How so? Just because Hollywood abandoned him so long ago doesn't necessarily mean that he has an ax to grind (read his books, he talks all about it.) I think he chose the better route -- Hollywood isn't kind to child actors, and very few make it to be adult actors. I really recommend his books, I have both hard copy and e-book versions of his books, partly because he is an excellent writer and partly because I like supporting everything he does.
Unless this is Will Fucking Shatner, then yes, it is just called sour grapes.
Not everyone is rich and owns there own home theater room. New technology enables us to have theater like sound quality in small room but the experience of seeing it on a really large screen that covers 90% of a wide wall is pretty amazing.
A decent LCD projector is about the same cost as a LCD TV now. I bought an HD projector a couple months ago for ~$600, and with a 121" white-washed wall, it works perfectly fine. The bulbs are getting pretty good; my old projector lasted about 3K hours before the image was noticeably darker and would usually go 4K hours before the image was dark enough to be drowned out by ambient light, and it cost $130 to replace the bulb. I probably watched 3K hours worth of movies/TV in 2 years. It can take the video from my PC and display it on the wall with 1920x1080 glory. I am by no means rich, partly because I rent movies on Netflix and don't pay $20 a movie to watch them in a theater with all the distractions that entails.
David Hasselhoff isn't a musician but that hasn't stopped him from writing songs either.
If he writes songs, by definition he is a song writer. Unless he plays an instrument or sings, he can't be a musician or singer, accordingly. However, by definition, he is still an artist.
The definition does not say that they have to be professional or even good -- most song writers, musicians, singers aren't paid and may not be particularly good at what they do -- we call those people amateurs.
Proof? Bankrolled what? Who got paid? Maybe Google's interests (freedom) happen to align with everyone else's interests.
I think he is referring to the Bankroll Google is paying all of us critics of SOPA/PIPA that he keeps saying in all his deluded posts. Have you received your check yet? I am still waiting for mine.
That is has an ad-hominen does not matter, the comment is still right. Address the GIST of the argument (what is told), not it's construction. And invalid argumentation can still point to true facts.
I think the point is not that the ad hominem attack matters or not, just that the reader who reads the attack will recognize the attack as foul play, and thus discount the other parts of the argument accordingly. There is being correct, and there is being nice, and many believe that if you don't have something nice to say, you probably shouldn't stay anything at all.
Like, "appeal to authority". Since life and knowledge is limited it's only logical and all too useful to take expert statements over statements by someone not expert in a field.
Again, it isn't the argument that may be false or true, but the perception of the reader of the argument. If you say "I'm a doctor and I think LSD should be legalized," whether or not that is true or not, the fact that you have to mention you are a doctor in some way cheapens your argument. That is the appeal to authority. I know, myself and many of the folks I work with, if you say something and then have to prove your statement by saying you should know because you're an expert, most of the time we say "yeah, right!" as in we don't believe you, especially since it is pretty easy to say you are an expert in the field without providing credentials to prove it. That is what makes appeal to authority a fallacy.
Obviously he never wants to work in Hollywood again.
Well, from reading his books, it appears that Hollywood really didn't want him to work in Hollywood since he left STNG, though he has gotten geek roles on Big Bang Theory and a couple of other shows, so he is still wanted even though the majors have all but ignored him.
Sell the movie right there on the way out of the theatre.
Release the movie at the same time as it appears in the theater, as many folks have awesome theaters at home and don't have to deal with the modern distractions that current public theaters have such as noisy patrons, cell phones, laptops in the theater, parents using the theater as a child care facility, etc.
Sure, it would kill off the worst of the worst when it came to movie theaters, but the ones that actually care about their customers would do fine. Theaters could have "Rocky Night" events like some currently have where fans who dress up like the characters from the movie could get in for 2 dollars off, so that you'd fill the movie theater with those who wanted to be there instead of those who are just using it as an excuse to burn two hours.
I'd much rather cut out their hearts and stick them on pikes around Congress, but then apparently, I'm a Neanderthal.
You and me both, bro, you and me both.
At least if we could cut out the capability of them being listened to by Congress -- but I am not sure what part of the body that capability comes from.
Thus, at least in this one instance, you CAN send copyright infringement claims on material you DO NOT own.
I remember that case, though I can't remember the outcome, but had I been the artist in question I would have sued the crap out of the label for extortion -- they took down legal material in order to get a leg up on negotiations for buying the material. Dirty pool and at a very minimum, I'd ask the judge as a penalty for filing a false copyright claim in order to influence a sale that all their copyrights be null and void, or at least returned back to the artists who should rightfully own them.
Then again, if I was a struggling independent artist, I might not have the capital to go after the fatcats, but at least I'd let everyone know far and wide that they were playing some very dirty pool by keeping me from being able to support myself by blocking my music in order to negotiate sale of my music to them.
I disagree. I don't think anyone is above backing up their statements with facts and evidence.
