You should probably read up on his views of exactly this topic. Here's a clue: His death [didn't] make any of our invented gods magically more real to him.

Keep in mind that his intellect wasn't limited to a single-generational, Judeo-Christian, Western-only perspective, like most people posting about him today. He wasn't easy to agree with on all topics, but you'd best not treat his writings like that of a typical TV commentator. It was much more considered.

The walled gardens are full of splendor, as we pay the entrance fee for a reason. Bringing your own picnic, despite the guards, will never be prevented.

Just don't leave your MP3 player in the car

Don't forget just using digital music to reproduce non-digitally

- performing commercial music with a backing track from the original and charging for it
- charging to go on a camping trip, and during that time singing along wearing earbuds some commercial music.
- host a party, acting out in front of a movie screen showing a commercial movie, having charged for tickets to the party.
- paying to place my car in a parking lot, but playing a CD to others. someone records a video of it and sells it, with the audio included

The RIAA doesn't exist simply because of wishing.. Artists themselves pay and support them to help keep channels of content monetized - it's their livelihood. I understand that artists may have newer ideas about distribution, but so far new channels are considered off-limits until thoroughly examined. This new method is simply too new for them to accept, IMO.

Your sweeping suggestion implies that content should be free. That may or may not be true, but building a career in making the content could be vastly more difficult.

Credit Unions are part of networks. You are misinformed.

The videos have been released.
http://vimeo.com/31505142

its a hologram, subject to many of the same limitations. It has higher clarity and color, but it's still static. It cannot project beyond the borders of the image.

Sounds like both groups provide no value to society in your eyes. I wonder if you can rephrase your comment from their perspective.

My revision is based on your set, which I like:

+1 Interesting
+1 Funny
-1 Wrong
-1 Unnecessary

"-1 Citation Needed" seems like you're trying to turn the moderation into a measure of truth. It's not. It's a measure of the interest/insight/humor/flamebait to the mods that day.

We don't need mods to become another comment system. Let the comments flow, but keep the mod buckets narrow.

If you only get 6 mods, which would you choose?

Actually, be neither. I want /. to be transparent. I would like the editors to pick up from the firehose, expand/research/decline stories and then post them without editorial bias.

I would dislike any strong appearance of a "personality" to /. We chew on the news, that's it.

Preview works. Use it. Playing editor is a tough job. I strongly dislike the concept of updates on posts. Forgive yourself and post a response.

If there a filter for mod types? Sometimes I just want to see the Funny.

  I wrote about opinions in the article summaries. Editors should simply throw opinions into the comments, if they have any.