By this time it will not be possible to buy a Ferrari, but only to license a copy.
Buy with what money? When you can replicate all the food, clothing, shelter, weaponry, medicine, entertainment, and all the general goods you will ever need, what, exactly, is the point of money? Without scarcity, money ceases to exist in ALL it's forms... With a replicator, the entire CONCEPT of economics will go the way of the feudal system; just another quaint idea you can read about in your replicated bookery.
Well, here's what I do, I insult and threaten people for money. They like it, it's stimulating for them. The more violent and evil the threats, the more they like it. So here's the deal, if you want to sign up for this service, which is completely free by the way, then all I ask is that you send me an unsolicited commercial email.
I think the author understands very well the terms of his employment. I thin his main beef is that HE has gone out of his way to do somethins a little special for the company, so why isn't the company willing to do the same in return? After all if this invention is important enough to patent, one would think that keeping him on at the company would be very important. If the company is showing him no loyalty and appreciation, it'll be VERY easy for him to jump on to the competitor's payroll when they come a calling.
As was pointed out we are already living about twice as long as we did 500 years ago, and what has happened? We have overpopulated. The great majority of our current world problems come from too many people.
Famine, war, plauge, class inequality, poverty, pollution, environmental damage, you name it, it relates directly or indirectly to population.
Yeah, 500 years ago there was NEVER any famine, war, plauge, class inequality or poverty... NONE WHATSOEVER! Or at least, seeing as it was mostly the dark ages, we don't have any written record of those things... I wonder why? Maybe everyone was just too happy with thier lack of disease and poverty to get on writing anything.
If anything, the world is suffering a severe UNDER-population...
The research paper also mentions that everyday, we are using the fossil fuel equivalent of all the plants growing during a whole year just for our cars.
Considering that we have about, ohhh, I'd say, at leat 50~500 billion days of solid plant-growing prehistory behind us, I fail to see how this metric means to worry anyone. Post again in 150 million years and we'll talk.
(the term "bright lining" means doing some activity with a full knowledge of where the law or regulation is and doing something right up to this regulation, this living up to the letter of the law, though, the implication is, not the spirit.)
Copyright is a socially constructed concept. Basically, copyrightholders are entitled to a monopoly of sorts for a limited time on their work. most people agree that the primary reason for this is to encourage more creation of works.
Using your very logic, it seems that anything over, say, 28 years old can and should be rightfully put in the public domain. The very laws that extend copyright are, in fact, the "bright lines" that you mention.
Its one thing to physically live for 500 years, its another thing to mentally thrive for that long.
On this flip side, would violent crime and war be taken so lightly if people lived for half a millinia? A race of immortals would probably find that they get along much better than they ever did as dying creatures. ("So what if those guys are occupying my land for two centuries? There's plenty of time to reclaim it before middle age...", "That guy screwed me out a million bucks! It'll take fifty years to make it back.. oh well, no biggie.") On a similar note, getting "life" for a crime would suddenly mean something completely different than it does today.
Additionally, making plans that go beyond the next quarter would not seem like such a bad idea anymore. Humanity could do in a "generation" that which ten previous generations could not even begin to imagaine. The universe would suddenly open up for us in ways that were ever only dreamed about before.
EXACTLY! YOu AREN'T a lawyer. How can you possibly expect to know or understand any of the laws that you must live by? You can't. Just sit over there and do what we say.
When you drive your car on a public road your actions are public, not private. The police, courts, and public have every right to see the contents of your black box when driving on a public road.
And if GM has built the black box to give false readings to protect itself from liability when the brakes mysteriously fail that make it looks as if the driver is as fault, what do you do then? Are these boxes built by the government and up to codified government standards? Do car companies have a long and unsmudged history of absolute truth and honesty in thier endeavors? Do they have a history of immediately taking fully responsibility for thier design flaws and never attempting to hide or cover them up?
Putting event recorders in cars is no different than putting policemen on every street corner, which is perfectly legal now. So making event recorders in car compulsory is therefore legal, and obstructing it's operation shall be deemed the same thing as interfering with the work of police.
Except that event recorders can be easily tampered for a relativly low cost with while bribing a whole line of police men would require signifigant resources... So, if you wanted to frame someone else for something more egregious than speeding, say multiple homicides that YOU actually committed, then you could trick the box into believing that it had traveled a certian direction at a certian speed for a certian amount of time... And more than likely the jury would believe this because people tend to believe that technology is infalliable.
Before you say "they can putever they damn well please", no they can't. You couldn't sell a product - for instance - with a label saying "this product may break without warning after only a few days. But that's not our responsibility." It is their responsibility, whether they like it or not, and you as a consumer have certain legal rights.
