I hate that first point, always have. An example is our high school students being compared to high school students in Japan. I am sure if we kicked out our lower 50% from high school and sent them to a trade school instead our scores would be higher too.
So you are saying, that if I ask the US patent office for a copy of a patent to make sure that my own program does not infringe upon it, the US Patent Office just committed patent infringement?
Trying to be funny? I was speaking about the fact that the NSA is the only group that is able to keep their patents secret until the point that somebody happens to also come about with the same thing and then the NSA patent becomes revealed and starts its time limit.
Patents are open for viewing aren't they (with the exception of the NSA)? So if they have a patent for something, then how can they order someone to take down information that a supposed patent covers?
Actually, for the ACTA to pass, with provisions that are not currently supported by US law, it would take 2/3rds of Congress to believe the hype, now lets just hope that Democrats get really Gung-Ho about it so that Republicans will vote it down on principle.
I concur that there is a need for copyright protection just as there is for patent protection. The problem comes into play when a copyright exists past the point of where content is created because it exists.
Is an author going to not produce a book because he only has copyright protection for 28 years? Probably not, so what then is the excuse for allowing him to have copyright protection for life plus 70 years? Who besides an artist or author is able to make money off something they produced 50 years prior without any continual work or risk on their part?
Imagine what Disney would come up with if they no longer had the rights to Mickey Mouse. They would continuously have to create new characters and ideas that would further expand Social Culture. They do that a little now, true, but they would have to do it to an even greater extent.
Extended Copyrights reduce innovation.
What I am saddened by the most is that this would end up being a Executive Treaty because it doesn't come into conflict with out pre-existing laws./cry
If nobody comes out to state the obvious, then the people who are forcing this down the throats of the collective world will think they are doing it with everyone's concurrence.
What I don't understand is, when I worked in the navy in a nuclear power plant, all the fail safes were designed around the worst imaginable thing going wrong and preventing that from causing core damage.
Why the hell are any deep sea oil rigs being allowed to continue operating when we now know for a fact that they have no way to reliably stop their worst case scenario? It just seems illogical to me that
they would risk what just happened again or even worse?
They have one spot open on their team. They give that spot to 3 separate people to duke it out to find who would be best on their team. You are mistaken if you think this small group is the team. The team is the company, this isn't even a squad on the team, they are like mercenaries working for tenure.
I think that a few of the African countries that have a starving populace grow enough food to feed their citizens, the problem arises when they have to export the food to be able to buy weapons to fight a civil war.
No, I think the real expense in starting up the ISP is in the fact that without government regulation, they would have to go in and set up their own infrastructure which includes running hundreds of miles of line. Now if the government forces ISPs to open their lines to other companies a la electricity...maybe we can fix something.
1. Social Security - Americans are dumb and would not invest in other forms of retirement and then all you would hear in the news is how another 1000 Senior Citizens died today because they had no money.
2. Farm Subsidies - they are an attempt to stabilize the price of crops and to make them affordable for most Americans. Corn is cheap so people can buy corn. They pay people to not grow food because they want to minimize the whole Adam Smith boom bust cycle. I never want to have to pay $10 for a head of lettuce if I can help it.
3. United Nations Funding - We don't pay it, or at least we are drastically behind.
4. National Endowment for the Arts - not enough info to comment on
5. Our Public Education system is being compared to most countries that separate their smart students from their dumb ones and then don't count the dumb ones. Post Office - Cheaper and more reliable then Fedex and UPS. Shipped something with UPS and it took a week to get to my location I wanted, shipped something similar for half the cost and it got there in 3 days.
Amtrak, not enough info to comment on.
Slashdot Mirror
I hate that first point, always have. An example is our high school students being compared to high school students in Japan. I am sure if we kicked out our lower 50% from high school and sent them to a trade school instead our scores would be higher too.
OMG, the US is turning into China.
So you are saying, that if I ask the US patent office for a copy of a patent to make sure that my own program does not infringe upon it, the US Patent Office just committed patent infringement?
Trying to be funny? I was speaking about the fact that the NSA is the only group that is able to keep their patents secret until the point that somebody happens to also come about with the same thing and then the NSA patent becomes revealed and starts its time limit.
