What about its gaming industry? Alive and kicking. You may have heard of the Battlefield series, for instance?
But if they try and legalize file sharing of stuff other people produce, you have a WIPO violation on your hands Oh, you mean like Taiwan?
Article 55
The work of another person that has been publicly released may be publicly recited, publicly broadcast, publicly presented, or publicly performed in the course of an activity of non-profit nature, provided that no fee is directly or indirectly collected from the viewers or listeners, and no compensation is given to the performers.
There's plenty of latitude for legalizing file-sharing in both the Berne convention and within WIPO.
not to mention a policy that is blatantly unfair. Then please reciprocate. Really.
Thought are you sure that it isn't just used in something else? I wish. It's been delivered to Försvarets RadioAnstalt (FRA) to assist in dechipering and gathering keywords for a upcoming law that would let them eavesdrop on all electronic communication corssing our borders in cables. Historically, they have conducted radio sigint against the Soviets, but after the wall went down, they have been looking for a new job.
We've started switching over to digital - at least one area has had the analogue TV signal switched off altogether - and set top boxes to decode a digital signal have been on the market for some time. Sweden turned off the last analog signal a few months ago.
Interestingly, televisions without inbuilt digital decoding are still on the market today - though I can't think why. Many people live in apartments where the landlord does the decoding, or they already use a satellite receiver which also decodes to analog. The remaining market that only uses DVB-T is actually pretty small, estimates put it at around 30% of the total market (in Swede, YMMV).
Though I suppose it migth keep a few people from ending up somewhere they didn't intend to... Here in Sweden, it's explicitly to prevent "healthy" people from accidentally seeing kiddie porn, because they (the filterists) believe that pedophilia is contagious; if someone sees kiddie pron, they will become pedophiles. No, I am not making this up.
This filtering list is supposedly secret, but when it leaked, it contained a lot of non-porn sites, among them one Korean site dedicated to bonsai trees. I suppose the reasoning was that these baby trees were being exploited, or something. Pure madness.
Also, they were going to add The Pirate Bay to the list, but that plan leaked as well, so they had to back down.
I like to think of these "people" (and I use that term very loosely) in the context of Mr. Morden on Babylon 5. Oh, how I'd love to be Vir...
I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this [smiles and waves his fingers at Morden]. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?
So concretely, what sort of innovation is Microsoft involved in? They innovate and invent new and bizarre ways of misusing the patent system, just like everybody else. Except MS has no corporate ethos beyond "We must keep growing!" and lots of money to buy good lawyers, so they wind up on top of the patent heap.
I thought that although a work is automatically copyrighted at creation, the copyright is lost if the author chooses to publish the work without registering the copyright. That is not correct. If you put patents (even own publication can be prior art) and trademarks (needs to be defended, or they can be lost) in a blender, you might wind up with that situation. Copyright? No way.
In fact, in most Berne-signatory states, it's more or less impossible to get rid of a copyright completely without first dying and then waiting 70 years. In some countries, even that isn't enough.
Please remember to use this phrase as if it were some kind of biting, withering critique rather than the childish flailing of an intellectually lazy cretin. I think a link should suffice: http://www.mafiaa.org/
Then you won't mind signing over the rights to the imaginary - the intangible - property which is in your 401(K)? As my 401(K) is a figment of your imagination anyway, sure.
Once civil servants become entrenched in power, they see a divine mandate to putter about with policy and peoples' lives. I agree, and that's actually a big part of what's wrong with the Swedish system right now. We used to have laws where civil servants were personally responsibile for their actions and decisions, but those was rescinded years ago. There definitely needs to be some serious checks and balances in place for it to work.
Imagine a system where you can choose from a wide variety of health-care "providers". You get a certain minimum emergency care via your federal taxes (as most people don't need that kind of care, it shouldn't be that expensive when the costs get shared by the whole population) and get to pick a method for financing all other needs, be it.gov-organized or private insurance, taking out a mortgage if need be, or simply putting some away in your mattress for a rainy day. Your choice. Also your choice where to go, regardless of financing method. Even with the low-level tax-sponsored.gov insurance, you can get care at the best hospital in the world, albeit only for a brief period or in the basement unless you pad the financing with some other means. Conversely, you can use your private insurance to go to a.gov hospital if that happens to be the one nearby when you get a cardiac arrest or a Nobel prize winning surgeon happens to be there slumming. Or if you just want your money to take you a loooong way on hospital food. Again, your choice. And, if you want to live off in the woods on deer and berries, bartering with the locals for some ointments, that's fine too. Eat a squirrel for me.
