> We don't want government getting too involved with businesses,
With the current administration and congress, we don't have to worry too much about that, do we?
Actually, I do want the government getting *more* involved with the state of business practices. A laissez-faire attitude always results in lack of business responsibility, liability, and concern for the consumer, which results in pain, death, and suffering. Any study of history should acknowledge this(read: The Irish Potato famine could have been averted of the imperialists in question had espoused a less laissez-faire attitude). Moreover, the amount of penetration corporations have within our government is sickening; corporations vicariously have more power here than in any other country. The consumer needs to be protected more vigorously, and to do that, the goverment needs to be more committed to checking corporate behavior. Things like this - blatant corporate oversights and resulting cover-ups - should never happen.
>but we want them to kick them in the ass hard when they >do something that not only can hurt/maim/kill someone, >but also creates an adverse environment for corporations >who DO act responsbibly.
Agreed. Unfortunately, corporations, at their highest levels, seem to be fraught with irresponsibility. What happened last year with ENRON, Worldcom, AOL, etc, made me quite angry. Executive greed is dangerous.
Indeed! I haven't seen the Matrix Reloaded yet(I hope to this weekend), but in the Animatrix the machines were treated in a sympathatetic light. If the Animatrix is at all intended to connect with the feature films, I expect that the machines are not entirely "evil" and the humans not entirely "good" as they are made out to be in the original movie. Some balance is meant between the machines and the humans, and it is not as black and white as it was made in the first film. I hope that Reloaded confirms this, as I would hate to see the cop out implicit in forgiving humans for their obvious negligence and self-destructive tendencies in creating superior machines.
The way you qualify each party makes it seem as if they're not different. The way I see it, the Democrats want not to take away second amendment rights, but to control them(should everyone own a gun? should everyone have the right to own a gun? I think not.) Moreover, the Republicans wish to squash dissent, unfurl the banners of policing based on racial profiling, turn the public against anyone with anything independent to say. It is true: both sides are steeped in corporate interests. However, the freedombs that the Republicans wish to destroy are more fundamental than simply "owning guns." Also, Liberal Political correctness moves more towards a progressive view of equality than the speech the Republicans wish to suppress: which is worse, offending someone on the basis of race, sex, ethnicity, social class, or offending them in the inherently democratic process of disssent? I'd say the Republicans take the cake on trying to squash important freedoms.
that it's incredibly unrealistic to say that suing the shit out of every pirate in the United States is going to have any bearing on the general trend. The other point is that the Music "Industry" itself is unnecessary - middle men whose only real job is to make themselves seem necessary. They need rouse themselves from their stupor and realize that they have to adapt to a new technological world or else die. The longer they think that scaring people and alienating customers will help, the more likely the eventuality of their death. They need to make it easier for the public to pay for online music than it is to get it at the moment. until then, they have no chance in hell. Moreover, RIAA serves corporations rights - if talent can proliferate naturally through MP3 file sharing, then why do we need corporations? RIAA is about protecting the profits of the music distributors, not the artists themselves.
That's not the point. The point is that it's incredibly unrealistic to say that suing the shit out of every pirate in the United States is going to have any bearing on the general trend. The other point is that the Music "Industry" itself is unnecessary - middle men whose only real job is to make themselves seem necessary. They need rouse themselves from their stupor and realize that they have to adapt to a new technological world or else die. The longer they think that scaring people and alienating customers will help the more likely the eventuality of their death. They need to make it easier for the public to pay for online music than it is to get it at the moment. until then, they have no chance in hell. Moreover, RIAA serves corporations rights - if talent can proliferate naturally through MP3 file sharing, then we do we need corporations? RIAA is about protecting the profits of the music distributors, not the artists themselves.
Fiction is often more true than non-fiction, more telling, more incisive & insightful, and generally more penetrating into the human psyche. More truth is told in fiction than in the happening truth.
I don't think you see the point. The mentality is not "wow, that was a great book, they should make a movie out of it!" but, "wow, that book has amazing filmic qualities, we could make a great audio-visual adaptation of it!" Sometimes these two conclusions are coincident, sometimes not. You cannot criticize movies for changing their source medium - read: movies are NOT books. movies are movies. They must sustain themselves on the qualities of their own medium - not the book's. The only aim of the adapted film is to keep the theses, spirit, and thematic conclusions of the book in tact. This is being "faithful!"
Prez Dubya Bush fired Destroy Historic, Vice Secretary of Education? I loved Destroy! He was the only good Republicrat in that Administration! We just can't win can we?
Is the Guardian the only newspaper reporting this tidbit?
On another note, it's disappointing to see the lack of imagination in the American mindset, nevermind the lack of moral assignment. I think that humanity needs an adventure like this, not one born out of war like the original moon missions but one to further humanity's reach into the universe. The universe is indifferent to us; it is our mission to reach out to it, to explore it. The first, most important step, at least within my own lifetime, would be to a human being in Mars. Where has our imagination gone?
