What we are seeing though is a sort of "socialism through the corporation". This is the problem. Liberals and socialists are happy to vote for Democrats that increase welfare to corporations that do "socially good things" (think Medicaid, WIC, and other corporate subsidies). Conservatives are happy to vote for Republicans that increase welfare to corporations that build things like Humvees and bombs and rebuild the countries we blow up.
The end result of all this is that we are funneling trillions of dollars from the taxpayer to a few hundred corporations. This is socialism turned into its worst form, socialism of the corporation, i.e. fascism.
On the other end of this the large corporations, through lobbies, leverage directly the coercive force of the government with laws like the DMCA, UCITA, etc.
The only solution I see is to strip the federal government of power. If the government has no power, it cannot be wielded for these corporate ends. That will truly restore the balance.
I agree, but not with your theory about what caused it. The people granting the government more and more power is directly attributable to people that have socialist leanings.
It's not even worthy of discussion. That's like saying the flat earth society newsletter should be discussed because it represents a threat to established science.
The problem isn't the job market, it's the CS programs. CS is not a programming degree, and even if it were, a BS degree isn't worth much more than the paper it's printed on.
Skilled programmers that are smart skip college. You'll have 4 years of experience while your friends have a worthless piece of paper, 4 years of lost income, and a $40,000 hole in their wallets.
There is value in being perceived as more legitimate too. As acceptable as piracy might be, if the labels offered DRM-free downloads in any format for say 20 cents a song, piracy would drop to nearly zero. A few young teenagers with no money might still pirate, but it would be almost unheard of. No one would bother pirating stuff at those rates.
The other thing is that people wouldn't mind buying the same music over and over. They likely would, if they lost their stuff in a hard disk crash or whatnot. At those prices it's an impulse item. You are travelling or at work and there's a CD you really want to listen to, it's easier to just go to their site and buy it again, then bother with copying it from home or whatever.
That poll shows that 74% of the respondants thought they either had autism/aspergers, or might have it. Only 26% of respondants thought they didn't have it.
Well somone's faking it. Aspergers has an occurance rate of a couple percent. Not 75%. Therefore the vast majority of people claiming to have it are liars.
If you can post a comment like that, then you don't have a serious mental disorder. Period. Everyone always forgets that the DSM diagnostic criteria require the disorder to seriously affect the ability to do things like... post articulate messages on the Internet.
So shut the fuck up. You aren't special. You are a normal geek, you are smarter than most people out there, and you aren't "sick". Stop it with the bullshit.
I guess all those "high functioning aspergers" people on the Internet are going to finally realize they don't have some excuse anymore when it turns out they don't have autism at all.
This is great. It's about time they tied this down to something that can be tested for so the people with real problems can get help, and all the Internet whiners can learn to deal with life instead of always searching for a cop-out.
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." ----George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790 in the Boston Independent Chronicle, January 14, 1790
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others."--Thomas Jefferson
"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him."--Thomas Jefferson
"...guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." -- Thomas Jefferson
I am with you on the corporation issue. The wielding of government by corporations must end. The only way to do that is to reduce the power the government has to a level where it can no longer be abused by corporations. A cartel can't exist for long without the coercive force of government to help it. Behind every cartel, union, and other monopoly is a corrupt government that is supporting it and doing its bidding.
...water pollution. Nothing. Zero. It took serious government regulations
No one owns waterways. It's a problem created by socialist public ownership of waterways. You can't revoke private ownership of something then point to the failure as a failure of the market, socialism created the problem.
I could name numerous other examples
Well you better try again. Government regulation to control a problem created by socialism isn't a good example for your argument.
(barely out of the medieval level intellectually or psychologically) evolutionary stage.
Speak for yourself. Liberals somehow have the dual belief that humans are stupid, yet somehow capable of being bestowed unlimited power to commit violent crime without repercussion (the government) without becoming corrupt. Which is it?
Of the two extremes and the middle, the middle is what we mostly have
It's a false dichotomy. You have created a straw man choice between socialism and regulation to control problems created by a lesser amount of socialism.
overrun the planet until we choke on ourselves -- or run out of energy
That won't happen. These things are self regulating, because we don't live under socialism. If energy becomes scarce, the price will go up and consumption will go down. Socialism and excessive government interference with the free market is the only credible threat to the environment.
The commercial or non-commercial nature of the photographer has little to do with whether you need a release or not. You need a release for any non-editorial use, commercial or non-commercial. Most uses are considered editorial, though.
Anyway the laws apply equally whether you are for profit or not. The ultimate use of the photograph is what matters, not your profit motives.
What are you talking about? Why would you send an email with no content attached? Every email sent has to have a 400k word document, about two pages of written text, with no special formatting. It's some kind of requirement in business settings.
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That thought never crosses the mind of the modern socialist democrat/socialist republican.
But... but.... Terrorists!!!!
And pedophiles!
You must be both!
What we are seeing though is a sort of "socialism through the corporation". This is the problem. Liberals and socialists are happy to vote for Democrats that increase welfare to corporations that do "socially good things" (think Medicaid, WIC, and other corporate subsidies). Conservatives are happy to vote for Republicans that increase welfare to corporations that build things like Humvees and bombs and rebuild the countries we blow up.
