I don't buy that. In every single other industry people work and create until the day they retire or die. What is so special about musicians and authors?
Say you created some unique work, and you refused to sell some entity the rights to use it. If there's no copyright after you die for that work, what's stopping this entity from simply killing you in order to use your work freely? Some of these copyrights are worth millions upon millions of dollars. I'd call that more than enough incentive to call a hit. Hell, people will kill you over far less than that.
I'd also like to point out copyright goes beyond just musicians and authors.
I certainly do, with an exception for children of the deceased that are still minors. Other than that, if you didn't earn it, its not yours. I don't believe in the rights of the dead - after you're gone, you don't have any rights.
You understand though how powerful of an incentive it'd be to kill you off if I wanted to use something you created without paying for the rights, right?
A 100% death tax is essential for a fair and equal society
Care to explain that one a little better? If someone went out and earned that money, and then decided to save it instead of buying hookers and blow and iGadgets, and then they get run over by a bus one day, the government should just come take that money that they earned and saved? Hell, let's take his car, and his house, and everything else he owns, too. Shame on him for not spending every cent he had and for owning a few things!
Unless your definition of a "fair and equal society" is "everyone has the same thing"...
Copyright is a separate matter entirely. I'm talking physical things, assets, cash... not IP.
Let's just destroy some family farms while we're at it, since all the land and livestock was under the father's name and the mother already died years ago. Were those kids who had to work the land just as hard born into privilege? Give me a break... I hope you like expensive corn since there won't be much of it. What? Corporate farms you say? Sweet deal. So mega corporations grow unfettered without those pesky small farmers to get in their way. Sweet!
Nonsense, it is around Jupiter either way. The first book talked about Saturn, but the movie and the later books all used Jupiter because originally they weren't able to get a good rendering of Saturn's rings for the movie, and then Clarke discovered that Europa was more likely to support life than any of Saturn's moons and went with it.
Speaking of Europa, I won't find any NASA announcements very exciting until they announce they're sending a submersible below that thick crust of ice on Europa. Yes, it'll be a pretty long time before that happens, but I'll be waiting nonetheless. I find it very hard to believe that there isn't life there.
I remember being really annoyed to find that the vicinity of Jupiter, including Ganymede, was subject to sufficient radiation to guarantee that there never would be a "Farmer in the Sky", at least not there.
In the case of copyright, it is the rights of the dead's living dependents that meant to be are protected.
How exactly do the rights of the dependents encourage the dead person to go on creating works?
Along with GP's point, it doesn't necessarily encourage the dead to go on creating works, but it definitely discourages the living from stopping prematurely due to an early, unnatural death because someone didn't want to pay for rights to their works.
That's exactly the impression I got. I was going to say that he actually has a legitimate case. It's not satirical from what I can tell, and they're making money off of him. BUT, Apple should not be the one suing. I'm sorry Jobs, you're going to have to dig into your own pockets to take care of this one.
It should be noted that the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was a pea shooter compared to something that would be used today. If you were within 1 mile of a blast from one of today's nukes, I doubt you'd have much to say about it afterward.
The only reason that wouldn't hold up in court is that people would say there are alternatives to owning an Iphone. I.e. android, blackberry, or windows phones.
Actually, we have antitrust laws in the USA. Here, using your dominance in a market to coerce customers and/or competitors in the market to submission violates those laws. I would say this fits that example. They're hindering this company from competing solely because their product contains material related to a competitor. That's like your local Cable station refusing to show a 3rd party's ads for a magazine related to a competitor's product.
I can sympathize. We recently had someone swipe the wife's purse. They used her credit cards at a nearby tobacco shop. We filed a police report, of course, which we were barely able to do because they didn't give us the time of day. We called the tobacco store, and asked if they had security camera footage at the time of the transaction. They said they did and we could have it. We told the police this... and they didn't care. They didn't want it.
The simple answer is to stop wasting money on shit like this. Something that kills less people per year than farm animals is not something to be wasting money on. When the towers fell we should have rebuilt them 10 stories taller, and locked the cockpit door. That should have been the end of that. Instead we waste money on ineffective security and act like a bunch of Nancys.
What's worse is now we're creating the would-be terrorist's wet dream: we're paying out the ass to make people queue up in bunches in these super long lines in the airports... in an area that has almost no security. Suddenly actually boarding the plan doesn't seem like such a priority anymore.
To add to your bit: did the 9/11 guys use box cutters to take over the flight? We responded by severely limiting what you take on flight. Problem solved.
