But at least it'll have some nifty animation in the middle involving aliens and some effeminate guy saying "you lucky bastard", and maybe a cameo role as a deaf/mute/hunchback type person.
Yes, because when 20 or 30 people are keeling over clutching their throats and loudly choking, you'll be checking your "you have new toxic warnings messages" on your cell phone, and possibly wondering if your sensor is defective.
Oh, and anyone who even nods at all positively toward the war in Iraq then you can be sure that the CIA is behind it and controlling them
Guys, didn't anyone tell you, the war in I-raq is over already.
Don't worry, you've still got the war on drugs, the (generic) war on terror, and the war in Afghanistan to win (i.e. beat the enemy senseless in 12 days, then stay there for 10 years too long until the locals get pissed and ask you to leave).
And coming soon to a munitions manufacturer near you, advance orders for the war on I-ran.
There was a time when winning a war meant going in, killing the bad guys, grabbing all the boots you could carry, and coming home again, not forgetting to burn the place to the ground on the way out. I'm not sure if the message got lost in translation across the Atlantic or what ?
but I'll never wake up one day to find that all my recordings have been remotely erased, or DRMed, by the service provider.
True, but your cat pissing on analogue tapes will seriously ruin your day. As will leaving them near any electromagnetic sources such as stereo speakers. No to mention heat and cold differentials affecting the physical tape, moisture which tends to deposit a nice coating of mould on tapes after a while, and the all time favourite, when the VCR machine itself decides to eat your tape.
We don't need no stinking modern technology here, you go tell the man to stick his new-fangled digital up his bum.
Yes, what a wonderful idea ! Have "the city" (taxpayers) finance an infrastructure system, then lease it out to private companies who will pay for the lease via their subscribers (the same people who financed it in the first place).
And as they all pay the same lease, exactly the same costs get passed on to the subscribers no matter which of company A,B or C they choose, and the same crap appears on all the networks as they are all working on exactly the same profit margin. It would not be a self correcting system, it would just give the illusion of competition, thus avoiding any anti-competitive worries.
The only win-win would be for the cable companies who get to double-dip the consumers, AND avoid any nasty lawsuits because they are all "in competition" with each other.
And where did Mummy and Daddy get it from? It didn't magically come to those people
I did say it was old money, made generations back when people perhaps got away with a lot more. No it didn't "magically" come to them, but it was obtained on the backs of thousands of ignorant workers, and business practices that were questionable to say the least.
The Rockerfellers made their money mostly by being the first US oil monopoly and aggressively killing any competition.
The Astors made their money in part by fur trading and opium dealing.
And in more recent times, go research who profited from the Prohibition Era, or who had connections to the Nazis. Then you'll see all the prominent families gained their wealth in "shady" ways... I suspect very little of it was ever earned by "hard work".
As other posters have pointed out, even savvy investors / entrepreneurs have to get their initial cash investment from somewhere, and this usually means family. Hell, even Bill Gates had Mummy and Daddy finance his first businesses and his Harvard tuition.
Old money still forms a large part of that 5% who hold all the wealth, and you are very very lucky if you manage to get inside the circle.
Usually it's the case that Mummy and Daddy gave it to them, and the ones that didn't piss it all up the wall on coke and hookers are now the next generation of "the 5%".
"Old money" has been around a long time, hence the name. And the only way the rest of the populace will see any of it is to either pry it out of their cold dead hands, or to sleep with one of them.
There are many, many authors of biographies who would beg to differ. For that matter, "merely facts" can and have been copyrighted. Otherwise, textbooks, encyclopedias and dictionaries could not be copyrighted (but they often are)
Seems like you are still missing the point.
A biography, an encyclopedia, textbooks etc are all collations of facts presented in a certain way, and can be construed as an artform in their own right. That means you cannot copy verbatim the Encylopedia Britannica entry about "The Empire State Building", although fair use allows you to quote portions. But it's the presentation of the facts, not the facts themselves that are copyrighted.
