twainer

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by twainer 15y ago
Quite right. I have followed investment events for quite some time and I cannot recall a shadier-looking company hitting the open market. It really boggles the mind: WHO is buying this? WHO is telling others to buy this? I know Warren Buffe
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by twainer 15y ago
Thanks to all for the clarification.
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by twainer 15y ago
Maybe there is more to the actual story but the article provides zero support to the headline as per the the surgery being 'life-saving'. It is even referenced as a 'stupid decision' to have put it off. Pancreatic cancer has a dismal 5-yr s
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by twainer 15y ago
"It allowed price to be given to them, but since that detracts from the value we can immediately see it is not such a clearly good proposition -- it is very questionable." Something can only be priced because it has value already. As for se
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by twainer 15y ago
I will take one point: the idea that by abolishing copyright you are taking progress out of the hands of monopolies. Copyright is the power that gives the 'little man' the ability to do that already. Copyright puts the power/value of an ide
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by twainer 15y ago
I agree with several things you say here, but this doesn't make any sense: "Isn't it a damn shame that Mickey Mouse, after three-quarters of a century, being a character our grandparents enjoyed, isn't somebody we can have? That the cultura
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by twainer 15y ago
More to the point: not spending is not voting, but not spending but actually using the good sends a totally different message to both the industry and the government. Can one have an effective hunger-strike while eating? Actually going on s
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by twainer 15y ago
Lol - a market where people don't pay. Sounds like a great business to be in. It also doesn't sound like the people who are looking for someone to 'take advantage' of the good thing they've got.
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by twainer 15y ago
"If they AA's went away, then who would piracy hurt?" C'mon - if that's as far as you are looking you aren't really trying;)
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by twainer 15y ago
I hear you - and I do think the kind of distribution you picture is clearly where we are going to end up. It just takes time: time for hard-liners to retire, time for a hugely complicated distribution system to rationalize itself. But we wi
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by twainer 15y ago
The concept of copyright is not absurd at all. The notion that one has rights to their own ideas is a marvelous development of liberal productive societies; it is a hallmark. It has allowed value to accrue to things that were actually valua
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by twainer 15y ago
Congratulations on a finely executed end to your 'argument'. It is edifying to see someone's true colors where personal attacks take precedence over actually staking a hard, factual claim to what you believe in.
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by twainer 15y ago
There is no case for piracy per se. There IS a case for faster, more efficient distribution models that combine lower costs and wider reach into a more modern operating structure. Such a business model would easily be able to attract rights
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by twainer 15y ago
Agreed. That piece reads a bit too much like a HuffPost 'article'. The idea that industrial workers' skills would become obsolete is not only wrong, it's also an idea that far predates Drucker. The skills aren't obsolete as much as they are
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by twainer 15y ago
Aside from the personal attacks, you are attempting here to make an intellectual construct: ‘product’ as ‘legalized monopoly’ or, equally pejoratively, a ‘deliberate fiction’. Your construct is used to deny value to a previously physical g
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by twainer 15y ago
Thank you for answering the question. I too support a minimum wage. I believe successful societies work and thrive because they create more of those 'win-win' scenarios that I have referenced a few times here. So would you support a period
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by twainer 15y ago
By way of a more pointed reply to your specifics: you express that an individual getting to decide how their work is treated is not a 'right' at all. You see it actually as a limitation on other people's right to use that work. So, do you s
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by twainer 15y ago
"Don't actually" is also an interesting word choice. It supports a scenario where the action of copying and distributing copies is meaningless. If it were so - as with any meaningless action - one would expect it to have no real effect on t
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by twainer 15y ago
My point about The Office is a legitimate one - and I did not mean to cause offense. The language to support piracy is often couched in terms of civil rights - and I can understand that side of it. In practice though piracy is used for cons
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by twainer 15y ago
What I see here is a desire to prevent any bad outcome by denying the legitimacy of a whole system. 'Copyright can be used for evil so it must not be a good thing, nor allowed to exist'. As I am sure most here would agree, any complex syste
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by twainer 15y ago
I do get your frustration. And we probably agree on quite a lot. I think copyright has lots of problems - but people not paying for anything isn't one of them. My frustration is that the people who don't like the old structure won't allow a
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by twainer 15y ago
Long-time lurker who just had to jump into the fray about this nonsense and non-story. Reading tech-dirt I came across quite a few comments equating copyright with censorship. You folks need to take a deep breath and then ask yourself if yo