Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 25 Jul 2013 @ 7:21am
There's more
There's quite a bit more to this story.
After that contest was shut down, 4chan tried to get Charles into a couple other similar contests (supposedly without his prior knowledge). One of the other contests was a bit harder, in that the station was going to choose one of the top 3 winners. Well, one of the other top 3 contestants said some disparaging things about Charles, and as you can expect, his twitter account is hacked and other shennanigans occurred.
And their bots (accidentally) took down ClearChannel's website.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 23 Jul 2013 @ 12:26pm
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So you say its worth checking out?
Too bad there's no legal way to do so without going through the facemelting heat, buying an overpriced ticket, having very limited and obscenely expensive snack options, sitting through lectures and advertisements, and missing parts if I need a break for a piss, or from the uncomfortable chairs, or if someone brings their 2-year old and can't control them or politely leave the theater when they throw a tantrum.
I'd gladly pay a few bucks if I could download it and watch at my leisure at home. But since I can't... well, guess I'll torrent it.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 23 Jul 2013 @ 10:34am
Re: Not Sure That This Ranks as an Outrage
Is it standard practice to get this much information about when/where/how often the lawyers on the other side of the courtroom are communicating with their clients? And about journalists and activists not party to the suit?
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 22 Jul 2013 @ 12:27pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: look at all those republicans
I'm missing nothing, but you and the AC above you are mistakenly labeling me as some nanny-state/facist cheerleader. I think if you bothered to look at my posting history, you'd see me as anything but.
I don't want the government intruding into my private life, but I'm not so rabidly anti-government that I miss where the government can do positive things for society. How you live your life impacts others around you. Because the amount of energy you use (and waste) can raise the cost of the energy I consume, I think the government can impose reasonable restrictions on the efficiency of appliances. And because the energy you use comes mostly from coal fired power plants that spews pollutants (including slightly radioactive coal ash) into the air I breath, I think the government can impose those reasonable limits. It is up to society as a whole to debate and decide publicly what those reasonable limits are - society as a whole, not just you, not just me, not just the fan companies or the power companies, but all of us together.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 22 Jul 2013 @ 7:08am
Re: Re: look at all those republicans
For someone saying that both Dems and Repubs are 2 sides of the same coin, you seem to have taken the Republican line on the ceiling fan thing hook/line/sinker.
They're not going make the fan you have now illegal, and send some guy to rip it out of your ceiling, but what they'll do is make sure new ceiling fans that are sold are more efficient.
Fact: most ceiling fans use a horribly inefficient motor that hasn't had its overall design changed in more than 100 years.
Fact: inefficient use of energy from appliances generates waste heat, partially negating the entire purpose of a ceiling fan.
Fact: the whole energy efficiency push was started under President Bush.
Fact: the loudest Republican voice against this is our favorite representative, Marsha Blackburn from Nashville Tennessee, whose district also (totally coincidentally, I'm sure) includes the largest manufacturer of the horribly inefficient ceiling fans in the US.
Remember the push for efficiency in lightbulbs? A whole lot of whining and screaming that turned out to be nothing? Yep, and now we're better off.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 19 Jul 2013 @ 9:14am
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I think we can safely assume that drugged out psychics floating in a pool predicting murders won't happen. And cameras that can get your retina-print from many meters away aren't likely, either.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 19 Jul 2013 @ 7:21am
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I don't see the taxi-cab *companies* as an impediment to self-driving cars. Perhaps individual taxi drivers, sure, since they'll be out of work when the companies replace them with an automated vehicle that can work 24-7.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 19 Jul 2013 @ 6:54am
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Most modern "bumpers" are fiberglass and aren't distinguishable from the body of the car. They're also pretty useless in the two things that bumpers existed for - preventing damage to other things (people or cars) that you run in to, and preventing damage to the car itself in the event of a collision.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 19 Jul 2013 @ 6:46am
Re: What kind of asshole...
Here's what I never understood about Heaven and Hell. If you, as a good person, get into Heaven, yet you know that millions of people didn't and are suffering endless agonies and torments in Hell, what would you do? Rebel against God to help them? If there was nothing you could do to help them, wouldn't that torment you as well?
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 17 Jul 2013 @ 11:11pm
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Can I buy an antenna, hook it to my neighbor's roof, and connect it to his tv?
Can I charge my neighbor for the labor?
Can I retain ownership of the antenna and rent it to my neighbor?
