Because that is what artists agreed to for copyright to exist.
You don't just get to limit everyone's rights for no reason or benefit to them.
120 years is a limited time. It's limited to 120 years..
Enough with the "this isn't a limited time". At least have the balls to make the argument you want to make... Which is more like "I want to decide how long copyright lasts"
Until they pass a law extending copyright to eternity, then it is, by definition, a limited time...
Well, 120 years is a limited time.. It's limited to 120 years...
Quit acting like it's not a limited time. Your argument isn't for limited times, it's for a limited time YOU like. Well, I don't like your time, I want my time....
Your argument makes zero sense. He was paid either way. Why the hell, in that instance, would he care what the copyright term was? Besides, works for hire are (in the US and I believe in all Berne Convention countries) the property of the employer.
Do you base your work for hire on how long the company, that is paying you, is going to benefit from it?
Uh.. No.. Pump and dump would basically be fucking the girl and then immediately getting up and leaving...Perhaps never seeing her again. Hence the Pump and Dump.
If backwaters stopped selling their stuff to rich cities, their quality of life would collapse.
The quality of life in the backwaters would only collapse to a point. However, the quality of life in the cities would collapse to zero as everyone would eventually perish of starvation, illness, violence, or a combination of any of the three.
The backwaters would only revert to the level of subsistence farming..But that's a whole hell of a lot better than a level of dead.
Quit whining. I live in a backwater (total pop in a 10 mile radius is probably less than 5,000 people). Someone calling my area a backwater is mildly irritating at worst.
Just inwardly chuckle to yourself as you contemplate them breathing in the combined farts of 3,000,000 other humans.
Your stupid choice of words could be applied to children as well.. Or employees.. or anything.
Taught is the correct terminology. There were very few things that I was taught, while I served, that were not explained. Granted, I have zero knowledge of how other countries, and for that matter, other branches of my own country's military handle things. But, in the USAF, great care is taken to explain WHY something is done a certain way. There is vast latitude on how you can accomplish things that do not have a set-in-stone reason for doing them a certain way or in a certain order. But, you will get an explanation for WHY those things are they way they are.
When you teach someone something, you make someone much more valuable than simply training them. You can train a fucking monkey to punch buttons in a particular order. You can teach him what each button does but you cannot teach the monkey _why_ it needs to be pushed. A monkey cares about the results.. Not the reasoning behind the results..
Trained people also have a hard time adapting or innovating. Someone taught is in a much better situation.
Yes.. it is drilled into you. It does become part of your character. And yeah, most guys end up becoming neat freaks, of a sort. It's more unusual to run into a slob, in the military, than a tidy person.
Sounds like someone who has never been in the military or, more likely, is actively hostile to the concept and implementation of the military.
Yeah, they teach obedience, but they absolutely teach discipline as well.
If you think that a military member's every move is the result of an order.....
Self discipline and unit discipline are absolutely taught. I suspect, however, that you don't really care. You'll just keep spouting off your bullshit and patting yourself on the back.
Dead right: nothing is the clear winner compared to college when it comes to discipline. As a former mature student, I am in a position to speak on this.
Yeah.. Nothing beats college for discipline... Certainly not the military....
The US graduates 1.5 STEM students for every 1 entry-level STEM job opening.
You don't see the problem right there? You have over saturated the employment pool. Just because a job is useful doesn't mean EVERYONE should try to do it.
Go do one of the other useful jobs. It is quite useless to get a degree in a field you can't possibly find employment in. Education that can't be put to use is... useless.
I know a handful of welders... Not a single one took out a loan to go to welding school. It was expensive, but not beyond their ability to save up and then pay for it.
You lying sack of shit.... Student loans for welding school....... Are you fucking serious?
In fact, I don't know of a single trades employer who won't PAY for the schooling if it will result in a better and more skilled employee. Maybe some won't pay 100%, but most have generous yearly allotments you can take.
My former employer would pay up to $12K/year for industry related schooling. I thought that was quite generous, especially considering that they were already paying me $100K+/year in direct wages..
See, they had this list of things you could go learn, that would benefit THEM (and you) if you learned them.. Not only would they pay for you to learn these things, but after you did, they would raise your wages accordingly (you were now more valuable to the company)..
