UPDATE

09/08/09

!!!NEW!!! Wolfenstien(09) !!!NEW!!!

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Zippy  Fan lyric videos!

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New mod videos

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6/02/09

Added some non game mods in the modding section. Added a new section in the writing and wut area but have not updated the individual pages yet..I am lazy…

Mini update

Drawing section updated!

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05/23/09

COTLOP: What is a Lord of Power?

New UT04 beta mod:Hellfire Cannon beta:pre alpha

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Updated:05-06-09

New pictures: http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/cotlop-zippybook/cotlop-pictures-and-images/

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Update:04-02-09

New section added to the COTLOP section, Synopsis and bios, no bios yet because I still don’t have it sounding right.

http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/cotlop-zippybook/

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1/2409

Made a Aniem fanlyrics page for my fanlyric musings, you can find the link to them here or in the creative writing page.

http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/fanlyrics/

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1/13/09

Updated Creative Writing page, have 3 “lite draft’s” up,  story, setting and character musings.

http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/writing-and-wutbits/writing-projects/

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Older updates


Religion is all well and fine until they expect you to believe that god is only for the chosen for whom he chooses by the people he has chosen….­….. uuhhgggg..­.. get over it people if “God” is not light, love and forgiveness its shadow,ambiguity, division, hatred and annoyed annoying spitefulness.

I do not believe in the absolution of god or religion, I lean to the christian scenario and all but since god is beyond human pettiness, logic, greed, gender and human religion I find it silly to be so stern and dim…….­..
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Thoughts about CP/IP and distribution

More thoughts again, some still do not understand fully what I mean when I say focus on profit.

Savings from free stuff does not count since the free stuff costs money to find and store so that is not profit when I say profit I mean when someone willingly makes money from selling CP/IP without a license. When it generates profit directly for someone the CP/IP owners should have control over it but when it does not make money its fair use IMO as its fans being fans or people who choose to work at being legally cheap.

There is merit to free and lax distribution more people will see it, more people will muse and make stuff about it more people will be inclined to buy it if the media industry wises up and dose a better job at packaging and pricing media. As things are now they don’t have any reason to change by making free distribution legal they are force to keep up with the times.

Now you are going to ask what is the meaning of “free distribution” what does it mean for something to “gain profit”. If something is copyrighted or even patented(in which case the design cannot be used to make stuff to sell)  the CP owner should have full rights and protection when it comes to selling their stuff to the people but that is where the protection ends distribution is no longer something that happens under profit generating circumstances and thus there is no need to throw the baby out with the bath water because corporate is too busy trying to fatten the bottom line that care about anything else by nature they are arrogant, cruel and greedy much more so than the people of the world because they have the money to over ride the people most of the time.

As the world shrinks and laws and treaties covers more and more of the world one has to look at things from a whole perceptive one is time how will the world look in 10,3 or 50 years and the other is what protects the people and business the most and that to me is profit.

Paying out of pocket to host files and share stuff but not consume it and allowing corporations to go after all unlicensed profit based distributors it is more than enough protection for art and information as it greases both sides and keeps them healthy allowing neither to stagnate to much.

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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.160246


As modern society grows older(I hate to use the word matures as it would seem we are getting dumber and not wiser as we age) males are no longer needed as the absolute upper echelon/leader/head of any part of society, while society still favors males its much less so than it was decades or even centuries ago. Now unlike the old problem of being white/male to be seen as “perfect” we have in this age various new issues focused around fairness which are rarely fair or equal, are things better or worse, yes they are better but frankly as I see it we have traded absolute “male rule” for whimsical trend rule meaning whatever group can lead a discussion or create a superfluous fix to an assumed problem can somehow can the lead and make discriminatory and bigoted rules and laws because they are part of the oh so cherished and pampered in crowed.

