I suspect you're trying to make a moral point. If this is so, you're both right (or at least, I agree) and completely beside the point.
In practice, the only cost considered in waging war is the cost to "the good guys". If you can inflict 5000 casualties on the enemy (and, maybe, some of their non-combatants as well), without suffering any casualties of your own, that's zero casualties. The other side doesn't count, except as targets. If they don't want to die, they can surrender. Maybe. Or flee. Maybe.
Really advanced nation-states can win with almost no human cost (to themselves) and comparatively light financial costs. (Like destroying a multi-million <foreigncurrency> command post with a $125,000 cruise missile).
Asymmetric warfare is the best kind, as long as you're on the winning end.
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.
Darl may have successfully disentangled himself from that abortion of an ill-advised lawsuit, but I still think he should be eligible for every fiendish punishment IBM's legal specialists can think of. The only variation would be the "lamentation" bit, because I don't think any dire fate he could suffer would cause a wink of lamentation from anyone.
And, for those who don't have email-enabled mobile devices (i.e., "featurephones" instead of "smartphones")?
Yeah. On many levels, email is superior to SMS. On my Android, both SMS and email trigger audible alerts and visible indicators (so that I know I have unread texts or emails).
But for now, my wife chose a slider Nokia, so she can only text me or voice-call me, and frankly, text is better. (Like email, it conveys the message persistently without requirement immediate attention--answering the phone. Yeah, there's voicemail, but that requires a bit more action on the receiver's part to retrieve).
So, the equivalence between text and email means they're interchangeable, but there's still a subset for whom email won't work, leaving aside irrational prejudices.
Last time I looked, my wife doesn't work in a class 5 hot facility (although sometimes the mud room around the cat litter box gets close), but the round of Cipro she had after a ruptured appendix saved her life.
And by "ruptured" I mean "completely detached and misdiagnosed for 24 hours" ruptured. I think her native stubbornness and strong immune system (the catbox again) kept her alive until the medicos figured out that that gall bladder shadow in her x-ray was actually her escaped appendix, especially since it was in her medical records that she'd had the damn gall bladder removed a year earlier at that very hospital.
but the first thing I thought of when I read that scientists can now detect what is being heard is: "I wonder before the copyright police make this implant technology mandatory in order to catch unlicensed listening?"
Patents are no more property than an idea is property. They are government-granted privileges, like property.
FTFY.
What, you think you "own" property? Try to prove it without a deed. One granted by some jurisdiction of government power. Otherwise, you're just a squatter.
So, yeah, people who have this intuitive dislike of "intellectual property" as some kind of governmental fiction clearly haven't thought it through. Lacking governmental sanction, the only thing you own is whatever you're personally strong enough to defend against all comers.
Nope. You'd sue as often as you'd likely sue now, because you'd have comparable resources in each case. In the current model, you'd have a bad-ass legal team. In the proposed model, you'd have a bad-ass combat champion.
In both cases, it's a matter of "all the justice you can afford." And Zynga, well, it can afford a lot of justice.
Broadening the scene a bit, this was one of the things that made me shake my head in amazement at SCO v. IBM. IBM is legendary at its ability to field whole armies of "legal champions" and keeping huge arsenals of "legal weapons" (patents, etc.). As well as a documented history of pursuing legal warfare with the "Conan the Barbarian" mindset:
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
Within my lifetime, I anticipate that walking will become defined as "transport" and subject you to random security theater for the mere act of being on the sidewalk.
You pointed it out. Sony has a vivid imagination and a very detailed fantasy life. They routinely envision entire technical ecosystems populated entirely by their proprietary inventions. So, yes, it's entirely realistic in Sony-world to expect that Sony SmartSockets (tm) will proliferate, and that Sony SmartPlugs (tm) will be present on every electrically-powered device in the world, and Sony will operate an on-line service for authentication, billing, and service management for both power providers (owners of SmartSockets) and power consumers (owners of SmartPlugs). They'll RAKE IN THE MONEY! It'll be better than Star Wars: Galaxies! It'll be cooler than rootkitting every music CD every produced! Every "conventional" power outlet will be BANISHED by the power of SONY MARKETING! Sony SmartPower (screw trademarks) will OWN THE WORLD! And when Sony decides to press those useless nation-states to recognize its extra-territorial superiority, it has the SECRET WEAPON of threatening to turn off ALL power in those countries UNLESS THEY CAPITULATE! (Mwahaha!)
