when after their economic bubble bursts a demagogue in beijing announces the invasion of taiwan to assuage empty stomachs and shortcircuit criticism of the technocrats with a little rally round the wagons ultranationalism
of course, that's totally impossible. of course. i'm a false alarmist for saying that. of course. han imperialism is a myth, a lie. of course
it's hardly an american obsession friend. if america disappears into a giant lake tomorrow, i hardly think the rest of the world will toast the peace and benevolence of a country that machine guns democracy activists and outlaws and imprisons religious practioners and sells the organs of prisoners in reeducation work camps and belches tons of pollution and occupies tibet
yes, lovely peaceful china. it's just an american obsession to criticize china. you're on the money friend
is apparently not a precursor for babbling on about energy schemes
all hydrogen fuel schemes are idiotic
it takes more energy to convert any fuel source to hydrogen. unless the hydrogen is found naturally, or is the byproduct of some other industrial chemical process, there is zero sense in converting any energy source to hydrogen, simply because you waste so much energy doing that. translated: hydrogen isn't green
solution: more nuclear plants, electric cars. get with the f***ing program
it is not a law like one against pedophilia, or extortion: something that can be understood from natural morality, something that one can philosophically assert as a fundamental imposition of hurt or pain on someone else
in fact, if there is no ip law, and everyone involved in a transaction benefits: the artist, the fan, what is the point of ip law again?
if big media, with its deep pockets, political contributions, sponsored legislation, legions of lawyers, etc., can't enforce it, how do you expect some lonely artist to enforce it?
and it's not like before the internet big media was looking out for the lonely artist, they screwed him over every way they could
meanwhile, in a world without any ip, the little artist actually does better, by getting free advertising and distribution, allowing for zero distribution costs, direct communication with fans. then he makes money from gigs and corporate advertising
win for the fans
win for the artists
complete loss for big media
all by completely ignoring ip law. i mean ip law basically protects an imaginary property to begin with, so nothing is lost, an increase in network value is achieved
an entrepreuner looks at the technical landscape ahead, and makes his bet based on what he expects to happen on down the road, reaping profits if he chose right, going broke if he chose wrong
now: look at the technical landscape ahead. looks like a business model you've relied upon for a long time is going bye bye. so you've made the wrong bet entrepreneur. now you lose your shirt. don't come crying to me because you didn't see reality. you're the one who is championing entrepreneurship. do you understand what entrepreunership really is? an entrepreuner doesnt depend upon the rules never changing, an entrepreuner looks to capitalize on how the rules are changing
do you understand how the rules are changing? doesn't look so. looks like your exortion racket is going away to me. and you conjure the image of yourself as an entrepreuner?
and by the end of your words, you wind up fleshing out my depiction of reality. so you agree with me in spirit, but you are hesitant to to vocally agree with me. your mind understands me, but you haven't yet thought out all the implications of your realizations: ip law is unenforceable. doesn't matte rhow right or how wrong it is, and it snot liek stabbing someone. someone actually gets hurt when they are stabbed. all we are tlaking about here is gutting a defunct business model
do we complain if debeers loses its monopoly on diamonds? no. they have no right to be a monopoly, no matter how long they've done it. so where exactly is all of the sympathy for distributors who spent all their time screwing artists over come from? who is the victim here if ip goes bust? i don't see any victims, i see victors: us, and artists. the middleman loses. good, fuck him
and completely free distribution: media will evolve into nothing more than getting your name out there
that's not some wacky technoanarchist idea of mine, that's what is going to be reality
not because i say so, not because i'm going to do anything to create this reality, but because that's where things are naturally evolving
inevitability. understand the idea?
