>>>First, justify 239 bushels extra, nearly equivalent to his allotment, for personal use.
In a free society one does not need to justify one's existence or what one grows on his own land. We are not serfs and congress is not our lord. The man said he used the excess wheat to keep his family & his cows alive during the winter... but even if he was lying, and selling the wheat to his neighbor, so what?
That is INTRAstate commerce and regulated by the Member State's government not the Union government. That is what the Supreme law of the land states (amendment 10) and how the SCOTUS should have decided.
In modern SULEV cars the air coming out of the exhaust is actually cleaner than the air going in, due to the catalytic converter neutralizing lung-damaging poisons like NOx and CO as the air passes from intake to exhaust. Ditto oil-burning electric plants. I consider that better than letting the solidified oil (plastic) lay in the ground or float in the ocean for a thousand years until bacteria breaks it down.
Converting our waste to oil will also allow us leave a few million tons of crude in the mantle rather than dig it up. The ideal would be to reach a point where we don't need to dig-up any oil, and can just run our society on the accumulated plastics of the last ~100 years, plus solar power.
>>>If Internet Explorer 9 beta blocks 99% of those and Chrome only 3%, that makes a huge difference.
Yeah yeah, but Chrome (and Mozilla seaMonkey) can run on my tiny 0.1 gigabyte laptop. Can IE 8 or 9? Ha! Nope. Tried it; was like a snail on molasses. ALSO why in the world was the test run on the latest IEbeta but on the ancient CrO-6? A setup.
No not the same. The difference is I did not sign a contract and pledge a promise to not convert the Omega watch to cash. No company nor government has any right to stop me from doing so. IN Contrast, the soldier DID sign a contract to keep quiet about classified documents, and he broke that sacred pledge. Hence breach-of-contract. Hence prosecutable.
So you see? The analogy between me and the soldier does not fit. I'm a freeman and have certain inalienable rights, including the right to convert one property (watch) to another property (dollars), and the Union government has zero authority to take-away that right. See Amendments 9 and 10.
"I don't get paid for work I did two decades ago. Why should you?"
"Um... uh... well..."
"That's what I thought. There is no justifiable reason to extend copyright beyond about 10 years. There is no reason why you should get an annual payment for the rest of your life for work you did when you were age 20 or 30. *I* don't get that privilege of lifelong income. I work. I get paid. I might get a bonus at the end-of-the-year or decade for work well done, and that's the end of it. The same should be true for you."
Dred Scott may have been an immoral ruling, but it was also legally correct. Under the Union Constitution, each member state had freedom to decide if blacks were Citizens or Property. The justices did what they were supposed to do: Enforce the law as written. It was upto the Congress/States to change the law (via amendment) not the courts.
In contrast Wickard v. Filburn can not be justified in any context. It gave the Union government power to tell a man he was not allowed to grow food for his OWN consumption. That is not what the Supreme Law says, nor the original intent of the authors. ----- Intrastate commerce is the purview of the Member State - alone. In fact: Eating your own food isn't even commerce. Period.
I'm a free citizen who merely wants to convert one type of property (watch) to another type of property (paper dollars), per my natural, inalienable rights as a Freeman. Your response is to compare me to a guy who is equivalent to Benedict Arnold (sharing secrets with a foreigner)??? I'd say your analogy is "fail"
Russia moved from totalitarianism to freedom relatively blood- and revolution-free.
Here in the US we could solve the problem by amending the Constitution to strike the copyright clause. Or else change the words from an indefinite length to a fixed length (say 14 years). I don't get paid for work I did two decades ago, and I don't think any other professional should either.
>>>Getting rid of OTA tv will make life interesting for the local stations
They'll just broadcast their content over their websites (example: wbal.tv) instead of using a 50,000 watt antenna. And of course the FCC will require they keep their location on the local Cable lineup.
As for the endless reruns of Springer, Judge XYZ, and so on..... obviously somebody is watching/taping those shows else they'd not be there. Those persons get their free daytime entertainment, and I get my free primetime lineup (news, weather, sitcoms, and movies). It's a good arrangement and at zero cost to me.:-)
Look at the videogames of 1982 and earlier - the opposite of realistic. Which is why they were fun and the Original Tron tried to capture that feel, and I think it worked.
And yeah I thought the *first* part of the movie was a realistic representation of early 80s online usage. A kid in his room staring at a glowing screen and trying to locate BBSes. Reminds me of myself..... the only part that made me cringe was the talking computer. Not until the 32 bit era (68000 Amiga, 80486 +SoundBlaster) did they have enough power to convert text to speech.
