Visiting Libertopia: The Magical Power of Property
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Visiting Libertopia: The Magical Power
of Property
Visiting Libertopia: The Magical Power
of Property
02/10/2004 02:35 AMThis is part of my series on the problems with libertarianism. This
piece only applies to those libertarians who believe?
Taking Away Intellectual Property
Protection For Those With Market Power
Taking Away Intellectual Property
Protection For Those With Market Power
01/06/2004 06:49 AMOver at Silicon.com, someone has come up with an interesting
s
uggestion for adjusting intellectual property laws for software -
saying that if you own more than 50% of the market, you should be
forced to give away your product - and its source code - for free.
The writer then makes some very good points about why forcing
companies to give away their software isn't unfair - and how they
should still be able to make plenty of money with such market power,
even if the offering was free. I agree that companies can still make
money offering software for free, but I don't think the overall
suggestion is that good. If a company wants to charge for software,
that's their business. Furthermore, any such "forced freeness" would
lead to unintended consequences as companies and users tried to game
the system. The big question, of course, is how would the markets be
defined? Software companies will suddenly start redefining their
markets to make them as broad as possible, to give them smaller market
share numbers for the purposes of such a rule. Already, we see the
opposite happening for PR purposes. Just how many software companies
are the "leader" in their market - after redefining that market to
make sure they're basically the only player?
"Magical Trevor"
"Magical Trevor"
07/21/2004 09:32 PMThe magical book
The magical book
01/02/2004 11:05 PM
This magical book: beautiful (Flash) animated examples of 19th and
early 20th century movable children's books from the Toronto Public
Library's
Osborne
Collection of Early Children's Books.
The magical Venus razor
The magical Venus razor
06/22/2005 03:01 AMI am not a fan of disposable razors, they always seemed wasteful to
me, and never very good. So a long time ago -- before they made fancy
razors for women -- I started using Gillette men's razors. Over the
years, I slowly upgraded until I was using the Gillette Mach 3. And I
was happy. Until I left it in the shower on Nantucket last week. So I
headed to Duane Reade for a new razor and for some reason decided now
was the time to try a ladies' razor. The Gillette Venus looked nice and the handle appeared
ergonomic and easy to manoveur, so without much thought I bought it.
Then I shaved my legs with it.
OH MY GOD!!
What was I thinking using that crappy old Mach 3 for all those
years? The Venus is AMAZING! Easy to control, nimble around the
ankles, slick and fast up the calf, and above all, smooth! My legs
haven't ever felt so smooth after a shave ever! I'm counting the
minutes until I can shave again, that's how much I love this razor.
It's a triple-mint, double-plus-good, two-thumbs up, five stars and
diamonds razor. For sure.
Magical Web service tour
Magical Web service tour
06/15/2002 12:22 AMCNET Jun 14 2002 11:13PM ET
More on the Magical Hollywood DVD
Players
More on the Magical Hollywood DVD
Players
09/07/2004 03:56 PM
Some days I wish I lived in LA, where everything is
sunshiney and every confusing bit of gadgetry can be shrugged away as
"magical," like the new DVD players being issue to Academy members
that are supposed to help prevent the Oscar screener discs from being
copied. Brother blogger Defamer attacks the issue in typical sidelong
Gawker fashion, explaining how the destitute movie industry elite who
make up the voting members of the Academy often are forced to trade in
their screener copies for tiny nuggets of crack and Efferdent.
Is it really that big of a deal? I've downloaded screener copies
before, but they were all compressed to hell. If the analog hole still
exists on these magical units - likely - then it's not going to stop
that lone jonesing VP from pushing out lossy analog copies to the
net.
Read - Academy Issues Magical DVD
Players To Members [Defamer]
IMMS Magical Favorites Collector 1.0
IMMS Magical Favorites Collector 1.0
04/24/2004 02:04 AMA useful tool for filling CDs/DVDs or MP3 players with what IMMS knows
you like.
Forgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s
- Magical Gadget
Forgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s
- Magical Gadget
01/22/2004 03:23 PMForgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s .. Magical Gadgets Sightings
and Brags .. hier
pocketcalculatorshow.com/magicalgadget
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The magical mystery tour is waiting to
take you away...