This is great! Pretty soon I can go through life without owning everything, and everything I use will essentially be rented. I will be relieved of the material need to own things. "Imagine a world with no posessions."
The really ironic thing is... those companies that you are renting from will suddenly find that they don't own any of thier office equipment either... Then things may begin to be rethought.
Yes, The only "moral" thing to do was for him to burn his crop, and do so every year any pollen blew into his fields...
NO! The "moral" thing to do is patent your own minor gene modification and plant right next to them with large bladed fans blowing pollen onto thier fields all day... Then stand out front of thier offices with a team of lawyers and some large sacks in which to take home your money.
That's according to Schmeiser's story. I was a bit disturbed about the whole story for a long time, until I read a couple of third party accounts of the whole situation. According to the articles I read, although Percy didn't actually introduce the patented seeds into his crops (it was accidental contamination...probably seeds blown in by the wind from nearby crops), after it happened he knew full well what he had on his hands. He knew it was Round-Up Ready, and he took advantage of that fact. He harvested seeds from the crops so he could continue to benefit from it, knowing that what he was doing was in violation of the patent, but believing that if he were caught he could just claim ignorance.
I'm not sure how this works in your world, but seeds that were "blown in" to his land are his property from that point on. Otherwise, maybe I can make a wierd lookign rock, patent it, and then hurl it through your window... Then sue you for having one of my patented rocks in your house.... In fact, hey, what's your address?
In fact, what he probably should have done, the moment he realized what had polluted itself onto his land, was promptly sue Monsanto for the cost of all of his crops over the next 5 years.
Why not follow the spam-warehousing approach. Offer to grow and care for the seeds, and any subsequent seeds that are decended from future generations, at $5 PER SEED PER DAY.
If they don't want to pay, that's fine... But, in your "landscape EULA", the penalty for non-payment is forfiture of the patent to the public domain.
Because he is making money by selling the crop grown from the "pirated" seeds. Just like if someone pirates one of Intels chip making processes and use it in their chip plant to make chips for Sale. I suspect Monsanto's seeds are patented. Almost all patents requires a license to use that grants you limited rights in what you can do with the patent. A few generations of this kind of theft of property and the property becomes worthless to the company as everyone who wants it can get it for free from someone else.
I would assume that the "license" to use this man's land, which Monsanto is doing by freely delivering thier seeds to him via wind power, is full and total control over any patents that the customer's company has. Or at least, that's the license to use any of MY land...
I'll email you some. You can't see it, it's invisible (water is clear, right?). Just put a glass next to the modem to get yours. Then mix in some water, and presto!
I remember a teacher once telling a class I was in that our essays may be compared to other essays published online to check for plagiarism.
Granted, Amazon.com's feature will only (for now) include 150,000 books, but this may very well be another way to catch plagiarizers. Just type in a suspicious phrase and see if there are any 'hits'.
yeah, because no two people ever come up with the same turn of phrase for the same thing...
The real problem is that we live in a world with limited resources, both with respect to materials and knowledge.
Exactly why we need a SPACE-FRIENDLY geek in office! The world we live in with all it's "scarce resources" is surounded by whirling rocks and bits of dust and gas and with more free solar energy than can ever be harvested by mankind... all we need to do it reach for it.
In no particular order; Ease and clarity of use, secure and anonymous (as far as who voted for whom), the ability to record who was voted for in a non electronic medium and proof that a vote was registered and receipt to the voter in some form. Not to mention a backup system in case anything goes nutty. An obvious design would be to have all systems offline, when the voting times are over each station has a particular upload time assigned, they upload their data, it is checked for error and checked against their local data, if none of it differs, then all is well.
Ummm, But you seem to have left out the ability to change the votes such that Republicans win... That was obviously important.
Well, that settles it, I'm running for President... Sure I'm not technically old enough yet, but I figure that's not going to matter much as I expect to win by a landslide like never before imagined. My platform? Well, simply this: I promise to take the entire GNP of this country for the first year of my term and split it evenly amongst the ballot machine vendors. No social programs, no tax cuts, no foreign spending, no paying off the debt, nothing... it *all* goes directly to Diebold, Sequoia, and ES&S. I won't even take the time to actually run a campaign, nor sign up to be on the ballot... this is going to be a write-in land slide, I'm sure of it.
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By this time it will not be possible to buy a Ferrari, but only to license a copy.
