business types are idiots. as are the sales people selling the products.
My favorite are the tech people that would fight to keep microsoft. whether through laziness or idiocy, i have no idea. that kind of brainwashing is impossible to overcome.
i thought the movie was decent, but i think it was one of those love it or hate films.
Oh the patent BS...
Well this is retarded for two reasons:
1)It just is
2)how on earth did they violate? what the hell does geospatial mean? I see no violation here. The movie had no video frames in the capsule. just pieces of paper. So. freaking. retarded.
Please, Mr./Madam Judge, throw this out. For the children, if not for general sanity's sake.
i just wish politicians listened to Nobel prize winning scientists and not money from pharmaceutical companies and software companies.
I'm assuming I wish for too much.
what really sucks is that "normal" people don't care and musicians are going to continue to do sign with these labels!
I am sticking firm in my resolution to never buy(or even pirate) RIAA music.
There are plenty of indie bands out there that aren't tied to a huge conglomerate organization that has no care for the actual musicians or their consumers.
Most people see the data as a locked box, but the key is free speech and (in the US) covered by law. They can try to crack the encryption (like breaking into a well built safe) with a warrant, but (again, US) they cannot force you to give up the key since it is speech.
So, is there another wireless carrier in Australia without greedy restrictions? if so I would defiantly switch if I had to deal with that. Fight back, Australia!
a lot of people see us open source users/developers as misguided.
I think from a user stand point many people don't see why some of us put freedom and gratis above quick and easy.
I also had an interesting conversation with someone and his only reason for disliking linux and open source (not including firefox, which he uses) was that he had spent so much money on windows and software that he didn't think it was fair that I could get many of the things he spent lots of money on for free.
I love open source. Open Source matches up with most of my personal beliefs on how we should run our lives. I am not a big fan of large business (even open source business (I still don't trust Sun and really don't trust Oracle with OOo and VBox and Mysql and Java)), but i know it is a necessary evil. With open source, at the very least, my computer can be free(libre).
Choice and freedom is more important to me personally than quick and easy.
1)make music/art/etc
2)give all of item 1 away for free
3)???
4)profit
It is so brilliant it will have to work.
(im not trying to snipe you, I agree with much you say. I just can't see a business plan that is acceptable to all sides: the creators, the consumers, and the people who will sooner or later weasel their way in between.
I like jamendo alot for this reason. Jamendo is just a means to an end, and it doesn't hide the artist from me like a normal "label" would. Freedom to the creator and to the consumer.)
i think they should just go on and fine the Earth for making sure that the planet was livable enough for people to illegally download.
That is the true crime here.
wouldn't that mean it is in "The Cloud's" best interest to protect one of it customers? Wouldn't they be able to turn around to other clients and would be clients and say "Here, a pub owner was sued, but we came in and helped get the baseless lawsuit thrown out. Use our service and we will make sure that you are protected as well."
That seems worth an arm and a leg to me.
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
Adhering to an immoral law makes you immoral.
Nothing to do with the subject, but a great quote anyway:
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
Both come from Civil Disobedience.
Highly recommend everyone read it.
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Re: Re: PAULO COELHO ITSELF
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My favorite are the tech people that would fight to keep microsoft. whether through laziness or idiocy, i have no idea. that kind of brainwashing is impossible to overcome.
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Oh the patent BS...
Well this is retarded for two reasons:
1)It just is
2)how on earth did they violate? what the hell does geospatial mean? I see no violation here. The movie had no video frames in the capsule. just pieces of paper. So. freaking. retarded.
Please, Mr./Madam Judge, throw this out. For the children, if not for general sanity's sake.
On the post: Yet Another Nobel Prize Winner Says That Intellectual Property Is Harming Science
I'm assuming I wish for too much.
On the post: Author Sherman Alexie's Rants On Colbert Against Ebooks, Piracy And 'Open Source Culture'
On the post: Warner Music's Royalty Statements: Works Of Fiction
I am sticking firm in my resolution to never buy(or even pirate) RIAA music.
There are plenty of indie bands out there that aren't tied to a huge conglomerate organization that has no care for the actual musicians or their consumers.
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Argument fail.
On the post: Free Content Undermines Democracy?
I'm keeping a list.
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A government that rules least, rules best.
Once you trust them, then they can walk all over you.
Remember, if you wouldn't trust the people of your government individually, you shouldn't trust the government as a whole.
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On the post: That Mythical 'Information Wants To Be Free' Crowd
I do believe human knowledge should be free. Having the secrets to the world locked up to where only a select chosen can see it is wrong.
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On the post: If You're Looking For The Open Source Business Model, You're Looking For The Wrong Thing
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I seriously think people have a hard time seeing that some people don't look at the world the same way.
On the post: If You're Looking For The Open Source Business Model, You're Looking For The Wrong Thing
Re: But Humans are Altruistic, wink wink!!!!
I think from a user stand point many people don't see why some of us put freedom and gratis above quick and easy.
I also had an interesting conversation with someone and his only reason for disliking linux and open source (not including firefox, which he uses) was that he had spent so much money on windows and software that he didn't think it was fair that I could get many of the things he spent lots of money on for free.
I love open source. Open Source matches up with most of my personal beliefs on how we should run our lives. I am not a big fan of large business (even open source business (I still don't trust Sun and really don't trust Oracle with OOo and VBox and Mysql and Java)), but i know it is a necessary evil. With open source, at the very least, my computer can be free(libre).
Choice and freedom is more important to me personally than quick and easy.
On the post: If You're Looking For The Open Source Business Model, You're Looking For The Wrong Thing
Re: Re: One Trick Ponies?
i don't have any links to back that up, though.
On the post: Italian Prosecutors Assume Google Execs Read All YouTube Comments; Demands Jailtime Over Video
Re: thats why
On the post: Copyright Law Changes In India Could Gut Fair Use
Re: After Reading The Article ...
1)make music/art/etc
2)give all of item 1 away for free
3)???
4)profit
It is so brilliant it will have to work.
(im not trying to snipe you, I agree with much you say. I just can't see a business plan that is acceptable to all sides: the creators, the consumers, and the people who will sooner or later weasel their way in between.
I like jamendo alot for this reason. Jamendo is just a means to an end, and it doesn't hide the artist from me like a normal "label" would. Freedom to the creator and to the consumer.)
On the post: UK Pub Owner Fined Due To Unauthorized Downloads On Free Pub WiFi?
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That is the true crime here.
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That seems worth an arm and a leg to me.
On the post: Copyright Law Changes In India Could Gut Fair Use
David Thoreau may have been on to something
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
Adhering to an immoral law makes you immoral.
Nothing to do with the subject, but a great quote anyway:
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
Both come from Civil Disobedience.
Highly recommend everyone read it.
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