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Whee.
It did at least wander off in a novel direction, though. With an argument between "endless copyright as a moral position" and "if you can't make money off something in ten years you don't deserve to".
Also, copyright as a cattle prod held behind artists to encourage them to keep working.
Yeah it never occurred to me that people would find the idea of someone making money from a work or design over a long period to be morally offensive.
I think nerds just want a law to stab GRRM with. TEN YEARS ARE UP YOU FUCKER NOW WE HIRE KEVIN ANDERSON TO FINISH IT OFF.
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Go to bed, copyright thread gets 404 new messages.
Whee.
It did at least wander off in a novel direction, though. With an argument between "endless copyright as a moral position" and "if you can't make money off something in ten years you don't deserve to".
Also, copyright as a cattle prod held behind artists to encourage them to keep working.
Yeah it never occurred to me that people would find the idea of someone making money from a work or design over a long period to be morally offensive.
Wait, I don't get what you're saying here. I don't see anything (yet, I'm not done catching up) about people being offended by the idea of copyright at all. I see a lot of "copyright shouldn't be forever" and that is a completely logical line of thinking.
People were proposing terms as short as ten years, which means, for example, that HBO wouldn't have had to pay GRRM for making Game of Thrones.
And this would apparently be Martin's fault for not recognising and exploiting that commercial opportunity himself on a sufficiently brisk fashion.
I like going to movies with my wife, because she doesn't talk, unwrap individually wrapped sweets, noisily suck the dregs of a milkshake through a straw or check the brightly glowing screen of her smartphone. Also, I love her but that is way behind the other things when it comes to picking a suitable moviegoing companion.
Go to bed, copyright thread gets 404 new messages.
Whee.
It did at least wander off in a novel direction, though. With an argument between "endless copyright as a moral position" and "if you can't make money off something in ten years you don't deserve to".
Also, copyright as a cattle prod held behind artists to encourage them to keep working.
Yeah it never occurred to me that people would find the idea of someone making money from a work or design over a long period to be morally offensive.
Wait, I don't get what you're saying here. I don't see anything (yet, I'm not done catching up) about people being offended by the idea of copyright at all. I see a lot of "copyright shouldn't be forever" and that is a completely logical line of thinking.
People were proposing terms as short as ten years, which means, for example, that HBO wouldn't have had to pay GRRM for making Game of Thrones.
And this would apparently be Martin's fault for not recognising and exploiting that commercial opportunity himself on a sufficiently brisk fashion.
That is dumb short. My favorite option was the trademark with restrictions idea someone put forth. If you keep innovating with the IP regularly, you're covered, but if you stop (or die) it's open.
Go to bed, copyright thread gets 404 new messages.
Whee.
It did at least wander off in a novel direction, though. With an argument between "endless copyright as a moral position" and "if you can't make money off something in ten years you don't deserve to".
Also, copyright as a cattle prod held behind artists to encourage them to keep working.
Yeah it never occurred to me that people would find the idea of someone making money from a work or design over a long period to be morally offensive.
Wait, I don't get what you're saying here. I don't see anything (yet, I'm not done catching up) about people being offended by the idea of copyright at all. I see a lot of "copyright shouldn't be forever" and that is a completely logical line of thinking.
People were proposing terms as short as ten years, which means, for example, that HBO wouldn't have had to pay GRRM for making Game of Thrones.
And this would apparently be Martin's fault for not recognising and exploiting that commercial opportunity himself on a sufficiently brisk fashion.
The only concern is whether or not it would incentivize the creation of new stuff or not.
Go to bed, copyright thread gets 404 new messages.
Whee.
It did at least wander off in a novel direction, though. With an argument between "endless copyright as a moral position" and "if you can't make money off something in ten years you don't deserve to".
Also, copyright as a cattle prod held behind artists to encourage them to keep working.
Yeah it never occurred to me that people would find the idea of someone making money from a work or design over a long period to be morally offensive.
Wait, I don't get what you're saying here. I don't see anything (yet, I'm not done catching up) about people being offended by the idea of copyright at all. I see a lot of "copyright shouldn't be forever" and that is a completely logical line of thinking.
People were proposing terms as short as ten years, which means, for example, that HBO wouldn't have had to pay GRRM for making Game of Thrones.
And this would apparently be Martin's fault for not recognising and exploiting that commercial opportunity himself on a sufficiently brisk fashion.
The only concern is whether or not it would incentivize the creation of new stuff or not.
I have issues with a term so short that those most likely to benefit from a work are large companies with the clout to quickly monetise something. Especially when (as in the HBO example) they could pretty much just lift an existing, popular, work wholesale.
I don't think that's a system that incentivises individual creativity.
I understand that various types of humor that I enjoy also cause people anguish. That's part of the price of comedy, there's always a victim. I just think the cruelty to humour ratio is out of whack on this one. Can you imagine how shitty you would feel if someone did that to you? Especially that black girl. Jesus...
I understand that various types of humor that I enjoy also cause people anguish. That's part of the price of comedy, there's always a victim. I just think the cruelty to humour ratio is out of whack on this one. Can you imagine how shitty you would feel if someone did that to you? Especially that black girl. Jesus...
Caricature can be funny or mean, but what makes it really shitty is the element of "haha I made this shitty mean caricature and sent it to the person in question purely to hurt their feelings"
It's really not fundamentally different from any other prank.
Outside of it mocking women for their looks (and a couple of them being arguably racist).
Which is pretty shitty.
Yeah that's a big thing. It deliberately chose something that people associate with their self-worth because society is shitty and tears them down with it.
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Well this was depressing.
