I have a particular dislike for musical theater, but I do recognize that like just about anything else there are some great plays. I've particularly enjoyed some musicals, mostly comedy. Some things from Casero, Enrique Pinty, Perciavalle, Gasalla, Tato Bores, etc. It's just not my thing.
But my comment wasn't a bash to the genre in general, it was a bash about the narrow mind of most of the US population that mindlessly buy into the next crappy broadway production because the only way they can swallow a complex story is if it's hidden behind a lot of fancy songs. Just about all spectacles for kids mix short acts with a lot of dancing and singing, because that's the only way to keep your average 5 year old boy through a whole play. When a grown up can't do better than that, we have a problem.
Here in Argentina theater is big in Buenos Aires, and absolutely underground in the rest of the country. You see masters of acting like Pepe Soriano doing a delightfully executing a masterpiece like Visiting Mr. Green in a small theater in Peña and Alvear, and all of Corrientes is reserved to guys like Artaza that just show some ass to the mindless crowds of zombies that go to shows like that one.
Even Comedy itself has fallen, when we have gone from masters like Pepe Cibrian doing Café Concert, to Florencia de la Vega having his own show.
I guess I'm just getting old and getting pissed off at everything, I don't mind a little bit of stupid entertainment, but when that's all you see, it's just sad.
But theater goes on, and from time to time a new genius is born that reminds us that not everything is lost. In the last years I've enjoyed a lot the works of lesser knowns like Mariano Moro (A real Genius). I guess I will just have to get used to the ratio between mainstream crap and real art growing even more unfair every year.
BTW, I just googled you and found your blog. Interesting stuff. It made me miss Buenos Aires even more than I'm missing it already (I moved to Mar del Plata recently to start a new company).
I remember one time when a friend from the states traveled here (Argentina), and, since he's fluent in Spanish, I told him me and my girl had tickets for the theater, and invited him to come with us. We went to see Les Femmes Savantes (Moliére). Even though it was a modern adaptation, with some modern political commentary that would have made Moliére very proud, he was bored to dead, and when we got out, he was absolutely disappointed, by "theater", he didn't thought of actual drama, and he actually mentioned that he would have expected me to warn him that it was "serious, boring, greek drama stuff". He is a smart guy, and I considered him well read (at least before this incident).
It's truly sad that the USA has turned theater into Cats, but I can't say that I'm surprised, the Romans in their decadence did turn the Dyonysia into the Roman circus.
Keep acting, my friend, because Drama is one of the most beautiful Art forms, and one that must not be forgotten in this times of 3D crap movies and 3 minute attention spans.
1000 for the robotic camera mount is a rip off. There are Pan/Tilt platforms for 50 dollars that have the same resolution as this shit and can be controlled using Pelco-D.
The fact that some guys reverse engineered the project and built an alternative doesn't mean that a patent-ridden windows-only piece of shit like shiterlight is cross-platform.
I mean, it is what protects us from vasts amounts of cosmic rays, and we know that our magnetic field isn't perfectly symmetrical... maybe those differences account for a vast majority of this patterns? And the various celestial bodies that surround us (constantly deflecting this rays) account for the rest?
Well, if there were any actual theater in Broadway, I'd say you are right, but 99.999% of Broadway is not art, is Musicals.
Broadway is the cheap gringo alternative to actual theater. You go and see a lot of assholes run around and sing shit, that's your cheap replacement for actual theater.
Here, we call that "Teatro de Revista" and only the illiterate masses go see that shit.
The day Broadway figures out how to replace actors with holograms, they will, and nothing of value will be lost.
Did you knew that the ONLY country in the world where Musical Theater means 90% of all productions is the USA? Around the rest of the world, Drama and Comedy still reign. Musicals are for the illiterate masses.
You need a new symbol for Theater, that replaces the masks of Thalia and Melpomene for the silhouettes of the left and right gluteus of Andrew Lloyd Webber with a huge $ symbol smeared all over.
Not news. Anything with a processor in it can run software. That software can do a number of things, and, considering that the processor is turing complete, it can actually do anything. Including allowing remote stealth access. That is NOT news and is NOT a vulnerability or anything to get excited about. Show me that you found a buffer overflow in Android's TCP stack that allows you to run arbitrary code on the device remotely. Of course you can put a rootkit in there after gaining access, you could run tetris for all I care. If you need unlimited rw access to the software to setup your malware, that is not fucking news.
