You'll find a litigous bastard no matter what rock you look under.
There are plenty of independent labels and artists working in the world, many of them enjoying reasonable degrees of success and artistic freedom. Show me a pattern of such behavior by the majors against the indies and I'll give you some cred. X-wise, this argument is just more sound and fury...
Your essay on the inability to create original music was neat, though. A bit long-winded and overly complicated, but certainly interesting and, at least to a first parse, valid.
I suspect that you have no idea how hard it is for an independent artist to make a living without the help of the record industry in today's market.
And your suspicion is wrong. I worked in the indie music biz for years, and one of my reasons for getting "out of it" is the bullshit state of advertising and distribution and the hammerlock the labels have on it.
I quote "out of it", because I still consider myself a musician and a creator. I just am not ardently pursuing a career (the elusive "success") in that enterprise. I have a satisfying job in another field (one with a significantly lower parasite-to-host ratio) and I can comfortably create to suit myself. The ultimate in artistic freedom...
Lack of compassion? Maybe so, but you can bet I have a boatload more compassion for struggling artists than any A&R rep...
Who's rights? The IP owner in this case is the record labels and movie companies, no the artists.
Oh boo-hoo. This is a tired old saw I can't believe still gets people's mod points.
The labels only have these rights because the artists assign them, and I have no sympathy for artists who exchange control of their creative works for the coddling of a record label.
Just be sure when you blast the trench it leaves Talahassee on your side. Florida is really two states: The North is part of the southern US, and the South is a carribean nation. We call it Floribea.
I didn't think you were flamebaiting. The flamebait was a clue that I was yanking your chain.
You made your disclaimer, but your argument is still exceedingly weak. I'd have more respect for your principles if you didn't claim to honor the Constitution. It sounds more to me like you pick and choose your ethics, then make a specious claim that they're justified by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
However, you don't seem to acknowledge that the Constitution forms the basis of a body of law. It provides the methods and procedures for creation of the law, and does not pretend to be a complete law unto itself (actually, the same could be said for Crowley's "Do what thou wilt".) If that were the case, it would not have implemented a legislative branch!
Take whatever issue with the current law of the land if you like, and work to revolutionize it if you feel compelled. I would stand with you for a major reworking of copyright/IP law. Nonetheless, I stand by my original assertion that justifying your position by the Constitution and Bill of Rights without any apparent understanding of their real role and significance in U.S. government just makes you look silly.
I'm only guided by the first 10 amendments, and the constitution proper.
Um. Would that be the same Constitution that authorizes the congress and the states to enact laws?
Wrapping yourself in the Bill of Rights may look clever to your libertine friends, but it's a piss-poor and disingenuous way to rationalize your unauthorized use of other people's work.
If you have to pick a document to bolster your self-centered worldview, may I suggest something by LaVey or Crowley?
Since you're calling people idiots, let's address your own intellectual shortcomings:
Just because it happened to intercept him leaving Washington doesn't mean there was no political motivation behind his inclusion. Having him put on the list for political purposes, specifically to hamper his ability to move freely and get in and out of Washington easily, and actually timing his movements accurately enough to guarantee he was intercepted at a precise moment coming back are two entirely different things. You will note that he did have trouble on the return leg as well!
I'm not saying it was a conspiracy, just that your logic is unsound. The original poster is correct in stating that the GOP has abused the FAA before, but he's probably wrong to infer political abuse here. A much more likely scenario is that there exists an Edward Kennedy (*very* Irish name) w/ IRA affiliations or something.
So, what you're saying is that the tool is only useful if it allows you to do something malicous with the machine? I guess we know which side of the computer security fence you're on.;-)
I think you're missing the point. The professional journals in which cutting edge research is presented, very little of which filters in any kind of detail to the mainstream "magazine" science press, do not have advertisements and cost hundreds or thousands of dollars for subscriptions.
Ad and subscriber supported magazines are typically culled and edited by subject matter specialists who attend society conferences and read the professional journals.
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What Republican got that law passed?
That would be the Republican majority in the Florida state congress.
This guy isn't exactly brilliant at analogies, is he.
FOSS would be like the Trojan Horse if the Greeks had all sat on top of it instead of hidden within...
