I've been saying for a long time scientific work (Physics videos, math tutor programs, etc) should be released unto p2p.
Discovery or whomever (PBS, it is our content America!) should donate third run shows that can be downloaded and viewed at home or school.
Doesn't need to be explained more than that. Give the shows a month to be aired on TV and then the History Channel hands them over to the net. If they release it free as in beer we will respect their trademarks.
Like I said, I've suggested it before and have written a paper on it and posted it here before (under this Login I believe).
A good way for someone this to get working (the idea of recycling old pc's) would be to get live distributions working for them also.
Sure a new Knoppix is good and all but there isn't anything like optimized, aged code (a decade) that makes you wonder why you got that other thing that gives you problems.
The difference in a -typical- XP and 2000 install is enough on 5 year old home PC's. I've got a 333 which is flying away with distributed.net on 2000 - a good 2.0 live CD to show me a slow and difficult customization is worth it.
Well - I'm not linux bashing. But you know you want to take time and plan it right.
"I'm visualizing 10 robots sitting at a conference table, while the whole board of directors is sitting at home, naked, drinking their morning coffee, etc."
And the question is why you would want to picture the wrikled guy at the top naked. Dammit we need more women CEO's!!!
"And you noones going to say that SBC doesn't have lobbyists.:)"
In general the telecommunications industry has a stake that is much larger than music. Not only does it provide the backbone for all business in the country today, okay 99%, but it also makes money for the country at large on several fronts.
The music industry, with acts such as Eminem and Beyonce, along with Radiohead and Cat Stevens only cause problems with the government.
"Googlehole No. 2: Skewed Synonyms. Search for "apple" on Google, and you have to troll through a couple pages of results before you get anything not directly related to Apple Computer--and it's a page promoting a public TV show called Newton's Apple. "
Of course Microsoft has a problem with this... there are no direct links to Office for OSX.
Seriously though there isn't a problem here. Google ranks pages on links to that page (one of many factors). If every had pages about apples and everyone thought they were better then the pages about Apple Computers, they would link to them.
Actually the only shopping related links are all surrounded by nice color boxes which I ignore. Unlink other seach engines which give out a half of page to paid for spots google doesn't. Actually it's pretty clear what is sponsered.
Even still... does google get some cut from these stores? No.
But really what does MSN respond with after an Apple search? (likely their top searched keyword today thanks to/. and msnbc)
Someone e-mail them (I'm too paranoid) and ask them if Sony Pictures ever forked over the money for the rights (IP huh?) to make Spiderman.
Last I heard, at least, was that Stan was to get 10% of the 600 Million they made. Yet they said, oops... we don't have it anymore.
If that argument works for them then they will understand that I'll buy their music/movies/software when I've got the cash and I'll just rip them off until them.
I mean let's face it. If you are downloading stuff only because it's free.. or to sell it... that is wrong. But if you simply can't afford, or will never be able to afford the product you haven't made them lose any revenue at all.
See, the whole thing is silly when I think about the sex and violence that is pushed on movie-goers. Yes, and I'm 22 and think this. I don't really have a problem with it, but when their response to censorship (parents) groups is "Fuck Off!"... I say to them "Fuck Off!"
You see, these folks are like Microsoft. If the gov't/whoever told them tommorrow to stop doing this or that they won't and likely buy/sell/sue whoever asks.
I'm really just waiting for a song to be used in a movie and have that upset everyone. When will these AA people fight it out and just die?
In the tradition of Max Payne and Syphon Filter comes Dead to Rights, a story-driven third-person shooter divided into chapters rather than levels. Playing the role of Jack Slate, a man wrongly accused of murder, players will advance through a variety of gritty urban locales on a bloody path to discover those who framed him. A number of hostile people will try to prevent this from happening, so Slate will need to dole out punishment using a combination of fisticuffs and cold, hard steel.
Dead to Rights borrows a number of concepts popularized by Hong Kong cinema. Players can fire two guns at once, independently of one another, as well as perform slow-motion dives to avoid bullets and attack at the same time (similar to the ShootDodge feature in Max Payne). In addition, players can overtake enemies and use their bodies as shields, back up against walls, pivot, and return fire, as well as snap the necks of unsuspecting foes to steal their weapons.
