Seconded. The Nobel Prize in Economics is NOT a real Nobel, and is awarded by the socialist Swedish central bank. Their awards are biased.
Honestly any economist who doesn't recognize the value of creating and protecting intellectual property rights in an information economy is a POORLY trained economist. Hernando de Soto has pegged a lack of real property rights as the primary issue that prevents wealth from being created in the third world (agricultural economies). It follows that in economies (such as the US/Europe) which derive their wealth, more and more, from intellectual property, that the ability to protect those rights is ultimately to our benefit.
When you have proprietary software you can choose not to use it. If you choose to use it, you have to agree with the developer (or, really, distributor)'s terms. If you choose not to use that software, you are free to use another program. If you use software that I write (non-free software) then I am not limiting your freedoms, because you are consenting to my terms by using my software.
Intellectual Property is as much property as the family farm. If we deny the existence and ownership of IP, then our economy is going to explode and die.
I have no problem with "free software" as Stallman uses the term.
However, what RMS calls freedom is questionable. Where I come from (ideologically), freedom includes a freedom of property -- the right to do with your property as you wish. Criticizing someone for how they choose to use their property, whether it be intellectual or real property, is hardly an encouragement of freedom.
Informed or not, it's impossible to make a good decision, because all we get is the slick spin of whichever candidate's materials you might be privy to. You'll never know what the truth is or WHO you are voting for unless you work almost full time to investigate these guys yourself.
Ultimately politics have gone to hell, and no matter who you vote for you are making a bad decision.
Agreed. Mankind is essentially through with evolution. Sure certain traits will become more prominent over time, but we are no longer changing significantly as a species.
I'm getting more and more comfortable in the fact that I may never need to use Windows again. Hopefully this can also be used to create relatively painless ports of non-gaming apps.
You're absolutely right, MSN is dominant in Europe. Then again, more Americans have access to the internet than Europeans, and more Americans use the internet regularly, so AOL's market share is still pretty huge.
AOL loves the "hip" AIM speak that was "developed" from using their product. They pounce on any trendy BS like that because they think it's a good marketing tool. Personally, I just think it's ignorant.
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OSX updates are usually pretty solid. I haven't installed this one yet, but I will before I go to bed (and therefore don't have to stop everything to reboot. I am always VERY confident to install Apple updates -- I personally haven't experienced any problems, except with Safari when it was still "beta" and that hardly counts.
Yeah, there is a chance that this update will wreak havoc, but considering how responsible Apple is about these sorts of things, I can't imagine that it would.
Talking about the Alpha... that was a sweet processor in its heyday... Anyway Intel has rights to technology outside of the x86 domain, why can't Apple use something based on that instead. If not the Alpha, then something else.
I'm most concerned here about the video editing. I don't know if Intel-Macs will still be better at it than their windows brothers after the switch. They'd lose a lot of market from that.
How about $10 to $15 for a season? Normally the DVDs go for 25-ish for a season. So, eliminate the media in question and $15 has got to be fair.
Personally, I'm not interested in the Music videos though, they're great as a novelty, I guess. I want to download full-length movies, maybe also TV shows -- right now my only option for that is BitTorrent, I'd like to not have the constant fear of legal retribution though.
For most organs I'm with you (although PeTA definitely isn't)
Blood -- yeah, stick a needle in that sucker and drain him dry Heart/Lungs/Giblets -- if I need one, I won't love it, but I'll take it. but a brain?
Do people understand that your memories/personality/whatever are all generated or stored in your brain? ALL of your higher functions, ALL OF THEM are based there.
Even if you could survive a brain transplant, your personality and otherwise, everything that make you, you will be gone.
Basically, the sheep will just be controlling your body. Now, keep in mind that this will be a human-hybrid sheep, so its going to be pretty smart for a sheep. Still though, the incessant baa-ing would piss your wife off for sure.
