What is being distributed by the fansubbers? If it is just a file with a timecoded set of dialog lines which requires the user to have purchased the original movie from the copyright holder first, you may have a point. But very often what is distributed is the actual movie itself with the subtitles superimposed on. In which case it is piracy in that it is denying the copyright holder the original sale. And it is only minimally derivative as the majority of the creative work is in the original movie itself and any creativity on the translator's part is in fact in trying to preserve the original creative intent of the film maker in a new language. Thus the judge's ruling that the new portion of the derived work is minuscule with the vast majority of the creative work belonging to the original.
Even if it is just the dialog lines being distributed in a separate file, one could still argue that the substantive portion of the creative work still belongs to the original considering the intent of the translation is to preserve the original creative intent as closely as possible rather than adding any new ideas to the work.
Granted my personal philosophy is that piracy is not necessarily inherently bad, especially in situations where most of the money you pay for an album or movie goes to suits at the studio rather than the artists themselves, but to argue that this is not piracy in the first place is self-delusional.
According to the contract, it was within UA's rights to remove the passenger from the plane. However, it was a royal PR fuckup to do it in the way that they did, and consequentially, they deserve whatever fallout comes from this.
The only time businesses and the government collude specifically for the benefit of the corporations rather than just to get the government out of the way as Tablizer is getting at, is when government is actually the customer of the business. The biggest and most obvious example of this is the military industrial complex. Does your small-government libertarianism also include a desire for a small military, and thus an end to the business model of companies like Lockheed Martin?
(late to the reply, we'll see if anybody actually reads this)
H*R style interactive animated webtoons as a category of the sort that leveraged the power of flash seem to have been a fad. In fact, I can't seem to think of any H*R style toons other than H*R. Without H*R being a cultural force, and with no other similar content to take its place, the need for a tool to build rich interactive vector animations seems to have past.
It is interesting that MN pulled this off, considering we currently do have a republican controlled legislature.
If you're serious about looking for a sysadmin job, MN has a pretty good tech scene, probably the best outside of the coasts. Just float your resume out there and you will probably find something to your liking.
You are deluding yourself if you think laissez-faire benefits anyone other than the megacorporations and the 1%ers who own/run them. Someone will always wield power. When government cedes its economic and regulatory power, it falls to the next most powerful entity - the large corporations - who will then write the rules for themselves.
I am not sure what you are getting at with your insistence on the meaning of fractional cost. When I search that term on Google, Bing, or DDG, all I get are hits on how much fractional lasers cost, and whether it is worth going in halvsies on a business jet. But when most ordinary normal people say "a fraction of..." when referring to the price of something, they simply mean a lower amount than expected.
Also, yes there are aggregate patterns to the price of homes in general, but if you think that market forces are the only force at play in the price of an individual house, I have difficulty believing you have ever bought or sold a home before. For example, a DIYer may be more willing to buy a fixer-upper house at a higher price than someone else, as the other person would want to negotiate lower in order to factor in the price of a contractor to fix the problem. But as DIYers are rare among home buyers, it may take longer for a DIYer who likes the home otherwise to come along.
Then again, you may just be a troll, so I shouldn't have even bothered replying.
Houses are not a commodity. You can't price a house just based on simple supply and demand economic models. Every single house on the market is unique with its quirks and charms, and so it often takes months to find a buyer who is a good fit for the house. Especially if you have to list the house at an inopportune time like mid winter. If you don't have time to wait for the right buyer because you have to move out of state on a short time table, you will very likely have to reduce the asking price of the house from what it might otherwise be to entice a buyer for whom the house may be more of a compromise. This is what was meant by "fraction of its value". Their house sold for a fraction of what it could have if they could afford to wait.
Not only is there ambiguity, but as shipment and distribution are similar and related ideas, it is quite likely that a reasonable person would tend to resolve the ambiguity as "The packing for (shipment or distribution) of..." by assuming that "shipment or distribution" describes the general category of moving product.
Since there is clear ambiguity in this contract, and a reasonable person could come to the same conclusion that the truckers did, by the doctrine of Contra proferentem said truckers most certainly do have a case.
The reusable part is really just icing on the cake and only a necessity for taking SpaceX beyond just being a good take-your-satellites-to-orbit company. Even without reuse, they are still pretty successful in the satellite launch business. As far as fundamental problems, lets talk after the SES-10 launch scheduled for later this month.
One of his companies successfully launched a communications satellite to geosynchronous orbit last night. That company would have been profitable last year if it weren't for a mishap that grounded the fleet, though they returned to flight in record time. Barring any more mishaps, they will be profitable this year. The company in question has a full launch manifest because of their ability to launch satellites for much cheaper than any of their competitors, and once they start reflying landed boosters, costs will come down even further. How is SpaceX not a successful company in your eyes?
I guess that makes sense. Even with a 10% or 20% success rate, the patent trolls could conceivably still come out ahead, as long as the price of acquiring patents is less than the money they can make litigating with them. It doesn't matter that we don't hear about the cases the trolls lose, because as long as they are winning any cases at all, there is still a problem.
I know you are trying to be funny, but you are inadvertently correct. Everyone here seems to be assuming they are using the definition which is the opposite of 'impractical', when they are actually using the definition meaning 'not just theoretical'.
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What is being distributed by the fansubbers? If it is just a file with a timecoded set of dialog lines which requires the user to have purchased the original movie from the copyright holder first, you may have a point. But very often what is distributed is the actual movie itself with the subtitles superimposed on. In which case it is piracy in that it is denying the copyright holder the original sale. And it is only minimally derivative as the majority of the creative work is in the original movie itself and any creativity on the translator's part is in fact in trying to preserve the original creative intent of the film maker in a new language. Thus the judge's ruling that the new portion of the derived work is minuscule with the vast majority of the creative work belonging to the original.