While the action is played from a third-person perspective, Slate can switch to a first-person viewpoint at any time to target specific areas, such as headshots or other vulnerable body parts. Enemies react differently depending on where they are hit, so a shot in the leg may not be enough to stop them from attacking. As players progress through the game, they will engage in a number of boss fights to test their skills using Slate's assortment of moves and weapons. ~ Scott Alan Marriott, All Game Guide "
But... The main character is a cop himself! This is really silly. The other day I was listening to "Cop Killer" the song by Body Count (Ice-T, Hard Rock). It made me think that this and other things, althought GTA et. al. didn't come to mind, and I thought that it's just so silly and unreal that it can't be looked at seriously.
Now, lately they said that if you made a movie with fictional child pornography (ie: the character is underage, nude, but really 23) you would be convicted of the same crime. But this idea was overturned because it made something that wasn't illegal,... well illegal.
This isn't fair to the consumers simply because they have judged your intentions and thoughts before you made the purchase even. Sure, some games may require an adult or ID, I don't mind that in order to protect others rights. We can't have lawmakers stretching laws until we break.
Nobody touched a cop. If someone was influenced by the game, it wasn't the games fault. If there was something that could make you attack someone people would be doing it in masse.
Until now, there wasn't any such transaction; while this is not in any manner a proof that Microsoft is the power behind the curtain, it does, coupled with their past statements on Linux as being harmful to IP, make this appear more like one of their publicity stunts.
I think you are right. Maybe you'll see some expensive Microsoft Unix tools or Windows tools that inter-operate with Unix but the big thing is the stunt SCO is pulling.
SCO is telling IBM (by extention RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, SuSe[*], et. al.) that this is how things should be done and Microsoft gets a "double plus good" rating. They are saying this is what real companies do.
On the screen it looks like flamebait or a troll, but it's just something that will not produce much (or?) but will try to get wider support for SCO's case. If Microsoft doesn't rip them off, then someone that would is evil!
*So, where can I find a list of people that actually got letters. Consider some Linux distributers wanted to Unite... does SuSe ride the SCO wave with a pass on IP claims and become the UnitedLinux?
Funny as it may be, you wouldn't be arrested under the USPA. The Patriot act lets them tap your phone because you downloaded that evil pinko RedHat 9 ISO, but you broke other laws...
I guess that is the sad thing. The Treasury Dept., specifically the Secret Service would get you. Chances are they know it was you who did it - being that the ink you used matches one their many, many, samples of inks from around the world and you own that brand of printer (they got the FBI to check that ditty out from their Carni^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigation).
Seriously, I'm not knocking you... but it's sad that today's youth doesn't know who would investigate.
My g.friend works at a bank, although in the offices/phone center, she told a concerned customer to simply spend the money they thought to be counterfeit. Then I said that wasn't a good idea and then she remarked: "I should have told her to call the FBI!", no, no, no... although the Feds love to step on city and state cases this isn't one for them. (Note: I guess, that is what they do in the movies/"don't give me that jur-is-my-diction crap... The orders were for your men's protection."/).
By collecting flocks of pigeons in dense clusters, Google is able to process search queries at speeds superior to traditional search engines, which typically rely on birds of prey, brooding hens or slow-moving waterfowl to do their relevance rankings.
-- I still think P2P in the Napster sense exists only as a way to make it harder for copyright owners to figure out who and how to sue to make the outright violations of the law go away. --
You are 110% right. Like I said before: When I heard of Napster (a while after it was out, and I'm still getting underground/dj/mixes music from IRC) I thought that it was crazy that all that illegal activity is out in the open.
If napster could stay open why can't I smoke a joint on the street... anytime... anywhere.
Actually the real problem with internet copyright infringment isn't that millions of Americans aren't going to buy music. The horror is that billions of other people won't either. Entertainment is our #1 export from music to movies. (all culture, coca-cola and crack! j/k)
But to be fair, her sales probably don't reflect the average struggling not-so-famous musician since she's in the spotlight because of the whole mp3 controversy.
Well, I think your trying to say that she isn't famous and she's struggling (yes and no... she is famous and isn't struggling, but new people are hearing her old tunes) or you are trying to say that this doesn't reflect the type of thing which would happen with a regular group. Not true. Many bands give away free CD's, tapes and other merchandise just to get people to remember their names. And I'm talking strugglers - people you'll NEVER hear from. But this stuff does help. My cousin for example has/had a web site which offered mp3's for download and that landed him a gig at a local bar playing twice a week. The site however was shut down because the provider matched *.mp3 and killed it. The problem is that today people (RIAA, anyone) hears mp3 and thinks theif or they think huh?