While getting some tea (hot chocolate) I glanced at the physical NZ Herald, and saw the Conservative Gay Marriage poll which I wanted to share, since it's pretty amusing.
From memory:
18-40: 60%/40%
41-60: 50%/50%
61+: 60%/40%
How that for age distribution?
Anyway, looking for that graph on the online version, I looked through the articles for it, which turned out to be stupid. The politicians are stupid. Everyone is stupid!
God dammit.
Didn't even manage to get the graph picture for my trouble.
i hope ms releases a service pack for win8 that lets you basically just use it like windows 7 but with the good stuff from windows 8
because most of the new pcs here in the uk are being shipped with win7 over win8 due to customer demand
Well if a program has admin permissions (so not something you could distribute via the store) then you can pretty much reskin win8
I'd be suprised if that hasn't been done already.
Though I will say that you get used to the new UI. After about a week of using it on my work machine (so many hours each day) I was acclimated. Maybe a bit longer for a game machine.
And of course if someone makes up their mind in the first 5 minutes that they will hates it forever and so doesn't make any effort to actually learn how to do stuff in the new UI then they'll of course never get used to it.
It's really not fundamentally different from any other prank.
Outside of it mocking women for their looks (and a couple of them being arguably racist).
Which is pretty shitty.
Yeah that's a big thing. It deliberately chose something that people associate with their self-worth because society is shitty and tears them down with it.
also: in a context where that person might be feeling particularly nervous about their appearance (an online dating site)
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
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We find out that Grand Admiral Thrawn is awaiting beyond The Wall.
People were proposing terms as short as ten years, which means, for example, that HBO wouldn't have had to pay GRRM for making Game of Thrones.
And this would apparently be Martin's fault for not recognising and exploiting that commercial opportunity himself on a sufficiently brisk fashion.
I'm so glad that chat is basically a digital proboscis i can extend to graze the lush cultural and intellectual shrubs beyond my normal reach
The Havoc is totally over the top; I felt like I was playing Counterstrike.
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Unacceptable. Six hours without deodorant and I can lightly sniff the air and feel as though I am suddenly in the presence of a rotting husk of flesh.
That is dumb short. My favorite option was the trademark with restrictions idea someone put forth. If you keep innovating with the IP regularly, you're covered, but if you stop (or die) it's open.
I'm supposed to be at a 3 day seminar on C++/CX coding for windows 8
but it got cancelled at the last minute so I'm just at normal ole work
The only concern is whether or not it would incentivize the creation of new stuff or not.
Because a guy posted it on facebook and I said it was a shitty thing to do and this is apparently a case of white knighting.
That sucks. That actually doesn't sound half bad if the company is paying.
that's pretty distasteful, yeah
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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It seems like a pretty shitty thing to do.
I did not know "white knighting" was going "oh look, an asshole".
themoreyouknow.jpg, I guess.
Making fun of people's appearance is a shitty thing to do, IMO.
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I've been doing some as a hobbyist and it is an amazingly good framework.
As you might expect, underneath that damn UI win8 is a developers dreamland. Really well thought out.
Yeah it is pretty shitty.
Any time you're causing someone else anguish for pleasure is shitty.
Doubly so when it is a lot of pain for a tiny amount of giggles.
It's a shitty thing
It's also a funny thing, but that doesn't stop it from being a shitty thing
It's a shitty thing to do.
Yeah this seems about right.
because most of the new pcs here in the uk are being shipped with win7 over win8 due to customer demand
In Dickshitese, "to white knight" simply means "to call me out on any interaction with a woman up to and including obvious out-and-out misogyny"
Another thing entirely to just message random people like that. What a shitstain.
I have issues with a term so short that those most likely to benefit from a work are large companies with the clout to quickly monetise something. Especially when (as in the HBO example) they could pretty much just lift an existing, popular, work wholesale.
I don't think that's a system that incentivises individual creativity.
Some of those are just straight up racist. Pretty much all are about making someone cry and then laughing about it afterwards.
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Yes
And they have been on the outs so long that you can be a hipster about it
"Whistler's mother? *roll eyes* I guess I'm more of a Dewing man, myself."
And then you pedal off on your fixie
Outside of it mocking women for their looks (and a couple of them being arguably racist).
Which is pretty shitty.
Caricature can be funny or mean, but what makes it really shitty is the element of "haha I made this shitty mean caricature and sent it to the person in question purely to hurt their feelings"
Some of their political threads are horrific.
Yeah that's a big thing. It deliberately chose something that people associate with their self-worth because society is shitty and tears them down with it.
While getting some tea (hot chocolate) I glanced at the physical NZ Herald, and saw the Conservative Gay Marriage poll which I wanted to share, since it's pretty amusing.
From memory:
18-40: 60%/40%
41-60: 50%/50%
61+: 60%/40%
How that for age distribution?
Anyway, looking for that graph on the online version, I looked through the articles for it, which turned out to be stupid. The politicians are stupid. Everyone is stupid!
God dammit.
Didn't even manage to get the graph picture for my trouble.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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Well if a program has admin permissions (so not something you could distribute via the store) then you can pretty much reskin win8
I'd be suprised if that hasn't been done already.
Though I will say that you get used to the new UI. After about a week of using it on my work machine (so many hours each day) I was acclimated. Maybe a bit longer for a game machine.
And of course if someone makes up their mind in the first 5 minutes that they will hates it forever and so doesn't make any effort to actually learn how to do stuff in the new UI then they'll of course never get used to it.
also: in a context where that person might be feeling particularly nervous about their appearance (an online dating site)
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.