Exactly, only people who already support them will watch or read. They need to debate on national TV, and it's tragic that both major parties have worked to exclude them.
Tragic or not, it's more or less mathematically dictated in a first past the post voting system. Read Wikipedia (and its references) for a technical explanation, but I've found these videos by C. G. P. Grey to be excellent for educating people from all sorts of backgrounds.
And this is exactly why first past the post voting is wrong for our country! Some jumped up Istari manages to split the vote from evil's hand picked successor (Sauron) and now look at where we're at!
C. G. P. Grey really needs to redo his explanations from a Middle-earth perspective.
Sorry - you missed the point which is that a copyright is a time limited monopoly which gives the owner of the copyright control over that monopoly. It's a business thing, and as such they have control over how they want to make money from the monopoly - or how they want to run the business opportunity into the ground.
You made an argument related to your opinion of how a business model compares to other models, but you didn't address the core issue of the "copy right".
While you ignored my point, I'll try not to ignore yours. Some painters/photographers may indeed choose to go the route of handing their stuff out for free/cheap to get high popularity to drive a demand up for original works. But most of the ones I've known (related to wall art) try to go for a more moderate model of modestly priced limited prints - selling an original is hard and can lead to some very unpredictable (and nerve-wracking) income flow. An artist would have to work for quite some time to have a sufficient body of originals to keep any sort of regular income that way - prints on the other hand can help rent gallery space, buy more paints, and if they're really good even put a little food on the table.
I'd suggest a counter example to be duplicating a piece of art to hang on your own wall instead of buying one of the artist's prints. I'd personally view that as a non-commercial infringement which substantially violates a creator's right to pick their own business model.
You know, I think I'd donate to an organization that kept an eye on patents in the pipe and sent out alerts (RSS/tweets/cat-symbols/etc...) when something seemingly obvious or prior hits the public comment phase. With the right mobilization, some topics at least, could swamp the USPTO - although sometimes comments are lumped together which could lead to summary dismissal. The organization might also be able to play a role in stopping the comment lumping.
Local Group (Milky way, Andromeda, etc...) diameter ~ 10 Mly,
Virgo Supercluster diameter ~ 100 Mly.
The existence of superclusters is part of why local homogeneity is not observed. However, the claim is only that any given region of about 250 Mly is on average about the same as any other region of the same size. So, even if that homogeneity holds true as you reduce scale (i.e. look for an average Earth) there's still a huge difference in thinking that you've got AC posters on alt-Earth asking about their alt-Australian universe homogeneity study. Besides, the frequency of Earth like planets should be signnificantly higher within our own statistically homogeneous region, but we still haven't had cookies dropped off from our older-to-the-hood neighbors. Check out the Fermi Paradox for fun reading.
Actually - there's some discussion to having been visited in prehistory and early history earth, but that's a subject for an alt. and not an alt-
...people who are fanatically devoted to one viewpoint, ignoring all evidence to the contractrary[sic], and demonizing their opponent. Yeah, science needs to be more like sports...
Hey there. I see you participate in grant reviews too!
So, according to this logic, only small independent labels are just in initiating civil suits and receiving damage compensation? Either what you said doesn't sound like equality or I missed something. Would you care to clarify?
Or go to law school after having a few years experience in the tech field. Or training their children in technology and being supportive of alternate fields like law and politics if the child is so inclined.
It depends on the diversity of the author's skill set. If they are a good writer (and employ a good editor), they'll also need to be a typesetter/designer, good business person, marketeer, & etc... to be a successful independent self employed ebook author. Now some may be able to do so, but many good authors may not be able to perform these steps on their own. So, the publisher usually fills the same role as a business manager for the small independently owned physician's or dentist's clinic. Sure some doctors and dentists can keep their own books, but most get someone else to do it for them - either out of competence or so they can devote their time to their own practice.
2) Get a few credit checks over the next few months. Depending on how much information the father has actually given away (and it may be more than he's willing to admit), he may have given the scammers enough to do a thorough identity theft job on him. Picking up any attempts at this as early as possible will be important.
This, and even more proactive, call the three credit reporting agencies and ask for a fraud alert be attached to the name/SSN. This makes anyone trying to get credit have to jump through some more hoops - some difficult or impossible (without removal of the fraud alert first). It'll make obtaining new-credit for your father a big headache (although he should already be pretty established there), but could make credit a non-starter for an ID thief.
