But what they are doing is the latter -- they are wasting time and money on bills that they know full well will never make it out of the Senate, let alone past the President's desk.
Why not instead accept that in order to get something actually passed will require some kind of compromise? But no, it's all about "we're gonna do it our way and only our way even if that means absolutely nothing gets done". And that's unacceptable. The Republicants have been called the party of "No" for a reason. They are not interested in creating jobs or reducing the deficit. They are only interested in making the wealthy richer and the rest of us poorer. Power, money, and control. If you stop listening to what they say and watch what they do it becomes all too clear what their real agenda is.
The House has been passing a lot of batshit crazy bills that will never make it out of the Senate. It's what Republicants do instead of actually trying to get something productive done.
Actually, that part is in the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 which amended Copyright Law to include digital media. Section 1008 provides for people to make personal, non-commercial copies of their digital media.
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include:
the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
the nature of the copyrighted work;
the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.</i> ------- I agree that it can sometimes be vague and that courts frequently are left to evaluate fair use defenses on a case-by-case basis.
I guess there is no fair use right in Britain? It's perfectly legal to copy CDs, vinyl, and cassettes that you own for your personal use. I can't imagine it being different in the UK.
Basically they're targeting the same market as Apple -- stupid people with too much disposable income who are willing to pay far too much for a mediocre product all for the ability to look cool and sophisticated while at trendy expensive coffee shops.
So basically this guy is saying exactly what I've been saying for over a year -- tablets are nice but they are nothing more than very expensive toys, especially the iPad, which despite its popularity within the Cult of Jobs is a severely limited device, even moreso than other tablets.
Good. It's about fucking time schools are forced to start taking responsibility for ensuring a harassment-free environment. That it's taken so damned long is a travesty.
I've been saying this for a long time. We are so inundated with content, whether it be TV, movies, books, or games, there is only so much money to go around. And as we've come to find out while spending our hard-earned cash most of that content is mediocre, or worse. The result is the perception of a glut of content that's simply not worth the asking price; the value we place upon any particular item is far below the selling price, and we just won't pay it.
Compounded the problem is the increasing avenues by which we're able to obtain content at a significantly cheaper cost. Movie, TV, and music streaming, highly-addictive and well-done app and indie games, buying single music tracks instead of whole albums, etc. We're further devaluing content as we've come to realize you don't need to pay $20 for a movie, $15 for a CD, or $60 for a game. Unless media companies quickly realize their 20th century business models aren't going to cut it anymore they are doomed to failure.
Piracy is just an extension of this new age of media devaluation. People are interested in a particular piece of content, but not enough to justify the cost, so they pirate it instead. If the item in question was more reasonably priced there is a high likelihood of purchase instead.
Dear Hitler, you didn't refute -- you made shit up. Either you have little to no reading comprehension or you're practicing glennbeckification. Either way, I'm not going to validate your ridiculousness. If you want to discuss my points then discuss them. Don't make shit up and pretend like that's what I said when I very clearly didn't.
Great dissection that completely takes everything I said out of context. I won't bother with a rebuttal, because it's pointless. You can't argue with people who purposefully obfuscate and just make shit up. You know what I said is 100% true, so instead of trying to refute you just start to play word games. Typical Republican tactic by the way. You should consider a future in politics.
Yes, that's the idea, but the reality is THEY DON'T. CEOs and upper management keep getting more. Shareholders get more. But the workers? They get very little. Stagnant wages, decreases in benefits, greater hours and responsibility for no extra pay, and so on. That is, of course, if they aren't fired and replaced by someone at 1/4 their salary. Or laid off because their job has been outsourced.
These corporations are bringing in BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, yet they pay little to nothing in taxes and keep cutting away at their workforce. Doesn't really seem like any of them are interested in turning their tax savings into jobs. I'll say it again -- trickle down economics is a FALLACY. It doesn't work. It didn't work 30 years ago when Reagan initiated it and it didn't work 7 years ago when Dubya did it again. 30 years of trickle down economics and I'm still waiting to see all of those promised jobs. Where are they? Oh yeah, that's right, India and China.
