I'd hate to see a major corporation just use anyone copyright like that. Sure there's fair use and all but using his shtick AND his name is beyond the scope of the fairest use.
So what is Uri is playing the 'real magic' card game? He knows modern skeptical audiences have trouble suspending disbelief so he puts on the airs of the old 'spritualist.'
Most, from what I've read, slashdotters giant egos and dogmatic materialistic worldviews can't even face competition from even Uri's lame old and tired shtick.
Its just a shame that most of the posters can't look past their own prejudices in this case. From a group of people who make efforts to investigate the degradation of rights when it comes to tech and big business this is a refreshing insight into the mentality of US vs. THEM.
Maybe rights on-line should be renamed rights on-line for geeks only, flakey people need not apply.
He's an old time magician using modern psi-buzzswords for his show. So what if he won't admit its just 'magic.' Its part of the illusion.
Does he so challenge you average slashdotters wordview they agree that he's an ass (which he probably is) but an ass that doesn't deserve his own day in court?
Its an obvious rip-off and the 'bad guy' here are the practices of corporation who have mastered marketing to CHILDREN. Now thats pathetic, at least Uri can make adults look slack-jawed and goofy when he takes their watch and changes it to GMT. But commercializing crap aimed towards the under 10 market is evil incarnate.
Now Pokemon's masters not satisfied with world domination start fucking around with some guy (regardless of who he is) trademark act AND name. Boo hoo slashdotters cry, Uri is psychic he has no rights lets make fun of him cause we're all so smart and hip to the materistic worldview he challenges through a freaking stageshow.
Its infringement plain and simple. Even if he's litigation crazy he might actually be right one time. Scary I know, its called justice. Can you guys stop being prejudice for 1 minute to read about the issue?
If he was suing MS, I'm sure we'd have a gaggle of pro-MS geeks crawling out of the woodwork.
The only thing Nintendo did wrong (they own Pokemon?) is they didn't give him about 1,000 Pokemon cards to pass out the last time he was at his highly charged, intelligent, and groundbreaking appearances - namely the Oprah show or an occasional Montel.
Uri could have really just nipped this in the bud by remotly destroying all the cards, but as he usually states he's 'a believer in love' and probably woudn't do that to the kids.
I'm pretty sure Pikachu could take him in a fight, release the electric hamster I say.
How much partying, boozing, and drugs did you do before that fateful crash? Do you have a message for today's insta-rich IPO CEOs about how their lifestyle is going to change, groupies, and the best way to keep it, as urban-folk say, real?
Although I think the list should either pick between the transistor or the tube and between the telegraph and telephone she does make a point with the hand dryer.
Its an amazing device because of its popularity and acceptance into mainstream culture if you consider that it doesn't work. Not at all.
Its brought back the simple and elegant act of wiping your hands right on your pants. What could be more eco-smart and efficient. Its a deterant to using paper not a hand dryer. Most people change their pants every day so this primitive system remains safe and clean in our age of germs.
Many 'primitive' cultures wipe a lot more than just their hands onto their clothing and they're better off for it. Someday the big advancement will not be the wearable computer but the Bounty-suit quick picker upper. Only after we've achieved this next evolution in fashion will society aspire to its greatest creation - a wearable computer that cleans and wipes even the filthiest technophile.
Yes I did consider that, if you read my 'hysterics' you'd see why it isn't funny.
Yes, we all have opinions, I like to post mine.
Your post on the other hand has no substance other than admiting you don't know what the main part of my post is about, acknoledging that UF is repitious and telling me I have a right to an opinion. Which all adds up to little more than nothing. You could have spared your fingers.
Bad analogy alert - the kid should have learned to open the door through 'common sense' as you started before. If the teacher had a far side with a kid with an F and thought it was funny then yeah you would have made a point.
Why didn't you write your own strip. Cause its only funny if its a true story and its painfully monotonous.
Regardless these are lame, montonous, geek conformist comics that mainly serves people with little imagination and sense of humor and keeps hip geeks up with the newest cultural refrences.
Yeah upgrade to a sense of humor that might demand creativity and originality not just the same monotonous geek-culture jokes day in and day out.
I checked your wepage and it looks to me you bought conformist geek culture hook , line, and sinker, friend! Oh course you LOVE UF, you have much in common with 2 dimensional characters who criticize everyone who doesn't buy right into their smoke and mirrors futurist fetish.
