I wouldn't be allowed to copy that master and sell my own Fred IV albums.
But I should be able to sell it as "A Fred IV original master"... just like I could sell a piece of toilet paper used by Elvis - a piece of fan memorabelia.
(Now I'm not saying that Fred IV music is like used toilet paper...)
Aren't these park people responses interesting? They seem so upset that citizens have found a way to use the parks - that, like you said, have paid for them.
They seem shocked that someone would want to do something besides eat charred meat and drink beer in these public spaces.
I'm not sure public domain is so much a matter of ownership but what you can do with it.
If "Happy Birthday To You" were in the public domain, then restaurants could have their staff sing it to you on their birthday without paying for it. That doesn't mean they are necessarily claiming credit for it.
As for Shakespeare, I'd be foolish to claim his work as my own. But since it's in the public domain, I'm free to put together a cast and perform it for the public without paying any royalties to his estate.
If Mickey Mouse is ever PD, then I'll be able to make my own T-shirts and keychains without having to pay Disney any royalties. But nobody will believe me when I say I created Mickey Mouse - and even if I did, he would already be in the PD and someone else can do what they want with him, regardless of my claim.
Oregon already charges income tax against people who work in the state but don't live there. So, I doubt they'd have any reluctance to charge Oregon residents for miles they drive outside the state.
the tax rate hasn't changed since 1991, and the more fuel-efficient cars on the highways are sucking down far less fuel. The result, according to Whitty, is that tax income hasn't been able to keep pace with inflation, or with the need for additional road repairs due to increased traffic.
I hate it when people talk about tax RATES and inflation. If the tax rate was sound in the first place, it shouldn't have to change. The complaint should be that the cost of gas has not increased with inflation.
People make the same argument about income tax rates. They say the rate hasn't changed in years, and therefore we need to raise it. They don't seem to understand that with inflation, wages should also increase, so the revenue from an income tax increases as well.
To say that the tax rate should increase periodically means that you would eventually want a tax rate of 100% - because until you reach 100%, you can always say "it hasn't increased in __ years".
Well, we could put check-stations on each road leaving the state that could check you in and out of the state and record your odometers. It would be like the California fruit check stations.
How much does that cost compared to the revenue generated? Of course, that doesn't matter unless the legislator has stock in check-station builders.
There was an interesting article a while back about how in human relationships, including legal systems, there has always been some give and take. Few laws are written in such a way that it is practical to have 100% enforcement. Most people wouldn't tolerate it.
Do we really want a system where every law is prosecuted 100% because we have the technology to conduct the necessary surveillance?
How many laws have you broken today? You might be surprised. With all the silly, and rarely-enforced laws, you would probably be surprised to find that you're not guilt-free.
Then there's the matter of practicality. You're driving down the freeway at the speed limit, and you approach a downhill grade... it would not be uncommon to exceed the speed limit just from the gravity assist. Should you automatically get a ticket?
This would be like the addresses used in Utah... most of them are like 1245N 1799W. This is basically a grid coord based on the Temple in Salt Lake being 0,0.
and if you allow lowercase, then l - "L" is bad too.
I like the little slashes that some people put in 7's and Z's. I always feel smarter when I write like that. Of course, I'm sure the feeling is only illusory!
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But they are plastic bottles. Is that really any better than a plastic-lined can? (or whatever it is they line it with)?
Guinness on tap is obviously better than Guinness from a bottle or can, but Guinness from a bottle or can is better than no Guinness at all.
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The two essentials of life apparently come from bras. Life just keeps getting better all the time!
That's how bonds work. You get the money from the investor today. Every year, you pay some interest, and at the end of the term of the bond, you give the investor his money back. Most bonds are in the 10 to 30 year range.
Suppose you sell a $1000 20 year bond at 8%. The investor pays you $1000 (or whatever the market says it's worth, based on inflation estimates and your company's credit rating).
Each year, you pay the owner of that bond $80. After 20 years, you pay him $1000 + $80.