Why would the DoJ be in charge of policing and arresting matters which are of an entirely civil concern between entities? It's not as if anything criminal is going on in a majority of these cases. Law enforcement should only enter a civil dispute if one of the parties requests assistance - otherwise they'll focus on crimes like theft and not civil affairs like basic infringement.
Would you really want the police stopping by every time you had a disagreement with your neighbor?
I suspect that wearing a T-shirt with the words "Fire" would however be acceptable in any crowded location. It could be in poor taste, but almost certainly legal. Also, the court case where falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater was used as an example in the judge's decision to prevent political flyer distribution was later overturned (note that joking is not shouting).
That earlier decision had put up a restriction to free speech with a test of whether the speech presented "a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." After this case was overturned in the late 60's the courts made a new test which is that speech may be prohibited when it can incite "imminent lawless action." So, if the government was running the airplane (and not a private corporation) you should indeed be allowed to joke about bombs and terrorists permitted that it was clear you were joking (or ridiculing whatever methods you perceive to be too feeble to stop terrorists). Falsely shouting "bomb!" or "fire!" in an airplane or theater is a grey area. Giving stump speeches promoting the bombing of airplanes is definitely legal (because the criminal action isn't imminent). Otherwise we should have pulled "Civil Disobedience" long since (which predates any of these court cases by the way).
And that's the problem - if you want to increase the amount of documentation they need to include women pages too:)
The man pages were great, but if you were just teaching yourself (especially without programming experience) a man page alone isn't enough to set up a robust system (besides, unless I'm mistaken, most man pages weren't Slackware specific). A man page doesn't give you a list of best practices (beyond the one function) or additional functions. For example, you could learn all about how to set up TCP/IP without ever running across a reference to a samba server - so you'd still be left scratching your head wondering why you had a working NIC without being able to see the other (non-linux) computers on the network.
Now Slackware was great (and probably still is) and the lack of general documentation certainly made me work harder to learn linux and remember the lessons once learned, but lack of documentation isn't what makes a distro for the elite.
...Sure, the documentation could use a little sprucing up, yet somehow we all manage to get by.
I'll confess to the fact that it's been a very long while since I've run Slackware (mid 3.x versions), but if things now are like they once were, that's probably just a little bit of an understatement. There was always enough documentation if you knew what you were doing, but otherwise it was just enough to be dangerous.
While it might be an interesting change of pace to elect a scientist rather than a lawyer or executive...
You can say that again. Just think of the knowledge we could learn with proper experimentation. 1: Experimental control: do not launch a nuclear strike against large semi-communistic nuclear armed country. 2: Test Case: Do launch a nuclear strike against a large semi-communistic nuclear armed country.
Just think of how much fun the statisticians could have with a scientist as president!
;)
Actually, I think evidenced based policy with periodic refinement would be an excellent way to run a country. You need some humans in the mix to make sure you don't wind up with cold-calculating death-committees (well death-algorithms) - so the robotic/computer overlord model is out...
I don't think I really want to touch specific applications - especially if it's just a computerized version of a paper survey, but by the letter of the law: are most of these apps illegal? Yes. There are massive areas which even involve prescription only products which are technically illegal - many products have a monograph somewhere in 21 CFR, and products outside of that monograph are produced/sold in prescription strengths. However, especially with historical products, these products are continually made, sold, and used (with great effect by the doctor/dentist). The FDA doesn't have the manpower to meet its mandate. So, instead of blasting the nutraceuticals off the shelf, they focus their energy on real drugs which have major risk/benefit considerations.
In short - are most medical apps going to be technically illegal? Yes. Are most medical apps going to be subjected to FDA regulation? Not likely anytime soon. Is it a grey area? No, but most people will pretend that it is.
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Exactly, only people who already support them will watch or read. They need to debate on national TV, and it's tragic that both major parties have worked to exclude them.
Tragic or not, it's more or less mathematically dictated in a first past the post voting system. Read Wikipedia (and its references) for a technical explanation, but I've found these videos by C. G. P. Grey to be excellent for educating people from all sorts of backgrounds.
And this is exactly why first past the post voting is wrong for our country! Some jumped up Istari manages to split the vote from evil's hand picked successor (Sauron) and now look at where we're at!