Radio is promotion, MTV is promotion, mp3's are promotions, free demos are promotions (demo's and now even mp3's could land you a contract with an RIAA company...hrmm...) heck, even going after a old style of business is promotions. Whatever works. Talk out against the establishment (or for it Dr. Dre, Metallica, et. al.) - do what it takes, music is about expression. But if it was only about sales Janis sure is beating them at their own game.
I bet if she hadn't come out about mp3s her sales wouldn't be doing any better.
Maybe, maybe not. Really it's just like saying mp3's hurt sales. There isn't anything that is going to say "yes" or "no" this or that helps. What needs to be done is enough competition to make a cause-effect scenario.
Chances are though with Janis Ian (a great musician and songwritter) that once people got to know her as a person and then heard her music they were more than happy to buy, liten to, and love her music.
I often refuse to buy someone's album because I don't like them (as a person). It's just a moral stance - she's opened up and people realize that she is a good person, fighting a good fight.
(BTW... RoadRunner, through Time Warner at least, is offering music downloads. They offer some sort of service for 'protected' content and $.99 for CD-burnable songs. It's called Rhapsody, maybe things are changing. AOL/TW does own a few of those companies in the RIAA.)
If everyone played the cello you might have a point.
If everyone did public speaking (two, three speeches a day that is) you would have a point.
Public speaking is a skill, if it wasn't then we'd all run for some crap-ass office. Speaking and grace make you a good politician... look at JFK, heck look at Cleopatra. The world loved her, her grace, her ability to speak Greek, Latin and other languages! It wasn't just her looks.
Kazza might actually have something legal to do if some of the early MTV music videos were in the public domain...
Well... I've always said that Discovery et. al. should get into the business of putting their second-run shows on p2p networks, maybe even sponsor the developers (Gnucleus?, Limewire?, Phex?, ?) in exchange for web-site ad space or some such deal.
There is a huge educational media industry which doesn't seem as concerned with $ as entertainment. They just do things to show us, they build something to show kids how it falls... why not bank-roll some of that into the public domain, renewing kids' interests in science and social studies.
I've posted this idea here before and it caught some good reviews, but basically we could use a "cable in the classroom" type of system. Heck, last night I found out the local university has a satellite channel which rebroadcasts classes - we could all use that.
My belief, anything that has been broadcast should be able to reproduced given that all commercials and station id's are intact. Now either we will do it (like we did with music;-) or they will do it and maybe cut the commercials down and divx 'em up for us in advance.
At the least we should already have an effort underway to start a PBS-exclusive (gnutella based?) p2p system. It's our content, it's educational/informational and the nation needs to learn.
This will let even more people say that you can't believe anything on the Internet.
Now I've even got computer professors telling me that line, and I don't think it's something that can be perpetuated to much. There is credible information.
What is needed is something better, this does nothing to improve on the confidence of users. If we had a system that used already published material, donated to the public domain with all brandings intact (FDL-like?), then anything I serve will automatically carry more weight.
There isn't much wrong with news that is published today - the problem is that mainstream news goes through those editors that control what gets reported. A system needs to be designed which spreads less reported news, and archives news.
Actually it hits on a good idea, decentralization is the key to free news, and maybe users can add their own comments but that doesn't belong in the system. If the system uses "copyrighted" or should I say "published" news then their branding would hold that trust, your own "made up" news would hold your branding so then I would know who to trust. Public key signing comes to mind when thinking of how to keep that "branding" authentic.
But I think an even bigger system is in order. (Right now in fact I was going to look for web-space to lay out my full plans for this system) I think with the amount of information that is out there through PBS, Discovery (and their many networks), et. al. we should/could put together a gnutella-like system to share information in video form.
Taking the strain off of the producers of these videos bandwidth could swing favor to get some published over a P2P system. A system which can bring up videos (streaming... peercast?) on Ancient Egypt or NASA would be a great educational tool and would liken to cable in the classroom.
There is a lot more details that I have worked out, but I'm not going to bother right now.
Basically P2P systems can be more than music and pr0n (not that I complain). We should use these systems because I see an Internet in the future which says double you, double you, who?!
A better soloution is to eat what you buy and don't buy things you will throw away.
Like banana peels!
It stank, but that was the least of it's problems. The pile fed rats and scattered the mess all over.
I guess no one thought to cover it huh? Rats can be smart, but they are not smarter than thou are they? Then again are you sure they were rats? Either way "vermin" have to eat somewhere too.
