Ah, another person who's seen through the rationalizations of the Free Stuff Brigade. Good look talking about it here, though -- trying seems to trigger an in-group/out-group barrier that drowns out all rational argument.
[Moderators: please don't bother modding this up or down; it's just a personal response]
how about the fact that civil forfeiture proceedings mean they can steal (as in really actually take something physical) your computers on a mere accusation.
God forbid your children use it for school reports, you should use it for taxes, and who gives a damn how much of your personal information, or otherwise irretrievable information, is on it.
don't blame the platform for dev house laziness/corruption.
Dev houses refuse to develop for anything but MS proprietary Direct X.
Never mind the fact XGL and OpenGL are just as viable, if not more so, than the oh so resource-efficient MS implementations.
There are two possible and equally likely reasons for this:
microsoft bribery pure unmitigated laziness
Apple in particular outsells PC on many major college campuses. There is no "disparity" between the two platforms among the demographics they are trying to target.
My mother went through a 6 week series of trials of epsom salts against colo-rectal cancer.
The mixture was ineffective.
My, how very useful this information is for cancer patients! Would my mother have received the quality of the care she eventually did get if her doctors had missed relevant articles in medical journals thanks to the massive signal to noise ratio?
If every failure were published, the cancer research community would suffer the same "eternal september" the usenet community did.
This law will allow them to use the MERE ACCUSATION of such activity grounds to steal someone's computer (REAL THEFT) and never give it back.
The courts become tools of theft, not only of peoples' physical property, but of their, their kids', and their businesses' private/academic/transactional/inventory data.
There is no functional difference between a radio cassette recorder and a p2p program, except people who use the radio don't have the most important appliance in their home stolen from them by abuse of the judiciary system.
But piracy is distorting what should have been an interaction between two parties: creator and consumer. But instead of the consumer respecting the desires of the creator, they're ripping that away and screaming "Mine!" like a toddler. That kind of behavior doesn't get much respect from me. Let the creators choose.
but legalized bribery is distorting what should be an interaction between two parties: publishers and public domain.
But instead of respecting the intent of the founding fathers and the wishes of the public at large, they're ripping free speech, technological innovation, and fair use rights away and screaming "MINE!" like a toddler.
That kind of behavior doesn't get much respect from me. Let the public take back with civil disobedience what the media has taken away, and, since they control the household news orgs, will NEVER let a politician restore.
Given that the US economy is moving away from the production of physical goods, and embracing IP production more and more,
Every time this comes up some astroturfing lobbyist tool brings this up.
You cannot base an economy on the production of copies, period.
Whether service or physical goods, it MUST be a truly limited supply.
Imaginary property can be ignored by any sovereign nation which wishes to do so, and can only be enforced as long as an onerously large and expensive military exists to invade nations who refuse to pay licenses!
History has shown no nation can afford to maintain this kind of military force forever, and the US has never gone to war with any nation over IP abuse.
Additionally, We are not so superior to many of the world's largest nations, we can't do squat against them, and they are already calling our bluff.
The truth is our policy makers are deluded. The idea of "selling bits" is the greatest, and most deleterious dot-bomb era idea, and it's still here! The morons refuse to acknowledge they were also taken in by the "irrational exhuberance" of the mid to late 90's.
Ok.. so a probe is regularly returning terabytes across the solar system, but ISP's are forming lobbying pacs proclaiming they can't offer the speeds they advertised for people on earth.
slashdot now has over one and a quarter million subscribers, probably 5-10 times that many readers.
Do you honestly think only geeks frequent this site anymore?
Do you honestly think this site is not a major target for astroturfers?
Over the past half decade, I've noticed a MUCH heavier proportion of blatant MAFIAA propaganda and utterly fallacious reaganomic sophistry modded to +5. I don't believe those posts, or the modding, traces back to legitimately individual users, and certainly not geeks.
This merely stated explicitly what was implicit all the time:
the schools dictate the curriculum.
As disgusting as I find this campaign to destroy the foundations of science for the sake of irrational religious beliefs, This law did not "mandate" anything.
We live in a fundamentally unequal society where the voices of the very few "haves" drown out the have nots.
When laws are passed based on the warped morality of those cloistered in their ivory towers rather than the will of the people, civil disobedience results.
It's still going on with the drug laws (every 5th apartment I delivered pizza to on the late shift stunk of weed), despite the selective and corrupt destruction of people's lives.
Filesharing will also continue, and I will encourage anyone I meet to engage in the practice. Cue the letters suing me for "inducement" in 3, 2, 1...
