With maximalist thought, someone in the past would have owned it and we would be called different things, hell we'd probably have to drop: "I am not a number, I am a free man!" simply because we'd run out of names. Safe way would be to assign a number at birth. This is what the maximalists will rightly get if we let them get their way.
Make sure you bookmark all threads such as this one and if you are unlucky enough to have to go to court yourself insist that they be entered into evidence and that you read them out loud into evidence yourself.
There are many such works already, for example: The Public Domain, which is a free book that details exactly why Copyright is broken and how you are getting screwed. Enclosing the commons of the mind indeed.
My library doesn't have access to every work ever made. Neither does the Internet but that comes closer. And if I copyrighted my name which perhaps is the same as yours you'd better not give it to your kid or I'll sue you and put you into a re-instated debtor's prison. Forever.
Most people, if it was explained to them, would agree that copyright right now is excessive. Saying it is necessary for government is a strawman, what are our principles if they are not even good enough to live by? What does it say about our foundations when we cheat ourselves? Change it, find revenue elsewhere, if your principles themselves cannot support your nation then maybe its time for your nation to dissolve.
It's too bad your mind is too closed to the real harm being done by too-long copyright. Derivative works: if the term was twenty years we could be enjoying remakes of Alien or 2001 or anything from back then. Not only would we as a culture be enriched by having more choice but the people who created those choices would have their own twenty years to prove they understand capitalism as it relates to society as well.
As an addition you are only disadvantaged if you are not flexible enough to take advantage of the markets in a reasonable time. If you don't do this then it is not our problem, go stick your head in the sand somewhere else.
Late to the thread, anyway here is the obligatory read concerning copyrights (short read, 1.5 pages): Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson. Basically, to protect all the artists some must be disadvantaged. The some fight tooth and nail to prevent this. Being disadvantaged is having your work enter the public domain. The "all" who are protected are the artists of today, tomorrow, and forever who get to use ideas to resurrect, reinvent, or just plain re-do. Give all artists these protections and all of us in the wider society benefit, thrive, and grow.
Imply? Thats the truth, so that needs to be worked with when you exist in a Democracy. Various ways have been discovered so far, variations of "off with their heads" like elections and department ministers being reshuffled. In the case of the TSA, perhaps a reshuffling would be appropriate or even further, find someone to outright fire for letting it get this bad.
Does anyone else think that the TSA is exhibiting symptoms of: The Stanford Prison Experiment, wiki: here. Basically, when given power and the mandate to do something without proper checks and balances then stupidity or sadism emerges. The Stanford Experiment had to be called off early because normal people when put into that framework extremely mistreated other normal people. So, does the TSA need a good spanking and a bit of restructure?
But how will your defensive AI know that an incoming communication is actually from someone/something you don't want to talk to? It might be the most interesting thing ever, and you just might buy something...
Spam is where it's at. Spam is where we are going to see strong artificial intelligence emerge, both defensively and offensively. Spam already represents some of the most cutting-edge algorithms in machine learning today. Think about it. In the undefined when of the future: you will have AI that stops spam. Spam will be AI that attempts to get through your filters. The only spam your AI will let through is spam you are genuinely interested in or that befriends you: it provides something of value. At the base level however it does have its purpose: get you to buy something. This is the motivation of why machine intelligence will emerge in spam first: somebody, somewhere will be making money. Would you like to buy this new computer, it is well built and will enhance the effectiveness of your communication with your network of contacts? Also, if you do I will cover the shipping myself.
Hooray! Now we can all stagnate. See: Melancholy Elephants but instead of standard writing, apply it to programming writing. From a comment in: This Story (which I'm in too;): "To protect all artists you must disadvantage some. Those some rarely see the logic." which leads to: "Its a horrible future where the copyright maximalist dream (copyright forever and ever) is near at hand, and is finally shown to be a nightmare. The "some" artists that are disadvantaged are the ones who cannot profit from their works in a reasonable time period and refuse to cope with the markets. The Vast Majority who are protected are the Other artists of today and the infinite future, protecting their freedom to innovate, rebuild and even reinvent without some ancient monopoly power looming in the shadows to spank them and call them thieves." Software patents are basically "copyright" for ideas so all of this applies. Now, I'm not saying software patents shouldn't exist but rather in the context of stagnation especially with the pace of development that they should be much shorter than they are now.