I was not happy to think of the backyard as a magnet for flea bearing pests and kept the cats inside. Cats that got out got fleas and had to be treated. Fleas are a serious health hazard. The raccoons I feed don't seem to give me the same problems.
Cats should be kept inside. They are not (not!) wild animals. Cats kill natural wildlife such as birds and have been breed for domestication for thousands of years. Fleas are a serious health hazard... but in some areas not so much. The raccoons though could be a serious health hazard also. Raccoons can carry Rabies and other nasties. If they scam food from you it's one thing. To feed them is another. Right there you show that you have no room to complain. But keep your cats inside, the rest of us like birds! (Why didn't your cats kill the rats?)
you might not want to make that pile if you don't know how to recognize the pests. Molds and blights that might have slipped past customs can also take up residence in your given area if you simply throw your wastes out on the ground to rot. Whole regions of Florida have been ruined by citrus blight.
Like posting on slashdot... you should know what you are doing. But! Molds that pass customs are the faults of customs personel and people who insist on bringing in fruit and the such. This is something learned by the Swiss many years ago... that is why we have customs today. Throwing away your "wastes" to rot isn't a good idea, but it's all organic and there is a complex system at work that breaks it down. How should we dispose of you at a later date?
I hate putting food wastes into the trash, so I try to eat everything.
So do I, but it's because I'm poor... how about you?
The landfill is a good place for food wastes. Sanitary landfills are called that because they get sealed up. Clay lined and capped, stuff goes in and does not come out. It's one place I don't mind food wastes becoming black gold.
Oh landfills! So it's that old NIMBY deal. "Just put it somewhere else please! Nevermind that we are throwing away something that we could use again."
Want great soil? By all means, composte your lawn clippings, the leaves you rake and other stuff that naturally hits the ground. Oak leaves are some of the best and you can find wonderful soil in gutters where people are sloppy about raking their yards. If you must tread into the wild world of rotten food, please watch your pile and try not to obnox your neighbors.
Leave your clippings on the ground. Take it from me I grew up with a horticulturalist - it's better to leave you leaves on the ground... that is why they fall down. Lawns that get raked usually find that they need to be re-seeded every few years (here and there) because in the winter time they are dying in frosts because they are exposed. BTW, leaves and grass stinks too (anything wet and organic in break down stinks); also leaves and grass bring in pests as well. It's really the same to them.
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I've been saying for a long time scientific work (Physics videos, math tutor programs, etc) should be released unto p2p.
Discovery or whomever (PBS, it is our content America!) should donate third run shows that can be downloaded and viewed at home or school.
Doesn't need to be explained more than that. Give the shows a month to be aired on TV and then the History Channel hands them over to the net. If they release it free as in beer we will respect their trademarks.
Like I said, I've suggested it before and have written a paper on it and posted it here before (under this Login I believe).
A good way for someone this to get working (the idea of recycling old pc's) would be to get live distributions working for them also.
Sure a new Knoppix is good and all but there isn't anything like optimized, aged code (a decade) that makes you wonder why you got that other thing that gives you problems.
The difference in a -typical- XP and 2000 install is enough on 5 year old home PC's. I've got a 333 which is flying away with distributed.net on 2000 - a good 2.0 live CD to show me a slow and difficult customization is worth it.
Well - I'm not linux bashing. But you know you want to take time and plan it right.
"I'm visualizing 10 robots sitting at a conference table, while the whole board of directors is sitting at home, naked, drinking their morning coffee, etc."
And the question is why you would want to picture the wrikled guy at the top naked. Dammit we need more women CEO's!!!
"And you noones going to say that SBC doesn't have lobbyists. :)"
In general the telecommunications industry has a stake that is much larger than music. Not only does it provide the backbone for all business in the country today, okay 99%, but it also makes money for the country at large on several fronts.
The music industry, with acts such as Eminem and Beyonce, along with Radiohead and Cat Stevens only cause problems with the government.
Who will they side with?
Why are they hiding this?"
Must have something to do with that 9/11 report.
Yeah, cheap shared hosting is largely insecure.
Is it any wonder that users of FREE webspace can't use password protected files?
If the user does, and then needs to use those passes in their server side programs then YES, they will lose everything.
Just don't put anything out there you don't want anyone to read; don't connect it if no one should come in.