And what's going to happen when some terrorist boards a plane with an explosive crammed up his ass? Make everyone submit to a cavity search?
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Mice bread without an enzyme age prematurely. Injecting them with the enzyme reversed this process. This does not necessarily mean that injecting normal mice with more of the enzyme will have any affect on their ageing.
That was the feeling I got from the article. The summary should be something closer "Premature aging effects found to be reversible in mice".
You seriously couldn't think of any fulfilling ways to spend a couple thousand years?
This. It's exactly why I've stopped watching so much TV. Takes away that precious time that tick-tocks away that you could be using to do something that's actually on your priority list. It hits you when you stop for a moment and think "OK, I really am going to finish <item C on list> now. I mean, I only started it.... what.... HOLY CRAP THAT WAS 10 YEARS AGO!!?!?!".
Really makes you feel like you've slept through the last 5-10 years. "What did I really even DO for that time?" only drew a blank, and that was insanely depressing. In fact, a recurring nightmare of mine now is that I wake up, and some 5yr old kid runs up to me and calls me daddy and I have only a very vague idea of who this person is.
I'll volunteer for the magic drug that doubles my time to learn and do stuff.
... that somebody already filed a patent remarkably similar to this. Maybe this is just a different means to the same end. Unfortunately I can't seem to find the link to the story for the other patent. Anybody else got that buried somewhere deep in the bookmarks?
Since most people don't want to deal with a break-in in the first place, I would also suggest plainly visible fake cameras outside the house as a deterrent. Also, since I'm paranoid about the thieves taking off with the video footage as well (if they're smart), I securely bolted down a small safe with a high capacity thumb drive inside that I use to record the footage. It's secured to a concrete floor in the basement, and bolted from the inside. I only drilled a single hole big enough to fit a USB cable through (re-wired, so only the cable itself had to fit and not the bulky end). If they figured out that's where security footage was kept and they really wanted it, they'd have to invest quite a bit of time into removing it.
I use several small PoE cameras with motion detectors. They're not super high resolution but they'll do the job just fine for how close they are to the break-in points. I have a battery UPS powering the whole thing for a very long time in case the power goes out. The server I use to control the cameras and provide me with notifications is one of those outlet plug servers and uses 5W. The cameras and the PoE switch use the most power.
The expensive part was the cameras. The switch and plug server ran me less than $100. The thumb drive costed around $50. I picked up some obviously fake security cameras for a few bucks to put in plain view outside, plus I already had motion detection lights. That along with the cameras, UPS, and cable was well under the $1,000 mark. I did the installation myself.
If some idiots are stupid enough to break in, they'd better be wearing masks.
That was long-winded, so I'll make my point short: you're mostly talking about breeds. That's not anywhere close to the topic.
"A poodle and a great dane are physically incapable of mating."
You're wrong.
"If we simply killed off all other breeds dogs, poodles and great danes would instantly qualify as separate species"
Wrong. They'd still both be the same species.
"That physical incompatibility would mean the two populations could only become more and more different over time. In about 42 million years the differences between poodles and great danes would add up to be about as big as the difference between dogs and cats."
Wrong, wrong, wrong. First of all, "phyiscally compatible" has little to do with compatible genetics. Second, if it changes enough so that it's no longer in the same species, then it's no longer a Great Dane. That makes absolutely zero sense.
I suggest you learn what Evolution actually is (hint: it's not a developing tree). Furthermore, there are species, and then there are breeds. You're confusing the two.
...except that it's still a fish. Listen, you and I have very different genetics. I might be immune to something that might be toxic to you. If the atmosphere was suddenly blanketed in that toxin, I'd survive, you wouldn't. That is merely natural selection, which is a process in evolution (and a very important part of it), but is not evolution itself.
You missed the point, but besides that, ISPs have already injected HTML into pages you view. Back on track, unless you can, as a customer, turn this "feature" off, I would never consider using them. I'll optimize my own HTML thankyouverymuch.
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I don't buy that. In every single other industry people work and create until the day they retire or die. What is so special about musicians and authors?
Say you created some unique work, and you refused to sell some entity the rights to use it. If there's no copyright after you die for that work, what's stopping this entity from simply killing you in order to use your work freely? Some of these copyrights are worth millions upon millions of dollars. I'd call that more than enough incentive to call a hit. Hell, people will kill you over far less than that.
I'd also like to point out copyright goes beyond just musicians and authors.
