Posts by BenWilson
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I'm sure you'll find a friend soon, anyway
I agree with what robbery writes some of the time. I wouldn't want him to go away because he thought everyone here was his enemy. I'm saying this because it might help Rob lose his "lone voice of sanity" tone that definitely irritates a lot of people.
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As for the Kindle audio position, it's just mean spirited and shortsighted. People who want or need horrid t2s are already punished enough.
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Presumably I misread your irony, but I couldn't see that anyone had actually expressed any of the views you referred to.
Ironic hyperbole perhaps. I kind of got what he was driving at, but to me the great irony is that robbery has to put up with all of those conditions on everything he writes online, which is a heck of a lot. But it doesn't stop him. It may be a source of bitterness, though.
My 2c on intellectual property is that it's not a major driver of innovation. But my business is software, not traditional art. You can make a shitload of cash in software without owning IP (although the really big fortunes tend to come from it), so I don't care to generalize. Making more traditional art - music, writing, painting, choreography etc are perhaps very different, in that many genuinely original people are often not well rewarded. That doesn't seem to have stopped them, but who can really know if there weren't lots of squandered talents out there who simply didn't want to endure poverty. I often feel that way myself, that the software projects I really wanted to work on just weren't lucrative enough, and maybe the world missed out. By the time I'm rich enough to just write whatever I like, I may well have lost the edge. But then again, maybe if I really had the artistic horn, I might have done them anyway.
Basically, I don't have any objection to people profiting from their art, but I don't think the failure to profit is a great detriment to art, so ultimately I don't really have a position on IP. It just seems like one of those curious facts about society, that on the one hand forces will drive some people to protect their power over ideas, and on the other, ideas can't really practically be contained or owned. Certainly not the good ones. The real battle rages between the ideas themselves, and humans are their battlefield.
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You followed a trail of billygoat's blood?
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It always struck me that the whole point of wearing obscure advertising was to appear to be passionate about something, without anyone being able to hassle you about how shit it was. Which seems a bit shit all in itself.
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you can't monetise a blog right?
Surely if you can whore a link you can whore a whole blog. That would be a whore house, in fact.
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But couldn't you just buy a blank hat then?
Few ever seem to. Personally I wear one. But no one has ever accused me of having style.
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What if your favourite band or sports team just has shit apparel?
Like every national team in Australia, for instance? It explains why Ozzies have no shame.
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He hid in his bower.
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I've got the Joker. It's called the fire alarm switch.
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