"Googlehole No. 2: Skewed Synonyms. Search for "apple" on Google, and you have to troll through a couple pages of results before you get anything not directly related to Apple Computer--and it's a page promoting a public TV show called Newton's Apple. "
/. and msnbc)
Of course Microsoft has a problem with this... there are no direct links to Office for OSX.
Seriously though there isn't a problem here. Google ranks pages on links to that page (one of many factors). If every had pages about apples and everyone thought they were better then the pages about Apple Computers, they would link to them.
Actually the only shopping related links are all surrounded by nice color boxes which I ignore. Unlink other seach engines which give out a half of page to paid for spots google doesn't. Actually it's pretty clear what is sponsered.
Even still... does google get some cut from these stores? No.
But really what does MSN respond with after an Apple search? (likely their top searched keyword today thanks to
Someone e-mail them (I'm too paranoid) and ask them if Sony Pictures ever forked over the money for the rights (IP huh?) to make Spiderman.
Last I heard, at least, was that Stan was to get 10% of the 600 Million they made. Yet they said, oops... we don't have it anymore.
If that argument works for them then they will understand that I'll buy their music/movies/software when I've got the cash and I'll just rip them off until them.
I mean let's face it. If you are downloading stuff only because it's free.. or to sell it... that is wrong. But if you simply can't afford, or will never be able to afford the product you haven't made them lose any revenue at all.
See, the whole thing is silly when I think about the sex and violence that is pushed on movie-goers. Yes, and I'm 22 and think this. I don't really have a problem with it, but when their response to censorship (parents) groups is "Fuck Off!"... I say to them "Fuck Off!"
You see, these folks are like Microsoft. If the gov't/whoever told them tommorrow to stop doing this or that they won't and likely buy/sell/sue whoever asks.
I'm really just waiting for a song to be used in a movie and have that upset everyone. When will these AA people fight it out and just die?
Yeah, but if Ford offers cars at a discount to Hitler...
or hell, if Grandpa Bush sells oil to Hitler...
From Blockbuster.Com:
But... The main character is a cop himself! This is really silly. The other day I was listening to "Cop Killer" the song by Body Count (Ice-T, Hard Rock). It made me think that this and other things, althought GTA et. al. didn't come to mind, and I thought that it's just so silly and unreal that it can't be looked at seriously.
Now, lately they said that if you made a movie with fictional child pornography (ie: the character is underage, nude, but really 23) you would be convicted of the same crime. But this idea was overturned because it made something that wasn't illegal,... well illegal.
This isn't fair to the consumers simply because they have judged your intentions and thoughts before you made the purchase even. Sure, some games may require an adult or ID, I don't mind that in order to protect others rights. We can't have lawmakers stretching laws until we break.
Nobody touched a cop. If someone was influenced by the game, it wasn't the games fault. If there was something that could make you attack someone people would be doing it in masse.
I think you are right. Maybe you'll see some expensive Microsoft Unix tools or Windows tools that inter-operate with Unix but the big thing is the stunt SCO is pulling.
SCO is telling IBM (by extention RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, SuSe[*], et. al.) that this is how things should be done and Microsoft gets a "double plus good" rating. They are saying this is what real companies do.
On the screen it looks like flamebait or a troll, but it's just something that will not produce much (or?) but will try to get wider support for SCO's case. If Microsoft doesn't rip them off, then someone that would is evil!
*So, where can I find a list of people that actually got letters. Consider some Linux distributers wanted to Unite... does SuSe ride the SCO wave with a pass on IP claims and become the UnitedLinux?
Next week kids...
I guess that is the sad thing. The Treasury Dept., specifically the Secret Service would get you. Chances are they know it was you who did it - being that the ink you used matches one their many, many, samples of inks from around the world and you own that brand of printer (they got the FBI to check that ditty out from their Carni^H^H^H^H^H investigation).
Seriously, I'm not knocking you... but it's sad that today's youth doesn't know who would investigate.
My g.friend works at a bank, although in the offices/phone center, she told a concerned customer to simply spend the money they thought to be counterfeit. Then I said that wasn't a good idea and then she remarked: "I should have told her to call the FBI!", no, no, no... although the Feds love to step on city and state cases this isn't one for them. (Note: I guess, that is what they do in the movies
All I know is this... I'd never be caught dead with a necrophiliac, that's for sure!
5/14/03: The Day CBN Returned!
Personally I think if you want to add more power just go with more machines.