Buy with what money? When you can replicate all the food, clothing, shelter, weaponry, medicine, entertainment, and all the general goods you will ever need, what, exactly, is the point of money? Without scarcity, money ceases to exist in ALL it's forms... With a replicator, the entire CONCEPT of economics will go the way of the feudal system; just another quaint idea you can read about in your replicated bookery.
And if your curious what a robotic war might be like, look no further than Spiders.
Well, here's what I do, I insult and threaten people for money. They like it, it's stimulating for them. The more violent and evil the threats, the more they like it. So here's the deal, if you want to sign up for this service, which is completely free by the way, then all I ask is that you send me an unsolicited commercial email.
Ammunition for the email tax!
No, wait, that's viruses, lawyers, ameoba..
I thought you said life... The undead don't count.
I think the author understands very well the terms of his employment. I thin his main beef is that HE has gone out of his way to do somethins a little special for the company, so why isn't the company willing to do the same in return? After all if this invention is important enough to patent, one would think that keeping him on at the company would be very important. If the company is showing him no loyalty and appreciation, it'll be VERY easy for him to jump on to the competitor's payroll when they come a calling.
As was pointed out we are already living about twice as long as we did 500 years ago, and what has happened? We have overpopulated. The great majority of our current world problems come from too many people.
Famine, war, plauge, class inequality, poverty, pollution, environmental damage, you name it, it relates directly or indirectly to population.
Yeah, 500 years ago there was NEVER any famine, war, plauge, class inequality or poverty... NONE WHATSOEVER! Or at least, seeing as it was mostly the dark ages, we don't have any written record of those things... I wonder why? Maybe everyone was just too happy with thier lack of disease and poverty to get on writing anything.
If anything, the world is suffering a severe UNDER-population...
The research paper also mentions that everyday, we are using the fossil fuel equivalent of all the plants growing during a whole year just for our cars.
Considering that we have about, ohhh, I'd say, at leat 50~500 billion days of solid plant-growing prehistory behind us, I fail to see how this metric means to worry anyone. Post again in 150 million years and we'll talk.
(the term "bright lining" means doing some activity with a full knowledge of where the law or regulation is and doing something right up to this regulation, this living up to the letter of the law, though, the implication is, not the spirit.)
Copyright is a socially constructed concept. Basically, copyrightholders are entitled to a monopoly of sorts for a limited time on their work. most people agree that the primary reason for this is to encourage more creation of works.
Using your very logic, it seems that anything over, say, 28 years old can and should be rightfully put in the public domain. The very laws that extend copyright are, in fact, the "bright lines" that you mention.
Its one thing to physically live for 500 years, its another thing to mentally thrive for that long.
On this flip side, would violent crime and war be taken so lightly if people lived for half a millinia? A race of immortals would probably find that they get along much better than they ever did as dying creatures. ("So what if those guys are occupying my land for two centuries? There's plenty of time to reclaim it before middle age...", "That guy screwed me out a million bucks! It'll take fifty years to make it back.. oh well, no biggie.") On a similar note, getting "life" for a crime would suddenly mean something completely different than it does today.
Additionally, making plans that go beyond the next quarter would not seem like such a bad idea anymore. Humanity could do in a "generation" that which ten previous generations could not even begin to imagaine. The universe would suddenly open up for us in ways that were ever only dreamed about before.
IANAL
EXACTLY! YOu AREN'T a lawyer. How can you possibly expect to know or understand any of the laws that you must live by? You can't. Just sit over there and do what we say.
When you drive your car on a public road your actions are public, not private. The police, courts, and public have every right to see the contents of your black box when driving on a public road.
And if GM has built the black box to give false readings to protect itself from liability when the brakes mysteriously fail that make it looks as if the driver is as fault, what do you do then? Are these boxes built by the government and up to codified government standards? Do car companies have a long and unsmudged history of absolute truth and honesty in thier endeavors? Do they have a history of immediately taking fully responsibility for thier design flaws and never attempting to hide or cover them up?
Putting event recorders in cars is no different than putting policemen on every street corner, which is perfectly legal now. So making event recorders in car compulsory is therefore legal, and obstructing it's operation shall be deemed the same thing as interfering with the work of police.
Except that event recorders can be easily tampered for a relativly low cost with while bribing a whole line of police men would require signifigant resources... So, if you wanted to frame someone else for something more egregious than speeding, say multiple homicides that YOU actually committed, then you could trick the box into believing that it had traveled a certian direction at a certian speed for a certian amount of time... And more than likely the jury would believe this because people tend to believe that technology is infalliable.
remember when Ronald Reagon first started that war on drugs that even rewarded children for snitching on their parents...
I know! Remeber when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War on Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?
