Mighty Buzzard's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
It’s been a heck of a busy month or two for copyright. We’ve had SOPA and PIPA. We’ve had the organization of a grassroots campaign against them. We had a significant number of serious heavyweights of the Internet join in. And now we have nations around Europe bailing on ACTA over protests of their citizens.
My question is, why? Why do we have to see stories like this:
Over 70 different groups, including many who were central to the January 18th online protests against SOPA, have put together a letter asking Congress to put a halt to any attempts to further expand intellectual property laws.
The movie industry has one main lobby that they can put all their weight behind. So does the recording industry. Why don’t we have one?
And why are these yahoos still supporting bills that they know are poison? I thought they were supposed to be realizing that it wasn’t Google lobbying that stopped SOPA/PIPA.
Anyway, those aren’t necessarily my favorite Techdirt stories of the week but they are the ones that made me think the most. I consider that a bigger win than a good chuckle or a burn on Righthaven.
Re: life must be easier without ethics
So dissolve some nickel welding rods in your acid of choice by using it as both cathode and anode while passing current through. Boom, instant source of nickel for plating that won't harm the environment any more than the acid alone would have. If it really bugs you, use vinegar as your acid. I've used this technique for bronze, brass, copper, and nickel and it works fine for all of them.
As a soon to be resident
As a soon to be resident of TN, I hope they lose soon. I'm stuck with a 12Mb connection when the muni broadband one town over offers 60Mb connections including phone service for roughly the same price.
Re: Re: I'm probably butchering the quote but...
There is no middle road. The government either properly fears its people and is their servant or it is does not and is their master. There are no lesser shades of evil to be had in this scenario.
Re: So, when does USGov start bombing itself?
That's your job and why you're allowed to keep and bear arms.
Re: Re: The most bone-chilling yet
I don't fear it but the government should. That, in fact, should be their resting state. Anything else and they are our rulers rather than our servants.
None, I mean to every single time I do.
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Mostly because the debate essentially boils down to "It is okay to take what I have not earned or paid for" vs "Fuck that noise". All the jabber is just to confuse the issue so nobody has to take a long, hard look at what they fundamentally believe.
And no, I'm not just dissing liberals here. That applies to corporate protectionism and plenty of the current conservative platform items too.
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Except that they're plainly not when they go directly against one or more of the major tenets. Shall I now start calling myself a liberal because I like the color blue?
No. In this world many things are grey areas but this is not one of them because the entire philosophy is simple enough to be written on one page. Double spaced in a 16pt font even.
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Yes, yes I do. That is a problem for tort reform not an argument for hiding behind "just doing your job".
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Humorous but untrue. Objectivism is easily looked up in the dictionary or understood from Rand's works, as opposed to what constitutes a True Scotsman. In every one of her works you'll find extreme individualism and disgust with government protectionism of any kind.
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I'm an objectivist of sorts and I see zero problem with infinite goods and zero marginal cost distribution. Value of a product or service comes from the purchaser not the seller because capitalism and objectivism demand free exchange of equal value. If nobody values your shit, you'd better rethink your business plan.
Objectivism isn't about businesses, it's about individuals. The people you're thinking about are fucktards, not objectivists, no matter what they call themselves.
Re: Perhaps the problem is "capitalism"
It's pretty simple to see on both the income redistribution front and the paid for protectionism that we are NOT a capitalist society.
Were we a capitalist society, a zero marginal cost world would mean nothing at all to capitalism. There is always something scarce to sell, even if it is only good service for an infinite good. Capitalists do not piss and moan that nobody buys buggy whips, they start selling them to mistress spanks-a-lot then realize she uses a lot of other leather items and sells her those too.
Re: Raving monarchist.
My guns are property that also help me defend my property rights. The meta aspect amuses me.
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It's a trap! This is all a rope-a-dope to get us starting to think of intellectual property as property.
Re: Artistic megalomania.
Plus you have all that money you saved to spend on spinning rust to hold all your hours of new-found entertainment.
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Erm... Wrong group on slavery opposition. The Republican party was founded on opposition to slavery. The Dems were the ones who thought it should stick around. Common misconception though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Republican_Party
Re: Rule #1
That's not in the current corporate business model. If you're leveraged to the hilt and want to borrow more money for something, you have to drive stock prices up. In a non-growth industry, this means bilking the consumers a bit more to fake growth and hoping not enough of them leave to offset the gain.
It's not complicated
Copping is dangerous work and every time they go into an unknown situation, most all of them, they're scared. Doesn't make mistakes any more palatable but it does make them understandable.
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