You have to have "life + 25" or some such to allow corporations to negotiate expensive contracts with the patent or copyright holder and not be afraid that if they step in front of a bus tomorrow, the entire contract becomes worthless.
All religions are like this. So are politics, which are the same thing. That's why freedom should be a goal over control.
Now watch this, the hand is quicker than the eye: You participate in secular religions for the purpose of winning elections, which are just an abstraction of might makes right, for the purpose of winning and reducing the freedom of others in just so ways, but ways your "religion" doesn't find intrusive.
You aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
My father refused to pay extra for touch tone, and never did. They kept charging extra long after it was all computerized and there was no more specialized hardware listening for clicks on the company side.
Don't know about today, but about 5 years ago my old house only had rotary-enabled service, so we would dial to renew prescriptions and then switch he button to touch tone.
I was a milkman once, let me tell you it was a tough job. I had no idea what my customers wanted, when they wanted it, or hell, I didn't even know where they lived, I just wandered around town until I ran out of gas then dumped the whole load of milk in the ditch and walked home.
It should be at the customs point, and that's it. If they think they goofed and let someone through with something, tell it to a judge and get a warrant.
And where 30 million people died within living memory. And where the difference between freedom and democracy (there is one) got a little more than just a toehold in the form of communism, in even more recent memory.
I recall an erector set project where a wheel flipped a lever with a weight on it up, then it slid free and slammed down into the back of the object, kicking it across a table in steps. This would not work in space, "and can you guess why?"
I will confidently relax that these engine builders cannot guess why.
He defined reality as there are actual objects out there with real, measurable properties. He'd prefer that they remain at the level of objects with mass and position.
This ruling is generally in accordance with the US constitution. People have rights inherently; they are not granted. governments do not. They have powers over those rights, granted by he people for specific purposes, carefully designed, and revocable.
One such was the creation of copyright for the purpose of protecting the economic interest of authors, to promote same. Go read the lines yourself.
Now if this European decision is treating copyright as some power aggrandizement or usurpation, that is an incorrect view. There is no unconstitutionality of properly-formed government-granted (granted to government, by the people) powers.
Politicians and others who seek power through government have spent decades recently in democracies building a meme that corporations are the Big Bad, to borrow a movie term, and try to use their organization, government, to silence challenges to their power.
Studies show money follows positions a lot more than the other way around. Insofar as it is the other way around, this is evidence of government having too much power, not corporations or individuals.
Which is exactly how politicians want it. They naturally seek to expand their power. Use of memes in democracy is just a marginally larger process over its use in dictatorship. Most people are happy little cogs going along with it as long as they get theirs.
There are statistical measurements of deviation from random noise. This is what they do. Or should be if not, I never bothered to check out SETI's analysis methods.
It's known the winner will have supporters who continue to vote and the loser's will not bother, on the west coast after a winner is declared (I suspect this drove Rove's apparent madness, trying to keep Romney supporters going , not for Romney, but for other elections where a crash of Republican support may matter, even if Romney's fate was already decided.)
Ya I must be missing something here. Is ripping someone's copyrighted work a problem in the academic world? As long as they quote it accurately when criticizing...
This was the primary argument for being all-encompassing. They could tie the whole nation togetjer for one lowosh aberage price, in exchange for exclusivity of general letter delivery, which supported the goal of the Constitution. Graduated service is little different from the complaint that private companies would focus on high volume cities and between citoes and completely ignore Nome, Alaska.
When I go to the site, it appears to have this cool green/blue/whatevrr background header. I scroll down and it moves off the top. I scroll up and cannot get back to it.
This seems to be the one story on slowdown in major advancements in science, with comments. Where is the main page where I pick the story I want to read? Several times I have gone to the OP link of m.slashdot.org, it always dumps into hat one story with comments and no way out.
I am using Android 2.6.3 with the default pre-Chrome browser.
Also, I haven't tried it but I hope the slashdot edit box works better there than here, where I cannot scroll long post text down inside the box bery far
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Well, there is drinking it, sure.
Just another holiday for government workers to sit on their ass while the rest of us actually driving the economy go in.
It hurts to hear because it's true.
You have to have "life + 25" or some such to allow corporations to negotiate expensive contracts with the patent or copyright holder and not be afraid that if they step in front of a bus tomorrow, the entire contract becomes worthless.
