Well, we will have to go the road that the music industry goes. Because when printing and distributing books becomes free, writing books becomes a service only.
But this is not the point here. The point is the authors guild acting as if they were the authors. Even for authors that they do not represent. And then making deals. With money. For those authors. Which is pretty much the same as printing CDs and *selling* them. En masse. For every musician out there.
The selling point and the representing point, are the problems.
Or in other words, the authors guild is doing what they prosecute others for: Infringing the copyright of others. By acting as if they could make contracts in my place, for my books, without even asking me, and without having any rights from or relations to me.*
One should hang them with their own weapons. ^^
___ * I am not a book author (yet?). This is an example.
Yeah. Especially for all the other developers you forced into poverty, to compete. You worked below sustainability, and destroyed the whole (local) market with it. Thank you very much, sucker!
Would you please! think further, than to the next day?
If you code for free, this is just showing that there is no reason, to give anyone a real paying job. It teaches managers that enslaving people is "just awww-right"(TM). Even worse, it forces the rest of us, to accept those conditions too, if we want to compete with you.
People like you and those code monkeys are the very reason we have to work shitty jobs for next to no money. You see, if they would pay us more, it would cost them nothing in the long run. Because when we have more money, we can buy more too. Which means more profits. Which balances the higher salaries. But when they pay us less, it does not balance, because they still want to earn more, and rather let the whole business die, than change their products' prices too.
It does absolutely not matter how much unemployment there is. It's still wrong to become a slave!
Worst of all, I read an scientific article about, how there are two different stable income levels in an economy. A high one, and a low one. They are exactly the same in terms of business profits. Just in the lower one, the population is poor, and in the higher one, everyone is rich. And it is hard to get out of any of those two stable levels. What people that work for less do, is force us into that lower level. And then there is pretty much no getting out.
So TYVM, asshole, for proving that "there is always an idiot who will do it for less, even though he can't sustain life with it, because he does not think an second into the future".
I even have an real-life example of how this ends: My uncle has a company for heating and sanitary installations. He has several smaller and bigger concurrent companies to fight against. He told me, that every now and then, there is a small company that wants to become big, and will offer their work below profit levels. They think it gets them into bigger contracts, even tough all it does is kill them. So everyone has to drop their prices too, to compete with them, and they are destroying the market. Now it's a question of who can survive the longest. Luckily, my uncle is a wise man, and prepared for things like this. He waits, has only losses, and sees company after company die. And more and more people trying to get a job at his company. First some smaller companies die. Then even those that are in his size crash and burn. Somewhere in between, the company that started it, died too. And in the end, prices normalize again. Leaving less companies, and nothing but losses for everyone. Oh, and even more unemployment. My uncle then re-hires his best old workers, and some new ones of the other companies (but far from all of them), which makes him even stronger in competition, filling the empty space that the dead companies left, together with the other now even bigger companies.
And you wondered why the rift between poor and rich, and between small and big companies, gets bigger and bigger...
Oh, and when I said overall, I meant over ALL. Basically a thin space suit. Without a window. So not only can you not be rickrolled. You can also not be goatse'd.
Yes they can do QA. But your assumption that they would be motivated to do so is highly questionable.
They could only lose clients, and thereby profits, by doing it. And the first priority of a business is always money. Even if it mean death, rape and torture of millions of people. See Monsanto or Haliburton for examples.
That's why my phones have a whitelist. All of them. Self-programmed. With capisuite and a python script on my linux server, and with a j2me app on my mobile phone. They even sync.
And: No, I absolutely do not care for some never happening hot chick or whatever government person trying to reach me without me knowing she has my number, and me approving it. ^^
Well, imagine 4chan going mainstream. I mean with Nancy Pelosi trying to start a new meme be posting in in/b/, mentioning it in speeches and in interviews.
I know, I have a very sick mind. But try not to, with the kind of dreams I have at night...
... that there *still* are people on the net, who think there's money in putting ads on your site.
Back in 2004, our advertisement department cheered at click-rates of 0.10%, because usually they were at 0.03% max. Including internal test clicks. I think those 0.03% were completely made of accidential clicks, that happened because someone tried to click on the top tabs or menu, with the banner or skyscraper banner suddenly popping in.
Guess what got them the 0.10%? Exactly. Full-screen interstitials, some of which even missing a close button. I was impressed how good our users were at finding the close button, because even I missed it once, or twice.
