Corporations get so overly protective of their IP and trademarks. I can't help but enjoy seeing that turned back on them. I'm sure if the Parsons posted a YouTube video with a brief shot of Ronald McDonald, McDonalds would not be amused.
Salary information is always an awkward subject. If government has to disclose salary info for all its employees, then shouldn't the private sector have to do the same? Actually that might not be such a bad thing.
Amanda Palmer has been cited a few times on this blog as an example of an artist who embraces new business models. I got an email yesterday promoting her new DVD. She asked people to buy it from her website because:
as i stated in my blog, DO NOT BUY THIS DVD from regular retailers, in stores or from amazon.
i will not see any of the money, ever, it will all go into the black hole of roadrunner records.
please order it from the website or buy it at a show, where i will at least see a piddling percentage of the profit,
since i will have bought it wholesale from the label.
(yes, same goes with any CDs).
Seems to me that the labels and distributors are the real "songlifters".
The government does some things well and some things abysmally badly. Then again so do large private organizations. In general I think government gets dumped on more than it deserves. However, for network security there's an advantage in decentralized control. Sure some nets will be badly secured, but others will be impenetrable. I'd worry that centralized control by anyone, public or private, would give us lowest common denominator security. Let the government focus on properly securing their own networks. If they do a good job, make the results available via open source for others to use freely.
Weren't the republicans supposed to be getting big government off our backs? I remember when you used to be able to walk into an airport, buy a ticket for cash, and walk onto a plane without being searched. We called it freedom. Need I repeat the tired Ben Franklin quote?
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It's a tax
Perhaps we should leverage the popular zeitgeist and call this a "tax".
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/monetary-morality/
Corporations get so overly protective of their IP and trademarks. I can't help but enjoy seeing that turned back on them. I'm sure if the Parsons posted a YouTube video with a brief shot of Ronald McDonald, McDonalds would not be amused.
Salary information is always an awkward subject. If government has to disclose salary info for all its employees, then shouldn't the private sector have to do the same? Actually that might not be such a bad thing.
Countries that would go to war over a Google maps error were probably just looking for an excuse.
Hurting music makers???
Amanda Palmer has been cited a few times on this blog as an example of an artist who embraces new business models. I got an email yesterday promoting her new DVD. She asked people to buy it from her website because:
Seems to me that the labels and distributors are the real "songlifters".The government does some things well and some things abysmally badly. Then again so do large private organizations. In general I think government gets dumped on more than it deserves. However, for network security there's an advantage in decentralized control. Sure some nets will be badly secured, but others will be impenetrable. I'd worry that centralized control by anyone, public or private, would give us lowest common denominator security. Let the government focus on properly securing their own networks. If they do a good job, make the results available via open source for others to use freely.
Weren't the republicans supposed to be getting big government off our backs? I remember when you used to be able to walk into an airport, buy a ticket for cash, and walk onto a plane without being searched. We called it freedom. Need I repeat the tired Ben Franklin quote?