But the names were thought up by the parents, so the phonebook should be copyrighted by your definition, because the inputs (names) were creatively created in the first place.
No the phonebook is just reporting the fact that the names that were thought up by the parents and the named offspring lives at an specified address and phone number. Phonebooks were the test cases that really hammered home that facts can not be copyrighted. Advertising in the phonebook used to be the big-thing in advertising, like page-rank on Google and Bing are now; there were wars in the courts to get the phone numbers out of copyright of the phone companies.
The result of the creative effort of the API is contained in the actual programming code that implements the API,not the header file that point to the code. It's not that far-fetched to write a computer program to scan the source code and generate header files from it.
They have to be a creative work to be copyrighted, an API is a catalogue, a list of facts, the programming equivalent to a phone book. In the game Trivial Pursuit, only the errors are copyrighted because the correct answers are fact, not creative works.
I would argue that an API isn't copyrightable because it is simply a catalogue of facts not a creative work; it points to program locations and describes the interface; no more copyrightable than a telephone book.
I do believe patent do have a maintenance fee, or something that has to be repaid or the protection lapses
. The grant confers “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States” and its territories and possessions for which the term of the patent shall be generally 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States or, if the application contains a specific reference to an earlier filed application under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121 or 365(c), from the date of the earliest such application was filed, and subject to the payment of maintenance fees as provided by law.General Information Concerning Patents, Maintenance Fees
If you have enough confidence in reputation and the utility of your product, you might acquire a patent to preclude someone else from interfering with your production, and then let it lapse.
No just hang a IV and let it drip, sooner or later, no matter how much tolerance they have they'll feel all fuzzie and mellow, then they'll realize they are not breathing enough (I've been there at the burn clinic), after that they'll forgot to breath on purpose, then they'll stop breathing at all and a few minutes later they'll be dead.
Not this case, there are many ways to kill people, none of them are humane... Capital punishment is widely considered cruel and inhuman punishment in violation of the human rights convention.
I assume your from one of those countries that brought things like the Guilotine, drawing and quartering, flaying or necklacing into practice.
Things may get complicated when Pzizer wants one of their drugs put one the States' Drugs approved for Medicaid list, and they've opted not to sell to that States Dept. of Corrections, most inmates are on Medicaid so DoC is a big customer.
While I agree with you, the liberals would whine about heroin not being FDA Approved and especially not approved for that purpose, no assurances of purity, no assurances of efficacy and therefore an unconstitutional "cruel and inhuman punishment"
the Nazis were, usually, more "humane" than that because they optimized their gas chambers for efficiency, not maximum suffering.
You don't know what you are talking about
The victims were dead within 20 minutes.[39] Johann Kremer, an SS doctor who oversaw gassings, testified that the "shouting and screaming of the victims could be heard through the opening and it was clear that they fought for their lives".[40] Zyklon B
The only efficiency the German Socialists were worried about were economic.
I don't know that the death penalty significantly reduces recidivism when compared to life in prison.
Recidivism: is one of the most fundamental concepts in criminal justice. It refers to a person's relapse into criminal behavior, often after the person receives sanctions or undergoes intervention for a previous crime. Recidivism
When your fucking dead, your not going to do it again; this ain't no zombie apocalypse movie we're talking about. If your in prison for life, there is always the chance that you'll kill our maim one of your fellow prisoners or a corrections officer. The death penalty is about a crime being considered so heinous that society will not tolerate any chance of recidivism.
The only problem I have with the death penalty is they let people too stupid to get out of jury duty decide guilty or non-guilt. If you can prove your innocence you can at least get out if your still alive, but dead is dead.
I've worked 20 years in IT and never been drug tested once. Why do you "free" Americans put up with this?? It's software development not some job where you're going to hurt someone if you're impaired.
I seem to remember an Airbus crashing off Brazil due to software problems, One in Spain and probably a couple more; so apparently somebody did get hurt, and if the programmers were impaired, would that make any problems less likely?
There are a few, very few, jobs where drug screening makes sense and is an important safety issue.
When has that ever stopped the Government, the "makes sense" and the "Important" part? The Federal Government has decided that every Worker deserves a safe and healthy workplace and part of their definition of "safe and healthy" is a Drug Free. That monster has been let out of its cage and it'll be a long time before anyone gets it back in.
A year or so later I created a level just like work and gave it to a friend who was arguing that he had played that level before since he knew were all the rooms were. In his office was the lamest of lame monster.
Was going into the Women's restroom a deathtrap in your's too?
Got you in trouble, Holy Shit dude your talking about a Public School, do you have any idea how many Classified and Sensitive Government Facilities with signs saying "Any Photography or any graphical representation in strictly prohibited by Federal Law" made their way into DOOM II levels; not that I ever did or seen any of that, Dear Government FBI Overlords, but one does hear rumors.
