...before Murdoch destroyed one of the greatest newspapers in the world. I'd gladly pay to read the NYT or the Washington Post online, just as I've paid for the WSJ online for a decade, but pay to read Murdoch's crap? Heck, I'd gladly pay money to keep it from showing up in my search results.
They did exactly the same thing during the antitrust trial. In December 1997 (or thereabouts), Microsoft responded to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's order to provide a version of Windows 98 without a browser by offering up a version of the OS that wouldn't run.
You are correct in that getting a valid copy of your own birth certificate can be quite difficult, but this depends entirely on the jurisdiction you were born in (as in the case of your wife). It's actually quite easy to get a birth certificate from certain areas, whether it's yours or not.
The real problem with ID issuance in the United States is everything -- everything, including a passport -- goes back to a birth certificate, and not all difficult to obtain a phony birth certificate. I'm not sure this problem really has a short term solution.
One analysis I've heard that has always intrigued me: People don't mind violence in entertainment because it's not real violence, just pretend violence. People have a visceral reaction to sex in entertainment because it is real (or is often real, I guess would be a better way to put it). Which makes the Watchmen issue particularly interesting because neither the violence or the blue yangyang were real...
That's really amazing. I actually couldn't identify a scene where the schlong was visible, but I could give you a specific list of scenes involving bones snapped, flesh ripped apart, dogs fighting over the severed leg of butchered child, guy burying a cleaver in the skull of a pedophile. My wife loves the superhero movies, but she wouldn't go see this, and it wasn't because she's afraid of seeing a penis.
Except that Microsoft is perfectly willing to provide the product she actually wants, XP, but only provided she buys a product she doesn't want, Vista.
I'm no Microsoft fanboy, but I gave my mom MSN TV 2 five years ago and the only tech support I've ever done is change the batteries in the wireless keyboard.
"Before an infringement suit may be filed in court, registration is necessary for works of U.S. origin."
Yes, you can register after the fact, but if you don't do so within 90 days of publication or -- and this is particularly important in this instance -- *prior* to infringement of the work, your award is limited to actual damages; hardly worth the money Apple would be paying to its lawyers. Again, assuming that Apple didn't register the work.
In fact, you can't sue in a US court unless you've registered your copyright. The principles of the Berne Convention do indeed automatically grant copyright from the moment a work is placed in fixed form, but in the US, only copyright owners who register their works can sue for damages. Psystar is correct in this claim (assuming Apple did not in fact register the copyright).
In general, copyright registration is a legal formality intended to make a public record of the basic facts of a particular copyright. However, registration is not a condition of copyright protection. Even though registration is not a requirement for protection, the copyright law provides several inducements or advantages to encourage copyright owners to make registration. Among these advantages are the following:
* Registration establishes a public record of the copyright claim.
* Before an infringement suit may be filed in court, registration is necessary for works of U.S. origin.
Yeah, it's great time unless the company you're working for now suddenly goes belly up, and it takes you a year to get your next position. Unless you're more than seventy years old, you have no personal experience with the economic dislocation thats on the horizon. I'm in exactly the same position as you: Highly valued with my employer, no debt, and the house we bought (using a fixed mortgage and a 30 percent down payment) from a guy desperate to unload it two years ago has increased in value since we paid so little for it. We've done everything right and we are still worried. If you're not worried, I think you don't understand how an economic tsunami crashing into your life can wash away everything you worked for.
Hmmm. So, 20 years ago, I save up $40,000 as a down payment to buy a $200,000.00 house, instantly giving me 20 percent equity in the house. I make my mortgage payments over the next two decades, and today I have $120,000 worth of equity in the house, meaning I only owe the bank another $80K. But now I've lost my job, and the only other job I can get is in another state. I try to sell my house, and to my horror, it's only worth $70,000, because of all the morons around me with their crazy, no money down, interest only payment mortgages that they couldn't afford to pay when the rate reset. Not only have I lost my downpayment, and all the equity, but even if I manage to find someone to buy my house from me at $70K, I'm STILL going to owe the bank $10K on a house I don't own. Well, I don't have any choice, since I have to sell because I have to get to my new job, so I do that.
