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mircea_popescu: but your arguments don't work like you want them to nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's never happened, cuz why would somebody.
mircea_popescu: but your point doesn't work, seeing how... there isn't a way.
mircea_popescu: this equivocation would be the other, smaller reason copyrights still survive.
mircea_popescu: undata anyway, you're equivocating two things here. on one hand, you'll find exactly zero support here for the proposition that someone should make money off the writings of dead authors ; on the other hand, you'll find exactly zero support here for the theory that you should be able to play any computer game you wish without having to pay the company that made it anything.
mircea_popescu: exactly that way : its customers ended up on food stamps :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally : you know what "solid earner" died the exact death you describe ? buffett's "discount stamps"
mircea_popescu: undata they've not gotten anything intelligent done in 20 years. plenty of idiocy got done tho.
mircea_popescu: see the famous case of that neonazi kid whatever his name is
mircea_popescu: here's a good one : it'll never happen that they'll send people to prison for fixing software.
mircea_popescu: you have any idea how many of these "it'll never happen"s i heard ?
mircea_popescu: undata no. by acting as if the usg actually has some sort of power or importance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that being the only reason it still survives as a going concern.
mircea_popescu: undata well there's no problem with helping it along, but your proposed measures have the opposite effect ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's not my perspective, though we don't disagree. in my view of the matter, they will be done in by the fact that the intersection of thinking people and copyright observers will become the null set.
mircea_popescu: how did it become the case in us of fuckyou that you can be fined for using the internet ?
mircea_popescu: somewhere your thinking's broken but i don't readily spot where. wtf are you on about, "dropping that risk to nigligible" ?
mircea_popescu: undata it wouldn't do anything. you're basically saying, "carbon credits will permanently solve the eco whining". no, it provably won't.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck would awk be if someone tried to rewrite it to include privacy ?
mircea_popescu: undata listen, you're misdesigning here. the "privacy" angle is not to be solved at the tool level.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I feel the compulsion to collect them in case 1984 << you are doing a good thing.
mircea_popescu: which i think will be pretty shattery. roughly same topic.
mircea_popescu: but incidentally : i have for the past hour been writing on this piece
mircea_popescu: if you can do that, why stop there ? make round cubes,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform considere the case of the farming ants. are the ants intelligent ? no. are the teats of the bugs milked in time ? yes.
mircea_popescu: those mythical women that are perpetually hawt and perpetually alone.
mircea_popescu: the islant of smart bureaucrats is like ten miles off the island of the amazons
mircea_popescu: but this is evolving towards a rehash of the meta-nsa discussion we've really done to death
mircea_popescu: maybe they should paint foodstamps in different colors
mircea_popescu: so one could argue they're the same group in the end. but anyway.
mircea_popescu: now, sure all the idiots in the end are fed out of the same through
mircea_popescu: one can well piss off different groups of idiots you know.
mircea_popescu: decimation i very much doubt there's any relation there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform myeah, "anything that isn't bolted down" or how did it go.
mircea_popescu: people tend to forget just how self-defeating idiocy is.
mircea_popescu: they are like the usual assetions of the <del>socialist</del> five year old : they neglect everything except for what he wants.
mircea_popescu: it's just not either brought honestly nor signed by its authors.
mircea_popescu: decimation it IS an economic argument. it goes like so
mircea_popescu: but as a general moral of the thing, one's best be careful to post on their blog trashing idiots like us* or else they risk appearing in victorious tweets like "oh noes, 5 economists reviewed this!!!", which is exactly how the empire works.
mircea_popescu: and if she did say this sucks, i have no way to know. which isn't consistent with the "smart" rating, sadly.
mircea_popescu: one that somehow forgot to come by and say "hey check out the derpage"
mircea_popescu: as in sometimes they do, more or less impredictably so.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's kind of the intention, but it does not really work
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes two typos, and since it was consistent it made me curious :D
mircea_popescu: decimation you can imagine his cold cold sweat once he finally figured out who exactly the "enthusiastic early adopters" were.