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by alexqgb 13y ago
This is either good news or bad news for municipal ISPs. Good news in that you could hardly ask for a better catalyst. Bad news in that Comcast will have even more motivation to murder the entire concept in its sleep.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Just try. But first, you'll want a refresher on the French Revolution, letting the starving "eat cake" and the amazing effectiveness of guillotines.
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When I see "Path" I read "Radioactive". How that's for branding?
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by alexqgb 13y ago
What people hate is paying money. Full stop. Oh sure, there's always the "I'd pay for that if..." or the "I don't mind supporting stuff I like" (as though this were charity), but this is talk and talk - li
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Little known fact: no major studio uses e-mail. It's all carrier pigeons and smoke signals. Why? Because they "hate the Internet". So you're right, using contemporary technology in this one instance is really weird.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
"What seems more likely to me is the genesis of an entirely new genre, possibly synthesizing traits from both movies and games, but fundamentally not the same as either." Not unlike the way film itself started ~1895 as a cheap emu
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by alexqgb 13y ago
In other words "Our customers may conclude that we offer a poor value for money and decide to stop buying our product."
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by alexqgb 13y ago
As it turns out, the very LAST thing you want is "a government that's run like a business". Running a city or state for (ever growing) profit is a fast trail to hell.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
What I understand from a friend who works for Mozilla, their interest is in "the next two billion people to come online." That is to say, people who are outside the smartphone saturated bubble of the first world and who are unlike
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Yes, the case is a US case. That's the point. It is a US case which has, in effect, granted people a degree of freedom not generally found elsewhere. That is exactly what you asked for: a specific example of US law being more lenient t
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by alexqgb 13y ago
"I'm very interested in hearing specifics!" Sure you are. Just not interested enough to Google the specific case that was helpfully referenced in the comment you replied to.
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"If Twitter does deal with patent-infringement lawsuits, they don’t have too many patents to lean on to countersue. That does put Twitter at a disadvantage.” And there's the rub.
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She's "angry", but not angry enough to grant Snowden asylum.
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The "painful" bit is key. There's a difference between constantly self-correcting and massively self-correcting, in a sudden, irregular way (known as "punctured equilibrium") only occasionally.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
"It seems you have a problem with companies initiating force, but not the government. Why is that?" Why does it seem that way? I don't know, it's your impression. You tell me.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
"Companies don't make money killing people" No, they don't make money killing their CUSTOMERS. But they can make a lot of money by not giving a fig about people impacted by their operations. http://en.wikipedi
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by alexqgb 13y ago
I know, right? Screw those moochers at the Centers for Disease Control. Big gummint out of…uh, influenza!
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by alexqgb 13y ago
This is retarded. There's just no other word to describe the mental deficiency big enough to render something as large, complex, and valueable as government as uniformly "good" or "bad", or as something that can int
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Well, that preference also has a lot to do with the fact that pirate sites have been criminalized, marganilized, and otherwise made sketchier and / or more difficult than they would be without state-imposed friction.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
I realize that a lot of very dishonest people deliberately misinterpret people saying they have a right to get paid for their work. They do what you've done here: mischaracterize it as an unreasonable assertion that they get paid for w
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by alexqgb 13y ago
"America started as a bunch of vaguely Asiatic foragers crossed over more or less in Alaska a couple thousand years ago." It was more like 18,000 - 12,000 years ago, and perhaps earlier, well before civilizations, or even their ag
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by alexqgb 13y ago
The FUD you're spreading here relies on apples to oranges comparisons, where the apples are public officials working in thee public capacity, and the oranges are private citizens. Before you go any further, I challenge you to find actu
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Relax. When it comes the discussion of corrupt public officials, the bar is much lower than it is with private individuals. Since trust in the system is so important, even the appearance of corruption can be as open to criticism as corrupti
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Copyright is a pre-existing arrangement that binds you whether you personally consent to it or not. That is to say, it is the law. Your obligation to respect it does not depend on any additional commercial agreements we may or may not make.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
So let's say your boss refuses to pay you. And when you complain, he berates you for your "sense of entitlement". Would you consider this to be an accurate judgement, or would you consider this to be insult added to injury? H
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by alexqgb 13y ago
I was actually throwing you a bone. By drawing your attention to institutions that were obviously bad (and which were duely changed) I gave you a clue about how you could have been smarter in your response. Which is not to say that copyrigh
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There's obviously no right to get paid for copies that don't get made. And that's not what people are insisting on when they talk about their right to get paid for their work. What they're talking about are the copies th
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Uh, that's exactly what copyright is: a pre-existing social and legal agreement about the terms on which people can expect to get paid, which they can reliably use to determine the scope of investment required by the work itself. Moreo
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Uh, that was a rhetorical question. Intelligent readers can see that he's saying copyright, as a social institution, isn't actually the travesty some make it out to be. Intelligent people also recognize that "detrimental&quot
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Actually, the amount of creative work in any medium that existed before the Enlightenment era is pretty thin relative to what came after. And it's not even a drop in the bucked compared to the explosion of material that followed the in

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