Not currently in most countries, but the subject has just been brought up by the Commission, which is drafting a directive to limit the validity of drivers' licenses in member countries to 10 years. However, most countries use the 'points' system, that invalidates your license after you have spent all your points in offenses.
Please be specific as to when did S military personnel's life was put at risk serving a UN mandate. Also, the US was created AGAINST the will of the power (Britain) that had colonized (part of) the north american continent.
This is always the same, old, demagogic rant about making pay for public services "those who benefit" instead of everybody. Schemes about as ridiculous as this one have been proposed for road usage, pollution control, public television and what not. This is just childish and pointless.
they sell these renditions because people want to buy them (it's called a market).
Well, it seems that less and less people are willing to buy them. And why is that ? Because there are ways around. It's called a market.
The fact that the income-per-copy market economy of music used to work was because the technology was such that there used to be reasonable ways of enforcing copyright laws. Because making quality copies of media was a complicated process with high added value.
Well it's just not hte case anymore because of the digital age. Digital technologies makes making perfect copy a trivial action, and hence render the copyright laws unenforceable.
Those who made a living from these laws, not hte artists, but the middle men, are fighting to defend their arbitrary privilege.
As a parent post noted, there are many, many other ways to reward intellectual creation and performance. What is impossible is to cling to a technologically obsolete system (the copyright, a legally enforced arbitrary monopoly on an action that is as simple as breathing), and what is impossible is to come up with blueprint-style systems. It has to come naturally to a new point of balance.
As a European living in the US, I have found misplaced the way that Americans became "interested" and "opened" to islam after the 9/11. Everybody was so eager to know when did Ramaddan begin and end, or what year in the muslim calendar 2002 was.
I think that is completely not the point. The point is not knowing details about "the other" as if they were some strange animals, the point is to accept that there IS an "other". Who cares when the Ramaddan begins. I know that hobbits have hairy feet and smoke pipe weed. I also know that hobbits don't exist. I don't know and don't care what are the hollidays and the calendar year for the muslim the jewish and whatnot. I know I'm a Christian and other people are not and that's okay for me that's all.
You don't need this "test case". Use protectionnism has been declared illegal by WTO pannels several times already, on other cases, especially the subsidizing of big exporting corporations.
But unlike Europe, coutries like Japan and the UK tend to act as the US's obedient poodles and usually they don't complain by themselves.
It took less than thirty years for every manufacturing job to be transfered from industrialized nations to south east asia and China. How much time will it take for every software developpement job to be transfered to India ? 5 years ? What will be the effect on the economy if it becomes too dependant on these jobs ?
It is a very bad idea to let the economy depend on IT related jobs. The US already has an abysmall deficit in the balance of payments, which basically means they've been buying on credit to the rest of the world for years.
You get money from licencing fees as long as other countries want to pay. It's nothing like having oil, or arable land, or a young workforce. IP is shit, worthless. Look at AIDS medication, and how fast the pharmac hat to bow to public opinion pressure to discount their drugs to poor countries.
What is the proportion of people who's job is, or includes, writing software, and whose income does not come directly or indirectly from licencing that software, to those whose salary comes directly from licence fees ? I can think of so many reasons why a company or any other kind of organization would pay someone to write software that are unrelated to licencing that software...
"Making fair use clear" pretty much amounts to an oxymoron. The impossibility of "defining" fair use just means that IP do not make sense altogether, that's all.
see ? you just used a distance (760 mm) to measure a pressure, which is in Newton per meters. And where on earth do people use mm of Hg ? I know Americans use _inches_ of Hg...
And I doubt that the granite in the Earth's crest offers STP conditions.
There is no such thing as the quantity of a gas (mols) measured in litres. The quantity of a gas is a function of the pressure (Pa), volume (litres) and temperature (Kelvins).
Advice to Americans: your weight and measurement "system" doesn't make sense with modern physics. You don't know the different between a quantity and a volume, a force and a mass and whatnot. Cost you a martian probe already. When will you finally get this straight ?