And nowadays we got things like Firefox at 25%, and AdBlock Plus.
When people approach me, to put ads on my sites, I usually tell them that I get payed per view. Which fends them off quickly. (I tell the rest to GTFO anyway, because I do not want any ads at all on my sites.)
"You obviously can't trust Wikipedia whatsoever in this area. [...] But since the day when [somebody] decided they needed to [...] "improve" the [...] articles, they have been a cesspool of FUD, spin and outright lies, seemingly manufactured [...]"
How is this different from any other Wikipedia article out there?
...they would do the same to their government, and make it pay, instead of only complaining in blogs. ^^
I guess it must be the imagination that many millions of people could not fight some thousands of people, because they would be protected by an army of those very same millions of people.;)
If you yell a lot at your black sound hole, until it cries, and "evaporates", does it create something that resembles a Disaster Area recording from 30 miles away, in an atomic bunker?
I think "Bose" is just the American way to write "Böse", which is German for "evil". Fits pretty well, doesn't it? *puts on double-layered tinfoil overall*
How do you infer from the effects of phonons, that the same happens to photons? If they had the same effects, this would mean that luminiferous aether would exist. Which as far as we know, is not true, and replaced by the theory of relativity. Or would it be the effect of a quantized space-time? And would those quantums then be some kind of particles?
Or is the analogy just wrong, except for some subsets? ^^
Slashdot Mirror
Or from Dick Cheney. (Or any politician aka "terrorist".) ^^
Well, we will have to go the road that the music industry goes. Because when printing and distributing books becomes free, writing books becomes a service only.
But this is not the point here. The point is the authors guild acting as if they were the authors. Even for authors that they do not represent. And then making deals. With money. For those authors. Which is pretty much the same as printing CDs and *selling* them. En masse. For every musician out there.
The selling point and the representing point, are the problems.
Or in other words, the authors guild is doing what they prosecute others for: Infringing the copyright of others. By acting as if they could make contracts in my place, for my books, without even asking me, and without having any rights from or relations to me.*
One should hang them with their own weapons. ^^
___
* I am not a book author (yet?). This is an example.
Well, invest it into drugs, and you can still have your flashing letters. :P
Yeah. Especially for all the other developers you forced into poverty, to compete. You worked below sustainability, and destroyed the whole (local) market with it. Thank you very much, sucker!
Would you please! think further, than to the next day?
If you code for free, this is just showing that there is no reason, to give anyone a real paying job. It teaches managers that enslaving people is "just awww-right"(TM).
Even worse, it forces the rest of us, to accept those conditions too, if we want to compete with you.
People like you and those code monkeys are the very reason we have to work shitty jobs for next to no money. You see, if they would pay us more, it would cost them nothing in the long run. Because when we have more money, we can buy more too. Which means more profits. Which balances the higher salaries. But when they pay us less, it does not balance, because they still want to earn more, and rather let the whole business die, than change their products' prices too.
It does absolutely not matter how much unemployment there is. It's still wrong to become a slave!
Worst of all, I read an scientific article about, how there are two different stable income levels in an economy. A high one, and a low one. They are exactly the same in terms of business profits. Just in the lower one, the population is poor, and in the higher one, everyone is rich. And it is hard to get out of any of those two stable levels.
What people that work for less do, is force us into that lower level. And then there is pretty much no getting out.
So TYVM, asshole, for proving that "there is always an idiot who will do it for less, even though he can't sustain life with it, because he does not think an second into the future".
I even have an real-life example of how this ends:
My uncle has a company for heating and sanitary installations. He has several smaller and bigger concurrent companies to fight against.
He told me, that every now and then, there is a small company that wants to become big, and will offer their work below profit levels. They think it gets them into bigger contracts, even tough all it does is kill them.
So everyone has to drop their prices too, to compete with them, and they are destroying the market. Now it's a question of who can survive the longest.
Luckily, my uncle is a wise man, and prepared for things like this.
He waits, has only losses, and sees company after company die. And more and more people trying to get a job at his company.
First some smaller companies die. Then even those that are in his size crash and burn. Somewhere in between, the company that started it, died too.
And in the end, prices normalize again. Leaving less companies, and nothing but losses for everyone. Oh, and even more unemployment.
My uncle then re-hires his best old workers, and some new ones of the other companies (but far from all of them), which makes him even stronger in competition, filling the empty space that the dead companies left, together with the other now even bigger companies.
