Calling someone "anti-science" because they advise restraint when using up natural resources and changing the environment, is like calling someone "anti-capitalist" if they refuse to spend all their money and go into debt.
Huh...I think I just figured out Republican fiscal policy.
The majority of British people are fucking idiots if they think their overall murder rate of any country is somehow mystically driven by the mere presence of firearms.
Fortunately, AFAIK, they didn't actually elect you as their spokesperson.
I can't remember where I saw it, but somewhere online is a story about a village that just used a solar concentrator to heat up a huge iron block all day, and then everyone would share cooking duties on it in the evening. Apparently you could fry stuff on it for hours.
Copyright is about artificially maintaining scarcity.
See, that's the problem. Artifically maintaning scarcity of a digital file can only be done by breaking the computer it's on. Because digital files are inherently non-scarce.
So: Copyright or computers? You are making this choice, right now, through your actions.
Saying a politician murdered a prostitute? Not free speech.
...unless he or she did murder a prostitute.
Saying you think a politician's opinion is wrong and stupid and you would like to see him die? 100% protected free speech (yes, even the "want to see him die" part, so long as you don't encourage someone to kill him or say you are going to do it yourself).
Water is typically produced by local municipalities
Except in all the places where it is not. In the Western United States, much of the water comes from one of two large sources, and piped around to various areas via aqueducts. Access to it is controlled by the federal or state governments and local access to that water supplies are not ultimately up to local officials. In these cases, all local municipalities do it treat water and handle the "last mile" distribution.
Here in central CA, farmers get their water supplies heavily subsidized, especially on the West side of the valley where, if it were not for the CA aqueduct system, the land would be barren. For the last two years, I've had to endure rantings and ravings of local water interests around here blaming Sacramento for "stealing" "their" water.
The GP's point about corporate involvement is spot on. It is corporate water interests (wealthy farmers here in Central CA) who lobby politicians to give them sweet deals on water access. Meanwhile, us plebs pay inflated costs on our household water usage to make up for those subsidies.
Why even bother, if you're a big enough name, to try to get funding from a publisher when you can cut out the middle man?
This.
In the future, a "publisher" will be more like a professional public consultant; people who are good at directing other people's attention to worthy projects.
Either that or despotic tyrants, with private armies grinding the populace beneath their heels, in a desperate attempt to keep the appearance of control over gate keys that were long ago remanded to the Phantom Zone.
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Calling someone "anti-science" because they advise restraint when using up natural resources and changing the environment, is like calling someone "anti-capitalist" if they refuse to spend all their money and go into debt.
Huh...I think I just figured out Republican fiscal policy.
Ahh, so because it's shaped like a grenade it constitutes art
No, it's art because it was made by hand, there's only one of them, and it's on display at a fucking art exhibition.
The majority of British people are fucking idiots if they think their overall murder rate of any country is somehow mystically driven by the mere presence of firearms.
Fortunately, AFAIK, they didn't actually elect you as their spokesperson.
I can't remember where I saw it, but somewhere online is a story about a village that just used a solar concentrator to heat up a huge iron block all day, and then everyone would share cooking duties on it in the evening. Apparently you could fry stuff on it for hours.
That's why the chip goes cold turkey for two weeks shortly after every deadline.
As soon as this tech is perfected, it should become illegal to prescribe antibiotics to humans via any other method.
That way, we might have a chance of newer antibiotics still being useful after a while.
making a profit off of other artists material which you don't have the rights to is just good old fashioned stealing no matter how you slice it.
It's not that old fashioned... that's how most publishers made their money prior to copyright.
Copyright is about artificially maintaining scarcity.
See, that's the problem. Artifically maintaning scarcity of a digital file can only be done by breaking the computer it's on. Because digital files are inherently non-scarce.
So: Copyright or computers? You are making this choice, right now, through your actions.
CP, for example, is not free speech.
...unless it's entirely fictional.
Saying a politician murdered a prostitute? Not free speech.
...unless he or she did murder a prostitute.
Saying you think a politician's opinion is wrong and stupid and you would like to see him die? 100% protected free speech (yes, even the "want to see him die" part, so long as you don't encourage someone to kill him or say you are going to do it yourself).
This is correct.
Yes, it is. That's why the need to ask permission is an exceptional privelege granted by government for a specific, societally-beneficial purpose.
Make sure you boil the shit out of the water before you neti, though, or you could get brain amoebas.
Not Kidding.
"supply and demand" isn't a very useful descriptive tool when the supply is infinite and valueless. More like, "access control and demand"...
That's TEN TIMES what it was last week...!
It's for the word "lawn" and against anyone who is on it.
Interestingly, the "pesticide-built-in" plants are already losing their effect on pests which are now becoming "super-pests."
Nonsese! Those plants are giving cancer to humans today just as effectively as they ever were!
If hundreds of studies that there is no negative affect in a test group receiving 27+ vaccines vs the control group who receives none,
Did that actually happen?
Water is typically produced by local municipalities
Except in all the places where it is not. In the Western United States, much of the water comes from one of two large sources, and piped around to various areas via aqueducts. Access to it is controlled by the federal or state governments and local access to that water supplies are not ultimately up to local officials. In these cases, all local municipalities do it treat water and handle the "last mile" distribution.
Here in central CA, farmers get their water supplies heavily subsidized, especially on the West side of the valley where, if it were not for the CA aqueduct system, the land would be barren. For the last two years, I've had to endure rantings and ravings of local water interests around here blaming Sacramento for "stealing" "their" water.
The GP's point about corporate involvement is spot on. It is corporate water interests (wealthy farmers here in Central CA) who lobby politicians to give them sweet deals on water access. Meanwhile, us plebs pay inflated costs on our household water usage to make up for those subsidies.
Exiled Online did a whole series on this.
...I'm one of those weirdos who thinks artists deserve to get money for what they produce, however easy it is to copy bit for bit.
Artists produce copies? Weird, I thought they produced creative works.
Maybe if copies were still worth something, charging for them would still make sense.
There are no adults who try to trick kids into being bad drivers, so we can draw the line at a younger age in that case.
An excellent point. It makes me wonder, though... ...If there were adults who try to trick kids into being bad drivers, how would we be able to tell?
So what happens when all the "original content" makers die off?
Start developing the rudiments of agriculture?
The real problem in this case is that solid propellant is worthless for maneuvering thrusters.
But if the copyright to digital versions of the file is what is sold than Apple would be free to make copies.
Selling the right to make copies is CALLED LICENSING. IT IS WHAT LICENSING MEANS.
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No, dumbass, he's claiming that something being pushed upward with a weight on it tends to rise faster if you take the weight off.
Using more energy is a good thing because its a sign you are capable of things that require that much power.
Or a sign of inefficiency.
Why even bother, if you're a big enough name, to try to get funding from a publisher when you can cut out the middle man?
This.
In the future, a "publisher" will be more like a professional public consultant; people who are good at directing other people's attention to worthy projects.
Either that or despotic tyrants, with private armies grinding the populace beneath their heels, in a desperate attempt to keep the appearance of control over gate keys that were long ago remanded to the Phantom Zone.
We are making this choice, right now.