Why does Slashdot report on Pirate Bay so much? Almost like it's pro-piracy or something. The summary even helpfully provides links to Pirate Bay mirrors.
Damn you're smart! You should run for office. And here I thought Slashdot, computer users, geeks, and open-source fans were all in support of Intellectual Property law, infinite patents and copyright, the RIAA, MPAA, intensely complex licensing agreements, etc.
Explain to me why a bricklayer shouldn't be allowed to charge for 70+ years after his life ends for every house he ever built and we'll talk.
The problem people have isn't with copyright per se. It's with the insanity copyright has turned into.
You mean you disagree with the notion of paying royalities, rent, and licensing for the use of the air you breathe? Ok, we will charge you to pollute the rest of it for a few years, and come back later with a bottle of clean air to and a contract lawyer when you are feeling out of breath.
We want to help you support clean air for yourself and for everyone. Of course, we have some costs to be reviewed.
If this drivel is an example of your "art" I strongly doubt you pulled in a million bucks in profit.
It doesn't say whether his art is written, drawn, painted, played, acted, built, or any format whatsoever. It does say profit and popularity is not a very good measure for the quality of art.
Perhaps you were trying to say you politely disagree, but prefer to express disagreement and debate ideas by resorting to personal debasement and offense?
A good starting point to build a more sane society, where passionate people could pursue their passion while the rest of us could get jobs to afford luxury items to fill the void of lacking a passion, might be a basic income guarantee.
If the music industry is so interested in creating music and supporting musicians, I think all their effort and expense towards lawyers would somehow be more effiient if they created music schools, promoted musicians, shows. They want us to believe in the the insane story that humans will not make music anymore, music and culture will die and disappear from history... why? because it can be easily distributed? quickly and without cost? That's going to kill music?
Perhaps we should say that taking the corporations out of music is actually going to save it.
Uhm yea started a while back, British East India Company, colonies, gold, Roman Empire taxes, etc. It's what money-society teaches, by example. You can't steal. Actually... you can't get *caught* stealing. But if you have the power to, or the need to, and you're either the Authority, The Rebel, or the Poor Man... your job, obligation, or right, is to steal.
There is the written law, the praticed law, the culture, society, tradition, the moral law, social context, political reality... you have to take all of these into account. Not just the paper law. If you look at just the paper law it's either in your interest, or you are being naive.
Look at military, police, legal, and tax practices, and you will get a crash course in paper law vs practiced law real fast.
If there is no financial reward or incentive, no one will invest the time or money to create content.
A society that fails to protect its means of production, stops being productive.
Somehow I think the human species, motivation, inspiration, ideas, food, work, art, professions, and society must have existed and advanced quite a lot, before capital, corporations, and currency even existed. It seems that human work is not a derivative of capital, but rather, the other way around - capital is merely a representation of work. Movies "The Corporation", and "Steal this film" come to mind.
musicians and other performing artists have a right to be paid for their work.
Yes. Someone has to tell the corporations who are selling the work - the artists have to be paid. FAIRLY. Met someone who wrote a book for a huge publishing house, which sold millions of copies. She received $300. This "the artists have to be paid" is a nice lame excuse from the corporations. They tell the artists themselves "the company has bills, tax, etc to pay". They tell the government "we paid the nonprofits and the employees and the people and the economy", and don't pay taxes, either.
I guess "anti-copyright" is being opposed to copyright/patent laws. "Pro-piracy" is disbeying the law. Although politically the two opinions are likely closely aligned in politically opposing copyright. I suspect agreement becomes harder when discussing an alternative law - discussion which just doesn't exist yet, as it's not yet politically viable.
But I'd propose that the new law simply say - Intellectual concepts, information, and ideas, when unlocked and detached from any hard property, is simply human knowledge. And human knowledge cannot be owned by anyone, it can always be circulated and communicated freely. When attached to a certain hard media, such as paper, computers, data-recording media, or any equivalent, anyone may sell that media for whatever amount one decides to ask.
In other words, if you have access to any information you think you should make public and distribute, you may do so, and noboy may stop you or punish you for it.
That includes industrial information, technical information, personal information, product information, military information, espionage information, and any other information.
