I have only half-jokingly suggested reducing copyright terms to 42 years. Yes they ought to go down, maybe further eventually, but 42 seems like a good first step. I wouldn't make it retroactive (ex post facto), but at least stop the extensions.
Technically, the Electoral College rules prevent an elector for voting for a president/VP from the same state. So they could have both run as Texas residents, but it would have been poor strategy (Bush/Lieberman or the screwy procedures for a Congressional vote breaking an indecisive EC vote)
Yes, a combination of land-based missile silos and nuclear-armed submarines (which theoretically may or may not be nuclear-powered submarines, and vice versa). Bombers too.
http://www.bookmaid.com/ is set up to do exactly that for RIT students. Thing is, it often doesn't have anyone who's listed the book you need. Good idea though.
He also delighted in providing copies of US military training course manuals which he claimed he paid for in his taxes thus could photocopy freely. I can verify that at least some US military enlisted electronics classes are college level work.
Works of the US government are indeed public domain.:)
I took one philosophy elective wherein the professor did something very much like that - copied the relevant sections from books that were translations of the relevant philosophical works. The material there *really* hasn't changed.:)
+1 Funny. I had long since noticed that a taco was just a hard-shell tortilla/burrito.:) (I often just crush the taco into taco salad, since the thing's probably going to break on me anyways. That becomes even closer to nachos.:P)
Not "my personal feelings resemble those of a 14 year old girl", but "I feel like (having sex with) a 14 year old girl" is what I guess he meant, in a similar linguistic format to, say, "I feel like (drinking) a beer"
Indeed, contract and property law can be utilized in addition to or instead of intellectual-properly law. Logical that they'd want to use one type of law to reinforce rights held under another type, or instead of rights that they don't have under another type.
Neither link resolves to Goatse, but the first does resolve to a PDF. The first does have "PDF" in the real URL. For that and other reasons I like the http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/40582 greasemonkey script.
"ARIN warns that Interop's return will not significantly extend the life of IPv4. ARIN continues to emphasize the need for all Internet stakeholders to adopt the next generation of Internet Protocol, IPv6."
Granted, not all distribution contracts are better than all standard contracts, but it intuitively seems like they'd be more hands-off on average. "You take care of making the stuff, deliver it to us, we take it from there" comes to mind even though not all distribution deals necessarily take that form.
I had heard the HSF/MSL story before, but it seems like a weird corner case. Not to mention that I'm not really willing or able to make music anyway; what little work I have done consists of personal-project remixes/mashups with very obvious samples. Slightly non-sequitur IMHO.
You're right in the sense that you can't avoid the 800-pound gorillas; you might as well be willing to deal with them IMHO even if you also like the smaller primates.:P
My sig basically says that I make my decision based on what I think of particular product lines, not pro-RIAA or anti-RIAA ideology. I say something similar regarding open and closed source
Yes, I suppose some of these factors are always there to an extent, but there seems to have been a "perfect storm" of these combined with some other things.
I do recall the scene of in-class indoctrination from the _All Quiet on the Western Front_ film version, which comes to mind here, but I had fit that and other propaganda in my existing model as a component of Nationalism. The propaganda clashing with reality did make for some key sections of the story.
Yes, from a quick look at Guns of August's Wikipedia entry, it seems clear that the book is about what happened in the early days of the war. Related to but distinct from the longer-term causes my teacher talked about. Complementary, eh?
"Delusional generals" seems to refer to the warped strategic ideas held by various officers on both sides.
I have a bazillion books, movies and albums on my to-do list though.:P
Nothing is perfect; you do add some things there. The importance of the Alsace-Lorraine issue could fall under the category of French nationalism Militaristic attitudes might have helped make those generals delusional
A bad resolution to a war helped cause the next one...hmm, didn't WWI help set the stage for WWII? (Hitler fed on anger over Versailles; the Allies didn't step in earlier because they were so fraid of repeating the WWI disaster)
the next 'big new thing' for the 2010s hasn't emerged like hip hop was for the 2000s, alternative was for the 1990s, new wave was for the 1980s or disco was for the 1970s.
For the 2010s, I nominate what I call "electro-dance-pop", pop music with a heavier slant towards electronica-ish production Irish Punk/Celtic Rock as a secondary trend on the indie side of things, too?
And (some) of those people left unemployed by new technology find something else productive to do, that other stuff amounting to the true bonus of the new technology. (Well, that and there are some jobs related to the new technology itself)
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I have seen a few related ads in books, but I was thinking more generally: the "free with loads of ads" concept is not new or unique. :)
I have only half-jokingly suggested reducing copyright terms to 42 years. Yes they ought to go down, maybe further eventually, but 42 seems like a good first step.
I wouldn't make it retroactive (ex post facto), but at least stop the extensions.
