It's not the judicial branch at fault here, obviously. And authorship and distribution are not that tightly coupled. The only association they have is fear. I'm afraid that if you distribute my ideas, you'll claim them as your own. And that's very likely right now because that claim, for better or for worse equates to profit.
My hypothesis is that once you come up with an idea, you release it as fast as possible and as widely as possible such that it's inarguable that you are the author. You can profit from distributing your idea, but there will probably be better distributors. The real value instead comes from the frequency of your ideas, your aggressive push of them and the level at which they are taken up by others. Then your time and ability to train others becomes more valuable.
How you make a profit on this is beyond me... Perhaps the manufacturers begin paying the successful originating companies/persons for more ideas/drugs/research/music, etc. Then the distributors buy from manufacturers, etc.
I guess copyright stems from trying to have all three in the same company - when it starts to break down, i.e., others get ahold of your "Intellectual Property", you try to fight the breakdown with laws, non-disclosures, etc.
In the music industry, this would be a songwriter spreading their work to singers, lyric sites, etc. Singers & bands make a cut of the song and the best rendition get's more attention from distributors and the audience.
The only way all of this would work though is if the lyrics and cuts spread fast.
So, quick! Someone make a site that allows songwriters to post original songs while only making claims to authorship, musicians to upload their take on the song, and charge a fee to cover distribution and keep the originators supplying material.
Google is more likely to provide itms url's from it's song linke result than to turn into a iTunes competitor. Instead, look for a partnership between Google and Apple whereby Google auto-advertises for Apple in this manner.
They want to index the worlds information, not distribute it. It's only when there is an inadequate sandbox to store the information that Google fills a void (read: google video). Music does not suffer from this.
But you can imagine what that will do with both parties' stock prices.
bah, you logic is flawed, and the copyright laws are outdated. Once you release something into the wild you lose control. The laws need to be updated to reflect the value of the source, the value of the information and not the value of the copy.
Claiming authorship of information is the only real grievance once can have. Distribution of copy should be a separate issue. Inherently owning the rights of distribution of information you publish is hogwash. Exclusivity of distribution is artificial value that deserves to die the death it is now facing.
I wonder, would this have been news if it was a rock core sample? Or perhaps some really deep dirt? Understanding of course that ice potentially contains more to study because it's a fluid at temperatures that live is able to exist in, but it seems a little strange to suggest that people outside this field of science should get excited. It's a piece of solid material which at some point in the past was a liquid:
Japanese Scientists Dig up Million-year-old Rock
News Science ToxikFetus writes "During expedition to Africa to research past climate patterns, Japanese scientists unearth million-year-old block of rock, breaking the previous mark by 200,000 years."
Yeah, he even defended his experiences with a swift left hook. Some conspiracy theorist named Bart Sibrel called him a liar and a coward to his face once and got an appropriate response.
First, I don't own a television. I threw it out 5 years ago. Since then, I've started my own software company, bought a house similar to what you described of your own. I drive a toyota corolla and am in the process of hosting foster kids at my house as a single guy.
The generalization is not a stereotype - it's fairly accurate to say that one person cannot do all of the tasks necessary to make billions. It's math. And I'm certain celebraties do not hang out the the movie grips or the people that make their coffee. They may say they respect the people working to make them famous, but when it comes down to where the rubber meets the road, they aren't hosting parties for these average folks. Or the Malaysian kids.
You can't drive that Lexus and have enough money to buy a third world country without the use of another persons labour. In order to exploit the labours of another person to the point of such "success" you must have a certain degree of disdain for them. It's difficult if not impossible to not give a shit about someone you employ if you're paying attention and not just blindly using their efforts with no regard for the effect it has on them. The latter is what exploitation is.
Regarding a gun as your protection against someone after your stuff is suffering the effect of your exploitation and regarding the other person with hostility as a result. That's hate.
So there's the connection for you. Not bullshit after all.
Agreed. They adopt the fad as another paddle to save their sinking ship. Then when they realize it takes work and thought and care and you have to put up with a bunch of crap from the feedback channels, they pack up and go inside with their toys.
It's like this with anyone in a position of authority, fabricated or otherwise. The loudmouth in the crowd obviously has nothing good to say because I'm the one with the mic' - attitude. Nevermind that people desperately feel the need to feed back because these soap box generals are so far off target from the average persons needs and desire for information.
Oh, I'll be upgrading all right. To a new Intel based Apple machine. I have been waiting for Apple to settle down on a processor to jump ship once and for all from that god-forsaken pos operating system that has been haunting my life for the past decade.
I look forward to the day when it's common knowledge that Microsoft's attempt to march people along a shoddy operating system path along with other questionable business practices has marginalized them in the industry.
Good Riddance. I dare them to play games with the support for XP - I'm looking for my last excuse.