But I can quite easily say that the Empire State Building was completed in 1931 and is in New York, without breaking ANY copyrights. As I said above, you cannot copyright facts, but you can copyright the presentation of those facts in a certain format.
I guess it's the difference between someone taking a screenshot of a Facebook page and trying to pass that off as their own work (copyrighted presentation) versus someone who just scraped the raw data from a publicly accessible webpage (non-copyrightable factual data).
I'm sorry, I'll stop telling you to get a grip, which was due to your blanket statement...
"Why isn't this covered by copyright? Just because I put my information on the web, doesn't mean you can reproduce it."
If you put your information on the web, maybe they can't reproduce the presentation as a whole, but there is nothing you can do to stop them collating / aggregating the data contained within that presentation.
Again it comes down to the old chestnut, "if you don't want it public, don't publicise it". Everyone on the net knows about Facebook and their (dis)regard for privacy, likewise everyone knows that Google will have cached the majority of it within 15 minutes for posterity. I don't understand why people will STILL put data online they don't want people to see.
It's important to realise that media / arts can be copyrighted, as they are ostensibly physical products (although that tends to include digital media these days) that have been created by someone, so your MP3 can be copyrighted and the rights holder protected.
Your name, address and phone number are NOT copyrightable, because they are not considered artforms with a physical manifestation, they are merely facts.
I am a human male, 42 years old, living in Philippines. These facts can NOT be copyrighted.
Now apply this rule to Facebook. Sure, any photos and videos you post CAN be copyrighted, as they are physical artforms. Your personal bio cannot.
And as TFA was about scraping biodata, i.e. non-copyrightable data, the guy had a perfectly valid case, but was scared off by the big boys brandishing loaded lawyers.
I hate to call you out on this, but... had the 'e' on your keyboard really been sensitive, surely your post would have read...
"Piratee party has seeats in Parliament in both EU and Sweeden. I alreeady havee job offeers in Sweeden. I think I'm going to do a lot beetter there than heeree."
As it was, you only managed to double tap the 'e' on the word Sweeden... TWICE !!!
You spell words as they sound, so yes, you probably are inferior to me, and you can go back to feeling that way at your leeisure.
When I read your telephone number in the publicly accessible phone book, I have already reproduced it in my brain (not to mention the fact it's already reproduced in perhaps 33 million other phone books already).
If I then happen to tell my wife what your phone number is, are you going to sue me for redistributing your copyrighted data ?
In other words , it explains that this experience itself, is not really heaven , but just a physical reaction . It doesn't say anything about heaven itself.
And seeing as no one has demonstrably "come back" from heaven, only from possibly an overdose to endorphins and suchlike, it's still a hell of a lot more scientific than all this "you must have faith" crap we've been subjected to for the past 2000 years.
There is still not one iota of proof for or against a god or a heaven, anymore than there is proof that Underpants Gnomes really exist... the difference being, if I said I believe in the Underpants Gnomes, I'd get locked up in a mental asylum, but if I believe in God that's okay.
They are already suppressed by the AGW proponents' built-in safety clause that "anyone with a non-peer reviewed opinion can safely be labelled as crank".
No, the problem with the French is they refuse to let go of their bloody language.
While the rest of the world (all languages) use common terms like "computers" and "download" things, the French have "ordinateurs" and "telecharger" things.
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But at least it'll have some nifty animation in the middle involving aliens and some effeminate guy saying "you lucky bastard", and maybe a cameo role as a deaf/mute/hunchback type person.
Bergholt Stuttley Johnson, is that you ?
Yes, because when 20 or 30 people are keeling over clutching their throats and loudly choking, you'll be checking your "you have new toxic warnings messages" on your cell phone, and possibly wondering if your sensor is defective.
How were you modded insightful?
They looked at your score, and applied the exact opposite procedure.
Oh, and anyone who even nods at all positively toward the war in Iraq then you can be sure that the CIA is behind it and controlling them
Guys, didn't anyone tell you, the war in I-raq is over already.
