Wow, you gave a bunch of poor, crime-ridden people in a poor, crime-ridden neighborhood some semi-valuable luxury goods, and they soon get stolen or pawned. I didn't see THAT one coming!
Or, more simply, copyright on a work could last until you realize $N of profit (or revenue, however you want to measure dollars) attributable to the work.
So, if I don't like you, I should be able to report your car as stolen, and get them to disable the engine while you're on the highway? Sounds wonderful!
But why not? A company may refuse to hire you for all sorts of silly reasons. In fact, there are only a few "special" reasons (like race, sex, etc.) that they can't use. We're talking about eight of... say... 10,000 tech companies. What stops you from working for one of the other 9,992 companies? (I work for one, we're desperately looking for engineers, and I would love to have Google's sloppy seconds).
I'm not saying whether it's reasonable or not. The post I was replying to claimed, "now, the employee is locked, unable to change employers", which is ridiculous.
The People don't have the time to properly inform themselves on every issue. That's why being our elected representatives is a full time job. Direct democracy isn't effective for this reason alone.
To be fair, our elected representatives do not properly inform themselves on every issue either, or even on most of them. Hell, they can't even bother to read the 1000-page bills they pass. They typically vote with their party in a very predictable way. 90% of Congress could be replaced with Demobots and Republibots and it would not change what laws get passed.
Fun fact: Denmark has about 1/100th the population of America, is smaller than 2/3s of American States (Maybe more), and has economic interdependance with other dense land-based economies less than many US states border to border travel distance.
OK, then tell me why Connecticut can't provide free in-state tuition and basic economic support for students for up to 6 years.
If my country commits human rights abuses and yours does too, It would be pretty silly for me to criticize your country. Degree doesn't matter. Human rights abuses are human rights abuses. If my country tortures just one person, it's lost any kind of moral high ground from which to cast criticism, even on another country's widespread use of torture. If you don't believe this, then please explain exactly how many tortures my country can commit while still be allowed to criticize yours for torture?
Another example: "Sure, we commit genocide, but not as much as them!" is a ridiculous stance.
1. Insider trading is profitable because it capitalizes on the information disparity between public knowledge and insider knowledge. 2. There is a profit motive to seek insider knowledge. 3. If insider trading were legal, long-term outcome would be that every trader would seek (and receive) insider knowledge. 4. When every trader has insider knowledge, there is no longer information disparity, and insider trading is no longer profitable.
I don't like either, but while we still have elections, I'd rather have government power than corporate power. At least with the government you can vote them out. You can't vote a company out of existence.
News Flash: I don't have any representative to write to. Time Warner has representatives. ExxonMobil has representatives. Pfizer has representatives. Lockheed Martin has representatives. You and I don't have squat in terms of governmental representation.
Just like every other iPad wannabe out there. When are manufacturers going to learn that you can't just toss together some hardware and a touchscreen, slap some Android on it, and pretend you're a cool, hip "tablet" maker? There's this giant ocean of crappy tablets out there that keeps slamming against the rock called iPad.
That story you linked to ignores the enormous difference between having a particular lifestyle and having a that lifestyle plus millions in the bank, and is therefore, stupid.
Ditch.mkv as soon as possible. It's an almost completely unsupported container. Even among software that supposedly supports it there can be compatibility issues. It's popular in the ripping/pirate communities precisely because it's a pain to use. Just getting your videos to work on a regular basis is a mark of distinction.
I disagree. Having just converted my entire collection over to mkv, I'm never looking back. There are some great reasons to use it:
1. I've found MKV to have better support for chapters 2. MKV has heaps better support for subtitles (I could never manage to get subtitles to properly work across players using MP4) 3. MKV can hold just about any video and audio encoding, not just H.263 and H.264 4. (If you care) MP4 has patent issues, whereas MKV does not
I want to open 5 ports in the company's firewall and run some software as Admin on my workstation? Yea, scrutinize away! I want to install Angry Birds on my company phone to screw around a little during my lunch break? As long as it's OK with my manager, what the hell does IT care? Is Angry Birds going to steal the corporation's payroll records?
Maybe. Maybe worse. Have you vetted it? Relying on Apple to have vetted it is stupid. And maybe this version is innocuous, but the update carries the malware load.
Ahh, the classic "have you vetted it" argument. Have you personally "vetted" Citrix? SAP? Enterprise Workplace Productivity Suite 4.0 from Vendor$Co? I suppose every company's IT departments have combed through all of those products' source code to make sure there aren't any backdoors or trojans...
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LOL, now George Soros is behind Fark, too? Is there anything he ISN'T behind nowadays?
The message probably never had a chance to get to someone who could do something about it. Not everyone moves at Internut speed...
Wow, you gave a bunch of poor, crime-ridden people in a poor, crime-ridden neighborhood some semi-valuable luxury goods, and they soon get stolen or pawned. I didn't see THAT one coming!
If they don't want to be dragged off to Guantanamo Bay, they will.