This is how it works in the minds of Sony. Out here in boring-conventional-reality-land, only a few clueless suckers will buy into it, and come to regret it almost instantly.
Orwell got a lot of things right, but his arguments about use of language were pretty wrong. You can't actually create Newspeak. If you start calling copyright infringement piracy, people start to think that pirates are cool and piracy means sticking it to The Man. If you decide that calling it piracy is no longer cutting it and start calling it theft, people will soon start making references to Robin Hood instead of Captain Jack Sparrow. (You must admit that the pigopolists bear a closer resemblance to the Sheriff of Nottingham than they do to the British Navy.)
First, most of the "people" you're referring to are proles in Orwell's vision. As long as they get their free bread, beer, and entertainment, they don't care about any of that stuff. As to the outer party members, or proles who are unfortunate enough to be perceptive and discontented, well, that's what the Thought Police are for. Either the malcontents accept Newspeak voluntarily, or after a visit to Room 101.
I think Orwell had that much right. If you can control the vocabulary, you can control the discussion. If you control the discussion, you can control the conclusion.
The only thing lacking right now is the means and will to unequivocally control the vocabulary. The pigopolists understand this, and probably concede they can't do that by force now, so they just beg their argument ("copyright infringement is theft because it's stealing from artists") and then power through the rest of the debate feeling confident they already have chosen the ground for the conflict. And by working behind the scenes and shaping laws (which are the only meaningful vocabulary in the whole milieu), they have a chance of succeeding.
Wow. I can't assess the sincerity of your statements, but I can definitely tell you...moderation is completely not living up to expectations, yours or mine. At this moment, your comment about moderation is +5 Funny. 40% Funny, 20% Offtopic, and 20% Interesting.
This place is getting very interesting, in a "train wreck" kind of way.
That's a good point. I wouldn't be surprised if the verdict came down to perceiving the threat to Facebook (or, more specifically, Farmville).
If Sir Tim said anything in his testimony that might wink-and-nod hint at the END OF THE INTARWEBS as we know it, the jury could have decided out of pure self-defense.
If that's true, Eolas was doomed before they started. Once the road is a popular 12-lane superhighway, it's a little late to try to stick a tollboth on it.
The effectiveness of this method is amazing when the voltages are ramped up to lethal levels, as long as you' both teach and evaluate before administering the current.
To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be electrocuted in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
Nonsense. If denying me the use of the music I want in the background of my YouTube masterpiece makes me scream "UNFAIR!" like a 6-year-old, then allowing my use as described must obviously be fair, by simple contradiction. Q.E.D.
I suppose this is one place where "copy culture" and media pigopoly agree: "Fair Use" has become "taking whatever I want for any reason I want without compensating anyone I don't want, as long as you can't prove I'm making money on it." Which is one reason why the pigopolists want to kill Fair Use dead.
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I suspect you're trying to make a moral point. If this is so, you're both right (or at least, I agree) and completely beside the point.
In practice, the only cost considered in waging war is the cost to "the good guys". If you can inflict 5000 casualties on the enemy (and, maybe, some of their non-combatants as well), without suffering any casualties of your own, that's zero casualties. The other side doesn't count, except as targets. If they don't want to die, they can surrender. Maybe. Or flee. Maybe.
Really advanced nation-states can win with almost no human cost (to themselves) and comparatively light financial costs. (Like destroying a multi-million <foreigncurrency> command post with a $125,000 cruise missile).
Asymmetric warfare is the best kind, as long as you're on the winning end.
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.
