fox and its cohorts they fund at the mpaa and riaa are always blustering about punishing piracy to the full extent of the law
now, one of their own employees does it, AND writes a column about it AND gushes how he'd rather see "I Love You Man" on his pc via piracy (the movie is still in theatres) than go out in the rain and pay a ticket to see it (someone else posted the text of the review below, see for yourself)
so this is alternately hilarious: a corporate shill gushing about the glories of piracy, and alternately galling: as another poster indicated, the guy might not even be fired. which means its perfectly ok for this stupid corporate bozo to get away with enjoying the fruits of piracy, its only us common folk who are sued into bankruptcy for the horrible, horrible crime
intellectual property is dead. commense the theatre of the absurd
"The way to deal with them is to conclusively demonstrate that what they are saying is complete bunk and then refuse to argue further on the basis that they're not being rational."
nor do you have much familiarity with the long established behavior of the dprk
the dprk must keep its population and its neighbors on constant war preparations. this is the only way it can continue to exist. because if you try to judge the dprk in the usual ways you would measure governments, like, gee, an ability to feed to population, then its an instant failure
constant war preparations is all the dprk knows, and its also the only thing its capable of, and its only toehold in power. it doesn't know how to remain in power and do anything peaceful. then its entire reason for being disappears, such is its hostility so deeply ingrained in its psychology
i see it as a government that derives from the will of its people
i don't see the slightest interest in the people of north korea from its own government
i see a small clique interested in massive military muscle and provocative hostililty, and its people be damned, they can eat leaves if their threats don't garner enough blackmailed food and oil shipments
you tell me how i am wrong in my conception of the pacific dprk
taking north korea out does more damage than letting it continue existing
a kidnapper holding a gun to a hostage's head counts on the same logic
which is what seoul is: the hostage that lets the sleazbags to the north continue to draw breath
the regime in pyongyang has 0% legitimacy. the onyl reason it exists is due to the number of guns it has pointed at everyone else. not like it even cares about its own people or good relations with any of its neighbors
its just the rabid dog on china's leash to give south korea, japan, and the usa indigestion
if china ever became convinced the regime in pyongyang no longer served any geopolitical purpose, it would disappear overnight
and like any troll, the only way to react to it is ignore it
trolls feed on attention, any attention, psotive or negative. currently, north korea is basking in the joy of the world condemning it. just like a troll basks in the glory of watching people lose their temper over a purposely vitriolic post of theirs. just like westboro baptist church enjoys the hatred as they picket funerals
it doesn't matter that it is being condemned. what matters is that it is the focus of attention. this is the essential psychopathology of their behavior
if you ignore north korea, it will do progressively more and more dangerous things, all calculated to garner attention again. and then it will screw up, and then it can finally be taken down like the rabid dog it is
not that any of this will happen though. all that will happen is it will continue to get way more attention than the basket case human suffering machine deserves
north korea can't feed its own people. but it can launch icbms. pathetic troll of a country
get the right streptococcus, and you will do permanent damage to your heart valves. they colonize the heart from your throat (same holds true for chronic tooth decay)
also, cough medicine to me seems to be nothing more than a chance to take psychoactive compounds because you are so miserable. that's not an argument against cough medicine, that's an argument for it. there's the placebo effect, then there is pseudoephedrine. two different things
the fallacy is in thinking that the government has any ability to enforce the laws they create on the topic of intellectual property. any law in regard to file sharing is akin to trying to herd cats two states over: does anyone really think that some chinese or russian or brazilian teenager with a broadband connection is aware, or even cares?
and if they don't, then for western teenagers in western nations with retarded intellectual property laws, its simply a matter of dipping into this transnational bounty of filesharing that is forever beyond the reach of idiotic national laws
so go ahead france, australia, the usa: pass your ridiculous 3 strikes law, dmca, whatever. who fucking cares?
