I agree, and Apple saved the traditional/label music industry with the iTunes model, too.
People, stop buying music from major labels and hunt out unsigned artists you like. Stop buying what the commercial radio tells you is "good" and start buying (and legally free) downloads you actually like from artists who aren't enslaved by the label model. Pay the artist directly, if they need a middle man, they're ripping you off.
No point trying to reason with rabid trolls, by definition they are unreasonable.
Let them be happy believing that you can actually make your own light brighter by turning someone else's off. In the end, the real men, gay or straight, are happy in their own choices and happy to let others live with theirs.
The one-way mission doesn't have to mean no return. 19th century chemistry in 21st century machines could be used to make fuel for a return journey, while making living resources for very little resource contention. The me I was in my 20s (20 years ago) would have jumped at the chance to do a mission like this, and the me I am now would have a tear in my eye that I'm too old for this sort of mission.
Colonisation of mars is risky, even downright foolhardy, and many who try may die. However, for humanity to stay human, to be what it means to call yourself "human", we need adventure, frontiers and risk.
All power to those who would undertake such a mission. They would have history's respect.
It might be OK if it worked on the basis of international treaties, but I suspect Bill is talking about spreading the US disease worldwide.
That would be a freakin' skynet proportions nightmare.
The idea the copying a file is a crime is a gross exaggeration born of laws making this a contract condition of any purchase.
Morally, then, to download a file is less of a crime than copying the original file, but if you're copying a copy, you're not a party to the original rights contract inherent in the purchase of the film or tune.
Yes, governments can legislate to make this a crime, but that's the criminalisation of small fish, while the real thefts, recopyrighting of public domain material being done by big corporations is not only going unpunished, but is actively encouraged.
APRA/AMCOSS (Australia's rights management body for songwriters), due to an administrative error on the part of Australia's national broadcaster the ABC, have put a song of mine into copyright that was expressly posted online as public domain and royalty-free. The ABC missed this condition, filed their rights report and now APRA refuse to release it because they claim I've assigned my rights on all of my works.
That is copyright theft, yet it is perfectly legal. Yes, I'll get paid for any uses of the song, but that's not the point. I wanted that song to belong to the global body of artistic work, a tribute to Tasmania, my home state, and to my love. APRA/AMCOSS have stolen that tribute in my name, without my authority.
There are only two rules which apply here AFAICS, those with the gold make the rules, and copyright is so broken it's unfixable.
I agree. You story, and the fact that social networking seems to be diverging communications standards (I have a daughter on Facebook, one on MySpace and one on Twitter - "I don't use email, Dad..."), is one of the worst things about these sites.
Not at you specifically, no, but the tone of the article ("Oh he's homeless, but that's OK, he has net access") and the bland acceptance of homelessness by so many early commentators here was pretty sickening for me.
As for equating "social justice" with socialism or communism, that's a cheap shot. Justice, especially justice for those, for whatever reason, are less fortunate and find themselves in a powerless position, is the mark of civilisation, not any one political system.
The US Military prides itself on never leaving their people behind. Shame the US can't apply the same principles to their civilian "casualties".
What's disgusting me is that you're talking about it like it's acceptable for there to be no housing safety net and no welfare safety net. "I'm homeless, but it's OK, I can find a shower and net access."
It's not OK. A society which doesn't look after its homeless, it's sick or it's unemployed is NOT civilised.
Homelessness, regardless of who is "to blame" is an inhumanity, the abandonment of some citizens by those better off.
I NEVER want to live in the USA and I'm so glad I don't live there. It makes my so angry that wealth and technology are more important than social justice.
Hmm. They introduced the cane toad into Australia to fight the cane beetle. The cane toad became a bigger pest than the beetle it was supposed to feed on.
When you introduce a species into a remote ecosystem, there is always the risk of an unpredictable reaction. If the phorids develop a taste for local ants, there is the makings of a serious natural disaster.
Maybe instead of continuing to focus on the dinosaur that is the automobile, more effort should be put into building very a efficient mass transit infrastructure. Just a thought.
+1 smaller lighter cars with less technology. Come on, it's a marketing challenge. It's easy to sell a big, technologically advanced car, the real goal to kick is making a small, lo-tech, energy efficient car to the mass market in the developing world.
