No. Democracy works because the people believe they can change the world by voting instead of picking up a gun. That's why it doesn't work very well in the third world, because the people expect to be cheated (rigged/unfair elections).
They want to treat copyright like a house? Fine, let them pay tax on it. In every country where the copyright is registered they would pay an annual tax based on the value of the work. You can even let them set the value of the work if you limit all copyright fines and damages to that amount. And if you don't pay it goes into the public domain immediately. Free software of course would be taxed on a value of zero (no tax).
Prediction of USA future: In ten years the USA will be bankrupt (can't pay bills), massive riots and such. The army (mostly recruited from the poor) will side with the poor and you'll have a the army overthrow the gov. Based on how that works in the third world, you'll have a succession of army dictators with the occasional short lived "elected" president. I can't see the fine details, but I'm pretty sure the 1% will be getting lined up against the wall.
Corporations don't care about your goodwill, they don't run for re-election. If something they do is unpopular they will create a new company to do that like RIAA is a branch of the recording industry companies. Once a corporation takes something from you (privacy) they can sell it or use it to harm you and there's nothing you can do to stop them. Politicians only keep their jobs if we let them. If government takes something from you (privacy) you can (collectively) take it back. Americans have a huge blind spot about corporations, they think they are more trustworthy than government when in reality it's the other way round.
Most modern photocopiers scan to a hard drive before printing. In theory they could have a built in cellphone modem to send everything to the NSA or TSA. Also it's possible to emboss a pattern on the edge of the page that's only visible under polarized light instead of yellow dots, allowing them to track back to the copier where they read the hard drive that also stores the yellow dot info (scanner also detects yellow dots and records that info).
When you install the printer it phones home and gives them IP and serial. Now they DO know who you are. Now let's say you work for the government but want to protest something they are doing- so you print out posters and secretly staple them to telephone poles. And lose your job.
It's the slippery slope problem. If they are willing to spy on you without a court order then what's to stop their printer driver from scanning your computer for copyrighted documents? (RIAA) What's to stop them from emailing a copy of all documents printed to the NSA for distribution to American corporations? (Industrial espionage) Remember these companies ship their products world wide, it's not just an "American" issue.
No. 100 peasants against 10 highly trained, armed and armoured men routinely got massacred. Lack of military tactics, poor weapons, poor supply lines. The peasants frequently revolted, and almost always got beaten. The few successful revolutions were mostly led by the upper class, AKA an inside job. The nobility (corporations) would squeeze the peasants until they got bitten, then ease off a bit before trying again. It's human nature of the ruling class to want it all, and it's human nature of the peasants to ignore slow oppression.
Given a choice between doing real science or doing manned missions there really shouldn't be any difficulty. NASA is for science, fund the science. Kill all manned space flight until the propulsion tech gets good/cheap enough to justify the cost. Even if that means no men in space for a thousand years it's worth it.
Despite attempts at automation most industries need workers, meaning you'd have to ship most humans to mars to run the factories. Then you'd have to build the mines and farms to feed the factories and workers, and the support industries to support everything. And for all that work at moving the industries away we'd be creating even more pollution from all the capsules entering the earths air and the rockets for the return trips.
So all Japanese anime is now classed as child porn? Cause I think all Japanese girls from 13 to 30 look the same, and those outfits they wear are indecent (yay!).
The reason most often given for blocking child porn is it creates a market, leading to further assaults against children. Most people believe that reason, and therefore accept blocking child porn. The government frequently uses "think of the children" as justification for their latest nefarious act/censorship. You have to draw the line somewhere, we just can't seem to agree where.
You have a tradeoff between weight/volume of munitions and weight/volume of fuel for the generators. Generally the fast guns win at short range, but missiles at longer ranges.
At that speed the travel time would be short enough that you could just aim directly and ignore wave motion. The bigger issue is this thing would have such a flat ballistic trajectory that it couldn't hit anything over the horizon (about 25 miles).
If i forget the combination to a safe i bought, I can hire a locksmith to break into it and set a new combination. So does that mean I can "break into" my DRM'd files and put them into another format (Ogg Vorbis?)
Wifi seems to work properly for that. So long as the government mandates the standards for a national cellphone system (like in Europe where cellphone plans are much cheaper) it should work.
The government of Canada has the legal right to ignore the constitution (google notwithstanding clause). In the USA they just make up an excuse why it doesn't apply (google unlawful enemy combatant).
If you missed the bit about the secret rooms at the telephone exchanges, then yes they listen to everything. And as it is impossible to have humans handle that volume it means automated word/phrase monitoring. The intelligence agencies (foolishly) believe that with computers they can catch all the bad guys just by spying on everyone and letting the computers sort it all out. Eventually they will re-discover that effective intelligence gathering doesn't work like that. Until then we just complain and hope to avoid trouble.
Forcing Sports Illustrated to abide by the laws of Saudi Arabia just because someone there downloaded the swimsuit edition could be a problem.
The biggest issue (for the internet) is WHERE your online transactions take place. You need to know that to know what laws apply.
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No. Democracy works because the people believe they can change the world by voting instead of picking up a gun. That's why it doesn't work very well in the third world, because the people expect to be cheated (rigged/unfair elections).
Given current levels of US government influence at the global level I doubt we'll see any change.
