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Actual thought on Piracy
... via deathboy, written by Tim O'Reilly, seven years ago.
Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online DistributionAdmittedly, there is a different flavor to piracy of something you could have as a tangible reference (books, and even more specifically books where you want, say, X table or Y diagram often, and you want ( Read more... ) -
Catching up...
For which I can thank LJ's "view your FList on any given date" technology, which beats the holy motherfucking shit out of going back by increments of 15 till you recognize a post. Now, if only those archival applications presented things in descending order of age from top to bottom. Seriously. How is it that so few blogs highlight the option to ( Read more... ) -
Ahem.
Back from Pennsic. Forgot to get details on and then set up voice-posting. Probably just as well, as I ran out my cell phone battery halfway through the week - forgot my watch, so it was my oly timepiece.
Learned some things - for example, that forging a knife doesn't make my arms or hands hurt, but boy, rough on the old feet. Caught up with ( Read more... ) -
Spatial reasoning
The Corolla is now packed up for Pennsic, but for the last minute things that can be fecked anywhere. Despite bringing an additional tent for unicornlatte, we still don't much rise above the window line in the back seats. This is because I am awesome (Also because ragnvaeig is awesome, packs light, and handles the grocery shopping after we arrive. We're only bringing ( Read more... ) -
Dear newsperson
Nothing dating to the nineteen seventies has a "wealth" of history. It is debateable whether it is in the middle class of history, even here in the US. I tend to believe it has a junior supersaver account of history, since it is in a region with buildings predating that time by a couple centuries. -
My word...
Through the generous support of viewers like you (but more specifically through the very, awesomely generous support of users exactly like troubleagain, who just bought me an entire year of paid account time) we are pleased to bring you the return of such classic hits as "I'm Listening With Beer", the fiery angel of wrath, and "Tasty brains"!
Thanks, troubleagain - you ( Read more... ) -
Whoops.
Looks like I'm back to a Basic account. Didn't pay attention to the alerts from LJ. Oops.
Wouldn't be so annoying if they hadn't pared down my usericon set to a list different from the original six I had before. *grumble grumble no more listening with beer icon*
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Huh
I find it kind of interesting that the discussion of Brüno over at deutsche_kultur still manages to mirror the other discussions of cultural appropriation I've seen.
Henceforth, I think I am only going to reply to certain posts in such discussions with links to the appropriate chapter of Derailing for Dummies.
