Investment value is the real gnarly problem here. What do you think will be the future value of high priced exclusive infernal combustion vehicles, in the second hand market when gas stations start shutting down.
Cars are a terrible investment in any case, they lose large lumps of their value the instant they roll out of the dealership. As to the rest, well industries come and go.
But rather than allowing children to erase the past and thus escape the consequences of their actions, I would prefer to educate them about those consequences and how long they can go on for.
No. This is the same line of thinking that leads to people who commit often victimless crimes being unable to vote or get decent jobs ever again, every sentence becomes a life sentence.
What we're looking at here is the dark underbelly of ubiquitous connectivity and creative media access. For high minded folks it's a good thing, it lets them get their message out and expose problems, or share their work without having to doff their caps to gatekeepers. For the vast majority of humanity however it's a potential nightmare that could explode at any time. It's a complete surveillance society where the only justice is mob justice, and the witchhunters are waiting in the wings for any misstep.
People have committed suicide over stuff which prior to about ten years ago would have been forgotten in a few days. This is not acceptable.
Was it unlawful though? If I'm not mistaken, this concert took place on public property with the condition that this guy wouldn't make an appearance. He made an appearance, the agreement was violated, and hence the concert was shut down.
Whether or not that precondition was lawful is another question, which brings us back to the point - if you want to stop things like this from happening bring the hammer down on the politicians and bureaucrats who start the ball rolling in the first place.
When you catch someone atomising lead-acid batteries and spraying them into peoples' faces at street level in municipal city centres and suburban estates, let us know.
The cops in this case were just doing their job, as prescribed by city of Hammond. Would you find a police force which selectively disobeys orders more to your taste? If you want something to start barking about take a look at the already sanctioned judicial overreach, such as laws that allow police to seize property on suspicion of narcotic offences, or indeed narcotics offences themselves. The police didn't write those laws, politicians and unsupervised-for-decades bureaucrats did.
No, and this is well established in copyright law. You can write a story with elves, orcs, goblins, trolls and so on and the Tokien estate can't come after you. Many have. In fact there's a whole movie sub-industry that is built on skirting as close to legal infringement as possible, and it's not going anywhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Further the person who takes a photograph of a famous painting owns copyright on that photograph. The creator of an audiobook owns copyrights on that audiobook, although if made without permission the writer may have grounds to pursue for damages. http://www.mediamusicnow.co.uk...
Then there's the problem of orphan works. If in 10 years your there is suddenly a demand for reproductions of your post and Intrepid imaginaut can't be located, how does keeping it locked up benefit either you or the potential audience for your work?
Well no system is perfect. I support creative people who put their work into the public domain and condemn things like criminal sentencing for non-profit sharing, and especially attempts to extend the meaning of "derivative", but I'm not seeing any reduction in artistic endeavours over the last few decades. Quite the opposite.
Instead we're moving slowly but surely towards a regime of unending copyrights with no public domain.
Again though, does that hinder or inspire creativity?
This is just some PR flack's attempt to pretend there is grassroots support for the letting the TPP gut what few copyright protections the U.S. still has left that favor the independent inventor over corporate behemoths.
I think you might be confusing patents with copyrights there buddy, they're a very different animal.
And I mean the other side of the debate is that long term ownership of particular copyrighted works stops exactly nobody from creating their own copyrighted works. This comment for example, is owned by me, copyright is automatically assigned. There's even some boilerplate above stating exactly as much. My comment may have zero financial value but I can still claim the same remedies as Disney should someone infringe on it. How is that hurting the small artist?
They should take into account that copyright is assigned automatically under the Berne Convention and any registration functions the Copyright Office performs are redundant. Even in cases of legal dispute, the first person to have registered the copyright on a particular work might not have been the first person to actually create it, so it's of limited value there too.
Copyrights are automatic and don't need to be registered. In the US a copyright office still exists, but it really shouldn't under the Berne Convention to which the US is a signatory.
Definition of INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY : the technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data
Yeah but they're fundamental sciences that describe the universe we live in, IT is becoming more and more of a blue collar profession every day. I see no pressing reason why programming should be taught in schools any more than plumbing.
That very same thought has been crossing my mind more and more lately... I could live with the ads but they're getting very pushy on privacy and that's where I draw the line.
I could do with an alternative to facebook but I found the G+ interface unintuitive, unmanageable and ultimately not worth the time to learn. 99% of what people want to do on facebook can be immediately accessed and that's a big advantage.
the complete lack of interest on the characters face while getting ridden by Mrs. Barlowe was kind of a dead giveaway.
There are plenty of women I'd be hard pressed to raise a moan for.
The plot point was less he's gay, Hooray! But how a British sea captain could have his life turned up side down and become the fiercest pirate of the Caribbean.
