The same thing happens here in the US. FreedomWorks is a front group for Political Insiders. The scary part of is that people that have joined this organzation have no idea they are apart of a front group.
After 15 years of working in this field I can offer you some advise but you are not going to want to hear it. 1. Do some work on yourself, read books on how to communicate with difficult people.
2. If you dont like how you are treated in any situation you have two options: remove yourself from siuation. Or accept the situation gracefully and do you best to improve it.
IMHO experience after trial and error, I have learned to trust my instincts. After years of working on my personality my goal is to be my genuine best with quality service and professionalism, by setting and example of being humble and compassionate to every one I meet, and I mean everyone regardless of what I think about the person.. Then after looking at the situation and finding no fault in my treatment toward others, I have to realize that I cant change people. I can only change myself and if my qualities are not enough to reverse someones bad treatment against me, I remove myself from the situation and find another company that values what I do for them and treats me with respect. I dont have time for people that are not able to appreciate my qualities. Let the deal with people that are just as miserable as them, They can be good company for each other.
The next job you interview for, start doing some interviewing of them in return. Talk with them about your qualities, and talk about your history with the people you worked with in the past and explain how you want work with those kinds of people in the future. If your interviewers become defensive, or try to dismiss your claims, that is the first warning sign. I usually give it three warning signs before I walk out and thank them for their time. The second warning sign is an interview that is too much like an interview and offers no friendliness or balanced approach to genuine conversation along with the interview process. If its all business and no talk about personal interests or desires, its not going to be a friendly place to work.
The third warning sign is when you ask or are given and opportunity to walk around and meet some of the people that work there. Ask them what its like working there, If you get allot of pauses in their communication or sideways looks that is the third warning sign.
Meet your interviews more than once and make sure they make you feel comfortable in the work place before you make any decisions. No job is worth not feeling respected, you can always find another one.
In my own professional life I have decide that I dislike most large businesses mostly because of petty politics and peoples obsession with status which means absolutely nothing to me. so I work for myself, I started my own small business providing excellent computer, web-site and video/audio services to people who give a shit.
There is nothing morally wrong with making copies of a copy. You dont have enough information to even have this discussion because if you did, you wouldn't be talking in terms of right and wrong. copyright infringement law was designed to prevent large organizations from taking a individuals work and a profiting from it. If you think this same logic applies to big business you dont understand the dynamics, its that simple.
Large entities don't need the same rights as individuals. Copyright should not extend to them at all. It should only extend to the individual as how it was intended.
I think you guys are to hard on them, they had fun, its the journey that counts. I wished the had released it 5 years ago, but hay, who am I to judge. Somethings just are not meant to be.
Its been good reading about it, hope they keep the spirit up and continue to do whats important.
IMHO, you give up your right to control your work once it reaches the internet. Thats the way the technology is designed. From an Ethical standpoint, IMHO as a creator of a work when you set a price the people get to decide whether you should get compensated or not, they vote with their wallets or their ability to use technology to circumvent. It all depends on how much value you create in the transaction with the community. If you are perceived as a good person who is bringing value to the community people will likely feel obligated to compensate you. On the other hand if you use your power to circumvent peoples freedom of choice, your self-importance ruins your reputation as someone who destroys the value of others. People don't feel like compensating someone who doesn't give. You have to give ( of yourself and your time in a meaningful manner during the process of the transaction) for people to want to compensate you.
This is the problem with large corporations who don't have any state in the creation process, who the hell feels like compensation a third party? not me.
Yea this is a good point. Their site name really says it. Probably not a good idea to use pirate in a name, it has too many negative connotations in the general public.
Accept these are not Stolen goods are they? We are talking about COPIES of music, videos and software. Its very unlikely that anyone can be hurt, by a COPY of an original. I think 90% of the business community don't get this very subtle but important distinction. Its like going out of your way to punish someone for taking a snap shot of a piece of art in a gallery that is being sold for 5,000. You fine them millions of dollars of cash you would not have gotten anyway and throw him in jail to make a point.