i'm not going to argue with you, because there is nothing to argue with. i see a lot of bitterness, but absolutely no understanding of what is happening
dude: you're on the titanic, and you're complaining about the room service. wake the fuck up, your boat is going down, and nothing will save you
adapt and face the reality of your situation, or die. currently, looks like you prefer to die
unenforceable, except via the most draconian measures, which makes everyone, pirates and nonpirates, severely hampered in their online efforts, putting everyone in an uproar
you don't simply dramatically retard the internet in a democracy without serious repercussions
if technological progress is fair. go ask horseshoe blacksmiths, chimney sweeps, and steamship engineers
or, refuse to adapt to change and obsolescence, and fight bravely agains tthe dying of the light. go ahead, pass more laws against file sharing. go ahead, hire 10x more pit bull lawyers. go for it dude
as if it will actually matter
accept reality, or don't, i don't care. whatever you think is right or wrong doesn't mean reality is going to necessarily reflect that. you can't realistically enforce your beliefs. so your beliefs will not be reality. sorry, but that's the truth. there is in fact naturalistic morality, and beleiving in real moral right and wrong. i'm sorry to break this to you, but intellectual property is not naturally moral. and os it is a completely articifial construct, and, when unable to be enforced, ceases to be respected. you can't reason or argue with a teenager as to why they must pay bertelsmann $10 because they want to listen to michael jackson. there is natural, moral compelling reason for them to respect intelelctual property. it's a fucking joke
furthermore, the real losers of this game is the distributors, not the artists. they already screw the artists with hilarious contracts. go look up "monkey points" on wikipedia and tell me again about how pirates are hurting artists. they aren't hurting artists at all, they are hurting distributors. distributors are screwing you, and have been screwing you long before the internet even existed
if distributors are removed, i think maybe 1/10th of the money involved goes away. but as before artists saw only 1/1,000th of the money in play, now they will see 900% of the money in play. so artists make out better for the destruction of distributors
so pirates are good for artists, by destroying the people that really screw you
you, like many people, mistake disrespect for a defunct distribution model as disrespect for artists
the law thinks it can control file sharing. it can't. but they aren't smart enough to realize that they just drive the practice further underground. napster was wipe open. shut off one server, it all goes down. so progressive iterations of file sharing software became headless, obfuscated ips, etc. now we will get encryption
all of these legal efforts, all they do is drive the creation of more robust software. what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. thank you, uk government, for making file sharing software stronger
one would hope one day that the people making the laws get a clue, or at least a vaguely web savvy advisor. they probably think somebody who writes a blog is web savvy. what a joke
intellectual property is dead. the laws that people write about intellectual property is completely out of synch with the technology intellectual property exists on. the reality we live in has train cunductors writing the laws that govern the legal management of animal husbandry. what do train conductors know about animal husbandry? i don't know, but neither do the people writing the laws of ip know anything about the file sharing
any civilization of sufficient complexity is beyond the complete understanding of any one person, no matter how intelligent they are
in fact, the richer and larger the civilization, the more complex. so your desire to see less complexity is actually a desire to see a more brutal stunted civilization
you need to make peace with the fact that you will not be able to understand it all. no one will. and that's a good thing, as a measure of how large and rich our civilization has become
let's put it this way: if i have hope, am i a fool?
and if you are certain we are all nothing but slaves for generation after generation, no hope of change, aren't you part of the problem? isn't the way you think the way a slave thinks? hopeless and helpless to exert any change?
you have a slave's mentality: bitch and moan, but don't believe in positive change. for you, it's all the same, and never changes. that makes you a slave, and a loser
Slashdot Mirror
1. ask a cuban to go on the internet
2. ask them to write something critical of castro
what happens next to said cuban?
this is a superior place? because they don't have starbucks?
so you prefer autocracy and censorship and police state over starbucks and mcdonalds?
dude: your priorities stink
i'm so proud of you
;-)
next, we aim for light hearted humor
i await your bile filled negative commentary on the lack of humor in my comment, thus confirming there is no light hearted humor in you
the comment i was responding too was written by one "wandering wombat"
think... think... reading comprehension yet?
after you pass reading comprehension, then we can begin to work on your humor skills
an antipodean ex-penal colony resident is not in the best position to comment about who is on top, no?
