Yeah, he had problems with schitzoaffective disorder back when I was at K5. I know a few mentally ill folks in real life, and those illnesses are tragic indeed. I journaled about one of them a few weeks ago. I'm afraid it's a rather depressing read involving suicide and attempted suicide..
Yes, I do remember that. I also remember Jack Valenti saying that the VCR was to the movie industry what Jack the Ripper was to women. Any law they can't buy they simply pretend is law. They still do it, too. I bought Heartbreak Ridge DVD yesterday to replace a ruined tape (five bucks at WalMart). It screams in all caps "NOT AUTHORIZED FOR SALE OUTSIDE THE USA OR CANADA". It then goes on to say that such sales are "in direct violation of its written terms of trade." Sorry, MPAA, you're full of shit. You have no written terms of sale with me and if I want to sell it to a Brit there's no law to stop me.
Shortly before the skull and crossbones were on records, Congress passed a law specifically legalizing taping. The MPAA and RIAA companies lie more than a crackhead. Nothing Hollywood says should be taken seriously. What I meant by "nobody" was "nobody but the liars in the industry".
I wish I were a young pup, I'll be 60 this year. Most of my sfi-fi fantasies from my youth are now reality, I can't imagine what my 25 year old daughter will see in her lifetime. OTOH, as technology has progressed, personal rights have regressed.
Yes, speaker efficiency does matter. When I was stationed in Thailand in 1974 I bought a pair of Kenwood 777s; four ways with six drivers, including fifteen inch woofers. One of the guys in the barracks had earlier bought a pair of Fischers I'd had plugged into my amp. The Kenwoods were as loud at 3 as the Fischers were at 9.
Speakers have really gotten crappy in the last 4 decades, at least consumer-grade ones.
I consider SOPA a reason to assume they're ignorant about it, if nothing else. You might attribute that to malice. ("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
I think mcgrew's razor supersedes Hanlon's razor in this case. Never assume stupidity for that which is adequately explained by greedy self interest. Politicans want power or they wouldn't be in politics.
While the politicians and laws are technically supposed to be supported by the majority, it's the actual public support in venus...
Oh, great. We're broke, and not only sending foreign aid to other countries, we're supporting other planets! Gees, I wonder who voted to support Venus?
You seem a little confused on that theory. The theory (which is pretty much accepted by everyone these days) is that a Mars sized object hit the Earth and splashed parts of both the Earth and the object into space.
At one time the Earth had rings! The rings (from the debris that splashed after the impact) gradually came togetther because of gravity and became the moon. So it's part Earth, part some other planet (or possibly a gas giant's moon that was displaced from orbit).
Average stage lifespan for a garden-variety artist is 3 years
Hokum. I know a lot of working musicians, and they may only stay in the same band for about 3 years, but they don't give up music. Unless, of course, they suck and finally realize that when nobody wants to hire them.
If you're talking about RIAA artists, you may be right -- but it isn't a natural occurrance. There's an old guy named Roger McGuinn who was in a '60s band called "The Byrds". After his label dropped him because he was "too old for rock and roll" his career went downhill, and he wound up in poverty -- until the old outlaw Napster introduced his music to a brand new generation and revitalized the carreer that his label crushed.
Yeah silk is not very animal-friendly and vegans do avoid it. Unfortunately, this may not be a concern to the non-animal-rights-minded majority.
I am an unapologetic omnivore. I have killed animals, then eaten them. I don't like to see higher animals like mammals or birds suffer and would like the chickens I eat to be treated humanely before they're killed. But unlike Bhuddists, I have no problem with swatting a fly, nor do I have a problem with boiling insect larvae. I'd say fortunately the insect rights kooks like you are a tiny, tiny monority and we aren't about to let your insanities sway us.
Since at least 1787. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries is the constitutional basis of copyright and patent law in the US. Even though I wrote this, I do not own it; I merely have a limited time monopoly on its publication. It is owned by anyone who can read.
Your work isn't yours, either. It belongs to your employer. A roofer doesn't own the roof he builds, you don't own the song you wrote.
The men who hold high places must be the ones to start to mold a new reality closer to the hart. The blacksmith and the artist each must know his part, to mold a new reality closer to the heart.
Every statesman and artist should listen to Rush (the band, not the right wing hypocrite junkie).
