Trolls, stop thinking about the sharing of music from a political or legal position. This is cultural.
Way before anyone tried to monetize culture, before they felt the need to brain wash you into the defective little anger nuggets you are, real people were doing, sharing and making culture. It wasn't all good, but it didn't belong to people.
It's a fact that not everyone got credit. That happens everyday. IBM says it make the personal computer, you gonna go right that wrong now?
Picking your battles and trolling this site is just as bad biting someone else's work and not crediting. It shows the same self serving desire to bring someone down at your own benefit, twisting the momentum of their work to your own ends.
Don't be haters. Contribute and share. Is someone going to rip you off? Maybe if you do a good enough job. Of course if you are working at that level you may just want to keep working for the love of it, rather than hunt down and fret over every injustice.
Cause the secret is that there is only so much you can do, and worrying about it adds nothing to your life. The love you take is equal to the love you make.
Nothing strange here. Sounds like most IT people to me. If you don't want an engineer's answer, don't ask an engineer. If you choose to do so anyway, don't expect the engineer to understand.
I can be serious, he can be Rick Moranis. As long as we're all civil we can all contribute.
I've got nothing against anyone who posts here, nothing personal at least. But I believe that what we say online, even anonymously or though a joking persona, has a value and an impact. People are informed from it to a personal extent and I'd rather have the detail I added be part of this conversation than not speak up. Even at the cost of sounding too serious, which I'm aware is a capital offense in some corners of the net.
I assume you are joking about this, but under the circumstances it's in poor taste. Books and the internet both have their place in the world. It isn't a contest no matter what the opinions of some authors. Be educated, be aware and you'll be living the concept behind the book better than he is.
I'm sorry to hear that such a clever and influential writer of science fiction seems to disagree with my personal views on the internet and it's value, but it won't keep me up at night.
I can see the intended theme in Farenheit 451 now that it's pointed out, but that wasn't what I walked away with. I did get a strong distrust of marketing. The scene on the train with everyone singing to jingles still causes me to ask anyone doing it around me to please stop. I had some trouble resolving the "Art as Advertising" idea because of it. There was a line; art over here, ads over there. But I realized that it wasn't really so, there was no functional difference. I've focused more on the mechanics of advertisement and how it effects my decision making (no, I am not thinking Arby's). I still won't abide by people singing along with radio jingles and actively avoid the normal steady drone of tasteless and banal marketing that is thrown at me. But now I'm not above checking out a funny commercial on the internet once one is pointed out or acknowledging a well done ad I accidentally catch on TV.
Mr. Bradbury is allowed to get as crotchety as he likes and he's doing a good thing for a valuable media by supporting print books. To the best of my knowledge he hasn't put his weight behind the destruction of the internet. He's allowed his opinions and he's still a great man in my book.
I noticed this on one of the few occasions I watch TV. To think, I was pissed the first time I saw an add for Master and Commander take up 25% of the screen and play sound. This is getting out of hand, and the worst part is I pay extra to get this type of content.
Christianity isn't about "praying for punishment". It's about trying, and failing, to be more like Jesus. That means doing your honest best to love even your enemy. A real Christian would should ignore the slights or try to teach a better message, not sue some ignorant person for a half conceived opinion. Bad form.
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Wow, huge contrast in the thumbnails too. I guess chicks mean clicks...
Re: Hey, Michigan...
We'd love to, but he hangs out in Lansing and everyone knows there's something in the water up there that makes it crazy town.
Re: Society is Ripe For A Revolution
Why kill people when we can kill laws that no longer serve them? Hell, I'm all for firearms but bullets cost money and digging graves is hard work.
You'll never get an album like the Postal Service's Give Up this way. Hell, you couldn't even have a band like them this way.
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Trolls, stop thinking about the sharing of music from a political or legal position. This is cultural.
Way before anyone tried to monetize culture, before they felt the need to brain wash you into the defective little anger nuggets you are, real people were doing, sharing and making culture. It wasn't all good, but it didn't belong to people.
It's a fact that not everyone got credit. That happens everyday. IBM says it make the personal computer, you gonna go right that wrong now?
Picking your battles and trolling this site is just as bad biting someone else's work and not crediting. It shows the same self serving desire to bring someone down at your own benefit, twisting the momentum of their work to your own ends.
Don't be haters. Contribute and share. Is someone going to rip you off? Maybe if you do a good enough job. Of course if you are working at that level you may just want to keep working for the love of it, rather than hunt down and fret over every injustice.
Cause the secret is that there is only so much you can do, and worrying about it adds nothing to your life. The love you take is equal to the love you make.
IT
Nothing strange here. Sounds like most IT people to me. If you don't want an engineer's answer, don't ask an engineer. If you choose to do so anyway, don't expect the engineer to understand.
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I can be serious, he can be Rick Moranis. As long as we're all civil we can all contribute.
I've got nothing against anyone who posts here, nothing personal at least. But I believe that what we say online, even anonymously or though a joking persona, has a value and an impact. People are informed from it to a personal extent and I'd rather have the detail I added be part of this conversation than not speak up. Even at the cost of sounding too serious, which I'm aware is a capital offense in some corners of the net.
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I don't think he gets around so well anymore.
I assume you are joking about this, but under the circumstances it's in poor taste. Books and the internet both have their place in the world. It isn't a contest no matter what the opinions of some authors. Be educated, be aware and you'll be living the concept behind the book better than he is.
Different Things to Different People... inadvertently.
I'm sorry to hear that such a clever and influential writer of science fiction seems to disagree with my personal views on the internet and it's value, but it won't keep me up at night.
I can see the intended theme in Farenheit 451 now that it's pointed out, but that wasn't what I walked away with. I did get a strong distrust of marketing. The scene on the train with everyone singing to jingles still causes me to ask anyone doing it around me to please stop. I had some trouble resolving the "Art as Advertising" idea because of it. There was a line; art over here, ads over there. But I realized that it wasn't really so, there was no functional difference. I've focused more on the mechanics of advertisement and how it effects my decision making (no, I am not thinking Arby's). I still won't abide by people singing along with radio jingles and actively avoid the normal steady drone of tasteless and banal marketing that is thrown at me. But now I'm not above checking out a funny commercial on the internet once one is pointed out or acknowledging a well done ad I accidentally catch on TV.
Mr. Bradbury is allowed to get as crotchety as he likes and he's doing a good thing for a valuable media by supporting print books. To the best of my knowledge he hasn't put his weight behind the destruction of the internet. He's allowed his opinions and he's still a great man in my book.
Wait a minute...
This is fair use right?
Aweful
I noticed this on one of the few occasions I watch TV. To think, I was pissed the first time I saw an add for Master and Commander take up 25% of the screen and play sound. This is getting out of hand, and the worst part is I pay extra to get this type of content.
Christianity isn't about "praying for punishment". It's about trying, and failing, to be more like Jesus. That means doing your honest best to love even your enemy. A real Christian would should ignore the slights or try to teach a better message, not sue some ignorant person for a half conceived opinion. Bad form.