"Also the act only covers incitement to racial hatred. It doesn't penalise you gor being a racist (thats your view) but it does peanalise you if you try to indice others to hatred."
It would seem you would need to be in one of these for less time in the case of a tornado. I only have experience with hurricanes though.
You would have to take into account flooding from tidal surge and hugh waves. The good explanations for this seem to get drowned out by the terrible explanations.
Pardon the pun. If you get a 20 foot tidal surge, from what I gather, that means the water level is 20 feet above normal. Now, if you have 20 foot waves on t op of that, you have the possibility of the wave crests being 40 feet over normal calm sea level.
Can one semi-affordable protect from all of the big dangers and not become a death trap in some of those conditions?
Ideas anyone?
all the best,
drew
-- http://www.ourmedia.org/node/44809 (down here with a double sig for the poster above you who was so bent out of shape. These links are not a part of my actual sig. Just links to some by-sa pictures, etc. available for free.)
"Simple answer is this. Don't build in these bad areas. Only fools or risk takers build in those places."
The problem is, these are often the better and more profitable places to live.
"Of course then we're dumb enough to help them recover again and again and again. So I guess we're all just as foolish."
Given what I have said above, this can make us more foolish. They live in dangerous areas and get ahead while things are good. Then those who live in the less good, but safer areas, bail them out when things head south.
There are problems with what I am saying though.
Dangerous areas:
Low coastlines. Flood plains. Quake zones. Tornado zones. Volcanic zones. Hurricane zones. Areas subject to flooding. Areas subject to droughts. Areas subject to blizzards. ???
"Odd, though you are correct, that means that a live recording can be recorded live by anyone because it is not copyrighted (because it hasn't been fixed)."
Not quite. I am not sure of te full details, but you might want to check on the laws against "bootlegging." I do know there was a ruling in the US that one was unconstitutional as there was no time limit. (At least IIRC.)
Works (at least in some places) don't get automatic copyrights until they are fixed. If you think about your examples, you will see that some don't necessarily have this feature.
Overall though, I agree with your sentiment. The internet is one big copyrigt violation machine, with the possible defense of fair use.
I have had someone (I think it was a lawyer even, I can't remember though) tell me that the copy that gets made in my cache when I read a company's web site constitutes a copyright violation.
"which would give them all essentially the same advantage from the patents as if they had simply published the invention as prior art."
If the system was working properly, I would agree pretty much with this point. Since it isn't, publishing as prior art is no guarantee that someone else will not get a patent on it later even after publishing as prior art. Or am I mistaken in how I have read what is going on these days?
"For the plan to work, it has to be visibly in the company's best interest."
Well, I think it just may be in many companies' best interests to have a counter balance to the dominance of MS in the market. If this is so, it will be in their best interests to provide a defense for Free Software in respect to the games MS may play.
Perhaps putting all of their new patents in the pool would be too much. Perhaps just enough key ones that MS will need to cross license with the pool in order to keep playing.
A query: Does anyony know how the cross licensing agreements work? Does A generally agree to share and share alike all of B's patents, and B A's?
Could you give your comments? Could it work if pursued? What are the chances of some big patent players playing along? Is the idea worth trying to refine?
I think Bruce is right, but I think some big player like IBM could probably address the issue in a constructive way if they wished to do so.
Here is my idea:
When they next have a fundamental patent to apply for, apply for it in the name of the pool and not in their own name. This patent is now not subject to the cross patent agreements it may have with others.
Now it signs a cross patenting agreement with the pool so it can use all of the pool patents.
Where does this leave players who do not wish to play with the pool?
What if all of the big patenters who sincerely wanted to solve this issue applied for all of their new patents in the name of the pool and not on their own behalf?
Does anyone see any reason why such a plan could not work?
Yes, but does it have a key debounce issue and has it been solved. With the old TRS-80 Model I machines I used to work with, I think there used to be a program you could get that would solve this issue for you. It is probably still under copyright though and they probably never GPLed it so we may have to start again from scratch!
"Interesting" that instead of getting the law changed to allow competition in the water supply business and then going in and starting up a company to compete in terms of proce and quality with the existing supply, that they wanted to go in as a monopoly.
Why is it that in the US, which supposedly champions Free Markets, everyone seems to want a monopoly and does not want to have any competition?
I went down to the Free Market the other day but no one would let me have anything unless I PAID them for it. What kind of free market is that? I mean!
I propose that the current form of sports competition is as harmful to the children as letter grades and streaming and holding back.
