If I publish something in a magazine and you don't pay the magazine then the publishing company goes out of business.
Should the writers, editors, network engineers, information architects, UX developers, graphic artists all work for free so you don't have to pay for your article?
No brother. It doesn't work that way.
Pro-corporate mythology? Who created the music dude? Who paid to have it recorded? Who did all the work? What kind of sh*t are you trying to sell me?
big media is part of the problem because their business model has not kept up with the times. That doesn't mean that YOU can steal someone else's work and defend yourself by saying that everyone does it. If one of your favorite bands is at a club do you think you should get free access to the concert because intellectual property is pro-corporate mythology? "break down the doors - free access to all."
You seem to forget that most municipalities (and much of the Federal government) has huge pension shortfalls. Why? Because the gov't agency involved does have a pay-as-you go system. Pension funds are not funded until they are being withdrawn. That is one of the reasons we are in such a f**king mess.
Say an employee is to get a salary (s) and pension (p). Every pay period the government agency should pay salary and place the appropriate pension payment into an account. We are not funding our pensions.
I haven't read the link you provided - there may have been excess in those bills - but before laughing and ridiculing them out of hand maybe you should reserve a little frustration for the agencies that do not pay pensions and expect later generations to fund them.
USPS needs to go. Does it pay property taxes to local governments. You say it has a surplus in it's retirement accounts. Let's say that's true - does it come from taxpayers or from income? I think it's the former.
If the USPS can make it on its own then let it continue. If it cannot then it's time for it to go.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
This applies to personal emails and other effects but it is not license to take others intellectual property and do with as you like. We need to defend intellectual property as well as our own privacy.
I write articles. I have friends that are musicians. Should we work at McDonalds and produce our work for free so that you can get free sh*t? Painters, writers, musicians, game developers, etc... create something. They create it, for among other reasons, to get money to live - so they can by stuff from others.
Let me see if I understand you. I create something. You like it. You take it without paying me for my work and then feed me the line that since everybody does it I should do nothing about it. I don't think so.
The problem is multi-faceted. As you pointed out spending $20 for a CD is crazy. The business model has changed dramatically as the cost of distribution is approaching zero. Unfortunately big media (music, movie and publishing companies) are making mistakes left and right. We need to prevent mass scale piracy and big media could help facilitate that by focusing on intellectual property and stop trying to corner the market through physical distribution means.
The original decision was foolish on so many levels. Nonetheless we need to find a better answer to piracy than saying the concept of intellectual property rights is wrong, that anybody can take someone else's (intellectual) property at whim and distribute it at whim. The court was obviously trying to make an example of the kid and his parents (itself an injustice). 30 years ago kids used to tape songs off the radio and share their mixes without concern of the law.
We need to crack down on piracy w/o being stupid about it.
Electricity can be produced without fossil fuels - but look at the graph it will take a few more years before that is possible. It's not simply a matter of "spending more money." Technology can be impeded by a lack of funds but more (an excess of) funds don't necessarily provide more results.
The price per Kilowatt of photovoltaic cells have been dropping steadily for 30 years. Extrapolating it forward (as we do with Moore's law) shows that in the not too distant future solar energy will be competitive with oil. In the meanwhile should we send money and jobs abroad (often to hostile countries) or keep it local.
Unfortunately there is a political aspect to this.
You are forgetting to include the teachers pensions and health care benefits. This, by itself, more than doubles a teacher's pay assuming a 20+ year retirement.
It's coming. Fast. Technology will supplant this rotten system with better results at prices affordable for all. At first rich kids will have virtual tutors which will give them a greater advantage. Then the price of these systems will drop and affordable schools will pop-up all over the place. The evil that is the present day public schools are coming to an end.
Virtual teachers (think of souped up wii or xBox instructors) will bring home schooling/private tutoring to everyone. Will 7 year olds still need adult supervision? Of course. But the end of public schools is at hand. It's about f**king time.
