I'm not cynical towards gambling, I'm cynical towards idiots. If you have a system and it "works" for you, good on ya. If you blow half your paycheck every week waiting for your "luck" to change then you're an idiot.
Someone who creates a work should be allowed to have a say in how it can be distributed, and nobody should be allowed to make money off of somebody else's work without compensating them.
durations should be shortened (20 years or less), and copyright ownership should not be transferable. Contradict yourself much? Either people should have these rights or they shouldn't. You can't say people should have some right for 20 years and then it should magically go away. How exactly do you justify these rights you think people should have? Just cause you feel it benefits you? The traditional justification for copyright law is that it benefits society, but no-one ever bothers to evaluate whether or not it actually does.
Just to make it clear, I don't agree with copyright law, I don't like copyright law, but what you are saying is just non-sense. There's no provision in law to make backup copies of CDs for commercial use. You need a license or you are in violation of copyright law. Sucks, but that's the way it is. Burying your head in the sand will not change it. If you want to change it, go become a politician.
Dude, in a fair and just world there wouldn't be copyright, period. If you frequent this site, you've probably seen me rant about this before.
We're not having a discussion about how great the world would be without copyright, we're having a discussion about what ARIA is doing in the real world.
In the real world the license granted by a copyright owner can be as strict or as lax as they like. It can authorize the public performance of a work but not the time shifting of a work. It can say that you're only allowed to play any song an album or just the acoustic ones.
Is this absurd? Yes.
Does this put too much power into the hands over the copyright owners? Yes.
Ignoring for a moment that you're trying to use common sense to figure out copyright law and that is always a big fat waste of time, you're probably not away that only last year did it become legal to tape something off TV in Australia.
For almost every case, Copyright in Australia is worse for the consumer than it is in the US. Almost.
You don't have to lose, you just have to lay it down.
Go to a blackjack table and throw down $80,000. When they've finished giving you your chips, play 2 hands of $5 then go to the cash out window. Watch as they give you a free room for being a "high roller".
You should read Breaking Vegas also by Ben Mezrich. It describes some techniques, that used to work, which exploits the fact that when the dealer shuffles the deck they often inadvertently show the first base player the bottom card - then they ask another player at the table to cut the deck which, with practice, can be done precisely. This places a known card at a specific position in the deck (typically 52 cards in) and by carefully playing the table the team can arrange for the known card to fall on the most opportune hand. For example, if the known card is an ace, the team can arrange for it to land on the hand showing a picture card to make a blackjack.. if the known card is a picture card, the team can arrange for it to land as the dealer's 3rd card, typically busting them.
This doesn't give you a 1% or 2% house edge, like card counting, it gives you a 30% to 60% house edge.
Ironic because "system" == "game"? In which case your descriptor is "Gaming the game", which is not only redundant, but also retarded as that's what you're supposed to do.
It's just playing the game the way a scientist should, not the typical "mystical" way that most people do.
Maybe in a hundred years "luck" will be an outmoded concept and gambling will been seen properly as "entertainment" but until then, most every idiot who goes to a casino is a mystical moron who thinks he's going to get lucky and win.
ISO has been dead to me since the C99 standard was published. They changed virtually nothing from the draft even though there was a vast outpouring of bile from the community when the draft was published. Now it is almost 10 years later and there are still no C99 compliant compilers. The most compliant compiler is gcc in c99 mode which isn't the default mode, even though the C89 standard is officially deprecated.
Of course, it's not really possible to write a C99 compliant compiler as the the standard mandates behavior that is sometimes either completely impossible or just completely undesirable.
Yeah, I just don't get how they think they're so important when they're barely a $10 billion market (from the article). The self storage industry is $18 billion.. you don't see them clamoring for their own tax, or their own laws.
They're ineffectual attempts to rectify injustice, yes. Taking from the "haves" is exactly why social justice is so distasteful. Forced redistribution of wealth is just as unsavory as the concentration of wealth.
Thankfully, we now live in an era where redistribution of wealth by force is not necessary to achieve social justice, unfortunately some people still see it as the only solution.
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The law in Australia makes no distinction..
I'm not cynical towards gambling, I'm cynical towards idiots. If you have a system and it "works" for you, good on ya. If you blow half your paycheck every week waiting for your "luck" to change then you're an idiot.
Just to make it clear, I don't agree with copyright law, I don't like copyright law, but what you are saying is just non-sense. There's no provision in law to make backup copies of CDs for commercial use. You need a license or you are in violation of copyright law. Sucks, but that's the way it is. Burying your head in the sand will not change it. If you want to change it, go become a politician.