And you wondered why the rift between poor and rich, and between small and big companies, gets bigger and bigger...
Damn. I read that as:
"About 5 years ago...a girlfriend I rented in a villa in Mexico, [...]"
Mental image? Ha. Look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsYMBYhcO8I
Mental image my ass. :P
Oh, and when I said overall, I meant over ALL. Basically a thin space suit. Without a window. So not only can you not be rickrolled. You can also not be goatse'd.
Buy now. Only 499.00 Internets.
Simple. There's a vacuum between the two layers. That's why there are two.
The rest is for EM radiation.
We're still working on the weak and the strong force, and on gravity.
Yes they can do QA. But your assumption that they would be motivated to do so is highly questionable.
They could only lose clients, and thereby profits, by doing it. And the first priority of a business is always money. Even if it mean death, rape and torture of millions of people. See Monsanto or Haliburton for examples.
Been there, done that. (Whitelisting.)
That's why I never buy a locked-down phone. I decide what software it runs, or GTFO.
That's why my phones have a whitelist. All of them. Self-programmed.
With capisuite and a python script on my linux server, and with a j2me app on my mobile phone.
They even sync.
And: No, I absolutely do not care for some never happening hot chick or whatever government person trying to reach me without me knowing she has my number, and me approving it. ^^
Well, imagine 4chan going mainstream. I mean with Nancy Pelosi trying to start a new meme be posting in in /b/, mentioning it in speeches and in interviews.
I know, I have a very sick mind. But try not to, with the kind of dreams I have at night...
... that there *still* are people on the net, who think there's money in putting ads on your site.
Back in 2004, our advertisement department cheered at click-rates of 0.10%, because usually they were at 0.03% max. Including internal test clicks. I think those 0.03% were completely made of accidential clicks, that happened because someone tried to click on the top tabs or menu, with the banner or skyscraper banner suddenly popping in.
Guess what got them the 0.10%?
Exactly.
Full-screen interstitials, some of which even missing a close button.
I was impressed how good our users were at finding the close button, because even I missed it once, or twice.
And nowadays we got things like Firefox at 25%, and AdBlock Plus.
When people approach me, to put ads on my sites, I usually tell them that I get payed per view. Which fends them off quickly. (I tell the rest to GTFO anyway, because I do not want any ads at all on my sites.)
Yeah yeah yeah, fellow trollerators. There is a typo in there. I'm all stupid too now. But right anyway. :P
"You obviously can't trust Wikipedia whatsoever in this area. [...] But since the day when [somebody] decided they needed to [...] "improve" the [...] articles, they have been a cesspool of FUD, spin and outright lies, seemingly manufactured [...]"
How is this different from any other Wikipedia article out there?
No, I will not finish that meme.
"The Internet does not forget, does not forgive and cannot be stopped. Ever."
And it's incredibly stupid and totally uninformed, just like every other lynch mob since long before the kristallnacht and the witch-hunt.
What could possibly go wrong...?
...they would do the same to their government, and make it pay, instead of only complaining in blogs. ^^
I guess it must be the imagination that many millions of people could not fight some thousands of people, because they would be protected by an army of those very same millions of people. ;)
An usual, when someone does not mention special cases (eg the encrypted access), the global version (all kinds of access) is assumed.
Besides, who says that "garbage data" is no "speech", when accessing the Internet is part of the freedom of speech?
So let me freely say,
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux)
(Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there.)
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
That's one of the coolest bits of not very useful knowledge I've seen a long time. (Although I should have known this, and mostly did.)
If you yell a lot at your black sound hole, until it cries, and "evaporates", does it create something that resembles a Disaster Area recording from 30 miles away, in an atomic bunker?
I think "Bose" is just the American way to write "Böse", which is German for "evil". Fits pretty well, doesn't it? *puts on double-layered tinfoil overall*
How do you infer from the effects of phonons, that the same happens to photons? If they had the same effects, this would mean that luminiferous aether would exist. Which as far as we know, is not true, and replaced by the theory of relativity. Or would it be the effect of a quantized space-time? And would those quantums then be some kind of particles?
Or is the analogy just wrong, except for some subsets? ^^
Our two outcomes are DEATH. And SUFFERING... And Mountain Dew..
Our three outcomes are...
On another note: What's the difference from Mountain Dew and DEATH?