The magical mystery tour is waiting to
take you away...
10/29/2003 12:11 AMDay 2 of my jacket . (Naked boy alert!) On today's fun factor tour
we'll be cleaning, painting, working and...
IMMS Magical Favorites Collector
IMMS Magical Favorites Collector
04/17/2004 11:12 PMIMFavorites 0.4 (1.0 RC1) released!
Broadband offers magical journey
Broadband offers magical journey
08/17/2004 09:50 AMA 'magic carpet' to take children around the world is one of the
projects that has won a community net award.
Valenti's magical DRM thinking debunked
Valenti's magical DRM thinking debunked
08/31/2004 10:08 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Ed Felten picks apart Jack Valenti's
Engadget
interview (in which Valenti compares himself to JFK: "I was in
Dallas in the motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963, and I saw that day a brave
young president murdered, and a new president take over. The president
is dead, long live the president, the nation goes on. No one is
indispensable, I learned that day in Dallas. My successor will come
into this job and he won't be me, but he might do a hell of a lot
better job than I'm doing.")
It may be possible to so infect a movie with some kind of circuitry
that allows people to copy to their heart's content, but the copied
result would come out with decayed fidelity with respect to sound and
color. Another would be to have some kind of design in a movie that
would say, 'copy never,' 'copy once.'
Even ignoring the technical non sequiturs ("stuff ... algorithms into
a movie"; "infect a movie with ... circuitry"), this is wildly
implausible. Nothing has happened to make the technical prospects for
DRM (anti-copying) technology any less bleak.
We can only hope Valenti's successor stops believing in "technological
magic" and instead teaches the industry to accept technical reality.
File sharing cannot be wished away. The industry needs to figure out
how to deal with it.
Link
Visiting the old capital
Visiting the old capital
06/17/2005 05:09 PM
Ever since I
blogged about the anti-Japanese protests in China, I have
been having a dialog with a number of people about Japanese history.
One of my Chinese friends recommended
"Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan" (Herbert P. Bix)
for a more objective and critical view of the Emperor's role in the
War. I am reading the book now. I believe this book does a great job
of uncovering a fairly systematic coverup by the US occupation and the
Japanese media of the role of the Emperor in World War II. However, I
do think that Bix tends to makes some conclusions based on the facts
he uncovers that I would not necessarily agree with. It is, in any
case, a very good book for anyone interested in Japan to read.
With this fresh in my mind, I visited Kyoto, my home town, and was
amazed at just how much Japanese tradition is organized around the
Emperor. The Emperor went though various levels of influence in the
governing of the nation, but has remained in place for 125
generations. Regardless of his level of influence, the Emperor has
been the center of most of Japanese culture. Kyoto, for instance, is
divided into the "Right Kyoto" and the "Left Kyoto". This has nothing
to do with East or West, but is the right or left side of the city
when viewed from the Emperor. The bullet train "climbs" from Kyoto to
Tokyo (the new capital) toward the Emperor and any road that points
away from the Emperor is pointed "down". All kinds of symbols and
names allow you to understand exactly what each Temple's relationship
to the royal family is. Maybe it was just our guide, or maybe it was
that I was sensitized, but I think he talked about the Emperor in
almost every explanation he made.
I question whether we should still have an Emperor in Japan and I
believe that the facts about the Emperor's involvement in the war
should be more publicly known. However, I wonder how the cultural
foundation of Japan will change if the Emperor and the royal family
were removed.
I have Flickr'ed the
trip.
UPDATE: Movie of geisha
dance uploaded to archive.org and part 2. (And an older one
from a previous trip...)
UPDATE: Rela
ted Article - Sanji-Chion-Ji
Comment -
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Aunt Flo is Visiting
Aunt Flo is Visiting
05/13/2004 09:33 AMWhen I'm menstruating, there's no better way to delicately let people
know than the subtle coded expression "someone is scraping a melon
baller across the walls of my uterus." (05-12)
Microsoft's Magical 'Myth-Busting' Tour
Microsoft's Magical 'Myth-Busting' Tour
06/11/2004 05:51 PMMonitor Web Sites Without Visiting
Monitor Web Sites Without Visiting
03/31/2005 01:50 AMWhat does it mean when a Web site says it has an R.S.S. feed
available?
