Yes, he understands that. What he also understands, and that you do not, is that no matter how much the development cost was, the end product is still worth nothing.
Nobody pays $1 for a file. People pay $1 for access to the file. Once you have it, if you want a backup copy of the file, you don't pay another dollar, do you? Of course not - because the file itself isn't worth a dollar.
Seriously: would it be so bad if this happened to EVERY politician?
I think it would be great. If you want to see some honest truth about a politician, just go to their website... it would be a refreshing change of pace.
That was what made that particular malfunction so nasty -- the wiring tended to short in turbulence. Like the sort you'd expect to hit when flying into heavy clouds...
Most likely he was held in solitary for his own benefit. Contrary to what a lot of people want to believe... most military people don't like traitors.
So was the 23 hours a day where he was prevented from going into REM sleep, for an entire year, for his own benefit, or because military people don't like traitors?
"Copyright and computers aren't compatible", I said. "the only way for them to co-exist is for them to break all the computers", I said.
"Pish-tosh," said the naysayers. "You just want free stuff."
"No, really," said I, "I can prove it with math."
"Poppycock." said the naysayers. "What about the needs of the artists? Don't they deserve to be paid for all their hard work?"
"If the artists want to ensure that they get paid for something that can exist on a computer, I helpfully suggest they get paid before doing the work. Y'know, like all really successful creators already do," I helpfully suggested, citing advance payments in the music, movie, and book publishing industries, every single dollar of which already, ultimately, comes from the consumers of said products.
"Otherwise, I suppose they can depend on donations borne of gratitude, which, if you think about it, is really just payment to produce the next work anyway. Either way, though, a copy of a file on a computer is effectively valueless, so selling copies of files on computers is a broken business model. Mark my words, if they try to make this broken business model work, it will have to be by outlawing functioning computers."
"Stuff and nonsense," opined the naysayers. "I shall heed no more of your scurrolous lies. Away with you!"
And so, here we are, about to join China and Iran in the glorious future of online freedom. Naysayers, kindly go fuck yourselves in the eye. I can provide an excellent array of online sources for Yoga instruction and melon-ballers if this proves too difficult for you.
Louis CK used the $500,000 to pay off several costs, including the $170,000 it took to produce the show, and the $32,000 he spent on building and editing his own website.
I directed this video myself and the production of the video cost around $170,000. (This was largely paid for by the tickets bought by the audiences at both shows).
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... expect to die around 40-50, since that's the point at which you are, from a "survival of the species" point of view, dead weight.
Not necessarily.
Yes, he understands that. What he also understands, and that you do not, is that no matter how much the development cost was, the end product is still worth nothing.
Nobody pays $1 for a file. People pay $1 for access to the file. Once you have it, if you want a backup copy of the file, you don't pay another dollar, do you? Of course not - because the file itself isn't worth a dollar.
That's probably why the homeless crap on the streets there.
Duh.
I live in SF. There are NO free toilets. The only public toilets AT ALL are the pay ones, which are very, very few.
Before they put those in, there were simply no public toilets at all...
Non-traditional amongst roboticists, probably.
Telling someone they're wrong and calling them stupid doesn't add much value to the discussion.
I'm not surprised that someone would have this view of Adam Smith, and it made me think of this article
http://www.chomsky.info/books/warfare02.htm
That's a very informative link, there, thanks.
Figure you're plunking down at least $10k at the end of that 8 year warranty to replace your battery.
Compare that, though, to all the maintenance you won't need to do on the car during that 8 years.
...unless you live in California, where practically every kind of weapon is banned.
Spoons and cars actually provide a useful service for society which makes them worth the cost, guns don't.
Cars cost more lives than guns.
Seriously: would it be so bad if this happened to EVERY politician?
I think it would be great. If you want to see some honest truth about a politician, just go to their website... it would be a refreshing change of pace.
You people seem to have plenty of time to occupy various town squares and do jazz hands but don't seem to have the money to actually do anything.
FTFY.
Great post. One nitpick:
The phrase "A rising tide lifts all boats" is absolutely true.
No, no it's not. Not even in the literal sense.
A far more accurate phrase would be: "A rising tide lifts only those boats that aren't sinking."
if the lights are on, you can't regulate your body temperature, and you're being constantly bothered with noise, you can't get REM sleep most of the time.
Could more people be saved overall by considering testing volunteers semi-expendable in order to hasten medical advance?
Ask the volunteers.
That was what made that particular malfunction so nasty -- the wiring tended to short in turbulence. Like the sort you'd expect to hit when flying into heavy clouds...
There is no free space flight. It's all scripted combat on rails. DUMB.
WHAT
That was the single best thing about SWG. How could they fuck THAT up?
but I am pretty sure those lost are real.
Really? Why? None of the informants actually named in the documents has been killed yet...
Most likely he was held in solitary for his own benefit. Contrary to what a lot of people want to believe ... most military people don't like traitors.
So was the 23 hours a day where he was prevented from going into REM sleep, for an entire year, for his own benefit, or because military people don't like traitors?
"Copyright and computers aren't compatible", I said. "the only way for them to co-exist is for them to break all the computers", I said.
"Pish-tosh," said the naysayers. "You just want free stuff."
"No, really," said I, "I can prove it with math."
"Poppycock." said the naysayers. "What about the needs of the artists? Don't they deserve to be paid for all their hard work?"
"If the artists want to ensure that they get paid for something that can exist on a computer, I helpfully suggest they get paid before doing the work. Y'know, like all really successful creators already do," I helpfully suggested, citing advance payments in the music, movie, and book publishing industries, every single dollar of which already, ultimately, comes from the consumers of said products.
"Otherwise, I suppose they can depend on donations borne of gratitude, which, if you think about it, is really just payment to produce the next work anyway. Either way, though, a copy of a file on a computer is effectively valueless, so selling copies of files on computers is a broken business model. Mark my words, if they try to make this broken business model work, it will have to be by outlawing functioning computers."
"Stuff and nonsense," opined the naysayers. "I shall heed no more of your scurrolous lies. Away with you!"
And so, here we are, about to join China and Iran in the glorious future of online freedom. Naysayers, kindly go fuck yourselves in the eye. I can provide an excellent array of online sources for Yoga instruction and melon-ballers if this proves too difficult for you.
Everyone intelligent has now heard of it and knows it's bad, but even most of them won't stop voting for the incumbent in their own district.
says who?
Of course it wasn't. If it had been a hedge fund in 2006, they'd have all still gotten bonuses.
It's not everyone, though.
Most importantly, it very specifically is not YOU.
Has anyone ever been actually sentenced to "Slavery"?
Uh, yeah.
(HhhHehehhehehehehehhh... penal...)
noooooo not my caps lock
without my caps lock everyone just thinks i'm trying to be e. e. cummings
Louis CK used the $500,000 to pay off several costs, including the $170,000 it took to produce the show, and the $32,000 he spent on building and editing his own website.
Interestingly, on his own website, he says this:
I directed this video myself and the production of the video cost around $170,000. (This was largely paid for by the tickets bought by the audiences at both shows).
Hrm.