As the other poster says, steam was commonly used for heat and hot water until fairly recently. Steam engines weren't really replaced by diesel until the '50's. Lucked out to be besides the tracks last year when a heritage steam train went by. There were some neat sounds as well as sight, there's something about a big steam locomotive that just screams pent up power.
Many of us Canadians wish that the bitumen sands were being used to add value to the economy through refineries but our right wing government is in the pockets of American, Chinese and Indonesian oil companies as well as having the business attitude of maximum profits now rather then sustainable profits for the future. And yes they're deregulating as fast as they can with the odd bump when a town gets blown up (or too many people are dieing of salmonella). Shit, the last refinery here on the southwest coast can't get enough oil and has to import it even though the oil pipeline terminates basically at the refinery. Fucking right wingers are financially idiots who rather then paying off the debt that they created by blowing the surplus and running a deficit for the last 8 years while going on about how being Conservative means they're good with money would rather cut taxes now that an election is coming up. I'm probably old fashioned but I'd rather see the bills being paid off while the economy is good due to the high oil prices just in case the price of oil drops.
Mod points are to make good posts more visible and even ACs deserve to have their good posts upvoted so more can read them. I often use most of my points on ACs who make good points.
For evolution, beings should multiply. Earthly microbes need from 15 minutes to 24 hours to double their ranks. And it took 3.8e9 years and at least 3.8e9*365 divisions to produce a sentient being.
Is that the sentient beings that did genetic engineering, invented chlorophyll and wiped themselves in the oxygen catastrophe? Or perhaps those vaguely crab shaped ones that had the bad luck of a volcano? Or any of the other sapient beings that had bad luck?
But flat out copying articles from webpages without explicit permission or even attribution is almost certainly not a grey area, no matter how basic your understanding of the law.
There's also fair use/fair dealing which does allow some copyright infringement such as the quote of your copyrighted post above. A very gray area. Also our Conservative government recently was planning to amend the copyright act to allow more use of copyrighted material as they want to use stuff for their attack ads and the copyright holders were saying no so they were/are making it legal. This government is a law and order government and every time they get caught breaking the law, they change the law to make it legal or at least to stop the government agency in charge from reporting it.
The Queen Mary 2 is not a good representation of a traditional ocean liner. No steerage class, at that, going from memory, it is basically one class that is awfully close to first class. Last time I crossed the Atlantic by ocean liner, it took a week which gives an average speed closer to 15 knots and where our cabin was, we did not have windows and were probably below the water line. Very small cabin that 5 of us were crammed in. At the time it was much cheaper then flying even considering that we had to pay for a weeks food etc. Of course flying wasn't so subsidized back then and cost much more then now.
Ah, I misunderstood as you mentioned 10% in the GP post. My point still stands, perhaps the prices would have dropped even further if there was not the overhead of destroying all competition. Besides, even if you are correct and he was functioning as a benevolent dictator, what about his successor? This is always the problem. A benevolent dictator is perhaps the best form of government or other power but they never last and usually you get a crappy tyrant as the successor.
Hard to say how hard it would be for the ISP to add the infrastructure to boost Aunt Marys connection only when she connected to netflix, probably more then pennies I'd guess. For my connection it would cost millions and there is going to be a spectrum in between though for some cable users it may be as easy as reprogramming the cable box and saying screw everyone else on that block sharing the infrastructure. There's still the problem with the new barrier to entry when someone else wants to compete with netflix.
Or if you didn't travel, you'd never know that other people talk funny.
Don't be daft, I don't travel much and yet run into lots of people with different dialects of English including one guy from the north of England who I have to really struggle to understand and another who is a native Italian who learned English in Australia, very interesting trying to understand him.
As I remember, some of my best sounding records (on a low to mid level system) were later Apple pressings, especially John Lennons Imagine and Mother albums. Even picking them up showed the quality, they were thick and seemed to have more dynamic range then most recordings.
Really it depends on your choices, Canada (at least some Provinces) is much like the States when it comes to choice of providers. If you're lucky you have the cable company and you have the phone company. Me I live on the outskirts of town so have very little choice, basically barbed wire, especially with the mountains limiting RF.
It's hard to ignore the marketing, even when you're aware of it. Certain messages repeated in the background have an affect even if it is not on a conscious level. These politicians spend a lot of money on psychology to find the most effective message..