If anyone decides to inflict violence upon others based on some information, they will respond for and be responsible for their violence. Information, technology, and machines do not create violence - violent people create violence.
The priority issue in human society is violence - not property. Economic violence, psychological violence (lies), discrimination violence, physical violence, and several other forms. Information is just not a priority issue, and in fact, it's just knowledge, and everyone is entitled to have access to it.
I believe any other interpretation, such as "the artists must get paid", simply eventually leads to ownership, and blocking access, restrictions, and so on.
get your employer to use it as a demo for SketchUp.;)
Or perhaps to follow Microsoft's lead and create some games, as it leads into experimenting with lots of technologies. Perhaps Linux gaming will get a boost too.
how is spreading lies in this way different from spreading lies in ads on TV ?
It depends on how serious one considers the consequences of "lies" are. This "just simple marketing" can lead to switching pointless things like brands of bottled water, but also switching medical treatments, food, voting, investing, and taking life risks. Would be interesting to see a survey on the opinion of injured war veterans is about the legality of using misleading information in military recruitment. And what would "truth in advertising" mean for recruiting for fighting in Iraq? "Lose your limbs to support stupid politicians and dumb ideas!"
Still, spreading lies and false information can be defensible as freedom of expression, if one can say they "honestly believe" in what they are saying. Which almost always can be claimed - true or not.
"Yes your honor I truly believe self-trepanation by hammer and nail may be greatly beneficial to one's mental health in the long term, in spite of a occasional risks to one's physical skull. "
Do you really want the government to get involved in deciding what a business must sell? Is that truly any better than non-government censorship ?
Indeed, the US gov't does not regulate. The government prohibiting child porn, selling drugs, alcohol and guns to anyone who wants them, requiring a deed to build on a property, and requiring doctors to have a license before operating on you, having insurance for basically everything you do, isnt' the government dictating your life. It's an expression of complete freedom.
I think that eventually science will be able to detect and measure very faint, although important, links of some kind between various kinds of "life-entities", human or other, biological or other - or something like that. Simply explaining what the origins of religions, spirits, etc were, are, and... not. And everyone will be able to harness whatever insights and powers there are within that, without the 99.9% negative side effects that pre-science faiths currently bring on.
Except they are asking $10 for infinite, eternal, no-login, all-you-want access to Wikipedia. Instead of $25 for some cute, teasing, but quasi-useless, short-lived plastic trinket.
How about figuring out how to cooperate more and make all open source platforms work together better, and compete better with closed-source/commercial platforms. Silly to forget windows and mac, and fight against each other, freebsd vs netbsd vs openbsd vs bsdi vs redhat vs ubuntu vs debian. It would be wonderful for developers if some practical, less labor intensive, way were reached about how to make apps run on all platforms.
Haven't seen any recommendations on what would be sufficient changes to reduce the greenhouse gases. IF they were to be implemented, what would these changes be, and how much would be enough?
Let's not confuse things. Nuclear, wind, or geothermal... there's no space for fundamentalists, fanatics, and intentionally confusing people.
Energy expands to fill the waste available. A transportation executive told me of a simplified cost analysis for transportation that is roughly
1 for water/ship transport, 10 for rail/train 100 for road/trucking, 1000 for plane/air transport.
That's actually costs, but it does reflect labor, fuel and energy consumption. So to get more free energy (and reduce your national costs), encourage rail and ship transportation.
Policies are for decisions, technology is for implementation.
There's no reason to not adopt a policy of reducing waste. There is plenty of work that can be done more intelligently, reduce waste, and increase work output and capacity. That's just policy, and it can be implemented. As any change, it requires changes, and there will be resistance from whatever sectors that will lose business and money. Unavoidable, reducing waste implies someone reducing consumption of something. They will try and cloud the issue, create lots of confusion and barriers.
Once decided, structure taxes on one energy form to subsidize another, that will modify their market prices, and motivate the industry to seek the lower cost forms. It's simple. Even though some people don't want it to be.
Without analyzing numbers, facing the opposition, and reducing waste, we're going nowhere. That'll give more time to research more technology, and allow that research to go on without so much policy confusion.
The way it's looking, Europe is separating these issues better than most areas, and facing up the challenge to change - though they are also still quite slow.