2nd:
FTFA:
"Attendees pay $140 in cash to attend and are not required to provide their names to attend the conference. Law enforcement posts undercover agents in the audience to spot criminals and government officials recruit workers to fight computer crimes and for the Department of Defense." (Reporting by Jim Finkle; additional reporting by Alexei Oreskovic in San Francisco; editing by Andre Grenon)
Wow. Just wow. Attentive Attendees attend to the conference. No shit. Andre Grenon could be a/. editor.
On average, Internet access is ~30% cheaper in China than in the US, which is actually fucking expensive for China if you consider the average salary in China vs. average Salary in the US.
Let me get it straight. Your need to earn money is more important than the right of all of the human kind to freely access information?
You are still not understanding. I DO see your need to earn a living, and I think it is an important issue that we must address. That doesn't mean that copyright is a reasonable response to your issue.
Imagine:
There are starving content-producers that need food. Therefore, we'll establish a law that mandates that people should pay content-producers for access to information. Only buyers get access to information.
You consider that case to be totally acceptable.
Second case:
There are starving humans that need food. Therefore, we'll establish a law that mandates that people should pay people below the poverty line for access to air. Only buyers can breath.
Now, that doesn't sound as reasonable, right?
Well, the right to BREATH is as undeniable as the right to access INFORMATION.
Your issue is important, and we must find a way to properly retribute content creators. But denying humanity the undeniable right to information is not an option.
Oh, and just for the record, I do not use ANY software that is not under the GPL, and I don't even play any computer games. I actually don't really commit much copyright infringement at all, except for downloading music (for bands I usually go and see live many times paying expensive tickets) and download movies (that are either too old to have seen in a movie theater, or I have already seen in a movie theater and paid my ticket for).
This is not me justifying my activities. I am just stating what I consider undeniable rights of every human being, and setting priorities straight, and general freedom comes before individual profit.
Considering that some of the GREATEST and BIGGEST works of the last 25 years have been released under several COPYLEFT licenses, I would say YES, it is going to promote the production of such goods.
Also, that is not the real question. Information is FREE. Period. Any laws trying to control information are ARTIFICIAL, UNNATURAL and UNETHICAL.
People's need to profit, or Society's need to promote art are completely separate issues, and have nothing to do with MY RIGHT to do whatever the hell I want with ANY information I can find.
Your argument is absolutely invalid. Try to think outside the little capitalism box you have your head stuck into.
This is not about how to profit from what. This is about freedom. Information, ideas, art, books. They are FREE, and I can do whatever the hell I want with it. You want to profit from it? Great, I want to profit from the air in the atmosphere. That doesn't change the fact that air is free for all living things.
YOUR NEED to profit from something doesn't affect MY RIGHT to think.
No, you don't understand where I'm coming from at all. You are the typical US citizen. "The law" is something magic that is above everything. Guess what? it's not. Ethics are a construction we make as a society, and those are the only laws we can discuss in terms of good or bad. You mention moral, but moral is a stupid concept, for which I have no respect. Moral is a set of laws determined by someone else (usually religion, which is nothing but bullshit). Ethics are important, Morals and Laws are not. We might decide to comply with the law because doing otherwise might land you in trouble, but the only rules I follow because I want to are my own Ethics, I don't give a fuck about the law, and I only follow it when doing otherwise will land me in troubles, and only that doesn't go against my ethical code. Law makers are corrupt, and the serve the interests of a few. Nothing else. Copyright shouldn't exist, and knowledge and information are FREE. There is NOTHING wrong about sharing information. I don't care how many artificial laws try to control that. Controlling thought and information is just as stupid as controlling air, and yet if there was a law saying that you need to pay for air you get from the atmosphere, you wouldn't dare to say that breathing is unethical, right?
It's not stealing, and it's not Piracy. Stealing is taking a physical good, in a way that after I take it, I have it and you don't. Piracy is robbing ships on the open seas.
He is talking about Copyright Infringement, and since Copyright shouldn't exist, it is ALWAYS ok to 'infringe' on his imaginary rights.
Free exercise of religion is bullshit. When you are schizophrenic, you go into the nuthouse. Religion IS a mental disease, and should not be treated differently.
The fact that you are delusional gives you no special rights after you die.