Can I write some software that connects the antenna to a wifi router and transmits that to my neighbor's network enabled tv?
Can I do the same thing individually for each person in my community with an antenna on each of their houses? The whole city?
I've just created a service where I supplied the means and charged customers in setting up a service to rebroadcast that content many times to anyone who signed up. If you cannot point specifically to where I broke the law above, then you are arguing that the length of the connection from the antenna to the viewer changes an individual private performance to a public one.
Frankly, it's not the technology that's the most absurd part of this nonsense. It's the entire notion of a public performance that has been twisted far beyond any reasonable definition of public. But you're the one that wants copyright law to be this absurd.
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So... that's not it. Unless you can eat or retire on broken promises.
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There's more
After that contest was shut down, 4chan tried to get Charles into a couple other similar contests (supposedly without his prior knowledge). One of the other contests was a bit harder, in that the station was going to choose one of the top 3 winners. Well, one of the other top 3 contestants said some disparaging things about Charles, and as you can expect, his twitter account is hacked and other shennanigans occurred.
And their bots (accidentally) took down ClearChannel's website.
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Key escrow
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Re: Re: Not Sure That This Ranks as an Outrage
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Too bad there's no legal way to do so without going through the facemelting heat, buying an overpriced ticket, having very limited and obscenely expensive snack options, sitting through lectures and advertisements, and missing parts if I need a break for a piss, or from the uncomfortable chairs, or if someone brings their 2-year old and can't control them or politely leave the theater when they throw a tantrum.
I'd gladly pay a few bucks if I could download it and watch at my leisure at home. But since I can't... well, guess I'll torrent it.
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Re: Re: Tough call
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Re: Not Sure That This Ranks as an Outrage
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Re: Re: Re: Re: look at all those republicans
I don't want the government intruding into my private life, but I'm not so rabidly anti-government that I miss where the government can do positive things for society. How you live your life impacts others around you. Because the amount of energy you use (and waste) can raise the cost of the energy I consume, I think the government can impose reasonable restrictions on the efficiency of appliances. And because the energy you use comes mostly from coal fired power plants that spews pollutants (including slightly radioactive coal ash) into the air I breath, I think the government can impose those reasonable limits. It is up to society as a whole to debate and decide publicly what those reasonable limits are - society as a whole, not just you, not just me, not just the fan companies or the power companies, but all of us together.
On the post: Rep. Justin Amash Now Looking To Strip NSA Of Its Power To Collect Phone Data On Innocent Americans
Re: Re: look at all those republicans
They're not going make the fan you have now illegal, and send some guy to rip it out of your ceiling, but what they'll do is make sure new ceiling fans that are sold are more efficient.
Fact: most ceiling fans use a horribly inefficient motor that hasn't had its overall design changed in more than 100 years.
Fact: inefficient use of energy from appliances generates waste heat, partially negating the entire purpose of a ceiling fan.
Fact: the whole energy efficiency push was started under President Bush.
Fact: the loudest Republican voice against this is our favorite representative, Marsha Blackburn from Nashville Tennessee, whose district also (totally coincidentally, I'm sure) includes the largest manufacturer of the horribly inefficient ceiling fans in the US.
Remember the push for efficiency in lightbulbs? A whole lot of whining and screaming that turned out to be nothing? Yep, and now we're better off.
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Why would I need my own vehicle at all if there are plenty of automated cabs all over that I can easily summon from my smartphone for cheap?
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Re: Re: Massively misinterpreted
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I realize there's a social stigma attached to psychiatric counseling, and that's a horrible thing. But AJ, please go seek professional help.
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Re: What kind of asshole...
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Can I charge my neighbor for the labor?
Can I retain ownership of the antenna and rent it to my neighbor?
Can I write some software that connects the antenna to a wifi router and transmits that to my neighbor's network enabled tv?
Can I do the same thing individually for each person in my community with an antenna on each of their houses? The whole city?
I've just created a service where I supplied the means and charged customers in setting up a service to rebroadcast that content many times to anyone who signed up. If you cannot point specifically to where I broke the law above, then you are arguing that the length of the connection from the antenna to the viewer changes an individual private performance to a public one.
Frankly, it's not the technology that's the most absurd part of this nonsense. It's the entire notion of a public performance that has been twisted far beyond any reasonable definition of public. But you're the one that wants copyright law to be this absurd.
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