Has forcible rape skyrocketed or has the number of women actually filing charges skyrocketed? It has been getting easier for a woman to charge a rapist without being put on trial herself.
Only if you wanted the paper up to date, lots of slightly older editions would have been floating around free to read. Even now I read the paper for free at places such as the laundromat as others buy and then leave them behind. The price was quite low as well.
In the Apollo case the flaws in the capsule would have resulted in death eventually and probably sooner then later. Sorta like if the SEAL got killed by a defect in a new weapon that was developed to kill the bad guy.
I don't know about having private vs public copyright and trade secrets are just that, secrets can be protected by laws on stealing. Break into Cokes headquarters and into the safe where it's kept, that's theft over as well as breaking and entering. Coke loses their secret by not guarding it, tough. As for your main idea, perhaps the first 5-7 years are free, then the charges start at $1and double every year. This is better for the small person who doesn't have to scramble to renew all their copyrights at first and after 5-7 years copyright rather matters or doesn't.
Ah, yes...I knew there was a way to blame this all on America. There always is!
Well it is usually America that is at fault. Just look at all recent trade deals, especially those in the works. America invites the IP holders to write the trade deals rather then the people or even their representatives in Congress and then pressures other countries to go along with it.
OK, the patent should last for 20 years whether the original inventor is alive or dead. Either way the original inventor or the kids are going to inherit the debt after 20 years if the inventor is bad at business or wasted his time on an invention that won't pay off during the life of the patent. As the AC says, this is common for non-ip business startups and is the way things work. There is no natural right to intellectual property, it is just a government granted privilege to advance society (learning in the original, the arts and sciences in the US constitution and in 1789 saying the arts and sciences was just a fancy way to say learning).
I think the more immediate problem for the UK is that it still has a bizarre upper house and a far too cosy relationship between the monarchy (and its periphery) and parliament.
That bizarre upper house, when it had more power, used to stop the stupid things that democracies often do like this copyright act. Look at the history of copyright. Back at the beginning of the 18th century when Parliament decided on copyright, the House of Commons got tricked by the publishers (stationers) argument that it was "for the artists" and almost gave indefinitely long copyright. The House of Lords put the brakes on this and argued that copyright should be for a limited time and then works should go into the public domain. The end result was a copyright law that was limited to 14+14 years (with a grandfather clause of 21 years), copies went to the libraries at Oxford and Cambridge and the actual title include the fact that copyright was for the encouragement of learning. The Americans version of copyright was almost identical to this. When works started to come out of copyright in 1731, the stationers argued that copyright was a natural right in common law and they should be able to keep it forever (sound familiar?) and once again the House of Lords, in their capacity as the Supreme Court, stopped that by ruling that copyright is not a natural right and only exists at the pleasure of Parliament (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ). Copyright is just one example of how democracy can work against the common interests of the people and having a non-elected balancing house can be a good thing. Likewise with the Queen currently. She is the ultimate check on Parliament completely ignoring the will of the people. Ultimately she has veto power, can dissolve the Government forcing an election for a new Parliament and even the Armed forces are responsible to her. She also serves as a respected non-partisan adviser to the government. Note that she can only use her powers in extreme situations as without the agreement of the people and future Parliaments, she can and will be fired.
American money is usually accepted most everywhere in Canada though most businesses will give a bad exchange rate to different degrees. Don't know where in Canada you're having problems in. The other way, Canadian money is usually only accepted close to the border and the Americans often give a worse exchange rate.
I don't know about the States, but here in Canada the rumours about the government building concentration camps started about 1970 and the FLQ crisis (Quebec separatist terrorism) and if anything, the lack of the internet made the rumours easier to belief as research was hard. Same with our tea party equivalent, the Reform Party which started before the internet. Shit, we didn't even officially have free speech at the time.
They (the 3 letter agencies) won't be happy unless they have the capability to read everything. Even requiring warrants isn't a fix as long as there are rubber stamp Judges and warrants can be issued in secret and kept secret. The courts will also bend under public pressure and as long as politicians use fear to control and advance their agenda, the courts are likely to throw more rights out the window.
Having NASA saying that they are getting out of the supply stuff is like the telephone companies saying they are getting out of the rotary phone business.
Well considering that the telephone company stays in the rotary phone business so they can add a $3 a month touch dial surcharge, does that mean that NASA is going to keep in the supply stuff forever so they skim money off?
You're suggesting upping their speed to 256kbps? Guessing I'd say the whole community shares a crappy satellite link and it may well be considered an essential service there as it may well be the only connection to the outside world. The NWT is huge and almost unpopulated with hundreds of miles separating small communities and only a couple of actual roads.
And, ISPs? Well, let's see. Is Comcast a reputable business? How about AOL? I don't know of any US ISP or telecoms company that have not pulled some underhanded stunt to bilk the public. Maybe it's different in Canada, and this poor, poor ISP really is being cheated by the public.
