Intellectual property per se is NOT what demands a revolt/revolution. What demands that is the consistently anti-democratic and unethical behavior of nearly all of the people we're electing, as well as those we're promoting to power in corporations. After we're done kicking them all out of the temple, THEN we need to sit down and collectively have a serious conversation about how screwed-up our criteria for choosing leaders has been. We need new criteria to make sure we don't repeat the same litany of mistakes all over again. Hell, we've been doing this for centuries.
That's what is really important.
We're not likely to achieve any of the necessary systemic change with the existing narcissists still in control, because the existing system is precisely what nurtures them. They'll fight any true reform tooth and nail... and they have been and ARE. Not only are they fighting reform, they're actively working to make things worse, less democratic, less ethical. This ACTA business is but one tiny example.
If you think just keeping people fed is what's really important, you're seriously ignorant of the bigger picture.
... , to the very people who elected them, require consensus? Shouldn't it be opacity that requires unanimous consensus?
Seriously, people, how much more clue do you need that "reform" isn't going to cut it? Only another "R" word is going to put an end to this. If you're not firing up the furnace and making ready to beat your plowshares into swords, you're not doing enough.
Kennedy's blog post reads like someone who doesn't really feel the contrition he's publicly confessed. I'd guess he's still flush with the personal success that was concurrent with his disingenuity, and really doesn't see the harm caused by his choices and actions. This might be typical of all non-violent anti-social "criminals": ultimately they're narcissists and see their personal success as the only true test of what is right or wrong. Do you suppose Ken Lay (of Enron) even today truly feels that his actions were bad?
This is but one reason why I use only cash to buy gas. The other is that greedy operators like ARCO will skim $0.45 off the top of every debit card transaction. I happened to be an early victim of debit card reproduction over a decade ago, before these current devices even existed; back then it apparently required collusion with a station employee to redirect outside security cameras and collect register data. The result was the same: my Versatel card was duplicated without ever leaving my possession, and then a withdrawal spree took place over three days at race track and casino third-party ATMs all over four counties.
I sounds like Jimmy Wales is the secret genius behind Fox TV's programming, because they use his failure logic to cancel the awesome-but-undiscovered stuff all the time.
Thanks, Jimmy, for cancelling Firefly, Space: Above and Beyond, and Keen Eddie!
I'm sorry, but breaking that ONE article into SIXTEEN fucking pages, just so they can force people to at least peripherally view sixteen different ads, is pretty damned near coercion. I wouldn't need tools like Autopager if it wasn't for gross excesses like that one. Their extreme behavior begets reciprocally extreme behavior.
There's an easy way to thwart that advertising blackmail for users of Firefox: the AutoPager extension. Antipagination would probably still work for older versions of Firefox.
Oh, I wish "tit storm" meant what my dirty masculine mind wants to think it means, and that the storm would wind its way through my town in the USA....
Immunity is less inherited and more acquired. As long as the clone isn't raised as a bubble boy, (s)he will likely wind up with the same immunities as other contemporary humans in the same local environment.
I doubt that you fall within the set we would call the "rule". I know I don't. I'm not saying we should, or should want to, rather I'd like to get other people out of the "rule" set and into the one labeled "exception" (well, until the reversal is complete, that is).
I was avoiding presuming too much about consumers in other countries I've never even visited.
I guess I must know better what the true cost of Windows is, since I've never bought a brand-name computer until recently (laptop, used) and so the OS was always an explicit line item. I suspect I have a better grasp of the true cost of most manufactured things than most consumers, because they weren't paying attention in the high school and college classes that would have taught them how to assess those costs. We're all getting gouged right and left by those manufacturers, and by middlemen who add no value at all, and even those of us who recognize it are being dragged along for the ride because of this "apathy" or ignorance.
And that "doing without" is precisely what would motivate Microsoft to reconsider.
American consumers, even when they're not ignorant, are too addicted and apathetic to do anything but whine. They file for divorce often enough, yet they can't ever seem to divorce themselves from their corporate abusers.
You claim it's happening, but where's the economic consequence for Microsoft that would persuade it to stop? People have continued to buy/accept Windows in droves since activation first appeared almost a decade ago. Now people are thoroughly comfortable with the needle, so Microsoft is twisting it in a bit further.
Where was all this righteous indignation when Windows XP was released? How many of you even remember the last version of Windows that was released without some form of this "activation"? If this is such a problem, then the people complaining should be voting with their dollars... but that isn't happening, is it?
In the immortal words of Dirty Harry: "A man's gotta know his limitations." How many people do you know who truly do? There's not enough of them to staff the call centers of the United States alone, even if we tracked them down worldwide and outsourced.
Brilliant plan, guys... except you still left one variable unknown: the aloof guy who doesn't belong to any groups. How do you pick him out of the crowd when he's not in it to begin with? Those aloof loners are always the ones we should be worrying about, right? That's what the movies always say.
I don't think it's that simple, since I left unchanged all the HTML inside the article proper, including the pie chart image; all I removed was the CSS and scripts and some superfluous container tags. The browsers that couldn't print it weren't just some browsers, they were Firefox 3.5.7 and IE 8.
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Intellectual property per se is NOT what demands a revolt/revolution. What demands that is the consistently anti-democratic and unethical behavior of nearly all of the people we're electing, as well as those we're promoting to power in corporations. After we're done kicking them all out of the temple, THEN we need to sit down and collectively have a serious conversation about how screwed-up our criteria for choosing leaders has been. We need new criteria to make sure we don't repeat the same litany of mistakes all over again. Hell, we've been doing this for centuries.
