That's because the fundamental problem isn't with our political system, it's with our economic system. You can't have a government by, for, and of the people unless your economy is similarly populist. Capitalism and democracy are fundamentally incompatible.
I just searched for "music" and got no results from Google Plus on the first page. A more specific query, "Snoop Dogg", doesn't turn up his Google Plus page. His twitter page comes right up though. What have they actually done here, because it looks like the same old search to me.
For videogames -- as you say, this would be the death of all big budget games. I happen to like gaming, as do hundreds of millions of other people, and don't want to see it die out.
If hundreds of millions of people truly like gaming and don't want to see it die out, then you should have no problem fund raising for new games. If they don't bother to do so of their free will, then nothing they really valued was lost.
I've never heard a compelling argument for why the core idea of copyright is a bad one.
Basic laws of economics. Infinite supply leads to zero marginal price. Trying to legislate around market forces when technology has fundamentally changed the market is never a good idea.
Linux is easier to use, because you can set it up in whatever way you find easiest to use. If you like the command line, then Windows is actually harder to use than Linux. If you like virtual desktops, Windows is harder to use than Linux. If you like to automate your workflow, Windows is harder to use than Linux.
That's OK. The GPL is not the end, the end is ensuring our software freedoms. There's no reason in principle that we couldn't grant those rights explicitly by statute, if we're going to be legislating anyway.
Torture is still not actually effective in time critical scenarios. All the subject needs to do is tell you some inaccurate information and waste your time.
I think it's pretty clear here that a man (or a woman) should be fired. It's not clear which one, and I think it's pretty unlikely that the right one will be.
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There's a big difference between confirming suspected intel and turning a prisoner into propaganda
No there's not. Torture never confirms anything. Torture is a way of getting your prisoner to say what you want to hear. Confirmation bias is built into it, so it can never reasonably be used as actionable evidence. The only thing it is good for is propaganda.
The DMCA is a pretty broad piece of legislation. The bit enabling DMCA takedowns is entirely separate from the bit prohibiting circumvention of copyright protection devices.
If you think that "raises the question" isn't a good enough synonym for the incorrect usage "begs the question" feel free to use one of the other phrases you came up with. "Begs the question" is taken.
Basic research for the most part is very high risk, very long time to payoff, and very little certainty as to what market anything of value that is discovered will end up finding application in, all of which are factors which make it unattractive for private, profit-seeking investors. The benefits are diffuse and often go to people other than those spending the money to the work initially (you could change that by making facts patentable, rather than invention, but that's, I think most would agree, an even bigger source of problems than anything in the current patent regime.)
All this is true. But we should also point out that basic research has the highest ROI of any sort of investment. Not necessarily for private investors, but for society as a whole.
America needs to culturally value the geek. It's better culturally than when I was in school
I don't think it is. Sure, technology is everywhere now, and a lot more people are spending a lot more time with it. But that doesn't really make one a geek. What makes someone a geek is determined curiosity which is as rare as it ever has been.
In order to do that, we need an economic shift. Pay blue collar workers enough to raise a family, and the stigma will go away. These are the people who do the actual work that CEOs get compensated for.
We have a perfectly good term for the incorrect usage of "begs the question", and that is "raises the question". For the technically correct usage of the term, there is no exact synonym in English. From Wikipedia:
"Circular reasoning is different from the informal logical fallacy "begging the question", as it is fallacious due to a flawed logical structure and not the individual falsity of an unstated hidden co-premise as begging the question is."
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I'm still playing games on my Commodore 64 in 2012.
That's because the fundamental problem isn't with our political system, it's with our economic system. You can't have a government by, for, and of the people unless your economy is similarly populist. Capitalism and democracy are fundamentally incompatible.
I just searched for "music" and got no results from Google Plus on the first page. A more specific query, "Snoop Dogg", doesn't turn up his Google Plus page. His twitter page comes right up though. What have they actually done here, because it looks like the same old search to me.
For videogames -- as you say, this would be the death of all big budget games. I happen to like gaming, as do hundreds of millions of other people, and don't want to see it die out.
