The fact that you think this wouldn't make the "real" news shows how out of touch you are with the crap that gets served up to us in order to distract us from the real issues and events.
What's really surprising is that Yale isn't on this list of the 25 Most Well Connected Campuses. They've got the Skull and Bones, which is surely the most powerful network in the country.
But seriously, this list is total crap. I know journalism at Forbes is extremely weak. Is Princeton Review just as shitty?
I also note that UCSB has a 2 computer to 100 student ratio, which I find pretty hard to believe. With those numbers, one could imagine that there's a waiting list for faculty to get computers.
Ofcourse, big business has been very successful at spreading the meme that market regulation is bad for the market. The reality is that it's good for the market (if done correctly), but it's bad for the behemoth.
Why call it a meme? Why not call it a lie, since the same businesses that are against regulation are for it when it suits their purposes, i.e., maximizes their profits, protects their markets, etc.
Same deal with Combat Missions: Beyond Overlord, which is a really great turn based 3D squad level World War 2 game. Unfortunately, it's based on RAVE 3D, and Apple dropped support of that API in OS X. Possibly Curse of Monkey Island 3 is also based on RAVE 3D.
Ah, thanks. Seems weird to say it, but it's good to know I was wrong.
The difference between a realist and a pessimist.
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Well, OK. I still like the term assumption, and if I was an egghead academic, I might use a term like cultural assumption, as in "Let us question for a moment the cultural assumptions that underlay the cultural construction of intellectual property law."
I'd say that computers and digitization of information has dealt a blow to those underlying cultural assumptions. Not a death blow by any means, but a strong enough one that we've already seen a shift in attitudes of ordinary people and, more importantly (imo), we've seen areas where the property analogy breaks down or is stretched too thin.
I say this all as an example of "Good Bad Attitude", which is the name of the uber topic. I'm obviously not saying anything new to you here. If anything, I'm appealing to your own good bad attitude, not to incite you to break the law, but to apply the hacker ethic and curiosity to things we take for granted.
And of course, I realize that when I try to incite another, really I'm using you as a proxy or mirror, to incite myself, to re-ignite my own good bad attitude.
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Dude, it's an assumption. You can't do math (or maths) without assumptions. I think I might be talking over your head. I don't mean that you're personally making an erroneous assumption.
Except most of the jokes aren't funny, so you're bound to see most of them multiple times. Oh well.
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OK, we get the point, you buy into the assumption. But the concept of ideas as property is a new one, historically speaking, that has evolved out of the original idea copyrights and patents, which were to grant limited monopolies.
And lets face it, the analogy is far from perfect. The most common breakdown, that has really confronted us in this day of perfect digital copies, is that ideas are not tangible assets. You never really addressed this. If this were not a problem in the analogy, then tell me why copyrights don't apply to ideas, but only to the more specific "expressions of ideas".
Anyway, I'm betting it's pretty fruitless to try and discuss the underlying assumptions here with you, though I could be wrong. You just seem to have too vested an interest in the system as it stands to want to sincerely investigate the artificiality of the construct. Like I said, I could be wrong.
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Uh, the Library of Congress is a little out of my way. That's why I tend to go to the local public library, which is paid for by LOCAL government. It's an important distinction.
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I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure that public libraries in the US don't pay a royalty per each borrowing. We have this thing called the First Sale Doctrine, and I believe it applies to material at the library.
This is as non-sensical as his iPod = theft spew. In fact, maybe that's his game. Whose hardware is generally perceived as "expensive"? Of course, he doesn't actually want to mention the company name. Right after he ragged on the iPod, that company reported some amazing profits and sales figures for the iPod.
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Oh, it is discrimination, but not the kind you're thinking of.
The fact that you think this wouldn't make the "real" news shows how out of touch you are with the crap that gets served up to us in order to distract us from the real issues and events.
I don't think you have any idea what the word "post-modern" means.
Here's a much better "post modern" comment for your enjoyment:
It was only a matter of time before flash mobs started showing up on the internet.
Oh, wait. I'm a dumb ass. Princeton Review isn't a newspaper, it's that test prep company.
