Thanks for the heads up on this... I have no formal education, I'm self-educated so there's gaps... this anti-art movement period is something I missed... I've found some books to read on it. It's right up my alley.
So you buy it, smash it and post a video of you doing that on youtube... declare that to be art - performance art... plus declare that the individual pieces have become new, unique individual pieces of artwork based on some bullshit premise you spew... and thus you have create some kind of meta-meta art.
And also declare it as the world's first anti-art, on the basis that your "work of art" magically transformed it from art to not-art due to the original artists assertion that it would no longer be his art...
Then sell these rare, valuable fragments of your meta art anti-art individually on ebay.
The fact that you and the and the other responder referred to a woman exercising her right to dress as she chooses as a slut, that it's HER fault if a man uses that as an excuse to victimize her, when men are free to wear whatever they want without that worry... shows where you're coming from.
Yes, it's true that legally the victim is sometimes is held responsible, but that's not because it makes sense that's because we've still got a flawed system and a long way to go as a society.
Yes, we have a system where racism is still excused, where people can racially profile, and where the justice system locks up far more minorities for longer sentences than their white counterparts. That is NOT because of a lack of some pie in the sky liberal unrealistic dreams of equality, that's because of racism still inherent in our society and system.
Yes, we do have a legal system where defense attorneys can paint rape victims as "sluts" who were responsible for what they got, where sexist commenters can make those same assertions, where the victim can be called responsible because, gosh, you have to expect some men to not be able to control themselves if they see female flesh.
This is NOT a case of the law recognizing an unfortunate reality - this is a case of male-dominated sexist culture perpetuating its sexism throughout a flawed legal system, sexists defending sexists on message boards, and thereby creating an atmosphere where violent sexists get an excuse and where their victims get blamed.
This is NOT a case of the law being reasonable, this is an example of an immoral, sexist law written by sexist people, defended by sexist people, excusing sexist behavior. It's something broken that must be fixed - NOT something to point to to assert the superiority of your moral argument.
No. You do NOT get part of the blame. That's like saying "She shouldn't have been wearing that mini-skirt, it's no wonder she got raped."
Bullshit. Pure bullshit. I should be ABLE to leave my house unlocked, its MY fucking house, not yours, and you know that, and if you steal my shit it's all YOUR fault.
I should be ABLE to leave my car with the keys in it, its MY car, not yours, if you take it you're 100% responsible.
Yes, it may be predictable that if I leave my car with the keys in it some immoral asshole is likely to steal it... but the mere fact that it's predictable that you might be an asshole doesn't make me share the blame for you being an asshole.
s an American, in America, never having set foot in Saudi Arabia, we have never and would never expect our citizens to be subject to the laws of other countries while HERE IN THE US.
We might sign an extradition treaty allowing extradition of a person accused of committing a crime in another country while they were visiting there, having returned here.
We would never extradite our citizens to stand trial in a country they have NEVER SET FOOT IN.
If I post a topless pic of Halle Berry on a server that happens to be in Saudi Arabia, does that mean they can have me extradited from the US and behead me?
Not to mention the hidden "parking lot" tax. Just as it costs retailers money to take credit cards, it costs them money to have parking space. They fraudulently present this as "free parking" when in fact the cost is hidden in the price of the goods.
Then, drivers think they're getting "free" parking when they aren't, and non-drivers such as myself who have never once used a parking space are 'gypped' untold amounts of money.
And don't even get me started on those leeches who use the so called "free" shopping carts...
Exactly. It's pretty safe. This shows that a random citizen is unlikely to give an election to Mickey Mouse on a whim.
Instead it would take someone with significant knowledge and even serious funding to sway an election. Probably not just a someone, but even an organization.
So the only way this could ever effect elections would be if there were an organization or group of conspiring individuals with significant monetary resources - AND for that group of people to feel that swaying an election would be in their interest - AND for that group of people to then be so immoral as to decide to do so.
