When an artist creates, does he necessarily have to be the creator of the platform on which he creates..? Does a painter actually make paint - -and even then, say he actually made his own paint, you could still say he didn't make the rocks and plants and whatever of which the paint is made, and so the word 'create' loses all meaning, except when attributed to a first-cause god-thing.
If humans can create anything - prose, sculpture, architecture or whatever - you must assume that create in this sense means something more akin to compose or synthesis rather than the biblical 'create' - even when it comes to life.
I argued this point precisely on my blog.
In social psychology, we call this the "door-in-the-face technique" (Cialdini, 1975) A two-step compliance technique in which an influencer prefaces the real request with one that is so large that it is rejected.
I'd say they want it to fail, so that they'll be able to show courts: "See? p2p doesn't work when it's legal! They're all evil pirates, let's shut down the technology now!"
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When an artist creates, does he necessarily have to be the creator of the platform on which he creates..? Does a painter actually make paint - -and even then, say he actually made his own paint, you could still say he didn't make the rocks and plants and whatever of which the paint is made, and so the word 'create' loses all meaning, except when attributed to a first-cause god-thing. If humans can create anything - prose, sculpture, architecture or whatever - you must assume that create in this sense means something more akin to compose or synthesis rather than the biblical 'create' - even when it comes to life. I argued this point precisely on my blog.
C/R is not accepted over the board as an improvement to security. (I'm so going to get my head bitten now).
Not that there's anything wrong with a smartcard, but why do you say it offers "a lot more security than this device"? Both seem pretty good to me.
In social psychology, we call this the "door-in-the-face technique" (Cialdini, 1975)
A two-step compliance technique in which an influencer prefaces the real request with one that is so large that it is rejected.
We are suckers for perceptual contrast.
- u heard ipod make u deaf?? -- o rly? - ya rly! -- no wai!!1
I'd say they want it to fail, so that they'll be able to show courts: "See? p2p doesn't work when it's legal! They're all evil pirates, let's shut down the technology now!"