1) My store purchases Games Workshop items through two different distributors, both of whom sell the Games Workshop items through the internet and through order catalogs. We sell them on our website, at trade shows and through our store. We signed no agreement with Games Workshop to agree to their demands.
2) There's no law preventing me from selling goods sold to distributors in America that is not listed on any restricted list by the FTC, ATF or otherwise.
Let them try. The only thing they'll end up doing is losing customers who are too far from any store to buy their products.
Copyright and patents weren't enacted to make sure that ideas were never lost. They were in the Constitution itself in the US to ensure that people who created new inventions, devices and arts and sciences could have a limited State-sanctioned monopoly as incentive to innovate and create.
Because corporations abuse the system does not make them immoral, due to you seeing them as what they aren't. Do remember that Copyrights and Patents were included in the Constitution, and your rights to free speech, press, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, and for the individual States to enact their own laws not invoked by the Government itself were amended many years later. Whether or not Copyrights or Patents are less important, they were first on the block as guaranteed, and the Bill of Rights came several years later.
In your logic, it's stupid to consider something evil "sinister". After all, it originally meant that pertaining to the left, or left-handed. Because using your left-hand predominantly centuries ago was alike casting out God and accepting the devil. This is how sinister came to be "evil" and "wicked". So, since it's not the original meaning or intent, but just twisted, we should stop using it because it's stupid and old.
Or, you can realize that languages evolve, add meanings, drop meanings, and otherwise grow as people accept terminology. And piracy was a term meaning infringing of copyright or patent long before you were born. Accept it.
RFCs this old were designed for ease of use but also to keep information moving. The only problem was that when it was conceived, no one figured on thousands of Penis Enlargement, Make Money Today, Get Bigger Breasts, Lose Tons Of Weight, Wipe Out Debt and Free Credit Card offers filling people's email boxes daily.
SMTP as the RFC spec is faulty and prone to severe spam abuse. Breaking RFC specs at this time until it is fixed and much harder to abuse would probably help cut down on spam. Even if only to two major ISPs.
Don't forget that listing in Yahoo's directory costs money now for ANY link. Google's listing in a directory is free.
Yahoo will have to drop their pay-to-place completely to catch Google. Their spiders both crawl, but Yahoo doesn't bother placing these pages in its structured hierarchy.
But if you just buy the DVD, then Disney will claim that the expanded theater distribution was a waste and use it as an excuse for no other theatrical releases.
After all, they used their bad profits from Princess Mononoke as the reason for not initially releasing any further films. Why should this be any different?
Take a friend, go twice if you can, etc., do everything to make sure that this time around it's well worth it for Disney, so it will be well worth it for future Miyazaki releases. Well, some of his past films, since he's now retired.
Isn't Berman the guy who couldn't understand why _Nemesis_ did horribly? Why should Trek fans listen to what he thinks will do well with the franchise?
In other words... HEAD FOR THE HILLS FOR SEASON THREE!
All intellectual property law is governed solely by federal laws; states can't enact any laws for copyrights, patents or trademarks.
And yes, it is a felony to commit criminal copyright infringement. But there are many levels (classes) of infringement. Murder and treason are fairly high up, while, say, abusing a corpse and dispensing without a license may be fairly low.
Some people should go to jail for outright copyright infringement. But threatening just college students with jail, and only for a deterrent, does little good for its purpose.
Of course he's right. It seems that the new era, money for lobbying gets you just the right laws if you can pull some wool over the right eyes. Piggyback it onto another bill, say it's to fight a certain crime, or just be one of the top supporters to the right Congressman and you got your bill on its way.
The only one the long copyrights really benefit are the large corporations. So why not just leave it that these corporations, who are making money off someone else's creative effort, have to pay to keep making money off this long after the creator's death? Makes sense, and it won't put items that need to be in the public domain because no one knows who rightfully owns the rights to it, into an unnecessary protection.
Not only this, but myself and other authors won't touch Word because its formatting and macros are horrible, it botches documents to death when you upgrade or convert, and it can't even format a page typographically for manuscript formats.
WordPerfect, WordStar and other programs which were designed for word processing rather than making memos and pretty signs for businesses are the true power programs for writers. WordPerfect 10 isn't as great with today's software as WordPerfect 5.1 was with software of that day, but it's still well worth the money.
