Re: ebook DRM doesn't prevent lost sales, it causes them
exactamundo, that one guy: my mother-in-law actually bought some ebooks PRESUMING she could lend them out to my wife and/or me, she was madder than a wet hen when she found out that -legally and practically speaking- she could not...
so, guess what ? she don't buy no mo' ebooks, just does the ones she can get from her lie bury system...
way to go ebook publishers: pissed off a big spending, normally complacent customer who refuses to buy your crippled products any more...
(of course, i don't 'buy' ANY ebooks: if it ain't free (not pirated), or on the inertnet archive, or from the lie bury, i don't get it...)
fuckin' idjits: they cut their own throats, then wonder where all the blood pooling at their feet came from...
yes, and don't forget about those damn phonebooks, talk about invasions of privacy: they list just about EVERYONE, AND their NAMES, *AND* their addresses, *AND* -get this- THEIR PHONE NUMBERS...
can you believe that shit ! ! !
c'mon kampers, i'm for protecting our privacy, but some people are only going to be satisfied until we each have our own planet that no one else knows about...
i'm a loner and a private person, but even i get that we live as a SOCIETY, not 7 billion individual amish john wayne's, dependent upon nobody else...
besides, IN GENERAL, it is the GUMMINT i am most afraid of and most determined to protect my privacy from, big corporations are a distant second, and individuals are not on my radar screen at all...
...or *ANY* hysteria: could you delicate prudes, moral scolds, and authoritarian kreepazoids please blast off to your own (fascist, boring) planet ? ? ?
this, from a 'justice' (sic) dept who had to drape THEIR OWN statues of nekkid liberty/justice in their (actually, OUR) own house ! ! !
i mean, really, does ANYTHING more need to be said about how fucked up a society we lived in that has to pull idiotic shit like that ? ? ?
and, now, one of the greatest artists IN THE HIS STORY OF THE UNIVERSE gets the 'naughty bits' of his statuary on display in yemen or abu dhabi, or camelstan, whatever the fuck, has to be removed and/or have 'modesty' drapes put over them...
i'm sorry, i just have ZERO sympathy, patience, or even have a hard time justifying such 'people' be allowed to live as human beans...
PLEASE blast off to your own crappy planet and let us semi-normal nekkid apes alone...
dog damn, i hates me some authoritarian 'do-gooders'...
weird al is easy to like for a lot of reasons, but i REALLY disagree with his approach to this...
i *understand* why he does it, but he is ultimately cutting his own throat, and the others who look to do similar take-offs and parodies...
he is -whether intentionally or not- playing *right* into the hands of the copyright maximalists; now, not only are their artificial and made up rights 'confirmed' by his payoff, but it hamstrings every one coming after him who go to do the same thing, and the copyright maximalists beat them over the head with the hammer weird al gave them voluntarily ! ! !
Re: Why is this not one of our FOUNDATIONS in America?
yes, EXCELLENT point:
ex-cons are *supposed* to have 'paid their debt to society', and yet they are stigmatized for life in a manner which almost GUARANTEES they will return (or start) a life of crime, because that is the ONLY OPTION left to them...
not to mention violating the principle of 'double jeopardy' when they punished for life *AFTER* serving their time...
frankly, this is a result of the common tactic of taking a cohort of society (sex criminals/rapists/pedos) who have little-to-no-sympathy, and making 'an example' of them by enforcing these extra-judicial punishments on 'scumbags' nobody cares about; *THEN* -since the legal principle is firmly established- applying those draconian punishments to EVERYONE...
(well, everyone excepting the 1%, natch...)
sure, *THEORETICALLY*, *just* like 'how a bill becomes law' type of lessons we've all seen since first grade are the *theoretical* construct of the process; but the ACTUAL process is 2-3 levels of deep politics us 99% are not eligible to observe...
*BUT* (and it is a big butt), can anyone tell me exactly WHERE the so-called 'executive signing statements' fit in this 'how a bill becomes law' process ? ? ?
i've been scouring my copy of the constitution for 'executive signing statements', and i'll be gosh-durned if i can find it... (nevermind *SECRET* executive signing statements)
so -in effect- the pres actually signs a bill into law (or a veto is overidden), and the pres simply busts out a secret executive signing statement that says 'NOT!', which negates the whole law...
gee, don't tell me: some president made a secret executive signing statement which authorized secret executive signing statements having the force of law...
