I don't know about you, but I have been hit with batons and risked jail time for causes I believe in before. Don't project your own indifference and fear onto everyone else.
Pro bono is exactly what I mean. I'd be willing to forego an income and even my freedom for a while, I would expect to have a few lawyers forego their fees.
If you think the less of Bruce for this, I'm sure he would let you get up on stage and do it yourself. Are you willing to go to jail and spend the next year in court for your convictions?
Assuming that I could count on getting legal support from the EFF, yes.
Yes, but this is payback. You've got a lifestyle financed by people working for pennies an hour. Shoes, clothes, pretty much everything that's been manufactured is made affordable to you, the first world consumer, due to the differential in labor costs between here and where it's produced. You didn't care so much when it was America shoe-makers and tailors that went unemployed - after all, hey, cheaper shoes! - but now that it's your labor that is too expensive, you're complaining.
What it means is that more people can afford whatever product you were producing, which grows the market. You were just getting spoiled riding on the coattails of American economic superiority, and now you have to play on a more global level playing field.
How about you start worrying about pissing off me, instead of putting the onus on me? Nothing I said was ideological or unrelated. It was all related. We have a legislature that has been bought by corporate interests, and the creates the policy that the corporate interests wants. Not recognizing this is just asking for band-aid solutions. Those "pet" causes (like the environment, and fair use, and freedom to research) are frankly more important to me than whether I get to share files legally or not.
I'm not anti-corporate, when corporations compete fairly to produce the best product to meet demands, innovate, and employ people to do so. Corporations can be very efficient at that. I'm against corporate dominance of the political sphere, against the expansion of the fictions of intellectual property rights in order to increase corporate profits, against the idea that culture is increasingly and more tightly controlled as property, and I'm against the corporate encroachment of public and civic space. I'm against the idea that the corporate way is always the best way to do everything, and that profit trumps other considerations.
The spirit of my quote is what's important, you're straining at a gnat.
The logic of the MPAA is succinctly summarized in the caption to their copyright information page: "Copyright: The Engine of America's Economic Growth." That sort of logic is difficult to battle - it was used to justify slavery, among other things, and is successfully used to justify continued environmental degradation. "What's good for GM is what's good for America" has underlied a lot of policy in the past century - it's why we bail-out financial institutions and airlines, why white collar criminals who have reduced thousands of people to poverty still get smaller sentences - if any - than people who shoplift a bicycle or sell a few joints.
Say what you like about the ACLU, it could be worse. If it were the American Civil Engineer's Union, they'd just pour a lot of concrete on all of us and leave.
You know, if corporations behaved less badly, there'd be fewer anti-corporate stories. This is news, it's news for nerds, and frankly it's fair and objective reporting. Just because the facts conflict with your ideological hobbyhorse doesn't mean that it isn't news.
True fact: I'm going back to Peru in a couple weeks, to visit family.
And now, I am worried about getting run over by a llama.
Annoying Peruvian geek trivia: no one over the age of 10 actually rides a llama. Llamas are pack animals and won't carry riders. They spit, too. They will happily run over you without prompting, all by themselves.
God knows there aren't innocents on death row in the US, nor people being detained without indictment or rights to an attorney or for something they simply might do, or for belonging to the wrong group in the US, or unequal justice meted out to the disenfranchised and absolution for the powerful, or people put into prison for 24 years for being in the same car as someone who was carrying drugs while the head of state got a pass for drunk driving and god know what else... oh, wait a minute, never mind.
Fair enough - Microsoft is in the IP-hoarding game, too. Still, there do seem to be plenty of ASF players in Linux land, why aren't they getting C&D letters?
No. Because Microsoft doesn't threaten to sue anyone who sets up playback in Linux. While Apple/Sorenson do. Apple's willingness to bring in the lawyers is far more detestable - when have you heard of Microsoft menacing a lawsuit against mplayer, Xine, or the like?
I've had one-way (multi-segment) flights. I'm male and single (well, I have a girlfriend, but I don't think that counts). Never searched.
I've had silver status for 4 years on my airline. I think that has more to do with it. I've never ever seen an elite-status flier pulled over for screening.
As an elite-status member of a frequent flier program, I have never been searched. And I've flown over 20 times this year alone, often to Latin America.
I believe that the airlines screen out their frequent customers and "pick on" their non-frequent or one-time customers.
I suspect he might be able to win, because reasonable exercise of the right to travel in our country, for many people in many careers, will include air travel. There's no other realistic way to travel to Hawaii and Alaska, for example, and the reality of life in the US in the 21st century is such that people need to fly frequently to practice many professions in many industries. That the US government saw fit to provide a multi-billion dollar bailout to the air carriers is an indication of the centrality of air travel to American life. Likewise, freedom of the press and freedom of speech applies to technologies now that are neither presses nor oratory.
There's also another category of life: life that is intelligent, discursive, and tool-using, but hasn't developed technologically-oriented civilizations. Only in a tiny handful of centuries have we learned the use of electricity, developed any useful understanding of physics and chemistry, and the like. It's more sensible to think of our scientistic culture as a fluke than as part of a normal progression - the vast majority of cultures and civilizations on this planet were not on a "path" that led inevitably to space.
Alec Empire. Atari Teenage Riot. Shinzuo. All from the digital hardcore thing. Hardcore punk intensity in electronica (although Alec Empire also does incredible jungle, d+b, and ambient works too.) For cerebral electronic minimalism, the entire Raster Noton can't be beat, and check out Ryoji Ikeda and Plastikman.
