excerpts of larger copyrighted peices can be freely passed around (eg. a paragraph of text, 30 seconds of music).
This is so untrue but everyone thinks it's gospel truth. True, there is no copyright interest in collections of factual data. That is why the data in the phone book are likely to be copied and sold in another phone book, freely. One could also conceivably read weather.com and then report exactly that factual information on one's TV show without permission... It's just facts. However, there is no amount of information that can be "freely passed around." Go out and pass out millions of flyers containing a paragraph from some book, not in a review or news coverage. Wholesale copying without permission is illegal, even if it is a small amount.
The 23rd Spam The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures,
He leadeth me beside the still waters,
He restoreth my credit and consolidateth my debts,
For as little as $1,750,
If I act now.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me,
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
And can now be 50 Percent Larger in Three Weeks.
Guaranteed.
Thou preparest a table before me
In the presence of mine enemies,
Thou annointest my head with oil,
My cup runneth over.
But as an added bonus,
I will receive $1,000.00 cash,
If I complete thy online registration form today.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me,
All the days of my life,
And I will dwell forever,
In the House of the Lord,
Which I shall refinanceth,
To take advantage,
Of the lowest mortgage rates in years.
I find myself driving along and when i see a pedestrian, i want to jerk the wheel to the right just to hear the squish of killing them. I also meander through parking lots looking for the best car to steal. It's pretty weird.
Why are you all calling it a scooter? I'd say that's a bit of an understatement.
I think all the people who are saying "electric scooter, big whoop. $3,000, yeah right" are slightly missing the point. Yeah, it's kind of wimpy for the price tag. Yeah, it's kind of expensive, and it's questionable who would want to use it.
But this is just the first model. It's more sort of a proof of concept--a demonstration that the scooter can work, and looks as neat as all get-out in motion. As time goes on, the performance will improve and the price will fall.
Look at the Palm (Pilot). The first model was, what, 128K? With no backlight, no infra-red, or anything? And how high was the price tag? And now the Visor Deluxe, which was at one time the wet dream of anybody who even looked at a Palm, is only $130 brand new.
Look at the DVD player. The original models were expensive enough, the first bunch of discs were glitchy enough, that a lot of people scoffed and made snide remarks. But the DVD went on to become the fastest-adopted new consumer technology ever.
So here we have a relatively slow, electric-powered self-stabilizing scooter, for $3,000. Are very many of us going to buy it? Do very many of us have the money to sink into that sort of gee-gaw? No and no. I know I'm not going to be spending three grand on something like that myself, either. Nor would I be likely to spend two grand, or even one grand for that matter.
I am just finishing up a Communications Law class and in just about every realm, with the exception of campaign contributions, speech=speech. Especially since the constitution has many times been interpreted as considering corporations to be "almost individuals", granting them first amendment rights.
Why are you all calling it a scooter? I'd say that's a bit of an understatement.
I think all the people who are saying "electric scooter, big whoop. $3,000, yeah right" are slightly missing the point. Yeah, it's kind of wimpy for the price tag. Yeah, it's kind of expensive, and it's questionable who would want to use it.
But this is just the first model. It's more sort of a proof of concept--a demonstration that the scooter can work, and looks as neat as all get-out in motion. As time goes on, the performance will improve and the price will fall.
Look at the Palm (Pilot). The first model was, what, 128K? With no backlight, no infra-red, or anything? And how high was the price tag? And now the Visor Deluxe, which was at one time the wet dream of anybody who even looked at a Palm, is only $130 brand new.
Look at the DVD player. The original models were expensive enough, the first bunch of discs were glitchy enough, that a lot of people scoffed and made snide remarks. But the DVD went on to become the fastest-adopted new consumer technology ever.
So here we have a relatively slow, electric-powered self-stabilizing scooter, for $3,000. Are very many of us going to buy it? Do very many of us have the money to sink into that sort of gee-gaw? No and no. I know I'm not going to be spending three grand on something like that myself, either. Nor would I be likely to spend two grand, or even one grand for that matter.
