They explicitly moved to San Francisco to make their work more cost effective. San Francisco has cheaper and much more available international air travel, which is a big issue for the Wikimedia Foundation. And, of course, there are the resources of the general community. It's much easier to be connected to the Valley when you're in it.
The way to deal with these bastards who think they're going to get rich quick with this scheme to patent storylines is to fight them with their own bullshit.
Across universities in the United States, there needs to be some teams of English professors and students, and law professors and students sitting down to devise the broadest storyline concepts possible and allowable under this new legal concept. The thought here is that if this patent system is allowed under law, which although we hope it won't be, might just happen, then we can at least wrestle control of what gets patented from money-grubbing slackers.
With these broad, sweeping patents, these academic coalitions could then effectively negate the fact that this new patent law even exists. If the patent holders are unwilling to prosecute the people who are violating their patents, then the law is negligible, meaningless. It's a legal loophole, but it's a damn effective way to ensure that we don't put an effective end to American literature.
True, but I was using the words as the buzzwords that they are. Besides, like happiness, politics follows a model of a never-ending search for perfection. There are some "examples" of "true" Communist states that have existed, and you're right that there has never been a true democracy. However, I was just saying that with semi-recent developments we have a better possibility to approach that sort of "free culture," with social stratification probably working more as a Bell curve in coming years than the current model of wealth through inherited wealth, etc.
Of course, some of this talk about politics is moot if you believe in the true power that our technology can give us. Anyone up for a multi-celled organism known as the posthuman race?
I agree that the capitalist model works well in this instance. The 20th century was, after all, seen as a fight between three different, irreconcilable politics. Nazism, Communism, and Democracy (usually associated with capitalism). Nazism was obviously a definite no. Communism, while some think it is gone, and others joke about the so-called "Creative Communists," the overarching idea of cooperation still exists. Yet we see with the innovation that the internet has inspired that Democracy, capitalism, and this sense of "free culture" which is cooperative, all work together. This is what is creating our new world order, and it is imperative that we continue to push open source software, transparency, democracy, cooperation, and individualism for us to see a pleasant future.
I didn't think collaboration would be helpful. What is this world coming to? Damn bastards think they're so smart. Next thing you know MIT students will be submitting fake papers to fake conferences. The gall.
I too liked Google's interface enough to keep it open. I constantly have a tab open in Firefox for it. Plus I have Sage running on the side, which is kind of pointless for the Gmail feed, but it would be kind of nice to have the RSS at the top.
Still a good point about the POP3.
I just hope those of us who would be interested don't find that we get overwhelmed by useless tiny bits that become way too much.
I absolutely agree. Coupling the power of those two and eliminating ImageReady (a useless app. if there ever was one) would be great. That's IF they have the smarts to do that.
That depending on the outcome of Grokster that these bastards - if they really can pull this kind of stunt (which I highly doubt) - will be the people on the fringe. It's like the discussion on rogue states. (i.e. What right does the US have to condemn other nations as "rogue" if it has been convicted by the ICC and subsequently vetoed UNSC resolutions requiring states to comply with international law)
If right now the p2p users are the rogues, which is not my thought, then very soon the definition of "rogue" could very well turn on these folks. The RIAA is just preparing the soil for its own inevitable demise.
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They explicitly moved to San Francisco to make their work more cost effective. San Francisco has cheaper and much more available international air travel, which is a big issue for the Wikimedia Foundation. And, of course, there are the resources of the general community. It's much easier to be connected to the Valley when you're in it.
The way to deal with these bastards who think they're going to get rich quick with this scheme to patent storylines is to fight them with their own bullshit. Across universities in the United States, there needs to be some teams of English professors and students, and law professors and students sitting down to devise the broadest storyline concepts possible and allowable under this new legal concept. The thought here is that if this patent system is allowed under law, which although we hope it won't be, might just happen, then we can at least wrestle control of what gets patented from money-grubbing slackers. With these broad, sweeping patents, these academic coalitions could then effectively negate the fact that this new patent law even exists. If the patent holders are unwilling to prosecute the people who are violating their patents, then the law is negligible, meaningless. It's a legal loophole, but it's a damn effective way to ensure that we don't put an effective end to American literature.
That's what really, really long cables are for. Come on. Haven't you thought this out? He's had twelve years to.
Hence the quotes.
True, but I was using the words as the buzzwords that they are. Besides, like happiness, politics follows a model of a never-ending search for perfection. There are some "examples" of "true" Communist states that have existed, and you're right that there has never been a true democracy. However, I was just saying that with semi-recent developments we have a better possibility to approach that sort of "free culture," with social stratification probably working more as a Bell curve in coming years than the current model of wealth through inherited wealth, etc. Of course, some of this talk about politics is moot if you believe in the true power that our technology can give us. Anyone up for a multi-celled organism known as the posthuman race?
I agree that the capitalist model works well in this instance. The 20th century was, after all, seen as a fight between three different, irreconcilable politics. Nazism, Communism, and Democracy (usually associated with capitalism). Nazism was obviously a definite no. Communism, while some think it is gone, and others joke about the so-called "Creative Communists," the overarching idea of cooperation still exists. Yet we see with the innovation that the internet has inspired that Democracy, capitalism, and this sense of "free culture" which is cooperative, all work together. This is what is creating our new world order, and it is imperative that we continue to push open source software, transparency, democracy, cooperation, and individualism for us to see a pleasant future.
I didn't think collaboration would be helpful. What is this world coming to? Damn bastards think they're so smart. Next thing you know MIT students will be submitting fake papers to fake conferences. The gall.
I too liked Google's interface enough to keep it open. I constantly have a tab open in Firefox for it. Plus I have Sage running on the side, which is kind of pointless for the Gmail feed, but it would be kind of nice to have the RSS at the top. Still a good point about the POP3. I just hope those of us who would be interested don't find that we get overwhelmed by useless tiny bits that become way too much.
I absolutely agree. Coupling the power of those two and eliminating ImageReady (a useless app. if there ever was one) would be great. That's IF they have the smarts to do that.
That depending on the outcome of Grokster that these bastards - if they really can pull this kind of stunt (which I highly doubt) - will be the people on the fringe. It's like the discussion on rogue states. (i.e. What right does the US have to condemn other nations as "rogue" if it has been convicted by the ICC and subsequently vetoed UNSC resolutions requiring states to comply with international law) If right now the p2p users are the rogues, which is not my thought, then very soon the definition of "rogue" could very well turn on these folks. The RIAA is just preparing the soil for its own inevitable demise.