Oddly enough, Gender Studies and Basket Weaving were not on the list...
And No, the folks who came up with these technologies were decidedly NOT academics. they were blue collar workers and entrepreneurs. The Wright Brothers were fucking Bicycle mechanics.
Awesome post, man.. I suspect more than one liberal just had a stroke trying to comprehend that one..
Everything you said is true. But you are wasting your time. The left looks down on real work. If you work with your hands, you rate the same as a bum to them. I mean, if you don't earn money by sitting on your ass, you must be some sort of mouth-breathing degenerate.. Dirt is so... dirty... You can't expect them to get some on their delicate hands..
And don't even get them started on calluses.. I mean, if they get calluses, it won't feel like a girl's hand when they sit at home and jerk off. That's all they can do with that worthless degree..Sit at home and jerk off with those soft delicate hands....
Typical lefty, commie, cunt... Give him facts and he cries.
"Oh, it's so much harder today.. Oh my pussy hurts"
How about you stop bleeding all over the goddamn place for 5 minutes and learn from history?
Things aren't tougher now.. The problem is that the generation now wants instant gratification. You don't want to work while you earn your degree. You want it now...
You'll bury yourself in debt to have it NOW NOW NOW. Back in the day, either your parents PAID for your degree or you earned it while you worked, or you got a scholarship. But, it was PAID FOR NOW. Not later. NOT LATER.
(also, there were real men who simply worked for a living, raised a family, and did not burden society with their bitching about how hard work is)
NOBODY WENT INTO DEBT TO GET A DEGREE. What the fuck, about that, is so goddamn hard to acknowledge?
Nobody came out of University with $150,000 in debt. What the fuck, about that, is so hard to understand?
$50K/year is not horrible. You can live comfortably on it, even here in CA. Maybe YOU picked a stupidly high priced area to live in, but that's not my fault and I'm not gonna pay for it.
The left created the problem. The right pays for it. Always..
You create massive economic problems by refusing to accept that demand/supply are linked. And your solution is always to attack the successful and demand they pay for your fuckups.
Define early. Early like 4 years? i.e. the typical time for college? Early like that person is learning and getting paid, the whole time, to learn? Unlike college where you learn but pay out to learn?
It may take years to learn your trade, but once you have learned it, you have no debt..(at least not from the education side).
It's economics.. There is a severe shortage of tradespeople.. Wages have risen to attract new talent. No, it's not all fields.. Today it's heavy equipment operators. Maybe tomorrow it's electricians...
But keep beating that lefty drum... Keep telling yourself you "care" while driving policies that lead to people with useless Masters Degrees in Women's Studies working at Starbucks and saddled with debt they can't bankrupt... Debt that will last, on average, for 18 FUCKING YEARS.
If you can't take a week to research your options and find a job that will pay you $120K/year after a 4 year apprenticeship, then fuck you, you lazy fuck.. Go get that Doctorate..
Later you can be the asshole that hands me my Burger 'n' Fries. And you better say "Thank you, come again". Yeah, you better say it, because THAT JOB can be filled by anyone... It's suited to both high school dropouts and assholes with useless degrees.
This is precisely the attitude of the left, in general. It does not matter to them that you are correct. In fact, that is probably enraging this person.
The line of the left is "you must go to college" to succeed. The left hates any evidence that you can succeed by doing, what is traditionally called, blue collar work.
$100K+/year jobs are out there, waiting to be filled. Tens of thousands of those jobs in Texas alone. Tens of thousands more in CA... Hundreds of thousands across the United States.
The left will continue to drive the idea that to be successful you must bury yourself in debt to get that education. The left will offer you crap like Vagina Studies which will be absolutely useless in the real world. The left is fine that you'll end up working at Starbucks with $150K in student loans (that the Democrats made sure you can't bankrupt yourself out of) and will end up much poorer than the guy who's fixing your plumbing.
I went into the military, directly out of High School, and then when my 4 years were done, I went into the trades (telecom) and ended up (in 2 years) making $120K/year. No debt.. ZERO
You buy what you can afford. Debt should be reserved for the really big purchases.. House, car, etc..
