They may be getting classified intelligence of planning outlines of attacks on stadiums. Forcing people to go through search screening is far more to deter attack attempts than it is to actually catch people.
If you can easily walk in, people are more likely to go for it than if they know it will be a struggle.
Thank god the people in charge of stuff like this are far brighter than the common yokel kibitzing on places like Slashdot.
One gets to set the price on the products one labors to produce, from film maker to car maker to farmer to bicycle shop.
That's what separates civilization from a hunter-gatherer society -- it protects the product of peoples' effort from the hunter-gathering impulse to just take it like it is a fruit on a wild tree somewhere.
Not one of those clowns looked competent to build his own saber, including Darth Vader, who also wasn't competent with engines or cobbling together a droid from junk parts.
I predicted this two decades ago based on the Netherlands, which forced into existence natural gas car conversions, then slapped a massive tax on them such that you have to drive about 20,000 km/year before you break even vs. gas tax.
HAW HAW HAW HAW, observe asses in action. It's about the money, fools. And what handing it out can buy, which is votes. Everything else is sophistry.
> That's like saying an iPhone is art: how, exactly, > does it deviate from commonly expected > definitions of whatever it serves functionally? It doesn't.
In both cases, then make your own art design and quit selling knockoffs that "don't matter but for some strange reason everybody wants but it doesn't matter no it doesn't."
I hate to use a No True Scottsman argument, but that's not True Capitalism. That's why they use the term "crony capitalism".
Capitalism derives from the right to own and use property, and the right of free association with others. Nothing more is needed.
Insofar as people whine to government for money (or regulation, often to harm competitors) and so on, it is not One True Capitalism.
These things involve using force to get an economic advantage, rather than producing a product that free people choose to buy, which is the glistening city on the hill everybody imagines.
Oh wait. Your mind almost certainly cannot generate such a thing.
So what have we learned? That the model of reality you maintain in your brain is lacking in one crucial understanding. Oh, you can take as good as any hunder-gatherer.
But produce like a farmer? Might as well be the actions of a god to you.
> Copyright of any work should expire once its auhor passes away.
Actually, it's normally something like life of the author + 20 years.
The company making financial deals with the author needs to know that if the author steps in front of a bus, they aren't suddenly and instantly going to lose their exclusivity because the copyright lapses, which involves significant investment.
The real problem is Congress extending it at the behest of corporations long after the actual author has passed away, well, well more than life + 20.
I would be fine with adding it to the price of gas as a start. It might induce more efficiencies in buying roads instead of politicians just heaving vast quantities of cash at gigantic unionized construction firms.
That it's $4/gallon (I assume your number is correct) is perverse.
Just remember, in order to maximize the speed at which bacteria adapt, only give this out by itself, and not in combination with other antibiotics, so nothing has to have two or more miraculous and simultaneous adaptations.
One adaptation is all we can reasonably expect, so make sure it's only used by itself lest bacteria never adapt.
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They may be getting classified intelligence of planning outlines of attacks on stadiums. Forcing people to go through search screening is far more to deter attack attempts than it is to actually catch people.
If you can easily walk in, people are more likely to go for it than if they know it will be a struggle.
Thank god the people in charge of stuff like this are far brighter than the common yokel kibitzing on places like Slashdot.
Wait until you see what these women reveal in front of scanners!
One gets to set the price on the products one labors to produce, from film maker to car maker to farmer to bicycle shop.
That's what separates civilization from a hunter-gatherer society -- it protects the product of peoples' effort from the hunter-gathering impulse to just take it like it is a fruit on a wild tree somewhere.
Do I have to pay to use it to build apps? Free as in beer. Most people aren't looking to extract the ethanol to put in their windshield wipers.
Negative temperatures, vomiting robots, and "you're a snotty person" taxes on electric cars. 2013 is starting off just swell!
So is yours.
Not one of those clowns looked competent to build his own saber, including Darth Vader, who also wasn't competent with engines or cobbling together a droid from junk parts.
HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW!
I predicted this two decades ago based on the Netherlands, which forced into existence natural gas car conversions, then slapped a massive tax on them such that you have to drive about 20,000 km/year before you break even vs. gas tax.
HAW HAW HAW HAW, observe asses in action. It's about the money, fools. And what handing it out can buy, which is votes. Everything else is sophistry.
One could only hope. The pork attached to this cliff-avoider, as well as the Sandy relief fund which wasn't even voted on, is purely disgusting.
Bush's $700 billion bank bailout was $810 billion, the additional $110 billion being pork to purchase votes.
It's time to end "Whining meme rationalization" and just get a balanced budget amendment. Then let the bastards fight it out.
> That's like saying an iPhone is art: how, exactly,
> does it deviate from commonly expected
> definitions of whatever it serves functionally? It doesn't.
In both cases, then make your own art design and quit selling knockoffs that "don't matter but for some strange reason everybody wants but it doesn't matter no it doesn't."
> by arguing that copyright protection extends to the
> overall look and feel of the Batmobile
" 'Oh, what a tangled web we weave...', isn't that right, Boy Wonder?"
"Golly, Batman!"
And what do we use this giant-screen, high frame rate, 3D movie to film? Megan Fox french kissing Amanda Seyfried?
No. A bunch of fat midgets and other tiny freaks, and two old guys, one with a layer of bird poop down his temple.
I hate to use a No True Scottsman argument, but that's not True Capitalism. That's why they use the term "crony capitalism".
Capitalism derives from the right to own and use property, and the right of free association with others. Nothing more is needed.
Insofar as people whine to government for money (or regulation, often to harm competitors) and so on, it is not One True Capitalism.
These things involve using force to get an economic advantage, rather than producing a product that free people choose to buy, which is the glistening city on the hill everybody imagines.
One would think an automated test that looked at timestamped frame production would show the jumpy nature of it.
So it's like the US military, which famously is excellent at fighting the previous war?
> Star Wars 1313: 'Early glimpses suggest the game will ignore lightsabers and force powers in favor of gadgetry and guns
Christ! I'm calling a lawyer. That "woosh!" was so violent it gave me a concussion.
Oh wait. Your mind almost certainly cannot generate such a thing.
So what have we learned? That the model of reality you maintain in your brain is lacking in one crucial understanding. Oh, you can take as good as any hunder-gatherer.
But produce like a farmer? Might as well be the actions of a god to you.
Feel free to go write a quality work people actually want to read or listen to.
Not something a handful of nuts want to listen to. A big hit.
Then release it for free.
I'll wait.
> Copyright of any work should expire once its auhor passes away.
Actually, it's normally something like life of the author + 20 years.
The company making financial deals with the author needs to know that if the author steps in front of a bus, they aren't suddenly and instantly going to lose their exclusivity because the copyright lapses, which involves significant investment.
The real problem is Congress extending it at the behest of corporations long after the actual author has passed away, well, well more than life + 20.
Had 60 month badge in City of Heroes, a huge superbase I had spent a good 300 hours building, and many other things.
The NCSoft/Perfect World/Guild Wars 2/Champions Online/Star Trek Online axis of fucking evil can fucking die frying like pigs in Hell.
Conflation of government with roads. Sad.
I would be fine with adding it to the price of gas as a start. It might induce more efficiencies in buying roads instead of politicians just heaving vast quantities of cash at gigantic unionized construction firms.
That it's $4/gallon (I assume your number is correct) is perverse.
It completes one complete revolution, not rotation.
Have a care where you are.
I'm staying up until 3 am. Why the hell should New Years be different from any other night of the year?
Just remember, in order to maximize the speed at which bacteria adapt, only give this out by itself, and not in combination with other antibiotics, so nothing has to have two or more miraculous and simultaneous adaptations.
One adaptation is all we can reasonably expect, so make sure it's only used by itself lest bacteria never adapt.