"If it's not KopyLeft, it's not Discordian"

[hooplala]

I just shot scalding coffee through my fucking nose.

[Cain]

Yes, sadly.

I'll put the full list up in Literate Chaotic.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Interestingly, the BBC produced its list of the 100 greatest pieces of literature last week.  The average person has read 6 from the list.

The only list I could find was from 2003: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml. Honestly, I wouldn't feel ashamed about only having read a few from that list. I've read about a quarter of them and don't feel like I would have missed any crucial intellectual development by skipping them.

[Cain]

It appears the new list is an internet meme/forgery.  I should have researched, but foolishly I thought no-one would claim the BBC had done such a thing unless it had actually happened (fool me once...)

On the new one, I've read 25, but I've had a lot of spare time.  My sister is a literature student anyway, so I would agree that some of them are only worth reading so you can say you have read them, and not on their own merit.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Betcha "Jude The Obscure" is on that list.

Thomas Hardy should be dug up and sodomized by diseased apes, for writing the most boring shit ever to waste paper.

[Cain]

Thomas Hardy is like a hero around here.  Without him, we'd have no tourists at all.

That said, I wouldn't bother with his books either.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

So basicaly, I love the idea of free forming, floating idea clusters, that meld through each other and converge different outcomes, from the overall datasphere of public domain / kopyleft workings, however, I'd be fucking pissed if anyone jacked any of my works and made more dollerpounds than I have from them.

I've been locked out of my adsense account for years, but if they send me a check, you're getting half of the two dollars.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

The stuff my bot spits out tends to be far more coherent. This was actually the response generated by a first-order markov chain. My bot is third order, which (in theory) means that it should be three times as coherent. In reality, it generally means that it talks only a third of the time and is of approximately the same level of incoherence.

[Torodung]

I skimmed the thread, so this may be redundant.

The god Torodung, whom I serve, commands: "If you can make people pay you for shit, take the money and run."

Torodung speaks of a world where those with no "initiative," no will to impose upon others, are consoled by the fact that they will receive the "Magic Bag." The "Magic Bag" is full of shit.

I don't want to get caught "holding the bag." You may. (K)opyleft stuff if it suits your purpose (it is superior for wide dissemination, e.g.: The Brother's Grimm).

I would advise against opening the "Magic Bag" without noseplugs, however. 

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

third order markov chain merged with random pd.com posts and mandelbrot music, some snagged st. syn images and some other stuff  awaaaaaaaaaaay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNuq4ShM6xM

go kopyleft go!

:D

[Idiot]

Please note that Discordianism has embraced Capitalism these days.  Copyright is integral to our faith - deny it and you will be smote by whatever.

[the last yatto]

Please note that Discordianism has embraced Capitalism these days.  Copyright is integral to our faith - deny it and you will be smote by whatever.

[Cramulus]

Against Copyleftism (and Cory Doctorow)

http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/my-war-on-cory-doctorow-short-course.html

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Please note that Discordianism has embraced Capitalism these days.  Copyright is integral to our faith - deny it and you will be smote by whatever.

What the fuck?   

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Against Copyleftism (and Cory Doctorow)

http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/my-war-on-cory-doctorow-short-course.html

Reading through, it seems more like a personal rant against Cory Doctorow. There are a number of problems with the posting. Some might be more obvious than others.

1) Doctorow's first books and short story collections were cc-licensed. I doubt that the boingboing blog has a 1:1 correspondence with his sci-fi audience -- I didn't know of the blog until after I read several of his books.
2) This is the internet. People don't have to travel across the world to spam. A lot of things that are worth buying will be reproduced and travel by themselves, particularly if reproduction is encouraged, and plenty of people spend enough of their free time on the net to spam their works without extra effort. The 'traveling salesman' bit therefore seems like an obvious strawman, or at best the retort of someone who doesn't use computers often.
3) "Remove DRM" isn't the same thing as "give away free". This kind of mental equivalence is particularly amusing since DRM is generally cracked quite quickly -- DRM-enabled stuff is pirated just as much as non-DRM-enabled stuff. Copyleft just tacitly supports the practice, rather than demonizing it.

I figure that the author would have more luck convincing people if he didn't rely upon hotbutton terms like "cult" and terms that used to be hotbutton a half-century ago like "communist" in order to pursuade people. It seems like a bit of a crutch.