If you put that Playstation on your credit card, you are an idiot. (unless it's a card rate less than inflation). Why the fuck would you pay more (via interest) for something you don't need, when you could just delay your instant gratification for a bit, and pay for it later with money you have? You'll pay less... It's as simple as that..
College is wonderful... Provided you can afford it.. Provided you need it... Provided it won't break you financially.
The parent poster is proof that the left are idiots. Ignorance sucks.. Ignore of economics and reality...
You can go to college ANY TIME. Do it after you are cash positive.. Take the schooling as you can afford it...
When is the left going to wake the fuck up and come to the realization that there is an absolute direct correlation between government student aid and the current cost of education?
Forever tuition directly matched inflation, and then when the government began the student load program, the VERY NEXT YEAR tuition began to rise much faster than inflation.
Supply and demand.. If suddenly everyone can afford to go to college, but there are not enough seats to go around, prices RISE. More demand than supply.... ECONOMICS 101
Meanwhile, Texas alone has a shortage of nearly 50,000 people qualified to work in very high paying ($100,000+/year) equipment operator jobs.
The left has pushed the "everyone must go to college to succeed" bullshit line. It is the government and the left that is a direct cause of the current financial crisis in education vis-a-vis the societal attitudes toward manual labor and blue collar jobs.
You can have your lame ass pharmacy technician job, in a field absolutely saturated with techs, and bring home $50K/year while trying to pay off $150,000 in student loans (which will take, on average, 17 years to pay off.
Meanwhile, there will be those who finish high school, go into the trades, and in 5 years are operating a crane at the Port of Los Angeles and will be making $200/hour and working 4 or 5 hours a day. That person will have vastly more free time and will be a lot richer than the moron who bought the line that you can only be well off if you go to college and load yourself up with tons of debt.
I am all for college. IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT.
If you have to load yourself up with crippling debt, to get that education, then I have no sympathy for you. Hopefully, after all that college, you'll at least be smart enough then to realize that 18 years of debt is not worth a $50,000/year job. Of course, by then it's too late.
Or, you could just realize that nothing the left does is actually for your benefit. The left was always the party of slavery and it still is. Back then it was physical slavery. Today it is economic slavery. The worse off you are economically, the more likely you are to vote Democrat.
The left cares nothing for you beyond your ability to vote. If they actually cared, then why is Obama currently worth $400 million? I mean, he could live like a King with $100 million. Why hasn't the other $300 million been donated to some charity?
Make all the excuses you want... We on the right know it's because he is fine with giving you MY money if it will get him YOUR vote. But he sure-as-fuck isn't gonna give up his money to get that same vote.
The current president of Venezuela just ADMITTED that socialism is the reason his country is BROKE. Socialism is the reason that people in that country are STARVING TO DEATH. Our track record with socialism and starvation remains at 100%.
The left won't be happy until that occurs here. It will, eventually... Socialism is a system that fails 100% of the time.
And no, you fucking cunts, the Nordic countries are not socialist. They aren't even close. They're slightly more capitalistic than the US if you really dig into it. The minor bit of socialism they have right now is breaking them, just like it's breaking the US.
70% of federal spending goes to entitlements and social programs. And now we are $20 T in debt.... How long do you fucking idiots, on the left, think this party can run?
Well fuck-a-roo, you read in a paper somewhere so.....
Yeah, lets mandate public school attendance.. I mean, fuck freedom... We've got a public school problem so lets just mandate attendance.. Having the freedom to choose where you want to send your kids to school, well that can take a fucking backseat to your needs/wants.
Which is why democracy fails in the end. People are morons, they can barely be trusted to vote for the people who actually pass the laws.. Of course, now we have mouth-breather politicians, so I guess it doesn't really matter.
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Why LIMITED though?
Because that is what artists agreed to for copyright to exist.
You don't just get to limit everyone's rights for no reason or benefit to them.
120 years is a limited time. It's limited to 120 years..
Enough with the "this isn't a limited time". At least have the balls to make the argument you want to make... Which is more like "I want to decide how long copyright lasts"
Until they pass a law extending copyright to eternity, then it is, by definition, a limited time...
Well, 120 years is a limited time.. It's limited to 120 years...