I couldn't find the reference, but I think it was Franklin (a prolific writer and inventor) who said "when I light my candle off your candle, your candle is not diminished, but we have twice the light," referring to creative works. Art, like science and technology, is built on what came before. Our art is our culture, and our culture belongs to all of us, not Sony Pictures.
thought I'd heard Crawford had finally been arrested or gone off his meds and been permabanned or something?
I don't know, I think 2005 was when I was there last, but Craford posted here at/. last week, so he must not be in jail. CTS comes here and posts, as well. CTS is far less insane than he was back at K5.
"Google video rental will also be unavailable because the device will be no longer protected by security mechanism" Why do they insist on this kind of language?
I think what they mean by it is "Google video rental will also be unavailable on our device you think you own just because you paid for it, because our device will be no longer protected from you by security mechanism".
If it has DRM, it isn't your device. It doesn't matter that you bought it and have a sales receipt, it isn't yours -- at least in their minds.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the theory that Moon was created due to a big collision of Earth with some other celestial body.
I wonder if there's anyone here who didn't wonder that. Also, I thought that theory was like the theory of evolution, that it's as close to fact as science can get. I also wonder -- an object the size of Mars hitting something a bit smaller than the Earth would surely displace its orbit. Where did the Earth sit before the moon hit it? Was it even in the goldilocks zone? Could life have existed when the moon hit Earth? Is there any math that can figure it out from current orbits, working backwards?
OMFG, Rogerborg and Nursie! I feel like I just went back in time. I agree, the Ascii Art Reenactment Players was the best thing "evar" to come out of K5 (loved the "evar", too. I miss that.)
I left because of that asshole Jongular, haven't been there for over half a decade now. When he revoked my posting priveleges for crapflooding, Rusty said when he reinstated my account that I was the only one ever banned for crapflooding that all of the stories I posted were accepted to the front page.
It started feeling like work, and what's worse, work where somebody else's boss thihnks they're my boss. I've been a lot happier posting here; no jongular, no balsamic, none of those other dumbass trolls (K5 was the only place I knew of with a troll who had administrative powers). I do miss a lot of you non-assholes, though.
At age 16, Jefferson entered the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, and first met the law professor George Wythe, who became his influential mentor. For two years he studied mathematics, metaphysics, and philosophy under Professor William Small, who introduced the enthusiastic Jefferson to the writings of the British Empiricists, including John Locke, Francis Bacon, and Isaac Newton.[7] He also improved his French, Greek, and violin. A diligent student, Jefferson displayed an avid curiosity in all fields[8] and graduated in 1762 with highest honors. Jefferson read law while working as a law clerk for Wythe. During this time, he also read a wide variety of English classics and political works. Jefferson was admitted to the Virginia bar five years later in 1767.[9]
Throughout his life, books played a vital role in Jefferson's education. Even during the American Revolution and while minister to France, Jefferson collected and accumulated thousands of books for his library at Monticello. A significant portion of Jefferson's library was also bequeathed to him in the will of George Wythe who himself had an extensive library. Always eager for more knowledge, Jefferson's education would continue throughout most of his life. Jefferson once stated, "I cannot live without books."[10]
Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independance. I hope I've left you less largely uneducated;)
Not to mention the 12,000 Watts of sound that I can't replicate too easily.
Theaters don't have 12,000 watt amplifiers. You're thinking of somebody like Pink Floyd or The Who in a stadium. Marshall amps are 1,000 watts, how many do you see on stage at that Floyd concert?
The larger the room, the more wattage necessary. You need a lot more watts in a big theater than in your living room to get the exact same volume,
A 10 watt amp is 1/2 as loud as a 100 watt amp, a 100 watt amp is half as loud as a 1000 watt amp.
I had a 200 watt amp (which I listened to at high volume for an extended period and burned it out, I need a new one) pushing 2 three way JBLs with 12 inch woofers, and it was every bit as loud (actually louder, I never cranked it for movies) and sounded every bit as good as a theater. The big screen, however...
Agreed. Plus, the summary (at least) is a bit stupid. "Why Politicians Should Never Make Laws About Technology". WTF? They're LEGISLATORS. Without laws against technologists fucking me over, what's to stop them from fucking me over?
The problem is that the politicians are beholden to the corporations, not that they don't understand technology. They don't understand medicine, either, but like with technology they listen to people who do.
The problem is getting politicians to listen to WE THE PEOPLE who don't have billions of campaign bribes.
Musicians want to be paid. Music will always be sold.
Music has never been sold, ever, in history. The closest you come to selling music is selling sheet music, or selling your copyright. Before the 20th century the only form of recorded music was piano rolls.