*snicker*
chocolate jesus is all about comforting bullshit in public, then doing the deal for the kapitalist piggies in private...
it is what he has done since day one, and what he has done on nearly every issue of importance that has come along...
no divination of entrails, no clairvoyance, no complex deconstruction is necessary: ignore his pretty/petty words (like all pols) and look at what he HAS DONE...
excepting a very few social issues, he has gone king george IV one better in nearly every category...
...and yet, stupid libtard sheeple worship his every move when he is implementing a more extremist bush agenda...
you know, it *is* a good thing we elected a brother; but that is the ONLY good thing about him... the only other thing saint obomber proves, is that a black man can be just as morally bankrupt as an old, rich, white man...
from bootblack to bootlick...
i *guess* that is progress...
when you look around the stock market for the mark...
...and you don't see'em, guess what ?
it is YOU, my fine feathered sheeple...
the stock market USED to be what -in effect- kickstarter, etc is today: a means of raising capital for REAL business purposes...
now ? a rigged game for the uber-rich to milk the masses even more; and algo/millisecond trading is simply another tool to do that...
it has NOTHING to do with actually funding businesses on the stock market... when your average algo trade is held for all of 11 seconds, that has NOTHING to do with 'real' markets and 'real' money...
nope, it is ALL a means of separating the peasants from the few shekels they have left...
they think that citizens should actually control their own state ? ? ?
what kind of commie-pinko-whacko-weirdo thinking is that ? ? ?
don't they know that only oligarchs can run the state to their satisfaction ? ? ?
what next, demanding 'rights' and shit...
*snort*
almost as if these sheeple want to walk on their hind legs and pretend they are sumpin' besides cogs in the kapitalist imperialist machine...
losers...
1. zakida, generally with you on most issues...
however...
2. *most* rich pukes were once people; amazing but true ! ! !
*HOWEVER*, i know there ARE psycho/socio changes which come with being 'rich', MANY of them ungood...
the fact that there is one out of a hundred rich pukes who deign to throw us a bone is besides the point...
3. the last time i saw numbers, POOR people GAVE MORE (as a percentage of income) than rich people... just sayin'...
NOT to mention, a LOT of average types do NOT get tax write-offs for their donations like rich pukes... NOT to mention, rich pukes get tax write-offs for 'charity balls', etc, which are a TOTAL RIPOFF... they are an excuse for rich pukes to pamper themselves AND TAKE A TAX WRITE-OFF for it... *maybe* 5-10% actually goes to 'charity'... *MAYBE*...
all those charity things rich pukes do are basically scams to line their buddies pockets, get some free booze, fancy horse's ovaries (sic), and generally hobnob with their rich puke friends while congratulating themselves on how swell they are for tossing some crumbs to the hoi polloi...
...AND get a big fat write-off !
(in essence, WE 99% end up subsidizing their 'charity'...)
really, we could live a LOT better if ALL the rich pukes were used to stuff sinkholes... if a couple 'nice' ones got tossed in by mistake, well, they don't lose too much sleep over us 99% getting fucked over, i won't lost too much over a couple rich pukes being sacrificed for the good of 99%...
do NOT carry water for the rich, they hire their own people for that...
1. violent crime has been trending DOWN for quite some time...
violent hysteria is trending up, Up, UP...
you ascairt bro ? ? ?
2. kops are killed on the job LESS THAN retail clerks...
look it up at the CDC, don't take my word for it...
(firemen -TRUE heroes of society- are killed at about twice the rate as donut-eaters; cabbies are killed about 4-6 times the rate of the thin blue line of liars...)
3. the militarization of officer friendly is total bullshit: it is NOT because we are waging war against pigs, it is because the pigs -as proxies for the 1%- are waging war against us 99%...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
eof
so a person who travels airlines needs to get a degree in ticketology to protect themselves AGAINST the airlines ? ? ?
uh huh, that sounds reasonable...
