The Kickstarter 'crowd' is still relatively small. As Kickstarter and other services like it become bigger and more common, the size and number of the projects they are able to fund will naturally grow as well.
I personally think such services are the future of content creation, because they can work even without copyright.
All you know is she was asked to design a logo, a fact she didn't try to hide. How you went from that to yelling "aSrotRFING!!1" like an idiot is not clear to me.
Obviously, librarians are so stupid they can't even hold political views!
Unless an anti-copyright lobbyist is involved, no librarian in the world would be clever enough to protest about something directly affecting libraries.
"After an hour of intense analysis and witty ripostes, you take a break to clean the angry spittle off the monitor. As the haze is cleared away, you notice you've used every instance of your/you're incorrectly! GRRRAARHH! [Another pause to re-clean.]. It doesn't matter. The sheer devastating intelligence of your hundreds of comments will show through, shutting up those stupid kool-aid drinkers once and for all."
The supreme court is a part of the legal system whose philosophy I really don't understand, possibly because in my youth I hadn't watched enough legal TV dramas to be familiar with its workings. :P
Specifically, on what exactly are supreme court decisions based on? To me, most of their decisions sound like pure opinion, which would make them "benevolent dictators" in a way.
GUY: "Hey, is it OK to misread the constitution/law/whatever just a tiny little bit so it now says I can own people's souls?"
COURT: "Hmm, I guess. That sort of thing is increasingly important to the government, so we'll let you go ahead with it. Yeah sure, whatever."
I'm not saying the anonymity option be removed completely, just that the drop-down list that lets you choose what comments you want to look at should give the option to ignore non-logged-in comments unless those comment have been marked insightful.
In other words, the AC option is preserved for those who don't abuse it and post truly insightful stuff, but gives me the ability not to feed the trolls who constantly post flamebait -- and the trolls we get here really like to be fed.
I wish there was an option to hide AC comments + their replies, unless they are marked insightful. If the ACs want to be taken seriously, they should at least sign up.
Tbh, I'm sick of seeing the same ACs disagree with Mike on every post just for the sake of disagreeing. I find that stalky, disrespectful and irritating, and what's even more irritating is that I often find myself compelled to reply, only to find out that they'll simply make the same BS arguments the next post. I think they're shitty debating opponents to boot, because they don't even TRY to listen to what the other person is saying.
Like I've mentioned before, the ACs probably aren't paid shills. I think they're IP lawyers who like to see friction between the pro-copyright crowd and those who want reform... so they're here to aggravate (most of them admitted to being IP lawyers when asked).
That they all showed up at around the same time could mean they also know each other, but it may be coincidence. And of course, there's always a chance they are fake personas like those from HBGary, though I still like to think that's far-fetched. ;)
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I personally think such services are the future of content creation, because they can work even without copyright.
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Unless an anti-copyright lobbyist is involved, no librarian in the world would be clever enough to protest about something directly affecting libraries.
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Because merely linking shouldn't be a crime no matter what fucked up notion of copyright you are supporting.
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"After an hour of intense analysis and witty ripostes, you take a break to clean the angry spittle off the monitor. As the haze is cleared away, you notice you've used every instance of your/you're incorrectly! GRRRAARHH! [Another pause to re-clean.]. It doesn't matter. The sheer devastating intelligence of your hundreds of comments will show through, shutting up those stupid kool-aid drinkers once and for all."
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110304/23152513372/funniestmost-insightful-comments-week -techdirt.shtml#c351
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One could sell other people's music and keep all the money. All they have to do is modify/rewrite a java app to send all the money to themselves.
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Specifically, on what exactly are supreme court decisions based on? To me, most of their decisions sound like pure opinion, which would make them "benevolent dictators" in a way.
GUY: "Hey, is it OK to misread the constitution/law/whatever just a tiny little bit so it now says I can own people's souls?"
COURT: "Hmm, I guess. That sort of thing is increasingly important to the government, so we'll let you go ahead with it. Yeah sure, whatever."
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In other words, the AC option is preserved for those who don't abuse it and post truly insightful stuff, but gives me the ability not to feed the trolls who constantly post flamebait -- and the trolls we get here really like to be fed.
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Tbh, I'm sick of seeing the same ACs disagree with Mike on every post just for the sake of disagreeing. I find that stalky, disrespectful and irritating, and what's even more irritating is that I often find myself compelled to reply, only to find out that they'll simply make the same BS arguments the next post. I think they're shitty debating opponents to boot, because they don't even TRY to listen to what the other person is saying.
Like I've mentioned before, the ACs probably aren't paid shills. I think they're IP lawyers who like to see friction between the pro-copyright crowd and those who want reform... so they're here to aggravate (most of them admitted to being IP lawyers when asked).
That they all showed up at around the same time could mean they also know each other, but it may be coincidence. And of course, there's always a chance they are fake personas like those from HBGary, though I still like to think that's far-fetched. ;)
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