That's still rife with arbitrary restriction on what very possibly could be a fair-use right. I'm not saying that there are a lot of circumstances where it would be a violation, but it's apparant that it could be. In short, you don't own it. Apple is much more liberal with their licensing scheme, but it's not yours to do with as you please.
If I have to jump through hoops (mixing up playlist order, getting permission to switch between computers) to exercise these benefits, then it's not a right, it's a privelege, and it can be revoked by Apple at any time.
By saying I want to rip, mix, and burn, all I'm asking for is the right to phase shift media which I've paid for. It's the companies problem if that right, which has been mine with every other media thus far, puts them in a pinch as to how to make a profit. I'm not asking to be able to sell copies of the music; I'm asking to be able to exercise my right of fair-use.
To use your car example, buying a car gives me the right to break it down to parts and sell (or reassemble in a different form) the pieces, it also gives me the right to resell the car itself as a whole. Those are all examples of rights that RIAA are trying to technologically and bureaucratically take from us.
Watch the verbage. As far as the RIAA is concerned, you never 'own' a song. Unless the consumer has the right to rip, mix, and burn, you can't say they 'own' anything but the right to listen to it, and even then only if they pay a recurring charge. From the looks of this system the best you could call it is renting, and that's a stretch.
I would estimate that it took between 15 to 30 minutes from the time the first team arrived at the beach to the time a concerted effort to dig began, despite the fact that my only words to the teammembers present were, "Get Digging."
There were markings, but whether they would have been satisfactory to speed up the search if they hadn't been destroyed is a question that we just won't get an answer to. They were destroyed by people clomping around the beach, looking for a patern to the shovels rather than looking for recently distrubed sand.
I agree that it was a beautriful idea; I agree that it went horribly wrong. I don't think I have anything to 'own up' to.
When I was taking the LSAT last year, during one of the breaks I mentioned that I was attempting a 'Dadaist Interpretation' of the test, by answering every question incorrectly. Half the classroom looked at me with shock, wondering how I could do something so reckless. The other half, I could sense, really wanted to ask me what a Dadaist was.
-R
Re:MIT still kicks uchicago's stupid elitist ass.
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That's the major difference between most people that go to MIT and those that choose U of C: At U of C, we actually have creativity, and rather than choosing items that are 100% definately realizable in one and only one way, we allow for each team to interpret the list in their own way. It's like 10 different groups of actors performing a Shakespeare play, you're never going to get the same performance out of any 2, but each one will be spectacular in it's own ways.
Judging a contest where every team brought the exact same items must get extrememly boring.
-R
Re:Where's the "Reality TV" people when you need u
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Well, I guess you can't accept my word for it, but Justin and Fred were two of the most brilliant people I've ever met.
They built the reactor, and you have an entire campus full of geeks to attest to it. If you think that everyone on the campus where the first sustained nuclear chain reaction occured couldn't tell whether the reactor was a breeder or not, then I guess we'll never prove anything to you.
Physics is in the blood of half the student body here, and the wool was not pulled over their eyes.
No, it's not just hearsay...I was there. I buried the lists myself, and I was there the entire time.
It was never raining hard enough to wash anything away...at best, there was a fine mist throughout the evening.
People attempting to determine the 'pattern of the shovels' ended up messing up the whole thing, because they couldn't figure out the fact that they just had to dig.
Every year there is a Judges/Captains meeting in the same place at the same time. Each year the item is described a bit different on the list, but the idea that a team could 'forget' it is kinda silly.
Now, if you're meaning just the roadtrip...that's not an essential part of the hunt as a whole. It's certainly important, but it is possible to score high without fielding a roadtrip team.
-R
Re:I really wish
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In honor of Matt Groening, I got fed "Lobster Stuffed with Tacos" tonight, as part of item 159. I love judgehood.
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Can Anyone Figure Out Why it's ScavHunt '211'?
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The only reason that it wasn't found much quicker was that the first people at the beach destroyed the markings that showed where the lists were buried.
They SO did. I'm a Scavenger Hunt judge, and the man who built it just received his Ph.d from MIT and works in the Space Labs. If you check the discussion from the post on this event from a couple months ago you will find much discussion on this point, and many people who professed your viewpoint being proven dead wrong.
-kd
Re:I'd Be carefule if I were the hunters
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Did anyone catch the article about the worms that survived the crash?
As a judge of this year's hunt, that's the only hint you're getting about how to fulfill this item, legally.
By the way, the rules say that every item can and must be completed legally.
>>He accused Bush of "ethnic cleansing of the voter rolls" in the 2000 Election.
