Federal agencies have juristiction in two instances :
A) The activity in question crosses two states. And you are correct, this does not cross state lines.
B) The regulation in question is in effect for more than one state. AH! FCC interference and broadcast regs are nationwide. Thats why they get jurisdiction.
Since the point of the infrastructure is that your connection to the net is wireless, it most certainly WOULD be going out over the wireless adapter, unless he was the connection to the wired service. but everyone further away than him would be wireless only.
If you are going to flame people, make sure you understand the topic.
The bad gramar was intentional, and when you corrected it, you reversed the meaning of my acronym.
If someone breaks the code, that doesn't mean free service, it means theft of service, and theft in this case means actual loss of revenue (as opposed to piracy losses or "free cable" which doesnt actually cost the company anything) since we are bandwidth limited currently (the freeloaders would be taking up space that would be used by paying customers) This means actual criminal charges, and big money law suits.
Actually, Japanese requires both kana and kanji, although you can write the kanji phoenetically in kana. However even when using kanji, you still have to know spoken japanese, because all of the tense, participles, particles, conjunctions, and grammar are in hiragana. Additionally almost all technology worlds, or words of foreign origin (gairaigo) are written in katakana.
However your actual point (that language independant glyphs can facilitate communication.
If "free" nodes like you want are ubiquitous, the bandwidth each node provider pays for (their cable, t1, dsl etc) prices will start to go up rather sharply. In the end, you will probably pay the same. TANSTAAFL.
If on the other hand, you want to make a LAN that goes everywhere, and eveyrone runs their webservers on the LAN rather than the internet, then you will gain all the functionality, because you aren't connecting to anything other than yourselves, and the infrastructure costs are distributed across all nodes.
This would be a competitor to the internet though, not free access to the internet.
You probably will never see this, as the thread is old, however I will try anyway.
You are right that productive assets have been privitized and amalgamated by decreasing numbers of people. This is how it happened :
Two workers both earned enough money to meet all their needs, plus have a little spending money on the side. One worker spent his money on wine, women, and song (And had a real good time). One worker saved every penny.
After a few years, the second worker had enough money to buy or build his own shop! (There is your privitization of production). Now, this worker may still work in the ship himself, but he now gets all the profit of the shop. Eventually, he gets enough profit, that he can expand his shop.
Through economies of scale, he can eventually hire the other worker and stop working himself.
He is now "exploiting" the other worker for his own benefit. Since he made the sacrifices up front he can make whatever choices he wants to maximize his own profits, even if that cuts into the first workers Wine and Women!
Following me so far? Sure you say, but what about all the people that inherit their wealth, and didn't sacrifice for it! Is that fair? Maybe, but in any case thats life.
Would it be fair to "balance" everything each generation? Definatly not. The earlier generation could have slacked off, increasing their wine women and song intake and screw their decendants. But they didn't. And to balance things now invalidates their sacrifice.
If you did implement such a system, people would choose not to save, because there would be no benefit.
In actuality, we have this sytem now. I saved and worked hard, which allowed me to go to college. The college education allows me to earn more. The government takes away more from me to balance things out, even though I sacrificed up front to get where I am.
Further, if I have any thing extra after expenses and taxes, I choose to decrease my wine women and song and invest! Uh oh. Now I am one of the owners of production, and I am exploiting the workers! Time to balance things out again by increasing my taxes.
I am obviously being somewhat pedantic, but the point is that non-capitalist systems discourage people from saving, and sacrificing up front, because you will get balanced in the end.
A sakters arems and body have the same angular velocity, because her arms are attached to her body. it takes more energy to move her arms around when they are extended (further to go) and since they are attached to her body, the whole thing slows down.
In a space ship, the earth and the ship are not attached. As soon as the ship leaves the ground, the earth spins out from underneath it. Due to momentum, and air viscosity (pushing the ship in the direction of the earths rotation) this is not nocieable until the ship is quite high, but conservation of rotational inertia is not the principle you need to follow in this case.
