They alternate between music videos and reality TV. Which still means they're showing way more music videos during Beavis and Butthead than they do throughout the rest of the programming day..
I disagree that P2P is more disruptive than book lending, but that is a personal belief I don't have any data to back that, and won't argue
I'll argue.
A copy of a book has access restriction built in -- if I have it, you do not, and if I give it to you, I do not have it -- and therefore it has inherent value. Ten copies of a book is worth ten times as much as one copy (assuming anyone else wants them).
A digital copy of a file CAN NOT have access restriction built in -- at least not if you want the posessor to be able to read it -- and therefore it has no inherent value. Ten copies of a.PDF file are worth exactly the same as one copy, or a billion copies; and that worth is determined entirely by whether you have access to a copy or not.
Book lending transfers access to data from one party to another. P2P grants access to data to any party. They are fundamentally different, and the latter completely breaks any publishing model based on selling individual copies.
Our existing copyright, patent, and other IP laws have worked well for centuries before the DMCA and other rubbish.
What worked for the framers of the Constitution should work for us now. End of story.
To be fair, there's been a fundamental change in information technology of a sort never before seen in all of history since then.
The old laws aren't good enough anymore. Copyright, in particular, is in need of a serious overhaul.
What the authors of SOPA don't get, though, is that no law can make things go back to the way they were, unless that law breaks all the computers. New laws will have to accept the inarguable truth that, for many mediums, copies aren't worth anything anymore, that some other measure of worth is needed in order to encourage creative business models.
From what I hear -- no cite handy, mind you -- that precise thing does happen in Japan more often than you'd think. And supposedly the authorities report all the deaths as suicides...
Money stored electronically at the bank is one of the classic counterexamples to the belief that all property is (or should be) tangible.
It's a stupid counterexample, though. Bank balance isn't about property at all, it's about access restriction. Only you are supposed to have access to the data that represents your money, in order to exchange it for property. Which it isn't.
Hell, even physical cash isn't technically property. It's value is entirely defined by what actual goods and services you can trade it for.
You can watch the entire runs of shows like Battlestar Galactica (original AND new, even 1980),
I was trying to finish the last bits of Galactica last year, and was unbelievably frustrated that they didn't stream any of the x.5 seasons. I have disk service too, but it was annoying to get partway through season 4 and then have to wait for disks all of a sudden. I hope they've fixed that since then.
I don't think there's any reason to believe that being out in miserable weather will make you sick -- not if you're maintaining proper body temperature, at least. That's some wives' tale that has lived way past its expiry date.
In fact, it's fairly common wisdom that the rarer the outlier is, the stronger the main trend is. "Exceptions prove the rule" and such.
It's possible that people would still make meth at home if it were legal, but that does nothing to chagne the fact that meth labs exist because of our drug laws. Back in the fifties when you could buy meth in pill form over the counter, nobody was cooking it up in their bathroom.
I just did the safety recall repair on my drivers-side airbag. The notice included this paragraph:
If the driver's side airbag deploys, metal fragments could pass through the airbag cushion material, possibly causing injury or death to the vehicle occupants.
.
Yeah, I do sure hope them auto-driving pudicators are a sight more reliable than airbags...
This is kind of a badass idea. I bet if Google and Facebook and Youtube all spent 24 hours showing nothing but a page that says "Closed due to SOPA violation" followed by a big list of Senators' phone numbers ("Call your State Senator with concerns or complaints"), they'd probably take down the whole fucking D.C. phone network.
So what do I do? Vote my conscience and throw my vote away on a third party?
First, abandon the propaganda-driven idea that voting third-party is throwing your vote away. What voting third-party does is force the major party that lost your vote to change how they do things if they want that vote next time.
They WANT you to fear the "other side" who always votes in a monobloc (except when they don't, nothing to see here, please move along). That way they can count on your vote without having to listen to you.
They HAVE to listen to third-party votes, except in cases of popular landslides. And the more people vote third-party, the more they have to listen.
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If you can't get the right product at the right price, you go without.
Why? What difference does it make if you do or don't go without?
Serious question.
They alternate between music videos and reality TV. Which still means they're showing way more music videos during Beavis and Butthead than they do throughout the rest of the programming day..
I disagree that P2P is more disruptive than book lending, but that is a personal belief I don't have any data to back that, and won't argue
I'll argue.
A copy of a book has access restriction built in -- if I have it, you do not, and if I give it to you, I do not have it -- and therefore it has inherent value. Ten copies of a book is worth ten times as much as one copy (assuming anyone else wants them).
A digital copy of a file CAN NOT have access restriction built in -- at least not if you want the posessor to be able to read it -- and therefore it has no inherent value. Ten copies of a .PDF file are worth exactly the same as one copy, or a billion copies; and that worth is determined entirely by whether you have access to a copy or not.