I'm sorry it just looks like you are trying to hard to make it known that you more important than the rest of the world who are actively involved in share works and ideas with each other. The punishment doesn't really fit the copyright infringement. Get over the fact that people are going to copy your work and just continue selling your stuff. The people that buy your stuff really care about you making more stuff in the future. The ones that don't care would have never bought your stuff in the first place, it makes not sense to punish them for it and it only hurts your reputation with the people that value you work in the long run.
LOL, I'm not exactly sure what you mean be self-proclaimed and real pros. But if you mean school educated -vs- experience driven. Ill put my money on experience driven any day of the week.
A Real pro, is someone who is dedicated to providing an excellent service and making sure he has the expertise to back it up when the time comes. Everything is is just, well academic.
and this got modded to 5 insightful? sounds like alot of emotion getting in the way, even if the schould shouldnt be searching kids in the first place.
The problem is, you put your child in a school that doesnt have your family's interests at heart. And now you are complaining about not being put in the loop. More parents need to wake up, most public schools are not interested working with parents, they are interested in maintaining an envoirnment of dumb workers that companies can rely on not to make a fuss about things.
If this isnt an example of total insanity on behalf of intellectual property interests, I don't know what is. Going this far to catch cammers? im thinking straight jackets and ambulances for all of IP business interests that have completely lost track of all reality.
Two things, do the best you can to help people, and be open an honest about your beliefs and ideals online, this tends to help people understand you better, if a potential employer negatively judges you for what you did online, its either a) something you can learn from and improve your character, or b) you were better off not being hired by that employer. People make decisions about how they are able to trust you from what you say and do in your personal life, the same thing happens online. If what you do is not getting the results you want, its time to try something else. But if what you do makes you a good person, and adds value to your life and others, but someone doesn't agree with it, then its just their issue and its not part of who you are. You don't want to work for someone who doesn't have some of your most important interests at heart. If you do, you will end up regretting the job, the people you work with and your time will be a waste. You will feel it in your bones. Dont sacrifice your values for collective beliefs, it will only bring you suffering.
When employers ask you about your online activities and you feel you are a good person, don't make excuses, calmly tell them that those activities make you who you are and that you wouldn't change it for the world. at the same time admit to those times when you were wrong or made an ass out of yourself. People value honesty over anything, because everyone knows that we all are just human beings, and we are trying to do the best we can.
If you find that you are having trouble finding work because of something you did online and its their for all to see, its time to switch tactics and find another way to make income and rebuild your reputation, start a small business, or work in some kind of care where you are helping people. What ever happens to you good or bad, there is always a reason for it, and its up to you to make the best of it, try new ways of looking at things.
Most of all don't buy into this belief that you cant make a life for yourself because our society is what it is today, just work around it. There is always a way out.
Yep. I run my sites: blogging, image gallery, and forums on my own virtual host and back up the data bases once a month. I dont trust other services to maintain my data, I think too many people dont understand that the backups are not being created for them...
I just wanted to add that from what quantum physics has taught me is that the observer and the observed are woven together, so part of what we are experiencing is part of who we are and so we to a certain extent create what we see around us, and I dont see science working that out.
LOL, ok so I dont understand everything about what it is im talking about ill give you that, but that doesn't make me stupid, id like to think im pretty smart.:) Anyway I still like to find the truth in anything even if its absurd.:) I was trying to convey that you can use any theory or practice to allow you to reach the confines of your own limits. Sometimes people need to believe in the truth, hidden in lies to lift themselves up out of the situations they are in to get a clearer picture of the world. Of course there has to be a good reason for this and doing it out of fear is not one of them.
Yea that's why quantum physics proves that there is a dual nature to everything. The uncertainty principal proves that science is not an exact practice. Its a way to understand the world, but only one way, and for you to pass it off as fact in all situations makes you as ignorant as all of the others that blindly believe in one approach to everything.
Your wasting your energy if you belief that science proves everything.
Games that have value dont follow this logic. which was one point another poster was talking about, Copyright Infringement is going to separate the boys from the men when it comes to how innovative games are. If you make a game that works on allot of levels people will by. This is from personal experience. I bought games after I tried them out because they did a good job at making the game replayable with mods and open ended game play.
