It's okay to take a photo of a sculpture but it's not okay to use that photo to market your service, such as the way the USPS was trying to do with this stamp. This is part of the reason they make sure people are dead for a good long time before they honor them with a postage stamp.
That doesn't make any sense. If you take a picture of me, it's not as if I retain any authorship rights to my own face. The "living persons" rule does apply to images of people on U.S. stamps, but not to images of sculptures AFAIK.
Now this is a quote from the findings in the ruling:
Analysis of the purpose and character of the use also includes whether the “use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes.” 17 U.S.C. 107. The Postal Service acknowledged receiving $17 million from the sale of nearly 48 million 37-cent stamps. An estimated $5.4 million in stamps were sold to collectors in 2003. The stamp clearly has a commercial purpose. The Court of Federal Claims did not address how the commercial purpose of the stamp affected this factor of the fair use analysis.
This gets down to the question of what a stamp is for. Is the $5.4 million figure even relevant? All those stamp collectors can still mail letters with those stamps.
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims is comprised of 16 judges nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
Judge Thomas C Wheeler was nominated in June 05 and confirmed in October 05 for a 15 year term. His prior experience was 10 years as a lawyer for corporate law firm DLA Piper.
In 1993, Wells published Mary Ann's Gilligan's Island Cookbook with co-writers Ken Beck & Jim Clark, including a foreword by Bob Denver, to whom she had sent an envelope of marijuana through the mail years earlier.
There, that wasn't so hard. (BTW, to all you cookbook writers out there: I can write a good foreword.)
Whoever posted this clearly isn't aware of the actual work being done in the field. For instance, I was running a ___[thing]___ in _[year]_, and it wasn't new at the time. They've gotten much more sophisticated since then. Why are they so intent on reinventing the wheel? Do they not even realize that the wheel exists already? Why not just improve on it instead?
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This looks like a useful template for the standard "why reinvent the wheel" Slashdot post; I hope you don't mind if I reuse it.
There is an art to Wikipedia abuse. If someone cites a Wikipedia article in some argument they're making, you can always just go to Wikipedia and edit the page so that they're wrong. But that's what a novice Wikipedia vandal does.
A pro knows to edit the article in a very subtle way, so that it looks like the person has poor reading comprehension. Let's say the person cites a Wikipedia article with a sentence like this, in order to support the argument that Colbert is a Democrat.
Although by his own account he was not particularly political before joining the cast of The Daily Show, Colbert is a self-described Democrat.[12][13]
This bears the mark of authority, because of the footnote subscripts that are already on it. (We can skip the step where we maliciously relocate them here.)
A novice might change it to this (correctly preserving the authoritative footnote superscripts):
Although by his own account he was not particularly political before joining the cast of The Daily Show, Colbert is a self-described Republican.[12][13]
It makes the person appear to be wrong- and the vandalism is obvious- like swapping Eurasia for Eastasia. There's no way he could have misread that.
But change it to this
Although by his own account he was not particularly political before joining the cast of The Daily Show, Colbert has even been described as a Democrat.[12][13]
and the person looks not only wrong, but plausibly wrong because it looks like he can't read. That's what makes successful Wikipedia vandalism an art.
On the other hand, do gibberish pages like this need much more editing, or is Harry Potter's Wikipedia entry basically finished as far as anyone cares?
I have a friend who can no longer drive for the same reason. Legally he can drive, but he's not so stupid
Is this Your Black Friend we're talking about? Or do you have more than one friend who lets you talk shit about people?
Or in your case, they wouldn't have moved 6 miles away from everything they needed, and you knew it when you moved
That's not what happened, although I don't want to get into it with you here.
You aren't fucked. Michael J Fox is fucked. Christopher Reeve was fucked. Stephen Hawking is fucked.
Michael J Fox, Christopher Reeve, and Stephen Hawking are commuting to work on bikes because they can't drive? Well Christopher Reeve is dead, so I know he's not biking to work.
go visit Europe, or hell, just move to any of the American city with public transportation
If Hell has a good public health care system, sure. But I think I'm going to be here with you.
