Evil isn't what it does, is it what do people do with it. I can take a Ton of food, and bring it to a third world country to feed the hunger or I could drop it from the air, to see who I can squash with it.
I think for a lot of people who feel in general powerless find some comfort that they were able to make actions positive or negative that got some notice. "I was able to stop the Airport alone with my skills" probably gives the person a false sense of empowerment. It is a lot like graffiti from kids, they just like seeing a mark, that everyone sees and knows, "I was the one that put it there"
Sure there is a lot of meaningful attacks that has a purpose, but there is so many people who feel unappropriated that they want to cause a little chaos, because that is all they can do that will get noticed.
The average voting American citizen has the equivalent of the 8th grade education. (they may have a higher degree in actuality, but after 8th grade, most students start to diverge and focus on their specialties).
So think about your political knowledge back in 8th grade, you have a general idea on how the US government power is distributed, what the elected officials in general do. But most of your view on politics is based on your Family, friends, church and neighbors. Myself I grew up near a blue state capital (most of my friends and neighbors where State Employees and very Democrat), but my family is very republican. So I grew up with conflicting messages, probably why I am a moderate today, because I can understand the points made and realize the other side isn't the evil monster as partisans tend to express.
So what did the Russians hackers do that meddled in the elections? Realizing the general naivete of the population, they were able to find what topic they feel strongly about (not overly political), find a group of people with an opposing idea. Befriend both sides and radicalize them, so topics like police shooting unarmed minorities, because they assume they are dangerous because of their looks, becomes political. And they are painted as only caring for the minority and not the general population. While the other side is painted as racist.
So now we have Hillary Clinton who was a public servant vs Donald Trump, who was a boastful personality. Your Russian Friends who are now influencing you and your feelings and pushing your view on topics to the extreme, have now either turned you in a loud mouth radical, or seeing the other side (mainly Clinton) as the enemy.
I heard a lot of Trump Voters who voted for him, not because they liked Trump, but because they were afraid of Clinton, because to them the Clinton Supporters seemed like crazed LiBeRaLs who wanted to bankrupt the country with all their welfare, and because of e-Mails which in the grand scheme of things was just stupid. While Trump with Russian Facebook influence was moderated down, and outraged was calmed, to well he will change after becoming president.
If the Russian Trolls were saying they were Russians pushing a political agenda in America it wouldn't be so bad, as people would take it as such. But they pretend to be peoples friends, and are US Citizens like them. Just to influence the elections and the government.
I think the Copyright time should be more reasonable amount of time (under 50 years) But, especially today content can so easily be copied exactly without any loss of quality. Yet people who spend Weeks, Months, Years of their lives not getting paid to make the work, in hopes it can get published and finally get paid, is a large risk on their part. Then to have it finally get popular but being published and sold by the company without paying you back, because there isn't any copyright.
Copyrights are a good thing, however as times change the law, fair use classification, penalties, and enforcement needs to be better managed. As it is nearly impossible to not commit copyright violation today, and the fines are still based on people who had enough money to buy a printing press and make book copies. Vs tools that even in people in poverty have at hand.
The other problem is that after 96 years (because these Copyrights expire in 2019) that nearly 5 generations have passed. So assuming you were just splitting it with your family, with each generation having 2 kids on average you will be splitting the royalties 16 ways, with media which is old and not so popular anymore. So it just gets more complex then what the IP is valued. Sure most of this stuff is actually owned by the company, but still the cost of enforcing and protecting it will get to a point it is no longer worth it.
I think the congress has bigger fish to fry then copyright expansion. Being that 96 year old copyright works will be released. Even for the media companies, these 90+ year IP that they own, pails to the threat that streaming and the internet has. Being that the populations average Nostalgia age starts at around 8-21 where new media heavily influences their place in society. There are very few people alive who hold a special place in their heart for these works, who would pay for them anyways. Putting them in the public domain, is probably best for the company, as it is probably more expensive to hold on and protect the IP then it is to let it go.
That is why I have. I don't have any problems with it at all. However every once in a while Ill get that document that is formatted oddly. But I think it is mostly to do with poor quality of fonts in Linux compared to windows.
You have a Million Dollars, you Spend 2 million dollars on fixing up a road, fixing this road makes it possible for 24 millions of dollars of additional business because trucks can drive there, and cars can commute and park. that 25 Million taxed at say 10% with 2.5 million in tax revenue.