If you enjoy your research in the form of good hard science fiction, Robert J. Sawyer currently has a trilogy, with the second book just in bookstores, regarding an alternate world where Neanderthals survived while Humans died out, and includes details on privacy, quantum computing, and different extinction selections and how they affect the same world. Really interesting read.
No, but if your patent gets the company a contract or sales exceeding their usual amount for work, you're likely to see a bonus, or if possible, get a promotion.
In the music industry, if you're the band, where's the promotion? Where's the bonus? It's a crappy work-for-hire in the eyes of the RIAA's members which seems to think that without them, the band would definitely not be big.
With the internet now, though, bands can market and push their own products without the RIAA. Time for some of them looking for record contracts to try the 'net first.
My bank, when you first open an account, chooses the password for you. But it's not just a hash of your account number or completely random, but it's the digits based on the telephone keypad letters of a four letter word, like BOTH, YOLK, THIS, etc.
Then in the menu of the ATM, once the card is activated by typing in this word, you can select your new PIN.
Except not every ATM is equipped with this, or, like those around here, when it gets really snowy, sometimes cars driving past the external ATMs can splash slush and salt onto the covering of the camera and block its view.
Probably the best thing to do is a complete overhaul of the CC, ATM and Debit Card markets, over the course of the next ten years or so. Increase the numbers to 24 digits, secure a pin of no less than six digits, and have complete address verification based on the entire address, country and postal code, instead of the absurdly simple address/postal code there is now.
It wouldn't be too difficult to supply most terminals with an update to software, and upgrade other pieces of software, to accept both types of cards until the old ones are phased out. And it wouldn't cost too much more money, since they're not replacing all the old cards, just phasing them out when new ones are released.
The problem mainly is the price and maintenance, with little return of playability. Hardly anyone wants to spend $40 on a game, to pay $10 a month, just to be part of a popularity contest.
Maybe Maxis should admit defeat on their hopes and still try to salvage the game and its current subscribers... Either sell the game as it is with a small or no subscription fee (I wouldn't mind $10 per half, but per month?), or sell the game cheap with a small subscription fee ($10 game at the counter of most stores, like those annoying AOL CDs, and $3.95/mo. to play), or...
Why not sell the game and allow people to setup their own SO servers? If a family wants to have fun, they could start a SO server on a computer, or just lease one from a company for the $10/mo., and they can all play free. Make it so the person controlling the server software can set a public server, or private with passwords.
There's still a lot of potential, but Maxis should have done a thorough test with the game with the public to see what their opinion was. This is not simply The Sims, gone online, it's a totally different game based on The Sims, with different objectives and play.
Not that Maxis would read this, but some food for thought.
In my state, you can buy special license plates for a bit more than normal, with a logo of the school, organization or recreation you want. The extra money is given to that organization, and you show your support.
Why not do this with NASA, as well? Especially since my state has a NASA research center. I'd be happy to spend an extra $10 for my license plate to show that I support our NASA research.
No, ShowBiz was a competitor. I remember there being a ShowBiz and a Chuck E. Cheese, each at a different mall, here in town while I grew up. Similar setups, just one had better pizza, the other had better games.
My boss has the best fun at this. Whenever a telemarketer calls, he interrupts them quickly with:
"Just tell me what you're trying to sell me so I can say No."
He's never purchased anything unsolicited, and throws away all junk mail after shredding it. But it is fun to listen to him make telemarketers work if they don't want to hang up.
MS requiring an upgrade is forced because no one else can support or fix bugs or security issues on old Windows or MS-DOS versions.
Red Hat is just stopping their own support for old versions, but anyone else can fix their bugs or security issues, and support it, because they have the source code to it.
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Sex and Violence is what led Acclaim to be delisted. XXX BMX anyone?
I don't see how they can enforce this.
1) My store purchases Games Workshop items through two different distributors, both of whom sell the Games Workshop items through the internet and through order catalogs. We sell them on our website, at trade shows and through our store. We signed no agreement with Games Workshop to agree to their demands.
2) There's no law preventing me from selling goods sold to distributors in America that is not listed on any restricted list by the FTC, ATF or otherwise.
