Twitter certainly has the right to do it, but to have a right to do something is not the same as being right in doing it. They have the right, but they're wrong in exercising that right.
Facebook seems to be replacing the website for allot of people.
Allot alÂlot verb \É(TM)-ËlÃt\ al-lot- ted al- lot-ting Definition of ALLOT transitive verb 1: to assign as a share or portion <allot 10 minutes for the speech> 2: to distribute by or as if by lot <allot seats to the press>
Examples of ALLOT Each speaker will be allotted 15 minutes.
The newspaper will allot a full page to each of the three mayoral candidates.
Huh? He compared twitter to CB and called it a fad. It WAS insightful, and your disagreeing doesn't make it any less insightful.
Remember MySpace? That fad passed, too.
He also said "I'll be happy to see those services (that are centrally controlled and owned by ONE COMPANY (each) fail due to people not wanting to deal with censorship. I really miss the old days where the USENET model was popular."
So would I. You would rather have one company running your communications? Sorry, son, but that's just plain stupid. If you want to contact me, send and email or text or pick up the damned phone. Want to contact fifty of your closest friends? Trivial with email. I have choices with email and phone providers, but if I want to contact a twitter tweeter I have to get a twitter account. Nope, not buying it.
I don't much care for either party, both seem to be against stuff I'm for and for stuff I'm against. I vote, but this explains why so many don't. It's not apathy, it's the feeling of powerlessness. I'll continue to "throw my vote away" on the other 3 parties that would be viable if they could get any press.
Then you should also vote Democrat. They are the ones who bailed out the large banks
Bush did the first bank bailout. Obama simply copied hiim.
who threw the insurance industry trillions of dollars in mandatory insurance purchase
That's the one thing Obama's done that angers me most. But what I want is something the Republicans would never stand for -- a single payer system like all other industrialized nations have. I would guess you would like that even less than "obamacare".
The Democrats are the ones who bought GM and run it as a government puppet.
And it is not only no longer bankrupt, but has returned to being the world's best selling car and is hiring thousands of unemployed Americans. And you're bitching about that??? The GM bailout was money well invested. I see no downside at all, unlike bailing out the banks. What's your beef, son?
Decline going through scanners? I decline going through airports. Air travel was bad enough before the TSA, I'd have to be in one hell of a hurry to take a commercial plane these days.
In this country it's still legal not to do something if you feel uncomfortable. Get a pat down and move on with your travel day...
What if you're uncomfortable with both? "Here son, you have a choice -- drink this vomit or eat this cow patty. It's a free country, you have choices!"
How about we get rid of the scanners, the patdowns, the metal detectors, and the TSA itself? None of those things have caught ONE SINGLE TERRORIST. However, the shoe bomber made it through security and was stopped by the passengers.
The TSA is a waste of time, money, and freedom. It should be abolished, and go to highway safety whare some lives actually WILL be saved.
Professional protesters? You mean I can get paid for protesting?
But you're right; Occupy isn't about working conditions in China, it's a protest against a corporate culture of greed and double standards. There's no reason at all to think they'll protest Apple, even if they were all using androids instead of iPhones.
When I see "should of" or such similar alliteracy*, it says to me that whoever wrote it reads very little and is therefore probably not very well educated. What annoys me is when their lack of literacy makes it hard to parse; loose != lose, for example. Did you lose the dogs of war, or did you loose them? OTOH if I see "now" instead if "know" I assume that's just a typo, anybody can make typos no matter how intelligent or educated they are.
*No, I didn't mean illiteracy. To misquote Twain, an alliterate is no better off than an illiterate.
Indeed; we rebel against our parents, who rebelled against theirs, making us more like out grandparents than our parents. My generation rebelled against the war and lack of environmental regulations, the next generation were a bunch of greedsters out only to make a buck and "who gives a damn about anybody but me?", today's youth are out there occupying Wall Street like we did in the '60s and '70s.
Today's youth give me hope for humanity. Their rebellion is completely warranted in my opinion, and I'm glad to see it.
My old Razr had speech recognition ten years ago. My newer phone has it, but I never used it until the screen broke so I can't look numbers up. It's maddening.
"Please say a command."
"Call 'Kathy'."
"Did you say 'call Shorty'?"
"No, Kathy!"
"Did you say 'call Barry'?"