We need to put up high curtains between the lanes and have individual finishing areas. This way not child will be made to feel inferior when they realise that they cannot run as fast as other children.
I know this will be a damper for the spectators, but what can we do? Think of the children.
"Your task is even harder if you have a hard drive that ceased operating. There exists companies like http://www.kurt.hu/ [www.kurt.hu] that have state of the art technology to retrieve data from damaged hard drives. If you need your data: good for you. If you'd like to get rid of it for sure: better take good care of it..."
Anyone else run into the situation where a drive dies during the warranty period and they want the old drive back when supplying the replacement... and the drive was in a laywers office where there is some thought of privilege between the clients and the firm? Or some similar situation like doctors, etc. (Hint - don't give up the old drive.)
Slashdot Mirror
"Also the act only covers incitement to racial hatred. It doesn't penalise you gor being a racist (thats your view) but it does peanalise you if you try to indice others to hatred."
For they are all honourable men.
all the best,
drew
--
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/53984
When I see Non-Commercial, I tend to move on. I make my stuff available for commercial use and I try not to waste my time working with anything less.
Where would we be if the Free Software licenses had a non-commercial clause?
http://www.ourmedia.org/user/17145
http://zbcw.sourceforge.net/
all the best,
drew
Oops, got logged out from ourmedia witout realizing it.
Here it is:
http://www.ourmedia.org/user/17145
by-sa pics from the islands.
all the best,
drew
Hey, what can I say?
Ya born dere, ya born dere!
all the best,
drew
--
http://www.ourmedia.org/user
Some by-sa pics from the islands.
"Someone else gets a piece of the pie when the band replaces the brake pads on their van, too."
A piece of the pie and a percentage of the pie can be two very different things.
all the best,
drew
--
http://www.ourmedia.org/user/17145
I live in the Bahamas and want paypal but we can't get it here. Global markets indeed.
all the best,
drew
--
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/44851
Thanks for the links.
It would seem you would need to be in one of these for less time in the case of a tornado. I only have experience with hurricanes though.
You would have to take into account flooding from tidal surge and hugh waves. The good explanations for this seem to get drowned out by the terrible explanations.
Pardon the pun. If you get a 20 foot tidal surge, from what I gather, that means the water level is 20 feet above normal. Now, if you have 20 foot waves on t op of that, you have the possibility of the wave crests being 40 feet over normal calm sea level.
Can one semi-affordable protect from all of the big dangers and not become a death trap in some of those conditions?
Ideas anyone?
all the best,
drew
--
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/44809
(down here with a double sig for the poster above you who was so bent out of shape. These links are not a part of my actual sig. Just links to some by-sa pictures, etc. available for free.)
"Photos of entire subdivisions with each house sporting what appears to be a bank vault that serves as a safe room"
Can you give links to photos like this?
all the best,
drew
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/40737
"Simple answer is this. Don't build in these bad areas. Only fools or risk takers build in those places."
The problem is, these are often the better and more profitable places to live.
"Of course then we're dumb enough to help them recover again and again and again. So I guess we're all just as foolish."
Given what I have said above, this can make us more foolish. They live in dangerous areas and get ahead while things are good. Then those who live in the less good, but safer areas, bail them out when things head south.
There are problems with what I am saying though.
Dangerous areas:
Low coastlines.
Flood plains.
Quake zones.
Tornado zones.
Volcanic zones.
Hurricane zones.
Areas subject to flooding.
Areas subject to droughts.
Areas subject to blizzards.
???
Safe areas:
???
3. Profit. (Sorry, just couldn't resist.)
all the best,
drew
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/44645
So...
Build a reinforced bunker going from a basement to two stories. Built a bamboo and paper house around it.
Trouble on the way, get in the bunker. Cheap to rebuild what gets blown or washed, etc. away.
Problems with this thought?
all the best,
drew
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/41879
"Odd, though you are correct, that means that a live recording can be recorded live by anyone because it is not copyrighted (because it hasn't been fixed)."
Not quite. I am not sure of te full details, but you might want to check on the laws against "bootlegging." I do know there was a ruling in the US that one was unconstitutional as there was no time limit. (At least IIRC.)
all the best,
drew
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/43358
"Oh, and the telephone.
And letters.
And talking."
Works (at least in some places) don't get automatic copyrights until they are fixed. If you think about your examples, you will see that some don't necessarily have this feature.
Overall though, I agree with your sentiment. The internet is one big copyrigt violation machine, with the possible defense of fair use.
