dontcha know that cheap broadband aint for Americans? Only commie countries have cheap broadband! Otherwise, how are the megacorporations media empires gonna keep their god given monopolies. Now git back to Russia, you commienists!
IANAL, but AFAIK, no one has ever been sued for just downloading. I do not think they can sue you for just downloading. THey are suing for sharing files. But the media and RIAA/MPAA cooperate to make it sound like it was downloading. Well, OK, they lie. But what it is is either she was sharing a file over kazaa, and the RIAA searched for and find it and got her IP, or she downloaded a file from bittorrent, which supposedly automatically shares the file as you downloading it. RIAA/MPAA is supposedly getting the IP from the tracking software which tells you which IP are downloading/sharing. Then they can sue you that way.
But the media likes to call it downloading, when it is really uploading. THat dang liberal media. When the revolution comes, we need them all dangling from a rope, right?
They are squealing like little piglets by this devastatingly truthful article.
These so-called "libertarians" are nothing more than sheeple in love with social hierarchies. Most of them are no doubt obsessed with their own IQ scores and masturbate to a photo of Ayn Rand on an hourly basis.
Oh, fear not, little hierarchy-lovers, you will be rich someday. Someday soon, we will all fall at your feet to grovel thereupon. Someday, someday, someday....
So many of you here are saying it will be just 1000s of public access TV low-quality shows. But the fact is that the people who are interested in making this sort of content for public access and for videoblogs and such, have all been DOING IT BY THEMSELVES (or with a couple of friends). But the real potential disruptive force in all this is the POWER OF WIDESPREAD COLLABORATION using them there "Internets".
The real problem is the scripts for these public access failures. But when amateur content creators really start adopting the open source software creation model, where hundreds of content creators start using internet software to collaborate and create scripts, find public domain and creative commons video footage, and using cheap digital cameras to film events and interviews from all over world, and then divide up the work a la open source software, edit the video using hundreds of different computers using cheap or even free editing software, then, THEN it blow even Hollwood out of the water.
And the main thing that this copylefted content will offer is something that the TV industry is in REALLY short supply of--a more real worldview and a wider range of philosophical and sociopolitical viewpoints. For example, every friggin day on TV you see celebrities, politicians and other famous people being treated with kid gloves, like the alpha animals they are. But on internet tv, they are gonna get trashed. And people are gonna like that.
you wrote: Just as only a small percentage can write effectively, an even smaller percentage can present video effectively. Writing requires storytelling skills. Video requires storytelling, as well as camera skills.
Don't I know it! Actually, script writing is the same writing/analysis skill as any good writing, blogging, etc.
I myself am working on a video documentary right now. And the script is a bitch. I see other amateur leftwing documentaries parked on various places on the net, and almost all of them are jokes--because of weak or nonexistent scripts.
"Home movies" have been around for decades. Have you ever watched someone elses without cringing? I don't care what you call it...videoblogging, PhoneCamVideo, MyVideoLife...its still a home movie, and almost always crap. Unless there is a lot of taut skin involved. Or something very, very humorous (and probably degrading to the subject)
But the thing is that a good script can be written collaboratively. And passed around over the Net. THe video filler itself can be passed around to different editing PCs over the net. And there is a vast army of leftist bloggers on the net that can be organized to create copylefted video documentaries. And once a good documentary is written and edited using creative commons video and flash animation, it can be copylefted and set free on the p2p networks, where it could live forever in a near-future America where most Americans have broadband, and where PCs have video cards to output to the digital tv, and where apps have developed to search for and download video automatically.
Notice how the poll questions are essentially asking the poll respondents about PRIVACY issues (bloggers spilling PERSONAL data online about politicians, judges, and celebrities). But this article is trying to sell those results as evidence that the public supports cracking down on political blogs using campaign finance laws.
You have here a first rate example of the economic elite using mass media propaganda.
They have been doing this for over 100 years here in America.
really only a fairly small percent of humans are actually any good at writing and reading, or at least good enough to make it enjoyable for them. We are talking maybe 10-30%. Then only some fraction of those are skilled enough at the computer to be able to deal with blogs.