So the US patent office is infringing on the patent holders rights because they have the entire patent open for viewing by anyone?
Patents are open for viewing aren't they (with the exception of the NSA)? So if they have a patent for something, then how can they order someone to take down information that a supposed patent covers?
Actually, for the ACTA to pass, with provisions that are not currently supported by US law, it would take 2/3rds of Congress to believe the hype, now lets just hope that Democrats get really Gung-Ho about it so that Republicans will vote it down on principle.
No, you don't want to subscribe to it because Comcast will block Hulu because it competes with their On Demand selection.
What sucks is, for some reason 3.6.6 is preventing me from watching videos on youtube and such *ahem*. Damn you Mozilla!
I concur that there is a need for copyright protection just as there is for patent protection. The problem comes into play when a copyright exists past the point of where content is created because it exists.
Is an author going to not produce a book because he only has copyright protection for 28 years? Probably not, so what then is the excuse for allowing him to have copyright protection for life plus 70 years? Who besides an artist or author is able to make money off something they produced 50 years prior without any continual work or risk on their part?
Imagine what Disney would come up with if they no longer had the rights to Mickey Mouse. They would continuously have to create new characters and ideas that would further expand Social Culture. They do that a little now, true, but they would have to do it to an even greater extent.
Extended Copyrights reduce innovation.
Well then, lets hope and pray that this is indeed the case and that it requires Congressional Approval, cause that sure as hell won't happen...right?
What I am saddened by the most is that this would end up being a Executive Treaty because it doesn't come into conflict with out pre-existing laws. /cry
If nobody comes out to state the obvious, then the people who are forcing this down the throats of the collective world will think they are doing it with everyone's concurrence.
Its gotten to the point that pretty much everything regarding copyright law is against the law. When Everything is against the law, nothing is.
What I don't understand is, when I worked in the navy in a nuclear power plant, all the fail safes were designed around the worst imaginable thing going wrong and preventing that from causing core damage. Why the hell are any deep sea oil rigs being allowed to continue operating when we now know for a fact that they have no way to reliably stop their worst case scenario? It just seems illogical to me that they would risk what just happened again or even worse?
No, California is probably the closest thing to a democracy out of all the Republics, and in some cases it causes bad things to happen.
Liberals aren't scared of Palin, Palin helped Obama win by scaring away the moderates. That doesn't change the fact she is an idiot.
They have one spot open on their team. They give that spot to 3 separate people to duke it out to find who would be best on their team. You are mistaken if you think this small group is the team. The team is the company, this isn't even a squad on the team, they are like mercenaries working for tenure.
I think that a few of the African countries that have a starving populace grow enough food to feed their citizens, the problem arises when they have to export the food to be able to buy weapons to fight a civil war.
Correlation does not mean causation.
Correlation plus evidence can mean causation.
Step One: Ban Jaywalking Step Two: ??? Step Three: World Domination!
But there is evidence to support his claim that the UN prevents world war 3, most notably, its a place where all world countries can come to talk.
No, I think the real expense in starting up the ISP is in the fact that without government regulation, they would have to go in and set up their own infrastructure which includes running hundreds of miles of line. Now if the government forces ISPs to open their lines to other companies a la electricity...maybe we can fix something.
BP oil spill, its actually lack of government regulation that caused that one. Trust a business to police itself, HAH!
1. Social Security - Americans are dumb and would not invest in other forms of retirement and then all you would hear in the news is how another 1000 Senior Citizens died today because they had no money.
2. Farm Subsidies - they are an attempt to stabilize the price of crops and to make them affordable for most Americans. Corn is cheap so people can buy corn. They pay people to not grow food because they want to minimize the whole Adam Smith boom bust cycle. I never want to have to pay $10 for a head of lettuce if I can help it.
3. United Nations Funding - We don't pay it, or at least we are drastically behind.
4. National Endowment for the Arts - not enough info to comment on
5. Our Public Education system is being compared to most countries that separate their smart students from their dumb ones and then don't count the dumb ones. Post Office - Cheaper and more reliable then Fedex and UPS. Shipped something with UPS and it took a week to get to my location I wanted, shipped something similar for half the cost and it got there in 3 days. Amtrak, not enough info to comment on.