And every attempt to fix the problem, to force corporations to either pay their fair share or keep their savings in exchange for retaining jobs has been defeated by the Republicans. Over and over again, decade after decade. Face it, the Republicans don't care about you, your family, your religious or moral values, or the size of the government. All they care about is MONEY and POWER, and doing everything they can to ensure they and their corporate pals have more of it and that you and I have much, much less. Oh they talk a great talk, using evocative buzzwords and fear-mongering tactics, but in the end they DO NOTHING for us. They controlled the government for 8 years. What did they do for us? Name ONE THING they did for us, besides lower corporate taxes, start two illegal (and highly profitable) wars, balloon the deficit, and allow the near collapse of our economy by dismantling the very regulations that were in place to prevent that exact situation. Oh yeah, and then funnel billions of taxpayer money back to the very people that caused the collapse (who are still, *shock*, billionaires, despite double-digit unemployment and record foreclosure rates). Oh yeah, they are SO working for us. Riiiiiiiight.
And despite their incessant whining about the deficit they still think keeping the corporate tax cuts are a great idea despite 30 years of history proving that corporations will just take the money and run. And that it's a-ok, in the richest country in the world, that 50 million Americans have no health care. That 50 million children are living below the poverty limit and don't get enough to eat (they'll scream bloody murder to ensure that kid is born, and then wash their hands, condemning them to a life of abject poverty and suffering). That our schools are failing but it's ok to keep cutting education funding and royally fuck over teachers.
And just when the debate gets heated, and people start asking the tough questions, well then it's time for the smokescreens; like claiming Obama was born in Kenya and grew up in Indonesia. That allowing gays to marry or serve in the military will open the door to unspeakable demonic horrors, that all Muslims (even those born in America who are American citizens with, y'know, RIGHTS) are terrorists, and how everything the Democrats do will cost Americans what few jobs they have left -- despite not having a SINGLE SHRED OF EVIDENCE for any of it. And stupid people just keep lapping it all up like jackasses and voting for them even after they keep proving over and over again they have zero interest in doing anything for the people. You really truly can't fix stupid, can ya?
The amount they pay is irrelevant. It's the percentage of income that's important. If I'm paying 25%-33% in taxes they should be paying at least that much if not more. But typically they pay less than 20%. Sorry, but that ain't right. Large corporations pay less than 5% of their profits in taxes. And they just keep getting richer and richer, and paying less and less.
And you know why 47% of people owed no federal income taxes in 2009? Because they were either broke or out of a job. The middle class is getting poorer and poorer, and once you factor in various credits your tax liability disappears. Of course this doesn't take into account how poorer people pay a significantly higher percentage of payroll taxes than everyone else, or how when you overtax people who already struggle to make ends meet they have zero income to contribute back to our economy. But yeah, let's just overlook that.
I don't mind that the poor pay less (or nothing), there is only so much you can wring from a stone. But when you're making billions and contributing a tiny percentage of that, and then COMPLAINING it's too much, sorry, that I can't tolerate. If you're going to use this country to become disgustingly wealthy at least have the common decency to pay it forward. But there is no decency in being rich. All they care about is getting richer, and they don't care who gets fucked as long as the money keeps rolling in. It's vile, and I really don't think We the People aren't going to put up with it for much longer.
Really dude, what fucking rock did you crawl out from? I'd say the 10+% of the population that's out of work, while corporations and their CEOs are raking in billion dollar profits is a perfect example of "one person's gain IS another's loss". Or are you trying to say that every time a factory gets moved overseas or an entire division gets outsourced to India all those lost jobs are a win/win for all parties involved? Haven't you been paying attention the last 30 years as the middle class has been systematically dismantled by the wealthy?
