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My homeowner's insurance covers (I think) 25% of the value of the house in possessions. I specifically asked if a laptop computer that got damaged while out of the house was covered. My agent said yes. YMMV with your own insurance company, though.
I doubt baking it in an oven would be covered, though.
A quick check of www.snpp.com/guides/ql.html shows that you are correct. Wonder what they are counting differently. Any chance they (the powers that be) are counting the 2 parts of Who Shot Mr. Burns? as 1 episode (like the EW top 25 list did)?
It may not be meaningful, but from Oh Brother! Where Are Thou? (Season 2), Homer's long lost brother Herbert Powell (Danny Divito) takes the kids to a zoo where they're allowed to get up close and personal with the animals.
Lisa (to a penguin): Hello there. Do you miss the Antarctic?
Just last night, the local WB station (shows 2 eps nightly, M-F) showed the episode where Lisa becomes a Buddhist (I think it's She of Little Faith). The first segment of that is a send up of part of Apollo 13, complete with a hamster-piloted model rocket going out of control and crashing into the church, setting it on fire.
I was mildly surprised they showed that episode. I have not seen Homer vs. New York City since 9/11 (except for my own copy...). Their recent season 9 repeat did not include it.
Actually, a full scene, starting with the best quote ever... From Season 2, Two Cars in Every Garage, 3 Eyes on Every Fish:
MB: Amazing Smithers. This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.
S: You are noble and poetic in defeat, sir.
MB: Simpson, I shall make it the focus of my remaining years that your dreams will go unfulfilled.
H: My dreams will go unfulfilled? Oh no! I don't like the sound of that one bit. That means I have nothing to hope for. Marge, make it better please, can't you make it better, huh?
M: Homer, when a man's biggest dreams include seconds on dessert, occassional snuggling and sleeping til noon on weekends, no one man can destroy them.
I don't know if I agree with WEO. I think Gump Roast (S13E17) takes the cake there... very lame episode.
My personal highlight was (I shamefully forgot the episode) the one where Homer, Marge and Lisa are rushing to the Springfield Tar Pits when Homer runs over a statue of a deer:
H: D'oh! M: A deer! L: A female deer!
Oy, that nearly made me spew the first time I saw it...
Of course it does, almost... the statement boils down to "once you're able to break the system, you've broken the system."
In another light, I could restate Valenti as "once you're able to break into a bank, you've broken into a bank", as if the ability to commit a crime implicates you in committing said crime.
Just like the RIAAs claims that CD-R drives/discs are only used for piracy, and possession of said objects makes you a criminal. Don't believe me? Canada already has a surcharge on all blank CD-Rs, and the recording industry (RIAA or not) was one of the major lobbiers for it.
USB ports on non-Mac kbs? Are you kidding? I recently had to buy a new kb for my linux rig... Best Buy had practically nothing but standard PS/2 kbs and wireless kb/mouse combos (with PS/2 receiver connections).
Now my Mac kb came complete with 2 USB ports, a FW port, an RJ-11 and RJ-45 port, a mini-VGA port, an audio port and a power port. Oh, and a 14" LCD screen with "iBook" emblazoned just beneath it. Oh, that's a computer? I wondered why I paid $1800 for a kb... 8*P
Well, at about $10 for a movie in VHS format, that's 350M pirated videocassettes a year. Or slightly more than 1 for every man, woman, and child in the US each year. Don't you remember when you pirated your 1.3 copy share? or bought it?
A movie's budget is talked about frequently, especially in the case of "blockbusters". For instance, I can't tell you how many times I heard that Peter Jackson had a $270M budget for the LotR triolgy. That works out to $90M/film. I'll buy $80M for a "big-budget" film.
There have been other articles posted here at/. and elsewhere discussing the costs of making a CD. This number jives with some of the stories I've read. That doesn't mean it's accurate, though... just consistent.
I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of
money they didn't have before.