Let them try. The only thing they'll end up doing is losing customers who are too far from any store to buy their products.
Copyright and patents weren't enacted to make sure that ideas were never lost. They were in the Constitution itself in the US to ensure that people who created new inventions, devices and arts and sciences could have a limited State-sanctioned monopoly as incentive to innovate and create.
Because corporations abuse the system does not make them immoral, due to you seeing them as what they aren't. Do remember that Copyrights and Patents were included in the Constitution, and your rights to free speech, press, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, and for the individual States to enact their own laws not invoked by the Government itself were amended many years later. Whether or not Copyrights or Patents are less important, they were first on the block as guaranteed, and the Bill of Rights came several years later.
In your logic, it's stupid to consider something evil "sinister". After all, it originally meant that pertaining to the left, or left-handed. Because using your left-hand predominantly centuries ago was alike casting out God and accepting the devil. This is how sinister came to be "evil" and "wicked". So, since it's not the original meaning or intent, but just twisted, we should stop using it because it's stupid and old.
Or, you can realize that languages evolve, add meanings, drop meanings, and otherwise grow as people accept terminology. And piracy was a term meaning infringing of copyright or patent long before you were born. Accept it.
I have to agree with the parent.
RFCs this old were designed for ease of use but also to keep information moving. The only problem was that when it was conceived, no one figured on thousands of Penis Enlargement, Make Money Today, Get Bigger Breasts, Lose Tons Of Weight, Wipe Out Debt and Free Credit Card offers filling people's email boxes daily.
SMTP as the RFC spec is faulty and prone to severe spam abuse. Breaking RFC specs at this time until it is fixed and much harder to abuse would probably help cut down on spam. Even if only to two major ISPs.
Where have you been?
It's a nonacademic use of dupe stories, first posts, hot grits, Natalie Portman, misspelled highlights and Wil Wheaton's commentaries!
Well, I guess it has some academic qualities. (:
Don't forget that listing in Yahoo's directory costs money now for ANY link. Google's listing in a directory is free.
Yahoo will have to drop their pay-to-place completely to catch Google. Their spiders both crawl, but Yahoo doesn't bother placing these pages in its structured hierarchy.
Only a couple million dollars here in the states. I think it had more screens overall, though.
But if you just buy the DVD, then Disney will claim that the expanded theater distribution was a waste and use it as an excuse for no other theatrical releases.
After all, they used their bad profits from Princess Mononoke as the reason for not initially releasing any further films. Why should this be any different?
Take a friend, go twice if you can, etc., do everything to make sure that this time around it's well worth it for Disney, so it will be well worth it for future Miyazaki releases. Well, some of his past films, since he's now retired.
Isn't Berman the guy who couldn't understand why _Nemesis_ did horribly? Why should Trek fans listen to what he thinks will do well with the franchise?
In other words... HEAD FOR THE HILLS FOR SEASON THREE!
levels (classes) of infringement
should be
levels (classes) of felonies
Sorry, just woke up.
All intellectual property law is governed solely by federal laws; states can't enact any laws for copyrights, patents or trademarks.
And yes, it is a felony to commit criminal copyright infringement. But there are many levels (classes) of infringement. Murder and treason are fairly high up, while, say, abusing a corpse and dispensing without a license may be fairly low.
Some people should go to jail for outright copyright infringement. But threatening just college students with jail, and only for a deterrent, does little good for its purpose.
Don't forget that Sony thinks that Spider-Man made no profit... Profits, like any stats, can be fudged in any way people see fit.
Of course he's right. It seems that the new era, money for lobbying gets you just the right laws if you can pull some wool over the right eyes. Piggyback it onto another bill, say it's to fight a certain crime, or just be one of the top supporters to the right Congressman and you got your bill on its way.
The only one the long copyrights really benefit are the large corporations. So why not just leave it that these corporations, who are making money off someone else's creative effort, have to pay to keep making money off this long after the creator's death? Makes sense, and it won't put items that need to be in the public domain because no one knows who rightfully owns the rights to it, into an unnecessary protection.