C. G. P. Grey really needs to redo his explanations from a Middle-earth perspective.
And it gets kids thinking about realistic future career paths like being a fry cook!
Sorry - you missed the point which is that a copyright is a time limited monopoly which gives the owner of the copyright control over that monopoly. It's a business thing, and as such they have control over how they want to make money from the monopoly - or how they want to run the business opportunity into the ground.
You made an argument related to your opinion of how a business model compares to other models, but you didn't address the core issue of the "copy right".
While you ignored my point, I'll try not to ignore yours. Some painters/photographers may indeed choose to go the route of handing their stuff out for free/cheap to get high popularity to drive a demand up for original works. But most of the ones I've known (related to wall art) try to go for a more moderate model of modestly priced limited prints - selling an original is hard and can lead to some very unpredictable (and nerve-wracking) income flow. An artist would have to work for quite some time to have a sufficient body of originals to keep any sort of regular income that way - prints on the other hand can help rent gallery space, buy more paints, and if they're really good even put a little food on the table.
I'd suggest a counter example to be duplicating a piece of art to hang on your own wall instead of buying one of the artist's prints. I'd personally view that as a non-commercial infringement which substantially violates a creator's right to pick their own business model.
You know, I think I'd donate to an organization that kept an eye on patents in the pipe and sent out alerts (RSS/tweets/cat-symbols/etc...) when something seemingly obvious or prior hits the public comment phase. With the right mobilization, some topics at least, could swamp the USPTO - although sometimes comments are lumped together which could lead to summary dismissal. The organization might also be able to play a role in stopping the comment lumping.
Whoops - meant that to be a funny and not an overrated. If you want to be generous, you can pick an excuse and run with it, but I was simply clumsy.
Because then the carrier would actually have to invest some of those horrendous data rates on their infrastructure.
For scale:
Milky way diameter ~ 0.11 Mly,
Local Group (Milky way, Andromeda, etc...) diameter ~ 10 Mly,
Virgo Supercluster diameter ~ 100 Mly.
The existence of superclusters is part of why local homogeneity is not observed. However, the claim is only that any given region of about 250 Mly is on average about the same as any other region of the same size. So, even if that homogeneity holds true as you reduce scale (i.e. look for an average Earth) there's still a huge difference in thinking that you've got AC posters on alt-Earth asking about their alt-Australian universe homogeneity study. Besides, the frequency of Earth like planets should be signnificantly higher within our own statistically homogeneous region, but we still haven't had cookies dropped off from our older-to-the-hood neighbors. Check out the Fermi Paradox for fun reading.
Actually - there's some discussion to having been visited in prehistory and early history earth, but that's a subject for an alt. and not an alt-
;)
Hmm, twenty two is an odd base to work in but I suppose it's still valid.
I thought twentytwo was even. In all bases except base one.
All your base are belong to us, even base one!
...people who are fanatically devoted to one viewpoint, ignoring all evidence to the contractrary[sic], and demonizing their opponent. Yeah, science needs to be more like sports...
Hey there. I see you participate in grant reviews too!
Well, according to that model, soon enough you'll start seeing some slashdot comments scrolling across the bottom of the screen on ESPN 7.
I'm willing to put money down that file sharing will move onto Tor, where nothing reasonable can be done to stop or track it down.
So bandwidth is in the "unreasonable" category? ;)
So, according to this logic, only small independent labels are just in initiating civil suits and receiving damage compensation? Either what you said doesn't sound like equality or I missed something. Would you care to clarify?
Or go to law school after having a few years experience in the tech field. Or training their children in technology and being supportive of alternate fields like law and politics if the child is so inclined.
It depends on the diversity of the author's skill set. If they are a good writer (and employ a good editor), they'll also need to be a typesetter/designer, good business person, marketeer, & etc... to be a successful independent self employed ebook author. Now some may be able to do so, but many good authors may not be able to perform these steps on their own. So, the publisher usually fills the same role as a business manager for the small independently owned physician's or dentist's clinic. Sure some doctors and dentists can keep their own books, but most get someone else to do it for them - either out of competence or so they can devote their time to their own practice.
Well, at least they're honest extreme partisan criminals... they openly admit they're doing it for money they foolishly think is untraceable.
