No, I think that would be you actually. (At least, that's how you have come across to this independent observer)
I don't know whether there is any racial bias in US sentencing but at least the other poster is trying to provide information here rather than just confusing the issue (I assume you are not actually stupid enough to really think that anyone who supports human rights must be liberal - where would the right wing be without individual rights?)
The other poster seems prepared to look at contradictory information, so why not give it to them rather than just claiming there is no point.
You've made a start with the link to the GAO report - why not deluge the other poster with other data that backs up your assertion and see how they react?
It's not so much the duration sampled as the use to which you are putting the content that's important.
Are you using the sample because it's a convenient way to get a nice sound (not fair use) or because the original work it came from is important to the meaning of your new work (possibly fair use)?
I think TFA is referring to mashups in sense of music and video content combined in creative ways, rather than in the sense of software systems that pull data from other systems and combine them.
Transforming content from one form to another is not necessarily considered creative. In the case of guitar tabs, I guess it isn't.
If you painted a canvas that included graphic representations of the tabs for a song and the use of those specific tabs had some connection with the theme of the painting that was important to the meaning of the overall piece, I would guess that fair use would come into play.
I do have a bit of a problem with the whole "web 2.0" buzzword, because all I see really is an evolution of web collaboration technologies rather than something distinctly true, but I definitely agree that the cuirrent direction of the evolution is towards more and more user generated content. (personally, I think that at some point, the balance will start to swing back a bit as people realise that well written, well edited content is worth something)
Ignore the anonymous troll that replied. The fact you read my post and replies prooves you're not ignorant.
Taking issue with a specific statement in a post does not mean that I was disagreeing with the whole thing - that's why I quoted the part I was correcting.
Otlet certainly was a visionary, but that doesn't change the fact that online communities are more than 3-5 years old.
the whole concept of "online communities" is a rather new idea (about 3 to 5 years at the most)
I must have imagined usenet then I guess.
Even in the strict web-based sense of online communities with registration, member profiles, forums and so on, I was working building them in the late nineties so they have definitely been around for longer than 3-5 years.
You could argue that online social networking communities (i.e. systems that create networks of users based on their relationships) are a more recent development, but there are some older examples of them around - they just didn't get into the mainstream.
We locked up over 2000 people without charge between 1971 and 1975.
Internment is now widely seen as a really bad idea that made the problems in Northern Ireland worse. Support for the IRA rose and civil rights marches put extra pressure on British forces in Northern Ireland, leading to 'Bloody Sunday'
I have no confidence that this new power to hold people without charge will be restricted to circumstances where it is absolutely required. The actual text of the act is remarkably vague on when and how it should be applied.
I think you misunderstand the relationship between the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
The House of Lords can send legislation back to the House of Commons for a re-think but ultimately, the Government can force the will of the House of Commons through by invoking the Parliament Act.
All the House of Lords can do is delay things, which means they can prevent bad laws being rushed through without anyone knowing about them but they can't prevent the elected members getting their way in the end.
Surely finding similar life elsewhere would hint that there is some underlying principle that makes a particular kind of life (ours) likely to arise given a certain range of starting conditions.
If I were an ID beliver, I'd be hoping for a completely different form of life. If I were an ID beliver I would think that another, different, unfeasibly unlikely evolution provided yet more evidence that there simply must be a guiding hand at work.
More of the same would seem to indicate a natural process rather than a supernatural intelligence.
I mean, actors doing voice overs still get paid millions of dollars for doing a Disney/Pixar movie don't they? How is that any different than what's being done in the video game industry?
It's different because those actors being paid millions by Disney/Pixar are _already famous_ - Disney/Pixar think that by having them working on the film, they will get bigger audiences and sell more DVDs.
This guy's name on the credits won't sell any more copies of the game so he is paid for the work he does rather than the value of his personal 'brand'
If he wanted more, he should have demanded it before he signed the contract but he didn't because he knew that if he did, they just would have got someone else to play the role.
I've been trying to see things from his point of view, but no matter how hard I try, there's just no way to justify giving the guy any part of the merchandise profit from Star Wars just because he's created some replica armor.
The thing you seem to have missed is that this guy designed the _original_ stormtrooper costumes for the first film.
Licensing is a barrier to entry to the market but I think that it is good to have barriers to entry for some markets.
If someone opens a new restaurant, I want them to have to let the relevent authorities know, so they can come and do a hygiene check before they start serving food.
If someone wants to be a taxi driver, I want them to have to be on a list and have an ID tag so that if I have a problem with a driver I can take down their number and complain about them.
If you just let anyone enter these markets whenever they like, you end up with lots of fly-by-night operations that are here today and gone tomorrow. Licensing ensures people are serious about their business before they open their doors.