I don't see anything in there about "Transfer" of copyright. I read it as ONLY the author can benefit from it.
Some people have kids at 20. Also life expectancy is above 70.
They want to treat copyright like a house? Fine, let them pay tax on it. In every country where the copyright is registered they would pay an annual tax based on the value of the work. You can even let them set the value of the work if you limit all copyright fines and damages to that amount. And if you don't pay it goes into the public domain immediately. Free software of course would be taxed on a value of zero (no tax).
Prediction of USA future: In ten years the USA will be bankrupt (can't pay bills), massive riots and such. The army (mostly recruited from the poor) will side with the poor and you'll have a the army overthrow the gov. Based on how that works in the third world, you'll have a succession of army dictators with the occasional short lived "elected" president. I can't see the fine details, but I'm pretty sure the 1% will be getting lined up against the wall.
Corporations don't care about your goodwill, they don't run for re-election. If something they do is unpopular they will create a new company to do that like RIAA is a branch of the recording industry companies. Once a corporation takes something from you (privacy) they can sell it or use it to harm you and there's nothing you can do to stop them. Politicians only keep their jobs if we let them. If government takes something from you (privacy) you can (collectively) take it back. Americans have a huge blind spot about corporations, they think they are more trustworthy than government when in reality it's the other way round.
Most modern photocopiers scan to a hard drive before printing. In theory they could have a built in cellphone modem to send everything to the NSA or TSA. Also it's possible to emboss a pattern on the edge of the page that's only visible under polarized light instead of yellow dots, allowing them to track back to the copier where they read the hard drive that also stores the yellow dot info (scanner also detects yellow dots and records that info).
When you install the printer it phones home and gives them IP and serial. Now they DO know who you are. Now let's say you work for the government but want to protest something they are doing- so you print out posters and secretly staple them to telephone poles. And lose your job.
It's the slippery slope problem. If they are willing to spy on you without a court order then what's to stop their printer driver from scanning your computer for copyrighted documents? (RIAA) What's to stop them from emailing a copy of all documents printed to the NSA for distribution to American corporations? (Industrial espionage) Remember these companies ship their products world wide, it's not just an "American" issue.
No. 100 peasants against 10 highly trained, armed and armoured men routinely got massacred. Lack of military tactics, poor weapons, poor supply lines. The peasants frequently revolted, and almost always got beaten. The few successful revolutions were mostly led by the upper class, AKA an inside job. The nobility (corporations) would squeeze the peasants until they got bitten, then ease off a bit before trying again. It's human nature of the ruling class to want it all, and it's human nature of the peasants to ignore slow oppression.
Given a choice between doing real science or doing manned missions there really shouldn't be any difficulty. NASA is for science, fund the science. Kill all manned space flight until the propulsion tech gets good/cheap enough to justify the cost. Even if that means no men in space for a thousand years it's worth it.
Despite attempts at automation most industries need workers, meaning you'd have to ship most humans to mars to run the factories. Then you'd have to build the mines and farms to feed the factories and workers, and the support industries to support everything. And for all that work at moving the industries away we'd be creating even more pollution from all the capsules entering the earths air and the rockets for the return trips.
So all Japanese anime is now classed as child porn? Cause I think all Japanese girls from 13 to 30 look the same, and those outfits they wear are indecent (yay!).
The reason most often given for blocking child porn is it creates a market, leading to further assaults against children. Most people believe that reason, and therefore accept blocking child porn. The government frequently uses "think of the children" as justification for their latest nefarious act/censorship. You have to draw the line somewhere, we just can't seem to agree where.
You have a tradeoff between weight/volume of munitions and weight/volume of fuel for the generators. Generally the fast guns win at short range, but missiles at longer ranges.
At that speed the travel time would be short enough that you could just aim directly and ignore wave motion. The bigger issue is this thing would have such a flat ballistic trajectory that it couldn't hit anything over the horizon (about 25 miles).
If i forget the combination to a safe i bought, I can hire a locksmith to break into it and set a new combination. So does that mean I can "break into" my DRM'd files and put them into another format (Ogg Vorbis?)
Wifi seems to work properly for that. So long as the government mandates the standards for a national cellphone system (like in Europe where cellphone plans are much cheaper) it should work.
The bank crash suggests those checks don't work.
Why did they tell people he was a terrorist? Generally in terrorism you want to grab them quietly so the others don't escape.
The government of Canada has the legal right to ignore the constitution (google notwithstanding clause). In the USA they just make up an excuse why it doesn't apply (google unlawful enemy combatant).
If you missed the bit about the secret rooms at the telephone exchanges, then yes they listen to everything. And as it is impossible to have humans handle that volume it means automated word/phrase monitoring. The intelligence agencies (foolishly) believe that with computers they can catch all the bad guys just by spying on everyone and letting the computers sort it all out. Eventually they will re-discover that effective intelligence gathering doesn't work like that. Until then we just complain and hope to avoid trouble.
Forcing Sports Illustrated to abide by the laws of Saudi Arabia just because someone there downloaded the swimsuit edition could be a problem. The biggest issue (for the internet) is WHERE your online transactions take place. You need to know that to know what laws apply.
The board pattern and parts list is publicly available, if you really want to impress us.