So what is going on with the political blogs thing is people trying to percolate ideas up into the sphere of journalism and media. Some of blogger ideas and writings do make it into the mainstream, at least if they are business-friendly enough (for the most part).
But when broadband gets cheap enough, and gets seperated from cable and phone line enough so that a majority of Americans just have a data line, then people will probably start feeding streaming video (or auto-downloaded video) into their digital TV sets from the Net. That is when videoblogging will really start to allow the bloggers an avenue into the minds of the masses of Americans. THat is when the real education can start to take place.
As for the rest of your politically correct() routine, skip it. I ain't white. That threw a wrench into your little program, didn't it? Throw an exception?
Get back to me when you have read a few hundred books, and maybe we can talk then....
take a look at this photo of the eastern australian aborignes (now wiped out). They were descendants of the Murrayian aborignes. Some say they were part homo erectus. You can still see some aspects of the murrayians in some aborgines today. They may have mixed with erectus on the way down to Australia.
BTW, most aborigines has visual cortexes that are 25% larger than other humans.
Re:please tell us more! (and that link is dead....
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you did not answer the question--did google want you to stop querying and parsing, or stop showing on your site the results of your queries and parsing?
please tell us more! (and that link is dead....)
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You were using an HTML scraper/screen scraper to parse google news? THe link you posted is dead, BTW.
Did you want you to stop parsing google news or just stop offering it to people via your website?
C'mon, tell me you are deliberately lying or being obtuse: you aint THAT fucking stupid, are you? THe business lobbies PAY OFF the politicians to LET THEM go overseas and still sell here in America. The politicians take their money and do their bidding.
I say "Hang 'em all". I will GLADLY vote for death for every free trade politician who comes before me if I am on the jury.
You ignorant slashdot fucks are so amusing. You spout all this propaganda they feed you. You don't even know that America only came into being because the founding fathers (founding monsters I call them) pandered to the middle class to get them to support the Revolution and the heinous constitution by promising to protect them from British trade. When they did that, the revolution/constitution was on. So, America was BORN of protectionism for the middle class. Now you jerk off to your Ayn Rand poster....
but google news API is not available yet, is it?
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How are they parsing google news content? Google news does not yet offer an API, correct? What are they doing, screen scraping? You can only query google programmatically about 1000 times a day, I think.
I wish I had more details...
And this is a REALLY stupid aspect to tackle--connections between cities. THe real cheese would seem to be in word counts, and connections between words--like "economy" and "recession", etc.
I suggest we indict, try, convict and sentence to death by hanging all the CEOs and politicians who took part in this outsourcing/free trade scam.
Sentence 'em all to death by hanging, and then eat their bodies. That way we can all be "consumers" again!
Of course, they would have to be tried in a court of law before being tried. And we may have to change a couple of laws to let us do this.
But it is gonna be SO MUCH FUN to...EAT THE RICH!
TV propaganda evolved the American culture
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American television is in the business of farming, farming willing consumers, farming willing corporate citizens, farming conformance. THey are in the business of breeding, of evolving a particular brand of American, one who works a lot and consumes a lot. One who is patriotic (translation: is easily manipulated by trigger cues appealing to sentimentality). One who is for the most part apathetic about voting and who accepts authority. One who accepts people of different cultures/races in the workplace (the better to flood the labor supply, my dear). One who is easily scared by TV propaganda so that military power can be used to invade and open new markets for the corporations that own the TV stations and networks.
Just as prehistoric hunters, pastoral peoples and farmers domesticated cattle and sheep and dogs, etc., so too has the economic elite (through TV, primarily) domesticated a certain breed of homo sapiens. Just as those humans of long ago bred their domesticated animals generation after generation for certain desirable characteristics, so too has the economic elite produced us Americans by altering our culture. THey didn't evolve us physically, but culturally. And TV is the primary tool.
A lot of people here are questioning the worth and/or validity of skypecasting, citing out technologies that will do the same thing, same as, I believe, Winamp, and other players that will allow you to stream your audio to some other person on the net.
But skype is p2p, so that instead of you streaming directly to your audience, listeners may stream from you AND some other listeners, obviously minimizing the bandwidth required of the originator. The other alternative software packages are client-server, one to one, correct?
