Re:Yes. It is entirely about economics.
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He is using his money (and that of others) to finance an army, instead of laying back in a beach in fucking California (which he could have easily have done, for the rest of his life, with his millions of dollars).
He is doing this for his beliefs, not profit.
Profit is not the only motive in this world, you know.
Yes, he has something to lose (money, his life)
Yes, he has something to win (getting the US out of the area)
Those fighting for him probably have nothing to lose, and stand to win only what he will win.
Now, if he were to attack the Saudi Government (which may be what he plans to do after he gets the US out of there), he'll no longer be in exile.
He may help set up a new, theocratic government.
He will indubitably be a VERY high ranking official in said government - but he's already spent most of his life fighting for his religion, it doesn't make sense that he would waste his whole youth for more money/power in his latter years, when he could have just enjoyed ALL of his years. It doesn't make sense.
If you lose you freedoms, this country will no longer be worth fighting for.
Think before you type, fuckhead.
The guys who wrote the constitution were FAR smarter than you, you are letting your emotions get in the way of rational thought (and government).
Precisely...
If we lose our freedoms, we might as well live UNDER the Taliban...
It will not be a country worth living in, and I guarantee some people will rise up to overthrow big brother. Which will result in more violence, and DOMESTIC terrorism (can't exactly drop nukes on US soil, it'd be MUCH tougher to fight domestic terrorists - witness Colombia's struggle)
Blammo!!!
You hit the nail on the head.
Scarcity is no longer an issue with digital media.
You do not need a pressed CD, you just need the REALLY BIG number contained within.
Because digital content is really just a big number.
Nothing more.
No, it is not...
Fuck all of this artificial scarcity.
"The artist has to eat" - fuck the artist too, they were his ideas (intellectual property) until he aired them out (recorded, played, or in any way left his brain).
He cannot recall them, he cannot control them.
If he cannot deal with that, perhaps he should NOT be an artist.
He can keep all of his wonderful Intellectual property stashed away in the bank of his mind.
He will be an intellectual millionaire.
He can share that wealth if he wishes, and guess what...
His bank in his mind will be no less rich!!
Produce goods or sell services, do not sell a good AS a service.
Sweet JEBUS!!!!
That is the creepiest thing I have read in a long time.
Time will tell if his were prophetic words.
Now, I must go and read Brave New World.
As opposed to now, where they cater to the whims of publishers.
Also, as opposed to normal people, who cater to the whims of our bosses.
Get a grip, fool.
Everybody works for somebody.
Then maybe 100 million dollar movies should no longer be made.
They are overrated anyways.
Good films CAN be made with a low budget.
People WILL support good films.
I have said this countless times...
Maybe writing should no longer be a "normal" job, nor music.
Painting (canvas, oil paint)is already highly UNPROFITABLE for most.
It is NO less difficult, and is not less of an art than the latest N'Sync album.
What you know is wrong, wake up.
What we are experiencing is an anomaly, it has NOT always been this way.
Yes, and just because we CAN make unlimited copies does NOT mean we WILL.
Stop treating us like criminals, damnit.
Re:signal to noise ratio
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Don't forget the source for the 3.0 Kernel...
In Fortran...
(Wasn't the posting limit every 60 secs?? It says 2 Min now!!!)
Re:signal to noise ratio
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No, we just don't know what to do with the signal, or even know that noise is really a signal. or have the capacity to process it all.
It is ALL information.
The content is the SAME.
It is NOT superior.
It may be higher quality, but the MEDIUM affords this.
Yes, it is a perk of the MEDIUM, why bother making 320x240 resolution videos when the disc will hold 720x480??
Can they even make 720x480 digital surround sound movies on VHS??
The source already has it, there is not much more effort exerted.
If they made the DVD 320x240, they would save nothing but empty disc space.
The higher resolution is a FREEBIE for them.
The tapes and the DVDs are made from the SAME SOURCES, and the cost of reproduction and distribution IS LOWER for DVDs.
And yet they charge MORE.
Does that make sense??
Foreign films can be interesting.
I saw a foreign film (German, I think) about transvestites, homosexuals, and a guy (heterosexual) who couldn't keep his snake in his pants.
It was actually a REALLY entertaining movie, and nowhere was the plot EXTREMELY weird.