We as a modern society need to get past color,race,creed and ourselves as groups and labels and get to a place we can talk about we and us as equal individuals under the order our laws and rules are suppose to bring us…. we are still concerned with what divides us even if just in appearance then what brings us together….and that makes us petty hairless apes, in my book….
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost


Lou Dobbs was the last sane anchorman left on TV. Its rather ironic the intolerance and ahte seeping in the side of eqaulity and fairness… His wife is Mexican people, you see he’s keeping to the issue not being caught up in placid ineffectual feel good BS. He rags on ” illegal immigrants” Its illegal immigrants not immigrants in general who make up the majority of America whos ancestors came here 100/200,ect years ago. Only the hard kool aid urinal swill drinkers raq on immigrants in general and since he’s not on fuax news or MSNBC he is not one of those.

Also he has a point about Obamas birth certificate tho realistically in this day and age such things are moot, soon too the constiution shall be made null and void so the politicians can better pander and control our lives… and in final DIM(dem),R­eaper(rep) same fcking corrupt difference….
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Torrents, sharing and revenue streams oh my!!

With todays one off train of thought/ energized mental mussing I try and hammer out why making money off sharing others people stuff is wrong….. some of the time.

If a  sites main, 2nd or even 3rd goal/service is torrents non contracted/approved file sharing then it’s wrong to make money off it, why is it wrong you ask, because its directly making a profit from someone’s else’s blood and tears, corporate masters who bath in said blood and tears oblivious to all be damned this is not so much about them…or the DMCA which keeps them in sinew and bile..

An example of a site that is indirect, how about afterdawn.com I don’t see a A.D. supporting torrents directly as in hosting trackers and what not, what I see it indirectly supporting it via information and news, and indirect support via software loopholes. There is a difference in direct and indirect, cracks might use some IP directly in tiny bits and pieces so much so that’s its “indirect”.

More examples there of below.

Sharing copy circumvention that has in whole(as in all the copy protection that’s altered to patch software, not all the information to run the software just a few vital pieces) or part is IMO “indirect” and even if it was direct its rather easy to build a patch file that just applies the new information thus its kinda moot, even more so if you claim that it cannot be freely traded just cause you own it, as I have alluded to or said owning it means you only have profit rights.

Sharing the whole software would be “direct”. There’s no getting around that, this is black and white because around 50%(well 30-50% depending on who you believe) of the most frequently traded stuff is NEW, while anything older than 5 years makes up the rest of it.

Shearing a freeware program to rip or mount is “indirect”. This should be obvious, and as long as we have personal freedom there should be nothing wrong about it.

Shearing the whole media/medium is “direct”. Like software-kun above there’s no real wiggle room, but there again I am talking about profit made off it.

Sharing un copy righted/public domain works, this should be obvious to the theme of this musing its indirect. Furthermore I want you to think for a moment over something if we had no IP/CP laws would it be chaos or would live in a media industry based on who can provide better cheaper entertainment/products we would certainly not have much conglomeration of power and money we would have many more small business who thrive on working day to day to finish a project that brings in millions. We would have fewer media millionaires but have many more middle class workers who just happen to be artists.

But in our current less utopian world profit is something that only the IP/CP owners should have exclusivity to but distribution itself should always be in the whims of the public. Because they support media regardless of price and quality.

This is something neither side rarely bothers with because it tends to be an all or nothing argument, I don’t see it in such contrast. We could easily have both ,think legal sharing host services where donations taken directly through them for service cost the one who starts up and pays for some of the hosting cost runs the site normally but the donations are funneled directly to cost when costs are met there is an allowed 25% overflow and costs are caped and will not take more donations until it drops under 90% from 125%, the service takes 3-5% for operating fees and of that as much as 60% is funneled into organized media this way the people get their free stuff and the monolithic god of old gets pacified with some tributes that can get back to the artists if they are tenuous enough)  we could have a system that would allow for free shearing either by the system I mentioned or via a type of nonprofit where both gov and corp can go over excess revenue(25-50% over maintenance cost) but it’s an all or nothing illogical world of dog eat dog, why would the corporate empire share when it can walk upon the masses and still make money.

My point, even anarchy requires order and limits, without it it’s just another dog eat dog world no better than the last. Meet the new boos same as the old boss,ect,ect.