I have a Mortgage on my house, over time my house is worth more then the cost of mortgage. So if I sell the house, I get all my money back plus extra. However I need the Mortgage because I didn't have the money to pay for it upfront. So I am currently living in a budget defecate, however I am better off from it, then if I were paying rent.
Now what I fear is a lot of the US Defecate spending is not going to net benefit growth. Such as the latest round of Tax Cuts, without spending cuts. The Extra Money in everyone paycheck may not drive the economy up to pay for its losses, combined with cutting services that may be needed for the next recession.
The question is where is all your stressors in life? I don't find my work that stressful, however I find not being able to run chores, or be with my family during business hours as stressful. For me there is little difference getting home at 6:00 at night vs 8:00 at night. I am still tired at the end of the day and really don't want to do too much. So the time from when I get home from work to when I go to bed, it mostly wasted time. However If I had a day free during the week day where places are open, and there is light outside, I can do things that I normally won't be able to do unless I am on vacation.
I had implemented Flex Time at my previous job. Giving employees freedom, isn't taking your hands off the reigns. You need to be sure you have people covering every day that your business is open. So if they all take Friday off, then you need to make sure there is some sort of rotation, or rule. Either you have a first come first serve, or a rule that you cannot take the same days off every week. Or make sure there is enough coverage every day, by other means.
Yes we need leading edge technology for computer to do Math.
It reminds me 20 years ago while working in a College Computer Lab. A student asked me if I had a calculator. Thinking that he wanted a TI-96 Graphing calculator (because many of the math classes were centered around that calculator) I had to tell me I didn't have one. He was a bit perplex and a bit desperate, because it will take him a lot longer to work out his assignment. I asked him what he needed a calculator for. "You know, Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying and diving" I then asked why didn't he use the calculator app on the PC. He didn't know about that. So I showed him the app. which blew his mind. Also on a side note, he was working an assignment on an Application Called Maple. Which is a rather advance Math application where it could just as easily handle the simple math problems by typing the formula into the command line and hitting enter. So I showed him that too, but that just pushed him over the edge.
Word, Excel, PowerPoint. No Web Integration, or collaborative services. If someone emails me a document I can open it up, edit it, or create a new document and save it. I just want the feature that came in office 2007 (Office 95 actually but I want to open the new file format)
While I expect his statement is meant as a Pro-China anti-US rant probably to rial up the Chinese citizens to help them deal with the economic hardships from the opposed restriction to their trade. Also would want the US to lower its military presence so China would have greater influence.
However he isn't wrong, the US has been complacent in investing into itself. Defecate spending isn't a bad thing, if the money is being put into US services that that will pay for it self later on. However our taxes go mostly to the Military first, and what is left will get the crumbs. This creates a lot of holes in our safety net. This will prevent people from trying to take a risk and start a new business, get up and move to a different state or city to get a new job, being afraid to switch jobs even ones you hate, because you need the medical insurance.
The conservative faction of the US calls such services as un-american, because that is what the Communist do. However a Democratic Republic with a Capitalist economy can have these support services as well too. The Communist also drink Vodka, so do Capitalist.
While Netscape wasn't Mr. Standard Complaint. IE, with Active X combined with being installed and integrated in the OS so it couldn't be removed. Is what really got it, more then any coding fault in Netscape. Being integrated in the OS, meant the browsers components started up when you booted the OS, and took less foot print, because it was used for other components, (such as the file browser). Active X was faster then Java Applets, because they only ran on Windows so it was just running the application, with the browser replacing window frame.
Back when PCs were just breaching 200mhz, and 16megabytes of RAM was considered a common amount. Waiting about a minute to load up a browser was common. To have it pop up after a double click was a big deal. And for the Web-Applications to have it run snappy was a big deal too. As on these old system, Running Java Byte Code was a big process.
Now granted Active-X combined with high level browser OS integration was a long term Stupid idea, because it turned your computer into a pile of goo. Because a bad Active-X control can take over your computer, and via the browser you have access all areas of your OS outside your normal permissions. But at the time, people didn't care about it, because "Why would anyone want to hack me? My computer isn't special"
Did anyone seem to get this was from a Microsoft Intern who was complaining about this? Unless Intern now means something different today. But usually the Intern is the college student who is doing work that the Jr. Developers pawn off on them because the work is too humdrum for them.