And then I move to my new town, and I put a down payment down on any one of the many other houses whose values have also declined in lockstep with mine...how, exactly? All my cash is gone, evaporated. You can't get a no-money down mortgage any more. Unless you've got a secret stash with $20K in cash lying around (and even if you do, remember you still owe $10K on your old mortgage) you won't be able to get a mortgage.
Have you looked at a cold soldering iron? I find it a little annoying to work with, but I keep one in my woodshop, because one thing you don't want to have in a room filled with wood shavings is something with a temperature of over 500 degrees that takes more than a second to cool down. Might be just the thing for child. ThinkGeek stocks them.
That's right, the data clearly show that the more people play video games, the less violence there is. (I'm not saying that's true, I'm saying there's a correlation).
Put simply, of all the things that can spur a violent outburst, media consumption is probably the least important. If you review the communication research on this stuff back over 100 years, you'll see the same BS: People trying to link consumption of Dime Novels, radio plays, television, comic books, and movies to violent behavior.
I would just hold up a book or magazine (or a piece of fruit) and explain that just as there an enormous number of people and technologies required to get this book into the room (paper manufacture, shipping, printing presses) (or fertilizer, tractor manufacuturers, pickers, shippers, grocery stores) there's an enormous infrastructure required to make computers work that people never see.
I was beginning to wonder what was wrong with me that I felt pretty uncomfortable reading publicly posted missives from people who appear to be seriously ill. I think Rob and company should rethink this feature. It's sick, and I'm not going to read it any more.
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...before Murdoch destroyed one of the greatest newspapers in the world. I'd gladly pay to read the NYT or the Washington Post online, just as I've paid for the WSJ online for a decade, but pay to read Murdoch's crap? Heck, I'd gladly pay money to keep it from showing up in my search results.
Yeah, everybody has to die eventually. I'm the exception that proves the rule.
Saying there's too much crap on TV to own a television set is like saying there are too many awful books to have a library card.
They did exactly the same thing during the antitrust trial. In December 1997 (or thereabouts), Microsoft responded to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's order to provide a version of Windows 98 without a browser by offering up a version of the OS that wouldn't run.
You are correct in that getting a valid copy of your own birth certificate can be quite difficult, but this depends entirely on the jurisdiction you were born in (as in the case of your wife). It's actually quite easy to get a birth certificate from certain areas, whether it's yours or not.
The real problem with ID issuance in the United States is everything -- everything, including a passport -- goes back to a birth certificate, and not all difficult to obtain a phony birth certificate. I'm not sure this problem really has a short term solution.
One analysis I've heard that has always intrigued me: People don't mind violence in entertainment because it's not real violence, just pretend violence. People have a visceral reaction to sex in entertainment because it is real (or is often real, I guess would be a better way to put it). Which makes the Watchmen issue particularly interesting because neither the violence or the blue yangyang were real...
But not inaccurate, at least in my case :-)
That's really amazing. I actually couldn't identify a scene where the schlong was visible, but I could give you a specific list of scenes involving bones snapped, flesh ripped apart, dogs fighting over the severed leg of butchered child, guy burying a cleaver in the skull of a pedophile. My wife loves the superhero movies, but she wouldn't go see this, and it wasn't because she's afraid of seeing a penis.
The graphic, lovingly photographed violence in Watchmen is what kept people away. Heck, it almost kept me away.
Except that Microsoft is perfectly willing to provide the product she actually wants, XP, but only provided she buys a product she doesn't want, Vista.
Riot. One of the first three comments in this thread, and all the doofi coming behind me repeat the same stuff above, so this gets marked "redundant."
I'm no Microsoft fanboy, but I gave my mom MSN TV 2 five years ago and the only tech support I've ever done is change the batteries in the wireless keyboard.
I believe I am in fact correct on this. From the US Copyright Office:
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#cr
"Before an infringement suit may be filed in court, registration is necessary for works of U.S. origin."
Yes, you can register after the fact, but if you don't do so within 90 days of publication or -- and this is particularly important in this instance -- *prior* to infringement of the work, your award is limited to actual damages; hardly worth the money Apple would be paying to its lawyers. Again, assuming that Apple didn't register the work.
