Exactly!
The government can't copyright ANYthing. That Stanford Law Journal article was written by one of our new breed of REALLY idiotic lawyers.
Seriously. The quality of lawyers that are graduating now (by and large) is truly horrific. Our increasingly short-attention-spans do not good lawyers make!
Welcome to Idiocracy!
I blame it all on Dick Wolf. Twenty years of his shows stretching any and all laws to fit his prosecutors' agendas has presented the newly minted lawyers with a truly warped sense of law.
Now porn, like liquids on a plane, has been equated with terrorism. So anyone with porn is now a potential terrorist. The FBI must be jumping with joy. They have the perfect excuse to treat everyone as a terrorist.
The most selected for mutation in the last ten thousand years is the adult ability to digest milk. Lactose intolerance has nothing to do with intelligence, moral superiority or physical prowess, but during certain periods of history, the lactose intolerant averaged as little as 1/10th the number of surviving off-spring as an individual who was not. This is a highly significant, if not overwhelming selection factor. And what was essentially nonexistent 10,000 years ago -- the ability to digest lactose past weaning -- has become a norm.
Verisign has shown itself to be too willing and accomplice to the U.S. government with its willing participation in domain shutdowns. We need more independence from the the body that has this much control.
If it is the same age as well as chemical composition, both our sun and HIP 56948 may have been born out of the same stellar nursery. This would make it an even more amazing find.
But, unless it has terrestrial planets in the Goldilocks zone, it is unlikely to to be a real prospect for SETI.
We have been messing with the climate on a significant scale a lot longer than most have been led to believe. Starting with slash and burn agriculture, a lot of the carbon which would have been sequestered in forest and undergrowth has been released into the atmosphere. Agriculture and its impact on climate has been going on and increasing for ten thousand years. And this human generated global warming is being fought by a natural cycle that might easily have put us in the middle of an ice age by now.
I happen to think that the negative, and oft-times alarmist approach to global warming is counter-productive. It has alienated a lot of people. And made it seem that Luddites are at the heart of the movement. Climate change would happen with or without 7 billion people on the planet and our massive conflagration of fossil fuels. It would just be cooling instead of warming.
Perhaps a more positive approach would be an advocacy of climate stabilization. Climate fluctuates, whether the cause is artificial or natural, and climate fluctuations can be disastrous. Advocating climate stabilization rather than FUDing global warming takes the emphasis off of pointing fingers and apportioning guilt. Instead, it makes.it a shared goal and reduces the emotional pressures to deny the need.
Typhoid Mary was not only a carrier, but contagious. She ended up being forcibly quarantined because she was killing too many people and she could not be cured of being infectious.
In the case of the carrier Macs, they are not infectious, the infections can be removed, and the haven't killed anyone.
The MAFIAA figures they own the administration, that they got the President elected and own him fair and square. Nor has the administration done much to disabuse them of this. Federal judges have been appointed from the ranks of the MAFIAA lobbyist lawyers. A copyright czar is there in the DoJ, whose only job is to go organize take downs like Megaupload's. ACTA was negotiated in secret (the secrecy protected by claims of national security). Then ACTA was signed and the decision was made not to send it to the Senate for ratification (or more probably rejection) but still put into force. The State Department has pressured SOPA like laws on Spain, Ireland and other countries The US placed Canada on its Special 301 watch list over intellectual property rights enforcement. In effect, the US government has been acting as the enforcement arm of the content cartel.
The previous Republican administration started and did a lot of this crap too. But the line needs to be drawn somewhere and sometime. It might as well be drawn now. And it might as well be drawn between the MAFIAA and the administration of the US.
It may be large enough to make the MPAA notice. And since the only reason that kind of traffic is generated is copyrighted material. And all copyrighted material on the Internet must have a significant component owned by the MPAA,
So Jeff Bezos should be getting smeared as a pirate soon. And his local swat team should be visiting him, along with the prerequisite FBI, ICE and Homeland Security thugs.
Dinosaurs probably had a dual air sac respiratory system like birds do today. This respiratory system allows continuous oxygenation of the lungs, unlike mammals who breath in and out. This is a very robust system and may be the reason that early dinosaurs out-competed early mammals et al and established a dominance in the Triassic that continued until Chicxulub.
We already know that terrestrial arthropods, like insects, are limited in size by a combination of the O2 concentration in the air and the tracheal respiratory system (a network of tubes...). So it would not be surprising that a highly effective dual air sac respiratory system could be efficient enough to make the trade-offs for increased size more advantageous for dinosaurs than mammals.
Therefore, for dinosaurs, increasing size to compete may have been more evolutionary advantageous than for mammals. And that is why dinosaurs grew so big.
When doing a practical threat analysis, one looks at potential rather than intention. The vague and over broad language of the CISPA makes its potential vast and excessive. Facebook's intentions may be honestly stated for now, but history has shown us that is not enough.
ACTA negotiations were conducted in secrecy and public knowledge of its negotiations was restricted under the guise of national security. So the precedence has been set that national security encompasses anything and everything any petty bureaucrat says it does.