blissfully unawares that they are just unincorporated us territory
he could get $2 billion for this project from the pentagon if he words the application right and he donates $10K to his senator's reelection fund
no, bury your corpse, you'll still get your wish, give or take hundreds of millions of years
the cockroaches that inherit the earth will burn you in their Cadillac Roachmobile LeSabres
"on the fly" hydrogen photosynthesis is still in the experimental stages. they are having trouble attaching all those buckeyballs to the fly's wings
when after their economic bubble bursts a demagogue in beijing announces the invasion of taiwan to assuage empty stomachs and shortcircuit criticism of the technocrats with a little rally round the wagons ultranationalism
of course, that's totally impossible. of course. i'm a false alarmist for saying that. of course. han imperialism is a myth, a lie. of course
it's hardly an american obsession friend. if america disappears into a giant lake tomorrow, i hardly think the rest of the world will toast the peace and benevolence of a country that machine guns democracy activists and outlaws and imprisons religious practioners and sells the organs of prisoners in reeducation work camps and belches tons of pollution and occupies tibet
yes, lovely peaceful china. it's just an american obsession to criticize china. you're on the money friend
is a war on the war on the war on meme
for real
is apparently not a precursor for babbling on about energy schemes
all hydrogen fuel schemes are idiotic
it takes more energy to convert any fuel source to hydrogen. unless the hydrogen is found naturally, or is the byproduct of some other industrial chemical process, there is zero sense in converting any energy source to hydrogen, simply because you waste so much energy doing that. translated: hydrogen isn't green
solution: more nuclear plants, electric cars. get with the f***ing program
because according to their broadcasts, these guys had perfected a way to increase penis size with nothing but radio waves
1. deorbit titan until it matches earth's orbit
2. let the atmospheres mix
3. light a match
4. BOOM. game over
1. Titan found to have WMDs
2. GW Bush orders the militarization of NASA
3. "Mission Accomplished" announced before probes with frickin' laser beams get past the orbit of Mars
assuming ip law is just
what if it isn't just?
it is not a law like one against pedophilia, or extortion: something that can be understood from natural morality, something that one can philosophically assert as a fundamental imposition of hurt or pain on someone else
in fact, if there is no ip law, and everyone involved in a transaction benefits: the artist, the fan, what is the point of ip law again?
if big media, with its deep pockets, political contributions, sponsored legislation, legions of lawyers, etc., can't enforce it, how do you expect some lonely artist to enforce it?
and it's not like before the internet big media was looking out for the lonely artist, they screwed him over every way they could
meanwhile, in a world without any ip, the little artist actually does better, by getting free advertising and distribution, allowing for zero distribution costs, direct communication with fans. then he makes money from gigs and corporate advertising
win for the fans
win for the artists
complete loss for big media
all by completely ignoring ip law. i mean ip law basically protects an imaginary property to begin with, so nothing is lost, an increase in network value is achieved
what's the problem?
an entrepreuner looks at the technical landscape ahead, and makes his bet based on what he expects to happen on down the road, reaping profits if he chose right, going broke if he chose wrong
now: look at the technical landscape ahead. looks like a business model you've relied upon for a long time is going bye bye. so you've made the wrong bet entrepreneur. now you lose your shirt. don't come crying to me because you didn't see reality. you're the one who is championing entrepreneurship. do you understand what entrepreunership really is? an entrepreuner doesnt depend upon the rules never changing, an entrepreuner looks to capitalize on how the rules are changing
do you understand how the rules are changing? doesn't look so. looks like your exortion racket is going away to me. and you conjure the image of yourself as an entrepreuner?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
good one
and by the end of your words, you wind up fleshing out my depiction of reality. so you agree with me in spirit, but you are hesitant to to vocally agree with me. your mind understands me, but you haven't yet thought out all the implications of your realizations: ip law is unenforceable. doesn't matte rhow right or how wrong it is, and it snot liek stabbing someone. someone actually gets hurt when they are stabbed. all we are tlaking about here is gutting a defunct business model
do we complain if debeers loses its monopoly on diamonds? no. they have no right to be a monopoly, no matter how long they've done it. so where exactly is all of the sympathy for distributors who spent all their time screwing artists over come from? who is the victim here if ip goes bust? i don't see any victims, i see victors: us, and artists. the middleman loses. good, fuck him
and completely free distribution: media will evolve into nothing more than getting your name out there
that's not some wacky technoanarchist idea of mine, that's what is going to be reality
not because i say so, not because i'm going to do anything to create this reality, but because that's where things are naturally evolving
inevitability. understand the idea?