Why do all good thoughts come to me while on the porcelain throne….

Oh well on to my musing…..

5 barriers to enjoying anime

Anime or even animation in general can be an acquired taste, there are certain barriers that keep most people away from it and I will try to describe them as best as I can and why they don’t affect me so much.

—Language—

Primarily language is the first and largest barrier, most people are not use to nor care to read while watching a film. Culture also can be a issue but I think it’s not as big of one as dubbing which is the next barrier, but for me language is not an issue I do like good subbing that tries to translate what is said without watering it down too much, information tends to be slowly digested in my brain anyway so English or Japanese’s or gibberish it’s all discombobulated in my head.

—Localization—

Localization tends to reduce the dialog and script to bear essence then they ad lib it to death to match mouth movements, this can make already watered down or Americanized scripts painfully bad then of course add bad or lack luster voice work and you have a good train wreck in the making. Unlike all the other barriers localization is grating to me few shows take the time to do it right and thus I would simply rather not be forced to deal with it at all.

—Fantastical Fiction—

The next barrier could well be placed above localization and that’s the high flatulent fiction that is used from fantasy to sci fi to anything in between you have strange and/or abstract worlds and characters which can easily turn many off, speaking of characters the next barrier is well characters or more precisely minors, minors are the main stay or fodder of anime and the next barrier. I take fiction like language it all gets  discombobulated in my head and I take them as they are most of the time, sometimes tho a show will have the wrong mix of story/character and I am just not enthralled by it.

—“Minor Character’s” —

Minors are the main character type combine  this with annoying personalities and odd environments and fiction you have a quickening of disdain and dismissal of it as being childish or silly.  But for me characters are ageless and loli/pedo jokes aside characters like fiction get  lost in my head and I take them for whatever they are rather than try and nitpick them to death though sometimes it cannot be avoided….

—Culture—

Culture is the last barrier a lot of myths and generic settings use a lot of Asian cultures and myths sublimely or not mixed into with more modern/western themes. This can be confusing to some or just a turn off to others. I find culture to be the random things we do as we humans gather together to eke out an existence as a community so I either can dismiss it there as or enjoy the nuances there of, either way it just adds more flavor and/or depth .

—Disbelief of enjoyment—

Anime can be enjoyed if you are equipped with a good sense of humor an active imagination and the ability to dismiss things for the sake of enjoying what you watch, it’s to be said suspension of disbelief is a double edge sword if you can like anything then the worst kind of crap will be shoveled out by the industry if most people can like anything that is. If you have a moderate suspension of disbelief you can cheery pick what you like while avoiding the really bad stuff and in a sense make the industry better buy not buying into to anything they poo out…

But in the end we all have limits on what we enjoy and what kinds of entertainment we are more tolerant too. For me animation and games I have a much lower tolerance for bad writing and dialog than film or TV.

Zippy plus CRC (copy right circumvention) Well I have come to realize/find out (ah ignorance how blissful you are) that personal use is pretty much done since anything related to copy circumvention is illegal under the letter of the law. Despite that I would still say that under its combined sprit (CP, fair use and even the DMCA) it’s not so much about circumvention but personal use that its fair to circumvent protections for personal use. But even if it’s illegal now(for a few years actually) it’s basically un-enforced…and that’s makes me wonder if its un-enforced why is it even illegal when the real crime part of it is still a crime IE the distribution of the content.

Even if I believe that nonprofit based distribution should be legal to offset infinite CP and the power of the CP conglomerates one thing needs to be dealt with at a time. Personal use needs defined more than profit in copy right moving forward, personal use is where the line needs to be drawn in the sand and etched in stone. Personal use should be defined as anything done in the presence of the private end user in their limited to public private life.

Fair use is pretty much personal use but fair use pertains more in my laymen’s sense of things. Fair use is mostly about parody and how the conmen consumer can distribute CP/TM works via news or commentary which can allow for clips of various types (mix clips of a video with a song or a video of real non CP/TM people with CP/TM works in or around them). Limited as in as few people in public as possible mostly for portable media players and what not and not broadcasting/public performance or distribution online or off.