Our current problem is talking about copying a CD for use in a car.
A) a mudic CD is not a computer program, and therefore would not be covered.
B) Using the CD in your car is obviously not for archival purposes, and therefore this would not be covered.
Is the law inconsistant? Yes. Should it be changed? Probably. Currently is using a copy of your legally purchased cd in your car illegal? Yes. Is it ___LEGALLY___ fair use? no.
Note, I don't think the copyright laws are correct or good as currently set up. However, under those laws :
The point we are discussing was copying a CD for use in a car. None of the items you listed above cover that. It wasn't scolarship, or research or anything.
Yes, you as a teacher were infringed. And cases like you have would be a good thing to go up against the DMCA with.
Actually, the section you refered to is for libraries and archives, not individuals. But assuming it did apply to individuals :
The right of reproduction under this section applies to three copies or phonorecords of a published work duplicated solely for the purpose of replacement of a copy or phonorecord that is damaged, deteriorating, lost, or stolen, or if the existing format in which the work is stored has become obsolete, if the library or archives has, after a reasonable effort, determined that an unused replacement cannot be obtained at a fair price; and
In our example, the original is not damaged or stolen, the user merely wants a second copy. Additionally, if a replacement was required, in 99.9999% of cases a replacement is available at a fair price.
However as stated, this does not apply, as an individual is not an archive or library.
Further, I looked forward and backward about 20 pages in the code there, and did not find anything talking about duplication rights for individuals. (I think there should be some, for backup purposes at a minimum, but I didnt see them there)
Actually, I read books on my iPaq quite often. However, my intent was not to say that books should be replaced by digital equivilents. (I am in fact one of the bibliophiles that prefer to be curled up on my couch, in front of a fire, with a nice leather bound volume in hand).
Rather, I was stating that I feel the force of time and economics ill push the technology onward to the point where most mainstream books are released primarly digitally.
Digital distribution has almost a 0 marginal cost, so if piracy can be controlled, it is a much better arrangement for the publishers. Additionally more authors will be able to get published, as they can self distribute.
Buying the key is buying the license. They sold the product in the states.
Simmilar defenses have been used in drug trafficing cases (I didnt sell them drugs, I sold them the key to the locker in the bus station where the drugs were stored) and they got convictions anyway.
Simmilarly, I didn't kill anyone, I just hired someone else to kill them.
If the product is illegal in the US, then selling access to the product from the US is also illegal.
In the cd compliation/copy in car senario, you have access to the music, perhaps just not as conviniently as you may wish. Additionally, the action that you take to achieve this fair use (copying) is the exact same action as pirates use.
In the case of the books, they may or may not be copying the data in question. But it would certainly be possible to write an alternate reader, that did not copy the data, but just presented it differently. This is much more clearly in the lines of fair use than copying.
A musical analogy : the music remains encrypted until it hits your speakers, which decrypt, and you hack in your own custom speakers to get more bass.
an exceptionally good thing. Here is a clear cut case of the DCMA interfering with fair use. And as a bonus, that fair use isn't tainted by any piracy, mp3, ripping, warezing etc stigma.
There will come a day when nobody but eccentrics and bibliophiles will read normal books. Everything will be digital. If this case were to succeed, the US government would condem the blind people of the world to illiteracy. (Note to lawyers : feel free to use my comment in your closing arguments:) )
What would you sue them for? They can make up whatever terms they want for their service. If you don't like them - don't use the service. There aren't any grounds for a suit there...
Simmilarly, cable companies used to charge for each television (Some locations still do)
They don't even have to prove you are doing anything wrong. They have a right to refuse service... (As long as they can say they aren't doing it based on a protected class such as race, religion etc).
Thats exactly what I said. The same ammount buys less. Thats the same as the same thing costs more.
You can talk about how much one apple costs, or how many apples you can get for $1. Either way it is inflation.