Even if it is just the dialog lines being distributed in a separate file, one could still argue that the substantive portion of the creative work still belongs to the original considering the intent of the translation is to preserve the original creative intent as closely as possible rather than adding any new ideas to the work.
Granted my personal philosophy is that piracy is not necessarily inherently bad, especially in situations where most of the money you pay for an album or movie goes to suits at the studio rather than the artists themselves, but to argue that this is not piracy in the first place is self-delusional.
If it's true, it's not defamatory, by definition.
According to the contract, it was within UA's rights to remove the passenger from the plane. However, it was a royal PR fuckup to do it in the way that they did, and consequentially, they deserve whatever fallout comes from this.
Specifically:
https://www.united.com/web/en-...
Unless the new fingerprint reader stored your fingerprint and played it back later after your phone was stolen.
What sort of backwater third world dictatorship do you think you live in where vocal criticism of the dear leader amounts to treason?
Or maybe Gnubuntu?
Were your friends mostly jet engine mechanics, explosives technicians, and rock stars?
The only time businesses and the government collude specifically for the benefit of the corporations rather than just to get the government out of the way as Tablizer is getting at, is when government is actually the customer of the business. The biggest and most obvious example of this is the military industrial complex. Does your small-government libertarianism also include a desire for a small military, and thus an end to the business model of companies like Lockheed Martin?
(late to the reply, we'll see if anybody actually reads this)
H*R style interactive animated webtoons as a category of the sort that leveraged the power of flash seem to have been a fad. In fact, I can't seem to think of any H*R style toons other than H*R. Without H*R being a cultural force, and with no other similar content to take its place, the need for a tool to build rich interactive vector animations seems to have past.
The GOP is hard at work 'fixing' the cold part.
It is interesting that MN pulled this off, considering we currently do have a republican controlled legislature.
If you're serious about looking for a sysadmin job, MN has a pretty good tech scene, probably the best outside of the coasts. Just float your resume out there and you will probably find something to your liking.
Best avoid that whole region altogether.
You are deluding yourself if you think laissez-faire benefits anyone other than the megacorporations and the 1%ers who own/run them. Someone will always wield power. When government cedes its economic and regulatory power, it falls to the next most powerful entity - the large corporations - who will then write the rules for themselves.
Flash and Homestar Runner validated each others' existence. Once H*R had run its course, Flash no longer had a reason to exist.
I am not sure what you are getting at with your insistence on the meaning of fractional cost. When I search that term on Google, Bing, or DDG, all I get are hits on how much fractional lasers cost, and whether it is worth going in halvsies on a business jet. But when most ordinary normal people say "a fraction of..." when referring to the price of something, they simply mean a lower amount than expected.
Also, yes there are aggregate patterns to the price of homes in general, but if you think that market forces are the only force at play in the price of an individual house, I have difficulty believing you have ever bought or sold a home before. For example, a DIYer may be more willing to buy a fixer-upper house at a higher price than someone else, as the other person would want to negotiate lower in order to factor in the price of a contractor to fix the problem. But as DIYers are rare among home buyers, it may take longer for a DIYer who likes the home otherwise to come along.
Then again, you may just be a troll, so I shouldn't have even bothered replying.
Houses are not a commodity. You can't price a house just based on simple supply and demand economic models. Every single house on the market is unique with its quirks and charms, and so it often takes months to find a buyer who is a good fit for the house. Especially if you have to list the house at an inopportune time like mid winter. If you don't have time to wait for the right buyer because you have to move out of state on a short time table, you will very likely have to reduce the asking price of the house from what it might otherwise be to entice a buyer for whom the house may be more of a compromise. This is what was meant by "fraction of its value". Their house sold for a fraction of what it could have if they could afford to wait.
Try Haiku. It is free, and much simpler than Linux. The fact that no software exists for it yet just means it's even easier to use.
Not only is there ambiguity, but as shipment and distribution are similar and related ideas, it is quite likely that a reasonable person would tend to resolve the ambiguity as "The packing for (shipment or distribution) of..." by assuming that "shipment or distribution" describes the general category of moving product.
Since there is clear ambiguity in this contract, and a reasonable person could come to the same conclusion that the truckers did, by the doctrine of Contra proferentem said truckers most certainly do have a case.
The reusable part is really just icing on the cake and only a necessity for taking SpaceX beyond just being a good take-your-satellites-to-orbit company. Even without reuse, they are still pretty successful in the satellite launch business. As far as fundamental problems, lets talk after the SES-10 launch scheduled for later this month.
The one last night wasn't a reuse, though the first reused booster will be either the next one or the one after, I believe.
One of his companies successfully launched a communications satellite to geosynchronous orbit last night. That company would have been profitable last year if it weren't for a mishap that grounded the fleet, though they returned to flight in record time. Barring any more mishaps, they will be profitable this year. The company in question has a full launch manifest because of their ability to launch satellites for much cheaper than any of their competitors, and once they start reflying landed boosters, costs will come down even further. How is SpaceX not a successful company in your eyes?
How bad could Best Korea be? They have 'Democratic' right there in their name.
I guess that makes sense. Even with a 10% or 20% success rate, the patent trolls could conceivably still come out ahead, as long as the price of acquiring patents is less than the money they can make litigating with them. It doesn't matter that we don't hear about the cases the trolls lose, because as long as they are winning any cases at all, there is still a problem.
I know you are trying to be funny, but you are inadvertently correct. Everyone here seems to be assuming they are using the definition which is the opposite of 'impractical', when they are actually using the definition meaning 'not just theoretical'.