"Whenever someone says "you can't "own" an idea," I realized I'm communicating with a jealous retard who's incapable of creative product."
That's interesting, considering that my career was in art, I'm known for my writing (just won an award last month) and am always encouraged to write more, but I don't because now besides art I'm focusing on my classical and jazz piano composition, along with playing and composing on several other instruments. A little photography on the side too.
That's just the thing. You can't copy a game because that;s THEFT they say, you're stealing, you wouldn't steal a car would you, etc?
You BUY it. Just like you buy a car. And then you sell it used just life... no wait, you can't, because it's NOT property you BOUGHT. It's information you licensed the right to use a copy of.
I'd say that they were having their cake and eating it too, but YOU paid for the cake. So they're having YOUR cake and eating it too. Which teaches you a valuable lesson.
It actually IS a relatively new idea. I mean, it is a bit over 100 years old which may SEEM old, but it's a newborn compared to the system it replaced.
The system that IP law replaced, which gave us all art, all music, all culture, all language, all technology right down to bows and arrows and rock hammers and agriculture and the loin cloth - everything that got us out of caves and which separates us from the other great apes, is over 100,000 years old.
This new upstart idea, Intellectual Property is replacing the time-tested and seemingly obvious concept (you can't "own" an idea) that has proven over 1000 centuries to enrich everyone and essentially create what we consider to be "humanity," with a virtually untested (results are mixed so far) system that promises to enrich... well, a tiny fraction of a percent.
I mean, I KNOW it may sound like a great idea - replace the system that gradually dramatically increased the quality of life of most of the billions of humans who have ever lived with one that exploits billions of humans for the enrichment of a few... but oddly enough although the new system has worked as advertised and created a few multibillionaires and hundreds of millions of exploited people, the overall satisfaction rate is plummeting.
Seems oddly counterintuitive, I know. I mean, who WOULDN'T want to work long abusive hours locked into a factory for pennies until you are driven to suicide so you can make some other guy rich?
How is that not a great deal? There's even the possibility that if you save for a few years before jumping off the factory roof, you might be able save up enough to buy a used, outdated version of the product you've personally made tens of thousands of!
How about just going back to the original length? 7 years.
Hell, we can even toss in the additional 7 year extension that you got if you applied, when that extension was added on at a later date.
If it was enough time for books being carted on horsedrawn wagons to a largely illiterate population to make money, it's enough time for your shit song and dumb assed movie to make money.
I bet it's true. An old account I had was $3 per call to customer service, and that was ten years ago. Call them for ANYTHING, it's automatically added.
The one time I did call customer service, for THEIR error, I complained about the fee and they said they'd remove the charge as a "one-time courtesy."
I have been known to spend many hours in libraries reading such things as the congressional record from the 19th century, old trademark and patent gazettes, other very old periodicals and publications, and there are untold thousands of true stories that would make incredible films.
In the senate testimony during the period after the civil war and reconstruction, during hearings about the KKK, you could create several movies just from the eyewitness testimonies of southern people affected.
One particularly vivid example was testimony I came across where a community was terrorized - blacks and also whites who were viewed as sympathetic either to blacks or to the union.
The KKK rode through these places terrorizing the people while wearing blood-red hoods (white hoods came later I guess.)
Coincidentally some babies were stillborn with deformities that in the eyes of these frightened people looked reminiscent of these red hoods, and the whole community was thrown further into hysteria, referring to them as "ku klux babies" if I remember correctly.
Now tell me that it's not possible that some decent writer could read through the testimony of these hearings (which were the big national furor of the time) and come up with a very dramatic film? "Based on a true story" etc.
Wouldn't even have to pay royalties to some comic book company or whatever.
History and the present is filled with these stories everywhere you look, if you just look. And that's just the non-fiction.
It's even possible someone could imagine up some mystical humanoids in a fairy-tale like land that aren't even hobbits.
You just have to know where to look. I'm not homeless, but I essentially LOOK homeless. When wandering SF I use the nice plush bathrooms at the Palace Hotel, among other places.