Technically, the Electoral College rules prevent an elector for voting for a president/VP from the same state. So they could have both run as Texas residents, but it would have been poor strategy (Bush/Lieberman or the screwy procedures for a Congressional vote breaking an indecisive EC vote)
Yes, a combination of land-based missile silos and nuclear-armed submarines (which theoretically may or may not be nuclear-powered submarines, and vice versa). Bombers too.
http://www.bookmaid.com/ is set up to do exactly that for RIT students. Thing is, it often doesn't have anyone who's listed the book you need. Good idea though.
He also delighted in providing copies of US military training course manuals which he claimed he paid for in his taxes thus could photocopy freely. I can verify that at least some US military enlisted electronics classes are college level work.
Works of the US government are indeed public domain. :)
I took one philosophy elective wherein the professor did something very much like that - copied the relevant sections from books that were translations of the relevant philosophical works. The material there *really* hasn't changed. :)
Might offer a bit more bulk-buying pricing power, but not sure if I like the eBook aspect.
Granted, this seems analogous to requiring new purchases.
+1 Funny. :) :P)
I had long since noticed that a taco was just a hard-shell tortilla/burrito.
(I often just crush the taco into taco salad, since the thing's probably going to break on me anyways. That becomes even closer to nachos.
Yeah, while this may be a viable methodology in some cases (I'm certainly no expert, so I won't say for sure), the Taco Bell analogy seemed weak.
bainwol and glickman
Heads of the RIAA and MPAA respectively. Nice subtle sarcasm. :P
Not "my personal feelings resemble those of a 14 year old girl", but "I feel like (having sex with) a 14 year old girl" is what I guess he meant, in a similar linguistic format to, say, "I feel like (drinking) a beer"
Indeed, contract and property law can be utilized in addition to or instead of intellectual-properly law.
Logical that they'd want to use one type of law to reinforce rights held under another type, or instead of rights that they don't have under another type.
Neither link resolves to Goatse, but the first does resolve to a PDF.
The first does have "PDF" in the real URL.
For that and other reasons I like the http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/40582 greasemonkey script.
Yeah, Oracle going hard on Google makes it harder for me to sympathize with them getting surprised by Apple here.
ORACLE = One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison; at least you can make a cool acronym for them, even if others "be evil" too. :P
"ARIN warns that Interop's return will not significantly extend the life of IPv4. ARIN continues to emphasize the need for all Internet stakeholders to adopt the next generation of Internet Protocol, IPv6."
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
When collaborating with the user goes wrong...
Granted, not all distribution contracts are better than all standard contracts, but it intuitively seems like they'd be more hands-off on average. "You take care of making the stuff, deliver it to us, we take it from there" comes to mind even though not all distribution deals necessarily take that form.
I had heard the HSF/MSL story before, but it seems like a weird corner case.
Not to mention that I'm not really willing or able to make music anyway; what little work I have done consists of personal-project remixes/mashups with very obvious samples. Slightly non-sequitur IMHO.
You're right in the sense that you can't avoid the 800-pound gorillas; you might as well be willing to deal with them IMHO even if you also like the smaller primates. :P
My sig basically says that I make my decision based on what I think of particular product lines, not pro-RIAA or anti-RIAA ideology. I say something similar regarding open and closed source
Yes, I suppose some of these factors are always there to an extent, but there seems to have been a "perfect storm" of these combined with some other things.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1829614&cid=33960500
Wonkavader also seems to notice that pun.
I do recall the scene of in-class indoctrination from the _All Quiet on the Western Front_ film version, which comes to mind here, but I had fit that and other propaganda in my existing model as a component of Nationalism.
The propaganda clashing with reality did make for some key sections of the story.
Yes, from a quick look at Guns of August's Wikipedia entry, it seems clear that the book is about what happened in the early days of the war. Related to but distinct from the longer-term causes my teacher talked about. Complementary, eh?
"Delusional generals" seems to refer to the warped strategic ideas held by various officers on both sides.
I have a bazillion books, movies and albums on my to-do list though. :P
Nothing is perfect; you do add some things there.
The importance of the Alsace-Lorraine issue could fall under the category of French nationalism
Militaristic attitudes might have helped make those generals delusional
A bad resolution to a war helped cause the next one...hmm, didn't WWI help set the stage for WWII? (Hitler fed on anger over Versailles; the Allies didn't step in earlier because they were so fraid of repeating the WWI disaster)
You appear to be talking about this:
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/cm.html
the next 'big new thing' for the 2010s hasn't emerged like hip hop was for the 2000s, alternative was for the 1990s, new wave was for the 1980s or disco was for the 1970s.
For the 2010s, I nominate what I call "electro-dance-pop", pop music with a heavier slant towards electronica-ish production
Irish Punk/Celtic Rock as a secondary trend on the indie side of things, too?
And (some) of those people left unemployed by new technology find something else productive to do, that other stuff amounting to the true bonus of the new technology. (Well, that and there are some jobs related to the new technology itself)