The end result of all this is that we are funneling trillions of dollars from the taxpayer to a few hundred corporations. This is socialism turned into its worst form, socialism of the corporation, i.e. fascism.
On the other end of this the large corporations, through lobbies, leverage directly the coercive force of the government with laws like the DMCA, UCITA, etc.
The only solution I see is to strip the federal government of power. If the government has no power, it cannot be wielded for these corporate ends. That will truly restore the balance.
I agree, but not with your theory about what caused it. The people granting the government more and more power is directly attributable to people that have socialist leanings.
It's not even worthy of discussion. That's like saying the flat earth society newsletter should be discussed because it represents a threat to established science.
The problem isn't the job market, it's the CS programs. CS is not a programming degree, and even if it were, a BS degree isn't worth much more than the paper it's printed on.
Skilled programmers that are smart skip college. You'll have 4 years of experience while your friends have a worthless piece of paper, 4 years of lost income, and a $40,000 hole in their wallets.
What state right is next?
Vote for Ron Paul in 2008 and it will be "none".
There is value in being perceived as more legitimate too. As acceptable as piracy might be, if the labels offered DRM-free downloads in any format for say 20 cents a song, piracy would drop to nearly zero. A few young teenagers with no money might still pirate, but it would be almost unheard of. No one would bother pirating stuff at those rates.
The other thing is that people wouldn't mind buying the same music over and over. They likely would, if they lost their stuff in a hard disk crash or whatnot. At those prices it's an impulse item. You are travelling or at work and there's a CD you really want to listen to, it's easier to just go to their site and buy it again, then bother with copying it from home or whatever.
Oh, no, not at all. The right is just as bad, if not worse. This particular issue lands in the lap of the lefties though.
This is what happens when the liberals get their way and you are no longer allowed to beat your kids.
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/5/17/172914/57
That poll shows that 74% of the respondants thought they either had autism/aspergers, or might have it. Only 26% of respondants thought they didn't have it.
Criterion A. Severe and sustained impairment in social interaction
Well somone's faking it. Aspergers has an occurance rate of a couple percent. Not 75%. Therefore the vast majority of people claiming to have it are liars.
When did I claim to have aspergers?
If you can post a comment like that, then you don't have a serious mental disorder. Period. Everyone always forgets that the DSM diagnostic criteria require the disorder to seriously affect the ability to do things like... post articulate messages on the Internet.
So shut the fuck up. You aren't special. You are a normal geek, you are smarter than most people out there, and you aren't "sick". Stop it with the bullshit.
I guess all those "high functioning aspergers" people on the Internet are going to finally realize they don't have some excuse anymore when it turns out they don't have autism at all.
This is great. It's about time they tied this down to something that can be tested for so the people with real problems can get help, and all the Internet whiners can learn to deal with life instead of always searching for a cop-out.
A government "for the people" is the one that restrains the freedom of the people in the minimum way possible.
Our founding fathers were big on some things that are unpopular now, like being secure in the possession of the fruits of your labor.
"I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive." -- Thomas Jefferson
Ever heard of the tragedy of the commons
If everything is owned, there are no commons, and no tragedy. I'm glad you see it my way.
The founding fathers eh. These ones?
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." ----George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790 in the Boston Independent Chronicle, January 14, 1790
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others."--Thomas Jefferson
"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him."--Thomas Jefferson
"...guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." -- Thomas Jefferson
I am with you on the corporation issue. The wielding of government by corporations must end. The only way to do that is to reduce the power the government has to a level where it can no longer be abused by corporations. A cartel can't exist for long without the coercive force of government to help it. Behind every cartel, union, and other monopoly is a corrupt government that is supporting it and doing its bidding.
...water pollution. Nothing. Zero. It took serious government regulations
No one owns waterways. It's a problem created by socialist public ownership of waterways. You can't revoke private ownership of something then point to the failure as a failure of the market, socialism created the problem.
I could name numerous other examples
Well you better try again. Government regulation to control a problem created by socialism isn't a good example for your argument.
(barely out of the medieval level intellectually or psychologically) evolutionary stage.
Speak for yourself. Liberals somehow have the dual belief that humans are stupid, yet somehow capable of being bestowed unlimited power to commit violent crime without repercussion (the government) without becoming corrupt. Which is it?
Of the two extremes and the middle, the middle is what we mostly have
It's a false dichotomy. You have created a straw man choice between socialism and regulation to control problems created by a lesser amount of socialism.
overrun the planet until we choke on ourselves -- or run out of energy
That won't happen. These things are self regulating, because we don't live under socialism. If energy becomes scarce, the price will go up and consumption will go down. Socialism and excessive government interference with the free market is the only credible threat to the environment.
The commercial or non-commercial nature of the photographer has little to do with whether you need a release or not. You need a release for any non-editorial use, commercial or non-commercial. Most uses are considered editorial, though.
Anyway the laws apply equally whether you are for profit or not. The ultimate use of the photograph is what matters, not your profit motives.
You forget that normal CD's have pretty onerous DRM as well
You call raw PCM data "onerous DRM"
There are different laws governing commercial photography and amateur photography.
That's the great thing about the Internet, it lets the ignorant pontificate about stuff they have no clue about.
What are you talking about? Why would you send an email with no content attached? Every email sent has to have a 400k word document, about two pages of written text, with no special formatting. It's some kind of requirement in business settings.