Perhaps our founding fathers should have taken care of that nastiness by creating a term of copyright that lasts for 14 years, renewable once.
Of course, where in the constitution's copyright clause does it say that the spouse has a right to the money her husband might possibly have made. It's a tear-jerking hypothetical, and while it would be nice to make sure the wife gets some money out of the deal, you assume she somehow has a right to make money off her husband's works.
What if he left her after he became rich? What if the book flopped? I'm sorry, but we live in a world where you can't go around making a law that's detrimental to the good of the people simply because someone, somewhere, might possibly drop dead right after they hit the print button.
Remember, the only reason we have copyright in the first place is "To promote the progress of science and useful arts."
who will respond to your post in the following manner:
"But wait! Think of his wife and kids! They too must be allowed to benefit from Frank's work!"
AFAIC your kids get the money and material goods you made when you die. Nothing more, nothing less. All the "IP" you created goes to the world, lest we be forced to pay Mozart's great-great-great-great grandchildren for Requiem.
If Frank fucking Zappa doesn't want some band to use his music or image...he can tell them himself;-)
Hear me out on this. If the FCC starts to go too far over the line, then sooner or later a censorship/profanity case is going to end up in the courts. I have no doubt that a court would easily rule that Bono's freedom of speech trumps Aunt Fannie's right not to hear the word "fuck." Sometimes you have to take a step back to take two steps forward.
We may have found water. I'm not sure if that's good or not. My GF wants to break up with me. She says I have my head in the clouds...that I'm too starry eyed. Kind of pisses me off. Sometimes I wonder if I really know how to love. Maybe the press conference next Tuesday will get me some hot bitches. You know how they go for physicists who just found water and shit.
Current Song: Styx - Come Sail Away Current Emoticon::-/
Lol. Careful what you say about Colorado. I'm a native and ironically, the playoffs in '02 got me in to actually *playing*.
That being said, I understand where you're coming from. Most people I know in town could give a flying fuck about hockey. They just show up to the playoffs when the Avs make it (as usual). But you have to give credit where credit is due. 9 (hopefully 10) consecutive NW division championships isn't just a result of inheriting a cup team - that's a result of wanting your team to win.
Alas...when the lockout happens in '04 I expect that the avs will lose the likes of Forsberg and possibly Sakic or Blake. With those guys gone for the '05 season, I think you'll get your wish, and the Avs will be an average team for the first time since moving to Colorado. My position on that? I hope it drops ticket prices enough to where $70 or $80 will get you a seat in the lower level. I'll still be at as many games as I can get to;-)
BTW - this year it's going to be a Vancouver/Tampa Bay Cup. You heard it here first.
They need to hire the marketing firm that produced those hilarious 3dfx commercials...
You know, the ones that started off with the soft voice, "We produced a chip that has the power to save lives, to heal across distances, to end hunger...But then we deciced: Hey, let's use it for games!"
Granted you could be nervous about this since 3dfx went the way of the dodo, but since AMD doesn't make POS video cards that double the weight of your box...they should be safe;-)
Daniel Grisworld, associate director, Centre for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute said, "People don't understand what a great opportunity offshoring is for US companies. Apart from huge savings, it allows US companies to concentrate on their core competencies and the people (in the US) can move on to higher paying, more creative, more value generating jobs."
Of course they don't tell you these "core competencies" he speaks of are all filled by job titles starting with "C."
Interestingly, a brief visit to freetrade.org (Cato's website) will give you a rather insightful look at where the CTPS guys are coming from. My only question is: are these guys being bankrolled exclusively by the WTO or what?
I think "The Economic Times" just earned itself a place in the karmic bread-line right next to the New York Post, Fox News, and Pravda.
Lets face it the Civil war was fought not to free the slaves, but in fact because the South was so rich because it legally could force people to work with no pay
Actually the south was pretty fucking poor, which was why they revolted. Because of industrial mercantilism the South was forced to sell their goods (i.e. cotton, etc.) to the North for a pittance and sold back manufactured goods for signifigantly more. The South never manufactured their own goods because of their relatively agrarian economy, compared to the North as an industrial center.