During the 20th century you still didn't buy music, you bought records and later tapes, then CDs. You never bought the music, you bought the physical item.
Nobody used to complain about recording your LP to a cassette, or even recording your friend's LPs to cassette.
Then came the 21st century and Napster, and the recording insustry (NOT the "music industry") blew it badly. They should have sent their marketing teams to use Napster's free music to sell CDs; marketers are very good a convincing people to buy stuff. And people LIKE buying "stuff". Yes, in some cases you can charge a premium for convinience, but anything more than a couple of bucks people want something to show for their money.
And you still can't buy music. You can only rent it.
Concerts are tough to profit from and are generally used to promote record/song sales.
Bullshit. It's exactly the opposite.
No offense, but you have no clue about the music industry. I grew up with musicians, they want paid.
I've been playing guitar since I was 12, that was 47 years ago. Half my friends are musicians. I'm an amateur, but most I know are professionals. The non-independant, RIAA labels are the clueless ones.
Live performances are great but they are NOT profitable. It is common to lose money on them if they are not managed with precision.
There's no profit if your band sucks or, like you say, your manager sucks.
Of course musicians want to be paid, everybody needs money. But not every musician deserves to be paid.
IE6: I'm not dead! MORTICIAN: What? MS: Nothing -- here's your nine pence. IE6: I'm not dead! MORTICIAN: Here -- he says he's not dead! MS: Yes, he is. IE6: I'm not! MORTICIAN: He isn't. MS: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill. IE6: I'm getting better! MS: No, you're not -- you'll be stone dead in a moment. MORTICIAN: Oh, I can't take him like that -- it's against regulations. IE6: I don't want to go in the cart! MS: Oh, don't be such a baby. MORTICIAN: I can't take him... IE6: I feel fine! MS: Oh, do us a favor... MORTICIAN: I can't. MS: Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long. MORTICIAN: Naaah, I got to go on to Robinson's -- they've lost nine today. MS: Well, when is your next round? MORTICIAN: Thursday. IE6: I think I'll go for a walk. MS: You're not fooling anyone y'know. Look, isn't there something you can do? IE6: I feel happy... I feel happy.
[whop] MS: Ah, thanks very much. MORTICIAN: Not at all. See you on Thursday. MS: Right. [clop clop] MORTICIAN: Who's that then? MS: I don't know. MORTICIAN: Must be a king. MS: Why? MORTICIAN: He hasn't got shit all over him.
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True, except it wasn't a lawyer who compared VCRs to the Boston strangler, it was Jack Valenti, who was head of the MPAA at the time.
Yeah, he had problems with schitzoaffective disorder back when I was at K5. I know a few mentally ill folks in real life, and those illnesses are tragic indeed. I journaled about one of them a few weeks ago. I'm afraid it's a rather depressing read involving suicide and attempted suicide..
Yes, I do remember that. I also remember Jack Valenti saying that the VCR was to the movie industry what Jack the Ripper was to women. Any law they can't buy they simply pretend is law. They still do it, too. I bought Heartbreak Ridge DVD yesterday to replace a ruined tape (five bucks at WalMart). It screams in all caps "NOT AUTHORIZED FOR SALE OUTSIDE THE USA OR CANADA". It then goes on to say that such sales are "in direct violation of its written terms of trade." Sorry, MPAA, you're full of shit. You have no written terms of sale with me and if I want to sell it to a Brit there's no law to stop me.
Shortly before the skull and crossbones were on records, Congress passed a law specifically legalizing taping. The MPAA and RIAA companies lie more than a crackhead. Nothing Hollywood says should be taken seriously. What I meant by "nobody" was "nobody but the liars in the industry".
I wish I were a young pup, I'll be 60 this year. Most of my sfi-fi fantasies from my youth are now reality, I can't imagine what my 25 year old daughter will see in her lifetime. OTOH, as technology has progressed, personal rights have regressed.
Yes, speaker efficiency does matter. When I was stationed in Thailand in 1974 I bought a pair of Kenwood 777s; four ways with six drivers, including fifteen inch woofers. One of the guys in the barracks had earlier bought a pair of Fischers I'd had plugged into my amp. The Kenwoods were as loud at 3 as the Fischers were at 9.
Speakers have really gotten crappy in the last 4 decades, at least consumer-grade ones.