I have had someone (I think it was a lawyer even, I can't remember though) tell me that the copy that gets made in my cache when I read a company's web site constitutes a copyright violation.
all the best,
drew
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/44851
"Car companies (at least here) are _already_ banned by advertising regulations from inciting people to speed."
Where is here? In the US, it seems that is one of the big come ons. Zoom Zoom anyone?
all the best,
drew
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/44851
'I, for one, don't want to government walking around declaring contracts I've made with another party as void because something is "too far."'
I am pretty sure your government already does this:
Try entering into a contract wit someone to be their slave. I am pretty sure it is not going to work.
all the best,
drew
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/44851
I am getting to the point where I will not be giving my eyeballs to those who try and pull stuff like this.
I enjoy watching some games coverage, but I can give it up.
What, do we need to start the amateur games again?
all the best,
drew
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/43358
"which would give them all essentially the same advantage from the patents as if they had simply published the invention as prior art."
If the system was working properly, I would agree pretty much with this point. Since it isn't, publishing as prior art is no guarantee that someone else will not get a patent on it later even after publishing as prior art. Or am I mistaken in how I have read what is going on these days?
"For the plan to work, it has to be visibly in the company's best interest."
Well, I think it just may be in many companies' best interests to have a counter balance to the dominance of MS in the market. If this is so, it will be in their best interests to provide a defense for Free Software in respect to the games MS may play.
Perhaps putting all of their new patents in the pool would be too much. Perhaps just enough key ones that MS will need to cross license with the pool in order to keep playing.
A query: Does anyony know how the cross licensing agreements work? Does A generally agree to share and share alike all of B's patents, and B A's?
all the best,
drew
Yo Bahamas - silver medal in the Men's 4x400.
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/41879
Bruce,
3 15572
I suggest a possible fix here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=158939&cid=13
Could you give your comments? Could it work if pursued? What are the chances of some big patent players playing along? Is the idea worth trying to refine?
all the best,
drew
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/41879
View of Atholl Island from the top of the Sans Souci Hill
Check my post here:
3 15572
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=158939&cid=13
and let me know what you think.
all the best,
drew
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/40046
Nassau Bahamas seascape
I think Bruce is right, but I think some big player like IBM could probably address the issue in a constructive way if they wished to do so.
Here is my idea:
When they next have a fundamental patent to apply for, apply for it in the name of the pool and not in their own name. This patent is now not subject to the cross patent agreements it may have with others.
Now it signs a cross patenting agreement with the pool so it can use all of the pool patents.
Where does this leave players who do not wish to play with the pool?
What if all of the big patenters who sincerely wanted to solve this issue applied for all of their new patents in the name of the pool and not on their own behalf?
Does anyone see any reason why such a plan could not work?
all the best,
drew
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/40737
Rocky Road on the eastern end of New Providence (Nassau) in the Bahamas.
Yes, but does it have a key debounce issue and has it been solved. With the old TRS-80 Model I machines I used to work with, I think there used to be a program you could get that would solve this issue for you. It is probably still under copyright though and they probably never GPLed it so we may have to start again from scratch!
all the best,
drew
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/41879
Well, if there is to be no competition, exactly what benefits is the "free market" to bring this field?
all the best,
drew
"Interesting" that instead of getting the law changed to allow competition in the water supply business and then going in and starting up a company to compete in terms of proce and quality with the existing supply, that they wanted to go in as a monopoly.
all the best,
drew
Why is it that in the US, which supposedly champions Free Markets, everyone seems to want a monopoly and does not want to have any competition?
I went down to the Free Market the other day but no one would let me have anything unless I PAID them for it. What kind of free market is that? I mean!
all the best,
drew
I propose that the current form of sports competition is as harmful to the children as letter grades and streaming and holding back.
We need to put up high curtains between the lanes and have individual finishing areas. This way not child will be made to feel inferior when they realise that they cannot run as fast as other children.
I know this will be a damper for the spectators, but what can we do? Think of the children.
all the best,
drew
"Your task is even harder if you have a hard drive that ceased operating. There exists companies like http://www.kurt.hu/ [www.kurt.hu] that have state of the art technology to retrieve data from damaged hard drives. If you need your data: good for you. If you'd like to get rid of it for sure: better take good care of it..."
Anyone else run into the situation where a drive dies during the warranty period and they want the old drive back when supplying the replacement... and the drive was in a laywers office where there is some thought of privilege between the clients and the firm? Or some similar situation like doctors, etc. (Hint - don't give up the old drive.)
all the best,
drew