December 30, 2006
How the anti-copyright lobby makes big business richer
With mass rip-offs on the Web and the unit value of images crashing, photographers can no longer make a living independently from their work, and so are driven towards working for these corporations to earn a living. As digital content becomes more commodified, the more certain it is that only big business can profit from it, thanks to their economies of scale.
[...] Advocates who put out material under a “copy me” license or in the public domain usually have a day job. I don’t. My photography is my job. Authors who do this it’s usually a publicity gimmick or a loss-leader.
In reality, what is happening on the web is the transfer of the authors’ labour to large corporations for nothing. Anti-copyright lobbyists have become either unwitting allies, or shills, for big business.
A must-read. It should be clear that I am pro-Copyright but anti-CopyNazi.
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December 30, 2006
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December 29, 2006
That’s the sound Lurch would make in the classic 1960s TV series The Addams Family.
That’s also what my life has been like the past few days.
That move I’ve been assisting, phase one is complete. It’s been just like The Fall of Saigon. A rushed withdrawal with much left behind.
Phase two, dealing with the detritus, is Urrrrrrr.
Never buy a bagless vacuum cleaner if it will be used to suck cat litter and cat hair. I’ve been stuck with one for clean-up and its wee filter — approximately 1.5″ diameter — gets clogged every fifteen to thirty seconds! It’s like having a vacuum cleaner with the capacity of a tablespoon!
Urrrrrrr!!!
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December 26, 2006
Pill that tricks you into losing weight
The Boston conference heard that Excalia, being developed by the Californian company Orexigen, was given to 27 obese people for 24 weeks. Almost three quarters lost five per cent of their weight and half shed ten per cent. By 48 weeks most had lost 12 per cent of their weight.
McDonald’s, KFC, Toxic Bell, and the rest will find a way to incorporate it into their, ahem, food.
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December 26, 2006
See? All of you laughed out of your asses when I expected a ten-buck camera to work.
Well look at what just fifty bucks will get!
Yeah, now all of you want it too!
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December 26, 2006
You wouldn’t believe the search queries that lead people to this blog.
photos of the cane done to girls
Please!
I never take pictures!
And since returning the shit from Sakar, I can’t!
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December 26, 2006
Been there, done that.
The Nap & Cyc worked.
The second cold is a defeated thing whose ignominious corpses are being expelled from my nostrils.
Such flagellent imagery…
Still, go wash your hands.
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December 26, 2006
HD disk format wars are over
THE NEXT GENERATION disk format has been settled once and for all. Thanks to the due diligence, hard work and unprecedented cooperation between the media companies, the hardware vendors and the OS vendor, we finally have a solution. It is quite easy, Piracy, the better choice(TM).
Oh I dream of the day when all those motherfucking attorneys and ex-Wall Street vultures are crushed out of their bloodclot jobs and there are no longer any leeches, roadblocks, or other impediments between Creators and Audience.
Get your Cardboard Box Condos ready, you no-talent bullshitting bastards.
Doing my bit to aid their future beggardom:
Illegal Video Downloads Surpass Legal Alternatives 5 to 1
According to the NPD Group, a consumer and retail information company, for every legally downloaded video file, there are five illegally downloaded ones on P2P networks and BitTorrent sites.
BitTorrent Tutorial Roundup
Here’s a roundup of some of the BitTorrent related tutorials we wrote this year. Twelve tutorials in total, so there will probably be something interesting for everyone.
Don’t Cry For The Suits.
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December 24, 2006
I don’t know about this.
How believable can it be neglecting chocolate?
Chocolate
Promotes a sense of well-being
Sends brain into hypercognition mode
Encourages romance
So it also rots teeth, clogs arteries, and programs the body for diabetes.
Can’t get to heaven without passing through hell…
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