The minute a piece of media gets into the hands of the end user all rights of the CP owner end but distribution and invasive connections to the games online servers. This will allow for user made patches, fixes and end user protection against corporate over sight (IE all the stuff they miss focusing on limited anti consumer schemes) distribution will still remain the privy of CP owners lest until the system realize CP as it was meant to be is dead and fair use and public domain watch words for criminals. I still think the best thing moving forward is to give a corporate infinite copy right that specifies profit not distribution, allows for nonprofit non revenue gaining, meaning that costs of running the service with low paid or no paid labor at all levels of the organization compared against notional averages, if you are a private individual you can spend your money for distribution as long as you are not making a profit off it. This will allow nonprofit organizations to spread anything they deem educational or beneficial to society not to mention be able to run nonprofit based donational drives that can be used to buy up CP for the purpose of making it public domain. It will help corporate focus on real crime IE illicit profit and questionable organizations and get them out of the pants of the conmen end user and consumer.

It comes down to one sentence “If it’s not making profit it should be ignored.”

(god this palce chews up stuff from word 07…..)


Sure it will never happen but here are my thoughts(starts handing out rotten tomatoes and fruit)

All goods and services are taxed at 45%, states are allowed 5% sales tax on top of that but no more, all income and property taxes end with property tax traded for a vehicle tax, the only people that have to fill out forms is those that become a business and sell goods or services regularly(monthly). Auction or used item sites like ebay and amazon they can easily be charged 45% on what they charge for users to sell items, sense there is a tax on the fee itself the sell of the item through the site should not be taxed as the item has already paid a tax on it once already.

Distribution
County’s get 1%
Citys get 9%
States get15%
Fed get 20%

Now if you reverse this order

Citys get 20%
County’s get 15%
States get 9%
Fed get 1%

city’s and counties would have so much money they could manage their populaces EASILY letting the fed get back to real issues like basic infrastructure and defense of the nation with cities being rich enough to handle disasters,health care and infrastructure. The futher you take moeny away from the palces that need it the less gets done to improve things.

THis also allows the cities to do some of the tax revue legwork making it cheaper to run the IRS.
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Vehicles would be taxed based on gallons per mile at 29MPG or less its 5% yearly thats 50$ for every 1000 of blue book value if its a verifiable work vehicle its 0.1% or 1$ for every 1000 of blue book value.

At 30MPG or higher its 2% or 20$ per 1000 of blue book value, at 40MPG+ its 0.5 or 5$ per 1000 of blue book value, at 50+MPG its 0.1% or 1$ for every 1000 of blue book value .

Tractors,mowers and framing equipment are exempt,Any recreational vehicle would be taxed at 0.1% for tag processing.

All vehicles require a tag for identification out of date tags are fine for storage but you may be fined up to 5% of the total cost of the vehicle if you are caught without a tag, the tax you pay on the vehicle pays for the tag.

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A recreational tag can be bought for any vehicle(muscle cars and antiques as well as 4X4) at the low tax rate but that vehicle is not street legal, one could create a law where if its 10-20 miles from either its trailer or garage its not a fineable offense but a warnable one.
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This would replace property tax which is nothing more than government bullying you into paying to won your land, that or ensure those who make under 150K pay no property tax(it goes against their savings meaning gov will have to pay for them in the long run) or are over the age of 75…..but in all property taxes just need to be abolished…..
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Corporate would be under the same tax everything they buy or rent is hit with a 45% tax no costly tax code no loopholes just a straight tax on what is consumed and if the business employees people in the US you can subtract 0.0001%(or 1% per 1 thousand people in the taxable area thats city or county) from that up to 40%.

If a business employs a few thousand workers its worth it not to tax them in a consumer tax system.

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For the poor
Now about the poor you can use the debit food stamp card system as tax exemption badge you that gets you tax off just about everything but rentals (car rentals are ok) this would be for those that make under 20K families or individuals. Now if that dose not quite work for individuals have it set up if you are in shcool you get the tax exemption if not and don’t have a kid or disability and make more than 12-16K a year then you just have to the the tax.