Oh, if you don't understand the math at all, then you are totally qualified to write articles for sciencemag.org.
Here is how it basically works:
1) You made some dull experiment, very simple setup, that leads nowhere, and allows no data collection at all. 2) Write down "Woah, awesome, if were like it would be, like, great, amirite? 3) Publish. 4) ??? 5) Get to the frontpage of/.
If you could cover any significant urban area with a small and low powered antennae sitting on a table inside a theater, mobile calls would be a lot cheaper than they are. This is research, and it's being done inside the lab. Also, stopping research is fucking stupid. If I got my conference interrupted by the FBI, I would go ahead and sell the technology to spammers. That would be far worse. Do not attempt to stop research, ever. It is the wrong thing to do, both in ethical and practical considerations.
AT&T will eventually react violently to this, but they have already shown more restraint than they would have shown 5 years ago. 15 years ago, they wouldn't have even known about this, or just ignored it. 10 years ago, they would have silently shut them down. 5 years ago, they would have made a huge PR stunt, and tried to get the FBI to stop this 'hazard'. Now, they are just dealing with it, powerless.
Our lives are filled with technology, and IT has gone mainstream. Very big parts of our infrastructure (most of the internet, just to give one example) relies on Free Software. Our beloved corporate overlords are getting anxious, because they can't control things the way they were used to. They will get increasingly violent and orwellian as they keep loosing control of the world.
The world has gone p2p, critical systems are now running in a decentralized manner, and that is pissing off your owners. Seeing them slowly realize how irrelevant they are becoming is going to be painful, distressful, but amazingly entertaining. Enjoy, and welcome to the future.
That anyone is dividing the population into something as stupid as people with or without ipads is enough proof that apple users are elitist selfish bastards.
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And the ones that say "you'll all float down here"
They are doing great, specially the 12 legged, 90cm legspan, 4 headed spiders.
Hello there, my fellow citizen.
I have a particular dislike for musical theater, but I do recognize that like just about anything else there are some great plays. I've particularly enjoyed some musicals, mostly comedy. Some things from Casero, Enrique Pinty, Perciavalle, Gasalla, Tato Bores, etc. It's just not my thing.
But my comment wasn't a bash to the genre in general, it was a bash about the narrow mind of most of the US population that mindlessly buy into the next crappy broadway production because the only way they can swallow a complex story is if it's hidden behind a lot of fancy songs. Just about all spectacles for kids mix short acts with a lot of dancing and singing, because that's the only way to keep your average 5 year old boy through a whole play. When a grown up can't do better than that, we have a problem.
Here in Argentina theater is big in Buenos Aires, and absolutely underground in the rest of the country. You see masters of acting like Pepe Soriano doing a delightfully executing a masterpiece like Visiting Mr. Green in a small theater in Peña and Alvear, and all of Corrientes is reserved to guys like Artaza that just show some ass to the mindless crowds of zombies that go to shows like that one.
Even Comedy itself has fallen, when we have gone from masters like Pepe Cibrian doing Café Concert, to Florencia de la Vega having his own show.
I guess I'm just getting old and getting pissed off at everything, I don't mind a little bit of stupid entertainment, but when that's all you see, it's just sad.
But theater goes on, and from time to time a new genius is born that reminds us that not everything is lost. In the last years I've enjoyed a lot the works of lesser knowns like Mariano Moro (A real Genius). I guess I will just have to get used to the ratio between mainstream crap and real art growing even more unfair every year.
BTW, I just googled you and found your blog. Interesting stuff. It made me miss Buenos Aires even more than I'm missing it already (I moved to Mar del Plata recently to start a new company).
Saludos desde la trinchera,
Sebastian.
I remember one time when a friend from the states traveled here (Argentina), and, since he's fluent in Spanish, I told him me and my girl had tickets for the theater, and invited him to come with us. We went to see Les Femmes Savantes (Moliére). Even though it was a modern adaptation, with some modern political commentary that would have made Moliére very proud, he was bored to dead, and when we got out, he was absolutely disappointed, by "theater", he didn't thought of actual drama, and he actually mentioned that he would have expected me to warn him that it was "serious, boring, greek drama stuff". He is a smart guy, and I considered him well read (at least before this incident).
It's truly sad that the USA has turned theater into Cats, but I can't say that I'm surprised, the Romans in their decadence did turn the Dyonysia into the Roman circus.