And government most certainly CAN create jobs. Jobs in education, construction, public works, defense, utilities, etc etc etc. But it takes money. Giving tax breaks to wealthy people with the expectation they will then turn around and create jobs is a FALLACY. Trickle-down economics doesn't work. It's been a proven failure for the last 30 years. Even George H.W. Bush has called it "voodoo economics" and urged his son Dubya to NOT use it (but he did anyway). When you give wealthy people tax breaks all they're going to do it pocket it. Or buy another yacht, mansion, or private plane; none of which would qualify as "job stimulus".
I don't have a problem with rich people wanting to get richer. I do have a problem when they pay a fraction of the taxes the rest of us do and still complain about paying too much. Or when their getting richer requires the rest of us to get poorer. Or lose our rights. Cause the only viable recourse at that point is a full-scale revolution. And that's just not pretty.
Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. This retarded statement seems to be the now de facto Republican go to phrase. According to them, everything Democrats want to do will "cost jobs". Funny tho how the Republicans, who seem to be so knowledgeable as to how to go about creating jobs haven't DONE JACK SHIT to create any. All they've managed to do is make richer people richer.
The upside to this story is that any bill they pass will get rightfully killed in the Senate.
I really don't understand why consoles haven't evolved into an Apple-esque closed-platform PC architecture. It seems like a much better way than having to create an entirely new proprietary system every 8-10 years that's horribly outdated after 4. Using off-the-shelf PC parts means little-to-no R&D, easier support, and hassle-free upgrading. You keep the upgrade parts to a very small approved list which keeps your Q&A costs low. Basically the same way Apple makes computers, except without the 500% markup and forced indoctrination into the Cult of Jobs.
So not only are you cutting development costs, but by selling official hardware upgrades you get to make some extra coin too.
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But what they are doing is the latter -- they are wasting time and money on bills that they know full well will never make it out of the Senate, let alone past the President's desk.
Why not instead accept that in order to get something actually passed will require some kind of compromise? But no, it's all about "we're gonna do it our way and only our way even if that means absolutely nothing gets done". And that's unacceptable. The Republicants have been called the party of "No" for a reason. They are not interested in creating jobs or reducing the deficit. They are only interested in making the wealthy richer and the rest of us poorer. Power, money, and control. If you stop listening to what they say and watch what they do it becomes all too clear what their real agenda is.
The House has been passing a lot of batshit crazy bills that will never make it out of the Senate. It's what Republicants do instead of actually trying to get something productive done.
I know how they must feel. My doctor told me I suffer from premature appeal, and that it's also incurable. It sucks, let me tell ya.
Actually, that part is in the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 which amended Copyright Law to include digital media. Section 1008 provides for people to make personal, non-commercial copies of their digital media.
Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include:
the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
the nature of the copyrighted work;
the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.</i>
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I agree that it can sometimes be vague and that courts frequently are left to evaluate fair use defenses on a case-by-case basis.
Not in the US. It's written right into copyright law. It's most certainly a right.
I guess there is no fair use right in Britain? It's perfectly legal to copy CDs, vinyl, and cassettes that you own for your personal use. I can't imagine it being different in the UK.
I know you are but what am I?
Basically they're targeting the same market as Apple -- stupid people with too much disposable income who are willing to pay far too much for a mediocre product all for the ability to look cool and sophisticated while at trendy expensive coffee shops.
Nice to see that it's not just the RIAA that's batshit crazy.
Really, should we be surprised that someone is trying to cash in on human pain and suffering?
So basically this guy is saying exactly what I've been saying for over a year -- tablets are nice but they are nothing more than very expensive toys, especially the iPad, which despite its popularity within the Cult of Jobs is a severely limited device, even moreso than other tablets.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA fuck you douchebags!
Good. It's about fucking time schools are forced to start taking responsibility for ensuring a harassment-free environment. That it's taken so damned long is a travesty.
