headkase’s Comments

• Apr 1st, 2016 @ 5:59pm

  (untitled comment)

  on DailyDirt: There's So Much We Don't Know About Life...
  The main mistake people make about "life" is that they think it is an attribute - that there is a "life particle." That is incorrect, the true way to look at life is that it is a process. An orderly decay of energy states.
• Apr 2nd, 2010 @ 11:19am

  Control?

  on Commerce Dept. Supports RIAA Bailout Radio Tax
  I think it is much more difficult to control a distributed mass of web-broadcasters and that is what shifted the balance to making them pay-to-play. When you can't move the payola around effectively to promote where your profits will come from there is no benefit to the "promotion" argument. The lack of control and therefore requirement to pay for web-casters accidently came back to bite radio broadcasters to maintain the illusion of being "fair." Of course, taken with a grain of salt ;)
• Dec 30th, 2009 @ 9:35pm

  In the head...

  on Post TSA's New Security Rules And Get A Visit And Subpoena From Homeland Security
  Think they may be suffering symptoms of: The Stanford Prison Experiment? Here are some: Videos. Basically give 'em power and they get stupid and abuse it. Same pattern happens all over, as in Iraq and Abu Ghraib. So, I guess they need to be spanked by a grown-up.
• Dec 28th, 2009 @ 12:36pm

  Re: Re: Walt Disney plagiarized from the public domain?

  on Elementary My Dear Watson....It's Called The Public Domain... Or Is It?
  It's called "plagiarized" in this context because Disney took the idea, locked it up (which is ok for a limited time) but then abused copyright law to keep his additions from ever returning to the public domain. Effectively "stealing" it.
• Dec 24th, 2009 @ 7:56pm

  Protect the artists...

  on Elementary My Dear Watson....It's Called The Public Domain... Or Is It?
  Melancholy Elephants illuminates the situations surrounding copyrights. To protect all artists, you must disadvantage some. Those some rarely see the logic.