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Messages - Hobostocker
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« on: November 22, 2014, 07:14 »
...and just because one guy is complaining about Thailand doesn`t mean the whole world is like this ;-)
ohhh and i'm surprised he's not pulling out the most typical accusation i heard a million times : "you can't get laid back home so you escape overseas to F cheap girls" ...
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« on: November 22, 2014, 07:06 »
Do I care? No. "
except he's not a Pro photographer paying his bills with photography. he's just an ITer doing b/w street photography for fun and profit, he's also doing some workshops (probably for free), he's giving away 3-4 ebooks for free, he's shooting with an olympus OM-D, no hints about him selling prints or merchandising or doing stock or fine art. in short, this guy perfectly fits the Flickr semi-pro userbase and unsurprisingly he doesn't care but considering his background his opinion means nothings to us.
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« on: November 22, 2014, 00:10 »
intellectual double-speak or whatever they call it.
i'm a great fan of scientific research but these guys should definitely avoid messing up with things outside of their field of competence as the results of their ill-designed ideas to "save the world" are usually unpredictable and toxic for those who make a living from selling or licencing products that now have to compete in market flooded by free or semi-free competition. they must be proud having almost killed the music/video/photo/ebook business, what's next ? they dream about an utopic free world with total disregard for actual full time authors who are ultimately the only ones producing worthy stuff, two wrongs don't a make a right and there's no guarantee that 1 billion Instagram snapshots are better than just one set of professionally produced images by a skilled artist.
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« on: November 22, 2014, 00:03 »
to its academic creators was the most important thing. I am not saying it's right for us.
i agree but then if this was really their goal they have designed an "academic licence" specifically crafter for such purpose, instead in typical freetard style they made it all-purpose and now we've billions of CC images around and this is negatively impactinging the photo industry. academics, lawyers, corporate execs, they would never move a finger for free but they all expect that creatives work for free or for a pittance, this is unacceptable and despite their good intentions it just turned into a ripoff.
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« on: November 21, 2014, 23:57 »
Users need to pay attention to what they're offering and what the options are, as with any and all photo licensing.
legally there would NO need at all for users to pick up a licence when uploading photos on public web sites as they own the copyright of the images since the moment the photo has been shot ! it's automatic and this is accepted worldwide. if anyone will steal their images they can be sued and held liable. licences are designed to grant some freedoms to 3rd party users, not to protect the authors from whatever crime or abuse as this as already covered by IP laws and enforced across the globe. what the croo-ks at Yahoo/Flickr/Istagram/etc are doing is giving uploaders the false idea that if they choose CC licence their photos will be safer and better suited for the actual online environment but this is total BS in legal terms, it just translates in giving croo-ks a way to steal and reuse and resell your work giving nothing back apart a credit line or a link ! and this would be legally unacceptable if they just upload and set the image as "copyright mr. xxx yyy" !
381
« on: November 21, 2014, 23:42 »
... west european _- I think...??
yes
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« on: November 21, 2014, 23:41 »
On the contrary, really intelligent people accept taxes as a neccessity to run a civilized society and are thankful that they can pay their taxes - and get working infrastructure, solid healthcare, a reliable legal system as return.
sure, this makes sense in a tribal society with small villages and that's exactly how they're run in the third world, but it's a different scenario in the actual capitalist environment where the FED prints trillions of "mickey mouse" dollars to save the banks while asking me 20-30% of my hard earned cash to make sure i'm locked-in on their Ponzi scheme. if the biggest corporations keep their money offshore in tax havens why should i do otherwise ? intelligent people are aware of the world they live in and they act accordingly.
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« on: November 21, 2014, 13:11 »
I am sorry, but that's BS. CC is not a scam, it's been created by one of the most respected intellectual property experts of our time (Prof. Lawrence Lessig, currently of Harvard University). But you have to realize what it was created for: academia. What he mostly had in mind was a way for professors and other academics to freely share without publishing houses and the like inhibiting this flow of ideas. And yes, applying this to photos (taken by or for academics) makes sense, too. In academia, having your name credited -- getting cited -- really is worth money.
CC is indeed a scam because the way it's used in the real world by corporations like Yahoo/Flickr is nothing but a way to grab the fruits of the photographers' work giving nothing back apart some free hosting infested with ads. CC says you must credit the author, or else ... what ? nothing because if this doesn't happen nobody is going to move a finger unless you spend a lot of money in lawyers and we all know that someone posting snapshots on Flickr isn't even valueing enough his images let alone willing to waste money on lawyers and so unsurprisingly the web is flooded by uncredited CC licenced images in hires for which the author will never get a dime and neither a credit line. being a respected academic doesn't necessarily translate in deserving respect or gratitude, as far as photographers are concerned the CC licence has badly harmed the industry and there's no going back, Lessig isn't even a pro photographer so he shouldn't even rant and rave too much about questions that don't belong to his creative background ... he would never work for free but he expect people shooting and distributing photos for free and we've already heard this tripe too many times in every possible form and shape.