Im not a Scientologist, but Id be careful about labeling things Pseudo. If something works for you, and you cant explain it, it doesnt make it less of a reality then what we cal science in todays age, newage or not..
I think the whole problem with the idea of science, for certain areas of focus, is to try and explain everything in a process people can understand. The simple fact is that there is allot going on in this world that we'll never understand. Any attempts to do so brings us further away from the benefit of any results that the occurrence brings, as a society at large. Too many people are not comfortable with the ambiguity in life all around us. Feeling something though with the senses and staying in touch with your body can sometimes be more powerful as a healer than any remedy that any science can provide. Personally I think the methods of healing depends also on subjective experience and to not take that into account is ignorant. To a certain extent we create our reality through experience, beliefs, and what is.
Personally as far as government goes, the Google Moderator System when used this way reminds me of the bottom up approach, where the people on the bottom rungs are giving feedback to the people on the top rungs. Its called a feedback loop and biological systems run this way in order to get things done. Both the people at the top and bottom can generally be consider dumb or smart. The good thing about this system is that, though emergence, the important stuff comes out of an approach like this and this has been proven in biological systems in nature. So I don't agree that dumb people are going to screw the system up just because they have a voice, because only the best ideas are going to rise to the top, as you have really smart people part of the system that are doing checks and balances, and the dumb people are good at making things happen. I think its a smart idea and its going in the right direction.
If someone submits a question that doesn't resemble something worthwhile and important it doesn't mean that this person doesn't have something worthwhile to say. It just means they don't know how to say it. It takes someone with enough smarts to know what the person is trying to say to make it sound they way it is intended. or to be able to really convey whats on peoples minds.. allot of time what people say about a hot topic is usually a symptom of something else that needs to be fixed. I believe when people work together dumb or smart, things get done and important topics emerge. But there has to be a feedback loop to make it work IMHO.
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The same thing happens here in the US. FreedomWorks is a front group for Political Insiders. The scary part of is that people that have joined this organzation have no idea they are apart of a front group.
After 15 years of working in this field I can offer you some advise but you are not going to want to hear it.
1. Do some work on yourself, read books on how to communicate with difficult people.
2. If you dont like how you are treated in any situation you have two options: remove yourself from siuation. Or accept the situation gracefully and do you best to improve it.
IMHO experience after trial and error, I have learned to trust my instincts. After years of working on my personality my goal is to be my genuine best with quality service and professionalism, by setting and example of being humble and compassionate to every one I meet, and I mean everyone regardless of what I think about the person.. Then after looking at the situation and finding no fault in my treatment toward others, I have to realize that I cant change people. I can only change myself and if my qualities are not enough to reverse someones bad treatment against me, I remove myself from the situation and find another company that values what I do for them and treats me with respect. I dont have time for people that are not able to appreciate my qualities. Let the deal with people that are just as miserable as them, They can be good company for each other.
The next job you interview for, start doing some interviewing of them in return. Talk with them about your qualities, and talk about your history with the people you worked with in the past and explain how you want work with those kinds of people in the future. If your interviewers become defensive, or try to dismiss your claims, that is the first warning sign. I usually give it three warning signs before I walk out and thank them for their time. The second warning sign is an interview that is too much like an interview and offers no friendliness or balanced approach to genuine conversation along with the interview process. If its all business and no talk about personal interests or desires, its not going to be a friendly place to work.
The third warning sign is when you ask or are given and opportunity to walk around and meet some of the people that work there. Ask them what its like working there, If you get allot of pauses in their communication or sideways looks that is the third warning sign.
Meet your interviews more than once and make sure they make you feel comfortable in the work place before you make any decisions. No job is worth not feeling respected, you can always find another one.
In my own professional life I have decide that I dislike most large businesses mostly because of petty politics and peoples obsession with status which means absolutely nothing to me. so I work for myself, I started my own small business providing excellent computer, web-site and video/audio services to people who give a shit.
There is nothing morally wrong with making copies of a copy. You dont have enough information to even have this discussion because if you did, you wouldn't be talking in terms of right and wrong. copyright infringement law was designed to prevent large organizations from taking a individuals work and a profiting from it. If you think this same logic applies to big business you dont understand the dynamics, its that simple.
