You're rather narrow minded, and have some odd notion of faith. You're actually telling me you go about your life without the small delusions and assumptions that the rest of humanity has? Nothing basic like life is worth living, I can trust people, my sense aren't lying to me, etc? Faith is only bad when it conflicts with reality, anything else is personal delusions we live with to make things a bit easier.
That's of course assuming that religion is overriding a person's reasoning ablities not "filling in the gaps" so to speak. To assume faith equals damaged is insulting and arrogant.
You just defeated your own argument. Yes, visual and audio entertainment is necessary for humans, but as you so nicely stated there are alternatives to recorded music, and movies. I think you're severely underestimating the human desire for entertainment, and overestimating the importance of mass media.
Passive hi-tech entertainment isn't the only thing we can do when wanting to have fun with little effort. There's always hobbies with low mental/phycial useage like; interaction with humans or pets, exercise (yoga, walking/jogging, sex/masturbation), various crafts (origami, woodcarving, whatnot), etc. It's... odd even as someone who is defined as a geek to see such a strong need for recorded entertainment.
That very true and I agree prosecuting someone for one suspicious p2p upload would be stupid. Then again their would be suspicious patterns like say the files you bought are being put on various p2p network over a period of months, and even stranger they're being seeded by the same ip address that bought/downloaded the items... Well ok, you'd be pretty stupid to do that, but we've all seen stupid acts on p2p ya?
As long as they don't make Boothby a member of some ANCIENT BENEVOLENT TRANSGALCTIC RACE who decides humanity has GREAT POTENTIAL and can be best molded by giving cliche homilies to pretty young boys with wanderlust....What? After the whale incident, the abduction of multiple individuals/nationalities/tribes in this unremarkable rock, the chance V'ger could ever happen at all, the Borg (Queens) perpetual horny for assimilating earth, etc this crap is probably the norm not exception.
It's been (sadly) established that/. cares more about getting as many clicks as possible rather than accuracy... The obfuscation, and outright lies the editors use makes this place the geek Fox 5 news, which is rather depressing.
The ethics are arguable, then again Japanese gaming has already profited from fan translated material, (FFIV, Rockman & Forte, Tales of Phantasia, etc) and I don't even have to mention the anime industry.
What I ment was, our nonchalance towards the usual causes of death come from how common it is compared to say 9/11, and this oeverreaction to the abnormal shapes our policies. So um ya we agree, and I was just adding my opinion on why human priorities are screwed. Guess the post was bit misleading.
I'd argue that it's not so much real and perceived risks, but more like everyday, and extraordinary risks. People get numb to everyday stuff even common causes of death. After all everyone already knows the whole you've a greater chance of dying from car crash/choking/falling/etc then terrorism/anthrax/whatever.
You may be talking about Final Fantasy 7 where a viral creature called Jenova got frozen in a glacier, was later discovered by humans, and eventually used to "enhance" soldiers. This allowing the main boss to have limited control over them (or the cells controlled Sephiroth, fans argue over this). Course, the cells were simply dormant, not ressurected.
This works on the assumption that there will be no legal, "unDRMed" copies in existience, which I find rather unlikly. Course like NASA there'll probably be many cases where these copies are lost... I guess then we hope or wait for the particular DRM to be fair use, or look for pirated copies:).
Rule of humanity. Few things are important, everything else is either not my concern, or asinine. Just because as geeks most folks here can care about things that society categories as the last option doesn't mean we're immune to this.
::sigh:: This is person/people who think "save the children" is so important we can remove freedoms... There is no big ebil scawy singular government trying to shackel us into opression. But then these diatrbes, and the Franklin quote about freedom give pretty mod ups right?
So, it's ok if someone said: all "men" are misogynistic rapists? While parenthesis may make things technically ok depending on pov it's still highly offensive. If you want to make a point try to be as inoffensive as possible while getting the point(s) across. Otherwise we get these useless games of semantics, and people who ignore you simply cause of the language.
Hmm... you're absolutly right. If only there was a middle ground, say multiple variations of the OS which caters to mutiple niches. Course that only a pipe dream, no?
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You're rather narrow minded, and have some odd notion of faith. You're actually telling me you go about your life without the small delusions and assumptions that the rest of humanity has? Nothing basic like life is worth living, I can trust people, my sense aren't lying to me, etc? Faith is only bad when it conflicts with reality, anything else is personal delusions we live with to make things a bit easier.
That's of course assuming that religion is overriding a person's reasoning ablities not "filling in the gaps" so to speak. To assume faith equals damaged is insulting and arrogant.
