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Copyright Gangnam Style
Isn’t it interesting how we see the following pattern appear over and over? Some law is held up as a solution for some problem and ends making it worse. Copyrights help make sure artists make enough money to make more art? Patents encourage innovation? It makes you wonder if there is any government program that isn’t bullshit.
Psy Makes $8.1 Million By Ignoring Copyright Infringements Of Gangnam Style | Techdirt Lite
A couple of months back, Mike wrote about how Psy’s relaxed attitude to people infringing on his copyright helped turn Gangnam Style into one of the most successful cultural phenomena in recent years, and that includes becoming the most-viewed video on YouTube ever.
Ah yes, the maximalists will retort, this free-and-easy, laid-back approach is all very nice, but it doesn’t put food on his table, does it? If you want to make a living from this stuff, you’ve got to enforce copyright to stop all those freeloaders ruining your business. Well, maybe not:
With one song, 34-year-old Park Jae-sang — better known as PSY — is set to become a millionaire from YouTube ads and iTunes downloads, underlining a shift in how money is being made in the music business. An even bigger dollop of cash will come from TV commercials.
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Mike Judge set to skewer the valley
Office Space + Idiocracy = Silicon Valley
Deadline.com » Blog ArchiveHBO Greenlights Comedy Pilot From Mike Judge, ‘King Of The Hill’ Duo & Scott Rudin – Deadline.com
Silicon Valley is set in the high tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, where the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success.
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The APA is not the only solution
The problem might really be that the APA has no real competition. It’s a monopoly held up by the government, who designates the DSM as the bible for mental health when it gives out payments only for approved diagnostic codes. Clinicians ought to continue to develop alternative methods of diagnosis and treatment. Paired with modern data analysis, we can prove that there’s something better than the existing bureaucracy.
Psychiatry is failing those with personality disorders – New Scientist – New Scientist
A workable diagnostic system is needed, because sticking with the status quo is not an option
IF DOCTORS sent patients with angina home with nothing but a prescription for a painkiller to control chest pain, they would be sued for malpractice. Sadly, that is a fitting analogy for what happens all too often to people with personality disorders.
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Why do we cry?
A related question answered by Leonard Peikoff was why we cry at joyful occasions. His answer: we perceive the beauty of life in context with the knowledge that it is not always so. If you feel that complex mix of joy and sorrow welling up in the coming weeks, take my advice: let the tears flow. That’s how nature made us.
CultureLab: Tragic tears: Why we are the only animals that cry
WE ARE the only animals who shed tears from emotion. But why? And what parts of the brain govern our impulse to weep? In Why Humans Like to Cry, Michael Trimble looks to neuroscience, art and evolution for answers.
His basic argument is that there is a set of neural systems in the brain that respond selectively to emotional stimuli and, specifically, tragedy. By this, he means the individual experience of loss, whose co-evolution with language and culture led to – or at least aided in – the birth of the art form of the same name, which deals with loss and suffering as essential aspects of humanity.