Also, one thing that makes this worthwhile as a slashdot topic is that there is already an established base of about 30 million skype users. So, this could serve as a jumpstart, just as napster did bittorrent, even though napster, like skype is proprietary....
Just thinking of it, I bet you get a knot in your stomach, don't you? Just thinking about all these Americans doing whatever they can to weaken the monopoly power of the telco companies, just thinking about them fighting back against the hierarchy, that gives a "traditionalist" like you heartburn, don't it? You like to style yourselfs as "libertarians" or "conservatives" these days, but in reality you are really just the manifestation of redneckism or fascism or the witch hunt. You are the eternal voice of hardwired brain circuitry of the pack animal, the voice of the pack, the voice of tradition, the voice of darwinian animal that demands obesiance to the leader, to the alpha male, to religion, to the status quo, to perpetuating the genes of those at the top.
You aint nothing new. We however are new. We are the anti-animal, the new human. We started up about the time of the French Revolution. We were there at Shay's Rebellion, and at the Haymarket riots and on the demonstration lines protesting the Vietnam war. And we say "Fuck You" to power and to corporate feudalism. We will continue to fight in whatever venue we can.
some cultist-sheeple wrote: "Somehow in your drug-addled excuse for a brain, you can equate the greatest mechanism for freedom and advancement for all individuals with a generic, mindless, deity-worshipping collective."
First, the greatest mechanism for advancement of mankind is simply the written accumulation and aggregation of scientific knowledge, the growth rate of which is exponential, the same as the growth rate of educated people, people who are educated via the taxable dime, NOT through corporate largesse, you simpleton. Or rather, you ignoramus. The advancements we have made have been made through the steady accumulation of knowledge. However, the freemarket vultures have sold this advancement as having been a byproduct of "free" trade and economic liberalism. This is a falsehood and a canard. Learn. Read. Just as I did. I think you will switch to my side. If I can do it, you can do it, too...
Second, anytime you hear the word "freedom," put your hand on your wallet. The word "freedom" is a propaganda touchstone.
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dontcha know that cheap broadband aint for Americans? Only commie countries have cheap broadband! Otherwise, how are the megacorporations media empires gonna keep their god given monopolies. Now git back to Russia, you commienists!
verizon and comcast will "fund" the legislation....
IANAL, but AFAIK, no one has ever been sued for just downloading. I do not think they can sue you for just downloading. THey are suing for sharing files. But the media and RIAA/MPAA cooperate to make it sound like it was downloading. Well, OK, they lie. But what it is is either she was sharing a file over kazaa, and the RIAA searched for and find it and got her IP, or she downloaded a file from bittorrent, which supposedly automatically shares the file as you downloading it. RIAA/MPAA is supposedly getting the IP from the tracking software which tells you which IP are downloading/sharing. Then they can sue you that way.
But the media likes to call it downloading, when it is really uploading. THat dang liberal media. When the revolution comes, we need them all dangling from a rope, right?
excellent reference source cited
They are squealing like little piglets by this devastatingly truthful article.
These so-called "libertarians" are nothing more than sheeple in love with social hierarchies. Most of them are no doubt obsessed with their own IQ scores and masturbate to a photo of Ayn Rand on an hourly basis.
Oh, fear not, little hierarchy-lovers, you will be rich someday. Someday soon, we will all fall at your feet to grovel thereupon. Someday, someday, someday....
So many of you here are saying it will be just 1000s of public access TV low-quality shows. But the fact is that the people who are interested in making this sort of content for public access and for videoblogs and such, have all been DOING IT BY THEMSELVES (or with a couple of friends). But the real potential disruptive force in all this is the POWER OF WIDESPREAD COLLABORATION using them there "Internets".
The real problem is the scripts for these public access failures. But when amateur content creators really start adopting the open source software creation model, where hundreds of content creators start using internet software to collaborate and create scripts, find public domain and creative commons video footage, and using cheap digital cameras to film events and interviews from all over world, and then divide up the work a la open source software, edit the video using hundreds of different computers using cheap or even free editing software, then, THEN it blow even Hollwood out of the water.