Did they say there "would not, could not" be an earthquake? Or did they say that they didn't see evidence that there would be one? I thought it was the later. Did other scientists, looking at the same data, think that "obviously there is an earthquake about to happen?" No.
This ruling is terrible. A triumph of trial lawyers over science.
Very true. Both magazines aim at the highly educated market, but that doesn't explain why their print editions would remain popular. I suspect their older readers are willing to pay for the dead-tree format. (My father still likes read paper NYTs even though he complains about the clutter.)
It's crazy to have an on-line subscription without automatic access to back issues. One of the key reasons for digital information is to reduce the paper clutter.
Thanks. You beat me to it.
Lots of people kill in the name of a cause. Not all religious people are consistent in their thinking (praise the lord/sarc). But then neither are progressives. Look at all the fools hollering about Republican intolerance while wearing "Che" Guevara shirts.
I think you hit it on the head. Up until the 1990s it was difficult to have mass distribution of articles. Now it is easy. The university pays the academic's salary (often through tax dollars) who then writes the article for free. The articles are reviewed (and edited) for free and then published. Back in the day printing small runs of scholarly journals was very expensive. It still is expensive to print and distribute small runs of dead-tree journals.
On the other hand distributing on-line journals costs close to nothing. Academic journals are prohibitively expense. This can be done by academics without outside help - publish and review articles and place them on line.
From a tourist's perspective - they will have spectacular views of lower manhattan, jersey city, brooklyn, the statue of liberty and the hudson/east rivers.
From NYC's perspective it will be one more tourist attraction, bring tourists and funds to another borough AND help revitalize one of the most beautiful waterfronts in the city. For all it's beauty that area of Staten Island has been a dump. Revitalize it and NYC has more primo real estate.
Overhyping is never good. What counts is finding new avenues of research - and this, if I'm not mistaken, is a new avenue of research. Tissue regeneration is a big f**king deal.
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Should the writers, editors, network engineers, information architects, UX developers, graphic artists all work for free so you don't have to pay for your article? No brother. It doesn't work that way.
Pro-corporate mythology? Who created the music dude? Who paid to have it recorded? Who did all the work? What kind of sh*t are you trying to sell me?
big media is part of the problem because their business model has not kept up with the times. That doesn't mean that YOU can steal someone else's work and defend yourself by saying that everyone does it. If one of your favorite bands is at a club do you think you should get free access to the concert because intellectual property is pro-corporate mythology? "break down the doors - free access to all."
You seem to forget that most municipalities (and much of the Federal government) has huge pension shortfalls. Why? Because the gov't agency involved does have a pay-as-you go system. Pension funds are not funded until they are being withdrawn. That is one of the reasons we are in such a f**king mess.
Say an employee is to get a salary (s) and pension (p). Every pay period the government agency should pay salary and place the appropriate pension payment into an account. We are not funding our pensions.
I haven't read the link you provided - there may have been excess in those bills - but before laughing and ridiculing them out of hand maybe you should reserve a little frustration for the agencies that do not pay pensions and expect later generations to fund them.
USPS needs to go. Does it pay property taxes to local governments. You say it has a surplus in it's retirement accounts. Let's say that's true - does it come from taxpayers or from income? I think it's the former. If the USPS can make it on its own then let it continue. If it cannot then it's time for it to go.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." This applies to personal emails and other effects but it is not license to take others intellectual property and do with as you like. We need to defend intellectual property as well as our own privacy.
I write articles. I have friends that are musicians. Should we work at McDonalds and produce our work for free so that you can get free sh*t? Painters, writers, musicians, game developers, etc... create something. They create it, for among other reasons, to get money to live - so they can by stuff from others. Let me see if I understand you. I create something. You like it. You take it without paying me for my work and then feed me the line that since everybody does it I should do nothing about it. I don't think so.
The problem is multi-faceted. As you pointed out spending $20 for a CD is crazy. The business model has changed dramatically as the cost of distribution is approaching zero. Unfortunately big media (music, movie and publishing companies) are making mistakes left and right. We need to prevent mass scale piracy and big media could help facilitate that by focusing on intellectual property and stop trying to corner the market through physical distribution means.
