The first-sale doctrine creates a basic exception to the copyright holder's distribution right. Once the work is lawfully sold or even transferred gratuitously, the copyright owner's interest in the material object in which the copyrighted work is embodied is exhausted. The owner of the material object can then dispose of it as he sees fit. Thus, one who buys a copy of a book is entitled to resell it, rent it, give it away, or destroy it. However, the owner of the copy of the book will not be able to make new copies of the book because the first-sale doctrine does not limit copyright owner's reproduction right. The rationale of the doctrine is to prevent the copyright owner from restraining the free alienability of goods. Without the doctrine, a possessor of a copy of a copyrighted work would have to negotiate with the copyright owner every time he wished to dispose of his copy. After the initial transfer of ownership of a legal copy of a copyrighted work, the first-sale doctrine exhausts copyright holder's right to control how ownership of that copy can be disposed of. For this reason, this doctrine is also referred to as the "exhaustion rule."
See: 17 USC section 109, and Bobbs-Merrill -v- Strauss (1908).
Obligatory car analogy: I buy a Ford F150 flatbed. Who are Ford to say I can't install an aftermarket roof over the deck of MY VEHICLE THAT I PAID FOR rather than pay over the odds for the stock one?
the fault with that logic is that you're holding attitude and position relative to the GROUND. To hold your position relative to something that matters (for example, the centre of the Galaxy), you'd have to fly directly away from the orbital motion of the Sun at 65 miles a second.
somewhere around is someone complaining that MySQL is broken in Win10. Using your logic, well yes it is - the Workbench doesn't work because the HTML handler DLL is fundamentally broken - and you'd have to live with that. If you go to StackOverflow, you can get that functionality back by replacing said DLL with their patched version - but not if you don't *own* the software you're trying to patch.
I'll let the real world speak for me: I used to use Photoshop, then I discovered The GIMP. I don't even HAVE a Photoshop CD anymore. The GIMP does everything *I* need an image editor to do.
who needs an archival scan of NEWSPRINT TEXT at 600+DPI? Most paper photographs (remember those?) only have about 300DPI worth of information on them *if you are lucky*, you'd be wasting your time scanning any higher for those. Making legal digital duplicates of typeset documents only requires 150DPI (which is the same as standard Fax which also happens to be a legal service method).
(source: several years experience dealing with document archiving and photo digitising on a commercial as well as a personal basis)
...of civilisation: The term ‘eugenics’ was first used by Francis Galton in 1883 when examining the “comparative worth” of different races, to describe the improvement of man through “better breeding“. Other terms that evolved included: Dysgenic: Elements believed to increase the occurrence of undesirable genes. Negative eugenics: Those classified as the ‘genetically unfit.’ V.S. Eugenic: Elements believed to increase the occurrence of desirable genes. Positive eugenics: Those classified as the ‘genetically fit’. Eugenic campaigns began in earnest in several nations including the UK, USA and Germany, with the establishment of the British Eugenics Education Society (1907), American Eugenics Society (1923) and the Society for Racial Hygiene (1905) respectively. Eugenicists came to believe that the goal of ‘better breeding’ could be achieved through the sterilisation of dysgenic individuals and the promotion of breeding amongst the genetically fit. Involuntary sterilisation was never passed as law in the UK, despite the campaigning of British eugenicists. In the USA and Germany however, the practice became widespread. Whilst less publicised than its German equivalent, the eugenics movement in the USA, resulted in the forced sterilisation of 65,000 individuals up to the program’s eventual end in the early 1970s. In Germany however, eugenics found its ideal social and political environment in which it could thrive. With the nation locked in a post- World War 1 economic crisis, eugenicists held the opinion that medical care had interfered with the laws of nature by keeping the weak alive and that “defectives” were reproducing faster than healthy individuals. Amongst the so-called ‘defectives’ were the hereditary blind and deaf, those with “physical deformities” and the congenitally “feebleminded” (those with learning difficulties). Fürsorge (care of the individual) was to be condemned whereas Vorsorge (preventative care for the good of the nation) was to become medicine’s priority; with the role of the physician as a “cultivator of the genes” and “biological soldier.” The resulting eugenic campaign between 1933 included the forced sterilisation of up to 375,000 people between 1933-39; and ultimately the killing of hundreds of thousands of those deemed to be “life unworthy of life”. Doctors involved in the campaign claimed that the Hippocratic oath was a “vestige of ancient times” and that such killing complied with medical ethics since these people were mere “empty shells of human beings” and “effectively already dead.” These actions by Nazi physicians is well summarised by Christian Pross: "The search for truth in medicine turned into destruction when medicine abandoned the Hippocratic ‘nil nocere‘and this was done for science’s own “superior” aims." Shall we even go there with the Aryan breeding programme and Lebensborn, which continues in BRITAIN to this day?