Yes, C# is a better designed language than Java. But Objective CAML is far better than both of them, ad nobody uses it outside the academia. And C++ is a piece of crap that became hugely popular. History tells that the popularity of languages has nothing to do with how well they are designed.
Sony did succeed "overnight", pushing Sega out of the game in the process. But Sony kind of knows how to design and sell consummer electronics products to people. All Microsoft knows is how to extort software license money from unsuspecting victims. Plus, there must be reasons that the US be at the same time the biggest of the big consummer electronics market, and the only one that has no more domestic make. In terms of design, looks, ergonomics, or "sex appeal", the XBox is as easy a sell as a Ford 250 is to a Jetta driver.
In other news, Red Hat, Inc (Nasdq:RHAT) has announced this morning it will buy a controlling stake in Microsoft (Nasdq:MSFT). red Hat executives, who wished to stay anonymous, explained that as a result of the merger the activities of Microsoft will be re-focused towards its core area of competence : the design and manufacturing of computer Mice.
I don't want to be Tony Blair when hell have to report to Dubya that he failed to kill this project. In the best case he loses his job as governor of te UK
The British are so knowledgable in transportation policies, that is probably why they have the narrowest roads, the most expensive cars and gas, the shittiest railway network, and a national airline that is losing money and laying off people faster than it carries them.
The French system is the best in the world (quote Geneva-based, UN health arm WHO). It consists in a set of insurance systems, regulated by the state but run by elected representatives of the population categories they cover. Contribution to the insurance is proportionnal to income, but the service is the same for all. Doctors and nurses are private, self employed. They are NOT state employees as in the UK or Canada. You can choose to see the doctor YOU WANT, when you want. You can go see a different doctor each time if you want.
The reimbursment rate of the insurance system is based on the idea "the more life-threatening (and hence expensive), the more you are covered". For a flu, a pair of glasses or straightening your teeth, you are only partially refunded, and because of that people always subscribe to a complementary insurance. For a transplant or a cancer treatment, however expensive, you don't lay down a cent.
You did mention shooting the guy. Oh and what the hell am I doing. Spending time writing to such a asshole. Go jerk off on your Gun's and Ammo magazine.
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Not currently in most countries, but the subject has just been brought up by the Commission, which is drafting a directive to limit the validity of drivers' licenses in member countries to 10 years. However, most countries use the 'points' system, that invalidates your license after you have spent all your points in offenses.
How many journalists, teachers and professors have lost their job in the US for stating that George W Bush is an asshole ?
Please be specific as to when did S military personnel's life was put at risk serving a UN mandate. Also, the US was created AGAINST the will of the power (Britain) that had colonized (part of) the north american continent.
Copyright laws ARE legislation.
The proposed scheme is just a legislative frame that is more efficient and appropriate to compensate artists in the digital era, than copyright is.
(Let's face it : such a mandatory licensiing scheme would effectively REPLACE CDs within 5 years, and, yes, kill the record industry. But who cares ?)
This is always the same, old, demagogic rant about making pay for public services "those who benefit" instead of everybody. Schemes about as ridiculous as this one have been proposed for road usage, pollution control, public television and what not. This is just childish and pointless.
Well, it seems that less and less people are willing to buy them. And why is that ? Because there are ways around. It's called a market.
The fact that the income-per-copy market economy of music used to work was because the technology was such that there used to be reasonable ways of enforcing copyright laws. Because making quality copies of media was a complicated process with high added value.
Well it's just not hte case anymore because of the digital age. Digital technologies makes making perfect copy a trivial action, and hence render the copyright laws unenforceable.
Those who made a living from these laws, not hte artists, but the middle men, are fighting to defend their arbitrary privilege.
As a parent post noted, there are many, many other ways to reward intellectual creation and performance. What is impossible is to cling to a technologically obsolete system (the copyright, a legally enforced arbitrary monopoly on an action that is as simple as breathing), and what is impossible is to come up with blueprint-style systems. It has to come naturally to a new point of balance.
