Re: Marketing isn't just getting money from customers.
yes, we WANT to be loyal customers for a 'thing'/'stuff' we like; it is just nearly IMPOSSIBLE to find ANY kind of fictitious legal entity (otherwise known as korporate-peoples) who produces ANYTHING -good or service- which inspires anything but disdain and revulsion on many levels...
telephone service sucks, can't talk to people at the company...
internet service sucks, and the isp doesn't care...
service at the restaurant sucks, and they don't care...
get fucked over by EVERY company you give money to for crap they won't fix...
WHY is it we're supposed to be happy-joy-joy konsumers again ? ? ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
why not?
are only corrupt superpowers 'allowed' to enrich uranium and/or make atomic weapons ?
the question *SHOULD* be (in a sane world... i know, i know):
why is the only country who has (unnecessarily) used nukes to murder hundreds of thousands of human beans allowed to keep said weapons ? ? ?
(the answer: *because* we are the only country to murder hundreds of thousands with nukes...)
that's some catch, that catch-22...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
PEDANT ALERT!!!
"tinker's dam"
(tinker being an itinerant metal smith who went house-to-house to repair pots/pans; the 'dam' was a method of keeping solder in an area being repaired; the dam commonly of clay, i believe: thus 'not worth a tinker's dam' meaning a used bit of clay that was scraped off after the soldering was done, ie worthless)
/pedant off/
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
1. how to destroy the HAM, CB, walkie-talkie, radio communities ? ? ?
(they must be infringin' or sumpin'! ! !)
2. um, don't 'emergency responders' already have these new-fangled wireless-radio thingies ? ? ? *what* is wrong with them ?
3. again, as many posters have pointed out: 90% of the 'disasters' we have are where the power goes out (kinda what makes a disaster a disaster); what will this do ?
am i supposed to hook up my little hand-cranked generator radio to power my router ?
4. further, as others have said, don't trust either the gummint (or their overpaid subcontractors) to 'do this right', and only think they will make my system LESS secure, and MORE vulnerable...
DO.NOT.TRUST.THE.BASTARDS.
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
not strictly apropos of this subject, but applies to a *lot* of the topics, and especially to certain copyright maximalists and their comments:
legal does NOT equal moral
...
classe, ecoute et repeate: (sp?)
LEGAL DOES NOT EQUAL MORAL
...
MANY of their 'arguments' for maximum copyright 'enforcement', are predicated on using laws they have bought to justify the immoral acts they take...
okay, the MAFIAA got a law passed which benefits the 1% and screws over the 99%; i realize it is 'the law', BUT IS IT MORAL ? ? ?
okay, a starving artist signed an onerous contract within a pre-existing rapacious system of agents, producers, labels, etc, where they have little choice; it may be 'legal' for the gatekeepers to screw over the artists, BUT IS IT MORAL ? ? ?
i realize in these endtimes for small dee democracy, that it is all but archaic to consider things such as morals, ethics, and fairness, when a dollar remains to be stolen from some kid somewhere; but i'm thinking this total 'de-regulation' of morals in this super-duper, ultra-moderne, most civlizedest society EVAH, has led us down a path that ain't so nice...
can we stop our headlong race to oblivion ? ? ?
not without morals we ain't...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
1. i use chrome/gmail/Big Search...
Done in one...
1. all my credit cards/banks/etc prob use some DB or another by oracle...
Done in one...
guilty! guilty! guilty!
hee hee hee
ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
Re: To be on Google's short list probably is noteworthy
...or, since it appears the googs is indeed becoming evil (*sigh* its inevitable of ANY and ALL large, secretive institutions), it is not crazy-talk to wonder if those selected for this dubious distinction were media folk goo-goo-goggles wants to discredit as shills...
you just can't be too paranoid these days...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
gee, not to restate the obvious: he's fucking DEAD, *LOGICALLY* (realizing that both the law and contemporary society have as little to do with 'logic' as possible) *HOW* does a DEAD person have ANY 'publicity rights' (ignoring the idiocy of such a concept in the first place) ? ? ?
...further, WHY -again, LOGICALLY speaking- does ANOTHER party 'inherit' ANYONE's 'publicity rights', its fucking insane...
now, if you say 'well, that's the law'; then you've outed yourself as an abject authoritarian...
but you appear to be defending both the concept in general, and the law in particular...
that is why i think of you as a dick...
you may publicize that all you wish...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
and *WHY* is the post office struggling ? ? ?
hmmm ?
well, a number of reasons, *but* it most assuredly includes that the post office is only quasi-private, and part of that quasi includes kongresskritters who have legislative power over it are requiring them -unlike any other business, period- to be 100% vested in ALL future pension payouts...
