of towers, power lines, drilling wells and billboards are under FAR greater community control than in the US.
No one bows to business like the American public... so this idea of NIMBY 'strength' in America is a little baseless.
in these countries so that these people can't have jobs at all...
I suppose your one of these people who think that you do someone a favour by exploiting their slave labour than pat yourself on the back for it, all the while refusing to do the same work because you are 'above it' and becoming right irate at the some body suggests you should work for the same wages, under the same conditions, with the same labour 'rights' (complete lack of)
Do you know that most production in poor nations occurs in Export processing zones where these poor nations suspend taxation, labour law and tarriffs in effort to squeeze just a little money from the richer nations..? do you also understand that this system will (is) be used to keep the standard of living in these countries from raising. So stop patting yourself on the back as a humanitarian and realize that the system allowing these poor nations to bootstrap themselves is bullshit, the WTO and the rest are willing to encourage the abandonment of labour standards in order to facilitate the exploitation of the worlds poor.
Give your head a shake.
But if I want more, who cares what anyone else thinks
Because your ridiculously stupid consumption fucks up my world: it causes pollution, it fucks up the economy, it causes exploitation of people working in sweatshops abroad, it fucks up my ability to seek a sane and reasonable balance of work/life (because you are willing to work 90 hours a week to by your 123131 fucking consumer-bit), it generally fucks up my ability to live happily. By having 300 million selfish americans driving the worlds economy no one else can do anything other than bear down and adopt the system because if we DONT you'll eat everyone out of house and home (very fucking literally) - leaving others with nothing and not caring a whit.
You are not living in a vaccume, you are a member of the global village, and everyone has got to become a little more aware of what their own actions create and what they destroy.
When you eat 5 mcblondanlds meals in a day, you drive up meat prices, you increase demand, rainforests are slashed, methane is produced, anti-biotics become useless... its a simple analogy but true none-the-less.
Where is the easonable balancing force? Nothing without market-value lives today. Where is the market for peace? goodwill? happiness? joy? freedom? democracy? nature? bio-diversity? greenspace? clean air? clean water? community? love? understanding? Where is the efforts to create more of these things? There isnt any - and because Capitalism only deals in $$$, and the world is forced to care for their $$$ least they have none, these other things take a back seat...
Those in the drivers seat of the worlds present empire are getting drunk, fat and ignorant... when we alone are capable of creating any real value and stearing the future to something we can be proud of...
Well sir, I guess we have reached the reality of our problem.
I am dumbfounded.
Tell me, what ideals do you find morally acceptable? If this is your opinion of your role in this world, if this is your reaction to the problems your actions create, tell me, what higher-order morality do you subscribe to?
even though I have hundreds of t-shirts already and sure don't need any more of them.
Do you kick puppies and drown babies too?
The contract between publishers and society is that publishers have the right to distribute their works as they see fit and then the consumer can do whatever they want with the physical copy of the work they have purchased.
Backup a moment, part of this 'deal' is that we allow them to abridge freedoms because it encourages them to create. To clarify, we volunteer to *not* do something that is very easy and honest in every sense, that is create a simple copy of some information. we do this because it seems reasonable considering a free-market is supposed to be involved and balance this by dropping prices, increasing features and encouraging innovation (the real kind, not the MS kind).
Now, today, we have the RIAA, a collusive group of plutocrats, buying legislation and agreeing to not compete. They dont innovate: they dont embrace new technologies like the internet to lower costs and lower prices. They dont increase features: instant-cheap-streaming music. What the RIAA dosnt do is provide the balancing act that an agreement like copyright relies on to achieve some sense.
The RIAA acts in concert to control the music industry. It acts in concert to control prices (already found guilty). It acts in concert to not compete on price, technology or distribution methods. It acts in concert to wrangle artists into a do-or-die (see this salon article) contracts. It acts in concert to exclude others from the industry in any way: mp3.com, napster (after it promised to reform).
The RIAA is a syndicate amounting to an effective monopoly. This is also illegal.
