it is unamerican, because it is feudal. it gives control of the intellectual life over to a few. the needs of the few coming before the needs of the many, is contrary to american revolutionary ideas. leaving all of those aside, those interests are controlling your own government through the candidates and senators they sponsor. currently it is 'by the corporations, by the corporations. it should be 'by the people, for the people'.
despite the illusion that is 'you can also own a copyright', a very tiny minority of population owns the bulk of copyrights and patents and profits from them, preventing others from getting anything. in a way, situation is no similar than a peasant having a chance at being a baron in middle ages.
im also still waiting for the evil part. if anyone blabbers to the contrary, im ready with a phletora of evidences of REAL evil ranging from monsanto to comcast-nbc, viacom, microsoft, and many many more.
are you aware of the number of open source projects that have been spawned in scandinavia, or greatly contributed to by scandinavia ? one of them is linux.
please, those who have the tendency to batter me with hardliner conservative arguments in discussions, make a mental note - this is one of the cases i always give examples of success of social democracies, and how heavy regulation and keeping-in-check of corporations spurs innovation far more than the reckless corporate owned environment does. an american company, which lives in a land in which corporations rule, shuts down something useful, and that useful thing gets immediately salvaged by a company which lives in a land in which corporations are heavily kept in check and regulated. and again, another scandinavian country.
they would have the same problems migrating to anything, and even if they werent naive. observe the picture below:
Previously, around 1,000 staff had been maintaining the 15,000 PCs making up the Munich computing landscape in 21 independent IT centres. There was, according to Schießl, no common directory, no common user management, no common hardware or software management. There were more than 300 applications in use, many of which did the same job. On the desktop side, there were 21 different Windows systems with different update levels and security settings.
for condoning and even rationalizing a system which allows people lay claim to logical constructs and designs and not use them to do anything, but to extort money from those who attempting to use similar ideas.
so patent hoarding and trolling is not crazy, but 'use it or lose it' is crazy ? well... american mindset alright. defies logic.
if they leave, they will be able to utilize and employ filter-circumventing schemes and run their bu siness from outside china without any restrictions.
berlusconi is a neocon monkey. he was no.1 supporter of them.
zapatero and others dont need to do anything, for eu parl already shot it down. a country cant contradict eu rules and still stay in the union. now all they need to do to turn obama down is to cite that.
it is fundamentally disturbing that you equate strong emotions with suffering. this is not the case. not to mention that, despite you apparently dont know about art history, you have come up with a grand statement like 'if you knew anything' about it.
bach, monet, dumas, lizst, vivaldi, a. conan doyle, picasso, da vinci, michelangelo, moliere...
i can keep going on and on. these are just a few names out of my head for creative people, artists that contradict your crooked understanding of pain.
the numbers of the artists who have gone under great pain and produced masterpieces are a pathetically low few, no more than the count of your fingers on your hands, and limited to those like van gogh. not to mention that, these artists were already producing great works of art before their sufferings. instead, their sufferings and relevant masterpieces are much advertised and talked about in documentaries, art circles because such drama is more interesting, and draws viewers/readers. few people would prefer to listen how gleefully da vinci pictured italian countryside.
'redistribution of wealth' in a system which hands out 80% of wealth and income to 10% of the society and forces the rest 90% of the society to make do with remaining 20% of the wealth is never morally corrupt. a system which gives 80% of every value generated to 10% of the society is morally corrupt and self defeating in the first place.
however the government is not doing for the artists' sake. its for corporations' sake, which basically constitutes the 10% elite that sucks the planet dry of its 80% of wealth. and it is questionable that the levies will reach struggling artists and enable them to pursue art.
apparently you didnt have any marketing, or production planning, or any kind of optimization course.
those prices are calculated as the MAXIMUM price they can sell a product over, in optimum numbers. they may be selling much more and making much more money by a lower price, but this is a method few corporations choose. rather, the aim is to sell minimum amounts of product from the maximum price possible, while targeting for a certain market share.
