Two points:
1. The trend now is going toward outsourcing prisons to commercial companies. The 'bad' part of that (although good for the inmates) is that prison contractors have found that (duh) prisoners are much better behaved (and therefore cheaper to maintain) when they have more luxuries like exercise equipment, cable TV in every cell (not just in the rec room) etc. The bad part for society is that honest taxpayers are paying for this - and of course prison now has very little deterrent effect.
2. My thought is: if we can outsource inmates to commercial companies (cost to taxpayer: $40,000/year/inmate) let's outsource our criminals to foreign countries!
I'm sure say, Turkey or Somalia or Vietnam would be happy to free up some prison space for - I don't know - only $10,000/year/inmate. It's a 'win' to the taxpayer; it's a more effective deterrent to the criminal; and it's a great international business outreach...
It's interesting you use the word 'faith'. "...It is based on a faith that DNA mutates at a uniform rate over time..."
You see - science - and more specifically DNA mutation rates - aren't based on 'faith' at all.
'Faith' is what people use to believe in things like: "If I have 'faith' in a magical corpse-on-a stick; I will live forever!!!"
That is why - if you travel the world - people have 'faith' in all kinds of different things - and think everyone elses 'faith' is wrong.
Science is based on rigorous, repeatable testing of the physical world; which is why scientists and engineers and doctors and mathematicians all pretty much believe the same things, and a medicine that works in Iceland, works just as well in Jakarta. And a plane that can fly over Mexico, can also fly over Dubai.
"...evolutionary theory says that genetic differentiation happens in leaps and bounds..."
No, it doesn't. Evolutionary theory says that genetic change is a fairly slow, fractional process; you're fairly similar to your parents, who are similar to their parents and so on... going back millions of years. Only people who believe the biblical creation fable think that people were created in a single leap and bound - i.e. one day.
The Christians think that by binding two separate book together, makes them all one 'book.'
Of course in Deuteronomy - the last book of the Torah (12:32) - it says that you: shouldn't add anything to this work or remove anything from it.
Of course slash-dotters know perfectly well what the bible was: it was humanity's first hard drive! Think about it... a fairly random collection of things we decided to save for latter like: family records (begat, begat begat), recipes (there's one for honey cakes I found once), prOn (Song of Solomon), cool battle stories, song lyrics, practical survival advice...
No, that would be like me telling the Louvre, "Don't worry, I'll pay my own photography costs of all the pictures I'm going to take. Then I'll make posters I'm going to sell, without any benefit to you."
She's just looking for free stuff she can turn around and sell. She's not offering them a cut of sales, she's not offering to pay their costs of producing the show - or storing the masters. She offering to pay just enough to make transfers, so she can make copies she can distribute for her own benefit.
What's also telling is that there is no mention that:
She invented the "fan club" and proclaimed herself president.
She talks about "...digitization and preservation..." She never mentions that she is SELLING similar DVDs on her site. These masters are already 'preserved' quite nicely by CBS.
This story is tarted up to make her look like she's saving the baby seals, but she's just out looking for a free ride. Those are CBS production assets. As a CBS investment, they have every right to determine how and when to distribute them, and to reap every dollar of profit they wish.
Which breaks your analogy just like a aardvark in a bordello.
I was not implying that "...an author with rights to Conan-Doyle's work has no incentive to create new unique works..."
I was implying that some people who are born with a silver spoon in their mouth are less motivated to go out and be productive than those who are born to less fortunate circumstances. (This is not a Paris Hilton comment. I promise.)
Even so; I have no idea how you extrapolated that premise into: (if the...)"...masses have access to his work and nobody has incentive to be creative..."
If a work is in the public domain, the masses don't benefit financially, they simply have more access to the work. They still need to be productive to earn a living - and I do consider pumping gas and flipping burgers to be useful, productive work that helps society.
BTW: Where are you getting gas that they still pump it for you? Cool!!!
CBS is keeping their masters safe in a climate controlled vault.
Laura Leff, the president of the fan club (which she herself created) wants to get copies to sell on her web site.
She sells DVD copies on her (fan club) web site [http://www.jackbenny.org/] so no doubt once she got her hands on these copies she would be selling them too.