That's the thing about SF - you can be dressed in jeans with holes but you're just as likely to be a millionaire guest in the penthouse of the Palace Hotel as a homeless person.
I would say the exception to the rule would be for recording artists.
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The fact that Bob Parsons blogged in support of waterboarding and other forms of torture, and then when called on it edited his blog post and lied and said he'd never said what he'd said... that AND the sexism was enough to convince me he was an immoral piece of shit.
"Similarly, the Iran of back then, didn't have the moral standing to grab the property of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, no matter how sleazy that company happened to be."
If Iran decides to accuse the US of stocking illegal weapons (chemical whatever) and cites the lack of proof that we don't as proof that suspicion is warranted, do they get to say that our denial is not enough, that we must allow in outside inspectors?
We in the US seem to demand an awful lot from others that we would rather kill than submit to ourselves.
Kill Japanese for the torture of waterboarding, then waterboard others ourselves and say it's not torture.
Overthrow democratically-elected leaders and install dictators instead because we want to? We've done that.
Oh yeah, like in Iran for example.
Gosh, I wonder why, after that, they don't feel like climbing in our laps like puppies and learning to respond to our commands?
We have nukes. Iraq didn't have nukes. Iran trying to get them might be the only way they can protect themselves from an unprovoked US attack.
I am anti-nuclear, but I don't think we, as the only power ever to nuke cities, and still with the largest arsenal, have much moral standing to act like the global good guys.
How do you provide evidence that you're not doing something? How do you provide evidence that something someone claims exists in fact doesn't?
Logic fail.
Even if they COULD, you still wouldn't believe it because clearly this evidence of non-existence couldn't be trusted, coming from Iranians, who you KNOW are just hiding something. When they deny it, it confirms it!
Set the skin-seeking missiles to brown! (Leave them on default, IOW.)
We can no longer ignore the need now to send people to mars to establish a base and mine. With this discovery, Mars can now supply all of our drywall needs for the next several centuries!
When you get off the train and check your pockets, that's double checking.
When your double checking reveals that the USB stick is not in your pocket but is instead still on the train that's just just closed its doors to pull away, that means by the GPs logic that you, having just lost the stick, are careless.
Therefore we must conclude apparently that double-checking is a sign of carelessness.
He did blow his cover, but not on the spot. His whole crew did, I guess.
I was 18, made the remark in front of him on a street corner. A few days later a cop car pulls up, they arrest me after I tell them I have no ID, and on the car ride downtown they say "soo.. we hear you think Buffalo cops are all too fat to run, huh? Well, the cop you might like to have a chance to talk to you about that. How would you like that?"
I just said "ok."
Charges were automatically dropped like 6 months later (ACD - Adjournment with Contemplation of Dismissal) Cost me $350 for a lawyer because when I showed up without one the judge rescheduled and said to me angrily "don't come back here without a lawyer."
My view of the police and justice system dimmed somewhat as a result of this. The education was well worth the $350 though.
I have TONS of info on my zip disks that is perfectly preserved.
Now if I can just find a PC with a printer port to hook the old Zip interface to, and a working drive that doesn't have the click of death, and driver software for Windows 7, I can get at my old data any time I want!
It's a crime to defeat DRM due to the DMCA. That's the end-around. Space-shifting was guaranteed under fair-use, USa Inc. didn't like that, so they made space-shifting impossible without breaking DRM, and then made breaking DRM illegal.
May not get me sued, but still shows you how things work around these here parts... what the motivation is, and who gets listened to.
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... a measure of how funny a video is, or actually a measure of how stupid its viewers are?
Wait, this is YouTube comments, right? I think I just answered my own question.
YouTube - the only place where a kitten video can ignite a verbal race riot.
Monopolistic capitalism in the US combined with consumer stupidity is what keeps the prices high.
Here in the USA, we get reamed every which way and we LIKE it that way, we ain't no damned IslamoCommie Socialists!
Desperate for cash seems to be the standard business model these days though.
They can have billions, but they're still desperate for more.
"Whenever someone says "you can't "own" an idea," I realized I'm communicating with a jealous retard who's incapable of creative product."