Not only this, but myself and other authors won't touch Word because its formatting and macros are horrible, it botches documents to death when you upgrade or convert, and it can't even format a page typographically for manuscript formats.
WordPerfect, WordStar and other programs which were designed for word processing rather than making memos and pretty signs for businesses are the true power programs for writers. WordPerfect 10 isn't as great with today's software as WordPerfect 5.1 was with software of that day, but it's still well worth the money.
If you enjoy your research in the form of good hard science fiction, Robert J. Sawyer currently has a trilogy, with the second book just in bookstores, regarding an alternate world where Neanderthals survived while Humans died out, and includes details on privacy, quantum computing, and different extinction selections and how they affect the same world. Really interesting read.
3. Prophet!
There's a religion to pointing out limitations in government?
No, but if your patent gets the company a contract or sales exceeding their usual amount for work, you're likely to see a bonus, or if possible, get a promotion.
In the music industry, if you're the band, where's the promotion? Where's the bonus? It's a crappy work-for-hire in the eyes of the RIAA's members which seems to think that without them, the band would definitely not be big.
With the internet now, though, bands can market and push their own products without the RIAA. Time for some of them looking for record contracts to try the 'net first.
My bank, when you first open an account, chooses the password for you. But it's not just a hash of your account number or completely random, but it's the digits based on the telephone keypad letters of a four letter word, like BOTH, YOLK, THIS, etc.
Then in the menu of the ATM, once the card is activated by typing in this word, you can select your new PIN.
Except not every ATM is equipped with this, or, like those around here, when it gets really snowy, sometimes cars driving past the external ATMs can splash slush and salt onto the covering of the camera and block its view.
Probably the best thing to do is a complete overhaul of the CC, ATM and Debit Card markets, over the course of the next ten years or so. Increase the numbers to 24 digits, secure a pin of no less than six digits, and have complete address verification based on the entire address, country and postal code, instead of the absurdly simple address/postal code there is now.
It wouldn't be too difficult to supply most terminals with an update to software, and upgrade other pieces of software, to accept both types of cards until the old ones are phased out. And it wouldn't cost too much more money, since they're not replacing all the old cards, just phasing them out when new ones are released.
So why don't they?
The problem mainly is the price and maintenance, with little return of playability. Hardly anyone wants to spend $40 on a game, to pay $10 a month, just to be part of a popularity contest.
Maybe Maxis should admit defeat on their hopes and still try to salvage the game and its current subscribers... Either sell the game as it is with a small or no subscription fee (I wouldn't mind $10 per half, but per month?), or sell the game cheap with a small subscription fee ($10 game at the counter of most stores, like those annoying AOL CDs, and $3.95/mo. to play), or...
Why not sell the game and allow people to setup their own SO servers? If a family wants to have fun, they could start a SO server on a computer, or just lease one from a company for the $10/mo., and they can all play free. Make it so the person controlling the server software can set a public server, or private with passwords.
There's still a lot of potential, but Maxis should have done a thorough test with the game with the public to see what their opinion was. This is not simply The Sims, gone online, it's a totally different game based on The Sims, with different objectives and play.
Not that Maxis would read this, but some food for thought.
In my state, you can buy special license plates for a bit more than normal, with a logo of the school, organization or recreation you want. The extra money is given to that organization, and you show your support.
Why not do this with NASA, as well? Especially since my state has a NASA research center. I'd be happy to spend an extra $10 for my license plate to show that I support our NASA research.
More info at http://www.oplates.com/
No, ShowBiz was a competitor. I remember there being a ShowBiz and a Chuck E. Cheese, each at a different mall, here in town while I grew up. Similar setups, just one had better pizza, the other had better games.
My boss has the best fun at this. Whenever a telemarketer calls, he interrupts them quickly with:
"Just tell me what you're trying to sell me so I can say No."
He's never purchased anything unsolicited, and throws away all junk mail after shredding it. But it is fun to listen to him make telemarketers work if they don't want to hang up.
Different things.
MS requiring an upgrade is forced because no one else can support or fix bugs or security issues on old Windows or MS-DOS versions.
Red Hat is just stopping their own support for old versions, but anyone else can fix their bugs or security issues, and support it, because they have the source code to it.
No one's forcing an upgrade on Red Hat's half.