To mod this down overrated. This idiocy of 'creationism' may be part of our culture, but so was slavery. If the day would come where nobody would know about those fairy tales.
Anyone read the next article? I had to cringe every time the word "steal" came up. Hey, dork, it's "copy". Apparently some people haven't mastered the fundamental physics of real life--you can't own information...sorry! And that's something the players can never change.
I'd imagine a label would be pretty confused when asked to put out a cd at-cost and put in notices of where to send money (donations). But I suppose an artist could just drop the artist share and the label might agree. But why hasn't this been tried?
Maybe tips just work better when there is a personal connection, like a server at a restaurant.
The real world is physics. Nothing more and nothing less. It's not the "employment world". Those are just as arbitrary as everquest's rules.
If someone says money is power, take out a gun!
Why can't just one somewhat popular act put out a song (not with lossy compression), and ask for tips on that song? Copyright it, and stipulate in the copyright that some notice of where to send tips must always travel with the song.
Comparable to DirectTV (see slashdot article about them). The signals would be scrambled unless you paid $9.99 per month for a "license fee". They could use the stupidest encryption around, and anybody who broke it would be put in jail and fined. Scramblin it for a military purpose makes sense, but scrambling it to protect "intellectual property" is just stupid. Unit cost for one more person to use it is zero.
Like America's Army game, an example of good use of government to keep things sane. A libertarian might argue for donation-based entities, but either way it gets done.
Ok, to the animals who don't get the "theft" thing, a concert has real scarcity. If I copy your ticket, both our asses can't sit down in that seat. A recording has only artificial scarcity. Copying your cd has no effect on you. So this is a good thing. Let them act as promoters.
Just google it to find who will sell it. You can get without prescription. Getting this out of the way, you can concentrate on genius things like putting all the other human animals into zoos with technology. Who's the loser then?
No, you'd have to directly inject the genes of one egg into another--insemination is just a turkey baster. What happens in the books? I think earthworms are the best example of what I'm talking about today. They have both male and female organs, and just trade.
Especially eunuch partners. Women drag men down in general.
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The next evolution will be to remove the division between sexes. Genes can still be mixed with only one sex (for example, you can see how two women can have kids). This is big, very big--will lead to huge changes in intelligent life as we know it.
The money issue I think is secondary to this. Nobody creates any information, ever! Information exists outside of time. If people just get away from this notion of creating information! Have you ever "created" some piece of art? How do you know somebody hasn't done the exact same thing independently?
It'd be great to get away from physical media--anything that does away with pointless jobs is good. Copyright, of course is bad. Overall a step forward.
Invite several people over, buy a deck of cards and a pack of beer, and play. Just turn off the computer if you feel the need to code a quick AI in lisp. It will be there for you later, ready to greet you.
Games are optimized for video cards, which in turn are optimized to make small sacrifices for frame rate. To do a static movie, you want as much flexibility as possible.
I've even heard slashdot mentioned in wired. Are they just united in technolibertarianism or something? Or like owned by the same company?
Does a single month go by without a wired magazine story ending up on/.?
This is interesting, elegant technology. It doesn't require batteries! It uses bits (not decimal)! We should be excited about the technology. Technology is always a good thing--problems will get sorted out later.
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To mod this down overrated. This idiocy of 'creationism' may be part of our culture, but so was slavery. If the day would come where nobody would know about those fairy tales.
Anyone read the next article? I had to cringe every time the word "steal" came up. Hey, dork, it's "copy". Apparently some people haven't mastered the fundamental physics of real life--you can't own information...sorry! And that's something the players can never change.
Remember our laws are just as arbitrary as the rules of physics in everquest.
I'd imagine a label would be pretty confused when asked to put out a cd at-cost and put in notices of where to send money (donations). But I suppose an artist could just drop the artist share and the label might agree. But why hasn't this been tried? Maybe tips just work better when there is a personal connection, like a server at a restaurant.
The real world is physics. Nothing more and nothing less. It's not the "employment world". Those are just as arbitrary as everquest's rules. If someone says money is power, take out a gun!
Why can't just one somewhat popular act put out a song (not with lossy compression), and ask for tips on that song? Copyright it, and stipulate in the copyright that some notice of where to send tips must always travel with the song.
You haven't mentioned libertarians. Do they have a good showing in elections? Or at least do their ideas dominate?
No gun registration, civil unions for gays. Maybe a candidate from there would be a good thing (for the average flaming /. libertarian).
Comparable to DirectTV (see slashdot article about them). The signals would be scrambled unless you paid $9.99 per month for a "license fee". They could use the stupidest encryption around, and anybody who broke it would be put in jail and fined. Scramblin it for a military purpose makes sense, but scrambling it to protect "intellectual property" is just stupid. Unit cost for one more person to use it is zero. Like America's Army game, an example of good use of government to keep things sane. A libertarian might argue for donation-based entities, but either way it gets done.
Ok, to the animals who don't get the "theft" thing, a concert has real scarcity. If I copy your ticket, both our asses can't sit down in that seat. A recording has only artificial scarcity. Copying your cd has no effect on you. So this is a good thing. Let them act as promoters.
Just google it to find who will sell it. You can get without prescription. Getting this out of the way, you can concentrate on genius things like putting all the other human animals into zoos with technology. Who's the loser then?
It's the division. You can have something like earthworms where they fuck each other and both have kids.
No, you'd have to directly inject the genes of one egg into another--insemination is just a turkey baster. What happens in the books? I think earthworms are the best example of what I'm talking about today. They have both male and female organs, and just trade.
Especially eunuch partners. Women drag men down in general.
The next evolution will be to remove the division between sexes. Genes can still be mixed with only one sex (for example, you can see how two women can have kids). This is big, very big--will lead to huge changes in intelligent life as we know it.
That is, a film, not a first person shooter.
Isn't this obvious? Ok, since ideas can be "discovered" independently, you can only assume that nobody can create an idea.
The money issue I think is secondary to this. Nobody creates any information, ever! Information exists outside of time. If people just get away from this notion of creating information! Have you ever "created" some piece of art? How do you know somebody hasn't done the exact same thing independently?
It'd be great to get away from physical media--anything that does away with pointless jobs is good. Copyright, of course is bad. Overall a step forward.
Invite several people over, buy a deck of cards and a pack of beer, and play. Just turn off the computer if you feel the need to code a quick AI in lisp. It will be there for you later, ready to greet you.
Games are optimized for video cards, which in turn are optimized to make small sacrifices for frame rate. To do a static movie, you want as much flexibility as possible.
I've even heard slashdot mentioned in wired. Are they just united in technolibertarianism or something? Or like owned by the same company? Does a single month go by without a wired magazine story ending up on /.?
We'll have all the power any device will need in a tiny antimatter cell.
All ideas exist outside of time. Nobody creates any idea. This is why copyright is illogical.
This is interesting, elegant technology. It doesn't require batteries! It uses bits (not decimal)! We should be excited about the technology. Technology is always a good thing--problems will get sorted out later.