Read the article. The original design consisted of 26 parallel wires, 1 for each letter of the alphabet. No room for punctuation. That came later with mysterious theoretical paper v2.0, presumably written by CM++.
That's my point. Allowing under 18s into an R rated movie is entirely analagous to renting an M-rated video game to an under 18. We don't need laws regulating movie theaters, and we don't need laws regulating renting/selling video games. Period.
As others have said, there is already a rating system on video games. The real issue here is criminalizing the sale of "M" rated games to the under-18 set.
R rated movies are supposed to forbid access to those 17 and under without adult (read, 18+) supervision. When is the last time you saw the police show up at a movie theater and arrest the 16 year old ticket seller for selling tickets to the latest R-rated action flick to his under-18 friends?
Ratings, yes. It helps people be more informed. Criminalization of "ratings violations", no? How many more non-violent offenders does the US need in its jails?
Wasn't sure if it was first or last... that's strange. I guess you get more protection for your patent if it takes 3+ years from application -> issuance.
As for the corporate whore, why am I not surprised? Let's rape the entire public domain so I can continue making money off my dead husband's estate.
The problem is that no one seems to know, or at least isn't saying, exactly what routines/IP/patents are being investigated. Remember, patents only last for 17 years from issuance of patent, or 20 years from application for patent, whichever expires first. Anything patented pre-1986 (or applied for before 1983) will have fallen into public domain already.
I'm not entirely sure what you can do if, after your patent expires, you find out that someone was violating your patent while it was still valid.
Could be... I like to consider everyone innocent until proven guilty (you were all using iCommune for fair use purposes, right?). I'm not so used to thinking the other way around (you mean there's people out there that illegally share copyrighted material???).
The reason I wondered about it is that I've been seeing rumors of a Rendezvous-enabled iTunes for some time now... who knows... maybe that's on hold due to the RIAAs jack-booted thuggery too!
iMac is trademarked. After reading Apple's trademark page, I presume they're more worried about the Mac part than the i- prefix. Pay no attention to me...:)
Sounds like they're putting the kibosh on this project because they plan to do something like this in the near future. They may even have plans to make this a paid upgrade to the free iTunes download. Who knows?
I actually thought they'd go after iCommune for trademark dilution...
The biggest problem is that the Constitution says "for limited times" (US Constitution, Section 8, para.8). Ted Olsen has argued, apparently with a large degree of success, that the age of the universe minus 1 day is still, technically, a limited time.
No, this isn't what the Founding Fathers had in mind. But it's what they wrote. Maybe we should dig them up and shoot them for being so vague here, when they explicitly specify other details, such as the 7th amendment in the Bill of Rights: "In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved..."
So, we are specifically guaranteed a jury trial in civil matters with monetary damages exceeding $20 (a trivial amount of money today); but there are no limits on the "limited" duration of patents and copyrights set forth in the Constitution.
Had a particular time been set in those days (say, 25 years) it would have actually been to our benefit. In the late 18th century, communications took days to weeks; distribution of ideas, years. Today, we have instant worldwide communications. In the 21st century, 25 years is effectively a longer time to have materials under copyright control than it would have been 200 years ago, when it took much longer for ideas to spread.
The scary thing behind what was posted to Bugtraq is that it explicitly states that all digital media on the system is cataloged, and the list is sent to the RIAA. This assumes all digital media on a system is an illegal copy.
Sure, if the worm comes into your system over a P2P network, there's a good chance that at least *some* of your mp3s are pirated, but there's no way to differentiate pirated mp3s and those you ripped/encoded from your own CD collection.
I could easily see someone downloading a public domain work via P2P network, getting infected, and having their 40GB mp3 (ripped/encoded from legally obtained sources) library listed to the RIAA "for future prosecution."
I love the whole guilty until proven innocent attitude here. Sounds like a bad "In Soviet Russia..." joke.
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My homeowner's insurance covers (I think) 25% of the value of the house in possessions. I specifically asked if a laptop computer that got damaged while out of the house was covered. My agent said yes. YMMV with your own insurance company, though.