So, again, to the issue of what 'rights' the publishers are entitled to... if they were willing to behave as honest business people, and not like a mafia, I might be willing to entertain the idea that we should continue to extend them the privilege of copyright. As it stands today, Id say that the detriment is BY FAR outweighing the benefit people used to find acceptable in exchange for a breach of basic freedom.
cp my.mp3|wav formyfriend.mp3|wav Makes me a manufacturer, the historical role of a 'publisher'.
mail -s Enjoy this great new music < formyfriend.mp3|wav makes me a promoter and a distributor, the historical role of a 'publisher'
In light of our new reality, both the state of the industry and the reality of the digital world, I believe, we should simply abolish copyright.
Simple, easy, honest and very reasonable act on the part of a free and conscience person. (that is cp and mail)
Are you beginning to see the big picture?
1) figuring out how to move the Windows95-style taskbar from the left side to the bottom, and 2) figuring out how to change the layout of said task bar. Things like that should not be that difficult.
/etc/resolv.conf with a simle text editor and restarted the named process.
Why just last night, when i was adding OpenNIC's root server to my home sytems, I had to change the IP addresses of my client's DNS servers...
On my Windows PC, i had to find 'network settings' by clicking start, settings and then control panel. Where I had to then click the "Network" icon. I then had to choose TCP/IP from a list and choose 'properties'. Once there I had to click "DNS settings", then choose and click the 'remove' button for all the IPs there, then type in each new one followed by clicking the 'add button'. Phew, ill tell you it was a daunting task...
On my GNU/Linux laptop i edited the file at
it sure was alot easier with GNU/Linux, I dont know how anyone figures out how to fix Windows when it isnt working...
science is a religion
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What do you mean? Are you asserting that some scientific theories require assumption because they are not provable? Ie: Although it is based on provable theories, The Big Bang requires some conjecture, and therefore 'faith' (to use your term)... and thus science is religion.
On the other hand, Science, as a 'dogma' or a unifying mythos can be viewed as a 'religion' because it creates a set of 'morals' or 'codes' or a unified framework of understanding... ie: people who 'believe' in science are more likely to accept Evolution as truth even though it is not exactly repeatable (like: 100 deg., at sea level is boiling point of water, and is observable, repeatable and requires little 'faith')... and thus science is religion.
- OR -
Are you saying that the scientific method, the idea that the world around us is explainable via experimentation, the Scientific Method in itself is a religion because it is a method to 'seek truth'... and thus science is religion.
What are you meaning?
Netcraft operating system detector
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Is that a euphemism for nmap ive never heard...?
uname: testtest
pword: testtest
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I propose banning all non-consentual commercial communication. That means public billboards, telephone calls and spam. etc etc.
Why should the population have to endure a bombardment of unwanted messages when they almost universally detest them?
Consumption (demand) drives capitalism, what are we going to do now that we understand the planet will never enable an equal opportunity (exploitation of the poor is the method that NorthAmericans and the G8 use to facilitate our own unreasonable waste and consumption)... let alone that the planet is incapable of supporting 6 billion 'NorthAmerican lifestyles'.
So, here is the problem, we allow* business to lie (market) in every way, using every channel at their own desire, to drive UP consumption - making our very real problem worse.
I recognize that telling the sheeple they need to consume *less* is very difficult to do, but allowing a powerfull elite (plutocrats) to prevent a more sobering message, one encouraging reduction/adjustment/re-alignment/reassessment, does not play well... especially echoed in a chorus of 'buy now buy now buy now buy now buy now buy now buy now'.
So, back to my original point: If we are to ever make reason again of our modern society we must come to grips with rampant consumerism. In order to do this we must re-assess the benefits our community - as a whole - gains by accepting the very real manipulation that un-solicited commercial messages manufacturers.
Would we be able to put a computer in every north american home, which allowed for open and full discourse on the marketplace of both products and ideas if we chose to spend our resources there instead of say, 20" x 40" billboards blaring garbage at the population.
Which would people prefer? Certainly the former - but without a realistic approach to the marketplace, one that dosnt simply encourage mindless consumption (which leads the planet to literal oblivion) - where to begin? how do you change the course of the economy without being slaughtered under the ignorance of ignorant, misinformed, mislead masses.