if you are a media cartel, market share is 100% and you dont need to lose it. all media companies are in the same basket, since they arrange their prices to fit each others' accordingly. you dont find emi selling songs from $0.2 while others sell them from $1. so all illusions and delusions of 'free market' and 'competition', are void and null.
especially when it comes to digital songs. basically the costs of reproducing these and distributing are close to nil. even less than printing cds. yet they are still sold over $1, because companies think that this is a price they think market can accept and they can get away with. and despite all the reductions in cost, there is no sign of any company cutting down their prices. they are selling songs with exorbitant profit margins online. and its not one or two company, all of them are doing it. and no antitrust watchdog, or government agency is going after them.
it is another sign why the current system is beyond medieval, and why we desperately need piracy to sort it out.
along with your representatives there. take heart. and say no to obama. it doesnt matter whether a person is good or evil of heart, if s/he sides with evil and pursues their agenda for them.
Empty stomach is the most important factor contributing to the development of a talent.
are you aware of the number of artists who died because they had empty stomachs, or couldnt afford properly heated homes and healthy circumstances throughout 18th, 19th centuries ? are you aware how many potential masterpieces are lost just because of that ? are you aware that what a person has first on their mind would be to feed themselves, and not to make art, if they are hungry ? are you aware that if you are hungry, and shaking, the first thing comes to your mind wouldnt be 'i must make some art so i can feed myself and get warm' but ' i must SOMEHOW feed myself and get warm' ?
have you ever been in a position that you were hungry and cold, and therefore not making those grand assumptions out of your butt ?
this is the exact brutal mindset we need to change. people should make art with inspiration, not for SURVIVAL. art is not some american gladiator game. its an area of creativity in which you need to court your muses in order to be able to produce worthy shit.
steal as in do not obey the forced medieval feudalism of a tiny minority to profit exceedingly over your activities to the point of limiting your freedoms without any hesitations ? to the point of circumventing democratical measures to force repressive controls to protect their medieval rights ?
Here in the US we have allowed Congress to give the President the power to be able to bypass the Legislative branch to get what he wants, and the legislative branch to bypass our Constitutional protections. Now we have a President and Democratic-controlled Legislative branch willing to inflict legislation on us that more than 70% of the citizens of the US do not want. Every poll taken shows we don't want Obama care, yet the Democratic leadership and Obama say they are going to pass this bill no matter what.
polls put out by fox and its cronies, which are the mouthpieces of the very corporations who are sucking america's money in exchange for their lives, you mean.
while a german gets chopper lifted to airport, then to airport to fly to germany to receive treatment because his leg was broken in turkey, americans are left out of hospital doors even if they have private insurance, thanks to shuffled legal contracts to favor the profits. i wont even comment on what kind of healthcare is delivered in scandinavian countries with socialized healthcare, because it would break us both into tears, its out of this world.
this may be a politician sponsored bill. it doesnt matter. actually it was supposed to be as such too. politician is a statuse mankind invented to speak the will of the people and do good for the people, yet rarely ever worked to that extent.
Plus, we, as a nation, are about to lose our AAA credit rating if we continue going further into debt.
you, as a nation has lost your credit rating LONG before, when bush & co started to suck your treasury dry with no accountability and borrowing money from china to no end, despite they didnt spend anything on american citizens. where the money went, is STILL unknown.
my last word is ; a government by the people, for the people, can only work for the people if that government has enough power. and it is the way it should be, for, if the government is not for the people, and it doesnt have enough power, there is NOTHING preventing other power focuses from herding the country to their end. most powerful focuses in current time and age are megacorporations. nobility is long past by.
i again advise you to research on recent 50 year history of scandiavian countries.