>An entirely accurate statement as many minority voters were cleansed from voter rolls in that election.
The only allegation of which to stand up was of one man who shared a name with a convicted felon and who was allowed to vote after the mixup was discovered. You are a pawn of Jesse Jackson if you believe anything of the sort happened, and the facts are not on your side.
>>From what I've read of Palast, his perception about the motives of the Bush administration couldn't be more off-base.
>I think he's spot-on.
Then you need to open your eyes.
And for all those railing the Bush Administration over this, you need to realize that the President isn't even mentioned in this article. What Hilary is doing is in no way sanctioned by the US government. All she's doing is wishful thinking.
Of course they didn't read the article...that would take time away from their fire-breathing, government hating, flamefests and leave far too little time for making witty quips.
You're totally right...I can't believe that something so simple got passed the minds of so many of the people who've posted here. I guess I gave them too much credit.
Since I had mod points I looked through the entire discussion looking for one sane person who might have realized that Hilary hasn't been dubbed IP-czar of Iraq just yet, and thus it doesn't matter what the hell she thinks. But, alas...I'll have to write the sane reply to this article myself.
This report is a lot of hype, and no substance. I'm sure good ol' Hilary has a draft of the way she'd like IP laws to be in every country on the globe. Guess what...she doesn't have the authority to implement them anywhere, without the consent of the countries governing bodies. She's going to have to lobby the new Iraqi congress just like she had to lobby the American one and the EU. In the end, it will be the Iraqis who make the decision. Just because she's written out the way she'd like the laws to be does not mean she's "writing Iraq copyright laws". Her version has no more authority at this point than mine or yours. The title and content of this story are amazingly misleading, and I can't believe that no one else picked up on it.
Now, I hate Rosen as much as the next guy, probably only slightly less than Lessig, but the idea that just because she's the head of the RIAA that she will immediately have power in post war Iraq to dictate her will is perposterous and could only be absorbed by someone with the most heinous liberal blinders on.
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That's still rife with arbitrary restriction on what very possibly could be a fair-use right. I'm not saying that there are a lot of circumstances where it would be a violation, but it's apparant that it could be. In short, you don't own it. Apple is much more liberal with their licensing scheme, but it's not yours to do with as you please.
If I have to jump through hoops (mixing up playlist order, getting permission to switch between computers) to exercise these benefits, then it's not a right, it's a privelege, and it can be revoked by Apple at any time.
-kd
By saying I want to rip, mix, and burn, all I'm asking for is the right to phase shift media which I've paid for. It's the companies problem if that right, which has been mine with every other media thus far, puts them in a pinch as to how to make a profit. I'm not asking to be able to sell copies of the music; I'm asking to be able to exercise my right of fair-use.
To use your car example, buying a car gives me the right to break it down to parts and sell (or reassemble in a different form) the pieces, it also gives me the right to resell the car itself as a whole. Those are all examples of rights that RIAA are trying to technologically and bureaucratically take from us.
-kd
I wouldn't dispute this. But, if current trends continue, I'd say they'll be writing copyright law before they'll be obeying it.
Watch the verbage. As far as the RIAA is concerned, you never 'own' a song. Unless the consumer has the right to rip, mix, and burn, you can't say they 'own' anything but the right to listen to it, and even then only if they pay a recurring charge. From the looks of this system the best you could call it is renting, and that's a stretch.
-R
...or will this revolution not be televised?
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Check this still from the most recent episode.
It shows as Homer sings, "I can walk from Springfield to Alaska."
It seems to show pretty conclusively that it's Springfield, MO that he's referring to.
-kd
I would estimate that it took between 15 to 30 minutes from the time the first team arrived at the beach to the time a concerted effort to dig began, despite the fact that my only words to the teammembers present were, "Get Digging."
There were markings, but whether they would have been satisfactory to speed up the search if they hadn't been destroyed is a question that we just won't get an answer to. They were destroyed by people clomping around the beach, looking for a patern to the shovels rather than looking for recently distrubed sand.
I agree that it was a beautriful idea; I agree that it went horribly wrong. I don't think I have anything to 'own up' to.
-kd
When I was taking the LSAT last year, during one of the breaks I mentioned that I was attempting a 'Dadaist Interpretation' of the test, by answering every question incorrectly. Half the classroom looked at me with shock, wondering how I could do something so reckless. The other half, I could sense, really wanted to ask me what a Dadaist was.
