Looking at that design, I see a -lot- of side area, to act a one huge sail... You're gonna spend more enrgy keeping going where you wanna go than you save by using thrust bouyancy..
If we do intend to go forward with a PAC aimed at fighting the DMCA, one thing is clear: the enemy of our enemy is our friend. Republicans clearly receieve less entertainment funding, and therefore we can begin this war on a simple pretext: the Democratic Party is the enemy.
Ummm,, RIIIIIGGGHHHTTTT.. Have you ever thought that perhaps the reason the Democratic party gets that money from the from the media industry is beecause they're more willing to keep more willing to goverment out content control? I'll trade a Democratic DMCA II for a Republican COPA II any day, besides, the Rebublicans are sold on protecting big industry to begin with, a DMCA II won't probably be a hard sell in their camp.
You do realize you just described the exact plot of Michael Crichton's 1987 novel Sphere?
If you ignore the complete lack of illustration in Sphere, take a small amount of exploration of a wrecked spaceship as a "cavern crawl" ignore the long philisophical debates the occupy most of the book...perhaps
Sphere was basically a long string of plot devices used by Crichton to explore psychlogy in a knock off of "The Monsters From The ID" from Forbiddon Planet (which of course was Shakespere's Tempest in SF dress)
When I saw the trailers to Atlantis, While I did see a slight resembalance to some anime works, such as Laputa, Mononoke and Nadia I saw something else that struck me quite a bit more... The resembalance to James Gurney's Dinotopia...
While it may again be a case of similar source material, it may go farther as well..
1) The Disney's Atlantian machines have a remarkable resembalance to the "Strutters" in Dinotopia.
2) Dinotopia: The World Beneath has a very similar plotline: Scientist searching for a lost civilization, explores underwater for an entrance, then a cavern crawl, to the remnants (though uninhabited in this case) of a lost civilization they find a crystalin power source and then leave, upon which point the crystal brings out the worst in party members and a struggle ensues for the crystal.
3) Some similarity can be seen between Disney Atlantis' location on a plateau surrounded by waterfalls, and Dinotopia's waterfall city. There is some simiarity of architecture as well, but that can be more easly explained bythe efforts of both Gurney and Disney to make a "ancestor culture"
I'm not saying it happened, but after Seeing much the same thing happening in SW:TPM w. the design of Theed and the end parade in parcicular I wouldn't rule it out, and considering the similarities in source material between Nadia and Atlantis: I actually worry a little more about this possibility.
I think I found a statement in the US gov brief that may prove to be a very weak link in the movie industries whole line of battle.
"Because viewers cannot access CSS encrypted DVDs without the necessary technological "keys," and because those keys are lawfully available only
"by purchasing a [licensed] DVD player," the district court concluded that CSS is an effective access control measure"
This is an explicit statement by the government that the users rights to view a DVD is contingent on their purchasing a licensed DVD player. Requiring this additional purchase from a particular company, or set of companies, may well exceed their authority to control their copyright, and could be taken as a violation of antitrust laws.
I personally am of the opinion that this case won't be won or lost on free speech grounds but on restraint of trade and antitrust grounds. The media industry have set themselves up so that an artist may have effective legal copyright protection in the digital age only with the permission of the media companies. If we fight them on this ground that is where they will lose the battle.
Right.. now I consider my self pretty green, but I'm also a long time modelbuilder. and have some appreciation of the issues involved.
I think the enviromental effects of making a suit of storm troope armor coud prob be offset by some carefull consideration when grocery shhoping in choosing your packaging and then recycling it afterward. not to mention that vacuforming doesn't require the maker to atually -make- any plastic..
As for being environetally irresoponsible, let us consider/. itself, it encourgase people to use computers, the manufactue of which creates a host of toxic by-products for just the computer itself, not to mention the packaging, and the software, and it's packaging, and the associated manuals and how to books. And now that we're done with the manufacture let us consider the operation, the electricity and where it comes from.
All in all just arguing over this point here prob does more eco-damage than making one vacuform costume.. Well I must be off now to make a compensatory donation to the NRDC through www.greatergood.com
Not to mention the simple fact of the that the scaner will have to put out a signifigantly more powerfull pulse to reach greater ranges.. prob to the point of causing signifigant interference..
Besides in a lot of cases you could prob just remove the dang thing anyway...
This is the part I love...
"You acknowledge that your compliance with the requirements of this Section 2.5 may be considered by Juno to be an inseparable part of the Service, and that any interference with the operation of the Computational Software (including, but not limited to, any failure to leave your computer turned on at all times) may result in termination or limitation of your use of the Service."
Now combine that with a California type power crunch...