One of my favorite Aphex Twin works was a piece he did with mu-Siq called "Mike and Rich - Expert Knob Twiddlers." Skillful goofy fun. kid606 is intense and often funny. Also, check out Amon Tobin.
Current fave act, though, is the Polysics. Amped-up digital-punk-wave descended directly from Devo, and they're from Japan. Woefully underappreciated.
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I don't know about you, but I have been hit with batons and risked jail time for causes I believe in before. Don't project your own indifference and fear onto everyone else.
Pro bono is exactly what I mean. I'd be willing to forego an income and even my freedom for a while, I would expect to have a few lawyers forego their fees.
Assuming that I could count on getting legal support from the EFF, yes.
What it means is that more people can afford whatever product you were producing, which grows the market. You were just getting spoiled riding on the coattails of American economic superiority, and now you have to play on a more global level playing field.
How about you start worrying about pissing off me, instead of putting the onus on me? Nothing I said was ideological or unrelated. It was all related. We have a legislature that has been bought by corporate interests, and the creates the policy that the corporate interests wants. Not recognizing this is just asking for band-aid solutions. Those "pet" causes (like the environment, and fair use, and freedom to research) are frankly more important to me than whether I get to share files legally or not.
The spirit of my quote is what's important, you're straining at a gnat.
The logic of the MPAA is succinctly summarized in the caption to their copyright information page: "Copyright: The Engine of America's Economic Growth." That sort of logic is difficult to battle - it was used to justify slavery, among other things, and is successfully used to justify continued environmental degradation. "What's good for GM is what's good for America" has underlied a lot of policy in the past century - it's why we bail-out financial institutions and airlines, why white collar criminals who have reduced thousands of people to poverty still get smaller sentences - if any - than people who shoplift a bicycle or sell a few joints.
Say what you like about the ACLU, it could be worse. If it were the American Civil Engineer's Union, they'd just pour a lot of concrete on all of us and leave.
You know, if corporations behaved less badly, there'd be fewer anti-corporate stories. This is news, it's news for nerds, and frankly it's fair and objective reporting. Just because the facts conflict with your ideological hobbyhorse doesn't mean that it isn't news.
And now, I am worried about getting run over by a llama.
Annoying Peruvian geek trivia: no one over the age of 10 actually rides a llama. Llamas are pack animals and won't carry riders. They spit, too. They will happily run over you without prompting, all by themselves.
How about "Amish Linux"?
God knows there aren't innocents on death row in the US, nor people being detained without indictment or rights to an attorney or for something they simply might do, or for belonging to the wrong group in the US, or unequal justice meted out to the disenfranchised and absolution for the powerful, or people put into prison for 24 years for being in the same car as someone who was carrying drugs while the head of state got a pass for drunk driving and god know what else ... oh, wait a minute, never mind.
Fair enough - Microsoft is in the IP-hoarding game, too. Still, there do seem to be plenty of ASF players in Linux land, why aren't they getting C&D letters?
System != Kernel. Comprende?
No. Because Microsoft doesn't threaten to sue anyone who sets up playback in Linux. While Apple/Sorenson do. Apple's willingness to bring in the lawyers is far more detestable - when have you heard of Microsoft menacing a lawsuit against mplayer, Xine, or the like?
Meanwhile, it is quite easy to play ASF and other Microsoft-formatted files in Linux. Yet, the opprobrium is reserved for Microsoft.
I've had silver status for 4 years on my airline. I think that has more to do with it. I've never ever seen an elite-status flier pulled over for screening.
I believe that the airlines screen out their frequent customers and "pick on" their non-frequent or one-time customers.
I suspect he might be able to win, because reasonable exercise of the right to travel in our country, for many people in many careers, will include air travel. There's no other realistic way to travel to Hawaii and Alaska, for example, and the reality of life in the US in the 21st century is such that people need to fly frequently to practice many professions in many industries. That the US government saw fit to provide a multi-billion dollar bailout to the air carriers is an indication of the centrality of air travel to American life. Likewise, freedom of the press and freedom of speech applies to technologies now that are neither presses nor oratory.
And if someone - anyone - started working on Mono on KDE, you'd leave KDE? If we keep this up, maybe we can push you all the way to CP/M.
There's also another category of life: life that is intelligent, discursive, and tool-using, but hasn't developed technologically-oriented civilizations. Only in a tiny handful of centuries have we learned the use of electricity, developed any useful understanding of physics and chemistry, and the like. It's more sensible to think of our scientistic culture as a fluke than as part of a normal progression - the vast majority of cultures and civilizations on this planet were not on a "path" that led inevitably to space.
And this has happened *how many times?* In the real world, I mean - not in a Bruce Willis movie.
Geek irony: buying computers for the prestige value and clothes just for utility value.
One of my favorite Aphex Twin works was a piece he did with mu-Siq called "Mike and Rich - Expert Knob Twiddlers." Skillful goofy fun. kid606 is intense and often funny. Also, check out Amon Tobin.
Current fave act, though, is the Polysics. Amped-up digital-punk-wave descended directly from Devo, and they're from Japan. Woefully underappreciated.
Since you passed up all those opportunities at penis enlargement she's been sending you, she's probably moved on to another guy.