Don't worry, you've still got the war on drugs, the (generic) war on terror, and the war in Afghanistan to win (i.e. beat the enemy senseless in 12 days, then stay there for 10 years too long until the locals get pissed and ask you to leave).
And coming soon to a munitions manufacturer near you, advance orders for the war on I-ran.
There was a time when winning a war meant going in, killing the bad guys, grabbing all the boots you could carry, and coming home again, not forgetting to burn the place to the ground on the way out. I'm not sure if the message got lost in translation across the Atlantic or what ?
Live-a-lie Timmy !
Although I always pictured kdawson more as J-J-Jimmy B-b-be-errrrr-balmer. He does seem to stutter his stories over multiple days.
but I'll never wake up one day to find that all my recordings have been remotely erased, or DRMed, by the service provider.
True, but your cat pissing on analogue tapes will seriously ruin your day. As will leaving them near any electromagnetic sources such as stereo speakers. No to mention heat and cold differentials affecting the physical tape, moisture which tends to deposit a nice coating of mould on tapes after a while, and the all time favourite, when the VCR machine itself decides to eat your tape.
We don't need no stinking modern technology here, you go tell the man to stick his new-fangled digital up his bum.
Oh, and get off my lawn.
while there's no de jure requirement that I have one, if I don't build a credit history, I can't buy a house or car or get loans for school or...
You could perhaps just *save* for those nice things, instead of demanding society supplies you with everything on credit 5 minutes out of college ?
Yes, what a wonderful idea ! Have "the city" (taxpayers) finance an infrastructure system, then lease it out to private companies who will pay for the lease via their subscribers (the same people who financed it in the first place).
And as they all pay the same lease, exactly the same costs get passed on to the subscribers no matter which of company A,B or C they choose, and the same crap appears on all the networks as they are all working on exactly the same profit margin. It would not be a self correcting system, it would just give the illusion of competition, thus avoiding any anti-competitive worries.
The only win-win would be for the cable companies who get to double-dip the consumers, AND avoid any nasty lawsuits because they are all "in competition" with each other.
Back to the drawing board eh ?
I think I'd be more concerned about what the priest might do !
Repent and you are forgiven ? Better than a permanent "get out of jail free" card ... or should that be "stay out of jail" card ?
And where did Mummy and Daddy get it from? It didn't magically come to those people
I did say it was old money, made generations back when people perhaps got away with a lot more. No it didn't "magically" come to them, but it was obtained on the backs of thousands of ignorant workers, and business practices that were questionable to say the least.
The Rockerfellers made their money mostly by being the first US oil monopoly and aggressively killing any competition.
The Astors made their money in part by fur trading and opium dealing.
And in more recent times, go research who profited from the Prohibition Era, or who had connections to the Nazis. Then you'll see all the prominent families gained their wealth in "shady" ways ... I suspect very little of it was ever earned by "hard work".
As other posters have pointed out, even savvy investors / entrepreneurs have to get their initial cash investment from somewhere, and this usually means family. Hell, even Bill Gates had Mummy and Daddy finance his first businesses and his Harvard tuition.
Old money still forms a large part of that 5% who hold all the wealth, and you are very very lucky if you manage to get inside the circle.
You forgot Clippy, how could you ?
It looks like you're trying to fit a square cartridge into a round hole. Would you like help with that ?
Usually it's the case that Mummy and Daddy gave it to them, and the ones that didn't piss it all up the wall on coke and hookers are now the next generation of "the 5%".
"Old money" has been around a long time, hence the name. And the only way the rest of the populace will see any of it is to either pry it out of their cold dead hands, or to sleep with one of them.
Work harder or smarter ... yeah right.
There are many, many authors of biographies who would beg to differ. For that matter, "merely facts" can and have been copyrighted. Otherwise, textbooks, encyclopedias and dictionaries could not be copyrighted (but they often are)
Seems like you are still missing the point.
A biography, an encyclopedia, textbooks etc are all collations of facts presented in a certain way, and can be construed as an artform in their own right. That means you cannot copy verbatim the Encylopedia Britannica entry about "The Empire State Building", although fair use allows you to quote portions. But it's the presentation of the facts, not the facts themselves that are copyrighted.
