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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.

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.

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

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UPDATE!!!!!

12/08/08

Newest version with big overhaul over 50 files!!

http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/test-1/zippylabs-presentsfo3-energy-pistolrifle-tweaks/

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New update using the newest version of fomm, older versions included!

Got a small mod made with the help of the fomm utility.

Starting off with energy pistol and rifle.

http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/test-1/zippylabs-presentsfo3-energy-pistolrifle-tweaks/

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Alright I updated it with a new mod for smaller damage boost, so there is 3 kinds in this 1 ups damage 6 or 8 points,middle ups damage 8-10 points the last one ups damage 20ish points but halves the clip and makes the weapon costly to repair and buy.

ack! there seems to be a probly with the mod,fomm ate what I was doing that or I cut and pasted the wrong thing, damn kitty bwains!! I’ll fix it in a bit..and add a low engery mod to it that offers a slight boost in damage.

Chronicles of the Lord of power setting and history

Believe it or not this is a abbreviated version, still adding and developing it.

History, setting and the Forces of existence.
In the beginning there was not but Darkness a being of endless pain and suffering writhing and trashing with nightmares and fevered dreams of creation. After a great period of time after small expanses of creation founded pockets of stable time and dimensional energy were destroyed from the fevered dreams of Darkness the pockets that where destroyed merged together and created a conscious that after time fended off the encroaching darkness to create a proto universe that everything is based from.

By the time Darkness awoken from his long nightmare he came to the realization that this “creation” is noise and obstructs his rest and so he reached out to decimate it but before he could end time once more his hand was stopped by his pale mirror image and as the celestial giants fought time, energy and matter was shattered and returned to its primordial state. With no winner they rest as they lay time starts up once more and creation begins again and each time they fight everything is destroyed and returned to near nothingness after countless battles they realize they are equals and this scuffle is nothing but infinite and infantile attrition for them both tired of the endless fighting they decide to raise a army from the substances that arise around them and when one wins this war of creation shall lay claim to everything.

In the Coming eons as people across the universe and budding parallel dimension’s raced to the stars from the puddles of much and rim they evolved from started the first period of the War of Creation known as the War of labor, birth war, first breath war, newborns war or still born wars in parts of darker existence. This time period covers the shared attrition long before the earth bore life noble houses raised their respective races into warring factions, based around the 5 key elements of power, scattered across creation loosely focused on the real meaning of the War of Creation they seek to fulfill their own needs and desires but even in the infinite void of space such childishness will wane in time.
The noble houses of old have declined in power and now a new period in the war of creation has begun with no sub name most “participates” now are focused on the true meaning of the War of Creation to expand Lightness or Darkens reign across existence.
In order to balance the process and gain greater paws Lightness and Darkness have settled into their place in the scheme of things sitting in the misty void around a chess table they play multiple games of chess one at a time to vaguely but directly  involve themselves in existence. Pawns are easily gathered the rest of the pieces however feel the calling and are sent to a trail to see if they are worthy to become more than a pawn in this game for existence, if they fail their life could end or become fodder for the cause of darkness and their world could become a new battle ground for the war of creation even if it’s far away from the front..

The Lord of Power is such a pawn a earthling taken from the remains of his life and manages to pass his trail by a hairs breath only to break under the unforgiving bureaucracy of Light Forces going AWOL after most of his LF training, later becoming a Warrior of Creation a cross of private detective and mercenary to do odd jobs for Light Forces and even creation itself even being forced to do work for darkness. He also hears the calls of others is compelled to find them and aid them with his endless kindness which leads him on a wandering journey throughout all of creation running from his past and suffering to learn about life and understand himself once more.

But Lightness and Darkness do not work alone even if their hands go mostly unseen in existence great organizations have sprung up around them. Light Forces is both the governmental body and army of creation they both defend most areas from encroaching darkness and protect lesser races from advances or influence from anyone or anything as they believe that lesser races must earn the right to join them and that gaining power to quickly may corrupt them and send them to darkness. They run government in counsel archetype with the greatest races severing on the counsel and the lower ones merely being ambassadors with lil power outside their own race. While government is busy managing the day to day Light force and its generals truly rule over all in “white space” as Light forces needs authority to fight darkness anywhere even within itself even if they are quick to shine light on darkness near them everything else however is mired in bureaucracy stagnating the good they could do for creation.

Dark forces is a lose confederacy of worlds and peoples who either hate the light or Light forces or love fighting these darker beings only respect power and authority and their rules and laws mirror it. Their government is a military based one using their great generals as lead members of parliament. Unlike Light forces their greater generals rarely enter into conflicts as they have grown lazy with power they control fleets of millions and are rarely needed on the battle field this changes when the Son of Darkness appears and turns Dark Forces on its head while becoming the Lord of Powers most vicious and chaotic nemesis.
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Characters

Lightness
Creation and existence colluded into a absent minded yet kind being, time has only made it more senile or perhaps merely seeing all that there is will make one slower on the intake of new information he is the whimsical and benevolent creator and first protector of light.  Lightness rarely shows himself to others as he is part of the light that comes from the stars and those that feel his presence wish to protect those stars from being devoured by darkness.

Darkness
Darkness came before creation it is the culmination of the decay of all things and thus is insurable to all things raging in its own exsiccate it merely wishes to show all how transparent life is and return all to the quietness of the infinite coffin. Those that have seen Darkness himself are changed and go mad or become devote to the ways of darkness but it is strange how the manifestation comes to each being as darkness is not chaos yet order in the shapeless abyss.

