Why aren't we going to the asteroid belt? No strong gravity. Plenty of sunshine. No atmosphere to deal with. Gigatons of high-quality nickel-iron just laying around.
We don't have to respect IP law.
We have the power to kill it. We have encryption and anonymity.
IP law is bad for our culture and good for culture-exploiting tumors like microsoft. Screw IP law.
Before you mod this down as flamebait, don't. I'm serious. IP law is intracultural combat of the worst kind. It's censorship of our most useful information. It only strengthens the exploitive factions in our culture while weakening the rest. This intensifies cultural fragmentation. The difference between a fragmented culture and a unified one is the difference between a puddle of rotton crap and a walking-talking human.
If you want to live in the upscale walking-talking human type culture and are sick of the inefficient, ugly, wasteful puddle-of-rotton-crap type culture, fight IP law.
"Can we really trust closed-source venders, "??
Of course not.
Isn't commerce combat?
Open source is for the people by the people and corporations would sell babymeat on streetcorners if it was profitable to do so. No clues needed there. Obvious as hell.
You all stand around like cows saying "oh gee! This is so shocking!
Since when has commerce not been a war? Since when have businesses not broken the law every time it was profitable to do so? Since when have businesses not utterly raped their employess at every profitable opportunity?
What the fuck is new under the sun? THe enemy is as clear as the drool on your fat stupid chin.
Shocked? Stop engaging in commerce you stupid hamsters.
If we the people see fit, why not just take it? Why not just declare java a public property and ignore any copyright claims? Property rights exist only insofar as they promote the health of our culture. If Sun ever presses their claims to the point of our inconvenience it would be a small matter to just take java. Same with any other so called 'intellectual property' for that matter. What law can bind the entire net-population?
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Why aren't we going to the asteroid belt? No strong gravity. Plenty of sunshine. No atmosphere to deal with. Gigatons of high-quality nickel-iron just laying around.
fuck ip I declare the convention of intellectual property inconvenient and null. It's sand in our gears folks.
Reasons:
1) It's the obvious thin-end coming at us.
2) We can beat it with software, which is infinitely more user friendly than the machinery of cops and governments.
BTW: How valid is this assertion?
"If everybody has a cia in their pocket then everybody will have equal military might, so computers save the world."
We don't have to respect IP law. We have the power to kill it. We have encryption and anonymity. IP law is bad for our culture and good for culture-exploiting tumors like microsoft. Screw IP law. Before you mod this down as flamebait, don't. I'm serious. IP law is intracultural combat of the worst kind. It's censorship of our most useful information. It only strengthens the exploitive factions in our culture while weakening the rest. This intensifies cultural fragmentation. The difference between a fragmented culture and a unified one is the difference between a puddle of rotton crap and a walking-talking human. If you want to live in the upscale walking-talking human type culture and are sick of the inefficient, ugly, wasteful puddle-of-rotton-crap type culture, fight IP law.
Screw the law. We have encryption and anonymity. IP is as silly as christian fundamentalism and twice as bad for our culture.
How about somebody standing on a nearby mountain aiming a herf gun here and there? Satellite-mounted herf gun?
I'm inclined to suspect pixies however. Seriously.
"Can we really trust closed-source venders, "?? Of course not. Isn't commerce combat? Open source is for the people by the people and corporations would sell babymeat on streetcorners if it was profitable to do so. No clues needed there. Obvious as hell.
You all stand around like cows saying "oh gee! This is so shocking! Since when has commerce not been a war? Since when have businesses not broken the law every time it was profitable to do so? Since when have businesses not utterly raped their employess at every profitable opportunity? What the fuck is new under the sun? THe enemy is as clear as the drool on your fat stupid chin. Shocked? Stop engaging in commerce you stupid hamsters.
Isn't microsoft out to exploit us like all commercial entities? Do we actually expect anything else?
If we the people see fit, why not just take it? Why not just declare java a public property and ignore any copyright claims? Property rights exist only insofar as they promote the health of our culture. If Sun ever presses their claims to the point of our inconvenience it would be a small matter to just take java. Same with any other so called 'intellectual property' for that matter. What law can bind the entire net-population?