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« on: November 21, 2014, 02:37 »
Some CC licences allow any use, commercial or not. I guess that's what the initials abover refer to.
yes, some CC images from Flickr have even been used in advertising, it's all legal as long as you credit the author, which in practice can just mean an invisible watermark in a corner or printed on the back of the photo so that nobody will notice. said that, since the CC images don't come with any model release there's of course a legal grey area to be considered, if somebody uses one of my selfies to advertise their product i could sue them and they would have no excuses to back their claims, but of course none of the freetards on flickr will sue, actually they would be very happy if somebody use their snapshots. now, for prints it's another story as Flickr is obviously making some money off it (not too much but still money) and their users could finally make 2+2 but i'm skeptic, same will happen for Instagram etc sooner or later when they'll try to monetize in any way. i mean, same logic for ads on photo sites, the site is making money off readers going there to watch YOUR images and you the author are getting nothing back. how's that any different from prints or whatever ? in any case the host provider is profiting from you. and what about the tons of CC images used in POD sites without any credit to the author ? nobody complains and they would have a hard time finding their pics among the trillions of images available online ! if that matters this also happens for forums, we're getting nothing back from writing here but the admin is making some beer money from stock affiliates and advertising. is it moral ? shouldn't he split the cash with us ? time will tell but without user generated content half of the internet would go bankrupt.
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« on: November 21, 2014, 02:27 »
- The image creator is getting nothing
serves them right. the freetards wouldn't believe the CC licence was a scam and now they'll learn a lesson or two.
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« on: November 20, 2014, 22:45 »
Never did it so far because I felt to "farang" after some time.
nowhere in Asia they will welcome you with open arms but in some countries it gets a lot better ! that's a matter of personal taste and you should first take a look first hand and see what you like, for instance i see koreans and americans in particular enjoying the Philippines while everybody else think the place is a dump.
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« on: November 20, 2014, 22:43 »
because both countries are a dump. china is an amazing place to travel in, but whoa jimminy cricket, let's be real it is not a place to live in. thailand, the land of smile LOL and lies. again, a great place to have a month long holiday in, but if you have ever lived there it is really a messed up place, and so xenophobic. i have never seen such a large group of expats who are just miserable and complain all the time anywhere, and don't even get me going about the quality of expat there. sure there are exceptions, but for the most part it's a sad little place to live in.
yeah but the expats you find in China are a very different bunch from Thailand, for starters you won't see any "sexpat", even the english teachers are more respectable. in China you also won't suffer all the racism and xenophobia and dual pricing as in Thailand, actually i always find it very easy to get along with the chinese in general, especially when doing business, they're a lot smarter than south east asians in general, on the other side they can get very greedy and manipulative and materialistic but nobody is perfect. Japanese and Koreans are the best in my opinion, it's a shame too many expats living there are giving us a bad reputation, especially US armymen and english teachers. the farangs ? they've VERY good reasons to complain nowadays but ultimately they should better go back home if Thailand is no more the place it was years ago. there's nothing a farang can do about the widespread corruption, racism, double standards, scams, and ripoff, and what about even basic things like broken roads, rubbish bags everywhere, bad smells, drunks, police asking bribes ... farang play a passive role in all this but again they should either leave for greener pastures or fully accept the situation and shut the F up once and for all. i mean it was obvious to everybody that good deal we enjoyed in the past couldn't last forever ... prices have boomed also in OZ and NZ if that matters, it's more expensive than Tokyo to live in Sydney now ! or what about places that were once cheap like Russia, Africa, Brazil, Dubai, Spain, ? nothing is forever, enjoy it while it lasts and stay mobile.
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« on: November 20, 2014, 22:29 »
but for the most part the expats there are the garbage collection of the world, a sad lot.
well, the worst bunch can be seen in places like Pattaya, Angeles City, Cebu, Sihanoukville, Bali, Goa, and Kathmandu, but in my experience Pattaya wins hands down !  you won't see too much sh-it in Chiang Mai or Hua Hin, it always depends on many factors.