Keep acting, my friend, because Drama is one of the most beautiful Art forms, and one that must not be forgotten in this times of 3D crap movies and 3 minute attention spans.
1000 for the robotic camera mount is a rip off. There are Pan/Tilt platforms for 50 dollars that have the same resolution as this shit and can be controlled using Pelco-D.
Then you can use OpenZoom to do the rest.
The fact that some guys reverse engineered the project and built an alternative doesn't mean that a patent-ridden windows-only piece of shit like shiterlight is cross-platform.
All major browsers support HTML5. What major browser doesn't support HTML5?
They haven't agreed upon a video codec, but that's a different thing, and not exactly part of the HTML5 spec.
The first Browser ever was released December 23, 1990.
I mean, it is what protects us from vasts amounts of cosmic rays, and we know that our magnetic field isn't perfectly symmetrical ... maybe those differences account for a vast majority of this patterns? And the various celestial bodies that surround us (constantly deflecting this rays) account for the rest?
Well, if there were any actual theater in Broadway, I'd say you are right, but 99.999% of Broadway is not art, is Musicals.
Broadway is the cheap gringo alternative to actual theater. You go and see a lot of assholes run around and sing shit, that's your cheap replacement for actual theater.
Here, we call that "Teatro de Revista" and only the illiterate masses go see that shit.
The day Broadway figures out how to replace actors with holograms, they will, and nothing of value will be lost.
Did you knew that the ONLY country in the world where Musical Theater means 90% of all productions is the USA? Around the rest of the world, Drama and Comedy still reign. Musicals are for the illiterate masses.
You need a new symbol for Theater, that replaces the masks of Thalia and Melpomene for the silhouettes of the left and right gluteus of Andrew Lloyd Webber with a huge $ symbol smeared all over.
Thank you for pointing that out, I didn't knew. Interesting stuff in the PDF linked on that page.
1st:
Not news. Anything with a processor in it can run software. That software can do a number of things, and, considering that the processor is turing complete, it can actually do anything. Including allowing remote stealth access. That is NOT news and is NOT a vulnerability or anything to get excited about. Show me that you found a buffer overflow in Android's TCP stack that allows you to run arbitrary code on the device remotely. Of course you can put a rootkit in there after gaining access, you could run tetris for all I care. If you need unlimited rw access to the software to setup your malware, that is not fucking news.
2nd:
FTFA:
"Attendees pay $140 in cash to attend and are not required to provide their names to attend the conference. Law enforcement posts undercover agents in the audience to spot criminals and government officials recruit workers to fight computer crimes and for the Department of Defense."
(Reporting by Jim Finkle; additional reporting by Alexei Oreskovic in San Francisco; editing by Andre Grenon)
Wow. Just wow. Attentive Attendees attend to the conference. No shit. Andre Grenon could be a /. editor.
Except they ran on batteries, and they wouldn't last very long, and would be very very inefficient to be operated on solar power.
Remember, the rover is supposed to work unattended for a very long time on nothing but solar power.
On average, Internet access is ~30% cheaper in China than in the US, which is actually fucking expensive for China if you consider the average salary in China vs. average Salary in the US.
Let me get it straight. Your need to earn money is more important than the right of all of the human kind to freely access information?
You are still not understanding. I DO see your need to earn a living, and I think it is an important issue that we must address. That doesn't mean that copyright is a reasonable response to your issue.
Imagine:
There are starving content-producers that need food. Therefore, we'll establish a law that mandates that people should pay content-producers for access to information. Only buyers get access to information.
You consider that case to be totally acceptable.
Second case:
There are starving humans that need food. Therefore, we'll establish a law that mandates that people should pay people below the poverty line for access to air. Only buyers can breath.
Now, that doesn't sound as reasonable, right?
Well, the right to BREATH is as undeniable as the right to access INFORMATION.
Your issue is important, and we must find a way to properly retribute content creators. But denying humanity the undeniable right to information is not an option.
Oh, and just for the record, I do not use ANY software that is not under the GPL, and I don't even play any computer games. I actually don't really commit much copyright infringement at all, except for downloading music (for bands I usually go and see live many times paying expensive tickets) and download movies (that are either too old to have seen in a movie theater, or I have already seen in a movie theater and paid my ticket for).