Corporate debt, in the form of bonds, is necessarily a long-term kind of consideration.
Many years ago, we had a professor that would program his earthquake models into Postscript. It turns out that the processors in the Postscript enabled printeres could process the models much faster and with a higher degree of precision than the 286s at the time.
This risk is one reason why some countries don't accept GM food, even if people are starving and others are offering to give it to them for free: They're afraid that sterile seeds will cause an even greater famine next harvest. Though there's a lot of paranoia around GM food, this particular fear sounds valid.
Amazing! These people, who have so little, seem to have an important sense of vision and planning for the future. It's so refreshing because it's not something that is often seen in this Western world of "plenty". There is hope for us all, afterall!
The whole idea behind capitalism is that you, as an individual, own your own time, talents, and property.
You are free to use that time, talents, and property in any way you deem appropriate, including to gain more time, talents, and property.
There is nothing inherently bad about this. Like communism and socialism, it is a framework for economic activity and should not be used as a framework for ethics and morality. That is the purview of religion and philosophy.
There is danger that you could be considered an accoplice if you know he has the child porn and then provide advice on how to transport it from one system to another. If he still gets caught, the last thing you want is him telling how you helped him preserve his collection.
Also, I think confronting the employee may not be the best/safest option. Suppose he is aware that he could go to prison for a very long time for his child porn, in addition to losing his job. This man might be very desperate to keep that from happening and may decide it would be much easier to find some way to make you dissappear.
But, I'm not paying the manufacturer of the can opener for a "license" to use the can opener. I purchase it and own it.
Have you ever licensed a photocopier? When it breaks, you call them, and they come fix it. You don't own it, and you can't sell it, but you're paying to use it.
In the case of a CD or DVD, the RIAA and MPAA would have me believe that I've purchased the right to listen or view the content on the CD or DVD, rather than owning the content. If that is true, then I should be able to take steps to perpetuate my ability to excersise that license.
If I feel it's worth the trouble and expense, I CAN photocopy a book, and I CAN copy a CD, and this is legal. I should be able to make copies of the DVDs or any other digital content in order to exersise my license to view the content. And if the dog eats the original, it's still legal for me to use the copy that I've made.
If you're the devil's advocate, what does that make me?
It is nearly impossible to stop all hunger and disease - look at many 1st world nations that have not accomplished this.
If your philosophy is not to spend money on anything else until everyone is fed and healthy, then all you'll ever do is give out food and medicine. You'll never spend money on technology or infrastructure because there will always be at least one more hungry or sick person.
There was a program to distribute cellphones to remote villages in India. You might say they shouldn't do that because there is still unclean water, polio, and hunger. But the villages that received the phones prospered directly from them. Most importantly, they were able to call into the markets of the larger towns to find out how much their crops were selling for. In the past, the middle-men who would transport these crops to the market would pay only what they had to and would make lots of money. Now these middle-men make the money for transporting the goods, but the village most often gets a much better price. The village is now more self-sufficient and can make their own improvements in their living conditions.
By your philosophy, this would never have happened and they would be beholden the the middlemen who ripped them off, and the international aid agencies that would only give them food.
And again, there is little I can do to treat an HIV sufferer. But who knows. Mabye I could teach her to develop webpages and she can do something rewarding and even a bit profitable with her life. Would you have her simply waste away in a hospital? What kind of a life is that?
I can only do what I know how to do. I don't know how to teach better farming or even how to set up water purification, and nor could most geeks. These geeks go and do what they can. By improving one aspect, hopefully the whole system improves.
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I wouldn't be allowed to copy that master and sell my own Fred IV albums.
But I should be able to sell it as "A Fred IV original master"... just like I could sell a piece of toilet paper used by Elvis - a piece of fan memorabelia.
(Now I'm not saying that Fred IV music is like used toilet paper...)
Aren't these park people responses interesting? They seem so upset that citizens have found a way to use the parks - that, like you said, have paid for them.