Quit acting like it's not a limited time. Your argument isn't for limited times, it's for a limited time YOU like. Well, I don't like your time, I want my time....
See the problem?
Your argument makes zero sense. He was paid either way. Why the hell, in that instance, would he care what the copyright term was? Besides, works for hire are (in the US and I believe in all Berne Convention countries) the property of the employer.
Do you base your work for hire on how long the company, that is paying you, is going to benefit from it?
They may use American courts, but the laws on copyrights are global.
Please try again..
Then why did your country sign the treaty?
If it was only US law, you could do whatever you want.. But, almost every country on Earth has signed the Berne Convention.
Besides, angry clueless person, Nintendo is not a U.S. company..
Ever have an original thought?
Uh.. No.. Pump and dump would basically be fucking the girl and then immediately getting up and leaving...Perhaps never seeing her again. Hence the Pump and Dump.
What's your fascination with Blumpkins?
Since you used the word "literally", which has a very specific meaning in the English language, can we assume you have actually viewed it?
Or are you using "Millennial English"?
If backwaters stopped selling their stuff to rich cities, their quality of life would collapse.
The quality of life in the backwaters would only collapse to a point. However, the quality of life in the cities would collapse to zero as everyone would eventually perish of starvation, illness, violence, or a combination of any of the three.
The backwaters would only revert to the level of subsistence farming..But that's a whole hell of a lot better than a level of dead.
I'd rather see the biases than wonder if they exist.. At least with the former we have proof and not just speculation.
Would you have been happier if he said "remote paradise" while thinking "shitkicker inbreeds must live here"?
Quit whining. I live in a backwater (total pop in a 10 mile radius is probably less than 5,000 people). Someone calling my area a backwater is mildly irritating at worst.
Just inwardly chuckle to yourself as you contemplate them breathing in the combined farts of 3,000,000 other humans.
Your stupid choice of words could be applied to children as well.. Or employees.. or anything.
Taught is the correct terminology. There were very few things that I was taught, while I served, that were not explained. Granted, I have zero knowledge of how other countries, and for that matter, other branches of my own country's military handle things. But, in the USAF, great care is taken to explain WHY something is done a certain way. There is vast latitude on how you can accomplish things that do not have a set-in-stone reason for doing them a certain way or in a certain order. But, you will get an explanation for WHY those things are they way they are.
When you teach someone something, you make someone much more valuable than simply training them. You can train a fucking monkey to punch buttons in a particular order. You can teach him what each button does but you cannot teach the monkey _why_ it needs to be pushed. A monkey cares about the results.. Not the reasoning behind the results..
Trained people also have a hard time adapting or innovating. Someone taught is in a much better situation.
Thank you.
Yes.. it is drilled into you. It does become part of your character. And yeah, most guys end up becoming neat freaks, of a sort. It's more unusual to run into a slob, in the military, than a tidy person.
Keep your shit tidy and nobody yells at you :)
Sounds like someone who has never been in the military or, more likely, is actively hostile to the concept and implementation of the military.
Yeah, they teach obedience, but they absolutely teach discipline as well.
If you think that a military member's every move is the result of an order.....
Self discipline and unit discipline are absolutely taught. I suspect, however, that you don't really care. You'll just keep spouting off your bullshit and patting yourself on the back.
self discipline. Nothing beats college for that,
Dead right: nothing is the clear winner compared to college when it comes to discipline. As a former mature student, I am in a position to speak on this.
Yeah.. Nothing beats college for discipline... Certainly not the military....
The US graduates 1.5 STEM students for every 1 entry-level STEM job opening.
You don't see the problem right there? You have over saturated the employment pool. Just because a job is useful doesn't mean EVERYONE should try to do it.
Go do one of the other useful jobs. It is quite useless to get a degree in a field you can't possibly find employment in. Education that can't be put to use is... useless.
BULLSHIT.
I know a handful of welders... Not a single one took out a loan to go to welding school. It was expensive, but not beyond their ability to save up and then pay for it.
You lying sack of shit.... Student loans for welding school....... Are you fucking serious?
In fact, I don't know of a single trades employer who won't PAY for the schooling if it will result in a better and more skilled employee. Maybe some won't pay 100%, but most have generous yearly allotments you can take.
