If a work is "transforative" merely because it is displayed in a new context, thus giving it new meaning, then copying a $90k work and selling it for $90 to make a point about how much bullshit this whole "transformative" thing is is therefore also transformative, and thus should be allowed. If some random person was just selling cheap copies to make a quick buck, then this wouldn't apply. But, because it is the original owner of the image selling said transformations-twice-removed (or meta transformations), then fair use should apply.

I got out of networking because it is too high stress. All you do is put out fires all day. None of the network equipment I ever used actually did everything the vendor said. All of the software you will have to support is crap, and you can't rewrite it.

Networking is an entirely different skill set. Almost none of your current skills, other than management, will transfer. So that may be your best path. Go for a job as a CIO. You can manage big projects, help them avoid crappy software purchases, and not have to learn a thing about actual networking.

When was it ever not? This article just moved it up one notch from first post to the zeroth post.

I like your last idea. It comes off as less punitive and more about "freedom."

OK. Good point. In this context, if they really believe that the version of history espoused on their web sites IS the accurate version of what really happened, then you are right. They aren't lying. Nor are they doing anything anyone else wouldn't do to "help more people find their websites."

So, in this context, I take back what I said about them being hypocrites.

A) Everybody is "allowed" to lie. Research shows that most everybody lies dozens of times per day, just as part of social interactions. Plus, I really don't care who lies amongst their own group. Christians can tell each other just about anything they want.

B) My point is that christians have, as one of their Ten Most Important Things Not To Do, an edict against lying. However they do it all the time and pretty major ways. So that makes them hypocrites. Even if you say that The Ten Commandments are in the "Old Testament" and therefore only apply to jews, then there is still your Golden Rule, which was supposedly espoused by their supposed messiah. So, by lying, are christians saying that they think it is OK for others to lie to them in such a way. Is it OK to trick them into seeing something they weren't looking for? Porn, for instance? (Yes, hyperbole. Get over it.)

Personally, I lie as little as possible. However, I don't go overboard with the "honesty" by telling people exactly what I think of them all the time either. Every so-called "christian" I have ever met has been a major hypocrite. And I was a pretty involved christian for a while. That hypocrisy is one of the main things that started turning me off to the whole thing. (Now don't anybody start in with the "nobody's perfect, we're just forgiven" BS. I know, you are only forgiven if you are repentant. All of these people were unrepentant hypocrites so, by their own book, they aren't forgiven and aren't really christians. Plus, that wasn't the only thing that convinced me that it is all BS.)

Yep. But christians are supposedly not supposed to lie. SEO of that sort is a form of lying.

I'm all for this solution, but only AFTER having done everything we possibly can to change the education system from one that makes learning as painful as possible for most kids into one that actually makes learning enjoyable.

Till then, I think we should ship all the dropouts to your neighborhood.

for that system of education. Much research (which I can't cite) supports the techniques he is using. Perhaps all Musk is doing is to lend his name and fame to the promotion of the idea itself. Many people in the upper echelons of the education community, as well as the politicians who make the big direction decisions, are fad followers. If Musk can turn this well established education technique into "The Latest Thing" then maybe it will be adopted and accepted more widely.

Perhaps Warren Buffet should try eating only food that has no ingredients that have been inappropriately patented. Then he might get a clue as to why we are a little fed up with corporations and the wealthy using their power to squeeze ever more blood out of our turnips.

Because it makes the time...

I wonder if Mr. Buffet eats at all? Does he know that it won't help him live forever? So why should he eat at all?

Because the time he does have left so much more tolerable.

No one expects a livable wage to end the wealth gap. And almost no one has called for or expected that. All we want is for the wealthy to stop thinking that their continued hoarding should take precedence over the other 99.9% of the world NOT being miserable. Is that too much to frikin' ask?

Exactly. It would be a dereliction of duty to NOT be working on such a contingency plan right now.