IF 'we' have to go to major levels of research and education to simply buy a freaking airplane ticket at a reasonable price, then the system is obviously set up by default to rip us off...
which -in fact- pretty much describes 90% or our transactions with companies: they ARE trying to rip us off, NOT SIMPLY provide a service/good we need at a fair price, BUT ACTIVELY, CONSTANTLY, EGREGIOUSLY attempting to obfuscate and confuse us TO RIP US OFF...
1. economics, sociology, psychology (in spite of asimov's foundation), etc, are what used to be called 'soft sciences'... just sayin'...
2. here is where i trot out my over-used economist jokes:
A. If you laid all the economists in the world end-to-end, they would never reach a conclusion.
B. Teach a parrot to say 'supply and demand', and you have an economist.
3. i find economics as a subject, and economists as 'scientists' suspect for at least ONE major reason: they refuse to engage in what they dismiss as 'externalities'...
...and EVERYTHING that is important to you and me is an 'externality'...
(i realize there are numerous newer generation economists who realize this and address it, but classical economists do not...)
you only have to look at the prognostications of mainstream economists, etc, to see they are mostly wrong, most of the time... and, the reason that is, is because they are NOT scientists, but ADVOCATES for unrestrained capitalism...
there's is a job to justify the horrors of capitalist imperialism, NOT to deconstruct and criticize the system which employs them...
Re: Re: As usual, Misleading Mike reads only what fits his template.
used to like his work when i was a sci fi wonk as a kid...
now, he is just another entitled legacy-leech who wants to lockdown the world...
same with jimmy buffet, had more than a few of his albums (more or less mandatory in florida), but when he went trademark apeshit on anyone using 'his' parrotheads crap, margaritaville crap, etc, i said goombye to his muzak...
fucker, not enough he is nephew of The warren buffet, but also a former drug-smuggling drunkard and thief, *NOW* gets all pseudo-moral on people when he is being 'cheated' out of pennies BY FANS ? ? ?
fuck him, too...
"You think the NRA folks and the Occupy Wall Street folks are going to unite to fight a common enemy?"
THAT is *exactly* what The They (tm) are worried about; which is *exactly* why hot-button issues are CONTINUOUSLY foisted on us: The They (tm) WANT US divided by stupid shit, so we don't unite to string them up...
1. it is a fact that it is difficult to procure *MANY* types of ammo... was just at the local superwalmart, and the locked display cases for ammo which took up half an aisle, were empty for all but a couple of calibers...
you can't buy 22LR ammo (THE most popular/used in the world) for love nor money...
(i managed to score some from a pawn shop, so the bob-tailed rats (rabbits), and bushy-tailed rats (squirrels), have quite a surprise in store for them when they come to visit my garden... Eat Lead, rat-bastards !
protip for squirrel hunting: don't shoot into their nests, as the bodies will stay there and stink up the place... yep, i learned that the stinky way...)
2. it is also a fact that DHS *is* stockpiling ammo, and has a huge continuing contract to continue to do so...
3. it is also a fact that 'our' (sic) gummint is NOT 'ours' any longer, but the plutokrats' and korporatocracy's... guess what, 99% of us ain't either one...
4. it is also a fact that i am kreeped out by recent navy recruiting commercials (which -orwellian enough- show the navy as just being a high-tech peace corps, ain't no murderin' goin' on here, boss !); where -towards the end of the propaganda, er, commercial- the voiceover says something like 'and i will obey all commands by the duly appointed authority over me'...
say wha ? ? ?
how 'bout you swear to UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION, swabby...
fear of an increasingly fascistic Empire is NOT irrational, it is prudent...
in these sad, dark days, when you can be classified/persecuted as a terrorist for supporting some group that does humanitarian work, which you have no idea is SECRETLY deemed a terroristical organization because, well, just BECAUSE SOME POLITICO DIDN'T 'like' them, we are ALL vulnerable to being secretly renditioned by Empire...
...and KNOW THIS: that is EXACTLY what the powers-that-be want: we are ALL TERRORIZED by 'our' (sic) own gummint and (in)justice system, such that we are all rendered as neutered mice who dare not squeak, not men who walk proudly on their hind legs and FORCE 'our' (sic) gummint to do OUR BIDDING, not the korporatocracy's...
all according to the plutokrats plan...
shut up and consume, sheeple, that is ALL you are good for...
