I did design a perpetual motion machine involving a really deep tube in the ocean with a RO membrane at the bottom, exploiting the slight density difference between fresh and salt water to produce the required pressure. I know it can't work, because if it did it would be producing energy from THE SUN, but I still can't figure out exactly why it wouldn't work.
... he means "writing software" (1), as opposed to "selling copies of software". (2)
1....which has intrinsic value, and simultaneously compatible with internetworked computer systems and basic human liberty.
2....which have no intrinsic value, and is a business model that forces you to choose whether you want internetworked computer systems OR basic human liberty.
When' you're combating heavily-armored paradoxes like "intellectual property", finesse and sharpness are poor tools. What's needed are maces, hammers, RPGs.
Once the shell is cracked, then you can be subtle.
Nearly everyone involved with actually making movies -- directors, actors, crew, caterers, editors, foley artists, stuntmen, gophers -- gets paid once for each movie.
So, I rather suspect the ticket price would be exactly what it is now, except everyone who wants to see the film would need to buy a ticket before the movie starts getting made.
The parasites that actually DO get paid over and over, and then cook the books so that it looks like they're not making a profit and therefore don't have to pay anyone royalties? Those guys? They'd be fucked. Everyone else from the scriptwriter to the moviegoer would be just fine.
This idea that copies are worth something is an idea that people are going to have to learn to let go of if they want to join the rest of us here in the computer age.
1) Because it produces no value. Copyright is meant to encourage the creation of new works by rewarding the creator, rewarding the creator is not the end goal. There is some encouragement provided by creators seeing a tiny, tiny percentage of other creators become rich, but that effect is more than nullified by the chilling effect of big media locking down the public domain for ever and ever. Eventually, no one will be able to create anything new without paying someone a fee based on some ancient crap no one except the rights-holder remembers.
2) Because copyright as it currently stands is incompatible with computers. Copyright seeks to monetize individual packets of information, and individual packets of information inside a computer system have zero value; in fact, individual packets of information in a computer can't even be made to have value without breaking the computer, since all a computer actually does is separate information from permanent media so that you can copy, destroy, or muck about with it at no cost. Copies mean nothing in Computerland, only creation and access have value.
Entering the password is of course _not_ self incriminating. Assume the possibility that someone on their forensics team made a huge mistake and erased the hard drive, but didn't tell anyone, hoping that you don't decrypt the drive and nobody detects his blunder. In that case entering the password wouldn't incriminate you.
Actually, it would incriminate you for obstruction of justice.
What, you don't think the forensics guy would take the fall for destroying the evidence, do you? How silly!
All fullsize displayport adapters i've seen feature a couple of little hooks to prevent cable getting loose.
Incorrect. Fullsize displayport adapters have a couple of little hooks to lure users into destroying the cable, port, or both, mere moments after you hand them the fucking equipment.
... also, what is this "vision of the future" shit? This is the present I'm describing here. Right now, we are choosing between either having a working global computer network or living in a totalitarian nightmare, and copyright is the wedge issue.
"Reimbursed" only works when you're selling something of value, and it only benefits the reseller.
Incidentally, any successful creator already gets preimbursed. Nobody makes, say, a movie, entirely on the promise of future profits; the actors, directors, crew, artists, are all paid with money that comes from investors, who almost always got that money from people who bought access to previous movies.
It should be pretty obvious at this point which step in this process is skippable.
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I did design a perpetual motion machine involving a really deep tube in the ocean with a RO membrane at the bottom, exploiting the slight density difference between fresh and salt water to produce the required pressure. I know it can't work, because if it did it would be producing energy from THE SUN, but I still can't figure out exactly why it wouldn't work.
FTFY.
You're welcome.
... he means "writing software" (1), as opposed to "selling copies of software". (2)
1. ...which has intrinsic value, and simultaneously compatible with internetworked computer systems and basic human liberty.
2. ...which have no intrinsic value, and is a business model that forces you to choose whether you want internetworked computer systems OR basic human liberty.
You've just given me an awesome idea for a movie script and/or Shadowrun campaign...
Preposterous! An impossibility, I say! Harrumph, harrumph, harrumph.
and I am not aware of any better alternative than Yucca Mountain.
I'm aware of one: "getting rid of that retarded law that prevents us from using it as fuel."
The government isn't going to make health care more affordable
I'm not so sure about that.
pyrohomonecropedobestiality.