-- Poe's Law
Darl may have successfully disentangled himself from that abortion of an ill-advised lawsuit, but I still think he should be eligible for every fiendish punishment IBM's legal specialists can think of. The only variation would be the "lamentation" bit, because I don't think any dire fate he could suffer would cause a wink of lamentation from anyone.
And, for those who don't have email-enabled mobile devices (i.e., "featurephones" instead of "smartphones")?
Yeah. On many levels, email is superior to SMS. On my Android, both SMS and email trigger audible alerts and visible indicators (so that I know I have unread texts or emails).
But for now, my wife chose a slider Nokia, so she can only text me or voice-call me, and frankly, text is better. (Like email, it conveys the message persistently without requirement immediate attention--answering the phone. Yeah, there's voicemail, but that requires a bit more action on the receiver's part to retrieve).
So, the equivalence between text and email means they're interchangeable, but there's still a subset for whom email won't work, leaving aside irrational prejudices.
I see what you did there.
Good eye, catching the similarity.
Yes. IBM's end goal involves salting earth, poisoning wells, and the lamentation of women. And frankly, that's better than Darl deserves.
Last time I looked, my wife doesn't work in a class 5 hot facility (although sometimes the mud room around the cat litter box gets close), but the round of Cipro she had after a ruptured appendix saved her life.
And by "ruptured" I mean "completely detached and misdiagnosed for 24 hours" ruptured. I think her native stubbornness and strong immune system (the catbox again) kept her alive until the medicos figured out that that gall bladder shadow in her x-ray was actually her escaped appendix, especially since it was in her medical records that she'd had the damn gall bladder removed a year earlier at that very hospital.
And guessing what the author meant will cause very inconsistent results.
Well, in perfect pedantry I must point out that guessing consistently wrong would qualify as "consistent results". So there's an out there.
but the first thing I thought of when I read that scientists can now detect what is being heard is: "I wonder before the copyright police make this implant technology mandatory in order to catch unlicensed listening?"
Patents are no more property than an idea is property. They are government-granted privileges, like property.
FTFY.
What, you think you "own" property? Try to prove it without a deed. One granted by some jurisdiction of government power. Otherwise, you're just a squatter.
So, yeah, people who have this intuitive dislike of "intellectual property" as some kind of governmental fiction clearly haven't thought it through. Lacking governmental sanction, the only thing you own is whatever you're personally strong enough to defend against all comers.
Nope. You'd sue as often as you'd likely sue now, because you'd have comparable resources in each case. In the current model, you'd have a bad-ass legal team. In the proposed model, you'd have a bad-ass combat champion.
In both cases, it's a matter of "all the justice you can afford." And Zynga, well, it can afford a lot of justice.
Broadening the scene a bit, this was one of the things that made me shake my head in amazement at SCO v. IBM. IBM is legendary at its ability to field whole armies of "legal champions" and keeping huge arsenals of "legal weapons" (patents, etc.). As well as a documented history of pursuing legal warfare with the "Conan the Barbarian" mindset:
Within my lifetime, I anticipate that walking will become defined as "transport" and subject you to random security theater for the mere act of being on the sidewalk.
I hope I'm wrong.
You pointed it out. Sony has a vivid imagination and a very detailed fantasy life. They routinely envision entire technical ecosystems populated entirely by their proprietary inventions. So, yes, it's entirely realistic in Sony-world to expect that Sony SmartSockets (tm) will proliferate, and that Sony SmartPlugs (tm) will be present on every electrically-powered device in the world, and Sony will operate an on-line service for authentication, billing, and service management for both power providers (owners of SmartSockets) and power consumers (owners of SmartPlugs). They'll RAKE IN THE MONEY! It'll be better than Star Wars: Galaxies! It'll be cooler than rootkitting every music CD every produced! Every "conventional" power outlet will be BANISHED by the power of SONY MARKETING! Sony SmartPower (screw trademarks) will OWN THE WORLD! And when Sony decides to press those useless nation-states to recognize its extra-territorial superiority, it has the SECRET WEAPON of threatening to turn off ALL power in those countries UNLESS THEY CAPITULATE! (Mwahaha!)