i'm not going to argue with you, because there is nothing to argue with. i see a lot of bitterness, but absolutely no understanding of what is happening
dude: you're on the titanic, and you're complaining about the room service. wake the fuck up, your boat is going down, and nothing will save you
adapt and face the reality of your situation, or die. currently, looks like you prefer to die
unenforceable, except via the most draconian measures, which makes everyone, pirates and nonpirates, severely hampered in their online efforts, putting everyone in an uproar
you don't simply dramatically retard the internet in a democracy without serious repercussions
if technological progress is fair. go ask horseshoe blacksmiths, chimney sweeps, and steamship engineers
or, refuse to adapt to change and obsolescence, and fight bravely agains tthe dying of the light. go ahead, pass more laws against file sharing. go ahead, hire 10x more pit bull lawyers. go for it dude
as if it will actually matter
accept reality, or don't, i don't care. whatever you think is right or wrong doesn't mean reality is going to necessarily reflect that. you can't realistically enforce your beliefs. so your beliefs will not be reality. sorry, but that's the truth. there is in fact naturalistic morality, and beleiving in real moral right and wrong. i'm sorry to break this to you, but intellectual property is not naturally moral. and os it is a completely articifial construct, and, when unable to be enforced, ceases to be respected. you can't reason or argue with a teenager as to why they must pay bertelsmann $10 because they want to listen to michael jackson. there is natural, moral compelling reason for them to respect intelelctual property. it's a fucking joke
furthermore, the real losers of this game is the distributors, not the artists. they already screw the artists with hilarious contracts. go look up "monkey points" on wikipedia and tell me again about how pirates are hurting artists. they aren't hurting artists at all, they are hurting distributors. distributors are screwing you, and have been screwing you long before the internet even existed
if distributors are removed, i think maybe 1/10th of the money involved goes away. but as before artists saw only 1/1,000th of the money in play, now they will see 900% of the money in play. so artists make out better for the destruction of distributors
so pirates are good for artists, by destroying the people that really screw you
you, like many people, mistake disrespect for a defunct distribution model as disrespect for artists
wake up
the law thinks it can control file sharing. it can't. but they aren't smart enough to realize that they just drive the practice further underground. napster was wipe open. shut off one server, it all goes down. so progressive iterations of file sharing software became headless, obfuscated ips, etc. now we will get encryption
all of these legal efforts, all they do is drive the creation of more robust software. what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. thank you, uk government, for making file sharing software stronger
one would hope one day that the people making the laws get a clue, or at least a vaguely web savvy advisor. they probably think somebody who writes a blog is web savvy. what a joke
intellectual property is dead. the laws that people write about intellectual property is completely out of synch with the technology intellectual property exists on. the reality we live in has train cunductors writing the laws that govern the legal management of animal husbandry. what do train conductors know about animal husbandry? i don't know, but neither do the people writing the laws of ip know anything about the file sharing
any civilization of sufficient complexity is beyond the complete understanding of any one person, no matter how intelligent they are
in fact, the richer and larger the civilization, the more complex. so your desire to see less complexity is actually a desire to see a more brutal stunted civilization
you need to make peace with the fact that you will not be able to understand it all. no one will. and that's a good thing, as a measure of how large and rich our civilization has become
you're replying to the wrong guy
let's put it this way: if i have hope, am i a fool?
and if you are certain we are all nothing but slaves for generation after generation, no hope of change, aren't you part of the problem? isn't the way you think the way a slave thinks? hopeless and helpless to exert any change?
you have a slave's mentality: bitch and moan, but don't believe in positive change. for you, it's all the same, and never changes. that makes you a slave, and a loser
i'm sorry i don't think like you
i'm not a slave, like you
you are part of the system, and you can exert control in it
this is absolutely true
but you don't believe that, which points to a flaw in your personality and your psychology, not any superior understanding of reality
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