I expect what was happening was Google You Tube service supported a feature, that wasn't in Edge. So someone task the Intern to put that fix into the code to make it work, probably due to it being a simple fix and most likely from an oversight or a misinterpretation on how the implementation of the standard suppose to work. However being an Intern, it probably took him more work and effort then he expected because it was more complex then most college programming assignments, and to hear that Google has it working fine for Chome, came up with perception that Google Did this feature to break Edge.
As I stated in the earlier post on this topic, Microsoft IE/Edge team isn't use having to fix their browser due to its past dominance in the field, where they implement the standards their own way, and the developers had to write their code to work on the browser despite what the standards were. Being that Microsoft lost so much ground in the Browser dominance they are probably a bit bitter that they are playing second fiddle to Google and under pressure that they are no longer #1
Sure we do, they are just nor Oracle Databases. There is a good set of Closed and Open Source Database solutions. Some of them are SQL Based other are not, and some may be a combination of both.
Using Oracle for a Database is often the wrong too for the job. It is like having a fright train for your local deliveries.
Well it is too bad most of the discussion on these topics goes into the Stupid Oversimplification category and/or just being Cruel and Heartless, and if the topic is really hard to swallow, then we go into conspiracy theory how it is a made up problem by the "Other"
We have these problems that shouldn't be ignored, however people don't want to hear about the side effects that can happen from their view. However we need to fully understand these complex problems to help work out a solution. I doubt for problems so large and complex there are going to be many Win-Win solutions. However we can get a Win and a mitigated lost where the value of the win is greater then the lost. But we can't just discredit the people who will be effected by such a solution. Lets say we switch for our morning coffee Styrofoam cup, to a paper cup, much greener solution, but the coffee cools down quicker, and it is hot to hold the cup. So lets add that corrugated ring to make the cup easier to hold. We still get a greener solution, and we lost a cup that will keep coffee hotter for longer, but at least we solved the too hot to hold. So it is a mitigated lost, also being that most people will drink their coffee before it gets too cold anyways and the difference between the two will effect a smaller number of people. It isn't a Win-Win but we looked at the solutions and found that there were flaws, some being more serious then others, so we fixed what we can to accommodate the losses, and we end up with a net benefit solution.
A good economy doesn't mean there isn't a fundamental problem.
Poor fundamentals can be compensated to a point, then when it goes wrong, it goes very wrong.
This is why when a lot of High School Sports Stars, or Musicians to be successful would go to college, or at least get personal trainers, where they may work on the issues that may temporary put them behind, but once fixed can put them in a better place. A better stance for the Athlete, practicing different scales for the Musician.
Look at that Program, See how fast it runs, why fix it? Sure if you need to add one more feature it will fail, and hope people don't try to hack it because it is a security nightmare.
Don't just think because some of the numbers are good that there isn't a problem down the road waiting to happen.
I think I am getting old, This seems like the Statement a company makes shortly before its collapse. Mostly due to not understanding its customer and their needs.
I think with the above argument there is the idea the Revenge is Justice. If a thief broke into my house and is stealing $1000 worth of goods, I catch him, and hurt/injure/kill him. Then that is normal self defense, because this guy is unlawfully in my house, I an unable to calculate his risk to my immediate safety. However after he leave my house with those goods, I cannot hunt him down and hurt/injure/kill him and I would then be guilty of a crime. Because my safety is currently secured, and I would be able to calculate the risks of such actions. And having the criminal arrested and sentenced to court for a Judge to impartially figure out what is Just for the actions.
So he stole my Laptop, I may want to kill him. However this loss of my laptop is a minor inconvenience to my life, and with calmer minds, would realize that and punish the criminal for the crime and not me gut feeling.
You fail the see the Genius behind this. Because he is recording it, it is classified as art. You can get away a lot of legal hurdles by calling it Art.
It was never that great of a movie. Its special effects wowed audiences in the late 1970's and early 1980's and it story just held onto the nostalgia, so the kids of the time still have fond memories of it.
Sense then the High Effects movies become very common, and the latest (and prequel) movies just couldn't lean on effects to cover its other faults, because there was so much competition in the big budget high effects movies.
I think a lot of the toys sold, was from parents who think their kids would relive the Star Wars adventure they had as a kid, While in reality today's kids are interested in different stuff.
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Evil isn't what it does, is it what do people do with it.
I can take a Ton of food, and bring it to a third world country to feed the hunger or I could drop it from the air, to see who I can squash with it.