What's intriging to me about this is that there is an honorable mention of the actual data from the study. Usually news reports wash over this and just blurt out a percentage. I look forward to the day there is also a link to the test data.
There are two ways to target ads as far as google appears to be concerned initially. The first is search (duh) and the second is locality (almost a duh, see google local, maps, etc). Google's answer to the first is up and running - index everything, then advertise to index users based on their criteria.
The second answer appears to be to group the index users by locality then tailor advertising to that group. If there were oodles of money in my pocket, here is what I would do:
1) Lobby to promote DNS names by locality instead of one lump.com/.net/.org bomb. http://lawyers.boise.id.us/ not www.werelawyersinidaho.com. 2) If 1 is not possible due to not having enough influence, create our own network where we can identify users by region more effectively. 3) go back and hit 1 again after enough clout has accumulated. 3) Give access to our new network away for cost to operate and not much more. 4) Now we can monitor & tailor searches by region. Watch for volume and patterns in the searching and perform targeted advertising through more channels specific to this locale. 5) promote radio advertising based on our regional search data.
voila. now googling for lawyers in idaho yields useful results which are different from the same in florida. More paying advertisers, more happy index users.
I would guess they believe there is money between the generalization of advertising we are currently subjected to and information we actually need: Is anyone else sick of computer training and gold advertisements on CNN spewed day in, day out (office has projection tv's on in the cafeteria).
the market isn't in charge of healthcare in America. Healthcare here is recovering from a hobbling brought on by the insistence that your employer is responsible for your health and because insurance companies dilute the sting of the overpriced costs. So before it gets better, it has to get worse. But if it's left to the same pressures that drive stereos, gym memberships and washing machines, it would be a non-issue.
And you really expect a self serving religious movement to exercise compassion efficiently? Compassionate people excercise compassion, not community organizations. Get enough money in an org and the greedy come in and push the compassion right out the door.
Let's solve one for you. Bullets. People make bullets. All they need is poop, urine, sulfer and some charcoal and a handy fire. Take the slugs from the last group of dead guys you killed, melt them back into shape and reuse the pile of shells at your feet. Then go get the other guys' leftover ammunition. They won't be needing it.
You act as though some omnipotent diety dropped off a load of rounds a few kabars and some.50 cals. Humans invented them to kill their enemies before dying themselves.
War doesn't require democracy - war requires competition to survive and social gathering. Even ants go to war.
sure you can. Just look at the average diet. We could reduce the entire landscape of life down to chickens, corn, sugar cane, rice, soy and the occasional fruit and live out our lives in a bland but sustainable existence.
Today's biodiversity has a lot of overlapping species that could disappear with little effect on our future. It got us here, but we don't need it to continue - that's the power of domestication.
Both. James Lovelock is stomping to sell his book:
My new book The Revenge of Gaia expands these thoughts, but you still may ask why science took so long to recognise the true nature of the Earth.
Look, my hypothesis is that the reversal of our impact on the global environement will take on the order of a thousand years for one reason - vegetation. We are not the only life on the planet which deliberately change our environments to make then suitable for our own well being. Plants drop leaves that are poisonous to competing vegetation, that compost and help the ground turn to soil and maintain moisture. They grow tall and create hospitable environments for their root systems underneath their canopies. So wherever the fringe of life ends up by the time the tides change vegetation will re-establish itself and make the march back down the planet.
Let's suppose we hose the cycle and end up in the poles as this guy suggests. We won't be able to sustain our current populations or continue to cause damage on that scale any more. The instigator is now marginalized. And so long as there are seeds somewhere on this planet, which is mostly surfaced with water btw, a time lapse of the 1000 year recover time will look like a terraforming scene from a Star Trek movie.
What if the coolant was the water in their camel backs? Then plugging into the humvee fills your camelback and circulates coolness into it. Little extra weight, another task off their list (refills of the water supply) and a slight break from the heat.
Which is why you're seeing federal funding cuts and tax cuts. The idea is to give people back their money and if the states see education fit to subsidize to do it themselves...
I know her as well, and it's been a real boon for her. Turns out her second head can control it almost entirely so her grades are unnatural. And don't let her challenge you to a game of twister.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not the judicial branch at fault here, obviously. And authorship and distribution are not that tightly coupled. The only association they have is fear. I'm afraid that if you distribute my ideas, you'll claim them as your own. And that's very likely right now because that claim, for better or for worse equates to profit.
My hypothesis is that once you come up with an idea, you release it as fast as possible and as widely as possible such that it's inarguable that you are the author. You can profit from distributing your idea, but there will probably be better distributors. The real value instead comes from the frequency of your ideas, your aggressive push of them and the level at which they are taken up by others. Then your time and ability to train others becomes more valuable.
