Give me a break. Bush is a priveledged COWARD, no deep discussion of Microsoft Word vs. IBM Selectric Typewriters is going to change that. It is time for the media to take the kid gloves off.
I'm no Trekkie (nor am I an accountant), but we are getting closer to BORG style control every day. Pretty soon, our cell phones will start giving us cancer. Oh wait....
IP is not "property" any more than a tomato is
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IMHO I don't think IP should be considered property. Unfortunately, "property" is defined by the dominant regime. In our case, capitalism defines property as something being owned by an owner, lawfully acquired under the dominate regime's justice system.
Arguments about what property is will always fall back into this trap, because the dominant regime will define property rights as it sees fit, until it is is challenged to do otherwise. Usually this challenge comes in the form of a large-scale transformation (ie. agriculture -> mercantilism / monarchy -> aristocracy).
I think it will take a big change in to get us to the point where we break away from seeing "lawfully acquired things" (be they etherreal or physical) as common goods.
One day someone will outline the correlation between American's intelligence and critical thinking and the rise of unthinking fundamentalist moron government.
It would not be that hard to use server-side HTTP requests with a scripting language like PHP or "compiled" language like C#/.NET and a Message Queue to accomplish this. Hey, maybe I'll write one of these I am sure the porn people pay more than my shitty company.
ellis
"Cowboy Bebop," the recent anime film release with a substantial following in the United States is poorly executed, lacked a sound premise, and demonstrated a poorly written plot. These problems had nothing to do with it being a cartoon however; the filmmakers should tend to some plot development and creativity before attempting a major release in the United States again.
The fidelity of the animation, special effects, and sound were good, but not great. On the big screen the colors pallete the artists used seemed ordinary, but there was a commendable amount of movement and smoothness considering this is anime. The positive aspects of this anime end here however, as there were serious issues with the thematic elements of the film.
The premise, and the lack of suspended disbelief thereof, were absurd. They are in Mars in about 2070, yet there are slums. A good friend of mine assures me that "If you watched the first 10 episodes, it would make sense" but I don't remember major film releases requiring those kind of clauses to view them, so I can't give this one a pass. For example, I saw, and enjoyed "X-men" even though I never read the comics, among other cartoon or comic film interpretations that were executed well and didn't require a huge investment of time on the part of the viewer.
The plot of this particular "episode" was ludicrous and could barely raise anyones heartbeat considering the craziness going on in the world today. The dialog was hackneyed and the characters went from the under-developed (Vincent) to the utterly annoying (Edward).
The execution of this film, considering it was anime, left much to be desired. It could have ended sooner, with an additional half hour for another boring fight scene not worth the price of admission. The flight scenes were direct ripoffs of Star Wars and Macross, and showed a lack of creativity. The creators also failed to exploit the female characters to their potentional, either as serious roles or as sex objects.
In all, "Cowboy Bebop" is one of those anime films that has a cult following because it has a cult following. While initially excited to watch this movie, I left disappointed and wondered if I'd be willing to make future investments in anime genres that attempt to crossover contemporary and sci-fi themes.
Indeed! This why I reacted the way I did, because the cultists have an image of Apple being this enlightened company, a modern-day technological Willa Wonka. They are as ruthless, bloodsucking, and eager to use the "law" to their advantage as the companies the cultists themselves bash. Bah HUMBUG!
Thanks for enlightening me on contract law, I apologized if you failed to see the statement behind my statement.
It seems that Apple has a history of going after people in order to maintain what they call "Trade Secrets." I remember quite a few episodes where they went after websites and conventional news media outlets for posting or discussing products. The People's Republic of China has a similar history of this sort of behavior, and not unlike Apple it's followers embrace it with a cultish fanatacism and a reluctance to be open minded about differing opinion.
Where's the Microsoft bashers now? Why not come down on Apple for being a predatory, monopolistic company themselves, trying to gain a hold on peoples BRAINSPACE. Apple makes me sick.
They must have mailed a million flyers to Mike Hunt and IP Daily. Poor guys.
Excellent article, hits on philosophical roots ...
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This was a great article, especially since it comes from a "right wing" publication and perhaps will be taken seriously by some conservatives politicians that will soon control the government.
The author makes some good points that I think are often overlooked and always obsfucated by the entertainment industry. Most notably, the assertion that copyrights do not equal property rights is founded not only by parsing the language of the Constitution or common law. By looking at the foundation of property rights in the philosophical roots of modern democracy we can see that copy rights have been miscontrued and manipulated -- Emperor Rosen has no clothes.