*that* is why...
an onerous requirement by OUTSIDERS (kongresskritters) to insure that the post office FAILS...
they are eliminating, crippling, or de-funding ANY gummint institution which actually works on behalf of the people...
*that* is why...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
think of it this way:
you can teach the rugrats a valuable life-lesson in self-censorship; its the amerikan way, after all !
a couple inches of black electrical tape over the offensive words (sic), and you can prepare the li'l babbits for a life of degradation, humiliation, and abject helplessness that is our lot...
good luck ! ! !
hee hee hee
ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
(...or, maybe, i don't know, teach an infinitely more valuable life-lesson in using one's own judgment, appropriate behavior in different contexts, and how silly -you know- *some* people (not us!) are about 'bad' words...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
yes, adblock, ghostery, and noscript are your friends...
use them, and your surfing life is *MUCH* more enjoyable, kampers...
(even setting aside the security/privacy issues...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
1. i concur, current comment system is relatively good...
- (excepting not allowing a carriage return for better formatting)
2. even more important, is the patience and good judgment exercised by techdirt in allowing virtually any/all comments...
-
not many websites actually practice acceptable versions of free speech... (too messy for most stoopid sheeple)
-
3. i also find a lot of merit in slashdot's commenting system where posts are modded up/down/hidden/shown by the community's judgment; *generally* works out well...
-
4. the one thing about virtually ALL comment systems i find unfortunate, is that even good/active threads with an interesting debate going, get scrolled down to invisibility...
often times tough to even track down 'old' articles/threads ('old' meaning a day or two) where there is still active debate going on...
-
5. similarly, i oftentimes would like the commenting community (the commentard?) to vote on or otherwise designate a debater who would be 'given the stage' with their adversary, and let them go at it in a more cohesive manner, rather than disparate posts/replies being randomly scattered about...
(unfortunately, i don't believe most of our adversaries would participate: hit-and-run works for them, why will they engage on a topic they will probably get their bad logic and bad morals exposed ?)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
a-ma-teurs ? ? ?
what is that ? is that an archaic term or sumpin'?
here's a factoid that i bet bob costas didn't throw out in his interminable, boring, olympic-sized trivia fest:
did you know that the USOC pays US olympic medal winners ? ? ? (some other countries do too...)
i didn't, until i just ran across an article talking about it a month or so ago...
since 1984 they have paid out for medals, these days the rate is:
25 000 for a gold
15 000 for a silver
10 000 for a bronze...
funny, NO ONE i talked to who follows the oilympics knew of that minor factoid...
huh, wonder why...
you'd think in cha-ching-obsessed 'murika that would be a little more publicized...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
1. ?que? so you are saying uber would be *better* than normal cabs 'cause it would display the most direct route ?
okay, another plus for them (according to you)
*BUT* so what it shows a route (assuming it was even visible to the passenger), is it 'the law' the cabbie *must* follow that route ? they can't deviate for ANY reason (whether to 'cheat' the passenger or not) ?
i don't think so...
i'm betting there is some sort of 'law' that regular, metered cabs must/should/shall follow the most expeditious route, blah blah blah; but does *that* keep cabbies from doing otherwise ?
i seriously doubt it...
2. um, huh ? i can't parse whatever you are trying to say here, but i don't think it negates my point that GPS will be 'off' both to the 'good' and to the 'bad'...
if its 'inaccurate', that cuts both ways...
3. no, it is *not* besides the point that laws are PRIMARILY made to do the bidding of business, NOT protect consumers...
many -if not most- 'consumer protection' laws are actually 'limiting korporate liability' laws...
jiminy crickets, LOOK at how the world works: i don't care WHAT politicians/leaders *SAY*, the net result is that korporations are protected, and consumers are screwed...
THAT is the way of the world in this upside-down society...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Piracy Is A Cultural Opportunity; Embrace It
Re: Marketing isn't just getting money from customers.
telephone service sucks, can't talk to people at the company...
internet service sucks, and the isp doesn't care...
service at the restaurant sucks, and they don't care...
get fucked over by EVERY company you give money to for crap they won't fix...
WHY is it we're supposed to be happy-joy-joy konsumers again ? ? ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Blizzard Blocking Iranian WoW Players Due To US Sanctions
Re: Re: Cuba?
are only corrupt superpowers 'allowed' to enrich uranium and/or make atomic weapons ?
the question *SHOULD* be (in a sane world... i know, i know):
why is the only country who has (unnecessarily) used nukes to murder hundreds of thousands of human beans allowed to keep said weapons ? ? ?
