It says Gibson is the author of "the forthcoming Pattern Recognition." Does anyone know anything about this book? I'm a big Gibson fan, and I'd love to know more about it.
You see, I actually laughed out loud when I saw that. It was not moderated up. And yet so many cheap puns are moderated up as funny, that I'm beginning to wonder if the trolls aren't right about the moderators' collective crack habit.
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Wow, that's a really neat trick. Put to evil uses, yes, but a very neat trick nonetheless.
Reminds me of an episode of Jim Henson's Dinosaurs in which the number 2 is banned because it rhymes with "smoo," which was apparently dinosaur profanity. By law, everyone had to count "1, more than one, 3 4 5."
In my mind, the argument over whether IP should be "free" or not boils down to a question: should the author of a work be able to distribute, exclusively, it under his or her own terms? If the answer is yes, then (except in cases where the artist approves of and has given the OK for online distribution) services such as Napster and Gnutella are obviously guilty of intellectual thievery. If the answer is no, wouldn't that seem to imply that a programmer who releases some code has no right to restrict how people can distrubute it, as under the GPL?
Admittedly, once Microsoft made their evil changes to Linux and closed their version of the source under such a scheme, they would have no legal recourse if everyone started distributing the binaries online. But the source would still be closed, and that would make many people who support the free IP position very unhappy. Cans someone who is more clear on the philosophical viewpoint of guys like Richard Stallman explain to me how this is all supposed to come together?
Agreed, it's not certain that the AC had a point. But that still doesn't mean you made any effort to find out. Did you bother asking, "What exactly about my argument makes me a convenient strawman?" Not that I can see. So instead of engaging him where he actually insults the content of your post (without providing valid criticism...stupid ACs), you take the insignificant part of his first post, go ballistic and insult him for it, even though that part really wasn't the part that deserved your wrath.
Also, I would ask you not to put thoughts in my head. Goddamn is that irritating. Whereas my post was not in argument with your original post in any way, the AC's was. For you to pretend as if my "logic" applied to both his and mine in the same way is idiotic. Gimme a break; you don't win debates by playing dumb.
Dude, I've been reading this thread, and whether or not you want it said that you didn't try your best to make the AC get to the point ain't gonna stop me from saying it anyway. It seems like, rather than try to argue against him based on your original post, all you did was take his question about whether you were DMan or not and go nuts with it. You didn't do jack to draw him out of his "vague-innuendo-filled cave," instead just choosing to insult him at every opening. So he makes unsupported assertions about you, and you him, and I'm wondering why you guys don't start making fun of each other's mammas. If that was your best, then perhaps you should be trying harder.
It's what I like to call the tragedy of Napoleon. Sure, he kicked the living crap out of every enemy he fought, but all that did was redouble his enemies' desire to crush him.
As stated above. Microsoft simply purchased FASA Interactive, which at that point was little more than a hollow shell including the rights to turn FASA games into computer games. IIRC, one of the first things Microsoft did was kill the Shadowrun title in development. Screw all that antitrust stuff; that's the real reason to hate those bastards.
Well, yes, except that the Adobe software and 80s pop music are subsets of "warez" and "mp3z," respectively. Nevertheless, excellent point. Making Freenet just another place to go for warez would a) take the fun out of finding warez, and more importantly b) drown out the content for which it was designed.
Frankly, I have to agree with the sentiment expressed by Samuel Goldwyn, when he said, "I don't think anyone should write an autobiography until after they're dead."
The funny thing is that the "Game Cube" isn't even a real cube. Its dimensions are like 6x6x4 or something like that. Which is too bad, because I think cubes are pretty cool-looking.
It seems to me to be an arbitrary distinction. If you say that artists have no right to limit the distribution of their work by keeping their stuff off of Napster, then why should artists have any right to say that their works must be distributed for free (if at all)? Now, if that database-protection shit goes through, it's a whole new ballgame, but as it stands this should be no more morally repugnant from the Free-IPers perspective than Mandrake taking Redhat's drek and selling it as their own.
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And how many centuries has it been since they've invaded France? Seven? I think you're thinking of Germany.
It says Gibson is the author of "the forthcoming Pattern Recognition." Does anyone know anything about this book? I'm a big Gibson fan, and I'd love to know more about it.