"No, god damn it!"
"Did you say 'call Darryl'?"
I found when it does this, it's just better to hit the red button and try again. Worse was before the screen broke, it's a flip phone so I won't butt dial, but the "say a command" button on the phone is on the outside. So I shut the ringer off for church, and the damned phone yells out "Please say a command" in church because there's no way to shut the feature off without shutting the phone off, and when the phone's off there's no way to tell if someone's called unless they leave a message. God damned phone!
old-time designers were apparently not as big douchebags
Oh, they were douchebags, all right, but they managed to keep themselves in check until they got power. Warren Marshall*, for example, stated on Planet Crap that the reason he was instituting DRM was because when he was in college, he was a pirate so everybody else must be, too. I wonder if he understood what a big hypocrite that made him?
George Broussard, OTOH, seemed to be a fine fellow. I wonder whatever happened to him?
*Odd that there's no wikipedia entry on Marshall, although he's mentioned on its Planet Crap entry. It's also odd that they mention the site "gamespy"; gamespy was a product, not a web site. The web site was Planet Quake, who bought out QuakeSpy, renamed it and extended it. Gamespy was only a small part of Planet Quake.
I'm pretty sure that in Thailand's case, it's not to keep people from saying bad things about the government, but to keep them from saying bad things about the king. The king's picture is on Thai money, and if, like us westerners do, you step on one to keep it from flying away in the wind you're likely to be severely beaten by the outraged populous.
The king of Thailand was on an American talk show in the '70s, and they would not show it in Thailand because the show's host's foot pointed at the king.
I was there in 1974 in the USAF, it was weireder than I could imagine. Absolutely nothing was the same as here; not even the colors of the dirt or grass. It was truly an alien place, and their culture is more alien to American culture than the fictional Klingons or Romulans.
Culture clash is the the internet's #1 enemy. What is a right to a Muslim in Iran (such as "honor killings") is a felony that could have you put to death in Texas. Freedom of expression is our right in America, but drawing a picture of Muhammed could have you jailed or killed in Iran.
Here's a post I made at my (now defunct) gaming site ten years ago and re-run as a/. journal a few days ago:
Car's OS was fragged by Bug's Bunny
"Hey, you got a new car! Pretty nice! I see you're sticking with the same manufacturer."
"Well, I liked the old one. I've always been happy with Microcar's autos."
"Your old one was only two years old, if you liked it why did you buy a new one?"
"The manufacturer said I should upgrade. Besides, this new model has a cassette instead of an eight track. Wish it would play the other four tracks though..."
"Why didn't you just buy a new radio?"
"The manufacturer welds them in, and wires them so the car won't start if you take it out. Besides, the radio wasn't the only reason to upgrade."
"What else?"
"Ralph Nader says the old one crashes too often, but you know that nut. I've only had that old one one crash six times, and I was never in the hospital too long. But Microcar says this model is much more stable and hardly ever crashes. It's supposed to be more secure, too."
"Why did it keep crashing?"
"Dunno, something about the spark plugs interacting with the steering system, I'm no mechanic. My mechanic tried to explain it to me but these mechanical things are just too complicated. He says if I'd defrag my pistons more often it wouldn't crash, you get much more stability with a fresh tuneup. But I just said 'the hell with it' and traded it in.
"In fact, I'm taking it in to the shop right now."
"But it's a band new car, it needs a tuneup?"
"No, there's a 'feature' that keeps the door lock from working if you drive it more than six miles. I'm going to get the patch kit".
"I thought you weren't mechanical?"
"Well, they say this one's an easy fix and I can't afford another repair bill".
"Won't they fix it under warranty?"
"What warranty? This is a car! The EULA says they bear no responsibility for anything. I just hope I don't get in trouble with the law applying this patch."
"Huh?"
"Yeah, they weld the hood shut, and under the DMCA, opening the hood of your car is a felony if it's welded shut. You can go to prison if you get caught, even if they are tacky little welds that come apart by themselves."
"Boy, cars sure are weird. I'm glad my computer isn't like that, I'd never get any work done!"
The difference between social media and the CB radio was with a radio, when you bought it, it was yours. There's no way to censor a CB radio (although you could be fined for "obscene" speech if someone complained).
You are correct, fb and t are not freedom-based. If your words go through my wires, I can silence you. I'd like to see a corporationless, governmentless mesh network to replace the internet.
