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And more evidence that the current administration is totally out of control and has no regard for human rights or the will of the people.
BOFH: Chuck it and leg it | The Register
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New and innovative ideas for equipment disposal…
cancel that last post… I have heard from the host and they have found and corrected (I hope) the problem. We’ll see. I bought the new master domain name bluespringsbazaar.net earlier after the latest outage but had been thinking about it buying that one anyway just to keep anyone else from getting it. I’ll point it to the bluespringsbazaar.com site for now.
GROKLAW
Now, some artists don’t want to share, viewing intellectual property, as they like to call it, as property, just like a dog with a bone. Those who think like that view creative works as their meal ticket, and they want to extract every last dime, not only for themselves, but for their grandchildren as well.
They are free to squirrel their works away in a hole in a tree, if they wish. And they can erect as many gates and pitchforks around it as they like.
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The meal ticket part is what screws with my head.
A hard or paperback book costs what it does mostly due to the labor involved, not in writing it but in printing and then shipping, warehousing, advertising, and then sitting in a store taking up shelf space.
Same with music, and video.
The creative part that is the reason for all of this massive infrastructure is actually about the least part of its personal whole as far as effort and cost.
Lets step back 5 hundred years.
None of this exists. The books that do exist are produced by and mostly owned by the church. The average person and in fact most people cannot read or write. Story tellers were their writers and radio and musicians were regarded as thieves and whores.
Fast forward 4 hundred years.
In cities a fair number of folks could read and newspapers and penny dreadfuls were sold on the streets by urchins.
And then comes radio.
Then TV.
Then the internet.
Today an artist can take a picture and upload it to the internet at a cost of only what the connection and online storage cost. Then the world has access.
If I look at that picture as MY property and MY meal ticket then I need to restrict access to it. But I don’t. Unless you want to make money off of it. If you want to look at it, fine. Use it on your web page not a problem. Collect my pictures and print a book and sell it – Problem.
My writing is the same. Use it as you wish. Unless you make coin I care not. You make a profit on it, I want a piece.
But here again is a rub that I wonder about. In my life I have mostly done work for hire. I fix stuff. Someone pays me for that work. I don’t fix something once and folks keep paying me for it.
And this is were I have a problem with IP. If you are following me that is. Not sure I am at this point.
I go out and fix a car. I get paid. I go and buy a song and download it. And 10,000 more do the same thing. But the song still costs the same thing. Now the guy that wrote the song deserves something… But how much?
The one that wrote the book that just sold millions of copies on it’s first day out. Now she (no names) worked a few months or maybe a year to write that book. Okay, in that time it cost her a few thousand or a few 10 thousand to live. But she made so much more. But had she published on the web it would have cost almost nothing. And she could have gotten it to ALL her fans. And she would have been able to get ALL the money instead of just a few pennies on the dollar. But the HUGE retail sales infrastructure wouldn’t get their piece of the pie. And all those [thousands, tens of thousands, millions?] of gallons of fuel, used in making and shipping the paper, printing and shipping the books, customers going out at midnight to buy the book, wouldn’t have been consumed. And all the trees wouldn’t have had to die to print it on.
But she (read her lawyers and accountants) was scared that the business that she has become would miss out on a few pennies due to pirated copys.
So her fans buy the book and scan, proofread, convert to and ebook and have it available for free within 24 hours. Less time than it took to typeset the original. Now the courts get involved.
I don’t understand. I need enough for me to live on. I haven’t worked at a regular job in years nor do I ever expect to.
If I sell a used book I eat. If not I garden. Or write. Or work on sculpture. Which when sold is sold. No copies and the pictures are free.
Now tell me why I should pay for something that was originally paid for in hourly wages, again and again and again, just because it’s your Intellectual Property.
Folks, here is where I draw the line. I ain’t gonna do it. This whole Farking society is out of control and I will not assist in stopping its demise. In fact if, in any small way I can hasten the fall of big everything I will give my all in doing so.
Not gonna say I will steal from it. Not interested in anyones IP in any way. Not your movies, not your books (I buy them used, and sell them used, and no one but me gets any of it), and certainly not the RIAA’s farking music. I will not pay one red cent that goes into the RIAA’s coffers to allow them to sue more of the musicans fan base.
This has grown too big to be a comment but that’s what it started as and I guess that’s what it will end up as. Warts and all. I’m gonna spell check it and see if it reads somewhat coherent and post…
Version 0.3.0 released. I need to download a copy and try this out. It sounds like a dynamic sitebuilders dream.
New Scientist News – Chronic fatigue is not all in the mind
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No S#$%! Glad they have finely figured that one out.
The mechanism that they discuss is interesting.
My symptoms started with a month long bout of flu that left me unable to do much more than real short walks for weeks. That was about 17 years ago. I still have periods that I am unable to do more than just walk from place to place to sit again. Mental activity is almost impossible at those times.
I am coming out of a 2 to 3 week bad period now. This time the mental fog wasn’t as bad but still bad enough that things that I would usually spend minutes on has been taking hours.
Typing during these episodes is always interesting too as I seem to get short circuits between head and hands, so that the finger on the left that is supposed to type the letter will not work but the one on the right hand will do so instead. Or the speed with the nerves fire will seem to vary and I get a lot of “teh” and “ot” and other transposed letters.