The FCC commissioners have betrayed how utterly ignorant they are.
Look at this quote, not only does it show no clue, it even contradicts itself (emphasis mine)
"We also note that because consumers are entitled to access the lawful internet content of their choice, providers, consistent with federal policy, may block transmissions of illegal content (e.g., child pornography) or transmissions that violate copyright law. To the extent, however, that providers choose to utilize practices that are not application- or content-neutral, the risk to the open nature of the internet is particularly acute and the danger of network-management practices being used to further anti-competitive ends is strong."
Choose one, because these are mutually exclusive concepts.
You either have an open, content neutral internet, or a filtered, non-neutral internet.
I think the proper quote is "capitalism is the worst form of economic system, except for every other one."
Not true.
Every first-world nation on earth, and even most second-world nations, are "mixed economies".
Without government intervention, capitalism quickly devolves into feudalism.
The per capita income charts show the proper level of government intervention is much further toward "socialism" than reaganites like yourself care to admit.
I'd like to point out to you that corporate charters are also a distortion of the capitalist system.
They are a government created point about which to centralize power with absolutely no personal liability for those who engage in socially irresponsible (and at times criminal) actions in the course of business.
If you are fine with the government providing legal protection for the centralization of capital and market power without any liability, then you should also be fine with the government protecting the labor pool by giving equal strength to unions or unilaterally enacting laws to protect labor from abusive policies.
explain to me why taking spare money the wealthy will never use to give the economically disadvantaged some real consumer choice is not "live and let live".
I'm sorry but money does not equate to the types of freedoms dictated in the bill of rights.
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I was speaking about macs
Ah, another person who's seen through the rationalizations of the Free Stuff Brigade. Good look talking about it here, though -- trying seems to trigger an in-group/out-group barrier that drowns out all rational argument.
[Moderators: please don't bother modding this up or down; it's just a personal response]
you mean like the one in your own mind?
"free stuff brigade" my foot.
it has about the same economic footprint as the bottle design department in johnson & johnson.
Google could buy up every major studio right now with their pocket change if they were selling.
how about the fact that civil forfeiture proceedings mean they can steal (as in really actually take something physical) your computers on a mere accusation.
God forbid your children use it for school reports, you should use it for taxes, and who gives a damn how much of your personal information, or otherwise irretrievable information, is on it.
don't blame the platform for dev house laziness/corruption.
Dev houses refuse to develop for anything but MS proprietary Direct X.
Never mind the fact XGL and OpenGL are just as viable, if not more so, than the oh so resource-efficient MS implementations.
There are two possible and equally likely reasons for this:
microsoft bribery
pure unmitigated laziness
Apple in particular outsells PC on many major college campuses. There is no "disparity" between the two platforms among the demographics they are trying to target.
My mother went through a 6 week series of trials of epsom salts against colo-rectal cancer.
The mixture was ineffective.
My, how very useful this information is for cancer patients!
Would my mother have received the quality of the care she eventually did get if her doctors had missed relevant articles in medical journals thanks to the massive signal to noise ratio?
If every failure were published, the cancer research community would suffer the same "eternal september" the usenet community did.
because nixon was a democrat right?
BTW, they don't call the failed policies of reagan and bush "reaganmoics" for nothing.
Please keep your little PAC mod puppets out of this thread.
They don't HAVE to have done anything!
This law will allow them to use the MERE ACCUSATION of such activity grounds to steal someone's computer (REAL THEFT) and never give it back.
The courts become tools of theft, not only of peoples' physical property, but of their, their kids', and their businesses' private/academic/transactional/inventory data.
There is no functional difference between a radio cassette recorder and a p2p program, except people who use the radio don't have the most important appliance in their home stolen from them by abuse of the judiciary system.
But piracy is distorting what should have been an interaction between two parties: creator and consumer. But instead of the consumer respecting the desires of the creator, they're ripping that away and screaming "Mine!" like a toddler. That kind of behavior doesn't get much respect from me. Let the creators choose.
but legalized bribery is distorting what should be an interaction between two parties: publishers and public domain.
But instead of respecting the intent of the founding fathers and the wishes of the public at large, they're ripping free speech, technological innovation, and fair use rights away and screaming "MINE!" like a toddler.
That kind of behavior doesn't get much respect from me. Let the public take back with civil disobedience what the media has taken away, and, since they control the household news orgs, will NEVER let a politician restore.
Given that the US economy is moving away from the production of physical goods, and embracing IP production more and more,
Every time this comes up some astroturfing lobbyist tool brings this up.