1. i was going to ask similar to what rikuo did: that utube will give far more latitude to 'big' customers than they will joe sixpack...
in fact, you may not even *realize* you get some preferential treatment if you don't -in fact- get 'real' takedown notices to the extent that a nobody would...
2. while you point out that regular individuals *could* (and possibly occasionally *do*) cause unwarranted -if not 'illegal'- trouble for your channel, i am betting it is FAR MORE the case that 'big' companies, etc are the culprits in most takedowns... (not necessarily yours)
now, to some extent, that would 'make sense', but i think the system is set up so that there is -effectively- NO RECOURSE for joe nobody versus BigCo Inc, *EVEN IF* BigCo Inc issues bogus -if not 'illegal'- takedowns...
it essentially comes down to:
BigCo Inc: did to...
(content taken down)
joe sixpack: did not...
(but content not put back up)
BigCo Inc: did to...
joe sixpack: did not, prove it...
BigCo Inc: did to, don't hafta...
(content gone forever)
*HOWEVER*, i am pretty sure that joe sixpack is FAR MORE worried -with good reason- that *THEY* will get screwed over *EVEN IF* their takedown -or response- is valid...
BigCoInc DOES NOT GIVE A SHIT whether their takedown if valid/legal or not... THERE IS -effectively- NO PENALTY IF THEY ARE WRONG...
if you are BigCoInc, what's not to like about the system that is tilted totally to your benefit ? ? ?
On the post: Tor Books UK Says Ditching DRM Showed No Increase In Piracy
Re: ebook DRM doesn't prevent lost sales, it causes them
so, guess what ? she don't buy no mo' ebooks, just does the ones she can get from her lie bury system...
way to go ebook publishers: pissed off a big spending, normally complacent customer who refuses to buy your crippled products any more...
(of course, i don't 'buy' ANY ebooks: if it ain't free (not pirated), or on the inertnet archive, or from the lie bury, i don't get it...)
fuckin' idjits: they cut their own throats, then wonder where all the blood pooling at their feet came from...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
epf
On the post: No, The UK Did Not Just Abolish Copyright, Despite What Photographers Seem To Think
Re: Privacy
can you believe that shit ! ! !
c'mon kampers, i'm for protecting our privacy, but some people are only going to be satisfied until we each have our own planet that no one else knows about...
i'm a loner and a private person, but even i get that we live as a SOCIETY, not 7 billion individual amish john wayne's, dependent upon nobody else...
besides, IN GENERAL, it is the GUMMINT i am most afraid of and most determined to protect my privacy from, big corporations are a distant second, and individuals are not on my radar screen at all...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Why Do Politicians Continue To Insist That A Magic Button Can Make Porn Disappear Online?
dog damn, i'm about sick of the pron hysteria...
this, from a 'justice' (sic) dept who had to drape THEIR OWN statues of nekkid liberty/justice in their (actually, OUR) own house ! ! !
i mean, really, does ANYTHING more need to be said about how fucked up a society we lived in that has to pull idiotic shit like that ? ? ?
and, now, one of the greatest artists IN THE HIS STORY OF THE UNIVERSE gets the 'naughty bits' of his statuary on display in yemen or abu dhabi, or camelstan, whatever the fuck, has to be removed and/or have 'modesty' drapes put over them...
i'm sorry, i just have ZERO sympathy, patience, or even have a hard time justifying such 'people' be allowed to live as human beans...
PLEASE blast off to your own crappy planet and let us semi-normal nekkid apes alone...
dog damn, i hates me some authoritarian 'do-gooders'...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Appeals Court Overturns Richard Prince Ruling In Victory For Fair Use & Appropriation Art
Re: Why do artists steal?
i *understand* why he does it, but he is ultimately cutting his own throat, and the others who look to do similar take-offs and parodies...
he is -whether intentionally or not- playing *right* into the hands of the copyright maximalists; now, not only are their artificial and made up rights 'confirmed' by his payoff, but it hamstrings every one coming after him who go to do the same thing, and the copyright maximalists beat them over the head with the hammer weird al gave them voluntarily ! ! !
