Intellectual property is a purely legislative invention, unlike real property. 28 years after the first copyrights were granted, the publishers attempted to argue that it was a form of property and the courts struck them down as there was no common law right to intellectual property. The dissenting opinion in the first major case,
Yates J dissented, on the grounds that the focus on the author obscured the effect this decision would have on "the rest of mankind", which he felt would be to create a virtual monopoly, something that would harm the public and should certainly not be considered "an encouragement of the propagation of learning".
Partially right, modern copyright was created to promote learning, or as the Americans put it to promote the arts and sciences, by making sure the authors got paid. It was right in the title of the first copyright act,
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.
and the times were 14 years with one 14 year extension along with a 21 year grandfather clause. The preamble,
Whereas Printers, Booksellers, and other Persons, have of late frequently taken the Liberty of Printing, Reprinting, and Publishing, or causing to be Printed, Reprinted, and Published Books, and other Writings, without the Consent of the Authors or Proprietors of such Books and Writings, to their very great Detriment, and too often to the Ruin of them and their Families: For Preventing therefore such Practices for the future, and for the Encouragement of Learned Men to Compose and Write useful Books; May it please Your Majesty, that it may be Enacted...
Yes, it was treason and sedition and particularly pissed off the King, especially as it was triggered by the King proclaiming that all his subjects were equal (Royal Proclamation of 1763), the last thing that the American colonists wanted to admit as obviously Papists, Savages and Niggers weren't equal. As for the Second, it is ignored or limited by everyone as it simply says that the People have the right to bear arms. Nothing about only some people having the right like the Bill of Rights of 1689 which only gave Protestants the right to bear arms.
No, High Treason is disloyalty to the State, vs petty treason which is disloyalty against a lesser master, eg a servant killing his master. While there were a few ways to commit high treason in Great Britain, fucking the Queen or Princess (heir might not be the Kings), counterfeiting coins, the main law was similar to what was written into the American Constitution, at least as of 1695. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Did the Americans overthrow the King? Did they at least overthrow Parliament? Did they even get within 3000 miles of the King and Parliament? Or did a bunch of colonial governments in N. America decide to secede? Secession is not a successful revolution. Next people will be claiming that it is perfectly fine for the American Congress to pass laws limiting speech even though the 1st amendment to the American Constitution stops them.
Ocean Liners usually had pretty big cargo holds. People used to take their automobiles as baggage. The ocean liner I took across the Atlantic had 3 swimming pools, a few shops, large dining hall where you could get munchies almost anytime though I think meals were served in shifts. Communication to the land was even common on the Titanic where the radio operator spent most of his time sending messages from the passengers. 1st class was also usually pretty luxurious. Note that often the later ocean liners were often designed to do cruises in the winter as well. This was true for the ship I traveled on, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Towards the end of Ocean Liners, they were often designed to also do cruises. This was true for the ocean liner my family took across the Atlantic in 1966, the Empress of Canada, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , which along with her sister ships, was built in the late '50's-1960. From wiki,
However, Empress of Canada was designed to be Canadian Pacific's premier cruise ship during the winter months and rarely sailed on the liner service in winter.
Don't you guys have voters lists? ID by itself only proofs that you have ID with a picture of yourself on it. Drivers licenses and such are as easy for a non-citizen to get as a citizen and I'd assume State ID is similar. Just go to the right bar and pay $20 and you'll have ID that is good enough for the volunteers at the polling station.
The point is that much of this bullshit is driven by the 1% (actually more like the.1%). Take your Marijuana example. Hearst comes up with a method of making cheap pulp paper and invests a bunch of money in it. Someone else invents a machine to process hemp to make cheap paper amongst other things that hemp fiber is good for. Hearst invents marijuana as people would never stand for illegalizing hemp, gets laws passed to illegalize marijuana and uses his newspaper empire to push the propaganda about marijuana. There's a huge history of similar acts and earlier it was private police (Pinkerton) enforcing the 1%'s will. This very article is about businesses trying to pass laws to enforce their business model.
OK, I admit I didn't read the article. Still, can the Governor make blanket rules for parolees? Usually around here the parole board grants (or doesn't) parole along with a list of conditions which are dependent on your crime, along with other things such as how your rehabilitation is coming along. And if there is a high risk of re-offending, they'll keep you in prison until your sentence is served. The 18 yr old who touched a 16 yrs old breast will be treated differently from the guy who had a habit of violently raping little kids.