No I was talking about the US FCC selling-off broadcast/antenna channels 2-51 for use by wireless internet. I'd be okay with that but I'd not be happy seeing my monthly TV bill increase from $0.00 to ~25 just to watch Glee and local news/weather.
Why's the subject say "VHS"? What was your point? (just curious). You're missing out with the broadcast tv, because where I live I get 40+ channels of news, sports, movies, international programming, retro-classic shows, and even a Music video channel --- completely free. Not one penny goes to the Comcast monopoly.
And yeah I still use the VHS (to copy shows off the DVR for long-term storage). Eventually my 3 old VCRs will probably die but until then I'll keep using them. Ditto my metal cassette recorder.
>>>I use only Netflix and the broadcaster's websites to watch TV shows these days
Wow. I haven't gone that extreme yet. 99% of the TV that I watch is "live" over the antenna since it's free of charge and includes a lot of movies I've not seen in decades (or ever). The only stuff I watch online is Cable programming like syfy's Stargate, Ghostfakers, et cetera.
Ya know - this is a prime opportunity for cable companies. I'd be willing to buy just Syfy, or the NBC bundle which includes syfy, but cable is unwilling to do a la carte. Foolish. They could be collecting upto $10 from me, but because they insist upon the $65 "all or nothing" approach, that's what I give them - nothing.
Maybe it IS time to get rid of free, antenna-based TV (channels 2-51) and replace it with some kind of free wireless internet service. My only fear is that it won't really be free and end-up costing me ~$25/month.
I find Tron more rewatchable than Star Wars A New Hope or Return of the Jedi (zzzzz). And I don't think the graphics are bad especially considering they are *supposed* to look like a computer world. If they looked like Gran Turismo 5 (i.e. real) then I wouldn't feel as if I was inside the circuitry.
Of course I also like that "Would You Like to Play A Game?" movie so maybe my taste's just bad. (shrug) Reminds me of my youth.
Actually Goldeneye, like most N64 games, was probably 640x240. N64 could do either 320 or 640 (horizontal) and 240p or 480i (vertical). Not sure if it could do overscan (i.e. 704x240).
>>>>>>"Right now the Internet is like an empty wasteland: you wander from page to page, and no one is there but you." >>>> >>>>Guess they never heard of Usenet, online gaming, website forums,..... >> >>there were never 500 million people on Tradewars 2002
True but it was not an "empty wasteland" either, was it??? TW combined with Newsgroups combined with public forums/chatrooms had millions of people you could communicate with, and that fact kills exaggerated "empty wasteland" hyperbole. I've been chatting and meeting tons of people looooong before facebook.com arrived on the scene.
>>>I didn't know my old classmates' email addresses, so I used a search engine
Bzzzz. Yeah I tried the search engine approach about five years ago and ended-up sending email to a stranger with the same name. The friend I was looking for didn't have a public email account, and I didn't locate him until last year of facebook. (And I could verify it was him by the photo.)
I didn't know my old classmates' addresses so could not contact them by email. With facebook I can just drag-out the old yearbook and search for real names, or search for people in my graduation year. Also located an old teacher that I liked. (He's retired.)
>>>"Right now the Internet is like an empty wasteland: you wander from page to page, and no one is there but you."
Guess they never heard of Usenet (since 1982) which allowed me connect with the producers of Babylon 5 and Earth Final Conflict, and the whole world when modem speeds were still just 1. Or chatrooms (just as old) or online gaming (1980's tradewars) or web-based discussion forums that are filled with lots of people.
Facebook is kinda silly but it did enable me to reconnect with old College & high school mates I've not seen in 10-15 years (since graduation). Good invention.
I have (or had) a small cubicle which squeezed a computer, chair, and closet (for coat) in a space barely large enough to lay down.
BUT the company compensated for that small space by replacing the 4th wall with a window which gave the impression of more space, plus other benefits like being able to wear jeans everyday (nice jeans not wholey jeans), a free lunch, unlimited access to the internet to hear the radio/watch hulu, and so on. Making the cube small doesn't matter if the workers are treated with respect.
In contrast my new job has no cubes and open space, but you're free to do nothing (no radio, no eating lunch at your desk, no privacy). I don't hate it but I don't like it either. I'd rather have liberty even if it meant my cube was the size of my old dormroom's desk.
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>>>First, justify 239 bushels extra, nearly equivalent to his allotment, for personal use.
In a free society one does not need to justify one's existence or what one grows on his own land. We are not serfs and congress is not our lord. The man said he used the excess wheat to keep his family & his cows alive during the winter... but even if he was lying, and selling the wheat to his neighbor, so what?