I think for a lot of people who feel in general powerless find some comfort that they were able to make actions positive or negative that got some notice. "I was able to stop the Airport alone with my skills" probably gives the person a false sense of empowerment.
It is a lot like graffiti from kids, they just like seeing a mark, that everyone sees and knows, "I was the one that put it there"
Sure there is a lot of meaningful attacks that has a purpose, but there is so many people who feel unappropriated that they want to cause a little chaos, because that is all they can do that will get noticed.
Nobody get injured until one of them slips by the cracks and gets jammed in an engine while trying to take off or land.
The average voting American citizen has the equivalent of the 8th grade education. (they may have a higher degree in actuality, but after 8th grade, most students start to diverge and focus on their specialties).
So think about your political knowledge back in 8th grade, you have a general idea on how the US government power is distributed, what the elected officials in general do. But most of your view on politics is based on your Family, friends, church and neighbors.
Myself I grew up near a blue state capital (most of my friends and neighbors where State Employees and very Democrat), but my family is very republican. So I grew up with conflicting messages, probably why I am a moderate today, because I can understand the points made and realize the other side isn't the evil monster as partisans tend to express.
So what did the Russians hackers do that meddled in the elections? Realizing the general naivete of the population, they were able to find what topic they feel strongly about (not overly political), find a group of people with an opposing idea. Befriend both sides and radicalize them, so topics like police shooting unarmed minorities, because they assume they are dangerous because of their looks, becomes political. And they are painted as only caring for the minority and not the general population. While the other side is painted as racist.
So now we have Hillary Clinton who was a public servant vs Donald Trump, who was a boastful personality. Your Russian Friends who are now influencing you and your feelings and pushing your view on topics to the extreme, have now either turned you in a loud mouth radical, or seeing the other side (mainly Clinton) as the enemy.
I heard a lot of Trump Voters who voted for him, not because they liked Trump, but because they were afraid of Clinton, because to them the Clinton Supporters seemed like crazed LiBeRaLs who wanted to bankrupt the country with all their welfare, and because of e-Mails which in the grand scheme of things was just stupid. While Trump with Russian Facebook influence was moderated down, and outraged was calmed, to well he will change after becoming president.
If the Russian Trolls were saying they were Russians pushing a political agenda in America it wouldn't be so bad, as people would take it as such. But they pretend to be peoples friends, and are US Citizens like them. Just to influence the elections and the government.
I think the Copyright time should be more reasonable amount of time (under 50 years) But, especially today content can so easily be copied exactly without any loss of quality. Yet people who spend Weeks, Months, Years of their lives not getting paid to make the work, in hopes it can get published and finally get paid, is a large risk on their part. Then to have it finally get popular but being published and sold by the company without paying you back, because there isn't any copyright.
Copyrights are a good thing, however as times change the law, fair use classification, penalties, and enforcement needs to be better managed.
As it is nearly impossible to not commit copyright violation today, and the fines are still based on people who had enough money to buy a printing press and make book copies. Vs tools that even in people in poverty have at hand.
The other problem is that after 96 years (because these Copyrights expire in 2019) that nearly 5 generations have passed. So assuming you were just splitting it with your family, with each generation having 2 kids on average you will be splitting the royalties 16 ways, with media which is old and not so popular anymore. So it just gets more complex then what the IP is valued. Sure most of this stuff is actually owned by the company, but still the cost of enforcing and protecting it will get to a point it is no longer worth it.
I think the congress has bigger fish to fry then copyright expansion. Being that 96 year old copyright works will be released.
Even for the media companies, these 90+ year IP that they own, pails to the threat that streaming and the internet has. Being that the populations average Nostalgia age starts at around 8-21 where new media heavily influences their place in society. There are very few people alive who hold a special place in their heart for these works, who would pay for them anyways. Putting them in the public domain, is probably best for the company, as it is probably more expensive to hold on and protect the IP then it is to let it go.
That is why I have. I don't have any problems with it at all. However every once in a while Ill get that document that is formatted oddly. But I think it is mostly to do with poor quality of fonts in Linux compared to windows.
You have a Million Dollars, you Spend 2 million dollars on fixing up a road, fixing this road makes it possible for 24 millions of dollars of additional business because trucks can drive there, and cars can commute and park. that 25 Million taxed at say 10% with 2.5 million in tax revenue.