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it is unamerican, because it is feudal. it gives control of the intellectual life over to a few. the needs of the few coming before the needs of the many, is contrary to american revolutionary ideas. leaving all of those aside, those interests are controlling your own government through the candidates and senators they sponsor. currently it is 'by the corporations, by the corporations. it should be 'by the people, for the people'.
despite the illusion that is 'you can also own a copyright', a very tiny minority of population owns the bulk of copyrights and patents and profits from them, preventing others from getting anything. in a way, situation is no similar than a peasant having a chance at being a baron in middle ages.
im also still waiting for the evil part. if anyone blabbers to the contrary, im ready with a phletora of evidences of REAL evil ranging from monsanto to comcast-nbc, viacom, microsoft, and many many more.
are you aware of the number of open source projects that have been spawned in scandinavia, or greatly contributed to by scandinavia ? one of them is linux.
please, those who have the tendency to batter me with hardliner conservative arguments in discussions, make a mental note - this is one of the cases i always give examples of success of social democracies, and how heavy regulation and keeping-in-check of corporations spurs innovation far more than the reckless corporate owned environment does. an american company, which lives in a land in which corporations rule, shuts down something useful, and that useful thing gets immediately salvaged by a company which lives in a land in which corporations are heavily kept in check and regulated. and again, another scandinavian country.
they would have the same problems migrating to anything, and even if they werent naive. observe the picture below :
Previously, around 1,000 staff had been maintaining the 15,000 PCs making up the Munich computing landscape in 21 independent IT centres. There was, according to Schießl, no common directory, no common user management, no common hardware or software management. There were more than 300 applications in use, many of which did the same job. On the desktop side, there were 21 different Windows systems with different update levels and security settings.
for condoning and even rationalizing a system which allows people lay claim to logical constructs and designs and not use them to do anything, but to extort money from those who attempting to use similar ideas.
so patent hoarding and trolling is not crazy, but 'use it or lose it' is crazy ? well ... american mindset alright. defies logic.
if they leave, they will be able to utilize and employ filter-circumventing schemes and run their bu siness from outside china without any restrictions.
berlusconi is a neocon monkey. he was no.1 supporter of them.
zapatero and others dont need to do anything, for eu parl already shot it down. a country cant contradict eu rules and still stay in the union. now all they need to do to turn obama down is to cite that.
he is probably both smoking crack, and doing these things, just like many of those who read these pages.
isnt one.
http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/03/18/Dan_Choi_Protests_in_Front_of_WH/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20AdvocatecomDailyNews%20(Advocate.com%20Daily%20News)&utm_content=FaceBook
it is fundamentally disturbing that you equate strong emotions with suffering. this is not the case. not to mention that, despite you apparently dont know about art history, you have come up with a grand statement like 'if you knew anything' about it.
bach, monet, dumas, lizst, vivaldi, a. conan doyle, picasso, da vinci, michelangelo, moliere ...
i can keep going on and on. these are just a few names out of my head for creative people, artists that contradict your crooked understanding of pain.
the numbers of the artists who have gone under great pain and produced masterpieces are a pathetically low few, no more than the count of your fingers on your hands, and limited to those like van gogh. not to mention that, these artists were already producing great works of art before their sufferings. instead, their sufferings and relevant masterpieces are much advertised and talked about in documentaries, art circles because such drama is more interesting, and draws viewers/readers. few people would prefer to listen how gleefully da vinci pictured italian countryside.
'redistribution of wealth' in a system which hands out 80% of wealth and income to 10% of the society and forces the rest 90% of the society to make do with remaining 20% of the wealth is never morally corrupt. a system which gives 80% of every value generated to 10% of the society is morally corrupt and self defeating in the first place.
however the government is not doing for the artists' sake. its for corporations' sake, which basically constitutes the 10% elite that sucks the planet dry of its 80% of wealth. and it is questionable that the levies will reach struggling artists and enable them to pursue art.
apparently you didnt have any marketing, or production planning, or any kind of optimization course.
those prices are calculated as the MAXIMUM price they can sell a product over, in optimum numbers. they may be selling much more and making much more money by a lower price, but this is a method few corporations choose. rather, the aim is to sell minimum amounts of product from the maximum price possible, while targeting for a certain market share.
if you are a media cartel, market share is 100% and you dont need to lose it. all media companies are in the same basket, since they arrange their prices to fit each others' accordingly. you dont find emi selling songs from $0.2 while others sell them from $1. so all illusions and delusions of 'free market' and 'competition', are void and null.