I liked the part at the end where the guy had met up with an old love interest, took her home, and she offered him a spray that was given to mating bulls. The guy turns it down, and she ends up in the bathtub with the boyfriend of one of the homosexual guys (!), who happened to be "the straightest homosexual" the group of gay friends had seen. Anyways, it was cool because it was so different, and always believable.
I never did get the name of that movie, although I wish I had.
Not that it would matter, my DVD player would probably be unable to play it (wrong region code).
That is the problem, the whole world is following in the United corp of America's footsteps.
What about the indoctrination about copyrights in the UK?
What about those silly laws in Italy??
Where does this all lead??
What about the WTO??
What are some of the criteria for the international treatises?? do they include robbing us of freedom in order to protect copyrights??
Things are bad, real bad.
And soon to get worse.
If the DMCA makes it past the Supreme Court, it will basically prove that you can buy the whole government.
Division of powers or not - if all powers are bought, the division does SHIT.
It is far worse than anything else - it is simply a stepping stone.
They can prosecute you and put you in jail for thinking.
It doesn't matter if they are only restricting our thoughts with respect to copyrights and ways of circumventing their protection - someone, somewhere is going to get hip to the fact that they shoved a tremendously unconstitutional law upon ALL of America and nobody could do a damn thing.
My hopes are on the Supreme Court.
It shouldn't be.
Make music because you love music, not because "Jay-Z is a musician and he has lots of money and ho's"
What we are experiencing now is an anomaly, it is not the norm.
Things were not always like this.
Van Gogh died poor.
Mozart knew both success and failure in his life, and once had to be bailed out financially by a friend.
There are many others, it is a common theme.
These were much greater artists than Britney Spears or N'Sync or Limp Biscuit.
Because the law is wrong...
Did you ever think of that one, Einstein.
Remember 1984.
2 + 2 != 5
The instant the law says it is, I bet you will be the first to proclaim that 2 + 2 IS indeed 5.
Think for yourself, damnit!!
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He is using his money (and that of others) to finance an army, instead of laying back in a beach in fucking California (which he could have easily have done, for the rest of his life, with his millions of dollars).
He is doing this for his beliefs, not profit.
Profit is not the only motive in this world, you know.
Yes, he has something to lose (money, his life)
Yes, he has something to win (getting the US out of the area)
Those fighting for him probably have nothing to lose, and stand to win only what he will win.
Now, if he were to attack the Saudi Government (which may be what he plans to do after he gets the US out of there), he'll no longer be in exile.
He may help set up a new, theocratic government.
He will indubitably be a VERY high ranking official in said government - but he's already spent most of his life fighting for his religion, it doesn't make sense that he would waste his whole youth for more money/power in his latter years, when he could have just enjoyed ALL of his years. It doesn't make sense.
If you lose you freedoms, this country will no longer be worth fighting for.
Think before you type, fuckhead.
The guys who wrote the constitution were FAR smarter than you, you are letting your emotions get in the way of rational thought (and government).
Precisely...
If we lose our freedoms, we might as well live UNDER the Taliban...
It will not be a country worth living in, and I guarantee some people will rise up to overthrow big brother. Which will result in more violence, and DOMESTIC terrorism (can't exactly drop nukes on US soil, it'd be MUCH tougher to fight domestic terrorists - witness Colombia's struggle)
Blammo!!!
You hit the nail on the head.
Scarcity is no longer an issue with digital media.
You do not need a pressed CD, you just need the REALLY BIG number contained within.
Because digital content is really just a big number.
Nothing more.
No, it is not...
Fuck all of this artificial scarcity.
"The artist has to eat" - fuck the artist too, they were his ideas (intellectual property) until he aired them out (recorded, played, or in any way left his brain).
He cannot recall them, he cannot control them.
If he cannot deal with that, perhaps he should NOT be an artist.
He can keep all of his wonderful Intellectual property stashed away in the bank of his mind.
He will be an intellectual millionaire.
He can share that wealth if he wishes, and guess what...
His bank in his mind will be no less rich!!
Produce goods or sell services, do not sell a good AS a service.
I was thinking the same
Sweet JEBUS!!!!
That is the creepiest thing I have read in a long time.
Time will tell if his were prophetic words.
Now, I must go and read Brave New World.
You will not laugh like this when it falls on you and crushes you.
As opposed to now, where they cater to the whims of publishers.
Also, as opposed to normal people, who cater to the whims of our bosses.
Get a grip, fool.