2) Get a few credit checks over the next few months. Depending on how much information the father has actually given away (and it may be more than he's willing to admit), he may have given the scammers enough to do a thorough identity theft job on him. Picking up any attempts at this as early as possible will be important.
This, and even more proactive, call the three credit reporting agencies and ask for a fraud alert be attached to the name/SSN. This makes anyone trying to get credit have to jump through some more hoops - some difficult or impossible (without removal of the fraud alert first). It'll make obtaining new-credit for your father a big headache (although he should already be pretty established there), but could make credit a non-starter for an ID thief.
Why would the DoJ be in charge of policing and arresting matters which are of an entirely civil concern between entities? It's not as if anything criminal is going on in a majority of these cases. Law enforcement should only enter a civil dispute if one of the parties requests assistance - otherwise they'll focus on crimes like theft and not civil affairs like basic infringement.
Would you really want the police stopping by every time you had a disagreement with your neighbor?
I suspect that wearing a T-shirt with the words "Fire" would however be acceptable in any crowded location. It could be in poor taste, but almost certainly legal. Also, the court case where falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater was used as an example in the judge's decision to prevent political flyer distribution was later overturned (note that joking is not shouting).
That earlier decision had put up a restriction to free speech with a test of whether the speech presented "a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." After this case was overturned in the late 60's the courts made a new test which is that speech may be prohibited when it can incite "imminent lawless action." So, if the government was running the airplane (and not a private corporation) you should indeed be allowed to joke about bombs and terrorists permitted that it was clear you were joking (or ridiculing whatever methods you perceive to be too feeble to stop terrorists). Falsely shouting "bomb!" or "fire!" in an airplane or theater is a grey area. Giving stump speeches promoting the bombing of airplanes is definitely legal (because the criminal action isn't imminent). Otherwise we should have pulled "Civil Disobedience" long since (which predates any of these court cases by the way).
So, can you bring a first amendment case against a corporate entity? It's interesting that airport drama has moved from the fourth to the first.
And that's the problem - if you want to increase the amount of documentation they need to include women pages too :)
The man pages were great, but if you were just teaching yourself (especially without programming experience) a man page alone isn't enough to set up a robust system (besides, unless I'm mistaken, most man pages weren't Slackware specific). A man page doesn't give you a list of best practices (beyond the one function) or additional functions. For example, you could learn all about how to set up TCP/IP without ever running across a reference to a samba server - so you'd still be left scratching your head wondering why you had a working NIC without being able to see the other (non-linux) computers on the network.
Now Slackware was great (and probably still is) and the lack of general documentation certainly made me work harder to learn linux and remember the lessons once learned, but lack of documentation isn't what makes a distro for the elite.
...Sure, the documentation could use a little sprucing up, yet somehow we all manage to get by.
I'll confess to the fact that it's been a very long while since I've run Slackware (mid 3.x versions), but if things now are like they once were, that's probably just a little bit of an understatement. There was always enough documentation if you knew what you were doing, but otherwise it was just enough to be dangerous.
While it might be an interesting change of pace to elect a scientist rather than a lawyer or executive...
You can say that again. Just think of the knowledge we could learn with proper experimentation. 1: Experimental control: do not launch a nuclear strike against large semi-communistic nuclear armed country. 2: Test Case: Do launch a nuclear strike against a large semi-communistic nuclear armed country.
Just think of how much fun the statisticians could have with a scientist as president!
Actually, I think evidenced based policy with periodic refinement would be an excellent way to run a country. You need some humans in the mix to make sure you don't wind up with cold-calculating death-committees (well death-algorithms) - so the robotic/computer overlord model is out...
I don't think I really want to touch specific applications - especially if it's just a computerized version of a paper survey, but by the letter of the law: are most of these apps illegal? Yes. There are massive areas which even involve prescription only products which are technically illegal - many products have a monograph somewhere in 21 CFR, and products outside of that monograph are produced/sold in prescription strengths. However, especially with historical products, these products are continually made, sold, and used (with great effect by the doctor/dentist). The FDA doesn't have the manpower to meet its mandate. So, instead of blasting the nutraceuticals off the shelf, they focus their energy on real drugs which have major risk/benefit considerations.
In short - are most medical apps going to be technically illegal? Yes. Are most medical apps going to be subjected to FDA regulation? Not likely anytime soon. Is it a grey area? No, but most people will pretend that it is.