I'm guessing from your comments that State DMV's don't share information with each other if you were able to get licensed in each of them, which is quite galling. Either that or you were perpetrating some sort of fraud whenever you moved and applied for a license.
No, it doesn't work like that. If you lose your license in one state you cannot just move to another state and start driving again. They all share this information as you move from state to state. It follows you like a curse. But also, there are varying time limitations with respect to the required lengths of seizure-free time. And enough time passed in one state. So it's not really as bad as a string of DUIs in that respect.
It's almost as necessary to live as water, food, shelter and clothing.
In NJ, PA, NY, CT, CA, and I forget what other state, if you let your own doctor find out during an appointment that you had a seizure or other loss of consciousness, or if someone calls 911 to report one to an ambulance/ER, state law requires the first doctor who finds out to fax the DMV immediately, so they can suspend your license as they would after a long string of DUIs. (He added, with the faintest trace of bitterness.) Specifically, if you get into an accident determined to have stemmed from this then the doctor bears culpability and is on the hook for any damages or casualties that result. I've spent my entire life living in NJ, NY, PA, and CA, and I've been pedestrianized by every single one of them.
Having a reliable warning period of several minutes before seizures makes no difference legally. (This is just continued whining now.) But tactically it makes a huge difference. I managed to hide my condition from the medical community in California for several years. I fibbed to doctors and didn't let them know. If I saw an aura from a rising seizure, I made an immediate exit and found a good place to hide (or I ran outside, into the woods, wherever). This worked pretty well but it all came to an end when I got stuck in a line at Fry's Electronics. I can't even remember what bullshit was in my hands, but it definitely wasn't worth it, especially overpriced Fry's bullshit with tricky return policies and bad support and fucking rebates to mail in. I probably collapsed because my brain was making a desperate attempt to stop the purchase. Now I'm riding a bike six miles to work to get my water, food, shelter etc. Driving is definitely a privilege. So remember as you drive, not all bicyclists are exercising yuppies. Some of us are just fucked.
Maybe we could launch huge blocks of aerogel into low earth orbit. Or manufacture the aerogel in space. Carry a quantity of ethanol up along with a silicon alkoxide like tetraethyl orthosilicate. The astronauts can mix it up to create a big orbiting blob of SiO2 in a puffy aerogel form as the alcohol evaporates. Then as the orbiting paint chips or satellites whatever encounter this immense sponge of aerogel, they'll just punch a hole into it and bury themselves. The whole thing may need to be contained in a big garbage bag to avoid orbiting SiO2 particulates.
We could launch a big cone with a flat top, pointing downward, and with a hard surface of some metal like titanium that won't flake or fragment. Pieces of crap can bounce downward after striking it and assume suborbital trajectories.
We could set up a large ring or hollow tube with a reflective inner surface, equipped with a detector to watch for shit flying through, and with a huge laser that can blast it and vaporize it into harmless little particles.
Maybe (since we know where a lot of stuff is) we can just blast the shit with a ground based laser someday. But it would be hard to do with visible light. We could send up a satellite equipped with X-ray lasers that vaporize the shit from far away in the vacuum of space.
China's demolition derby in 2007 certainly didn't help, when they sent that rocket up for target practice on an old weather satellite in 2007 and blasted it into a million little pieces including 800 pieces of garbage with low orbit trajectories. But we could send up rockets made in China that deploy huge sponges or something before they hit targets, to avoid elastic collisions and end up with one piece of garbage with a suborbital trajectory.
We could launch a large dumpster into space. Bring some garbage up from down here. Crap will fly into it and bury itself in the trash. Then a later flight can retrieve the dumpster so we can bring the space trash to the dump.
Any totally ordered set can be mapped to a distinct unordered set. Just add indices with corresponding buckets to the set, whether the indices are integers or reals.
Complex numbers are numbers too, but any complex number can be mapped to a real number.
i.e. 1.11111... + i * 2.22222... can be mapped to 12.1212121212...