Clearly such a confluence of conditions is so wildly improbable that we can effectively rule out its possibility.
As long as you consider a couple of guys on a BBC show to be amateurs in the sens that they were only professional TV presenters, not pro space people, they did it for about $500. They showed the footage on the TV show "Bang! Goes the Theory."
Corporations aren't noted for having any regard for human lives.
That's just not true. They regularly take human life into consideration. If the cost of making sure their product doesn't kill you is less than the cost of paying the occasional fine, the occasional family that bothers to sue, and the everyday routine expense of paying off legislators... well then, you're worth saving!
(Assuming your from the US*) That's the problem, If paid for content was more reliable/verified/trustable then people would be inclined to pay and get real news
Nope. Lowest common denominator. One thing US news media has successfully shown is that when news is based on ratings and popularity, what you get is "news" that stokes people's fears, confirms their biases, tells them the lies they want to hear, and gives them a healthy dollop of tits and ass on the top.
CFL are not a good choice for bathrooms. Most even say on their package that they aren't good for closets and bathrooms. Too many on/off cycles, kills them. They are best for rooms where they will be turned on and left on for hours, not minutes.
Yep. works. Unfortunately you usually hear about it too late like I did, when I installed ubuntu on my netbook and had to memorize through trial and error how many times to hit tab on the various installation screens because I could'nt see the "back" and "ok" buttons.
eBay DOES assume its users are idiots. An eBay spokesman is responsible for the most startling, glaring example of bad customer service I've ever seen.
After one eBay policy change a couple of years back, there were massive protests. The spokesperson quoted in the media said (I'm paraphrasing) "Our users ALWAYS scream and complain whenever we change anything. They'll stick with us and get used to it and quiet down."
Any company that takes that attitude deserves to die - even IF their users are a bunch of idiots.
A good example is eWeek. They will have a feature article that adds up to about one to two paragraphs of text. Instead of TEXT, they break the text up into a flash "slideshow." A slideshow for fuckign TEXT. 10-20 "slides" that have to load in flash, each one with a sentence or two of text rendered as a graphic.
Better yet - let copyrights expire if they are not used. Trademarks do, make copyrights the same.
You don't sell that book you own the rights to for a period of, oh... 14 years? BAM, it's now public domain.
Copyright is granted to works to encourage them to be made available to the public domain. In return you get a limited monopoly. Don't use that monopoly for a period of time, thus making it unavailable to the public at cost? Fine, you lose your copyright.
In the past this may have been bad because it could take years to work out a book deal, but today, with today's technology, you can put your book up on Lulu.com to have it ostensibly "available for sale" to protect your copyright until that big deal comes along.
That way, abandoned shit, 30 year old product catalogs, service manuals, all kinds of ephemera that the copyright owner doesn't give a damn about, or possibly even KNOW they hold the copyright on, can be used.
When a company goes under or is swallowed up and parceled out 12 times over a few decades, how can you find out who owns the copyright on that 1952 tube radio service manual? You can't, and THEY aren't making use of it...
Until I dumped them last month for cable, Verizon DSL "broadband" was often slower than dialup - probably more than half the time... and when working, the fastest I ever got was 180kbps. That's bright, shiny "Made in USA" bandwidth which despite countless calls to Verizon complaining, they claimed was just fine and not a problem with their network.
(Now I have cable at around 6-10 times the speed for about half the price. Suck it, Verizon.)
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Thanks for the heads up on this... I have no formal education, I'm self-educated so there's gaps... this anti-art movement period is something I missed... I've found some books to read on it.
It's right up my alley.
OK so they haven't patented the wooden doohickey I just made with their new patented saw...
They just patented putting the output of that saw (my wooden creations) on a truck and driving them to market.
So you buy it, smash it and post a video of you doing that on youtube... declare that to be art - performance art... plus declare that the individual pieces have become new, unique individual pieces of artwork based on some bullshit premise you spew... and thus you have create some kind of meta-meta art.