Not if prosecution came with a gag order.
Or, more simply, copyright on a work could last until you realize $N of profit (or revenue, however you want to measure dollars) attributable to the work.
So, if I don't like you, I should be able to report your car as stolen, and get them to disable the engine while you're on the highway? Sounds wonderful!
Look at the current "doomsday clock". They claim that we are closer to nuclear annihilation today than we were in 1960, at the height of the cold war.
So richest (he who offers the most money) wins? How is that an improvement?
But why not? A company may refuse to hire you for all sorts of silly reasons. In fact, there are only a few "special" reasons (like race, sex, etc.) that they can't use. We're talking about eight of... say... 10,000 tech companies. What stops you from working for one of the other 9,992 companies? (I work for one, we're desperately looking for engineers, and I would love to have Google's sloppy seconds).
Again, same thing--the post was claiming people are "locked into one employer", a ridiculous claim.
I'm not saying whether it's reasonable or not. The post I was replying to claimed, "now, the employee is locked, unable to change employers", which is ridiculous.
Or they could, I don't know... go work for one of the other million tech companies out there?
So, there are no other software companies except Google, Apple, Intel, and Adobe that these enslaved employees can jump to?
The People don't have the time to properly inform themselves on every issue. That's why being our elected representatives is a full time job. Direct democracy isn't effective for this reason alone.
To be fair, our elected representatives do not properly inform themselves on every issue either, or even on most of them. Hell, they can't even bother to read the 1000-page bills they pass. They typically vote with their party in a very predictable way. 90% of Congress could be replaced with Demobots and Republibots and it would not change what laws get passed.
Fun fact: Denmark has about 1/100th the population of America, is smaller than 2/3s of American States (Maybe more), and has economic interdependance with other dense land-based economies less than many US states border to border travel distance.
OK, then tell me why Connecticut can't provide free in-state tuition and basic economic support for students for up to 6 years.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
If my country commits human rights abuses and yours does too, It would be pretty silly for me to criticize your country. Degree doesn't matter. Human rights abuses are human rights abuses. If my country tortures just one person, it's lost any kind of moral high ground from which to cast criticism, even on another country's widespread use of torture. If you don't believe this, then please explain exactly how many tortures my country can commit while still be allowed to criticize yours for torture?
Another example: "Sure, we commit genocide, but not as much as them!" is a ridiculous stance.
Apply some logic:
1. Insider trading is profitable because it capitalizes on the information disparity between public knowledge and insider knowledge.
2. There is a profit motive to seek insider knowledge.
3. If insider trading were legal, long-term outcome would be that every trader would seek (and receive) insider knowledge.
4. When every trader has insider knowledge, there is no longer information disparity, and insider trading is no longer profitable.
4) Quit the company and work for one where the idea of being "not allowed to talk to" someone is ridiculous.
Seriously? You're not allowed to talk to someone at your own company?
I don't like either, but while we still have elections, I'd rather have government power than corporate power. At least with the government you can vote them out. You can't vote a company out of existence.
MY senators? MY representatives?
News Flash: I don't have any representative to write to. Time Warner has representatives. ExxonMobil has representatives. Pfizer has representatives. Lockheed Martin has representatives. You and I don't have squat in terms of governmental representation.
Just like every other iPad wannabe out there. When are manufacturers going to learn that you can't just toss together some hardware and a touchscreen, slap some Android on it, and pretend you're a cool, hip "tablet" maker? There's this giant ocean of crappy tablets out there that keeps slamming against the rock called iPad.
That story you linked to ignores the enormous difference between having a particular lifestyle and having a that lifestyle plus millions in the bank, and is therefore, stupid.
Ditch .mkv as soon as possible. It's an almost completely unsupported container. Even among software that supposedly supports it there can be compatibility issues. It's popular in the ripping/pirate communities precisely because it's a pain to use. Just getting your videos to work on a regular basis is a mark of distinction.
I disagree. Having just converted my entire collection over to mkv, I'm never looking back. There are some great reasons to use it:
1. I've found MKV to have better support for chapters
2. MKV has heaps better support for subtitles (I could never manage to get subtitles to properly work across players using MP4)
3. MKV can hold just about any video and audio encoding, not just H.263 and H.264
4. (If you care) MP4 has patent issues, whereas MKV does not
I want to open 5 ports in the company's firewall and run some software as Admin on my workstation? Yea, scrutinize away! I want to install Angry Birds on my company phone to screw around a little during my lunch break? As long as it's OK with my manager, what the hell does IT care? Is Angry Birds going to steal the corporation's payroll records?
Maybe. Maybe worse. Have you vetted it? Relying on Apple to have vetted it is stupid. And maybe this version is innocuous, but the update carries the malware load.
Ahh, the classic "have you vetted it" argument. Have you personally "vetted" Citrix? SAP? Enterprise Workplace Productivity Suite 4.0 from Vendor$Co? I suppose every company's IT departments have combed through all of those products' source code to make sure there aren't any backdoors or trojans...