The revolt was about the balance of money being in the North, not in the South...and the South was pissed;-)
Of course, the North's ever-increasing tendencies towards abolitionism didn't help matters (ala the Missouri compromise).
But then you would filter out emails coming from Bugtraq, confirmation emails from online retailers, opt-in email that you want to recieve, not to mention creating a huge pain in the ass for people that just send alot of email.
You have to look at this from an abstract viewpoint to realize why nothing works so far (except bayesian filtering - to a limited exent).
You own server X. Out on the internet are servers A, B, C, D, and E. You know that you don't want any mail from D and E because they're spammers. You *might* want mail from C, sometimes but not all the time (a retailer, let's say). Messages from B you'd like to let through because that's your buddy's ISP, but A is a server used by both your friends and spammers (for example, AOL).
Now then, give us a simple algorithm to make sure that you always block D and E as long as they're sending spam, sometimes/never from C, allow from B, and block some mail from A depending on whether or not it's spam.
If that sounds too hard, then just come up with a simple algorithm to determine whether or not an email is spam.
Our Republican adminstration, however, isn't ver Conservative at all. Bush has a very large government that has sought to increase federal and executive power at every turn
Republican vs. Democrats == States' rights vs. strong federal government. Republicans tend to believe that states should be "generally" left to themselves. On this, both the GOP and the Democrats are woefully "democratic." In fact, I'd go so far as to say that we've flipped a proverbial bitch on this one, and now the Democrats are becoming the party of small federal government (just look at Dean).
Of course, now we can start to talk about what "conservative" means, which is pretty damned vague since you can have fiscal conservatives and social conservatives. Right now the GOP is only serving one of those subsets of conservativism - for 10 points: guess which one!
It's just kind of funny when you think that the only real difference between the two parties anymore is A)Whether they want you or your grandkids to pay for federal spending, and B)What reasons they're using to take away your rights.
Stanley Kubrick was no Quentin Tarantino. Kids like yourself probably think the latter is the better filmmaker
Hmm...Ironically, you're not too far from the case (although, also ironically, you have no idea how old I am). While Kubrick made masterpieces like Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange he also made some real crap ala Eyes Wide Shut and (IMNSHO) 2001: A Space Odyssey. Tarantino has only made 4 films, all of which are extraordinary examples of the use of dialogue in film. I don't think Tarantino is necessarily the better filmmaker, but I would probably call him equal.
Enjoy your consensus. May you continue to run your life by it.
And I, too, hope you enjoy your "things are more cooler when they're underground" lifestyle.
The difference was then when you get to the end of it and all was said and done, instead of shrugging your shoulders and idly wondering when the sequal was going to come out, you could have an emotional response.
The best example of this is the Metal Gear Solid series. They're basically games that play like movies. They're also some of the top selling games of all time. Also look at the story lines in games like GTA.
I'm not saying BIS was a shit game developer, in fact I couldn't say that since I've never played any of their games. I'm just saying that these guys were not Id software. I'm glad you liked their games...but it's relatively aparent that the vast majority of gamers didn't.
And I, for one, am starting to get sick of the "boo for us" threads coming out on these kinds of stories. 99% of these posts are all self-congratulatory at best.
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Perhaps our founding fathers should have taken care of that nastiness by creating a term of copyright that lasts for 14 years, renewable once.
Of course, where in the constitution's copyright clause does it say that the spouse has a right to the money her husband might possibly have made. It's a tear-jerking hypothetical, and while it would be nice to make sure the wife gets some money out of the deal, you assume she somehow has a right to make money off her husband's works.
What if he left her after he became rich? What if the book flopped? I'm sorry, but we live in a world where you can't go around making a law that's detrimental to the good of the people simply because someone, somewhere, might possibly drop dead right after they hit the print button.
Remember, the only reason we have copyright in the first place is "To promote the progress of science and useful arts."
who will respond to your post in the following manner:
;-)
"But wait! Think of his wife and kids! They too must be allowed to benefit from Frank's work!"