I consider SOPA a reason to assume they're ignorant about it, if nothing else. You might attribute that to malice. ("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
I think mcgrew's razor supersedes Hanlon's razor in this case. Never assume stupidity for that which is adequately explained by greedy self interest. Politicans want power or they wouldn't be in politics.
While the politicians and laws are technically supposed to be supported by the majority, it's the actual public support in venus...
Oh, great. We're broke, and not only sending foreign aid to other countries, we're supporting other planets! Gees, I wonder who voted to support Venus?
You seem a little confused on that theory. The theory (which is pretty much accepted by everyone these days) is that a Mars sized object hit the Earth and splashed parts of both the Earth and the object into space.
At one time the Earth had rings! The rings (from the debris that splashed after the impact) gradually came togetther because of gravity and became the moon. So it's part Earth, part some other planet (or possibly a gas giant's moon that was displaced from orbit).
Average stage lifespan for a garden-variety artist is 3 years
Hokum. I know a lot of working musicians, and they may only stay in the same band for about 3 years, but they don't give up music. Unless, of course, they suck and finally realize that when nobody wants to hire them.
If you're talking about RIAA artists, you may be right -- but it isn't a natural occurrance. There's an old guy named Roger McGuinn who was in a '60s band called "The Byrds". After his label dropped him because he was "too old for rock and roll" his career went downhill, and he wound up in poverty -- until the old outlaw Napster introduced his music to a brand new generation and revitalized the carreer that his label crushed.
Yeah silk is not very animal-friendly and vegans do avoid it. Unfortunately, this may not be a concern to the non-animal-rights-minded majority.
I am an unapologetic omnivore. I have killed animals, then eaten them. I don't like to see higher animals like mammals or birds suffer and would like the chickens I eat to be treated humanely before they're killed. But unlike Bhuddists, I have no problem with swatting a fly, nor do I have a problem with boiling insect larvae. I'd say fortunately the insect rights kooks like you are a tiny, tiny monority and we aren't about to let your insanities sway us.
But it doesn't. Rocks are like pies, and unless you're from kentunky you know that an Earth pie* tastes way better than a Moon Pie.
*Not to be confused with a mud pie
Since when are the works of other people "ours"?
Since at least 1787. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries is the constitutional basis of copyright and patent law in the US. Even though I wrote this, I do not own it; I merely have a limited time monopoly on its publication. It is owned by anyone who can read.
Your work isn't yours, either. It belongs to your employer. A roofer doesn't own the roof he builds, you don't own the song you wrote.
The men who hold high places must be the ones to start to mold a new reality closer to the hart. The blacksmith and the artist each must know his part, to mold a new reality closer to the heart.
Every statesman and artist should listen to Rush (the band, not the right wing hypocrite junkie).
I couldn't find the reference, but I think it was Franklin (a prolific writer and inventor) who said "when I light my candle off your candle, your candle is not diminished, but we have twice the light," referring to creative works. Art, like science and technology, is built on what came before. Our art is our culture, and our culture belongs to all of us, not Sony Pictures.
thought I'd heard Crawford had finally been arrested or gone off his meds and been permabanned or something?
I don't know, I think 2005 was when I was there last, but Craford posted here at /. last week, so he must not be in jail. CTS comes here and posts, as well. CTS is far less insane than he was back at K5.
"Google video rental will also be unavailable because the device will be no longer protected by security mechanism" Why do they insist on this kind of language?
I think what they mean by it is "Google video rental will also be unavailable on our device you think you own just because you paid for it, because our device will be no longer protected from you by security mechanism".
If it has DRM, it isn't your device. It doesn't matter that you bought it and have a sales receipt, it isn't yours -- at least in their minds.
And what the fuck are "sipders"
SIPDER (n): A typographical error in teh comment.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the theory that Moon was created due to a big collision of Earth with some other celestial body.
I wonder if there's anyone here who didn't wonder that. Also, I thought that theory was like the theory of evolution, that it's as close to fact as science can get. I also wonder -- an object the size of Mars hitting something a bit smaller than the Earth would surely displace its orbit. Where did the Earth sit before the moon hit it? Was it even in the goldilocks zone? Could life have existed when the moon hit Earth? Is there any math that can figure it out from current orbits, working backwards?
OMFG, Rogerborg and Nursie! I feel like I just went back in time. I agree, the Ascii Art Reenactment Players was the best thing "evar" to come out of K5 (loved the "evar", too. I miss that.)
I left because of that asshole Jongular, haven't been there for over half a decade now. When he revoked my posting priveleges for crapflooding, Rusty said when he reinstated my account that I was the only one ever banned for crapflooding that all of the stories I posted were accepted to the front page.