Kazaa, it seems to me, is a fundamentally flawed approach to file sharing. Sure, it's a strong program, well implemented, well maintained - but it seems to violate the very principle which makes file sharing symptomatic of a wider, very important issue in the music/film industry - openness. They have yet, for example, to port their software to Linux or Mac OS X. They don't release their source code. They are profitting on something which qualifies, very obviously, as stealing. How are we to make the principle of file and information sharing and open models legimitate if the main proponent of anti-corporate file sharing is a corporate, profitable entity in and of itself? The only way to make file sharing a legitimate cause is to make it an open cause - to force the middle men out of contention by making a legimate counter-movement and unfurl the banners of open source, open information, open everything. I don't support KazAa for this reason. It's a very efficient(and for them, very profitable) way to steal. The music industry needs incentive to reform, to make something as easy as KazAa available to its demographic. It has yet to do this, and I don't see how KazAa is helping.
I'm not sure, but I'm not yet comfortable with the idea of getting rid of/making more clouds. Imagine, for example, what this might do to those poor Care Bears! I propose, therefore, that we make Care Bear reservations, special "no fly zone/zero alteration" weather patterns where Care Bears are able to roam about freely, rainbow sliding on and off of whatever cumulus happens to be within the reserverations' boundaries. Let's be compassionate people. Care Bear Reservations, Now!
I'm not sure, but I'm not yet comfortable with the idea of getting rid of/making more clouds. Imagine, for example, what this might do to those poor Care Bears!
I propose, therefore, that we make Care Bear reservations, special "no fly zone/zero alteration" weather patterns where Care Bears are able to roam about freely, rainbow sliding on and off of whatever cumulus happens to be within the reserverations' boundaries.
Let's be compassionate people.
Care Bear Reservations, Now!
My Hard Drive was loud. Boy was it loud. It kept me up all night, whining. Fucking hard drive.
At least until I slapped it with my massive cock.
Then it quieted down.
Soon it was begging me for more.
Yes. So are universities. And hospitals. All companies, some labelled non-profit. Please don't lump all corporations under the same umbrella. The point here is to donate money, and get a solid distribution in return. Not simple "charity."
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> We don't want government getting too involved with businesses, With the current administration and congress, we don't have to worry too much about that, do we? Actually, I do want the government getting *more* involved with the state of business practices. A laissez-faire attitude always results in lack of business responsibility, liability, and concern for the consumer, which results in pain, death, and suffering. Any study of history should acknowledge this(read: The Irish Potato famine could have been averted of the imperialists in question had espoused a less laissez-faire attitude). Moreover, the amount of penetration corporations have within our government is sickening; corporations vicariously have more power here than in any other country. The consumer needs to be protected more vigorously, and to do that, the goverment needs to be more committed to checking corporate behavior. Things like this - blatant corporate oversights and resulting cover-ups - should never happen. >but we want them to kick them in the ass hard when they >do something that not only can hurt/maim/kill someone, >but also creates an adverse environment for corporations >who DO act responsbibly. Agreed. Unfortunately, corporations, at their highest levels, seem to be fraught with irresponsibility. What happened last year with ENRON, Worldcom, AOL, etc, made me quite angry. Executive greed is dangerous.
Indeed! I haven't seen the Matrix Reloaded yet(I hope to this weekend), but in the Animatrix the machines were treated in a sympathatetic light. If the Animatrix is at all intended to connect with the feature films, I expect that the machines are not entirely "evil" and the humans not entirely "good" as they are made out to be in the original movie. Some balance is meant between the machines and the humans, and it is not as black and white as it was made in the first film. I hope that Reloaded confirms this, as I would hate to see the cop out implicit in forgiving humans for their obvious negligence and self-destructive tendencies in creating superior machines.
In another news, the sun, lightbulb emit light.
Up 80%...making the stock value $0.50 up from $0.27
The way you qualify each party makes it seem as if they're not different. The way I see it, the Democrats want not to take away second amendment rights, but to control them(should everyone own a gun? should everyone have the right to own a gun? I think not.) Moreover, the Republicans wish to squash dissent, unfurl the banners of policing based on racial profiling, turn the public against anyone with anything independent to say. It is true: both sides are steeped in corporate interests. However, the freedombs that the Republicans wish to destroy are more fundamental than simply "owning guns." Also, Liberal Political correctness moves more towards a progressive view of equality than the speech the Republicans wish to suppress: which is worse, offending someone on the basis of race, sex, ethnicity, social class, or offending them in the inherently democratic process of disssent? I'd say the Republicans take the cake on trying to squash important freedoms.
