Slashdot Mirror

If I build a house, I can will it to my ancestors, it will remain ours in perpetuity unless sold at some point.

If you own a business, you can also pass it to your children, and great, great, great, grandchildren. Here are some veerrrryy old businesses:

Baker's Chocolate (1765)
Cigna Insurance (1792)
JP Morgan Chase (1799)
DuPont (1802)
Colgate (1806)
Citigroup (1812)
Remington (1816)
HarperCollins (1817)

https://www.businessnewsdaily....

How can these businesses be allowed to make money for over 200 years and yet copyright owners are forced to "donate" their work to the public after 100 years? Inventors have to give their work away after just 20 years... cha-ching for manufacturers who pay nothing for the expired patent for hundreds of years. Programmers don't get a royalty... their hiring companies profit from the product for decades and the programmers get some peanut salary and get kicked out when they turn 40 or 50. Scientists and mathematicians have it the worst... they get paid with just a job (and they get some paltry sum in a Nobel Prize).

This is systematic abuse of the intellectual class by the ruling class (government and big business). Anything short of perpetual right to the creators of these works is abuse and exploitation.

When is the government going to make these old businesses "public domain?"

Don't be daft, all those businesses have had to keep producing new stuff to stay in business. Do you really think that Bakers Chocolate made one very good piece of chocolate and is still being paid for it? Artists can do exactly the same thing, keep producing new stuff to continue to generate money. And just like anyone is free to make chocolate that looks and tastes just like Bakers Chocolate, any one should be free to copy an artists work.
Don't want your chocolate or work of art copied, keep it secret and pass it on to your descendants.

If I build a house, I can will it to my ancestors, it will remain ours in perpetuity unless sold at some point.

If you own a business, you can also pass it to your children, and great, great, great, grandchildren. Here are some veerrrryy old businesses:

Baker's Chocolate (1765)
Cigna Insurance (1792)
JP Morgan Chase (1799)
DuPont (1802)
Colgate (1806)
Citigroup (1812)
Remington (1816)
HarperCollins (1817)

https://www.businessnewsdaily....

How can these businesses be allowed to make money for over 200 years and yet copyright owners are forced to "donate" their work to the public after 100 years? Inventors have to give their work away after just 20 years... cha-ching for manufacturers who pay nothing for the expired patent for hundreds of years. Programmers don't get a royalty... their hiring companies profit from the product for decades and the programmers get some peanut salary and get kicked out when they turn 40 or 50. Scientists and mathematicians have it the worst... they get paid with just a job (and they get some paltry sum in a Nobel Prize).

This is systematic abuse of the intellectual class by the ruling class (government and big business). Anything short of perpetual right to the creators of these works is abuse and exploitation.

When is the government going to make these old businesses "public domain?"

You're [sic!] professional environment is not a dating site.

Yes, that must be why 40% of people have a workplace romance and a third of them end up married. :-p

“People are like the media has an ethical ... But, all the nice cutesy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school, you’re just like, that’s adorable. That’s adorable! This is a business. Especially cable news, you know? Cable news isn’t the New York Times, and it’s not even like NBC News. I mean NBC News still gets 20 million viewers a night. Cable news is getting a million. So, they got to do what they got to do to make their money.... I love the news business, but at the same time, I’m very cynical about it, and at the same time so are my colleagues. [Laughs] I’m not alone." -- CNN Health Producer John Bonifield

I think it is important to think of them as a profit driven corporation, first and foremost. Hiring 'reputation' firms like on this list should simply be expected. Sometimes I wonder if slashdot charges by the mod point.

I'm white and I've had just enough black friends to see that racism still is a problem. The linked quotes are about not stopping minorities from saying so. Through the years, I've realized that yes, we're all a little racist. The studies actually show that minorities are often racist against themselves. It's not fair. There's a belief among some of my white friends that the pendulum has swung in favor of minorities, and anti-white racism is worse than pro-white. I've seen otherwise. Not just anecdotal from people, but empirical studies show this. I know it's hard to believe. If you ever have a chance to take one of the studies, try it and see. Here's just one thing off the top of a search, I can't find the study I participated in right now. https://www.psychologytoday.co...

All that said, what are we afraid of? If minorities are allowed to say racism is real, how does it hurt us? You're probably afraid of laws being made that actually hurt us, affirmative action. First off, whatever laws are made, and not even one is likely to ever happen at this point, it would have been nothing compared to slavery, Jim Crow, and even the subtle racism since then that hurts every life opportunity. That said, I don't think affirmative action should be in the workforce, because it won't make a lasting difference there, all it does is hurt whites for one generation. It could be in school. If when we close our eyes and think of minorities, if we thought of them as even equally educated, then racism would actually disappear.

Is it worth it? Should we sacrifice "so much" just to live in a diverse society? The answer is yes. It's been proven, again empirically, that most aspects of diversity directly lead to more powerful groups, more productive workforces, more profits even. This is actually what has and can make our country great.

I would be interested to know if UA uses any of the "reputation management companies" on this list. Do they put in the call to Twitter and other social media platforms, or is it handled directly by corporate?

Either way, its all hands on deck for the corporate shills. They will censor where they can, and are already using character assassination as a tactic.

The reality is that there is a HUGE amount of resistance to technology. One example: What Computer? Why Small Business Shuns Technology

Did you miss the point? Americans who take all of their allotted vacation days face retaliation from their employers, including layoffs.