I think the guy's "good points" were rendered null and void when he slammed everyone who engages in civil disobedience against unjust, anti-consumer, and economically crushing copyright over-reach.
Apparently he wasn't paying attention when the elephant walked into the room and crushed the fledgling digital age, crib and all.
I'd rather have some bureaucrat who is accountable in SOME way scrutinizing my information than have a cartel of corporations allowed unfettered access to my every move, including remote penis measurements in the urinal, because libertarians only consider "government" to be worth of exclusion.
Video games are by far the worst candidate for this discussion imho.
There is very little case law protecting consumer fair use with video games, as compared with audio and video.
This is a heavy bet on weak prospects.
Assuming the FTC does determine a need is required for video games, this will provide definitive and hefty leverage to expand it to music and video media.
If it does not, and it's a high likelihood the FTC determines it does not, it will be MUCH harder to press the issue on, for instance, the fact that blu-ray media will black peoples' screens at random due to undocumented HDCP issues.
this is posted by kdawson. You really expected it to be impartial? The guy only posts anti-copyright anti-content producer, pro-piracy bullshit. Its like digg, but pretending to be for grown-ups.
I see how professional and impartial you are with this post. I mean, after all, everyone who despises what an irrelevant industry has done to an entire age that was promised us in shows like beyond 2000 is just being "petulant" for considering their crusade against technology, consumer rights, privacy rights, and the internet as we know it as well as their desecration of the art forms they claim to represent to be steps too far.
Pardon me for seeing through clearer eyes than you do.
I actually read the article and am not concerned with the choice at all. The third tier of the DOJ is a position safely away from issues of copyright. It's not the "copyright czar", it's not the USTR so he won't be in a position to touch acta either.
People are naive, stubborn, uneducated and manipulated. But all of those are qualities that can be changed--they are not idiots.
The brain-washed can not be changed. Any attempt to do so results in more vehement defense of those who manipulated and miseducated their naive selves.
The easiest way to stay upbeat is to remember that you, too, are an idiot. Everyone is an idiot from time to time. When you see idiocy in others that is the time to take an even closer look at yourself to see what lacunae reside in your own thinking.
I can actually offer an exercise to help any reader (including myself) engage properly in this task.
Remember yourself 10 years ago?.. riiight. Ok.. in 10 years you'll be doing the same thing.
But I think the secret to "caring" is to pull yourself out of yourself, so to speak. Stop worrying about your existence and thing about how we as a society are evolving.
Did that, and I believe the words which come to mind are "evolutionary cul-de-sac" Every capacity to have colonized the entire solar system, wont EVER happen, why should it when we can fight over scraps and have penis contests here on earth.
You are but a small twig on a mighty river. You might be able to paddle around a little bit.
A mighty river indeed, class four rapids, heading, as these things naturally do, down hill.
You can always choose which twigs you want float next to.
Alrighty, i'd like to float next to oprah.
You can always choose how you want to react to wherever the river takes you. But ultimately, you cannot control the path the river takes through the universe.
How do you react when you smack head first into a rock someone else threw into the river?
To put it more succinctly:
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Politicians and special interest groups rob you of your liberties with impunity daily, and you should just accept it.. uhuh.
Haha, true. This is a very fortunate thing. Reading the first paragraph of TFA, I realized that they were describing the same exact thing I felt reading Conservapedia. It's like, funny for 5 minutes, but then it starts getting you depressed, and you start wanting to kill someone, usually the idiot doing it... then you start wanting to kill yourself because you realize that they're all around you.
The thing I keep telling myself is that these are concentrated stories of idiocy, and that the real world isn't composed of nearly the amount of them that I think there is by reading those stories. However, true. That they're going to die someday certainly helps. Here's to Schlafly's eventual death!
So this is why i have trouble getting up in the morning here in georgia.. (the idiocy concentration really IS that bad, in fact it's worse. There's less idiocy at a live american idol performance)
With the advent of bionics, black market organs, and the capacity to grow replacement organs the wealthy, no matter how stupid, cloistered, and bigoted they are, will be able to live forever.