That is INTRAstate commerce and regulated by the Member State's government not the Union government. That is what the Supreme law of the land states (amendment 10) and how the SCOTUS should have decided.
You make an invalid assumption that oil==bad.
In modern SULEV cars the air coming out of the exhaust is actually cleaner than the air going in, due to the catalytic converter neutralizing lung-damaging poisons like NOx and CO as the air passes from intake to exhaust. Ditto oil-burning electric plants. I consider that better than letting the solidified oil (plastic) lay in the ground or float in the ocean for a thousand years until bacteria breaks it down.
Converting our waste to oil will also allow us leave a few million tons of crude in the mantle rather than dig it up. The ideal would be to reach a point where we don't need to dig-up any oil, and can just run our society on the accumulated plastics of the last ~100 years, plus solar power.
>>>If Internet Explorer 9 beta blocks 99% of those and Chrome only 3%, that makes a huge difference.
Yeah yeah, but Chrome (and Mozilla seaMonkey) can run on my tiny 0.1 gigabyte laptop. Can IE 8 or 9? Ha! Nope. Tried it; was like a snail on molasses. ALSO why in the world was the test run on the latest IEbeta but on the ancient CrO-6? A setup.
>>>the point is the same
No not the same. The difference is I did not sign a contract and pledge a promise to not convert the Omega watch to cash. No company nor government has any right to stop me from doing so. IN Contrast, the soldier DID sign a contract to keep quiet about classified documents, and he broke that sacred pledge. Hence breach-of-contract. Hence prosecutable.
So you see? The analogy between me and the soldier does not fit. I'm a freeman and have certain inalienable rights, including the right to convert one property (watch) to another property (dollars), and the Union government has zero authority to take-away that right. See Amendments 9 and 10.
"I don't get paid for work I did two decades ago. Why should you?"
"Um... uh... well..."
"That's what I thought. There is no justifiable reason to extend copyright beyond about 10 years. There is no reason why you should get an annual payment for the rest of your life for work you did when you were age 20 or 30. *I* don't get that privilege of lifelong income. I work. I get paid. I might get a bonus at the end-of-the-year or decade for work well done, and that's the end of it. The same should be true for you."
Dred Scott may have been an immoral ruling, but it was also legally correct. Under the Union Constitution, each member state had freedom to decide if blacks were Citizens or Property. The justices did what they were supposed to do: Enforce the law as written. It was upto the Congress/States to change the law (via amendment) not the courts.
In contrast Wickard v. Filburn can not be justified in any context. It gave the Union government power to tell a man he was not allowed to grow food for his OWN consumption. That is not what the Supreme Law says, nor the original intent of the authors. ----- Intrastate commerce is the purview of the Member State - alone. In fact: Eating your own food isn't even commerce. Period.
So let me get this straight:
I'm a free citizen who merely wants to convert one type of property (watch) to another type of property (paper dollars), per my natural, inalienable rights as a Freeman. Your response is to compare me to a guy who is equivalent to Benedict Arnold (sharing secrets with a foreigner)??? I'd say your analogy is "fail"
Russia moved from totalitarianism to freedom relatively blood- and revolution-free.
Here in the US we could solve the problem by amending the Constitution to strike the copyright clause. Or else change the words from an indefinite length to a fixed length (say 14 years). I don't get paid for work I did two decades ago, and I don't think any other professional should either.
Like speeding, just because a law exists doesn't mean I will obey it. If I want to convert my Watch to cash, I will find a way to do it.
>>>Getting rid of OTA tv will make life interesting for the local stations
They'll just broadcast their content over their websites (example: wbal.tv) instead of using a 50,000 watt antenna. And of course the FCC will require they keep their location on the local Cable lineup.
As for the endless reruns of Springer, Judge XYZ, and so on..... obviously somebody is watching/taping those shows else they'd not be there. Those persons get their free daytime entertainment, and I get my free primetime lineup (news, weather, sitcoms, and movies). It's a good arrangement and at zero cost to me. :-)
What's your zipcode? Just curious why you have lousy TV reception and yet have great internet connectivity.
Precisely.
Look at the videogames of 1982 and earlier - the opposite of realistic. Which is why they were fun and the Original Tron tried to capture that feel, and I think it worked.
"War-dialing" is the term you're looking for.
And yeah I thought the *first* part of the movie was a realistic representation of early 80s online usage. A kid in his room staring at a glowing screen and trying to locate BBSes. Reminds me of myself..... the only part that made me cringe was the talking computer. Not until the 32 bit era (68000 Amiga, 80486 +SoundBlaster) did they have enough power to convert text to speech.