I doubt baking it in an oven would be covered, though.
A quick check of www.snpp.com/guides/ql.html shows that you are correct. Wonder what they are counting differently. Any chance they (the powers that be) are counting the 2 parts of Who Shot Mr. Burns? as 1 episode (like the EW top 25 list did)?
It may not be meaningful, but from Oh Brother! Where Are Thou? (Season 2), Homer's long lost brother Herbert Powell (Danny Divito) takes the kids to a zoo where they're allowed to get up close and personal with the animals.
Lisa (to a penguin): Hello there. Do you miss the Antarctic?
Just last night, the local WB station (shows 2 eps nightly, M-F) showed the episode where Lisa becomes a Buddhist (I think it's She of Little Faith). The first segment of that is a send up of part of Apollo 13, complete with a hamster-piloted model rocket going out of control and crashing into the church, setting it on fire.
I was mildly surprised they showed that episode. I have not seen Homer vs. New York City since 9/11 (except for my own copy...). Their recent season 9 repeat did not include it.
To paraphrase a well-known set of bumper stickers... A bad Simpsons episode is still better than a good Friends episode.
Actually, a full scene, starting with the best quote ever... From Season 2, Two Cars in Every Garage, 3 Eyes on Every Fish:
MB: Amazing Smithers. This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.
S: You are noble and poetic in defeat, sir.
MB: Simpson, I shall make it the focus of my remaining years that your dreams will go unfulfilled.
H: My dreams will go unfulfilled? Oh no! I don't like the sound of that one bit. That means I have nothing to hope for. Marge, make it better please, can't you make it better, huh?
M: Homer, when a man's biggest dreams include seconds on dessert, occassional snuggling and sleeping til noon on weekends, no one man can destroy them.
H: Hey! You did it!
[end of episode]
I agree that the first season voicing was rough, but Bart the General was a great episode, as was The Crepes of Wrath.
Ditto on Worst Episode Ever... it was called Gump Roast.
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I don't know if I agree with WEO. I think Gump Roast (S13E17) takes the cake there... very lame episode.
My personal highlight was (I shamefully forgot the episode) the one where Homer, Marge and Lisa are rushing to the Springfield Tar Pits when Homer runs over a statue of a deer:
H: D'oh!
M: A deer!
L: A female deer!
Oy, that nearly made me spew the first time I saw it...
Of course it does, almost... the statement boils down to "once you're able to break the system, you've broken the system."
In another light, I could restate Valenti as "once you're able to break into a bank, you've broken into a bank", as if the ability to commit a crime implicates you in committing said crime.
Just like the RIAAs claims that CD-R drives/discs are only used for piracy, and possession of said objects makes you a criminal. Don't believe me? Canada already has a surcharge on all blank CD-Rs, and the recording industry (RIAA or not) was one of the major lobbiers for it.
USB ports on non-Mac kbs? Are you kidding? I recently had to buy a new kb for my linux rig... Best Buy had practically nothing but standard PS/2 kbs and wireless kb/mouse combos (with PS/2 receiver connections).
Now my Mac kb came complete with 2 USB ports, a FW port, an RJ-11 and RJ-45 port, a mini-VGA port, an audio port and a power port. Oh, and a 14" LCD screen with "iBook" emblazoned just beneath it. Oh, that's a computer? I wondered why I paid $1800 for a kb... 8*P
Yah. Apple. 1998.
Well, at about $10 for a movie in VHS format, that's 350M pirated videocassettes a year. Or slightly more than 1 for every man, woman, and child in the US each year. Don't you remember when you pirated your 1.3 copy share? or bought it?
/. and elsewhere discussing the costs of making a CD. This number jives with some of the stories I've read. That doesn't mean it's accurate, though... just consistent.
A movie's budget is talked about frequently, especially in the case of "blockbusters". For instance, I can't tell you how many times I heard that Peter Jackson had a $270M budget for the LotR triolgy. That works out to $90M/film. I'll buy $80M for a "big-budget" film.