It started feeling like work, and what's worse, work where somebody else's boss thihnks they're my boss. I've been a lot happier posting here; no jongular, no balsamic, none of those other dumbass trolls (K5 was the only place I knew of with a troll who had administrative powers). I do miss a lot of you non-assholes, though.
I remain amazed by how often the anachronistic laws set by a group of largely uneducated men over 200 years ago...
You mean like Thomas Jefferson?
Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independance. I hope I've left you less largely uneducated ;)
Not to mention the 12,000 Watts of sound that I can't replicate too easily.
it's like buying a pub where the bartenders or staff don't dip into the till
Man, that's some 20th century thinking there. I don't know of a single tavern that doesn't have a camera pointed at the cash register.
If the rent a cops are anything like they were fifty years ago, it isn't just the agressive teens who are being watched.
It wasn't the guy's own car, it was a government car. Don't you have the right to track your own property?
If it were the guy's own car it would be different, and I'd bet that in that case the judge would have waited for the SCOTUS to act.
Agreed. Plus, the summary (at least) is a bit stupid. "Why Politicians Should Never Make Laws About Technology". WTF? They're LEGISLATORS. Without laws against technologists fucking me over, what's to stop them from fucking me over?
The problem is that the politicians are beholden to the corporations, not that they don't understand technology. They don't understand medicine, either, but like with technology they listen to people who do.
The problem is getting politicians to listen to WE THE PEOPLE who don't have billions of campaign bribes.
Musicians want to be paid. Music will always be sold.
Music has never been sold, ever, in history. The closest you come to selling music is selling sheet music, or selling your copyright. Before the 20th century the only form of recorded music was piano rolls.
During the 20th century you still didn't buy music, you bought records and later tapes, then CDs. You never bought the music, you bought the physical item.
Nobody used to complain about recording your LP to a cassette, or even recording your friend's LPs to cassette.
Then came the 21st century and Napster, and the recording insustry (NOT the "music industry") blew it badly. They should have sent their marketing teams to use Napster's free music to sell CDs; marketers are very good a convincing people to buy stuff. And people LIKE buying "stuff". Yes, in some cases you can charge a premium for convinience, but anything more than a couple of bucks people want something to show for their money.
And you still can't buy music. You can only rent it.
Concerts are tough to profit from and are generally used to promote record/song sales.
Bullshit. It's exactly the opposite.
No offense, but you have no clue about the music industry. I grew up with musicians, they want paid.
I've been playing guitar since I was 12, that was 47 years ago. Half my friends are musicians. I'm an amateur, but most I know are professionals. The non-independant, RIAA labels are the clueless ones.
Live performances are great but they are NOT profitable. It is common to lose money on them if they are not managed with precision.
There's no profit if your band sucks or, like you say, your manager sucks.
Of course musicians want to be paid, everybody needs money. But not every musician deserves to be paid.
IE6: I'm not dead!
MORTICIAN: What?
MS: Nothing -- here's your nine pence.
IE6: I'm not dead!
MORTICIAN: Here -- he says he's not dead!
MS: Yes, he is.
IE6: I'm not!
MORTICIAN: He isn't.
MS: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
IE6: I'm getting better!
MS: No, you're not -- you'll be stone dead in a moment.
MORTICIAN: Oh, I can't take him like that -- it's against regulations.
IE6: I don't want to go in the cart!
MS: Oh, don't be such a baby.
MORTICIAN: I can't take him...
IE6: I feel fine!
MS: Oh, do us a favor...
MORTICIAN: I can't.
MS: Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
MORTICIAN: Naaah, I got to go on to Robinson's -- they've lost nine today.
MS: Well, when is your next round?
MORTICIAN: Thursday.
IE6: I think I'll go for a walk.
MS: You're not fooling anyone y'know. Look, isn't there something you can do?
IE6: I feel happy... I feel happy.
[whop]
MS: Ah, thanks very much.
MORTICIAN: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
MS: Right.
[clop clop]
MORTICIAN: Who's that then?
MS: I don't know.
MORTICIAN: Must be a king.
MS: Why?
MORTICIAN: He hasn't got shit all over him.
I get sloppy writing about Linux. Actually I should say GNU, but at any rate the desktop is KDE on Ubuntu (kubuntu 11.4).
I tried Gnome about ten years ago and hated it. Maybe I should try it again... but if they like to hide options, maybe not.