I have a Mortgage on my house, over time my house is worth more then the cost of mortgage. So if I sell the house, I get all my money back plus extra. However I need the Mortgage because I didn't have the money to pay for it upfront. So I am currently living in a budget defecate, however I am better off from it, then if I were paying rent.
Now what I fear is a lot of the US Defecate spending is not going to net benefit growth. Such as the latest round of Tax Cuts, without spending cuts. The Extra Money in everyone paycheck may not drive the economy up to pay for its losses, combined with cutting services that may be needed for the next recession.
The question is where is all your stressors in life?
I don't find my work that stressful, however I find not being able to run chores, or be with my family during business hours as stressful.
For me there is little difference getting home at 6:00 at night vs 8:00 at night. I am still tired at the end of the day and really don't want to do too much. So the time from when I get home from work to when I go to bed, it mostly wasted time. However If I had a day free during the week day where places are open, and there is light outside, I can do things that I normally won't be able to do unless I am on vacation.
I had implemented Flex Time at my previous job. Giving employees freedom, isn't taking your hands off the reigns. You need to be sure you have people covering every day that your business is open. So if they all take Friday off, then you need to make sure there is some sort of rotation, or rule. Either you have a first come first serve, or a rule that you cannot take the same days off every week. Or make sure there is enough coverage every day, by other means.
Yes we need leading edge technology for computer to do Math.
It reminds me 20 years ago while working in a College Computer Lab.
A student asked me if I had a calculator.
Thinking that he wanted a TI-96 Graphing calculator (because many of the math classes were centered around that calculator) I had to tell me I didn't have one.
He was a bit perplex and a bit desperate, because it will take him a lot longer to work out his assignment.
I asked him what he needed a calculator for.
"You know, Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying and diving"
I then asked why didn't he use the calculator app on the PC.
He didn't know about that.
So I showed him the app. which blew his mind.
Also on a side note, he was working an assignment on an Application Called Maple. Which is a rather advance Math application where it could just as easily handle the simple math problems by typing the formula into the command line and hitting enter.
So I showed him that too, but that just pushed him over the edge.
Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
No Web Integration, or collaborative services.
If someone emails me a document I can open it up, edit it, or create a new document and save it. I just want the feature that came in office 2007 (Office 95 actually but I want to open the new file format)
Disk Storage is more expensive then your privacy?
While I expect his statement is meant as a Pro-China anti-US rant probably to rial up the Chinese citizens to help them deal with the economic hardships from the opposed restriction to their trade. Also would want the US to lower its military presence so China would have greater influence.
However he isn't wrong, the US has been complacent in investing into itself. Defecate spending isn't a bad thing, if the money is being put into US services that that will pay for it self later on. However our taxes go mostly to the Military first, and what is left will get the crumbs. This creates a lot of holes in our safety net. This will prevent people from trying to take a risk and start a new business, get up and move to a different state or city to get a new job, being afraid to switch jobs even ones you hate, because you need the medical insurance.
The conservative faction of the US calls such services as un-american, because that is what the Communist do. However a Democratic Republic with a Capitalist economy can have these support services as well too. The Communist also drink Vodka, so do Capitalist.
While Netscape wasn't Mr. Standard Complaint. IE, with Active X combined with being installed and integrated in the OS so it couldn't be removed. Is what really got it, more then any coding fault in Netscape.
Being integrated in the OS, meant the browsers components started up when you booted the OS, and took less foot print, because it was used for other components, (such as the file browser). Active X was faster then Java Applets, because they only ran on Windows so it was just running the application, with the browser replacing window frame.
Back when PCs were just breaching 200mhz, and 16megabytes of RAM was considered a common amount. Waiting about a minute to load up a browser was common. To have it pop up after a double click was a big deal. And for the Web-Applications to have it run snappy was a big deal too. As on these old system, Running Java Byte Code was a big process.
Now granted Active-X combined with high level browser OS integration was a long term Stupid idea, because it turned your computer into a pile of goo. Because a bad Active-X control can take over your computer, and via the browser you have access all areas of your OS outside your normal permissions. But at the time, people didn't care about it, because "Why would anyone want to hack me? My computer isn't special"
Did anyone seem to get this was from a Microsoft Intern who was complaining about this?
Unless Intern now means something different today. But usually the Intern is the college student who is doing work that the Jr. Developers pawn off on them because the work is too humdrum for them.