If the US government, the administration, or even Facebook had a history of restraint, self-control or even good judgement when it comes to these matters, it would be one thing. But their failure to do so, especially that of the US government, is still a raw wound. Not only should they not be trusted in a theoretical sense as a best practice, they cannot be trusted in in a real, immediate and visceral sense,
Asimov's _Foundation_ stories started to be published in 1942 (they were not written in 1945). They were originally sold to Street & Smith which owned publication rights (and the works were published in _Astounding Science Fiction_). Asimov was paid for his work and apparently satisfied with payment (or he wouldn't have sold the stories -- hell he wrote the stories for Astounding which was the most lucrative and prestigious market for SF at the time ).
Asimov was paid for his work at least three times. He won the lottery. Most of us, no matter how creative we are at work, only get paid once. And, actually, Asimov would only have been paid once without the generosity of John W Campbell (editor of Astounding) who gave the rights back to the authors after first publication.
And as far as Gnome press goes, it was essentially a fan publishing house. It published Asimov's work in hardback, which was an enormous prestige thing of the day. Nor do I think that marketing was the issue that kept the work languishing, There was a fanzine that won a Hugo in 1961 called "Who Killed Science Fiction?" And it was a real question, because SF wasn't selling at the time and the market dwindled to a handful of magazines, a few paperbacks and hardbacks only surviving because of library sales (and most of those were juveniles). Asimov, himself, abandoned writing SF for around a dozen years and concentrated on the more immediately lucrative science popularization market .
We are no longer living with 18th century production and distribution technology.Copyright and patent lengths were originally implemented when it could take months to distribute a work across a country and years to distribute it across the world. We also have tools that cut the time of artistic production e.g. books don't have to be written in longhand, presses no longer need to be set and cranked by hand, Now with modern tools, artistic production is quicker, and distribution is virtually instantaneous. The extension of copyright past the original duration makes no sense from this perspective.
Further, the original justification for copyright - that it promotes innovation in science and the arts is not served by extending copyright length. The fact is that extended copyright length impedes creativity by limiting what we can be creative about.
You cannot assume a lack of response to be an admission of guilt. You cannot even assume that the account holder even was aware of the notice(s) or take-downs.
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Exactly! The government can't copyright ANYthing. That Stanford Law Journal article was written by one of our new breed of REALLY idiotic lawyers. Seriously. The quality of lawyers that are graduating now (by and large) is truly horrific. Our increasingly short-attention-spans do not good lawyers make! Welcome to Idiocracy!
I blame it all on Dick Wolf. Twenty years of his shows stretching any and all laws to fit his prosecutors' agendas has presented the newly minted lawyers with a truly warped sense of law.
Rand Paul is my hero.
The best government RIAA money can buy.
One way to prevent Windows 8 acceptance.
Now porn, like liquids on a plane, has been equated with terrorism. So anyone with porn is now a potential terrorist. The FBI must be jumping with joy. They have the perfect excuse to treat everyone as a terrorist.
The most selected for mutation in the last ten thousand years is the adult ability to digest milk. Lactose intolerance has nothing to do with intelligence, moral superiority or physical prowess, but during certain periods of history, the lactose intolerant averaged as little as 1/10th the number of surviving off-spring as an individual who was not. This is a highly significant, if not overwhelming selection factor. And what was essentially nonexistent 10,000 years ago -- the ability to digest lactose past weaning -- has become a norm.
If the courts are going to treat corporations as legal persons, so should the IRS, State, and local tax collectors.
Verisign has shown itself to be too willing and accomplice to the U.S. government with its willing participation in domain shutdowns. We need more independence from the the body that has this much control.
If it is the same age as well as chemical composition, both our sun and HIP 56948 may have been born out of the same stellar nursery. This would make it an even more amazing find.
But, unless it has terrestrial planets in the Goldilocks zone, it is unlikely to to be a real prospect for SETI.
If you had your way, I assume there would be a swat team outside his home, his assets seized and his ass thrown in jail.
We have been messing with the climate on a significant scale a lot longer than most have been led to believe. Starting with slash and burn agriculture, a lot of the carbon which would have been sequestered in forest and undergrowth has been released into the atmosphere. Agriculture and its impact on climate has been going on and increasing for ten thousand years. And this human generated global warming is being fought by a natural cycle that might easily have put us in the middle of an ice age by now.
I happen to think that the negative, and oft-times alarmist approach to global warming is counter-productive. It has alienated a lot of people. And made it seem that Luddites are at the heart of the movement. Climate change would happen with or without 7 billion people on the planet and our massive conflagration of fossil fuels. It would just be cooling instead of warming.
Perhaps a more positive approach would be an advocacy of climate stabilization. Climate fluctuates, whether the cause is artificial or natural, and climate fluctuations can be disastrous. Advocating climate stabilization rather than FUDing global warming takes the emphasis off of pointing fingers and apportioning guilt. Instead, it makes.it a shared goal and reduces the emotional pressures to deny the need.
Typhoid Mary was not only a carrier, but contagious. She ended up being forcibly quarantined because she was killing too many people and she could not be cured of being infectious.