AFAIC your kids get the money and material goods you made when you die. Nothing more, nothing less. All the "IP" you created goes to the world, lest we be forced to pay Mozart's great-great-great-great grandchildren for Requiem.
If Frank fucking Zappa doesn't want some band to use his music or image...he can tell them himself
"FGTRGDI" (Feels good to run gnu/linux doesent it?)
;-)
Mr. Stallman...welcome back to slashdot
I'm all in favor of this kind of TLD.
Preferably something easy to type with one hand.
Hear me out on this. If the FCC starts to go too far over the line, then sooner or later a censorship/profanity case is going to end up in the courts. I have no doubt that a court would easily rule that Bono's freedom of speech trumps Aunt Fannie's right not to hear the word "fuck." Sometimes you have to take a step back to take two steps forward.
If life breaks some eggs, make lemonade...
er..wait.
Friday Feb. 27, 2004
:-/
We may have found water. I'm not sure if that's good or not. My GF wants to break up with me. She says I have my head in the clouds...that I'm too starry eyed. Kind of pisses me off. Sometimes I wonder if I really know how to love. Maybe the press conference next Tuesday will get me some hot bitches. You know how they go for physicists who just found water and shit.
Current Song: Styx - Come Sail Away
Current Emoticon:
Lol. Careful what you say about Colorado. I'm a native and ironically, the playoffs in '02 got me in to actually *playing*.
;-)
That being said, I understand where you're coming from. Most people I know in town could give a flying fuck about hockey. They just show up to the playoffs when the Avs make it (as usual). But you have to give credit where credit is due. 9 (hopefully 10) consecutive NW division championships isn't just a result of inheriting a cup team - that's a result of wanting your team to win.
Alas...when the lockout happens in '04 I expect that the avs will lose the likes of Forsberg and possibly Sakic or Blake. With those guys gone for the '05 season, I think you'll get your wish, and the Avs will be an average team for the first time since moving to Colorado. My position on that? I hope it drops ticket prices enough to where $70 or $80 will get you a seat in the lower level. I'll still be at as many games as I can get to
BTW - this year it's going to be a Vancouver/Tampa Bay Cup. You heard it here first.
Change your tag to reflect your favorite team's status, eh?
Although OT, you notice that a lot of the teams this year are dealing some of their most valuable players away for draft picks in '05.
It's too bad, really. Guys like Forsberg, Blake, Francis, Messier, Lemieux, and Yzerman probably won't be around after this year.
They need to hire the marketing firm that produced those hilarious 3dfx commercials...
;-)
/proud to be an AMD customer since the K6II
You know, the ones that started off with the soft voice, "We produced a chip that has the power to save lives, to heal across distances, to end hunger...But then we deciced: Hey, let's use it for games!"
Granted you could be nervous about this since 3dfx went the way of the dodo, but since AMD doesn't make POS video cards that double the weight of your box...they should be safe
They're already working on Broadband Over Candle.
*cough*freevibe.com*cough*
"No one finds a briefcase full of crack on the street and asks, 'Hmm...how am I going to get rid of all this crack?'."
From the article:
Daniel Grisworld, associate director, Centre for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute said, "People don't understand what a great opportunity offshoring is for US companies. Apart from huge savings, it allows US companies to concentrate on their core competencies and the people (in the US) can move on to higher paying, more creative, more value generating jobs."
Of course they don't tell you these "core competencies" he speaks of are all filled by job titles starting with "C."
Interestingly, a brief visit to freetrade.org (Cato's website) will give you a rather insightful look at where the CTPS guys are coming from. My only question is: are these guys being bankrolled exclusively by the WTO or what?
I think "The Economic Times" just earned itself a place in the karmic bread-line right next to the New York Post, Fox News, and Pravda.
funniest...post...evar!
Karma whoring at it's laziest.
