Thursday, December 25th, 2008
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December 25, 2008
COMEDY: Santa Claus Will Take You To Hell!
Posted by Clint under Comedy, Media, Pictures, SubGeniusLeave a Comment
December 25, 2008
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Apparently, if you damage your brain in the right way (strokes), you can be left blind because the part of your brain that forms the conscious image of what you see is completely destroyed. Yet, your brain SUBconsciously processes data from your eyes too!
This man's eyes were fine. But he can't see consciously — that part of his brain is destroyed. But he can still see subconsciously. He can recognize fearful faces. He didn't know he could do this, despite being a doctor himself.
The human body is a beautiful and amazing piece of equipment.
When we conquer our genetic code and/or become cyborgs, I hope we don't lose some of our unknown gifts by virtue of not knowing they were there in the first place. That would be a damn shame.
December 25, 2008
JOURNAL: I tried to make a cool “The Tall T” shirt for my dad for Christmas, but intellectual property law stopped me.
Posted by Clint under Clint, Copyright, Geek Politics, Journal, Media, Movies, People, Politics, Video[5] Comments
UPDATE: This does have a happy ending (see comments), I did get the shirt. But not from Zazzle.com, or the internet. With respect to custom shirts: Fuck the internet.
And guess what happened? After spending 1.5 hours designing it on Zazzle.com, my shirt was rejected for using copyrighted images. Namely, a poster for the movie. A cover of a book containing photos of the movie. And 3 snapshops from the movie, as well as a promo black-and-white snapshot not from the movie. Which I painstakingly removed the sky from so that the corner would blend seamlessly into the shirt.
Oh I’m sorry, I can’t print a t-shirt with copyrighted images for myself? I forgot we had to protect the “artist” who took this picture 50 years ago, from the “theft” by Zazzle daring to make a profit with their “property”.
Does anybody seriously believe the guy who drew the poster for a 1959 movie is still getting royalties from this movie? This movie airs on TNT and is on Netflix. Plenty of people can watch the movie without purchasing any of these copyrighted pictures. Nor are there The Tall T shirts currently being sold by anyone.
It isn’t about protecting revenue streams for the artist. There’s no revenue stream to protect. Show me The Tall T shirts I can buy — I don’t see them.
This is about corporations wanting exclusive control over anything where money changes hands.
By the way — I post all my stuff under Creative Commons where people can use it, even for commercial purposes, even with modification. Cause I’m not an asshole. Nor do I expect to get royalties everytime an appliation I wrote code on runs, or everytime anybody uses anything I ever created. I expect to get paid… (drumroll)… when I go to work and work.
*Post delayed until after Christmas to not spoil Dad’s surprise. I’ll probably have to make the shirt with no fucking images instead. Goddamn ASSHOLES..
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