The quote you mentioned is, in my view, the only sensible line in the entire rant, but it also goes against his whole 'argument' if he actually has one that is!
The Music Industry *is* a cartel and is entirely unethical, to itself as well as to others. The Music Industry does everything it can to protect itself and NOTHING to protect musician beyond protecting those few who make the Music Industry money. The fact that they have gotten the legal system on their side is an impressive feat of Criminal Systems Cracker-dom.
People who want the Information Industry to be regualated, insured and copy-written will get what they justly deserve. Hopefully, however, the very nature of digital technology will continue to make this so immensely difficult that they will eventually give up or die trying.
I'll risk Bad Software and Rude Comments in the name of Freedom any day. More often than not, however, the Rude Comments are directed AT the Bad Software, so the Present (non)System actually works to better itself (Linux/GNU).
$200 buys you a color TV, no? Today it will also buy you a computer. The bottom line is ANYONE who really wants a computer can get one. Any kid who goes to a public school will have the opportunity to learn how to use one.
Now with Linux and other free unices available, kids can learn (with a LOT of self-initiative) software development on OTHER PEOPLES GARBAGE (386's 486's etc.)
If "lessening the gap" means free handouts of the latest hardware, well that doesn't seem to likely now does it? What other industry even comes close to that ideal?
Certainly not the food industry, or home-heating, or apartment rental.
And a gun gives me the ability to shoot "whatever the fsck I want". Does this mean I *should*? Inasmuch as shooting involves pointing your finger at someone and saying "bang", yes. Go ahead! This could be seen as unethical, because some will be upset at your gesture, but no one (hopefully) would make this illegal as no one's life is actually being taken away from them.
Hopefully it will encourage them to let Star Office corner the market on FeatureBloat, while they concentrate on lean, mean discrete (but interoperable and extreemly useful) applications.
I had the pleasure once of meeting a girl from Iceland, and she was probably the most horrendously amazing babe I have ever seen in my life. I wanted to throw her boyfriend from a moving train and claim her as my own, but that's kind of hard to do when your drinking beer in someone else's living room, and she probably could have kicked my ass anyways.
Question: Are ALL the women in Iceland amazing? Should I move there, or just go straight to jail?
Biological life could be so far outside of it's realm of experience that it would just have no way of comprehending us.
The analog nature of the hardware process described and it's various 'problems' with sensitivities to temperature variation and whatnot could lead to an awareness of sorts to the outside world, including big, warm, squishy beings that often bring about such drastic changes to their state of being.
Mir has been in orbit years longer than it was originally designed for. There have been fires, life support failures and collisions. Crews living there spend all their time just trying to keep the thing running.
Years of actual EXPERIENCE, warts and all, that no computer simulation could ever hope to impart. The simple fact that they ENDURED and KEPT GOING right through the failures and emergencies is EXACTLY what is so pricelessly valuable about the station's MANY contributions to science.
Dollar for dollar, I think MIR has made by far one of the GREATEST contributions EVER to the advancement of mankind's knowledge of long-term survival in space.
They didn't quit. They didn't give up when things got dangerous or unpredictable. They endured, they did the time and they deserve our praise.
The efforts and achievements of the Russians with respect to Mir deserve the highest praise.
The data and experience on human survival in space that they have gained for the world will offer countless potentially life-saving insights to problems that will be encountered in ANY future space-habitation projects.
The fact that their project did not have the polish and glitz of space projects in the US does nothing to detract from the value of their efforts. They kept men alive in orbit for a very long time, and they did it on a shoe string. The lower funding forced them to be creative and resourceful. We owe them our thanks, and will for a long time to come.
Maplethorpe was a master, no doubt. His pictures pushed buttons and provoked, BUT, unlike a swastika on a bathroom wall or a religious icon in a urinal, his images took patience, skill and cleverness to create.
I must add, however, that getting the Arts Community in general to vociferously subscribe to the idea that "PissChrist" IS Art was *truly* a great work of Art!
artifice \Ar"ti*fice\, n. [L. artificium, fr. artifex artificer; ars, artis, art + facere to make: cf. F. artifice.] 1. A handicraft; a trade; art of making. [Obs.]
2. Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
3. Artful or skillful contrivance.
4. Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick.
Does it apply? I think so.
This definition is exactly why I think works like "PissChrist" are NOT Art, but simply cultural provokation and sophmoric button-pushing. There's nothing clever OR skillful about it. The fact that we respond emotionally to something does not (alone) make it Art.
Hollow-wood feels (fears) that 'relationships' won't sell big plastic collectible cups at McDonald's, thus relationships (let alone 'intense' one's) are the first to go when paring down a script for Maximum Return on Investments.
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...until it becomes Illegal and Unethical to make fun of his silly rants. That is the Be All and the End All of this article.
The quote you mentioned is, in my view, the only sensible line in the entire rant, but it also goes against his whole 'argument' if he actually has one that is!
The Music Industry *is* a cartel and is entirely unethical, to itself as well as to others. The Music Industry does everything it can to protect itself and NOTHING to protect musician beyond protecting those few who make the Music Industry money. The fact that they have gotten the legal system on their side is an impressive feat of Criminal Systems Cracker-dom.
People who want the Information Industry to be regualated, insured and copy-written will get what they justly deserve. Hopefully, however, the very nature of digital technology will continue to make this so immensely difficult that they will eventually give up or die trying.