My former employer would pay up to $12K/year for industry related schooling. I thought that was quite generous, especially considering that they were already paying me $100K+/year in direct wages..
See, they had this list of things you could go learn, that would benefit THEM (and you) if you learned them.. Not only would they pay for you to learn these things, but after you did, they would raise your wages accordingly (you were now more valuable to the company)..
Oddly enough, Gender Studies and Basket Weaving were not on the list...
And No, the folks who came up with these technologies were decidedly NOT academics. they were blue collar workers and entrepreneurs. The Wright Brothers were fucking Bicycle mechanics.
Awesome post, man.. I suspect more than one liberal just had a stroke trying to comprehend that one..
Everything you said is true. But you are wasting your time. The left looks down on real work. If you work with your hands, you rate the same as a bum to them. I mean, if you don't earn money by sitting on your ass, you must be some sort of mouth-breathing degenerate.. Dirt is so... dirty... You can't expect them to get some on their delicate hands..
And don't even get them started on calluses.. I mean, if they get calluses, it won't feel like a girl's hand when they sit at home and jerk off. That's all they can do with that worthless degree..Sit at home and jerk off with those soft delicate hands....
Typical lefty, commie, cunt... Give him facts and he cries.
"Oh, it's so much harder today.. Oh my pussy hurts"
How about you stop bleeding all over the goddamn place for 5 minutes and learn from history?
Things aren't tougher now.. The problem is that the generation now wants instant gratification. You don't want to work while you earn your degree. You want it now...
You'll bury yourself in debt to have it NOW NOW NOW. Back in the day, either your parents PAID for your degree or you earned it while you worked, or you got a scholarship. But, it was PAID FOR NOW. Not later. NOT LATER.
(also, there were real men who simply worked for a living, raised a family, and did not burden society with their bitching about how hard work is)
NOBODY WENT INTO DEBT TO GET A DEGREE. What the fuck, about that, is so goddamn hard to acknowledge?
Nobody came out of University with $150,000 in debt. What the fuck, about that, is so hard to understand?
$50K/year is not horrible. You can live comfortably on it, even here in CA. Maybe YOU picked a stupidly high priced area to live in, but that's not my fault and I'm not gonna pay for it.
The left created the problem. The right pays for it. Always..
You create massive economic problems by refusing to accept that demand/supply are linked. And your solution is always to attack the successful and demand they pay for your fuckups.
GO FUCK YOURSELF IN YOUR BLEEDING PUSSY.
You are a lying (or delusional) fuck.
Define early. Early like 4 years? i.e. the typical time for college? Early like that person is learning and getting paid, the whole time, to learn? Unlike college where you learn but pay out to learn?
It may take years to learn your trade, but once you have learned it, you have no debt..(at least not from the education side).
It's economics.. There is a severe shortage of tradespeople.. Wages have risen to attract new talent. No, it's not all fields.. Today it's heavy equipment operators. Maybe tomorrow it's electricians...
But keep beating that lefty drum... Keep telling yourself you "care" while driving policies that lead to people with useless Masters Degrees in Women's Studies working at Starbucks and saddled with debt they can't bankrupt... Debt that will last, on average, for 18 FUCKING YEARS. If you can't take a week to research your options and find a job that will pay you $120K/year after a 4 year apprenticeship, then fuck you, you lazy fuck.. Go get that Doctorate..
Later you can be the asshole that hands me my Burger 'n' Fries. And you better say "Thank you, come again". Yeah, you better say it, because THAT JOB can be filled by anyone... It's suited to both high school dropouts and assholes with useless degrees.
This is precisely the attitude of the left, in general. It does not matter to them that you are correct. In fact, that is probably enraging this person.
The line of the left is "you must go to college" to succeed. The left hates any evidence that you can succeed by doing, what is traditionally called, blue collar work.
$100K+/year jobs are out there, waiting to be filled. Tens of thousands of those jobs in Texas alone. Tens of thousands more in CA... Hundreds of thousands across the United States.