How you make a profit on this is beyond me... Perhaps the manufacturers begin paying the successful originating companies/persons for more ideas/drugs/research/music, etc. Then the distributors buy from manufacturers, etc.
I guess copyright stems from trying to have all three in the same company - when it starts to break down, i.e., others get ahold of your "Intellectual Property", you try to fight the breakdown with laws, non-disclosures, etc.
In the music industry, this would be a songwriter spreading their work to singers, lyric sites, etc. Singers & bands make a cut of the song and the best rendition get's more attention from distributors and the audience.
The only way all of this would work though is if the lyrics and cuts spread fast.
So, quick! Someone make a site that allows songwriters to post original songs while only making claims to authorship, musicians to upload their take on the song, and charge a fee to cover distribution and keep the originators supplying material.
Google is more likely to provide itms url's from it's song linke result than to turn into a iTunes competitor. Instead, look for a partnership between Google and Apple whereby Google auto-advertises for Apple in this manner.
They want to index the worlds information, not distribute it. It's only when there is an inadequate sandbox to store the information that Google fills a void (read: google video). Music does not suffer from this.
But you can imagine what that will do with both parties' stock prices.
bah, you logic is flawed, and the copyright laws are outdated. Once you release something into the wild you lose control. The laws need to be updated to reflect the value of the source, the value of the information and not the value of the copy.
Claiming authorship of information is the only real grievance once can have. Distribution of copy should be a separate issue. Inherently owning the rights of distribution of information you publish is hogwash. Exclusivity of distribution is artificial value that deserves to die the death it is now facing.
You should tell them to update it.
If you have questions about this site, please contact the Acid Rain Students Site Webmaster via e-mail at walke.cynthia@epa.gov.
You may also write to us at:
Mail Code 6204J
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20460
Or call us at:
Phone: 202-343-9150
Hotline: 202-343-9620
I wonder, would this have been news if it was a rock core sample? Or perhaps some really deep dirt? Understanding of course that ice potentially contains more to study because it's a fluid at temperatures that live is able to exist in, but it seems a little strange to suggest that people outside this field of science should get excited. It's a piece of solid material which at some point in the past was a liquid:
Japanese Scientists Dig up Million-year-old Rock
News Science
ToxikFetus writes "During expedition to Africa to research past climate patterns, Japanese scientists unearth million-year-old block of rock, breaking the previous mark by 200,000 years."
AT&T 1984-2005 is the deregulated AT&T
So's SBC. And BellSouth. And both of them got together and started Cingular. Who bought AT&T Wireless.
Noticing anything here?
Yeah, he even defended his experiences with a swift left hook. Some conspiracy theorist named Bart Sibrel called him a liar and a coward to his face once and got an appropriate response.
First, I don't own a television. I threw it out 5 years ago. Since then, I've started my own software company, bought a house similar to what you described of your own. I drive a toyota corolla and am in the process of hosting foster kids at my house as a single guy.
The generalization is not a stereotype - it's fairly accurate to say that one person cannot do all of the tasks necessary to make billions. It's math. And I'm certain celebraties do not hang out the the movie grips or the people that make their coffee. They may say they respect the people working to make them famous, but when it comes down to where the rubber meets the road, they aren't hosting parties for these average folks. Or the Malaysian kids.
You can't drive that Lexus and have enough money to buy a third world country without the use of another persons labour. In order to exploit the labours of another person to the point of such "success" you must have a certain degree of disdain for them. It's difficult if not impossible to not give a shit about someone you employ if you're paying attention and not just blindly using their efforts with no regard for the effect it has on them. The latter is what exploitation is.
Regarding a gun as your protection against someone after your stuff is suffering the effect of your exploitation and regarding the other person with hostility as a result. That's hate.
So there's the connection for you. Not bullshit after all.
Agreed. They adopt the fad as another paddle to save their sinking ship. Then when they realize it takes work and thought and care and you have to put up with a bunch of crap from the feedback channels, they pack up and go inside with their toys.
It's like this with anyone in a position of authority, fabricated or otherwise. The loudmouth in the crowd obviously has nothing good to say because I'm the one with the mic' - attitude. Nevermind that people desperately feel the need to feed back because these soap box generals are so far off target from the average persons needs and desire for information.
Good ridance to these dinosaurs.
Oh, I'll be upgrading all right. To a new Intel based Apple machine. I have been waiting for Apple to settle down on a processor to jump ship once and for all from that god-forsaken pos operating system that has been haunting my life for the past decade.
I look forward to the day when it's common knowledge that Microsoft's attempt to march people along a shoddy operating system path along with other questionable business practices has marginalized them in the industry.
Good Riddance. I dare them to play games with the support for XP - I'm looking for my last excuse.
The gub'ment just sued them:
Gonzales v. Google Inc
bloomberg
hey, prostate cancer is a major cause of death in men over 40.