That's what I thought I was getting, it didn't come across that way to me however. As I said maybe I've just turned hypersensitive, it's a sad commentary either way.
As for GOT spoiler alert some people care about gay dudes sucking dick left and right.
It's starting to creep into TV shows as well. Penny Dreadful, an otherwise reasonably competent show, has the characters spewing feminist screeds - "if men didn't control women with corsets, women would rule the wold" - no, a "feature" of corsets was the fact that women wearing them could afford servants to do the manual labour, they were status symbols. A bit like how pale skin was considered more beautiful at the time because it showed you didn't have to work outside all day long.
Then we have the painful efforts in shows like Flint, where the most notorious pirate in literature comes out as gay; it felt as though the entire show was leading up to that, all that was missing was the triumphal choir in the background. Contrast this with say the Game of Thrones series, where guys are sucking dick left and right but nobody cares - it's not the point of the show, just window dressing, neither good nor bad, just there.
What pisses me off most about these thinly veiled propaganda pieces is that they detract from the interest, beauty and genuine wonder of the rest of the production, they stick out like a sore thumb, they jar and disrupt immersion. Masterful works such as Salem have plenty of empowered women and whatnot without ever having to spout Dworkinisms.
I dunno, maybe I'm just hypersensitive to it what with the SJW plague doing the rounds these days.
This argument makes no sense. There is zero effective shortage of the materials used to make solar panels and concentrators. The only thing stopping solar from being used more extensively is the infrastructure already in place for fossil fuels makes coal and gas plants temporarily cheaper.
Also, covering a single digit percentage of the Sahara with solar cells would provide enough energy to supply the needs of the EU, so you're drastically overestimating the number of satellites that would be needed, to say nothing of just putting them between ourselves and the sun, and thus sending no more energy than would ordinarily reach us regardless.
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Investment value is the real gnarly problem here. What do you think will be the future value of high priced exclusive infernal combustion vehicles, in the second hand market when gas stations start shutting down.
Cars are a terrible investment in any case, they lose large lumps of their value the instant they roll out of the dealership. As to the rest, well industries come and go.
But rather than allowing children to erase the past and thus escape the consequences of their actions, I would prefer to educate them about those consequences and how long they can go on for.
No. This is the same line of thinking that leads to people who commit often victimless crimes being unable to vote or get decent jobs ever again, every sentence becomes a life sentence.
What we're looking at here is the dark underbelly of ubiquitous connectivity and creative media access. For high minded folks it's a good thing, it lets them get their message out and expose problems, or share their work without having to doff their caps to gatekeepers. For the vast majority of humanity however it's a potential nightmare that could explode at any time. It's a complete surveillance society where the only justice is mob justice, and the witchhunters are waiting in the wings for any misstep.
People have committed suicide over stuff which prior to about ten years ago would have been forgotten in a few days. This is not acceptable.
Article? Article! We do not read TFA!!
This!
Is!
Slashdooooot!!
*kicks AchilleTalon in the chest*
Was it unlawful though? If I'm not mistaken, this concert took place on public property with the condition that this guy wouldn't make an appearance. He made an appearance, the agreement was violated, and hence the concert was shut down.
Whether or not that precondition was lawful is another question, which brings us back to the point - if you want to stop things like this from happening bring the hammer down on the politicians and bureaucrats who start the ball rolling in the first place.
When you catch someone atomising lead-acid batteries and spraying them into peoples' faces at street level in municipal city centres and suburban estates, let us know.
The cops in this case were just doing their job, as prescribed by city of Hammond. Would you find a police force which selectively disobeys orders more to your taste? If you want something to start barking about take a look at the already sanctioned judicial overreach, such as laws that allow police to seize property on suspicion of narcotic offences, or indeed narcotics offences themselves. The police didn't write those laws, politicians and unsupervised-for-decades bureaucrats did.
That makes it a derivative work
No, and this is well established in copyright law. You can write a story with elves, orcs, goblins, trolls and so on and the Tokien estate can't come after you. Many have. In fact there's a whole movie sub-industry that is built on skirting as close to legal infringement as possible, and it's not going anywhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Further the person who takes a photograph of a famous painting owns copyright on that photograph. The creator of an audiobook owns copyrights on that audiobook, although if made without permission the writer may have grounds to pursue for damages. http://www.mediamusicnow.co.uk...
Then there's the problem of orphan works. If in 10 years your there is suddenly a demand for reproductions of your post and Intrepid imaginaut can't be located, how does keeping it locked up benefit either you or the potential audience for your work?
Well no system is perfect. I support creative people who put their work into the public domain and condemn things like criminal sentencing for non-profit sharing, and especially attempts to extend the meaning of "derivative", but I'm not seeing any reduction in artistic endeavours over the last few decades. Quite the opposite.
Instead we're moving slowly but surely towards a regime of unending copyrights with no public domain.