Before you say "they can putever they damn well please", no they can't. You couldn't sell a product - for instance - with a label saying "this product may break without warning after only a few days. But that's not our responsibility." It is their responsibility, whether they like it or not, and you as a consumer have certain legal rights.
Not a big software buyer, eh?
This is great! Pretty soon I can go through life without owning everything, and everything I use will essentially be rented. I will be relieved of the material need to own things. "Imagine a world with no posessions."
The really ironic thing is... those companies that you are renting from will suddenly find that they don't own any of thier office equipment either... Then things may begin to be rethought.
Yes,
The only "moral" thing to do was for him to burn his crop, and do so every year any pollen blew into his fields...
NO! The "moral" thing to do is patent your own minor gene modification and plant right next to them with large bladed fans blowing pollen onto thier fields all day... Then stand out front of thier offices with a team of lawyers and some large sacks in which to take home your money.
That's according to Schmeiser's story. I was a bit disturbed about the whole story for a long time, until I read a couple of third party accounts of the whole situation. According to the articles I read, although Percy didn't actually introduce the patented seeds into his crops (it was accidental contamination...probably seeds blown in by the wind from nearby crops), after it happened he knew full well what he had on his hands. He knew it was Round-Up Ready, and he took advantage of that fact. He harvested seeds from the crops so he could continue to benefit from it, knowing that what he was doing was in violation of the patent, but believing that if he were caught he could just claim ignorance.
... In fact, hey, what's your address?
I'm not sure how this works in your world, but seeds that were "blown in" to his land are his property from that point on. Otherwise, maybe I can make a wierd lookign rock, patent it, and then hurl it through your window... Then sue you for having one of my patented rocks in your house.
In fact, what he probably should have done, the moment he realized what had polluted itself onto his land, was promptly sue Monsanto for the cost of all of his crops over the next 5 years.
Why not follow the spam-warehousing approach. Offer to grow and care for the seeds, and any subsequent seeds that are decended from future generations, at $5 PER SEED PER DAY.
If they don't want to pay, that's fine... But, in your "landscape EULA", the penalty for non-payment is forfiture of the patent to the public domain.
Because he is making money by selling the crop grown from the "pirated" seeds. Just like if someone pirates one of Intels chip making processes and use it in their chip plant to make chips for Sale. I suspect Monsanto's seeds are patented. Almost all patents requires a license to use that grants you limited rights in what you can do with the patent. A few generations of this kind of theft of property and the property becomes worthless to the company as everyone who wants it can get it for free from someone else.
I would assume that the "license" to use this man's land, which Monsanto is doing by freely delivering thier seeds to him via wind power, is full and total control over any patents that the customer's company has. Or at least, that's the license to use any of MY land...
I'll email you some. You can't see it, it's invisible (water is clear, right?). Just put a glass next to the modem to get yours. Then mix in some water, and presto!
I remember a teacher once telling a class I was in that our essays may be compared to other essays published online to check for plagiarism.
Granted, Amazon.com's feature will only (for now) include 150,000 books, but this may very well be another way to catch plagiarizers. Just type in a suspicious phrase and see if there are any 'hits'.
yeah, because no two people ever come up with the same turn of phrase for the same thing...
The real problem is that we live in a world with limited resources, both with respect to materials and knowledge.
Exactly why we need a SPACE-FRIENDLY geek in office! The world we live in with all it's "scarce resources" is surounded by whirling rocks and bits of dust and gas and with more free solar energy than can ever be harvested by mankind... all we need to do it reach for it.
In no particular order; Ease and clarity of use, secure and anonymous (as far as who voted for whom), the ability to record who was voted for in a non electronic medium and proof that a vote was registered and receipt to the voter in some form. Not to mention a backup system in case anything goes nutty. An obvious design would be to have all systems offline, when the voting times are over each station has a particular upload time assigned, they upload their data, it is checked for error and checked against their local data, if none of it differs, then all is well.
Ummm, But you seem to have left out the ability to change the votes such that Republicans win... That was obviously important.
Well, that settles it, I'm running for President... Sure I'm not technically old enough yet, but I figure that's not going to matter much as I expect to win by a landslide like never before imagined. My platform? Well, simply this: I promise to take the entire GNP of this country for the first year of my term and split it evenly amongst the ballot machine vendors. No social programs, no tax cuts, no foreign spending, no paying off the debt, nothing... it *all* goes directly to Diebold, Sequoia, and ES&S. I won't even take the time to actually run a campaign, nor sign up to be on the ballot... this is going to be a write-in land slide, I'm sure of it.