I expect what was happening was Google You Tube service supported a feature, that wasn't in Edge. So someone task the Intern to put that fix into the code to make it work, probably due to it being a simple fix and most likely from an oversight or a misinterpretation on how the implementation of the standard suppose to work. However being an Intern, it probably took him more work and effort then he expected because it was more complex then most college programming assignments, and to hear that Google has it working fine for Chome, came up with perception that Google Did this feature to break Edge.
As I stated in the earlier post on this topic, Microsoft IE/Edge team isn't use having to fix their browser due to its past dominance in the field, where they implement the standards their own way, and the developers had to write their code to work on the browser despite what the standards were. Being that Microsoft lost so much ground in the Browser dominance they are probably a bit bitter that they are playing second fiddle to Google and under pressure that they are no longer #1
Sure we do, they are just nor Oracle Databases.
There is a good set of Closed and Open Source Database solutions.
Some of them are SQL Based other are not, and some may be a combination of both.
Using Oracle for a Database is often the wrong too for the job. It is like having a fright train for your local deliveries.
Well it is too bad most of the discussion on these topics goes into the Stupid Oversimplification category and/or just being Cruel and Heartless, and if the topic is really hard to swallow, then we go into conspiracy theory how it is a made up problem by the "Other"
We have these problems that shouldn't be ignored, however people don't want to hear about the side effects that can happen from their view. However we need to fully understand these complex problems to help work out a solution. I doubt for problems so large and complex there are going to be many Win-Win solutions. However we can get a Win and a mitigated lost where the value of the win is greater then the lost. But we can't just discredit the people who will be effected by such a solution.
Lets say we switch for our morning coffee Styrofoam cup, to a paper cup, much greener solution, but the coffee cools down quicker, and it is hot to hold the cup. So lets add that corrugated ring to make the cup easier to hold. We still get a greener solution, and we lost a cup that will keep coffee hotter for longer, but at least we solved the too hot to hold. So it is a mitigated lost, also being that most people will drink their coffee before it gets too cold anyways and the difference between the two will effect a smaller number of people. It isn't a Win-Win but we looked at the solutions and found that there were flaws, some being more serious then others, so we fixed what we can to accommodate the losses, and we end up with a net benefit solution.
A good economy doesn't mean there isn't a fundamental problem.
Poor fundamentals can be compensated to a point, then when it goes wrong, it goes very wrong.
This is why when a lot of High School Sports Stars, or Musicians to be successful would go to college, or at least get personal trainers, where they may work on the issues that may temporary put them behind, but once fixed can put them in a better place.
A better stance for the Athlete, practicing different scales for the Musician.
Look at that Program, See how fast it runs, why fix it?
Sure if you need to add one more feature it will fail, and hope people don't try to hack it because it is a security nightmare.
Don't just think because some of the numbers are good that there isn't a problem down the road waiting to happen.
But the story well sucked. Its strength was on actually caring about the movie.
I think I am getting old, This seems like the Statement a company makes shortly before its collapse. Mostly due to not understanding its customer and their needs.
I think with the above argument there is the idea the Revenge is Justice.
If a thief broke into my house and is stealing $1000 worth of goods, I catch him, and hurt/injure/kill him. Then that is normal self defense, because this guy is unlawfully in my house, I an unable to calculate his risk to my immediate safety.
However after he leave my house with those goods, I cannot hunt him down and hurt/injure/kill him and I would then be guilty of a crime. Because my safety is currently secured, and I would be able to calculate the risks of such actions. And having the criminal arrested and sentenced to court for a Judge to impartially figure out what is Just for the actions.
So he stole my Laptop, I may want to kill him. However this loss of my laptop is a minor inconvenience to my life, and with calmer minds, would realize that and punish the criminal for the crime and not me gut feeling.
You fail the see the Genius behind this. Because he is recording it, it is classified as art. You can get away a lot of legal hurdles by calling it Art.
It was never that great of a movie. Its special effects wowed audiences in the late 1970's and early 1980's and it story just held onto the nostalgia, so the kids of the time still have fond memories of it.
Sense then the High Effects movies become very common, and the latest (and prequel) movies just couldn't lean on effects to cover its other faults, because there was so much competition in the big budget high effects movies.
I think a lot of the toys sold, was from parents who think their kids would relive the Star Wars adventure they had as a kid, While in reality today's kids are interested in different stuff.