intellectual property law was a gentleman's agreement from a dead era when there were only a few publishers (oh, you thought ip law was for the benefit of creators? ha!). but now ip law is now a conceptual dinosaur in the age of the internet. western nations depend heavily on the idea of intellectual property. well: get used to losing the concept
all that has to happen, all that is going to happen over the next few decades is that western nations have to get used to the extinction of intellectual property law as an enforceable concept in the age of the internet
when someone loses something dear to them, they go through 5 stages of grief. the first stage is denial. that is where western legal systems are now at in reliation to the death of intellectual property law as a valid, enforceable idea
its over
ip law is dead
everyone just shrug at france. the laws you see passed will get only more ridiculous and more desperate in the west, until finally a critical mass of legislators in western nations begin to wake up and take notice that its all just a giant fucking joke
of every nation on the planet, with existing technology, today, we could build a large dumb slow moving ark for a tiny group of humans whom we could send to a nearby star system. we could do that with today's technology. sure, only their great great great great grandchildren will see the destination, and they might not make it at all (plenty of opportunities for failures/ running out of stored foods/ unknowns), and the ark we could build for them with todays technology would be extremely miserable and cramped, but it IS possible
so you have a fallacy in your thinking that just because we can't do warp drive, that we are stuck on the earth
now its just a matter of finding a suitable earth-like planet. and its rapidly becoming apparent that other planets are not rare, they are in fact common, and we are buiding lots of new telescopes and sensing methodology right now for finding them, its a hot field. i don't think we will find anything with exactly 1 earth atmosphere of pressure of exactly 20% oxygen and exactly 1 unit of earth-like gravity and suitable resources of water and such, but we have some wiggle room on those requirements, and we could live in terraniums. terraforming would take a HUGE amount of time, but if we get there in terraniums and they are self-sufficient, then we have a go
and this line of thought entirely ignores the concept of just going to venus, or mars, or a moon of jupiter/ saturn
further evolution in technology such as energy creation/ harvesting, robotics, nanotechnology, and fields of research that are only a gleam in someone's eye today will only make the whole process easier
but to disassociate matter, transport it instantaneously, and then reassociate exactly as it was- alive and thinking, somewhere else without any type of confinement in that other place... this brings to mind even more impossibilities than just the singular major problem facing us with a warp drive
the people who download films are not automatically people who would go to the movie house had downloading not been an option for them
you've presented a false dichotomy. the people who download movies are not automatically people who previously would have seen the movie in a movie house. not even most of them
why feel alone in an intimate setting when you can feel alone in a cavernous setting?
(rolls eyes)
movie houses are going nowhere. nothing replaces the subliminal camraderie of a movie house that heightens the movie going experience. in spite of the babies and the cell phones
go ahead and deny that. they've been announcing the death of the movie house for 50 years. all the while, receipts have climbed
sitting in your cold basement in front of a 17 inch monitor by yourself isn't superior to all of the negatives of the movie going experience you list, and any more you can think of
fact is, movie houses have been declared extinct many times: in the 1950s, television was supposed to kill it. then the vcr in the 1980s. then the dvd in the 1990s, then the internet...
and all this time, ticket receipts have gone up and up
humans are social creatures, and just the subconscious knowledge of others munching popcorn around you and going ooh when you do and cringing when you do is something that heightens the viewing pleasure, yes, in spite of the babies and cell phones, its a net plus. nevermind the giant screen and the soon-to-be-standard 3D
so please, by all means, don't go to movie houses. you and the other 10 of you who won't go won't be missed, and don't matter to the bottom line, or the discussion at hand. you're just a loud tiny minority
you are not an ivory tower case. you are the very archetype of an ivory tower case
i'll tell you what: you don't matter. not because i said so, but because you clearly enunciate that you yourself have chosen not to matter. in which case, that's fine. good for you. you've chosen not to matter. i respect that choice of yours. i only ask you then, to follow through, to understand the logical consequences of your own attitude, and shut the fuck up
stop talking about that which someone as holy as yourself deign not to besmirch yourself to deal with. just stop talking about problems which you yourself have chosen to consider beneath you
somehow, on this tiny bit of dirt in the cosmos, you imagine you are somehow protected and detached from what goes on in other societies in the age of jet air travel and the internet. mevermind what colossal arrogance leads you to believe this state of affairs to be possible, all i ask is that you retain some logical coherence with your own self-indentified point of view: shut. the. fuck. up.
