The Screams of Deaf People

I wake up with that Early Morning Head again.

I don't know, something is not right. I stood up carefully and turned on my systems (coffeemaker and computer) and got ready for my morning. I get my coffee and get to writing but my thoughts can follow a train of thought. They actually wander around making it difficult to focus. I even forget which keyboard key is which letter, causing me to erase often. I also get tired tremendously easy. I keep drinking coffee for this.

Still, I can't even read what's on my screen. My eyesight just suddenly gotten worse here or something? Fuck it. Last night I tried to make photocopies of my paperwork for the court case, and less than half way through them my copy machine starts to make fucked up noises. Oh Damn! I broke the Damn thing. So I immediately stopped and found something else to fucking do, deciding that I'll go downstairs and ask Snow White today when she's in.

Well I get down there, there is no Snow White. I forgot, she only works on Sundays. the only person I can see is the office girl with the extremely big butt that drives the men wild, I never particularly cared for big butts, and SCARY Lady. SCARY Lady? Why? Well firstly, she's skinny as all hell. She needs a sandwich! Really. She's one of two women here that are far too skinny to be alive. Secondly, she's always stressed out, or stressed out looking, running back and forth, up and down the Hall like a sprung bat. Thirdly, She looks like she put her finger in a power socket. BLASTED. She doesn't know me at all, why would she let me use the copier machine?

Well, that's alright, I check out the closest FEDEX/KINKOS copy center is, or for that matter a STAPLES copy center. I check on the Internet and all I find are three FED/EX hits down on 57th street, and one Staples up in Harlem. I check the results again and find that there is a FEDEX down on 78th street, but that's a long hike with an armful for loose papers, all original documents. Not going to like that much if I fuck up. Besides, there is an absolutely functioning photocopy machine that SUGAR PLUM and Snow White said I can come and use. It's just that the people in there now don't know me from Adam. Then I thought about it. Snow White comes in on Sunday. I'll just wait until Sunday to do them. I'll have more than enough time before my court date.

Sounds like a plan. I return, THIS time blogging instead of getting on that Novel. I surf, as I always have to do, because I would like images in my Blog. So I prowl, like a shark through the deep waters I look for blood trails, thrashing, helpless fish. I hunt. Then I notice something. More and more people are doing something with their servers so that when you click on an image they return a '404 request' instead of an isolated image. What the fuck? When did this start? And more and more websites are doing it too. It's just making it a bit harder for the Hobo to find quality images.

I get asked the question: "But Hobobob, aren't you afraid or even concerned about copyright infringement? Okay folks, here we go with one of Hobobob's observations. Here is my take on it. If you want the copyright it, DON'T PUT IT ON THE FUCKING INTERNET. The Internet is, and will always be the free exchanging of ideas. That means whatever you put on the Internet is up for grabs. I have a sincere problem with copyright, and how it's being abused not by greedy lawyers. The fucked up thing is what in the fuck did they do before copyright? Really. Have you ever thought of that. When Freud had a book published, or lets go farther back, Seneca, and they published it, do you think that they put a copyright on it?

Do you think that they were worried about copyright? NO. They prayed to God that their fucking word got out to as many people as possible. The DISSEMINATION of information is what builds advanced societies folks. The easier, the freer, the better. That is what the spirit was behind the Internet. That was until Lawyer's found out that they could make money because the Internet was bringing in the masses, and whatever brings in the masses, brings in commerce. Lets face it, we're a capitalist society, but realize when commerce, trading, brokering comes in, like some huge, muscular beast, what follows is what feeds on its scraps. That's right boys and girls, the Lawyers. And just like bottom feeders, they are everywhere, and try to get anywhere where there are any droppings of food from the beast.

OH SHIT, Hobobob doesn't like lawyers! Hey, wait, I didn't mean that! Neither did I say that! Suffice to say that in every profession there is good and bad. People who honestly believe in the system and are not corrupted by it, yet, and those who have been corrupted and are some greedy bitches. Some of their lawsuits downright ridiculous...ridiculous. A person finds that an image of his has been 'illegally' (because there is no law against it) used by another website, they run to a lawyer who says, because he's unusually broke this week, that he'll 'take' the case. He gets paid WHETHER THE RESULTS ARE GOOD OR NOT. How many jobs have you ever heard like that? If they don't do a good job with their frivolous lawsuit, they still get paid? Wow! But Hobobob, there are some lawyers who are not paid if they don't win the case. LIKE I SAID EARLIER, I'm not saying that all lawyers are shysters, I'm just saying that there are 'some', some I said that behave in this manner and it is because to them that the Internet is so confused and fucked up now.

If you don't want people to stream your movies without paying for it....I'll give you a piece of advice... DON'T PUT IT ON THE FUCKING INTERNET! If you're a musician and you want people to buy your album, and you also want them to hear your music on the Internet, because that's where the kids are listening to them at, but you just don't want them to download it onto their computers...here's a tip...DON'T PUT IT ON THE FUCKING INTERNET

Do you see where I'm going with this?

If someone finds an image on my site that I boosted from there's, simply make a comment on that post. I READ EVERY COMMENT. And I will GLADLY take your image off. There's not need for lawyers, and there's no need for either you or I to make money for a cockroach. Simple as that.

And there isn't any reason to put a '404 request' on your goofy image. I surf around and find something better all the time. The Internet is like that. It'll always top you.

Always

Hobobob