The big Canadian ISPs and telecoms are just as bad as the American ones though the government keeps slightly more control on them, eg all the big ISPs are considered common carriers here. Generally the small ISPs are better and I'd assume that this being in the NWT, it is a small ISP, probably connected by satellite. The territories are very sparsely populated and also living costs can be very high, with the price of a cucumber being well over $10 from what someone recently mentioned. Many of the towns are dry as well and with it being dark for months at end there isn't much to do so having the internet is a major benefit.
You're probably American with a government that understands the importance of not being dependent on foreign sources of food and hasn't sold the farm yet in a free trade deal with China. Our previous government signed a deal with China that allows them to sue us for lost profits if we refuse to carry their goods for stupid reasons such as it being poisonous. Need to give 30 years notice to cancel the deal as well while most trade deals need 6 months to a years notice. Considering the Billions that we've had to pay out to American companies for similar reasons due to NAFTA, we're probably stuck with Chinese goods everywhere including the grocery store. At least the one I use labels everything so it is easy to not buy Chinese, at least as long as there are choices.
I'd rather shop at the store that at least labels where produce originates then Walmart which just seems scummy and treats their employees like shit. Loblaws at least understands that if you don't want to deal with unions, treat your employees well. Besides Chinese stuff seems to be everywhere.
Moving to a low wage country can see expenses drop by a couple of orders of magnitude. Wages dropping from $200 a day to $2 a day with employees that are a lot more desperate to keep their job due to things like no social safety net. Cost savings from things like having to maintain a safe and healthy workplace. Other expenses such as rent and raw materials also dropping. Better comparison would be paying employees $3 a day vs $2 a day in the low wage country. When things are more equal, paying for good skilled employees can really help the bottom line. My dad was a machinist working at a lock factory. He was good at what he did, keeping tolerances always well below spec with high production. Made about $25 an hour with good benefits. When free trade started his job got outsourced to Phoenix with $8 an hour employees. Business went from being profitable to non-profitable even with expenses cut by perhaps 75%. Company then moved to Mexico with even lower wages and eventually China before once again becoming profitable, mostly because expenses were so low that they could bin over half the production and still be profitable. And with the customers expectations also dropping, those binned products could still be sold as cheap off-brand product and still make money compared to melting the product down and restarting.
Federally, yes and no. Federal common law offenses are banned as unconstitutional since 1812 though I wonder about contempt (tell a Judge to fuck off and witness his power). At the State level it varies fro State to State and when a federal court rules on State law, they do consider common law, especially when the common law of the States varies which can lead to creating new law. In other matters the federal courts can still make law, though it is Congress that has given them the power in most things such as admiralty law, antitrust, bankruptcy law, interstate commerce, and civil rights and of course Congress can override the courts unless it is a Constitutional issue. There is also the case where 2 laws conflict and the courts have to reconcile the law. Of course I'm not a lawyer and this is just my take on it from various readings on the net.
The local grocery store, "The Real Canadian Superstore", owned by Loblaws. They have some very large carrots (bulk) which are Chinese. Most of the carrots are American or Canadian. I see other produce from China as well such as garlic. Haven't looked at everything in the produce section as the place of origin is usually in small print which is harder to read with age. Noticed a few cans and bottles also originating from China, much more then I'd expect.
Could have sworn that America (excepting Louisiana) is a common law jurisdiction where judges can also change and create law. Perhaps you don't believe in contract law as it is an example of law where much of it was never passed by Congress or is part of the Constitution. If you look back in time, more law was common law and less statutory until the day the country was formed with nothing but English common law. On the flip side, being a common law jurisdiction allows the courts to declare laws or parts of laws null and void due to conflicts with the Constitution or other higher laws.
As the AC points out, the code is hosted by Mozilla. As well as SM using the Mozilla Bugzilla and having the same problems as Thunderbird, namely Firefox developers being thoughtful about breaking both SM and TB though they've been ordered to ignore both and even if they do ignore them, bugs get filed as blockers on their code and they spend time on them. Not much time but Mozilla seems to want to self-destruct as quick as possible. There's also a movement to move Comm-central, where SM and TB live, back into the main tree. Last I paid attention, about a month ago, it seemed a done deal but even then the TB developers were wondering aloud about moving away from Mozilla, mostly due to Mozilla deciding that XUL should go away along with all the add-ons that make Firefox great.
Well personally I use Thunderbird as a front end for gmail (smtp + imap). I find gmails web ui an inferior expirience. Maybe it's just me but i tend to find things quicker in a tree pane view.
Exactly what I came here to say, though with experience spelled correctly.
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Has forcible rape skyrocketed or has the number of women actually filing charges skyrocketed? It has been getting easier for a woman to charge a rapist without being put on trial herself.