I read it as anyone on the sex offenders list, which to my understanding is a list that Congress mandated rather then a Judge. Here in Canada, to be put on the sex offenders list takes the action of a Judge at sentencing, and they only do it when needed, eg people who are actually sex offenders, not someone caught having a piss. Probation also usually consists of keeping the peace unless a Judge adds extra. Same with arms, not a right here, but you only lose the privilege if a Judge says so, usually due to doing something stupid with a firearm, not smoking a joint. 2nd amendment is pretty simple, people have the right to bear arms, not honest people have the right to bear arms. Americans, they have a decent Constitution, but let it get abused so much that everyone takes it for granted that there are all these exceptions that have been added through the amendment process. Want to remove rights from the population, write it into your Constitution rather then having political appointees ruling on it.
SeaMonkey is faster? It's a suite product based on Mozilla's products.:/
Yes, though not as much as it used to be. Simple UI, none of this crap like hello, same Gecko and JavaScript engines. Most add-ons work or can be easily converted to work. Firefox became more bloated and slower then SeaMonkey around version 3, at least/. loaded much faster back then (might have been ver 3.5 or 3.6). Might vary on different platforms. Worth trying if you don't mind the old fashioned interface and perfect for grandmothers and such who freak out when every version of FF is different. Only problem is a shortage of developers so sometimes releases get skipped.
In a case like that, go to court and get the results thrown out and hold a new election. In Canada, the Constitutional requirements for elections is fairly loose, basically there has to be an election after 5 years or so (actually it is 5 Parliaments). Governments can call elections any time though the electorate gets pissed off if there are too many elections so usually every 4 years, and courts can throw out election results forcing a new election. Elections are also much simpler, for Federal and Provincial elections, which are held at different times, you tick off one name for your representative and which ever party gets the most seats forms the government. Given a majority of seats, they can pass basically any law subject to the courts up holding the Constitution and in a minority position, they have to work with another party to pass laws and the important budget. Can't pass a budget, can't be the government and usually an election is forced.
You're making quite a few assumptions. Consider the Indians, I think it is similar here in Canada as the States, the reservations, while having some sovereignty, are also sorta wards of the Federal government. Land is communally owned, many reservations are as you say, no land improvements, trailers or pre-fabbed houses, basically a slum. These are people who lost their lifestyle, often violently. Have been abused for generations, especially having their families ripped apart. Fact, people can't make good decisions if they don't know their choices. Some of the natives have really lifted themselves up, even with the communal ownership thing. Take the Osoyoos band. To quote from their web site, http://oibdc.ca/
The Osoyoos Indian Band people honour the hard working, self-supporting lifestyle of our ancestors by developing our own economy through our business initiatives.
Through leases and joint ventures we have built meaningful business relationships that have created social and employment opportunities for both natives and non-natives in the South Okanagan. The Chief and Council of OIB are business people, and we desire to develop more business opportunities
And they've done an amazing job. Helps that they have a good location, just like the next band north, https://www.biv.com/article/20... who are happily leasing out their land for economic advantage. Then there are the bands who have recently signed treaties, got out of the Indian Act (no special rights anymore), and into actual ownership. Generally they've just sold their assets for way too cheap and can't even claim a bit of the communal land to plant a trailer.
Russia and the Soviet Union. It's hard to claim that a country that went from wealth being considered how many serfs you owned to a space fairing nation in 50 years, while winning WWII through the sacrifice of millions of lives, and suffering under Stalin, didn't increase their GDP. At least their standard of living increased, they had a longer expected lifespan then the average American at one point, then went broke trying to compete with a country that could borrow trillions and was made up of mostly people that were motivated to move to the new world to make a success of themselves.
Sadly socialist revolutions, while easy to sell to a poor population, usually end up with corrupt leadership that fuck it right up. See recent events in S. America. We don't point to Saudi Arabia as an example of the success of capitalism or conservatism and most of the stories of communism are similar. Personally I think mixed is best, take the best from all the systems. Think of the chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band, a very good businessman who is motivated to employ people, especially his people rather then to get disgustingly rich.
No, Stephen Harper. And how do you figure a small government can not be a repressive government? A small government is just a small government. Sometimes it's so small that it has to contract out the repression or just support the private police (such as the Pinkertons) in repressing. It's usually not a majority that is being repressed so the government/private interests can get away with it. Slavery was another example of repression by small government, along with what was done to the natives.
Had a small government type in power here for close to a decade. While happily getting rid of parts of government that helped people, quite happy to expand the parts that spied and repressed the people. Spent lots of time fighting the Supreme Court over the peoples rights and the governments right to remove them. Sorry, but a government that due to smallness, can do nothing but repress the people, is not a solution. The solution is good government, which is especially hard to do in America due to the way elections work.