The prices on items are dropping, because they are depreciating. At the same time, the money is becoming devalued because of inflation. However, the depreciation is happening faster than the inflation - so you see prices falling. If new items stopped coming out, prices would go up, as the money supply keeps increases.
The world of norrath has alot if inflation in fact, because the money supply is infinite. However, the individual items depreciate faster than inflation is going up.
The way to tell that there is inflation : Compare the tier-1 item prices at any given time.
For example, a year ago, what was the best one handed weapon, and what price did it go for. Today, what is the best one handed weapon, and what is it going for. The price is more correct? Thats inflation.
There is no deflation. There is depreciation, coupled with inflation.
I can hit the 30 second button 8 times in 3 seconds or so, and then the instant replay button to get to the show.
With the fast forward, you hit the button 3 times, and then wait for the commercials to go by. at 8x speed, 6 commercials per break, 30 sec per commercial that still takes 10 seconds or so to fast forward through.
By the way, if you overshoot with the 30 second skip, dont use the rewind button, just hit the instant replay button till you see commercial. its much better than trying to time it.
But as we said, I guess its just personal preference.
Thats true. My reflexes are too quick. I hit the play button, and I get to watch a commercial for a while.
And regardless of my reflexes, the attention required is more important. I can hit the buttons using muscle memory, while I look at something else, I have to pay attention to the tv while using the fast forward.
Of course, either way it only takes a few seconds, it is probably just personal preference. But give the 30 second way a chance, I think its a lot faster. And the whole point is to get to your show quicker (otherwise you would just watch the commercials:) )
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Federal agencies have juristiction in two instances :
A) The activity in question crosses two states. And you are correct, this does not cross state lines.
B) The regulation in question is in effect for more than one state. AH! FCC interference and broadcast regs are nationwide. Thats why they get jurisdiction.
Since the point of the infrastructure is that your connection to the net is wireless, it most certainly WOULD be going out over the wireless adapter, unless he was the connection to the wired service. but everyone further away than him would be wireless only.
If you are going to flame people, make sure you understand the topic.
The bad gramar was intentional, and when you corrected it, you reversed the meaning of my acronym.
If someone breaks the code, that doesn't mean free service, it means theft of service, and theft in this case means actual loss of revenue (as opposed to piracy losses or "free cable" which doesnt actually cost the company anything) since we are bandwidth limited currently (the freeloaders would be taking up space that would be used by paying customers) This means actual criminal charges, and big money law suits.
Actually, Japanese requires both kana and kanji, although you can write the kanji phoenetically in kana. However even when using kanji, you still have to know spoken japanese, because all of the tense, participles, particles, conjunctions, and grammar are in hiragana. Additionally almost all technology worlds, or words of foreign origin (gairaigo) are written in katakana.
However your actual point (that language independant glyphs can facilitate communication.
TANSTAAFL :)
:)
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
sorry, fairly common in the econ world
If "free" nodes like you want are ubiquitous, the bandwidth each node provider pays for (their cable, t1, dsl etc) prices will start to go up rather sharply. In the end, you will probably pay the same. TANSTAAFL.
If on the other hand, you want to make a LAN that goes everywhere, and eveyrone runs their webservers on the LAN rather than the internet, then you will gain all the functionality, because you aren't connecting to anything other than yourselves, and the infrastructure costs are distributed across all nodes.
This would be a competitor to the internet though, not free access to the internet.
You probably will never see this, as the thread is old, however I will try anyway.
You are right that productive assets have been privitized and amalgamated by decreasing numbers of people. This is how it happened :
Two workers both earned enough money to meet all their needs, plus have a little spending money on the side. One worker spent his money on wine, women, and song (And had a real good time). One worker saved every penny.
After a few years, the second worker had enough money to buy or build his own shop! (There is your privitization of production). Now, this worker may still work in the ship himself, but he now gets all the profit of the shop. Eventually, he gets enough profit, that he can expand his shop.
