I just can't consider copyright a part of free trade or capitalism. It's a special privilege given by the state to reverse the freedom of speech and press of others. A legal power to silence others is incompatible with the "free" in free trade.
The roll-out was just terrible (like, in a different way, to Buzz). They should have just added a sweet little "wave live!" button to g-chat and gmail one night. Those wanting to turn it on could have just pressed the button and been like "whoa, this is neat." But instead, Google got way too caught up in their own hype machine and the endless feature implementations.
Given that their citizens can deduct their state income tax from federal, why do states even have the sales tax? It would seem that they could get some of their citizens federal money back by shifting away from sales tax and into income.
Depends on the/.-er for the most part. But the more radical anti-copyright stances are still very reasonable sounding. Something along the lines of, creating art doesn't imbue you with a supreme power of censorship. Also, the point of copyright isn't to make an artist's money (that's the mechanism, not the purpose) but to make sure that there is a wide variety of art for the public to enjoy. Once law starts handing out monopoly rights basic economics says that supply will be restricted to enhance profits. For copyright to even make sense on its own grounds, it is necessary to prove that the monopoly power fueled restriction in product does not exceed the art spurring promise of a specific business model for art monetization. With the recent crackdown on re-mixing culture and the like, it seems quite possible that more art is actually prevented from reaching people than is encouraged into existence.
As a copy-left type, once you unleash those characters/themes on the world it's fair game. But it certainly won't be real Asimov, just think of it as expensive over-hyped fan fic.
I like the launch loop idea (and of course the space elevator). Sounds like getting the gun built would be a decent first step for all the truly wacky space access methods on peoples' radar.
I am not an engineer, but couldn't you bundle a bunch of phone lines together to increase speed? And could something be somewhat simulated with a massive MIMO antennae array, especially with aforementioned ubiquitous somewhat directional femtocells?
I have to agree with you on this one. The fact that it can look like a book sitting in your hands, with what looks like nice leather bindings, adds to a certain aesthetic snoot that usually only applies to Apples products.
A lot of assumptions are that the main value of college is the college experience, as opposed to the class learning time. How about a hybrid spirit quest version of college where a small tribe of students go on the road for a couple years taking classes and taking in the world?
Seriously, why don't expensive GPS/internet enabled devices come tied to an online user account from which the user could track, brick a-splode their own device?
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I just can't consider copyright a part of free trade or capitalism. It's a special privilege given by the state to reverse the freedom of speech and press of others. A legal power to silence others is incompatible with the "free" in free trade.
The roll-out was just terrible (like, in a different way, to Buzz). They should have just added a sweet little "wave live!" button to g-chat and gmail one night. Those wanting to turn it on could have just pressed the button and been like "whoa, this is neat." But instead, Google got way too caught up in their own hype machine and the endless feature implementations.
Given that their citizens can deduct their state income tax from federal, why do states even have the sales tax? It would seem that they could get some of their citizens federal money back by shifting away from sales tax and into income.
And what effect this sort of technological uptake have on health cost containment?
Depends on the /.-er for the most part. But the more radical anti-copyright stances are still very reasonable sounding. Something along the lines of, creating art doesn't imbue you with a supreme power of censorship. Also, the point of copyright isn't to make an artist's money (that's the mechanism, not the purpose) but to make sure that there is a wide variety of art for the public to enjoy. Once law starts handing out monopoly rights basic economics says that supply will be restricted to enhance profits. For copyright to even make sense on its own grounds, it is necessary to prove that the monopoly power fueled restriction in product does not exceed the art spurring promise of a specific business model for art monetization. With the recent crackdown on re-mixing culture and the like, it seems quite possible that more art is actually prevented from reaching people than is encouraged into existence.
As a copy-left type, once you unleash those characters/themes on the world it's fair game. But it certainly won't be real Asimov, just think of it as expensive over-hyped fan fic.
I like the last mile proposal where you buy it and share it condominium style with your neighbors. Then ISPs plug into a shared community portal. http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/homes_tails
I like the launch loop idea (and of course the space elevator). Sounds like getting the gun built would be a decent first step for all the truly wacky space access methods on peoples' radar.
I am not an engineer, but couldn't you bundle a bunch of phone lines together to increase speed? And could something be somewhat simulated with a massive MIMO antennae array, especially with aforementioned ubiquitous somewhat directional femtocells?
Have you heard of Chaye Calvo? Something very similar to what you describe happened to him.
I have to agree with you on this one. The fact that it can look like a book sitting in your hands, with what looks like nice leather bindings, adds to a certain aesthetic snoot that usually only applies to Apples products.
A lot of assumptions are that the main value of college is the college experience, as opposed to the class learning time. How about a hybrid spirit quest version of college where a small tribe of students go on the road for a couple years taking classes and taking in the world?
Seriously, why don't expensive GPS/internet enabled devices come tied to an online user account from which the user could track, brick a-splode their own device?