Re: Re: Re: Re: You mean relying on FREE products is risky?
So you're cunning plan is to write good articles on relevant topics to lure people in, then engage them with smart people in the comments, and once that's done you dastardly make up idiots in the comments to for people to mock? Good plan, but I've only ever seen the idiots say they come here to skip the article and go straight for the comments.
Re: Re: Re: You mean relying on FREE products is risky?
I know how RSS works. I use it, though I use Thunderbird rather than Google Reader. I'll admit though that I don't know whether Google reader displayed ads, which is different. Also, RSS doesn't necessarily not come with ads. You could have the ads baked into the feed. I see that a lot. I think it's you that needs to learn what RSS is and can do.
I never compared RSS to OTA TV. I compared Google Reader to OTA TV, but I'll admit that comparison is shaky. With Google Reader you can customize it how you want. OTA TV OTOH, YMMV. HTH. HAND.
So people who give money via Kickstarter to fund a WB movie, are basically putting money into WB's pockets
Yes.
That's how it works.
You also get whatever tier's worth of stuff you paid for. Plus, you get to see a movie made that probably wouldn't have been made if you hadn't supported it. Let WB worry about whether it will be profitable. Let people who are contracted to get some percentage of profits worry about it's profitability. If you back this Kickstarter project, you get what you paid for. You're not signing up for percentages of profits, so what do you care?
Re: Re: Re: Impressed with conspicuous waste, you 1-percenter!
As of right now, the lowest tier that is sold out is $600. 50 individuals (possibly 50 groups of individuals pooling their money) are willing to spend $600 for
* A famous actress making a personalized 20 second video
* a signed movie poster
* a Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack
* a digital version of the movie
* the limited-edition T-shirt
* a pdf of the shooting script
Your point appears to be that since 50 entities spent several weeks worth of groceries for some cool stuff that obviously taxes are too low on the rich. Your point was not that taxes are too low on the rich, or that some people make too much data. If that were your point then this doesn't prove that at all. Since it doesn't prove it, that couldn't have been your point. I don't think btr1701 could possibly agree with you in principle. Firstly, you don't have any principles. Secondly, I'm sure you'd change the goal post again just like you just did.
Yeah, they should be pissed at not getting more than what was clearly spelled out that they would get. That kind of stuff pisses me off to no end. Claim I'll get X if I pay Y, and then give me X?!! Who the hell are they?! Who do they think I am?!!? I read the deal, I understood it, I willingly paid Y to get X, and they have the gall, the absolute audacity, the chutzpah, to merely give me X! I demand a resolution to this, and now!! When I pay Y to get X, I require X+more. It's only fair.
When it gets the little light bulb symbol. But that's not what is being discussed. It's that they're comments spark a discussion that can be insightful. For example, bob made some asinine comment about THE COMMONS ARE DYING and I replied (sarcastically) mentioning some famous people who lived without copyright. There was a bit of an insightful discussion there, but even if there hadn't been, just in replying to him, I did some research to know more about the history of copyrights on music publishing and found that the first monopolies on music publishing were on who could publish music (meaning copyrights went to the publisher, not the musician). Boy, not much has changed.
Whatever fanboy, didn't you listen to him? He said stop with the ad hom, fanboy. You fanboys can't seem to get it through that you're just here for the lulz. You should stop posting ad hom attacks. Your reply was vile. And ad homs should just be stopped. In fact, your reply was just a scheming to suppress his opinion, so get your ad hom out of this place.
Ooh, I want to join in on this. XBMC for me, either through the Amazon Prime plugin, the PBS Kids plugin, NASA channel plugin, etc.
Just in case: not a single one of my XBMC plugins connect to an unauthorized service. Every single one gets the videos directly off the authorized websites. For example, the PBS Kids plugin gets the videos directly from http://pbskids.org/video/
Governments lie, always have and always will. The bottom line is that he is a traitor to his country
Please do explain. It sure seems that what you're saying here is that exposing the governments specific lies is the problem. General knowledge of the fact that governments lie is OK, though.
Also, you don't seem to be all that interested in striving for a government that doesn't lie. Status quo all the way baby. Are you the kind of idiot that decried the emancipation proclamation because "black people are slaves, always have been and always will be"? Would you have thrown John Hancock under the horse carriage because "kings are our sovereigns, always have been and always will be"? Would you have called for Martin Luther's excommunication because "the Catholic church sells indulgences, always has and always will". Are you the same kind of idiot who if you had been Iraqi would be defending Saddam by saying "Governments kill citizens of their own country, always have and always will"?
I ask only because that's what you just said. It's OK for governments to lie because they always have and they always will, and anyone who exposes their lies is a traitor and should be punished to the full extent of the law, and probably even beyond that.
Hear hear. Until Copyright came out, everyone just took from the public domain which was empty because no one created.
Da Vinci? Never existed.
Shakespeare? Completely fabricated by Bram Cohen.
Homer? Another lie propogated by Big Search.
Bach, Beethoven, Handel? Pirate Bay creations from whole cloth.
I know these techdirt freetards don't like the truth, bob, but you must keep preaching truth to power. The truth will out, and someday, bob, so will you. Three cheers.