There have been other articles posted here at
Read the article. The original design consisted of 26 parallel wires, 1 for each letter of the alphabet. No room for punctuation. That came later with mysterious theoretical paper v2.0, presumably written by CM++.
That's my point. Allowing under 18s into an R rated movie is entirely analagous to renting an M-rated video game to an under 18. We don't need laws regulating movie theaters, and we don't need laws regulating renting/selling video games. Period.
As others have said, there is already a rating system on video games. The real issue here is criminalizing the sale of "M" rated games to the under-18 set.
R rated movies are supposed to forbid access to those 17 and under without adult (read, 18+) supervision. When is the last time you saw the police show up at a movie theater and arrest the 16 year old ticket seller for selling tickets to the latest R-rated action flick to his under-18 friends?
Ratings, yes. It helps people be more informed. Criminalization of "ratings violations", no? How many more non-violent offenders does the US need in its jails?
Wasn't sure if it was first or last... that's strange. I guess you get more protection for your patent if it takes 3+ years from application -> issuance.
As for the corporate whore, why am I not surprised? Let's rape the entire public domain so I can continue making money off my dead husband's estate.
I didn't just say that, did I?
The problem is that no one seems to know, or at least isn't saying, exactly what routines/IP/patents are being investigated. Remember, patents only last for 17 years from issuance of patent, or 20 years from application for patent, whichever expires first. Anything patented pre-1986 (or applied for before 1983) will have fallen into public domain already.
I'm not entirely sure what you can do if, after your patent expires, you find out that someone was violating your patent while it was still valid.
Could be... I like to consider everyone innocent until proven guilty (you were all using iCommune for fair use purposes, right?). I'm not so used to thinking the other way around (you mean there's people out there that illegally share copyrighted material???).
The reason I wondered about it is that I've been seeing rumors of a Rendezvous-enabled iTunes for some time now... who knows... maybe that's on hold due to the RIAAs jack-booted thuggery too!
iMac is trademarked. After reading Apple's trademark page, I presume they're more worried about the Mac part than the i- prefix. Pay no attention to me... :)
Sounds like they're putting the kibosh on this project because they plan to do something like this in the near future. They may even have plans to make this a paid upgrade to the free iTunes download. Who knows?
I actually thought they'd go after iCommune for trademark dilution...
The biggest problem is that the Constitution says "for limited times" (US Constitution, Section 8, para.8). Ted Olsen has argued, apparently with a large degree of success, that the age of the universe minus 1 day is still, technically, a limited time.
No, this isn't what the Founding Fathers had in mind. But it's what they wrote. Maybe we should dig them up and shoot them for being so vague here, when they explicitly specify other details, such as the 7th amendment in the Bill of Rights: "In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved..."
So, we are specifically guaranteed a jury trial in civil matters with monetary damages exceeding $20 (a trivial amount of money today); but there are no limits on the "limited" duration of patents and copyrights set forth in the Constitution.
Had a particular time been set in those days (say, 25 years) it would have actually been to our benefit. In the late 18th century, communications took days to weeks; distribution of ideas, years. Today, we have instant worldwide communications. In the 21st century, 25 years is effectively a longer time to have materials under copyright control than it would have been 200 years ago, when it took much longer for ideas to spread.
The scary thing behind what was posted to Bugtraq is that it explicitly states that all digital media on the system is cataloged, and the list is sent to the RIAA. This assumes all digital media on a system is an illegal copy.
Sure, if the worm comes into your system over a P2P network, there's a good chance that at least *some* of your mp3s are pirated, but there's no way to differentiate pirated mp3s and those you ripped/encoded from your own CD collection.
I could easily see someone downloading a public domain work via P2P network, getting infected, and having their 40GB mp3 (ripped/encoded from legally obtained sources) library listed to the RIAA "for future prosecution."
I love the whole guilty until proven innocent attitude here. Sounds like a bad "In Soviet Russia..." joke.