The first car on Mars. The martians get the first glimpse of earth's dominant life form! Watch out, the whole place will look like LA in 10 years tops.
They'll save the swapping around leaders for just before the election. No point in giving the media any time to pick apart Turnbull or Bishop or Hockey. We've already got the creepily unlikable abbot to focus our dislike on and they'll give us someone fresh for the election.
I'm from the States and have lived in Australia for about ten years. It seems to me that in Australia the parties have more influence than the sum of the personalities that make them up. In some ways this is good, small parties like the greens end up with a deciding vote and get a bit of bargaining power that would be impossible in the USA. On the other end Australia really only seems to roast the party leader.
So this is what you get, a whole lot of closed meetings and politicians making big decisions without any coarse for public retribution.
The parties here tend to reach consensus and individual politicians rarely take a stand outside of their parties. People are never concerned about how the individual they elected behaves in parliament. The kind of localized electoral scrutiny that derailed sopa/pipa in the states is really difficult to muster in Australia.
We will have to rely on technological means to bypass bad policy. Everything we do online is out in the open for ip trolls to scrutinize and the policy that empowers them is written behind closed doors.
But try to enact that policy and the internet will repair itself. All this policy crap is a good warning that we need to move the internet behind closed doors and cover our own asses if we're trying to watch movies and listen to music whose copyright will never expire and no ip troll or parliamentary nitwit will bother to make truly accessible to us.
I'm sure the only reason they didn't include movie playback in this version is so that all the rich schmucks that buy every generation of iPod will have to for out the cash in a couple of months when they include the software that ads movie playback functionality.
About 6 months after I bought my 600mhz iBook it went on the fritz and eventually the display wouldn't do a thing. Anyhow I took it into NextByte (a nationwide mac reseller that pretends to be apple it self the way it advertises itsefl) Anyhow, having bought my iBook in the US the technicians had to have every piece of equipment they replaced approved by a person overseas so it took them almost 5 months to get my computer back to me.
I find it is also harder to find parts with Apple drivers for Macs in Australia. They just don't quite have the infrustructure to support alternative hardware.
Also, NextByte runs itself like a bastard corporation and encourages ruthless cutthroat sales techniques among its sales staff. It's realy a second class hardware reatailer going a long way on the coat tails of Apple. And I think NextByte is the largest apple resale franchiser in Australia.
www.stopRIAAlawsuits.com proposes mass boycot triggered by each set of laswsuits. It utilizes a system similar to those blue ribons from the communication decencey act days of yore. If you want your webpage to participate then check it out.
To be sung by a nerd in front of a computer out of range of his cracking voice.
'Cuz they've got faith of the heart
They're goin' where their heart will take them
They've got faith to believe
They can do anything
They've got strength of the soul
And no one's gonna bend or break Them
They can reach any star
They've got faith
Faith of the heart
yeah yeah yeah, Star Trek and Al from Quantum Leap, yeah yeah yeah
Wow, how insightful. It's like, I could never use yahoo mail again after using Apple's slick mail program, it's just not the right interface for mail is it? This guy has a really good point.
What I find particularly nice about this dealy is that one doesn't have to log into some really poorly layed out web page with terrible graphics of Brittney and N'Sync splattered all over and with banners flying all about crashing into each other. It is a natural extension of iTunes and a pleasant aesthetic experience. It works just like the player, type in the name of your favorite band (that everyone has heard of) and the songs are layed out in front of you just like your own collection.
What I think will make this service sucessfull is that one merely has to click on the song for it to become part of one's collection. Songs can be attained just as simply as if they were already on one's harddrive and so the natural defense mechanisms we've all built up for traditional retail establishments and online retailers will be that much weaker. See a picture of a pretty pop star, click on it, and recieve instant gratification for not much money.
I mean, think about it. It really is kind of an ugly experience to log into amazon.com, their page is really quite ugly. And web browsers, if used to buy online mp3s, are not generally very well linked with your player (you tend to download to your default folder and then have to copy from there into iTunes.) Anyway this store makes spending money a really slick and easy thing to do. (cheaper and safer than sex) I just hope that some day it will offer some obscure music that I can't buy in music stores. Then I'll really get off on it.
Wouldn't terrorists just as easily pirate commercial software. I don't see how free software would make things any easier for terrorists who, by their very nature, would have no moral qualms with pirating commercial software.
Seriously, are terrorists going to print their newsletters in OpenOffice or a pirated copy of Word?
There is a non-sci-fi novel by PK dick called The Big bubble which takes place in the fifties, anyhow there's a big-black-german-remote-controlled-full-sized car in it which this psuedo revolutionary uses to chase around would be frat boys.
Kind of off topic but not entirly. And I've seen lots of Phillip K. Dick thought of it first posts in the past.
Wasn't there a version of Darwin available for the server and developer market available before the home version of OS X was released. I suppose that wouldn't be called an OS X machine though.