That's what is really important.
We're not likely to achieve any of the necessary systemic change with the existing narcissists still in control, because the existing system is precisely what nurtures them. They'll fight any true reform tooth and nail... and they have been and ARE. Not only are they fighting reform, they're actively working to make things worse, less democratic, less ethical. This ACTA business is but one tiny example.
If you think just keeping people fed is what's really important, you're seriously ignorant of the bigger picture.
... , to the very people who elected them, require consensus? Shouldn't it be opacity that requires unanimous consensus?
Seriously, people, how much more clue do you need that "reform" isn't going to cut it? Only another "R" word is going to put an end to this. If you're not firing up the furnace and making ready to beat your plowshares into swords, you're not doing enough.
Kennedy's blog post reads like someone who doesn't really feel the contrition he's publicly confessed. I'd guess he's still flush with the personal success that was concurrent with his disingenuity, and really doesn't see the harm caused by his choices and actions. This might be typical of all non-violent anti-social "criminals": ultimately they're narcissists and see their personal success as the only true test of what is right or wrong. Do you suppose Ken Lay (of Enron) even today truly feels that his actions were bad?
Fascism works by asking people for an inch and then taking a mile. No, wait... that's capitalism. Fascistic capitalism?
This is but one reason why I use only cash to buy gas. The other is that greedy operators like ARCO will skim $0.45 off the top of every debit card transaction. I happened to be an early victim of debit card reproduction over a decade ago, before these current devices even existed; back then it apparently required collusion with a station employee to redirect outside security cameras and collect register data. The result was the same: my Versatel card was duplicated without ever leaving my possession, and then a withdrawal spree took place over three days at race track and casino third-party ATMs all over four counties.
I sounds like Jimmy Wales is the secret genius behind Fox TV's programming, because they use his failure logic to cancel the awesome-but-undiscovered stuff all the time.
Thanks, Jimmy, for cancelling Firefly, Space: Above and Beyond, and Keen Eddie!
Stop trying to shift the specific context out of focus, moron. It's about the article, not its effect on the Universe.
I'm sorry, but breaking that ONE article into SIXTEEN fucking pages, just so they can force people to at least peripherally view sixteen different ads, is pretty damned near coercion. I wouldn't need tools like Autopager if it wasn't for gross excesses like that one. Their extreme behavior begets reciprocally extreme behavior.
There's an easy way to thwart that advertising blackmail for users of Firefox: the AutoPager extension. Antipagination would probably still work for older versions of Firefox.
"Lots" might be a big exaggeration. I can think of one instance, and could anticipate others, but "lots"?
Oh, I wish "tit storm" meant what my dirty masculine mind wants to think it means, and that the storm would wind its way through my town in the USA....
Immunity is less inherited and more acquired. As long as the clone isn't raised as a bubble boy, (s)he will likely wind up with the same immunities as other contemporary humans in the same local environment.
It's a good thing if Sunde gets this off the ground and profitable, because he's gotta having something to pay off that judgement to Big Media....
Why would TFS even highlight that post in the discussion, when the support engineer's promotion of it was retracted almost as soon as it was added?
I doubt that you fall within the set we would call the "rule". I know I don't. I'm not saying we should, or should want to, rather I'd like to get other people out of the "rule" set and into the one labeled "exception" (well, until the reversal is complete, that is).
I was avoiding presuming too much about consumers in other countries I've never even visited.
I guess I must know better what the true cost of Windows is, since I've never bought a brand-name computer until recently (laptop, used) and so the OS was always an explicit line item. I suspect I have a better grasp of the true cost of most manufactured things than most consumers, because they weren't paying attention in the high school and college classes that would have taught them how to assess those costs. We're all getting gouged right and left by those manufacturers, and by middlemen who add no value at all, and even those of us who recognize it are being dragged along for the ride because of this "apathy" or ignorance.
And that "doing without" is precisely what would motivate Microsoft to reconsider.
American consumers, even when they're not ignorant, are too addicted and apathetic to do anything but whine. They file for divorce often enough, yet they can't ever seem to divorce themselves from their corporate abusers.
You claim it's happening, but where's the economic consequence for Microsoft that would persuade it to stop? People have continued to buy/accept Windows in droves since activation first appeared almost a decade ago. Now people are thoroughly comfortable with the needle, so Microsoft is twisting it in a bit further.
Where was all this righteous indignation when Windows XP was released? How many of you even remember the last version of Windows that was released without some form of this "activation"? If this is such a problem, then the people complaining should be voting with their dollars... but that isn't happening, is it?
Precisely at the instant that people stop asking this question. Didn't anyone ever tell you that a watched pot never boils?
In the immortal words of Dirty Harry: "A man's gotta know his limitations." How many people do you know who truly do? There's not enough of them to staff the call centers of the United States alone, even if we tracked them down worldwide and outsourced.
You're barking up the wrong tree: you should be screaming at the JavaScript wizards, I think.
Brilliant plan, guys... except you still left one variable unknown: the aloof guy who doesn't belong to any groups. How do you pick him out of the crowd when he's not in it to begin with? Those aloof loners are always the ones we should be worrying about, right? That's what the movies always say.
I'd wager it's a losing battle when even professors use the phrase "sort of like". Can the gray pot still ridicule the kettle for being black?
I don't think it's that simple, since I left unchanged all the HTML inside the article proper, including the pie chart image; all I removed was the CSS and scripts and some superfluous container tags. The browsers that couldn't print it weren't just some browsers, they were Firefox 3.5.7 and IE 8.
I'm not yet convinced that it wasn't intentional.