(the answer: *because* we are the only country to murder hundreds of thousands with nukes...)
that's some catch, that catch-22...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: We Ask The Supreme Court To Clarify If It's Legal For Virginia To Bar Techdirt From Filing Freedom Of Information Requests
Re: Seems like you could...
work the system...
that is one way, but the better way would be to fix the broken system...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: United Airlines Massive Computer Crash Leads To Handwritten Boarding Passes
Re:
IBM
UBM
we all BM
for IBM
(updated version?:
I B Soft
U B soft
we all B soft
for microsoft ?)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: The TSA's Infamous 'Behavior Detection' In Action: Mandatory 'Chats' About Every Detail Of Your Trip
b-bu-but...
that's the *only* 'reason' they need...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: The Aftershock Of Stupidity: Lendink Reopens Only To Receive Trolling DMCA Notices
Re: In 3...2...1
(or *possibly* 'queue', but that is a stretch...)
no thanks necessary...
hee hee hee
ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Major Labels Claim Copyright Over Public Domain Songs; YouTube Punishes Musician
Re:
"tinker's dam"
(tinker being an itinerant metal smith who went house-to-house to repair pots/pans; the 'dam' was a method of keeping solder in an area being repaired; the dam commonly of clay, i believe: thus 'not worth a tinker's dam' meaning a used bit of clay that was scraped off after the soldering was done, ie worthless)
/pedant off/
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Paper Suggests Letting The Government Use Your Router In An Emergency
Re:
(they must be infringin' or sumpin'! ! !)
2. um, don't 'emergency responders' already have these new-fangled wireless-radio thingies ? ? ? *what* is wrong with them ?
3. again, as many posters have pointed out: 90% of the 'disasters' we have are where the power goes out (kinda what makes a disaster a disaster); what will this do ?
am i supposed to hook up my little hand-cranked generator radio to power my router ?
4. further, as others have said, don't trust either the gummint (or their overpaid subcontractors) to 'do this right', and only think they will make my system LESS secure, and MORE vulnerable...
DO.NOT.TRUST.THE.BASTARDS.
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Game Developer Refuses Publishing Offer; Realizes It's Better To Stay Independent
i'll just leave this here...
legal does NOT equal moral
...
classe, ecoute et repeate: (sp?)
LEGAL DOES NOT EQUAL MORAL
...
MANY of their 'arguments' for maximum copyright 'enforcement', are predicated on using laws they have bought to justify the immoral acts they take...
okay, the MAFIAA got a law passed which benefits the 1% and screws over the 99%; i realize it is 'the law', BUT IS IT MORAL ? ? ?
okay, a starving artist signed an onerous contract within a pre-existing rapacious system of agents, producers, labels, etc, where they have little choice; it may be 'legal' for the gatekeepers to screw over the artists, BUT IS IT MORAL ? ? ?
i realize in these endtimes for small dee democracy, that it is all but archaic to consider things such as morals, ethics, and fairness, when a dollar remains to be stolen from some kid somewhere; but i'm thinking this total 'de-regulation' of morals in this super-duper, ultra-moderne, most civlizedest society EVAH, has led us down a path that ain't so nice...
can we stop our headlong race to oblivion ? ? ?
not without morals we ain't...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Apparently I'm A Google Shill And I Didn't Even Know It
Re: Gene Poole
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Apparently I'm A Google Shill And I Didn't Even Know It
Re: Oracle of Google
Done in one...
1. all my credit cards/banks/etc prob use some DB or another by oracle...
Done in one...
guilty! guilty! guilty!
hee hee hee
ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Apparently I'm A Google Shill And I Didn't Even Know It
Re: To be on Google's short list probably is noteworthy
you just can't be too paranoid these days...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Rep. Nadler Proposes The RIAA Bailout Act Of 2012
(waving hand excitedly) oh, i know, i know ! ! !
um, motherfucking eagle ! ? ! ? ! ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Wilt Chamberlain's Family Tries To Block Film About His College Years, Claiming 'Publicity Rights'
Re: Re: Re: Incorrect
...further, WHY -again, LOGICALLY speaking- does ANOTHER party 'inherit' ANYONE's 'publicity rights', its fucking insane...
now, if you say 'well, that's the law'; then you've outed yourself as an abject authoritarian...
but you appear to be defending both the concept in general, and the law in particular...
that is why i think of you as a dick...
you may publicize that all you wish...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Perhaps The Dumbest Idea We've Heard Yet: Nationalize Facebook
Re: Re: Re: Re: Knock 3 times
hmmm ?
well, a number of reasons, *but* it most assuredly includes that the post office is only quasi-private, and part of that quasi includes kongresskritters who have legislative power over it are requiring them -unlike any other business, period- to be 100% vested in ALL future pension payouts...
