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Comment The delusion of "creative professionals" (Score 1) 90

http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
Where an Anonymous Coward says that he is a "creative professional" and that whoever arrives at stuff that "creative professionals" arrive at should own it forever and it's hard work.

I suggest he find easier work and let people who find that sort of thing easy do their thing.
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
Claim by fyngyrz that people infringe copyright because the abstraction that someone actually put some valuable time into the work is too abstract for them to grasp. Also, individuals violating copyright on a "I copied this work to use for myself" level is antisocial

I point out that people put "valuable time" into lots of things. Doesn't mean they should get paid for it. And with people throwing around concepts like "the universe creates itself", I'm not sure anyone has a workable meaningful definition of what create or design actually means.

Fyngyrz claims that the whole copyright debacle is the most trivial of ethical mazes.

Bzipitidoo says " I disagree that copying is antisocial. Copying is a natural right, and has a long history. It is only our current customs that push the idea that copying is harmful, and attempt to regulate it and restrict it by fiat." ... Might as well argue that children should not receive the fruits of knowledge that our civilizations have produced over the millennia, without paying for the "privilege".

I've kind of lost interest in mining previous discussion I participated in, but there's more in those links that make for interesting reading.

Comment Re:Whistle blower (Score 1) 608

No I don't want an answer from someone who: can speak for everyone and has polled a "representative sample". I want you to stop talking as if you had that information.

As for "whatever that is", I typed poll representative sample into Bing and it suggested the search what is representative sample in a poll.
http://www.investopedia.com/te... is first in the results.

As for the rest of your post, it makes no sense.

Comment Re:Whistle blower (Score 1) 608

I don't follow. It appears that when you use the word consequences and I use the word consequences we are talking about different things. There are good and bad consequences to everything we do. I used to post my full name, address, and phone number on my user page on Wikipedia. Now the city I live in is still there, but circumstances of vandalism have as a consequence caused me to curtail the information there. I had to choose between two different consequences. I avoided one set of consequences, but I did not avoid "the" consequences of my actions; I chose among certain consequences.

Comment Re:Swift (Score 1) 365

Then there are the languages like VB.NET which came from VB which came from QB, which came from GW-BASIC but QB is compatible with GW-BASIC but the first two are incompatible with each other as well as with the latter two, but QB64 which can do a lot of what VB.net can do out of the box, is pretty well backwards compatible with QB and GW-BASIC and getting more robust.

Comment Re:Um... you're not nearly cynical enough (Score 1) 365

Except sometimes Nunzio comes around, but it all goes to the Great Skeeve, who uses magic to keep the Fairy Godfather from taking even more money from you. Oddly enough the Fairy Godfather's niece, Bunny, is the Great Skeeve's accountant, but we won't go too far into that.

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