Without restraining the ability of a reckless, self-interested minority (the powerfull rich) to restrict and contain public discourse, how do you ever have a public debate on the issue itself... its is a mind-numbingly inescapable rabid incestuous viscious circle.
So again, in order to break this circle, we should, as a community, dissolve the practice of allowing ignorant, unhealthy messages to be broadcast (in all channels (spam, billboards, bench-ads) to our community....
* Sounds radical dosnt it... im very serious. There are surely to be alot of free-market libertarians to take serious offence to this idea... but again, free-market libertarians believe voting-with-your-dollars is an acceptable way to run a democracy... and no, that is not flamebait, it appears as the basic ideal behind alot of arguments ive heard in the past.
I know this idea is a bit radical, but it certainly is not flaimbait... so moderators, please weigh your disagreement with the idea against your desire to stiffle the idea and remember the purpose of moderation is not the latter.
Reason #1232 I just applied for my Citizenship in Portugal. My mother was born there but came to Canada when she was 12.
Sensible, Citizen centered policy.... not the usual big-biz cow-toeing im getting used to in Canada. I am proud of Canada's past, but i am weary of its future... my citizenship is my escape hatch, it is my retirement plan, it is what I will finally do when the borders drop between Canada and the US... unless I can stop the slow slide into Canadian Plutocracy... or encourage my American neighbours to act up(!) against their own...
Is that second screenshot taken using 3DWM?
Filler. Your comment violated the postercomment compression filter. Comment aborted. Filler. Apple. Potato. Tomato.
Which brings up another, slightly OT point, What the Hell is the Lamness filter supposed to accomplish? I mean with the AC posting, what great harm does the Lameness Filter intend to save us from...?
Well rounded educations build enlightened people. Trade-Based educations build employees.
I cannot even believe someone would make this suggestion, the world needs people to think LESS of their business and careers and more about the important ideas around them... what a profoundly, supremely TERRIBLE idea.
Imagine a world where ONLY capitalistic function is relevant... more so than now, extended all the way to our education systems... branded, maximized, cost-structured all for building soul-less and ignorant employees.
I am really incapable of understanding why anyone would consider this... have we finally begun the wholesale-sale of all of Humanity? Would we stoop so low as to welcome only "job-function-learning"? Can you imagine a world completely without wisdom or context where everyone has been given a corporate-centered education - will we loose our ability to function in our community and devolve into endless sterile business dealings.
This kind of thinking is so glued to American Capitalism Ethos that im sure my ranting sounds crazy to those living in the Belly-of-the-Beast, but please people, there is more to life than work and money.... remember all those things that they TAUGHT YOU IN SCHOOL... remember your WELL ROUNDED and BROAD education?
...you must be a troll but...
It appears you suffer from a classic case of jelousy
HA! This isnt the Opraph Winfry show, this isnt the after-school-moral-lesson-of-the-moment Television show - inspite of what moronic, simplistic, ignorant, shallow, and idiotic grade school scenario that has been played out a million times in your life, my concern with your country isnt a result of my 'jeAlousy'. IN fact, your response is almost laughable(!) - what would make you believe that this would be true?
I hope you realize that 'the only reason people make fun of you is to make them feel good about themselves' "lesson" is a obvious method to appease simple minds into quickly releasing their hostility; usually told to those who are incapable of introspection, true and meaningfull self-confidence.
Your response only betrays you to be incapable of understanding the nuances of your own reality.
You like psycho-babble? You like arm-chair psychology? Deal with this:
Your response says this to everyone outside the USofA: "I dont know anything about the outside world. I have been diluted by nationalistic propaganda. Capitalism is unquestionable because Communism is evil. U!S!A! is NUMBER ONE! WHOTT WHOTT".
Seems pretty silly dosnt it.....
98% of Americans support a "War on Terrorism(TM)". 98% of Americans obviously agree with your statement above...
Because 'image' is worthless. Substance is relevant. Encouraging, or extending the ability for corporate interests to oppress public discouse in exchange for maintaining their 'image' does two things:
It re-enforces the ill-logic that says 'image is important' by justifiying and supporting its pursuit (which leads to a death spiral of irrelevance)
It puts broad and arbitrary powers in the hands of the selfish and greedy, those who would not curb their usage for the good of the public, which is what legislation must be responsible to primarily.