CBS paid for the original show production, paid Benny and the other original production costs, has been paying ever since to keep these masters in a safe, humidity and temperature-controlled environment for the last 60 something years.
CBS may decide to come out with their own Benny retrospective any time they like - with these masters.
I don't see how they owe her anything.
By your standard, I'm going over to the Louvre to demand that they give me all the old paintings in their vault, so I can copy them and make posters out of them. Wish me luck!
And aside from me having to dig around and find drivers, Win would pop up and say "Hey, you got the blah-blah graphics card. There's a new driver for that. Do you want me to get it, and install it?"
So if the exterminators tent my house with plastic there is no implied copyright because there is no creative content; but if Christo tents my house with the exact same plastic...:)
Slashdot Mirror
You're in a large room with tiled walls.
There are nozzles dripping water at intervals along the walls.
There is a bar of soap on the floor in front of you.
Agree with you 100%. Prison should be punitive.
Two points:
1. The trend now is going toward outsourcing prisons to commercial companies. The 'bad' part of that (although good for the inmates) is that prison contractors have found that (duh) prisoners are much better behaved (and therefore cheaper to maintain) when they have more luxuries like exercise equipment, cable TV in every cell (not just in the rec room) etc. The bad part for society is that honest taxpayers are paying for this - and of course prison now has very little deterrent effect.
2. My thought is: if we can outsource inmates to commercial companies (cost to taxpayer: $40,000/year/inmate) let's outsource our criminals to foreign countries!
I'm sure say, Turkey or Somalia or Vietnam would be happy to free up some prison space for - I don't know - only $10,000/year/inmate. It's a 'win' to the taxpayer; it's a more effective deterrent to the criminal; and it's a great international business outreach...
...the principal said "what do you expect? We are Christians and don't tolerate 'those kind" in our midst."
I would think that would be a phone call to the Feds, at that point.
That's friggin' hilarious!
Except: back when I played D&D, I never got invited to the Temple of Diana after the game - I went back to my house and had a sandwich.
Also - our dungeon master wasn't a hot looking Dom in black leather, it was a guy in a tee-shirt with a lot of zits...
Well, I guess that would only leave them a nice, quiet game of GTA to pass the time to pass the time...
....would coal power be considered:
:)
fossil fuel?
solar power?
...or nuclear power?
It's interesting you use the word 'faith'. "...It is based on a faith that DNA mutates at a uniform rate over time..."
You see - science - and more specifically DNA mutation rates - aren't based on 'faith' at all.
'Faith' is what people use to believe in things like: "If I have 'faith' in a magical corpse-on-a stick; I will live forever!!!"
That is why - if you travel the world - people have 'faith' in all kinds of different things - and think everyone elses 'faith' is wrong.
Science is based on rigorous, repeatable testing of the physical world; which is why scientists and engineers and doctors and mathematicians all pretty much believe the same things, and a medicine that works in Iceland, works just as well in Jakarta. And a plane that can fly over Mexico, can also fly over Dubai.
"...evolutionary theory says that genetic differentiation happens in leaps and bounds..."
No, it doesn't. Evolutionary theory says that genetic change is a fairly slow, fractional process; you're fairly similar to your parents, who are similar to their parents and so on... going back millions of years. Only people who believe the biblical creation fable think that people were created in a single leap and bound - i.e. one day.
Warren Beatty did 12,775 women. He would have been the father of us all, 1.2 million years ago...
No...
We've all done quite a bit of mutating and sexual-selecting since then.
I know I've been selected against numerous times; thus improving the species...!
It was, and Jesus was a Jew, too.
The Christians think that by binding two separate book together, makes them all one 'book.'
Of course in Deuteronomy - the last book of the Torah (12:32) - it says that you: shouldn't add anything to this work or remove anything from it.
Of course slash-dotters know perfectly well what the bible was: it was humanity's first hard drive! Think about it... a fairly random collection of things we decided to save for latter like: family records (begat, begat begat), recipes (there's one for honey cakes I found once), prOn (Song of Solomon), cool battle stories, song lyrics, practical survival advice...