Really, if one task can't get done, then upgrade! But if you need to - spread out, do so and donate extra clock cycles/routing time (favorite p2p?).
More computers all just combined and connected is fun.
The best job I've seen was the game created for the LoTR:TT. That PS2 game is cool and you actually play as a character!
Wow, with in game footage and no crazy hacks! But I guess that beats the point.
Personally I'd say that game should get a 5 out of 5.
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I still think P2P in the Napster sense exists only as a way to make it harder for copyright owners to figure out who and how to sue to make the outright violations of the law go away.
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You are 110% right. Like I said before: When I heard of Napster (a while after it was out, and I'm still getting underground/dj/mixes music from IRC) I thought that it was crazy that all that illegal activity is out in the open.
If napster could stay open why can't I smoke a joint on the street... anytime... anywhere.
Actually the real problem with internet copyright infringment isn't that millions of Americans aren't going to buy music. The horror is that billions of other people won't either. Entertainment is our #1 export from music to movies. (all culture, coca-cola and crack! j/k)
But to be fair, her sales probably don't reflect the average struggling not-so-famous musician since she's in the spotlight because of the whole mp3 controversy.
Well, I think your trying to say that she isn't famous and she's struggling (yes and no... she is famous and isn't struggling, but new people are hearing her old tunes) or you are trying to say that this doesn't reflect the type of thing which would happen with a regular group. Not true. Many bands give away free CD's, tapes and other merchandise just to get people to remember their names. And I'm talking strugglers - people you'll NEVER hear from. But this stuff does help. My cousin for example has/had a web site which offered mp3's for download and that landed him a gig at a local bar playing twice a week. The site however was shut down because the provider matched *.mp3 and killed it. The problem is that today people (RIAA, anyone) hears mp3 and thinks theif or they think huh?
Radio is promotion, MTV is promotion, mp3's are promotions, free demos are promotions (demo's and now even mp3's could land you a contract with an RIAA company...hrmm...) heck, even going after a old style of business is promotions. Whatever works. Talk out against the establishment (or for it Dr. Dre, Metallica, et. al.) - do what it takes, music is about expression. But if it was only about sales Janis sure is beating them at their own game.
I bet if she hadn't come out about mp3s her sales wouldn't be doing any better.
Maybe, maybe not. Really it's just like saying mp3's hurt sales. There isn't anything that is going to say "yes" or "no" this or that helps. What needs to be done is enough competition to make a cause-effect scenario.
Chances are though with Janis Ian (a great musician and songwritter) that once people got to know her as a person and then heard her music they were more than happy to buy, liten to, and love her music.
I often refuse to buy someone's album because I don't like them (as a person). It's just a moral stance - she's opened up and people realize that she is a good person, fighting a good fight.
(BTW... RoadRunner, through Time Warner at least, is offering music downloads. They offer some sort of service for 'protected' content and $.99 for CD-burnable songs. It's called Rhapsody, maybe things are changing. AOL/TW does own a few of those companies in the RIAA.)
Wait till you're at school and you get a "I've got a secret website that I'm ...." at full volume.
BTW, the teacher was giving lecture so it was extra quiet.
If everyone played the cello you might have a point.
If everyone did public speaking (two, three speeches a day that is) you would have a point.
Public speaking is a skill, if it wasn't then we'd all run for some crap-ass office. Speaking and grace make you a good politician... look at JFK, heck look at Cleopatra. The world loved her, her grace, her ability to speak Greek, Latin and other languages! It wasn't just her looks.
Kazza might actually have something legal to do if some of the early MTV music videos were in the public domain...
;-) or they will do it and maybe cut the commercials down and divx 'em up for us in advance.
Well... I've always said that Discovery et. al. should get into the business of putting their second-run shows on p2p networks, maybe even sponsor the developers (Gnucleus?, Limewire?, Phex?, ?) in exchange for web-site ad space or some such deal.
There is a huge educational media industry which doesn't seem as concerned with $ as entertainment. They just do things to show us, they build something to show kids how it falls... why not bank-roll some of that into the public domain, renewing kids' interests in science and social studies.
I've posted this idea here before and it caught some good reviews, but basically we could use a "cable in the classroom" type of system. Heck, last night I found out the local university has a satellite channel which rebroadcasts classes - we could all use that.
My belief, anything that has been broadcast should be able to reproduced given that all commercials and station id's are intact. Now either we will do it (like we did with music
At the least we should already have an effort underway to start a PBS-exclusive (gnutella based?) p2p system. It's our content, it's educational/informational and the nation needs to learn.