Remember, copyright law, although it comes from the past, is not self-evident and undebatably just. It is a contract, an agreement made between public and private enterprise.
That may be all fine and good - but where do we draw the reasonable line in extending monopolies via copyright?
Do we justifiy the general and wide reaching oppression that is a 'look and feel' copyright simply because Apple wants it this way to maximize their mind-control (advertising) methods?
I dont feel it is reasonable, with this 'look and feel' logic, we can grant ourselves monopolies on seeminlgy mundane objects and copyright their look and feel... present Plutocratic interests aside, where is the reason in this? Has capitalism begun the big-crunch where the barrier to entry is so unbelievably high that the present powers that be will simply buy and sell new enterprises and legislate the rest into oblivion?
If i were American Id be very scared for the future.
Because Im Canadian Im very scared that my own country cannot resist the empty and shallow influence from from the empire to the south...
Apple owns the copyright on the design.
Bwhahahahah Copyright does not (should not) cover a 'look and feel'.
Apple's property
What if Picasso had 'copyrighted' all works that 'looked like his' what if Elvis had copyrighted the '2-3-2' tempo and 'rock-&-roll music'?
Apple's copyright on the look of aqua is ridiculous - i encourage everyone to ignore it... if your American, I encourage you to reign control away from your Plutocratic Government... until you do so you can expect more absurdity.
Not until my wife can open up the PowerPoint files that her professor has on the class web site.
Ill take issue with this concept. MS purposefully breaks their file-format standards to A) encourage a needless upgrade cycle & B) keep others from being interoperable.
It would be ridiculous to think GNU/Linux (whoever) should set this is a goal.
DO you think that maybe your wife could educate herself, and her prof to understand that they have adopted an unwise technological paradigm? MS stearing PPT to be what it is makes it useless to anyone wise enough to understand that it is being used as a marketing/business tool and has NOTHING to do with technology, software or anything else of cluefull relevance.
Using PPT, when its major goal is not being a good presentation package but instead being a money machine should tell you what you should choose... StarOffice, CorelOffice, KOffice or anything else that is not engineered to F-you.
After we receive your written request along with the above items ($14.95 & A S.A.S.E), we will process it and promptly send you the disc when it becomes available.
Seems like they want to not make it as easy as possible for people to get the code...
So, brtb, when you receive the disk, could you set up a sourceforge project and upload the files..? so otehrs can have a peak without the $ and snail-mail bother...
You have got to be kidding
This is why nerds cant pick up in public...
Afghanistan has already said they would extradite him to an international court if they (or 3 other friendly countries) were given sufficient evidence. Why would you expect them to do anything else.. sounds pretty reasonable to me. Do you think the US of A would extradite someone if Afghanistan 'demanded' it without evidence?
If there is to be any force in Afghanistan it should be a UN led team of INTERNATIONAL forces with its mission to go into Afghanistan peacefully, more as police, and arrest him.
Who would support him except the cultists amoung him? no other international body could support NOT doing this if the evidence had been given least they look like they support murder of innocents... and the Taliban ALREADY said they would send him out (conditions above).
The key here is that America not, YET AGAIN, act with their own interests irrationally placed above reason.
I don't pretend to understand the psychology of people like you who are filled with hatred
Ummmm please re-read that sentance. You dont even wait till the next sentance to contradict yourself!
Good god, man, Bin Laden is Hitler reincarnated!
Ding Ding. Straws. Grasping. Confusion.
Does he need to nuke a city?
I suggest he start with Nagasaki or Hiroshima... oh wait...
anything positive politically about the US?
Yes, that The Ideals that founded the country are very enlightened, then as today.
PS. You dont really think Chomsky is a "nutcases" do you? you were using this as a point of argument to refute my point... Chomsky is pretty dead on. I mean really, suggesting Chomsky a 'power monger' is really pretty off-base.
Never-the-less, this argument bit is tiring.. how are you today?