And if I make a copy of something, use it once and never again, what is the difference between this and lending, apart from the academic point you are trying to make?
So should judges to just sit on their hands and stall until the Supreme Court has told them how to decide the cases in front of them
No, judges should have a brain and not create laws where they don't exist. Government needs to be specifically allowed by law to do anything. If there is no law to specifically support an action, the government is barred from doing it. On the other hand people are allowed by birth to do anything provided there is no law to disallow it. A judge who doesn't understand this basic concept of FREEDOM should not be anywhere near a bench. Of course the above only applies to civilized countries. In the US however the government seems to be able to do whatever it wants, and if it gets in trouble it just creates laws for itself after the fact.
Yeah, if by dropping you mean continuing to set new record highs, then yeah they are dropping. Ebert is a movie shill - can hardly blame him, he makes his living from films. But this is Hollywood disinformation at its finest. The BS is usually right at the beginning of the argument, where most people aren't paying attention.
Yeah, the TSA proved that they stopped the shoe bomber and the underwear bomber - oh wait, that was sheer luck, ineptness of the attackers and quick action by other passengers. Either way your point is completely invalid because these people made it past checkpoints both inside and outside the US.
The only real surprise is how fast the insects coevolved
Not really. It's kind of like cracking copy protection on the internet. It only takes one. One successful cracker. Or in this case one successful mutation. Having exclusive access to entire crops that other insects can't touch offers a clear survival advantage, so once the mutation happens it's a given that there will be a population explosion of resistant types, within a single or at best a couple generations. Plagues of insects are not unheard of, because insects have phenomenal breeding capability. Well this is a man-made plague of resistant types.
was an ardent supporter of mercantilism and believed in using government power to facilitate the maximizing of profits.
I suggest you re-read Mein Kampf and Third Reich policy. Profit was not discouraged. However the state was very firm in pointing out that you were only allowed to make an "acceptable" profit. If you made more profit than what the state deemed enough for you, you would be dealt with.
People got rich under the communist government too. Long story short - there are always weasels who manage to game the system or make friends with the system or somehow bypass the system and make a shit-ton of money, in any form of state.
I dunno, when you nationalize industry, ignore money and pour the citizenry's efforts into collective social programs, and strongly support trade unions, make sure everyone is fed provided they do their allotted work for the state, what do YOU call it? Arbeit macht frei.
Modded troll, but actually quite close to the truth. However it's not only limited to "right-wing nutballs" but anyone with certain views and the lack of imagination to entertain different ones. This includes about 98% of any given population.
And how is this not defamation? I for one am sure my wife did not buy a Luis Vuitton bag now, after seeing how awful this one looked in the movie. Fortunately the real bags look much better, but it's too late for my wife. Secretly I'm glad because maybe we can buy a new car instead.
It is not unrealistic to assume that these two points combined might result in financial losses for the publishers
Which is why, in the information age, everyone should self-publish. The cost of doing so is absolutely trivial. Librarian's jobs stop being about collecting books and more about classifying freely available online information. Because keyword searching is absolutely useless and can easily be spammed or otherwise fooled, and search engines are liable to organize based on their profit and not on usefulness/accuracy of information.
Oh I'm far from angry, just wanted to open the poster's eyes a little. If you have a crack addict who borrows 100K from the Mafia, and gives away 20K to his "buddies" while spending the other 80K on a Porsche he somehow got financing for, more cocaine, bling, and other frivolous things, then you have a fair analogy. Instead of crack read oil. Instead of Porsche and bling read any number of entitlement and useless spending (including inflated "defense" spending that gets you multi-million dollar drones that can be easily captured by Iran), etc. You would not say that this person is rich. In fact you would say that this person is going to be in deep trouble when the Mafia decide to collect. And his "friends" are fair-weather friends of convenience. And it's useless to say "I told you so", because that person is damned certain that there is nothing wrong with their life-style.
If the DNA is stable enough to not kill the plant during it's life cycle, it's certainly not going to be a threat after being torn apart by your digestive enzymes.
No, government is a lie, just like religion is a lie. It exists to give an illusion to the stupid so they can have something to believe in and some feeling of comfort. But government breaks more than it solves, and is more idiotic than it is wise. Exactly how incompetent and powerless government is can be seen during any disaster where government bungling rarely helps and often makes things worse. Government is about staying in power and to hell with you, citizen. Do what you're told and die when you're told, and if not then here is the stick.
leads only two places: anarchy or a government you expect to only wrong you, and thus a lack of surprise or anger when it does.
Find me an example in human history where this has not happened, repeatedly, everywhere in the world. Forgive me for no longer being an idealist. I am too old.
finally got it through their heads to listen to the users and the common good?
No, they finally understood that at the rate current legislation is going around the world, there will be nothing worth downloading in a couple years anyway.
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And if I make a copy of something, use it once and never again, what is the difference between this and lending, apart from the academic point you are trying to make?
So should judges to just sit on their hands and stall until the Supreme Court has told them how to decide the cases in front of them
No, judges should have a brain and not create laws where they don't exist. Government needs to be specifically allowed by law to do anything. If there is no law to specifically support an action, the government is barred from doing it. On the other hand people are allowed by birth to do anything provided there is no law to disallow it. A judge who doesn't understand this basic concept of FREEDOM should not be anywhere near a bench. Of course the above only applies to civilized countries. In the US however the government seems to be able to do whatever it wants, and if it gets in trouble it just creates laws for itself after the fact.