Lets face it the Civil war was fought not to free the slaves, but in fact because the South was so rich because it legally could force people to work with no pay
;-)
Actually the south was pretty fucking poor, which was why they revolted. Because of industrial mercantilism the South was forced to sell their goods (i.e. cotton, etc.) to the North for a pittance and sold back manufactured goods for signifigantly more. The South never manufactured their own goods because of their relatively agrarian economy, compared to the North as an industrial center.
The revolt was about the balance of money being in the North, not in the South...and the South was pissed
Of course, the North's ever-increasing tendencies towards abolitionism didn't help matters (ala the Missouri compromise).
Don't you know, convicted felons can't vote ;-)
But then you would filter out emails coming from Bugtraq, confirmation emails from online retailers, opt-in email that you want to recieve, not to mention creating a huge pain in the ass for people that just send alot of email.
;-)
You have to look at this from an abstract viewpoint to realize why nothing works so far (except bayesian filtering - to a limited exent).
You own server X. Out on the internet are servers A, B, C, D, and E. You know that you don't want any mail from D and E because they're spammers. You *might* want mail from C, sometimes but not all the time (a retailer, let's say). Messages from B you'd like to let through because that's your buddy's ISP, but A is a server used by both your friends and spammers (for example, AOL).
Now then, give us a simple algorithm to make sure that you always block D and E as long as they're sending spam, sometimes/never from C, allow from B, and block some mail from A depending on whether or not it's spam.
If that sounds too hard, then just come up with a simple algorithm to determine whether or not an email is spam.
See why it's still a problem
the cryptographic overhead is too high.
moreover, what about companies legitimately sending mass mailings? bugtraq, nasdaq/nyse bell reports, etc.
Umm...
Our Republican adminstration, however, isn't ver Conservative at all. Bush has a very large government that has sought to increase federal and executive power at every turn
Republican vs. Democrats == States' rights vs. strong federal government. Republicans tend to believe that states should be "generally" left to themselves. On this, both the GOP and the Democrats are woefully "democratic." In fact, I'd go so far as to say that we've flipped a proverbial bitch on this one, and now the Democrats are becoming the party of small federal government (just look at Dean).
Of course, now we can start to talk about what "conservative" means, which is pretty damned vague since you can have fiscal conservatives and social conservatives. Right now the GOP is only serving one of those subsets of conservativism - for 10 points: guess which one!
It's just kind of funny when you think that the only real difference between the two parties anymore is A)Whether they want you or your grandkids to pay for federal spending, and B)What reasons they're using to take away your rights.
"His trip to financial ruin began Feb. 2, 2002."
Mr. Sessions, meet P.T. Barnum. Mr. Barnum, please smack Mr. Sessions as hard as you can upside the head.
"Also Black and White..."
*cough*sucked*cough*
Stanley Kubrick was no Quentin Tarantino. Kids like yourself probably think the latter is the better filmmaker
Hmm...Ironically, you're not too far from the case (although, also ironically, you have no idea how old I am). While Kubrick made masterpieces like Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange he also made some real crap ala Eyes Wide Shut and (IMNSHO) 2001: A Space Odyssey. Tarantino has only made 4 films, all of which are extraordinary examples of the use of dialogue in film. I don't think Tarantino is necessarily the better filmmaker, but I would probably call him equal.
Enjoy your consensus. May you continue to run your life by it.
And I, too, hope you enjoy your "things are more cooler when they're underground" lifestyle.
The difference was then when you get to the end of it and all was said and done, instead of shrugging your shoulders and idly wondering when the sequal was going to come out, you could have an emotional response.
The best example of this is the Metal Gear Solid series. They're basically games that play like movies. They're also some of the top selling games of all time. Also look at the story lines in games like GTA.
I'm not saying BIS was a shit game developer, in fact I couldn't say that since I've never played any of their games. I'm just saying that these guys were not Id software. I'm glad you liked their games...but it's relatively aparent that the vast majority of gamers didn't.
And I, for one, am starting to get sick of the "boo for us" threads coming out on these kinds of stories. 99% of these posts are all self-congratulatory at best.
BIS made games that affected people like novels.
I don't want games to affect me like novels. I want novels to affect me like novels. I want games to entertain me in between.