Actually, the genesis of the idea of the corporation in the US and Europe are different, hence the differing grammatic construction.
The U.S. corporation was essentially created via precedent set in the case U.S. v. Dartmouth College. In the U.S., corporations have "legal personhood", thus American English has adapted to this legal construction (singular).
The Continental construction of the corporation, however, stems from the German "gesellschaft", or "society". Most European law has embraced the idea of a corporation as a collection of individuals (a company) instead of the American legal construction which thinks of it as a single entity. Thus Eurpeans tend to refer to corporations in the plural.
Dewey writes some interesting things about this distinction, and I would tell you where you can find the essay, but I can't recall the name of it at the moment...
I have a G4 450 w/256 Mb RAM and no complaints about OSX regarding speed (other than the missing timed startup/shutdown control panel, but that's another issue).
Of course, I've also switched entirely from OS9. It's on a separate partition, and when I want to use it I just reboot.
Having become accustomed to FreeBSD on a 486, OSX on a G4 is a like a dream. I'm no gamer, so most of my CPU cycles probably get wasted anyway...
Pornography as speech is already restricted in various ways - and these restrictions have been upheld as consitutional (e.g., age restrictions on viewing it, etc.), so IMHO there should be no constitutional issues with a.prn domain. And that seems like a relatively elegant way of marking that material as potentially offensive, that, say, parents would want to prevent their kids from viewing.
I can't imagine anyone (excluding perverts) having a problem with the clandestine video taping part of the bill. Considering that unauthorized audio tape recordings are illegal in most states and that unauthorized airing of telephone conversations are illegal on the federal level, I'd say that video recordings have been a long time coming.
I notice there's never any mention of sales of non-major label records in this debate, either.
Having worked for years at a college radio station, I can tell you that uncharted (by ASCAP or BMI) record sales are significant - two years ago, it was estimated (by whom I don't remember) that independent labels accounted for nearly 25% of the industry's sales. By my own reckoning (based on the increase in number of unsolicited records we get in the mail), I suspect that this number is growing.
And from many of the independent artists that I speak to about the issue, nearly all of them are in favor of Napster-like sharing because it is free-publicity.
...behaving in just this way was one of the things that got MS in trouble with the DOJ in the first place. Wasn't one of the proposed remedies (and also in the *agreed-upon* settlement) that Microsoft would divulge more information on- and allow more interoperability with their server software?
The DOJ must have their heads firmly up their asses.
I think it would have been much more interesting if the article had talked a bit about the current 3D game market in the context of 3D computer rendering in general.
I have an old DEC Vaxstation 4000/60 (c. 1992) with an 8-plane 3D graphics board. What about the history there? Or early SGI and Suns? Or stuff before that? There might be some interesting lineages here...
Don't worry, zero plot here. Terrible movie. I wish my brother was a/.'er so I could mod him down for the suggestion.
The game was fun because it was interactive, despite the lame dialogue between characters. Now imagine removing the fun part (gaming), and voila!, you have a movie. F-
Yes, and the best commercial Canadian beer is Boréale. Too bad they don't export it to the U.S.:^(
If you can afford microbrews in the U.S., though, you're in pretty good company. I recommend the Berkshire Brewing Company's Steel Rail Ale. And it comes in growler-size.
...is that I like getting angry at JonKatz' drivel, since I just discovered the other day that I could filter him out... and as yet, I have not.
Does JonKatz get paid to drool all over his keyboard, or is he like that crazy guy that spends all his free time (midnight to 6 am) reorganizing the local college radio station's music library for nothing?
The problem is that we dislike JonKatz's drivel enough to want to censor him for all of humanity. Funny that this particular article should make me want to censor him;^)
I don't think this will be an issue for Americans unless our own government has a problem with it. And I have a feeling that they don't mind most web content, since they indirectly serve to spew pro-American propaganda.
Take the Voice of America, for instance... playing a renewed role in Afghanistan, no less...
It's hard to draw a comparison between a country like China and one like the U.S. While there is no ideological basis for protecting speech in China (that I know of), there is in the U.S., which makes censoring speech in the U.S. a bit more difficult. But it is done.
Generally the U.S. doesn't put a "prior restraint" on speech because it is prohibited by the Constitution, but there are some exceptions... take the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) or U.S. v. Progressive, Inc. (467 F.Supp. 990, 992; 1979). All are usually justified by some "threat to national security", or obscenity, or incitement to riot...
The danger, of course, is that our current administration likes to call nearly everything a threat to national security... and now that we have an executive order allowing for military tribunals, fuck checks and balances anyway!
Please....If I purchase a bunch of paper with ink printed on it, it's still a book that I OWN. The author didn't provide the information provided in the book as a service. I purchased the information in that book the same way I purchased the information contained on my CD. I don't have the right to re-print more books, but I have the right to sell the book the same way I do my software. YOU may think of software as a service, but currently it is not sold as a service. When's the last time you went to the services department in Best Buy to pick up software? Can you feel the content of a book? Just because my brain in crunching the content, it doesn't make it any less of a *tangible* good.
I think you're missing something. The CD or disk that contains your software is NOT the software. Nor is the book the work. They are copies of a work, and thus the use of the tangible thing - the book, the CD - is governed by copyright law.