John Locke, who had profound influence on the Framers and on modern political thought, first asserted that property rights were derived from the "State of Nature" in that we first own ourselves, and second, improve what we take from nature and transform it into our property. However, the very methods of creation were never sacrosanct. In the state of nature, Locke would have to imagine that others would see the very methods that others used to "improve" and collect their property. Surely there were composers and writers during his time, Locke himself published under the auspices of proto-modern publishing industry, but he makes no mention of "intellectual property" and certainly not copy right as such. I read about the Lessig theory in a previous post, and the idea that copyright is/should be only the granting a monopoly on the means of creation for a specified and limited amount of time goes along well with this. Both Locke and Lessig agree that there is no absolute conversion of ideas into property, and the more people write about this discourse the more society and hopefully politicians will recognize the great harm infinite copyright does to our polity and our society.
I'm sorry but the whole Apple / counter-culture / cult of personality thing is weird, paradoxical, and dysfunctional. Weird because any shitstain of a marketing event brings out the droves in a hive-mind fervor not seen since the Cultural Revolution (1970's China). Paradoxical because it is paid for and driven by self-interested advertising and technology millionaires that present an image that the company is driven by anything but. And dysfunctional because it continues the cycle of keeping people who would otherwise use free technologies spending away, year after year, and now attempts to suck even Grandma and Aunt Bee into the fold. In short (and I say this a bit tounge-in-cheek), it seems the Apple community has no class consciousness.
How insightful! The "private sector," as if it is a single entity, doesn't care about broadband? I think not. And why is "this network... such a valuable public service"? What great benefit do the people in the areas get now that they get are "wired"? They get to surf CNN, buy books from Amazon, and further destroy their own local business and cultures. Sounds like fun. The greatest benefit goes to the same private sector that you abhor. So think about your grand claims before you knee-jerk a reaction. You also missed my point that I am advocated for a toning down of the frenetic pace of government technology policy. What has it achieved for us? The DMCA, Copyright extension, and Hollywood legislation. Look there and find your yachts.
My comment was in regards to: Not that I have anything against my tax dollars propping up failing telco's by pushing DSL on areas where it isn't financially viable
Agreed, by no means do I obsolve the corporatation of all misdeeds in dealing with this sort of thing, but I'd like to see the end of mixing legislation and technology. The more the government is comfortable with this, the less rights and more restrictions we will have.
Instead of using tax dollars to promote broadband, why not let the private sector handle this and get the government out of legislating technology (CPAA, DMCA, etc).
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Moderators jealous because I got first post. What happened to your humor?
Tsk Tsk.
Well put.
I always chuckle when I see these Jersey jokes, not because they are funny or have any wit in them, but because I think of how mindless the people are who spit them out. These people have probably never been here, and I always sense a bit of Jersey Jealousy, as New Jersey is the richest state in the union and the central state on the eastern seaboard metropolis (how would NYC run without all the workers from NJ?). It has arguably the best or no less than the upper echelon of secondary and post-secondary schools (private Princeton and public Rutgers as examples). Healthwise Northern and Southern NJ ranked tops in a recent study by MSNBC and some fitness magazine but I can't find the link right now. In any case, stop player hatin' and get over it -- especially you Long Islanduhs.
"It is bad for MS (really), because they are linking to this report, helped create it, and will be using it as a marketing tool against J2EE. They are used to being called FUD-makers, but perhaps not in this way."
Give me a break. This guy's position is that because the J2EE code wasn't written the way he would have written it, then the results which overwhemingly favor Microsoft actually hurt Microsoft? Bwaahahaha. Time to stop making excuses for underperforming application servers.
Besides the test was called "J2EE Petstore vs..NET petstore," not "Some guys version of petstore vs. Net petstore." Take the test for what it is. Both statistically and anecdotaly.NET performance is better than J2EE -- I haven't seen a case study yet that can refute this.
The issue with the FCC and their bedside manner with the cable industry has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is corporate welfare taken to a disgusting degree, especially when you consider how individuals are locked out of making their own choices in the face of government regulation and laws (see DMCA, etc).
That aside, your theory that "in a capitalist system the company and customer must both agree 100%" is naive. When is the last time you agreed to how much your cable company charges you, lest you not have cable at all? What happened to the the staunch opposition at all costs of monopolies in modern democratic capitalism?
This article is right on and really gets my blood boiling. More evidence that the FCC simply doles out favors to corporations, violates the priniciples of individual and citizen interest, and is wholly not concerned with the future of communications technology. This is corporate welfare taken to its most extensive and disgusting manifestation.
Powell and his cronies argue its a "market dynamics" or "laissez-faire" approach, but in fact it is an active and structural campaign to lock out small business, individuals, and minority group interests. When you combine these efforts with the DMCA, the P2P disruption campaign, and the overstated concern for the "menacing hacker," you have a hoodwinked population and more corporate executives with fat pockets.
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Give me a break. Bush is a priveledged COWARD, no deep discussion of Microsoft Word vs. IBM Selectric Typewriters is going to change that. It is time for the media to take the kid gloves off.
