"TANSTAAFL is a good principle as a personal ethic, but it's incorrect at an economic level."
People making decisions on how to employ scarce goods is economics. If I a go to a ball game, I forfit the other activity I would rather do, which might have been watching television or reading a book. There is a trade-off between leisure, consumption and production. That "externalization of resource extraction and waste" you call, is in most cases government not protecting the property rights of individuals and other businesses. And asymmetry of information wrt Enron? Sorry, but the fact that employees' pensions were only reinvested in Enron itself, should have set off some big warning signs. I guess the employees were being just as greedy as management.
There is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no such thing as a free internet connection. Economies of scale apply as well, and I doubt this model is easily scalable. Less regulation and more privatization is the way to go, not socialized internet.
Customers should feel that they are not paying the price for pirated copies in the wild. They should have a vested interest in keeping an encryption key safe. If you sell your software for $30, they might not have that, sell it for $900, and they might think they are paying the price for pirated copies, and will think your copy protection is mute as well (unless you sell speciality software). Sell somewhere in between, and use a key infrastructure where the key is tied to a customer's account.
So if ISPs will contribute one closed user account per year in order to bring copyright infringement to an end, will them overlords be happy? Why is it always that government reports do not use operational definitions. At one time in the report, the author talks about blocking "the subscriptions of people who use the internet to share copyright-protected material on a large scale." What does that mean, large scale? One song? Thousands of songs? One MB? Thousand MB? If you as author of a report talk about copyright infringement being a problem, without providing metrics, your report basically says nothing.
It find it funny how all these etatists talk about the growing "gap" between rich and poor, while at the same time preventing low-cost goods from entering a country or the European Union. The logical consequence of this etatist argument is that trade barriers should be erected everwhere, between countries, states, provinces, counties, cities, towns, burroughs, and last but not least people. The gap between rich and poor might be gone then, but so will civilization.
Won't this be covered by the software product's EULA? As user you have to abide by the license, but as competitor you can bring them to court to get to change the software. Hrrm.
I am still a very big fan of us putting the source code of the key parts of IE out on the Web (without commercial reproduction rights) so that Universities who want to "extend" browsers use ours for their experiments. -- Bill Gates (1995)
http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_2494. pdf
With Exxon posting profits of US$ 39.5 billion over 2006, I doubt they don't know about the right ballparks. It seems to me the Guardian article is crap, because Exxon could have easily put in a higher bribe. Just because Exxon is/was a donor of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), does not mean everything the AEI does, needs to be linked back to Exxon.
Just because ExxonMobil paid someone, does not mean the arguments the scientist made are not valid, although they might as well be; same goes for the people who worked at the IPCC report. Let's stick to the actual arguments and data, instead of making cheap ad hominem attacks.
being taken to court after you beat wife, but then claim the court case should be thrown out because you haven't beaten her since the court case started.
Connecting these devices can create all kind of havoc in a high voltage electrical grid. It wouldn't surprise me if one of these solar panels or windmills will cause an enormous blackout in the near future.
Although small companies might be awarded the most patents per employee, I doubt they can actually defend their patents in court—they'll get their ass kicked immediately by larger corporations.
If I am a contractor for a government agency or department, does it really make a difference if a project gets delivered on time or on budget? Of course not. The contractor doesn't care, the bureaucrat doesn't care, and the politician doesn't care either. To get back on topic, I dare to say that software development isn't really "hard" when your customers are private organizations.
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"TANSTAAFL is a good principle as a personal ethic, but it's incorrect at an economic level." People making decisions on how to employ scarce goods is economics. If I a go to a ball game, I forfit the other activity I would rather do, which might have been watching television or reading a book. There is a trade-off between leisure, consumption and production. That "externalization of resource extraction and waste" you call, is in most cases government not protecting the property rights of individuals and other businesses. And asymmetry of information wrt Enron? Sorry, but the fact that employees' pensions were only reinvested in Enron itself, should have set off some big warning signs. I guess the employees were being just as greedy as management.
I'm gonna add that one to my aphorism collection.
There is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no such thing as a free internet connection. Economies of scale apply as well, and I doubt this model is easily scalable. Less regulation and more privatization is the way to go, not socialized internet.
Customers should feel that they are not paying the price for pirated copies in the wild. They should have a vested interest in keeping an encryption key safe. If you sell your software for $30, they might not have that, sell it for $900, and they might think they are paying the price for pirated copies, and will think your copy protection is mute as well (unless you sell speciality software). Sell somewhere in between, and use a key infrastructure where the key is tied to a customer's account.
So if ISPs will contribute one closed user account per year in order to bring copyright infringement to an end, will them overlords be happy? Why is it always that government reports do not use operational definitions. At one time in the report, the author talks about blocking "the subscriptions of people who use the internet to share copyright-protected material on a large scale." What does that mean, large scale? One song? Thousands of songs? One MB? Thousand MB? If you as author of a report talk about copyright infringement being a problem, without providing metrics, your report basically says nothing.
How can someone be trampled on for disclosing a government program that is unconstitutional?
It find it funny how all these etatists talk about the growing "gap" between rich and poor, while at the same time preventing low-cost goods from entering a country or the European Union. The logical consequence of this etatist argument is that trade barriers should be erected everwhere, between countries, states, provinces, counties, cities, towns, burroughs, and last but not least people. The gap between rich and poor might be gone then, but so will civilization.
Won't this be covered by the software product's EULA? As user you have to abide by the license, but as competitor you can bring them to court to get to change the software. Hrrm.
Actually a sales tax just transfers wealth from the non-political class to the political classs. And you call yourself a Marxist.
I am still a very big fan of us putting the source code of the key parts of IE out on the Web (without commercial reproduction rights) so that Universities who want to "extend" browsers use ours for their experiments. -- Bill Gates (1995) http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_2494. pdf
With Exxon posting profits of US$ 39.5 billion over 2006, I doubt they don't know about the right ballparks. It seems to me the Guardian article is crap, because Exxon could have easily put in a higher bribe. Just because Exxon is/was a donor of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), does not mean everything the AEI does, needs to be linked back to Exxon.
Well, at least those working at the IPCC are easy to get at.
Just because ExxonMobil paid someone, does not mean the arguments the scientist made are not valid, although they might as well be; same goes for the people who worked at the IPCC report. Let's stick to the actual arguments and data, instead of making cheap ad hominem attacks.
If you are skeptical of crowds, you should try to use one of them talk pages once...
As eBay gets a fixed percentage of each auction, they actually profit as well from this shill game.
being taken to court after you beat wife, but then claim the court case should be thrown out because you haven't beaten her since the court case started.
Connecting these devices can create all kind of havoc in a high voltage electrical grid. It wouldn't surprise me if one of these solar panels or windmills will cause an enormous blackout in the near future.
These parents should take a look at themselves first. Knowing what sites your children visit is just part of being a responsible parent.
So communism works, only not with humans are you saying?
The bill text is already available at pages S446 and S447 in Feinstein's remarks: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/R?r110:FLD001: S00447
Although small companies might be awarded the most patents per employee, I doubt they can actually defend their patents in court—they'll get their ass kicked immediately by larger corporations.
If I am a contractor for a government agency or department, does it really make a difference if a project gets delivered on time or on budget? Of course not. The contractor doesn't care, the bureaucrat doesn't care, and the politician doesn't care either. To get back on topic, I dare to say that software development isn't really "hard" when your customers are private organizations.
I heard YouTube is replacing the Cicarelli movie with renditions of Aquarela do Brasil.