"Wikipedia reaches one million articles.
Something magical is happening"
"Wikipedia reaches one million articles.
Something magical is happening"
09/20/2004 02:58 PMA Tale of Might & Magical Teamwork: A
Mac OS X Weather Application Review
A Tale of Might & Magical Teamwork: A
Mac OS X Weather Application Review
08/27/2004 09:28 PMWebDevInfo Aug 28 2004 0:04AM GMT
Visiting Bangalore, India. Any Tips?
Visiting Bangalore, India. Any Tips?
11/06/2003 11:07 AMIn roughly 3 weeks, I'll be traveling to Bangalore, India to speak
about MySQL at Linux Bangalore/2003 and to spend some time at Yahoo's
Software Development Center (SDC) doing some training and hanging out
with the crew there. Getting there involves some long-ass flights
(stopping in Frankfurt), but it should be very worthwhile. Now, I've
never been to India before, so I'd appreciate any travel and cultural
tips that might be helpful to a visiting American. Also, if you
happen...
Visiting every tube stop in Zone 1
Visiting every tube stop in Zone 1
07/09/2004 05:19 AMEwan, a Scotsman living in London, is moving back to Edinburgh, and
before he does, he has resolved to visit every tube station in Zone 1,
and he's inviting the general public along on his tube-crawl:
Here's the deal, I'll be starting at 12.30 on a weekday in the last
week of July (probably Friday the 30th July, but don't quote me just
yet). If you'd like to join me as I rattle round Central London and
visiting every station of note (and Hyde Park Corner) then make sure
you're at Vauxhall Ticket Office for around 12.20 to find me.
Anyone wishing to set up a Rival team to try and beat me on the day is
more than welcome, I'd only ask you to also start at Vauxhall with us.
Once it's all over, we'll retire to a pub at around 4pm for a late
lunch/early dinner, some farewell drinks, and I'll invite you all to
the housewarming in Edinburgh.
Link
(
Thanks, Ewan!)
Visiting Every Latitude and Longitude
Intersection
Visiting Every Latitude and Longitude
Intersection
07/26/2004 07:14 PMVisiting BURGER KING® Becomes a
Multimedia Experience
Visiting BURGER KING® Becomes a
Multimedia Experience
12/19/2004 03:14 PMScala Inc., the leading provider of digital signage control software,
announces installation of InfoChannel® as BURGER KING’s digital
signage software solution. [PRWEB Dec 16, 2004]
Visiting The Apple Store -- Worth The
Trip?
Visiting The Apple Store -- Worth The
Trip?
10/30/2003 06:09 PMBy Jeff Adkins (Low End Mac via MyAppleMenu)
Please Turn Off Cellphones And Pagers
While Visiting The Joint
Please Turn Off Cellphones And Pagers
While Visiting The Joint
04/10/2004 06:11 AMThe Next Best Thing to Visiting the New
Seattle Public Library
The Next Best Thing to Visiting the New
Seattle Public Library
05/31/2004 11:36 PMNew
Seattle Library Draws Raves
"Glenn
Fleishman raves about the new Seattle library (and has pictures)."
[Scobleizer]
115 photos, to be exact, and they're annotated. My inner geek loves
this one, while this one surprised me but made me smile.
Kidney Failure In 5 Children After
Visiting Petting Zoo
Kidney Failure In 5 Children After
Visiting Petting Zoo
03/24/2005 08:30 PM
Free Internet Press Mar 25 2005 12:57AM GMT
Powell, Visiting Russia, Outlines U.S.
Concerns
Powell, Visiting Russia, Outlines U.S.
Concerns
01/26/2004 12:42 PM
The secretary of state said today that he was worried about Russia's
democracy in op-ed article published before meetings at the Kremlin.