So if you want a random complex number within a certain domain there is a corresponding domain of real numbers from which a random value can be pulled and converted into a complex number.
The sampling may not necessarily be uniform and fair using that simple mapping strategy with the digits, but the fundamental idea remains. There are just as many real numbers as complex numbers.
Why is it always the grandmother and not the grandfather that is considered the most incompetent?
It's payback for all the TV commercials with people from later generations, where the incompetent guy always has to get schooled by his more intelligent wife. In reality all the smart wives are feminist C programmers but the commercials don't get into that.
And why older people?
As someone who is aging himself, I find this rather obvious.
Slashdot is home to some of the most racist techies.
You just shot yourself in the foot there, Mrs. C. Sexist and ageist I can believe, but not racist, unless people are keeping it to themselves. (Except for a couple null-pointer morons who paste racist, "N-word" laced shit as a FP and get modded down to hell.)
The only support for that is that nobody knows how to predict it yet. If someone does find a way then we'll just have to modify our understanding of the universe accordingly.
We do have theories about quantum mechanics that refer to hidden variables. The universe would be deterministic and only appear otherwise because the variables must fundamentally remain hidden to observers. Except for hackers in Kazahkstan maybe.
To announce that it just won't ever be able to be done is to mistake our current scientific knowledge for revealed religious Truth.
It's theory. Not a "religious Truth". But not exactly "just a theory" either... so far it remains consistent with experimental observation.
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It's okay to take a photo of a sculpture but it's not okay to use that photo to market your service, such as the way the USPS was trying to do with this stamp. This is part of the reason they make sure people are dead for a good long time before they honor them with a postage stamp.
That doesn't make any sense. If you take a picture of me, it's not as if I retain any authorship rights to my own face. The "living persons" rule does apply to images of people on U.S. stamps, but not to images of sculptures AFAIK.
Now this is a quote from the findings in the ruling:
Analysis of the purpose and character of the use also includes whether the “use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes.” 17 U.S.C. 107. The Postal Service acknowledged receiving $17 million from the sale of nearly 48 million 37-cent stamps. An estimated $5.4 million in stamps were sold to collectors in 2003. The stamp clearly has a commercial purpose. The Court of Federal Claims did not address how the commercial purpose of the stamp affected this factor of the fair use analysis.
This gets down to the question of what a stamp is for. Is the $5.4 million figure even relevant? All those stamp collectors can still mail letters with those stamps.
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims is comprised of 16 judges nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
Judge Thomas C Wheeler was nominated in June 05 and confirmed in October 05 for a 15 year term. His prior experience was 10 years as a lawyer for corporate law firm DLA Piper.
Knock down his statue, break it into a million pieces, and send them all to his house using the infringing stamps.
But it's not the 'so called gram stain test' IT IS called the gram stain test.
So?
In 1993, Wells published Mary Ann's Gilligan's Island Cookbook with co-writers Ken Beck & Jim Clark, including a foreword by Bob Denver, to whom she had sent an envelope of marijuana through the mail years earlier.
There, that wasn't so hard. (BTW, to all you cookbook writers out there: I can write a good foreword.)
Whoever posted this clearly isn't aware of the actual work being done in the field. For instance, I was running a ___[thing]___ in _[year]_, and it wasn't new at the time. They've gotten much more sophisticated since then. Why are they so intent on reinventing the wheel? Do they not even realize that the wheel exists already? Why not just improve on it instead?
* * *
This looks like a useful template for the standard "why reinvent the wheel" Slashdot post; I hope you don't mind if I reuse it.
There is an art to Wikipedia abuse. If someone cites a Wikipedia article in some argument they're making, you can always just go to Wikipedia and edit the page so that they're wrong. But that's what a novice Wikipedia vandal does.
A pro knows to edit the article in a very subtle way, so that it looks like the person has poor reading comprehension. Let's say the person cites a Wikipedia article with a sentence like this, in order to support the argument that Colbert is a Democrat.