That's not how businesses think, if 30% of revenue is labor, that's where it will stay. If the labor on a burger is $0.75, then you'd expect the burger to cost $2.50, 0.75/.30 = 2.50; if the labor increases to $1.12, then the burger jumps to $3.75. The burger jockey get an extra $0.37, the restaurant gets an extra $0.88. Go ahead and wail and gnash your teeth about how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, all that is designed to misdirect you from seeing the real winner here is the taxman.
Cute, he thinks poor have no income, if that were true, they couldn't buy drugs, booze or lottery tickets. I'm not saying all poor people allocate their resources in such frivolous ways, but some do. Additionally there are some very extensive underground economies in most neighborhoods, that provide incomes that are completely undocumented.
I've pretty much quit Fast-food anyway, I can go into the grocery store get a frozen dinner and a yogurt for $3-4.00 vs. spending $6-7.00 at a Yum owned store for lunch.
You are assuming that there are other jobs for these people to find. Automation will out-pace job growth at some point. What do we do when there are only 80% as many jobs as people? When there are only 10% as many jobs as people? There is only so much trash to pick up.
The problem is that in order for people to have these types of jobs it has to be less expensive to hire and retain them than it is to replace them with automation. If you want to have a job,
1. You have to work on your people skills, you have to get along with people build consensus and teamwork. 2. You have to work on your Sales skills, everything is sales, you have to sell yourself to get the job, then you have to sell product after you get the job 3. You have to educate, both formally and self, and it's not a once and done thing either. 4. You have to work on your problem solving and critical thinking skills
If you can make yourself valuable to employers, you'll find yourself in rare company and will be sought out. If you have the above skills you will quickly stop looking for jobs and start looking for careers and businesses.
I don't quote what I can't read, and I don't pay for scientific papers.
That's a big key to the problem, Academics need to publish in a reputable and prestigious journal, journals get prestige through publishing influential articles and influence is measured by citations; cut off their citations and they suffocate! I sometimes throw in a jab like "Elsevier, don't they publish the peer reviewed journal "Homeopathy"?" when I'm in a particularly passive/aggressive mood.
Hydrogen really isn't that bad, it's so much lighter than air that it dissipates very quickly; leaking through most metals because the molecule is so small and metal embrittelment are bigger problems.
The way I read the article, it seemed to imply that people still watch non-sports TV shows *LIVE* over in the UK. That can't be right... can it?
That's what I was thinking, moving your best shows off primetime slots only means DVR recording conflicts! Learn to make your commercials look good at 5X speed and your golden!
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But the names were thought up by the parents, so the phonebook should be copyrighted by your definition, because the inputs (names) were creatively created in the first place.
No the phonebook is just reporting the fact that the names that were thought up by the parents and the named offspring lives at an specified address and phone number. Phonebooks were the test cases that really hammered home that facts can not be copyrighted. Advertising in the phonebook used to be the big-thing in advertising, like page-rank on Google and Bing are now; there were wars in the courts to get the phone numbers out of copyright of the phone companies.
The result of the creative effort of the API is contained in the actual programming code that implements the API,not the header file that point to the code. It's not that far-fetched to write a computer program to scan the source code and generate header files from it.
They have to be a creative work to be copyrighted, an API is a catalogue, a list of facts, the programming equivalent to a phone book. In the game Trivial Pursuit, only the errors are copyrighted because the correct answers are fact, not creative works.
I would argue that an API isn't copyrightable because it is simply a catalogue of facts not a creative work; it points to program locations and describes the interface; no more copyrightable than a telephone book.
I do believe patent do have a maintenance fee, or something that has to be repaid or the protection lapses
If you have enough confidence in reputation and the utility of your product, you might acquire a patent to preclude someone else from interfering with your production, and then let it lapse.
No just hang a IV and let it drip, sooner or later, no matter how much tolerance they have they'll feel all fuzzie and mellow, then they'll realize they are not breathing enough (I've been there at the burn clinic), after that they'll forgot to breath on purpose, then they'll stop breathing at all and a few minutes later they'll be dead.
Not this case, there are many ways to kill people, none of them are humane...
Capital punishment is widely considered cruel and inhuman punishment in violation of the human rights convention.
I assume your from one of those countries that brought things like the Guilotine, drawing and quartering, flaying or necklacing into practice.
Things may get complicated when Pzizer wants one of their drugs put one the States' Drugs approved for Medicaid list, and they've opted not to sell to that States Dept. of Corrections, most inmates are on Medicaid so DoC is a big customer.
Air is 80% N2 anyway, you would be unlikely to notice a difference as 100%N2 would carry CO2 out of your lung as effectively as 80/20 N2O2 would.