Property, Intellectual Property and Free
Riding
Property, Intellectual Property and Free
Riding
09/10/2004 09:33 AM
My
cattle grazing grounds are not my idea and vice versa. But thanks
to laws I can "own" the idea as if the idea was a cow ; link
goes to a interesting university-level paper [PDF].
The author makes some interesting analysis and points attention to the
fact that current intellectual property laws can go against well
established economic theories at the expense of free market
competition theory, technical innovations and society-as-a-whole best
interest.
Recommended to people with economic theory experience , but also to
everyday public-goods-privatization opposers as the paper isn't
(intentionally) way too technical.
Magical History Tour - Bush can't learn
from the past if he can't see it. By
William Saletan
Magical History Tour - Bush can't learn
from the past if he can't see it. By
William Saletan
05/26/2004 04:36 AM
Magical History Tour - Bush can't learn from the past if he can't see
it .. smart deconstruction .. whole piece ..
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U.N. Envoy, Visiting Iraq, Backs Cleric
on Elections
U.N. Envoy, Visiting Iraq, Backs Cleric
on Elections
02/12/2004 10:12 PM
A senior U.N. envoy said that he supported a call for elections to
install a new sovereign government, but did not offer a specific
timetable.
US military personnel blocked from
visiting Electronic Iraq
US military personnel blocked from
visiting Electronic Iraq
01/02/2004 07:30 PM
If they do block Google then you'll have to do what the Iraqis did and
develop some hacking skills, unless of course you accept that there
are certain things ...
Visiting the New World of Linux Sound
& Music Software
Visiting the New World of Linux Sound
& Music Software
01/07/2004 06:13 PM
A look at two new systems designed to ease the process of installing
and configuring an advanced Linux audio system.
Hello! Mr. CEO/M.D/Director, carring
India's no 1 patented Visiting Card
Scanner with you?
Hello! Mr. CEO/M.D/Director, carring
India's no 1 patented Visiting Card
Scanner with you?
06/01/2004 09:15 AM
Simply and efficiently scan and organize your business cards. [PRWEB
May 31, 2004]
Visiting Official Upset About Aussie
Shoe Search (Reuters)
Visiting Official Upset About Aussie
Shoe Search (Reuters)
03/28/2005 01:40 PM
Reuters - Papua New Guinea's prime minister is to
complain formally to the Australian government after airport
security staff asked him to remove his shoes for a search, the
Australian Associated Press reported Tuesday.
"Dubai, United Arab Emirates: The Palm
Island - Property In Dubai - Apartment
For Sale - Viviun the Leader in
International Property Listings"
"Dubai, United Arab Emirates: The Palm
Island - Property In Dubai - Apartment
For Sale - Viviun the Leader in
International Property Listings"
06/20/2004 08:28 PM
Bring to your office a paperless concept
by having India's no 1 Document cum
Visiting Card Scanner @ Rs. 9, 500/-
only
Bring to your office a paperless concept
by having India's no 1 Document cum
Visiting Card Scanner @ Rs. 9, 500/-
only
06/23/2004 03:04 AM
It has two models. One designed only for laptop use and another for
both laptop as well as PC. These color scanner cums with two
software's bundled one for managing the A4 size documents and another
for visiting cards database. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004]
United States & Canada Introduces New
Operator Services Customized for US,
Canadian & European Tourists Visiting
Mexico(01-800-555-1212)
United States & Canada Introduces New
Operator Services Customized for US,
Canadian & European Tourists Visiting
Mexico(01-800-555-1212)
04/07/2005 02:29 AM
International Carrier Delivers International Operator Services to
Tourist Market in Mexico [PRWEB Apr 7, 2005]
Centrafest group's globally known
Visiting Card Solution now available
with Document Managment Solution!!!
Centrafest group's globally known
Visiting Card Solution now available
with Document Managment Solution!!!
08/09/2004 02:05 AM
The ability to convert paper documents including your business cards
into digital forms are increasingly important for business of mobile
nature. Now you can scan your documents into your laptop to be sent
over internet or to be recognized and saved. [PRWEB Aug 9, 2004]
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