Yeah, if by dropping you mean continuing to set new record highs, then yeah they are dropping. Ebert is a movie shill - can hardly blame him, he makes his living from films. But this is Hollywood disinformation at its finest. The BS is usually right at the beginning of the argument, where most people aren't paying attention.
Who says movie revenue is dropping?
Yeah, the TSA proved that they stopped the shoe bomber and the underwear bomber - oh wait, that was sheer luck, ineptness of the attackers and quick action by other passengers. Either way your point is completely invalid because these people made it past checkpoints both inside and outside the US.
The only real surprise is how fast the insects coevolved
Not really. It's kind of like cracking copy protection on the internet. It only takes one. One successful cracker. Or in this case one successful mutation. Having exclusive access to entire crops that other insects can't touch offers a clear survival advantage, so once the mutation happens it's a given that there will be a population explosion of resistant types, within a single or at best a couple generations. Plagues of insects are not unheard of, because insects have phenomenal breeding capability. Well this is a man-made plague of resistant types.
was an ardent supporter of mercantilism and believed in using government power to facilitate the maximizing of profits.
I suggest you re-read Mein Kampf and Third Reich policy. Profit was not discouraged. However the state was very firm in pointing out that you were only allowed to make an "acceptable" profit. If you made more profit than what the state deemed enough for you, you would be dealt with.
People got rich under the communist government too. Long story short - there are always weasels who manage to game the system or make friends with the system or somehow bypass the system and make a shit-ton of money, in any form of state.
I dunno, when you nationalize industry, ignore money and pour the citizenry's efforts into collective social programs, and strongly support trade unions, make sure everyone is fed provided they do their allotted work for the state, what do YOU call it? Arbeit macht frei.
Modded troll, but actually quite close to the truth. However it's not only limited to "right-wing nutballs" but anyone with certain views and the lack of imagination to entertain different ones. This includes about 98% of any given population.
Yup, the further to the right you go, you only get closer to the left.
And how is this not defamation? I for one am sure my wife did not buy a Luis Vuitton bag now, after seeing how awful this one looked in the movie. Fortunately the real bags look much better, but it's too late for my wife. Secretly I'm glad because maybe we can buy a new car instead.
Football is the most heterosexual sport there is. That's why me and the guys like to get together and watch it. No women allowed!
I think you should look up heterosexual in the dictionary. I don't think it means what you think it means.
It is not unrealistic to assume that these two points combined might result in financial losses for the publishers
Which is why, in the information age, everyone should self-publish. The cost of doing so is absolutely trivial. Librarian's jobs stop being about collecting books and more about classifying freely available online information. Because keyword searching is absolutely useless and can easily be spammed or otherwise fooled, and search engines are liable to organize based on their profit and not on usefulness/accuracy of information.
Evolution is usually pretty bloody as well. Not surviving because you weren't the fittest usually means you end up inside another creature's stomach.
Oh I'm far from angry, just wanted to open the poster's eyes a little. If you have a crack addict who borrows 100K from the Mafia, and gives away 20K to his "buddies" while spending the other 80K on a Porsche he somehow got financing for, more cocaine, bling, and other frivolous things, then you have a fair analogy. Instead of crack read oil. Instead of Porsche and bling read any number of entitlement and useless spending (including inflated "defense" spending that gets you multi-million dollar drones that can be easily captured by Iran), etc. You would not say that this person is rich. In fact you would say that this person is going to be in deep trouble when the Mafia decide to collect. And his "friends" are fair-weather friends of convenience. And it's useless to say "I told you so", because that person is damned certain that there is nothing wrong with their life-style.
Did the US brain drain all the engineers in Russia?
No, China did.
Americans figure if you don't launch any rockets then you can't botch any launches. The country without a real space program should stay quiet.
America is the world's debtor, not the world's creditor. It is you who "owes" us money.
If the DNA is stable enough to not kill the plant during it's life cycle, it's certainly not going to be a threat after being torn apart by your digestive enzymes.
may conduct offensive operations in cyberspace to defend
You see nothing wrong with this. Then you wonder why the world hates you.
Every single thing you eat has been genetically modified the good old fashioned way anyhow, through selective breeding.
No, government is a lie, just like religion is a lie. It exists to give an illusion to the stupid so they can have something to believe in and some feeling of comfort. But government breaks more than it solves, and is more idiotic than it is wise. Exactly how incompetent and powerless government is can be seen during any disaster where government bungling rarely helps and often makes things worse. Government is about staying in power and to hell with you, citizen. Do what you're told and die when you're told, and if not then here is the stick.
leads only two places: anarchy or a government you expect to only wrong you, and thus a lack of surprise or anger when it does.
Find me an example in human history where this has not happened, repeatedly, everywhere in the world. Forgive me for no longer being an idealist. I am too old.
finally got it through their heads to listen to the users and the common good?
No, they finally understood that at the rate current legislation is going around the world, there will be nothing worth downloading in a couple years anyway.