Kind of makes me second guess my decision to buy a $1M+ home in the bay area.
What kind of thought train does from 'hang on there're some big faultlines here and we all know big ones are due' to 'sure here's a million bucks let me put all my stuff on top of this faultline'
We have enough firepower to do that to this planet all by ourselves.
Really, are you sure about that? If we detonated every nuke at the same time in the same place we'd probably all die but the planet itself would be pretty much fine.
Yeah but that's assuming you leave a review that is identifiable you specifically by people who don't know you and why would you even do that with a good or bad review?
Mostly these companies would want to get rid of every single bad review regardless of merit or substance but then what's the point in having a system than only lets 'good' reviews past? It defeats the point of having reviews to begin with.
If you own a business, you can also pass it to your children, and great, great, great, grandchildren. Here are some veerrrryy old businesses:
Baker's Chocolate (1765)
"Baker's Chocolate is a brand name for the line of baking chocolates[1] owned by the Kraft Heinz Company (formerly Kraft Foods)"
Tell me more about how this has been passed generation to generation and isn't just a name that has persisted.
Do you really think that Bakers Chocolate made one very good piece of chocolate and is still being paid for it?
In essence, yes. They created the recipe for the chocolate. But they were smart and did not release the recipe to the public like the foolish inventors, software devs, authors, musicians etc. No, they kept the recipe a secret and produced millions of chocolate bars (a simple process once you know the recipe) for hundreds of years. Trade secret protection is the best protection of IP and this example proves it.
If its a trade secret you can bet your ass it isn't under copyright which forces you disclose what that secret is.
Why not ? What's so special about artists that they can make one thing, and then collect money for the rest of their life (and their children's) while other people have to repeat their work day after day ?
This assumes that everyone is going to want his solitary masterpiece in enough numbers and for enough time that his grandkids grandkids are still rolling in it, otherwise, why bother?
Because my children (not even grandkids) will not derive any income from my writing, I'll have to shelve my idea of this book and go do "real work". That's the line of thinking I was alluding to.
Wait, so how are your kids going to derive income from your 'real work'? They're not so why bother? Oh, so you can make money and pass it on, like you can with writing a book/music/etc. How many people do you think are going to want to read your book in a hundred years and why do you think people who had nothing to do with it deserve to derive income from it when their only connection to it is you got lucky a couple of times?
If I build a house, I can will it to my ancestors, it will remain ours in perpetuity unless sold at some point.
If, on the other hand, I write a tune or a book, or develop a drug, or create a painting — well, then I will only be rewarded for a brief period.
If you want to talk about things that are completely different then sure, but what you can't do is make sure no one else builds a house like it. Random Joe might not be able to move in but he can build his own.
Given I'm no copyright lawyer, I'm no expert. That said, my understanding is that the literal cartoon 'Steamboat Willie', copyright 1928, with Mickey Mouse in it would no longer be under copyright protection and anyone in possession of a copy of that work could begin to make their own copies of it for resale without Disney's permission.
I wonder how many copies of Steamboat Willie or other bouncy crap from that era they sell. My guess would be not a lot, like single digit sales if they're lucky. They probably still have a team of lawyers figuring out how they can make a claim on cuphead.
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before you say just add batteries, lets say just double the cost. as in not cheap.
There are three ways of doing things and you can only ever choose two. Cheaply. Quickly. Properly.
CA is dead last (50th out of 50) in economic freedom.
"Not only does California rank 49th out of all 50 U.S. states"
Kind of makes me second guess my decision to buy a $1M+ home in the bay area.
What kind of thought train does from 'hang on there're some big faultlines here and we all know big ones are due' to 'sure here's a million bucks let me put all my stuff on top of this faultline'
at least reckless endangerment.
How's that competition working out for you?
Will seniors trust them?
Many seniors engage in evidence-based-reasoning. If data shows SDCs are safe, and they have a lower accident rate than HDCs, then they will trust them
Really? I tend to find they flatly reject anything that's not part of their already established worldview.
Notifications settings are a thing already you know. As is appear offline.
DOWN WITH THIS SORT OF THING
We have enough firepower to do that to this planet all by ourselves.