I'll risk Bad Software and Rude Comments in the name of Freedom any day. More often than not, however, the Rude Comments are directed AT the Bad Software, so the Present (non)System actually works to better itself (Linux/GNU).
Fsck with it at your peril!
; )
-kent
$200 buys you a color TV, no? Today it will also buy you a computer. The bottom line is ANYONE who really wants a computer can get one. Any kid who goes to a public school will have the opportunity to learn how to use one.
Now with Linux and other free unices available, kids can learn (with a LOT of self-initiative) software development on OTHER PEOPLES GARBAGE (386's 486's etc.)
If "lessening the gap" means free handouts of the latest hardware, well that doesn't seem to likely now does it? What other industry even comes close to that ideal?
Certainly not the food industry, or home-heating, or apartment rental.
And a gun gives me the ability to shoot "whatever the fsck I want". Does this mean I *should*? Inasmuch as shooting involves pointing your finger at someone and saying "bang", yes. Go ahead! This could be seen as unethical, because some will be upset at your gesture, but no one (hopefully) would make this illegal as no one's life is actually being taken away from them.
The book Rules, end of story.
There's nothing to see here, people. Move along. That's it. Carry on!
What's the latest skinny on anti-aliased screen fonts under X?
thx,
kent
Is there a way to filter out Hemos stories?
Yes. Get a login/password, click "preferences" and filter away.
I really doubt it.
Hopefully it will encourage them to let Star Office corner the market on FeatureBloat, while they concentrate on lean, mean discrete (but interoperable and extreemly useful) applications.
...and say "doctah"...
Make sure your room is properly mounted, and then use the 'Locate' command. Don't forget to update the database:
/dev/room /myroom
>mount -t my
>updatedb
>locate remote
I had the pleasure once of meeting a girl from Iceland, and she was probably the most horrendously amazing babe I have ever seen in my life. I wanted to throw her boyfriend from a moving train and claim her as my own, but that's kind of hard to do when your drinking beer in someone else's living room, and she probably could have kicked my ass anyways.
Question: Are ALL the women in Iceland amazing? Should I move there, or just go straight to jail?
Ahhh, sweet Oblivion...
Biological life could be so far outside of it's realm of experience that it would just have no way of comprehending us.
The analog nature of the hardware process described and it's various 'problems' with sensitivities to temperature variation and whatnot could lead to an awareness of sorts to the outside world, including big, warm, squishy beings that often bring about such drastic changes to their state of being.
Just a thought!
Mir has been in orbit years longer than it was originally designed for.
There have been fires, life support failures and collisions.
Crews living there spend all their time just trying to keep the thing running.
Years of actual EXPERIENCE, warts and all, that no computer simulation could ever hope to impart. The simple fact that they ENDURED and KEPT GOING right through the failures and emergencies is EXACTLY what is so pricelessly valuable about the station's MANY contributions to science.
Dollar for dollar, I think MIR has made by far one of the GREATEST contributions EVER to the advancement of mankind's knowledge of long-term survival in space.
They didn't quit. They didn't give up when things got dangerous or unpredictable. They endured, they did the time and they deserve our praise.
The efforts and achievements of the Russians with respect to Mir deserve the highest praise.
The data and experience on human survival in space that they have gained for the world will offer countless potentially life-saving insights to problems that will be encountered in ANY future space-habitation projects.
The fact that their project did not have the polish and glitz of space projects in the US does nothing to detract from the value of their efforts. They kept men alive in orbit for a very long time, and they did it on a shoe string. The lower funding forced them to be creative and resourceful. We owe them our thanks, and will for a long time to come.
SPACIBO!
Maplethorpe was a master, no doubt. His pictures pushed buttons and provoked, BUT, unlike a swastika on a bathroom wall or a religious icon in a urinal, his images took patience, skill and cleverness to create.
(Wiping bloody bits of bone, hair and gray matter from face)
Hell, I'd be happy with Cool Edit Pro and drivers for my Isis!
GadgetLabs seems the most likely to produce something for Be/nux someday, sometime...
>How would you network them?
Easy. Duct tape.
This might help fuel the flames for full-blown support for Linux / Be professional sound apps. Sounds like an awesome DMW platform.
I must add, however, that getting the Arts Community in general to vociferously subscribe to the idea that "PissChrist" IS Art was *truly* a great work of Art!
So if a plumber bakes a cake, we call it plumbing?
artifice \Ar"ti*fice\, n. [L. artificium, fr. artifex artificer; ars, artis, art + facere to make: cf. F. artifice.] 1. A handicraft; a trade; art of making. [Obs.]
2. Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
3. Artful or skillful contrivance.
4. Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick.
Does it apply? I think so.
This definition is exactly why I think works like "PissChrist" are NOT Art, but simply cultural provokation and sophmoric button-pushing. There's nothing clever OR skillful about it. The fact that we respond emotionally to something does not (alone) make it Art.
It's a place where old wait-staff persons go to die gracefully and with dignity.
Hollow-wood feels (fears) that 'relationships' won't sell big plastic collectible cups at McDonald's, thus relationships (let alone 'intense' one's) are the first to go when paring down a script for Maximum Return on Investments.
Alone?
Nope. That about sums it up.
An informative article that brought something interesting to light which was previously completely off my radar. That's what I come here for.
Still ready to flame the man at a moments notice, tho', if he throws out any more of that opportunistic butt-licking shite I've seen before!
: )