What to do if you aren't a rich mofo...?

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 10:33 pm

Feh!

Communism = everyone is equal

Totalitarianism = a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator

The kinds of communism that aren't oxymorons are:

Marxist
Leninist
Stalinist

It's just that people apparently think some of these laws extend them the right to get a hold on whatever I've got as well.

They do if it's their stuff that you've "got"

NME · Post by **NME** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 12:23 am

THERES A REASON FOR BEING
AND A REASON FOR BREATHING

OVEN MITT.

NME · Post by **NME** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 12:34 am

IN SOVIET RUSSIA YOU DO NOT GIVE LAPDANCE, LAPDANCE GIVES YOU.

Mr Pilkington · Post by **Mr Pilkington** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 12:55 am

NME wrote:IN SOVIET RUSSIA YOU DO NOT GIVE LAPDANCE, LAPDANCE GIVES YOU.

I'll give you a lap dance!!!

.....

On second thought, that didn't come out half as threatening as I imagined it would.

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 10:56 pm

<Feh!

Communism = everyone is equal>

Not quite. In practice, Communism = everyone should be economically equal, even if this means shooting all rich people and taking their money to ensure equal poverty for everyone except bureaucrats.

<Totalitarianism = a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator.>

Again, not quite. This is more the definition for tyranny in general. Totalitarianism is specifically a form of government in which the tyrant insists on absolute rule not only of the behavior of his subjects, but of the very thoughts in their minds, rule of the "total" person.

<The kinds of communism that aren't oxymorons are:

Marxist
Leninist
Stalinist>

Nothing particularly oxymoronic about calling any of these Orwellian, either. I'm well aware of the subdivisions of Communism, and also of what their practice has generally included.

It's just that people apparently think some of these laws extend them the right to get a hold on whatever I've got as well.

<They do if it's their stuff that you've "got"

>

Or that's how far *they* think their "possession" extends, anyway. I happen to think that unless I'm making a profit off their stuff or using it to slander or libel them in some fashion, I haven't really grabbed it away from them in any very meaningful sense. In any case, intellectual abstractions like these are a rather poor excuse for letting the government take control of people's concrete property and tell them what they can and can't do with it.

As I recall, we were discussing ways to make videos cheaply, here. Can we get back to the subject? Whatever you think of legal and philosophical matters, my point was that you can make AMVs for very little money as long as you use lots of free stuff. The perfectly legal software for making AMVs is available online for free, and comes with plenty of free add-ons, too. I'm not exactly busting my bank account making stuff here, and working without complex digital effects provides something of a challenge to the compiler which makes the AMVs a lot better than they might be if I had a really first-rate commercial program to add lots of Boom! and Pow! to it.

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 11:27 pm

Thats nice

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 1:43 am

Rorschach wrote:working without complex digital effects provides something of a challenge to the compiler which makes the AMVs a lot better than they might be if I had a really first-rate commercial program to add lots of Boom! and Pow! to it.

Going slightly off-topic, but you can do complex digital effects for free, too.

Sure it takes a bit more work, but it's possible. I've done it.

OtakuForLife · Post by **OtakuForLife** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 11:44 am

Yeah, this coming from the guy who showed us his top video in Ascii Format

. Becuase, we where joking about make ascii AMVs.

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 11:22 pm

trythil wrote: Going slightly off-topic, but you can do complex digital effects for free, too.

Sure it takes a bit more work, but it's possible. I've done it.

So have I, in fact, though it does take some doing. Those free filters that you can get for VirtualDub can do some nifty things, and I also manually whipped up a few little effects of my own for the end of my Scryed AMV.

WholeLottaChoas · Post by **WholeLottaChoas** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 7:00 pm

Rob a Bank and actully get away with it. Seriosly I get my income from mowing lawns and helping my church with elctronic equipment. Im 15 and I live where there are alot of grass to cut. I dont know about you but I geuss I would say look at your surroundings therehas got to be a job oppertuty somewhere.