They seem shocked that someone would want to do something besides eat charred meat and drink beer in these public spaces.
It's sad, really.
I'm not sure public domain is so much a matter of ownership but what you can do with it.
If "Happy Birthday To You" were in the public domain, then restaurants could have their staff sing it to you on their birthday without paying for it. That doesn't mean they are necessarily claiming credit for it.
As for Shakespeare, I'd be foolish to claim his work as my own. But since it's in the public domain, I'm free to put together a cast and perform it for the public without paying any royalties to his estate.
If Mickey Mouse is ever PD, then I'll be able to make my own T-shirts and keychains without having to pay Disney any royalties. But nobody will believe me when I say I created Mickey Mouse - and even if I did, he would already be in the PD and someone else can do what they want with him, regardless of my claim.
Thanks! I forgot that tax was per volume, and not by price.
Oregon already charges income tax against people who work in the state but don't live there. So, I doubt they'd have any reluctance to charge Oregon residents for miles they drive outside the state.
the tax rate hasn't changed since 1991, and the more fuel-efficient cars on the highways are sucking down far less fuel. The result, according to Whitty, is that tax income hasn't been able to keep pace with inflation, or with the need for additional road repairs due to increased traffic.
I hate it when people talk about tax RATES and inflation. If the tax rate was sound in the first place, it shouldn't have to change. The complaint should be that the cost of gas has not increased with inflation.
People make the same argument about income tax rates. They say the rate hasn't changed in years, and therefore we need to raise it. They don't seem to understand that with inflation, wages should also increase, so the revenue from an income tax increases as well.
To say that the tax rate should increase periodically means that you would eventually want a tax rate of 100% - because until you reach 100%, you can always say "it hasn't increased in __ years".
Well, we could put check-stations on each road leaving the state that could check you in and out of the state and record your odometers. It would be like the California fruit check stations.
How much does that cost compared to the revenue generated? Of course, that doesn't matter unless the legislator has stock in check-station builders.
There was an interesting article a while back about how in human relationships, including legal systems, there has always been some give and take. Few laws are written in such a way that it is practical to have 100% enforcement. Most people wouldn't tolerate it.
Do we really want a system where every law is prosecuted 100% because we have the technology to conduct the necessary surveillance?
How many laws have you broken today? You might be surprised. With all the silly, and rarely-enforced laws, you would probably be surprised to find that you're not guilt-free.
Then there's the matter of practicality. You're driving down the freeway at the speed limit, and you approach a downhill grade... it would not be uncommon to exceed the speed limit just from the gravity assist. Should you automatically get a ticket?
This would be like the addresses used in Utah ... most of them are like 1245N 1799W. This is basically a grid coord based on the Temple in Salt Lake being 0,0.
and if you allow lowercase, then l - "L" is bad too.
I like the little slashes that some people put in 7's and Z's. I always feel smarter when I write like that. Of course, I'm sure the feeling is only illusory!
But they are plastic bottles. Is that really any better than a plastic-lined can? (or whatever it is they line it with)?
Guinness on tap is obviously better than Guinness from a bottle or can, but Guinness from a bottle or can is better than no Guinness at all.
The two essentials of life apparently come from bras. Life just keeps getting better all the time!
Easy. Just use a picture of my history professor's ex-mother-in-law. They'll run screaming and never come back. No need to kill them.
But I think there is something in the Geneva Convention against such cruel and unusual punishment!
You must be theonly slashdot reader who actually reads the articles. The submitter must have figured he would get away with it!
That's how bonds work. You get the money from the investor today. Every year, you pay some interest, and at the end of the term of the bond, you give the investor his money back. Most bonds are in the 10 to 30 year range.
Suppose you sell a $1000 20 year bond at 8%. The investor pays you $1000 (or whatever the market says it's worth, based on inflation estimates and your company's credit rating).
Each year, you pay the owner of that bond $80. After 20 years, you pay him $1000 + $80.