Nothing to do with climate change, where the bad gas is CO2. This is plain old simple pollution, the Diesel Exhaust Fluid is to cut down on NOx, something that probably doesn't matter too much on a farm in the middle of nowhere but does matter in populated areas such as where I live. Lots of farms right next to the big city and geography like LA, that traps the pollutants.
On the flip side, it was government intervention that forced the automobile manufacturers to play nice with the independent repair shops and after market parts manufacturers. Even the fact that my OBD II reader will mostly work on most any (sold in N. American, not sure about other markets) car built from the mid '90's on is due to government intervention.
The unfettered capitalism brought about the government that passes the laws to stifle competition. Capitalists use their capital to get favourable laws passed and sympathetic politicians into office.
Socialism doesn't mean "for the little guy." It means "the means of production owned or controlled by the state."
Corporate welfare qualifies.
Actually socialism means "the means of production owned or controlled by the people". This can be the State, it can be through co-ops, credit unions etc. Ideally is getting rid of government though it is hard as the Stalinists usually show up and fuck things. Ideally socialism needs to be combined with libertarianism. http://webcache.googleusercont... http://www.spookmagazine.com/w... http://archive.is/SvI7U
Before OS/2, there was multitasking DOS v4, http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mu... which was the direction that MS was taking DOS before branching out to what eventually became OS/2, http://www.os2museum.com/wp/be... There was also the family mode programs that ran on simple DOS and OS/2 v1 (as well as NT up to Win2k using the OS/2 sub-system) where the program basically had a minimal OS/2 environment grafted on. The text mode Word v5 is a good example.
Are you seriously claiming that a few frames of a beheading is harmless compared to a few frames of oral sex? Personally, even at 55 yrs old, I find a couple of frames of a bloody corpse as something that sticks with me, and not in a good way. I watched my young son doing internet searches, the odd sexual image that came up, he ignored. And when he was in his hamster phase, there were some weird images that came up. The fact that you consider a few frames of violence to be less harmful then most porn says more about you then the average person. Unluckily the big thing that it says about you is that you're probably from a religious American background.
Just curious, but by what authority does Congress get to pass laws denying speech? I've read the American Constitution, good document if unpractical. It was amended very early to stop the government, or at least Congress, from outlawing any form of speech. Perhaps there is an amendment I'm unaware of, namely giving the government the right to deny speech in certain circumstances such as national security and child porn. Probably was passed along with the amendment allowing the government to deny certain people the right to bear arms.
Isn't it been part of their platform since Reagan? And also one of the reasons that they're so pro-Israel as that is where the apocalypse is supposed to happen. These different sects descended from Abraham are all nutty.
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Intellectual property is a purely legislative invention, unlike real property. 28 years after the first copyrights were granted, the publishers attempted to argue that it was a form of property and the courts struck them down as there was no common law right to intellectual property. The dissenting opinion in the first major case,
Remember that the reason for copyright was to promote learning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Partially right, modern copyright was created to promote learning, or as the Americans put it to promote the arts and sciences, by making sure the authors got paid. It was right in the title of the first copyright act,
and the times were 14 years with one 14 year extension along with a 21 year grandfather clause. The preamble,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, it was treason and sedition and particularly pissed off the King, especially as it was triggered by the King proclaiming that all his subjects were equal (Royal Proclamation of 1763), the last thing that the American colonists wanted to admit as obviously Papists, Savages and Niggers weren't equal.
As for the Second, it is ignored or limited by everyone as it simply says that the People have the right to bear arms. Nothing about only some people having the right like the Bill of Rights of 1689 which only gave Protestants the right to bear arms.
No, High Treason is disloyalty to the State, vs petty treason which is disloyalty against a lesser master, eg a servant killing his master. While there were a few ways to commit high treason in Great Britain, fucking the Queen or Princess (heir might not be the Kings), counterfeiting coins, the main law was similar to what was written into the American Constitution, at least as of 1695.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Did the Americans overthrow the King? Did they at least overthrow Parliament? Did they even get within 3000 miles of the King and Parliament? Or did a bunch of colonial governments in N. America decide to secede?
Secession is not a successful revolution.
Next people will be claiming that it is perfectly fine for the American Congress to pass laws limiting speech even though the 1st amendment to the American Constitution stops them.
Ocean Liners usually had pretty big cargo holds. People used to take their automobiles as baggage. The ocean liner I took across the Atlantic had 3 swimming pools, a few shops, large dining hall where you could get munchies almost anytime though I think meals were served in shifts. Communication to the land was even common on the Titanic where the radio operator spent most of his time sending messages from the passengers. 1st class was also usually pretty luxurious.