I'm not going to change out my engine because tyres keep blowing, I'm going to stop driving over glass.
If there is a way to stop rm~ from killing a machine, if it's a situation I ever come across (I haven't had to think about it, to be honest, beyond noticing a system partition of 300MB on my notebook and thinking to myself "You know, that looks important, better make sure I've got a backup"), then I say thank fuck for Replay and shadow copies.
true. I've seen this with less technologically-bent product. Sportswear labels, for instance. There are always production overruns of label tape because well, shit goes wrong and machines break. Spare tape from production runs of labels never goes back because it's written off. It isn't binned and it doesn't make it to official production output because the workers are there running off their own batches after shift to add credulity to their Chinese knockoffs of Air Jordans by sewing a REAL label into their FAKE product.
a soccer ball to an ant sitting on its surface would appear to be flat because the ant is too small to appreciate the scale of the curvature. Is the ball flat? Demonstrably no, because you are standing at some distance from it and you can see the curvature. But the ant thinks it is.
Let me throw this curveball (pardon the pun) at you:
You are lying down on your belly at one end of the main runway at Heathrow Airport. Two and a half miles away, a pigeon is strutting across the apron. Can you see it?
Ask then answer: no, you can't because from your point of view (four inches above the surface) the other end of the runway is below the horizon. Said runway is demonstrably flat at every point, you can prove this with a plumbob. Why then can't you see the pigeon? Because the runway follows the curvature of the Earth. The plumbob is drawn to the centre of mass of the Earth by this thing called "gravity". If instead of a pigeon, it was a goose (quite a large bird, as birds go, they stand a foot and a half high), you'd be able to see its head. Proof right there that the Earth is NOT flat. If it were, you'd not only see the entire pigeon, you'd see the entire goose.
Or, stand at the entry to the back straight at Nurburgring test circuit. That's eight and a half kilometres of completely, marble-flat asphalt. Five and a quarter miles to normal people. Send your buddy down in a monster truck. and watch from your lilo. From your eye level a scant eight inches off the floor, your friend and his truck (or your truck) will disappear below the horizon before he reaches the exit. Proof once again that the Earth is round.
Look out of the window of an airliner at cruising altitude (28,000 feet let's say). Your horizon will, I absolutely guarantee, be 205 miles away. This can be proven a: by observation and b: mathematically.
But please, tell us your proof of the Earth being flat. And no, five Century old dogma doesn't count.
won't happen. His long term goal is 6 hour turnaround (48h more realistic) at a cost of US$54million. Before you even start talking about cost to fuel, cleanrooming the payload, mounting and all the rest of it. He's already got turnaround down to a month but the cost to do that, since it is still in the learning curve stage (and replacing the major systems so they can analyse launch stresses on eg the engine bells), is on par with the SLS.
that would require geostationary orbits, which excludes anything North of 55 and anything south of -55. That's a significant chunk if the inhabitable surface.
you conveniently missed out the fact that these satellites are part of a dynamic mesh network, which are in a state of continuous reconfiguration to provide 100% coverage. What this means, is that even when a satellite is flying over the middle of the South Pacific, it's still providing a bridge between New Zealand and Peru by connecting two satellites either side of it.
Ergo, no satellite is ever idle as long as the network is in use *anywhere*.
install Kerbal Space Program and do lots more besides watch hyperedited satellite constellations appear as green blocks right before the BHOs take over your desktop.
you bought the device in good faith that it had a genuine component (or even that all components were genuine). That it turns out to not have genuine components isn't on you, it's on the supplier who (?) advertised it as having genuine components, who knowingly or not bought them at knockdown price from some fly-by-night Hong Kong hairspray supplier. This is the fake flash thing all over again - where advertised for 8GB, a thumbdrive turns out ot only have 4GB, or even 2GB, or 1GB... and an OCZ or Samsung badge on it. OCZ and Samsung (just picking two names out of my arse here but the situation is real) do/did make USB flash, the fakes really did get put out there and they caused a fuckload of problems for Samsung who were accused of putting out their own counterfeits - until they proved it wasn't their fabrication process made the chips, it was someone else!
since they generally use a DOS based system or if Windows is absolutely essential for the controller software, usually an embedded solution rather than disk-based NT is called for. I've never actually come across a Windows NT based CNC mill.
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Correct. Collective nouns are referred to in the singular case.
Example: a murder of crows. The murder *is* moving across the city. As opposed the crows *are* moving across the city.
it's math or maths. The plural long form is actually mathematica.
Sincerely,
An English teacher.
interesting conclusion. As it happens, I do document archiving on a professional basis. Would you like to go double-or-nothing?