And also declare it as the world's first anti-art, on the basis that your "work of art" magically transformed it from art to not-art due to the original artists assertion that it would no longer be his art...
Then sell these rare, valuable fragments of your meta art anti-art individually on ebay.
Producing a multitouch capacitive screen may not be trivial, but CONCEIVING of one is, and that's all it takes to get a patent.
Patents are not awarded for manufacturing capabilities you've achieved, they're awarded for ideas you've had.
The fact that you and the and the other responder referred to a woman exercising her right to dress as she chooses as a slut, that it's HER fault if a man uses that as an excuse to victimize her, when men are free to wear whatever they want without that worry... shows where you're coming from.
Yes, it's true that legally the victim is sometimes is held responsible, but that's not because it makes sense that's because we've still got a flawed system and a long way to go as a society.
Yes, we have a system where racism is still excused, where people can racially profile, and where the justice system locks up far more minorities for longer sentences than their white counterparts. That is NOT because of a lack of some pie in the sky liberal unrealistic dreams of equality, that's because of racism still inherent in our society and system.
Yes, we do have a legal system where defense attorneys can paint rape victims as "sluts" who were responsible for what they got, where sexist commenters can make those same assertions, where the victim can be called responsible because, gosh, you have to expect some men to not be able to control themselves if they see female flesh.
This is NOT a case of the law recognizing an unfortunate reality - this is a case of male-dominated sexist culture perpetuating its sexism throughout a flawed legal system, sexists defending sexists on message boards, and thereby creating an atmosphere where violent sexists get an excuse and where their victims get blamed.
This is NOT a case of the law being reasonable, this is an example of an immoral, sexist law written by sexist people, defended by sexist people, excusing sexist behavior.
It's something broken that must be fixed - NOT something to point to to assert the superiority of your moral argument.
No. You do NOT get part of the blame. That's like saying "She shouldn't have been wearing that mini-skirt, it's no wonder she got raped."
Bullshit. Pure bullshit. I should be ABLE to leave my house unlocked, its MY fucking house, not yours, and you know that, and if you steal my shit it's all YOUR fault.
I should be ABLE to leave my car with the keys in it, its MY car, not yours, if you take it you're 100% responsible.
Yes, it may be predictable that if I leave my car with the keys in it some immoral asshole is likely to steal it... but the mere fact that it's predictable that you might be an asshole doesn't make me share the blame for you being an asshole.
s an American, in America, never having set foot in Saudi Arabia, we have never and would never expect our citizens to be subject to the laws of other countries while HERE IN THE US.
We might sign an extradition treaty allowing extradition of a person accused of committing a crime in another country while they were visiting there, having returned here.
We would never extradite our citizens to stand trial in a country they have NEVER SET FOOT IN.
If I post a topless pic of Halle Berry on a server that happens to be in Saudi Arabia, does that mean they can have me extradited from the US and behead me?
The pagers I know of used transmissions over FM radio stations' towers, using sideband frequencies.
I didn't think it was particularly subtle. ;)
Not to mention the hidden "parking lot" tax. Just as it costs retailers money to take credit cards, it costs them money to have parking space. They fraudulently present this as "free parking" when in fact the cost is hidden in the price of the goods.
Then, drivers think they're getting "free" parking when they aren't, and non-drivers such as myself who have never once used a parking space are 'gypped' untold amounts of money.
And don't even get me started on those leeches who use the so called "free" shopping carts...
Exactly. It's pretty safe. This shows that a random citizen is unlikely to give an election to Mickey Mouse on a whim.
Instead it would take someone with significant knowledge and even serious funding to sway an election. Probably not just a someone, but even an organization.
So the only way this could ever effect elections would be if there were an organization or group of conspiring individuals with significant monetary resources - AND for that group of people to feel that swaying an election would be in their interest - AND for that group of people to then be so immoral as to decide to do so.