Only if you wanted the paper up to date, lots of slightly older editions would have been floating around free to read. Even now I read the paper for free at places such as the laundromat as others buy and then leave them behind.
The price was quite low as well.
In the Apollo case the flaws in the capsule would have resulted in death eventually and probably sooner then later. Sorta like if the SEAL got killed by a defect in a new weapon that was developed to kill the bad guy.
I don't know about having private vs public copyright and trade secrets are just that, secrets can be protected by laws on stealing. Break into Cokes headquarters and into the safe where it's kept, that's theft over as well as breaking and entering. Coke loses their secret by not guarding it, tough.
As for your main idea, perhaps the first 5-7 years are free, then the charges start at $1and double every year. This is better for the small person who doesn't have to scramble to renew all their copyrights at first and after 5-7 years copyright rather matters or doesn't.
Back in the days before the Internet and TV we had newspapers that were very partisan and allowed people to filter their news to how they wanted it.
Ah, yes...I knew there was a way to blame this all on America. There always is!
Well it is usually America that is at fault. Just look at all recent trade deals, especially those in the works. America invites the IP holders to write the trade deals rather then the people or even their representatives in Congress and then pressures other countries to go along with it.
OK, the patent should last for 20 years whether the original inventor is alive or dead. Either way the original inventor or the kids are going to inherit the debt after 20 years if the inventor is bad at business or wasted his time on an invention that won't pay off during the life of the patent. As the AC says, this is common for non-ip business startups and is the way things work.
There is no natural right to intellectual property, it is just a government granted privilege to advance society (learning in the original, the arts and sciences in the US constitution and in 1789 saying the arts and sciences was just a fancy way to say learning).
I think the more immediate problem for the UK is that it still has a bizarre upper house and a far too cosy relationship between the monarchy (and its periphery) and parliament.
That bizarre upper house, when it had more power, used to stop the stupid things that democracies often do like this copyright act. Look at the history of copyright. Back at the beginning of the 18th century when Parliament decided on copyright, the House of Commons got tricked by the publishers (stationers) argument that it was "for the artists" and almost gave indefinitely long copyright. The House of Lords put the brakes on this and argued that copyright should be for a limited time and then works should go into the public domain. The end result was a copyright law that was limited to 14+14 years (with a grandfather clause of 21 years), copies went to the libraries at Oxford and Cambridge and the actual title include the fact that copyright was for the encouragement of learning. The Americans version of copyright was almost identical to this.
When works started to come out of copyright in 1731, the stationers argued that copyright was a natural right in common law and they should be able to keep it forever (sound familiar?) and once again the House of Lords, in their capacity as the Supreme Court, stopped that by ruling that copyright is not a natural right and only exists at the pleasure of Parliament (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ).
Copyright is just one example of how democracy can work against the common interests of the people and having a non-elected balancing house can be a good thing. Likewise with the Queen currently. She is the ultimate check on Parliament completely ignoring the will of the people. Ultimately she has veto power, can dissolve the Government forcing an election for a new Parliament and even the Armed forces are responsible to her. She also serves as a respected non-partisan adviser to the government. Note that she can only use her powers in extreme situations as without the agreement of the people and future Parliaments, she can and will be fired.
Do you really classify pigs, chickens and fish as vegetables?
To be honest, it's the same in BC, though that charge was there for way too long.
American money is usually accepted most everywhere in Canada though most businesses will give a bad exchange rate to different degrees. Don't know where in Canada you're having problems in. The other way, Canadian money is usually only accepted close to the border and the Americans often give a worse exchange rate.
I don't know about the States, but here in Canada the rumours about the government building concentration camps started about 1970 and the FLQ crisis (Quebec separatist terrorism) and if anything, the lack of the internet made the rumours easier to belief as research was hard. Same with our tea party equivalent, the Reform Party which started before the internet. Shit, we didn't even officially have free speech at the time.
They (the 3 letter agencies) won't be happy unless they have the capability to read everything. Even requiring warrants isn't a fix as long as there are rubber stamp Judges and warrants can be issued in secret and kept secret.
The courts will also bend under public pressure and as long as politicians use fear to control and advance their agenda, the courts are likely to throw more rights out the window.
Having NASA saying that they are getting out of the supply stuff is like the telephone companies saying they are getting out of the rotary phone business.
Well considering that the telephone company stays in the rotary phone business so they can add a $3 a month touch dial surcharge, does that mean that NASA is going to keep in the supply stuff forever so they skim money off?
You're suggesting upping their speed to 256kbps? Guessing I'd say the whole community shares a crappy satellite link and it may well be considered an essential service there as it may well be the only connection to the outside world. The NWT is huge and almost unpopulated with hundreds of miles separating small communities and only a couple of actual roads.
