In the US, we especially don't like tax-payer funded IT gear being used for union/political use.
The employer paid for it, they should get to dictate its use. If Nokia says "use work computers at own risk, we can see whatever you do on them", that is their prerogative. How'd you like it if you owned a company and employees were using the company vehicle for personal use...and YOU got in trouble for trying to get information about it? Nokia should leave Finland. A company SHOULD leave any place it finds a hostile environment.
And how, pray tell, does a non-human species go about adapting to urban sprawl completely destroying its habitat?
Just go on google earth for a minute, would you. zoom in on 10 random spots in the US, east of the Mississippi River. Tell me exactly how the natural world is supposed to keep evolving, business as usual, with incessant "development" of land for human use?
...the techs call this babysitware. it has nothing to do with education and everything to do with a teachers union who demands teachers "need a break". couple this with computer lab aides who get paid under 10 bucks an hour and aren't technically allowed to teach anything.
Lets say you start a company. You own the company, it is your property...like your skateboard or television. You have the right, because you own it, to do with it as you see fit.
Now you hire an employee. You agree to a contract that specifies certain work/compensation terms, which may/may not include paid vacation. You don't have to offer those things....the person doesn't have to sell you his/her work. That contract is property of you both.
Now here comes the government. "You have to give them 60 days of paid vacation." Nice...so the company what WAS your property now has the government making decisions. That is NOT liberty.
happiness
That happiness is a result of governments making great choices for you, or you making good choices for yourself?
Like I said, America was set up for liberty. It wasn't set up to give stuff to people who can't be asked to get it themselves. I'm not like some people, claiming the US is #1 at this or that. I don't care. If fiber-to-my-doghouse, as cool as that would be, means having governments controlling every facet of life...then you can keep it.
This all aside the fact that France, for example with it's silly labor laws, ran about 9.5-11% unemployment BEFORE the recession. Hiring someone there is a major liability because you don't own your own property. Protectionism is the only thing keeping French employed. But hey, feel free to continue your march toward a proletarian utopia.
You are an ISP. You just went into debt up to your ass for a huge bank of 56k modems. No problem, this new internet thing will make you rich.
About a quarter way through paying the loans, some damn fool invents DOCSIS and ADSL. You can't get more loans for new gear, and half your customers just left. Congrats, you are 90% of the ISP's from the late 90s.
our greedy companies, municipalities, and people bought into a technology. they don't want to see their investment wasted...so they are reluctant to upgrade.
i do tech in a school district. this happens all the time: i go to trash some old gear to make room for new gear. someone stops me and says "we paid a lot of money for this!" this attitude is pervasive and by no means american...doesn't matter if we run T1 in the era of WAN-PHY...someone payed good money for that T1 CSU/DSU.
Also, it's fairly well known that early adopters take the R&D hit. That was us....we invested all the infrastructure that made it all possible. Other countries got to buy in once the tech was refined, and weren't saddled with old-investment gear.
Because we were set up for liberty, not free bullshit. You want the government to give you everything? There are plenty of countries just waiting for you.
I am sort of paraphrasing the Frye standard...not talking about my beliefs. I'm not saying anything.
I take the Frye standard's meaning to agree with you and the researchers. Scientists always doubted ploygraphic evidence...that's why it was inadmissible in so many courts.
general consensus among the scientific community at large agrees on the dangers of the literally mind boggling self-prevailing power of dominating discourses
You just said that the general consensus is that general consensuses are dangerous.
It got that point sometime in the 1920's in almost all states, since polygraphs didn't meet the Frye Standard for evidence. Basically, in the scientific community at-large thinks you are full of shit, you are de-fact full of shit.
Oh, Ok. I guess I thought that meant Chinese Police selling the bootleg stuff on the street.
donate, auction, or sell
Actually...if China reserves the right to donate the bootleg material...they would NOT be talking about donating it back to the IP holder. That's not a donation. And auction? Why would you auction bootleg material back to the IP holder...that's an auction of one.
On second thought...I am right. This isn't just about selling it back to the IP holder.