Oh how great the world would have been if hitler could have lived to lead us into the future, right?
Unlike mathematics and it's branches like CS or physics, you can not derive how a human being works from some raw initial data (like you can derive a theory from axioms).
wait a second, isn't this EXACTLY the process medical researchers have been using to derive how a human being works?
dissection, x-rays, MRI using various dyes.. sure they're diagnosis tools but they're also research tools.
Don't even mention genetics, oncology, and immunology.
I'm sorry, but the people who commit these crimes are generally NOT nervous, they're resolved and committed, thus perfectly calm and focused on the task at hand.
They've had their time of angst before they got close to the building. To them it makes no difference whether they're caught, tried, and killed by execution, because in their minds they're dead already 1 minute AFTER going through the checkpoint.
Heck, given the checkpoint is also a chokepoint they will be equally effective detonating their devices near the scanner as anywhere else. What do you do then mr security officer?
I have thought about this for a while, 'free' software here doesn't make much sense as windows vista cost less than 1$, and 98%+ software here are pirated.
Our government is switching to FLOSS software, and I think stopping piracy in my country will be a good thing to FLOSS.
It seems the original was finally taken down in leu of more recent entries, but it has been mirrored verbatim elsewhere if you wish to take a look
Seriously, There is a persisting writeup from a japanese LUG years ago talking about how pirated copies of windows cannibalize the linux userbase and dev base.
Pirated windows is the bane of linux, and I applaud microsoft for slitting their own throat by pursuing windows counterfeiters.
no, they attack sampling just as aggressively, then go back and cross-license everything with their cartel members, thus assuring NOBODY can make and market a mashup without signing a contract first.
and he won't need a generator, so it'll collect dust and probably not be used until the next major blackout.. which, going by the current record, won't be for another 5 years or so.
The channels in the dispute were Comedy Central, Logo, Palladia, MTV, MTV 2, MTV Hits, MTV Jams, MTV Tr3s, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Nick 2, Nicktoons, Spike, The N, TV Land, VH1, VH1 Classic, VH1 Soul and CMT: Pure Country.
crap!.. they made a deal!..
if only they'd be absolutely obstinate, we'd have a lot of worthless channels cleared from the cable lineup.
The only good shows removed would be colbert report and daily show, of course everyone knows where to get those *cough*
Besides, what do you expect with stagnant wages for a decade?
When you offshore all the jobs, keep wages on the floor, and keep jacking up prices, people's capacity to go into debt to buy your stuff will eventually give out.
This was on NPR this very evening (around 7 pm to be exact).
It's the same point i've been making on reaganomics, and the point was also made on burn notice.. you can only push people so far before their bank accounts fold and they can't pay you anymore.
Attack the consumer/wage side, and the revenue side WILL eventually suffer. Then one of two things happens, you make salaries more generous or you drop your prices, and it's in your interest to make salaries more generous because deflation means your debt is suddenly a lot more burdensome.
If they're going to hit below the belt by denying their online video content to internet subscribers because of a [i]TV[/i] licensing deal, I say you should hit below the belt and make some subtle jerking motions of your head toward usenet and pirate bay.
I know of several bands who have already done it in a furtive manner, thus not violating their contracts.
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This isn't about "i can't watch HD content on linux"
it's more along the lines of..
I popped this disk into my completely normal beige box computer and it blacked my screen. I'm being ripped off.
I think the guy's "good points" were rendered null and void when he slammed everyone who engages in civil disobedience against unjust, anti-consumer, and economically crushing copyright over-reach.
Apparently he wasn't paying attention when the elephant walked into the room and crushed the fledgling digital age, crib and all.
I'd rather have some bureaucrat who is accountable in SOME way scrutinizing my information than have a cartel of corporations allowed unfettered access to my every move, including remote penis measurements in the urinal, because libertarians only consider "government" to be worth of exclusion.