Weigh in.
This will let even more people say that you can't believe anything on the Internet.
Now I've even got computer professors telling me that line, and I don't think it's something that can be perpetuated to much. There is credible information.
What is needed is something better, this does nothing to improve on the confidence of users. If we had a system that used already published material, donated to the public domain with all brandings intact (FDL-like?), then anything I serve will automatically carry more weight.
There isn't much wrong with news that is published today - the problem is that mainstream news goes through those editors that control what gets reported. A system needs to be designed which spreads less reported news, and archives news.
Actually it hits on a good idea, decentralization is the key to free news, and maybe users can add their own comments but that doesn't belong in the system. If the system uses "copyrighted" or should I say "published" news then their branding would hold that trust, your own "made up" news would hold your branding so then I would know who to trust. Public key signing comes to mind when thinking of how to keep that "branding" authentic.
But I think an even bigger system is in order. (Right now in fact I was going to look for web-space to lay out my full plans for this system) I think with the amount of information that is out there through PBS, Discovery (and their many networks), et. al. we should/could put together a gnutella-like system to share information in video form.
Taking the strain off of the producers of these videos bandwidth could swing favor to get some published over a P2P system. A system which can bring up videos (streaming... peercast?) on Ancient Egypt or NASA would be a great educational tool and would liken to cable in the classroom.
There is a lot more details that I have worked out, but I'm not going to bother right now.
Basically P2P systems can be more than music and pr0n (not that I complain). We should use these systems because I see an Internet in the future which says double you, double you, who?!
Stephen King Dies In Misery (-1, Redundant)
A better soloution is to eat what you buy and don't buy things you will throw away.
Like banana peels!
It stank, but that was the least of it's problems. The pile fed rats and scattered the mess all over.
I guess no one thought to cover it huh? Rats can be smart, but they are not smarter than thou are they? Then again are you sure they were rats? Either way "vermin" have to eat somewhere too.
I was not happy to think of the backyard as a magnet for flea bearing pests and kept the cats inside. Cats that got out got fleas and had to be treated. Fleas are a serious health hazard. The raccoons I feed don't seem to give me the same problems.
Cats should be kept inside. They are not (not!) wild animals. Cats kill natural wildlife such as birds and have been breed for domestication for thousands of years. Fleas are a serious health hazard... but in some areas not so much. The raccoons though could be a serious health hazard also. Raccoons can carry Rabies and other nasties. If they scam food from you it's one thing. To feed them is another. Right there you show that you have no room to complain. But keep your cats inside, the rest of us like birds! (Why didn't your cats kill the rats?)
you might not want to make that pile if you don't know how to recognize the pests. Molds and blights that might have slipped past customs can also take up residence in your given area if you simply throw your wastes out on the ground to rot. Whole regions of Florida have been ruined by citrus blight.
Like posting on slashdot... you should know what you are doing. But! Molds that pass customs are the faults of customs personel and people who insist on bringing in fruit and the such. This is something learned by the Swiss many years ago... that is why we have customs today. Throwing away your "wastes" to rot isn't a good idea, but it's all organic and there is a complex system at work that breaks it down. How should we dispose of you at a later date?
I hate putting food wastes into the trash, so I try to eat everything.
So do I, but it's because I'm poor... how about you?
The landfill is a good place for food wastes. Sanitary landfills are called that because they get sealed up. Clay lined and capped, stuff goes in and does not come out. It's one place I don't mind food wastes becoming black gold.
Oh landfills! So it's that old NIMBY deal. "Just put it somewhere else please! Nevermind that we are throwing away something that we could use again."
Want great soil? By all means, composte your lawn clippings, the leaves you rake and other stuff that naturally hits the ground. Oak leaves are some of the best and you can find wonderful soil in gutters where people are sloppy about raking their yards. If you must tread into the wild world of rotten food, please watch your pile and try not to obnox your neighbors.
Leave your clippings on the ground. Take it from me I grew up with a horticulturalist - it's better to leave you leaves on the ground... that is why they fall down. Lawns that get raked usually find that they need to be re-seeded every few years (here and there) because in the winter time they are dying in frosts because they are exposed. BTW, leaves and grass stinks too (anything wet and organic in break down stinks); also leaves and grass bring in pests as well. It's really the same to them.
I don't have much garbage either.
I suppose not, the city took it all away.