Technologically advanced simply means more shiny gadgets. Has nothing to do with smart software useage.
You just defeated your own argument. Yes, visual and audio entertainment is necessary for humans, but as you so nicely stated there are alternatives to recorded music, and movies. I think you're severely underestimating the human desire for entertainment, and overestimating the importance of mass media.
Passive hi-tech entertainment isn't the only thing we can do when wanting to have fun with little effort. There's always hobbies with low mental/phycial useage like; interaction with humans or pets, exercise (yoga, walking/jogging, sex/masturbation), various crafts (origami, woodcarving, whatnot), etc. It's... odd even as someone who is defined as a geek to see such a strong need for recorded entertainment.
That very true and I agree prosecuting someone for one suspicious p2p upload would be stupid. Then again their would be suspicious patterns like say the files you bought are being put on various p2p network over a period of months, and even stranger they're being seeded by the same ip address that bought/downloaded the items... Well ok, you'd be pretty stupid to do that, but we've all seen stupid acts on p2p ya?
As long as they don't make Boothby a member of some ANCIENT BENEVOLENT TRANSGALCTIC RACE who decides humanity has GREAT POTENTIAL and can be best molded by giving cliche homilies to pretty young boys with wanderlust. ...What? After the whale incident, the abduction of multiple individuals/nationalities/tribes in this unremarkable rock, the chance V'ger could ever happen at all, the Borg (Queens) perpetual horny for assimilating earth, etc this crap is probably the norm not exception.
It's been (sadly) established that /. cares more about getting as many clicks as possible rather than accuracy... The obfuscation, and outright lies the editors use makes this place the geek Fox 5 news, which is rather depressing.
The ethics are arguable, then again Japanese gaming has already profited from fan translated material, (FFIV, Rockman & Forte, Tales of Phantasia, etc) and I don't even have to mention the anime industry.
You forget the black market... I mean afer all the anti-RIAA talk, and music piracy here how can you forget?
What I ment was, our nonchalance towards the usual causes of death come from how common it is compared to say 9/11, and this oeverreaction to the abnormal shapes our policies. So um ya we agree, and I was just adding my opinion on why human priorities are screwed. Guess the post was bit misleading.
I'd argue that it's not so much real and perceived risks, but more like everyday, and extraordinary risks. People get numb to everyday stuff even common causes of death. After all everyone already knows the whole you've a greater chance of dying from car crash/choking/falling/etc then terrorism/anthrax/whatever.
Out of curiosity, where did the idea that one should get software upgrades (which cost resources to create) for free come from?
You may be talking about Final Fantasy 7 where a viral creature called Jenova got frozen in a glacier, was later discovered by humans, and eventually used to "enhance" soldiers. This allowing the main boss to have limited control over them (or the cells controlled Sephiroth, fans argue over this). Course, the cells were simply dormant, not ressurected.
Hmm.. perhapses I'm being a idiot who doesn't RTFA, (yay Slashdot!) but how did you come to this conclusion?
You're forgetting civil disobedience. Not to mention if things get that bad... well guns are rather easy to get despite gun haters.
This works on the assumption that there will be no legal, "unDRMed" copies in existience, which I find rather unlikly. Course like NASA there'll probably be many cases where these copies are lost... I guess then we hope or wait for the particular DRM to be fair use, or look for pirated copies :).
Rule of humanity. Few things are important, everything else is either not my concern, or asinine. Just because as geeks most folks here can care about things that society categories as the last option doesn't mean we're immune to this.
I'll do that as soon as I can say "linux" is worthless cause it's only for the socially awarkward computer geeks on slashdot.
::sigh:: This is person/people who think "save the children" is so important we can remove freedoms... There is no big ebil scawy singular government trying to shackel us into opression. But then these diatrbes, and the Franklin quote about freedom give pretty mod ups right?
So, it's ok if someone said: all "men" are misogynistic rapists? While parenthesis may make things technically ok depending on pov it's still highly offensive. If you want to make a point try to be as inoffensive as possible while getting the point(s) across. Otherwise we get these useless games of semantics, and people who ignore you simply cause of the language.
Bloody hell why do I not have mod points? Your statement is far more well thought, and probable compared to all the kneee jerk reactions I've seen.
Hmm... you're absolutly right. If only there was a middle ground, say multiple variations of the OS which caters to mutiple niches. Course that only a pipe dream, no?
Can I dub this the "Kingdom Heart" sydrome? Hmm no wars so far though...
I think "change" is the nice way of saying it. :)
Um... difference in magnitude, and ease of use. It's way more efficient, and likely a file would be given to thousands of people via p2p.