*that* is why...
an onerous requirement by OUTSIDERS (kongresskritters) to insure that the post office FAILS...
they are eliminating, crippling, or de-funding ANY gummint institution which actually works on behalf of the people...
*that* is why...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: This T-Shirt Has Been Seized
Re: Kind of Like the Shirt
you can teach the rugrats a valuable life-lesson in self-censorship; its the amerikan way, after all !
a couple inches of black electrical tape over the offensive words (sic), and you can prepare the li'l babbits for a life of degradation, humiliation, and abject helplessness that is our lot...
good luck ! ! !
hee hee hee
ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
(...or, maybe, i don't know, teach an infinitely more valuable life-lesson in using one's own judgment, appropriate behavior in different contexts, and how silly -you know- *some* people (not us!) are about 'bad' words...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Why Targeted Online Political Ads Can Be Dangerous To A Campaign
Re:
use them, and your surfing life is *MUCH* more enjoyable, kampers...
(even setting aside the security/privacy issues...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: First Word, Last Word And Letting Our Biggest Fans Help Shape The Conversation In Our Comments
Re:
- (excepting not allowing a carriage return for better formatting)
2. even more important, is the patience and good judgment exercised by techdirt in allowing virtually any/all comments...
-
not many websites actually practice acceptable versions of free speech... (too messy for most stoopid sheeple)
-
3. i also find a lot of merit in slashdot's commenting system where posts are modded up/down/hidden/shown by the community's judgment; *generally* works out well...
-
4. the one thing about virtually ALL comment systems i find unfortunate, is that even good/active threads with an interesting debate going, get scrolled down to invisibility...
often times tough to even track down 'old' articles/threads ('old' meaning a day or two) where there is still active debate going on...
-
5. similarly, i oftentimes would like the commenting community (the commentard?) to vote on or otherwise designate a debater who would be 'given the stage' with their adversary, and let them go at it in a more cohesive manner, rather than disparate posts/replies being randomly scattered about...
(unfortunately, i don't believe most of our adversaries would participate: hit-and-run works for them, why will they engage on a topic they will probably get their bad logic and bad morals exposed ?)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: US Women's Gymnastics Team Decides Self-Chosen Nickname 'Fierce Five' Needs Trademark Protection
Re: Re:
what is that ? is that an archaic term or sumpin'?
here's a factoid that i bet bob costas didn't throw out in his interminable, boring, olympic-sized trivia fest:
did you know that the USOC pays US olympic medal winners ? ? ? (some other countries do too...)
i didn't, until i just ran across an article talking about it a month or so ago...
since 1984 they have paid out for medals, these days the rate is:
25 000 for a gold
15 000 for a silver
10 000 for a bronze...
funny, NO ONE i talked to who follows the oilympics knew of that minor factoid...
huh, wonder why...
you'd think in cha-ching-obsessed 'murika that would be a little more publicized...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Boston Shuts Down Uber Because Massachusetts Doesn't Approve Of The GPS
Re: Re: Re: Hold on a sec, this is rational
okay, another plus for them (according to you)
*BUT* so what it shows a route (assuming it was even visible to the passenger), is it 'the law' the cabbie *must* follow that route ? they can't deviate for ANY reason (whether to 'cheat' the passenger or not) ?
i don't think so...
i'm betting there is some sort of 'law' that regular, metered cabs must/should/shall follow the most expeditious route, blah blah blah; but does *that* keep cabbies from doing otherwise ?
i seriously doubt it...
2. um, huh ? i can't parse whatever you are trying to say here, but i don't think it negates my point that GPS will be 'off' both to the 'good' and to the 'bad'...
if its 'inaccurate', that cuts both ways...
3. no, it is *not* besides the point that laws are PRIMARILY made to do the bidding of business, NOT protect consumers...
many -if not most- 'consumer protection' laws are actually 'limiting korporate liability' laws...
jiminy crickets, LOOK at how the world works: i don't care WHAT politicians/leaders *SAY*, the net result is that korporations are protected, and consumers are screwed...
THAT is the way of the world in this upside-down society...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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