For families under 55K and under you get exemptions on food,gas(and utilities primarily power over 100$, water over 30$,sewer over 10$ and land line phone over 30) and purchase price of a vehicle but not the yearly tax that helps roads,pays for tags and acts as a sin tax against gas guzzlers.

If you have children in school or collage an exemption badge could be created to lower or remove the tax paid on some items for school, these could be put out like coupons in booklets that can be handed out during tax exempt drives or festivals the schools do to raise money for their individualize school.

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We have the technology to tax sales to take the burden off the common worker and the rich that get taxed coming and going even if the IRS dose not shrink in size a consumer tax just makes perfect sense.

Once I again I go off into the breech of thought and the gutter of grammar.
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The way copy right works to stop the free trade of thought and ideas is staggering and anti productive. One could say they do not want any new content made they merely wish to create a stagnate environment to milk from. The main trouble with the scenario is that free distribution of even media that has been forgotten by their rights holders, the other issue is in the age of easily traded data one cannot block the trade of thought and yes I am equating media with thought.

With the advent of the 100 year copy right tis clear the copy right system is broken and with the way they harass consumers with the “commandment” to protect their copy right its clear its antiquated.

So how do we foster the health of an industry while protecting thought? Well first you remove the term distribution from copy right altogether. The main reason for it is its simply unenforceable, the second reason for that is due to the nature of the modern world and the properties that come from a healthy and imaginative populace this will easily displace any harm done by giving the industry of rights holders more choices to chose and pick from, another reason for it is out of print works that’s the rights holder refuse to do anything with this will only get worse over time as more and more properties are bought up and archived to never see the light of day that combined with ridiculously long term copy right makes for a even worse situation .

But enough of that back to my question “how do you foster a healthy media industry without government fascist media police”? Well you change the nature of copy right from a distribution based system to a profit based one. Distribution is replaced with “profit”, illicit profit crimes such as selling media without a license becomes a crime equitable to selling drugs, and this is the same for sites that “sell” services through normal revenue means or through advertisements, I would like nonprofit and or donation based fan driven services to be highly protected from corporate trolling.

By focusing on profit and business you allow for permanent copy rights that can be sold and traded by their conglomerates like any other contractual sale, selling off the rights gives the new owner full rights over the profits derived from the property and allows for better vaulting of properties as when the fan base can build itself back up via open source means the rights owners can use much of it to release new media of that property and sell it to an interested market instead of ignoring it until things are prefect and suing people that are trying to enjoy the media and show others it at the same time.

There really is no down side to focusing on profit and for profit(business), letting personal/privet and educational use the media as they see fit as long as they do not sell it.

I can see chilling effects as used sales could be “taxed” since it’s a profit based setup and a profit based copy right system doses no different in resell and sell it would not be difficult to place a 1-5% charge for resell rights or simply make it a exemption as it is now. Another would open ‘nonprofit’ parody more while tightening up ‘for profit’ parody how this will play out I do not know but I am sure the industry will test a lot of things under a new system.
Shareware, open source and such will not change much if at all because of the profit nature of business and selling, any distribution outside it will happen regardless of it being protected or not.

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A rant to the side…..

While thinking about this I am reminded of music licenses for film and TV, why must one pay so much up front to advertise for the music that’s only a part of the experience? Why not base the contract on profit via standardized rates 5% the first year or so,1-2 after that in that way everyone makes a continued profit off it without any huge hiccups that are seen in Anime licenses where a the song owners can rape any project for domestic release. Again looking at future profits off it is far more effective and allows the domesticator to push song sales via normal merchandising channels IE sell the CDs through their store or retail outlets or as DLC online, through profits will mostly go to the song owner.

Speaking of songs and other original content creators get milked on their should be a basic rule that content creators get 10% of all profits from the content they make for life, this will hopefully lessen the rapeage they undergo as big content farms them for all their worth and gives them so little.