I think the author missed an interesting point here. If an author was single and had no kids or any direct kin, the STATE will inherit his eternal copyright.
This means that after a few generations, this state income could surpass taxes and thus alleviate taxpayers. It's win-win for everybody!
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, a hydraulic engineer, was Chile's president from 1994 to 2000. He's widely considered a mediocre president at best, and failed miserably in an attempt to get reelected in the 2009 election. His engineering skills weren't a factor in this, though: his lack of real political weight (other than his name, being the son of the well-remembered Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chile's president from 1964 to 1970) and his lack of charisma and authority were the real reasons he wasn't a good head of state.
If this is implemented via tags in the HTML itself, it can be easily detected and stripped by content thieves, can't it?
If I copy the entire body of work of, say, the War Nerd, and set up a copycat blog ("the war geek"), how can these tags (which I've already modified) tell this is a blatant rip-off?
"Angered at Righthaven’s behavior, a Las Vegas federal judge unsealed the company’s heretofore confidential agreement [...]"
Not that I'm complaining, but... what did Righthaven do to anger the judge? Were their lawyers being dicks? Was the contract itself what angered the judge? Truly, I'd like to know.
In fact, you can type without looking at the screen at all.
Gee, that's new! Typists from decades ago were able to do just that. It was called "training" and "expertise".
Seriously, though, I expect two distinct problems with this:
1) How well will it handle "non-US slopiness"? Sloppy typing in Spanish (etc.) is quite different from typical english-language slopiness.
2) IT'S NOT A MODEL M KEYBOARD!!! There, I said it. I don't care for "the keyboard of the future" if the "keyboard from the past" is still alive and well and functioning nicely. Actually, make that "the keyboard from the past and present".:-P
OK, I must be a bit off on my symbols. Does that symbol ("") represent someones butt, breast, head, or claw?
It was my mistake. I tought/. would accept the character, but it didn't. It's Unicode code point U+20B3.
How so? This was a competition to come up with a new symbol. There were 5 designs that were on the final list and this symbol was the one that was just chosen.
I don't know how you can plan ahead for something like that.
There can be a delay between the announcement and the actual introduction of the symbol. The Unicode consortium could have been contacted to work on a draft proposal, to minimize the time required to work on it.
... and it's for a good reason. That said, this kind of thing should have been coordinated *beforehand*, to avoid exactly this situation. The long lag between introducing the new symbol and actually being able to use it might kill it.
OTOH, the Unicode consortium approved several years ago the symbol for the Argentinian austral (""), a currency that ended up dying an inglorious (yet entirely deserved) death a few months afterwards.
I did start to work it out, but it's really not interesting at all. There are these giant long linked-lists of articles, e.g. about 70 articles on subpages of List of asteroids, each only linked to by the previous one. I updated the webpage with a better explanation of why I didn't bother doing this.
Can you give us some examples? Please?
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So far, my "personal best" has been 5 clicks:
Shortest path from Pelagius of Asturias to Pham Nuwen
Pelagius of Asturias Iberian Peninsula Africa Zheng He A Deepness in the Sky Pham Nuwen
5 clicks needed
I've found several others that require 5 links.
I wish Stephen Dolan would have posted which article(s) has(have) the BIGGEST number as well...
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I think the author missed an interesting point here. If an author was single and had no kids or any direct kin, the STATE will inherit his eternal copyright.
This means that after a few generations, this state income could surpass taxes and thus alleviate taxpayers. It's win-win for everybody!
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, a hydraulic engineer, was Chile's president from 1994 to 2000. He's widely considered a mediocre president at best, and failed miserably in an attempt to get reelected in the 2009 election. His engineering skills weren't a factor in this, though: his lack of real political weight (other than his name, being the son of the well-remembered Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chile's president from 1964 to 1970) and his lack of charisma and authority were the real reasons he wasn't a good head of state.
Yup.
If this is implemented via tags in the HTML itself, it can be easily detected and stripped by content thieves, can't it?