UF and such are about as funny as Family Circus is to middle-class Xtians, which is not at all when you're not part of the silly conformist game. Its boring, badly drawn, and repitious but you and others like it dig it cause its a "ME TOO" badge. I think its pretty ironic that you're telling others to 'upgrade' (major geek word here) their sense of humor when your own has stalled at the media produced fantasy of futurism and geekdom.
Bad analogy alert - the kid should have learned to open the door through 'common sense' as you started before. If the teacher had a far side with a kid with an F and thought it was funny then yeah you would have made a point.
Why didn't you write your own strip. Cause its only funny if its a true story and its painfully monotonous.
Regardless these are lame, montonous, geek conformist comics that mainly serves people with little imagination and sense of humor and keeps hip geeks up with the newest cultural refrences.
I've got a million stories of stupid people doing stupid things yet I wouldn't dare make a strip about such a montonous subject. Good humor is mocking, but it also has *variety* and creativity. Not to mention these stories are only really funny when they're true, fictionalized 'real life' rarely cuts it.
But these lame strips will keep going on because of the huge conformist self-styled geek culture. The same way Family Circus is for the middle class Xtian crowd UF will be for the geeks. Not funny, hardly creative but they're "one of us." In other words: crap.
You can only regurgitate one gag so many times before it loses any comedic appeal it once had. These strips, include Dilbert here, are terrible for anyone who doesn't demand monotonous humor.
I don't blame the creators for being clueless, at least they're trying and hopefully learning through their art. Its these self-styled geeks who have given conformists a new standard to look up to who are to blame and keep creators' ego flying. These strips are like little monotnous cultural "ME TOO!" badges that a significant number of technies use to identify one another. Its the electronic equivilant of, "Hey you like Jewel too?"
Unsure what a good strip is? Goto www.e-sheep.com. Enjoy.
Not that I joined into the buying of canned food shared neurosis, but spending the next month reading "news" about how this webpage or that MS product thinks its 1900 makes me wish the power was out.
A 1900 web clock is about as interesting and noteworthy as a page defacement, CNET is gonna have a great month.
Bah, its a 450 megahertz laptop with a special AC adapter turbo mode. Next they'll start marketing a laptop that has a full size screen and keyboard and extra drive space when connected to a desktop.
The question isn't what would I or we do if I owned etoys, etoy, or am a customer.
The question is what is ethical in the regards to the rights of others, its not a case of role-playing. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who are happy, glad, and proud a bunch of "weirdo artists" have been censored because business and especially children need nothing to do with them. These artists might give people *gasp* ideas!
History shows it will not get 'fixed eventually.' Unless your time scale for 'eventually' is ridiculous. We've had protests since day one yet even the oldest social problems still exist and are plainly brought to light with cases like this. Unfortunatly, it IS a case of have vs. the have-nots, abuse of power, and disregard for the rights of others.
In the context of this overy-materialstic society I have little hope for anything resembling justice to come out of this and some people have reached the point where this is 'old news' and really don't care what happens to etoy.com.
Of course they dropped it, they got their Xmas injuction which is all they wanted. Maybe they'll do something similiar next season. So far the lesson learned is 'Its ok to piss on the little guy and get away with it if you just back off in time.'
Hopefully, etoy.com will continue its suit and if they're really lucky they *might* get some sort of justice in an AmeriKan court.
I'm certain these specific wearable PCs will catch on with the public as much as the quasi-futuristic fashions do.
What a beatiful parallel! A handful of pictures shows you how impractical and almost insane today's futurist mania has gotten in both fashion and tech.
What could be farther from the everyman or everywoman than high-tech and high-fashion?
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I'd hate to see a major corporation just use anyone copyright like that. Sure there's fair use and all but using his shtick AND his name is beyond the scope of the fairest use.
So what is Uri is playing the 'real magic' card game? He knows modern skeptical audiences have trouble suspending disbelief so he puts on the airs of the old 'spritualist.'
Most, from what I've read, slashdotters giant egos and dogmatic materialistic worldviews can't even face competition from even Uri's lame old and tired shtick.
Its just a shame that most of the posters can't look past their own prejudices in this case. From a group of people who make efforts to investigate the degradation of rights when it comes to tech and big business this is a refreshing insight into the mentality of US vs. THEM.