Corporate debt, in the form of bonds, is necessarily a long-term kind of consideration.
At least crack will kill you outright. M$ just keeps you bleeding as long as possible!
Maybe the editors think they'll get more people reading the articles if they make the headings cryptic enough?
Many years ago, we had a professor that would program his earthquake models into Postscript. It turns out that the processors in the Postscript enabled printeres could process the models much faster and with a higher degree of precision than the 286s at the time.
This risk is one reason why some countries don't accept GM food, even if people are starving and others are offering to give it to them for free: They're afraid that sterile seeds will cause an even greater famine next harvest. Though there's a lot of paranoia around GM food, this particular fear sounds valid.
Amazing! These people, who have so little, seem to have an important sense of vision and planning for the future. It's so refreshing because it's not something that is often seen in this Western world of "plenty". There is hope for us all, afterall!
Not all capitalists are bad.
The whole idea behind capitalism is that you, as an individual, own your own time, talents, and property.
You are free to use that time, talents, and property in any way you deem appropriate, including to gain more time, talents, and property.
There is nothing inherently bad about this. Like communism and socialism, it is a framework for economic activity and should not be used as a framework for ethics and morality. That is the purview of religion and philosophy.
Please tell me, what algorithm or software do you use that can stop child porn 100% while not stopping other legitimate access to the internet?
There is danger that you could be considered an accoplice if you know he has the child porn and then provide advice on how to transport it from one system to another. If he still gets caught, the last thing you want is him telling how you helped him preserve his collection.
Also, I think confronting the employee may not be the best/safest option. Suppose he is aware that he could go to prison for a very long time for his child porn, in addition to losing his job. This man might be very desperate to keep that from happening and may decide it would be much easier to find some way to make you dissappear.
But, I'm not paying the manufacturer of the can opener for a "license" to use the can opener. I purchase it and own it.
Have you ever licensed a photocopier? When it breaks, you call them, and they come fix it. You don't own it, and you can't sell it, but you're paying to use it.
In the case of a CD or DVD, the RIAA and MPAA would have me believe that I've purchased the right to listen or view the content on the CD or DVD, rather than owning the content. If that is true, then I should be able to take steps to perpetuate my ability to excersise that license.
If I feel it's worth the trouble and expense, I CAN photocopy a book, and I CAN copy a CD, and this is legal. I should be able to make copies of the DVDs or any other digital content in order to exersise my license to view the content. And if the dog eats the original, it's still legal for me to use the copy that I've made.
If you're the devil's advocate, what does that make me?
Of course, this program is on PBS, so all the ads are at the end anyway..
It is nearly impossible to stop all hunger and disease - look at many 1st world nations that have not accomplished this.
If your philosophy is not to spend money on anything else until everyone is fed and healthy, then all you'll ever do is give out food and medicine. You'll never spend money on technology or infrastructure because there will always be at least one more hungry or sick person.
There was a program to distribute cellphones to remote villages in India. You might say they shouldn't do that because there is still unclean water, polio, and hunger. But the villages that received the phones prospered directly from them. Most importantly, they were able to call into the markets of the larger towns to find out how much their crops were selling for. In the past, the middle-men who would transport these crops to the market would pay only what they had to and would make lots of money. Now these middle-men make the money for transporting the goods, but the village most often gets a much better price. The village is now more self-sufficient and can make their own improvements in their living conditions.
By your philosophy, this would never have happened and they would be beholden the the middlemen who ripped them off, and the international aid agencies that would only give them food.
And again, there is little I can do to treat an HIV sufferer. But who knows. Mabye I could teach her to develop webpages and she can do something rewarding and even a bit profitable with her life. Would you have her simply waste away in a hospital? What kind of a life is that?
I can only do what I know how to do. I don't know how to teach better farming or even how to set up water purification, and nor could most geeks. These geeks go and do what they can. By improving one aspect, hopefully the whole system improves.