I've been saying this for a long time. We are so inundated with content, whether it be TV, movies, books, or games, there is only so much money to go around. And as we've come to find out while spending our hard-earned cash most of that content is mediocre, or worse. The result is the perception of a glut of content that's simply not worth the asking price; the value we place upon any particular item is far below the selling price, and we just won't pay it.
Compounded the problem is the increasing avenues by which we're able to obtain content at a significantly cheaper cost. Movie, TV, and music streaming, highly-addictive and well-done app and indie games, buying single music tracks instead of whole albums, etc. We're further devaluing content as we've come to realize you don't need to pay $20 for a movie, $15 for a CD, or $60 for a game. Unless media companies quickly realize their 20th century business models aren't going to cut it anymore they are doomed to failure.
Piracy is just an extension of this new age of media devaluation. People are interested in a particular piece of content, but not enough to justify the cost, so they pirate it instead. If the item in question was more reasonably priced there is a high likelihood of purchase instead.
Yep, it's a shakedown. Nothing to see here, move along.
Spined for her pleasure?
Dear Hitler, you didn't refute -- you made shit up. Either you have little to no reading comprehension or you're practicing glennbeckification. Either way, I'm not going to validate your ridiculousness. If you want to discuss my points then discuss them. Don't make shit up and pretend like that's what I said when I very clearly didn't.
They had 8 years. How'd that turn out? Why does anyone think it's going to be different this time when it's all the same asses as last time?
Great dissection that completely takes everything I said out of context. I won't bother with a rebuttal, because it's pointless. You can't argue with people who purposefully obfuscate and just make shit up. You know what I said is 100% true, so instead of trying to refute you just start to play word games. Typical Republican tactic by the way. You should consider a future in politics.
Yes, that's the idea, but the reality is THEY DON'T. CEOs and upper management keep getting more. Shareholders get more. But the workers? They get very little. Stagnant wages, decreases in benefits, greater hours and responsibility for no extra pay, and so on. That is, of course, if they aren't fired and replaced by someone at 1/4 their salary. Or laid off because their job has been outsourced.
These corporations are bringing in BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, yet they pay little to nothing in taxes and keep cutting away at their workforce. Doesn't really seem like any of them are interested in turning their tax savings into jobs. I'll say it again -- trickle down economics is a FALLACY. It doesn't work. It didn't work 30 years ago when Reagan initiated it and it didn't work 7 years ago when Dubya did it again. 30 years of trickle down economics and I'm still waiting to see all of those promised jobs. Where are they? Oh yeah, that's right, India and China.
And every attempt to fix the problem, to force corporations to either pay their fair share or keep their savings in exchange for retaining jobs has been defeated by the Republicans. Over and over again, decade after decade. Face it, the Republicans don't care about you, your family, your religious or moral values, or the size of the government. All they care about is MONEY and POWER, and doing everything they can to ensure they and their corporate pals have more of it and that you and I have much, much less. Oh they talk a great talk, using evocative buzzwords and fear-mongering tactics, but in the end they DO NOTHING for us. They controlled the government for 8 years. What did they do for us? Name ONE THING they did for us, besides lower corporate taxes, start two illegal (and highly profitable) wars, balloon the deficit, and allow the near collapse of our economy by dismantling the very regulations that were in place to prevent that exact situation. Oh yeah, and then funnel billions of taxpayer money back to the very people that caused the collapse (who are still, *shock*, billionaires, despite double-digit unemployment and record foreclosure rates). Oh yeah, they are SO working for us. Riiiiiiiight.
And despite their incessant whining about the deficit they still think keeping the corporate tax cuts are a great idea despite 30 years of history proving that corporations will just take the money and run. And that it's a-ok, in the richest country in the world, that 50 million Americans have no health care. That 50 million children are living below the poverty limit and don't get enough to eat (they'll scream bloody murder to ensure that kid is born, and then wash their hands, condemning them to a life of abject poverty and suffering). That our schools are failing but it's ok to keep cutting education funding and royally fuck over teachers.