In the case of the carrier Macs, they are not infectious, the infections can be removed, and the haven't killed anyone.
The MAFIAA figures they own the administration, that they got the President elected and own him fair and square. Nor has the administration done much to disabuse them of this. Federal judges have been appointed from the ranks of the MAFIAA lobbyist lawyers. A copyright czar is there in the DoJ, whose only job is to go organize take downs like Megaupload's. ACTA was negotiated in secret (the secrecy protected by claims of national security). Then ACTA was signed and the decision was made not to send it to the Senate for ratification (or more probably rejection) but still put into force. The State Department has pressured SOPA like laws on Spain, Ireland and other countries The US placed Canada on its Special 301 watch list over intellectual property rights enforcement. In effect, the US government has been acting as the enforcement arm of the content cartel.
The previous Republican administration started and did a lot of this crap too. But the line needs to be drawn somewhere and sometime. It might as well be drawn now. And it might as well be drawn between the MAFIAA and the administration of the US.
And he talked them down from $2 billion, thus showing his haggling skill and business acumen.
Thus the term, "biochemistry."
Good sense prevailed.
Or rather a confirmation of some preliminary work done years agor (2008) http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001400/
It may be large enough to make the MPAA notice. And since the only reason that kind of traffic is generated is copyrighted material. And all copyrighted material on the Internet must have a significant component owned by the MPAA,
So Jeff Bezos should be getting smeared as a pirate soon. And his local swat team should be visiting him, along with the prerequisite FBI, ICE and Homeland Security thugs.
So, ya, it could be a bit scary.
If you want to volunteer as a test case, it does make sense.
The last resort of the scoundrel is no longer patriotism, it is paternalism.
Dinosaurs probably had a dual air sac respiratory system like birds do today. This respiratory system allows continuous oxygenation of the lungs, unlike mammals who breath in and out. This is a very robust system and may be the reason that early dinosaurs out-competed early mammals et al and established a dominance in the Triassic that continued until Chicxulub.
We already know that terrestrial arthropods, like insects, are limited in size by a combination of the O2 concentration in the air and the tracheal respiratory system (a network of tubes...). So it would not be surprising that a highly effective dual air sac respiratory system could be efficient enough to make the trade-offs for increased size more advantageous for dinosaurs than mammals.
Therefore, for dinosaurs, increasing size to compete may have been more evolutionary advantageous than for mammals. And that is why dinosaurs grew so big.
When doing a practical threat analysis, one looks at potential rather than intention. The vague and over broad language of the CISPA makes its potential vast and excessive. Facebook's intentions may be honestly stated for now, but history has shown us that is not enough.
ACTA negotiations were conducted in secrecy and public knowledge of its negotiations was restricted under the guise of national security. So the precedence has been set that national security encompasses anything and everything any petty bureaucrat says it does.
If the US government, the administration, or even Facebook had a history of restraint, self-control or even good judgement when it comes to these matters, it would be one thing. But their failure to do so, especially that of the US government, is still a raw wound. Not only should they not be trusted in a theoretical sense as a best practice, they cannot be trusted in in a real, immediate and visceral sense,
Asimov's _Foundation_ stories started to be published in 1942 (they were not written in 1945). They were originally sold to Street & Smith which owned publication rights (and the works were published in _Astounding Science Fiction_). Asimov was paid for his work and apparently satisfied with payment (or he wouldn't have sold the stories -- hell he wrote the stories for Astounding which was the most lucrative and prestigious market for SF at the time ).
Asimov was paid for his work at least three times. He won the lottery. Most of us, no matter how creative we are at work, only get paid once. And, actually, Asimov would only have been paid once without the generosity of John W Campbell (editor of Astounding) who gave the rights back to the authors after first publication.
And as far as Gnome press goes, it was essentially a fan publishing house. It published Asimov's work in hardback, which was an enormous prestige thing of the day. Nor do I think that marketing was the issue that kept the work languishing, There was a fanzine that won a Hugo in 1961 called "Who Killed Science Fiction?" And it was a real question, because SF wasn't selling at the time and the market dwindled to a handful of magazines, a few paperbacks and hardbacks only surviving because of library sales (and most of those were juveniles). Asimov, himself, abandoned writing SF for around a dozen years and concentrated on the more immediately lucrative science popularization market .
We are no longer living with 18th century production and distribution technology.Copyright and patent lengths were originally implemented when it could take months to distribute a work across a country and years to distribute it across the world. We also have tools that cut the time of artistic production e.g. books don't have to be written in longhand, presses no longer need to be set and cranked by hand, Now with modern tools, artistic production is quicker, and distribution is virtually instantaneous. The extension of copyright past the original duration makes no sense from this perspective.
Further, the original justification for copyright - that it promotes innovation in science and the arts is not served by extending copyright length. The fact is that extended copyright length impedes creativity by limiting what we can be creative about.
You cannot assume a lack of response to be an admission of guilt. You cannot even assume that the account holder even was aware of the notice(s) or take-downs.