I'm running Chrome in Ubuntu under Gnome and Compiz, I have Adobe's flash installed from restricted and swfdec removed (was blocking Adobe's) and all the extensions I've tried work: Feedly, Chromed Bird, Adblock, and so on. The only thing I notice about Flash (it even plays video fine!) is that sometimes input events such as clicking on a button in a flash element will "fall through" and not do anything. Annoying when your trying to select another YouTube video after the current one has finished playing. Overall though, my opinion is that it is already in an excellent state and can only get better from here: in active development.
Is entirely possible considering the origin in the world of the flight, but you must keep in mind that information sources must be vetted: critical thinking skills are necessary without having the complete picture.
I have another discussion on this very topic going here: The Terrorists Are Winning. Please steal anything from it for this discussion, because in the end I just want to see the situation fixed.
The "free market" as I said in another reply (with this one just to bring those to your attention) as a pure representation efficiently maps the distribution of a finite resource. To integrate pure markets into our wider systems we must regulate some aspects of them so that the market reflects human values. The pure representation does not by default.
The market is the most efficient way to distribute a finite resource. Nothing more. However, the mapping the market may settle on may not reflect human values and that is why we have added, in some situations, an extra modifier which we call "regulation." Markets themselves are great but to integrate them into our wider systems sometimes we have to regulate very specific values.
You are conflating. My focus is on the market itself. As you say, there are many other factors but when you look at the market in isolation then you can say that is a good thing. Once you start melding other systems together they modify each other to an extent but that is a different topic than the purity of mine which is the market only.
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With maximalist thought, someone in the past would have owned it and we would be called different things, hell we'd probably have to drop: "I am not a number, I am a free man!" simply because we'd run out of names. Safe way would be to assign a number at birth. This is what the maximalists will rightly get if we let them get their way.
Big content opposes the public domain because with the competition people might realize they don't need big content, maybe even at all.
Make sure you bookmark all threads such as this one and if you are unlucky enough to have to go to court yourself insist that they be entered into evidence and that you read them out loud into evidence yourself.
There are many such works already, for example: The Public Domain, which is a free book that details exactly why Copyright is broken and how you are getting screwed. Enclosing the commons of the mind indeed.
from Europe!...
Thank you, I'll vote for the Pirate Party ideals as soon as they are fully formed in my nation.
My library doesn't have access to every work ever made. Neither does the Internet but that comes closer. And if I copyrighted my name which perhaps is the same as yours you'd better not give it to your kid or I'll sue you and put you into a re-instated debtor's prison. Forever.
Most people, if it was explained to them, would agree that copyright right now is excessive. Saying it is necessary for government is a strawman, what are our principles if they are not even good enough to live by? What does it say about our foundations when we cheat ourselves? Change it, find revenue elsewhere, if your principles themselves cannot support your nation then maybe its time for your nation to dissolve.
It's too bad your mind is too closed to the real harm being done by too-long copyright. Derivative works: if the term was twenty years we could be enjoying remakes of Alien or 2001 or anything from back then. Not only would we as a culture be enriched by having more choice but the people who created those choices would have their own twenty years to prove they understand capitalism as it relates to society as well.
Where's the +1, True mod?
As an addition you are only disadvantaged if you are not flexible enough to take advantage of the markets in a reasonable time. If you don't do this then it is not our problem, go stick your head in the sand somewhere else.
Late to the thread, anyway here is the obligatory read concerning copyrights (short read, 1.5 pages): Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson. Basically, to protect all the artists some must be disadvantaged. The some fight tooth and nail to prevent this. Being disadvantaged is having your work enter the public domain. The "all" who are protected are the artists of today, tomorrow, and forever who get to use ideas to resurrect, reinvent, or just plain re-do. Give all artists these protections and all of us in the wider society benefit, thrive, and grow.