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The remarkable funny--and eerie-- thing about the SP episode is that when the announcer ended talking about Mr. Garrison's invention, he said... "The most important thing to remember Tom, is the question that is on everyone's minds... What is IT, and when will I be able to buy one?"
From the Time article:
As Kamen sees it, all these issues will quickly fade if the question most people ask about the Segway is "How do I get one?"
When you steal something, you deprive the owner of that thing. Watching a movie in a time and place YOU decide on instead of the MPAA is not taking anything from them.
Instantly, a thousand of you are now saying "But you're depriving them of income they would otherwise have." To that I say NO! I am not keeping anyone from seeing a movie at a theater.
Nah, I can watch recorded programs on my Tivo while recording new programs so I assume that since gaming doesn't use a TV tuner, you could still do this just fine.
And that's the damn truth... as we as a country creep closer and closer to the bottom 50% of wage-"earners" paying no taxes at all, we get closer and closer to the main dangers of a democracy... The whites who hung black escaping slaves in the early 19th century certainly appreciated democracy because THEY WERE PART OF THE MAJORITY!
Oh, by the way, i agree with your post.
I say good for us being a republic.
The problem is, US copyright law looks at the originality of a work. In that sense, the numbers in a phone book do not have a very strong copyright interest to them but the other original content (ie coupons, apartment guides, etc) or the way the data are laid out or typefaced CAN be copyrighted and protected.
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It's so cute to see people who don't know the facts and just hate the rich...
The top 50%? They pay 95.2% of the taxes.
The bottom 50%? They pay 4.8% of the income taxes.
Who's getting eaten?
3 Wolves and a Sheep voting on what's for dinner.
excerpts of larger copyrighted peices can be freely passed around (eg. a paragraph of text, 30 seconds of music).
This is so untrue but everyone thinks it's gospel truth. True, there is no copyright interest in collections of factual data. That is why the data in the phone book are likely to be copied and sold in another phone book, freely. One could also conceivably read weather.com and then report exactly that factual information on one's TV show without permission... It's just facts. However, there is no amount of information that can be "freely passed around." Go out and pass out millions of flyers containing a paragraph from some book, not in a review or news coverage. Wholesale copying without permission is illegal, even if it is a small amount.
Because radios are FREE and require no upkeep, electrical power, etc... SUUURRRE...
The 23rd Spam
The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures,
He leadeth me beside the still waters,
He restoreth my credit and consolidateth my debts,
For as little as $1,750,
If I act now.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me,
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
And can now be 50 Percent Larger in Three Weeks.
Guaranteed.
Thou preparest a table before me
In the presence of mine enemies,
Thou annointest my head with oil,
My cup runneth over.
But as an added bonus,
I will receive $1,000.00 cash,
If I complete thy online registration form today.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me,
All the days of my life,
And I will dwell forever,
In the House of the Lord,
Which I shall refinanceth,
To take advantage,
Of the lowest mortgage rates in years.
Who the gay guy is in that picture? No, not Steve Jobs, the other one...
You KNOW that Cowboyneal would just be that much richer every month...
"So when they counted the census results last year, they noticed that 1.5 to 2 percent of the population went uncounted.... How do they know that?"
My family... We do it often, if only because it's one of a few places open.
I am slurping them off my parental AOL acct. You'll probably see a ton of AOL IPs hitting your server from ppl with the relatives...
I find myself driving along and when i see a pedestrian, i want to jerk the wheel to the right just to hear the squish of killing them. I also meander through parking lots looking for the best car to steal. It's pretty weird.
Why are you all calling it a scooter? I'd say that's a bit of an understatement.
I think all the people who are saying "electric scooter, big whoop. $3,000, yeah right" are slightly missing the point. Yeah, it's kind of wimpy for the price tag. Yeah, it's kind of expensive, and it's questionable who would want to use it.
But this is just the first model. It's more sort of a proof of concept--a demonstration that the scooter can work, and looks as neat as all get-out in motion. As time goes on, the performance will improve and the price will fall.