Maybe rights on-line should be renamed rights on-line for geeks only, flakey people need not apply.
*Listen*
That's the funeral dirge forthe Amiga platform. Lets all bow our heads in silence and bury the damn thing, its been a zombie too long.
He's an old time magician using modern psi-buzzswords for his show. So what if he won't admit its just 'magic.' Its part of the illusion.
Does he so challenge you average slashdotters wordview they agree that he's an ass (which he probably is) but an ass that doesn't deserve his own day in court?
Its an obvious rip-off and the 'bad guy' here are the practices of corporation who have mastered marketing to CHILDREN. Now thats pathetic, at least Uri can make adults look slack-jawed and goofy when he takes their watch and changes it to GMT. But commercializing crap aimed towards the under 10 market is evil incarnate.
Now Pokemon's masters not satisfied with world domination start fucking around with some guy (regardless of who he is) trademark act AND name.
Boo hoo slashdotters cry, Uri is psychic he has no rights lets make fun of him cause we're all so smart and hip to the materistic worldview he challenges through a freaking stageshow.
Its infringement plain and simple. Even if he's litigation crazy he might actually be right one time. Scary I know, its called justice. Can you guys stop being prejudice for 1 minute to read about the issue?
If he was suing MS, I'm sure we'd have a gaggle of pro-MS geeks crawling out of the woodwork.
The only thing Nintendo did wrong (they own Pokemon?) is they didn't give him about 1,000 Pokemon cards to pass out the last time he was at his highly charged, intelligent, and groundbreaking appearances - namely the Oprah show or an occasional Montel.
Uri could have really just nipped this in the bud by remotly destroying all the cards, but as he usually states he's 'a believer in love' and probably woudn't do that to the kids.
I'm pretty sure Pikachu could take him in a fight, release the electric hamster I say.
I'm still waiting for the hammer to fall after the 'Leader' episode. The caricature of the leader is a PERFECT L. Ron.
Maybe the scientologists are just too thick-skulled to get it.
"Hey Nicole, look at the stupid leader!"
I believe that question is for the Woz to answer , thank you very much.
Sheez.
Steve,
How much partying, boozing, and drugs did you do before that fateful crash? Do you have a message for today's insta-rich IPO CEOs about how their lifestyle is going to change, groupies, and the best way to keep it, as urban-folk say, real?
Although I think the list should either pick between the transistor or the tube and between the telegraph and telephone she does make a point with the hand dryer.
Its an amazing device because of its popularity and acceptance into mainstream culture if you consider that it doesn't work. Not at all.
Its brought back the simple and elegant act of wiping your hands right on your pants. What could be more eco-smart and efficient. Its a deterant to using paper not a hand dryer. Most people change their pants every day so this primitive system remains safe and clean in our age of germs.
Many 'primitive' cultures wipe a lot more than just their hands onto their clothing and they're better off for it. Someday the big advancement will not be the wearable computer but the Bounty-suit quick picker upper. Only after we've achieved this next evolution in fashion will society aspire to its greatest creation - a wearable computer that cleans and wipes even the filthiest technophile.
Where's A.C. Clarke when you need him?
I'd love to meet him and shake his hand. Maybe his hand is lukewarm, clammy, and moist after using the dryer too!
Settle down? Naww, I like to post.
Yes I did consider that, if you read my 'hysterics' you'd see why it isn't funny.
Yes, we all have opinions, I like to post mine.
Your post on the other hand has no substance other than admiting you don't know what the main part of my post is about, acknoledging that UF is repitious and telling me I have a right to an opinion. Which all adds up to little more than nothing. You could have spared your fingers.
Someday someone will write a script about slashdot not posting an article about Card or Ender's game for an entire week. Scary, I know.
Bad analogy alert - the kid should have learned to open the door through 'common sense' as you started before. If the teacher had a far side with a kid with an F and thought it was funny then yeah you would have made a point.
Why didn't you write your own strip. Cause its only funny if its a true story and its painfully monotonous.
Regardless these are lame, montonous, geek conformist comics that mainly serves people with little imagination and sense of humor and keeps hip geeks up with the newest cultural refrences.
Yeah upgrade to a sense of humor that might demand creativity and originality not just the same monotonous geek-culture jokes day in and day out.