Large entities don't need the same rights as individuals. Copyright should not extend to them at all.
It should only extend to the individual as how it was intended.
I think you guys are to hard on them, they had fun, its the journey that counts. I wished the had released it 5 years ago, but hay, who am I to judge. Somethings just are not meant to be.
Its been good reading about it, hope they keep the spirit up and continue to do whats important.
IMHO, you give up your right to control your work once it reaches the internet. Thats the way the technology is designed.
From an Ethical standpoint, IMHO as a creator of a work when you set a price the people get to decide whether you should get compensated or not, they vote with their wallets or their ability to use technology to circumvent. It all depends on how much value you create in the transaction with the community. If you are perceived as a good person who is bringing value to the community people will likely feel obligated to compensate you. On the other hand if you use your power to circumvent peoples freedom of choice, your self-importance ruins your reputation as someone who destroys the value of others. People don't feel like compensating someone who doesn't give. You have to give ( of yourself and your time in a meaningful manner during the process of the transaction) for people to want to compensate you.
This is the problem with large corporations who don't have any state in the creation process, who the hell feels like compensation a third party? not me.
Yea this is a good point. Their site name really says it. Probably not a good idea to use pirate in a name, it has too many negative connotations in the general public.
Accept these are not Stolen goods are they? We are talking about COPIES of music, videos and software. Its very unlikely that anyone can be hurt, by a COPY of an original. I think 90% of the business community don't get this very subtle but important distinction. Its like going out of your way to punish someone for taking a snap shot of a piece of art in a gallery that is being sold for 5,000. You fine them millions of dollars of cash you would not have gotten anyway and throw him in jail to make a point.
I'm sorry it just looks like you are trying to hard to make it known that you more important than the rest of the world who are actively involved in share works and ideas with each other. The punishment doesn't really fit the copyright infringement. Get over the fact that people are going to copy your work and just continue selling your stuff. The people that buy your stuff really care about you making more stuff in the future. The ones that don't care would have never bought your stuff in the first place, it makes not sense to punish them for it and it only hurts your reputation with the people that value you work in the long run.
LOL, I'm not exactly sure what you mean be self-proclaimed and real pros. But if you mean school educated -vs- experience driven. Ill put my money on experience driven any day of the week.
A Real pro, is someone who is dedicated to providing an excellent service and making sure he has the expertise to back it up when the time comes. Everything is is just, well academic.
and this got modded to 5 insightful? sounds like alot of emotion getting in the way, even if the schould shouldnt be searching kids in the first place.
The problem is, you put your child in a school that doesnt have your family's interests at heart. And now you are complaining about not being put in the loop.
More parents need to wake up, most public schools are not interested working with parents, they are interested in maintaining an envoirnment of dumb workers that companies can rely on not to make a fuss about things.
If this isnt an example of total insanity on behalf of intellectual property interests, I don't know what is. Going this far to catch cammers? im thinking straight jackets and ambulances for all of IP business interests that have completely lost track of all reality.
Two things, do the best you can to help people, and be open an honest about your beliefs and ideals online, this tends to help people understand you better, if a potential employer negatively judges you for what you did online, its either a) something you can learn from and improve your character, or b) you were better off not being hired by that employer. People make decisions about how they are able to trust you from what you say and do in your personal life, the same thing happens online. If what you do is not getting the results you want, its time to try something else. But if what you do makes you a good person, and adds value to your life and others, but someone doesn't agree with it, then its just their issue and its not part of who you are. You don't want to work for someone who doesn't have some of your most important interests at heart. If you do, you will end up regretting the job, the people you work with and your time will be a waste. You will feel it in your bones. Dont sacrifice your values for collective beliefs, it will only bring you suffering.
When employers ask you about your online activities and you feel you are a good person, don't make excuses, calmly tell them that those activities make you who you are and that you wouldn't change it for the world. at the same time admit to those times when you were wrong or made an ass out of yourself. People value honesty over anything, because everyone knows that we all are just human beings, and we are trying to do the best we can.
