Okay, but none of those quotes consist of me saying that copyrights are not protected by the law once they've been granted. Nor do any of them stand for the proposition that authors cannot attempt to exploit their copyrights for financial gain. (Whether they will do so successfully depends on the market; outright doesn't guarantee that anyone will want what they're selling) and until you brought it up by accusing me, I had not said that people could give away copies of copyrighted works without permission; which, as I said, is true, they generally aren't allowed to, though the law does provide some exceptions to that rule.
So far all I can tell is that you like to accuse me of things and that you can use the copy and paste commands. Put a real argument together if you want to continue this. Otherwise don't bother.
Instead of a gatekeeper, I'd rather have a layer of software that automatically lies about myself (such as always giving my name as "John Doe" or my GPS location as being somewhere in the open desert near Timbuktu or something), so that not only the data hoarders don't get my personal information, but their data pool gets polluted. Bad data is much more of a problem to them than no data at all.
I've been doing that for some years.
In early September, my bank implemented a new type of authentication process. Before I could log in, it asked me a series of questions culled from the public records of my name - it said as much when it started.
The questions were multiple choice, five answers, and went like this:
In what town is 35 Granite Ave located?
. Greenville
. Lexington
. Berwick
. Nashua
. Holliston
Needless to say, I've never been to 35 Granite Ave (that I can remember), never lived there, and don't have the first clue what they were on about. My "polluted public records" came back to bite me.
The bank representative couldn't help because they don't make the web page, the web page techs can't help because they outsource to a service, &c &c. It took extreme measures from one very helpful bank rep to allow me to log in, on a system which had been giving me no problems for many yeas. I'd be screwed if it were the cable, ISP, or phone company.
I'm still in favour of polluting records. If the person asking doesn't have any business knowing whatever it is they're asking, I will lie.
It looks like I'll have to start keeping track of the lies.
"Its willingness to add Windows as a second operating system underscores the lengths to which Microsoft will go to get manufacturers to carry its software.
Now that they have underscored lengths, will that... er... um... what?
willingness to add... underscores... to which
For the advanced student: Parse this into the canonical <subj><verb><predicate> form. 10 points.
HTC, the first company to make both Windows and Android phones, hasn’t unveiled a new Windows-based handset since June and has no current plans to release any more, said one person.
Which person is that?
Microsoft, with 3.7 percent of the market, is finding it necessary to make concessions after agreeing to acquire Nokia Oyj’s handset unit, which competes with other smartphone makers.
Apropos of nothing, which of these is the main verb?
Myerson was planning to visit Asia this month and meet with senior executives at Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC to discuss his proposal, one of the people said."
This is Bloomberg, right? Are they supposed to be good at writing?
So once copyright is granted it IS protected by the law and if they decide to charge for it that is there legal right to and you do not have the right to give away someone else copyrighted works by law.
I never said otherwise. Although, I will point out first, that copyright law does permit people other than the copyright holder to give away copies without permission or payment under some circumstances. And second, that just because the law is this way at present doesn't mean we can't change the law to better suit our purposes.
I definitely agree it would be very nice to know more about the exact functioning of psychedelics - and about brain function in general. It's true we don't know 'a lot' right now. However it's also true that we know a lot more than most people think. For example, we have a fairly clear idea which brain receptors are targeted (for most tryptamines, that's 5-HT2a, 5-HT2c and 5-HT1a; but for LSD, add in another 5 HT subtypes and then quite a few others on top) and we have a reasonable idea of the 'normal' purpose of these receptors.
There have been fMRI scans performed on people taking psychedelics (sadly only mescaline and psilocybin to date; I'm really looking forward to when someone does an LSD study) and we get a reasonably good picture of which brain areas experience differences in activation. And again, we also have a reasonable idea of what brain areas are responsible for what parts of cognition.
We do still have a lot of guesswork, that's true; but it's not all mystery.
I'm glad you survived your experiments and are a functional individual. I just hope you don't accidently destroy the lives of too many gullible people.
I've heard plenty of anecdotes of people having their lives destroyed by psychedelics, but have yet to find any actual evidence of it. In the medical literature there is a total of one case known of a person that did not previously have a mental illness experiencing a lasting psychosis after LSD use (out of hundreds of thousands of recorded LSD experiments). That person was the twin of a schizophrenic, and so may have had an undiagnosed condition. Out of people with pre-existing mental conditions, the rate of a lasting psychosis following an LSD experience is around 0.2%.
There certainly are cases of psychedelic use that have cause problems in other ways, such as the CIA's internal experiments dosing people with LSD causing one employee (who was given a high dose in his coffee without his knowledge) to commit suicide in a fit of paranoia; however I discount these as being true dangers of psychedelics as being dosed without your knowledge is a very different thing to taking it with (at least some) foreknowledge and expectation of the effects.
My book focuses - as the title states - on the responsible use of LSD. I don't deny that it can be a very traumatic and unhelpful experience when used in the incorrect setting or with an incorrect prior state of mind. I also don't deny that even with the right setting and state of mind it can be traumatic - but in these cases, the traumatic experience can be directed to be useful (I specifically cover this in book in quite some detail) in the same way that people coming through a difficult life experience such as a car accident, death of a loved one, or similar can come out of it stronger and better than they were before.
At no point does my book advocate the use of LSD to 'go out and have fun' or as a 'party drug'. It certainly can be used this way (and often is) but personally I see too much danger there to consider that wise.
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If a subordinate asks you a pertinent question, look at him as if he had lost his senses. When he looks down, paraphrase the question back at him.
