Perhaps I'm missing something, but this seems a little weird. Technology as it exists has pretty much obsoleted the music distribution industry. John thinks this is good. Technology as it exists does not alow one to travel anonymously on the internet. John thinks this is bad. John thinks the music industry should just accept this change without fighting, because it is a reality. However another reality is that your anonymity is in no way protected when you use the internet. In the same way that the music industry is taking a head-in-the-sand look at mp3s and their inevitable effect on the music distribution industry, John is saying 'no, no, though you could find out someone's ip address, you shouldn't cause thats bad'. I don't get the logic. Freedom is freedom. If you can pirate music, I can damn well look and see who you are.
A bunch of people in the southern US used to make mad cash of of slavery. We of the north went down, kicked some ass, and requested that they stop using slaves. They consiquently lost slaves as a mode of income. (I know it wasn't that quick or simple, but that was the eventual result.)
Just because you're doing something now that makes you money doesn't mean we as a society have a responsibility to ensure you can keep doing it to make money once it becomes uneconomic. And this is clearly about economics not art.
"Property is theft. Property is liberty. Property is impossible.
What would happen if people started posting MP3s all over the place that were legal mp3's, but were named something like "Metalica_EnterTheSandman.mp3"? Do they have a copyright or something on the name, and could force you to remove it based on that, or is it strictly content based. Because it becomes a much greater pain in the ass to go after people if you need to actually listen to each and every mp3 to verify that they are indeed infringing.
so when Daikatana is released Eidos will provide the following with every copy:
gloves, to deal with crappy tombraider inspired controls. vaseline and kleenex for that whole killcreek naked thing. A copy of Unreal Tournament to combat the pernicious boredom caused by playing Daikatana.
yes you can, you just need to bring a bigger gun. I love how people use that kind of sophistry to propogate a belief that is really rooted in their own fear. Much akin to what the DMCA is being used for. Its something to hide behind, since no one would buy into "well, the world's moving too fast for us, and the suits in our industry collectively just shit their pants."
Freedom is a state of mind, not something that can be fought for. Hail Eris. All Hail Discordia. Kallisti.
I don't know about you, but my roommate and I were having a blast MST3K-ifying it.
*mulder fires off clip at badass chick with no effect Crow - "Damn! Should have switched to the rail gun!" Tom Servo - "Who would think to take a clan named 'crack whores' seriously?"
*dude is blasted by chick with pistol* Crow - "ahhh! I knew I should have stuck with Legend of the Red Dragon!"
We're considering finding a copy of the episode, hooking up a snappy and adding captions ala the matrix parody. -Spazimodo
I live in Boston, and am kinda bummed that the open door policy is no longer. How has your popularity and status changed what you do / how you do it? Do you find it alienating at all? -Spazimodo
Roger Malina, Chairman of Leonardo/ISAST, San Francisco, announced Monday that the Association Leonardo in France was being sued for trademark infringement on use of the word "Leonardo."
Note the IN FRANCE part. By the time the lawyers, judges and what not make their way to the court room through the throngs of striking fish mongers, we'll have all long since died. -Spazimodo
The deal with that case was (IIRC) that the casino was in vegas, and she lived in CA. There is a law in place barring the collection of gambling debts across state lines. They weren't alowed to collect, but her credit went strait to/dev/null.
The problem is not the profiling: that's normal prudence.
How about the correct terms for that, stereotyping and bigotry. This profiling nonsense is no different than cabbies not picking up Blacks because they assume they'll be assaulted, or figuring all Jews are miserly bankers in league with Satan. (Only a couple of us are connected enough to earn that title.)
Another point of note. Has anyone noticed that the number of kids killed in American schools has actually gone down in the last few years? The demographics have changed however. All of a sudden white kids are getting killed and the government cares. -Spazimodo
Notes is not affected. Possibly something yucky could happen if Notes with IE is turned on in your location doc, but thats IE thats causing the problem.
I think another issue here is how come all this garbage has been added into e-mail clients? Why the hell do I need to be able to execute code in e-mail messages? When I traded messages on FidoNet, I could fully convey whatever it was I wanted to say, without being able to imbed an applet with a running animation of rush limbaugh fellating a goat or something. I think its time to evaluate e-mail, and what does and does not qualify under that heading.
January 19, 2000= 1 19 2000 1+1+9+2+0+0+0=23 23!!!!!!!!!! -Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
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With a palm VII and a pocket web server, imagine the possibilities. My pack of ninja attack Aibo's could be controlled directly off the web. Also, why not overclock one of these bad boys and play some GL Doom? Do that on palm OS! -Spazimodo -Spazimodo
Is anyone familiar with What this bad boy's gonna sit on in terms of bus architecture? Right now that's the most significant limiter to the celerity of intel boxen. Having a bigass processor is wonderful, but it can't do much without a way of pumping a large amount of data in and out of it. -Spazimodo
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Perhaps I'm missing something, but this seems a little weird. Technology as it exists has pretty much obsoleted the music distribution industry. John thinks this is good. Technology as it exists does not alow one to travel anonymously on the internet. John thinks this is bad. John thinks the music industry should just accept this change without fighting, because it is a reality. However another reality is that your anonymity is in no way protected when you use the internet. In the same way that the music industry is taking a head-in-the-sand look at mp3s and their inevitable effect on the music distribution industry, John is saying 'no, no, though you could find out someone's ip address, you shouldn't cause thats bad'. I don't get the logic. Freedom is freedom. If you can pirate music, I can damn well look and see who you are.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
New BSOD message:
This Blue Screen of Death has been brought to you by Colt Handguns. Colt, because you'll never be getting those PowerPoint presentations back!
