Jar Jar could have been a decent character if during the raid he stopped being a completely worthless and became a useful fighter. Preferably with some variant of capoeira, or some sort of flashy fighting style (from how we walks it seems like it would be something he would do). Yes he's the goofy comic relief and that is fine, but the bigger problem was he was worthless and provided nothing else.
I seem to remember hearing something about some country in Africa rigging elections and Wikileaks releasing info about that and it kick started a revolution of sorts. This is more than 6 months ago, IIRC.
The excuse for a limited copyright in the United States is that an author who has produced a book and has had the benefit of it for that term has had the profit of it long enough, and therefore the Government takes the property, which does not belong to it, and generously gives it to the eighty-eight millions. That is the idea. If it did that, that would be one thing. But it does not do anything of the kind. It merely takes the author’s property, merely takes from his children the bread and profit of that book, and gives the publisher double profit. The publisher and some of his confederates who are in the conspiracy rear families in affluence, and they continue the enjoyment of these ill-gotten gains generation after generation. They live forever, the publishers do -Mark Twain.
Personally I'm in favor of Life + 19 years so if a wildly successful author dies in the process of impregnating his wife, they'll be covered. As for corporate I think that would require a bit of research find out how old "freelance" authors are when they create their works and how long most people live after they do so and use that date as the time corporate copyrights are good for. Those time frames are also assuming that they filed for the extension, how long that is would requires a bit of research (newly published works make most of its money within what number of years).
My general approach to life is to assume that any and all corporations will screw me over for a buck, and all advertisements are 75% distraction from the 20% lies and 5% facts.
I was largely indifferent to Google (I only switched from Yahoo because the page loaded faster), but when I heard that their motto was "don't be evil." I started to think that they most likely are evil, and are simply biding their time.
Vista SP1 and Window 7 came out it which dealt with a great deal of the "complaints" that the target audience of Ubuntu had (more or less beginners and XP converts). Couple that with them not really being in the news (free advertisement) and that'll do quite a bit to your reputation.
That's actually one of the advantages of e-readers their battery life is measured in usage not time. LG also just released a reader with a solar panel built into it, so power isn't really that much of a concern.
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I completely agree completely I need my plugins.
However, I've actually moved all my friend from Firefox to Chrome because they refuse to use any plugins
Yeah but that turned into a kickass video game, so I'll allow it.
Jar Jar could have been a decent character if during the raid he stopped being a completely worthless and became a useful fighter. Preferably with some variant of capoeira, or some sort of flashy fighting style (from how we walks it seems like it would be something he would do).
Yes he's the goofy comic relief and that is fine, but the bigger problem was he was worthless and provided nothing else.
We still use crushed to get red dye
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine#Production
Actually I'm fairly certain the Ruskies were the first with weapons.
I'm going to send an email to everyone I know in Canada
And some of us even make use of it and are better off because of it.
Oh it isn't that bad, I've actually found it to be superior when doing Image and Video searches.
I seem to remember hearing something about some country in Africa rigging elections and Wikileaks releasing info about that and it kick started a revolution of sorts. This is more than 6 months ago, IIRC.
Aren't these guys propelled by Oxygen and Hydrogen, and the waste was water?
Wasn't there a quote about construction on a space elevator won't begin until 50 years after people stop laughing about the idea?
I was so pissed off when that movie turned into a damn slasher flick, they were doing everything right up until then.
That may be true but anytime you actually hear about on in the news, it's going to get overturned.
Minimum of $25K? I'm glad to see you put a lot of thought into this.
The excuse for a limited copyright in the United States is that an author who has produced a book and has had the benefit of it for that term has had the profit of it long enough, and therefore the Government takes the property, which does not belong to it, and generously gives it to the eighty-eight millions. That is the idea. If it did that, that would be one thing. But it does not do anything of the kind. It merely takes the author’s property, merely takes from his children the bread and profit of that book, and gives the publisher double profit. The publisher and some of his confederates who are in the conspiracy rear families in affluence, and they continue the enjoyment of these ill-gotten gains generation after generation. They live forever, the publishers do
-Mark Twain.
Personally I'm in favor of Life + 19 years so if a wildly successful author dies in the process of impregnating his wife, they'll be covered. As for corporate I think that would require a bit of research find out how old "freelance" authors are when they create their works and how long most people live after they do so and use that date as the time corporate copyrights are good for. Those time frames are also assuming that they filed for the extension, how long that is would requires a bit of research (newly published works make most of its money within what number of years).
Do your self a favor and look up Rift Tracks.
Good God I would have been fired after seeing that, I would be laughing so hard.
That's a nice theory that just isn't true in practice.
Numbers count for nothing if you can't bring them to bear.
I'm actually more optimistic than most. It isn't really cynicism it is more paranoia; trust but verify all that fun stuff.
My general approach to life is to assume that any and all corporations will screw me over for a buck, and all advertisements are 75% distraction from the 20% lies and 5% facts.
I was largely indifferent to Google (I only switched from Yahoo because the page loaded faster), but when I heard that their motto was "don't be evil." I started to think that they most likely are evil, and are simply biding their time.
Vista SP1 and Window 7 came out it which dealt with a great deal of the "complaints" that the target audience of Ubuntu had (more or less beginners and XP converts). Couple that with them not really being in the news (free advertisement) and that'll do quite a bit to your reputation.
Those licenses aren't as expensive as you think, when you take loss of productivity into consideration.
Honestly this is the first post to make me genuinely laugh in a long time.
That's actually one of the advantages of e-readers their battery life is measured in usage not time. LG also just released a reader with a solar panel built into it, so power isn't really that much of a concern.