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Lord of Power/Power Lord/Stranger
Removed from his home world before being drown in absolute despair from sorrowful events in his life he is sent to a fantasy world to learn about his powers to earn them to become a special member of Light forces, creations own army.
During his trail he learns about his abilities and the fundamentals of the world and its fight against darkness. Even though it’s discounted from the universal war of creation it’s a starting point for him, his task is simple defeat the darkness that plagues the world. As he arrives he is injured forcing amnesia on him but allowing him to grow in power faster as he relearns about himself n this new setting.

Eventually he returns to being himself a slightly shy and ditzy man who’s absent mindedness is 2nd to his kindness but that is put to the test as he enters into the universe and the bosom of Light Forces to learn more about his new place in existence only to run from the bureaucracy of light forces going Awol being lost for a time when he returns from his wanderings he gains an assistant a sibling made of wire and metal the AI he created is a sentient AI who took the appearance of a 6 foot tall blond female android. By this time his powers are still unstable but has found ways to compensate for it though gadgets and weapons. He has gained issues with himself but has found a place in existence he is comfortable with… A detective a mercenary a wonderer he goes to were creation calls to protect the balance of existence later he gains the title Warrior of Creation, but before that his given title is Lord of Power.

Sandy
In a last ditch effort he puts all effort into repairing the AI subsystem to use some cobbled together repair drone. Since his powers are still new to him he has to plug himself into the computer to program the AI he falls asleep in the process bringing Sandy into being. Sandy will be his AI “twin” throughout the rest of the series although without all of his self loathing and incompetence, where he is ugly she is elegant where he is dim she is intelligent where he is insufferable she is bright and content the only thing they share is a warped sense of humor a sibling rivalry kind of friendship a kindness and caring for others they are both good natured personalities at both ends of that spectrum.

DOL:
The Dragon of Light is the collimation of Lightnesses wit and humor a general in Light Forces and liaison between Lightness and LF and other races. He appears to be an old hooded man with reptilian features and a perverted sense of humor, he proclaims though he is just in it for laughs but it is hard to beg his true intentions sometimes oft bored and annoyed with Light forces and what they have become.
DD:
The Dark Dragon is a huge planetoid sized monster with lil sense of self or inelegance it’s the culmination of Darknesses rage and anger and like its master can sleep for millions of years, popping up now ad then in history.
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Races
I am going with a Human kin race theme most races share humanoid appearances and similarities in basic genetic structure. Currently only have 3 unique races with large drafts covering them.
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Books and general plot points
Book 1 Covers the Lord of Powers prologue and his trail and the 5 key elements of power in a fantasy and magic based world, Book 2 covers his introduction to Light Forces the core home worlds of Light Forces, and him going Awall in the last half of the book all in a sci fi setting, Book 3 covers being crashed on a ruined and deserted planet, taking decades to repair the ship.
His first calling and vanishing happens when they get the ship ready for takeoff this may be where book 4 starts as e as a mini adventure being a amnesic wander on a sparsely populated desert world and sandy taking the patched ship into a LF automation dock that’s been under attack by DF b.u.g.s(bio usurper gnawing ship) basically bug like biological drones sent from a  nest in a large asteroid, she manags to talk her way in and get enough supplies to deal with them she all the parts can to build and refit a almost new ship and a android body built to her specifications.

After that another fantasy world and a new kind of dark plague to deal with past that a few yet to be wrote out encounters before he finds his earth and hides there for awhile only to have dark forces come out of nowhere I have the ending I aint sharing !
Beyond that at least 1 or 2 books before the Son of darkness shows up and another 1 or 2 to end it, FYI light fantasy novels have 2XX-4XX pages I am looking at 200 pages a book with at least 5 books.

The main themes are mainly fantasy and sci fi so wherever the Lord of Power wanders that what the setting will be.

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In Development

General tech
Uniforms (have made a draft for LF/DF uniforms)
Ship tech (has a draft)
Weaponry (a basic draft for LOP weapons)
Settings (by the book :P )

All writing projects (bad or not), quotes, characters, weapons, ect copyrighted by ZippyDSMlee/Lee Jarvis dsuejarvis@netzero.net.

Larry Lessig: How Creativity is being strangled by the law

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs&feature=related

I watched this and was amazed, hits so many poitns well, and as he talked I had this thought in my mind.

“I create not for money or fame, nor for the cajollation of my peers, I create because I am damned to.”ZippyDSMlee

New COTLOP story, ah madness how I love you, also this shows a lil bit of the relationship the lord of power and Sandy share you shoudl be able to see it in their banter :P .

So a few days ago I wrote a story/synopsis over a dream I had, it was only 4-3ish pages long, enoug to mark what I dreamnt, yesterday I banged on 3 pages over COTLOP book 1 chapter 3, today I wrote out 9 pages over a new story/setting I had a dream of 2 or 3 days ago….half of it is a love sence that poped into my head (even tho you cant really cal it a love since when he was just massaging and healing a woman who had scares all over her body and he was fully dressed and didn’t get sexaul himself….) even if I don’t have names for any of the characters…

crazy crazy things I do……and good god this is the msot fractured synopsis I have done yet 0-o

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