That's interesting, considering that my career was in art, I'm known for my writing (just won an award last month) and am always encouraged to write more, but I don't because now besides art I'm focusing on my classical and jazz piano composition, along with playing and composing on several other instruments. A little photography on the side too.
But it was a good guess.
That's just the thing.
You can't copy a game because that;s THEFT they say, you're stealing, you wouldn't steal a car would you, etc?
You BUY it. Just like you buy a car. And then you sell it used just life... no wait, you can't, because it's NOT property you BOUGHT. It's information you licensed the right to use a copy of.
I'd say that they were having their cake and eating it too, but YOU paid for the cake. So they're having YOUR cake and eating it too. Which teaches you a valuable lesson.
The cake is a lie.
It actually IS a relatively new idea.
I mean, it is a bit over 100 years old which may SEEM old, but it's a newborn compared to the system it replaced.
The system that IP law replaced, which gave us all art, all music, all culture, all language, all technology right down to bows and arrows and rock hammers and agriculture and the loin cloth - everything that got us out of caves and which separates us from the other great apes, is over 100,000 years old.
This new upstart idea, Intellectual Property is replacing the time-tested and seemingly obvious concept (you can't "own" an idea) that has proven over 1000 centuries to enrich everyone and essentially create what we consider to be "humanity," with a virtually untested (results are mixed so far) system that promises to enrich... well, a tiny fraction of a percent.
I mean, I KNOW it may sound like a great idea - replace the system that gradually dramatically increased the quality of life of most of the billions of humans who have ever lived with one that exploits billions of humans for the enrichment of a few... but oddly enough although the new system has worked as advertised and created a few multibillionaires and hundreds of millions of exploited people, the overall satisfaction rate is plummeting.
Seems oddly counterintuitive, I know. I mean, who WOULDN'T want to work long abusive hours locked into a factory for pennies until you are driven to suicide so you can make some other guy rich?
How is that not a great deal?
There's even the possibility that if you save for a few years before jumping off the factory roof, you might be able save up enough to buy a used, outdated version of the product you've personally made tens of thousands of!
How about just going back to the original length? 7 years.
Hell, we can even toss in the additional 7 year extension that you got if you applied, when that extension was added on at a later date.
If it was enough time for books being carted on horsedrawn wagons to a largely illiterate population to make money, it's enough time for your shit song and dumb assed movie to make money.
I bet it's true. An old account I had was $3 per call to customer service, and that was ten years ago. Call them for ANYTHING, it's automatically added.
The one time I did call customer service, for THEIR error, I complained about the fee and they said they'd remove the charge as a "one-time courtesy."
Didn't he just kind of SAY that everything had to have ac/dc converters? And you're refuting him by saying that something needs an ac/dc converter?
You're not too bright, are you.
I have been known to spend many hours in libraries reading such things as the congressional record from the 19th century, old trademark and patent gazettes, other very old periodicals and publications, and there are untold thousands of true stories that would make incredible films.
In the senate testimony during the period after the civil war and reconstruction, during hearings about the KKK, you could create several movies just from the eyewitness testimonies of southern people affected.
One particularly vivid example was testimony I came across where a community was terrorized - blacks and also whites who were viewed as sympathetic either to blacks or to the union.
The KKK rode through these places terrorizing the people while wearing blood-red hoods (white hoods came later I guess.)
Coincidentally some babies were stillborn with deformities that in the eyes of these frightened people looked reminiscent of these red hoods, and the whole community was thrown further into hysteria, referring to them as "ku klux babies" if I remember correctly.
Now tell me that it's not possible that some decent writer could read through the testimony of these hearings (which were the big national furor of the time) and come up with a very dramatic film? "Based on a true story" etc.
Wouldn't even have to pay royalties to some comic book company or whatever.
History and the present is filled with these stories everywhere you look, if you just look. And that's just the non-fiction.
It's even possible someone could imagine up some mystical humanoids in a fairy-tale like land that aren't even hobbits.
You just have to know where to look.
I'm not homeless, but I essentially LOOK homeless. When wandering SF I use the nice plush bathrooms at the Palace Hotel, among other places.