Clearly such a confluence of conditions is so wildly improbable that we can effectively rule out its possibility.
Then again...most of these people might not like Linux since its not totally moron proof.
unlike windows?
As long as you consider a couple of guys on a BBC show to be amateurs in the sens that they were only professional TV presenters, not pro space people, they did it for about $500. They showed the footage on the TV show "Bang! Goes the Theory."
Corporations aren't noted for having any regard for human lives.
That's just not true. They regularly take human life into consideration. If the cost of making sure their product doesn't kill you is less than the cost of paying the occasional fine, the occasional family that bothers to sue, and the everyday routine expense of paying off legislators... well then, you're worth saving!
(Assuming your from the US*) That's the problem, If paid for content was more reliable/verified/trustable then people would be inclined to pay and get real news
Nope. Lowest common denominator. One thing US news media has successfully shown is that when news is based on ratings and popularity, what you get is "news" that stokes people's fears, confirms their biases, tells them the lies they want to hear, and gives them a healthy dollop of tits and ass on the top.
Great... then print news can be more like TV - where "news" (and all other shows) aren't the content, they're just the bait.
CFL are not a good choice for bathrooms. Most even say on their package that they aren't good for closets and bathrooms. Too many on/off cycles, kills them. They are best for rooms where they will be turned on and left on for hours, not minutes.
Yep. works. Unfortunately you usually hear about it too late like I did, when I installed ubuntu on my netbook and had to memorize through trial and error how many times to hit tab on the various installation screens because I could'nt see the "back" and "ok" buttons.
eBay DOES assume its users are idiots. An eBay spokesman is responsible for the most startling, glaring example of bad customer service I've ever seen.
After one eBay policy change a couple of years back, there were massive protests. The spokesperson quoted in the media said (I'm paraphrasing) "Our users ALWAYS scream and complain whenever we change anything. They'll stick with us and get used to it and quiet down."
Any company that takes that attitude deserves to die - even IF their users are a bunch of idiots.
A good example is eWeek. They will have a feature article that adds up to about one to two paragraphs of text. Instead of TEXT, they break the text up into a flash "slideshow." A slideshow for fuckign TEXT. 10-20 "slides" that have to load in flash, each one with a sentence or two of text rendered as a graphic.
It's fucking INSANE.
Why? Because the dialogue box did not fit, and the "okay" button was off the screen! I ended-up stuck.
Hold down the "alt" key and you can scroll to the button.
Better yet - let copyrights expire if they are not used. Trademarks do, make copyrights the same.
You don't sell that book you own the rights to for a period of, oh... 14 years? BAM, it's now public domain.
Copyright is granted to works to encourage them to be made available to the public domain. In return you get a limited monopoly. Don't use that monopoly for a period of time, thus making it unavailable to the public at cost? Fine, you lose your copyright.
In the past this may have been bad because it could take years to work out a book deal, but today, with today's technology, you can put your book up on Lulu.com to have it ostensibly "available for sale" to protect your copyright until that big deal comes along.
That way, abandoned shit, 30 year old product catalogs, service manuals, all kinds of ephemera that the copyright owner doesn't give a damn about, or possibly even KNOW they hold the copyright on, can be used.
When a company goes under or is swallowed up and parceled out 12 times over a few decades, how can you find out who owns the copyright on that 1952 tube radio service manual? You can't, and THEY aren't making use of it...
Should be public domain. Etc.
Until I dumped them last month for cable, Verizon DSL "broadband" was often slower than dialup - probably more than half the time... and when working, the fastest I ever got was 180kbps. That's bright, shiny "Made in USA" bandwidth which despite countless calls to Verizon complaining, they claimed was just fine and not a problem with their network.
(Now I have cable at around 6-10 times the speed for about half the price. Suck it, Verizon.)
Speaking of Paypal, I wonder what DHS gets when you buy an airline ticket via Paypal, as I sometimes do.