Not sure I needed to provide evidence in my anecdote about how I used MediaFire/RapidShare to pass pictures from a game, but the game is called Eve Online, and the functionality to take pictures is built into the client, and CCP has been very clear in the fact that movies/pictures taken by their users in game are legal and may be passed around as the user sees fit. Not sure how I can prove that is the only thing I used MegaUpload/RapidShare for, but I do not have accounts on either service and uploaded the pictures anonymously, and I believe anonymous uploads have a rather small limit on file sizes.
Then again, the thread was hijacked as myself and DCX2 were talking about how we legally used the service and AC came along and didn't really offer anything to show us wrong either.
Mike, please print out "Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it" and head over to the table where the content industry is waiting for you to sit down at.
Wouldn't it just be easier for you to print that out and give it to them yourself? Seems it would cut out the middleman and make it easier for everyone else. Plus, you'd probably get through to them better since Mike is "just a piracy apologist."
Apparently, not everyone likes a free grope. Who knew?
I guess it depends on who does the groping. I tried to ask them for the beautiful blond bombshell to give me the grope, but they wanted a smelly old man to do it instead. Gotta draw the line somewhere.
I personally use it to distribute software tools and configuration files.
Used MediaFire and Rapidshare personally for passing screen shots of a video game (which allowed such screen shots by adding a screen shot capability to the software.) Only use for such cyberlockers, but it appears that this use is now not available to me any more. Too bad, since this was one of the easiest way to communicate with my teammates vital information quickly, since we could use the internal communications platform to pass links to MediaFire/RapidShare instead of giving out our personal email addresses to pass the information.
It will soon be classed as an act of sedition/extremism/terrorism to post the following, so read it while you can:
We forget it now, but at the time this was written, it was an act of sedition/extremism/terrorism. Every person involved with its creation and signing knew that they could have been arrested and put to death for treason. What is sad is that it has gone full circle that the very document instrumental in forming this nation and in setting its path forward is seen now as an act of treason.
I wish I had a patent on a device that turned spinning bodies in the grave into infinite energy, because the founding fathers would make me rich right now.
Hey! That's just what Hollywood/Congress wants you to do! Just realize that the pieces you pick up will be loaded with DRM, since they will have had time to re-engineer everything with authentication and identification technologies.
Actually, I am kinda hoping technology like CCC's satellite will make the whole system moot. Since there are already numerous treaties that outlaw governments from owning space, if the internet exists entirely within space, the only thing governments can do is outlaw connection to the internet. At that point, government control will fundamentally disappear. The internet will finally be free of the burdens of government. Putting the DNS root on a satellite, controlled by a company on the Isle of Man or Antarctica would be the ticket. We'd have to figure out how to protect the satellites during solar storms, but that is a technical problem that has technical answers, not bat-shit crazy ones that come when you deal with politicians.
Any comment from the US on how your own press is reporting on this? I know the TV News coverage has been shoddy but what about the Press and their websites?
For me, I've seen a lot of "why wikipedia is offline" reports, but they've gone out of the way to explain the controversy in their own words (underblown/overblown.) But it is nice to see that the media finally has to cover SOPA/PIPA since they've been ignoring it for so long.
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How much did you get? Just gotta plan ahead -- got bills to pay and all.
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How so? Just because Hollywood abandoned him so long ago doesn't necessarily mean that he has an ax to grind (read his books, he talks all about it.) I think he chose the better route -- Hollywood isn't kind to child actors, and very few make it to be adult actors. I really recommend his books, I have both hard copy and e-book versions of his books, partly because he is an excellent writer and partly because I like supporting everything he does.
Unless this is Will Fucking Shatner, then yes, it is just called sour grapes.
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A decent LCD projector is about the same cost as a LCD TV now. I bought an HD projector a couple months ago for ~$600, and with a 121" white-washed wall, it works perfectly fine. The bulbs are getting pretty good; my old projector lasted about 3K hours before the image was noticeably darker and would usually go 4K hours before the image was dark enough to be drowned out by ambient light, and it cost $130 to replace the bulb. I probably watched 3K hours worth of movies/TV in 2 years. It can take the video from my PC and display it on the wall with 1920x1080 glory. I am by no means rich, partly because I rent movies on Netflix and don't pay $20 a movie to watch them in a theater with all the distractions that entails.
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If he writes songs, by definition he is a song writer. Unless he plays an instrument or sings, he can't be a musician or singer, accordingly. However, by definition, he is still an artist.
The definition does not say that they have to be professional or even good -- most song writers, musicians, singers aren't paid and may not be particularly good at what they do -- we call those people amateurs.
(I am an amateur musician.)
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I think he is referring to the Bankroll Google is paying all of us critics of SOPA/PIPA that he keeps saying in all his deluded posts. Have you received your check yet? I am still waiting for mine.
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I think the point is not that the ad hominem attack matters or not, just that the reader who reads the attack will recognize the attack as foul play, and thus discount the other parts of the argument accordingly. There is being correct, and there is being nice, and many believe that if you don't have something nice to say, you probably shouldn't stay anything at all.