I don't know how it works in the states but over here in the UK, licensing works pretty well for all kinds of businesses.
For example, pubs have to have an license to serve alcohol. Too much trouble around a particular pub and they can lose their license.
Restaurants and cafes need a license to serve food. If the health inspectors find that the hygene standards are not adhered to, they lose their license.
Taxis and private hire cars have to licensed. They can lose their license if they drive unsafely.
I like the fact that if the pub down the road causes trouble on our street it will be closed down, bad restuarants lose their licenses before they give me food poisoning and I can get into a taxi knowing that the driver hasn't been in a whole load of crashes.
The only sensible alternative is for businesses to opt in to voluntary schemes. This does work well for some kinds of business but for some things, especially where people might be endangered, I'm happy that we have mandatory licensing.
While I agree with your sentiments, I have to point out that the quote you ascribe to Mussolini is something of a myth, probably based on a mistranslation. He is not known to have said that and, based on what he wrote, his philiosophy did not include giving power to anything other than the fascist state.
slow down there fella, I never said that such stores exist or ever existed. I just suggested that it was possible.
Personally, I buy pretty much all my books from Amazon and have for years but I wouldn't assume that anyone who says they prefered some favourite bookstore was deluded.
I can speak from experience on a related kind of shopping. I still buy most of my music from a small, local, physical record store because the people there know me and know what I like. They regularly suggest great music to me that I wouldn't have found otherwise without spending hours wading through crap. It's a bit more expensive than online or a big chain store but it's worth it.
If other people have bookstores that have as good service as I get from my record store then I can imagine them not wanting to lose them.
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>You're a self-satisfied twerp
No, I think that would be you actually. (At least, that's how you have come across to this independent observer)
I don't know whether there is any racial bias in US sentencing but at least the other poster is trying to provide information here rather than just confusing the issue (I assume you are not actually stupid enough to really think that anyone who supports human rights must be liberal - where would the right wing be without individual rights?)
The other poster seems prepared to look at contradictory information, so why not give it to them rather than just claiming there is no point.
You've made a start with the link to the GAO report - why not deluge the other poster with other data that backs up your assertion and see how they react?
The Mortal Engines Quartet by Phillip Reeve would be great for the age group you are talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Engines_Quartet
(According to that article, the quartet is known as 'The Hungry City Chronicles' in the USA)
It has some really interesting ideas (e.g. towns and cities that have become mobile and predatory, stripping their prey settlements for raw materials)
The setting is post-apocalyptic steampunk and is well realised.
The stories move along at a great pace with plenty of action and adventure.
It's not so much the duration sampled as the use to which you are putting the content that's important.
Are you using the sample because it's a convenient way to get a nice sound (not fair use) or because the original work it came from is important to the meaning of your new work (possibly fair use)?
I think TFA is referring to mashups in sense of music and video content combined in creative ways, rather than in the sense of software systems that pull data from other systems and combine them.
Fair use applies to creative reuse of content.
Transforming content from one form to another is not necessarily considered creative. In the case of guitar tabs, I guess it isn't.
If you painted a canvas that included graphic representations of the tabs for a song and the use of those specific tabs had some connection with the theme of the painting that was important to the meaning of the overall piece, I would guess that fair use would come into play.
Wouldn't that tendancy be much the same on both sides of the Atlantic though?
The British press is not known for avoiding sensationalism.
Fair play for correcting yourself.
I do have a bit of a problem with the whole "web 2.0" buzzword, because all I see really is an evolution of web collaboration technologies rather than something distinctly true, but I definitely agree that the cuirrent direction of the evolution is towards more and more user generated content. (personally, I think that at some point, the balance will start to swing back a bit as people realise that well written, well edited content is worth something)
Ignore the anonymous troll that replied. The fact you read my post and replies prooves you're not ignorant.
Taking issue with a specific statement in a post does not mean that I was disagreeing with the whole thing - that's why I quoted the part I was correcting.
Otlet certainly was a visionary, but that doesn't change the fact that online communities are more than 3-5 years old.
I must have imagined usenet then I guess.
Even in the strict web-based sense of online communities with registration, member profiles, forums and so on, I was working building them in the late nineties so they have definitely been around for longer than 3-5 years.
You could argue that online social networking communities (i.e. systems that create networks of users based on their relationships) are a more recent development, but there are some older examples of them around - they just didn't get into the mainstream.
This map is interesting:
http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=210
Looks like Europe is increasing it's spending on education faster than the USA is.
Hear hear!
The idea that citizens of a country that has done wrong have no right to criticise things that other countries do leads only to tit for tat nonsense.
It's really easy to pull up bad things that any country has done but that doesn't condone things that other countries do.
I share your views about Guantanamo bay.