I practice Gracie-style Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and although I pretty much suck at it, I've discovered that it's a very flowing art. Not "brutal styles with lots of sparing that will make you incredibly strong / effective", of course, MMV. I think it's a very safe and fun style with lots of rolling that will make you incredibly effective and a little stronger.
The whole idea is not to use force, but simple mechanical advantage thru technique. You don't do the move you want, you do the move your adversary gives you. "Flow with the go" as Rickson Gracie puts it. This isn't to say that BJJ/GJJ is never intense, but it lacks the jarring impacts and joint damage of other martial arts. Here's Helio rolling at 94 years old.
A bunch of people seeing old favorites in crappy streaming flash, I can understand, would remind people how fun a DVD-quality video of their favorites would be.
And when technology gets good enough to skip the "a dvd of this would be nice" phase, that business model will no longer work. Then look for artificial limitations (quality, advertisements) to create that differential
For now though, yes it does seem like a big fat ITYS for the content copyright holders who assumed that internets REDUCE sales.
W should get credit for starting a war we should not have started. O should NOT get credit for ending it. That is all I am saying.
This view point has nothing to do with my service. What makes me right is: as a point of fact, Obama did NOT end the Iraq war.
As far as the war not costing that much, no I don't mean that at all. It is a colossal expense, and I'll be glad when it's over. But I'd like not to waste it all for nothing.
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Well, a town whose economy consists entirely of selling household goods is very much overdue for an economic collapse.
Aside from housing construction, you just summed up the Utah economy in a nutshell.
In the US, we especially don't like tax-payer funded IT gear being used for union/political use.
The employer paid for it, they should get to dictate its use. If Nokia says "use work computers at own risk, we can see whatever you do on them", that is their prerogative. How'd you like it if you owned a company and employees were using the company vehicle for personal use...and YOU got in trouble for trying to get information about it? Nokia should leave Finland. A company SHOULD leave any place it finds a hostile environment.
And how, pray tell, does a non-human species go about adapting to urban sprawl completely destroying its habitat?
Just go on google earth for a minute, would you. zoom in on 10 random spots in the US, east of the Mississippi River. Tell me exactly how the natural world is supposed to keep evolving, business as usual, with incessant "development" of land for human use?
...the techs call this babysitware. it has nothing to do with education and everything to do with a teachers union who demands teachers "need a break". couple this with computer lab aides who get paid under 10 bucks an hour and aren't technically allowed to teach anything.
Lets say you start a company. You own the company, it is your property...like your skateboard or television. You have the right, because you own it, to do with it as you see fit.
Now you hire an employee. You agree to a contract that specifies certain work/compensation terms, which may/may not include paid vacation. You don't have to offer those things....the person doesn't have to sell you his/her work. That contract is property of you both.
Now here comes the government. "You have to give them 60 days of paid vacation." Nice...so the company what WAS your property now has the government making decisions. That is NOT liberty.
happiness
That happiness is a result of governments making great choices for you, or you making good choices for yourself?
Like I said, America was set up for liberty. It wasn't set up to give stuff to people who can't be asked to get it themselves. I'm not like some people, claiming the US is #1 at this or that. I don't care. If fiber-to-my-doghouse, as cool as that would be, means having governments controlling every facet of life...then you can keep it.
This all aside the fact that France, for example with it's silly labor laws, ran about 9.5-11% unemployment BEFORE the recession. Hiring someone there is a major liability because you don't own your own property. Protectionism is the only thing keeping French employed. But hey, feel free to continue your march toward a proletarian utopia.
You are an ISP. You just went into debt up to your ass for a huge bank of 56k modems. No problem, this new internet thing will make you rich.
