Choose carefully

SteveDallas · 11-24-2008, 10:45 AM

In this interesting article on copyright, Cory Doctorow writes:

Quote:

If I sent you to a desert island and told you to choose between your records and your friends, you'd be a sociopath if you chose the music.

Well? What'll it be?

glatt · 11-24-2008, 10:49 AM

What kind of friend would I be if I wished my friends would also be stranded on a desert island? I choose music. Besides, the island's resources won't support more than one person, so I'd have to kill them anyway. Lord of the flies.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-24-2008, 10:53 AM

Can I take my music and a DJ?

Trilby · 11-24-2008, 11:02 AM

I'd take a friend. That way I could make a raft out of him.

bluecuracao · 11-24-2008, 11:13 AM

You can't eat records, can you?

Dude111 · 11-11-2020, 08:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bluecuracao

You can't eat records, can you?

No but ya cant eat friends either...

I picked friends...

TheMercenary · 11-24-2008, 11:51 AM

I choose friends so I can eat them when I run out of food.

classicman · 11-24-2008, 12:08 PM

If I chose my friends they'd all be pissed that I chose them and wouldn't be friends anymore.

Treasenuak · 11-24-2008, 12:32 PM

Friends. They taste better.

sweetwater · 11-24-2008, 12:57 PM

If I bring friends then we can make instruments and sing in harmony, too.

Shawnee123 · 11-24-2008, 01:00 PM

Kumbaya

Cicero · 11-24-2008, 01:41 PM

I have to agree with the above there. You are rotten if you ask your friends to stay stranded with you on an island. Of course I am a sociopath so I think "differently" about these things.

jinx · 11-24-2008, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cicero

I have to agree with the above there. You are rotten if you ask your friends to stay stranded with you on an island. Of course I am a sociopath so I think "differently" about these things.

If it was a tropical island, with food and water, I'd forgive you for stranding me there. But only if you had some good music.... (records? wtf are you gonna play them on?)

Juniper · 11-24-2008, 02:55 PM

I choose my friends -- that is friends, plural -- because eventually they would help me figure out how the hell to get off the island!

limey · 11-24-2008, 03:00 PM

Music, every time [/sociopath].

View Poll Results: For my stay on a desert island, I choose...
My friends	19	65.52%
My music	10	34.48%
Voters: 29. You may not vote on this poll

11-24-2008, 10:53 AM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Can I take my music and a DJ? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-24-2008, 11:02 AM	#4
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	I'd take a friend. That way I could make a raft out of him. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

11-24-2008, 11:51 AM	#7
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	I choose friends so I can eat them when I run out of food. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

11-24-2008, 12:08 PM	#8
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	If I chose my friends they'd all be pissed that I chose them and wouldn't be friends anymore. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

11-24-2008, 10:49 AM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	What kind of friend would I be if I wished my friends would also be stranded on a desert island? I choose music. Besides, the island's resources won't support more than one person, so I'd have to kill them anyway. Lord of the flies.

11-24-2008, 11:13 AM	#5
bluecuracao in a mood, not cupcake Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 3,034	You can't eat records, can you?

11-24-2008, 12:32 PM	#9
Treasenuak Multiorgasmic and wrapped in plastic Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Central Tennessee Posts: 483	Friends. They taste better.

11-24-2008, 12:57 PM	#10
sweetwater lives inside a Mobius strip Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,120	If I bring friends then we can make instruments and sing in harmony, too. __________________ I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque! - Bugs Bunny

11-24-2008, 01:00 PM	#11
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Kumbaya __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

11-24-2008, 01:41 PM	#12
Cicero Looking forward to open mic night. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New Mexico Posts: 5,148	I have to agree with the above there. You are rotten if you ask your friends to stay stranded with you on an island. Of course I am a sociopath so I think "differently" about these things. __________________ Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.- Carl Jung

11-24-2008, 02:55 PM	#14
Juniper I know, right? Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,539	I choose my friends -- that is friends, plural -- because eventually they would help me figure out how the hell to get off the island!

11-24-2008, 03:00 PM	#15
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Music, every time [/sociopath]. __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

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