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« on: November 20, 2014, 22:26 »
Some people still think they get mugged immediately after popping out of the Airport in Kuala Lumpur or whereever lol.
that's funny ... Kuala Lumpur is one of the BEST options at the moment for cost of living, healthcare, world-class services, banking, long term visas, infrastructures (trains, roads, buses, airports), food, and all. Thailand is 30 yrs behind Malaysia and will never catch up.
390
« on: November 20, 2014, 22:22 »
Cigarettes are a stupidity tax. You have to pay it only if you are stupid.
Smart people don't pay this tax.
smart people don't pay taxes at all.
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« on: November 20, 2014, 07:00 »
but the right balance between cost and comfort, which is very individual.
China and Thailand were a perfect balance but now the party's over.
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« on: November 20, 2014, 06:21 »
Completely agree with the two previous post: living in a country / town that has good public transport, easy access to events (e.g. live music), good beer, and a certain level of safety is a requirement. Doesn't matter if it costs a little more: I work to live, I don't live to work.
how much is your monthly budget ?
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« on: November 19, 2014, 22:49 »
from today's BBC : Singapore tops ranking of best place to do business http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30123422yeah, nr.1 place to make business, as long as you afford to pay the bills .... 
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« on: November 18, 2014, 21:58 »
a warning - next april is going to be VERY busy in Istanbul and hotels are jumping their rates for the 100th anniversary of Gallipoli
dont worry for another year of two i'm planning to stay in Asia but after that i plan to travel the whole central asia and middle east and Istanbul is one of MUST see !
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« on: November 18, 2014, 07:46 »
Turkey has low rentals in Istanbul and even less if you live in other urban areas (all have excellent bus connections, ferry service great around sea of marmara); food in markets is cheaper, and restaurants about 1/2 of US or European equivalents
i always heard good feedbacks about Istanbul too, it's on my to-do list since a long time. sooner or later i will also travel across the whole middle east, too bad that Sirya and Lybia have been devastated by the war, they have many interesting sites. i've met guys who traveled in Afghanistan after touring central asia, they could only stay in Kabul and it was pretty expensive for foreigners, it's not a place where you can go backpacking on the cheap like in the 60's. Kashmir is now semi open to visitors but still grey area, and who's going to buy images of kashmir if tourists aren't allowed ? Tibet is still limited to tour groups, i was lucky to go there before the 2008 mess but even at the time many areas were closed to foreigners and full of checkpoints.
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« on: November 18, 2014, 07:33 »
I think you left right during the property booming which is year 2009, but you probably was spared from the hike. Rental is very expensive now. I used to rent a bedroom at $500 during 2005, then gradually $700, then moved to 2 bedrooms HDB at $1800. It's now probably at $2300. Nothing close to luxury. Meals are still cheap at food court, and I agree although, if you don't compare with HK or Tokyo, Singapore has the best public transport, and cheap too.
some areas of Bangkok are already following the same trend, it's getting out of control, the chinese and the thai-chinese are buying at crazy prices as a long term investment and running a cartel to keep prices ridicolously high. and anyone complaining about the public transport in SG should better take a look at the abysmal situation in places like Jakarta, Manila, Phnom Penh, Saigon, Yangon !
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« on: November 17, 2014, 10:33 »
great till 2008? * you really missed the golden days by a decade, by 2008 it was not the place to be at all.
i know what you mean but it's the whole SEA chaging too fast for the worse, and i still remember my first trip in china where you could only see millions of bicycles and a few old taxis, no skyscrapers and no shopping malls.
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« on: November 16, 2014, 22:37 »
2010.
that explains everything, S'pore cost of living changed incredibly in the last few years, it was actually a cheap destination until 2005. actually the whole SEA changed so much, we're getting the same sh-it as 10 yrs ago but prices have doubled or tripled, the locals are more and more unfriendly and take us for granted, scams and crimes are on the rise everywhere. said that, the pros still outweights the cons for the time being.
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« on: November 16, 2014, 22:34 »
but it does work, i know cause i've done it for years. and the nice part about it, there is no shadiness involved whatsoever. no ED, no business, no retirement, no marriage, etc. it is so rare it seems you don't even know about it, but my bet is you'd get it in less than a month with no strings attached.
if you mean getting a proper working visa, yes, all you need is getting hired by some thai company, but here we were discussing about visas allowing foreigners to live or to work freely in a SEA country. besides, it's a matter of principle with Thailand : they just hate us and there's no point feeding their corrupt government, if all i want is a beach with coconuts trees and a row of bars with hoo-kers there's plenty of other options in SEA where i also won't be bothered too much about my visa status. the golden days of thailand are well and truely over, it was great till 2008 but now ?
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