Do you really think UPS couldn't eat the postal service's lunch on 1st Class postage if they were allowed to compete?
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I don't know. To me it's pretty darn amazing that for 42 cents I can drop an envelop in a slot and a few days later it is hand-delivered to someone on the other side of the country. If that service didn't exist and you asked me to guess what it would cost, 42 cents would not be the answer.
Make it more expensive over time so that things will more quickly pass into the public domain. Most things in much less than 15 years. And as for allowing it to be extended for higher and higher fees, well that's mostly pragmatic. if you want even a ghost of a chance of having it happen you've got to provide for the "franchise" copyrights.
Yes, but we still need a (fair) way of helping media creators to make a living from their work.
And it has to start by having a reasonable copyright law. Things have to come into the public domain *much* more quickly. If holding a copyright became increasingly costly as it ages, most items would naturally fall into the public domain, and yet Disney could still keep Mickey. But a free, nearly perpetual monopoly is absurd.
Once I have a few years of experience with the law, I'm running for office, and I'm going to do everything I can to fix what's wrong with our government.
Mr. Corbettw Goes To Washington. Say, you're not the leader of the Boy Rangers are you?
We've seen this for the past 20 years, yet NONE of these 'cures' are actually used on a daily basis.
Well that's the way searches work. Once you've found it you stop looking. Pretty much every successful search for anything was preceded by NONE of the earlier tries succeeding.
My notebook has flippable pages. Also it has practically unlimited battery life and is good in low-light conditions as well as in full sun. It's pocket sized and costs 50c.
Sure, but clearing its memory is tedious and slow and leaves those little rubber goobers all over the place.
You'll often find the original submitter of the story down in the comments, telling people what really happened before the hyperbole injection that each story gets before it goes up on the front page.
And I never understood how that could be considered a logical fallacy.
The fallacy is if you attempt to refute the statement by it, as in "this guy lies often. Therefore what he's saying now is a lie."
That's not the same as being doubtful.
The best way is to be exposed to it. For instance, there is a very good series of podcasts from skeptoid.com. Each week he takes a topic, researches it, and presents it well. There are more than 100 now, and they are in easily-digested ten minute chunks.
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Here's one:
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Is that enough, or will you continue to be an ass?
Both you and me know that it's you and I...well, at least me does.
Well I will. I've sent several donations already this year, but I won't be sending more.
You're making exactly the kind of error alluded to in the review.
A merge sort, obviously.
"In January 2006, he renounced his American citizenship"
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Slashdot is not exactly "the record."
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Until you actually find it, how do you know it's temporary?
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I don't know. To me it's pretty darn amazing that for 42 cents I can drop an envelop in a slot and a few days later it is hand-delivered to someone on the other side of the country. If that service didn't exist and you asked me to guess what it would cost, 42 cents would not be the answer.
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I'm thinking almost all crashes happen really, really close to the ground.
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Yeah! And nobody *really* knows why the chicken crossed the road, or why fruit flies like a banana. What's the matter with these people?
Make it more expensive over time so that things will more quickly pass into the public domain. Most things in much less than 15 years. And as for allowing it to be extended for higher and higher fees, well that's mostly pragmatic. if you want even a ghost of a chance of having it happen you've got to provide for the "franchise" copyrights.
And it has to start by having a reasonable copyright law. Things have to come into the public domain *much* more quickly. If holding a copyright became increasingly costly as it ages, most items would naturally fall into the public domain, and yet Disney could still keep Mickey. But a free, nearly perpetual monopoly is absurd.
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Only if they are made simultaneously. In this particular case almost certainly a lie, but not necessarily.
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I'm assuming the page has been updated since your post, as the first thing I saw was "Tread is a Quake 1 and 2 map editor that runs on Windows XP."
Mr. Corbettw Goes To Washington. Say, you're not the leader of the Boy Rangers are you?
Well that's the way searches work. Once you've found it you stop looking. Pretty much every successful search for anything was preceded by NONE of the earlier tries succeeding.
order Only matter if the doesn't.
Sure, but clearing its memory is tedious and slow and leaves those little rubber goobers all over the place.
And while you're at it, ask them why the strawberry is always in the middle.
Dude, it's right here.
For example?
Plus he has to make the dividend payments on the shares he is short.
The fallacy is if you attempt to refute the statement by it, as in "this guy lies often. Therefore what he's saying now is a lie."
That's not the same as being doubtful.
The best way is to be exposed to it. For instance, there is a very good series of podcasts from skeptoid.com. Each week he takes a topic, researches it, and presents it well. There are more than 100 now, and they are in easily-digested ten minute chunks.