Think of the children... of the music and movie executives and shareholders! Without police enforcement of their right to inherit royalties, they might have to get jobs when they grow up!
Kurosawa? Bach? Seriously? If I were looking for analogies to Doom in other media, I'd go with the myth of Cronos devouring his children rather than The Odyssey, and "Anchors Aweigh" rather than "Mass in B Minor". Flashy, unsophisticated crowd pleasers. In film a better analogy would be Friday the 13th.
Though maybe you're right, and Doom really is the foundation upon which modern gaming is built, and a standard touchstone for the medium. If cinema had followed the same path, then the majority of new releases would be slasher films, and most of the rest would follow the same conventions, regardless of genre: lots of dark shadows, an ensemble cast that slowly gets reduced to a single protagonist and antagonist, a fake ending before the final climax, etc.
I played games once upon a time (before Doom became THE game), and I enjoyed them. But I look at modern gaming and I see a cineplex full of slasher films. The only reason I "don't like games" (as you put it) is because the "games" medium has been Doomed.
But how many of those fatalities were caused by human beings with 4 wheels under them? "Dangerous" doesn't just mean "dangerous to the driver", a concept that most SUV-armed drivers don't seem to grasp.
Actually 4 wheels aren't necessary; 2 will suffice.
However studies show that 4 wheels do tend to degrade operator attentiveness much more than 2 wheels do. Motorcyclists usually focus better on the task at hand (i.e. operating the motorcycle) than automobilists do, because they have fewer things such as passengers, radios/CD/MP3 players, heating/cooling systems, phones, computers, etc. to distract them from it. They also get direct feedback (in terms of wind, seeing the pavement rush past their feet, etc.) of how fast they're going, which helps in making judgments about (for example) how much to brake before making a turn. The more that vehicles mask the vehicle's speed from the operator (smoother ride, better soundproofing, etc), the more dangerous they become.
A job counts as "some source of income". It was enough for my parents. And theirs. And so on. Somehow, we've managed for generations without the patronage of a rich ancestor! I'm sure that our descendants will also.
(And in most of the civilized world, you can get a decent-to-excellent education even without your parents having a job.)
You want to ensure that your great-grandchildren have a roof over their heads? Encourage your children to tell their children to study hard in school, learn a useful trade, and get a job, so they can provide for their children. You're not supposed to have to pay for that yourself.
When did the establishment of a hereditary leisure class become a social good?
It works the other way around as well. The US vs. pretty much the rest of the world use different milestones to calculate copyright expiration. In the US it's the date of creation, elsewhere it's date of the creator's death. So for a long-lived creator who got an early start on his career, copyright on his early works would expire sooner in the US than elsewhere*, but for a short-lived creator or one who created works shortly before his death, those works will generally expire sooner in the rest of the world. (The US has changed its standard to match the rest of the world for new copyrights, but it'll be a while before that's relevant.)
*Once upon a time it was possible for a creator's US copyrights to expire while he was still alive, which was obviously not possible elsewhere.
No, it would apply to works created in other countries, but only in the US. Outside the US, local copyright laws apply. This is oversimplifying it a little, but.... international copyright law doesn't care where the work was created; under both Berne and the UCC, all works get the same treatment in any given country, regardless of origin.
But according to this article, the scope is actually more specific than that. The argument is that individual state laws are providing this protection for sound recordings, not US federal law, so the expiration date could be different in every state (which pretty well cries out of the interstate-commerce authority of Congress to get involved).
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Wikipedia works because people enjoy showing off what they know. I'm not sure that motivation would apply to sifting through accounting figures.
Think of the children... of the music and movie executives and shareholders! Without police enforcement of their right to inherit royalties, they might have to get jobs when they grow up!
Kurosawa? Bach? Seriously? If I were looking for analogies to Doom in other media, I'd go with the myth of Cronos devouring his children rather than The Odyssey, and "Anchors Aweigh" rather than "Mass in B Minor". Flashy, unsophisticated crowd pleasers. In film a better analogy would be Friday the 13th.
Though maybe you're right, and Doom really is the foundation upon which modern gaming is built, and a standard touchstone for the medium. If cinema had followed the same path, then the majority of new releases would be slasher films, and most of the rest would follow the same conventions, regardless of genre: lots of dark shadows, an ensemble cast that slowly gets reduced to a single protagonist and antagonist, a fake ending before the final climax, etc.