Honorable, except when the decision at hand starts involving partisan politics. See: State & Federal Supreme Court Election 2000 decision(s).
that it's incredibly unrealistic to say that suing the shit out of every pirate in the United States is going to have any bearing on the general trend. The other point is that the Music "Industry" itself is unnecessary - middle men whose only real job is to make themselves seem necessary. They need rouse themselves from their stupor and realize that they have to adapt to a new technological world or else die. The longer they think that scaring people and alienating customers will help, the more likely the eventuality of their death. They need to make it easier for the public to pay for online music than it is to get it at the moment. until then, they have no chance in hell. Moreover, RIAA serves corporations rights - if talent can proliferate naturally through MP3 file sharing, then why do we need corporations? RIAA is about protecting the profits of the music distributors, not the artists themselves.
That's not the point. The point is that it's incredibly unrealistic to say that suing the shit out of every pirate in the United States is going to have any bearing on the general trend. The other point is that the Music "Industry" itself is unnecessary - middle men whose only real job is to make themselves seem necessary. They need rouse themselves from their stupor and realize that they have to adapt to a new technological world or else die. The longer they think that scaring people and alienating customers will help the more likely the eventuality of their death. They need to make it easier for the public to pay for online music than it is to get it at the moment. until then, they have no chance in hell. Moreover, RIAA serves corporations rights - if talent can proliferate naturally through MP3 file sharing, then we do we need corporations? RIAA is about protecting the profits of the music distributors, not the artists themselves.
Fiction is often more true than non-fiction, more telling, more incisive & insightful, and generally more penetrating into the human psyche. More truth is told in fiction than in the happening truth.
I don't think you see the point. The mentality is not "wow, that was a great book, they should make a movie out of it!" but, "wow, that book has amazing filmic qualities, we could make a great audio-visual adaptation of it!" Sometimes these two conclusions are coincident, sometimes not. You cannot criticize movies for changing their source medium - read: movies are NOT books. movies are movies. They must sustain themselves on the qualities of their own medium - not the book's. The only aim of the adapted film is to keep the theses, spirit, and thematic conclusions of the book in tact. This is being "faithful!"
Prez Dubya Bush fired Destroy Historic, Vice Secretary of Education? I loved Destroy! He was the only good Republicrat in that Administration! We just can't win can we?
Is the Guardian the only newspaper reporting this tidbit?
On another note, it's disappointing to see the lack of imagination in the American mindset, nevermind the lack of moral assignment. I think that humanity needs an adventure like this, not one born out of war like the original moon missions but one to further humanity's reach into the universe. The universe is indifferent to us; it is our mission to reach out to it, to explore it. The first, most important step, at least within my own lifetime, would be to a human being in Mars. Where has our imagination gone?
Kazaa, it seems to me, is a fundamentally flawed approach to file sharing. Sure, it's a strong program, well implemented, well maintained - but it seems to violate the very principle which makes file sharing symptomatic of a wider, very important issue in the music/film industry - openness. They have yet, for example, to port their software to Linux or Mac OS X. They don't release their source code. They are profitting on something which qualifies, very obviously, as stealing. How are we to make the principle of file and information sharing and open models legimitate if the main proponent of anti-corporate file sharing is a corporate, profitable entity in and of itself? The only way to make file sharing a legitimate cause is to make it an open cause - to force the middle men out of contention by making a legimate counter-movement and unfurl the banners of open source, open information, open everything. I don't support KazAa for this reason. It's a very efficient(and for them, very profitable) way to steal. The music industry needs incentive to reform, to make something as easy as KazAa available to its demographic. It has yet to do this, and I don't see how KazAa is helping.
I'm not sure, but I'm not yet comfortable with the idea of getting rid of/making more clouds. Imagine, for example, what this might do to those poor Care Bears! I propose, therefore, that we make Care Bear reservations, special "no fly zone/zero alteration" weather patterns where Care Bears are able to roam about freely, rainbow sliding on and off of whatever cumulus happens to be within the reserverations' boundaries. Let's be compassionate people. Care Bear Reservations, Now!
I'm not sure, but I'm not yet comfortable with the idea of getting rid of/making more clouds. Imagine, for example, what this might do to those poor Care Bears! I propose, therefore, that we make Care Bear reservations, special "no fly zone/zero alteration" weather patterns where Care Bears are able to roam about freely, rainbow sliding on and off of whatever cumulus happens to be within the reserverations' boundaries. Let's be compassionate people. Care Bear Reservations, Now!
My Hard Drive was loud. Boy was it loud. It kept me up all night, whining. Fucking hard drive. At least until I slapped it with my massive cock. Then it quieted down. Soon it was begging me for more.
Like many others, I don't give a phrack.
Yes. So are universities. And hospitals. All companies, some labelled non-profit. Please don't lump all corporations under the same umbrella. The point here is to donate money, and get a solid distribution in return. Not simple "charity."
Now, if someone would just develop the autonavigational track cars, I could get to work on ropin' in some PRECOGS.
Maybe they can explain to my why my Cingular phone cuts out in the middle of my F*ING CALLS!