Imply? Thats the truth, so that needs to be worked with when you exist in a Democracy. Various ways have been discovered so far, variations of "off with their heads" like elections and department ministers being reshuffled. In the case of the TSA, perhaps a reshuffling would be appropriate or even further, find someone to outright fire for letting it get this bad.
Does anyone else think that the TSA is exhibiting symptoms of: The Stanford Prison Experiment, wiki: here. Basically, when given power and the mandate to do something without proper checks and balances then stupidity or sadism emerges. The Stanford Experiment had to be called off early because normal people when put into that framework extremely mistreated other normal people. So, does the TSA need a good spanking and a bit of restructure?
But how will your defensive AI know that an incoming communication is actually from someone/something you don't want to talk to? It might be the most interesting thing ever, and you just might buy something...
Um, won't the semantic web just kinda do this?!
If a patent application is found to be completely stupid one of your other patents is invalidated by random draw! *wishes*
Spam is where it's at. Spam is where we are going to see strong artificial intelligence emerge, both defensively and offensively. Spam already represents some of the most cutting-edge algorithms in machine learning today. Think about it. In the undefined when of the future: you will have AI that stops spam. Spam will be AI that attempts to get through your filters. The only spam your AI will let through is spam you are genuinely interested in or that befriends you: it provides something of value. At the base level however it does have its purpose: get you to buy something. This is the motivation of why machine intelligence will emerge in spam first: somebody, somewhere will be making money. Would you like to buy this new computer, it is well built and will enhance the effectiveness of your communication with your network of contacts? Also, if you do I will cover the shipping myself.
Remember when the Internet was all porn (1994)? Yeah, it's really gone downhill since then...
Hooray! Now we can all stagnate. See: Melancholy Elephants but instead of standard writing, apply it to programming writing. From a comment in: This Story (which I'm in too ;): "To protect all artists you must disadvantage some. Those some rarely see the logic." which leads to: "Its a horrible future where the copyright maximalist dream (copyright forever and ever) is near at hand, and is finally shown to be a nightmare. The "some" artists that are disadvantaged are the ones who cannot profit from their works in a reasonable time period and refuse to cope with the markets. The Vast Majority who are protected are the Other artists of today and the infinite future, protecting their freedom to innovate, rebuild and even reinvent without some ancient monopoly power looming in the shadows to spank them and call them thieves." Software patents are basically "copyright" for ideas so all of this applies. Now, I'm not saying software patents shouldn't exist but rather in the context of stagnation especially with the pace of development that they should be much shorter than they are now.
I'm running Chrome in Ubuntu under Gnome and Compiz, I have Adobe's flash installed from restricted and swfdec removed (was blocking Adobe's) and all the extensions I've tried work: Feedly, Chromed Bird, Adblock, and so on. The only thing I notice about Flash (it even plays video fine!) is that sometimes input events such as clicking on a button in a flash element will "fall through" and not do anything. Annoying when your trying to select another YouTube video after the current one has finished playing. Overall though, my opinion is that it is already in an excellent state and can only get better from here: in active development.
Is entirely possible considering the origin in the world of the flight, but you must keep in mind that information sources must be vetted: critical thinking skills are necessary without having the complete picture.
I have another discussion on this very topic going here: The Terrorists Are Winning. Please steal anything from it for this discussion, because in the end I just want to see the situation fixed.
The "free market" as I said in another reply (with this one just to bring those to your attention) as a pure representation efficiently maps the distribution of a finite resource. To integrate pure markets into our wider systems we must regulate some aspects of them so that the market reflects human values. The pure representation does not by default.
The market is the most efficient way to distribute a finite resource. Nothing more. However, the mapping the market may settle on may not reflect human values and that is why we have added, in some situations, an extra modifier which we call "regulation." Markets themselves are great but to integrate them into our wider systems sometimes we have to regulate very specific values.
You are conflating. My focus is on the market itself. As you say, there are many other factors but when you look at the market in isolation then you can say that is a good thing. Once you start melding other systems together they modify each other to an extent but that is a different topic than the purity of mine which is the market only.