I used to work for a French owned company in the US. The French expats that I worked with would go up to Quebec to vacation because it was a place they could go and speak French.
They all came back disappointed, with the comment - yes they speak French there but they live like Americans.
"The highest-profile convictions we found were from Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, which was a mortgage lending firm based not on Wall Street, but in Ocala, Fla. Its former chairman, Lee B. Farkas, was convicted of directing nearly $3 billion in fraud that put thousands out of work and contributed to the collapse of Colonial Bank. The collapse was the sixth-largest bank collapse in U.S. history. A judge sentenced Farkas to 30 years in prison on June 30, 2011. Several other executives associated with the firm pleaded guilty in related cases. "
Not only are American workers the most productive in the world, but the US is still the world's largest manufacturing nation based on economic output. And to top it off we do it with only 8% of the workforce. Crank that up to 25% or so and the US would out produce the rest of the world combined. Like it did during WWII.
Norway? You have got to be kidding me. The entire country of Norway has the population of Minnesota, one of the smaller US states.
To get that level of productivity a US manufacturing job has a skill level requirement far greater than in China. And heavy automation. In China automation has far less impact mostly because of the low wages it doesn't pay. So they have to have 8000 to glue on faceplates. In the US that would be about a 100 person operation.
Just show them old pictures of Willow Run. A B-24 every 30 minutes. 50,000 workers and 13 megawatts of electricity to run the place.
And then there was Oak Ridge. So big they ran out of copper and had to borrow 14,000 tons of silver from the Treasury. 75,000 workers + absolute SOTA nuclear tech at the same time.
For aluminum and Oak Ridge the TVA had 12 hydroelectric plants under construction at the same time. Bigger total capacity than Three Gorges and built 70 years ago in 1/5 the time it took to build Three Gorges. It is the development model the Chinese used for the Three Gorges project.
Boeing's Everett WA aircraft assembly plant is the largest building in the world. 400 million cu ft. I guess somebody forgot to tell them that you can't do that in America.
America can't do it = stupid. America is still the largest manufacturing nation on the planet. And it uses only 8% of it's work force to do it.
Mr. Dotcom isn't a guy I'd want to be defending. He's got a long record of making decisions based on what he thinks he can get away with vs. what is legal.
The rest needs to be resolved by severe criminal penalties, jail time and the requirement that the Murdoch empire be broken up. News Corp should also lose all of its broadcast licenses world-wide.
Corporations are not the same as people. They operate under very different principles.
Subsidies are not necessarily a bad thing. Even The Founders in their near transcendental wisdom realized that creativity is something that needs to be encouraged by a social structure.
Encouraging people to keep new ideas secret is exactly what we DON'T want. Guilds and tradesmen prior to the institution of patents did exactly that. You should consider the fact that the Industrial Revolution started at about the time patents were instituted in England. This economic explosion led to the greatest period of human progress in the history of the species. Going back to the old ways is exactly what we don't want because that restricts the dissemination of ideas.
Patents and Copyrights don't monopolize distribution channels. Patent and Copyrights don't need to be owned by the distributors. What they do is grant a limited monopoly on an implementation or expression of ideas in exchange for full disclosure and eventual public ownership.
If you can suggest something else besides the ridiculous idea that inventors keep their inventions secret, go ahead. But your suggestion is ludicrous.
Copyrights and Patents are issued to PEOPLE, not corporations. The problem is that corporations are allowed to purchase or establish conditions of employment that automatically transfer ownership of the Patent or Copyright to the corporation.
Payments and awards tied to expense? What about development cost? LOTR cost hundreds of millions to produce. How are the producers going to recoup that with your model?
At one time, say up until 40 years ago producing a copy of a work cost significantly more than the royalty payments to the author or publisher. Under such circumstances buying an authorized copy was usually the cheapest way to obtain a copy of a creative work because the publisher generally had the infrastructure to make copies.
