Depends on the adult. Every couple of years I have a yen for that sort of thing and go through the Lensman series, the Skylark series, and a few other books of his.
Why do you assume the one world government will eliminate nation-states? A little nationalism is good for the masses; it keeps their mind off what's really going on.
Because they hadn't figured out a way to make the alternative salable (they tried, but divx (the disk format, not the codec) died an ignominious and well-deserved death), because folks had gotten used to VHS, where you can watch as many times as the tape will survive.
It's the best way they could extract money from you. Proving you have the original is useless; you could have borrowed it. Building a library using user disks is moronic; I flatly refuse to believe they don't have the data in their archives (disc masters, for example). Going to the store is the way to make sure you're using their approved machine and paying for the privilege.
This would be kind of cool, but for the reasons you mention I'd still need to keep all the originals, and if I'm doing that anyway, why pay money to have someone stream them to me? *shrug*
and then AT&T can raise prices on the developer, who doesn't really have "switch carriers" as an option; all they can do then is drop the bandwidth back on the users, who won't be happy and won't (all) blame AT&T for it.
Having tried google, I have yet to find a first person account, or indeed anything more authoritative than "heard it from a Tesla repair dude". Can you point me to one?
According to that site, for "Works Registered or First Published in the US", a work of 'corporate authorship' is 95 years from publication, not 95 years from death of human who wrote it. (Or 120 years from creation). The entries I saw for foreign-published works said the same (but left out the 120 years from creation clause).
I would suspect the downmodding is less because people think the government isn't stealing and more because they consider the comment either off topic for bringing in government, or disingenuous for implying that the corporations, banks and wall street are not stealing.
Because you have to be a SAG member to work as a principal performer for a SAG-sanctioned producer (specifically, you have a 30 day period beginning your first day on a SAG-sanctioned project to become a member. After those 30 days if you're still not a member, no SAG project work for you), and most big producers have such sanction (otherwise they can't get SAG members to work on their projects)? It's kind of self-perpetuating; if you want to work with already-big names, you gotta go to SAG.
Because they get the artists while they're young, innocent, and idealistic, and have them in an ironclad contract before they wise up. Only the really successful ones gain enough clout to break out, and even for them it's a pain.
corporate works have a time-since-published figure. They could increase that, but it's easier to push "think of the (great-grand-)children of the author!"
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If it parallelled capital gains taxes, yes, you can consider the loss (up to a limit) as a deduction. However, houses are usually already subject to property tax, so your appreciation will already be reflected in those tax payments (unless the reassessment hasn't happened yet).
It's an interesting theory. Japanese also mixes present and future pretty indiscriminately, leaving it up to context to differentiate between 'am doing' and 'will do'.
given modern hashing, if the hash matches the odds are extremely good it's the file you want. If the size is right too, even better. So given a size and a hash, you just have to look for peers that have something matching and voila.
There's one other difference: if you don't have a physical key, a guy with some tools can still get in, albeit with more time and effort and possibly with some damage to the lock and/or contents. If you don't have the password, the contents are practically speaking gone...
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Depends on the adult. Every couple of years I have a yen for that sort of thing and go through the Lensman series, the Skylark series, and a few other books of his.
Why do you assume the one world government will eliminate nation-states? A little nationalism is good for the masses; it keeps their mind off what's really going on.
Because they hadn't figured out a way to make the alternative salable (they tried, but divx (the disk format, not the codec) died an ignominious and well-deserved death), because folks had gotten used to VHS, where you can watch as many times as the tape will survive.
It's the best way they could extract money from you. Proving you have the original is useless; you could have borrowed it. Building a library using user disks is moronic; I flatly refuse to believe they don't have the data in their archives (disc masters, for example). Going to the store is the way to make sure you're using their approved machine and paying for the privilege.
As a general principle, it affects any business with a .com domain. Who says a business cannot be targetted unless it's shady?
They don't answer the phone?
Wikitext!
This would be kind of cool, but for the reasons you mention I'd still need to keep all the originals, and if I'm doing that anyway, why pay money to have someone stream them to me? *shrug*
Nah, congress is mostly lawyers. I'm sure lots of them looked at it. Not necessarily _read_ it, mind you...
You don't need a browser extension for that. Your ISP can handle it.
and then AT&T can raise prices on the developer, who doesn't really have "switch carriers" as an option; all they can do then is drop the bandwidth back on the users, who won't be happy and won't (all) blame AT&T for it.
Having tried google, I have yet to find a first person account, or indeed anything more authoritative than "heard it from a Tesla repair dude". Can you point me to one?
I had thought a fecal transplant was more along the lines of a suppository than a consumable. It seems more direct than going through the acid bath...
According to that site, for "Works Registered or First Published in the US", a work of 'corporate authorship' is 95 years from publication, not 95 years from death of human who wrote it. (Or 120 years from creation). The entries I saw for foreign-published works said the same (but left out the 120 years from creation clause).
Just because the lawyer didn't win the case doesn't mean they were wrong, just that the client wanted to go through with it.
I would suspect the downmodding is less because people think the government isn't stealing and more because they consider the comment either off topic for bringing in government, or disingenuous for implying that the corporations, banks and wall street are not stealing.
Because you have to be a SAG member to work as a principal performer for a SAG-sanctioned producer (specifically, you have a 30 day period beginning your first day on a SAG-sanctioned project to become a member. After those 30 days if you're still not a member, no SAG project work for you), and most big producers have such sanction (otherwise they can't get SAG members to work on their projects)? It's kind of self-perpetuating; if you want to work with already-big names, you gotta go to SAG.
at least, once the album is profitable. there is some risk on the label's part that the loan they issue to pay for the production will not get repaid.
Because they get the artists while they're young, innocent, and idealistic, and have them in an ironclad contract before they wise up. Only the really successful ones gain enough clout to break out, and even for them it's a pain.
A pliable sense of reality is a survival trait in the legal profession, unfortunately.
corporate works have a time-since-published figure. They could increase that, but it's easier to push "think of the (great-grand-)children of the author!"
If it parallelled capital gains taxes, yes, you can consider the loss (up to a limit) as a deduction. However, houses are usually already subject to property tax, so your appreciation will already be reflected in those tax payments (unless the reassessment hasn't happened yet).
It's an interesting theory. Japanese also mixes present and future pretty indiscriminately, leaving it up to context to differentiate between 'am doing' and 'will do'.
given modern hashing, if the hash matches the odds are extremely good it's the file you want. If the size is right too, even better. So given a size and a hash, you just have to look for peers that have something matching and voila.
There's one other difference: if you don't have a physical key, a guy with some tools can still get in, albeit with more time and effort and possibly with some damage to the lock and/or contents. If you don't have the password, the contents are practically speaking gone...