This is not me justifying my activities. I am just stating what I consider undeniable rights of every human being, and setting priorities straight, and general freedom comes before individual profit.
Considering that some of the GREATEST and BIGGEST works of the last 25 years have been released under several COPYLEFT licenses, I would say YES, it is going to promote the production of such goods.
Also, that is not the real question. Information is FREE. Period. Any laws trying to control information are ARTIFICIAL, UNNATURAL and UNETHICAL.
People's need to profit, or Society's need to promote art are completely separate issues, and have nothing to do with MY RIGHT to do whatever the hell I want with ANY information I can find.
Your argument is absolutely invalid. Try to think outside the little capitalism box you have your head stuck into.
This is not about how to profit from what. This is about freedom. Information, ideas, art, books. They are FREE, and I can do whatever the hell I want with it. You want to profit from it? Great, I want to profit from the air in the atmosphere. That doesn't change the fact that air is free for all living things.
YOUR NEED to profit from something doesn't affect MY RIGHT to think.
No, you don't understand where I'm coming from at all. You are the typical US citizen. "The law" is something magic that is above everything. Guess what? it's not. Ethics are a construction we make as a society, and those are the only laws we can discuss in terms of good or bad. You mention moral, but moral is a stupid concept, for which I have no respect. Moral is a set of laws determined by someone else (usually religion, which is nothing but bullshit). Ethics are important, Morals and Laws are not. We might decide to comply with the law because doing otherwise might land you in trouble, but the only rules I follow because I want to are my own Ethics, I don't give a fuck about the law, and I only follow it when doing otherwise will land me in troubles, and only that doesn't go against my ethical code. Law makers are corrupt, and the serve the interests of a few. Nothing else. Copyright shouldn't exist, and knowledge and information are FREE. There is NOTHING wrong about sharing information. I don't care how many artificial laws try to control that. Controlling thought and information is just as stupid as controlling air, and yet if there was a law saying that you need to pay for air you get from the atmosphere, you wouldn't dare to say that breathing is unethical, right?
It's not stealing, and it's not Piracy. Stealing is taking a physical good, in a way that after I take it, I have it and you don't. Piracy is robbing ships on the open seas.
He is talking about Copyright Infringement, and since Copyright shouldn't exist, it is ALWAYS ok to 'infringe' on his imaginary rights.
There is no god, your argument is invalid.
Free exercise of religion is bullshit. When you are schizophrenic, you go into the nuthouse. Religion IS a mental disease, and should not be treated differently.
The fact that you are delusional gives you no special rights after you die.
Oh, if you don't understand the math at all, then you are totally qualified to write articles for sciencemag.org.
Here is how it basically works:
1) You made some dull experiment, very simple setup, that leads nowhere, and allows no data collection at all. /.
2) Write down "Woah, awesome, if were like it would be, like, great, amirite?
3) Publish.
4) ???
5) Get to the frontpage of
The article reminded me of this: http://xkcd.com/171/
If you could cover any significant urban area with a small and low powered antennae sitting on a table inside a theater, mobile calls would be a lot cheaper than they are. This is research, and it's being done inside the lab. Also, stopping research is fucking stupid. If I got my conference interrupted by the FBI, I would go ahead and sell the technology to spammers. That would be far worse. Do not attempt to stop research, ever. It is the wrong thing to do, both in ethical and practical considerations.
AT&T will eventually react violently to this, but they have already shown more restraint than they would have shown 5 years ago. 15 years ago, they wouldn't have even known about this, or just ignored it. 10 years ago, they would have silently shut them down. 5 years ago, they would have made a huge PR stunt, and tried to get the FBI to stop this 'hazard'. Now, they are just dealing with it, powerless.
Our lives are filled with technology, and IT has gone mainstream. Very big parts of our infrastructure (most of the internet, just to give one example) relies on Free Software. Our beloved corporate overlords are getting anxious, because they can't control things the way they were used to. They will get increasingly violent and orwellian as they keep loosing control of the world.
The world has gone p2p, critical systems are now running in a decentralized manner, and that is pissing off your owners. Seeing them slowly realize how irrelevant they are becoming is going to be painful, distressful, but amazingly entertaining. Enjoy, and welcome to the future.
Fucking room temperature superconductors, how do they work?
That anyone is dividing the population into something as stupid as people with or without ipads is enough proof that apple users are elitist selfish bastards.