I agree with Stallman that 110 year copyrights are repressive. But so too is complete abolishment of copyrights. People like to get paid for their creations, and put food on the table. A reasonable compromise would be 10 or 20 years... just long enough to cover the audio engineer/artist/musicians' labor on the song. But short enough that it becomes part of society's shared culture.
BTW ever notice that no Roman or Greek music has survived til today? We have all their other literature but not their songs. Perhaps because there was no monetary incentive for musicians to share their work.
>>> Copied, recompressed, ads and logos added, recompressed again
That's not pirated content. That's cable and dish content which costs 70-90 a month. Considering pirate stuff is free, I don't care about quality (I d/l the smallest files), but when I am PAYING for something I expect it to look fantastic..... and cable/dish rarely does. Hell I get better quality HD off my antenna!
>>>why they still put tuners in monitors (let's face it TVs are just big LCD monitors) by default these days is a little silly if you ask me.
You know what I think is "silly"? People who are so unaware of the world around them. You see, when I attach my antenna to my TV I want to tune-in the local channels via the tuner. YOU would have it so I could not see anything... now that's silly. And stupid.
I just type "wiki Desired Item" into the google bar. It works much better than wikipedia's built-in search.
As for editing: Wikipedia's main problem is too many markups. People italicize or bold things that don't need it, or list a long overly-detailed source when all they needed was a simple external link. When I edit the encyclopedia I use plain text as much as possible, and keep any markups as simply as possible, so the lay reader can edit it.
Search for Microsoft's 'Cannibalistic Culture' a mere few hours ago. And my company evaluates each person. Most people get an average score. Plus a standard inflation-based raise.
>>>Capital can and will accumulate to the 0,1% with or without legal personhood [of corporations]
It's a lot harder to do without the protection of corporate structure. If an owner can be sued *directly* rather than be protected by his incorporation license, he's more likely to lose his wealth when he does something stupid . No "golden parachute" to just bail ship and keep the cash.
And you're citing Marx? His theories are as bogus as Freud's. Or H.G.Wells' predictions in his books. All three of these 1800s-era men have been shown not to be very good as predicting future events. For example Marx never predicted the rise of Unions which helped counter-balance the corporate power.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. If UK care is so great, why do I keep reading story-after-story about patients being left to die in waiting areas? Or people with cancer being forced to wait upto a year for surgery, but instead dying while they wait? Or patients being starved to death when they reach end-of-life, rather than being treated to give them another 1-2 years.
Or to just pick a random example: A college-aged woman who was denied preventative medicine (a pap smear) because a UK gov't doctor told her it was not necessary (even though her mother and grandmother both died of cervical cancer). She was denied by the government system at age 21, 22, 23, 24, and..... well she didn't live to see age 25. She died of cervical cancer. Why did the UK Parliament hold a special session to deal with these problems? (And no I'm not going to provide citations. These articles are ALL OVER the place, and if you have not seen them, then you must have your eyes closed.)
Civil Rights Act of 1964 only applies to insterstate business. It does not apply to the local mom&pop shop that only deals with the neighbors (which is INTRAstate trade). Those are regulated by the relevant state laws. Example: New Jersey's "public facility" laws which forbid refusal of service based on race, sex, ethnicity, etc.
If you are still confused just refer to the HIGHER law of the Constitution which supercedes the Civil Rights Act. The Constitution says Congress regulated trade AMONG the states, not inside them.
>>>The Corp pays for nothing: they raise their prices to cover unpaid ER bills, and customers pay handsomely, i.e. our pockets are picked,
Still cheaper than FORCING us to go buy insurance we don't want. Kaiser-permanente having unpaid bills hasn't cost me anything so far (because I don't visit their hospitals). In contrast Congress's new obamacare bill will cost me ~$6000 to buy insurance, or ~$1000 in IRS fines. I prefer to old method of dumping the expense on Kaiser and other corporations. It hurts me and other people less. (Plus I love to screw the megacorps up the ass.)
>>>Besides where do you live that a cheap hotel is 200 a week?
I started to list 10 different cities where I've stayed for around $200 a week, but changed my mind. These cheap hotels exist everywhere... it's just a matter of finding them. My last hotel charged me $180 a week. One before that was $210. And so on.
>>>How do you keep getting modded up?
