OK. Look.

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsid=5714

If you give that a click…

Here’s what it means.

It means, the RIAA is now trying to say that it is illegal to buy a CD and put the songs on your computer or IPOD. They are basically saying you can’t copy the music off the cd in any way, shape, or form.

The recording and movie industries in this country are having serious problems with the legal idea of “fair use.” Fair use is the principle that says you are buying the rights to one copy of the art, not just the physical meduim the art is stored on.

This is in addition to thier last bullshit lawsuit – that it was illegal to copy DVDs because you had to decrypt them to do it, even though it would be legal to copy them if they weren’t encrypted. In other words, you have the right to the data, they were saying, just not to the means to move it.

Guess what? They won that lawsuit.

If they win this one, to comply with the law you will have to buy a downloaded copy of a song or album for your itunes, another for your CD player, etc.

These people have money, and they have clout, and they are scared right down to their bones of us, of our generation, of our sort. They are professional middlemen looking getting cut out of the transaction in the eye, and they are taking something away from all of us, every day, to keep it from happening. Yes, just copying CDs to your computer IS that important.

Decide where you stand on the matter of these pigs buying the law and controlling the art. Decide where you stand on the matter of these people telling your lawmakers what to do and your lawmakers blindly listening to them and their stupid ass money.

You need to write your congressperson about this. You need to tell them that the slow erosion of consumer intellectual property rights is a voting issue for you.

Listen: The watchmaker’s argument is horseshit.

It’s presumptous horse-shit and here’s why:

The justoposition in the argument is not the existence or complexity of the watch – it’s only its placement in the field. 

It’s an arrogant argument because the plants in the field are easily as complex as the watch.

It’s an ignorant argument because it ignores the way probability works and presumes to know the infinity of the universe.

Bad. Fucking. Argument.  

Good christ. I’ve signed up for something called secondlife.

It’s a virtual world where anyone can do to anything.

Some people use it for really, really rad stuff.

Some people use it for total garbage.

It’s kind of weird.

Holy shit.

People are goofy, you know?

People are just goofy.

How many great things have you passed up because of some piece of interior bullshit that kept you from operating?

I mean, just what the fuck is wrong with our software?

If you go the front of Penny Acrcade, you can check out some news about the nature of viral marketing.

This is rather like William Gibson’s recent novel Pattern Recognition.

Consider carefully that william gibson is supposed to write science fiction. Ponder it. Roll it around. Let it fuck with you a little.

Why is it when aspects of the future predicted for us by our best and brightest do arrive, they never seem to be the positive aspects… 

Well, I guess that’s enough for right now. I don’t want you little scamps to break.

Bye bye for now, and until we talk again, don’t be full of shit.

40m, -11

I watched the mangler 3.

Take that.

So . . . what is the deal where the second you like a given girl it puts out some pheremone/statisical vibe that conspires to make it so you never see her so you can’t tell her?

I was recently very mean to a dominatrix. I actually made her eyes bug out a little. It was rad.

Other facts: Said domintrix used to be pretty cool

I’ve been fed up and working mornings lately, which means I really only work and sleep.

I haven’t had a good hard honest to god night’s sleep in a month or two. I’m pretty frayed.

What happens olympians when they win? They have like, two things they can do: Coach or public speaking. Unless they do ice shows.

I would like to see the ice-show format spread to all formats.

“And now a wonderful night of freestyle wrestling with music by Manheim Steamroller and the Boston Pops”

I am going to make a sausage containinng opiates. Her-o-ween. Deal with it.

I’ve noticed a lot of bullshit lately.

My favorite? “Well, I’m going to go ahead and say merry christmas, even though it’s not PC”

Ohhhh, you big fucking rebel.

I keep hearing from (mostly people who watch fox news) that there is a ‘war on christmas’

There is no war on christmas. Even if somewhere in the country an atheist is being a great big fuck-juggling stretch-hole about something, that is not a war on christmas.

How do I know this? Because there is no other side. People who wish to be quickly inclusive (IE NOT say “HAPPY CHRISTMAS HAUNNIKA (if the people that celebrate it can’t pick a spelling, I’m making one up) KWANZA AND FESTIVUS SEASON EVERYONE) or inoffensive and businesslike (this is your boss I’m talking about – he’s not an atheist himself, he’d just rather not have people making huge deals about holdays so he doesn’t have to give you days off) have been saying “happy holidays” for years.

A few people doing what they’ve always done – not practicing a religion of which they are not a member and not forcing it on others – is not a ‘war’

I should seriously start killing goats at work and when they tell me to stop bitch about the 1st amnd. being violated by their “war on satanism”

Christmas is a lie anyway – it’s just another holy roman corruption of an old roman feast day.

“What do you mean you don’t want to celebrate Saturnalia now that you’re christians? It’s still a bitchin’ party…”

“Well, it’s not Christian”

“OK we will put Christ in the name. Come have a beer/beers”

“YAY! MULTIPLE LIBATION POTENTIAL! TRULY, CHRIST IS RISEN”

I am sick of right wing bullshit. The biggest thing I’m sick of is people fucking insisting fox news is “FAIR AND BALANCED” whereas the liberal press is “biased”

Something having the opposite fucking bias is not being ‘unbiased’
Fox News is not unbiased just because they say so
Stop letting a fucking channel of douchebag waterheads think for you, especially if you are going to pollute my christmas dinner table with completely unfounded, crude, illogical, knee jerk pollitical bullshit involving subjects you do not understand.

I am a horrible citizen of christmas. I never buy gifts, I am never on time, I always do my shopping late, I don’t send cards or presents out on time, I don’t remember who got me what last year, etc.

I’m a horrible Christmas citizen.

I just refused to feel overly pressured about the season and I don’t really have enough money to get everybody I want to get stuff for the stuff I want to get them, so I try taking this bullshit stance against materialism that is just basically me going “Wah, Waaaaah, I be poor” – since, rest assured, had I money, I’d be materialistic as all fuck.

It would be awsome if I had money, you guys, seriously.

God would it ever.

I’d buy an island. I’d make the country of Me-Ownia, the country I own. It’d be sweet. I’d try to get enough of my friends to move to the island rent free to qualify us as a country and then I’d abuse all my diplomatic powers. I’d build free flowing and largely wall-less tropical bungalows for everyone and see too it the dress code was nudity for the attractive and oversized free flowing garmets designed to maximize our few assets for the rest of us. I would then provide tons of food, space, art supplies, casual sex with trained gymnasts, internet connectivity, industry connections, and time to any of my friends that required some sort of socio-political patronage to pursue their true bliss, not as charity per se but because my friends are bad ass and giving them full access to the world would result in fruit-bearing works of an intensity we shall term only ‘blinding.’ 



  

Richard Pryor died.

Now who do I send my royalty money too when I say “motherfucker?”

Heh. I have use or lose vacation so I am taking two weeks off from work.

I’m going to kick it old school, I think. Is that a good plan?