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Statistical Analysis of Copyright Registrations

linuxizer writes "I've been poking around in Penn's Library for most of my Freshman year, looking up copyright statistics. What I found is basically what many suspected all along: extending and strengthening copyright terms has little effect on actual innovation. Perhaps most fascinating is the strong 40-year upward trend in registrations which is sharply broken in 1991 with a precipitous decline. Also included are some interesting observations about the RIAA's data. The numerous graphics should be well-enough explained that you don't need to go to the data files, but they are included if needed."

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  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  3. Um by voudras · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    34% of statistics are false

  4. TRINITY DIES AT THE END OF MATRIX 3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    if anyone cares

  5. If you love freedom don't buy anything from redhat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  6. TRINITY SUCKS MY COCK AT THE END OF MY DREAM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It was awesome.

    Of all the wet dreams I've had, that had to be number two, right after the one where I'm butt raping Burt Reynolds while he's dressed up as "The Bandit."

  7. Ewww by i8urtaco · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I must be working too hard. I thought the first line read I've been poking around Penis library. Must....have....more...caffeine....

  8. SUN HOAX REVEALED! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SUN HOAX REVEALED!
    by Secret Jew "Tyron Zegold"
    While there is no moon to drive people mad or turn them into werewolves, the moon-hoax has tragically succeeded in robbing us of our senses for so long. Fortunately, the ground-breaking research undertaken by THE MAD REVISIONIST has uncovered and dismantled this hoax. Yet there remains an even greater hoax perpetrated against the world, and unlike the moon-hoax, in the light of day- and all the more dangerous for that. In the final stanza of Auden's Funeral Blues, yet another piece of poetry relied upon to establish the existence of the moon, the poet laments, "Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun", and this latter suggestion should interest any serious revisionist scholar. Like so many revisionists, I do not know very much about the field of study to which I propose to contribute. More glaring than any "sun", however, the sun-hoax, I argue below, is so obvious that it can be recognised by laymen and open-minded "experts" alike.
    Scientific waffling

    As with its partner the moon, theories and fables about the sun have been constantly changed and retracted by the embarrassed scientific community, always on the verge of exposure. In ancient times very silly things were fabricated about the sun in many cultures around the world in order to sow confusion. These myths include elaborate and outlandish accounts of the sun really being a woman riding in a chariot across the sky, and other such nonsense hardly worth mentioning.

    Along with the moon, the sun was said to revolve around the earth, which according to the Ptolemaic system lay at the centre of the universe. Nicolaus Copernicus, the astronomological establishment's big hero, later argued that the earth revolves around the sun. Needless to say, Copernicus' ideas have also been substantially revised by modern science, which describes in vivid detail how the sun too and its solar system traipse about the universe. New models of the universe, however, are also constantly being conjured, and it seems as if the subject of dispute, the sun, hangs in even more suspect environs.

    Mathematical impossibility

    Secondly, as with the moon, if the sun existed, a horrible apocalyptic collision with the earth would be expected. While the moon would have to plummet into the earth, since our planet supposedly revolves around the sun, we should expect to come crashing down into the sun. While the moon is said to be 384 000km from the earth and the sun 149 600 000km from the earth, the sun is much bigger than the moon. The moon is said to have a diametre of 3476km, the earth a diametre of 12 756km (at the equator). Since the sun supposedly has a diametre 109 times that of the earth, it has diametre of approximately 1 390 404km (109 X 12 756). To compare in ratio the supposed sun-moon diametres and supposed sun-moon distances from earth, divide 149 600 000 (sun-earth distance) by 384 400 (moon-earth distance), and also divide 1 309 404 (sun diametre) by 3 476 (moon diametre). The respective distance-diametre ratio is then approximately, 389.18 : 376.70. The supposed larger distance from the earth, is compensated by the supposed sun's larger size.

    Concerned that we may realize this, the astrological community admits the swallowing of the earth by the sun, which we are told will expand over billions of years until it wondrously explodes as a supernova. Need I say more?

    Chemical absurdity

    The sun is said to be a ball of burning gasses. But is not oxygen necessary for even the tiniest flame to burn? Inconsistently, the scientists describe space as lacking this oxygen.

    Nevertheless, if the sun could burn, this would entail consequences which are not apparent. If the cold, small moon can affect the oceans and form tides, surely the massive sun, burning at millions of degrees at its core, would evaporate all the oceans, let alone melt the very crust of the earth and all those, including revisionists, living on its surface.

    Lack of eyewitness evidence

    As for eyew

  9. Poking around in libraries by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My sophmore year I poked my girlfriend in the library.

    Thank you! Thank you!

  10. I'm at a loss here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does the babelfish understand geybonics?

  11. Quit it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YOU'RE my hero. After being fired from you aol tech support job, having the roof of your trailer park ripped off by the hurricane, having your son cut you off until you buy better lube, and walking in on your white trash wife being porked by the black mailman and yet you STILL find time and joy in consistently posting the same lame troll? you amaze me.
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