Although by his own account he was not particularly political before joining the cast of The Daily Show, Colbert is a self-described Democrat.[12][13]
This bears the mark of authority, because of the footnote subscripts that are already on it. (We can skip the step where we maliciously relocate them here.)
A novice might change it to this (correctly preserving the authoritative footnote superscripts):
Although by his own account he was not particularly political before joining the cast of The Daily Show, Colbert is a self-described Republican.[12][13]
It makes the person appear to be wrong- and the vandalism is obvious- like swapping Eurasia for Eastasia. There's no way he could have misread that.
But change it to this
Although by his own account he was not particularly political before joining the cast of The Daily Show, Colbert has even been described as a Democrat.[12][13]
and the person looks not only wrong, but plausibly wrong because it looks like he can't read. That's what makes successful Wikipedia vandalism an art.
On the other hand, do gibberish pages like this need much more editing, or is Harry Potter's Wikipedia entry basically finished as far as anyone cares?
I have a friend who can no longer drive for the same reason. Legally he can drive, but he's not so stupid
Is this Your Black Friend we're talking about? Or do you have more than one friend who lets you talk shit about people?
Or in your case, they wouldn't have moved 6 miles away from everything they needed, and you knew it when you moved
That's not what happened, although I don't want to get into it with you here.
You aren't fucked. Michael J Fox is fucked. Christopher Reeve was fucked. Stephen Hawking is fucked.
Michael J Fox, Christopher Reeve, and Stephen Hawking are commuting to work on bikes because they can't drive? Well Christopher Reeve is dead, so I know he's not biking to work.
go visit Europe, or hell, just move to any of the American city with public transportation
If Hell has a good public health care system, sure. But I think I'm going to be here with you.
I'm guessing from your comments that State DMV's don't share information with each other if you were able to get licensed in each of them, which is quite galling. Either that or you were perpetrating some sort of fraud whenever you moved and applied for a license.
No, it doesn't work like that. If you lose your license in one state you cannot just move to another state and start driving again. They all share this information as you move from state to state. It follows you like a curse. But also, there are varying time limitations with respect to the required lengths of seizure-free time. And enough time passed in one state. So it's not really as bad as a string of DUIs in that respect.
It's almost as necessary to live as water, food, shelter and clothing.
In NJ, PA, NY, CT, CA, and I forget what other state, if you let your own doctor find out during an appointment that you had a seizure or other loss of consciousness, or if someone calls 911 to report one to an ambulance/ER, state law requires the first doctor who finds out to fax the DMV immediately, so they can suspend your license as they would after a long string of DUIs. (He added, with the faintest trace of bitterness.) Specifically, if you get into an accident determined to have stemmed from this then the doctor bears culpability and is on the hook for any damages or casualties that result. I've spent my entire life living in NJ, NY, PA, and CA, and I've been pedestrianized by every single one of them.
Having a reliable warning period of several minutes before seizures makes no difference legally. (This is just continued whining now.) But tactically it makes a huge difference. I managed to hide my condition from the medical community in California for several years. I fibbed to doctors and didn't let them know. If I saw an aura from a rising seizure, I made an immediate exit and found a good place to hide (or I ran outside, into the woods, wherever). This worked pretty well but it all came to an end when I got stuck in a line at Fry's Electronics. I can't even remember what bullshit was in my hands, but it definitely wasn't worth it, especially overpriced Fry's bullshit with tricky return policies and bad support and fucking rebates to mail in. I probably collapsed because my brain was making a desperate attempt to stop the purchase. Now I'm riding a bike six miles to work to get my water, food, shelter etc. Driving is definitely a privilege. So remember as you drive, not all bicyclists are exercising yuppies. Some of us are just fucked.
Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
Maybe we could launch huge blocks of aerogel into low earth orbit. Or manufacture the aerogel in space. Carry a quantity of ethanol up along with a silicon alkoxide like tetraethyl orthosilicate. The astronauts can mix it up to create a big orbiting blob of SiO2 in a puffy aerogel form as the alcohol evaporates. Then as the orbiting paint chips or satellites whatever encounter this immense sponge of aerogel, they'll just punch a hole into it and bury themselves. The whole thing may need to be contained in a big garbage bag to avoid orbiting SiO2 particulates.
We could launch a big cone with a flat top, pointing downward, and with a hard surface of some metal like titanium that won't flake or fragment. Pieces of crap can bounce downward after striking it and assume suborbital trajectories.
We could set up a large ring or hollow tube with a reflective inner surface, equipped with a detector to watch for shit flying through, and with a huge laser that can blast it and vaporize it into harmless little particles.
Maybe (since we know where a lot of stuff is) we can just blast the shit with a ground based laser someday. But it would be hard to do with visible light. We could send up a satellite equipped with X-ray lasers that vaporize the shit from far away in the vacuum of space.
China's demolition derby in 2007 certainly didn't help, when they sent that rocket up for target practice on an old weather satellite in 2007 and blasted it into a million little pieces including 800 pieces of garbage with low orbit trajectories. But we could send up rockets made in China that deploy huge sponges or something before they hit targets, to avoid elastic collisions and end up with one piece of garbage with a suborbital trajectory.
We could launch a large dumpster into space. Bring some garbage up from down here. Crap will fly into it and bury itself in the trash. Then a later flight can retrieve the dumpster so we can bring the space trash to the dump.
Because you're including aleph-null and the rest of the alephs?
I wonder who would ask you, please give me a random finite or transfinite value.
Even asking for a random finite integer is stupid if the integer merely has to be within aleph null. You'll get a number with log(infinity) digits.
Any totally ordered set can be mapped to a distinct unordered set. Just add indices with corresponding buckets to the set, whether the indices are integers or reals.
Complex numbers are numbers too, but any complex number can be mapped to a real number.
i.e. 1.11111... + i * 2.22222... can be mapped to 12.1212121212...
So if you want a random complex number within a certain domain there is a corresponding domain of real numbers from which a random value can be pulled and converted into a complex number.
The sampling may not necessarily be uniform and fair using that simple mapping strategy with the digits, but the fundamental idea remains. There are just as many real numbers as complex numbers.
OK, rephrased:
-The set of all integers and all elements of all finite subsets of integers
-The set of all reals and all elements of all finite subsets of reals
Yes but A, C, G, and T are alphanumeric characters.
wh0oo0oOoO0Os5SH
Why is it always the grandmother and not the grandfather that is considered the most incompetent?
It's payback for all the TV commercials with people from later generations, where the incompetent guy always has to get schooled by his more intelligent wife. In reality all the smart wives are feminist C programmers but the commercials don't get into that.
And why older people?
As someone who is aging himself, I find this rather obvious.
Slashdot is home to some of the most racist techies.
You just shot yourself in the foot there, Mrs. C. Sexist and ageist I can believe, but not racist, unless people are keeping it to themselves. (Except for a couple null-pointer morons who paste racist, "N-word" laced shit as a FP and get modded down to hell.)
The only support for that is that nobody knows how to predict it yet. If someone does find a way then we'll just have to modify our understanding of the universe accordingly.
We do have theories about quantum mechanics that refer to hidden variables. The universe would be deterministic and only appear otherwise because the variables must fundamentally remain hidden to observers. Except for hackers in Kazahkstan maybe.
To announce that it just won't ever be able to be done is to mistake our current scientific knowledge for revealed religious Truth.
It's theory. Not a "religious Truth". But not exactly "just a theory" either... so far it remains consistent with experimental observation.
There are two sets of random numbers:
- The set of all integers
- The set of all reals
Any "random number" can be mapped to an element of one or both sets.
The set of all random numbers does not exclude "non-random-looking" numbers. I just cherry-picked one for you.
Your grandmother can generate non-alphanumeric random characters?
Man, no wonder you're here.
If they're tapping into the randomness of something's wave function, then nobody will ever be able to predict the outcome.