I certainly do, with an exception for children of the deceased that are still minors. Other than that, if you didn't earn it, its not yours. I don't believe in the rights of the dead - after you're gone, you don't have any rights.
You understand though how powerful of an incentive it'd be to kill you off if I wanted to use something you created without paying for the rights, right?
A 100% death tax is essential for a fair and equal society
Care to explain that one a little better? If someone went out and earned that money, and then decided to save it instead of buying hookers and blow and iGadgets, and then they get run over by a bus one day, the government should just come take that money that they earned and saved? Hell, let's take his car, and his house, and everything else he owns, too. Shame on him for not spending every cent he had and for owning a few things!
Unless your definition of a "fair and equal society" is "everyone has the same thing"...
Copyright is a separate matter entirely. I'm talking physical things, assets, cash... not IP.
Let's just destroy some family farms while we're at it, since all the land and livestock was under the father's name and the mother already died years ago. Were those kids who had to work the land just as hard born into privilege? Give me a break... I hope you like expensive corn since there won't be much of it. What? Corporate farms you say? Sweet deal. So mega corporations grow unfettered without those pesky small farmers to get in their way. Sweet!
Nonsense, it is around Jupiter either way. The first book talked about Saturn, but the movie and the later books all used Jupiter because originally they weren't able to get a good rendering of Saturn's rings for the movie, and then Clarke discovered that Europa was more likely to support life than any of Saturn's moons and went with it.
Speaking of Europa, I won't find any NASA announcements very exciting until they announce they're sending a submersible below that thick crust of ice on Europa. Yes, it'll be a pretty long time before that happens, but I'll be waiting nonetheless. I find it very hard to believe that there isn't life there.
"I assure you, it is completely necessary to feel your 5 year old's crotch."
I remember being really annoyed to find that the vicinity of Jupiter, including Ganymede, was subject to sufficient radiation to guarantee that there never would be a "Farmer in the Sky", at least not there.
Ah, but that's only on the surface.
In the case of copyright, it is the rights of the dead's living dependents that meant to be are protected.
How exactly do the rights of the dependents encourage the dead person to go on creating works?
Along with GP's point, it doesn't necessarily encourage the dead to go on creating works, but it definitely discourages the living from stopping prematurely due to an early, unnatural death because someone didn't want to pay for rights to their works.
That's exactly the impression I got. I was going to say that he actually has a legitimate case. It's not satirical from what I can tell, and they're making money off of him. BUT, Apple should not be the one suing. I'm sorry Jobs, you're going to have to dig into your own pockets to take care of this one.
At least isn't that what the government tells us?
The government also tells you to hide under your desk in the event of a nuclear attack.
They also made sure that the bodies of boys would be piled on top of the bodies of girls, like bubble-wrap, sort of.
Sounds like a good time to me!
It should be noted that the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was a pea shooter compared to something that would be used today. If you were within 1 mile of a blast from one of today's nukes, I doubt you'd have much to say about it afterward.
The only reason that wouldn't hold up in court is that people would say there are alternatives to owning an Iphone. I.e. android, blackberry, or windows phones.
Actually, we have antitrust laws in the USA. Here, using your dominance in a market to coerce customers and/or competitors in the market to submission violates those laws. I would say this fits that example. They're hindering this company from competing solely because their product contains material related to a competitor. That's like your local Cable station refusing to show a 3rd party's ads for a magazine related to a competitor's product.
Wouldn't a monopoly have... I dunno... a large market share? In June they had 28% of the market: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/06/apples_iphone_market_share_three_times_greater_than_android_in_us.html
"Monopoly" is the wrong word to use here. Antitrust is the right one.
I can sympathize. We recently had someone swipe the wife's purse. They used her credit cards at a nearby tobacco shop. We filed a police report, of course, which we were barely able to do because they didn't give us the time of day. We called the tobacco store, and asked if they had security camera footage at the time of the transaction. They said they did and we could have it. We told the police this... and they didn't care. They didn't want it.
Thanks a lot, buttholes.
The simple answer is to stop wasting money on shit like this. Something that kills less people per year than farm animals is not something to be wasting money on. When the towers fell we should have rebuilt them 10 stories taller, and locked the cockpit door. That should have been the end of that. Instead we waste money on ineffective security and act like a bunch of Nancys.
What's worse is now we're creating the would-be terrorist's wet dream: we're paying out the ass to make people queue up in bunches in these super long lines in the airports... in an area that has almost no security. Suddenly actually boarding the plan doesn't seem like such a priority anymore.