If I had the power to ban something on the internet, I'd ban advertising. There used to be very few ads on the net when it was truly people-driven. Talk about obscenity...
1. You do not own a copyright, you merely hold it, just as you merely "hold" an apartment.
2. Don't paint everyone with the same broad brush. I hold copyrights, but I depend on fair use and the public domain, and I'm certainly not the only one. Many books and much music is licensed under the GPL (the local paper here, the SJ-R, for example, as well as Cory Doctorow's books).
Do our freedoms hold more weight than corporations' freedoms?
No. The answer is clearly no. If you kill someone through your negligence, you will be imprisoned for negligent homicide, while fines for killing people is just part of a corporation's operating expense.
Corporations and government are both servants of the people.
Whatever school you are attending, I urge you to find a different one. Corporations don't serve any people except their stockholders. You serve your employer, who is likely a corporation. And in the US at least, government only serves business interests, not yours or mine.
To governments and corporations, individual specimens of Homo sapiens are just tools to be used or discarded.
Classical liberal economists (Suggested reading being Locke, Hobbes, etc.) would argue that your freedoms extend to a certain social contract into which governance and the governed enter and wherein specific rights and/or freedoms must be protected by government
Economists? WTF? Rights and freedoms are outside an economist's expertise. It's philosophers you should listen to in matters of philosophy, economists in matters of economics, and biologists in the matter of the workings of life.
However, I guess if you worship money, an economist is the guy to go to for all questions, just as a Catholic would go to his priest for all questions.
Ten years is a little short. Were copyrights limited to ten years, Asimov would not have earned a dime from the Foundation trilogy. I'd be fine with 20; unless you're only 25, twenty years isn't very long at all.
Again, there are contracts that people can accept instead of or as 'licenses'
Without copyright, a contract or license would be completely unnecessary. Without patents an invention would die when its inventor died, as he would keep it secret. You obviously haven't given it much thought.
BTW, I read Atlas Shrugged so long ago I forgot what it said, but I do remember disagreeing with every word of it. We are a social species, and any member of this species that is not isn't really human. Lack of empathy is a disease.
I'm not sure what you mean by "governments must be stopped." Are you advocating getting rid of governments altogether? Anarchy's only possible result is monarchy. The law of the jungle is fine for animals, not at all for human beings.
I think the abolition of copyright is likewise misguided, although I do think it is badly in need of reform. You really think it's OK for Microsoft to make money from your code without your making a dime from it? The limited-time monopoly is good for creativity, but the virtual unlimited monopoly is not. There is no reason why you should not be able to write a sequel to "The King's Speech," and no reason for Jimi Hendrix's music to have any monopoly at all.
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Twitter certainly has the right to do it, but to have a right to do something is not the same as being right in doing it. They have the right, but they're wrong in exercising that right.
He's probably gen-X
Maybe, but I'll bet he's a high school dropout, which explains it far better than some stupid pop song.
I don't think you said what you thought you said.
Facebook seems to be replacing the website for allot of people.
Allot alÂlot
verb
\É(TM)-ËlÃt\
al-lot- ted al- lot-ting
Definition of ALLOT
transitive verb
1: to assign as a share or portion <allot 10 minutes for the speech>
2: to distribute by or as if by lot <allot seats to the press>
Examples of ALLOT
Each speaker will be allotted 15 minutes.
The newspaper will allot a full page to each of the three mayoral candidates.
LOL, you just beat him by one comment! Scroll down...
Huh? He compared twitter to CB and called it a fad. It WAS insightful, and your disagreeing doesn't make it any less insightful.
Remember MySpace? That fad passed, too.
He also said "I'll be happy to see those services (that are centrally controlled and owned by ONE COMPANY (each) fail due to people not wanting to deal with censorship. I really miss the old days where the USENET model was popular."
So would I. You would rather have one company running your communications? Sorry, son, but that's just plain stupid. If you want to contact me, send and email or text or pick up the damned phone. Want to contact fifty of your closest friends? Trivial with email. I have choices with email and phone providers, but if I want to contact a twitter tweeter I have to get a twitter account. Nope, not buying it.
I don't much care for either party, both seem to be against stuff I'm for and for stuff I'm against. I vote, but this explains why so many don't. It's not apathy, it's the feeling of powerlessness. I'll continue to "throw my vote away" on the other 3 parties that would be viable if they could get any press.