What's really surprising is that Yale isn't on this list of the 25 Most Well Connected Campuses. They've got the Skull and Bones, which is surely the most powerful network in the country.
But seriously, this list is total crap. I know journalism at Forbes is extremely weak. Is Princeton Review just as shitty?
Completely off topic question for you. RPI has an MFA program in Electronic Arts. Do you know if it's any good? Have you heard much about it?
I also note that UCSB has a 2 computer to 100 student ratio, which I find pretty hard to believe. With those numbers, one could imagine that there's a waiting list for faculty to get computers.
They probably mean campus-wide wireless, and I kinda doubt you've got coverage in every pasture and field. =)
You're still avoiding the main point, that the airwaves belong to the public. The fact that they are a limited resource is secondary.
The airwaves are not private property, nor should they be.
Ofcourse, big business has been very successful at spreading the meme that market regulation is bad for the market. The reality is that it's good for the market (if done correctly), but it's bad for the behemoth.
Why call it a meme? Why not call it a lie, since the same businesses that are against regulation are for it when it suits their purposes, i.e., maximizes their profits, protects their markets, etc.
Same deal with Combat Missions: Beyond Overlord, which is a really great turn based 3D squad level World War 2 game. Unfortunately, it's based on RAVE 3D, and Apple dropped support of that API in OS X. Possibly Curse of Monkey Island 3 is also based on RAVE 3D.
Ah, thanks. Seems weird to say it, but it's good to know I was wrong.
The difference between a realist and a pessimist.
Well, OK. I still like the term assumption, and if I was an egghead academic, I might use a term like cultural assumption, as in "Let us question for a moment the cultural assumptions that underlay the cultural construction of intellectual property law."
I'd say that computers and digitization of information has dealt a blow to those underlying cultural assumptions. Not a death blow by any means, but a strong enough one that we've already seen a shift in attitudes of ordinary people and, more importantly (imo), we've seen areas where the property analogy breaks down or is stretched too thin.
I say this all as an example of "Good Bad Attitude", which is the name of the uber topic. I'm obviously not saying anything new to you here. If anything, I'm appealing to your own good bad attitude, not to incite you to break the law, but to apply the hacker ethic and curiosity to things we take for granted.
And of course, I realize that when I try to incite another, really I'm using you as a proxy or mirror, to incite myself, to re-ignite my own good bad attitude.
Thanks for bearing with me.
At least they didn't call it teh goats-e.
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Dude, it's an assumption. You can't do math (or maths) without assumptions. I think I might be talking over your head. I don't mean that you're personally making an erroneous assumption.
No. See the deal isn't, you tell MS what you want, then they sell it to you. The deal is MS tells you what you want, then you buy it from them.
Not to mention San Franciscans.
Except most of the jokes aren't funny, so you're bound to see most of them multiple times. Oh well.
OK, we get the point, you buy into the assumption. But the concept of ideas as property is a new one, historically speaking, that has evolved out of the original idea copyrights and patents, which were to grant limited monopolies.
And lets face it, the analogy is far from perfect. The most common breakdown, that has really confronted us in this day of perfect digital copies, is that ideas are not tangible assets. You never really addressed this. If this were not a problem in the analogy, then tell me why copyrights don't apply to ideas, but only to the more specific "expressions of ideas".
Anyway, I'm betting it's pretty fruitless to try and discuss the underlying assumptions here with you, though I could be wrong. You just seem to have too vested an interest in the system as it stands to want to sincerely investigate the artificiality of the construct. Like I said, I could be wrong.
Uh, the Library of Congress is a little out of my way. That's why I tend to go to the local public library, which is paid for by LOCAL government. It's an important distinction.
I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure that public libraries in the US don't pay a royalty per each borrowing. We have this thing called the First Sale Doctrine, and I believe it applies to material at the library.
This is as non-sensical as his iPod = theft spew. In fact, maybe that's his game. Whose hardware is generally perceived as "expensive"? Of course, he doesn't actually want to mention the company name. Right after he ragged on the iPod, that company reported some amazing profits and sales figures for the iPod.