However, it's not quite true that we never did anything like this in response to Irish Republican terrorism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Demetrius
We locked up over 2000 people without charge between 1971 and 1975.
Internment is now widely seen as a really bad idea that made the problems in Northern Ireland worse. Support for the IRA rose and civil rights marches put extra pressure on British forces in Northern Ireland, leading to 'Bloody Sunday'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972)
Remember the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIP Act)?
It was supposed to be used against terrorists and organised crime but is now finding use against minor criminals such as litter droppers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7369543.stm
In one memorable case, a council invoked it to spy on a family to see if they lived close enough to the school they wanted their child to attend.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7341179.stm
I have no confidence that this new power to hold people without charge will be restricted to circumstances where it is absolutely required. The actual text of the act is remarkably vague on when and how it should be applied.
I think you misunderstand the relationship between the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
The House of Lords can send legislation back to the House of Commons for a re-think but ultimately, the Government can force the will of the House of Commons through by invoking the Parliament Act.
All the House of Lords can do is delay things, which means they can prevent bad laws being rushed through without anyone knowing about them but they can't prevent the elected members getting their way in the end.
Nice straw man!
As a Sexist Conservative, I bet you believe women shouldn't get to vote.
(Unlikely to be true but since we're throwing ridiculous generalisations around, I thought I'd add it to the mix)
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Surely finding similar life elsewhere would hint that there is some underlying principle that makes a particular kind of life (ours) likely to arise given a certain range of starting conditions.
If I were an ID beliver, I'd be hoping for a completely different form of life. If I were an ID beliver I would think that another, different, unfeasibly unlikely evolution provided yet more evidence that there simply must be a guiding hand at work.
More of the same would seem to indicate a natural process rather than a supernatural intelligence.
It's different because those actors being paid millions by Disney/Pixar are _already famous_ - Disney/Pixar think that by having them working on the film, they will get bigger audiences and sell more DVDs.
This guy's name on the credits won't sell any more copies of the game so he is paid for the work he does rather than the value of his personal 'brand'
If he wanted more, he should have demanded it before he signed the contract but he didn't because he knew that if he did, they just would have got someone else to play the role.
In the UK, any decent sized bookshop or library will have a good sized sci-fi section.
I was introduced to sci-fi and fantasy through my local library.
If the library is at all big, ask the librarians if one of them is into sci-fi - most likely at least one is and will have read everything they have.
The thing you seem to have missed is that this guy designed the _original_ stormtrooper costumes for the first film.
>I draw the line at my front door.
So what's your problem with the OP sending the census person away from his _front door_ without the information they demanded from him?
So, what does licensing do again?
Licensing is a barrier to entry to the market but I think that it is good to have barriers to entry for some markets.
If someone opens a new restaurant, I want them to have to let the relevent authorities know, so they can come and do a hygiene check before they start serving food.
If someone wants to be a taxi driver, I want them to have to be on a list and have an ID tag so that if I have a problem with a driver I can take down their number and complain about them.
If you just let anyone enter these markets whenever they like, you end up with lots of fly-by-night operations that are here today and gone tomorrow. Licensing ensures people are serious about their business before they open their doors.
I don't know how it works in the states but over here in the UK, licensing works pretty well for all kinds of businesses.
For example, pubs have to have an license to serve alcohol. Too much trouble around a particular pub and they can lose their license.
Restaurants and cafes need a license to serve food. If the health inspectors find that the hygene standards are not adhered to, they lose their license.
Taxis and private hire cars have to licensed. They can lose their license if they drive unsafely.
I like the fact that if the pub down the road causes trouble on our street it will be closed down, bad restuarants lose their licenses before they give me food poisoning and I can get into a taxi knowing that the driver hasn't been in a whole load of crashes.
The only sensible alternative is for businesses to opt in to voluntary schemes. This does work well for some kinds of business but for some things, especially where people might be endangered, I'm happy that we have mandatory licensing.
While I agree with your sentiments, I have to point out that the quote you ascribe to Mussolini is something of a myth, probably based on a mistranslation. He is not known to have said that and, based on what he wrote, his philiosophy did not include giving power to anything other than the fascist state.
(see http://www.publiceye.org/fascist/corporatism.html)
slow down there fella, I never said that such stores exist or ever existed. I just suggested that it was possible.
Personally, I buy pretty much all my books from Amazon and have for years but I wouldn't assume that anyone who says they prefered some favourite bookstore was deluded.
I can speak from experience on a related kind of shopping. I still buy most of my music from a small, local, physical record store because the people there know me and know what I like. They regularly suggest great music to me that I wouldn't have found otherwise without spending hours wading through crap. It's a bit more expensive than online or a big chain store but it's worth it.
If other people have bookstores that have as good service as I get from my record store then I can imagine them not wanting to lose them.