Stress has both sides - a stressful situation can make you feel bad and (if it lasts for too long) can make you ill, but to get through a stressful situation with a good result makes you much more healthy. (eustress and distress)
Having one company for everything is not the way to go, and government subsidies to support this free market(given only to the company in power) doesn't help either.
Rowling's ability to stop the Potter pretenders is largely a function of the new regime of international copyright.
And further down:
The case for preventing literal copying--in which a foreign publisher simply reprints a work without permission--is strong. But Potter follow-ons are different from the American Dickens piracy of the 19th century and DVD piracy of today. Literal copies are what come out when you use a photocopier. Potter's takeoffs are different: They either borrow characters and put them in a new, foreign context (Potter in Calcutta) or just use the themes and ideas of Potter (as in Tanya Grotter's case) as inspiration for a different kind of story. They aren't a direct replacement for a Potter book, the way a literal copy is, but rather a supplement or an adaptation.
And something that could simply be said in this discussion:
Copyright should be no different. So long as it provides Rowling sufficient incentive to write, it should strive to maintain as much competition and facilitate as much international trade as possible.
So, PGP Corp takes an open source product and closes its source.
Eh? They take a open source product and closes its source?
Read again, please. GPG and
PGP
The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a free software replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software, released under the GNU General Public License.
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That's, what you usually call bureaucracy. ;-)
Despite Microsofts evil plans...
The things is:
Stress has both sides - a stressful situation can make you feel bad and (if it lasts for too long) can make you ill, but to get through a stressful situation with a good result makes you much more healthy. (eustress and distress)
I heard, it would be a very good idea: Umbrella Corporation
Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass
Some quotes from the article:
And further down: And something that could simply be said in this discussion:
Much more interesting than Stallman's opinion is an article from 2003 linked by Stallman: http://www.slate.com/id/2084960/
Read again, please.
GPG and PGP Or did I misunderstood you?
Are we able to detect it?
Yes. A simple example:
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
In the Western World it is called "The Vietnam War", for the Chinese for example it is "The American War (in Vietnam)". Both are biased.
That's one of the problems between Israel and the Palestinians - both think, their narratives are right and truthful. http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/narrativ es/