If hundreds of millions of people truly like gaming and don't want to see it die out, then you should have no problem fund raising for new games. If they don't bother to do so of their free will, then nothing they really valued was lost.
I've never heard a compelling argument for why the core idea of copyright is a bad one.
Basic laws of economics. Infinite supply leads to zero marginal price. Trying to legislate around market forces when technology has fundamentally changed the market is never a good idea.
Of course it's not. Everyone can appreciate the utility of syntax hilighting for instance.
Why do you want your futuristic whiz-bang gizmo to be constrained by ancient technology? It can do more than display the printed page, shouldn't it?
Linux is easier to use, because you can set it up in whatever way you find easiest to use. If you like the command line, then Windows is actually harder to use than Linux. If you like virtual desktops, Windows is harder to use than Linux. If you like to automate your workflow, Windows is harder to use than Linux.
That's OK. The GPL is not the end, the end is ensuring our software freedoms. There's no reason in principle that we couldn't grant those rights explicitly by statute, if we're going to be legislating anyway.
Torture is still not actually effective in time critical scenarios. All the subject needs to do is tell you some inaccurate information and waste your time.
I think it's pretty clear here that a man (or a woman) should be fired. It's not clear which one, and I think it's pretty unlikely that the right one will be.
There's a big difference between confirming suspected intel and turning a prisoner into propaganda
No there's not. Torture never confirms anything. Torture is a way of getting your prisoner to say what you want to hear. Confirmation bias is built into it, so it can never reasonably be used as actionable evidence. The only thing it is good for is propaganda.
I mean, when did the world suddenly decide that anytime anyone makes an honest mistake they should be crucified for it forever?
Forgetting a rag is an honest mistake. Failing to plan for honest mistakes by implementing the appropriate checks into your process is negligence.
Calc hasn't changed much in a couple hundred years, at least at the undergrad level.
Sure it has. Give an undergrad in Calculus today an exam from 1912 and you'll see just how much it has changed.
The DMCA is a pretty broad piece of legislation. The bit enabling DMCA takedowns is entirely separate from the bit prohibiting circumvention of copyright protection devices.
Ex post facto is not quite what you're looking for here. They're not passing laws. I think the relevant legal issue is promissary estoppel.
The problem is the copyright claim, not the enforcement.
The problem is that enforcement occurs before the validity of the copyright claim is established.
I'm kind of curious as to what you find on Netflix that you can't find on Icefilms.
Who needs Netflix when you have Icefilms?
Random violence against people purely because they're good in school and not sports is way down
I'd like to see the data on that one.
When it comes to police in most civilized societies
The TSA are not police, and the USA is not a civilized society.
If you think that "raises the question" isn't a good enough synonym for the incorrect usage "begs the question" feel free to use one of the other phrases you came up with. "Begs the question" is taken.
Basic research for the most part is very high risk, very long time to payoff, and very little certainty as to what market anything of value that is discovered will end up finding application in, all of which are factors which make it unattractive for private, profit-seeking investors. The benefits are diffuse and often go to people other than those spending the money to the work initially (you could change that by making facts patentable, rather than invention, but that's, I think most would agree, an even bigger source of problems than anything in the current patent regime.)
All this is true. But we should also point out that basic research has the highest ROI of any sort of investment. Not necessarily for private investors, but for society as a whole.
America needs to culturally value the geek. It's better culturally than when I was in school
I don't think it is. Sure, technology is everywhere now, and a lot more people are spending a lot more time with it. But that doesn't really make one a geek. What makes someone a geek is determined curiosity which is as rare as it ever has been.
In order to do that, we need an economic shift. Pay blue collar workers enough to raise a family, and the stigma will go away. These are the people who do the actual work that CEOs get compensated for.
We have a perfectly good term for the incorrect usage of "begs the question", and that is "raises the question". For the technically correct usage of the term, there is no exact synonym in English. From Wikipedia:
"Circular reasoning is different from the informal logical fallacy "begging the question", as it is fallacious due to a flawed logical structure and not the individual falsity of an unstated hidden co-premise as begging the question is."