That's why I don't like the idea of one-system-fits-all. People aren't peas in a pod.
The a libertarian, every-individual-for-themself approach might be preferred. I believe this option can (and should) exist within a larger, non-libertarian, framework of the type I outlined in the parent post. I can't prove it, but I don't think I've been proven wrong with historical samples either.:-) In essence, I think "opting-out" should always be possible for anyone who so desires, alternatively that could be the norm with "opting-in" a viable option instead.
Actually, I don't think neither the US nor the Russian Federation are really harmonious populations right now, if they ever were. I do however believe that Swedish-style reforms would work for a pretty large subset of either population, making it a good complementary alternative to existing systems. Then again, I'm generally not a big believer in one-size-fits-all reforms, systems or methods, instead preferring a loose framework of guidelines within which several systems can co-exist, fulfilling slightly different needs in different ways for different people.
What he stole wasn't so much the a-bomb as it was America's weapons superiority. So, by that logic, when the US developed and tested the A-bomb, they stole the military superiority from the Soviets?
And when the Soviets then developed and tested the H-bomb, they stole the weapons equilibrium from... Someone? Bueller? Bueller?
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On the face of it, Taiwan might be what you are looking for. Have a look at articles 52, 55 and 57: http://www.tipo.gov.tw/eng/laws/e1-4-1an93.asp
Except it's not doing research. It's eavesdropping on all electronic communication passing our borders. Welcome to 1984, say hi to Big Brother.
No, it implies that the filterists are stupid gits with a moral axe to grind. An axe, I might add, that's every bit as dull as they are.
This filtering list is supposedly secret, but when it leaked, it contained a lot of non-porn sites, among them one Korean site dedicated to bonsai trees. I suppose the reasoning was that these baby trees were being exploited, or something. Pure madness.
Also, they were going to add The Pirate Bay to the list, but that plan leaked as well, so they had to back down.
Personally, I'd cast the Chinese as the evil aliens and Mr. Kennedy of IFPI as Bester. Unfortunately for us, they seem to get along fine so far...
I like to think of these "people" (and I use that term very loosely) in the context of Mr. Morden on Babylon 5. Oh, how I'd love to be Vir...
I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this [smiles and waves his fingers at Morden]. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?
In Soviet Russia, Windows runs SP1!
And, I found it lots easier to install and configure than Exim or Qmail (the ones I tried out prior to Courier when I was migrating off sendmail).
Or better yet, Courier.
Yes, but only with imaginary guns & ammo.
I think we should use the phrase imaginary property much more often.
Imagine a system where you can choose from a wide variety of health-care "providers". You get a certain minimum emergency care via your federal taxes (as most people don't need that kind of care, it shouldn't be that expensive when the costs get shared by the whole population) and get to pick a method for financing all other needs, be it .gov-organized or private insurance, taking out a mortgage if need be, or simply putting some away in your mattress for a rainy day. Your choice. Also your choice where to go, regardless of financing method. Even with the low-level tax-sponsored .gov insurance, you can get care at the best hospital in the world, albeit only for a brief period or in the basement unless you pad the financing with some other means. Conversely, you can use your private insurance to go to a .gov hospital if that happens to be the one nearby when you get a cardiac arrest or a Nobel prize winning surgeon happens to be there slumming. Or if you just want your money to take you a loooong way on hospital food. Again, your choice. And, if you want to live off in the woods on deer and berries, bartering with the locals for some ointments, that's fine too. Eat a squirrel for me.
That's why I don't like the idea of one-system-fits-all. People aren't peas in a pod.
Actually, I don't think neither the US nor the Russian Federation are really harmonious populations right now, if they ever were. I do however believe that Swedish-style reforms would work for a pretty large subset of either population, making it a good complementary alternative to existing systems. Then again, I'm generally not a big believer in one-size-fits-all reforms, systems or methods, instead preferring a loose framework of guidelines within which several systems can co-exist, fulfilling slightly different needs in different ways for different people.