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
"They make their money off of their music."
A bunch of people in the southern US used to make mad cash of of slavery. We of the north went down, kicked some ass, and requested that they stop using slaves. They consiquently lost slaves as a mode of income. (I know it wasn't that quick or simple, but that was the eventual result.)
Just because you're doing something now that makes you money doesn't mean we as a society have a responsibility to ensure you can keep doing it to make money once it becomes uneconomic. And this is clearly about economics not art.
"Property is theft. Property is liberty. Property is impossible.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
What would happen if people started posting MP3s all over the place that were legal mp3's, but were named something like "Metalica_EnterTheSandman.mp3"? Do they have a copyright or something on the name, and could force you to remove it based on that, or is it strictly content based. Because it becomes a much greater pain in the ass to go after people if you need to actually listen to each and every mp3 to verify that they are indeed infringing.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
wrong. here's the page:
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
so when Daikatana is released Eidos will provide the following with every copy:
gloves, to deal with crappy tombraider inspired controls.
vaseline and kleenex for that whole killcreek naked thing.
A copy of Unreal Tournament to combat the pernicious boredom caused by playing Daikatana.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
You can't enforce an unjust law on an armed man.
yes you can, you just need to bring a bigger gun. I love how people use that kind of sophistry to propogate a belief that is really rooted in their own fear. Much akin to what the DMCA is being used for. Its something to hide behind, since no one would buy into "well, the world's moving too fast for us, and the suits in our industry collectively just shit their pants."
Freedom is a state of mind, not something that can be fought for. Hail Eris. All Hail Discordia. Kallisti.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
I don't know about you, but my roommate and I were having a blast MST3K-ifying it.
*mulder fires off clip at badass chick with no effect
Crow - "Damn! Should have switched to the rail gun!"
Tom Servo - "Who would think to take a clan named 'crack whores' seriously?"
*dude is blasted by chick with pistol*
Crow - "ahhh! I knew I should have stuck with Legend of the Red Dragon!"
We're considering finding a copy of the episode, hooking up a snappy and adding captions ala the matrix parody.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
Did you go to the Power Source web site?
The contact e-mail address at the bottom is a *Hotmail* addr.
The persons involved with that site haven't come in contact with $500,000.00 in their entire exigious lives.
Wait wait! LinuxOne wouldn't lie to us...
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
Hey and if the cops shot every fifth speeder they pulled over I bet more people would obey the speed laws.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
I live in Boston, and am kinda bummed that the open door policy is no longer. How has your popularity and status changed what you do / how you do it? Do you find it alienating at all?
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
Roger Malina, Chairman of Leonardo/ISAST, San Francisco, announced Monday that the Association Leonardo in France was being sued for trademark infringement on use of the word "Leonardo."
Note the IN FRANCE part. By the time the lawyers, judges and what not make their way to the court room through the throngs of striking fish mongers, we'll have all long since died.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
It would if you'd stop moving.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
The deal with that case was (IIRC) that the casino was in vegas, and she lived in CA. There is a law in place barring the collection of gambling debts across state lines. They weren't alowed to collect, but her credit went strait to /dev/null.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
Ricki Tcl/Tk Tavi
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
The problem is not the profiling: that's normal prudence.
How about the correct terms for that, stereotyping and bigotry. This profiling nonsense is no different than cabbies not picking up Blacks because they assume they'll be assaulted, or figuring all Jews are miserly bankers in league with Satan. (Only a couple of us are connected enough to earn that title.)
Another point of note. Has anyone noticed that the number of kids killed in American schools has actually gone down in the last few years? The demographics have changed however. All of a sudden white kids are getting killed and the government cares.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
Notes is not affected. Possibly something yucky could happen if Notes with IE is turned on in your location doc, but thats IE thats causing the problem.
I think another issue here is how come all this garbage has been added into e-mail clients? Why the hell do I need to be able to execute code in e-mail messages? When I traded messages on FidoNet, I could fully convey whatever it was I wanted to say, without being able to imbed an applet with a running animation of rush limbaugh fellating a goat or something. I think its time to evaluate e-mail, and what does and does not qualify under that heading.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
January 19, 2000= 1 19 2000 1+1+9+2+0+0+0=23 23!!!!!!!!!!
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
With a palm VII and a pocket web server, imagine the possibilities. My pack of ninja attack Aibo's could be controlled directly off the web. Also, why not overclock one of these bad boys and play some GL Doom? Do that on palm OS! -Spazimodo
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
Is anyone familiar with What this bad boy's gonna sit on in terms of bus architecture? Right now that's the most significant limiter to the celerity of intel boxen. Having a bigass processor is wonderful, but it can't do much without a way of pumping a large amount of data in and out of it.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.