So, make copyright extend for the lifetime of the human (not corporate) creator; but once it passes from the control of the creator, then they copyright period is N years, period.
Corporates shouldn't get copyright control, period. I think the courts made a mistake when they allowed corporations to be allowed the smae rights as citizens. They just aren't citizens.
Olsen's point was that if copyright protection lasted, for example, twenty years and Melville's works only became popular twenty-one years after he wrote them, assuming he was still alive at that point (was he?) he would have no copyright protection and get no royalties from his works being published.
The point is still weak though. Copyright shouldn't be based on popularity.
Yes, there is one. Anyone who doesn't want to be contacted by Telemarketers should call the Australia Direct Marketing Association and ask to be put on the Don't Call list. And if they do call, make sure you get the CSR to tell you the name of the Call Centre before you go off at them.
Well, it depends where the central repositry is. Where do the developers check their source into? If it is a server in the US, if all the mirrors get their source from this central source, then yeah, the US have the legal and ethical right to control the distribution of the Mozilla source. The GPL doesn't really even come into it, seeing as how it relies on rights granted by US law (or is copyright in the COnstitution? not sure).
Tabacco was made Legal because people didnt obey the laws When was tobacco illegal? use clever images, such as comparing the SSSCA to Nazism Please tell me this is a troll. Please tell me this line is unserious. I wonder if Senator Hollings will cite Godwin's on you. The post made sense, even if it was a theme that has been done over and over to little avail (speaking if things which don't work, by the way), but you almost lost me with your rabidness. If I didn't already agree with the principal, you would have lost me.
Technically you could say movie scripts are made public. The film itself is a compiled version of the script (work with me despite a bad analogy). I'm not sure how that relates to the point at hand, but there it is.
Essentially the same people who watch prime TV waiting for swearing or a nipple so they can complain. That's how the system works, btw, concerned citizens contact the controlling body and make a complaint. It's investigated and 99 times out of 100 discarded as a nutcase.
Australia practices policies which place limits on free speech
no it doesn't. I can say pretty much anything I want, so long as it isn't defamatory.
monitoring of it's citizen's internet activity
It does? Care to provide some reasoning behind that. The best they've managed so far is a few takedown notices to web sites which feature child porn, and that's based on community informants.
confiscation of guns
No they don't. They put restrictions on possesion on firearms. You aren't allowed to own a gun which is designed not so much for duck hunting as killing other people. There are still plenty of sport shooters, still plenty of participants in the annual duck season. What are they using, bad language?
and (if I am not mistaken) severe restrictions on encryption and other privacy enabling technologies.
very much mistaken.
It's a very pretty rant, what comes after, but it's a pity the preamble was so flawed.
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Well, you see, it is simple. Slashdot's roots are in a dinky little personal site started by a guy named Rob Malda, where he linked to things that interested him. Over the years, it has expanded, it readership has increased many fold and it is now owned by a company. And yet, it has retained it's intrisic policy towards stories. Whatever interests the editors. I am sure if it was otherwise the other fifty percent of the readership would be whining about how it had sold out.
Some people just don't get it.
It is still there, isn't it? I mean, Palm didn't come around and knock on people's doors demanding install discs be returned, did they? I know it is a lot more inconvenient now that people can't buy it new anymore, but I'm sure if they really want it they can go out and get an unwanted copy.
The Prime Minister isn't democratically elected. The Prime Minister is elected by the executive branch of the political party he/she is a member of. The executive branch isn't elected either, so no real democracy there either.
The Governor General does not exactly sack the Prime Minister. The Governor General can dissolve parliament and install a caretaker government for the period until a general election is held. This dissolution can theoretically done at any time, just like the Prime Minister can theoretically ask the Queen to replace the Governor General, but generally it just isn't done. And if the people disagree with the dissolution, they can always return the government.