I formatted several factory-Linux boxes. All for newbie users who didn't have any idea what is Linux or Windows or an OS. They wanted to run MSN messenger, Skype, Shareaza, uTorrent, and their games, and they couldn't.
Yes these users are clueless and there are millions of them. I would assume Ubuntu would have figured out an interface just for them, as it's not really that hard. Something like a big button saying "MSN MUSIC GAMES AND DOWNLOADING". That's all they want. And they can't figure it out on Linux.
You are aware your DNA has been copyrighted and patented by Humans-Are-US. As such all your labor and product are derivative works and must be produced and immediately stored directly in our Patented Human DNA production facilites.
As such we require your labor services by tomorrow at 7am. Please report to your Personal DNA Labor Slave Cell by 7am. Irregularities will result in immedia removal of all temporary-credit and life sustainment system access rights.
You mean, they would turn into corporations? Of course, legal drugs are a very profitable business.
They would try, and soon WalMart, Merck, and every other pharma, food, and stimulant company will start producing all kinds of new drug products derived from this stuff. The uneducated gun-toters would go out of business, they couldn't compete. Anyone could buy a pound of coke, heroin, meth, crystals, whatever, and liquefy and spill their brains onto their own family's carpets, in the privacy of their home, no guns or corruption needed.
We would likely have a public health issue of millions of fools wasting themselves, for a while. But a hospital and health crisis is better than a war.
Slashdot Mirror
Why does Slashdot report on Pirate Bay so much? Almost like it's pro-piracy or something. The summary even helpfully provides links to Pirate Bay mirrors.
Damn you're smart! You should run for office. And here I thought Slashdot, computer users, geeks, and open-source fans were all in support of Intellectual Property law, infinite patents and copyright, the RIAA, MPAA, intensely complex licensing agreements, etc.
Explain to me why a bricklayer shouldn't be allowed to charge for 70+ years after his life ends for every house he ever built and we'll talk.
The problem people have isn't with copyright per se. It's with the insanity copyright has turned into.
You mean you disagree with the notion of paying royalities, rent, and licensing for the use of the air you breathe? Ok, we will charge you to pollute the rest of it for a few years, and come back later with a bottle of clean air to and a contract lawyer when you are feeling out of breath.
We want to help you support clean air for yourself and for everyone. Of course, we have some costs to be reviewed.
If this drivel is an example of your "art" I strongly doubt you pulled in a million bucks in profit.
It doesn't say whether his art is written, drawn, painted, played, acted, built, or any format whatsoever.
It does say profit and popularity is not a very good measure for the quality of art.
Perhaps you were trying to say you politely disagree, but prefer to express disagreement and debate ideas by resorting to personal debasement and offense?
A good starting point to build a more sane society, where passionate people could pursue their passion while the rest of us could get jobs to afford luxury items to fill the void of lacking a passion, might be a basic income guarantee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee
If the music industry is so interested in creating music and supporting musicians, I think all their effort and expense towards lawyers would somehow be more effiient if they created music schools, promoted musicians, shows. They want us to believe in the the insane story that humans will not make music anymore, music and culture will die and disappear from history... why? because it can be easily distributed? quickly and without cost? That's going to kill music?
Perhaps we should say that taking the corporations out of music is actually going to save it.
Here you are. It's always nice to see rapist corporations put under the proper light.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1029514/fripp-lays-music-industry-rip
Robert Fripp lays in to music industry rip-off merchants
Vista composer exposes EMI's lucrative shenanigans
Source: The Inquirer (http://s.tt/14sUS)
people "need their free shit".
Uhm yea started a while back, British East India Company, colonies, gold, Roman Empire taxes, etc. It's what money-society teaches, by example. You can't steal. Actually... you can't get *caught* stealing. But if you have the power to, or the need to, and you're either the Authority, The Rebel, or the Poor Man... your job, obligation, or right, is to steal.
There is the written law, the praticed law, the culture, society, tradition, the moral law, social context, political reality... you have to take all of these into account. Not just the paper law. If you look at just the paper law it's either in your interest, or you are being naive.
Look at military, police, legal, and tax practices, and you will get a crash course in paper law vs practiced law real fast.