There was no mention of piracy, much less justification of it. But since techdirt won't justify it, I'll show you how it is done:
Dear Citizens of Pontiac, MI,
Disney has stolen millions of dollars from you. Like with many other loans, they still have collateral. You are now the proud owners of millions of dollars worth of Disney revenue. Take it how you see fit. That doesn't mean download. No, it means download and sell. It means feel free to stream their movies with ads surrounding it. Take ABC, ESPN and the Disney Channel off the air and then stream them from your own websites. According to the maximalists, it won't take long to recover your stolen money. You've been literally stolen from. Theft is theft. Law is the law.
See, that's how you justify piracy. You are welcome.
And then someone you share it with puts it into wider distribution (either on purpose, or perhaps puts it into the wrong folder and their p2p software of choice does it for them) and now you lose access. I can't see at all how watermarking is a bad idea at all. Nope, no way it could be used to treat paying customers like the criminal scum they are.
Can we organize a protest where all the parents from that school show up toting pastries? I would so do that if this had happened at my daughter's school.
Being a Soldier is different than being a civilian.
Correct, civilians aren't expected to defend the country. What Manning did was expose things that the US government shouldn't be doing in an attempt to defend it from worsening. Where is your hatred of the child rape parties that the US government was paying for?
While I am a strong supporter of free speech, you can not condone members of the military releasing intentionally information of this kind.
No you aren't. You pay lip-service to free speech. Real freedom of speech doesn't care whether you dress in fatigues or civvies.
He most likely will never see the light of day again, and if it was 35 years or more ago, he would have seen a firing squad.
Perhaps, and isn't that tragic. That's the whole point of this post. It's shameful that the US would do that. I hope it doesn't. I'll be happy if Manning goes free. I'll be shocked if the US does the right thing and drops the suit entirely.
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I never compared RSS to OTA TV. I compared Google Reader to OTA TV, but I'll admit that comparison is shaky. With Google Reader you can customize it how you want. OTA TV OTOH, YMMV. HTH. HAND.
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That's how it works.
You also get whatever tier's worth of stuff you paid for. Plus, you get to see a movie made that probably wouldn't have been made if you hadn't supported it. Let WB worry about whether it will be profitable. Let people who are contracted to get some percentage of profits worry about it's profitability. If you back this Kickstarter project, you get what you paid for. You're not signing up for percentages of profits, so what do you care?
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Re: Re: Re: Impressed with conspicuous waste, you 1-percenter!
* A famous actress making a personalized 20 second video
* a signed movie poster
* a Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack
* a digital version of the movie
* the limited-edition T-shirt
* a pdf of the shooting script
Your point appears to be that since 50 entities spent several weeks worth of groceries for some cool stuff that obviously taxes are too low on the rich. Your point was not that taxes are too low on the rich, or that some people make too much data. If that were your point then this doesn't prove that at all. Since it doesn't prove it, that couldn't have been your point. I don't think btr1701 could possibly agree with you in principle. Firstly, you don't have any principles. Secondly, I'm sure you'd change the goal post again just like you just did.
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Re: Impressed with conspicuous waste, you 1-percenter!
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Wait, what?
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Just in case: not a single one of my XBMC plugins connect to an unauthorized service. Every single one gets the videos directly off the authorized websites. For example, the PBS Kids plugin gets the videos directly from http://pbskids.org/video/
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Re: Re: Re: "chance to fish in a sea of secrets"
Also, you don't seem to be all that interested in striving for a government that doesn't lie. Status quo all the way baby. Are you the kind of idiot that decried the emancipation proclamation because "black people are slaves, always have been and always will be"? Would you have thrown John Hancock under the horse carriage because "kings are our sovereigns, always have been and always will be"? Would you have called for Martin Luther's excommunication because "the Catholic church sells indulgences, always has and always will". Are you the same kind of idiot who if you had been Iraqi would be defending Saddam by saying "Governments kill citizens of their own country, always have and always will"?
I ask only because that's what you just said. It's OK for governments to lie because they always have and they always will, and anyone who exposes their lies is a traitor and should be punished to the full extent of the law, and probably even beyond that.
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Re: Let's talk of the "Death of the Commons"
Da Vinci? Never existed.
Shakespeare? Completely fabricated by Bram Cohen.
Homer? Another lie propogated by Big Search.
Bach, Beethoven, Handel? Pirate Bay creations from whole cloth.
I know these techdirt freetards don't like the truth, bob, but you must keep preaching truth to power. The truth will out, and someday, bob, so will you. Three cheers.
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Dear Citizens of Pontiac, MI,
Disney has stolen millions of dollars from you. Like with many other loans, they still have collateral. You are now the proud owners of millions of dollars worth of Disney revenue. Take it how you see fit. That doesn't mean download. No, it means download and sell. It means feel free to stream their movies with ads surrounding it. Take ABC, ESPN and the Disney Channel off the air and then stream them from your own websites. According to the maximalists, it won't take long to recover your stolen money. You've been literally stolen from. Theft is theft. Law is the law.
See, that's how you justify piracy. You are welcome.
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How appropriate.
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