Most people never seem to remember to point out that the one time a democratically elected government was dissolved by the Governor General, the opposite party decimated them in the resulting general election. It's not like the sacked government was popular in the electorate.
Downloading it from Morpheus is a tad morally ambiguous. It isn't as if he can say "I already own the tape, I'm just location shifting" or "I'm merely sampling Buffy to see if I like it.". It isn't even time shifting since it didn't show where he is in the first place, and assuming enough people in his area use Morpheus to get it, it never will.
I've only read about how to use XSLT, not actually used it myself, but nowhere in my readings did I notice anything about changing the data you are transforming, just changing its form. From XML to, say, HTML, or plain text, or csv.
What were the ID's for? I mean, I can understand if the ID's were of a type that suddenly start lying as soon as a certain date is passed.
I have this problem. I use a driver's license, that I haven't bother renewing, as a form of ID to prove I am who I say I am and that I am over 18, but bartenders have on occasion told me that since the license expired in 1999 that not only am I no longer older than 18, I have suddenly become someone else. Funny, my mum still recognises me...
He said that one set of Klingons were Northern Klingons, a reference to Northern Italians who are more likely to have blond hair than Southern Italians due to their descent from wandering barbarian tribes as opposed to Latin tribes.
It was a joke.
its 5 years ago...I'm a manager at company x. Do I want to deploy UNIX, with corporate support from the vendor? or do I want to use a look-alike OS, Linux if you will, written by some no-one who says his project is a hobby.
no, i would not agree. I've never had any trouble with him at all. For every single domain request I've made (.com.au's, not.org.au), its taken less time to get the domain than it does for the clients to work out what domain they want.
Slashdot Mirror
They aren't the sole supplier, just the cheapest.
So, make copyright extend for the lifetime of the human (not corporate) creator; but once it passes from the control of the creator, then they copyright period is N years, period.
Corporates shouldn't get copyright control, period. I think the courts made a mistake when they allowed corporations to be allowed the smae rights as citizens. They just aren't citizens.
Olsen's point was that if copyright protection lasted, for example, twenty years and Melville's works only became popular twenty-one years after he wrote them, assuming he was still alive at that point (was he?) he would have no copyright protection and get no royalties from his works being published.
The point is still weak though. Copyright shouldn't be based on popularity.
Yes, there is one. Anyone who doesn't want to be contacted by Telemarketers should call the Australia Direct Marketing Association and ask to be put on the Don't Call list. And if they do call, make sure you get the CSR to tell you the name of the Call Centre before you go off at them.
That was the very first thing i noticed when reading the review. What an odd thing to say. You install it, you run it. Works just like IE that way.
Well, it depends where the central repositry is. Where do the developers check their source into? If it is a server in the US, if all the mirrors get their source from this central source, then yeah, the US have the legal and ethical right to control the distribution of the Mozilla source. The GPL doesn't really even come into it, seeing as how it relies on rights granted by US law (or is copyright in the COnstitution? not sure).
Wow. Learn something new everyday. Pity those fourteen states went and caved.
Tabacco was made Legal because people didnt obey the laws
When was tobacco illegal?
use clever images, such as comparing the SSSCA to Nazism
Please tell me this is a troll. Please tell me this line is unserious. I wonder if Senator Hollings will cite Godwin's on you.
The post made sense, even if it was a theme that has been done over and over to little avail (speaking if things which don't work, by the way), but you almost lost me with your rabidness. If I didn't already agree with the principal, you would have lost me.
Technically you could say movie scripts are made public. The film itself is a compiled version of the script (work with me despite a bad analogy). I'm not sure how that relates to the point at hand, but there it is.
Essentially the same people who watch prime TV waiting for swearing or a nipple so they can complain. That's how the system works, btw, concerned citizens contact the controlling body and make a complaint. It's investigated and 99 times out of 100 discarded as a nutcase.
> and it takes serious money to get to the supreme
> court.
just a minor point of contariness, but Eldred v. Ashcroft .