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Washington State Allows Third Parties To Brand Youthful Offenders For Life At The Low, Low Price Of Only 69¢ A Record
Re: Why is this not one of our FOUNDATIONS in America?
ex-cons are *supposed* to have 'paid their debt to society', and yet they are stigmatized for life in a manner which almost GUARANTEES they will return (or start) a life of crime, because that is the ONLY OPTION left to them...
not to mention violating the principle of 'double jeopardy' when they punished for life *AFTER* serving their time...
frankly, this is a result of the common tactic of taking a cohort of society (sex criminals/rapists/pedos) who have little-to-no-sympathy, and making 'an example' of them by enforcing these extra-judicial punishments on 'scumbags' nobody cares about; *THEN* -since the legal principle is firmly established- applying those draconian punishments to EVERYONE...
(well, everyone excepting the 1%, natch...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Washington State Allows Third Parties To Brand Youthful Offenders For Life At The Low, Low Price Of Only 69¢ A Record
Re:
On the post: DOJ Helped AT&T, Others Avoid Wiretap Act, Promised Not To Charge Them If They Helped Spy On People
Re: Faithfully Execute the Law
*BUT* (and it is a big butt), can anyone tell me exactly WHERE the so-called 'executive signing statements' fit in this 'how a bill becomes law' process ? ? ?
i've been scouring my copy of the constitution for 'executive signing statements', and i'll be gosh-durned if i can find it... (nevermind *SECRET* executive signing statements)
so -in effect- the pres actually signs a bill into law (or a veto is overidden), and the pres simply busts out a secret executive signing statement that says 'NOT!', which negates the whole law...
gee, don't tell me: some president made a secret executive signing statement which authorized secret executive signing statements having the force of law...
*snicker*
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: DOJ Helped AT&T, Others Avoid Wiretap Act, Promised Not To Charge Them If They Helped Spy On People
Re: Well, there goes the veto threat
it is what he has done since day one, and what he has done on nearly every issue of importance that has come along...
no divination of entrails, no clairvoyance, no complex deconstruction is necessary: ignore his pretty/petty words (like all pols) and look at what he HAS DONE...
excepting a very few social issues, he has gone king george IV one better in nearly every category...
...and yet, stupid libtard sheeple worship his every move when he is implementing a more extremist bush agenda...
you know, it *is* a good thing we elected a brother; but that is the ONLY good thing about him... the only other thing saint obomber proves, is that a black man can be just as morally bankrupt as an old, rich, white man...
from bootblack to bootlick...
i *guess* that is progress...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Fake Tweet And Algorithmically Twitchy Financial Markets Lead To Market Swing; But Is That So Bad?
when you look around the stock market for the mark...
it is YOU, my fine feathered sheeple...
the stock market USED to be what -in effect- kickstarter, etc is today: a means of raising capital for REAL business purposes...
now ? a rigged game for the uber-rich to milk the masses even more; and algo/millisecond trading is simply another tool to do that...
it has NOTHING to do with actually funding businesses on the stock market... when your average algo trade is held for all of 11 seconds, that has NOTHING to do with 'real' markets and 'real' money...
nope, it is ALL a means of separating the peasants from the few shekels they have left...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Proactive Blackout: Finnish Websites Go Dark To Promote Copyright Reform
what is with those people...
what kind of commie-pinko-whacko-weirdo thinking is that ? ? ?
don't they know that only oligarchs can run the state to their satisfaction ? ? ?
what next, demanding 'rights' and shit...
*snort*
almost as if these sheeple want to walk on their hind legs and pretend they are sumpin' besides cogs in the kapitalist imperialist machine...
losers...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: NYC Mayor Bloomberg Thinks Boston Bombing Renders The Constitution Obsolete
Re: Re: Yet again, The Rich are the problem.
however...
2. *most* rich pukes were once people; amazing but true ! ! !
*HOWEVER*, i know there ARE psycho/socio changes which come with being 'rich', MANY of them ungood...
the fact that there is one out of a hundred rich pukes who deign to throw us a bone is besides the point...
