Ron Obvious
Ron Obvious's JournalStallman...
I worry about the same thing. In the end, this model of artificial scarcity (DRM) to protect current revenue streams couldn't possibly be sustainable, even with draconian enforcement.
Richard Stallman (yes, I know he can be a bit over the top) wrote this in 1997. You can't deny the man had some foresight.
This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help herbut if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrongsomething that only pirates would do.
And there wasn't much chance that the SPAthe Software Protection Authoritywould fail to catch him. In his software class, Dan had learned that each book had a copyright monitor that reported when and where it was read, and by whom, to Central Licensing. (They used this information to catch reading pirates, but also to sell personal interest profiles to retailers.) The next time his computer was networked, Central Licensing would find out. He, as computer owner, would receive the harshest punishmentfor not taking pains to prevent the crime.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
What we used to think of as Hard Rock...
Submitted for your approval, some young lads from Wolverhampton who called themselves 'Slade'.
This used to be thought of as hard rock, causing our mothers to clutch their pearls, and our fathers to predict the apocalypse, shaking their fists at our degeneracy. By today's standards, it's practically easy listening, isn't it? Don't you just want to pat these lovely blokes on their head for their sweet and good-natured music?
So Weird: I had a dream within a dream last night
I thought this sort of thing only happened on TV or in the movies.
I was experiencing a terrifying, intense nightmare. I won't satisfy the now salivating Freudians by describing it, but Steven King could have written the script.
Then I woke up, startled, and relieved to find it was just a dream. I looked at the alarm clock. It was 2:30. I sighed and said to my wife: "I was having a nightmare". "I know", she replied, "I heard you screaming." There was a strange woman wearing a bathrobe in the corner of the room, but that fact didn't strike me as odd at the time. Suddenly, I smelled cigarette smoke. "There's someone in this room", I said, and then the same horrors from my nightmare starting happening for real.
Then I woke up, startled, and relieved to find it was just a dream. I looked at the alarm clock. It was 3:40. I sighed and said to my wife: "I was having a nightmare". "I know", she replied, "I heard you screaming."
As far as I know I'm operating in the outer layer of reality still.
I can't begin to describe how absolutely weird that was. All the details of our bedroom and furniture were absolutely correct in the middle dream.
Anyone ever experience anything similar?
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