I think that is completely not the point. The point is not knowing details about "the other" as if they were some strange animals, the point is to accept that there IS an "other". Who cares when the Ramaddan begins. I know that hobbits have hairy feet and smoke pipe weed. I also know that hobbits don't exist. I don't know and don't care what are the hollidays and the calendar year for the muslim the jewish and whatnot. I know I'm a Christian and other people are not and that's okay for me that's all.
But unlike Europe, coutries like Japan and the UK tend to act as the US's obedient poodles and usually they don't complain by themselves.
It is a very bad idea to let the economy depend on IT related jobs. The US already has an abysmall deficit in the balance of payments, which basically means they've been buying on credit to the rest of the world for years.
You get money from licencing fees as long as other countries want to pay. It's nothing like having oil, or arable land, or a young workforce. IP is shit, worthless. Look at AIDS medication, and how fast the pharmac hat to bow to public opinion pressure to discount their drugs to poor countries.
What is the proportion of people who's job is, or includes, writing software, and whose income does not come directly or indirectly from licencing that software, to those whose salary comes directly from licence fees ? I can think of so many reasons why a company or any other kind of organization would pay someone to write software that are unrelated to licencing that software...
TVs sold in the US usually cannot display PAL.
"Making fair use clear" pretty much amounts to an oxymoron. The impossibility of "defining" fair use just means that IP do not make sense altogether, that's all.
And I was talking about Earth's crust not crest.
see ? you just used a distance (760 mm) to measure a pressure, which is in Newton per meters. And where on earth do people use mm of Hg ? I know Americans use _inches_ of Hg ...
And I doubt that the granite in the Earth's crest offers STP conditions.
Advice to Americans: your weight and measurement "system" doesn't make sense with modern physics. You don't know the different between a quantity and a volume, a force and a mass and whatnot. Cost you a martian probe already. When will you finally get this straight ?
Yes, C# is a better designed language than Java. But Objective CAML is far better than both of them, ad nobody uses it outside the academia. And C++ is a piece of crap that became hugely popular. History tells that the popularity of languages has nothing to do with how well they are designed.
Sony did succeed "overnight", pushing Sega out of the game in the process. But Sony kind of knows how to design and sell consummer electronics products to people. All Microsoft knows is how to extort software license money from unsuspecting victims. Plus, there must be reasons that the US be at the same time the biggest of the big consummer electronics market, and the only one that has no more domestic make. In terms of design, looks, ergonomics, or "sex appeal", the XBox is as easy a sell as a Ford 250 is to a Jetta driver.
In other news, Red Hat, Inc (Nasdq:RHAT) has announced this morning it will buy a controlling stake in Microsoft (Nasdq:MSFT). red Hat executives, who wished to stay anonymous, explained that as a result of the merger the activities of Microsoft will be re-focused towards its core area of competence : the design and manufacturing of computer Mice.
If you want to find Osama, just check the INS file, maybe they have issued a green card for him in the last couple of weeks.
I don't want to be Tony Blair when hell have to report to Dubya that he failed to kill this project. In the best case he loses his job as governor of te UK
The British are so knowledgable in transportation policies, that is probably why they have the narrowest roads, the most expensive cars and gas, the shittiest railway network, and a national airline that is losing money and laying off people faster than it carries them.
The reimbursment rate of the insurance system is based on the idea "the more life-threatening (and hence expensive), the more you are covered". For a flu, a pair of glasses or straightening your teeth, you are only partially refunded, and because of that people always subscribe to a complementary insurance. For a transplant or a cancer treatment, however expensive, you don't lay down a cent.
You did mention shooting the guy. Oh and what the hell am I doing. Spending time writing to such a asshole. Go jerk off on your Gun's and Ammo magazine.
Other people have been shooting Jews for what they are. You're a pathetic person.
well, apparently it's not that safe.