And the main thing that this copylefted content will offer is something that the TV industry is in REALLY short supply of--a more real worldview and a wider range of philosophical and sociopolitical viewpoints. For example, every friggin day on TV you see celebrities, politicians and other famous people being treated with kid gloves, like the alpha animals they are. But on internet tv, they are gonna get trashed. And people are gonna like that.
you are an idiot--simply by nature....
just my ever-humble opinion....
you wrote:
Just as only a small percentage can write effectively, an even smaller percentage can present video effectively. Writing requires storytelling skills. Video requires storytelling, as well as camera skills.
Don't I know it! Actually, script writing is the same writing/analysis skill as any good writing, blogging, etc.
I myself am working on a video documentary right now. And the script is a bitch. I see other amateur leftwing documentaries parked on various places on the net, and almost all of them are jokes--because of weak or nonexistent scripts.
"Home movies" have been around for decades. Have you ever watched someone elses without cringing? I don't care what you call it...videoblogging, PhoneCamVideo, MyVideoLife...its still a home movie, and almost always crap. Unless there is a lot of taut skin involved. Or something very, very humorous (and probably degrading to the subject)
But the thing is that a good script can be written collaboratively. And passed around over the Net. THe video filler itself can be passed around to different editing PCs over the net. And there is a vast army of leftist bloggers on the net that can be organized to create copylefted video documentaries. And once a good documentary is written and edited using creative commons video and flash animation, it can be copylefted and set free on the p2p networks, where it could live forever in a near-future America where most Americans have broadband, and where PCs have video cards to output to the digital tv, and where apps have developed to search for and download video automatically.
THis could happen 5 years from now.
Notice how the poll questions are essentially asking the poll respondents about PRIVACY issues (bloggers spilling PERSONAL data online about politicians, judges, and celebrities). But this article is trying to sell those results as evidence that the public supports cracking down on political blogs using campaign finance laws.
You have here a first rate example of the economic elite using mass media propaganda.
They have been doing this for over 100 years here in America.
You think a troll has that many fans? I got more education in my pinky finger than your entire extended family will ever have....
really only a fairly small percent of humans are actually any good at writing and reading, or at least good enough to make it enjoyable for them. We are talking maybe 10-30%. Then only some fraction of those are skilled enough at the computer to be able to deal with blogs.
So what is going on with the political blogs thing is people trying to percolate ideas up into the sphere of journalism and media. Some of blogger ideas and writings do make it into the mainstream, at least if they are business-friendly enough (for the most part).
But when broadband gets cheap enough, and gets seperated from cable and phone line enough so that a majority of Americans just have a data line, then people will probably start feeding streaming video (or auto-downloaded video) into their digital TV sets from the Net. That is when videoblogging will really start to allow the bloggers an avenue into the minds of the masses of Americans. THat is when the real education can start to take place.
The link works fine for me. Play with it some.
As for the rest of your politically correct() routine, skip it. I ain't white. That threw a wrench into your little program, didn't it? Throw an exception?
Get back to me when you have read a few hundred books, and maybe we can talk then....
take a look at this photo of the eastern australian aborignes (now wiped out). They were descendants of the Murrayian aborignes. Some say they were part homo erectus. You can still see some aspects of the murrayians in some aborgines today. They may have mixed with erectus on the way down to Australia.
BTW, most aborigines has visual cortexes that are 25% larger than other humans.
I am LOVING it!
google it....
you did not answer the question--did google want you to stop querying and parsing, or stop showing on your site the results of your queries and parsing?
You were using an HTML scraper/screen scraper to parse google news? THe link you posted is dead, BTW.
Did you want you to stop parsing google news or just stop offering it to people via your website?
C'mon, tell me you are deliberately lying or being obtuse: you aint THAT fucking stupid, are you? THe business lobbies PAY OFF the politicians to LET THEM go overseas and still sell here in America. The politicians take their money and do their bidding.
I say "Hang 'em all". I will GLADLY vote for death for every free trade politician who comes before me if I am on the jury.
You ignorant slashdot fucks are so amusing. You spout all this propaganda they feed you. You don't even know that America only came into being because the founding fathers (founding monsters I call them) pandered to the middle class to get them to support the Revolution and the heinous constitution by promising to protect them from British trade. When they did that, the revolution/constitution was on. So, America was BORN of protectionism for the middle class. Now you jerk off to your Ayn Rand poster....