Then you should also vote Democrat. They are the ones who bailed out the large banks
Bush did the first bank bailout. Obama simply copied hiim.
who threw the insurance industry trillions of dollars in mandatory insurance purchase
That's the one thing Obama's done that angers me most. But what I want is something the Republicans would never stand for -- a single payer system like all other industrialized nations have. I would guess you would like that even less than "obamacare".
The Democrats are the ones who bought GM and run it as a government puppet.
And it is not only no longer bankrupt, but has returned to being the world's best selling car and is hiring thousands of unemployed Americans. And you're bitching about that??? The GM bailout was money well invested. I see no downside at all, unlike bailing out the banks. What's your beef, son?
Decline going through scanners? I decline going through airports. Air travel was bad enough before the TSA, I'd have to be in one hell of a hurry to take a commercial plane these days.
In this country it's still legal not to do something if you feel uncomfortable. Get a pat down and move on with your travel day...
What if you're uncomfortable with both? "Here son, you have a choice -- drink this vomit or eat this cow patty. It's a free country, you have choices!"
How about we get rid of the scanners, the patdowns, the metal detectors, and the TSA itself? None of those things have caught ONE SINGLE TERRORIST. However, the shoe bomber made it through security and was stopped by the passengers.
The TSA is a waste of time, money, and freedom. It should be abolished, and go to highway safety whare some lives actually WILL be saved.
The Governator said the same thing, almost those exact words, a few years ago when he was still running California, on Meet The Press.
Professional protesters? You mean I can get paid for protesting?
But you're right; Occupy isn't about working conditions in China, it's a protest against a corporate culture of greed and double standards. There's no reason at all to think they'll protest Apple, even if they were all using androids instead of iPhones.
When I see "should of" or such similar alliteracy*, it says to me that whoever wrote it reads very little and is therefore probably not very well educated. What annoys me is when their lack of literacy makes it hard to parse; loose != lose, for example. Did you lose the dogs of war, or did you loose them? OTOH if I see "now" instead if "know" I assume that's just a typo, anybody can make typos no matter how intelligent or educated they are.
*No, I didn't mean illiteracy. To misquote Twain, an alliterate is no better off than an illiterate.
Indeed; we rebel against our parents, who rebelled against theirs, making us more like out grandparents than our parents. My generation rebelled against the war and lack of environmental regulations, the next generation were a bunch of greedsters out only to make a buck and "who gives a damn about anybody but me?", today's youth are out there occupying Wall Street like we did in the '60s and '70s.
Today's youth give me hope for humanity. Their rebellion is completely warranted in my opinion, and I'm glad to see it.
Now if you kids could just get pot legalized...
My old Razr had speech recognition ten years ago. My newer phone has it, but I never used it until the screen broke so I can't look numbers up. It's maddening.
"Please say a command."
"Call 'Kathy'."
"Did you say 'call Shorty'?"
"No, Kathy!"
"Did you say 'call Barry'?"
"No, god damn it!"
"Did you say 'call Darryl'?"
I found when it does this, it's just better to hit the red button and try again. Worse was before the screen broke, it's a flip phone so I won't butt dial, but the "say a command" button on the phone is on the outside. So I shut the ringer off for church, and the damned phone yells out "Please say a command" in church because there's no way to shut the feature off without shutting the phone off, and when the phone's off there's no way to tell if someone's called unless they leave a message. God damned phone!
old-time designers were apparently not as big douchebags
Oh, they were douchebags, all right, but they managed to keep themselves in check until they got power. Warren Marshall*, for example, stated on Planet Crap that the reason he was instituting DRM was because when he was in college, he was a pirate so everybody else must be, too. I wonder if he understood what a big hypocrite that made him?
George Broussard, OTOH, seemed to be a fine fellow. I wonder whatever happened to him?
*Odd that there's no wikipedia entry on Marshall, although he's mentioned on its Planet Crap entry. It's also odd that they mention the site "gamespy"; gamespy was a product, not a web site. The web site was Planet Quake, who bought out QuakeSpy, renamed it and extended it. Gamespy was only a small part of Planet Quake.