I don't know. How do you keep posting without a registered ID? I know you have one.
Reading the replies on this thread, I feel like we're comparing penis sizes. "My power supply is bigger than 50 watts!" -- Um. That's nice. My Pentium4 PC uses about 90 and I suspect most stock PCs use less than that... especially the newer power-saving models that slow the CPU when the user is just browsing the web.
I like how one MS employee put it: They advertise for Internet Explorer's team..... they want the best 4.0 level talent on that team. Problem: Once that talent arrives only three out of ten will actually get the 4.0. The rest will get a mediocre 3.0 which makes them feel unappreciated. And the bottom two will be shown the door, even if they truly are top talent. (Probably headed off to google and chrome development.)
Yeah it would be more accurate to say "Microsoft's Stagnation". They were the #1 desktop/laptop OS in the 90s and still are today. The problem is that they didn't expand beyond that paradigm, and missed the boat on the cellphone and MP3 player OSes (currently dominated by Google and Apple respectively).
Oh well. BTW Microsoft has never been an innovative company. Never. They won the PC-DOS contract in 1981, overlaid it with Windows GUI 4 years later, and that was about it. It was other companies like Atari, Commodore, and Apple that were doing the innovating..... constantly pressing forward with new ideas like music-quality sound, video-quality graphics, multitasking, mouse-based interfaces, and portable computers. MS just say by and watched.
That's cool but you've not really saved any energy. All you've done is postpone the firechips' energy release from February to July. It's still the same net energy consumption.
A computer doesn't use that much energy. 25-50 watts? That's nothing. One time I tried a tiny ceramic heater rated at 300. I felt no heat from it, unless I put my hand directly in front of the elements.
TO ANSWER THE ARTICLE: It's 10 degrees below normal in Los Angeles. Sometimes it gets downright chilly in the early morning.
If we nudged the earth to eliminate most of the tilt, we could get rid of these extreme hot/cold temperatures. It would be like spring all year round.
AND if I were stuck in a hot house w/o AC, I'd move to a cheap hotel. Ya know, one that is ~$200 a week w/ free cable. (Either that or spend a LOT more time at air conditioned work. Hello 15 hour days.;-) )
They invented this fine product with cool innovations like "slide to unlock" and the government should protect these inventive employees from theft by companies like HTC.
>>>For my neighbor to have no insurance indeed picks my pocket. Do you think ERs are free?
Don't cost us anything. When a poor person fails to repay the ER bill, it costs the megacorp that owns the hospital. So in effect instead of Kaiser-Permanente earning a 1 billion dollar profit this year, they earn 0.99 billion. And frankly I enjoy that thought..... about time megacorps give something back to the community, rather than just take, take, take (and also pollute, pollute, pollute).
>>>He could also have granted himself a golden palace and used the army to defend it. The fact that he didn't doesn't mean that he disapproved of gold or palaces
Yeah sure if we lived in a vacuum. But we ALSO have Jefferson on record that he did not think copyrights/patents should exist. "There is not in nature a natural right to protection of the thinking power we call an idea." He says that nature "designed" ideas to be freely shareable around the world, for the betterment of mankind. So it's pretty clear he never granted a patent to himself, because he opposed them on principal.
>>>Until your neighbor can't afford to give their kid a vaccine, and your kid gets a disease and dies because he was one of those that the vaccine doesn't work on.
The solution is not to mandate 100% purchase of a private product. The solution is to help those who are poor and can't afford a vaccine shot..... just as we help people with food stamps, housing assistance, welfare checks, and so on. Meanwhile the rest of us will buy our shots, food, homes with cash.
>>>If you don't like their Terms of Service, then find another provider's equipment to use.
I'll do that right after the government revokes Verizon's monopoly. In the meantime the government should have the power to regulate this monopoly, just as they regulate the electric or natural gas monopolies.
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I agree with Stallman that 110 year copyrights are repressive. But so too is complete abolishment of copyrights. People like to get paid for their creations, and put food on the table. A reasonable compromise would be 10 or 20 years... just long enough to cover the audio engineer/artist/musicians' labor on the song. But short enough that it becomes part of society's shared culture.
BTW ever notice that no Roman or Greek music has survived til today? We have all their other literature but not their songs. Perhaps because there was no monetary incentive for musicians to share their work.