Get a folding bicycle and dual-mode on the light rail. (you may need a bag on the railer to be legal) Your car is killing the planet, especially the older it is.
If we ALL give up our cars and use bicycles (and beyond 15km/10miles out, bikes and public transport) then we save a fortune. I gave up owning a car earlier this year when it died, and I'm finally on top of my budget!
My car (a 1996 Holden Barina, AKA Opel Corsa in Europe) was costing me more than an out of control credit card. Fuel and parking are not the major expenses, depreciation, registration, insurance and maintenance are. (At least in Australia they are.)
No need to explain or justify your interest, MrNaz, the Moorish contribution to western culture is almost as broad as the Greco/Roman one.
We westerners tend to attribute everything to the Greeks, but we get our maths and science via the Moors (through Spain) as much as via Greece.
The ownership of learning is universal, and what one might conceive in the name of science is beyond cultural boundaries. For your culture's contribution to the world, I thank you.
Considering he wasn't really expected to live very long because of MND, and has outstripped the average life expectancy for that disease by a long margin, it probably is coming on for his time, sadly. It comes to us all in the end, sadly sooner for some than others.
Does it make it the property of Google? Google is the custodian, but the works are owned by those who would not claim ownership. They may be orphaned works, but Google doesn't take over copyright, surely?
International rights treaties, and most developed jurisdictions don't allow somebody to simply take over copyright because they've scanned it, done some OCR and stored it for public retrieval. If that were the case, we'd ALL be scanning and storing the best-sellers and trying to claim priority over the author.
Who ever said publishers and distributors were imaginative or intelligent? If they were imaginatively intelligent enough to correctly categorise fantasy and scifi separately, they'd write books, not publish them;-)
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I agree, and Apple saved the traditional/label music industry with the iTunes model, too.
People, stop buying music from major labels and hunt out unsigned artists you like. Stop buying what the commercial radio tells you is "good" and start buying (and legally free) downloads you actually like from artists who aren't enslaved by the label model. Pay the artist directly, if they need a middle man, they're ripping you off.
No point trying to reason with rabid trolls, by definition they are unreasonable.
Let them be happy believing that you can actually make your own light brighter by turning someone else's off. In the end, the real men, gay or straight, are happy in their own choices and happy to let others live with theirs.
Whore.
The one-way mission doesn't have to mean no return. 19th century chemistry in 21st century machines could be used to make fuel for a return journey, while making living resources for very little resource contention. The me I was in my 20s (20 years ago) would have jumped at the chance to do a mission like this, and the me I am now would have a tear in my eye that I'm too old for this sort of mission.
Colonisation of mars is risky, even downright foolhardy, and many who try may die. However, for humanity to stay human, to be what it means to call yourself "human", we need adventure, frontiers and risk.
All power to those who would undertake such a mission. They would have history's respect.
It might be OK if it worked on the basis of international treaties, but I suspect Bill is talking about spreading the US disease worldwide. That would be a freakin' skynet proportions nightmare.
That their legal department think it's worth inclusion in the terms pretty much says that copyright is broken, and nothing's going to fix it.
The idea the copying a file is a crime is a gross exaggeration born of laws making this a contract condition of any purchase.
Morally, then, to download a file is less of a crime than copying the original file, but if you're copying a copy, you're not a party to the original rights contract inherent in the purchase of the film or tune.
Yes, governments can legislate to make this a crime, but that's the criminalisation of small fish, while the real thefts, recopyrighting of public domain material being done by big corporations is not only going unpunished, but is actively encouraged.
APRA/AMCOSS (Australia's rights management body for songwriters), due to an administrative error on the part of Australia's national broadcaster the ABC, have put a song of mine into copyright that was expressly posted online as public domain and royalty-free. The ABC missed this condition, filed their rights report and now APRA refuse to release it because they claim I've assigned my rights on all of my works.
That is copyright theft, yet it is perfectly legal. Yes, I'll get paid for any uses of the song, but that's not the point. I wanted that song to belong to the global body of artistic work, a tribute to Tasmania, my home state, and to my love. APRA/AMCOSS have stolen that tribute in my name, without my authority.