While I agree with you, the liberals would whine about heroin not being FDA Approved and especially not approved for that purpose, no assurances of purity, no assurances of efficacy and therefore an unconstitutional "cruel and inhuman punishment"
the Nazis were, usually, more "humane" than that because they optimized their gas chambers for efficiency, not maximum suffering.
You don't know what you are talking about
The only efficiency the German Socialists were worried about were economic.
I don't know that the death penalty significantly reduces recidivism when compared to life in prison.
When your fucking dead, your not going to do it again; this ain't no zombie apocalypse movie we're talking about. If your in prison for life, there is always the chance that you'll kill our maim one of your fellow prisoners or a corrections officer. The death penalty is about a crime being considered so heinous that society will not tolerate any chance of recidivism.
The only problem I have with the death penalty is they let people too stupid to get out of jury duty decide guilty or non-guilt. If you can prove your innocence you can at least get out if your still alive, but dead is dead.
So if your up to your waist in shit, it's OK if they keep dumping untill your up to your armpits?
I've worked 20 years in IT and never been drug tested once. Why do you "free" Americans put up with this?? It's software development not some job where you're going to hurt someone if you're impaired.
I seem to remember an Airbus crashing off Brazil due to software problems, One in Spain and probably a couple more; so apparently somebody did get hurt, and if the programmers were impaired, would that make any problems less likely?
There are a few, very few, jobs where drug screening makes sense and is an important safety issue.
When has that ever stopped the Government, the "makes sense" and the "Important" part? The Federal Government has decided that every Worker deserves a safe and healthy workplace and part of their definition of "safe and healthy" is a Drug Free. That monster has been let out of its cage and it'll be a long time before anyone gets it back in.
Luxury is playing "Hunt the Wumpus" on a PDP-11 instead of a HP-35.
A year or so later I created a level just like work and gave it to a friend who was arguing that he had played that level before since he knew were all the rooms were. In his office was the lamest of lame monster.
Was going into the Women's restroom a deathtrap in your's too?
Got you in trouble, Holy Shit dude your talking about a Public School, do you have any idea how many Classified and Sensitive Government Facilities with signs saying "Any Photography or any graphical representation in strictly prohibited by Federal Law" made their way into DOOM II levels; not that I ever did or seen any of that, Dear Government FBI Overlords, but one does hear rumors.
That's not how businesses think, if 30% of revenue is labor, that's where it will stay. If the labor on a burger is $0.75, then you'd expect the burger to cost $2.50, 0.75/.30 = 2.50; if the labor increases to $1.12, then the burger jumps to $3.75. The burger jockey get an extra $0.37, the restaurant gets an extra $0.88.
Go ahead and wail and gnash your teeth about how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, all that is designed to misdirect you from seeing the real winner here is the taxman.
Cute, he thinks poor have no income, if that were true, they couldn't buy drugs, booze or lottery tickets. I'm not saying all poor people allocate their resources in such frivolous ways, but some do. Additionally there are some very extensive underground economies in most neighborhoods, that provide incomes that are completely undocumented.
I've pretty much quit Fast-food anyway, I can go into the grocery store get a frozen dinner and a yogurt for $3-4.00 vs. spending $6-7.00 at a Yum owned store for lunch.
You are assuming that there are other jobs for these people to find. Automation will out-pace job growth at some point. What do we do when there are only 80% as many jobs as people? When there are only 10% as many jobs as people? There is only so much trash to pick up.
The problem is that in order for people to have these types of jobs it has to be less expensive to hire and retain them than it is to replace them with automation. If you want to have a job,
1. You have to work on your people skills, you have to get along with people build consensus and teamwork.
2. You have to work on your Sales skills, everything is sales, you have to sell yourself to get the job, then you have to sell product after you get the job
3. You have to educate, both formally and self, and it's not a once and done thing either.
4. You have to work on your problem solving and critical thinking skills
If you can make yourself valuable to employers, you'll find yourself in rare company and will be sought out. If you have the above skills you will quickly stop looking for jobs and start looking for careers and businesses.
I don't quote what I can't read, and I don't pay for scientific papers.
That's a big key to the problem, Academics need to publish in a reputable and prestigious journal, journals get prestige through publishing influential articles and influence is measured by citations; cut off their citations and they suffocate! I sometimes throw in a jab like "Elsevier, don't they publish the peer reviewed journal "Homeopathy"?" when I'm in a particularly passive/aggressive mood.
Hydrogen really isn't that bad, it's so much lighter than air that it dissipates very quickly; leaking through most metals because the molecule is so small and metal embrittelment are bigger problems.
The way I read the article, it seemed to imply that people still watch non-sports TV shows *LIVE* over in the UK. That can't be right... can it?
That's what I was thinking, moving your best shows off primetime slots only means DVR recording conflicts! Learn to make your commercials look good at 5X speed and your golden!