The left will continue to drive the idea that to be successful you must bury yourself in debt to get that education. The left will offer you crap like Vagina Studies which will be absolutely useless in the real world. The left is fine that you'll end up working at Starbucks with $150K in student loans (that the Democrats made sure you can't bankrupt yourself out of) and will end up much poorer than the guy who's fixing your plumbing.
I went into the military, directly out of High School, and then when my 4 years were done, I went into the trades (telecom) and ended up (in 2 years) making $120K/year. No debt.. ZERO
You buy what you can afford. Debt should be reserved for the really big purchases.. House, car, etc..
If you put that Playstation on your credit card, you are an idiot. (unless it's a card rate less than inflation). Why the fuck would you pay more (via interest) for something you don't need, when you could just delay your instant gratification for a bit, and pay for it later with money you have? You'll pay less... It's as simple as that..
College is wonderful... Provided you can afford it.. Provided you need it... Provided it won't break you financially.
The parent poster is proof that the left are idiots. Ignorance sucks.. Ignore of economics and reality...
You can go to college ANY TIME. Do it after you are cash positive.. Take the schooling as you can afford it...
When is the left going to wake the fuck up and come to the realization that there is an absolute direct correlation between government student aid and the current cost of education?
Forever tuition directly matched inflation, and then when the government began the student load program, the VERY NEXT YEAR tuition began to rise much faster than inflation.
Supply and demand.. If suddenly everyone can afford to go to college, but there are not enough seats to go around, prices RISE. More demand than supply.... ECONOMICS 101
Meanwhile, Texas alone has a shortage of nearly 50,000 people qualified to work in very high paying ($100,000+/year) equipment operator jobs.
The left has pushed the "everyone must go to college to succeed" bullshit line. It is the government and the left that is a direct cause of the current financial crisis in education vis-a-vis the societal attitudes toward manual labor and blue collar jobs.
You can have your lame ass pharmacy technician job, in a field absolutely saturated with techs, and bring home $50K/year while trying to pay off $150,000 in student loans (which will take, on average, 17 years to pay off.
Meanwhile, there will be those who finish high school, go into the trades, and in 5 years are operating a crane at the Port of Los Angeles and will be making $200/hour and working 4 or 5 hours a day. That person will have vastly more free time and will be a lot richer than the moron who bought the line that you can only be well off if you go to college and load yourself up with tons of debt.
I am all for college. IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT.
If you have to load yourself up with crippling debt, to get that education, then I have no sympathy for you. Hopefully, after all that college, you'll at least be smart enough then to realize that 18 years of debt is not worth a $50,000/year job. Of course, by then it's too late.
Or, you could just realize that nothing the left does is actually for your benefit. The left was always the party of slavery and it still is. Back then it was physical slavery. Today it is economic slavery. The worse off you are economically, the more likely you are to vote Democrat.
The left cares nothing for you beyond your ability to vote. If they actually cared, then why is Obama currently worth $400 million? I mean, he could live like a King with $100 million. Why hasn't the other $300 million been donated to some charity?
Make all the excuses you want... We on the right know it's because he is fine with giving you MY money if it will get him YOUR vote. But he sure-as-fuck isn't gonna give up his money to get that same vote.
The current president of Venezuela just ADMITTED that socialism is the reason his country is BROKE. Socialism is the reason that people in that country are STARVING TO DEATH. Our track record with socialism and starvation remains at 100%.
The left won't be happy until that occurs here. It will, eventually... Socialism is a system that fails 100% of the time.
And no, you fucking cunts, the Nordic countries are not socialist. They aren't even close. They're slightly more capitalistic than the US if you really dig into it. The minor bit of socialism they have right now is breaking them, just like it's breaking the US.
70% of federal spending goes to entitlements and social programs. And now we are $20 T in debt.... How long do you fucking idiots, on the left, think this party can run?
Well fuck-a-roo, you read in a paper somewhere so.....
Yeah, lets mandate public school attendance.. I mean, fuck freedom... We've got a public school problem so lets just mandate attendance.. Having the freedom to choose where you want to send your kids to school, well that can take a fucking backseat to your needs/wants.
Which is why democracy fails in the end. People are morons, they can barely be trusted to vote for the people who actually pass the laws.. Of course, now we have mouth-breather politicians, so I guess it doesn't really matter.