I'm no Trekkie (nor am I an accountant), but we are getting closer to BORG style control every day. Pretty soon, our cell phones will start giving us cancer. Oh wait....
IMHO I don't think IP should be considered property. Unfortunately, "property" is defined by the dominant regime. In our case, capitalism defines property as something being owned by an owner, lawfully acquired under the dominate regime's justice system. Arguments about what property is will always fall back into this trap, because the dominant regime will define property rights as it sees fit, until it is is challenged to do otherwise. Usually this challenge comes in the form of a large-scale transformation (ie. agriculture -> mercantilism / monarchy -> aristocracy). I think it will take a big change in to get us to the point where we break away from seeing "lawfully acquired things" (be they etherreal or physical) as common goods.
www.bugmenot.com to generate passwords for registration sites too.
One day someone will outline the correlation between American's intelligence and critical thinking and the rise of unthinking fundamentalist moron government.
It would not be that hard to use server-side HTTP requests with a scripting language like PHP or "compiled" language like C#/.NET and a Message Queue to accomplish this. Hey, maybe I'll write one of these I am sure the porn people pay more than my shitty company. ellis
"Cowboy Bebop," the recent anime film release with a substantial following in the United States is poorly executed, lacked a sound premise, and demonstrated a poorly written plot. These problems had nothing to do with it being a cartoon however; the filmmakers should tend to some plot development and creativity before attempting a major release in the United States again.
The fidelity of the animation, special effects, and sound were good, but not great. On the big screen the colors pallete the artists used seemed ordinary, but there was a commendable amount of movement and smoothness considering this is anime. The positive aspects of this anime end here however, as there were serious issues with the thematic elements of the film.
The premise, and the lack of suspended disbelief thereof, were absurd. They are in Mars in about 2070, yet there are slums. A good friend of mine assures me that "If you watched the first 10 episodes, it would make sense" but I don't remember major film releases requiring those kind of clauses to view them, so I can't give this one a pass. For example, I saw, and enjoyed "X-men" even though I never read the comics, among other cartoon or comic film interpretations that were executed well and didn't require a huge investment of time on the part of the viewer.
The plot of this particular "episode" was ludicrous and could barely raise anyones heartbeat considering the craziness going on in the world today. The dialog was hackneyed and the characters went from the under-developed (Vincent) to the utterly annoying (Edward).
The execution of this film, considering it was anime, left much to be desired. It could have ended sooner, with an additional half hour for another boring fight scene not worth the price of admission. The flight scenes were direct ripoffs of Star Wars and Macross, and showed a lack of creativity. The creators also failed to exploit the female characters to their potentional, either as serious roles or as sex objects.
In all, "Cowboy Bebop" is one of those anime films that has a cult following because it has a cult following. While initially excited to watch this movie, I left disappointed and wondered if I'd be willing to make future investments in anime genres that attempt to crossover contemporary and sci-fi themes.
Two thumbs down.
Indeed! This why I reacted the way I did, because the cultists have an image of Apple being this enlightened company, a modern-day technological Willa Wonka. They are as ruthless, bloodsucking, and eager to use the "law" to their advantage as the companies the cultists themselves bash. Bah HUMBUG!
Thanks for enlightening me on contract law, I apologized if you failed to see the statement behind my statement.
It seems that Apple has a history of going after people in order to maintain what they call "Trade Secrets." I remember quite a few episodes where they went after websites and conventional news media outlets for posting or discussing products. The People's Republic of China has a similar history of this sort of behavior, and not unlike Apple it's followers embrace it with a cultish fanatacism and a reluctance to be open minded about differing opinion.
Where's the Microsoft bashers now? Why not come down on Apple for being a predatory, monopolistic company themselves, trying to gain a hold on peoples BRAINSPACE. Apple makes me sick.
They must have mailed a million flyers to Mike Hunt and IP Daily. Poor guys.
This was a great article, especially since it comes from a "right wing" publication and perhaps will be taken seriously by some conservatives politicians that will soon control the government.
The author makes some good points that I think are often overlooked and always obsfucated by the entertainment industry. Most notably, the assertion that copyrights do not equal property rights is founded not only by parsing the language of the Constitution or common law. By looking at the foundation of property rights in the philosophical roots of modern democracy we can see that copy rights have been miscontrued and manipulated -- Emperor Rosen has no clothes.