3. the last time i saw numbers, POOR people GAVE MORE (as a percentage of income) than rich people... just sayin'...
NOT to mention, a LOT of average types do NOT get tax write-offs for their donations like rich pukes... NOT to mention, rich pukes get tax write-offs for 'charity balls', etc, which are a TOTAL RIPOFF... they are an excuse for rich pukes to pamper themselves AND TAKE A TAX WRITE-OFF for it... *maybe* 5-10% actually goes to 'charity'... *MAYBE*...
all those charity things rich pukes do are basically scams to line their buddies pockets, get some free booze, fancy horse's ovaries (sic), and generally hobnob with their rich puke friends while congratulating themselves on how swell they are for tossing some crumbs to the hoi polloi...
...AND get a big fat write-off !
(in essence, WE 99% end up subsidizing their 'charity'...)
really, we could live a LOT better if ALL the rich pukes were used to stuff sinkholes... if a couple 'nice' ones got tossed in by mistake, well, they don't lose too much sleep over us 99% getting fucked over, i won't lost too much over a couple rich pukes being sacrificed for the good of 99%...
do NOT carry water for the rich, they hire their own people for that...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: San Diego Cop Thinks You Might Have Turned Your Cell Phone Into A Gun And That 'Officer Safety' Trumps Constitutional Rights
Re: Re: Re: Cell Guns
violent hysteria is trending up, Up, UP...
you ascairt bro ? ? ?
2. kops are killed on the job LESS THAN retail clerks...
look it up at the CDC, don't take my word for it...
(firemen -TRUE heroes of society- are killed at about twice the rate as donut-eaters; cabbies are killed about 4-6 times the rate of the thin blue line of liars...)
3. the militarization of officer friendly is total bullshit: it is NOT because we are waging war against pigs, it is because the pigs -as proxies for the 1%- are waging war against us 99%...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
eof
On the post: Flight Search Engines And The Multi-City Ripoff
Re: Re: Re: Price discrimination?
so a person who travels airlines needs to get a degree in ticketology to protect themselves AGAINST the airlines ? ? ?
uh huh, that sounds reasonable...
IF 'we' have to go to major levels of research and education to simply buy a freaking airplane ticket at a reasonable price, then the system is obviously set up by default to rip us off...
which -in fact- pretty much describes 90% or our transactions with companies: they ARE trying to rip us off, NOT SIMPLY provide a service/good we need at a fair price, BUT ACTIVELY, CONSTANTLY, EGREGIOUSLY attempting to obfuscate and confuse us TO RIP US OFF...
it ain't by accident, it is done purposefully...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: 'Intellectual Bulwark' Of Austerity Economics Collapses Because Of Three Major Errors
Re: Re: "completely undermine the conclusions drawn"
On the post: 'Intellectual Bulwark' Of Austerity Economics Collapses Because Of Three Major Errors
Re: Reproducibility is fundamental
2. here is where i trot out my over-used economist jokes:
A. If you laid all the economists in the world end-to-end, they would never reach a conclusion.
B. Teach a parrot to say 'supply and demand', and you have an economist.
3. i find economics as a subject, and economists as 'scientists' suspect for at least ONE major reason: they refuse to engage in what they dismiss as 'externalities'...
...and EVERYTHING that is important to you and me is an 'externality'...
(i realize there are numerous newer generation economists who realize this and address it, but classical economists do not...)
you only have to look at the prognostications of mainstream economists, etc, to see they are mostly wrong, most of the time... and, the reason that is, is because they are NOT scientists, but ADVOCATES for unrestrained capitalism...
there's is a job to justify the horrors of capitalist imperialism, NOT to deconstruct and criticize the system which employs them...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Authors Guild Shuts Itself Off From Public Criticism, As People Realize It Represents Publishers, Not Authors
Re: Re: As usual, Misleading Mike reads only what fits his template.
now, he is just another entitled legacy-leech who wants to lockdown the world...
same with jimmy buffet, had more than a few of his albums (more or less mandatory in florida), but when he went trademark apeshit on anyone using 'his' parrotheads crap, margaritaville crap, etc, i said goombye to his muzak...