The Negativeland CD is now available as "These guys are from england"
It is rather hilarious, it contains outakes of Casey Casem swearing his head off about dedicating "I still haven't found what I'm looking for" to a dead dog. At one point he says
That is a fairly silly assumption. Take the case of Negativeland who is responsible for releasing an album under the name U2 which was eventually sewed out of existence and recently re-released (go figure). They are rather infamous after having pulled this stunt and have a loyal following wherever they tour. They release there own albums, (and find it increasing difficult to find anyone to print them for fear of liability) but none-the-less have made a fairly long lived stay on this earth as musicians. If you look at any main-stream one hit wonder your likely to see that they didn't make much money on the first album and never really had a chance again.
A while ago I came across this
Bio/Demological media feedback systems (1)
jounal entry at infoanarchy.org. This Journal entry discusses the potential of the internet to introduce people to interesting music and even hone their taste into some sort of demographically aesthetic purism.
I.E. it is the very instrument we use to discover music that shapes our taste. That what is inherently interesting about music is that it rubs our nuerons in the same way as music we have already heard and perhaps experienced at a pleasant if not interesting moment in our lives.
Currently the media for introducing us to music are still primarily owned by corporate interests. But this article suggests that the internet offers a potential meathod for cloud seeding our lives with interesting music.
This article suggest that a system could be established that introduces music to people that tends to stimulate people who have similar demographical profiles (like amazon's purchase comparison) but that allowed for mutation by introducing semi-random tracks from a royalty free database. In this way people could become accostomed to music that isn't packaged in the conventional way.
Anyway the article puts it more eloquently than I do.
It would be interesting if this same technology was applied to picking which mp3s the computer might play for us based on what seemed to make us feel better the last time we felt this way. Or imagine turning the internet into a sort of concerned television that could display whatever information made other people feel better when they showed the same characteristics of mood that you might be displaying.
The fact of the matter is that our minds are completely owned by the recording industry and other media conglomerates. Music relies intensely on being involuntarily introduced to us over time. While when asked I like mostly obcure and innaccessable music there is a a certain place in my heart for the music that is pumped into my brain every day in retail, walking down the street, talking to dumb people etc. . . And while I wish I could be snobby enough to ignore it, the music is catchy, and super produced, the content of the music is what it does to your stereo not necessarily weather it challenges you or is actually good music.
Also they own our pasts. It's not likely you lost your virginity listening to snotglobs from Iowa, you were more likely listening to a song distributed through old fashioned channels. And as such whenever you want to feel sentimental you have to either pay the Riaa to kill your future or steal the music.
If a network could be developed to introduce random independent music into one's home based on demographical responses and previous preferences one could develope a new kind of marketing. People want to create and share and it's a sad world to live in that people don't think music is worthwhile unless it is marketed heavily and obtrusively forced into your mind.
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Luke will put a Hamptser in the microwave in star wars seven. Censors to go crazy!
The first car on Mars. The martians get the first glimpse of earth's dominant life form! Watch out, the whole place will look like LA in 10 years tops.
They'll save the swapping around leaders for just before the election. No point in giving the media any time to pick apart Turnbull or Bishop or Hockey. We've already got the creepily unlikable abbot to focus our dislike on and they'll give us someone fresh for the election.
I'm from the States and have lived in Australia for about ten years. It seems to me that in Australia the parties have more influence than the sum of the personalities that make them up. In some ways this is good, small parties like the greens end up with a deciding vote and get a bit of bargaining power that would be impossible in the USA. On the other end Australia really only seems to roast the party leader.
So this is what you get, a whole lot of closed meetings and politicians making big decisions without any coarse for public retribution. The parties here tend to reach consensus and individual politicians rarely take a stand outside of their parties. People are never concerned about how the individual they elected behaves in parliament. The kind of localized electoral scrutiny that derailed sopa/pipa in the states is really difficult to muster in Australia.
We will have to rely on technological means to bypass bad policy. Everything we do online is out in the open for ip trolls to scrutinize and the policy that empowers them is written behind closed doors. But try to enact that policy and the internet will repair itself. All this policy crap is a good warning that we need to move the internet behind closed doors and cover our own asses if we're trying to watch movies and listen to music whose copyright will never expire and no ip troll or parliamentary nitwit will bother to make truly accessible to us.
I'm sure the only reason they didn't include movie playback in this version is so that all the rich schmucks that buy every generation of iPod will have to for out the cash in a couple of months when they include the software that ads movie playback functionality.
About 6 months after I bought my 600mhz iBook it went on the fritz and eventually the display wouldn't do a thing. Anyhow I took it into NextByte (a nationwide mac reseller that pretends to be apple it self the way it advertises itsefl) Anyhow, having bought my iBook in the US the technicians had to have every piece of equipment they replaced approved by a person overseas so it took them almost 5 months to get my computer back to me.
I find it is also harder to find parts with Apple drivers for Macs in Australia. They just don't quite have the infrustructure to support alternative hardware.
Also, NextByte runs itself like a bastard corporation and encourages ruthless cutthroat sales techniques among its sales staff. It's realy a second class hardware reatailer going a long way on the coat tails of Apple. And I think NextByte is the largest apple resale franchiser in Australia.
www.stopRIAAlawsuits.com proposes mass boycot triggered by each set of laswsuits. It utilizes a system similar to those blue ribons from the communication decencey act days of yore. If you want your webpage to participate then check it out.