Note that often the later ocean liners were often designed to do cruises in the winter as well. This was true for the ship I traveled on, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Towards the end of Ocean Liners, they were often designed to also do cruises. This was true for the ocean liner my family took across the Atlantic in 1966, the Empress of Canada, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , which along with her sister ships, was built in the late '50's-1960. From wiki,
Don't you guys have voters lists? ID by itself only proofs that you have ID with a picture of yourself on it. Drivers licenses and such are as easy for a non-citizen to get as a citizen and I'd assume State ID is similar. Just go to the right bar and pay $20 and you'll have ID that is good enough for the volunteers at the polling station.
The point is that much of this bullshit is driven by the 1% (actually more like the .1%). Take your Marijuana example. Hearst comes up with a method of making cheap pulp paper and invests a bunch of money in it. Someone else invents a machine to process hemp to make cheap paper amongst other things that hemp fiber is good for. Hearst invents marijuana as people would never stand for illegalizing hemp, gets laws passed to illegalize marijuana and uses his newspaper empire to push the propaganda about marijuana.
There's a huge history of similar acts and earlier it was private police (Pinkerton) enforcing the 1%'s will. This very article is about businesses trying to pass laws to enforce their business model.
OK, I admit I didn't read the article. Still, can the Governor make blanket rules for parolees? Usually around here the parole board grants (or doesn't) parole along with a list of conditions which are dependent on your crime, along with other things such as how your rehabilitation is coming along. And if there is a high risk of re-offending, they'll keep you in prison until your sentence is served. The 18 yr old who touched a 16 yrs old breast will be treated differently from the guy who had a habit of violently raping little kids.
I read it as anyone on the sex offenders list, which to my understanding is a list that Congress mandated rather then a Judge.
Here in Canada, to be put on the sex offenders list takes the action of a Judge at sentencing, and they only do it when needed, eg people who are actually sex offenders, not someone caught having a piss. Probation also usually consists of keeping the peace unless a Judge adds extra.
Same with arms, not a right here, but you only lose the privilege if a Judge says so, usually due to doing something stupid with a firearm, not smoking a joint. 2nd amendment is pretty simple, people have the right to bear arms, not honest people have the right to bear arms.
Americans, they have a decent Constitution, but let it get abused so much that everyone takes it for granted that there are all these exceptions that have been added through the amendment process. Want to remove rights from the population, write it into your Constitution rather then having political appointees ruling on it.
SeaMonkey is faster? It's a suite product based on Mozilla's products. :/
Yes, though not as much as it used to be. Simple UI, none of this crap like hello, same Gecko and JavaScript engines. Most add-ons work or can be easily converted to work. /. loaded much faster back then (might have been ver 3.5 or 3.6). Might vary on different platforms.
Firefox became more bloated and slower then SeaMonkey around version 3, at least
Worth trying if you don't mind the old fashioned interface and perfect for grandmothers and such who freak out when every version of FF is different.
Only problem is a shortage of developers so sometimes releases get skipped.
Seems to happen to most companies when they go public.
In a case like that, go to court and get the results thrown out and hold a new election. In Canada, the Constitutional requirements for elections is fairly loose, basically there has to be an election after 5 years or so (actually it is 5 Parliaments). Governments can call elections any time though the electorate gets pissed off if there are too many elections so usually every 4 years, and courts can throw out election results forcing a new election.
Elections are also much simpler, for Federal and Provincial elections, which are held at different times, you tick off one name for your representative and which ever party gets the most seats forms the government. Given a majority of seats, they can pass basically any law subject to the courts up holding the Constitution and in a minority position, they have to work with another party to pass laws and the important budget. Can't pass a budget, can't be the government and usually an election is forced.
You're making quite a few assumptions. Consider the Indians, I think it is similar here in Canada as the States, the reservations, while having some sovereignty, are also sorta wards of the Federal government. Land is communally owned, many reservations are as you say, no land improvements, trailers or pre-fabbed houses, basically a slum. These are people who lost their lifestyle, often violently. Have been abused for generations, especially having their families ripped apart. Fact, people can't make good decisions if they don't know their choices.
Some of the natives have really lifted themselves up, even with the communal ownership thing. Take the Osoyoos band. To quote from their web site, http://oibdc.ca/
And they've done an amazing job. Helps that they have a good location, just like the next band north, https://www.biv.com/article/20... who are happily leasing out their land for economic advantage.
