We should change copyright laws to a max of 20 years or 5 years after profitability, whichever is shorter.
The original provisions of copyright law in the U.S. would be the best way to go... 14 years, with a possible renewal for 14 more years. This gives the content creators (or whatever media conglomerate they are indentured to) plenty of time to make their money, but will also keep works from being orphaned... you know how 90% of all material produced between 1923 and a few decades afterwards is likely gone forever.
The Chinese know that I have weird tastes in music, watch MST3K and think the Demmycrats are corrupt. I'm checking under my bed every night for both the Yellow Peril _and_ the Red Menace.
I know it's a real concern, but the only options are to avoid social media completely, or try to be reasonable about what I share about myself.
There was a huge cultural shift that occurred in the early 2000's. I used to think eternal September, but now think it's something else, perhaps how or what is taught in schools.
The cultural Marxism has been ramped up significantly. The Eternal September has been replaced by the Eternal October.
The BBC really isn't any "freer" than American TV. It just has a different business model that has the government involved.
Sure, the Beeb produces a lot of great material and I watch a lot of it (either through Amazon Prime Video or by buying DVDs).
To me, the BBC really isn't any different than any other content provider. They make some great stuff, and I pay for what I like. But it seems to me that need to appeal to as wide an audience as possible is still there, no less than it is for American TV. If people didn't watch what the BBC puts out, then it would want to change. Maybe the British have better taste than Americans, but I don't think you can pretend there's some sort of moral victory because the BBC is publicly funded.
Look, I'm sorry for you that Battlestar Galactica ended, but the TV industry is already undergoing a revolution and there is more and more long-tail content available than ever before. We don't need to "burn it all down" to make things better.
Besides, "burn it all down" is never been a viable plan, because it completely ignore what happens next. Show me your plan for how to make things better (whether or not it's all burned down first) and I'll take you more seriously.
Maybe you should try reading some books instead. There's a lot more variety to be found in the printed media than on television.
Perhaps the brush was too broad, but I would suggest that your view may not be that of the majority of liberals. I may be wrong. I'm not a liberal and I don't understand them.
I think it's fair to say the last administration was also committed to silencing and prosecuting dissent, and it also had the vast majority of the MSM running interference for it as well.
Nevertheless, your attitude towards encryption is a good one that I agree with, as well as the reasons you support it.
Congratulations, AC. Your logical attitude will win you a one-way trip to the re-education camps. I'm sure I'll see you there. But I don't see what any of this has to do with Linux.
No, the large companies have plenty of talent, but management always offsets this talent. I've worked with people from Microsoft who were very sharp, and from what I heard about how things work at Microsoft, my description seems to be pretty accurate. Ditto for other large companies. It's usually not the lack of talent that makes awful software. It's awful management.
> This isn't the '50's any more and precious little was designed with repairability in mind.
You know this isn't as true as I used to think. I was able to replace the screen on my Google Nexus 7 tablet. Twice, because I was enough of an idiot to break it twice. Yeah, it would have been about half the cost of the tablet if it were fairly new, but after a couple of years, the parts were cheap enough (~$40 for a combined screen and digitizer) to make it worth the risk of not being able to replace it. The whole process took me about 2 and a half hours, but it wasn't hard, just tedious.
I also have a Samsung Galaxy 4 Mini and my son (who's been trained in electronics repair) replaced the power jack for me (a common point of failure on devices in my experience). When he gave it back to me the sound wasn't working, and I was able to go in and reseat the speaker module and everything was fine. It only took a few minutes. He also replaced the screen on my wife's LG phone (again, a few years old so the replacement was very cheap). Then I replaced the battery on my Samsung with a higher capacity one that came with an expanded back enclosure (because the new battery is about twice as big) and it's like having a new phone. Now it can go for 2-3 days without charging.
I was surprised in both cases that the components in these devices were a lot more modular and accessible than your average laptop (which once you get beyond the hard drive and RAM become like neurosurgery to work with). I had that Nexus tablet stripped down literally to a metal frame and a pile of components and was able to reassemble it without problem just by following a video on YouTube.
