You'll find that many serious psychological disorders stem from not being able to forget.
Okay. List them. "Serious psychological disorders"? Go ahead and list them out of the DSMIV or whatever you can find. I'd be curious because GMail and GChat have made my life a thousand times better with their impeccable recording and recall abilities. "Remember when I suggested The Naked and Famous to you like three years ago? Oh, you don't? That's funny, this e-mail says otherwise."
Thank you for proving the OP's post. It seems you suffer from self-righteous assholism. I would look into counseling.
That's where you're wrong or it's impossible to prove that no one will ever want to see it. I would absolutely love to see the world through my grandfather's eyes.
One time I went to a thrift store and they had random family effects. One of them was this ancient black leather flip book with about 50 black and white plate photographs in it and as I flipped through them I saw settlers on the plains. Standing next to Native Americans. Standing next to mud huts that they had cut with sod. Standing next to oxen tied to a manual plow. On and on they went. [...]
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So, I think you're wrong. And I think that those handful of black and white photos have expanded to stacks of color photos and now long videos of family gatherings from VHS to CCD. Is it really that absurd to think that someday your offspring will wonder what life is like? Or 200 years from now any random person just curious about life was like in our time?
The only problem is, those videos will be just as revealing as those photos were. Just because something moves doesn't mean you'll glean insight. something like this is so much better, and the best thing is, you can find something like that in the time period in which you're interested.
But all this has a cost.
You need to pay a small tax in every empty CD, DVD, HDD, SSD and now on memory sticks as well. It is about 15 euros from HDD what is bigger than 750GB
About a 15 cent on empty DVD and about 10 cent on empty CD.
This is where the law COMPLETELY falls apart. This is absolutely and completely unacceptable. Who decides the breakdown of this collected tax? What about artists not in the golden tax guild, how do they get their share? How do we know it's going to the copyright holders period?
Damn right people are mad about it. I'd be pissed, too. America had that tax on blank tapes, too. There are special "music" blank cds that are more expensive because they have that tax as well, but in all frankness, fuck them if they want to tax my HDDs and SD cards because the might store backups of music I paid for.
We've let RIA* groups distort the conversation so much it almost physically hurts me. We should be debating how much jail time some dumbass gets for downloading some shit song that will be forgotten in two years, we should be debating how many years we need to shorten copyright to reign it back in to sane levels. Make copyright reasonable, say less than 15 years, hell make it single digit, and I'll join the line demanding infringers to serve time. While it's in the three digits, fuck off with your $15 tax so I can "share with my family". Song recorded before I was born will still be under copyright when I'm dead.
I can't speak for the accuracy of his claim that in "other cultures", it's usually a winner take all scenario where one parent walks away and disappears, and the other steps up to raise the kid. But I definitely think there are times when this really is the best outcome for the kid.
As an American living and abiding by one of those "other cultures" let me just say no. NO! NO! NO! Japan is one of those other cultures. There is no concept here of joint custody. A good friend of mine hasn't seen his boys in three years now, despite desperately wanting to. His ex-wife's psycho parents agreed with you that letting him see his children would "confuse" them, thus they told their daughter to move and not tell him where and refuse to divulge the information. He has no legal recourse.
Unless the mother gives up the right or is mentally unfit, custody defaults to the mother here. Despite the fact that my son obviously prefers me more, were I ever to get that divorce that I think of sometimes, I know there's more than a 90% chance that I would never see him again. So I don't want to hear you bitch about your inconvenience that your ex still has some rights that she never exercises anyway and pine for another culture where such a minor inconvenience wouldn't have occurred.
Think people will play NFL football for $35,000 a year? Not in this lifetime. This is just the stupidest concept you could have possibly brought to an already silly topic.
Considering that people play Arena Football for $400 a game, I think they'd jump at the chance to get paid that much to be on a nationally televised game.
That's a very poor analogy. First of all, most curtains are open by default!
I think for that reason my analogy is spot on. DNT closes the curtains, where as tracking would have them open.
What you are saying is, it's totally fine with you for a computer to watch you take a shower and store it on a "secure" server somewhere for the rest of your life + however many years. Also, I never said anything about showers, I said peep into your window at all times. That includes things from the shower (watching pron) and generic sitting on the couch scratching your balls (posting on
As stated, I would object to that IE message. I wouldn't object to something like:
Some advertisers would like to collect data on you and hold it forever on their servers, and you have no knowledge of what transpires with that information whether it's stolen by hackers or just plain sold. This is all so that you might be bombarded with ads that they think might be pertinent to your interests, but in all most likelihood will be as relevant as generic ads targeted at the site you are on. Do you wish to allow them to data mine you?
Then the default action (so when the user who has just skipped reading the previous message) is to DNT.
As for the complaints of bias, I'm not sure if you are talking about your message or the letter from the ad shills. Your message is biased in favor of tracking (that whole "stuff you're probably not interested in" line makes it biased), while my message is biased against tracking. If you meant the letter from the shills, I would think equating DNT to adblock would be enough evidence of a strong bias.
Last, my analogy already told you why I think it's worse that no DNT by default. It's like buying a new house with the curtains open and some machine recording your every action. Sure you could close the curtains after the fact, but when they're set up funky and you have to jump through hoops to, there'll be more people who don't.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
