I got in a brief fight with a policeman over a girl's right to speak her mind once. Being trained in de-escalation and the lifting of heavy inert objects, I won that fight. Your turn.
If you have the tech to profitably mine off-planet, you can probably tell courts what to do or else.
Alternatively, have your sysadmin start a revolution and start lobbing rocks at Earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress
Do it from Italy. The red tape is insane, but enforcement is non-existent.
This gets you: "hey, we launched a suborbital rocket last weekend, can you sign this backdated permission slip real quick so you can brag about being forward-thinking rather than look like an incompetent?"
I hate to say it to Zookal, but we've done this in the small Italian town of Verbania since 2010. There was even an article in the local newspaper, Eco Risveglio. Email me at spiritplumber +gmail if you want a copy of the article. They can also talk to Kite Winters in Melbourne if they want confirmation from a more local source.
you can control them anywhere you get any sort of cell phone reception, even horrible. I gave one to the Kerbal Space Program guys even. www.f3.to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQYQWzRYJJs
Well, not quite. Copyright is an invaluable tool to determine attribution for a work. My open source stuff gets me noticed, which brings in paying customers for customized work. I have just now resolved a dispute with the OpenROV guys on that matter.
Because some people will pay dearly for sensible-sounding but skewed analyses that can be used to raise money, or rally support. Why would anyone watch fox news if they are inaccurate?... no, I don't like it either:(
http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Waylight.Ustria I'm trying to write a hypercapitalist-but-not-dystopian society and have been told that it's in practice LESS capitalistic than a lot of IRL places.
At least MY person-ized corporations have hats, dammit!
I'm all for corporate personhood as long as:
1) The corporation, as an entity (without being represented by a human or collection of humans), can pass a turing test.
2) The corporation can be physically put in jail, or killed.
For fun. I already have a CNC mill and I can easily borrow a laser cutter if I need to. I also understand that most people don't and want to come up with stuff for them.
As the proud owner of a 3D printer whose parts I am slowly replacing with homemade ones (as a way to learn, mostly) I have to disagree. 3D printed parts do end up being a bit melty, but the difference between printing a gear and sanding it to tolerance, and carving one from scratch is huge.
Dear high rankin government employees, especially if you are not directly elected:
You first.
Love, everyone else.
PS: We mean it. Until you accept to live in the glass house you want us to live, we won't sell you food, we won't maintain your technology, we won't even talk to you.
I guess this will put the whole "If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide" thing to rest, if there's any sense in the world. Mr. Snowden, thank you.
When I do not have that kind of leverage with a client, I make it clear that they have the copyright, but I must be identified as the original author in the file. I also say that it's so I can reference it as my work; nobody has a problem with this.
recant or get beaten. Whether by you or by a judge is at the end of the day up to you.
At the end of the day that's what the justice system is supposed to be for. Whether you want to go through it or cut the middle man really depends on what code of ethics you subscribe to.
I had a similar issue with OpenROV recently: I built all of the electronics for the OpenROV prototype that won editor's choice award for make magazine in 2011. I was supposed to present the thing with the people who actually got to present it, but stayed home to deal with a friend's panic attack instead.
So they went and turned what for me was a 3 week project into their life's work (good for them). I told one of them that if he returned the award to me, he would live. He returned the award to me at Maker Faire this year, we shook hands, and he lived. Pretty simple, really. Nobody got hurt, there was no fight, he still gets to sell OpenROVs, and I get to be vindicated.
Still waiting for a retraction from Make, but they'll get around to it.
The bottom line is, whether you go through the law or settle this like gentlemen, it has to be settled; every issue like this that isn't settled hurts the community as a whole.
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Mosty a bunch of sand. The Sahara is a different story, though, so this would work well in Algeria, Libya and so on.
1) You are awesome 2) You're talking to the Kerbal Space Program guys, right?
Actually you've just made an excellent counterpoint -- how do we inject that into the conversation?