I’ve been living with is as there is no alternative that I have found to this point but this sounds like it may have a direct impact on a lot of us…
New Scientist Breaking News – Hiroshima bomb may have carried hidden agenda
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And lets rewrite history yet again. But as they say (whoever they are) history belongs to the victors…
CNN.com – Quake sounds reveal Earth ‘ripping apart’ – Jul 20, 2005
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Makes sense. And may give a new way of either predicting or monitoring quakes.
Salt Lake Tribune – Utah
Really cool invention brings teens awards
Physics students: They came up with an environmentally friendly, economical air conditioner
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This is via Steve. Thanks for the pointer. I saw a link to this yesterday but failed to get through at the time.
This looks possible. Depends on how much electricity it uses. The Pelter devices I have played with were real juice hungry but they “were” older devices. I guess the first one I saw was in the late 80’s or early 90’s and they date way on back from there.
The article says they are using 5 of them so I’m sure they are getting a lot of cooling. The problem is going to be overcoming the initial thermal load of the hot air mass in the car as well as the hot mass of the car its self.
Will have to wait and see when more info is available.
Treehugger: Seeing the Future, Reflected in a Solar Stove
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Meant to post this yesterday but was not a good day…
This looks interesting.
NewsForge | Hooking OOo to MySQL
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This is amazing! Other than that I got nothing yet. Gonna see if NeoOffice has it yet as it’s the only OOo I have on here (iBook).
NewsForge | Run GNU/Linux from a USB pen drive
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Gonna have to try one of these pendrive distros one of these days. Sound interesting. And with the newer bios machines should boot right up. Don’t think anything I have will boot off a pen drive.
» Blog Archive » The Verdict is in…Some Windows Users are Idiots
And Helios is at it again… Trouble is he’s right. Again…
Vehicle barrier allowed to go ahead | www.azstarnet.com ®
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But this isn’t turning into a police state. Nope. This isn’t at all like the Berlin wall or the Great Wall of China. This is just a 123 mile long concrete barrier to keep drug smugglers out that the taxpayers get to foot the bill for.
Idiots! But I forgot, we now have Albert E. in charge so anything goes…
RAH you predicted “the crazy years” only too well…
Good news for dark chocolate-lovers? – Yahoo! News
The study, published by the American Heart Association, joins a growing body of research that show compounds found in chocolate called flavonoids can help the blood vessels work more smoothly, perhaps reducing the risk of heart disease.
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At last! A reason to eat chocolate. And this was sponsered by the the AHA and not the ACE (american chocolate eaters). Cool!
Compass Prayer Carpet :
Gizmodo
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Okay, I haven’t seen everything yet. But this is one more thing that I would have never even considered thinking of looking for.
The rug has a “compass module” embedded that controls the electro luminescent panel and makes it glow brighter the closer it is pointed toward Mecca.
Whatever.
nbc13.com – News – Ax-Wielding Man Arrested At Alabama Church
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And alabama make it to the national news yet again…
Boing Boing: Black Panthers hot sauce
the hot sauce is dubbed “Burn Baby Burn.”
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I almost didn’t click on this link. But a hot sauce put out by the Black Panthers named “Burn Baby Burn.” was just too much to pass up. So here it is. For whatever reason.
Though now that I think about it I do have a slight memory connection.
What follows needs to be taken with a large dose of salts. The mind that is doing this remembering isn’t real sharp any more about things yesterday much less this far back. I could be misremembering all the way across the board. You have been warned.
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There used to be a log cabin across the street from where I now live. It was owned by an old black man (? I think). Don’t know what happened to him. I think he was already long dead by the time the place was torched. The old cement steps are still in the bank by the ditch.
The house was burned, I heard, by the local KKK who were trying to capture two Black Panther outside agitators that were supposedly in the area (Anniston, AL) inciting the black community to violence and arson.
There had been some rioting and several buildings burned in Anniston one Sunday evening. We saw the glow in the sky over Anniston when we came out of church that night. I remember wanting to go down there but my father intervened (wisely looking back on it now) so I didn’t get to see any of the rioting. A friend did go and said it was all crazy but I don’t know that he really went or got close to anything if he did.
It was later that night or Monday when the rumor went around that this guy (don’t think I ever knew a name) was hiding out in this old cabin across from our farm. I doubt that he was but there was no evidence in the ashes that anyone died there when the fire marshal checked it out a day or so later.
Anyway I heard and then saw the fire trucks head this way. We lived about 2 miles away then, actually where my folks still live, but to get here you had to turn right in front of our house (then). So I saw the trucks head this way and wanted to follow but I suspect my dad knew more about what was going on than I did and wouldn’t let me go. Came this way the next day I think and the place was just smoking ruins.
The next report was that the Black Panthers had left the state and things started to settle back down.
I guess this would have been 67 or 68 but I can’t be sure. We were always about 2 to 3 years behind the west coast on everything else.
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Hunger hormone linked to memory
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Interesting. So how hard is it gonna be to regulate this? Or is it gonna be possible without gene therapy?
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