Anyway, the ethics problem I see with human brain sheep is that what if they do have the mental capabilities of any normal person, but now we've stranded them in the bodies of sheep? I dunno, I find it pretty scary to have to live as a sheep -- wouldn't you?
In an introductory class, that may be true, but most professors do spend a lot of time on research, etc. Publish or perish, right?
They do have to produce original works, and most classes, especially at higher levels do include a lot of what the Prof. has learned from their own research in them.
Besides, if I wrote a book about the Civil War, should that be public domain because I didn't start the war? Of course not, the book, regardless of its topic is an original creation and therefore should be protected. However, there is nothing that protects me from someone reading my book on the Civil War and using the knowledge gained from that to write their own book -- but they can't use my words.
If you tape the news, you don't violate the newsreader's IP. If you re-broadcast/re-transmit the news, you violate the IP of the station, who wrote (or at least paid the guy who wrote) the news report, and also spent a lot of money producing the broadcast (lighting, editing, paying personalities, etc.).
Sometimes the anchor writes their own script though... then we're getting closer to the same situation.
It isn't the information itself that is protected so much as it is the words that convey that information.
Hence why the student's notes, containing that info are not illegal.
So, basically, you would be correct, if "learning" only amounted to memorizing, verbatim, various sentences, paragraphs and phrases about a subject, and then repeating them, once again verbatim, at correct intervals.
Sounds like what a parrot does. While you could potentially teach the Parrot a bunch of phrases about World War II, you can't really claim that the parrot has that knowledge, because he cannot reconvey it in his own terms.
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Seconded. The Nobel Prize in Economics is NOT a real Nobel, and is awarded by the socialist Swedish central bank. Their awards are biased.
Honestly any economist who doesn't recognize the value of creating and protecting intellectual property rights in an information economy is a POORLY trained economist. Hernando de Soto has pegged a lack of real property rights as the primary issue that prevents wealth from being created in the third world (agricultural economies). It follows that in economies (such as the US/Europe) which derive their wealth, more and more, from intellectual property, that the ability to protect those rights is ultimately to our benefit.
... and THANK GOD FOR THAT...
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When you have proprietary software you can choose not to use it. If you choose to use it, you have to agree with the developer (or, really, distributor)'s terms. If you choose not to use that software, you are free to use another program. If you use software that I write (non-free software) then I am not limiting your freedoms, because you are consenting to my terms by using my software.
Intellectual Property is as much property as the family farm. If we deny the existence and ownership of IP, then our economy is going to explode and die.
Because he is bitching and whining when people aren't in favor of people using his system. And trying to guilt/strongarm them into it.
I have no problem with "free software" as Stallman uses the term.
However, what RMS calls freedom is questionable. Where I come from (ideologically), freedom includes a freedom of property -- the right to do with your property as you wish. Criticizing someone for how they choose to use their property, whether it be intellectual or real property, is hardly an encouragement of freedom.
Informed or not, it's impossible to make a good decision, because all we get is the slick spin of whichever candidate's materials you might be privy to. You'll never know what the truth is or WHO you are voting for unless you work almost full time to investigate these guys yourself.
Ultimately politics have gone to hell, and no matter who you vote for you are making a bad decision.
We need a new system.
Agreed. Mankind is essentially through with evolution. Sure certain traits will become more prominent over time, but we are no longer changing significantly as a species.
Electricity is made by burning fossil fuels -- the more you consume, the more the environment is polluted.
So don't bother...
Unless you plan to run your car on duracell's....
Convert your car to run on either pure ethanol or biodiesel instead. You might actually save the environment that way.
Seconded. Thanks for saying it for me.
Personally, I'm waiting for an iPod with a digital camera built in. I like my phone to make phone calls, I'll have my iPod do everything else :-)
I'm getting more and more comfortable in the fact that I may never need to use Windows again. Hopefully this can also be used to create relatively painless ports of non-gaming apps.
If you are worried about laptop thieves, I suggest transferring out of UConn...