I got in a brief fight with a policeman over a girl's right to speak her mind once. Being trained in de-escalation and the lifting of heavy inert objects, I won that fight. Your turn.
No, sorry. If I do something, I want the recognition. Case in point, OpenROV.
If you have the tech to profitably mine off-planet, you can probably tell courts what to do or else. Alternatively, have your sysadmin start a revolution and start lobbing rocks at Earth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress
Do it from Italy. The red tape is insane, but enforcement is non-existent. This gets you: "hey, we launched a suborbital rocket last weekend, can you sign this backdated permission slip real quick so you can brag about being forward-thinking rather than look like an incompetent?"
I hate to say it to Zookal, but we've done this in the small Italian town of Verbania since 2010. There was even an article in the local newspaper, Eco Risveglio. Email me at spiritplumber +gmail if you want a copy of the article. They can also talk to Kite Winters in Melbourne if they want confirmation from a more local source.
you can control them anywhere you get any sort of cell phone reception, even horrible. I gave one to the Kerbal Space Program guys even. www.f3.to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQYQWzRYJJs
Well, not quite. Copyright is an invaluable tool to determine attribution for a work. My open source stuff gets me noticed, which brings in paying customers for customized work. I have just now resolved a dispute with the OpenROV guys on that matter.
Because some people will pay dearly for sensible-sounding but skewed analyses that can be used to raise money, or rally support. Why would anyone watch fox news if they are inaccurate? ... no, I don't like it either :(
can't moderate, but +1 insightful from me.
fortunately we have universal healthcare, so the "trainers" wouldn't get a big bill on top of the beating.
http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Waylight.Ustria I'm trying to write a hypercapitalist-but-not-dystopian society and have been told that it's in practice LESS capitalistic than a lot of IRL places. At least MY person-ized corporations have hats, dammit!
Why would they make themselves look bad though.
I'm all for corporate personhood as long as: 1) The corporation, as an entity (without being represented by a human or collection of humans), can pass a turing test. 2) The corporation can be physically put in jail, or killed.
Then tell someone "I am hiring you for 2 weeks at minimum wage, to see how well you do".
For fun. I already have a CNC mill and I can easily borrow a laser cutter if I need to. I also understand that most people don't and want to come up with stuff for them.
"I have nothing to hide" needs to be symmetrical.
As the proud owner of a 3D printer whose parts I am slowly replacing with homemade ones (as a way to learn, mostly) I have to disagree. 3D printed parts do end up being a bit melty, but the difference between printing a gear and sanding it to tolerance, and carving one from scratch is huge.
Dear high rankin government employees, especially if you are not directly elected: You first. Love, everyone else. PS: We mean it. Until you accept to live in the glass house you want us to live, we won't sell you food, we won't maintain your technology, we won't even talk to you.
Well, according to their own morality, yes I guess.
I guess this will put the whole "If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide" thing to rest, if there's any sense in the world. Mr. Snowden, thank you.
When I do not have that kind of leverage with a client, I make it clear that they have the copyright, but I must be identified as the original author in the file. I also say that it's so I can reference it as my work; nobody has a problem with this.
recant or get beaten. Whether by you or by a judge is at the end of the day up to you. At the end of the day that's what the justice system is supposed to be for. Whether you want to go through it or cut the middle man really depends on what code of ethics you subscribe to. I had a similar issue with OpenROV recently: I built all of the electronics for the OpenROV prototype that won editor's choice award for make magazine in 2011. I was supposed to present the thing with the people who actually got to present it, but stayed home to deal with a friend's panic attack instead. So they went and turned what for me was a 3 week project into their life's work (good for them). I told one of them that if he returned the award to me, he would live. He returned the award to me at Maker Faire this year, we shook hands, and he lived. Pretty simple, really. Nobody got hurt, there was no fight, he still gets to sell OpenROVs, and I get to be vindicated. Still waiting for a retraction from Make, but they'll get around to it. The bottom line is, whether you go through the law or settle this like gentlemen, it has to be settled; every issue like this that isn't settled hurts the community as a whole.