No I was talking about the US FCC selling-off broadcast/antenna channels 2-51 for use by wireless internet.
I'd be okay with that but I'd not be happy seeing my monthly TV bill increase from $0.00 to ~25 just to watch Glee and local news/weather.
>>>Broadcast TV is simply not for me.
Why's the subject say "VHS"? What was your point? (just curious). You're missing out with the broadcast tv, because where I live I get 40+ channels of news, sports, movies, international programming, retro-classic shows, and even a Music video channel --- completely free. Not one penny goes to the Comcast monopoly.
And yeah I still use the VHS (to copy shows off the DVR for long-term storage). Eventually my 3 old VCRs will probably die but until then I'll keep using them. Ditto my metal cassette recorder.
>>>I use only Netflix and the broadcaster's websites to watch TV shows these days
Wow. I haven't gone that extreme yet. 99% of the TV that I watch is "live" over the antenna since it's free of charge and includes a lot of movies I've not seen in decades (or ever). The only stuff I watch online is Cable programming like syfy's Stargate, Ghostfakers, et cetera.
Ya know - this is a prime opportunity for cable companies. I'd be willing to buy just Syfy, or the NBC bundle which includes syfy, but cable is unwilling to do a la carte. Foolish. They could be collecting upto $10 from me, but because they insist upon the $65 "all or nothing" approach, that's what I give them - nothing.
Maybe it IS time to get rid of free, antenna-based TV (channels 2-51) and replace it with some kind of free wireless internet service. My only fear is that it won't really be free and end-up costing me ~$25/month.
Gotta disagree with ye.
I find Tron more rewatchable than Star Wars A New Hope or Return of the Jedi (zzzzz). And I don't think the graphics are bad especially considering they are *supposed* to look like a computer world. If they looked like Gran Turismo 5 (i.e. real) then I wouldn't feel as if I was inside the circuitry.
Of course I also like that "Would You Like to Play A Game?" movie so maybe my taste's just bad. (shrug) Reminds me of my youth.
>>>They were 320x240 graphics.
Ooops.
Actually Goldeneye, like most N64 games, was probably 640x240. N64 could do either 320 or 640 (horizontal) and 240p or 480i (vertical). Not sure if it could do overscan (i.e. 704x240).
>>>>>>"Right now the Internet is like an empty wasteland: you wander from page to page, and no one is there but you." .....
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>>>>Guess they never heard of Usenet, online gaming, website forums,
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>>there were never 500 million people on Tradewars 2002
True but it was not an "empty wasteland" either, was it??? TW combined with Newsgroups combined with public forums/chatrooms had millions of people you could communicate with, and that fact kills exaggerated "empty wasteland" hyperbole. I've been chatting and meeting tons of people looooong before facebook.com arrived on the scene.
>>>I didn't know my old classmates' email addresses, so I used a search engine
Bzzzz. Yeah I tried the search engine approach about five years ago and ended-up sending email to a stranger with the same name. The friend I was looking for didn't have a public email account, and I didn't locate him until last year of facebook. (And I could verify it was him by the photo.)
>>>Email
I didn't know my old classmates' addresses so could not contact them by email. With facebook I can just drag-out the old yearbook and search for real names, or search for people in my graduation year. Also located an old teacher that I liked. (He's retired.)
>>>"Right now the Internet is like an empty wasteland: you wander from page to page, and no one is there but you."
Guess they never heard of Usenet (since 1982) which allowed me connect with the producers of Babylon 5 and Earth Final Conflict, and the whole world when modem speeds were still just 1. Or chatrooms (just as old) or online gaming (1980's tradewars) or web-based discussion forums that are filled with lots of people.
Facebook is kinda silly but it did enable me to reconnect with old College & high school mates I've not seen in 10-15 years (since graduation). Good invention.
I have (or had) a small cubicle which squeezed a computer, chair, and closet (for coat) in a space barely large enough to lay down.
BUT the company compensated for that small space by replacing the 4th wall with a window which gave the impression of more space, plus other benefits like being able to wear jeans everyday (nice jeans not wholey jeans), a free lunch, unlimited access to the internet to hear the radio/watch hulu, and so on. Making the cube small doesn't matter if the workers are treated with respect.
In contrast my new job has no cubes and open space, but you're free to do nothing (no radio, no eating lunch at your desk, no privacy). I don't hate it but I don't like it either. I'd rather have liberty even if it meant my cube was the size of my old dormroom's desk.