the IDIOT

all one needs to know about prodigious departed prick jerome salinger (note that “censorship” isn’t an inherently negative word).

when entering an argument, check your premises.

that advice may reek randroidocity; still good. the founding premise of “intellectual property” is revealed in the name, and it’s false. there is no property right in how others arrange the electrons or vibrations or whatever of their property — regardless of that arrangement mimicking fully one you created. the intellect-as-property school foolishness eventually comes down to a question of violence: will you advocate that someone be punched in the nose for copying with his property how another’s property is arranged. do you assert a right to do so?

in this article the copyblight premise has so waylaid the writer’s direction that, while assuming an air of devil’s advocate, he leaves out the most immediate and obvious kill of the article’s subject (beyond the property problem): (more…)

after you enjoy the stage crashing fan at 1:15 in this vid (super funny), savor the sea of video recorders. years ago fans with film/video cameras would’ve been trounced by security. now? hopeless!

can’t stop the signal.

despite problems here and there, and creeping lazi-cutesyness, Ally McBeal rules, and it’s finally been released in the goonited states (apparently with its multi-source “copyright”-plagued music intact). during the promo period, get the first two episodes free via iTunes.

lew’s loose editing style bites another moron:

Did you know that there is no requirement anywhere in the Constitution that a Representative, Senator or the Vice President must swear any oath of any kind? Further, there is no requirement for any Federal judge to swear any oath of any kind.

US constitution: (more…)

enjoy this presumptuous piece of shit from a presumptuous piece of shit:

Copyright © 2008 Bill Sardi Word of Knowledge Agency, San Dimas, California. This article has been written exclusively for www.LewRockwell.com and other parties who wish to refer to it should request permission to link rather than posting at other URLs.

yeah, “request permission” to link to his gems.

no need to create it; a “liberty” scammer has spelled one out clearly enough: (more…)

be careful of wishes. age 18 was when i first discovered that the aristotle dude i supposedly learned about in elementary school had put together a handbook or two on nailing argument bullshitters (sophists). i was thrilled. the things i’d been bitching about, without recognizing the linking structure, had been categorized thousands of years before. wonderful, but why was this great gift of respected commiseration (sorta) and understanding unknown to me until 18? why had the very word “logic” sunk to mass denigration, translated generally to mean, mr. spock style, “somebody who will offer without blinking a mathematic reason why your grandmother and her poodle should be used for hamburger”? how great would be the improvement, thought i, if only logic became a more regular topic of discussion. (more…)

good job, dumbbells. i used to be a stalwart defender of copy-courtesy (hardly conclusive that it’s a right) — even refusing to listen to the original of an album if i’d loaned a personal copy to someone. now, i couldn’t give a fuck less generally, and specifically, where RIAA clients are concerned, will happily do whatever i can get away with to chwag the copynazis. (more…)

i could swear there’s a gradual trend at LRC and mises.org for writers to claim copyright on their articles or, in the case of one asswipe at mises.org, even blog posts. WTF? (more…)

“away with you, foul camera man!” (more…)

you may have seen this famous photoshopped pic where the shooting of oswald becomes his smoking hot vocal, delivered with the help of his able keyboard man and a guitarist. when i first saw it in 2000 or so, i stared and laughed for about 2 minutes.
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