Seeing how they've tried to run the franchise into the ground, especially with the Last Jedi, have to say that the longer those rights are kept out of their hands, the better.
I can easily imagine Han not shooting first being made trivial by Disney edits...
...under which full censorship and surveillance will come.
In this postmodern age, most are more interested in their own subjective truth being widely accepted than they are in actual objective truth for its own sake. Thus, the question becomes not so much "will it happen" but "who will control it". And the powers that be are already operating on this premise.
.. to actually own your software, there is little stopping the proverbial landlord from raising your rent once you're nice and comfortable in your apartment. So to speak.
You do not own anything on your computer. You lease it. Software, OS, music files - none of it belongs to you.
Given this, why should you be allowed to control when the actual owners of your bits and bytes decide to reboot the machine? What business of theirs is it if you're tanking a raid or in the zone writing your novel?
I literally just can't believe the insensitivity of those so privileged to be allowed to lease software and operating systems from such benevolent folks. Why do people insist on being such sticks in the mud?
1. Startups venture capital (and often board and C-suite execs) are heavily invested in Big Tech (tm), and often funded at least indirectly by it.
2. Startups are able to explore ideas that would be far more costly for Big Tech (tm) to research, with far lower risk to stock value and other bread and butter initiatives, and on the chance that they are successful, are already positioned to be bought out.
Why in the world would there be a push to break up Big Tech?
But for better or (probably) worse, we aren't in the Wild West days of the 'net or computing technology anymore. The Powers That Be are invested and dependent and in fact if not one and the same with the current crop of tech companies, are most certainly propped up by them.
Economic wars are fought through the proxy of monopoly and patent law. Governments seem to be at the point of rising or falling based on the impact of social media. The entire global banking system comprises the "hidden" giants of the tech world, and are tightly bound to the visible titans.
So, I am not sure that I can agree with your conclusions. The times were a'changin while we were building things. Not the same world as when we first put our fingers to the keyboard.
I've had to contact the FCC a few times, and all it did was increase my frustration at the situation at hand. A lot of time filling out forms, with zero impact on anything.
$225 is sufficient to keep me from hoping that they just might actually be effective the next time around.
... wasn't already pumping out gingerbread men songs that all look and sound exactly alike, performed by artists that look and think exactly alike, and crush anything that doesn't fit their mold.
Apologies. Made the mistake of looking at Twitter earlier today, and my ability to distinguish between hyperbole and actionable rage is damaged at the moment.
The problem with wanting to put your political enemies up against the wall with a cigarette and a blindfold is that there's a good chance that you yourself will either be joining them or that it'll be they who are the ones making up the firing squad.
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They didn't have 20th Century Fox's back catalog of movies.
They could always stream Steamboat Willie on a loop, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Seeing how they've tried to run the franchise into the ground, especially with the Last Jedi, have to say that the longer those rights are kept out of their hands, the better.
I can easily imagine Han not shooting first being made trivial by Disney edits...
As have yours.
But the CMAKE was a lie.
...under which full censorship and surveillance will come.
In this postmodern age, most are more interested in their own subjective truth being widely accepted than they are in actual objective truth for its own sake. Thus, the question becomes not so much "will it happen" but "who will control it". And the powers that be are already operating on this premise.
And a successful one, at that.
.. to actually own your software, there is little stopping the proverbial landlord from raising your rent once you're nice and comfortable in your apartment. So to speak.
... that I neither need nor want.
You do not own anything on your computer. You lease it. Software, OS, music files - none of it belongs to you.
Given this, why should you be allowed to control when the actual owners of your bits and bytes decide to reboot the machine? What business of theirs is it if you're tanking a raid or in the zone writing your novel?
I literally just can't believe the insensitivity of those so privileged to be allowed to lease software and operating systems from such benevolent folks. Why do people insist on being such sticks in the mud?
1. Startups venture capital (and often board and C-suite execs) are heavily invested in Big Tech (tm), and often funded at least indirectly by it.
2. Startups are able to explore ideas that would be far more costly for Big Tech (tm) to research, with far lower risk to stock value and other bread and butter initiatives, and on the chance that they are successful, are already positioned to be bought out.
Why in the world would there be a push to break up Big Tech?
Sadly, in my experience, simple solutions lead to complex problems.
I remember all these things.
But for better or (probably) worse, we aren't in the Wild West days of the 'net or computing technology anymore. The Powers That Be are invested and dependent and in fact if not one and the same with the current crop of tech companies, are most certainly propped up by them.
Economic wars are fought through the proxy of monopoly and patent law. Governments seem to be at the point of rising or falling based on the impact of social media. The entire global banking system comprises the "hidden" giants of the tech world, and are tightly bound to the visible titans.
So, I am not sure that I can agree with your conclusions. The times were a'changin while we were building things. Not the same world as when we first put our fingers to the keyboard.
... TV watch you!
Microsoft can't seem to get their own facial recognition software working very well.
As if we aren't building our little personal Panopticons as fast as we can, then we get this:
Sounds like it will still be behind pico or even nano in functionality.
FTFY
But, I can't read the articles.
Because they're paywalled.
Kind of like the VR content that seems to be driving the industry.
I've had to contact the FCC a few times, and all it did was increase my frustration at the situation at hand. A lot of time filling out forms, with zero impact on anything.
$225 is sufficient to keep me from hoping that they just might actually be effective the next time around.
If you don't like it, you can always go to MySpace or GeoCities.
... wasn't already pumping out gingerbread men songs that all look and sound exactly alike, performed by artists that look and think exactly alike, and crush anything that doesn't fit their mold.
Campaign contributions usually work fairly well.
In a developing nation, it is still necessary to steal data.
In a first world nation, people fall over themselves in their hurry to give their data away.
Funny thing, that.
Oh, wait, what am I saying?
This is /.
I don't need to read TFA or the summary to make expert comments!
Apologies. Made the mistake of looking at Twitter earlier today, and my ability to distinguish between hyperbole and actionable rage is damaged at the moment.
The problem with wanting to put your political enemies up against the wall with a cigarette and a blindfold is that there's a good chance that you yourself will either be joining them or that it'll be they who are the ones making up the firing squad.