To add to your bit: did the 9/11 guys use box cutters to take over the flight? We responded by severely limiting what you take on flight. Problem solved.
And what's going to happen when some terrorist boards a plane with an explosive crammed up his ass? Make everyone submit to a cavity search?
Mice bread without an enzyme age prematurely. Injecting them with the enzyme reversed this process. This does not necessarily mean that injecting normal mice with more of the enzyme will have any affect on their ageing.
That was the feeling I got from the article. The summary should be something closer "Premature aging effects found to be reversible in mice".
You seriously couldn't think of any fulfilling ways to spend a couple thousand years?
This. It's exactly why I've stopped watching so much TV. Takes away that precious time that tick-tocks away that you could be using to do something that's actually on your priority list. It hits you when you stop for a moment and think "OK, I really am going to finish <item C on list> now. I mean, I only started it.... what.... HOLY CRAP THAT WAS 10 YEARS AGO!!?!?!".
Really makes you feel like you've slept through the last 5-10 years. "What did I really even DO for that time?" only drew a blank, and that was insanely depressing. In fact, a recurring nightmare of mine now is that I wake up, and some 5yr old kid runs up to me and calls me daddy and I have only a very vague idea of who this person is.
I'll volunteer for the magic drug that doubles my time to learn and do stuff.
... that somebody already filed a patent remarkably similar to this. Maybe this is just a different means to the same end. Unfortunately I can't seem to find the link to the story for the other patent. Anybody else got that buried somewhere deep in the bookmarks?
After this report 57 IT representatives quit their job in order to become store clerks.
They should go door-to-door selling magazines. I bet they would make way more money than they did at their previous respective jobs.
What am I gonna do with 40 subscriptions to Vibe?!
Since most people don't want to deal with a break-in in the first place, I would also suggest plainly visible fake cameras outside the house as a deterrent. Also, since I'm paranoid about the thieves taking off with the video footage as well (if they're smart), I securely bolted down a small safe with a high capacity thumb drive inside that I use to record the footage. It's secured to a concrete floor in the basement, and bolted from the inside. I only drilled a single hole big enough to fit a USB cable through (re-wired, so only the cable itself had to fit and not the bulky end). If they figured out that's where security footage was kept and they really wanted it, they'd have to invest quite a bit of time into removing it.
I use several small PoE cameras with motion detectors. They're not super high resolution but they'll do the job just fine for how close they are to the break-in points. I have a battery UPS powering the whole thing for a very long time in case the power goes out. The server I use to control the cameras and provide me with notifications is one of those outlet plug servers and uses 5W. The cameras and the PoE switch use the most power.
The expensive part was the cameras. The switch and plug server ran me less than $100. The thumb drive costed around $50. I picked up some obviously fake security cameras for a few bucks to put in plain view outside, plus I already had motion detection lights. That along with the cameras, UPS, and cable was well under the $1,000 mark. I did the installation myself.
If some idiots are stupid enough to break in, they'd better be wearing masks.
Wooooosh!
That was long-winded, so I'll make my point short: you're mostly talking about breeds. That's not anywhere close to the topic.
"A poodle and a great dane are physically incapable of mating."
You're wrong.
"If we simply killed off all other breeds dogs, poodles and great danes would instantly qualify as separate species"
Wrong. They'd still both be the same species.
"That physical incompatibility would mean the two populations could only become more and more different over time. In about 42 million years the differences between poodles and great danes would add up to be about as big as the difference between dogs and cats."
Wrong, wrong, wrong. First of all, "phyiscally compatible" has little to do with compatible genetics. Second, if it changes enough so that it's no longer in the same species, then it's no longer a Great Dane. That makes absolutely zero sense.
I suggest you learn what Evolution actually is (hint: it's not a developing tree). Furthermore, there are species, and then there are breeds. You're confusing the two.
...except that it's still a fish. Listen, you and I have very different genetics. I might be immune to something that might be toxic to you. If the atmosphere was suddenly blanketed in that toxin, I'd survive, you wouldn't. That is merely natural selection, which is a process in evolution (and a very important part of it), but is not evolution itself.
You missed the point, but besides that, ISPs have already injected HTML into pages you view. Back on track, unless you can, as a customer, turn this "feature" off, I would never consider using them. I'll optimize my own HTML thankyouverymuch.
More applications running uses more juice? IT CAN'T BE!?!?!
Give me a break. "Oh, don't install that Office software. Running it might use more battery!!! ZOMG!11!!11!!1!"
You're forgetting about the first generation.