The original decision was foolish on so many levels. Nonetheless we need to find a better answer to piracy than saying the concept of intellectual property rights is wrong, that anybody can take someone else's (intellectual) property at whim and distribute it at whim. The court was obviously trying to make an example of the kid and his parents (itself an injustice). 30 years ago kids used to tape songs off the radio and share their mixes without concern of the law. We need to crack down on piracy w/o being stupid about it.
that was good. wish I had some karma to share.
that's pretty good. Wish I had some karma to share.
Electricity can be produced without fossil fuels - but look at the graph it will take a few more years before that is possible. It's not simply a matter of "spending more money." Technology can be impeded by a lack of funds but more (an excess of) funds don't necessarily provide more results.
The price per Kilowatt of photovoltaic cells have been dropping steadily for 30 years. Extrapolating it forward (as we do with Moore's law) shows that in the not too distant future solar energy will be competitive with oil. In the meanwhile should we send money and jobs abroad (often to hostile countries) or keep it local. Unfortunately there is a political aspect to this.
You are forgetting to include the teachers pensions and health care benefits. This, by itself, more than doubles a teacher's pay assuming a 20+ year retirement.
It's coming. Fast. Technology will supplant this rotten system with better results at prices affordable for all. At first rich kids will have virtual tutors which will give them a greater advantage. Then the price of these systems will drop and affordable schools will pop-up all over the place. The evil that is the present day public schools are coming to an end.
Virtual teachers (think of souped up wii or xBox instructors) will bring home schooling/private tutoring to everyone. Will 7 year olds still need adult supervision? Of course. But the end of public schools is at hand. It's about f**king time.
Did they say there "would not, could not" be an earthquake? Or did they say that they didn't see evidence that there would be one? I thought it was the later. Did other scientists, looking at the same data, think that "obviously there is an earthquake about to happen?" No. This ruling is terrible. A triumph of trial lawyers over science.
Very true. Both magazines aim at the highly educated market, but that doesn't explain why their print editions would remain popular. I suspect their older readers are willing to pay for the dead-tree format. (My father still likes read paper NYTs even though he complains about the clutter.)
It's crazy to have an on-line subscription without automatic access to back issues. One of the key reasons for digital information is to reduce the paper clutter.
Thanks. You beat me to it. Lots of people kill in the name of a cause. Not all religious people are consistent in their thinking (praise the lord /sarc). But then neither are progressives. Look at all the fools hollering about Republican intolerance while wearing "Che" Guevara shirts.
I think you hit it on the head. Up until the 1990s it was difficult to have mass distribution of articles. Now it is easy. The university pays the academic's salary (often through tax dollars) who then writes the article for free. The articles are reviewed (and edited) for free and then published. Back in the day printing small runs of scholarly journals was very expensive. It still is expensive to print and distribute small runs of dead-tree journals. On the other hand distributing on-line journals costs close to nothing. Academic journals are prohibitively expense. This can be done by academics without outside help - publish and review articles and place them on line.
Rural N?!?. S**t, that happens here in urban nyc. (Queens and Brooklyn)
Being able to print workable guns would be a phenomenal technological feat. This is one more example of dangerous technology.
From a tourist's perspective - they will have spectacular views of lower manhattan, jersey city, brooklyn, the statue of liberty and the hudson/east rivers. From NYC's perspective it will be one more tourist attraction, bring tourists and funds to another borough AND help revitalize one of the most beautiful waterfronts in the city. For all it's beauty that area of Staten Island has been a dump. Revitalize it and NYC has more primo real estate.
Overhyping is never good. What counts is finding new avenues of research - and this, if I'm not mistaken, is a new avenue of research. Tissue regeneration is a big f**king deal.
Really. Who would have thought that some fonts are easier to read/process than others? I'm so glad we have so many smart people looking into this.