Then there are the bands who have recently signed treaties, got out of the Indian Act (no special rights anymore), and into actual ownership. Generally they've just sold their assets for way too cheap and can't even claim a bit of the communal land to plant a trailer.
Russia and the Soviet Union. It's hard to claim that a country that went from wealth being considered how many serfs you owned to a space fairing nation in 50 years, while winning WWII through the sacrifice of millions of lives, and suffering under Stalin, didn't increase their GDP. At least their standard of living increased, they had a longer expected lifespan then the average American at one point, then went broke trying to compete with a country that could borrow trillions and was made up of mostly people that were motivated to move to the new world to make a success of themselves.
Other "successful communist experiments" include what was happening in civil war Spain, at least until the Stalinists showed up. Read some George Orwell. Or read about http://www.spookmagazine.com/w... http://webcache.googleusercont...
Sadly socialist revolutions, while easy to sell to a poor population, usually end up with corrupt leadership that fuck it right up. See recent events in S. America. We don't point to Saudi Arabia as an example of the success of capitalism or conservatism and most of the stories of communism are similar.
Personally I think mixed is best, take the best from all the systems. Think of the chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band, a very good businessman who is motivated to employ people, especially his people rather then to get disgustingly rich.
No, Stephen Harper. And how do you figure a small government can not be a repressive government? A small government is just a small government. Sometimes it's so small that it has to contract out the repression or just support the private police (such as the Pinkertons) in repressing. It's usually not a majority that is being repressed so the government/private interests can get away with it. Slavery was another example of repression by small government, along with what was done to the natives.
Had a small government type in power here for close to a decade. While happily getting rid of parts of government that helped people, quite happy to expand the parts that spied and repressed the people. Spent lots of time fighting the Supreme Court over the peoples rights and the governments right to remove them.
Sorry, but a government that due to smallness, can do nothing but repress the people, is not a solution. The solution is good government, which is especially hard to do in America due to the way elections work.
Nothing to do with climate change, where the bad gas is CO2. This is plain old simple pollution, the Diesel Exhaust Fluid is to cut down on NOx, something that probably doesn't matter too much on a farm in the middle of nowhere but does matter in populated areas such as where I live. Lots of farms right next to the big city and geography like LA, that traps the pollutants.
On the flip side, it was government intervention that forced the automobile manufacturers to play nice with the independent repair shops and after market parts manufacturers. Even the fact that my OBD II reader will mostly work on most any (sold in N. American, not sure about other markets) car built from the mid '90's on is due to government intervention.
The unfettered capitalism brought about the government that passes the laws to stifle competition. Capitalists use their capital to get favourable laws passed and sympathetic politicians into office.
How is corporate welfare not socialism?
Socialism doesn't mean "for the little guy." It means "the means of production owned or controlled by the state."
Corporate welfare qualifies.
Actually socialism means "the means of production owned or controlled by the people". This can be the State, it can be through co-ops, credit unions etc. Ideally is getting rid of government though it is hard as the Stalinists usually show up and fuck things.
Ideally socialism needs to be combined with libertarianism.
http://webcache.googleusercont...
http://www.spookmagazine.com/w...
http://archive.is/SvI7U
Before OS/2, there was multitasking DOS v4, http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mu... which was the direction that MS was taking DOS before branching out to what eventually became OS/2, http://www.os2museum.com/wp/be...
There was also the family mode programs that ran on simple DOS and OS/2 v1 (as well as NT up to Win2k using the OS/2 sub-system) where the program basically had a minimal OS/2 environment grafted on. The text mode Word v5 is a good example.
Are you seriously claiming that a few frames of a beheading is harmless compared to a few frames of oral sex?
Personally, even at 55 yrs old, I find a couple of frames of a bloody corpse as something that sticks with me, and not in a good way. I watched my young son doing internet searches, the odd sexual image that came up, he ignored. And when he was in his hamster phase, there were some weird images that came up.
The fact that you consider a few frames of violence to be less harmful then most porn says more about you then the average person. Unluckily the big thing that it says about you is that you're probably from a religious American background.
Just curious, but by what authority does Congress get to pass laws denying speech? I've read the American Constitution, good document if unpractical. It was amended very early to stop the government, or at least Congress, from outlawing any form of speech. Perhaps there is an amendment I'm unaware of, namely giving the government the right to deny speech in certain circumstances such as national security and child porn. Probably was passed along with the amendment allowing the government to deny certain people the right to bear arms.
Isn't it been part of their platform since Reagan? And also one of the reasons that they're so pro-Israel as that is where the apocalypse is supposed to happen.
These different sects descended from Abraham are all nutty.