The first-sale doctrine creates a basic exception to the copyright holder's distribution right. Once the work is lawfully sold or even transferred gratuitously, the copyright owner's interest in the material object in which the copyrighted work is embodied is exhausted. The owner of the material object can then dispose of it as he sees fit. Thus, one who buys a copy of a book is entitled to resell it, rent it, give it away, or destroy it. However, the owner of the copy of the book will not be able to make new copies of the book because the first-sale doctrine does not limit copyright owner's reproduction right. The rationale of the doctrine is to prevent the copyright owner from restraining the free alienability of goods. Without the doctrine, a possessor of a copy of a copyrighted work would have to negotiate with the copyright owner every time he wished to dispose of his copy. After the initial transfer of ownership of a legal copy of a copyrighted work, the first-sale doctrine exhausts copyright holder's right to control how ownership of that copy can be disposed of. For this reason, this doctrine is also referred to as the "exhaustion rule."
See: 17 USC section 109, and Bobbs-Merrill -v- Strauss (1908).
Obligatory car analogy: I buy a Ford F150 flatbed. Who are Ford to say I can't install an aftermarket roof over the deck of MY VEHICLE THAT I PAID FOR rather than pay over the odds for the stock one?
the fault with that logic is that you're holding attitude and position relative to the GROUND. To hold your position relative to something that matters (for example, the centre of the Galaxy), you'd have to fly directly away from the orbital motion of the Sun at 65 miles a second.
somewhere around is someone complaining that MySQL is broken in Win10. Using your logic, well yes it is - the Workbench doesn't work because the HTML handler DLL is fundamentally broken - and you'd have to live with that. If you go to StackOverflow, you can get that functionality back by replacing said DLL with their patched version - but not if you don't *own* the software you're trying to patch.
I'll let the real world speak for me: I used to use Photoshop, then I discovered The GIMP. I don't even HAVE a Photoshop CD anymore. The GIMP does everything *I* need an image editor to do.
yes it does, go stackoverflow and download the replacement html handler dll.
when I buy a copy of said software, that copy is MINE to do with as I please. Not theirs, not the retailers, MINE.
LibreCAD, Altium runs through WiNE (I use it), OpenShot or KDEnLive. You're welcome.
who needs an archival scan of NEWSPRINT TEXT at 600+DPI? Most paper photographs (remember those?) only have about 300DPI worth of information on them *if you are lucky*, you'd be wasting your time scanning any higher for those. Making legal digital duplicates of typeset documents only requires 150DPI (which is the same as standard Fax which also happens to be a legal service method).
(source: several years experience dealing with document archiving and photo digitising on a commercial as well as a personal basis)
Eugenics predates Nazism by quite a number of years. Nothing good ever came of either.
...of civilisation:
The term ‘eugenics’ was first used by Francis Galton in 1883 when examining the “comparative worth” of different races, to describe the improvement of man through “better breeding“. Other terms that evolved included:
Dysgenic: Elements believed to increase the occurrence of undesirable genes.
Negative eugenics: Those classified as the ‘genetically unfit.’
V.S.
Eugenic: Elements believed to increase the occurrence of desirable genes.
Positive eugenics: Those classified as the ‘genetically fit’.
Eugenic campaigns began in earnest in several nations including the UK, USA and Germany, with the establishment of the British Eugenics Education Society (1907), American Eugenics Society (1923) and the Society for Racial Hygiene (1905) respectively.
Eugenicists came to believe that the goal of ‘better breeding’ could be achieved through the sterilisation of dysgenic individuals and the promotion of breeding amongst the genetically fit.
Involuntary sterilisation was never passed as law in the UK, despite the campaigning of British eugenicists. In the USA and Germany however, the practice became widespread. Whilst less publicised than its German equivalent, the eugenics movement in the USA, resulted in the forced sterilisation of 65,000 individuals up to the program’s eventual end in the early 1970s.
In Germany however, eugenics found its ideal social and political environment in which it could thrive.
With the nation locked in a post- World War 1 economic crisis, eugenicists held the opinion that medical care had interfered with the laws of nature by keeping the weak alive and that “defectives” were reproducing faster than healthy individuals.
Amongst the so-called ‘defectives’ were the hereditary blind and deaf, those with “physical deformities” and the congenitally “feebleminded” (those with learning difficulties).
Fürsorge (care of the individual) was to be condemned whereas Vorsorge (preventative care for the good of the nation) was to become medicine’s priority; with the role of the physician as a “cultivator of the genes” and “biological soldier.”
The resulting eugenic campaign between 1933 included the forced sterilisation of up to 375,000 people between 1933-39; and ultimately the killing of hundreds of thousands of those deemed to be “life unworthy of life”. Doctors involved in the campaign claimed that the Hippocratic oath was a “vestige of ancient times” and that such killing complied with medical ethics since these people were mere “empty shells of human beings” and “effectively already dead.”
