Because copyright isn't a right. It is a license society gives IP creators as a "consideration" to induce them to create because society finds it a valuable trade.
If copyright ends, you didn't lose it, the society took it back. Culture belongs to society, you just get use of it.
And the carpenter's home is his only as long as he pays property taxes. Stop paying those taxes and he'll either have to add on wheels and leave or lose it, in much less time than copyright lasts, to cover missed payments for use of the land.
Be glad artists were generally broke back in the day, unlike land-owners. If IP was as valuable as land back then, you'd be paying X% of the "assesed" value of everything you created and the IRS would be rummaging in your trash for scribbled-on napkins to tax(IP is copyrighted on creation, remember).
Instead of banking on royalties, perhaps you should start asking for payments up front and buying an annuity, if you want to provide for your unborn great-great-great-grandkids.
Nowadays, generally you aren't measuring what the person sees(a dog vs tits), but the manner of their perception. Are they vague or specific, how closely it resembles the inkblot, or does the person give motives to whatever he sees(dog vs growling dog).
While nobody is exactly the same, our brain structure shares some commanality and the perception:disfunction pairings can be correlated within genetic and cultural groups(can't see a giraffe if you just walked out of the Amazon outback).
The human perceptions system is greatly affected by other brain functions, such as in schizophrenia where drawings may become wildly stylized, e.g. this series of cat paintings that start out normal and end up looking like fractals as the disease goes on. (Has anyone disproved this yet? Induced symptoms through TCMS seemed to validate it)
The downside is that it is still largely subjective. There have been some improvements(saying something looks like underwear doesn't make automatically make you a perv anymore), but as long as the scoring varies between testers(which it does) it is just as open to misinterpretation and manipulating as using autonomic responses to indicate veracity.
Similarly, any test that is broken by foreknowledge of the test is equally broken as a test that relies on the subject to be completely truthful.
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TLDR: it's bullshit, but it can be useful bullshit, like simplified models of the atom.
Hell no, I'm going to tell my elected officials to vote for it.
Sure we might lose mainstream music radio, but most of them are Clearchannel anyway. I can simulate a week of a Clearchannel station with a mini-CDR in a player set to deterministic shuffle.
On the upside, we gain a shot at lots of mobile bandwidth if the radio industry crumbles, plus we set the music & radio industries at each others throats, and any outcome besides the status quo also is likely to result in a weakened music industry(now or later) or more small artists getting radioplay cause they're cheaper.
And then you would wonder "Did I just hack a hottie, or did I just get hacked into thinking I was with a hottie by the more-homely-than-I that I actually banged".
Which is hilarious, since most newspapers have been axing their writers left and right. Something like 3/4 of your major local rag is probably AP stories.
Like the AP needs help sucking money out of newspapers.
that gives you 144 combinations if your system just requires a mix of letters and not letters, not counting upper-vs-lower, or something like half if your password require letters, numbers, and symbols every time.
Can't remember which you've used recently? Write down past choices using just the letter A for letters, S for numbers, and D for symbols in place of the actual character.
E.g. ADASSSA for i@m133t
That way someone won't mistake it for a real password and yell at you for writing it down, since it would fail the complexity test I assume your password changer enforces.
It might take you awhile to come up with a phrase sufficiently variable without being ambiguous, but then you'll be set for years even if you change passwords weekly.
Fake sites pretending to be legit is a completely different issue than a real competitor getting exposure, you shouldn't conflate them.
I wouldn't want others using my trademarks to falsely represent themselves as me, but I wouldn't mind them used as triggers for ads. I should be so lucky that any company I work with has such strong brands that competitors have to pay to buy ads for my trademarks because they don't get as good an ROI on their own trademarks.
Equally so, I'd expect it'd save more in tech support costs to lose any customer dumb enough to believe they could get a legit product for two orders of magnitude less in download-only form from "Roysatta4less.freesites.co.cz"
If I walk into a store and ask the clerk, "where's the Rosetta Stone software" the shelf he will direct me to has the competing software RIGHT NEXT to it, perhaps with stickers bragging how much better it is than Rosetta.
Trying to get your software to show up when somebody googles a competitor is the same thing.
And if you think it is different because they are paying Google for it, the same thing happens in stores(pay-for-placement on shelves) and in newspaper ads. Every magazine I've dealt(admittedly only a dozen or so) with let me buy an ad on the facing page from a competitor's ad, some would even call me up pro-actively if I'd bought space from them before.
Sweet FSM, no. I didn't say cook it IN its own grease, I meant use it as fuel. Every recipe for penguin I know of begins with "Be sure you remove all the fat first".
Stuff smells like rotting cod.
Now you could easily make a confit with some other bird fat or suet, but it'd still taste like a saltwater duck that ate a lot of fish.
You'd have to be able to exhale fat if you ate penguin burgers. Those guys are so fat, they can go for a month or two without eating practically anything.
Being fat actually gets the males more loving, as the females of some species are more likely to mate with those who have a more resonant mating call, indicating thickness and thus likelyhood of not keeling over from hunger while the female runs off for weeks at a time.