fucker, not enough he is nephew of The warren buffet, but also a former drug-smuggling drunkard and thief, *NOW* gets all pseudo-moral on people when he is being 'cheated' out of pennies BY FANS ? ? ?
fuck him, too...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Authors Guild Shuts Itself Off From Public Criticism, As People Realize It Represents Publishers, Not Authors
Re: Re: Re: OT
THAT is *exactly* what The They (tm) are worried about; which is *exactly* why hot-button issues are CONTINUOUSLY foisted on us: The They (tm) WANT US divided by stupid shit, so we don't unite to string them up...
based on a true story...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Authors Guild Shuts Itself Off From Public Criticism, As People Realize It Represents Publishers, Not Authors
Re: Re: Re: OT
you can't buy 22LR ammo (THE most popular/used in the world) for love nor money...
(i managed to score some from a pawn shop, so the bob-tailed rats (rabbits), and bushy-tailed rats (squirrels), have quite a surprise in store for them when they come to visit my garden... Eat Lead, rat-bastards !
protip for squirrel hunting: don't shoot into their nests, as the bodies will stay there and stink up the place... yep, i learned that the stinky way...)
2. it is also a fact that DHS *is* stockpiling ammo, and has a huge continuing contract to continue to do so...
3. it is also a fact that 'our' (sic) gummint is NOT 'ours' any longer, but the plutokrats' and korporatocracy's... guess what, 99% of us ain't either one...
4. it is also a fact that i am kreeped out by recent navy recruiting commercials (which -orwellian enough- show the navy as just being a high-tech peace corps, ain't no murderin' goin' on here, boss !); where -towards the end of the propaganda, er, commercial- the voiceover says something like 'and i will obey all commands by the duly appointed authority over me'...
say wha ? ? ?
how 'bout you swear to UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION, swabby...
fear of an increasingly fascistic Empire is NOT irrational, it is prudent...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Canadian Politician Removed From Provincial Assembly For Threats She Didn't Make On Facebook Group She Didn't Join
Re: Re: Orly?
in these sad, dark days, when you can be classified/persecuted as a terrorist for supporting some group that does humanitarian work, which you have no idea is SECRETLY deemed a terroristical organization because, well, just BECAUSE SOME POLITICO DIDN'T 'like' them, we are ALL vulnerable to being secretly renditioned by Empire...
...and KNOW THIS: that is EXACTLY what the powers-that-be want: we are ALL TERRORIZED by 'our' (sic) own gummint and (in)justice system, such that we are all rendered as neutered mice who dare not squeak, not men who walk proudly on their hind legs and FORCE 'our' (sic) gummint to do OUR BIDDING, not the korporatocracy's...
all according to the plutokrats plan...
shut up and consume, sheeple, that is ALL you are good for...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
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On the post: In The Long History Of Specious DMCA Claims, This Is Definitely One Of Them
Re: Re: Re:
in fact, you may not even *realize* you get some preferential treatment if you don't -in fact- get 'real' takedown notices to the extent that a nobody would...
2. while you point out that regular individuals *could* (and possibly occasionally *do*) cause unwarranted -if not 'illegal'- trouble for your channel, i am betting it is FAR MORE the case that 'big' companies, etc are the culprits in most takedowns... (not necessarily yours)
now, to some extent, that would 'make sense', but i think the system is set up so that there is -effectively- NO RECOURSE for joe nobody versus BigCo Inc, *EVEN IF* BigCo Inc issues bogus -if not 'illegal'- takedowns...
it essentially comes down to:
BigCo Inc: did to...
(content taken down)
joe sixpack: did not...
(but content not put back up)
BigCo Inc: did to...
joe sixpack: did not, prove it...
BigCo Inc: did to, don't hafta...
(content gone forever)
*HOWEVER*, i am pretty sure that joe sixpack is FAR MORE worried -with good reason- that *THEY* will get screwed over *EVEN IF* their takedown -or response- is valid...
BigCoInc DOES NOT GIVE A SHIT whether their takedown if valid/legal or not... THERE IS -effectively- NO PENALTY IF THEY ARE WRONG...
if you are BigCoInc, what's not to like about the system that is tilted totally to your benefit ? ? ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
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