Indeed, there are people talking about ways to get around it in the comments. I just wish the "imminent death of the Net" people would knock it off. :P
Indeed, there are people talking about ways to get around it in the comments. I just wish the "imminent death of the Net" people would knock it off. :P
I'd rather it be overhyped and turn out to be nothing than people do jack shit and it actually turns out to be crippling.
Actually that Bible quote sums up deconstructionist thought pretty damn well
Questioning everything in order to look smart has been around as long as the world's oldest trade (prostitution) has yet every generation sees these insufferable twits resurge like they're pioneering new ways to think
Mojave: It means that if someone is trying to cordon off part of the Internet because they have a bug up their ass about something, people will find a way around it.
Indeed, there are people talking about ways to get around it in the comments. I just wish the "imminent death of the Net" people would knock it off. :P
I'd rather it be overhyped and turn out to be nothing than people do jack shit and it actually turns out to be crippling.
i'm actually surprised how relatively little talk about this there has been, considering the previous reaction to SOPA and PIPA.
Mojave: It means that if someone is trying to cordon off part of the Internet because they have a bug up their ass about something, people will find a way around it.
Indeed, there are people talking about ways to get around it in the comments. I just wish the "imminent death of the Net" people would knock it off. :P
I'd rather it be overhyped and turn out to be nothing than people do jack shit and it actually turns out to be crippling.
i'm actually surprised how relatively little talk about this there has been, considering the previous reaction to SOPA and PIPA.
i guess because the government isn't involved?
The government is almost certainly involved in some way.
Though it occurs to me that I get my internet through Palmerton Telephone so I'm not sure if I'm even affected, yet.
And kind of hilarious, although i shouldn't laugh.
I remember Tzetze mentioning on his tumblr that he occasionally felt sorry for medieval people, because bestiaries and travel guides were filled with terrifying weird shit, and you had no way of knowing it was all just made-up nonsense and fever dreams.
Then I look at this and my twitter feed's talk of "the simulators" and I just laugh.
I don't know what that quote is supposed to mean really.
It basically means that censoring anything on the internet (be it for any reason -- copyright, etc) is ultimately futile. Just like the RIAA tried to shut down Napster, when they did, it did nothing to stop music trading.
I'm on Verizon, but I hardly ever watch TV or movies (well, the stuff people feel like pirating, anyway), and I get all my music from Amazon MP3, Bandcamp or YouTube.
Yeah, there's no way to tell if a file is "illegal" unless someone complains after the fact. Generally, this will be copyright bots on BitTorrent ratting on people.
Actually that Bible quote sums up deconstructionist thought pretty damn well
Questioning everything in order to look smart has been around as long as the world's oldest trade (prostitution) has yet every generation sees these insufferable twits resurge like they're pioneering new ways to think
Except they kind of were?
It wasn't entirely new, they had forerunners, obviously, which they never denied, but the theory as formulated was fairly radical.
Yeah, there's no way to tell if a file is "illegal" unless someone complains after the fact. Generally, this will be copyright bots on BitTorrent ratting on people.
I'm waiting for someone to be wrongly targeted due to an overzealous bot and end up getting fucked over.
Alas! Shade Goblin Cholly, the auditor of The Scum Grasslandplain, has impregnated the Prince of Burgundystronghold Point! Now it's up to the land's last surviving congressman, Kaito the Timid, to explore the terrible lands of Shaffly-on-Surrey and execute the dangerous miscreant to save the day!
Nihilism seems pretty depressing to me, although it didn't always.
i am grateful for DOTA, in spite of online abuses, because the alternative is presumably a world where literature essays can be marked down for not agreeing with your professor's headcanon.
i am grateful for DOTA, in spite of online abuses, because the alternative is presumably a world where literature essays can be marked down for not agreeing with your professor's headcanon.
It has its place, but its place is not "I CAN WRITE STUPID OUT OF CHARACTER FANFICS ALL I WANT BECAUSE DOTA! FUCK YOUUUUUUUUU!"
plus 99% of the people who use it as a defense don't even know what it is, so....
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That's amazing.
And kind of hilarious, although i shouldn't laugh. Not really? The whole point of the OED is to record English as it's actually used, including online.
The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. -John Gilmore
i guess because the government isn't involved?
The government is almost certainly involved in some way.
Though it occurs to me that I get my internet through Palmerton Telephone so I'm not sure if I'm even affected, yet.
Then I look at this and my twitter feed's talk of "the simulators" and I just laugh.
It wasn't entirely new, they had forerunners, obviously, which they never denied, but the theory as formulated was fairly radical.
Figuratively:
wait is that the guy who came up with Death of The Author?
fuck that guy
OK
he cool then.
i am grateful for DOTA, in spite of online abuses, because the alternative is presumably a world where literature essays can be marked down for not agreeing with your professor's headcanon.
It has its place, but its place is not "I CAN WRITE STUPID OUT OF CHARACTER FANFICS ALL I WANT BECAUSE DOTA! FUCK YOUUUUUUUUU!"
plus 99% of the people who use it as a defense don't even know what it is, so....
^ As is that.
Oh, this is nice.