unalone

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by unalone 17y ago
I always thought it was because comics and certain sci-fi novels are easier and more appealing to people at a younger age, and they've got enough depth to maintain you until you're older. Science fiction moves you from the simpler works of
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by unalone 17y ago
More like, "People should like what's good and keep an open mind to things, even if it's outside their social sphere." That appeals to geeks and nongeeks alike. But point taken.
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I'm curious: What are their cultural barriers? I'm a Communications major, so I'm non-STEM, and I'd like to know what you think the social barriers are. Sports? Fashion?
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by unalone 17y ago
Perhaps this is just me being youthful and naive, but I'm astonished here at how many people drink and get stoned before every class. I don't think I'd have ever fully believed that idea, of people just vastly abusing substances and still g
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by unalone 17y ago
Past a certain point it becomes "live and let live". I'm sure the things you like are things that other banker might not be able to stand; similarly, if you tried walking in his shoes you'd find how uncomfortable you found them. So from jus
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by unalone 17y ago
Dude, have you talked to hairdressers? I have. When I was younger I'd be surprised at how much they were comfortable talking about. We'd talk about cinema and literature and politics and they'd have an opinion about everything. It struck
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by unalone 17y ago
Can we try a thought experiment? Take the statements you just made and look for generalizations. "Nongeeks self-select themselves out of certain fields." "There is a certain air of superiority (and ignorance) conveyed in saying that geeks d
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by unalone 17y ago
If you're in an environment where energy drinks are strewn all around, it gives the place a certain atmosphere that's off-putting to certain people — and not just to women. I can't stand the stuff myself. This isn't necessarily because they
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by unalone 17y ago
Please stop capitalizing "art". Please stop assuming that I think what I do about copyright selfishly; I'm an artist, but I'm an Internet brethren through-and-through. My complaints are not for me but for more traditional artists, whose bel
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by unalone 17y ago
You're allowed to have your opinion. Of course you are. I simply fail to see how your stating it here was contributing a whit to the conversation. I was trying to state an opinion re: the record labels, and your opinion that music is worthl
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by unalone 17y ago
Can you imagine people reading as a pastime? Or watching movies? Or watching sports? Music is a technical display wherein people each create something and, woven together, it becomes a song. You can't imagine being riveted by five instrumen
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by unalone 17y ago
Get off Hacker News. You are draining society of the inherent value we could obtain by melting your body down and using you for fuel. Your meats will be used to feed farmers, who are producing the only real value this world has seen. We're
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by unalone 17y ago
I'm an artist myself. Otherwise I'd have avoided this whole discussion. I like having some idea of what I'm talking about. I make art primarily because I love the creation, and I absolutely love when my work creates a response in somebody e
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by unalone 17y ago
Well, yeah. But that doesn't change what I was saying, which is simply that I sympathize with people who're attempting to charge money for their music, and I can understand the lawsuits against those who'd violate those rights, even as I fi
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by unalone 17y ago
I don't see your point. If you're not paying for music and you're not consuming music, you're a zero who's not detracting and not contributing. I mean, I think it's pathetic that you don't like music, but that's an argument not worth having
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by unalone 17y ago
No, it's not of "total cultural value". That's a bullshit term. It's about the artists first and society second. The Dragostei Din Tei video didn't use the entire song. It make a lot of people who wanted to hear the rest of the song go ou
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by unalone 17y ago
But then why are we still selling copies of John Lennon songs now that John Lennon is dead? Copyright still holds. With him dead, whoever owns the copyright to his music — Yoko? — can do whatever she wants with it, until copyright expires
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by unalone 17y ago
...returns to the real world, and finds it's hard to find a welcome when you insist on looking at people like they're rodents. Seriously, guys? We're still pretending like Rand wasn't batshit?
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by unalone 17y ago
Back when Da Vinci made the Mona Lisa, he sold it . It was preserved in a museum and copied everywhere long after he was dead; originally, he made his money off commissions. So your argument falls instantly flat. Something can be priceles
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by unalone 17y ago
Nope! "Priceless" means you're incapable of deciding what one ought to pay for something. "Worthless" means you've decided something is not inherently valuable. That's the meaning I wanted to use. When you think it's okay to use a copyright
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by unalone 17y ago
"Not alone" is the semantically correct way to say it, but I suppose you're technically right.
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by unalone 17y ago
Absolutely agreed. I wrote a series of posts regarding Capitol Records's suing Vimeo yesterday that says something similar. ( http://marinich.tumblr.com/post/286389590/vimeo-sued-by-capi... and http://marinich.tumblr.com/post/286413219/am
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by unalone 17y ago
Shallow? Not at all. It's an irritating visual disruption that you see every time you interact with a web page. Those small things make the most enormous difference.
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Coke consolidated the image of Santa Claus and popularized that exact image of him. They didn't invent the red, but without their work it would not have become the de facto standard.
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Coke's strategy was back in the 20s, dude. I don't think anybody on this site was old enough to remember it. But they created the modern image of Santa Claus, and we still use it. When you show your kid the cheery fat guy in the red suit, y
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by unalone 17y ago
I suppose the "I don't lie to my kids" gang tells their kids the real truth about how they were born when asked? Is there anything wrong with that? Conception is really, really cool. Like how having sex with people leads to babies. You do
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by unalone 17y ago
See, the issue here is that you seem to think without a heavy layer of delusion, the world is fucked up. What about those of us who think the world is incredible and wonderful, and that there's more than enough magic for kids to spend a lif
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by unalone 17y ago
But can't you teach kids that directly? I'm fine with losing a little authority if it means letting my kids know it's okay to be skeptical.
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by unalone 17y ago
The good thing about Facebook is that as quick as they are to fuck up, they're even quicker at recognizing when users are pissed off and fixing themselves. They're even smart enough to differentiate between "Users don't like change" and "We
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by unalone 17y ago
In three years of using Facebook, I've never had a friend delete an account. Not once. And it's the only site beyond Hacker News on which I keep a consistent account. (I wouldn't keep a consistent account here if deleting myself was permi

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