I have a book that shows the most holy being; who although he is everywhere, must be searched for by each reader.
All hail Waldo!
..as mentioned above - using image stacking software can make the 'sum' of the images better than any of the component images involved.
There is a free stacking program here:
RegiStax
It works pretty well.
Kind of like Einstein and Besso...
I've seen noodle eating - out of a ceramic bowl - with chopsticks. Both hands.
Actually, your car already has a lot of this stuff:
It 'dings' if you don't use your belt. It won't start if you don't have the key. Some GPS can't be interacted with when you're moving.
Microsoft already checks for pirate OS, Google assumes a "Moderate" safe search on images.
A lot of things are there to "protect us from ourselves."
Google is even coming out with an app to keep you from "drunk texting" (Your boss! Your ex! )
Wow! Me too!
I was a game tester working 12 hours a day.
Now, I've cut back to 8 hour shifts which means I can go home and relax playing games for 6 hours.
No, that would be like me telling the Louvre, "Don't worry, I'll pay my own photography costs of all the pictures I'm going to take. Then I'll make posters I'm going to sell, without any benefit to you."
She's just looking for free stuff she can turn around and sell. She's not offering them a cut of sales, she's not offering to pay their costs of producing the show - or storing the masters. She offering to pay just enough to make transfers, so she can make copies she can distribute for her own benefit.
What's also telling is that there is no mention that:
She invented the "fan club" and proclaimed herself president.
She talks about "...digitization and preservation..." She never mentions that she is SELLING similar DVDs on her site. These masters are already 'preserved' quite nicely by CBS.
This story is tarted up to make her look like she's saving the baby seals, but she's just out looking for a free ride. Those are CBS production assets. As a CBS investment, they have every right to determine how and when to distribute them, and to reap every dollar of profit they wish.
Which breaks your analogy just like a aardvark in a bordello.
You've just missed my point.
I was not implying that "...an author with rights to Conan-Doyle's work has no incentive to create new unique works..."
I was implying that some people who are born with a silver spoon in their mouth are less motivated to go out and be productive than those who are born to less fortunate circumstances. (This is not a Paris Hilton comment. I promise.)
Even so; I have no idea how you extrapolated that premise into: (if the...)"...masses have access to his work and nobody has incentive to be creative..."
If a work is in the public domain, the masses don't benefit financially, they simply have more access to the work. They still need to be productive to earn a living - and I do consider pumping gas and flipping burgers to be useful, productive work that helps society.
BTW: Where are you getting gas that they still pump it for you? Cool!!!
My Mom was Catherine the Great.
So nyah.
...No.
CBS is keeping their masters safe in a climate controlled vault.
Laura Leff, the president of the fan club (which she herself created) wants to get copies to sell on her web site.
She sells DVD copies on her (fan club) web site [http://www.jackbenny.org/] so no doubt once she got her hands on these copies she would be selling them too.
CBS paid for the original show production, paid Benny and the other original production costs, has been paying ever since to keep these masters in a safe, humidity and temperature-controlled environment for the last 60 something years.
CBS may decide to come out with their own Benny retrospective any time they like - with these masters.
I don't see how they owe her anything.
By your standard, I'm going over to the Louvre to demand that they give me all the old paintings in their vault, so I can copy them and make posters out of them. Wish me luck!
The formula for Coca-Cola would not be a copyright issue. It would be considered a trade secret.
Agreed. The Win 7 install was easy. [64bit Ult]
And aside from me having to dig around and find drivers, Win would pop up and say "Hey, you got the blah-blah graphics card. There's a new driver for that. Do you want me to get it, and install it?"
So if the exterminators tent my house with plastic there is no implied copyright because there is no creative content; but if Christo tents my house with the exact same plastic... :)
Christo
Although Disney is a thriving media company, it's creative output is the sum of all the workers output - not just Walt's.
May I ask exactly what the Conan-Doyle heirs have been producing lately?
It would seem (from the article) that they spend a great deal of time and effort milking Sir Arthur's creative teat.
Perhaps without that free cash, they may have been impelled to go out and produce new creative works of their own.
Jes saying'
Yes... This system is called "taxation"