Through economies of scale, he can eventually hire the other worker and stop working himself.
He is now "exploiting" the other worker for his own benefit. Since he made the sacrifices up front he can make whatever choices he wants to maximize his own profits, even if that cuts into the first workers Wine and Women!
Following me so far? Sure you say, but what about all the people that inherit their wealth, and didn't sacrifice for it! Is that fair? Maybe, but in any case thats life.
Would it be fair to "balance" everything each generation? Definatly not. The earlier generation could have slacked off, increasing their wine women and song intake and screw their decendants. But they didn't. And to balance things now invalidates their sacrifice.
If you did implement such a system, people would choose not to save, because there would be no benefit.
In actuality, we have this sytem now. I saved and worked hard, which allowed me to go to college. The college education allows me to earn more. The government takes away more from me to balance things out, even though I sacrificed up front to get where I am.
Further, if I have any thing extra after expenses and taxes, I choose to decrease my wine women and song and invest! Uh oh. Now I am one of the owners of production, and I am exploiting the workers! Time to balance things out again by increasing my taxes.
I am obviously being somewhat pedantic, but the point is that non-capitalist systems discourage people from saving, and sacrificing up front, because you will get balanced in the end.
Egyptians arent black, but they were African, which is why they get lumped in there.
Raw veggies is nice. But raw meat is not. Especially chicken. Salmonilla can kill. And beef has e coli etc.
If you dont want to cook your meat, become a vegitarian.
Actually, its not quite like a skater...
A sakters arems and body have the same angular velocity, because her arms are attached to her body. it takes more energy to move her arms around when they are extended (further to go) and since they are attached to her body, the whole thing slows down.
In a space ship, the earth and the ship are not attached. As soon as the ship leaves the ground, the earth spins out from underneath it. Due to momentum, and air viscosity (pushing the ship in the direction of the earths rotation) this is not nocieable until the ship is quite high, but conservation of rotational inertia is not the principle you need to follow in this case.
That is a real phone from nokia. You can have it now. There are also several palm/phone combinations available.
Our current problem is talking about copying a CD for use in a car.
A) a mudic CD is not a computer program, and therefore would not be covered.
B) Using the CD in your car is obviously not for archival purposes, and therefore this would not be covered.
Is the law inconsistant? Yes. Should it be changed? Probably. Currently is using a copy of your legally purchased cd in your car illegal? Yes. Is it ___LEGALLY___ fair use? no.
Note, I don't think the copyright laws are correct or good as currently set up. However, under those laws :
The point we are discussing was copying a CD for use in a car. None of the items you listed above cover that. It wasn't scolarship, or research or anything.
Yes, you as a teacher were infringed. And cases like you have would be a good thing to go up against the DMCA with.
But making a copy for your car isnt a good one.
Interestingly, this is covered directly by this law stating that reproductions for blind people are specifically covered and protected.
Actually, the section you refered to is for libraries and archives, not individuals. But assuming it did apply to individuals :
The right of reproduction under this section applies to three copies or phonorecords of a published work duplicated solely for the purpose of replacement of a copy or phonorecord that is damaged, deteriorating, lost, or stolen, or if the existing format in which the work is stored has become obsolete, if the library or archives has, after a reasonable effort, determined that an unused replacement cannot be obtained at a fair price; and
In our example, the original is not damaged or stolen, the user merely wants a second copy. Additionally, if a replacement was required, in 99.9999% of cases a replacement is available at a fair price.
However as stated, this does not apply, as an individual is not an archive or library.
Further, I looked forward and backward about 20 pages in the code there, and did not find anything talking about duplication rights for individuals. (I think there should be some, for backup purposes at a minimum, but I didnt see them there)
Actually, I read books on my iPaq quite often. However, my intent was not to say that books should be replaced by digital equivilents. (I am in fact one of the bibliophiles that prefer to be curled up on my couch, in front of a fire, with a nice leather bound volume in hand).