especially when it comes to digital songs. basically the costs of reproducing these and distributing are close to nil. even less than printing cds. yet they are still sold over $1, because companies think that this is a price they think market can accept and they can get away with. and despite all the reductions in cost, there is no sign of any company cutting down their prices. they are selling songs with exorbitant profit margins online. and its not one or two company, all of them are doing it. and no antitrust watchdog, or government agency is going after them.
it is another sign why the current system is beyond medieval, and why we desperately need piracy to sort it out.
freedoms and agendas, even if in a convenient way ? start web campaigns to raise awareness and peition your representatives.
prior rulings are used as precedents in interpretions of law.
i want, i want my g-t-v !!
along with your representatives there. take heart. and say no to obama. it doesnt matter whether a person is good or evil of heart, if s/he sides with evil and pursues their agenda for them.
Empty stomach is the most important factor contributing to the development of a talent.
are you aware of the number of artists who died because they had empty stomachs, or couldnt afford properly heated homes and healthy circumstances throughout 18th, 19th centuries ? are you aware how many potential masterpieces are lost just because of that ? are you aware that what a person has first on their mind would be to feed themselves, and not to make art, if they are hungry ? are you aware that if you are hungry, and shaking, the first thing comes to your mind wouldnt be 'i must make some art so i can feed myself and get warm' but ' i must SOMEHOW feed myself and get warm' ?
have you ever been in a position that you were hungry and cold, and therefore not making those grand assumptions out of your butt ?
this is the exact brutal mindset we need to change. people should make art with inspiration, not for SURVIVAL. art is not some american gladiator game. its an area of creativity in which you need to court your muses in order to be able to produce worthy shit.
on the other hand, it is pretty stupid to tolerate artists who mass produce crappy shit to make money off the common people, and live high over it.
relevance ?
this reply also made itself. looks like its out of our hands now
steal as in do not obey the forced medieval feudalism of a tiny minority to profit exceedingly over your activities to the point of limiting your freedoms without any hesitations ? to the point of circumventing democratical measures to force repressive controls to protect their medieval rights ?
then yea yea. steal.
and also, wake up.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-march-17-2010/in-dodd-we-trust
this daily show bit, VERY well summarizes corporations vs people issue you have in your country. and what they did. in the latter half.
and just fill me in on how function naming is supposed to happen when a language has millions of modules doing millions of other functions.
Here in the US we have allowed Congress to give the President the power to be able to bypass the Legislative branch to get what he wants, and the legislative branch to bypass our Constitutional protections. Now we have a President and Democratic-controlled Legislative branch willing to inflict legislation on us that more than 70% of the citizens of the US do not want. Every poll taken shows we don't want Obama care, yet the Democratic leadership and Obama say they are going to pass this bill no matter what.
polls put out by fox and its cronies, which are the mouthpieces of the very corporations who are sucking america's money in exchange for their lives, you mean.
while a german gets chopper lifted to airport, then to airport to fly to germany to receive treatment because his leg was broken in turkey, americans are left out of hospital doors even if they have private insurance, thanks to shuffled legal contracts to favor the profits. i wont even comment on what kind of healthcare is delivered in scandinavian countries with socialized healthcare, because it would break us both into tears, its out of this world.
this may be a politician sponsored bill. it doesnt matter. actually it was supposed to be as such too. politician is a statuse mankind invented to speak the will of the people and do good for the people, yet rarely ever worked to that extent.
Plus, we, as a nation, are about to lose our AAA credit rating if we continue going further into debt.
you, as a nation has lost your credit rating LONG before, when bush & co started to suck your treasury dry with no accountability and borrowing money from china to no end, despite they didnt spend anything on american citizens. where the money went, is STILL unknown.
my last word is ; a government by the people, for the people, can only work for the people if that government has enough power. and it is the way it should be, for, if the government is not for the people, and it doesnt have enough power, there is NOTHING preventing other power focuses from herding the country to their end. most powerful focuses in current time and age are megacorporations. nobility is long past by.
i again advise you to research on recent 50 year history of scandiavian countries.