To be sung by a nerd in front of a computer out of range of his cracking voice. 'Cuz they've got faith of the heart They're goin' where their heart will take them They've got faith to believe They can do anything They've got strength of the soul And no one's gonna bend or break Them They can reach any star They've got faith Faith of the heart yeah yeah yeah, Star Trek and Al from Quantum Leap, yeah yeah yeah
Wow, how insightful. It's like, I could never use yahoo mail again after using Apple's slick mail program, it's just not the right interface for mail is it? This guy has a really good point.
What I find particularly nice about this dealy is that one doesn't have to log into some really poorly layed out web page with terrible graphics of Brittney and N'Sync splattered all over and with banners flying all about crashing into each other. It is a natural extension of iTunes and a pleasant aesthetic experience. It works just like the player, type in the name of your favorite band (that everyone has heard of) and the songs are layed out in front of you just like your own collection.
What I think will make this service sucessfull is that one merely has to click on the song for it to become part of one's collection. Songs can be attained just as simply as if they were already on one's harddrive and so the natural defense mechanisms we've all built up for traditional retail establishments and online retailers will be that much weaker. See a picture of a pretty pop star, click on it, and recieve instant gratification for not much money.
I mean, think about it. It really is kind of an ugly experience to log into amazon.com, their page is really quite ugly. And web browsers, if used to buy online mp3s, are not generally very well linked with your player (you tend to download to your default folder and then have to copy from there into iTunes.) Anyway this store makes spending money a really slick and easy thing to do. (cheaper and safer than sex) I just hope that some day it will offer some obscure music that I can't buy in music stores. Then I'll really get off on it.
Wouldn't terrorists just as easily pirate commercial software. I don't see how free software would make things any easier for terrorists who, by their very nature, would have no moral qualms with pirating commercial software. Seriously, are terrorists going to print their newsletters in OpenOffice or a pirated copy of Word?
There is a non-sci-fi novel by PK dick called The Big bubble which takes place in the fifties, anyhow there's a big-black-german-remote-controlled-full-sized car in it which this psuedo revolutionary uses to chase around would be frat boys. Kind of off topic but not entirly. And I've seen lots of Phillip K. Dick thought of it first posts in the past.
Wasn't there a version of Darwin available for the server and developer market available before the home version of OS X was released. I suppose that wouldn't be called an OS X machine though.
The Negativeland CD is now available as "These guys are from england" It is rather hilarious, it contains outakes of Casey Casem swearing his head off about dedicating "I still haven't found what I'm looking for" to a dead dog. At one point he says
That is a fairly silly assumption. Take the case of Negativeland who is responsible for releasing an album under the name U2 which was eventually sewed out of existence and recently re-released (go figure). They are rather infamous after having pulled this stunt and have a loyal following wherever they tour. They release there own albums, (and find it increasing difficult to find anyone to print them for fear of liability) but none-the-less have made a fairly long lived stay on this earth as musicians. If you look at any main-stream one hit wonder your likely to see that they didn't make much money on the first album and never really had a chance again.
A while ago I came across this Bio/Demological media feedback systems (1)
jounal entry at infoanarchy.org. This Journal entry discusses the potential of the internet to introduce people to interesting music and even hone their taste into some sort of demographically aesthetic purism.
I.E. it is the very instrument we use to discover music that shapes our taste. That what is inherently interesting about music is that it rubs our nuerons in the same way as music we have already heard and perhaps experienced at a pleasant if not interesting moment in our lives.
Currently the media for introducing us to music are still primarily owned by corporate interests. But this article suggests that the internet offers a potential meathod for cloud seeding our lives with interesting music.
This article suggest that a system could be established that introduces music to people that tends to stimulate people who have similar demographical profiles (like amazon's purchase comparison) but that allowed for mutation by introducing semi-random tracks from a royalty free database. In this way people could become accostomed to music that isn't packaged in the conventional way.
Anyway the article puts it more eloquently than I do.
It would be interesting if this same technology was applied to picking which mp3s the computer might play for us based on what seemed to make us feel better the last time we felt this way. Or imagine turning the internet into a sort of concerned television that could display whatever information made other people feel better when they showed the same characteristics of mood that you might be displaying.
The fact of the matter is that our minds are completely owned by the recording industry and other media conglomerates. Music relies intensely on being involuntarily introduced to us over time. While when asked I like mostly obcure and innaccessable music there is a a certain place in my heart for the music that is pumped into my brain every day in retail, walking down the street, talking to dumb people etc. . . And while I wish I could be snobby enough to ignore it, the music is catchy, and super produced, the content of the music is what it does to your stereo not necessarily weather it challenges you or is actually good music.
Also they own our pasts. It's not likely you lost your virginity listening to snotglobs from Iowa, you were more likely listening to a song distributed through old fashioned channels. And as such whenever you want to feel sentimental you have to either pay the Riaa to kill your future or steal the music.
If a network could be developed to introduce random independent music into one's home based on demographical responses and previous preferences one could develope a new kind of marketing. People want to create and share and it's a sad world to live in that people don't think music is worthwhile unless it is marketed heavily and obtrusively forced into your mind.