asciilifeform: or is dmca precisely what it appears to be - a bludgeon for riaa/mpaa to use, and anything else is incidental noise.
asciilifeform: yes but has anyone lost and paid it ?
asciilifeform knows of no serious cases of such damages having been imposed, but - ianal!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l, not even copyrasty ?!
asciilifeform: so after umpteen many warnings, the king's men roust all the bums that can be rousted, and dynamite the place.
asciilifeform: they even persist in bringing friends over.
asciilifeform: which boils down to: imagine there is a derelict house occupied by alcoholic bomzhes. the city condemned it, but the occupants refuse to leave.
asciilifeform: Guest19244: in the seek00r1ty business, there is a concept called 'full disclosure'
asciilifeform: (the mechanism which stops at particular floors was invented long after original 'otis')
asciilifeform: yes, the kind that merely has an up/down toggle
asciilifeform: when i worked, many years ago, at 'nih' in bethesda, maryland - they experimented with reintroducing elevator-drivers. as i understood, it was merely an employment program for the Officially Sad
asciilifeform: (to clarify, i am not of such vintage as where elevator would have come equipped with a living 'driver')
asciilifeform: Chillum: reminds me of an article i read as a boy in some 'mothering/homekeeping' magazine my folks had, about 'should kid thank the elevator'
asciilifeform: (instead of sending gladwell to take his rightful place behind the latrine)
asciilifeform: then other hack writers made creative excuses for this stunt
asciilifeform: inadvertently revealing that, not only did he sleep in school, but did not even contemplate cracking open a book
asciilifeform: he was attempting to abuse the very basic mathematical concept of 'eigenvalue', and referred to it, repeatedly, in print as 'igon value'.
asciilifeform: there once was/is an american hack writer named gladwell. was published in huge quantities and the drivel was stocked everywhere, for political reasons which i'm still only dimly aware of.
asciilifeform: not hammering on Chillum here, but the memory was inescapable
asciilifeform: a list of the correctness of a culture << precisely. it is a -standards document-
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> i wish to see the female alf. and her shoe collection. << lol, 'i wish to meet the female chingis khan and her sheep collection'
asciilifeform: i would pay 10x for a version sans the garbage
asciilifeform: (in practice it is very physically arduous to use)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a man-portable encyclopaedia (and Forth interpreter!) that runs on two batteries for several years and does not need the net seemed like a good idea.
asciilifeform: about 0.003 % is the fraction of the time i get something worth reading.
asciilifeform: anyway, i'll concern myself with this detail soon after i decide whether to use xenon or argon in the maneuvering ion engines for my mars lander.
asciilifeform: this is like asking which is better to get, a 'boeing' or a 'trabant.'
asciilifeform: what do you mean "have to work with" ? << some folks can afford a palace and a stable of pets to cultivate therein; others - yellow pages, when they get 'bonus' salary. on holidays.
asciilifeform: depends on what you have to work with, no ?