If I copy the entire body of work of, say, the War Nerd, and set up a copycat blog ("the war geek"), how can these tags (which I've already modified) tell this is a blatant rip-off?
"Angered at Righthaven’s behavior, a Las Vegas federal judge unsealed the company’s heretofore confidential agreement [...]"
Not that I'm complaining, but... what did Righthaven do to anger the judge? Were their lawyers being dicks? Was the contract itself what angered the judge? Truly, I'd like to know.
If the summary is true, could all the aggravated parties become part of the same suit, or parts of a class action suit or something?
What I'm asking is: what are the required steps now to undo Righthaven's damages?
Did some peeking on the wayback machine...
There's another fun one: bookface.com (although it was oriented to online books and scripts).
Can anybody or the editors explain the relevance to "my rights online" of this story,
Politics can have effects on all of us, even if we don't care about politics.
If there's ONE change (one of many, but still) I could make to the different Civilization games, it'd be the ability to set an arbitrary end date.
Yeah, I know Freeciv does it.
If you can plug a model M into your smartphone and use it conveniently I will be impressed sir.
I'd rather crush my work smartphone that keeps ringing all day with my Model M keyboard. :-)
In fact, you can type without looking at the screen at all.
Gee, that's new! Typists from decades ago were able to do just that. It was called "training" and "expertise".
Seriously, though, I expect two distinct problems with this:
1) How well will it handle "non-US slopiness"? Sloppy typing in Spanish (etc.) is quite different from typical english-language slopiness.
2) IT'S NOT A MODEL M KEYBOARD!!! There, I said it. I don't care for "the keyboard of the future" if the "keyboard from the past" is still alive and well and functioning nicely. Actually, make that "the keyboard from the past and present". :-P
Long live VELVIA!
OK, I must be a bit off on my symbols. Does that symbol ("") represent someones butt, breast, head, or claw? It was my mistake. I tought /. would accept the character, but it didn't. It's Unicode code point U+20B3.
That's the "old" symbol. It represents the "rupee" currency as used in five different countries (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Mauritius).
How so? This was a competition to come up with a new symbol. There were 5 designs that were on the final list and this symbol was the one that was just chosen.
I don't know how you can plan ahead for something like that.
There can be a delay between the announcement and the actual introduction of the symbol. The Unicode consortium could have been contacted to work on a draft proposal, to minimize the time required to work on it.
... and it's for a good reason. That said, this kind of thing should have been coordinated *beforehand*, to avoid exactly this situation. The long lag between introducing the new symbol and actually being able to use it might kill it.
OTOH, the Unicode consortium approved several years ago the symbol for the Argentinian austral (""), a currency that ended up dying an inglorious (yet entirely deserved) death a few months afterwards.
s/mortly/mostly/
Only nowadays, I buy mortly indies...
No, without that "laser virtual keyboard".
I did start to work it out, but it's really not interesting at all. There are these giant long linked-lists of articles, e.g. about 70 articles on subpages of List of asteroids, each only linked to by the previous one. I updated the webpage with a better explanation of why I didn't bother doing this.
Can you give us some examples? Please?
So far, my "personal best" has been 5 clicks:
Shortest path from Pelagius of Asturias to Pham Nuwen
Pelagius of Asturias
Iberian Peninsula
Africa
Zheng He
A Deepness in the Sky
Pham Nuwen
5 clicks needed
I've found several others that require 5 links.
I wish Stephen Dolan would have posted which article(s) has(have) the BIGGEST number as well...
I am no botanist, so I have to ask a potentially dumb question: are there any kind of cellulose-like variants that should be prospected as well?
As an American-Estonian (1/3 Estonian on my Mother's side),
How can you be ONE THIRD something? I'd understand 1/2 or 1/4 or 1/8 (etc.)
Or, perhaps, you're 1/3 SWEDISH. }:->
(I know I'd be downmodded for this, but I HAD to say it)
Dead people being sued for not living.
Damn right. They aren't paying taxes, aren't they?
It appeared much later in EMOL. :-P