- i won't pretend to ba a lawyer, but I from what i've read (Sex,Laws and Cyberspace p 17) in is that in part c) of the Miller test the burden of proof is -reversed- the state doesn't have to prove the work lacks merit, to beat the claim you have to prove that the work has merit. however this part of the test is under a universal "reasnoable person" standard rather than the "community standard" that applies to parts a) and b) -from what I did read on the article however it looks like the magizine could be just using "obscene" as a catch all term for adult content, which is diffrent from it's legal definition.
Um.. not the article does not say that.. to quote the law as stated in the article..
"any visual depiction, including any photography, film, video, picture, or computer or computer-generated image or picture... of sexually explicit conduct, where... such visual depiction is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct."
Noticibally absent is any statement on the realism of the image in question, such as the word "actual" in addition the law also classes any image that...
"is advertised,promoted, presented, described or distributed in such a manner that conveys the impression that the material is or contains a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct."...as child porn, so even animation could fall under that catagory if it's advertised that way.
I'm somewhat surprised that it took so long for the book to get noticed.. I've gone through 3 copies loaning them out to my friends.. As scarrily accurate the culture in the book is I wonder however how this particular slice of high speed techno-orientated society would react to the solutions that are posited at the end of the book were actually applied. How would you vote on the plebicite?
See you later Acellerator
Just as a small point here, you might want to double check the terms of your Wired or Forbes subscription, there may be a clause in there that allows them to sidestep this clause by treating your subscription as consent to send such promotional items. Me, I'm just amused by the whole thing because the Cat is usless for a iMac using GD like myself...
Much of the discussion I've seen over various IP issues have centered on fans vs. mega corps, but IP is also valuble to the little guys too. Either way people argue the future should go the small time artist stands to lose. Without IP small time artist will be shamelessly exploited, but under a tighter system they'd have to jump through legal hoops to protect their rights.
In the past month I've been hit both ways, I had to sign over ALL rights to a piece of "fan art" to enter a contest by a gaming company, and I had a someone open up a art gallery stocked w. my art without my permission(which had the copyright marks systematically removed from them) the curent system may not be perfect but it's a far cry better for me than a world w.o. IP or one where the megacorps control all the content.
Decentralized and anonymous file sharing may be wonderful for spreading ideas and culture, but it leaves the artist feeling exploited when his work is tossed around the net without so much as a "May I?" or "Thank You". As for Napster, they played with fire and got burned, the DCMA provides safe harbor provisions, if they had followed those they wouldn't have gotten hit the way they did. To argue otherwise is to evade their moral and legal responsibilities.
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Looking at that design, I see a -lot- of side area, to act a one huge sail... You're gonna spend more enrgy keeping going where you wanna go than you save by using thrust bouyancy..
If we do intend to go forward with a PAC aimed at fighting the DMCA, one thing is clear: the enemy of our enemy is our friend. Republicans clearly receieve less entertainment funding, and therefore we can begin this war on a simple pretext: the Democratic Party is the enemy.
Ummm,, RIIIIIGGGHHHTTTT.. Have you ever thought that perhaps the reason the Democratic party gets that money from the from the media industry is beecause they're more willing to keep more willing to goverment out content control? I'll trade a Democratic DMCA II for a Republican COPA II any day, besides, the Rebublicans are sold on protecting big industry to begin with, a DMCA II won't probably be a hard sell in their camp.
You do realize you just described the exact plot of Michael Crichton's 1987 novel Sphere?
If you ignore the complete lack of illustration in Sphere, take a small amount of exploration of a wrecked spaceship as a "cavern crawl" ignore the long philisophical debates the occupy most of the book...perhaps
Sphere was basically a long string of plot devices used by Crichton to explore psychlogy in a knock off of "The Monsters From The ID" from Forbiddon Planet (which of course was Shakespere's Tempest in SF dress)
When I saw the trailers to Atlantis, While I did see a slight resembalance to some anime works, such as Laputa, Mononoke and Nadia I saw something else that struck me quite a bit more... The resembalance to James Gurney's Dinotopia...
While it may again be a case of similar source material, it may go farther as well..
1) The Disney's Atlantian machines have a remarkable resembalance to the "Strutters" in Dinotopia.
2) Dinotopia: The World Beneath has a very similar plotline: Scientist searching for a lost civilization, explores underwater for an entrance, then a cavern crawl, to the remnants (though uninhabited in this case) of a lost civilization they find a crystalin power source and then leave, upon which point the crystal brings out the worst in party members and a struggle ensues for the crystal.
3) Some similarity can be seen between Disney Atlantis' location on a plateau surrounded by waterfalls, and Dinotopia's waterfall city. There is some simiarity of architecture as well, but that can be more easly explained bythe efforts of both Gurney and Disney to make a "ancestor culture"
I'm not saying it happened, but after Seeing much the same thing happening in SW:TPM w. the design of Theed and the end parade in parcicular I wouldn't rule it out, and considering the similarities in source material between Nadia and Atlantis: I actually worry a little more about this possibility.