Look at the Palm (Pilot). The first model was, what, 128K? With no backlight, no infra-red, or anything? And how high was the price tag? And now the Visor Deluxe, which was at one time the wet dream of anybody who even looked at a Palm, is only $130 brand new.
Look at the DVD player. The original models were expensive enough, the first bunch of discs were glitchy enough, that a lot of people scoffed and made snide remarks. But the DVD went on to become the fastest-adopted new consumer technology ever.
So here we have a relatively slow, electric-powered self-stabilizing scooter, for $3,000. Are very many of us going to buy it? Do very many of us have the money to sink into that sort of gee-gaw? No and no. I know I'm not going to be spending three grand on something like that myself, either. Nor would I be likely to spend two grand, or even one grand for that matter.
I am just finishing up a Communications Law class and in just about every realm, with the exception of campaign contributions, speech=speech. Especially since the constitution has many times been interpreted as considering corporations to be "almost individuals", granting them first amendment rights.
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Why are you all calling it a scooter? I'd say that's a bit of an understatement.
I think all the people who are saying "electric scooter, big whoop. $3,000, yeah right" are slightly missing the point. Yeah, it's kind of wimpy for the price tag. Yeah, it's kind of expensive, and it's questionable who would want to use it.
But this is just the first model. It's more sort of a proof of concept--a demonstration that the scooter can work, and looks as neat as all get-out in motion. As time goes on, the performance will improve and the price will fall.
Look at the Palm (Pilot). The first model was, what, 128K? With no backlight, no infra-red, or anything? And how high was the price tag? And now the Visor Deluxe, which was at one time the wet dream of anybody who even looked at a Palm, is only $130 brand new.
Look at the DVD player. The original models were expensive enough, the first bunch of discs were glitchy enough, that a lot of people scoffed and made snide remarks. But the DVD went on to become the fastest-adopted new consumer technology ever.
So here we have a relatively slow, electric-powered self-stabilizing scooter, for $3,000. Are very many of us going to buy it? Do very many of us have the money to sink into that sort of gee-gaw? No and no. I know I'm not going to be spending three grand on something like that myself, either. Nor would I be likely to spend two grand, or even one grand for that matter.
The remarkable funny--and eerie-- thing about the SP episode is that when the announcer ended talking about Mr. Garrison's invention, he said... "The most important thing to remember Tom, is the question that is on everyone's minds... What is IT, and when will I be able to buy one?"
From the Time article:
As Kamen sees it, all these issues will quickly fade if the question most people ask about the Segway is "How do I get one?"
What's his phone number?
When you steal something, you deprive the owner of that thing. Watching a movie in a time and place YOU decide on instead of the MPAA is not taking anything from them.
Instantly, a thousand of you are now saying "But you're depriving them of income they would otherwise have." To that I say NO! I am not keeping anyone from seeing a movie at a theater.
Why don't you just check the bag with the laptop? You're not going to use it on the plane!
Nah, I can watch recorded programs on my Tivo while recording new programs so I assume that since gaming doesn't use a TV tuner, you could still do this just fine.
And that's the damn truth... as we as a country creep closer and closer to the bottom 50% of wage-"earners" paying no taxes at all, we get closer and closer to the main dangers of a democracy... The whites who hung black escaping slaves in the early 19th century certainly appreciated democracy because THEY WERE PART OF THE MAJORITY!
Oh, by the way, i agree with your post.
I say good for us being a republic.
hehe "rebuilding" our enemies "as the USA." would be exactly what he was saying...
(yes, i know what you were really saying.)
The problem is, US copyright law looks at the originality of a work. In that sense, the numbers in a phone book do not have a very strong copyright interest to them but the other original content (ie coupons, apartment guides, etc) or the way the data are laid out or typefaced CAN be copyrighted and protected.
What good would internet access be without power, dude?
Cause they certainly exercise 1st Amendment rights, even as huge corporations...
But you knew that...