Osiran Slavemaster: That is no coincidence, for our people visited your Egypt thousands of years ago. Fry: I knew it! Insane theories, one; regular theories, a billion.
and, of course, everyone everywhere is either a liberal or a (spit) conservative
Note for those unaware: It's not just a random label thrown about in canada to polarize issues, the current government is headed by the Progressive Conservative party. And the current opposition are the Liberals.
Heh, funny catch on the wording but i believe they're referring to the designs where an intermediate higher heat-capacity substance is heated, stored, and cycled then used to boil water for the turbines as needed to maintain a more consistent flow of energy (IE: overnight). There are already existing solar plants that use liquid sodium as the heated element.
I definitely applaud Geists work in both creating public awareness over copyright issues and also being ardently vehement against improper use of copyright, but this really means little until we find out whether the how the consultations are published to the lawmakers. From what i've seen in the past I almost wonder if we draft up ridiculous copyright reform bills from time to time just to keep the insanities of the various content distribution industries happy while making it easy to be shot down in parliament.
Then again, Copps did get us a blank media tax that goes...somewhere... so perhaps the this doesn't always work or just appears to be the case.
License agreements can not give a corporation legal rights that don't exist.
Not quite right. As long as the license agreement has clauses in it that are different than default copyright, this is perfectly fine so long as the clauses aren't illegal. A contract drawn by one party and accepted by another party binds both parties to the terms of the contract. Its kind of the whole point.
Now if the contract had a clause that was illegal, ie: in the case of downloading animal farm amazon may send agents to your house to kill you, then yes the contact would be considered invalid or at least the clause containing that would be considered invalid.
License agreements can not give corporations legal rights that are already deemed illegal.
That's probably the most reasonable suggestion i've seen all day. Add to that modifiers for vehicle footprint (IE: surface area of contact points for tires versus weight etc) to account for snowshoe effect and thats about as fair as i could imagine.
Until alternative fuel cars become more common. Just because someone is driving an electric does not mean their car magically causes no wear on the highway. Would YOU want to pay more at the pump in terms of gas taxes to subsidize the roads for those not making use of oil?
That's where gas taxes fail, when not all vehicles are consuming gas. This doesn't excuse the administrators desires to double-dip with bonus information gathering, it simply means they should be making a one-or-the-other kind of system.
You cant really compare Open Source Community R&D to private corporation R&D. Corporate R&D cost is measured primarily in dollars whereas most contributors to FOSS can only measure their costs in Time. Yes they have to consider man-hours and deadlines but within the corporate environment all these details can be reduced to a bottom line.
Granted you could take each contributor, ask for their usual hourly wage or amortized salary, and come up with figures that way but then i think you'd find the end result is kinda meaningless (and expensive). I say meaningless as these people chose to volunteer their time where otherwise they would not have been able (or willing) to just volunteer money. This changes what we're comparing.
Granted hardware components and such will still be a cost but the greatest investment in FOSS is time spent. The great thing about FOSS is most people have more free time than they have free cash. Especially these days.
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Plus every source file would be a .gog!
Not a chance, as its common knowledge that goto's cause the apocalypse.
individuality and uniqueness is appreciated
while agreeing with your other points, which US is this that you're living in?
certainly wasn't the one I lived in.
A beowulf cluster of smug elitist know-it-alls, you insensitive clod!
cmon, the universe needs a true daiseyworld as a warning to others!
Nuke it from orbit..
It's the only way to be sure.
Renew! Renew! Renew!
Osiran Slavemaster: That is no coincidence, for our people visited your Egypt thousands of years ago.
Fry: I knew it! Insane theories, one; regular theories, a billion.
Robert Jordan fans.
and, of course, everyone everywhere is either a liberal or a (spit) conservative
Note for those unaware: It's not just a random label thrown about in canada to polarize issues, the current government is headed by the Progressive Conservative party. And the current opposition are the Liberals.
To be fair, the British were the primary instigators.
Yeah, they thought of that too.
Heh, funny catch on the wording but i believe they're referring to the designs where an intermediate higher heat-capacity substance is heated, stored, and cycled then used to boil water for the turbines as needed to maintain a more consistent flow of energy (IE: overnight). There are already existing solar plants that use liquid sodium as the heated element.
I definitely applaud Geists work in both creating public awareness over copyright issues and also being ardently vehement against improper use of copyright, but this really means little until we find out whether the how the consultations are published to the lawmakers. From what i've seen in the past I almost wonder if we draft up ridiculous copyright reform bills from time to time just to keep the insanities of the various content distribution industries happy while making it easy to be shot down in parliament.
Then again, Copps did get us a blank media tax that goes...somewhere... so perhaps the this doesn't always work or just appears to be the case.
Take off, eh.
Ya hoser.
How quickly the spirit is lost:
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon... (interrupted by applause) we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
Child labor, lack of environmental laws, repressive regimes, none of it matters when it comes to "free trade".
and is probably one or more of the rules of acquisition!
License agreements can not give a corporation legal rights that don't exist.
Not quite right. As long as the license agreement has clauses in it that are different than default copyright, this is perfectly fine so long as the clauses aren't illegal. A contract drawn by one party and accepted by another party binds both parties to the terms of the contract. Its kind of the whole point.
Now if the contract had a clause that was illegal, ie: in the case of downloading animal farm amazon may send agents to your house to kill you, then yes the contact would be considered invalid or at least the clause containing that would be considered invalid.
License agreements can not give corporations legal rights that are already deemed illegal.
This is the idea. Not so much computer "driver's license", as computer "driver's ed."
If you have to pass a test at the end, what would be the difference?
If you don't, what would be the point?
Mr. Governor?
My name...is The Plague...
uhh Mr. The Plague, somethin weird's happenin on the net.
As in what, you hapless techno-weenie?
That's probably the most reasonable suggestion i've seen all day. Add to that modifiers for vehicle footprint (IE: surface area of contact points for tires versus weight etc) to account for snowshoe effect and thats about as fair as i could imagine.
This point of view currently makes SOME sense.
Until alternative fuel cars become more common. Just because someone is driving an electric does not mean their car magically causes no wear on the highway. Would YOU want to pay more at the pump in terms of gas taxes to subsidize the roads for those not making use of oil?
That's where gas taxes fail, when not all vehicles are consuming gas. This doesn't excuse the administrators desires to double-dip with bonus information gathering, it simply means they should be making a one-or-the-other kind of system.
gah, should not have stated only measure in Time but for the greater percentage of projects, including the linux kernel.
You cant really compare Open Source Community R&D to private corporation R&D. Corporate R&D cost is measured primarily in dollars whereas most contributors to FOSS can only measure their costs in Time. Yes they have to consider man-hours and deadlines but within the corporate environment all these details can be reduced to a bottom line.
Granted you could take each contributor, ask for their usual hourly wage or amortized salary, and come up with figures that way but then i think you'd find the end result is kinda meaningless (and expensive). I say meaningless as these people chose to volunteer their time where otherwise they would not have been able (or willing) to just volunteer money. This changes what we're comparing.
Granted hardware components and such will still be a cost but the greatest investment in FOSS is time spent. The great thing about FOSS is most people have more free time than they have free cash. Especially these days.