Again though, does that hinder or inspire creativity?
This is just some PR flack's attempt to pretend there is grassroots support for the letting the TPP gut what few copyright protections the U.S. still has left that favor the independent inventor over corporate behemoths.
I think you might be confusing patents with copyrights there buddy, they're a very different animal.
And I mean the other side of the debate is that long term ownership of particular copyrighted works stops exactly nobody from creating their own copyrighted works. This comment for example, is owned by me, copyright is automatically assigned. There's even some boilerplate above stating exactly as much. My comment may have zero financial value but I can still claim the same remedies as Disney should someone infringe on it. How is that hurting the small artist?
They should take into account that copyright is assigned automatically under the Berne Convention and any registration functions the Copyright Office performs are redundant. Even in cases of legal dispute, the first person to have registered the copyright on a particular work might not have been the first person to actually create it, so it's of limited value there too.
Copyrights are automatic and don't need to be registered. In the US a copyright office still exists, but it really shouldn't under the Berne Convention to which the US is a signatory.
Yes I'm quite familiar with the industry designation, but the truism that pedantic nitpickers abound here also remains.
http://www.merriam-webster.com...
Definition of INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
: the technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data
Yeah but they're fundamental sciences that describe the universe we live in, IT is becoming more and more of a blue collar profession every day. I see no pressing reason why programming should be taught in schools any more than plumbing.
That very same thought has been crossing my mind more and more lately... I could live with the ads but they're getting very pushy on privacy and that's where I draw the line.
I could do with an alternative to facebook but I found the G+ interface unintuitive, unmanageable and ultimately not worth the time to learn. 99% of what people want to do on facebook can be immediately accessed and that's a big advantage.
I have no problem with people who are trans, I have a big problem with Brianna Wu. What's it like seeing the words "mental illness" as a pejorative?
Was trading your elderly upper middle class testicles worth the ensuing leftist rush to encourage your mental illness?
For pity's sake, the emperor has no clothes. Go away you awful little mouthbreathing man.
Fuck off Amimojo.
I tried applying for Australian citizenship once but they turned me down as I didn't have a criminal record.
Yeah, large parts of Australia are a bit 19th century when it comes to race, in several places being called "Irish" is still veiwed as a pejorative.
Good luck exporting to the nations to whom refuse you to repay your billions in loans, you halfwitted marxist pig.
Default doesn't mean debt repudiation. All they'd be left with is a massive debt denominated in euros they have to pay off with a debased currency.
If you mean Black Sails
Yes, that's the one.
the complete lack of interest on the characters face while getting ridden by Mrs. Barlowe was kind of a dead giveaway.
There are plenty of women I'd be hard pressed to raise a moan for.
The plot point was less he's gay, Hooray! But how a British sea captain could have his life turned up side down and become the fiercest pirate of the Caribbean.
That's what I thought I was getting, it didn't come across that way to me however. As I said maybe I've just turned hypersensitive, it's a sad commentary either way.
As for GOT spoiler alert some people care about gay dudes sucking dick left and right.
Fewer, I think, than you might imagine.
It's starting to creep into TV shows as well. Penny Dreadful, an otherwise reasonably competent show, has the characters spewing feminist screeds - "if men didn't control women with corsets, women would rule the wold" - no, a "feature" of corsets was the fact that women wearing them could afford servants to do the manual labour, they were status symbols. A bit like how pale skin was considered more beautiful at the time because it showed you didn't have to work outside all day long.
Then we have the painful efforts in shows like Flint, where the most notorious pirate in literature comes out as gay; it felt as though the entire show was leading up to that, all that was missing was the triumphal choir in the background. Contrast this with say the Game of Thrones series, where guys are sucking dick left and right but nobody cares - it's not the point of the show, just window dressing, neither good nor bad, just there.
What pisses me off most about these thinly veiled propaganda pieces is that they detract from the interest, beauty and genuine wonder of the rest of the production, they stick out like a sore thumb, they jar and disrupt immersion. Masterful works such as Salem have plenty of empowered women and whatnot without ever having to spout Dworkinisms.
I dunno, maybe I'm just hypersensitive to it what with the SJW plague doing the rounds these days.
This argument makes no sense. There is zero effective shortage of the materials used to make solar panels and concentrators. The only thing stopping solar from being used more extensively is the infrastructure already in place for fossil fuels makes coal and gas plants temporarily cheaper.
Also, covering a single digit percentage of the Sahara with solar cells would provide enough energy to supply the needs of the EU, so you're drastically overestimating the number of satellites that would be needed, to say nothing of just putting them between ourselves and the sun, and thus sending no more energy than would ordinarily reach us regardless.
all they do is take up valuable resources that could be used for expansion, research, economic development, etc
With the side benefit that if you have them you're far less likely to be "liberated".