I checked your wepage and it looks to me you bought conformist geek culture hook , line, and sinker, friend! Oh course you LOVE UF, you have much in common with 2 dimensional characters who criticize everyone who doesn't buy right into their smoke and mirrors futurist fetish.
UF and such are about as funny as Family Circus is to middle-class Xtians, which is not at all when you're not part of the silly conformist game. Its boring, badly drawn, and repitious but you and others like it dig it cause its a "ME TOO" badge.
I think its pretty ironic that you're telling others to 'upgrade' (major geek word here) their sense of humor when your own has stalled at the media produced fantasy of futurism and geekdom.
Bad analogy alert - the kid should have learned to open the door through 'common sense' as you started before. If the teacher had a far side with a kid with an F and thought it was funny then yeah you would have made a point.
Why didn't you write your own strip. Cause its only funny if its a true story and its painfully monotonous.
Regardless these are lame, montonous, geek conformist comics that mainly serves people with little imagination and sense of humor and keeps hip geeks up with the newest cultural refrences.
This list was so out of touch with reality and chillingly useless I was surprised A.C. Clarke didn't write it.
What ever happened to the printing press. Can't see the library from all the stacked books eh?
I've got a million stories of stupid people doing stupid things yet I wouldn't dare make a strip about such a montonous subject. Good humor is mocking, but it also has *variety* and creativity. Not to mention these stories are only really funny when they're true, fictionalized 'real life' rarely cuts it.
But these lame strips will keep going on because of the huge conformist self-styled geek culture. The same way Family Circus is for the middle class Xtian crowd UF will be for the geeks. Not funny, hardly creative but they're "one of us." In other words: crap.
You can only regurgitate one gag so many times before it loses any comedic appeal it once had. These strips, include Dilbert here, are terrible for anyone who doesn't demand monotonous humor.
I don't blame the creators for being clueless, at least they're trying and hopefully learning through their art. Its these self-styled geeks who have given conformists a new standard to look up to who are to blame and keep creators' ego flying. These strips are like little monotnous cultural "ME TOO!" badges that a significant number of technies use to identify one another. Its the electronic equivilant of,
"Hey you like Jewel too?"
Unsure what a good strip is? Goto www.e-sheep.com. Enjoy.
I'm really pushing for Windows double-ought, just like hillbillies would say.
Not that I joined into the buying of canned food shared neurosis, but spending the next month reading "news" about how this webpage or that MS product thinks its 1900 makes me wish the power was out.
A 1900 web clock is about as interesting and noteworthy as a page defacement, CNET is gonna have a great month.
Bah, its a 450 megahertz laptop with a special AC adapter turbo mode. Next they'll start marketing a laptop that has a full size screen and keyboard and extra drive space when connected to a desktop.
Oh, thats an easy one. The second a stray bullet damages property you own or when the first molotov cocktail explodes in your neighborhood.
Post says: Asimov's accountant, which if you think about it might refer to his estate.
The question isn't what would I or we do if I owned etoys, etoy, or am a customer.
The question is what is ethical in the regards to the rights of others, its not a case of role-playing. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who are happy, glad, and proud a bunch of "weirdo artists" have been censored because business and especially children need nothing to do with them. These artists might give people *gasp* ideas!
History shows it will not get 'fixed eventually.' Unless your time scale for 'eventually' is ridiculous. We've had protests since day one yet even the oldest social problems still exist and are plainly brought to light with cases like this. Unfortunatly, it IS a case of have vs. the have-nots, abuse of power, and disregard for the rights of others.
In the context of this overy-materialstic society I have little hope for anything resembling justice to come out of this and some people have reached the point where this is 'old news' and really don't care what happens to etoy.com.
Of course they dropped it, they got their Xmas injuction which is all they wanted. Maybe they'll do something similiar next season. So far the lesson learned is 'Its ok to piss on the little guy and get away with it if you just back off in time.'
Hopefully, etoy.com will continue its suit and if they're really lucky they *might* get some sort of justice in an AmeriKan court.
I'm certain these specific wearable PCs will catch on with the public as much as the quasi-futuristic fashions do.
What a beatiful parallel! A handful of pictures shows you how impractical and almost insane today's futurist mania has gotten in both fashion and tech.
What could be farther from the everyman or everywoman than high-tech and high-fashion?