Gannon’s an asswipe. Flush this fool down the toilet.

Long live Geist!!!

Gannon’s an asswipe. Flush this fool down the toilet.

Long live Geist!!!

I JUST WONDER WHAT GANONS UP TO

I JUST WONDER WHAT GANONS UP TO

I JUST WONDER WHAT GANONS UP TO

I JUST WONDER WHAT GANONS UP TO

I JUST WONDER WHAT GANONS UP TO

I JUST WONDER WHAT GANONS UP TO

You can’t pay your bills with CDs.

Whereas, data can be replicated infinitely, and, though one doesn’t pay the producer for that content if one chooses to pirate, the producer is not having money taken from them. It’s the same argument made against the ‘You wouldn’t steal a car…’ commercials, but with money instead of goods. As a result, he thinks himself incredibly smart for outwitting people through his ingenious argument. Sadly, it seems some people don’t understand that not only is his argument flawed if taken at face value, it is even more so if taken as irony. He’s and idiot, but some people are too stupid to notice.

You use money to buy food. Food is chemical energy potential. Fuel for vehicles is more obvious. Having a lot of money you can hire the energy potential of employees and feed them. A faster car or a subway system is more time efficient which means less energy is expended walking or simply, less time is spent staying upright while you take the bus. Time is what energy needs to work.

In recreational media, money allows for busy humans to come up with entertaining ideas. You spend money on electricity and commodities so you can veg out and enjoy pizza. You pay health insurance so energy can be efficiently harnessed to create universities, biotech labs, pharmaceutical research etc.

In terms of digital media, the huge budgets spent on making films accounts for the use of energy. People get payed to make cameras and sets and go to acting classes; all of this is simple energy conversion. The commodity has this value then — what was put into it. Additional value has been created through the intellectual property. This creative value is probably the main issue we are dealing with now in terms of digital media ‘sharing’. At what sort of ratio do the producers of this creative property need to be rewarded monetarily (which gives them the potential to do the things they want to) for their efforts? We believe it should be more than 1:1. Ie: the film cost $1 mil so it should be consumed for $2 mil in total, rewarding the creators for their expenditure. But the system we have inherited favors gross disproportion and perhaps this is why we are not happy to pay for something that has been already payed for. So an actress gets a ratio of 1000:1. The IP value, the value created, is what should be shared, once fair remuneration has occurred.

This whole concept only functions because of scarcity of the most fundamental component of the systems of our entire species: energy. We are currently reliant on ever more rare fossil fuels. Sustainable energy cannot currently fit the scope of the global system. Of course, the fastest way to evolve away from capitalism is to attain ‘abundant’ energy. Abundant here does not mean literal/theoretical perpetual or infinite energy. But if you consider how little energy our entire planet could ever need in the scale of the universe and the immense potential of nuclear physics, it is not too hard to image we can crack this at some point. Once we do, everything will change. The heinous greed will have to shift, unless of course the elite control the ‘scarcity’ of the energy.

For a brief analogy, imagine the ocean. It is pretty huge and has enormously complex systems and patterns of currents, pressures, temperatures, life etc. Now if you place 5000 hydroelectric turbines across the world’s oceans, you are hardly going to change the patterns, but they will change. If you had 12 billion, the entire ecosystem would fundamentally change, as would weather patterns, continental formation etc. Well, our energy reservoir is the volume of the ocean, and our ability to make a microscopic change to the value of a variable in a drop of the water’s velocity is represented by money. This is because the economic system is big, but currently, it is essentially closed. Human things like joy, epiphany, our imaginative creations, music, IP are NOT PART OF A CLOSED SYSTEM. But we are told to pay for them as if enjoying them was the act of turning carbon black into tyres.

At the moment, if you buy a bottle of water (or even bottle some from your tap), and then go walking and spill the water, you have squandered a fragment of the energy in our closed system. That is not to say that you cannot benefit an insect or plant, only that, even with a cyclical water system (evaporation->precipitation), if the current available water is less than the real demand, you have spent your energy token on something you have used inefficiently. This may or may not be morally irresponsible. Think of how people love money and what they spend it on.

African states have less energy potential to play with. The land of the brave has (had) more, but sadly it seems much of it was used simply to create mirages of itself, whereas the real potential it contained was used up in the fakery.

In any case, I am clearly misguided and a little naive. But there’s 2 more cents.