I'm trying to figure out how this would work... fucking a fertilized-egg omelet with a strap-on...?
blunt, condescending, oversimplified metaphors
When' you're combating heavily-armored paradoxes like "intellectual property", finesse and sharpness are poor tools. What's needed are maces, hammers, RPGs.
Once the shell is cracked, then you can be subtle.
Nearly everyone involved with actually making movies -- directors, actors, crew, caterers, editors, foley artists, stuntmen, gophers -- gets paid once for each movie.
So, I rather suspect the ticket price would be exactly what it is now, except everyone who wants to see the film would need to buy a ticket before the movie starts getting made.
The parasites that actually DO get paid over and over, and then cook the books so that it looks like they're not making a profit and therefore don't have to pay anyone royalties? Those guys? They'd be fucked. Everyone else from the scriptwriter to the moviegoer would be just fine.
This idea that copies are worth something is an idea that people are going to have to learn to let go of if they want to join the rest of us here in the computer age.
1) Because it produces no value. Copyright is meant to encourage the creation of new works by rewarding the creator, rewarding the creator is not the end goal. There is some encouragement provided by creators seeing a tiny, tiny percentage of other creators become rich, but that effect is more than nullified by the chilling effect of big media locking down the public domain for ever and ever. Eventually, no one will be able to create anything new without paying someone a fee based on some ancient crap no one except the rights-holder remembers.
2) Because copyright as it currently stands is incompatible with computers. Copyright seeks to monetize individual packets of information, and individual packets of information inside a computer system have zero value; in fact, individual packets of information in a computer can't even be made to have value without breaking the computer, since all a computer actually does is separate information from permanent media so that you can copy, destroy, or muck about with it at no cost.
Copies mean nothing in Computerland, only creation and access have value.
Entering the password is of course _not_ self incriminating. Assume the possibility that someone on their forensics team made a huge mistake and erased the hard drive, but didn't tell anyone, hoping that you don't decrypt the drive and nobody detects his blunder. In that case entering the password wouldn't incriminate you.
Actually, it would incriminate you for obstruction of justice.
What, you don't think the forensics guy would take the fall for destroying the evidence, do you? How silly!
The judge's ruling in this case is perfectly reasonable, and in conformance with the US Constitution and US law.
Well, which is it? Make up your fucking mind already.
...Humans mess-up, have emotional break-downs...
...and work on making sentient machines...
Anyone want to lay odds that sentient machines will mess up and have emotional breakdowns?
The laws that limit how much of this can be done are hundreds of years old.
Under the original terms of American copyright, Star Wars would have gone into the public domain six years ago.
niggles
Dude!
It's "Nitpickan Americans" now.
Diagnosing electrical problems can be a real nightmare in regular cars
Regular cars have a whole bunch of solenoids and sensors all over, to run systems that electric cars don't have.
No matter what, an electric car with X features will be dramatically less complex than an IC-engine car with X features.
Hence the gold plating and "convenience fee" pricing.
So the camera adds ten pounds, but the dentist adds ten years?
All fullsize displayport adapters i've seen feature a couple of little hooks to prevent cable getting loose.
Incorrect. Fullsize displayport adapters have a couple of little hooks to lure users into destroying the cable, port, or both, mere moments after you hand them the fucking equipment.
What do you do with a sunken cruise ship?
What do you do with a sunken cruise ship?
Earlye in the morning!
Waaaay haaay and up she rises
Waaaay haaay and up she rises
Waaaay haaay and up she rises
Earlye in the morning!
"profit motive".
Markets are not good tools for optimizing emergency services.
I thought the word of God was immutable?
You probably also thought that God could make a rock so heavy even He couldn't lift it.
Being able to get into paradoxes with yourself is kind of implicit in the whole "omnipotent" concept, if you buy into that.
Except Republicans, conservatives, Christians, people who respect the constitution. They're allowed to publicly hate whatever they like.
FTFY.
... also, what is this "vision of the future" shit? This is the present I'm describing here. Right now, we are choosing between either having a working global computer network or living in a totalitarian nightmare, and copyright is the wedge issue.
They're not, they will need to get preimbursed.
"Reimbursed" only works when you're selling something of value, and it only benefits the reseller.
Incidentally, any successful creator already gets preimbursed. Nobody makes, say, a movie, entirely on the promise of future profits; the actors, directors, crew, artists, are all paid with money that comes from investors, who almost always got that money from people who bought access to previous movies.
It should be pretty obvious at this point which step in this process is skippable.