I've always felt cheated with this, and it reminds me of the self checkout at the grocery store. One way or another, my groceries have to get from my cart through the register, I have to pay for them and walk out the door. I always felt like, by going through the self checkout, I was being coopted to do a job that they use to pay someone else to do, and now I was contributing to their bottom line. I feel the same about this. For twenty some odd years, the registers at McDonalds have shown pictures of food rather than the names for the cashiers. I don't know, but can't imagine Wendy's was much different. So all we've done is swing the register around to face me, and suddenly I'm back to doing the same job I was doing in high school... typing in someone's order at a burger joint, but the difference is now I'm doing it for free. It would be different if I knew I was getting a better price on the food, but I suspect we'll see an increase in profits for the companies before we see a reduction in prices...
It's no longer "copyright", it's a gagging order for the common man.
*This.* Call it paranoia if you want, but I think that's exactly where this is headed - the death of free speech/expression (and not just on the internet - anywhere; these rules don't just apply to the web). Of course not every case will (or can) be tried, but you don't want to be used as the deterrent example, and neither do I. So, shut up civilian, and let the government/mass media tell you what to think. Then don't you dare criticize it, or the penalties will be more than you care to deal with.
This combined with the ridiculous copyright laws in the US bother me. It bothers me that Steamboat Willie is still copyrighted and not in the public domain for another two plus years, and I have few doubts congress will find a way to extend the copyright on this before the 2019 deadline. With the society we have now, where the expansion of information has been so great in the last few decades, let alone the last hundred years or so, it bothers me that so much of what is relevant to our society today would be subject to the TPP laws and bullying by large corporations. Combine ridiculous terms of protection with the ability to criminalize non-harmful activity and there's a problem. The most ridiculous piece for me, is being an attorney myself, it's not that hard to prove *some* harm from just about any activity. To be able to jail people for non-harmful activity? ridiculous. The bar was already too low, but to set it even further down is disturbing. Am I shocked? no. Surprised? no. But disturbed.
A lot of critical thinking is rather difficult when you don't know the different causes of the effect you are seeing. Schools teach how to learn, jobs teach the skills and knowledge specific to the job.
two points, one directly related to your comment: I would like to agree with you on this, but I've seen a huge reduction in internal training at jobs in the last 30 years or so. When my father began working at the job he's held for 40 years, the first thing they did was send you to classroom time to make certain you had the requisite skills to do the job effectively. The program was a base of 6 weeks, some job categories requiring several months. In the end, they had a well trained (but inexperienced) employee. These days I see employees lucky to get a couple of days of training, if they weren't expected to pick up the EXACT set of skills required for the job from college.
I worked for a large Danish toy manufacturer for years that has been promoting bottom up critical thinking skills, attempting to encourage LEAN manufacturing, etc. They have done quite well at going from an almost bankrupt company to the third largest manufacturer in their field globally. To convince people they actually wanted these ideas and the critical thinking behind developing them, it was a constant task of sending team members around eliciting ideas and reminding companies. It's hard work, and I think a lot of companies SAY they lack employees with critical thinking skills, but they actually do not know how to get their employees incentivized to provide the info.
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I've always felt cheated with this, and it reminds me of the self checkout at the grocery store. One way or another, my groceries have to get from my cart through the register, I have to pay for them and walk out the door. I always felt like, by going through the self checkout, I was being coopted to do a job that they use to pay someone else to do, and now I was contributing to their bottom line. I feel the same about this. For twenty some odd years, the registers at McDonalds have shown pictures of food rather than the names for the cashiers. I don't know, but can't imagine Wendy's was much different. So all we've done is swing the register around to face me, and suddenly I'm back to doing the same job I was doing in high school... typing in someone's order at a burger joint, but the difference is now I'm doing it for free. It would be different if I knew I was getting a better price on the food, but I suspect we'll see an increase in profits for the companies before we see a reduction in prices...
Sorry, Steamboat Willie is covered until 2024...
It's no longer "copyright", it's a gagging order for the common man.
*This.* Call it paranoia if you want, but I think that's exactly where this is headed - the death of free speech/expression (and not just on the internet - anywhere; these rules don't just apply to the web). Of course not every case will (or can) be tried, but you don't want to be used as the deterrent example, and neither do I. So, shut up civilian, and let the government/mass media tell you what to think. Then don't you dare criticize it, or the penalties will be more than you care to deal with.
This combined with the ridiculous copyright laws in the US bother me. It bothers me that Steamboat Willie is still copyrighted and not in the public domain for another two plus years, and I have few doubts congress will find a way to extend the copyright on this before the 2019 deadline. With the society we have now, where the expansion of information has been so great in the last few decades, let alone the last hundred years or so, it bothers me that so much of what is relevant to our society today would be subject to the TPP laws and bullying by large corporations. Combine ridiculous terms of protection with the ability to criminalize non-harmful activity and there's a problem. The most ridiculous piece for me, is being an attorney myself, it's not that hard to prove *some* harm from just about any activity. To be able to jail people for non-harmful activity? ridiculous. The bar was already too low, but to set it even further down is disturbing. Am I shocked? no. Surprised? no. But disturbed.
A lot of critical thinking is rather difficult when you don't know the different causes of the effect you are seeing. Schools teach how to learn, jobs teach the skills and knowledge specific to the job.
two points, one directly related to your comment: I would like to agree with you on this, but I've seen a huge reduction in internal training at jobs in the last 30 years or so. When my father began working at the job he's held for 40 years, the first thing they did was send you to classroom time to make certain you had the requisite skills to do the job effectively. The program was a base of 6 weeks, some job categories requiring several months. In the end, they had a well trained (but inexperienced) employee. These days I see employees lucky to get a couple of days of training, if they weren't expected to pick up the EXACT set of skills required for the job from college. I worked for a large Danish toy manufacturer for years that has been promoting bottom up critical thinking skills, attempting to encourage LEAN manufacturing, etc. They have done quite well at going from an almost bankrupt company to the third largest manufacturer in their field globally. To convince people they actually wanted these ideas and the critical thinking behind developing them, it was a constant task of sending team members around eliciting ideas and reminding companies. It's hard work, and I think a lot of companies SAY they lack employees with critical thinking skills, but they actually do not know how to get their employees incentivized to provide the info.