Yes, the Americans seem to have changed a few meanings and as you say, most of it is bullshit anyways as both parties are mostly on the authoritarian side. Unluckily authoritarian types seem to do better in democracies, if only due to being able to be more immoral.
As far as I know, due to the media levy it is still legal to make personal copies of music (it never was legal for video etc) including downloading off the internet. Besides there is no levy on a blank DVD and it is more useful.
Don't forget the rules about breaking DRM that have been introduced by the Conservatives, sure you're free to copy stuff, but if it has any form of encryption I believe it is a criminal offence now. No more copying most all DVD's though they did allow for copying VHS tapes.
As far as I know, downloading music for personal use is still legal in Canada due to the side affects of the media levy on blank CDs, audio cassettes etc. We pay a levy, we can make copies, which wasn't what the music industry expected the courts to rule. The courts have also made rulings that make a pretty liberal definition of downloading as well, basically as long as you pull rather then I push you can copy all my music.
Interesting claim you make there. However, just because you partner with business it doesn't mean you are right-wing. No, it's the ideology. To be honest though, I can't tell whether this is a right-wing or left-wing action because copyright can be argued to either be anti free market (left-wing) or pro free market (right-wing). When it comes to the actual people who did it, money surely was a factor.
it's simple, left wing is for the people, right wing is for the aristocracy, which now a days is the rich and big business. The Democrats are to the left of the Republicans but are still very pro-business. You just have to look at their health reform which is pro-insurance companies or the 2008 financial crisis where they helped the bankers rather then the people. Actions are the important thing, not words.
Nothing would stop netflix from paying for Aunt Mary's now higher bill for a higher tier of service but why would netflix want to pay? I'd guess that they'd have to pay more then they take in for Aunt Mary's subscription.
For many, perhaps most, inventions they happen when the time is right. One of the most famous examples was the telephone, knowledge had advanced to the point where a telephone was possible and two inventors showed up at the patent office on the same day with another one that week, all having independently invented the telephone. The first one ended up with a huge monopoly (perhaps it was whoever bought the rights) called AT&T whereas the second one was screwed. We see the same thing with inventions such as one click shopping or rounded corners on a device. The time was right for the invention and it was going to be invented, but whoever was the most legally savvy gets rewarded for something that has become obvious. As for art, even back in the 1700's there were artists who made a very good living touring (or would if they didn't blow it away) as well as those who preferred a patron. And mostly copyright has been manipulated to benefit the publishers, not the artists. Whether through Hollywood type accounting or just offering a lopsided contract to the young artist who just wants to produce art. Note that it is the publishers (and others who didn't produce the art like heirs) that push for infinite copyright, not the actual artists who generally just want to produce more art.
The original 1790 statute which had a default period of 14 years was also plenty.
The original statute was written in 1710 with the title
An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned
Note that right from the beginning of modern copyright law the idea was for works to go into the public domain for the advancement of society and even as that law was being drafted the publishers were claiming that they needed infinite copyright "for the artists" and even then were actually ripping the artists off with a small payment to get all the rights to a work. This is the real tragedy of copyright, it usually benefits the publishers way more then the artists. You have cases like Issac Asimov being amazed he could get paid multiple times for a work or the Beetles getting totally ripped off at the beginning of their career as they only expected one payment. More up to date is the sequel to Forrest Grump which will never be filmed due to the first film making no money and the artist not getting paid, good old Hollywood accounting. If an architect got promised a percentage of the rent and then got paid nothing most people would consider it a ripoff, yet it is normal in the copyright world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Perhaps the prices would have dropped down to 5% or less of what he was originally charging if there had been real competition. The price dropped due to improvements in technology, not due to generosity on the part of Rockefeller. Anyways when you get right down to it, capitalism is about capturing government to ensure your profits.
It isn't capitalism. It's crony capitalism or bankism. The laws are written such that the ruling elite--those in control of the banks directly and indirectly--define the direction that the world goes in.
Seems that it is the inevitable result of capitalism. The most efficient wins and writing the rules always means that you define efficient.
Twas the industrial revolution that caused a huge spike in the number of people who could only find employment as servants and the rich took full advantage of it.
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As the other poster says, steam was commonly used for heat and hot water until fairly recently. Steam engines weren't really replaced by diesel until the '50's.