John Locke, who had profound influence on the Framers and on modern political thought, first asserted that property rights were derived from the "State of Nature" in that we first own ourselves, and second, improve what we take from nature and transform it into our property. However, the very methods of creation were never sacrosanct. In the state of nature, Locke would have to imagine that others would see the very methods that others used to "improve" and collect their property. Surely there were composers and writers during his time, Locke himself published under the auspices of proto-modern publishing industry, but he makes no mention of "intellectual property" and certainly not copy right as such. I read about the Lessig theory in a previous post, and the idea that copyright is/should be only the granting a monopoly on the means of creation for a specified and limited amount of time goes along well with this. Both Locke and Lessig agree that there is no absolute conversion of ideas into property, and the more people write about this discourse the more society and hopefully politicians will recognize the great harm infinite copyright does to our polity and our society.
I'm sorry but the whole Apple / counter-culture / cult of personality thing is weird, paradoxical, and dysfunctional. Weird because any shitstain of a marketing event brings out the droves in a hive-mind fervor not seen since the Cultural Revolution (1970's China). Paradoxical because it is paid for and driven by self-interested advertising and technology millionaires that present an image that the company is driven by anything but. And dysfunctional because it continues the cycle of keeping people who would otherwise use free technologies spending away, year after year, and now attempts to suck even Grandma and Aunt Bee into the fold. In short (and I say this a bit tounge-in-cheek), it seems the Apple community has no class consciousness.
How insightful! The "private sector," as if it is a single entity, doesn't care about broadband? I think not. And why is "this network ... such a valuable public service"? What great benefit do the people in the areas get now that they get are "wired"? They get to surf CNN, buy books from Amazon, and further destroy their own local business and cultures. Sounds like fun. The greatest benefit goes to the same private sector that you abhor. So think about your grand claims before you knee-jerk a reaction. You also missed my point that I am advocated for a toning down of the frenetic pace of government technology policy. What has it achieved for us? The DMCA, Copyright extension, and Hollywood legislation. Look there and find your yachts.
My comment was in regards to :
Not that I have anything against my tax dollars propping up failing telco's by pushing DSL on areas where it isn't financially viable
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--ellis
Agreed, by no means do I obsolve the corporatation of all misdeeds in dealing with this sort of thing, but I'd like to see the end of mixing legislation and technology. The more the government is comfortable with this, the less rights and more restrictions we will have.
Instead of using tax dollars to promote broadband, why not let the private sector handle this and get the government out of legislating technology (CPAA, DMCA, etc).
Moderators jealous because I got first post. What happened to your humor? Tsk Tsk.
Will a dainty girl walking on the beach do the first commerical for this?
This is Jesus Kent. Stop playing with yourself.
Well put.
I always chuckle when I see these Jersey jokes, not because they are funny or have any wit in them, but because I think of how mindless the people are who spit them out. These people have probably never been here, and I always sense a bit of Jersey Jealousy, as New Jersey is the richest state in the union and the central state on the eastern seaboard metropolis (how would NYC run without all the workers from NJ?). It has arguably the best or no less than the upper echelon of secondary and post-secondary schools (private Princeton and public Rutgers as examples). Healthwise Northern and Southern NJ ranked tops in a recent study by MSNBC and some fitness magazine but I can't find the link right now. In any case, stop player hatin' and get over it -- especially you Long Islanduhs.
It will be tought getting quarters and dimes in the floppy slot. Or is that a cupholder?
"It is bad for MS (really), because they are linking to this report, helped create it, and will be using it as a marketing tool against J2EE. They are used to being called FUD-makers, but perhaps not in this way." .NET petstore," not "Some guys version of petstore vs. Net petstore." Take the test for what it is. Both statistically and anecdotaly .NET performance is better than J2EE -- I haven't seen a case study yet that can refute this.
Give me a break. This guy's position is that because the J2EE code wasn't written the way he would have written it, then the results which overwhemingly favor Microsoft actually hurt Microsoft? Bwaahahaha. Time to stop making excuses for underperforming application servers. Besides the test was called "J2EE Petstore vs.
The issue with the FCC and their bedside manner with the cable industry has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is corporate welfare taken to a disgusting degree, especially when you consider how individuals are locked out of making their own choices in the face of government regulation and laws (see DMCA, etc). That aside, your theory that "in a capitalist system the company and customer must both agree 100%" is naive. When is the last time you agreed to how much your cable company charges you, lest you not have cable at all? What happened to the the staunch opposition at all costs of monopolies in modern democratic capitalism?
Cronyism is closer to home than you think.
This article is right on and really gets my blood boiling. More evidence that the FCC simply doles out favors to corporations, violates the priniciples of individual and citizen interest, and is wholly not concerned with the future of communications technology. This is corporate welfare taken to its most extensive and disgusting manifestation.
Powell and his cronies argue its a "market dynamics" or "laissez-faire" approach, but in fact it is an active and structural campaign to lock out small business, individuals, and minority group interests. When you combine these efforts with the DMCA, the P2P disruption campaign, and the overstated concern for the "menacing hacker," you have a hoodwinked population and more corporate executives with fat pockets.