-R
That's the major difference between most people that go to MIT and those that choose U of C: At U of C, we actually have creativity, and rather than choosing items that are 100% definately realizable in one and only one way, we allow for each team to interpret the list in their own way. It's like 10 different groups of actors performing a Shakespeare play, you're never going to get the same performance out of any 2, but each one will be spectacular in it's own ways.
Judging a contest where every team brought the exact same items must get extrememly boring.
-R
Check out The Hunt.
-R
Well, I guess you can't accept my word for it, but Justin and Fred were two of the most brilliant people I've ever met.
They built the reactor, and you have an entire campus full of geeks to attest to it. If you think that everyone on the campus where the first sustained nuclear chain reaction occured couldn't tell whether the reactor was a breeder or not, then I guess we'll never prove anything to you.
Physics is in the blood of half the student body here, and the wool was not pulled over their eyes.
-R
No, it's not just hearsay...I was there. I buried the lists myself, and I was there the entire time.
It was never raining hard enough to wash anything away...at best, there was a fine mist throughout the evening.
People attempting to determine the 'pattern of the shovels' ended up messing up the whole thing, because they couldn't figure out the fact that they just had to dig.
-kd
I believe part of the problem is also the fact that the list is put together using Latex.
-kd
Every year there is a Judges/Captains meeting in the same place at the same time. Each year the item is described a bit different on the list, but the idea that a team could 'forget' it is kinda silly.
Now, if you're meaning just the roadtrip...that's not an essential part of the hunt as a whole. It's certainly important, but it is possible to score high without fielding a roadtrip team.
-R
In honor of Matt Groening, I got fed "Lobster Stuffed with Tacos" tonight, as part of item 159. I love judgehood.
-kd
I know...do you? Let's test the Slashdot smarts.
-R
The only reason that it wasn't found much quicker was that the first people at the beach destroyed the markings that showed where the lists were buried.
-R
They SO did. I'm a Scavenger Hunt judge, and the man who built it just received his Ph.d from MIT and works in the Space Labs. If you check the discussion from the post on this event from a couple months ago you will find much discussion on this point, and many people who professed your viewpoint being proven dead wrong.
-kd
Did anyone catch the article about the worms that survived the crash?
As a judge of this year's hunt, that's the only hint you're getting about how to fulfill this item, legally.
By the way, the rules say that every item can and must be completed legally.
-R
>>He accused Bush of "ethnic cleansing of the voter rolls" in the 2000 Election.
>An entirely accurate statement as many minority voters were cleansed from voter rolls in that election.
The only allegation of which to stand up was of one man who shared a name with a convicted felon and who was allowed to vote after the mixup was discovered. You are a pawn of Jesse Jackson if you believe anything of the sort happened, and the facts are not on your side.
>>From what I've read of Palast, his perception about the motives of the Bush administration couldn't be more off-base.
>I think he's spot-on.
Then you need to open your eyes.
And for all those railing the Bush Administration over this, you need to realize that the President isn't even mentioned in this article. What Hilary is doing is in no way sanctioned by the US government. All she's doing is wishful thinking.
-R
Of course they didn't read the article...that would take time away from their fire-breathing, government hating, flamefests and leave far too little time for making witty quips.
You're totally right...I can't believe that something so simple got passed the minds of so many of the people who've posted here. I guess I gave them too much credit.
-R
Thank you! Someone else sees it. See my similar reply below.
-R
Since I had mod points I looked through the entire discussion looking for one sane person who might have realized that Hilary hasn't been dubbed IP-czar of Iraq just yet, and thus it doesn't matter what the hell she thinks. But, alas...I'll have to write the sane reply to this article myself.
This report is a lot of hype, and no substance. I'm sure good ol' Hilary has a draft of the way she'd like IP laws to be in every country on the globe. Guess what...she doesn't have the authority to implement them anywhere, without the consent of the countries governing bodies. She's going to have to lobby the new Iraqi congress just like she had to lobby the American one and the EU. In the end, it will be the Iraqis who make the decision. Just because she's written out the way she'd like the laws to be does not mean she's "writing Iraq copyright laws". Her version has no more authority at this point than mine or yours. The title and content of this story are amazingly misleading, and I can't believe that no one else picked up on it.
Now, I hate Rosen as much as the next guy, probably only slightly less than Lessig, but the idea that just because she's the head of the RIAA that she will immediately have power in post war Iraq to dictate her will is perposterous and could only be absorbed by someone with the most heinous liberal blinders on.
That's enough...
-R
American Greetings owns the trademarks associated with Strawberry Shortcake and Co.
-R
Check out what happened when Reese's threatened to sue Goats over their use of trademark in a similar situation.
-R