Rather, I was stating that I feel the force of time and economics ill push the technology onward to the point where most mainstream books are released primarly digitally.
Digital distribution has almost a 0 marginal cost, so if piracy can be controlled, it is a much better arrangement for the publishers. Additionally more authors will be able to get published, as they can self distribute.
Buying the key is buying the license. They sold the product in the states.
Simmilar defenses have been used in drug trafficing cases (I didnt sell them drugs, I sold them the key to the locker in the bus station where the drugs were stored) and they got convictions anyway.
Simmilarly, I didn't kill anyone, I just hired someone else to kill them.
If the product is illegal in the US, then selling access to the product from the US is also illegal.
There is a large difference.
In the cd compliation/copy in car senario, you have access to the music, perhaps just not as conviniently as you may wish. Additionally, the action that you take to achieve this fair use (copying) is the exact same action as pirates use.
In the case of the books, they may or may not be copying the data in question. But it would certainly be possible to write an alternate reader, that did not copy the data, but just presented it differently. This is much more clearly in the lines of fair use than copying.
A musical analogy : the music remains encrypted until it hits your speakers, which decrypt, and you hack in your own custom speakers to get more bass.
an exceptionally good thing. Here is a clear cut case of the DCMA interfering with fair use. And as a bonus, that fair use isn't tainted by any piracy, mp3, ripping, warezing etc stigma.
:) )
There will come a day when nobody but eccentrics and bibliophiles will read normal books. Everything will be digital. If this case were to succeed, the US government would condem the blind people of the world to illiteracy. (Note to lawyers : feel free to use my comment in your closing arguments
Here is a link from verizon showing coverage and pricing
What would you sue them for? They can make up whatever terms they want for their service. If you don't like them - don't use the service. There aren't any grounds for a suit there...
Simmilarly, cable companies used to charge for each television (Some locations still do)
They don't even have to prove you are doing anything wrong. They have a right to refuse service... (As long as they can say they aren't doing it based on a protected class such as race, religion etc).
I did not fail it, I majored in it.
Thats exactly what I said. The same ammount buys less. Thats the same as the same thing costs more.
You can talk about how much one apple costs, or how many apples you can get for $1. Either way it is inflation.
The prices on items are dropping, because they are depreciating. At the same time, the money is becoming devalued because of inflation. However, the depreciation is happening faster than the inflation - so you see prices falling. If new items stopped coming out, prices would go up, as the money supply keeps increases.
The world of norrath has alot if inflation in fact, because the money supply is infinite. However, the individual items depreciate faster than inflation is going up.
The way to tell that there is inflation : Compare the tier-1 item prices at any given time.
For example, a year ago, what was the best one handed weapon, and what price did it go for. Today, what is the best one handed weapon, and what is it going for. The price is more correct? Thats inflation.
There is no deflation. There is depreciation, coupled with inflation.
Really?
I can hit the 30 second button 8 times in 3 seconds or so, and then the instant replay button to get to the show.
With the fast forward, you hit the button 3 times, and then wait for the commercials to go by. at 8x speed, 6 commercials per break, 30 sec per commercial that still takes 10 seconds or so to fast forward through.
By the way, if you overshoot with the 30 second skip, dont use the rewind button, just hit the instant replay button till you see commercial. its much better than trying to time it.
But as we said, I guess its just personal preference.
Thats true. My reflexes are too quick. I hit the play button, and I get to watch a commercial for a while.
:) )
And regardless of my reflexes, the attention required is more important. I can hit the buttons using muscle memory, while I look at something else, I have to pay attention to the tv while using the fast forward.
Of course, either way it only takes a few seconds, it is probably just personal preference. But give the 30 second way a chance, I think its a lot faster. And the whole point is to get to your show quicker (otherwise you would just watch the commercials