I played games once upon a time (before Doom became THE game), and I enjoyed them. But I look at modern gaming and I see a cineplex full of slasher films. The only reason I "don't like games" (as you put it) is because the "games" medium has been Doomed.
I still haven't played it. Or any of its derivatives.
I don't feel that I've missed anything that I care about having in my life.
I'm willing to bet the whole farm.
This makes about as much sense for users as trying to use (stationary) wifi hotpots from a moving vehicle.
Try going to a better school next time.
Only a small fraction of what people learn at a college is from the lectures. Most of the rest comes from being in actual contact with other people.
But how many of those fatalities were caused by human beings with 4 wheels under them? "Dangerous" doesn't just mean "dangerous to the driver", a concept that most SUV-armed drivers don't seem to grasp.
King of the world, even.
"no matter how attentive the operator of the 2-wheeled vehicle is, 4 wheels are safer in traffic."
Only safer for the operator, not for the traffic.
Actually 4 wheels aren't necessary; 2 will suffice.
However studies show that 4 wheels do tend to degrade operator attentiveness much more than 2 wheels do. Motorcyclists usually focus better on the task at hand (i.e. operating the motorcycle) than automobilists do, because they have fewer things such as passengers, radios/CD/MP3 players, heating/cooling systems, phones, computers, etc. to distract them from it. They also get direct feedback (in terms of wind, seeing the pavement rush past their feet, etc.) of how fast they're going, which helps in making judgments about (for example) how much to brake before making a turn. The more that vehicles mask the vehicle's speed from the operator (smoother ride, better soundproofing, etc), the more dangerous they become.
Will you settle for a ship metaphor?
This is like rating a passenger vessel as "unsinkable".
A job counts as "some source of income". It was enough for my parents. And theirs. And so on. Somehow, we've managed for generations without the patronage of a rich ancestor! I'm sure that our descendants will also.
(And in most of the civilized world, you can get a decent-to-excellent education even without your parents having a job.)
What third world country do you live in?
My parents didn't inherit any copyright (or other) money. So my father got a job. Worked pretty well.
No, because Christ didn't join the RIAA. In fact, he drove the RIAA out of the temple along with the rest of the money-changers.
I knew about Wave, and had plenty of opportunity to use it.
I just couldn't come up with a reason.
You want to ensure that your great-grandchildren have a roof over their heads? Encourage your children to tell their children to study hard in school, learn a useful trade, and get a job, so they can provide for their children. You're not supposed to have to pay for that yourself.
When did the establishment of a hereditary leisure class become a social good?
Under international treaty, all copyright laws are local.
In the US, US copyright law applies (or their local state's copyright law, it seems), regardless of where the material was created.
In the UK, UK copyright law applies, regardless.
In Albania, Albanian copyright law applies, regardless.
Et cetera.
It works the other way around as well. The US vs. pretty much the rest of the world use different milestones to calculate copyright expiration. In the US it's the date of creation, elsewhere it's date of the creator's death. So for a long-lived creator who got an early start on his career, copyright on his early works would expire sooner in the US than elsewhere*, but for a short-lived creator or one who created works shortly before his death, those works will generally expire sooner in the rest of the world. (The US has changed its standard to match the rest of the world for new copyrights, but it'll be a while before that's relevant.)
*Once upon a time it was possible for a creator's US copyrights to expire while he was still alive, which was obviously not possible elsewhere.
"I think you mean any USA created work?"
No, it would apply to works created in other countries, but only in the US. Outside the US, local copyright laws apply. This is oversimplifying it a little, but.... international copyright law doesn't care where the work was created; under both Berne and the UCC, all works get the same treatment in any given country, regardless of origin.
But according to this article, the scope is actually more specific than that. The argument is that individual state laws are providing this protection for sound recordings, not US federal law, so the expiration date could be different in every state (which pretty well cries out of the interstate-commerce authority of Congress to get involved).
The vast majority of stock trading does nothing whatsoever to raise capital for businesses. Most of it is a form of legal gambling.
I have a copy of the "Death of Superman" comic from 1992 around here somewhere. I'm gonna buy a house with it!