>>> Copied, recompressed, ads and logos added, recompressed again
That's not pirated content. That's cable and dish content which costs 70-90 a month. Considering pirate stuff is free, I don't care about quality (I d/l the smallest files), but when I am PAYING for something I expect it to look fantastic..... and cable/dish rarely does. Hell I get better quality HD off my antenna!
>>>why they still put tuners in monitors (let's face it TVs are just big LCD monitors) by default these days is a little silly if you ask me.
You know what I think is "silly"? People who are so unaware of the world around them. You see, when I attach my antenna to my TV I want to tune-in the local channels via the tuner. YOU would have it so I could not see anything... now that's silly. And stupid.
I just type "wiki Desired Item" into the google bar. It works much better than wikipedia's built-in search.
As for editing: Wikipedia's main problem is too many markups. People italicize or bold things that don't need it, or list a long overly-detailed source when all they needed was a simple external link. When I edit the encyclopedia I use plain text as much as possible, and keep any markups as simply as possible, so the lay reader can edit it.
Search for Microsoft's 'Cannibalistic Culture' a mere few hours ago.
And my company evaluates each person. Most people get an average score. Plus a standard inflation-based raise.
>>>Capital can and will accumulate to the 0,1% with or without legal personhood [of corporations]
It's a lot harder to do without the protection of corporate structure. If an owner can be sued *directly* rather than be protected by his incorporation license, he's more likely to lose his wealth when he does something stupid . No "golden parachute" to just bail ship and keep the cash.
And you're citing Marx? His theories are as bogus as Freud's. Or H.G.Wells' predictions in his books. All three of these 1800s-era men have been shown not to be very good as predicting future events. For example Marx never predicted the rise of Unions which helped counter-balance the corporate power.
>>> Only an idiot as the free care is excellent
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. If UK care is so great, why do I keep reading story-after-story about patients being left to die in waiting areas? Or people with cancer being forced to wait upto a year for surgery, but instead dying while they wait? Or patients being starved to death when they reach end-of-life, rather than being treated to give them another 1-2 years.
Or to just pick a random example: A college-aged woman who was denied preventative medicine (a pap smear) because a UK gov't doctor told her it was not necessary (even though her mother and grandmother both died of cervical cancer). She was denied by the government system at age 21, 22, 23, 24, and..... well she didn't live to see age 25. She died of cervical cancer. Why did the UK Parliament hold a special session to deal with these problems? (And no I'm not going to provide citations. These articles are ALL OVER the place, and if you have not seen them, then you must have your eyes closed.)
Civil Rights Act of 1964 only applies to insterstate business. It does not apply to the local mom&pop shop that only deals with the neighbors (which is INTRAstate trade). Those are regulated by the relevant state laws. Example: New Jersey's "public facility" laws which forbid refusal of service based on race, sex, ethnicity, etc.
If you are still confused just refer to the HIGHER law of the Constitution which supercedes the Civil Rights Act. The Constitution says Congress regulated trade AMONG the states, not inside them.
>>>The Corp pays for nothing: they raise their prices to cover unpaid ER bills, and customers pay handsomely, i.e. our pockets are picked,
Still cheaper than FORCING us to go buy insurance we don't want. Kaiser-permanente having unpaid bills hasn't cost me anything so far (because I don't visit their hospitals). In contrast Congress's new obamacare bill will cost me ~$6000 to buy insurance, or ~$1000 in IRS fines. I prefer to old method of dumping the expense on Kaiser and other corporations. It hurts me and other people less. (Plus I love to screw the megacorps up the ass.)
>>>Besides where do you live that a cheap hotel is 200 a week?
I started to list 10 different cities where I've stayed for around $200 a week, but changed my mind. These cheap hotels exist everywhere... it's just a matter of finding them. My last hotel charged me $180 a week. One before that was $210. And so on.
>>>How do you keep getting modded up?
I don't know.
How do you keep posting without a registered ID? I know you have one.
Reading the replies on this thread, I feel like we're comparing penis sizes. "My power supply is bigger than 50 watts!" -- Um. That's nice. My Pentium4 PC uses about 90 and I suspect most stock PCs use less than that... especially the newer power-saving models that slow the CPU when the user is just browsing the web.