You see, I actually laughed out loud when I saw that. It was not moderated up. And yet so many cheap puns are moderated up as funny, that I'm beginning to wonder if the trolls aren't right about the moderators' collective crack habit.
Wow, that's a really neat trick. Put to evil uses, yes, but a very neat trick nonetheless.
Ah! The moderators have a sense of humor.
Reminds me of an episode of Jim Henson's Dinosaurs in which the number 2 is banned because it rhymes with "smoo," which was apparently dinosaur profanity. By law, everyone had to count "1, more than one, 3 4 5."
So, what's your Jimi Hendrix theory?
Oh, and are you the guy to ask about "Loom?"
The really funny thing is that in the quote it was spelled correctly.
Admittedly, once Microsoft made their evil changes to Linux and closed their version of the source under such a scheme, they would have no legal recourse if everyone started distributing the binaries online. But the source would still be closed, and that would make many people who support the free IP position very unhappy. Cans someone who is more clear on the philosophical viewpoint of guys like Richard Stallman explain to me how this is all supposed to come together?
Agreed, it's not certain that the AC had a point. But that still doesn't mean you made any effort to find out. Did you bother asking, "What exactly about my argument makes me a convenient strawman?" Not that I can see. So instead of engaging him where he actually insults the content of your post (without providing valid criticism...stupid ACs), you take the insignificant part of his first post, go ballistic and insult him for it, even though that part really wasn't the part that deserved your wrath.
Also, I would ask you not to put thoughts in my head. Goddamn is that irritating. Whereas my post was not in argument with your original post in any way, the AC's was. For you to pretend as if my "logic" applied to both his and mine in the same way is idiotic. Gimme a break; you don't win debates by playing dumb.
Dude, I've been reading this thread, and whether or not you want it said that you didn't try your best to make the AC get to the point ain't gonna stop me from saying it anyway. It seems like, rather than try to argue against him based on your original post, all you did was take his question about whether you were DMan or not and go nuts with it. You didn't do jack to draw him out of his "vague-innuendo-filled cave," instead just choosing to insult him at every opening. So he makes unsupported assertions about you, and you him, and I'm wondering why you guys don't start making fun of each other's mammas. If that was your best, then perhaps you should be trying harder.
I love that test! Except I didn't do too well this year...
It's what I like to call the tragedy of Napoleon. Sure, he kicked the living crap out of every enemy he fought, but all that did was redouble his enemies' desire to crush him.
As stated above. Microsoft simply purchased FASA Interactive, which at that point was little more than a hollow shell including the rights to turn FASA games into computer games. IIRC, one of the first things Microsoft did was kill the Shadowrun title in development. Screw all that antitrust stuff; that's the real reason to hate those bastards.
Well, yes, except that the Adobe software and 80s pop music are subsets of "warez" and "mp3z," respectively. Nevertheless, excellent point. Making Freenet just another place to go for warez would a) take the fun out of finding warez, and more importantly b) drown out the content for which it was designed.
Frankly, I have to agree with the sentiment expressed by Samuel Goldwyn, when he said, "I don't think anyone should write an autobiography until after they're dead."
Jeez, that's worse than goatse.cx! Hiss!
OK, you can burn in hell, you lucky bastard.
That headline and your sig together remind me of a line from the SimEarth manual:
"When you're sitting on top of the world, be careful not to damage your monitor."
Dammit, I thought you were gone for good. Go crawl back under your rock, worm.
Just the people in the crappy states.
The funny thing is that the "Game Cube" isn't even a real cube. Its dimensions are like 6x6x4 or something like that. Which is too bad, because I think cubes are pretty cool-looking.
I don't know what your problem is, but Word 2000 runs fine on my P200 w/64MB RAM.
My French is a little bit rusty, but shouldn't it be "n'est pas" instead of "ne pas?" Otherwise, your sentence wouldn't have a verb, right?
It seems to me to be an arbitrary distinction. If you say that artists have no right to limit the distribution of their work by keeping their stuff off of Napster, then why should artists have any right to say that their works must be distributed for free (if at all)? Now, if that database-protection shit goes through, it's a whole new ballgame, but as it stands this should be no more morally repugnant from the Free-IPers perspective than Mandrake taking Redhat's drek and selling it as their own.