This is how it works in the minds of Sony. Out here in boring-conventional-reality-land, only a few clueless suckers will buy into it, and come to regret it almost instantly.
I can write off pork, no problem.
I'll just up my intake of ham. And bacon. Tasty, tasty, smoky, bacon. Baaaaconnnn.... <drool>
What is is the postage for a 2x4 with the message spelled out in nailgun nails?
I'm sorry, Parliamentary Privilege renders the Minister immune to logical fallacy. Or maybe to logic. It's hard to tell.
What Parliamentary Privilege doesn't immunize The Honorable Mr. Toews from is much-deserved mockery. So let's make sure he gets a full dose of that.
Orwell got a lot of things right, but his arguments about use of language were pretty wrong. You can't actually create Newspeak. If you start calling copyright infringement piracy, people start to think that pirates are cool and piracy means sticking it to The Man. If you decide that calling it piracy is no longer cutting it and start calling it theft, people will soon start making references to Robin Hood instead of Captain Jack Sparrow. (You must admit that the pigopolists bear a closer resemblance to the Sheriff of Nottingham than they do to the British Navy.)
First, most of the "people" you're referring to are proles in Orwell's vision. As long as they get their free bread, beer, and entertainment, they don't care about any of that stuff. As to the outer party members, or proles who are unfortunate enough to be perceptive and discontented, well, that's what the Thought Police are for. Either the malcontents accept Newspeak voluntarily, or after a visit to Room 101.
I think Orwell had that much right. If you can control the vocabulary, you can control the discussion. If you control the discussion, you can control the conclusion.
The only thing lacking right now is the means and will to unequivocally control the vocabulary. The pigopolists understand this, and probably concede they can't do that by force now, so they just beg their argument ("copyright infringement is theft because it's stealing from artists") and then power through the rest of the debate feeling confident they already have chosen the ground for the conflict. And by working behind the scenes and shaping laws (which are the only meaningful vocabulary in the whole milieu), they have a chance of succeeding.
Wow. I can't assess the sincerity of your statements, but I can definitely tell you...moderation is completely not living up to expectations, yours or mine. At this moment, your comment about moderation is +5 Funny. 40% Funny, 20% Offtopic, and 20% Interesting.
This place is getting very interesting, in a "train wreck" kind of way.
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I'm trying to cut down my comic carbon footprint, so I only use lollerskates.
My wife's from Texas, and we still have a lot of connections from all over that state.
My impression is that most of Texas looks down on East Texas. Kind of like "Arkansas on the wrong side of the river."
Of course, most of Texas looks down on a lot of other parts of Texas. For instance, Dallas isn't really Texan enough to be Texas.
That's a good point. I wouldn't be surprised if the verdict came down to perceiving the threat to Facebook (or, more specifically, Farmville).
If Sir Tim said anything in his testimony that might wink-and-nod hint at the END OF THE INTARWEBS as we know it, the jury could have decided out of pure self-defense.
If that's true, Eolas was doomed before they started. Once the road is a popular 12-lane superhighway, it's a little late to try to stick a tollboth on it.
The effectiveness of this method is amazing when the voltages are ramped up to lethal levels, as long as you' both teach and evaluate before administering the current.
To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be electrocuted in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
Nonsense. If denying me the use of the music I want in the background of my YouTube masterpiece makes me scream "UNFAIR!" like a 6-year-old, then allowing my use as described must obviously be fair, by simple contradiction. Q.E.D.
I suppose this is one place where "copy culture" and media pigopoly agree: "Fair Use" has become "taking whatever I want for any reason I want without compensating anyone I don't want, as long as you can't prove I'm making money on it." Which is one reason why the pigopolists want to kill Fair Use dead.
Even simpler answer to that: livecd (or live usb) linux environment, rather than installing more stuff on your Windows or Amiga or Atari box.