You could practically cook an emperor penguin on a fire of its own grease.
Alternatively, the hot ones don't get that much action because few people try, on assumption they are taken or one has no chance, so they only get with arrogant narcissists who are lousy teachers.
The not-as hot ones get lots more sex from people who actually try.
Funny... I took a course entitled "Operating System Logic", where "logic" is shorthand for "math without numbers", and the book was pretty much all proofs(i.e. concepts said to be non-patentable).
Specific implementations(i.e. actual code, which is copyrightable(which is not the same as patentable)) were given in a separate text.
And not just because Jack Thompson keeps failing on the civil side.
Getting video game violence declared obscene is well prevented by the movie/tv industries' efforts in the motion-picture realm. They've been working for decades to keep visual depictions of violence in the "OK for young children" realm. You can punch somebody on television and it'll be ok for anyone over the age of 8. Add some blood and it pops you up into the low teens, on par with a bit of side-boob.
The interactive aspect is too narrow a distinction for the rest of the entertainment industry to risk getting drawn in and censored, so it'll never happen until somebody comes up with a.9 r^2 correlation between violent games and homosexuality.
If you got your Storm when it was initially released, you may need to redownload google maps or enable GPS permissions for it. Verizon hadn't unlocked the GPS until after Google had developed the Storm client.
The problem isn't that it is a female voice, it is that they used a lousy voice.
Instead of some snide sounding voice, they should get a porn star to do the voice. Your choice between squealing, breathy, or sultry. "Mmmm, reticulating splines."
I'm sure they could get a Tom Selleck version or something for those who claim sexism:).
Primer The acting might not be very good, or it might be really good not-having-to-act. One of the best stories I've seen that only cost $7k, anyway. As the cost of special effects comes down and the rental of a digital camera replaces the cost of film stock, the only real cost is manpower.
And as anyone reading this site should know, you can make some really good stuff in your spare time.
. Correction, I should have said the only real cost is manpower and music and other IP licensing costs.
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Because copyright isn't a right. It is a license society gives IP creators as a "consideration" to induce them to create because society finds it a valuable trade.
If copyright ends, you didn't lose it, the society took it back. Culture belongs to society, you just get use of it.
And the carpenter's home is his only as long as he pays property taxes. Stop paying those taxes and he'll either have to add on wheels and leave or lose it, in much less time than copyright lasts, to cover missed payments for use of the land.
Be glad artists were generally broke back in the day, unlike land-owners. If IP was as valuable as land back then, you'd be paying X% of the "assesed" value of everything you created and the IRS would be rummaging in your trash for scribbled-on napkins to tax(IP is copyrighted on creation, remember).
Instead of banking on royalties, perhaps you should start asking for payments up front and buying an annuity, if you want to provide for your unborn great-great-great-grandkids.
#5 is hardly obscure on here.
Largely so, in the original method.
Nowadays, generally you aren't measuring what the person sees(a dog vs tits), but the manner of their perception. Are they vague or specific, how closely it resembles the inkblot, or does the person give motives to whatever he sees(dog vs growling dog).
While nobody is exactly the same, our brain structure shares some commanality and the perception:disfunction pairings can be correlated within genetic and cultural groups(can't see a giraffe if you just walked out of the Amazon outback).
The human perceptions system is greatly affected by other brain functions, such as in schizophrenia where drawings may become wildly stylized, e.g. this series of cat paintings that start out normal and end up looking like fractals as the disease goes on. (Has anyone disproved this yet? Induced symptoms through TCMS seemed to validate it)
The downside is that it is still largely subjective. There have been some improvements(saying something looks like underwear doesn't make automatically make you a perv anymore), but as long as the scoring varies between testers(which it does) it is just as open to misinterpretation and manipulating as using autonomic responses to indicate veracity.
Similarly, any test that is broken by foreknowledge of the test is equally broken as a test that relies on the subject to be completely truthful.
.
TLDR: it's bullshit, but it can be useful bullshit, like simplified models of the atom.
Hell no, I'm going to tell my elected officials to vote for it.
Sure we might lose mainstream music radio, but most of them are Clearchannel anyway. I can simulate a week of a Clearchannel station with a mini-CDR in a player set to deterministic shuffle.
On the upside, we gain a shot at lots of mobile bandwidth if the radio industry crumbles, plus we set the music & radio industries at each others throats, and any outcome besides the status quo also is likely to result in a weakened music industry(now or later) or more small artists getting radioplay cause they're cheaper.
And then you would wonder "Did I just hack a hottie, or did I just get hacked into thinking I was with a hottie by the more-homely-than-I that I actually banged".
Which is hilarious, since most newspapers have been axing their writers left and right. Something like 3/4 of your major local rag is probably AP stories.
Like the AP needs help sucking money out of newspapers.
An example password for such situations
[i1!][a@]m[l1!][e3][e3][t7]
that gives you 144 combinations if your system just requires a mix of letters and not letters, not counting upper-vs-lower, or something like half if your password require letters, numbers, and symbols every time.