This is not true now; digital copying and distribution has been driven the costs of reproduction to essentially nothing. This is what makes piracy so attractive, and it does threaten industries with extinction. The case where this has actually happened is the Hong Kong film industry.
Baloney. The US is still the world's largest manufacturing nation.
China assembles iPhones, athletic shoes and similar consumer knick-knacks. The US makes airliners, CPUs, pharmaceuticals, heavy mining and earth-movers and food.
Yes engineering has advantages when located close to manufacturing sites. That is not the same as R&D.
The US R&D spend rate is still very high. Even though it isn't as high as it should be it is still only barely exceeded by all of Asia combined as a percentage of the world, i.e. 31% vs 32%.
The total science spend of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam rose steadily between 1999 and 2009 to reach 32 per cent of the global share of spending on science, compared with 31 per cent in the US. Per capital the US spends 10x Asia.
The US needs to up it's game, certainly. But dig into the stats and the picture is not at all what it is painted to be in sensationalized news articles.
No, the press was viewed as an institution, not a device. Freedom of the press applies to dissemination of original thought expressing opinion and fact.
This is why freedom of the press applies to TV, radio, printed word, internet, etc.
However there is no such thing as an absolute freedom. Publication of content created by others is subject to copyright. There are also restrictions on slander, libel, child porn and so forth.
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I used to work for a French owned company in the US. The French expats that I worked with would go up to Quebec to vacation because it was a place they could go and speak French.
They all came back disappointed, with the comment - yes they speak French there but they live like Americans.
Incorrect.
From Politifact
"The highest-profile convictions we found were from Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, which was a mortgage lending firm based not on Wall Street, but in Ocala, Fla. Its former chairman, Lee B. Farkas, was convicted of directing nearly $3 billion in fraud that put thousands out of work and contributed to the collapse of Colonial Bank. The collapse was the sixth-largest bank collapse in U.S. history. A judge sentenced Farkas to 30 years in prison on June 30, 2011. Several other executives associated with the firm pleaded guilty in related cases. "
Not only are American workers the most productive in the world, but the US is still the world's largest manufacturing nation based on economic output. And to top it off we do it with only 8% of the workforce. Crank that up to 25% or so and the US would out produce the rest of the world combined. Like it did during WWII.
Norway? You have got to be kidding me. The entire country of Norway has the population of Minnesota, one of the smaller US states.
To get that level of productivity a US manufacturing job has a skill level requirement far greater than in China. And heavy automation. In China automation has far less impact mostly because of the low wages it doesn't pay. So they have to have 8000 to glue on faceplates. In the US that would be about a 100 person operation.
Just show them old pictures of Willow Run. A B-24 every 30 minutes. 50,000 workers and 13 megawatts of electricity to run the place.
And then there was Oak Ridge. So big they ran out of copper and had to borrow 14,000 tons of silver from the Treasury. 75,000 workers + absolute SOTA nuclear tech at the same time.
For aluminum and Oak Ridge the TVA had 12 hydroelectric plants under construction at the same time. Bigger total capacity than Three Gorges and built 70 years ago in 1/5 the time it took to build Three Gorges. It is the development model the Chinese used for the Three Gorges project.
Boeing's Everett WA aircraft assembly plant is the largest building in the world. 400 million cu ft. I guess somebody forgot to tell them that you can't do that in America.
America can't do it = stupid. America is still the largest manufacturing nation on the planet. And it uses only 8% of it's work force to do it.
Mr. Dotcom isn't a guy I'd want to be defending. He's got a long record of making decisions based on what he thinks he can get away with vs. what is legal.
The rest needs to be resolved by severe criminal penalties, jail time and the requirement that the Murdoch empire be broken up. News Corp should also lose all of its broadcast licenses world-wide.
Sounds like a pretty decent description of the political process as practiced in a Representative Democracy.
Now what is the problem?
You are wrong in so many ways.
Corporations are not the same as people. They operate under very different principles.