About a quarter way through paying the loans, some damn fool invents DOCSIS and ADSL. You can't get more loans for new gear, and half your customers just left. Congrats, you are 90% of the ISP's from the late 90s.
no no! not what i'm saying at all.
fill in the blank: early adopters get ____ed.
our greedy companies, municipalities, and people bought into a technology. they don't want to see their investment wasted...so they are reluctant to upgrade.
i do tech in a school district. this happens all the time: i go to trash some old gear to make room for new gear. someone stops me and says "we paid a lot of money for this!" this attitude is pervasive and by no means american...doesn't matter if we run T1 in the era of WAN-PHY...someone payed good money for that T1 CSU/DSU.
Also, it's fairly well known that early adopters take the R&D hit. That was us....we invested all the infrastructure that made it all possible. Other countries got to buy in once the tech was refined, and weren't saddled with old-investment gear.
Because we were set up for liberty, not free bullshit. You want the government to give you everything? There are plenty of countries just waiting for you.
I am sort of paraphrasing the Frye standard...not talking about my beliefs. I'm not saying anything.
I take the Frye standard's meaning to agree with you and the researchers. Scientists always doubted ploygraphic evidence...that's why it was inadmissible in so many courts.
general consensus among the scientific community at large agrees on the dangers of the literally mind boggling self-prevailing power of dominating discourses
You just said that the general consensus is that general consensuses are dangerous.
gotten to the point now where
It got that point sometime in the 1920's in almost all states, since polygraphs didn't meet the Frye Standard for evidence. Basically, in the scientific community at-large thinks you are full of shit, you are de-fact full of shit.
Now we use the Daubert Standard, that looks at relevance and peer-reviewed reliability.
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Obama's administration, feature creep, and bloat. Just like Symantic.
So...a heard of wildebeest looses two members, that's not really much of a deterrent to the thousands.
And the two wildebeest didn't even die...they just got injured.
On the bright side...the $1.2 mil in fines will help the government pay for a telemarketer industry bailout.
...don't think the telemarketers didn't factor fines like this in the price they charged clients.
This is $300 billion/year industry.
Oh, Ok. I guess I thought that meant Chinese Police selling the bootleg stuff on the street.
donate, auction, or sell
Actually...if China reserves the right to donate the bootleg material...they would NOT be talking about donating it back to the IP holder. That's not a donation. And auction? Why would you auction bootleg material back to the IP holder...that's an auction of one.
On second thought...I am right. This isn't just about selling it back to the IP holder.
Do China's border measures, which allow customs officials to donate, auction, or sell to the rights holder confiscated goods, violate TRIPS?
(FTFA)
China can take your bootleg XP discs on grounds you pirated them...and then sell them? lolwut?
lolwut?
...or be of any use in a fight.
I practice Gracie-style Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and although I pretty much suck at it, I've discovered that it's a very flowing art. Not "brutal styles with lots of sparing that will make you incredibly strong / effective", of course, MMV. I think it's a very safe and fun style with lots of rolling that will make you incredibly effective and a little stronger.
The whole idea is not to use force, but simple mechanical advantage thru technique. You don't do the move you want, you do the move your adversary gives you. "Flow with the go" as Rickson Gracie puts it. This isn't to say that BJJ/GJJ is never intense, but it lacks the jarring impacts and joint damage of other martial arts. Here's Helio rolling at 94 years old.
Your overall thesis is exactly right, however.
The Predator already makes noise when it takes pictures.
that little girl's going to get the shit kicked out of her when the kids at school see that video.
(the teachers won't stop it, because they like apple)
A bunch of people seeing old favorites in crappy streaming flash, I can understand, would remind people how fun a DVD-quality video of their favorites would be.
And when technology gets good enough to skip the "a dvd of this would be nice" phase, that business model will no longer work. Then look for artificial limitations (quality, advertisements) to create that differential
For now though, yes it does seem like a big fat ITYS for the content copyright holders who assumed that internets REDUCE sales.
W should get credit for starting a war we should not have started. O should NOT get credit for ending it. That is all I am saying.
This view point has nothing to do with my service. What makes me right is: as a point of fact, Obama did NOT end the Iraq war.
As far as the war not costing that much, no I don't mean that at all. It is a colossal expense, and I'll be glad when it's over. But I'd like not to waste it all for nothing.