us down in the mud actually trying to make a difference, we have a message for you, you who somehow imagine yourself to be above it all. PROVE IT: STOP TALKING ABOUT THAT WHICH IS "BENEATH YOU"
go ahead and detach from the world. just bring your retarded attitude to its inevitable conclusion: silence. silence on all topics in ther world. do you care about any of them? oh you do? instant logical incoherence, douchebag
i have nothing for you except hatred and contempt. you are truly the definition of arrogant hubris. what a piece of shit. if i were in person with you right now all that would happen is my saliva would land on your face. lets see you contemplate how that happened to you when you are disconnected from all the dirty people
here's some intellectual charity for you, nevermind you aren't intelligent enough to understand it: attitudes just like yours ARE WHAT LEADS TO THE PROBLEMS YOU DESPISE. really. that's the honest 100% ironclad truth. not that you are intelligent enough to understand how or why
do us all a favor and fall down some stairs. or grow some fucking iq. right now, you have none
because every single crime of government you can show me, i can agree with 100%, and still know less government, no government, is much worse
i don't know what illusions you operate under. all i know is that people will screw up and get away with noxious crimes without a government/ less government. certainly, within government crime and fuck ups also happen. at least under government there exists a platform for punishing the perpetrators and preventing the fuck ups/ crimes in the first place
you have half of an ideology. you haven't thought out the implications of your ideas
for in this world are forces very much interested that you not speak your mind
and they are hard at work trying to remove them
so you better start caring about those great masses of the unfree
you are a classic ivory tower case. everything matters only the echo chamber of your hermetically sealed climate controled little world. out in the real world is too much ugliness. better to just look down on it all and curl your lip in disgust. the french nobility before the french revolution knew exactly how you feel
Slashdot Mirror
by capitalizing YOU, LOL, PEANUT, and BALLS in an otherwise typical slashdot post of mediocre mindless negativity
attempting to link the delicious flavor of peanuts with sexual enjoyment, oh advertising shill?
your attempt to garner free advertising on slashdot has been noted. please do not mistake us for fools
but how much money does this guy going away represent to the ad industry?
the issue is the double standard
fox and its cohorts they fund at the mpaa and riaa are always blustering about punishing piracy to the full extent of the law
now, one of their own employees does it, AND writes a column about it AND gushes how he'd rather see "I Love You Man" on his pc via piracy (the movie is still in theatres) than go out in the rain and pay a ticket to see it (someone else posted the text of the review below, see for yourself)
so this is alternately hilarious: a corporate shill gushing about the glories of piracy, and alternately galling: as another poster indicated, the guy might not even be fired. which means its perfectly ok for this stupid corporate bozo to get away with enjoying the fruits of piracy, its only us common folk who are sued into bankruptcy for the horrible, horrible crime
intellectual property is dead. commense the theatre of the absurd
monarchies are a ridiculous anachronism
uk, thailand, japan: follow nepal please, lose your bullshit historical baggage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepalese_monarchy
"The way to deal with them is to conclusively demonstrate that what they are saying is complete bunk and then refuse to argue further on the basis that they're not being rational."
nor do you have much familiarity with the long established behavior of the dprk
the dprk must keep its population and its neighbors on constant war preparations. this is the only way it can continue to exist. because if you try to judge the dprk in the usual ways you would measure governments, like, gee, an ability to feed to population, then its an instant failure
constant war preparations is all the dprk knows, and its also the only thing its capable of, and its only toehold in power. it doesn't know how to remain in power and do anything peaceful. then its entire reason for being disappears, such is its hostility so deeply ingrained in its psychology
i see it as a government that derives from the will of its people
i don't see the slightest interest in the people of north korea from its own government
i see a small clique interested in massive military muscle and provocative hostililty, and its people be damned, they can eat leaves if their threats don't garner enough blackmailed food and oil shipments
you tell me how i am wrong in my conception of the pacific dprk
does kim jong-il count as a godwin?