And, ISPs? Well, let's see. Is Comcast a reputable business? How about AOL? I don't know of any US ISP or telecoms company that have not pulled some underhanded stunt to bilk the public. Maybe it's different in Canada, and this poor, poor ISP really is being cheated by the public.
The big Canadian ISPs and telecoms are just as bad as the American ones though the government keeps slightly more control on them, eg all the big ISPs are considered common carriers here.
Generally the small ISPs are better and I'd assume that this being in the NWT, it is a small ISP, probably connected by satellite. The territories are very sparsely populated and also living costs can be very high, with the price of a cucumber being well over $10 from what someone recently mentioned. Many of the towns are dry as well and with it being dark for months at end there isn't much to do so having the internet is a major benefit.
You're probably American with a government that understands the importance of not being dependent on foreign sources of food and hasn't sold the farm yet in a free trade deal with China. Our previous government signed a deal with China that allows them to sue us for lost profits if we refuse to carry their goods for stupid reasons such as it being poisonous. Need to give 30 years notice to cancel the deal as well while most trade deals need 6 months to a years notice. Considering the Billions that we've had to pay out to American companies for similar reasons due to NAFTA, we're probably stuck with Chinese goods everywhere including the grocery store.
At least the one I use labels everything so it is easy to not buy Chinese, at least as long as there are choices.
I'd rather shop at the store that at least labels where produce originates then Walmart which just seems scummy and treats their employees like shit. Loblaws at least understands that if you don't want to deal with unions, treat your employees well. Besides Chinese stuff seems to be everywhere.
Moving to a low wage country can see expenses drop by a couple of orders of magnitude. Wages dropping from $200 a day to $2 a day with employees that are a lot more desperate to keep their job due to things like no social safety net. Cost savings from things like having to maintain a safe and healthy workplace. Other expenses such as rent and raw materials also dropping.
Better comparison would be paying employees $3 a day vs $2 a day in the low wage country.
When things are more equal, paying for good skilled employees can really help the bottom line. My dad was a machinist working at a lock factory. He was good at what he did, keeping tolerances always well below spec with high production. Made about $25 an hour with good benefits. When free trade started his job got outsourced to Phoenix with $8 an hour employees. Business went from being profitable to non-profitable even with expenses cut by perhaps 75%. Company then moved to Mexico with even lower wages and eventually China before once again becoming profitable, mostly because expenses were so low that they could bin over half the production and still be profitable. And with the customers expectations also dropping, those binned products could still be sold as cheap off-brand product and still make money compared to melting the product down and restarting.
Federally, yes and no. Federal common law offenses are banned as unconstitutional since 1812 though I wonder about contempt (tell a Judge to fuck off and witness his power). At the State level it varies fro State to State and when a federal court rules on State law, they do consider common law, especially when the common law of the States varies which can lead to creating new law.
In other matters the federal courts can still make law, though it is Congress that has given them the power in most things such as admiralty law, antitrust, bankruptcy law, interstate commerce, and civil rights and of course Congress can override the courts unless it is a Constitutional issue.
There is also the case where 2 laws conflict and the courts have to reconcile the law.
Of course I'm not a lawyer and this is just my take on it from various readings on the net.
The local grocery store, "The Real Canadian Superstore", owned by Loblaws. They have some very large carrots (bulk) which are Chinese. Most of the carrots are American or Canadian. I see other produce from China as well such as garlic. Haven't looked at everything in the produce section as the place of origin is usually in small print which is harder to read with age. Noticed a few cans and bottles also originating from China, much more then I'd expect.
Could have sworn that America (excepting Louisiana) is a common law jurisdiction where judges can also change and create law. Perhaps you don't believe in contract law as it is an example of law where much of it was never passed by Congress or is part of the Constitution. If you look back in time, more law was common law and less statutory until the day the country was formed with nothing but English common law.
On the flip side, being a common law jurisdiction allows the courts to declare laws or parts of laws null and void due to conflicts with the Constitution or other higher laws.
Until that preference is also removed.
As the AC points out, the code is hosted by Mozilla. As well as SM using the Mozilla Bugzilla and having the same problems as Thunderbird, namely Firefox developers being thoughtful about breaking both SM and TB though they've been ordered to ignore both and even if they do ignore them, bugs get filed as blockers on their code and they spend time on them. Not much time but Mozilla seems to want to self-destruct as quick as possible.
There's also a movement to move Comm-central, where SM and TB live, back into the main tree. Last I paid attention, about a month ago, it seemed a done deal but even then the TB developers were wondering aloud about moving away from Mozilla, mostly due to Mozilla deciding that XUL should go away along with all the add-ons that make Firefox great.
Well personally I use Thunderbird as a front end for gmail (smtp + imap). I find gmails web ui an inferior expirience. Maybe it's just me but i tend to find things quicker in a tree pane view.
Exactly what I came here to say, though with experience spelled correctly.