You cannot base an economy on the production of copies, period.
Whether service or physical goods, it MUST be a truly limited supply.
Imaginary property can be ignored by any sovereign nation which wishes to do so, and can only be enforced as long as an onerously large and expensive military exists to invade nations who refuse to pay licenses!
History has shown no nation can afford to maintain this kind of military force forever, and the US has never gone to war with any nation over IP abuse.
Additionally, We are not so superior to many of the world's largest nations, we can't do squat against them, and they are already calling our bluff.
The truth is our policy makers are deluded. The idea of "selling bits" is the greatest, and most deleterious dot-bomb era idea, and it's still here! The morons refuse to acknowledge they were also taken in by the "irrational exhuberance" of the mid to late 90's.
Ok.. so a probe is regularly returning terabytes across the solar system, but ISP's are forming lobbying pacs proclaiming they can't offer the speeds they advertised for people on earth.
Something's rotten in the state of denmark.
contact the azureus team. they more than anyone would be able to tell you about getting around firewalls : )
seriously, you act as if most people, all the way from the late 80's, were not "button mashers".
The quality of the audience for these games has not changed since then, it was not "better" back then.
2 minute excerpt clips from movies..
Even the worst turkeys have 2 minutes of compelling footage.
I could even find 2 minutes from something like the killer shrews
I choose.. the warlock!
"entering combat"
"bill gates is afflicted by fear"
"bill gates gains blessing of BSA lobbyists"
"bill gates suffers 940 damage from your deathcoil (shadow)"
"bill gates is afficted by fear"
"bill gates suffers 9,450 damage from your soul fire (fire)"
"you have slain mitch bainwol!"
It takes upwards of 20 times that much for a regional roll-out within the US, and they expect 10 mil to cover global development of this idea?
I doubt I could even market a simple molded plastic widget worldwide for 10 million.
slashdot now has over one and a quarter million subscribers, probably 5-10 times that many readers.
Do you honestly think only geeks frequent this site anymore?
Do you honestly think this site is not a major target for astroturfers?
Over the past half decade, I've noticed a MUCH heavier proportion of blatant MAFIAA propaganda and utterly fallacious reaganomic sophistry modded to +5. I don't believe those posts, or the modding, traces back to legitimately individual users, and certainly not geeks.
The law in question merely "allowed" it to occur.
This merely stated explicitly what was implicit all the time:
the schools dictate the curriculum.
As disgusting as I find this campaign to destroy the foundations of science for the sake of irrational religious beliefs, This law did not "mandate" anything.
If the internet were around back in the 1920's
"Drinking beer is illegal. Get over it."
Legality does not necessarily equate to morality.
We live in a fundamentally unequal society where the voices of the very few "haves" drown out the have nots.
When laws are passed based on the warped morality of those cloistered in their ivory towers rather than the will of the people, civil disobedience results.
It's still going on with the drug laws (every 5th apartment I delivered pizza to on the late shift stunk of weed), despite the selective and corrupt destruction of people's lives.
Filesharing will also continue, and I will encourage anyone I meet to engage in the practice. Cue the letters suing me for "inducement" in 3, 2, 1...
The FCC commissioners have betrayed how utterly ignorant they are.
Look at this quote, not only does it show no clue, it even contradicts itself (emphasis mine)
Choose one, because these are mutually exclusive concepts.
You either have an open, content neutral internet, or a filtered, non-neutral internet.
Mod parent up.
This guy "gets it" in regard to small business.
I think the proper quote is "capitalism is the worst form of economic system, except for every other one."
Not true.
Every first-world nation on earth, and even most second-world nations, are "mixed economies".
Without government intervention, capitalism quickly devolves into feudalism.
The per capita income charts show the proper level of government intervention is much further toward "socialism" than reaganites like yourself care to admit.
I'd like to point out to you that corporate charters are also a distortion of the capitalist system.
They are a government created point about which to centralize power with absolutely no personal liability for those who engage in socially irresponsible (and at times criminal) actions in the course of business.
If you are fine with the government providing legal protection for the centralization of capital and market power without any liability, then you should also be fine with the government protecting the labor pool by giving equal strength to unions or unilaterally enacting laws to protect labor from abusive policies.
explain to me why taking spare money the wealthy will never use to give the economically disadvantaged some real consumer choice is not "live and let live".
I'm sorry but money does not equate to the types of freedoms dictated in the bill of rights.
What a crock!, most billionaires are not self-made.
They were born into privileged families with heavy political and business connections.
This is a myth propagated by the likes of oreilly