Really, are you sure about that? If we detonated every nuke at the same time in the same place we'd probably all die but the planet itself would be pretty much fine.
I don't recall (other than some over zealous news sites) when it was probably aliens.
...if they're trying to get me to buy things, instead of trying to get things to buy me, I'm breddy sure I'm still the customer.
Maybe of the people you buy the actual things from but you are very much amazon's et al product.
thats wonderful news, all the children born to music in the background should now be eligible for child support from these artists.
No that's the wrong way round, babies born to music have to pay the listening fee, and the parents and anyone else within 100m radius.
The monorail at alton towers is the only useful one I've ever seen. It goes through the bigass carpark to the gate. Jobs a good'un.
.Older people spent their working years during two major booms (Internet and Housing),
Older people made their money from the 'internet boom'?
Are you on crack cocaine rsilvergun?
No, seriously, are you on crack cocaine?
Who do you think all the investors were? 20 something tech guys with a good idea?
"1. No one gives a shit what you think."
And remember what the article says about us old fucks: We are _wise_!
I like the way he starts with that and then proceeds to tell us 9 more things that he thinks.
Remember these things.
...
Boil all that down to
1. Don't be a dick.
Yeah but that's assuming you leave a review that is identifiable you specifically by people who don't know you and why would you even do that with a good or bad review?
Mostly these companies would want to get rid of every single bad review regardless of merit or substance but then what's the point in having a system than only lets 'good' reviews past? It defeats the point of having reviews to begin with.
If you own a business, you can also pass it to your children, and great, great, great, grandchildren. Here are some veerrrryy old businesses: Baker's Chocolate (1765)
"Baker's Chocolate is a brand name for the line of baking chocolates[1] owned by the Kraft Heinz Company (formerly Kraft Foods)"
Tell me more about how this has been passed generation to generation and isn't just a name that has persisted.
Do you really think that Bakers Chocolate made one very good piece of chocolate and is still being paid for it?
In essence, yes. They created the recipe for the chocolate. But they were smart and did not release the recipe to the public like the foolish inventors, software devs, authors, musicians etc. No, they kept the recipe a secret and produced millions of chocolate bars (a simple process once you know the recipe) for hundreds of years. Trade secret protection is the best protection of IP and this example proves it.
If its a trade secret you can bet your ass it isn't under copyright which forces you disclose what that secret is.
Point is, they should not have to.
Why not ? What's so special about artists that they can make one thing, and then collect money for the rest of their life (and their children's) while other people have to repeat their work day after day ?
This assumes that everyone is going to want his solitary masterpiece in enough numbers and for enough time that his grandkids grandkids are still rolling in it, otherwise, why bother?
Wait, so how are your kids going to derive income from your 'real work'? They're not so why bother? Oh, so you can make money and pass it on, like you can with writing a book/music/etc. How many people do you think are going to want to read your book in a hundred years and why do you think people who had nothing to do with it deserve to derive income from it when their only connection to it is you got lucky a couple of times?
You seem to have some weird ideas.
If I build a house, I can will it to my ancestors, it will remain ours in perpetuity unless sold at some point.
If, on the other hand, I write a tune or a book, or develop a drug, or create a painting — well, then I will only be rewarded for a brief period.
If you want to talk about things that are completely different then sure, but what you can't do is make sure no one else builds a house like it. Random Joe might not be able to move in but he can build his own.
Solution is here... stop acting like are tards.
For real. Disney puts out crap. How are they so big?
It's not like he proposed a plan of his own.
Actually, he did. (He has since removed the plan from his own web site, in typical Trump Minitru manner.)
Was it 'Trumps pay no tax, fuck everyone else'?
Given I'm no copyright lawyer, I'm no expert. That said, my understanding is that the literal cartoon 'Steamboat Willie', copyright 1928, with Mickey Mouse in it would no longer be under copyright protection and anyone in possession of a copy of that work could begin to make their own copies of it for resale without Disney's permission.
I wonder how many copies of Steamboat Willie or other bouncy crap from that era they sell. My guess would be not a lot, like single digit sales if they're lucky. They probably still have a team of lawyers figuring out how they can make a claim on cuphead.