Subsidies are not necessarily a bad thing. Even The Founders in their near transcendental wisdom realized that creativity is something that needs to be encouraged by a social structure.
Encouraging people to keep new ideas secret is exactly what we DON'T want. Guilds and tradesmen prior to the institution of patents did exactly that. You should consider the fact that the Industrial Revolution started at about the time patents were instituted in England. This economic explosion led to the greatest period of human progress in the history of the species. Going back to the old ways is exactly what we don't want because that restricts the dissemination of ideas.
Patents and Copyrights don't monopolize distribution channels. Patent and Copyrights don't need to be owned by the distributors. What they do is grant a limited monopoly on an implementation or expression of ideas in exchange for full disclosure and eventual public ownership.
If you can suggest something else besides the ridiculous idea that inventors keep their inventions secret, go ahead. But your suggestion is ludicrous.
The same thing that would happen if you put all of your eggs in one basket and somebody that you entrusted with the basket dropped it.
I remember some advice about that....
Ah -
"Don't put all of your eggs in one basket".
The Megaupload guys made the mistake of locating servers in a country where their business model is illegal.
Copyrights and Patents are issued to PEOPLE, not corporations. The problem is that corporations are allowed to purchase or establish conditions of employment that automatically transfer ownership of the Patent or Copyright to the corporation.
This is what needs to be changed.
Because the SSID insulted both blacks and Jews.
Payments and awards tied to expense? What about development cost? LOTR cost hundreds of millions to produce. How are the producers going to recoup that with your model?
Oh? And in what cases have people running websites outside the US been extradited to the US?
At one time, say up until 40 years ago producing a copy of a work cost significantly more than the royalty payments to the author or publisher. Under such circumstances buying an authorized copy was usually the cheapest way to obtain a copy of a creative work because the publisher generally had the infrastructure to make copies.
This is not true now; digital copying and distribution has been driven the costs of reproduction to essentially nothing. This is what makes piracy so attractive, and it does threaten industries with extinction. The case where this has actually happened is the Hong Kong film industry.
The Chinese have shown the capability to shut down connections within Tor.
SOPA addresses servers that the FBI can't raid because they aren't located in the US.
For PCs 5 years is fine. For other types of systems 5 years could be too short.
The FBI charges cite examples where Megaupload was informed of infringing files that Megaupload did not remove.
If they can prove that, no safe harbor and Megaupload is toast.
Baloney. The US is still the world's largest manufacturing nation.
China assembles iPhones, athletic shoes and similar consumer knick-knacks. The US makes airliners, CPUs, pharmaceuticals, heavy mining and earth-movers and food.
http://business.time.com/2011/03/10/can-china-compete-with-american-manufacturing/
Yes engineering has advantages when located close to manufacturing sites. That is not the same as R&D.
The US R&D spend rate is still very high. Even though it isn't as high as it should be it is still only barely exceeded by all of Asia combined as a percentage of the world, i.e. 31% vs 32%.
From: http://www.scidev.net/en/science-and-innovation-policy/finance/news/asian-countries-collectively-top-us-r-d-spend.html
The total science spend of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam rose steadily between 1999 and 2009 to reach 32 per cent of the global share of spending on science, compared with 31 per cent in the US. Per capital the US spends 10x Asia.
The US needs to up it's game, certainly. But dig into the stats and the picture is not at all what it is painted to be in sensationalized news articles.
No, the press was viewed as an institution, not a device. Freedom of the press applies to dissemination of original thought expressing opinion and fact.
This is why freedom of the press applies to TV, radio, printed word, internet, etc.
However there is no such thing as an absolute freedom. Publication of content created by others is subject to copyright. There are also restrictions on slander, libel, child porn and so forth.
That violation of US law includes committing a crime on US territory. The analogy to historical events is firing a gun across a border.
Such events are always responded to by international actions including extradition.
I am sure the passage of SOPA would accelerate that deployment.
That's not what Congress thinks.
Calling one self a liberal is not the same thing as actually being a liberal.