Hmm.. Come to think of it, the TH analogy sounds a lot more like closed-source software. You don't know, and are generally precluded by license from knowing, what's inside that thingy you just let in the gate.
Interesting material, though I found little new in it and, if it was there, I missed the answer to my question.
I wanted a citation for the 1st c numeroligical methods mentioned in the first email that led to Caligula, Nero, etc being interpreted as 616 or 666. In other words, I wanted this assertion put in the chronological context of The Revelation with a non-Biblical source. Clearly, the Bible leaves it as a mystery, and does not explicitly say that Ceasar == 666. I wanted a (non-revisionist) historical reference that made that association.
Funny, BTW, that you misspelled Caligula with an extra L, which would add 30 to the number of his name (696?) by the numerological scheme I'm familiar with. I don't know how it would match with that used of first century Christians.
Too weird. Earlier today, for the first time in years I was listening to Fiorella Terenzi's Music from the Galaxies, audio transformed from radio observations of UGC 6697.
Aha! I think I see where we're diverging on the themes. The Frigate March from G '54 has been used in many of the films as a sort of battle march and that's what I think of as the "G Theme" because it dates to the original film. The other piece you're talking about is used in many of the later films (all of them since the nineties, for certain) to accompany the titles, and is therefore also quite reasonably interpreted as a G Theme.
This was keeping me up nights. Glad we got it worked out!:-)
And I agree wholeheartedly about Ghidorah. Godzilla will always be number one for me, but Ghidorah is by far the coolest creature design in the 50-year history of the series.
I'd certainly concur on the Toy Story films, but I can't say I was all that floored by Monsters Inc. You're definitely right that Nemo doesn't have the kind of character development that Toy Story does. I just thought it did an excellent job of packing in the adult-satisfying details (obscure marine science references, subtle references to the other films, etc.)
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You'll find a litigous bastard no matter what rock you look under.
There are plenty of independent labels and artists working in the world, many of them enjoying reasonable degrees of success and artistic freedom. Show me a pattern of such behavior by the majors against the indies and I'll give you some cred. X-wise, this argument is just more sound and fury...
Your essay on the inability to create original music was neat, though. A bit long-winded and overly complicated, but certainly interesting and, at least to a first parse, valid.
And your suspicion is wrong. I worked in the indie music biz for years, and one of my reasons for getting "out of it" is the bullshit state of advertising and distribution and the hammerlock the labels have on it.
I quote "out of it", because I still consider myself a musician and a creator. I just am not ardently pursuing a career (the elusive "success") in that enterprise. I have a satisfying job in another field (one with a significantly lower parasite-to-host ratio) and I can comfortably create to suit myself. The ultimate in artistic freedom...
Lack of compassion? Maybe so, but you can bet I have a boatload more compassion for struggling artists than any A&R rep...
Oh boo-hoo. This is a tired old saw I can't believe still gets people's mod points.
The labels only have these rights because the artists assign them, and I have no sympathy for artists who exchange control of their creative works for the coddling of a record label.
My favorite is the 16 for $2 pack of flea market "Durasell". I have them hanging on my cubicle wall, where they're a great conversation starter.
That would have the same prior art problem, then, no? :-)
We're in the run up to an election in the US. It's all the candidates hot air...
Just be sure when you blast the trench it leaves Talahassee on your side. Florida is really two states: The North is part of the southern US, and the South is a carribean nation. We call it Floribea.
Point out where I made any such claim and I'll bother to respond...
I didn't think you were flamebaiting. The flamebait was a clue that I was yanking your chain.
You made your disclaimer, but your argument is still exceedingly weak. I'd have more respect for your principles if you didn't claim to honor the Constitution. It sounds more to me like you pick and choose your ethics, then make a specious claim that they're justified by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
However, you don't seem to acknowledge that the Constitution forms the basis of a body of law. It provides the methods and procedures for creation of the law, and does not pretend to be a complete law unto itself (actually, the same could be said for Crowley's "Do what thou wilt".) If that were the case, it would not have implemented a legislative branch!