As a matter of law (and that's really what we're talking about here - we're not arguing metaphysiscs), there's no particular reason why software could not be sold as a service. In fact, I think if someone were to dipute the legitimacy of 'software as service' concept in a high court, the ruling would come down on the 'software as service' side. Some kinds of software (i.e., AOL) are already a part of a service, so the model already exists, providing the precedent. And from a legal standpoint software-as-service would be highly practical since it would eliminate inconsistency in conception and enforcement.
Not that I condone the software-as-service idea. Try working for a non-profit org with 50+ computers... and worrying about whether you have enough money to relicense your OS next year when you barely have enough money to do what you need to get done anyway!
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Actually, the genesis of the idea of the corporation in the US and Europe are different, hence the differing grammatic construction.
The U.S. corporation was essentially created via precedent set in the case U.S. v. Dartmouth College. In the U.S., corporations have "legal personhood", thus American English has adapted to this legal construction (singular).
The Continental construction of the corporation, however, stems from the German "gesellschaft", or "society". Most European law has embraced the idea of a corporation as a collection of individuals (a company) instead of the American legal construction which thinks of it as a single entity. Thus Eurpeans tend to refer to corporations in the plural.
Dewey writes some interesting things about this distinction, and I would tell you where you can find the essay, but I can't recall the name of it at the moment...
Of course, I've also switched entirely from OS9. It's on a separate partition, and when I want to use it I just reboot.
Having become accustomed to FreeBSD on a 486, OSX on a G4 is a like a dream. I'm no gamer, so most of my CPU cycles probably get wasted anyway...
I can't imagine anyone (excluding perverts) having a problem with the clandestine video taping part of the bill. Considering that unauthorized audio tape recordings are illegal in most states and that unauthorized airing of telephone conversations are illegal on the federal level, I'd say that video recordings have been a long time coming.
Having worked for years at a college radio station, I can tell you that uncharted (by ASCAP or BMI) record sales are significant - two years ago, it was estimated (by whom I don't remember) that independent labels accounted for nearly 25% of the industry's sales. By my own reckoning (based on the increase in number of unsolicited records we get in the mail), I suspect that this number is growing.
And from many of the independent artists that I speak to about the issue, nearly all of them are in favor of Napster-like sharing because it is free-publicity.
The DOJ must have their heads firmly up their asses.
I have an old DEC Vaxstation 4000/60 (c. 1992) with an 8-plane 3D graphics board. What about the history there? Or early SGI and Suns? Or stuff before that? There might be some interesting lineages here...
...alot of sausage at this movie theater. No only that, but a lot of skinny white sausage.
The game was fun because it was interactive, despite the lame dialogue between characters. Now imagine removing the fun part (gaming), and voila!, you have a movie. F-
Yes, and the best commercial Canadian beer is Boréale. Too bad they don't export it to the U.S. :^(
If you can afford microbrews in the U.S., though, you're in pretty good company. I recommend the Berkshire Brewing Company's Steel Rail Ale. And it comes in growler-size.
...is that I like getting angry at JonKatz' drivel, since I just discovered the other day that I could filter him out... and as yet, I have not. Does JonKatz get paid to drool all over his keyboard, or is he like that crazy guy that spends all his free time (midnight to 6 am) reorganizing the local college radio station's music library for nothing?
The problem is that we dislike JonKatz's drivel enough to want to censor him for all of humanity. Funny that this particular article should make me want to censor him ;^)
Dead tree books are essential for when you crash your computer while following along with the text or troubleshooting your computer.
...that better weapons will lead to anything more than better ways to kill people.
I don't think this will be an issue for Americans unless our own government has a problem with it. And I have a feeling that they don't mind most web content, since they indirectly serve to spew pro-American propaganda. Take the Voice of America, for instance... playing a renewed role in Afghanistan, no less...
Generally the U.S. doesn't put a "prior restraint" on speech because it is prohibited by the Constitution, but there are some exceptions... take the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) or U.S. v. Progressive, Inc. (467 F.Supp. 990, 992; 1979). All are usually justified by some "threat to national security", or obscenity, or incitement to riot...
The danger, of course, is that our current administration likes to call nearly everything a threat to national security... and now that we have an executive order allowing for military tribunals, fuck checks and balances anyway!
Please....If I purchase a bunch of paper with ink printed on it, it's still a book that I OWN. The author didn't provide the information provided in the book as a service. I purchased the information in that book the same way I purchased the information contained on my CD. I don't have the right to re-print more books, but I have the right to sell the book the same way I do my software. YOU may think of software as a service, but currently it is not sold as a service. When's the last time you went to the services department in Best Buy to pick up software? Can you feel the content of a book? Just because my brain in crunching the content, it doesn't make it any less of a *tangible* good.
I think you're missing something. The CD or disk that contains your software is NOT the software. Nor is the book the work. They are copies of a work, and thus the use of the tangible thing - the book, the CD - is governed by copyright law.
As a matter of law (and that's really what we're talking about here - we're not arguing metaphysiscs), there's no particular reason why software could not be sold as a service. In fact, I think if someone were to dipute the legitimacy of 'software as service' concept in a high court, the ruling would come down on the 'software as service' side. Some kinds of software (i.e., AOL) are already a part of a service, so the model already exists, providing the precedent. And from a legal standpoint software-as-service would be highly practical since it would eliminate inconsistency in conception and enforcement.
Not that I condone the software-as-service idea. Try working for a non-profit org with 50+ computers... and worrying about whether you have enough money to relicense your OS next year when you barely have enough money to do what you need to get done anyway!