Video games are by far the worst candidate for this discussion imho.
There is very little case law protecting consumer fair use with video games, as compared with audio and video.
This is a heavy bet on weak prospects.
Assuming the FTC does determine a need is required for video games, this will provide definitive and hefty leverage to expand it to music and video media.
If it does not, and it's a high likelihood the FTC determines it does not, it will be MUCH harder to press the issue on, for instance, the fact that blu-ray media will black peoples' screens at random due to undocumented HDCP issues.
are you so sure?
Corporate positions at that level pay considerably higher than government ones, and he's basically going into a third tier position.
I'd say it's a very public "atonement"
this is posted by kdawson. You really expected it to be impartial? The guy only posts anti-copyright anti-content producer, pro-piracy bullshit.
Its like digg, but pretending to be for grown-ups.
I see how professional and impartial you are with this post. I mean, after all, everyone who despises what an irrelevant industry has done to an entire age that was promised us in shows like beyond 2000 is just being "petulant" for considering their crusade against technology, consumer rights, privacy rights, and the internet as we know it as well as their desecration of the art forms they claim to represent to be steps too far.
Pardon me for seeing through clearer eyes than you do.
I actually read the article and am not concerned with the choice at all. The third tier of the DOJ is a position safely away from issues of copyright. It's not the "copyright czar", it's not the USTR so he won't be in a position to touch acta either.
This is a non-story.
People are naive, stubborn, uneducated and manipulated. But all of those are qualities that can be changed--they are not idiots.
The brain-washed can not be changed. Any attempt to do so results in more vehement defense of those who manipulated and miseducated their naive selves.
The easiest way to stay upbeat is to remember that you, too, are an idiot. Everyone is an idiot from time to time. When you see idiocy in others that is the time to take an even closer look at yourself to see what lacunae reside in your own thinking.
I can actually offer an exercise to help any reader (including myself) engage properly in this task.
Remember yourself 10 years ago? .. riiight.
Ok.. in 10 years you'll be doing the same thing.
BAM! we're all idiots!
we're not talking about writing their own applications or even touching a terminal here.
We're talking about basic diagnostic thought processes everyone should have when they find something going wrong with their computer.
"what changed between then and now, it's most likely me so what did I do, and how do i undo it"
But I think the secret to "caring" is to pull yourself out of yourself, so to speak. Stop worrying about your existence and thing about how we as a society are evolving.
Did that, and I believe the words which come to mind are "evolutionary cul-de-sac"
Every capacity to have colonized the entire solar system, wont EVER happen, why should it when we can fight over scraps and have penis contests here on earth.
You are but a small twig on a mighty river. You might be able to paddle around a little bit.
A mighty river indeed, class four rapids, heading, as these things naturally do, down hill.
You can always choose which twigs you want float next to.
Alrighty, i'd like to float next to oprah.
You can always choose how you want to react to wherever the river takes you. But ultimately, you cannot control the path the river takes through the universe.
How do you react when you smack head first into a rock someone else threw into the river?
To put it more succinctly:
Politicians and special interest groups rob you of your liberties with impunity daily, and you should just accept it.. uhuh.
In the long run, Everybody Dies.
Haha, true. This is a very fortunate thing. Reading the first paragraph of TFA, I realized that they were describing the same exact thing I felt reading Conservapedia. It's like, funny for 5 minutes, but then it starts getting you depressed, and you start wanting to kill someone, usually the idiot doing it... then you start wanting to kill yourself because you realize that they're all around you.
The thing I keep telling myself is that these are concentrated stories of idiocy, and that the real world isn't composed of nearly the amount of them that I think there is by reading those stories. However, true. That they're going to die someday certainly helps. Here's to Schlafly's eventual death!
So this is why i have trouble getting up in the morning here in georgia.. (the idiocy concentration really IS that bad, in fact it's worse. There's less idiocy at a live american idol performance)
In the long run, Everybody Dies.