> Nor do leftists call reasonable liberals "alt-right" and "fascist". We reserve those for the insane right wing.
You might, but a lot of liberals bunch everyone to right of Mao as racist troglodytes. You know, "deplorables" and "bitter clingers" and such. And "racist", a charge which is used so often that it's lost all meaning. Yeah, Trump insults people all the time, but he usually insults individuals and not broad swaths of the electorate like the most prominent leaders on the left.
I don't have a problem with the commenter upstream complaining about "hateful" liberals, because many of them are. In my exchanges with people over the last couple decades, I've seen far more hatred and bigotry on the left than on the right. You can't paint everyone with the same brush, but narrow-mindedness and hatefulness and ignorance are widespread among every political stripe.
The reason why I didn't like Trump is that he's too much like Obama: a narcissist who thinks he's smarter than he is and can't keep from shooting his mouth off. Obama's insults were usually more veiled and subtle, but he was no less toxic a person than Trump in my opinion, and no more careful about what he said when off the teleprompter. He did a lot to help set back race relations almost to where they were in the late 60s.
Let me guess... instead of waiting for a Windows update to rearrange all the systems settings UI, this "A.I." feature will dynamically rearrange things for you on the fly.
But more and more, there are people who insist on politicizing everything (*cough*leftists*cough) and so it is inevitable that business and politics will be become excessively intertwined. It's only going to get worse.
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We should change copyright laws to a max of 20 years or 5 years after profitability, whichever is shorter.
The original provisions of copyright law in the U.S. would be the best way to go... 14 years, with a possible renewal for 14 more years. This gives the content creators (or whatever media conglomerate they are indentured to) plenty of time to make their money, but will also keep works from being orphaned... you know how 90% of all material produced between 1923 and a few decades afterwards is likely gone forever.
The Chinese know that I have weird tastes in music, watch MST3K and think the Demmycrats are corrupt. I'm checking under my bed every night for both the Yellow Peril _and_ the Red Menace.
I know it's a real concern, but the only options are to avoid social media completely, or try to be reasonable about what I share about myself.
> If enough people want it, then it shouldn't be illegal.
Ah, mob rule. It has a very long and distinguished history. Just hope the crowd with pitchforks and torches doesn't show up in front of your door.
All lower case is always a signal to me that the comment may safely be ignored, unless it's an e. e. cummings poem.
Google changed their motto from "Don't Be Evil" to "Don't Be Evil*". They're considering changing it to "Don't Be 'Evil'".
You know, I was really starting to think I should just block ACs, but this comment brightened up my day.
Why not all three?
There was a huge cultural shift that occurred in the early 2000's. I used to think eternal September, but now think it's something else, perhaps how or what is taught in schools.
The cultural Marxism has been ramped up significantly. The Eternal September has been replaced by the Eternal October.
Can we please stop trolling the British? Any society that produces "Red Dwarf" and "Jeeves and Wooster" (just to name a few) can't be all bad!
Just as any society that produces "MST3K" and "The Simpsons" (seasons 1 - 8) can't be all bad.
The BBC really isn't any "freer" than American TV. It just has a different business model that has the government involved.
Sure, the Beeb produces a lot of great material and I watch a lot of it (either through Amazon Prime Video or by buying DVDs).
To me, the BBC really isn't any different than any other content provider. They make some great stuff, and I pay for what I like. But it seems to me that need to appeal to as wide an audience as possible is still there, no less than it is for American TV. If people didn't watch what the BBC puts out, then it would want to change. Maybe the British have better taste than Americans, but I don't think you can pretend there's some sort of moral victory because the BBC is publicly funded.
I think you're overthinking the defense of SetTV. I can simplify it: Freetards gonna freetard.
Now _that_ (real copyright reform) is a real plan. "Burn it all down" is just a temper tantrum.
Look, I'm sorry for you that Battlestar Galactica ended, but the TV industry is already undergoing a revolution and there is more and more long-tail content available than ever before. We don't need to "burn it all down" to make things better.