In fact, you can't sue in a US court unless you've registered your copyright. The principles of the Berne Convention do indeed automatically grant copyright from the moment a work is placed in fixed form, but in the US, only copyright owners who register their works can sue for damages. Psystar is correct in this claim (assuming Apple did not in fact register the copyright).
No, the automatic protection allows for criminal prosecution. If you want to sue yourself you have to register.
Sigh. From the US Copyright Office:
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#cr
Copyright Registration
In general, copyright registration is a legal formality intended to make a public record of the basic facts of a particular copyright. However, registration is not a condition of copyright protection. Even though registration is not a requirement for protection, the copyright law provides several inducements or advantages to encourage copyright owners to make registration. Among these advantages are the following:
* Registration establishes a public record of the copyright claim.
* Before an infringement suit may be filed in court, registration is necessary for works of U.S. origin.
Copyright protection is automatic, from the moment the work is created in a fixed form.
HOWEVER
In the United States, if you want to sue for infringement of work, you must have registered the work.
It's true that if Apple didn't register a copyright, they can't sue for damages in the US.
Yeah, it's great time unless the company you're working for now suddenly goes belly up, and it takes you a year to get your next position. Unless you're more than seventy years old, you have no personal experience with the economic dislocation thats on the horizon. I'm in exactly the same position as you: Highly valued with my employer, no debt, and the house we bought (using a fixed mortgage and a 30 percent down payment) from a guy desperate to unload it two years ago has increased in value since we paid so little for it. We've done everything right and we are still worried. If you're not worried, I think you don't understand how an economic tsunami crashing into your life can wash away everything you worked for.
The difference is that if you lose your job and have to leave town to find a new one, you can take your overpriced car with you...
Hmmm. So, 20 years ago, I save up $40,000 as a down payment to buy a $200,000.00 house, instantly giving me 20 percent equity in the house. I make my mortgage payments over the next two decades, and today I have $120,000 worth of equity in the house, meaning I only owe the bank another $80K. But now I've lost my job, and the only other job I can get is in another state. I try to sell my house, and to my horror, it's only worth $70,000, because of all the morons around me with their crazy, no money down, interest only payment mortgages that they couldn't afford to pay when the rate reset. Not only have I lost my downpayment, and all the equity, but even if I manage to find someone to buy my house from me at $70K, I'm STILL going to owe the bank $10K on a house I don't own. Well, I don't have any choice, since I have to sell because I have to get to my new job, so I do that.
And then I move to my new town, and I put a down payment down on any one of the many other houses whose values have also declined in lockstep with mine...how, exactly? All my cash is gone, evaporated. You can't get a no-money down mortgage any more. Unless you've got a secret stash with $20K in cash lying around (and even if you do, remember you still owe $10K on your old mortgage) you won't be able to get a mortgage.
Have you looked at a cold soldering iron? I find it a little annoying to work with, but I keep one in my woodshop, because one thing you don't want to have in a room filled with wood shavings is something with a temperature of over 500 degrees that takes more than a second to cool down. Might be just the thing for child. ThinkGeek stocks them.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/giftsunder20/69d3/
Nice theory, except that there is an inverse correlation between video game usage and violent crime. Don't believe me? Check out the graph:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/viort.htm
That's right, the data clearly show that the more people play video games, the less violence there is. (I'm not saying that's true, I'm saying there's a correlation).
Put simply, of all the things that can spur a violent outburst, media consumption is probably the least important. If you review the communication research on this stuff back over 100 years, you'll see the same BS: People trying to link consumption of Dime Novels, radio plays, television, comic books, and movies to violent behavior.
I would just hold up a book or magazine (or a piece of fruit) and explain that just as there an enormous number of people and technologies required to get this book into the room (paper manufacture, shipping, printing presses) (or fertilizer, tractor manufacuturers, pickers, shippers, grocery stores) there's an enormous infrastructure required to make computers work that people never see.
I was beginning to wonder what was wrong with me that I felt pretty uncomfortable reading publicly posted missives from people who appear to be seriously ill. I think Rob and company should rethink this feature. It's sick, and I'm not going to read it any more.