I see no explanation in there.
I don't think Futurama is really a kid's cartoon.
Their hand doesn't count...
You're absolutely right, MSN is dominant in Europe. Then again, more Americans have access to the internet than Europeans, and more Americans use the internet regularly, so AOL's market share is still pretty huge.
AOL loves the "hip" AIM speak that was "developed" from using their product. They pounce on any trendy BS like that because they think it's a good marketing tool. Personally, I just think it's ignorant.
OSX updates are usually pretty solid. I haven't installed this one yet, but I will before I go to bed (and therefore don't have to stop everything to reboot. I am always VERY confident to install Apple updates -- I personally haven't experienced any problems, except with Safari when it was still "beta" and that hardly counts.
Yeah, there is a chance that this update will wreak havoc, but considering how responsible Apple is about these sorts of things, I can't imagine that it would.
Talking about the Alpha... that was a sweet processor in its heyday... Anyway Intel has rights to technology outside of the x86 domain, why can't Apple use something based on that instead. If not the Alpha, then something else.
I'm most concerned here about the video editing. I don't know if Intel-Macs will still be better at it than their windows brothers after the switch. They'd lose a lot of market from that.
How about $10 to $15 for a season? Normally the DVDs go for 25-ish for a season. So, eliminate the media in question and $15 has got to be fair.
Personally, I'm not interested in the Music videos though, they're great as a novelty, I guess. I want to download full-length movies, maybe also TV shows -- right now my only option for that is BitTorrent, I'd like to not have the constant fear of legal retribution though.
For most organs I'm with you (although PeTA definitely isn't)
Blood -- yeah, stick a needle in that sucker and drain him dry
Heart/Lungs/Giblets -- if I need one, I won't love it, but I'll take it.
but a brain?
Do people understand that your memories/personality/whatever are all generated or stored in your brain? ALL of your higher functions, ALL OF THEM are based there.
Even if you could survive a brain transplant, your personality and otherwise, everything that make you, you will be gone.
Basically, the sheep will just be controlling your body. Now, keep in mind that this will be a human-hybrid sheep, so its going to be pretty smart for a sheep. Still though, the incessant baa-ing would piss your wife off for sure.
Anyway, the ethics problem I see with human brain sheep is that what if they do have the mental capabilities of any normal person, but now we've stranded them in the bodies of sheep? I dunno, I find it pretty scary to have to live as a sheep -- wouldn't you?
In an introductory class, that may be true, but most professors do spend a lot of time on research, etc. Publish or perish, right?
They do have to produce original works, and most classes, especially at higher levels do include a lot of what the Prof. has learned from their own research in them.
Besides, if I wrote a book about the Civil War, should that be public domain because I didn't start the war? Of course not, the book, regardless of its topic is an original creation and therefore should be protected. However, there is nothing that protects me from someone reading my book on the Civil War and using the knowledge gained from that to write their own book -- but they can't use my words.
If you tape the news, you don't violate the newsreader's IP. If you re-broadcast/re-transmit the news, you violate the IP of the station, who wrote (or at least paid the guy who wrote) the news report, and also spent a lot of money producing the broadcast (lighting, editing, paying personalities, etc.).
Sometimes the anchor writes their own script though... then we're getting closer to the same situation.
It isn't the information itself that is protected so much as it is the words that convey that information.
Hence why the student's notes, containing that info are not illegal.
So, basically, you would be correct, if "learning" only amounted to memorizing, verbatim, various sentences, paragraphs and phrases about a subject, and then repeating them, once again verbatim, at correct intervals.
Sounds like what a parrot does. While you could potentially teach the Parrot a bunch of phrases about World War II, you can't really claim that the parrot has that knowledge, because he cannot reconvey it in his own terms.
Just a thought.
I don't think the Eurostar counts as part of a "british rail network," seeing as how its purpose to to get you out of Britain as fast as possible.