I see your sticky taped endless loop and I raise you a twist in the paper itself, so that you are sending an endless Mobius loop.
Australia practices policies which place limits on free speech
no it doesn't. I can say pretty much anything I want, so long as it isn't defamatory.
monitoring of it's citizen's internet activity
It does? Care to provide some reasoning behind that. The best they've managed so far is a few takedown notices to web sites which feature child porn, and that's based on community informants.
confiscation of guns
No they don't. They put restrictions on possesion on firearms. You aren't allowed to own a gun which is designed not so much for duck hunting as killing other people. There are still plenty of sport shooters, still plenty of participants in the annual duck season. What are they using, bad language?
and (if I am not mistaken) severe restrictions on encryption and other privacy enabling technologies.
very much mistaken.
It's a very pretty rant, what comes after, but it's a pity the preamble was so flawed.
Well, you see, it is simple. Slashdot's roots are in a dinky little personal site started by a guy named Rob Malda, where he linked to things that interested him. Over the years, it has expanded, it readership has increased many fold and it is now owned by a company. And yet, it has retained it's intrisic policy towards stories. Whatever interests the editors. I am sure if it was otherwise the other fifty percent of the readership would be whining about how it had sold out.
Some people just don't get it.
It is still there, isn't it? I mean, Palm didn't come around and knock on people's doors demanding install discs be returned, did they? I know it is a lot more inconvenient now that people can't buy it new anymore, but I'm sure if they really want it they can go out and get an unwanted copy.
The Prime Minister isn't democratically elected. The Prime Minister is elected by the executive branch of the political party he/she is a member of. The executive branch isn't elected either, so no real democracy there either.
The Governor General does not exactly sack the Prime Minister. The Governor General can dissolve parliament and install a caretaker government for the period until a general election is held. This dissolution can theoretically done at any time, just like the Prime Minister can theoretically ask the Queen to replace the Governor General, but generally it just isn't done. And if the people disagree with the dissolution, they can always return the government.
Most people never seem to remember to point out that the one time a democratically elected government was dissolved by the Governor General, the opposite party decimated them in the resulting general election. It's not like the sacked government was popular in the electorate.
Well, no, I am fully aware that a significant percentage of slashdot wouldn't.
And as if the Morpheus copies don't have the ads excised.
Downloading it from Morpheus is a tad morally ambiguous. It isn't as if he can say "I already own the tape, I'm just location shifting" or "I'm merely sampling Buffy to see if I like it.". It isn't even time shifting since it didn't show where he is in the first place, and assuming enough people in his area use Morpheus to get it, it never will.
I've only read about how to use XSLT, not actually used it myself, but nowhere in my readings did I notice anything about changing the data you are transforming, just changing its form. From XML to, say, HTML, or plain text, or csv.
You tried to implement the Game of Life in a data transformation language? Why? Did you implement a browser in COBOL?
What were the ID's for? I mean, I can understand if the ID's were of a type that suddenly start lying as soon as a certain date is passed.
I have this problem. I use a driver's license, that I haven't bother renewing, as a form of ID to prove I am who I say I am and that I am over 18, but bartenders have on occasion told me that since the license expired in 1999 that not only am I no longer older than 18, I have suddenly become someone else. Funny, my mum still recognises me...
He said that one set of Klingons were Northern Klingons, a reference to Northern Italians who are more likely to have blond hair than Southern Italians due to their descent from wandering barbarian tribes as opposed to Latin tribes.
It was a joke.
its 5 years ago...I'm a manager at company x. Do I want to deploy UNIX, with corporate support from the vendor? or do I want to use a look-alike OS, Linux if you will, written by some no-one who says his project is a hobby.
no, i would not agree. I've never had any trouble with him at all. For every single domain request I've made (.com.au's, not .org.au), its taken less time to get the domain than it does for the clients to work out what domain they want.
What could be more individual than a number? It not like there's more than one 123361.