But I can quite easily say that the Empire State Building was completed in 1931 and is in New York, without breaking ANY copyrights. As I said above, you cannot copyright facts, but you can copyright the presentation of those facts in a certain format.
I guess it's the difference between someone taking a screenshot of a Facebook page and trying to pass that off as their own work (copyrighted presentation) versus someone who just scraped the raw data from a publicly accessible webpage (non-copyrightable factual data).
I'm sorry, I'll stop telling you to get a grip, which was due to your blanket statement ...
"Why isn't this covered by copyright? Just because I put my information on the web, doesn't mean you can reproduce it."
If you put your information on the web, maybe they can't reproduce the presentation as a whole, but there is nothing you can do to stop them collating / aggregating the data contained within that presentation.
Again it comes down to the old chestnut, "if you don't want it public, don't publicise it". Everyone on the net knows about Facebook and their (dis)regard for privacy, likewise everyone knows that Google will have cached the majority of it within 15 minutes for posterity. I don't understand why people will STILL put data online they don't want people to see.
It's important to realise that media / arts can be copyrighted, as they are ostensibly physical products (although that tends to include digital media these days) that have been created by someone, so your MP3 can be copyrighted and the rights holder protected.
Your name, address and phone number are NOT copyrightable, because they are not considered artforms with a physical manifestation, they are merely facts.
I am a human male, 42 years old, living in Philippines. These facts can NOT be copyrighted.
Now apply this rule to Facebook. Sure, any photos and videos you post CAN be copyrighted, as they are physical artforms. Your personal bio cannot.
And as TFA was about scraping biodata, i.e. non-copyrightable data, the guy had a perfectly valid case, but was scared off by the big boys brandishing loaded lawyers.
And you still need to get a grip.
I hate to call you out on this, but ... had the 'e' on your keyboard really been sensitive, surely your post would have read ...
"Piratee party has seeats in Parliament in both EU and Sweeden. I alreeady havee job offeers in Sweeden. I think I'm going to do a lot beetter there than heeree."
As it was, you only managed to double tap the 'e' on the word Sweeden ... TWICE !!!
You spell words as they sound, so yes, you probably are inferior to me, and you can go back to feeling that way at your leeisure.
Learning how to spell Sweden properly would be a good start to the immigration process.
Why would any document markup language have an executable function at all ?
And why, if this really is "part of the PDF spec", has every single PDF reader implemented this crazy functionality ?
One time where "following standards" has fucked us all up I guess.
When I read your telephone number in the publicly accessible phone book, I have already reproduced it in my brain (not to mention the fact it's already reproduced in perhaps 33 million other phone books already).
If I then happen to tell my wife what your phone number is, are you going to sue me for redistributing your copyrighted data ?
FFS, get a grip on reality.
They were all trying to get to Country Kitchen Buffet.
Yes, but as Americans feel they need 7.6 litre engines even on their lawnmowers, it all equals out in the end.
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Putting HTML tags inside square brackets is a "standard" now ?
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In other words , it explains that this experience itself, is not really heaven , but just a physical reaction . It doesn't say anything about heaven itself.
And seeing as no one has demonstrably "come back" from heaven, only from possibly an overdose to endorphins and suchlike, it's still a hell of a lot more scientific than all this "you must have faith" crap we've been subjected to for the past 2000 years.
There is still not one iota of proof for or against a god or a heaven, anymore than there is proof that Underpants Gnomes really exist ... the difference being, if I said I believe in the Underpants Gnomes, I'd get locked up in a mental asylum, but if I believe in God that's okay.
They don't need to be suppressed by lawsuits.
They are already suppressed by the AGW proponents' built-in safety clause that "anyone with a non-peer reviewed opinion can safely be labelled as crank".
No, the problem with the French is they refuse to let go of their bloody language.
While the rest of the world (all languages) use common terms like "computers" and "download" things, the French have "ordinateurs" and "telecharger" things.