More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
Pillows, here is a neat little fact about forever: a monkey in front of a typewriter in that time would almost certainly produce all of Shakespeare's plays. :3
Also supporting all those people who make fan videos of stuff. And trying to help see to it that, if their stuff gets taken down, it goes back up. Or at least people know that it was taken down. And care about that and feel offended by that.
In general, supporting legitimate derivative work. We should be doing what we can to make transformative derivative works legal.
While you can pay a flat rate and cover someone else's song, in the music industry, you can't do that with pretty much anything else. And that would be a good first step in the right direction, policy-wise.
Pillows, here is a neat little fact about forever: a monkey in front of a typewriter in that time would almost certainly produce all of Shakespeare's plays. :3
remember that... 1. it could be gone any minute now, thanks to DMCA 2. you can help preserve it
find a way to save it permanently to your own hard drive remember to save the video description too credit the uploader, and whoever else they credit
(exception is probably straight-up uploads of other content, such as a whole song or movie or something. though even then, maybe the visuals would make it worth it...think AMVs and such. those definitely add new meaning to the music.)
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once. - Borges
The way classical composers worked back in the day, the modern notion of copyright was not even a thing -- you just credited your source and wrote your variations on their theme or fugue on their melody. And everyone enjoyed a good time.
Now if you announce you're remaking an old videogame in 3D, you get threatened by people wanting to sue your pants off.
I love things that are free, too, but I recognize that there really is no free lunch if you look at the big picture. So I've realized I have to be careful to support those things that I support, with my funding.
We might vote with our political votes only once every year (or for those of you who are less aware of elections, once every two or four years), but we vote with our money almost every day.
well, i mean, the reason for Shakespeare's pedestal in English literature is certainly worth questioning, and has been questioned, in a serious academic context, not just on the internet
Sometimes Reality needs to be told to sit down and shut the heck up because dang it, there is such thing as a five-meter Crocodile. Harald Hardraade really was that frigging tall. Closer to seven feet than six, and closer to eight feet than seven. Brendan the navigator really did ride a whale. William Tell shot the frigging apple off of his son's head. Edward the Confessor COULD AND DID cure leprosy, poison, any kind of illness with a touch and the water he washed his hands in DID make the blind see. Edward the Confessor could make a man born without arms grow working arms and he could bring back the dead, he DID bring a beheaded man back to life be putting the man's head back on and putting a ring on his finger, and that ring WAS given to Edward by an angel. The only people Edward the Confessor could not save were himself and his brother Alfred. Battle numbers in history atr not exaggerated. Joan of Arc really did find Joyeuse, the sword of Charlemagne. Speaking of named swords, Gyrngras is still out there, somewhere. Martin Luther actually did hit Satan with that inkwell, and it actually did hurt Satan (though it passed through him and hit the wall). Nicephorus Phocas was actually a dwarf and Bohemond was a giant, and Phocas really was that ugly and Bohemond VII did produce offspring in Lataika.
Also, Agreed, though I haven't visited Less Wrong more than a half dozen times, that seems to be their verbal fix. I meant to sauce bal tic, but I like the way it came out better.
Thanks to copyright law, there can be no more classic works. Everything is now modern, forever. Nothing can be a point of social commonality, unless it somehow loses its copyright status and goes into the public domain by accident. Or rather, social commonality has been commercialized and monetized: in order to be in the know, you will have to pay money to experience the musical or verbal or visual thing that everyone is talking about.
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No credit goes to those big-name folks that try to control the public discourse into a profit-maximization scheme with their mass marketing shit.
In general, supporting legitimate derivative work. We should be doing what we can to make transformative derivative works legal.
While you can pay a flat rate and cover someone else's song, in the music industry, you can't do that with pretty much anything else. And that would be a good first step in the right direction, policy-wise.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
however the monkey would die before it came close
and the monkey thing is well-known. They would also produce the works of James Joyce, Charles Dickens, and Miko.
remember that...
1. it could be gone any minute now, thanks to DMCA
2. you can help preserve it
find a way to save it permanently to your own hard drive
remember to save the video description too
credit the uploader, and whoever else they credit
(exception is probably straight-up uploads of other content, such as a whole song or movie or something. though even then, maybe the visuals would make it worth it...think AMVs and such. those definitely add new meaning to the music.)
omg I can't even spell and I haven't had alcohol in like a week
Now if you announce you're remaking an old videogame in 3D, you get threatened by people wanting to sue your pants off.
but did you know that there's no need to employ any monkeys at all?
the complete works of every author ever are encoded in the digits of every normal irrational number
the difficulty is in determining which numbers are normal, of course
We might vote with our political votes only once every year (or for those of you who are less aware of elections, once every two or four years), but we vote with our money almost every day.
This is peak autism holy shit.
but A Midsummer Night's Dream, a bad play?
but it didn't keep happening
TIMESTAMPS MYRMIDON! WE POSTED ATTHE SAME TIME!