Book lending transfers access to data from one party to another. P2P grants access to data to any party. They are fundamentally different, and the latter completely breaks any publishing model based on selling individual copies.
Our existing copyright, patent, and other IP laws have worked well for centuries before the DMCA and other rubbish.
What worked for the framers of the Constitution should work for us now. End of story.
To be fair, there's been a fundamental change in information technology of a sort never before seen in all of history since then.
The old laws aren't good enough anymore. Copyright, in particular, is in need of a serious overhaul.
What the authors of SOPA don't get, though, is that no law can make things go back to the way they were, unless that law breaks all the computers. New laws will have to accept the inarguable truth that, for many mediums, copies aren't worth anything anymore, that some other measure of worth is needed in order to encourage creative business models.
... or if you kill them too...
From what I hear -- no cite handy, mind you -- that precise thing does happen in Japan more often than you'd think. And supposedly the authorities report all the deaths as suicides...
Citizen
You are hereby declared to be not Living Free Enough
As per NH criminal code LFOD2012 this is a summary captial offense
Prepare for immediate execution
The kind who, on occasion, kill co-operative victims for no reason.
"Billions and billions... of bodacious bazooms..."
I can't speak for the US, but in Canada Robo-calls are already illegal...
...from Canada.
I'm just sayin'.
And then, when the company becomes super-profitable, demand the stock options back. Win-win!
Whoosh!
Money stored electronically at the bank is one of the classic counterexamples to the belief that all property is (or should be) tangible.
It's a stupid counterexample, though. Bank balance isn't about property at all, it's about access restriction. Only you are supposed to have access to the data that represents your money, in order to exchange it for property. Which it isn't.
Hell, even physical cash isn't technically property. It's value is entirely defined by what actual goods and services you can trade it for.
Careful what you wish for... any day now we'll start seeing crap smartphone ports.
It would be, but in this case there IS no existing treatment.
We have ways to stop people who have HIV from dying, but not a lot of ways to stop them from contracting HIV (aside from the obvious, of course).
If going to bars leaves you 100k in debt and bereft of any employment opportunities, you're either doing it wrong, or doing it very, very right...
...so that they can install anti-virus software on them.
Adult movies? Really? Who pays for porn?
Someone has to, you worthless parasite.
You can watch the entire runs of shows like Battlestar Galactica (original AND new, even 1980),
I was trying to finish the last bits of Galactica last year, and was unbelievably frustrated that they didn't stream any of the x.5 seasons. I have disk service too, but it was annoying to get partway through season 4 and then have to wait for disks all of a sudden. I hope they've fixed that since then.
I don't think there's any reason to believe that being out in miserable weather will make you sick -- not if you're maintaining proper body temperature, at least. That's some wives' tale that has lived way past its expiry date.
When was that expiry date, again?
Turns out Influenza, at least, depends a lot on air temp and humidity. Regardless of your body temperature...
One unique outlier doth not a pattern make.
In fact, it's fairly common wisdom that the rarer the outlier is, the stronger the main trend is. "Exceptions prove the rule" and such.
It's possible that people would still make meth at home if it were legal, but that does nothing to chagne the fact that meth labs exist because of our drug laws. Back in the fifties when you could buy meth in pill form over the counter, nobody was cooking it up in their bathroom.
If they're really "Beavis and Butthead types", they're not making meth. They're making explosives.
Which is a self-correcting problem...
A DEA spokesman describes this as 'collateral damage' not resulting from DEA regulations but from the selfish actions of criminals."
Those black eyes are collateral damage, not resulting from my fist but from your own selfish actions.
Now shut the fuck up and get back in the kitchen, bitch, before your selfish actions cause you more collateral damage.
. One stat has deaths from a war zone with people actively trying to kill them...
...and the other stat is from the middle east!
*rimshot*
I just did the safety recall repair on my drivers-side airbag. The notice included this paragraph:
If the driver's side airbag deploys, metal fragments could pass through the airbag cushion material, possibly causing injury or death to the vehicle occupants.
.
Yeah, I do sure hope them auto-driving pudicators are a sight more reliable than airbags...
This is kind of a badass idea. I bet if Google and Facebook and Youtube all spent 24 hours showing nothing but a page that says "Closed due to SOPA violation" followed by a big list of Senators' phone numbers ("Call your State Senator with concerns or complaints"), they'd probably take down the whole fucking D.C. phone network.
So what do I do? Vote my conscience and throw my vote away on a third party?
First, abandon the propaganda-driven idea that voting third-party is throwing your vote away. What voting third-party does is force the major party that lost your vote to change how they do things if they want that vote next time.
They WANT you to fear the "other side" who always votes in a monobloc (except when they don't, nothing to see here, please move along). That way they can count on your vote without having to listen to you.
They HAVE to listen to third-party votes, except in cases of popular landslides. And the more people vote third-party, the more they have to listen.