Everybody works for somebody.
Then maybe 100 million dollar movies should no longer be made.
They are overrated anyways.
Good films CAN be made with a low budget.
People WILL support good films.
I have said this countless times...
Maybe writing should no longer be a "normal" job, nor music.
Painting (canvas, oil paint)is already highly UNPROFITABLE for most.
It is NO less difficult, and is not less of an art than the latest N'Sync album.
What you know is wrong, wake up.
What we are experiencing is an anomaly, it has NOT always been this way.
Yes, and just because we CAN make unlimited copies does NOT mean we WILL.
Stop treating us like criminals, damnit.
Don't forget the source for the 3.0 Kernel...
In Fortran...
(Wasn't the posting limit every 60 secs?? It says 2 Min now!!!)
No, we just don't know what to do with the signal, or even know that noise is really a signal. or have the capacity to process it all.
It is ALL information.
The content is the SAME.
It is NOT superior.
It may be higher quality, but the MEDIUM affords this.
Yes, it is a perk of the MEDIUM, why bother making 320x240 resolution videos when the disc will hold 720x480??
Can they even make 720x480 digital surround sound movies on VHS??
The source already has it, there is not much more effort exerted.
If they made the DVD 320x240, they would save nothing but empty disc space.
The higher resolution is a FREEBIE for them.
The tapes and the DVDs are made from the SAME SOURCES, and the cost of reproduction and distribution IS LOWER for DVDs.
And yet they charge MORE.
Does that make sense??
Foreign films can be interesting.
I saw a foreign film (German, I think) about transvestites, homosexuals, and a guy (heterosexual) who couldn't keep his snake in his pants.
It was actually a REALLY entertaining movie, and nowhere was the plot EXTREMELY weird.
I liked the part at the end where the guy had met up with an old love interest, took her home, and she offered him a spray that was given to mating bulls. The guy turns it down, and she ends up in the bathtub with the boyfriend of one of the homosexual guys (!), who happened to be "the straightest homosexual" the group of gay friends had seen. Anyways, it was cool because it was so different, and always believable.
I never did get the name of that movie, although I wish I had.
Not that it would matter, my DVD player would probably be unable to play it (wrong region code).
That is the problem, the whole world is following in the United corp of America's footsteps.
What about the indoctrination about copyrights in the UK?
What about those silly laws in Italy??
Where does this all lead??
What about the WTO??
What are some of the criteria for the international treatises?? do they include robbing us of freedom in order to protect copyrights??
Things are bad, real bad.
And soon to get worse.
If the DMCA makes it past the Supreme Court, it will basically prove that you can buy the whole government.
Division of powers or not - if all powers are bought, the division does SHIT.
It is far worse than anything else - it is simply a stepping stone.
They can prosecute you and put you in jail for thinking.
It doesn't matter if they are only restricting our thoughts with respect to copyrights and ways of circumventing their protection - someone, somewhere is going to get hip to the fact that they shoved a tremendously unconstitutional law upon ALL of America and nobody could do a damn thing.
My hopes are on the Supreme Court.
So if you can read ROT13 without a device, you MIND is the digital crowbar. You are in violation of the DMCA.
I fear things will get worse.
A lot of things taken for granted since the beginning of written word will be taken from us.
I think that is precisely what he means.
Everlasting copyright.
No, it doesn't.
That's foolish.
It's like people who scream and make a big fuss and expect you not to notice what they say.
If you don't want people to hear what you say, say it softly, or in another language.
Don't scream it out in pig-latin.
Jr Spies.
You have summed up much of my feelings in less than a page.
Bravo.
BTW. The 2 minute limit SUCKS...
It shouldn't be.
Make music because you love music, not because "Jay-Z is a musician and he has lots of money and ho's"
What we are experiencing now is an anomaly, it is not the norm.
Things were not always like this.
Van Gogh died poor.
Mozart knew both success and failure in his life, and once had to be bailed out financially by a friend.
There are many others, it is a common theme.
These were much greater artists than Britney Spears or N'Sync or Limp Biscuit.
Because the law is wrong... Did you ever think of that one, Einstein. Remember 1984. 2 + 2 != 5 The instant the law says it is, I bet you will be the first to proclaim that 2 + 2 IS indeed 5. Think for yourself, damnit!!
Write for yourself, not for money or fame.
Great art made many of its creators no money.