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| MinceR | :) | Oct 08 06:52 |
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| MinceR | <+apo> If a homeopath drinks diluted antimatter, will that make them matter? | Oct 08 07:10 |
| MinceR | <+agmlego> No, I doubt anything can make homeopathy matter. | Oct 08 07:10 |
| qu1j0t3 | bash.org | Oct 08 07:22 |
| MinceR | actually it's from xkcdb.com | Oct 08 07:26 |
| qu1j0t3 | moral equiv! | Oct 08 07:27 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEnhbYwAJWc&list=LLP0DYh2wtN1I5DK2bMalMXQ&feature=mh_lolz | Oct 08 18:26 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Body Modification - YouTube .::. Size~: 165.51 KB | Oct 08 18:26 |
| schestowitz | good video | Oct 08 18:26 |
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| schestowitz | " | Oct 08 18:56 |
| schestowitz | > I wanted to follow up on the email I sent last week regarding Nimbula’s | Oct 08 18:56 |
| schestowitz | > upcoming announcement on Monday, October 15. Nimbula, the cloud | Oct 08 18:56 |
| schestowitz | > operating system company, will announce that it has joined the OpenStack | Oct 08 18:56 |
| schestowitz | > community and will be giving back to the project by contributing | Oct 08 18:56 |
| schestowitz | > intellectual property (IP) in the areas of compute and networking. I’ve | Oct 08 18:57 |
| schestowitz | > included additional information in the note below. | Oct 08 18:57 |
| schestowitz | Hi Gabe, | Oct 08 18:57 |
| schestowitz | There is no such thing as intellectual property (IP). This is marketing rubbish. Please stop sending me lots of RP E-mails. Thanks. | Oct 08 18:57 |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 08 18:57 |
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| schestowitz | One of the most persistent myths about the copyright monopoly has been | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | that it’s needed to make money. This assertion turns out to be false for | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | a very large number of observed cases, but the plural of anecdote is | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | never statistics. So let’s look at some sound statistical evidence for | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | policymaking on this issue. | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | ... | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | In the population, there is a strong majority for reducing the monopoly | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | so that it doesn’t limit noncommercial sharing of knowledge and culture | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | between family, friends, and strangers; when concentrating on the | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | younger half of the population, that majority shifts from strong to | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | overwhelming. | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | ... | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | Myth: The copyright monopoly is an essential source of income to artists | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | today. | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | Fact: Out of the money spent on culture, a mere 2% (yes, two per cent) | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | make it to individual artists through mechanisms of the copyright | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | monopoly. This was studied in-depth in Sweden by Ulf Pettersson in 2006 | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | (link to article, direct link to study, both in Swedish), who concluded | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | that the vast majority of artists get their income from other means – | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | everything from a day job to student loans. | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | ... | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | Myth: Without the incentive of possibly getting money, nobody will go | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | into artistry and create. | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | Fact: People create despite the copyright monopoly, not because of it. | Oct 08 19:49 |
| schestowitz | YouTube sees 72 hours of video uploaded every minute. Arguably, most of | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | it will remain unseen, but there are certainly gems in there. Also, the | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | argument is bunk from the simple observation that there is a vast | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | oversupply of artists compared to what the market will hold: you can | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | easily find a professional accountant who picks up an electric guitar in | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | their spare time for a bit of relaxation, but show me one single | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | professional guitarist who relaxes with a bit of bookkeeping in their | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | spare time. | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | GNU/Linux and Wikipedia are two excellent counterpoints that shatters | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | this weird myth. The dominant operating system and dominant encyclopedia | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | was created by unpaid volunteers. (When I say that GNU/Linux is | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | “dominant”, I include the Android derivative, just for the record.) | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | We have created since we learned to put red paint on the inside of cave | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | walls, not because of the possibility of making money, but because of | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | who we are, because of how we are wired. (Usually, people who are into | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | life for the money don’t go into artistry in the first place. They go to | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | law school or medical school. There’s a reason for the parents’ face of | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | despair when their child says they’ve decided to be a poet for a | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | living.) | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | The myth that the copyright monopoly is needed for any kind of artistry | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | to make money, or even to happen in the first place, is an obscene myth | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | perpetuated by those who have something to gain from skimming off 90% of | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | the artists’ money by denying them an audience in an old-style | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | racketeering. | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | [/quote] | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | It's also interesting to note that apparently Sony is an avid, albeit | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | highly unexpected, follower of TorrentFreak: | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | [quote] | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | Troed Sångberg 16 hours ago in reply to Ynot_82 | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | Android mobile OEM here. We're happy to give due credit to Linux! | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | http://developer.sonymobile.com/2011/05/06/how-to-build-a-linux-kernel/ | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | [/quote] | Oct 08 19:50 |
| schestowitz | http://tinyurl.com/9xfqprf | Oct 08 19:50 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: How to build a Linux kernel and flash it to the phone – Developer World .::. Size~: 67.36 KB | Oct 08 19:50 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: NO TITLE .::. Size~: 2.23 KB | Oct 08 19:50 |
| qu1j0t3 | dogbert2 | rotflmao...google and apple spent more on patents than on R&D last year | Oct 08 21:45 |
| qu1j0t3 | ASau | So what? | Oct 08 21:45 |
| qu1j0t3 | dogbert2 | well, just shows what a mess the patent system really is (per se) | Oct 08 21:45 |
| qu1j0t3 | ASau | You won't believe it, but you spend more money and time on TV and food than on | Oct 08 21:45 |
| qu1j0t3 | | R&D. | Oct 08 21:45 |
| qu1j0t3 | ASau | And 1/3 of your whole time you sleep. | Oct 08 21:45 |
| qu1j0t3 | * | ASau shrugs. | Oct 08 21:45 |
| schestowitz | lol | Oct 08 22:55 |
| schestowitz | qu1j0t3: http://rdwolff.com/content/paul-krugman-shame-you-blog | Oct 08 23:27 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Paul Krugman: Shame on You (Blog) | Professor Richard D. Wolff .::. Size~: 22.8 KB | Oct 08 23:27 |
| schestowitz | good blog | Oct 08 23:28 |
| schestowitz | http://rdwolff.com/content/living-alone | Oct 08 23:28 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Living Alone | Professor Richard D. Wolff .::. Size~: 54.94 KB | Oct 08 23:29 |
| schestowitz | ""Going Solo" describes the meteoric rise of people choosing to live alone. Today - for the first time since the census began counting in 1880 - more than half of American adults are single." | Oct 08 23:29 |
| schestowitz | MinceR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UvK3qeAEgI&feature=related | Oct 08 23:30 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Saying Goodbye to Religion - YouTube .::. Size~: 168.6 KB | Oct 08 23:30 |
| qu1j0t3 | then there is the meteoric rise of people moving back in with parents :) | Oct 08 23:47 |
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