...the blatant Un-American nature of the DMCA and take a stand, just as every true patriot should take a stand against the so called Patriot Act.
These are two very unnecessary bills passed by a technologically ignorant (in the case of the DMCA) and shortsighted (in the case of the Patriot Act) legislature.
I personally don't understand the benefit of either act. IAONAP, but as far as I can tell there was no evidence that the existing laws were inadequate, in either case. I do believe both the DMCA (in its current incarnation) and the Patriot Act (ESPECIALLY the Patriot Act) are chipping sizeable chunks away at civil liberty. One of these needs to die before it gets worse.
I thought our tax dollars were used to market government-approved violent games to our nation's youth. Silly me, it's being used for the development and proliferation of OSS!
Why do I always feel like I'm waking up from a nightmare?
"Why is this a problem? The public domain belongs to everyone, to make shitty things out of or not."
I never said it was a problem. It's just an extremely humorous situation to me. I am sure these recordings will be used in even wackier ways than I can foresee.
I just love human nature... *I* am tempted to make a shitty techno mix like the one I described in parent, and I know there must be other people out there who would do the same thing. It's a beautiful thought about human nature, in a way.
Dnaumov - Meta-modding tends to be unkind people who speak out against the "everything should be free" dogma surrounding Slashdot. I disagree with you, but I've seen enough of your posts before to know (hope) you're not trolling.
Yes, I steal music. If you've read the latest article on the RIAA's trouble regarding price-fixing you'd realize they also steal from me.
"How are you doin? I was hanging oout with aunt sally today and you should see her goiter! its the size of a watermelon... and mabel says blah blah blah..."
E-mail compiled by a spam program:
"HEY misterbigpants@mailservice.com, increase your penis size TODAY! CLICK HERE for more details! LADJF43253K42LJ34L3K23JK4."
So you can see, humans have about as much interesting things to say as spam does. Maybe even more; I'm way more inclined to make my penis bigger than to hear the droll minutae of my family's lives. Who isn't?
If you had *seen* the episode, you would know that Tweek's coffee tastes like week-old diarrhea, and that Harbucks (an oh-so-subtle reference) ended up winning the day.
So Mr. Tweek ends up working for the man. Like everyone.
"Hey look, a Starbucks opened up down the street."
I assume you're making an ironic musing on capitalization and corporations. Starbucks started like every other chain -- with a single store. What made them popular was the fact that they sell a GOOD product.
The fact that Kirk always beat Spock at chess is/was a metaphor for the dominance of human ingenuity over cold logic.
I was attempting to make an insightful parallel using a motif that is prevalent in science fiction (the ingenuity/logic one I mentioned five seconds ago, if you've forgotten).
Slashdot Mirror
Unknown age, 99.9999999% unknown components.
Baryons
:)
Dark Energy
Dark Matter
Hope this helps you out a little.
...but it will cook your cosmic Hot Pocket.
...the blatant Un-American nature of the DMCA and take a stand, just as every true patriot should take a stand against the so called Patriot Act.
These are two very unnecessary bills passed by a technologically ignorant (in the case of the DMCA) and shortsighted (in the case of the Patriot Act) legislature.
I personally don't understand the benefit of either act. IAONAP, but as far as I can tell there was no evidence that the existing laws were inadequate, in either case. I do believe both the DMCA (in its current incarnation) and the Patriot Act (ESPECIALLY the Patriot Act) are chipping sizeable chunks away at civil liberty. One of these needs to die before it gets worse.
...its flammability.
Doesn't use Google.
They use Gooleg.
Seems more informative than anything else...
I've got to start buying my frisbees again?
If you paid attention to the articles about Disney, you'd realize that patents are eternal.
"Now I'm going to McDonalds for a delicious cheeseburger." Don't forget to take your SUV, unless you're a terrorist of course.
I thought our tax dollars were used to market government-approved violent games to our nation's youth. Silly me, it's being used for the development and proliferation of OSS!
Why do I always feel like I'm waking up from a nightmare?
Maybe I'm high. That made a lot of sense, even though it didn't answer any questions.
Philosophy sucks like that.
"Why is this a problem? The public domain belongs to everyone, to make shitty things out of or not."
I never said it was a problem. It's just an extremely humorous situation to me. I am sure these recordings will be used in even wackier ways than I can foresee.
I just love human nature... *I* am tempted to make a shitty techno mix like the one I described in parent, and I know there must be other people out there who would do the same thing. It's a beautiful thought about human nature, in a way.
Dnaumov - Meta-modding tends to be unkind people who speak out against the "everything should be free" dogma surrounding Slashdot. I disagree with you, but I've seen enough of your posts before to know (hope) you're not trolling.
Yes, I steal music. If you've read the latest article on the RIAA's trouble regarding price-fixing you'd realize they also steal from me.
That's all I have to say.
Any successful food/drink company can be marketed as #4. Especially fast food restaurants.
McD's makes some shit, but it's easily consummable.
...someone 'samples' this public-domain sound archive to make their own shitty techno music?
hitler_vs_truman---battlerap.mp3
E-mail written by a human being:
"How are you doin? I was hanging oout with aunt sally today and you should see her goiter! its the size of a watermelon... and mabel says blah blah blah..."
E-mail compiled by a spam program:
"HEY misterbigpants@mailservice.com, increase your penis size TODAY! CLICK HERE for more details! LADJF43253K42LJ34L3K23JK4."
So you can see, humans have about as much interesting things to say as spam does. Maybe even more; I'm way more inclined to make my penis bigger than to hear the droll minutae of my family's lives. Who isn't?
If you had *seen* the episode, you would know that Tweek's coffee tastes like week-old diarrhea, and that Harbucks (an oh-so-subtle reference) ended up winning the day.
So Mr. Tweek ends up working for the man. Like everyone.
Yes. I enjoy their wide selection of coffee and tea; I don't drink Starbucks on a daily basis but I'll usually grab something if I pass one.
I've also tasted the coffee of many local enterprises... most of it is mud. If I want bad coffee I'll stay at home and make it myself.
At the risk of being OT...
"Hey look, a Starbucks opened up down the street."
I assume you're making an ironic musing on capitalization and corporations. Starbucks started like every other chain -- with a single store. What made them popular was the fact that they sell a GOOD product.
corporate != shit
Sometimes, but not always.
Whoa, deja vu... must be a glitch.
The fact that Kirk always beat Spock at chess is/was a metaphor for the dominance of human ingenuity over cold logic.
I was attempting to make an insightful parallel using a motif that is prevalent in science fiction (the ingenuity/logic one I mentioned five seconds ago, if you've forgotten).
I'm not sure why it got modded as "funny".
Kirk always beat Spock at chess.
/trekkie
Did anyone else think of The Matrix when they looked at the title?
Please don't mention "wide open", "John Madden", and "stuffed" in the same post. I'm disturbed enough by John Madden's appearance as is.