If Bush were smart (and he ain't) he'll scrap his other pie-eyed politicizations of space and create a New Shuttle program to replace the 35-year-old technology we're using now.
Then the disaster is one of information, not rocketry. The space program is not all about politics, but ocasionally needs to play politics to retain its funding. And it is the farthest thing from a disaster. It is has been utterly invaluable in inciting the development of technology, and the procedures for maintaining relatively excruciating safety for extremely dangerous operations involving hypercomplex devices.
Astronautical research created the way our world works, and saves lives in the air and on the ground daily.
The difference is, the TV people get the full cooperation of the rights owners, and pay a lot of money for the right to play the movie in that form, once, you [String of expletives deleted.--CowboyNeal]
There's all the difference in the world between modifying something without consent and being licensed to modify it.
You can edit your own copy any way you want. But does the director have a responsiblity to let the filter makers profit from crafting edited versions of his work?
If you created your own filter program and used it on hardware you devised, that would be fair use, and Hollywood wouldn't have a case.
However, the people who create the software and sell the players do not have the right to alter whole copyright works for redistribution (which is what selling the player and filter is, even if you buy the movie from someone else, and even if the filters are free).
And if filesharing really is helping sell more records, then the RIAA will have even more money to spend to shut filesharing down. Then they'll find a way to mine the filesharing ethic for their own benefit and nobody else's.
Ask a septuagenarian author who is about to "die penniless" if it's okay that J. Random Publisher is allowed to profit from mass-market paperback copies of his work because it's gone "public domain" already.
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The "hobby" is now about 3GHz processors, lights and liquid cooling, recording your own DVDs, and multi-gigabit wireless connectivity.
I think I smell a horse on the wrong end of your cart.
If Bush were smart (and he ain't) he'll scrap his other pie-eyed politicizations of space and create a New Shuttle program to replace the 35-year-old technology we're using now.
Then the disaster is one of information, not rocketry. The space program is not all about politics, but ocasionally needs to play politics to retain its funding. And it is the farthest thing from a disaster. It is has been utterly invaluable in inciting the development of technology, and the procedures for maintaining relatively excruciating safety for extremely dangerous operations involving hypercomplex devices.
Astronautical research created the way our world works, and saves lives in the air and on the ground daily.
Right.
It's not fair use if someone other than the copyright holder profits from modifying it.
What's deranged is all the toidy little gnomes running around saying "art should be freeeee", as though it ever was.
Who do you think pays for museums to buy the art they charge you $3 to look at? Who do you think paid Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel?
But I suppose it's all consistent. People who don't understand art, markets, and the law are the ones who keep me in Lexus parts.
No, he's a gerund, you insensitive clod.
The difference is, the TV people get the full cooperation of the rights owners, and pay a lot of money for the right to play the movie in that form, once, you [String of expletives deleted.--CowboyNeal]
There's all the difference in the world between modifying something without consent and being licensed to modify it.
And do NOT buy him a Klipsch surround sound system to go with them.
No. Really. I think this game is giving me PTSD.
You can edit your own copy any way you want. But does the director have a responsiblity to let the filter makers profit from crafting edited versions of his work?
If I had my way, it would be.
If you created your own filter program and used it on hardware you devised, that would be fair use, and Hollywood wouldn't have a case.
However, the people who create the software and sell the players do not have the right to alter whole copyright works for redistribution (which is what selling the player and filter is, even if you buy the movie from someone else, and even if the filters are free).
So Hollywood has a case, and a good one.
There's no money in it.
If there was, someone would do it.
But there isn't, so hardly anyone tries.
Get it?
What's with all the rubber bands on the relay board?
And if filesharing really is helping sell more records, then the RIAA will have even more money to spend to shut filesharing down. Then they'll find a way to mine the filesharing ethic for their own benefit and nobody else's.
Evolution in action.
Guns or butter.
And at the top of every defense company is a small group of people being paid far too much to do far too little to promote peace.
And the guy who actually wrote it would have no piece of the pie, forever.
Because we spend $$billions on toys, and virtually nothing on people.
Toys make defense companies rich. Servicemembers are paid less than fast-food workers.
Why write more books when your blockbuster is making other people rich?
Having the value of your work coopted by chiselers is a heavy demotivator.
Spoken like a 28-year-old.
Ask a septuagenarian author who is about to "die penniless" if it's okay that J. Random Publisher is allowed to profit from mass-market paperback copies of his work because it's gone "public domain" already.
The law already backs all of the content owners' desires for protection of their intellectual property.
They just need to go through the process of enforcing it.
Which they are.
Filesharing will be dead once the script-kiddies get the idea they'll be nabbed and put in jail for stealing things.
Which they are.
So there's no deal to be made. The IP holders don't have any reason to reduce the term of their ownership.
Unfunny.
Those guys really were writers for SNL and Conan O'Brien.
This is the quote I found at the bottom of this page just now:
"What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying." -- Nikita Khrushchev
I'll say, comrade.
Parents routinely eat half-chewed food off of their babies' plates, and that grosses me out, but your friend is clearly a squeamish nerd.
ESR is a known idiot. If he valued his privacy, he wouldn't have stolen the Jargon File and profited from its publication formatted as a "book".
Checker at CompUSA: That's $86.37. Would you like 3 free hours of AOL? It doesn't cost you anything.
Me: How much do I have to pay not to get 3 free hours of AOL?
Checker at CompUSA: That's $86.37.
Me: I actually offered to pay them $10 a month if they'd shut down their Internet connection. But they didn't go for it.
Checker at CompUSA: Really? That sounds like a pretty good deal.
My conclusion is that CompUSA is hiring slightly sharper people than they used to.
So you block port 25. So what? So they start polling all your other ports looking for an SMTP server. Oh. Right.