There are only two rules which apply here AFAICS, those with the gold make the rules, and copyright is so broken it's unfixable.
http://macidol.com/song/23027 is the song in question.
Somebody's not smiling, are they? ;-)
Like the subject says, cycle to work.
I agree. You story, and the fact that social networking seems to be diverging communications standards (I have a daughter on Facebook, one on MySpace and one on Twitter - "I don't use email, Dad..."), is one of the worst things about these sites.
Not at you specifically, no, but the tone of the article ("Oh he's homeless, but that's OK, he has net access") and the bland acceptance of homelessness by so many early commentators here was pretty sickening for me.
As for equating "social justice" with socialism or communism, that's a cheap shot. Justice, especially justice for those, for whatever reason, are less fortunate and find themselves in a powerless position, is the mark of civilisation, not any one political system.
The US Military prides itself on never leaving their people behind. Shame the US can't apply the same principles to their civilian "casualties".
What's disgusting me is that you're talking about it like it's acceptable for there to be no housing safety net and no welfare safety net. "I'm homeless, but it's OK, I can find a shower and net access." It's not OK. A society which doesn't look after its homeless, it's sick or it's unemployed is NOT civilised. Homelessness, regardless of who is "to blame" is an inhumanity, the abandonment of some citizens by those better off. I NEVER want to live in the USA and I'm so glad I don't live there. It makes my so angry that wealth and technology are more important than social justice.
Hmm. They introduced the cane toad into Australia to fight the cane beetle. The cane toad became a bigger pest than the beetle it was supposed to feed on.
When you introduce a species into a remote ecosystem, there is always the risk of an unpredictable reaction. If the phorids develop a taste for local ants, there is the makings of a serious natural disaster.
Oh, and the smallest, lightest vehicle available, short of a pair of shoes, is the bicycle.
Maybe instead of continuing to focus on the dinosaur that is the automobile, more effort should be put into building very a efficient mass transit infrastructure. Just a thought.
+1 smaller lighter cars with less technology. Come on, it's a marketing challenge. It's easy to sell a big, technologically advanced car, the real goal to kick is making a small, lo-tech, energy efficient car to the mass market in the developing world.
Get a folding bicycle and dual-mode on the light rail. (you may need a bag on the railer to be legal) Your car is killing the planet, especially the older it is.
If we ALL give up our cars and use bicycles (and beyond 15km/10miles out, bikes and public transport) then we save a fortune. I gave up owning a car earlier this year when it died, and I'm finally on top of my budget!
My car (a 1996 Holden Barina, AKA Opel Corsa in Europe) was costing me more than an out of control credit card. Fuel and parking are not the major expenses, depreciation, registration, insurance and maintenance are. (At least in Australia they are.)
I'm with you, man, and as I have images turned off, and can only assume you have them turned off, you're one for the gas chamber. ;-)
No need to explain or justify your interest, MrNaz, the Moorish contribution to western culture is almost as broad as the Greco/Roman one. We westerners tend to attribute everything to the Greeks, but we get our maths and science via the Moors (through Spain) as much as via Greece. The ownership of learning is universal, and what one might conceive in the name of science is beyond cultural boundaries. For your culture's contribution to the world, I thank you.
price! You can buy a LOT of wire for the price of a wifi router.
Yes, Apple already "had" the web with hypercard, but were only seeing it as apps running on boxes, not a network distributed document model.
Considering he wasn't really expected to live very long because of MND, and has outstripped the average life expectancy for that disease by a long margin, it probably is coming on for his time, sadly. It comes to us all in the end, sadly sooner for some than others.
By "penetrates" do they mean 96% of Netbooks have been "f***ed up" by Windows?
Does it make it the property of Google? Google is the custodian, but the works are owned by those who would not claim ownership. They may be orphaned works, but Google doesn't take over copyright, surely?
International rights treaties, and most developed jurisdictions don't allow somebody to simply take over copyright because they've scanned it, done some OCR and stored it for public retrieval. If that were the case, we'd ALL be scanning and storing the best-sellers and trying to claim priority over the author.
Who ever said publishers and distributors were imaginative or intelligent? If they were imaginatively intelligent enough to correctly categorise fantasy and scifi separately, they'd write books, not publish them ;-)