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I'm sue you guys can come up with an open source cow and a copyright cow gag.
SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws
the milk away...TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessonsAN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters
of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax
exemption for five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary
to a Cayman Island
Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the
rights to all seven
cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows,
with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States,
leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the
release. The public then buys your bull.A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you
want three cows.A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow
and produce twenty
times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image
called 'Cowkimon' and market it worldwide.A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month,
and milk themselves.AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
You count them again and learn you have 2 cows.
You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad.AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
No-one believes you, so they bomb the out of you and invade your country.
You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of Democracy... .AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive. -
to the open source anti copyright guys, I'm interested in your income structure, how do you earn a living for stuff you give away? serious question asked sincerely.
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Golden (heh) !
very clever sasha :)
we should move away from the urine jokes I think,and mark although I like your opening comment on this thread it should have been
©a computer literate man like you doesn't know option g is the circle c sign?? you really are open source.
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Excuse me but my piss is copyright and therefore not to be taken (I spent hours creating it, you know)
I thought yours was open source piss?
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Want to share why?
taking the piss (that's allowed isn't it?), to illustrate a point, (not necessarily made by you but the music is easy, minimal effort, why should they get so much money thing), plus I was bored at the time.
not bitter, savory sweet, like mince flavoured ice cream, mmmmmm
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He does provide it at his expense already.
oh sure , if you mean he paid for the recording, invested thetime to create it, promote it, provide the equipment needed to perform and capture it, provide the personnel that did all above said functions and the premises on which to do them and then as you mentioned the bandwidth for which you may acquire said music. but other than that, what's he done? surely dropping off a burn to a 'fan' (who doesn't want to use his bandwidth) isn't too much to ask?
I've changed my position - 50-70 years IS too long for these money grabbin' buggers
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Thanks for the offer. I've just changed my notation to show I'm in Waikanae and I don't go into town much. Not a problem.
really, I'm sure its not a problem, reznor's not in it for the money or anything, I can't see why he wouldn't drop it round at his expense
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"that's half my cap on a band I don't even listen to" so i didn't ;-)
there's no pleasing you is there mark.
What's your address?, I'll get trent to drop round a burn for you. -
Where we disagree on is finding the best means. It isn't through handing yet more control to a discredited, centralised, outdated distribution system.
dude, stop lumping me in with those pricks, its offensive.
I think you're attributing arguments to me that I haven't forwarded.
my simple case is the elvis recordings. I think when those original recordings were made they became a piece of property and should maintain their value indefinitely or until they are left un attended at which time they become public domain.remember people can re record those songs with their own voice if they want but elvis's voice belongs to the people that own the rights to those recordings and its their to exploit until they no long wish to do so.
When I create a recording thats what I think I should have the right to do and anyone I sell the rights of that recording to should have those right and if I die and leave those rights to someone then they should have those rights and so on. I have invested in property, I've made something that is identifiable. you can do your own versions of those songs but I paid for these versions so they're mine.
if you like how I've done my drum sounds and want to them in your songs either front for the cash to do your own recordings or pay me to use mine. being a cheap ass isn't an excuse. and if you can't afford it do something that fits with what you feel comfortable investing in your music, just like I did. don't leach off me, unless of course I can leach off you and everyone else in society in which case its a level playing field and I'm cool with that.That's the concept i'm I'm putting forward. now tell me why after 50-70 years what was mine isn't any more.
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I believe that to be an accurate summary..
I do have a tongue and a cheek sasha, you are aware of that :)
love a good discussion...don, tell us about how you get your income