Here's an interesting read about the dogs:
What's intriging to me about this is that there is an honorable mention of the actual data from the study. Usually news reports wash over this and just blurt out a percentage. I look forward to the day there is also a link to the test data.
Here's my hypothesis.
.com/.net/.org bomb. http://lawyers.boise.id.us/ not www.werelawyersinidaho.com.
There are two ways to target ads as far as google appears to be concerned initially. The first is search (duh) and the second is locality (almost a duh, see google local, maps, etc). Google's answer to the first is up and running - index everything, then advertise to index users based on their criteria.
The second answer appears to be to group the index users by locality then tailor advertising to that group. If there were oodles of money in my pocket, here is what I would do:
1) Lobby to promote DNS names by locality instead of one lump
2) If 1 is not possible due to not having enough influence, create our own network where we can identify users by region more effectively.
3) go back and hit 1 again after enough clout has accumulated.
3) Give access to our new network away for cost to operate and not much more.
4) Now we can monitor & tailor searches by region. Watch for volume and patterns in the searching and perform targeted advertising through more channels specific to this locale.
5) promote radio advertising based on our regional search data.
voila. now googling for lawyers in idaho yields useful results which are different from the same in florida. More paying advertisers, more happy index users.
I would guess they believe there is money between the generalization of advertising we are currently subjected to and information we actually need: Is anyone else sick of computer training and gold advertisements on CNN spewed day in, day out (office has projection tv's on in the cafeteria).
the market isn't in charge of healthcare in America. Healthcare here is recovering from a hobbling brought on by the insistence that your employer is responsible for your health and because insurance companies dilute the sting of the overpriced costs. So before it gets better, it has to get worse. But if it's left to the same pressures that drive stereos, gym memberships and washing machines, it would be a non-issue.
And you really expect a self serving religious movement to exercise compassion efficiently? Compassionate people excercise compassion, not community organizations. Get enough money in an org and the greedy come in and push the compassion right out the door.
Wow, you're all over the page.
.50 cals. Humans invented them to kill their enemies before dying themselves.
Let's solve one for you. Bullets. People make bullets. All they need is poop, urine, sulfer and some charcoal and a handy fire. Take the slugs from the last group of dead guys you killed, melt them back into shape and reuse the pile of shells at your feet. Then go get the other guys' leftover ammunition. They won't be needing it.
You act as though some omnipotent diety dropped off a load of rounds a few kabars and some
War doesn't require democracy - war requires competition to survive and social gathering. Even ants go to war.
sure you can. Just look at the average diet. We could reduce the entire landscape of life down to chickens, corn, sugar cane, rice, soy and the occasional fruit and live out our lives in a bland but sustainable existence.
Today's biodiversity has a lot of overlapping species that could disappear with little effect on our future. It got us here, but we don't need it to continue - that's the power of domestication.
Who do we believe? The physician or the author?
Both. James Lovelock is stomping to sell his book:
My new book The Revenge of Gaia expands these thoughts, but you still may ask why science took so long to recognise the true nature of the Earth.
Look, my hypothesis is that the reversal of our impact on the global environement will take on the order of a thousand years for one reason - vegetation. We are not the only life on the planet which deliberately change our environments to make then suitable for our own well being. Plants drop leaves that are poisonous to competing vegetation, that compost and help the ground turn to soil and maintain moisture. They grow tall and create hospitable environments for their root systems underneath their canopies. So wherever the fringe of life ends up by the time the tides change vegetation will re-establish itself and make the march back down the planet.
Let's suppose we hose the cycle and end up in the poles as this guy suggests. We won't be able to sustain our current populations or continue to cause damage on that scale any more. The instigator is now marginalized. And so long as there are seeds somewhere on this planet, which is mostly surfaced with water btw, a time lapse of the 1000 year recover time will look like a terraforming scene from a Star Trek movie.
Minor inconvenience x 280 million = One Big Freaking Inconvenince to Society.
Don't you mean = One Ridiculously Obnoxious Freaking Inconvenience to Civilization Especially?
No, but the CIA headquarters is named after his dad. http://www.odci.gov/cia/public_affairs/speeches/19 99/portman_speech_042699.html
The personal cooling unit: thermos
The cooling fluid: icewater
The deliver: drink it.
What if the coolant was the water in their camel backs? Then plugging into the humvee fills your camelback and circulates coolness into it. Little extra weight, another task off their list (refills of the water supply) and a slight break from the heat.
Which is why you're seeing federal funding cuts and tax cuts. The idea is to give people back their money and if the states see education fit to subsidize to do it themselves...
I know her as well, and it's been a real boon for her. Turns out her second head can control it almost entirely so her grades are unnatural. And don't let her challenge you to a game of twister.