Dude, in a fair and just world there wouldn't be copyright, period. If you frequent this site, you've probably seen me rant about this before.
We're not having a discussion about how great the world would be without copyright, we're having a discussion about what ARIA is doing in the real world.
In the real world the license granted by a copyright owner can be as strict or as lax as they like. It can authorize the public performance of a work but not the time shifting of a work. It can say that you're only allowed to play any song an album or just the acoustic ones.
Is this absurd? Yes.
Does this put too much power into the hands over the copyright owners? Yes.
That's the way the copyright system is.. fucked..
What makes you think they are not allowed to charge you twice?
A license to publicly perform does not imply a license to copy.. if it did everyone who ever got a license to perform would be buying a CD press.
About the same time they stop calling it "theft".
even if he is capt'n obvious, his point is correct.
Generally, if you don't like the power that copyright owners have over us then don't give them so much bloody power.
With logic like that, you should be a lawyer.
Ignoring for a moment that you're trying to use common sense to figure out copyright law and that is always a big fat waste of time, you're probably not away that only last year did it become legal to tape something off TV in Australia.
For almost every case, Copyright in Australia is worse for the consumer than it is in the US. Almost.
Copyright.. copy right.
The owner has the exclusive right to make copies and sells "licenses" which permit you to make copies for specific purposes.
Why is this surprising?
You don't have to lose, you just have to lay it down.
Go to a blackjack table and throw down $80,000. When they've finished giving you your chips, play 2 hands of $5 then go to the cash out window. Watch as they give you a free room for being a "high roller".
Yeah, I hear ya. WTF guys. I don't need a massive "Reply to This" button.
If they show you the card, it isn't cheating, it's using the information you were given. No-one said it was card counting.
Outside Vegas, most casinos use continuous automatic card shufflers. As a result, the game is pretty much dead.
You should read Breaking Vegas also by Ben Mezrich. It describes some techniques, that used to work, which exploits the fact that when the dealer shuffles the deck they often inadvertently show the first base player the bottom card - then they ask another player at the table to cut the deck which, with practice, can be done precisely. This places a known card at a specific position in the deck (typically 52 cards in) and by carefully playing the table the team can arrange for the known card to fall on the most opportune hand. For example, if the known card is an ace, the team can arrange for it to land on the hand showing a picture card to make a blackjack.. if the known card is a picture card, the team can arrange for it to land as the dealer's 3rd card, typically busting them.
This doesn't give you a 1% or 2% house edge, like card counting, it gives you a 30% to 60% house edge.
Ironic because "system" == "game"? In which case your descriptor is "Gaming the game", which is not only redundant, but also retarded as that's what you're supposed to do.
I think you meant scam.
And counting cards is in no way scamming.
It's just playing the game the way a scientist should, not the typical "mystical" way that most people do.
Maybe in a hundred years "luck" will be an outmoded concept and gambling will been seen properly as "entertainment" but until then, most every idiot who goes to a casino is a mystical moron who thinks he's going to get lucky and win.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/browse_thread/thread/586bd8943c3d6b1e/2179141bc086bb43?hl=en&lnk=st&q=c99+waddington#2179141bc086bb43
Here's my original rant from 2002.
http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/C_CPP/comp.lang.c/2004-09/2535.html
Here's a rant I did 4 years ago.
So what you're saying is that Stonehenge is the British equivalent of the US space program?
ISO has been dead to me since the C99 standard was published. They changed virtually nothing from the draft even though there was a vast outpouring of bile from the community when the draft was published. Now it is almost 10 years later and there are still no C99 compliant compilers. The most compliant compiler is gcc in c99 mode which isn't the default mode, even though the C89 standard is officially deprecated.
Of course, it's not really possible to write a C99 compliant compiler as the the standard mandates behavior that is sometimes either completely impossible or just completely undesirable.
I think here is about the best you'll get.
Yeah, I just don't get how they think they're so important when they're barely a $10 billion market (from the article). The self storage industry is $18 billion.. you don't see them clamoring for their own tax, or their own laws.
They're ineffectual attempts to rectify injustice, yes. Taking from the "haves" is exactly why social justice is so distasteful. Forced redistribution of wealth is just as unsavory as the concentration of wealth.
Thankfully, we now live in an era where redistribution of wealth by force is not necessary to achieve social justice, unfortunately some people still see it as the only solution.