These actions by Nazi physicians is well summarised by Christian Pross:
"The search for truth in medicine turned into destruction when medicine abandoned the Hippocratic ‘nil nocere‘and this was done for science’s own “superior” aims."
Shall we even go there with the Aryan breeding programme and Lebensborn, which continues in BRITAIN to this day?
I'm not going to change out my engine because tyres keep blowing, I'm going to stop driving over glass.
If there is a way to stop rm~ from killing a machine, if it's a situation I ever come across (I haven't had to think about it, to be honest, beyond noticing a system partition of 300MB on my notebook and thinking to myself "You know, that looks important, better make sure I've got a backup"), then I say thank fuck for Replay and shadow copies.
you've been to my house, clearly. Please turn off the light next time, hm?
I think it was APK who did the submission.
true. I've seen this with less technologically-bent product. Sportswear labels, for instance. There are always production overruns of label tape because well, shit goes wrong and machines break. Spare tape from production runs of labels never goes back because it's written off. It isn't binned and it doesn't make it to official production output because the workers are there running off their own batches after shift to add credulity to their Chinese knockoffs of Air Jordans by sewing a REAL label into their FAKE product.
(source: conversations with insiders)
a soccer ball to an ant sitting on its surface would appear to be flat because the ant is too small to appreciate the scale of the curvature. Is the ball flat? Demonstrably no, because you are standing at some distance from it and you can see the curvature. But the ant thinks it is.
Let me throw this curveball (pardon the pun) at you:
You are lying down on your belly at one end of the main runway at Heathrow Airport. Two and a half miles away, a pigeon is strutting across the apron. Can you see it?
Ask then answer: no, you can't because from your point of view (four inches above the surface) the other end of the runway is below the horizon. Said runway is demonstrably flat at every point, you can prove this with a plumbob. Why then can't you see the pigeon? Because the runway follows the curvature of the Earth. The plumbob is drawn to the centre of mass of the Earth by this thing called "gravity".
If instead of a pigeon, it was a goose (quite a large bird, as birds go, they stand a foot and a half high), you'd be able to see its head. Proof right there that the Earth is NOT flat. If it were, you'd not only see the entire pigeon, you'd see the entire goose.
Or, stand at the entry to the back straight at Nurburgring test circuit. That's eight and a half kilometres of completely, marble-flat asphalt. Five and a quarter miles to normal people. Send your buddy down in a monster truck. and watch from your lilo. From your eye level a scant eight inches off the floor, your friend and his truck (or your truck) will disappear below the horizon before he reaches the exit. Proof once again that the Earth is round.
Look out of the window of an airliner at cruising altitude (28,000 feet let's say). Your horizon will, I absolutely guarantee, be 205 miles away. This can be proven a: by observation and b: mathematically.
But please, tell us your proof of the Earth being flat. And no, five Century old dogma doesn't count.
won't happen. His long term goal is 6 hour turnaround (48h more realistic) at a cost of US$54million. Before you even start talking about cost to fuel, cleanrooming the payload, mounting and all the rest of it. He's already got turnaround down to a month but the cost to do that, since it is still in the learning curve stage (and replacing the major systems so they can analyse launch stresses on eg the engine bells), is on par with the SLS.
that would require geostationary orbits, which excludes anything North of 55 and anything south of -55. That's a significant chunk if the inhabitable surface.
you conveniently missed out the fact that these satellites are part of a dynamic mesh network, which are in a state of continuous reconfiguration to provide 100% coverage. What this means, is that even when a satellite is flying over the middle of the South Pacific, it's still providing a bridge between New Zealand and Peru by connecting two satellites either side of it.
Ergo, no satellite is ever idle as long as the network is in use *anywhere*.
install Kerbal Space Program and do lots more besides watch hyperedited satellite constellations appear as green blocks right before the BHOs take over your desktop.
yes, you keep moving the goalposts.
I'm going to stop now, you're not playing fair and I believe my point is made.
you bought the device in good faith that it had a genuine component (or even that all components were genuine). That it turns out to not have genuine components isn't on you, it's on the supplier who (?) advertised it as having genuine components, who knowingly or not bought them at knockdown price from some fly-by-night Hong Kong hairspray supplier. This is the fake flash thing all over again - where advertised for 8GB, a thumbdrive turns out ot only have 4GB, or even 2GB, or 1GB... and an OCZ or Samsung badge on it. OCZ and Samsung (just picking two names out of my arse here but the situation is real) do/did make USB flash, the fakes really did get put out there and they caused a fuckload of problems for Samsung who were accused of putting out their own counterfeits - until they proved it wasn't their fabrication process made the chips, it was someone else!
since they generally use a DOS based system or if Windows is absolutely essential for the controller software, usually an embedded solution rather than disk-based NT is called for. I've never actually come across a Windows NT based CNC mill.