taking north korea out does more damage than letting it continue existing
a kidnapper holding a gun to a hostage's head counts on the same logic
which is what seoul is: the hostage that lets the sleazbags to the north continue to draw breath
the regime in pyongyang has 0% legitimacy. the onyl reason it exists is due to the number of guns it has pointed at everyone else. not like it even cares about its own people or good relations with any of its neighbors
its just the rabid dog on china's leash to give south korea, japan, and the usa indigestion
if china ever became convinced the regime in pyongyang no longer served any geopolitical purpose, it would disappear overnight
of course getting rid of north korea does more damage than letting it stick around
that's what north korea counts on
like any kidnapper with a gun to a hostage's head
and like any troll, the only way to react to it is ignore it
trolls feed on attention, any attention, psotive or negative. currently, north korea is basking in the joy of the world condemning it. just like a troll basks in the glory of watching people lose their temper over a purposely vitriolic post of theirs. just like westboro baptist church enjoys the hatred as they picket funerals
it doesn't matter that it is being condemned. what matters is that it is the focus of attention. this is the essential psychopathology of their behavior
if you ignore north korea, it will do progressively more and more dangerous things, all calculated to garner attention again. and then it will screw up, and then it can finally be taken down like the rabid dog it is
not that any of this will happen though. all that will happen is it will continue to get way more attention than the basket case human suffering machine deserves
north korea can't feed its own people. but it can launch icbms. pathetic troll of a country
get the right streptococcus, and you will do permanent damage to your heart valves. they colonize the heart from your throat (same holds true for chronic tooth decay)
also, cough medicine to me seems to be nothing more than a chance to take psychoactive compounds because you are so miserable. that's not an argument against cough medicine, that's an argument for it. there's the placebo effect, then there is pseudoephedrine. two different things
the fallacy is in thinking that the government has any ability to enforce the laws they create on the topic of intellectual property. any law in regard to file sharing is akin to trying to herd cats two states over: does anyone really think that some chinese or russian or brazilian teenager with a broadband connection is aware, or even cares?
and if they don't, then for western teenagers in western nations with retarded intellectual property laws, its simply a matter of dipping into this transnational bounty of filesharing that is forever beyond the reach of idiotic national laws
so go ahead france, australia, the usa: pass your ridiculous 3 strikes law, dmca, whatever. who fucking cares?
intellectual property law was a gentleman's agreement from a dead era when there were only a few publishers (oh, you thought ip law was for the benefit of creators? ha!). but now ip law is now a conceptual dinosaur in the age of the internet. western nations depend heavily on the idea of intellectual property. well: get used to losing the concept
all that has to happen, all that is going to happen over the next few decades is that western nations have to get used to the extinction of intellectual property law as an enforceable concept in the age of the internet
when someone loses something dear to them, they go through 5 stages of grief. the first stage is denial. that is where western legal systems are now at in reliation to the death of intellectual property law as a valid, enforceable idea
its over
ip law is dead
everyone just shrug at france. the laws you see passed will get only more ridiculous and more desperate in the west, until finally a critical mass of legislators in western nations begin to wake up and take notice that its all just a giant fucking joke
of every nation on the planet, with existing technology, today, we could build a large dumb slow moving ark for a tiny group of humans whom we could send to a nearby star system. we could do that with today's technology. sure, only their great great great great grandchildren will see the destination, and they might not make it at all (plenty of opportunities for failures/ running out of stored foods/ unknowns), and the ark we could build for them with todays technology would be extremely miserable and cramped, but it IS possible
so you have a fallacy in your thinking that just because we can't do warp drive, that we are stuck on the earth
now its just a matter of finding a suitable earth-like planet. and its rapidly becoming apparent that other planets are not rare, they are in fact common, and we are buiding lots of new telescopes and sensing methodology right now for finding them, its a hot field. i don't think we will find anything with exactly 1 earth atmosphere of pressure of exactly 20% oxygen and exactly 1 unit of earth-like gravity and suitable resources of water and such, but we have some wiggle room on those requirements, and we could live in terraniums. terraforming would take a HUGE amount of time, but if we get there in terraniums and they are self-sufficient, then we have a go
and this line of thought entirely ignores the concept of just going to venus, or mars, or a moon of jupiter/ saturn
further evolution in technology such as energy creation/ harvesting, robotics, nanotechnology, and fields of research that are only a gleam in someone's eye today will only make the whole process easier
the transporter
both are currently ridiculous notions
but to disassociate matter, transport it instantaneously, and then reassociate exactly as it was- alive and thinking, somewhere else without any type of confinement in that other place... this brings to mind even more impossibilities than just the singular major problem facing us with a warp drive
why does there have to be a choice?
the people who download films are not automatically people who would go to the movie house had downloading not been an option for them
you've presented a false dichotomy. the people who download movies are not automatically people who previously would have seen the movie in a movie house. not even most of them
"would you pay $10 to see this?"
"no"
"would you watch it for free in your den?"