Because a great many of Slashdot's readers are a bunch of whiny, spoiled children.
And the rest are trolls and/or astroturfers, like you.
Piss off.
Indeed the days when the Internet was a source of people's opinion is dying because of all the paid "opinion-makers".
If there is no financial reward or incentive, no one will invest the time or money to create content.
A society that fails to protect its means of production, stops being productive.
Somehow I think the human species, motivation, inspiration, ideas, food, work, art, professions, and society must have existed and advanced quite a lot, before capital, corporations, and currency even existed. It seems that human work is not a derivative of capital, but rather, the other way around - capital is merely a representation of work. Movies "The Corporation", and "Steal this film" come to mind.
musicians and other performing artists have a right to be paid for their work.
Yes. Someone has to tell the corporations who are selling the work - the artists have to be paid. FAIRLY. Met someone who wrote a book for a huge publishing house, which sold millions of copies. She received $300. This "the artists have to be paid" is a nice lame excuse from the corporations. They tell the artists themselves "the company has bills, tax, etc to pay". They tell the government "we paid the nonprofits and the employees and the people and the economy", and don't pay taxes, either.
I guess "anti-copyright" is being opposed to copyright/patent laws. "Pro-piracy" is disbeying the law. Although politically the two opinions are likely closely aligned in politically opposing copyright. I suspect agreement becomes harder when discussing an alternative law - discussion which just doesn't exist yet, as it's not yet politically viable.
But I'd propose that the new law simply say - Intellectual concepts, information, and ideas, when unlocked and detached from any hard property, is simply human knowledge. And human knowledge cannot be owned by anyone, it can always be circulated and communicated freely. When attached to a certain hard media, such as paper, computers, data-recording media, or any equivalent, anyone may sell that media for whatever amount one decides to ask.
In other words, if you have access to any information you think you should make public and distribute, you may do so, and noboy may stop you or punish you for it.
That includes industrial information, technical information, personal information, product information, military information, espionage information, and any other information.
If anyone decides to inflict violence upon others based on some information, they will respond for and be responsible for their violence. Information, technology, and machines do not create violence - violent people create violence.
The priority issue in human society is violence - not property. Economic violence, psychological violence (lies), discrimination violence, physical violence, and several other forms. Information is just not a priority issue, and in fact, it's just knowledge, and everyone is entitled to have access to it.
I believe any other interpretation, such as "the artists must get paid", simply eventually leads to ownership, and blocking access, restrictions, and so on.
get your employer to use it as a demo for SketchUp. ;)
Or perhaps to follow Microsoft's lead and create some games, as it leads into experimenting with lots of technologies. Perhaps Linux gaming will get a boost too.
misleading/unethical. not really evil.
how is spreading lies in this way different from spreading lies in ads on TV ?
It depends on how serious one considers the consequences of "lies" are. This "just simple marketing" can lead to switching pointless things like brands of bottled water, but also switching medical treatments, food, voting, investing, and taking life risks. Would be interesting to see a survey on the opinion of injured war veterans is about the legality of using misleading information in military recruitment. And what would "truth in advertising" mean for recruiting for fighting in Iraq? "Lose your limbs to support stupid politicians and dumb ideas!"
Still, spreading lies and false information can be defensible as freedom of expression, if one can say they "honestly believe" in what they are saying. Which almost always can be claimed - true or not.
"Yes your honor I truly believe self-trepanation by hammer and nail may be greatly beneficial to one's mental health in the long term, in spite of a occasional risks to one's physical skull. "
Capital has no home, no country, no allegiance, and no color. It travels to where it gets the best deal. It dismisses everyone, as it needs no one.
TechDirt: 20 More Domains Seized Over The Weekend
2011 October 26
by Michael H. Berkens
According to TechDirt.com 20 more domain names were seized over the weekend by ICE, part of the Department of Homeland Security.
The domain names all allegedly involved sale of unauthorized NFL merchandise
The list of domains seized:
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I fail to see how its wrong either.
Do you really want the government to get involved in deciding what a business must sell? Is that truly any better than non-government censorship ?