If you find that you are having trouble finding work because of something you did online and its their for all to see, its time to switch tactics and find another way to make income and rebuild your reputation, start a small business, or work in some kind of care where you are helping people. What ever happens to you good or bad, there is always a reason for it, and its up to you to make the best of it, try new ways of looking at things.
Most of all don't buy into this belief that you cant make a life for yourself because our society is what it is today, just work around it. There is always a way out.
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If at first its not a hardware problem , then suspect software. (Unless you want to waste alot of time.)
Please, for the LOVE OF GOD, mod parent up, and label as FUNNY.
Yep. I run my sites: blogging, image gallery, and forums on my own virtual host and back up the data bases once a month. I dont trust other services to maintain my data, I think too many people dont understand that the backups are not being created for them...
I just wanted to add that from what quantum physics has taught me is that the observer and the observed are woven together, so part of what we are experiencing is part of who we are and so we to a certain extent create what we see around us, and I dont see science working that out.
LOL, ok so I dont understand everything about what it is im talking about ill give you that, but that doesn't make me stupid, id like to think im pretty smart. :) Anyway I still like to find the truth in anything even if its absurd. :) I was trying to convey that you can use any theory or practice to allow you to reach the confines of your own limits. Sometimes people need to believe in the truth, hidden in lies to lift themselves up out of the situations they are in to get a clearer picture of the world. Of course there has to be a good reason for this and doing it out of fear is not one of them.
Naa, "the secret" is kind of weak... I would go with Eckhart Tolles "The Power of Now" or "The Divine Matrix" or "The Biology of belief"
Yea that's why quantum physics proves that there is a dual nature to everything. The uncertainty principal proves that science is not an exact practice. Its a way to understand the world, but only one way, and for you to pass it off as fact in all situations makes you as ignorant as all of the others that blindly believe in one approach to everything.
Your wasting your energy if you belief that science proves everything.
Games that have value dont follow this logic. which was one point another poster was talking about, Copyright Infringement is going to separate the boys from the men when it comes to how innovative games are. If you make a game that works on allot of levels people will by. This is from personal experience. I bought games after I tried them out because they did a good job at making the game replayable with mods and open ended game play.
Im not a Scientologist, but Id be careful about labeling things Pseudo. If something works for you, and you cant explain it, it doesnt make it less of a reality then what we cal science in todays age, newage or not..
I think the whole problem with the idea of science, for certain areas of focus, is to try and explain everything in a process people can understand. The simple fact is that there is allot going on in this world that we'll never understand. Any attempts to do so brings us further away from the benefit of any results that the occurrence brings, as a society at large. Too many people are not comfortable with the ambiguity in life all around us. Feeling something though with the senses and staying in touch with your body can sometimes be more powerful as a healer than any remedy that any science can provide. Personally I think the methods of healing depends also on subjective experience and to not take that into account is ignorant. To a certain extent we create our reality through experience, beliefs, and what is.
This is a good point. somethings just need to wait to come into conciousness until the person is ready for it.
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Personally as far as government goes, the Google Moderator System when used this way reminds me of the bottom up approach, where the people on the bottom rungs are giving feedback to the people on the top rungs. Its called a feedback loop and biological systems run this way in order to get things done.
Both the people at the top and bottom can generally be consider dumb or smart. The good thing about this system is that, though emergence, the important stuff comes out of an approach like this and this has been proven in biological systems in nature. So I don't agree that dumb people are going to screw the system up just because they have a voice, because only the best ideas are going to rise to the top, as you have really smart people part of the system that are doing checks and balances, and the dumb people are good at making things happen. I think its a smart idea and its going in the right direction.
If someone submits a question that doesn't resemble something worthwhile and important it doesn't mean that this person doesn't have something worthwhile to say. It just means they don't know how to say it. It takes someone with enough smarts to know what the person is trying to say to make it sound they way it is intended. or to be able to really convey whats on peoples minds.. allot of time what people say about a hot topic is usually a symptom of something else that needs to be fixed. I believe when people work together dumb or smart, things get done and important topics emerge. But there has to be a feedback loop to make it work IMHO.