Take whatever issue with the current law of the land if you like, and work to revolutionize it if you feel compelled. I would stand with you for a major reworking of copyright/IP law. Nonetheless, I stand by my original assertion that justifying your position by the Constitution and Bill of Rights without any apparent understanding of their real role and significance in U.S. government just makes you look silly.
Glad to see your knowledge of Thelemic law is up to that of your Constitutional.
Um. Would that be the same Constitution that authorizes the congress and the states to enact laws?
Wrapping yourself in the Bill of Rights may look clever to your libertine friends, but it's a piss-poor and disingenuous way to rationalize your unauthorized use of other people's work.
If you have to pick a document to bolster your self-centered worldview, may I suggest something by LaVey or Crowley?
Since you're calling people idiots, let's address your own intellectual shortcomings:
Just because it happened to intercept him leaving Washington doesn't mean there was no political motivation behind his inclusion. Having him put on the list for political purposes, specifically to hamper his ability to move freely and get in and out of Washington easily, and actually timing his movements accurately enough to guarantee he was intercepted at a precise moment coming back are two entirely different things. You will note that he did have trouble on the return leg as well!
I'm not saying it was a conspiracy, just that your logic is unsound. The original poster is correct in stating that the GOP has abused the FAA before, but he's probably wrong to infer political abuse here. A much more likely scenario is that there exists an Edward Kennedy (*very* Irish name) w/ IRA affiliations or something.
Trying to change the definition of copyright!
So, what you're saying is that the tool is only useful if it allows you to do something malicous with the machine? I guess we know which side of the computer security fence you're on. ;-)
I think you're missing the point. The professional journals in which cutting edge research is presented, very little of which filters in any kind of detail to the mainstream "magazine" science press, do not have advertisements and cost hundreds or thousands of dollars for subscriptions.
Ad and subscriber supported magazines are typically culled and edited by subject matter specialists who attend society conferences and read the professional journals.
That would be the Republican majority in the Florida state congress.
This guy isn't exactly brilliant at analogies, is he.
FOSS would be like the Trojan Horse if the Greeks had all sat on top of it instead of hidden within...
Hmm.. Come to think of it, the TH analogy sounds a lot more like closed-source software. You don't know, and are generally precluded by license from knowing, what's inside that thingy you just let in the gate.
Thanks for the link. That was pretty much the kind of info I was looking for, particularly the business of the Dead Sea Scrolls, etc.
Thanks. That's a lot closer. Should have known that wikipedia would come through...
Interesting material, though I found little new in it and, if it was there, I missed the answer to my question.
I wanted a citation for the 1st c numeroligical methods mentioned in the first email that led to Caligula, Nero, etc being interpreted as 616 or 666. In other words, I wanted this assertion put in the chronological context of The Revelation with a non-Biblical source. Clearly, the Bible leaves it as a mystery, and does not explicitly say that Ceasar == 666. I wanted a (non-revisionist) historical reference that made that association.
Interesting. Citation?
Funny, BTW, that you misspelled Caligula with an extra L, which would add 30 to the number of his name (696?) by the numerological scheme I'm familiar with. I don't know how it would match with that used of first century Christians.
You should get the boot for that post!
Too weird. Earlier today, for the first time in years I was listening to Fiorella Terenzi's Music from the Galaxies, audio transformed from radio observations of UGC 6697.
She has been doing this sort of thing for years. More info at http://www.fiorella.com/.
Aha! I think I see where we're diverging on the themes. The Frigate March from G '54 has been used in many of the films as a sort of battle march and that's what I think of as the "G Theme" because it dates to the original film. The other piece you're talking about is used in many of the later films (all of them since the nineties, for certain) to accompany the titles, and is therefore also quite reasonably interpreted as a G Theme.
:-)
This was keeping me up nights. Glad we got it worked out!
And I agree wholeheartedly about Ghidorah. Godzilla will always be number one for me, but Ghidorah is by far the coolest creature design in the 50-year history of the series.
I'd certainly concur on the Toy Story films, but I can't say I was all that floored by Monsters Inc. You're definitely right that Nemo doesn't have the kind of character development that Toy Story does. I just thought it did an excellent job of packing in the adult-satisfying details (obscure marine science references, subtle references to the other films, etc.)