Indeed, the US gov't does not regulate. The government prohibiting child porn, selling drugs, alcohol and guns to anyone who wants them, requiring a deed to build on a property, and requiring doctors to have a license before operating on you, having insurance for basically everything you do,
isnt' the government dictating your life. It's an expression of complete freedom.
Working on very detailed US maps and city images to practice invading pretty soon. Er, I meant play games on. So nobody will mind.
Time is indeed money, but you have to convert it.
http://complementarycurrency.org/software.html
I think that eventually science will be able to detect and measure very faint, although important, links of some kind between various kinds of "life-entities", human or other, biological or other - or something like that. Simply explaining what the origins of religions, spirits, etc were, are, and... not. And everyone will be able to harness whatever insights and powers there are within that, without the 99.9% negative side effects that pre-science faiths currently bring on.
Wikepedia Ads requesting donations *are* ads.
Except they are asking $10 for infinite, eternal, no-login, all-you-want access to Wikipedia.
Instead of $25 for some cute, teasing, but quasi-useless, short-lived plastic trinket.
How about figuring out how to cooperate more and make all open source platforms work together better, and compete better with closed-source/commercial platforms. Silly to forget windows and mac, and fight against each other, freebsd vs netbsd vs openbsd vs bsdi vs redhat vs ubuntu vs debian. It would be wonderful for developers if some practical, less labor intensive, way were reached about how to make apps run on all platforms.
Haven't seen any recommendations on what would be sufficient changes to reduce the greenhouse gases. IF they were to be implemented, what would these changes be, and how much would be enough?
Let's not confuse things. Nuclear, wind, or geothermal... there's no space for fundamentalists, fanatics, and intentionally confusing people.
Energy expands to fill the waste available. A transportation executive told me of a simplified cost analysis for transportation that is roughly
1 for water/ship transport,
10 for rail/train
100 for road/trucking,
1000 for plane/air transport.
That's actually costs, but it does reflect labor, fuel and energy consumption. So to get more free energy (and reduce your national costs), encourage rail and ship transportation.
Policies are for decisions, technology is for implementation.
There's no reason to not adopt a policy of reducing waste. There is plenty of work that can be done more intelligently, reduce waste, and increase work output and capacity. That's just policy, and it can be implemented. As any change, it requires changes, and there will be resistance from whatever sectors that will lose business and money. Unavoidable, reducing waste implies someone reducing consumption of something. They will try and cloud the issue, create lots of confusion and barriers.
Once decided, structure taxes on one energy form to subsidize another, that will modify their market prices, and motivate the industry to seek the lower cost forms. It's simple. Even though some people don't want it to be.
Without analyzing numbers, facing the opposition, and reducing waste, we're going nowhere. That'll give more time to research more technology, and allow that research to go on without so much policy confusion.
The way it's looking, Europe is separating these issues better than most areas, and facing up the challenge to change - though they are also still quite slow.
I formatted several factory-Linux boxes. All for newbie users who didn't have any idea what is Linux or Windows or an OS. They wanted to run MSN messenger, Skype, Shareaza, uTorrent, and their games, and they couldn't.
Yes these users are clueless and there are millions of them. I would assume Ubuntu would have figured out an interface just for them, as it's not really that hard. Something like a big button saying "MSN MUSIC GAMES AND DOWNLOADING". That's all they want. And they can't figure it out on Linux.
You are aware your DNA has been copyrighted and patented by Humans-Are-US. As such all your labor and product are derivative works and must be produced and immediately stored directly in our Patented Human DNA production facilites.
As such we require your labor services by tomorrow at 7am. Please report to your Personal DNA Labor Slave Cell by 7am. Irregularities will result in immedia removal of all temporary-credit and life sustainment system access rights.
Thank you
Our Beloved Patent Lord
You mean, they would turn into corporations? Of course, legal drugs are a very profitable business.
They would try, and soon WalMart, Merck, and every other pharma, food, and stimulant company will start producing all kinds of new drug products derived from this stuff. The uneducated gun-toters would go out of business, they couldn't compete. Anyone could buy a pound of coke, heroin, meth, crystals, whatever, and liquefy and spill their brains onto their own family's carpets, in the privacy of their home, no guns or corruption needed.
We would likely have a public health issue of millions of fools wasting themselves, for a while. But a hospital and health crisis is better than a war.