Here's an article I just read this morning that seems appropriate:
You Never Get a Seventh Chance to Make a First Impression: An Awkward History of Our Space Transmissions
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/you-never-get-a-seventh-chance-to-make-a-first-impression-an-awkward-history-of-our-space-transmissions/
Here's an article I just read this morning that seems appropriate, given Carl Sagan and his discs:
You Never Get a Seventh Chance to Make a First Impression: An Awkward History of Our Space Transmissions
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/you-never-get-a-seventh-chance-to-make-a-first-impression-an-awkward-history-of-our-space-transmissions/
I like how one MS employee put it: They advertise for Internet Explorer's team..... they want the best 4.0 level talent on that team. Problem: Once that talent arrives only three out of ten will actually get the 4.0. The rest will get a mediocre 3.0 which makes them feel unappreciated. And the bottom two will be shown the door, even if they truly are top talent. (Probably headed off to google and chrome development.)
Yeah it would be more accurate to say "Microsoft's Stagnation". They were the #1 desktop/laptop OS in the 90s and still are today. The problem is that they didn't expand beyond that paradigm, and missed the boat on the cellphone and MP3 player OSes (currently dominated by Google and Apple respectively).
Oh well. BTW Microsoft has never been an innovative company. Never. They won the PC-DOS contract in 1981, overlaid it with Windows GUI 4 years later, and that was about it. It was other companies like Atari, Commodore, and Apple that were doing the innovating..... constantly pressing forward with new ideas like music-quality sound, video-quality graphics, multitasking, mouse-based interfaces, and portable computers. MS just say by and watched.
I want to try out this operating system.
That's cool but you've not really saved any energy. All you've done is postpone the firechips' energy release from February to July. It's still the same net energy consumption.
A computer doesn't use that much energy. 25-50 watts? That's nothing. One time I tried a tiny ceramic heater rated at 300. I felt no heat from it, unless I put my hand directly in front of the elements.
TO ANSWER THE ARTICLE: It's 10 degrees below normal in Los Angeles. Sometimes it gets downright chilly in the early morning.
If we nudged the earth to eliminate most of the tilt, we could get rid of these extreme hot/cold temperatures. It would be like spring all year round.
AND if I were stuck in a hot house w/o AC, I'd move to a cheap hotel. Ya know, one that is ~$200 a week w/ free cable. (Either that or spend a LOT more time at air conditioned work. Hello 15 hour days. ;-) )
They invented this fine product with cool innovations like "slide to unlock" and the government should protect these inventive employees from theft by companies like HTC.
>>>For my neighbor to have no insurance indeed picks my pocket. Do you think ERs are free?
Don't cost us anything.
When a poor person fails to repay the ER bill, it costs the megacorp that owns the hospital. So in effect instead of Kaiser-Permanente earning a 1 billion dollar profit this year, they earn 0.99 billion. And frankly I enjoy that thought..... about time megacorps give something back to the community, rather than just take, take, take (and also pollute, pollute, pollute).
>>>He could also have granted himself a golden palace and used the army to defend it. The fact that he didn't doesn't mean that he disapproved of gold or palaces
Yeah sure if we lived in a vacuum. But we ALSO have Jefferson on record that he did not think copyrights/patents should exist. "There is not in nature a natural right to protection of the thinking power we call an idea." He says that nature "designed" ideas to be freely shareable around the world, for the betterment of mankind. So it's pretty clear he never granted a patent to himself, because he opposed them on principal.
>>>Until your neighbor can't afford to give their kid a vaccine, and your kid gets a disease and dies because he was one of those that the vaccine doesn't work on.
The solution is not to mandate 100% purchase of a private product. The solution is to help those who are poor and can't afford a vaccine shot..... just as we help people with food stamps, housing assistance, welfare checks, and so on. Meanwhile the rest of us will buy our shots, food, homes with cash.
>>>If you don't like their Terms of Service, then find another provider's equipment to use.
I'll do that right after the government revokes Verizon's monopoly. In the meantime the government should have the power to regulate this monopoly, just as they regulate the electric or natural gas monopolies.
>>>>Corporations are people, my friend." - Thomas Jefferson
>>
>>That's a big pile of horse shit." -- Abraham Lincoln
"The emperor should not be throwing people to the lions for exercising their free speech on the internet." - Senator Cicero