Lucked out to be besides the tracks last year when a heritage steam train went by. There were some neat sounds as well as sight, there's something about a big steam locomotive that just screams pent up power.
Many of us Canadians wish that the bitumen sands were being used to add value to the economy through refineries but our right wing government is in the pockets of American, Chinese and Indonesian oil companies as well as having the business attitude of maximum profits now rather then sustainable profits for the future. And yes they're deregulating as fast as they can with the odd bump when a town gets blown up (or too many people are dieing of salmonella). Shit, the last refinery here on the southwest coast can't get enough oil and has to import it even though the oil pipeline terminates basically at the refinery.
Fucking right wingers are financially idiots who rather then paying off the debt that they created by blowing the surplus and running a deficit for the last 8 years while going on about how being Conservative means they're good with money would rather cut taxes now that an election is coming up. I'm probably old fashioned but I'd rather see the bills being paid off while the economy is good due to the high oil prices just in case the price of oil drops.
Mod points are to make good posts more visible and even ACs deserve to have their good posts upvoted so more can read them. I often use most of my points on ACs who make good points.
For evolution, beings should multiply. Earthly microbes need from 15 minutes to 24 hours to double their ranks. And it took 3.8e9 years and at least 3.8e9*365 divisions to produce a sentient being.
Is that the sentient beings that did genetic engineering, invented chlorophyll and wiped themselves in the oxygen catastrophe? Or perhaps those vaguely crab shaped ones that had the bad luck of a volcano? Or any of the other sapient beings that had bad luck?
But flat out copying articles from webpages without explicit permission or even attribution is almost certainly not a grey area, no matter how basic your understanding of the law.
There's also fair use/fair dealing which does allow some copyright infringement such as the quote of your copyrighted post above. A very gray area.
Also our Conservative government recently was planning to amend the copyright act to allow more use of copyrighted material as they want to use stuff for their attack ads and the copyright holders were saying no so they were/are making it legal. This government is a law and order government and every time they get caught breaking the law, they change the law to make it legal or at least to stop the government agency in charge from reporting it.
The Queen Mary 2 is not a good representation of a traditional ocean liner. No steerage class, at that, going from memory, it is basically one class that is awfully close to first class.
Last time I crossed the Atlantic by ocean liner, it took a week which gives an average speed closer to 15 knots and where our cabin was, we did not have windows and were probably below the water line. Very small cabin that 5 of us were crammed in. At the time it was much cheaper then flying even considering that we had to pay for a weeks food etc. Of course flying wasn't so subsidized back then and cost much more then now.
Ah, I misunderstood as you mentioned 10% in the GP post. My point still stands, perhaps the prices would have dropped even further if there was not the overhead of destroying all competition.
Besides, even if you are correct and he was functioning as a benevolent dictator, what about his successor?
This is always the problem. A benevolent dictator is perhaps the best form of government or other power but they never last and usually you get a crappy tyrant as the successor.
Hard to say how hard it would be for the ISP to add the infrastructure to boost Aunt Marys connection only when she connected to netflix, probably more then pennies I'd guess. For my connection it would cost millions and there is going to be a spectrum in between though for some cable users it may be as easy as reprogramming the cable box and saying screw everyone else on that block sharing the infrastructure.
There's still the problem with the new barrier to entry when someone else wants to compete with netflix.
Or if you didn't travel, you'd never know that other people talk funny.
Don't be daft, I don't travel much and yet run into lots of people with different dialects of English including one guy from the north of England who I have to really struggle to understand and another who is a native Italian who learned English in Australia, very interesting trying to understand him.
As I remember, some of my best sounding records (on a low to mid level system) were later Apple pressings, especially John Lennons Imagine and Mother albums. Even picking them up showed the quality, they were thick and seemed to have more dynamic range then most recordings.
Really it depends on your choices, Canada (at least some Provinces) is much like the States when it comes to choice of providers. If you're lucky you have the cable company and you have the phone company. Me I live on the outskirts of town so have very little choice, basically barbed wire, especially with the mountains limiting RF.
It's hard to ignore the marketing, even when you're aware of it. Certain messages repeated in the background have an affect even if it is not on a conscious level. These politicians spend a lot of money on psychology to find the most effective message..