I think I found a statement in the US gov brief that may prove to be a very weak link in the movie industries whole line of battle.
"Because viewers cannot access CSS encrypted DVDs without the necessary technological "keys," and because those keys are lawfully available only "by purchasing a [licensed] DVD player," the district court concluded that CSS is an effective access control measure"
This is an explicit statement by the government that the users rights to view a DVD is contingent on their purchasing a licensed DVD player. Requiring this additional purchase from a particular company, or set of companies, may well exceed their authority to control their copyright, and could be taken as a violation of antitrust laws.
I personally am of the opinion that this case won't be won or lost on free speech grounds but on restraint of trade and antitrust grounds. The media industry have set themselves up so that an artist may have effective legal copyright protection in the digital age only with the permission of the media companies. If we fight them on this ground that is where they will lose the battle.
Right.. now I consider my self pretty green, but I'm also a long time modelbuilder. and have some appreciation of the issues involved. I think the enviromental effects of making a suit of storm troope armor coud prob be offset by some carefull consideration when grocery shhoping in choosing your packaging and then recycling it afterward. not to mention that vacuforming doesn't require the maker to atually -make- any plastic.. As for being environetally irresoponsible, let us consider /. itself, it encourgase people to use computers, the manufactue of which creates a host of toxic by-products for just the computer itself, not to mention the packaging, and the software, and it's packaging, and the associated manuals and how to books. And now that we're done with the manufacture let us consider the operation, the electricity and where it comes from.
All in all just arguing over this point here prob does more eco-damage than making one vacuform costume.. Well I must be off now to make a compensatory donation to the NRDC through www.greatergood.com
Not to mention the simple fact of the that the scaner will have to put out a signifigantly more powerfull pulse to reach greater ranges.. prob to the point of causing signifigant interference.. Besides in a lot of cases you could prob just remove the dang thing anyway...
This is the part I love... "You acknowledge that your compliance with the requirements of this Section 2.5 may be considered by Juno to be an inseparable part of the Service, and that any interference with the operation of the Computational Software (including, but not limited to, any failure to leave your computer turned on at all times) may result in termination or limitation of your use of the Service." Now combine that with a California type power crunch...
- i won't pretend to ba a lawyer, but I from what i've read (Sex,Laws and Cyberspace p 17) in is that in part c) of the Miller test the burden of proof is -reversed- the state doesn't have to prove the work lacks merit, to beat the claim you have to prove that the work has merit. however this part of the test is under a universal "reasnoable person" standard rather than the "community standard" that applies to parts a) and b) -from what I did read on the article however it looks like the magizine could be just using "obscene" as a catch all term for adult content, which is diffrent from it's legal definition.
Um.. not the article does not say that.. to quote the law as stated in the article.. "any visual depiction, including any photography, film, video, picture, or computer or computer-generated image or picture ... of sexually explicit conduct, where ... such visual depiction is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct."
Noticibally absent is any statement on the realism of the image in question, such as the word "actual" in addition the law also classes any image that...
"is advertised,promoted, presented, described or distributed in such a manner that conveys the impression that the material is or contains a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct." ...as child porn, so even animation could fall under that catagory if it's advertised that way.
I'm somewhat surprised that it took so long for the book to get noticed.. I've gone through 3 copies loaning them out to my friends.. As scarrily accurate the culture in the book is I wonder however how this particular slice of high speed techno-orientated society would react to the solutions that are posited at the end of the book were actually applied. How would you vote on the plebicite?
See you later Acellerator
Just as a small point here, you might want to double check the terms of your Wired or Forbes subscription, there may be a clause in there that allows them to sidestep this clause by treating your subscription as consent to send such promotional items. Me, I'm just amused by the whole thing because the Cat is usless for a iMac using GD like myself...
Much of the discussion I've seen over various IP issues have centered on fans vs. mega corps, but IP is also valuble to the little guys too. Either way people argue the future should go the small time artist stands to lose. Without IP small time artist will be shamelessly exploited, but under a tighter system they'd have to jump through legal hoops to protect their rights.
In the past month I've been hit both ways, I had to sign over ALL rights to a piece of "fan art" to enter a contest by a gaming company, and I had a someone open up a art gallery stocked w. my art without my permission(which had the copyright marks systematically removed from them) the curent system may not be perfect but it's a far cry better for me than a world w.o. IP or one where the megacorps control all the content.
Decentralized and anonymous file sharing may be wonderful for spreading ideas and culture, but it leaves the artist feeling exploited when his work is tossed around the net without so much as a "May I?" or "Thank You". As for Napster, they played with fire and got burned, the DCMA provides safe harbor provisions, if they had followed those they wouldn't have gotten hit the way they did. To argue otherwise is to evade their moral and legal responsibilities.