"yes"
that's the majority of downloaders
ozymandias nukes millions
i'm going to increase meaningless pseudofacts 23.5% and increase fearmongering demagoguery 51.2884%
watch out good citizens... it's SOCIALISM
AHHHHHHHHHH!!! RUN AWAY!!!
fucking fear addled ignorance
why feel alone in an intimate setting when you can feel alone in a cavernous setting?
(rolls eyes)
movie houses are going nowhere. nothing replaces the subliminal camraderie of a movie house that heightens the movie going experience. in spite of the babies and the cell phones
go ahead and deny that. they've been announcing the death of the movie house for 50 years. all the while, receipts have climbed
sitting in your cold basement in front of a 17 inch monitor by yourself isn't superior to all of the negatives of the movie going experience you list, and any more you can think of
fact is, movie houses have been declared extinct many times: in the 1950s, television was supposed to kill it. then the vcr in the 1980s. then the dvd in the 1990s, then the internet...
and all this time, ticket receipts have gone up and up
humans are social creatures, and just the subconscious knowledge of others munching popcorn around you and going ooh when you do and cringing when you do is something that heightens the viewing pleasure, yes, in spite of the babies and cell phones, its a net plus. nevermind the giant screen and the soon-to-be-standard 3D
so please, by all means, don't go to movie houses. you and the other 10 of you who won't go won't be missed, and don't matter to the bottom line, or the discussion at hand. you're just a loud tiny minority
as in, the legislators, not the day
find an illiterate man with no teeth
understand why he is your equal, or understand nothing
you are not an ivory tower case. you are the very archetype of an ivory tower case
i'll tell you what: you don't matter. not because i said so, but because you clearly enunciate that you yourself have chosen not to matter. in which case, that's fine. good for you. you've chosen not to matter. i respect that choice of yours. i only ask you then, to follow through, to understand the logical consequences of your own attitude, and shut the fuck up
stop talking about that which someone as holy as yourself deign not to besmirch yourself to deal with. just stop talking about problems which you yourself have chosen to consider beneath you
somehow, on this tiny bit of dirt in the cosmos, you imagine you are somehow protected and detached from what goes on in other societies in the age of jet air travel and the internet. mevermind what colossal arrogance leads you to believe this state of affairs to be possible, all i ask is that you retain some logical coherence with your own self-indentified point of view: shut. the. fuck. up.
us down in the mud actually trying to make a difference, we have a message for you, you who somehow imagine yourself to be above it all. PROVE IT: STOP TALKING ABOUT THAT WHICH IS "BENEATH YOU"
go ahead and detach from the world. just bring your retarded attitude to its inevitable conclusion: silence. silence on all topics in ther world. do you care about any of them? oh you do? instant logical incoherence, douchebag
i have nothing for you except hatred and contempt. you are truly the definition of arrogant hubris. what a piece of shit. if i were in person with you right now all that would happen is my saliva would land on your face. lets see you contemplate how that happened to you when you are disconnected from all the dirty people
here's some intellectual charity for you, nevermind you aren't intelligent enough to understand it: attitudes just like yours ARE WHAT LEADS TO THE PROBLEMS YOU DESPISE. really. that's the honest 100% ironclad truth. not that you are intelligent enough to understand how or why
do us all a favor and fall down some stairs. or grow some fucking iq. right now, you have none
because every single crime of government you can show me, i can agree with 100%, and still know less government, no government, is much worse
i don't know what illusions you operate under. all i know is that people will screw up and get away with noxious crimes without a government/ less government. certainly, within government crime and fuck ups also happen. at least under government there exists a platform for punishing the perpetrators and preventing the fuck ups/ crimes in the first place
you have half of an ideology. you haven't thought out the implications of your ideas
then you need to fight for them
for in this world are forces very much interested that you not speak your mind
and they are hard at work trying to remove them
so you better start caring about those great masses of the unfree
you are a classic ivory tower case. everything matters only the echo chamber of your hermetically sealed climate controled little world. out in the real world is too much ugliness. better to just look down on it all and curl your lip in disgust. the french nobility before the french revolution knew exactly how you feel
xoxoxoxoxoxox
isn't that latest bogeyman of the right?
boo! i'm a SOCIALIST. a EUROPEAN STYLE SOCIALIST
i will give 8 WEEKS VACATION AND FREE HEALTHCARE
BWAHAHAHAHAHA its the evil socialist! out to destroy america!
zzz