Like, "appeal to authority". Since life and knowledge is limited it's only logical and all too useful to take expert statements over statements by someone not expert in a field.
Again, it isn't the argument that may be false or true, but the perception of the reader of the argument. If you say "I'm a doctor and I think LSD should be legalized," whether or not that is true or not, the fact that you have to mention you are a doctor in some way cheapens your argument. That is the appeal to authority. I know, myself and many of the folks I work with, if you say something and then have to prove your statement by saying you should know because you're an expert, most of the time we say "yeah, right!" as in we don't believe you, especially since it is pretty easy to say you are an expert in the field without providing credentials to prove it. That is what makes appeal to authority a fallacy.
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Well, from reading his books, it appears that Hollywood really didn't want him to work in Hollywood since he left STNG, though he has gotten geek roles on Big Bang Theory and a couple of other shows, so he is still wanted even though the majors have all but ignored him.
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Release the movie at the same time as it appears in the theater, as many folks have awesome theaters at home and don't have to deal with the modern distractions that current public theaters have such as noisy patrons, cell phones, laptops in the theater, parents using the theater as a child care facility, etc.
Sure, it would kill off the worst of the worst when it came to movie theaters, but the ones that actually care about their customers would do fine. Theaters could have "Rocky Night" events like some currently have where fans who dress up like the characters from the movie could get in for 2 dollars off, so that you'd fill the movie theater with those who wanted to be there instead of those who are just using it as an excuse to burn two hours.
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You and me both, bro, you and me both.
At least if we could cut out the capability of them being listened to by Congress -- but I am not sure what part of the body that capability comes from.
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I remember that case, though I can't remember the outcome, but had I been the artist in question I would have sued the crap out of the label for extortion -- they took down legal material in order to get a leg up on negotiations for buying the material. Dirty pool and at a very minimum, I'd ask the judge as a penalty for filing a false copyright claim in order to influence a sale that all their copyrights be null and void, or at least returned back to the artists who should rightfully own them.
Then again, if I was a struggling independent artist, I might not have the capital to go after the fatcats, but at least I'd let everyone know far and wide that they were playing some very dirty pool by keeping me from being able to support myself by blocking my music in order to negotiate sale of my music to them.
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Not sure I needed to provide evidence in my anecdote about how I used MediaFire/RapidShare to pass pictures from a game, but the game is called Eve Online, and the functionality to take pictures is built into the client, and CCP has been very clear in the fact that movies/pictures taken by their users in game are legal and may be passed around as the user sees fit. Not sure how I can prove that is the only thing I used MegaUpload/RapidShare for, but I do not have accounts on either service and uploaded the pictures anonymously, and I believe anonymous uploads have a rather small limit on file sizes.
Then again, the thread was hijacked as myself and DCX2 were talking about how we legally used the service and AC came along and didn't really offer anything to show us wrong either.
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Wouldn't it just be easier for you to print that out and give it to them yourself? Seems it would cut out the middleman and make it easier for everyone else. Plus, you'd probably get through to them better since Mike is "just a piracy apologist."
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I guess it depends on who does the groping. I tried to ask them for the beautiful blond bombshell to give me the grope, but they wanted a smelly old man to do it instead. Gotta draw the line somewhere.
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Used MediaFire and Rapidshare personally for passing screen shots of a video game (which allowed such screen shots by adding a screen shot capability to the software.) Only use for such cyberlockers, but it appears that this use is now not available to me any more. Too bad, since this was one of the easiest way to communicate with my teammates vital information quickly, since we could use the internal communications platform to pass links to MediaFire/RapidShare instead of giving out our personal email addresses to pass the information.
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Or kidnaps himself. But I'd take Zaphod Bebblebrox over what we have now any day. He is, just this guy, you know?
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We forget it now, but at the time this was written, it was an act of sedition/extremism/terrorism. Every person involved with its creation and signing knew that they could have been arrested and put to death for treason. What is sad is that it has gone full circle that the very document instrumental in forming this nation and in setting its path forward is seen now as an act of treason.
I wish I had a patent on a device that turned spinning bodies in the grave into infinite energy, because the founding fathers would make me rich right now.
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Actually, I am kinda hoping technology like CCC's satellite will make the whole system moot. Since there are already numerous treaties that outlaw governments from owning space, if the internet exists entirely within space, the only thing governments can do is outlaw connection to the internet. At that point, government control will fundamentally disappear. The internet will finally be free of the burdens of government. Putting the DNS root on a satellite, controlled by a company on the Isle of Man or Antarctica would be the ticket. We'd have to figure out how to protect the satellites during solar storms, but that is a technical problem that has technical answers, not bat-shit crazy ones that come when you deal with politicians.
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How do chicken heads taste?
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Haven't seen him in a long time. I believe he gave up on comedy (and his brain) when he was elected.
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For me, I've seen a lot of "why wikipedia is offline" reports, but they've gone out of the way to explain the controversy in their own words (underblown/overblown.) But it is nice to see that the media finally has to cover SOPA/PIPA since they've been ignoring it for so long.
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