How are they parsing google news content? Google news does not yet offer an API, correct? What are they doing, screen scraping? You can only query google programmatically about 1000 times a day, I think.
I wish I had more details...
And this is a REALLY stupid aspect to tackle--connections between cities.
THe real cheese would seem to be in word counts, and connections between words--like "economy" and "recession", etc.
I suggest we indict, try, convict and sentence to death by hanging all the CEOs and politicians who took part in this outsourcing/free trade scam.
Sentence 'em all to death by hanging, and then eat their bodies. That way we can all be "consumers" again!
Of course, they would have to be tried in a court of law before being tried. And we may have to change a couple of laws to let us do this.
But it is gonna be SO MUCH FUN to...EAT THE RICH!
American television is in the business of farming, farming willing consumers, farming willing corporate citizens, farming conformance. THey are in the business of breeding, of evolving a particular brand of American, one who works a lot and consumes a lot. One who is patriotic (translation: is easily manipulated by trigger cues appealing to sentimentality). One who is for the most part apathetic about voting and who accepts authority. One who accepts people of different cultures/races in the workplace (the better to flood the labor supply, my dear). One who is easily scared by TV propaganda so that military power can be used to invade and open new markets for the corporations that own the TV stations and networks.
Just as prehistoric hunters, pastoral peoples and farmers domesticated cattle and sheep and dogs, etc., so too has the economic elite (through TV, primarily) domesticated a certain breed of homo sapiens. Just as those humans of long ago bred their domesticated animals generation after generation for certain desirable characteristics, so too has the economic elite produced us Americans by altering our culture. THey didn't evolve us physically, but culturally. And TV is the primary tool.
A lot of people here are questioning the worth and/or validity of skypecasting, citing out technologies that will do the same thing, same as, I believe, Winamp, and other players that will allow you to stream your audio to some other person on the net.
But skype is p2p, so that instead of you streaming directly to your audience, listeners may stream from you AND some other listeners, obviously minimizing the bandwidth required of the originator. The other alternative software packages are client-server, one to one, correct?
Also, one thing that makes this worthwhile as a slashdot topic is that there is already an established base of about 30 million skype users. So, this could serve as a jumpstart, just as napster did bittorrent, even though napster, like skype is proprietary....
Just thinking of it, I bet you get a knot in your stomach, don't you? Just thinking about all these Americans doing whatever they can to weaken the monopoly power of the telco companies, just thinking about them fighting back against the hierarchy, that gives a "traditionalist" like you heartburn, don't it? You like to style yourselfs as "libertarians" or "conservatives" these days, but in reality you are really just the manifestation of redneckism or fascism or the witch hunt. You are the eternal voice of hardwired brain circuitry of the pack animal, the voice of the pack, the voice of tradition, the voice of darwinian animal that demands obesiance to the leader, to the alpha male, to religion, to the status quo, to perpetuating the genes of those at the top.
You aint nothing new. We however are new. We are the anti-animal, the new human. We started up about the time of the French Revolution. We were there at Shay's Rebellion, and at the Haymarket riots and on the demonstration lines protesting the Vietnam war. And we say "Fuck You" to power and to corporate feudalism. We will continue to fight in whatever venue we can.
some cultist-sheeple wrote:
"Somehow in your drug-addled excuse for a brain, you can equate the greatest mechanism for freedom and advancement for all individuals with a generic, mindless, deity-worshipping collective."
First, the greatest mechanism for advancement of mankind is simply the written accumulation and aggregation of scientific knowledge, the growth rate of which is exponential, the same as the growth rate of educated people, people who are educated via the taxable dime, NOT through corporate largesse, you simpleton. Or rather, you ignoramus. The advancements we have made have been made through the steady accumulation of knowledge. However, the freemarket vultures have sold this advancement as having been a byproduct of "free" trade and economic liberalism. This is a falsehood and a canard. Learn. Read. Just as I did. I think you will switch to my side. If I can do it, you can do it, too...
Second, anytime you hear the word "freedom," put your hand on your wallet. The word "freedom" is a propaganda touchstone.