Yes, the Americans seem to have changed a few meanings and as you say, most of it is bullshit anyways as both parties are mostly on the authoritarian side. Unluckily authoritarian types seem to do better in democracies, if only due to being able to be more immoral.
As far as I know, due to the media levy it is still legal to make personal copies of music (it never was legal for video etc) including downloading off the internet. Besides there is no levy on a blank DVD and it is more useful.
Don't forget the rules about breaking DRM that have been introduced by the Conservatives, sure you're free to copy stuff, but if it has any form of encryption I believe it is a criminal offence now. No more copying most all DVD's though they did allow for copying VHS tapes.
As far as I know, downloading music for personal use is still legal in Canada due to the side affects of the media levy on blank CDs, audio cassettes etc. We pay a levy, we can make copies, which wasn't what the music industry expected the courts to rule.
The courts have also made rulings that make a pretty liberal definition of downloading as well, basically as long as you pull rather then I push you can copy all my music.
I believe some of the ISPs give you an address in the 10.0.0.0 block so no using SSH to access your own system.
Interesting claim you make there. However, just because you partner with business it doesn't mean you are right-wing. No, it's the ideology. To be honest though, I can't tell whether this is a right-wing or left-wing action because copyright can be argued to either be anti free market (left-wing) or pro free market (right-wing). When it comes to the actual people who did it, money surely was a factor.
it's simple, left wing is for the people, right wing is for the aristocracy, which now a days is the rich and big business. The Democrats are to the left of the Republicans but are still very pro-business. You just have to look at their health reform which is pro-insurance companies or the 2008 financial crisis where they helped the bankers rather then the people.
Actions are the important thing, not words.
Nothing would stop netflix from paying for Aunt Mary's now higher bill for a higher tier of service but why would netflix want to pay? I'd guess that they'd have to pay more then they take in for Aunt Mary's subscription.
For many, perhaps most, inventions they happen when the time is right. One of the most famous examples was the telephone, knowledge had advanced to the point where a telephone was possible and two inventors showed up at the patent office on the same day with another one that week, all having independently invented the telephone. The first one ended up with a huge monopoly (perhaps it was whoever bought the rights) called AT&T whereas the second one was screwed.
We see the same thing with inventions such as one click shopping or rounded corners on a device. The time was right for the invention and it was going to be invented, but whoever was the most legally savvy gets rewarded for something that has become obvious.
As for art, even back in the 1700's there were artists who made a very good living touring (or would if they didn't blow it away) as well as those who preferred a patron. And mostly copyright has been manipulated to benefit the publishers, not the artists. Whether through Hollywood type accounting or just offering a lopsided contract to the young artist who just wants to produce art.
Note that it is the publishers (and others who didn't produce the art like heirs) that push for infinite copyright, not the actual artists who generally just want to produce more art.
The original 1790 statute which had a default period of 14 years was also plenty.
The original statute was written in 1710 with the title
An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned
Note that right from the beginning of modern copyright law the idea was for works to go into the public domain for the advancement of society and even as that law was being drafted the publishers were claiming that they needed infinite copyright "for the artists" and even then were actually ripping the artists off with a small payment to get all the rights to a work. This is the real tragedy of copyright, it usually benefits the publishers way more then the artists.
You have cases like Issac Asimov being amazed he could get paid multiple times for a work or the Beetles getting totally ripped off at the beginning of their career as they only expected one payment. More up to date is the sequel to Forrest Grump which will never be filmed due to the first film making no money and the artist not getting paid, good old Hollywood accounting.
If an architect got promised a percentage of the rent and then got paid nothing most people would consider it a ripoff, yet it is normal in the copyright world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Perhaps the prices would have dropped down to 5% or less of what he was originally charging if there had been real competition.
The price dropped due to improvements in technology, not due to generosity on the part of Rockefeller.
Anyways when you get right down to it, capitalism is about capturing government to ensure your profits.
The thing is you have to make enough to save for that retirement fund.
It isn't capitalism. It's crony capitalism or bankism. The laws are written such that the ruling elite--those in control of the banks directly and indirectly--define the direction that the world goes in.
Seems that it is the inevitable result of capitalism. The most efficient wins and writing the rules always means that you define efficient.
Twas the industrial revolution that caused a huge spike in the number of people who could only find employment as servants and the rich took full advantage of it.