Besides, "burn it all down" is never been a viable plan, because it completely ignore what happens next. Show me your plan for how to make things better (whether or not it's all burned down first) and I'll take you more seriously.
Maybe you should try reading some books instead. There's a lot more variety to be found in the printed media than on television.
My cat is named Mr. Tibbles, you insensitive clod!
Clinton did get impeached, but the Senate democrats circled the wagons and declined to convict.
Perhaps the brush was too broad, but I would suggest that your view may not be that of the majority of liberals. I may be wrong. I'm not a liberal and I don't understand them.
I think it's fair to say the last administration was also committed to silencing and prosecuting dissent, and it also had the vast majority of the MSM running interference for it as well.
Nevertheless, your attitude towards encryption is a good one that I agree with, as well as the reasons you support it.
Congratulations, AC. Your logical attitude will win you a one-way trip to the re-education camps. I'm sure I'll see you there. But I don't see what any of this has to do with Linux.
No, the large companies have plenty of talent, but management always offsets this talent. I've worked with people from Microsoft who were very sharp, and from what I heard about how things work at Microsoft, my description seems to be pretty accurate. Ditto for other large companies. It's usually not the lack of talent that makes awful software. It's awful management.
The minimum wage in the U.S. is $7.25. However a number of states have passed a higher minimum wage.
> This isn't the '50's any more and precious little was designed with repairability in mind.
You know this isn't as true as I used to think. I was able to replace the screen on my Google Nexus 7 tablet. Twice, because I was enough of an idiot to break it twice. Yeah, it would have been about half the cost of the tablet if it were fairly new, but after a couple of years, the parts were cheap enough (~$40 for a combined screen and digitizer) to make it worth the risk of not being able to replace it. The whole process took me about 2 and a half hours, but it wasn't hard, just tedious.
I also have a Samsung Galaxy 4 Mini and my son (who's been trained in electronics repair) replaced the power jack for me (a common point of failure on devices in my experience). When he gave it back to me the sound wasn't working, and I was able to go in and reseat the speaker module and everything was fine. It only took a few minutes. He also replaced the screen on my wife's LG phone (again, a few years old so the replacement was very cheap). Then I replaced the battery on my Samsung with a higher capacity one that came with an expanded back enclosure (because the new battery is about twice as big) and it's like having a new phone. Now it can go for 2-3 days without charging.
I was surprised in both cases that the components in these devices were a lot more modular and accessible than your average laptop (which once you get beyond the hard drive and RAM become like neurosurgery to work with). I had that Nexus tablet stripped down literally to a metal frame and a pile of components and was able to reassemble it without problem just by following a video on YouTube.
> Nor do leftists call reasonable liberals "alt-right" and "fascist". We reserve those for the insane right wing.
You might, but a lot of liberals bunch everyone to right of Mao as racist troglodytes. You know, "deplorables" and "bitter clingers" and such. And "racist", a charge which is used so often that it's lost all meaning. Yeah, Trump insults people all the time, but he usually insults individuals and not broad swaths of the electorate like the most prominent leaders on the left.
I don't have a problem with the commenter upstream complaining about "hateful" liberals, because many of them are. In my exchanges with people over the last couple decades, I've seen far more hatred and bigotry on the left than on the right. You can't paint everyone with the same brush, but narrow-mindedness and hatefulness and ignorance are widespread among every political stripe.
The reason why I didn't like Trump is that he's too much like Obama: a narcissist who thinks he's smarter than he is and can't keep from shooting his mouth off. Obama's insults were usually more veiled and subtle, but he was no less toxic a person than Trump in my opinion, and no more careful about what he said when off the teleprompter. He did a lot to help set back race relations almost to where they were in the late 60s.
That makes sense, but how do you know that didn't happen?
Let me guess... instead of waiting for a Windows update to rearrange all the systems settings UI, this "A.I." feature will dynamically rearrange things for you on the fly.
Nah. Fusion reactors are a decade away, and have been since the 1950s.
But more and more, there are people who insist on politicizing everything (*cough*leftists*cough) and so it is inevitable that business and politics will be become excessively intertwined. It's only going to get worse.