That's the thing about SF - you can be dressed in jeans with holes but you're just as likely to be a millionaire guest in the penthouse of the Palace Hotel as a homeless person.
I would say the exception to the rule would be for recording artists.
The fact that Bob Parsons blogged in support of waterboarding and other forms of torture, and then when called on it edited his blog post and lied and said he'd never said what he'd said... that AND the sexism was enough to convince me he was an immoral piece of shit.
Been using namecheap since.
It would be too unseemly for those running the country to just do so without this "congress" thing to use as a front.
"Similarly, the Iran of back then, didn't have the moral standing to grab the property of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, no matter how sleazy that company happened to be."
Really? REALLY?
Come on now.
If Iran decides to accuse the US of stocking illegal weapons (chemical whatever) and cites the lack of proof that we don't as proof that suspicion is warranted, do they get to say that our denial is not enough, that we must allow in outside inspectors?
We in the US seem to demand an awful lot from others that we would rather kill than submit to ourselves.
Kill Japanese for the torture of waterboarding, then waterboard others ourselves and say it's not torture.
Overthrow democratically-elected leaders and install dictators instead because we want to? We've done that.
Oh yeah, like in Iran for example.
Gosh, I wonder why, after that, they don't feel like climbing in our laps like puppies and learning to respond to our commands?
We have nukes. Iraq didn't have nukes. Iran trying to get them might be the only way they can protect themselves from an unprovoked US attack.
I am anti-nuclear, but I don't think we, as the only power ever to nuke cities, and still with the largest arsenal, have much moral standing to act like the global good guys.
How do you provide evidence that you're not doing something?
How do you provide evidence that something someone claims exists in fact doesn't?
Logic fail.
Even if they COULD, you still wouldn't believe it because clearly this evidence of non-existence couldn't be trusted, coming from Iranians, who you KNOW are just hiding something. When they deny it, it confirms it!
Set the skin-seeking missiles to brown! (Leave them on default, IOW.)
We can move Titan here. Just attach a rocket nozzle to it and light a match.
We can no longer ignore the need now to send people to mars to establish a base and mine. With this discovery, Mars can now supply all of our drywall needs for the next several centuries!
When you get off the train and check your pockets, that's double checking.
When your double checking reveals that the USB stick is not in your pocket but is instead still on the train that's just just closed its doors to pull away, that means by the GPs logic that you, having just lost the stick, are careless.
Therefore we must conclude apparently that double-checking is a sign of carelessness.
He did blow his cover, but not on the spot.
His whole crew did, I guess.
I was 18, made the remark in front of him on a street corner.
A few days later a cop car pulls up, they arrest me after I tell them I have no ID, and on the car ride downtown they say "soo.. we hear you think Buffalo cops are all too fat to run, huh? Well, the cop you might like to have a chance to talk to you about that. How would you like that?"
I just said "ok."
Charges were automatically dropped like 6 months later (ACD - Adjournment with Contemplation of Dismissal)
Cost me $350 for a lawyer because when I showed up without one the judge rescheduled and said to me angrily "don't come back here without a lawyer."
My view of the police and justice system dimmed somewhat as a result of this. The education was well worth the $350 though.
damn right.
I have TONS of info on my zip disks that is perfectly preserved.
Now if I can just find a PC with a printer port to hook the old Zip interface to, and a working drive that doesn't have the click of death, and driver software for Windows 7, I can get at my old data any time I want!
I was arrested for making a donut joke in front of an undercover cop once.
Seriously.
Well, that's not what they SAID though. They said it was "disorderly conduct."
Except those of us with the model i had to deal with "keybounce."
Once a common term, now extinct.
- Owner of TRS-80 Model I serial #255
It's a crime to defeat DRM due to the DMCA. That's the end-around. Space-shifting was guaranteed under fair-use, USa Inc. didn't like that, so they made space-shifting impossible without breaking DRM, and then made breaking DRM illegal.
May not get me sued, but still shows you how things work around these here parts... what the motivation is, and who gets listened to.
Immoral. Whether they sue or not.