"There’s no ‘i’ in queeet, ese."
— Señor Clay Loveless (via claylo)
reblogged from: Clay Loveless
I certainly sympathize with people’s angst about Google’s more explicit search partiality. However, its the only thing they can do. Otherwise, we’d instead be complaining in 2017 how they missed the boat back in 2012.
"33Across plans on raising more money soon, pitching itself as “the largest social and interest graph in the world.”
You have to do some weird mental gymnastics to make that claim work, so ignore it."
You have to do some weird mental gymnastics to make that claim work, so ignore it."
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33Across Buys Tynt - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD
Rafer sez:
Meanie!
Very interesting use of a plastic bottle : that’s what one should call an invention. Respect!!! (by formyportals)
Rafer sez:
Awesome indoor lighting solution.
/via @mohamed
reblogged from: rafat.org
"For the reasons my parents generation and I moved to U.S., for those exact reasons Americans will start moving elsewhere. Generation of Americans will become the middle class for countries like China, India and Brazil, among others."
"At over $400 billion, Apple is now worth more than Greece, CNN Tech says."
"But the message Dodd most seemed to want to get across was that “the white noise has
made it impossible to have a conversation about this,” he said. “We’ve gotta find a better way to have that conversation than we have in the last two weeks."
made it impossible to have a conversation about this,” he said. “We’ve gotta find a better way to have that conversation than we have in the last two weeks."
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Sundance 2012: MPAA’s Chris Dodd Calls Piracy Defeat a ‘Watershed Event’ - Hollywood Reporter
Rafer sez:
If you start the negotiation at a reasonable place, it may well end at a reasonable place. If you start by proposing to end Free Speech as we know it, you are asking for an out of control screaming match. #schmuck
"There was some back and forth about how best to combat piracy, with some in the audience advocating a strategy that supplies more content in new, affordable avenues to undercut the temptation to steal, and Fithian arguing that cheap-prices-up-front approaches such as Netflix streaming and $1 Redbox kiosks are “bad business models."
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Sundance 2012: MPAA’s Chris Dodd Calls Piracy Defeat a ‘Watershed Event’ - Hollywood Reporter
Rafer sez:
It’s def a bad business model if you are CEO of the National Association of Theater Owners. Sorry, pal.
"This worry isn’t about psychology; I’m not concerned that women don’t engage in enough building of self-confidence or self-esteem. I’m worried about something much simpler: not enough women have what it takes to behave like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks."
"This is a general problem — there is a reasonable conversation to be had about sites set up for large, commercial operations that are designed to violate copyright. And because there’s a reasonable conversation to be had, Pogue (and many others) simply imagine that the core of SOPA must therefore be reasonable. Surely Hollywood wouldn’t try to suspend due process, would they? … They wouldn’t imagine the possibility of a longer jail term for streaming a Michael Jackson video than Jackson’s own doctor got for killing actual Michael Jackson? Would they?"
reblogged from: Atheism.
reblogged from: pkmk tmblr
"And don’t think it gets any different when you hop over to the trademark/counterfeit side of the debate. In Tim’s post about Monster Cable lobbying in favor of PROTECT IP, as an aside at the end, he notes that on Monster Cable’s own list of “rogue sites,” eBay and Craigslist top the list. And it doesn’t stop there. Retailing giant Costco is on the list. As is Sears. Also some Backpages sites are listed as well (Backpages is a Craigslist-like classifieds system). There’s also FatWallet, which is one of the most popular “deal” listings sites out there. There’s also PriceGrabber and ComputerShopper — popular legitimate sites for comparison shopping and computer purchases. These are not “rogue sites.” These are legitimate companies that Monster Cable appears to have a vendetta against, because they allow for or promote the resale of perfectly legitimate secondhand goods."
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Monster Cable Claims EBay, Craigslist, Costco & Sears Are ‘Rogue Sites’ | Techdirt (via pukomuko)
Rafer sez:
@DiFi here’s why your PIPA-support form letter is worse than bullshit.
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