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About Aaron Wolf
I'm a musician, teacher, and advocate for Free Software, Free Culture, Open Science, etc. I'm currently founding a new crowdfunding system specifically for Free/Libre/Open works. We will be dedicated to long-term support rather than one-off fund drives.
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Re: forcing politics
It seems far more likely to me that the anti-230 folks are just ignorantly grasping at the idea of regulation.
They may have their political views, but they are not so thoughtful about forcing their politics and hiding their actions etc. Rather, they just want magic. It's like that classic YouTube skit about "the expert".
The anti-230 folks are just non-experts asking the experts to do magic.
/div>"viewed 1.9 million times more"???
Bad grammar changes additive to multiplicative, w00t/div>
He's bad here, but the 10,000 hours thing, well…
But the 10,000 hours thing he gets right — because he DOESN'T claim the stuff this article claims. Just check out http://freakonomics.com/podcast/malcolm-gladwell/ for a clear, unambiguous interview where Gladwell emphasizes that hours of practice must be *quality* practice and *still* some people have talents and potential that others lack. In other words, he doesn't at ALL believe the nonsense attributed to him here in trying to discredit him overall.
(I'm not defending anything he said in the Snowden article though)/div>
63 percent is so much less than two thirds!
Incidentally, smart phones are owned by individuals, not by households, so your stat is really confusing./div>
Re: Re: Frank Zappa would be pleased
Learn some history rather than speculating
Your post can literally be read as "Remember X from history? I don't, because I wasn't alive then. We can and should ignore all history and any lessons it offers and instead judge everything only by personal experience."
The truth is that there *were* complaints about cars and they were *correct* and cars have had hugely negative impacts on society in all sorts of disruptive ways, mostly enabling the break-down of human-centered urban planning etc/div>
Re: Re: the best systems.
You can have markets and competition without private ownership of basic resources. And we can have completely dysfunctional market failure and monopolies while having everything be privately owned, i.e. capitalism./div>
Re:
So, I'd guess he'd want to get Sanders to be his VP, so he could just turn things over to Sanders later, I dunno.
It's a nutty but interesting idea. Put simply: Lessig is worried that if everyone even elected Sanders somehow that people would say "they elected him for health care, for education, for civil rights…" and so it wouldn't be an absolute mandate *specifically* for overturning Citizens United…
But Sanders *has* made Citizens United a *key* focus, with his whole emphasis on refusing PAC money. I think Lessig isn't giving Sanders enough credit for really emphasizing this./div>
Re: He did NOT found Quicken
They were owned by Intuit for like 2 years only. Used to be Rock Financial. Quicken isn't a company, it's just some software made by Intuit. Quicken Loans is a company now./div>
Re: Re: Obama's motivation?
The best assumption is that Obama is actually politically supportive of this garbage, like he really believes in it. Ugh./div>
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Governments aren't this particular guy you don't like
Your ideology that thinks of government as this singular thing is so far removed from reality, it's pernicious.
When people representing a public university (that's a type of government institution even) say they care about innovation or a fire dept (government!) says they cares about public safety or a parks dept says they care about recreational opportunities, it's not bullshit just because some executive in another part of government has other views./div>
Re: Re:
Re: Re: Patent Abolition
Re: The is a cultural problem
One detail: "This is partly what copyright is designed to achieve: Control for the artist." is only true with the qualification that the control is *for the purpose* of promoting artistic development for the public benefit. Copyright by the U.S. Constitution does not serve the purpose of artistic control as an end in itself./div>
Not clear why here, besides EFF support
Regulatory capture doesn't mean anarchy will work
Anyone who has the "freedom to contract" without any system to enforce that contract also has the freedom to break the contract.
And the premise that contracts are fair fundamentally because people agree to them is grossly naive. Rare are the contracts that have both parties coming to them with equal standing and complete knowledge of all the subtleties.
Contracts are often war-games. And they have no standing without some mechanism to enforce them which fundamentally comes from some threat of something./div>
Sentence makes no sense
WHA?? The other way around? His name in print holds the power to decide whether he himself appears? I'm totally confused by this sentence./div>
Re: Re: Re: Stop calling sharing "piracy"
Adam is a [insert offensive term relating to lacking intelligence]
Article: propagandists make lots of lies to scare people, but Senator calls them on their bullshit
Adam: thus we need a flat tax! (oh, and throw in implication that Senator above is childish)
Can you say non sequitur? No, I need some more aggressive rejecting term for Adam's comment. It's um, so, you see, there's evil propagandists and then there's someone calling them out. Ok? Calling that a childish argument is, well, so, it's like an intentional desire to destroy normal intellectual thought.
Person A: The Sun goes down in the *east* and after that, it dries up until morning when it gets colorful again and rises out of the sea.
Person B: That's wrong in so many ways, it's total horse shit.
Adam: Lookit Person A and Person B, grown men arguing like children. This obviously calls for a flat tax!/div>
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