I'm pretty sure that in Thailand's case, it's not to keep people from saying bad things about the government, but to keep them from saying bad things about the king. The king's picture is on Thai money, and if, like us westerners do, you step on one to keep it from flying away in the wind you're likely to be severely beaten by the outraged populous.
The king of Thailand was on an American talk show in the '70s, and they would not show it in Thailand because the show's host's foot pointed at the king.
I was there in 1974 in the USAF, it was weireder than I could imagine. Absolutely nothing was the same as here; not even the colors of the dirt or grass. It was truly an alien place, and their culture is more alien to American culture than the fictional Klingons or Romulans.
Culture clash is the the internet's #1 enemy. What is a right to a Muslim in Iran (such as "honor killings") is a felony that could have you put to death in Texas. Freedom of expression is our right in America, but drawing a picture of Muhammed could have you jailed or killed in Iran.
Here's a post I made at my (now defunct) gaming site ten years ago and re-run as a /. journal a few days ago:
The difference between social media and the CB radio was with a radio, when you bought it, it was yours. There's no way to censor a CB radio (although you could be fined for "obscene" speech if someone complained).
You are correct, fb and t are not freedom-based. If your words go through my wires, I can silence you. I'd like to see a corporationless, governmentless mesh network to replace the internet.
If I had the power to ban something on the internet, I'd ban advertising. There used to be very few ads on the net when it was truly people-driven. Talk about obscenity...
Copyright owners want to do away with fair use.
1. You do not own a copyright, you merely hold it, just as you merely "hold" an apartment.
2. Don't paint everyone with the same broad brush. I hold copyrights, but I depend on fair use and the public domain, and I'm certainly not the only one. Many books and much music is licensed under the GPL (the local paper here, the SJ-R, for example, as well as Cory Doctorow's books).
Do our freedoms hold more weight than corporations' freedoms?
No. The answer is clearly no. If you kill someone through your negligence, you will be imprisoned for negligent homicide, while fines for killing people is just part of a corporation's operating expense.
Corporations and government are both servants of the people.
Whatever school you are attending, I urge you to find a different one. Corporations don't serve any people except their stockholders. You serve your employer, who is likely a corporation. And in the US at least, government only serves business interests, not yours or mine.
To governments and corporations, individual specimens of Homo sapiens are just tools to be used or discarded.
How you wish it would be is not how it is.
Classical liberal economists (Suggested reading being Locke, Hobbes, etc.) would argue that your freedoms extend to a certain social contract into which governance and the governed enter and wherein specific rights and/or freedoms must be protected by government
Economists? WTF? Rights and freedoms are outside an economist's expertise. It's philosophers you should listen to in matters of philosophy, economists in matters of economics, and biologists in the matter of the workings of life.
However, I guess if you worship money, an economist is the guy to go to for all questions, just as a Catholic would go to his priest for all questions.
Do my freedoms hold more weight over yours?
They do if you're wealthy.
Apparently it's a good book and your disagreement doesn't change that fact.
Yes, it's a good book, I simply disagree with it.
Ten years is a little short. Were copyrights limited to ten years, Asimov would not have earned a dime from the Foundation trilogy. I'd be fine with 20; unless you're only 25, twenty years isn't very long at all.
Again, there are contracts that people can accept instead of or as 'licenses'
Without copyright, a contract or license would be completely unnecessary. Without patents an invention would die when its inventor died, as he would keep it secret. You obviously haven't given it much thought.
BTW, I read Atlas Shrugged so long ago I forgot what it said, but I do remember disagreeing with every word of it. We are a social species, and any member of this species that is not isn't really human. Lack of empathy is a disease.
I'm not sure what you mean by "governments must be stopped." Are you advocating getting rid of governments altogether? Anarchy's only possible result is monarchy. The law of the jungle is fine for animals, not at all for human beings.
I think the abolition of copyright is likewise misguided, although I do think it is badly in need of reform. You really think it's OK for Microsoft to make money from your code without your making a dime from it? The limited-time monopoly is good for creativity, but the virtual unlimited monopoly is not. There is no reason why you should not be able to write a sequel to "The King's Speech," and no reason for Jimi Hendrix's music to have any monopoly at all.
Pretty sure there's a VCR in there somewhere.
"The VCR is to the movie industry what Jack the Ripper was to women." --Jack Valenti, then head of the MPAA. The industry is incredibly short sighted.