Can't remember which you've used recently? Write down past choices using just the letter A for letters, S for numbers, and D for symbols in place of the actual character.
E.g. ADASSSA for i@m133t
That way someone won't mistake it for a real password and yell at you for writing it down, since it would fail the complexity test I assume your password changer enforces.
It might take you awhile to come up with a phrase sufficiently variable without being ambiguous, but then you'll be set for years even if you change passwords weekly.
Are you ignoring the third-party IMAP clients, or complaining about their mediocrity?
I understand the google client isn't horrible, but of course it only works with gmail.
Fake sites pretending to be legit is a completely different issue than a real competitor getting exposure, you shouldn't conflate them.
I wouldn't want others using my trademarks to falsely represent themselves as me, but I wouldn't mind them used as triggers for ads. I should be so lucky that any company I work with has such strong brands that competitors have to pay to buy ads for my trademarks because they don't get as good an ROI on their own trademarks.
Equally so, I'd expect it'd save more in tech support costs to lose any customer dumb enough to believe they could get a legit product for two orders of magnitude less in download-only form from "Roysatta4less.freesites.co.cz"
If I walk into a store and ask the clerk, "where's the Rosetta Stone software" the shelf he will direct me to has the competing software RIGHT NEXT to it, perhaps with stickers bragging how much better it is than Rosetta.
Trying to get your software to show up when somebody googles a competitor is the same thing.
And if you think it is different because they are paying Google for it, the same thing happens in stores(pay-for-placement on shelves) and in newspaper ads. Every magazine I've dealt(admittedly only a dozen or so) with let me buy an ad on the facing page from a competitor's ad, some would even call me up pro-actively if I'd bought space from them before.
1) Rar it up
2) rename it to "world's best porn collection"
3) Bittorrent
I suspect you may be able to skip step two
Sweet FSM, no. I didn't say cook it IN its own grease, I meant use it as fuel. Every recipe for penguin I know of begins with "Be sure you remove all the fat first".
Stuff smells like rotting cod.
Now you could easily make a confit with some other bird fat or suet, but it'd still taste like a saltwater duck that ate a lot of fish.
You'd have to be able to exhale fat if you ate penguin burgers. Those guys are so fat, they can go for a month or two without eating practically anything.
Being fat actually gets the males more loving, as the females of some species are more likely to mate with those who have a more resonant mating call, indicating thickness and thus likelyhood of not keeling over from hunger while the female runs off for weeks at a time.
You could practically cook an emperor penguin on a fire of its own grease.
Alternatively, the hot ones don't get that much action because few people try, on assumption they are taken or one has no chance, so they only get with arrogant narcissists who are lousy teachers.
The not-as hot ones get lots more sex from people who actually try.
Perhaps he didn't know that the Canadian provinces are in a separate country?
Funny... I took a course entitled "Operating System Logic", where "logic" is shorthand for "math without numbers", and the book was pretty much all proofs(i.e. concepts said to be non-patentable).
Specific implementations(i.e. actual code, which is copyrightable(which is not the same as patentable)) were given in a separate text.
And not just because Jack Thompson keeps failing on the civil side.
Getting video game violence declared obscene is well prevented by the movie/tv industries' efforts in the motion-picture realm. They've been working for decades to keep visual depictions of violence in the "OK for young children" realm. You can punch somebody on television and it'll be ok for anyone over the age of 8. Add some blood and it pops you up into the low teens, on par with a bit of side-boob.
The interactive aspect is too narrow a distinction for the rest of the entertainment industry to risk getting drawn in and censored, so it'll never happen until somebody comes up with a .9 r^2 correlation between violent games and homosexuality.
http://bb.emacf1.com/gpslogger.html
He'd probably add Velocity Made Good if you asked.
Records tracks & timestamps(you'd have to use software to match the timestamps between track & photos, but that's the case with anything else).
Also supports Elevation only & velocity tracking.
If you got your Storm when it was initially released, you may need to redownload google maps or enable GPS permissions for it. Verizon hadn't unlocked the GPS until after Google had developed the Storm client.
The problem isn't that it is a female voice, it is that they used a lousy voice.
Instead of some snide sounding voice, they should get a porn star to do the voice. Your choice between squealing, breathy, or sultry. "Mmmm, reticulating splines."
I'm sure they could get a Tom Selleck version or something for those who claim sexism:).
Yes
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Correction, I should have said the only real cost is manpower and music and other IP licensing costs.
Sorry.
Primer The acting might not be very good, or it might be really good not-having-to-act. One of the best stories I've seen that only cost $7k, anyway.
As the cost of special effects comes down and the rental of a digital camera replaces the cost of film stock, the only real cost is manpower.
And as anyone reading this site should know, you can make some really good stuff in your spare time.
I got a collection of old scifi from an uncle that had cigarette ads. He still smoked the same brand:)
I think I had one with a car ad, too, on cardstock. An american car, but I don't remember which.
I believe it is the same process, since Amazon bought mobipocket. Couldn't be much worse.