All religions are like this. So are politics, which are the same thing. That's why freedom should be a goal over control.
Now watch this, the hand is quicker than the eye: You participate in secular religions for the purpose of winning elections, which are just an abstraction of might makes right, for the purpose of winning and reducing the freedom of others in just so ways, but ways your "religion" doesn't find intrusive.
You aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
My father refused to pay extra for touch tone, and never did. They kept charging extra long after it was all computerized and there was no more specialized hardware listening for clicks on the company side.
Don't know about today, but about 5 years ago my old house only had rotary-enabled service, so we would dial to renew prescriptions and then switch he button to touch tone.
Well, whaddya know! A nerd finally got to drill something.
Reid Fleming?
One click was an override of programmers' inherent anal retentiveness at getting confirmations before irreversible operations.
As such it was novel, and non-obvious (big time) and is a poor example of silly patents.
It should be at the customs point, and that's it. If they think they goofed and let someone through with something, tell it to a judge and get a warrant.
Wow! I could almost afford an eBook!
Are you the guy in the other thread who "remembers gettng milk home delivered'?
And where 30 million people died within living memory. And where the difference between freedom and democracy (there is one) got a little more than just a toehold in the form of communism, in even more recent memory.
Oh come on, we're America. We can do both -- have distorted facts and waste billions of dollars pointlessly!
Offer multibillion IPO
2. Seize conttol of internet
3. ???
4. Well, monetizing for profit is still problematic
I recall an erector set project where a wheel flipped a lever with a weight on it up, then it slid free and slammed down into the back of the object, kicking it across a table in steps. This would not work in space, "and can you guess why?"
I will confidently relax that these engine builders cannot guess why.
He defined reality as there are actual objects out there with real, measurable properties. He'd prefer that they remain at the level of objects with mass and position.
This ruling is generally in accordance with the US constitution. People have rights inherently; they are not granted. governments do not. They have powers over those rights, granted by he people for specific purposes, carefully designed, and revocable.
One such was the creation of copyright for the purpose of protecting the economic interest of authors, to promote same. Go read the lines yourself.
Now if this European decision is treating copyright as some power aggrandizement or usurpation, that is an incorrect view. There is no unconstitutionality of properly-formed government-granted (granted to government, by the people) powers.
Politicians and others who seek power through government have spent decades recently in democracies building a meme that corporations are the Big Bad, to borrow a movie term, and try to use their organization, government, to silence challenges to their power.
Studies show money follows positions a lot more than the other way around. Insofar as it is the other way around, this is evidence of government having too much power, not corporations or individuals.
Which is exactly how politicians want it. They naturally seek to expand their power. Use of memes in democracy is just a marginally larger process over its use in dictatorship. Most people are happy little cogs going along with it as long as they get theirs.
There are statistical measurements of deviation from random noise. This is what they do. Or should be if not, I never bothered to check out SETI's analysis methods.
It's known the winner will have supporters who continue to vote and the loser's will not bother, on the west coast after a winner is declared (I suspect this drove Rove's apparent madness, trying to keep Romney supporters going , not for Romney, but for other elections where a crash of Republican support may matter, even if Romney's fate was already decided.)
In the longer term, markets that were distortable, especially at critical moments, would this lose accuracy as a predictor.
This could be tallied and reported on. Market XYZ has shown 30% distortion from actual results close to an election.
Ya I must be missing something here. Is ripping someone's copyrighted work a problem in the academic world? As long as they quote it accurately when criticizing...
"Go go gadget bubble capture unit!"
This was the primary argument for being all-encompassing. They could tie the whole nation togetjer for one lowosh aberage price, in exchange for exclusivity of general letter delivery, which supported the goal of the Constitution. Graduated service is little different from the complaint that private companies would focus on high volume cities and between citoes and completely ignore Nome, Alaska.
When I go to the site, it appears to have this cool green/blue/whatevrr background header. I scroll down and it moves off the top. I scroll up and cannot get back to it.
This seems to be the one story on slowdown in major advancements in science, with comments. Where is the main page where I pick the story I want to read? Several times I have gone to the OP link of m.slashdot.org, it always dumps into hat one story with comments and no way out.
I am using Android 2.6.3 with the default pre-Chrome browser.
Also, I haven't tried it but I hope the slashdot edit box works better there than here, where I cannot scroll long post text down inside the box bery far