Are you sure?
With the advent of bionics, black market organs, and the capacity to grow replacement organs the wealthy, no matter how stupid, cloistered, and bigoted they are, will be able to live forever.
Oh how great the world would have been if hitler could have lived to lead us into the future, right?
Unlike mathematics and it's branches like CS or physics, you can not derive how a human being works from some raw initial data (like you can derive a theory from axioms).
wait a second, isn't this EXACTLY the process medical researchers have been using to derive how a human being works?
dissection, x-rays, MRI using various dyes.. sure they're diagnosis tools but they're also research tools.
Don't even mention genetics, oncology, and immunology.
I'm sorry, but the people who commit these crimes are generally NOT nervous, they're resolved and committed, thus perfectly calm and focused on the task at hand.
They've had their time of angst before they got close to the building. To them it makes no difference whether they're caught, tried, and killed by execution, because in their minds they're dead already 1 minute AFTER going through the checkpoint.
Heck, given the checkpoint is also a chokepoint they will be equally effective detonating their devices near the scanner as anywhere else. What do you do then mr security officer?
As opposed to extremist christians, who are equally numerous, and like to set off bombs in clinics, synagogues, and other fun places.
Could you provide the link?
I have thought about this for a while, 'free' software here doesn't make much sense as windows vista cost less than 1$, and 98%+ software here are pirated.
Our government is switching to FLOSS software, and I think stopping piracy in my country will be a good thing to FLOSS.
It seems the original was finally taken down in leu of more recent entries, but it has been mirrored verbatim elsewhere if you wish to take a look
Seriously, There is a persisting writeup from a japanese LUG years ago talking about how pirated copies of windows cannibalize the linux userbase and dev base.
Pirated windows is the bane of linux, and I applaud microsoft for slitting their own throat by pursuing windows counterfeiters.
no, they attack sampling just as aggressively, then go back and cross-license everything with their cartel members, thus assuring NOBODY can make and market a mashup without signing a contract first.
and he won't need a generator, so it'll collect dust and probably not be used until the next major blackout.. which, going by the current record, won't be for another 5 years or so.
if by "a different dialect" you mean illiterate mispronunciation and the inability to use proper diction, then sure.
The channels in the dispute were Comedy Central, Logo, Palladia, MTV, MTV 2, MTV Hits, MTV Jams, MTV Tr3s, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Nick 2, Nicktoons, Spike, The N, TV Land, VH1, VH1 Classic, VH1 Soul and CMT: Pure Country.
crap!.. they made a deal!..
if only they'd be absolutely obstinate, we'd have a lot of worthless channels cleared from the cable lineup.
The only good shows removed would be colbert report and daily show, of course everyone knows where to get those *cough*
only thing deflating is the housing market.
Besides, what do you expect with stagnant wages for a decade?
When you offshore all the jobs, keep wages on the floor, and keep jacking up prices, people's capacity to go into debt to buy your stuff will eventually give out.
This was on NPR this very evening (around 7 pm to be exact).
It's the same point i've been making on reaganomics, and the point was also made on burn notice.. you can only push people so far before their bank accounts fold and they can't pay you anymore.
Attack the consumer/wage side, and the revenue side WILL eventually suffer. Then one of two things happens, you make salaries more generous or you drop your prices, and it's in your interest to make salaries more generous because deflation means your debt is suddenly a lot more burdensome.
if they throttle torrents use a giganews account.
If they're going to hit below the belt by denying their online video content to internet subscribers because of a [i]TV[/i] licensing deal, I say you should hit below the belt and make some subtle jerking motions of your head toward usenet and pirate bay.
I know of several bands who have already done it in a furtive manner, thus not violating their contracts.
why on earth are you looking for blu-ray support.
Get a linux box, install mplayer and vlc, and get your blu-ray without encumbrance or obscene expense from usenet/pirate bay.