And just when the debate gets heated, and people start asking the tough questions, well then it's time for the smokescreens; like claiming Obama was born in Kenya and grew up in Indonesia. That allowing gays to marry or serve in the military will open the door to unspeakable demonic horrors, that all Muslims (even those born in America who are American citizens with, y'know, RIGHTS) are terrorists, and how everything the Democrats do will cost Americans what few jobs they have left -- despite not having a SINGLE SHRED OF EVIDENCE for any of it. And stupid people just keep lapping it all up like jackasses and voting for them even after they keep proving over and over again they have zero interest in doing anything for the people. You really truly can't fix stupid, can ya?
The amount they pay is irrelevant. It's the percentage of income that's important. If I'm paying 25%-33% in taxes they should be paying at least that much if not more. But typically they pay less than 20%. Sorry, but that ain't right. Large corporations pay less than 5% of their profits in taxes. And they just keep getting richer and richer, and paying less and less.
And you know why 47% of people owed no federal income taxes in 2009? Because they were either broke or out of a job. The middle class is getting poorer and poorer, and once you factor in various credits your tax liability disappears. Of course this doesn't take into account how poorer people pay a significantly higher percentage of payroll taxes than everyone else, or how when you overtax people who already struggle to make ends meet they have zero income to contribute back to our economy. But yeah, let's just overlook that.
I don't mind that the poor pay less (or nothing), there is only so much you can wring from a stone. But when you're making billions and contributing a tiny percentage of that, and then COMPLAINING it's too much, sorry, that I can't tolerate. If you're going to use this country to become disgustingly wealthy at least have the common decency to pay it forward. But there is no decency in being rich. All they care about is getting richer, and they don't care who gets fucked as long as the money keeps rolling in. It's vile, and I really don't think We the People aren't going to put up with it for much longer.
Really dude, what fucking rock did you crawl out from? I'd say the 10+% of the population that's out of work, while corporations and their CEOs are raking in billion dollar profits is a perfect example of "one person's gain IS another's loss". Or are you trying to say that every time a factory gets moved overseas or an entire division gets outsourced to India all those lost jobs are a win/win for all parties involved? Haven't you been paying attention the last 30 years as the middle class has been systematically dismantled by the wealthy?
And government most certainly CAN create jobs. Jobs in education, construction, public works, defense, utilities, etc etc etc. But it takes money. Giving tax breaks to wealthy people with the expectation they will then turn around and create jobs is a FALLACY. Trickle-down economics doesn't work. It's been a proven failure for the last 30 years. Even George H.W. Bush has called it "voodoo economics" and urged his son Dubya to NOT use it (but he did anyway). When you give wealthy people tax breaks all they're going to do it pocket it. Or buy another yacht, mansion, or private plane; none of which would qualify as "job stimulus".
I don't have a problem with rich people wanting to get richer. I do have a problem when they pay a fraction of the taxes the rest of us do and still complain about paying too much. Or when their getting richer requires the rest of us to get poorer. Or lose our rights. Cause the only viable recourse at that point is a full-scale revolution. And that's just not pretty.
Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. This retarded statement seems to be the now de facto Republican go to phrase. According to them, everything Democrats want to do will "cost jobs". Funny tho how the Republicans, who seem to be so knowledgeable as to how to go about creating jobs haven't DONE JACK SHIT to create any. All they've managed to do is make richer people richer.
The upside to this story is that any bill they pass will get rightfully killed in the Senate.
I really don't understand why consoles haven't evolved into an Apple-esque closed-platform PC architecture. It seems like a much better way than having to create an entirely new proprietary system every 8-10 years that's horribly outdated after 4. Using off-the-shelf PC parts means little-to-no R&D, easier support, and hassle-free upgrading. You keep the upgrade parts to a very small approved list which keeps your Q&A costs low. Basically the same way Apple makes computers, except without the 500% markup and forced indoctrination into the Cult of Jobs.
So not only are you cutting development costs, but by selling official hardware upgrades you get to make some extra coin too.