Re: Re: ASCAP Asks FCC To Block Pandora From Buying Radio Station, Because ASCAP Doesn't Like Pandora
How many times do you guys want to fall for this "TD censorship bawk bawk" shit, ffs?
Report and move on, nothing new to discuss for the hundredth time..
I gave you an insightful, because imho this is a real problem on TD, but few seem to care. Mike and TD staff did not even respond to most of my suggestions regarding this.
It's disappointing when there's a hot topic, and I check out the comment section and shillpuke and trollshit everywhere. Kills the mood to make any comment or read through the cesspool they generated.
I'm starting to flag pointless responses to the trolls too, so maybe they're collapsed.
This is effective until they get your authenticator's id or serial or whatever it uses to generate the jump codes, and since it is stored at the company that just gave out your password...
Or maybe, just maybe your biology teacher oversimplified things.
One of the principles of science is that you admit if you don't understand something, and then try to find an answer, not fabricate one and then Believe it.
Re: Eli Lilly is pissed because it doesn't own Canadian govermnent
We're getting alarmingly close to a world described in Shadowrun, where corporations are extra territorial, have their own laws and own every government in the world.
Re: Re: (Sigh.) You've NEVER "owned" someone else's intellectual property.
IMHO Intellectual Property is an artificial thing.
Let's take an example:
You see/buy a piece of furniture. Someone had it, now you own it, and you can do what you will with it.
Yes, that's include copying it, selling it (even for profit), renting it etc.
A table is not considered IP (you could argue that the design is, but fuck you), so people see no problem with replicating it.
Then we came to this: music, movies, other intangible things are became so easily reproductible, that their creators whined until an artificial thing called "IP" created. Which is basically says you own the idea behind a tangible product, and others can't "take it away" without your consent. Which is ridiculous.
Imagine the following:
You craft a table, with your specific design. Your neighbor sees it, and he craft his own table, which is similar to yours. Is that bad, illegal or frowned upon? No, because he used his own materials, did the hard work of creating it. He practically used "your idea", but did the replication himself.
Now substitute "table" with a plastic disk and "design" with music, and see how our world upturns.
Owning ideas is BS. If you can't do something useful and profitable with your idea, then don't whine when others do.
The content industry's problem is that they still think replicating something and selling it is what should be profitable.
If you could copy a furniture with 2 clicks of a mouse, every carpenter would starve, or would have to adapt to the new tech, because replication would not be profitable anymore. Creating custom furniture (As a software developer, I don't give a damn about someone copying our product. The real value is the service we provide to our customer: new features they ask for). Providing easy access and support for furniture. Whatever you want. (and honestly, it's not OUR job to find out how YOU will profit from your work. Nobody is entitled to profit just because he did something.)
Authoritarianism:
Authoritarianism ... regimes as political systems characterized by four qualities: (1) "limited, not responsible, political pluralism"; that is, constraints on political institutions and groups (such as legislatures, political parties, and interest groups),
Secret laws, agencies ignoring/"reinterpreting" the law. check.
(2) a basis for legitimacy based on emotion, especially the identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat "easily recognizable societal problems" such as underdevelopment or insurgency;
FOR DA CHILDREN! BUTBUTBUTERRORISTS! check.
(3) neither "intensive nor extensive political mobilization" and constraints on the mass public (such as repressive tactics against opponents and a prohibition of antiregime activity) and
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As for horny teenagers, well.. better watch it than do it (with someone else), right?
Kids? Watch for your f**** kids yourselves! Parenting require devotion and attention. Don't blame others for you being a lousy parent.
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Re: Re: ASCAP Asks FCC To Block Pandora From Buying Radio Station, Because ASCAP Doesn't Like Pandora
Report and move on, nothing new to discuss for the hundredth time..
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Re: Astroturfers / shills can be effective
It's disappointing when there's a hot topic, and I check out the comment section and shillpuke and trollshit everywhere. Kills the mood to make any comment or read through the cesspool they generated.
I'm starting to flag pointless responses to the trolls too, so maybe they're collapsed.
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One of the principles of science is that you admit if you don't understand something, and then try to find an answer, not fabricate one and then Believe it.
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Re: Eli Lilly is pissed because it doesn't own Canadian govermnent
Now, if only magic could return... :D
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Re: Re: (Sigh.) You've NEVER "owned" someone else's intellectual property.
Let's take an example:
You see/buy a piece of furniture. Someone had it, now you own it, and you can do what you will with it.
Yes, that's include copying it, selling it (even for profit), renting it etc.
A table is not considered IP (you could argue that the design is, but fuck you), so people see no problem with replicating it.
Then we came to this: music, movies, other intangible things are became so easily reproductible, that their creators whined until an artificial thing called "IP" created. Which is basically says you own the idea behind a tangible product, and others can't "take it away" without your consent. Which is ridiculous.
Imagine the following:
You craft a table, with your specific design. Your neighbor sees it, and he craft his own table, which is similar to yours. Is that bad, illegal or frowned upon? No, because he used his own materials, did the hard work of creating it. He practically used "your idea", but did the replication himself.
Now substitute "table" with a plastic disk and "design" with music, and see how our world upturns.
Owning ideas is BS. If you can't do something useful and profitable with your idea, then don't whine when others do.
The content industry's problem is that they still think replicating something and selling it is what should be profitable.
If you could copy a furniture with 2 clicks of a mouse, every carpenter would starve, or would have to adapt to the new tech, because replication would not be profitable anymore. Creating custom furniture (As a software developer, I don't give a damn about someone copying our product. The real value is the service we provide to our customer: new features they ask for). Providing easy access and support for furniture. Whatever you want. (and honestly, it's not OUR job to find out how YOU will profit from your work. Nobody is entitled to profit just because he did something.)
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Re: how to prevent another 9/11
On the post: Former Top NSA Lawyer Blames Civil Libertarians For 9/11, Says Hype About NSA May Lead To A Repeat
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Authoritarianism ... regimes as political systems characterized by four qualities:
(1) "limited, not responsible, political pluralism"; that is, constraints on political institutions and groups (such as legislatures, political parties, and interest groups),
Secret laws, agencies ignoring/"reinterpreting" the law. check.
(2) a basis for legitimacy based on emotion, especially the identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat "easily recognizable societal problems" such as underdevelopment or insurgency;
FOR DA CHILDREN! BUTBUTBUTERRORISTS! check.
(3) neither "intensive nor extensive political mobilization" and constraints on the mass public (such as repressive tactics against opponents and a prohibition of antiregime activity) and
2 party system, secret prisons, Manning, Snowden etc, govt. mouthpiece media. check.
(4) "formally ill-defined" executive power, often shifting or vague.[2]
CFAA. PATRIOT. CISPA. check.
This is the government Baker defend so vigorously. In the name of 2. we must strengthen 1 and 4, and ignore the acts of 3.
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Re: We're right
The more they use it as a boogeyman, the more I think it was the us government's doing to create a boogeyman.
/take off tinfoil hat
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They bark, but will they bite?
It's quite a chance to gain popularity by being pro-human rights, and more and more politicians seem to realize that.
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