People like Klaus Teuber, Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, and Alan R. Moon have won this battle. The platform? A table. With chairs around it, a refrigerator full of good beer, and some good friends. The video "game" market has been lost. There isn't that much game left in most so-called video games these days.
I wouldn't call it unlimited. The limits may not be purely defined on paper, but in practice, we've all seen what happens when people exercise that ability.
I also wouldn't call it viable. Governments come and governments go. Bankruptcy is a pretty good way to end one government and see another rise in its place (or to see subjugation at the hands of another government of course)
The thing is, it's not a power vacuum. Take, for example, the Kurds. They have no land, but are a nation unto themselves. And they get pissed all over by the governments that control the land they live on. There are leaders, and there is power, but it has been pretty lousy for the Kurds themselves in outcome. I hope these anarcho-capitalists fare better than their Kurdish counterparts.
The second the Executive tried to insist the Supreme Court lacks jurisdiction over an act or collection of acts committed by an Executive-run agency confined to no state, district, or even nation, it ruined any credibility of the Executive to even remark on the case without being considered suspect.
As a German-born American, I've been following this with that very eye. And it scares the hell out of me that my countrymen here in the US do nothing. We revolted against Britain for far less.
The irony is, beyond what our current DDG and CG fleet can do, anything needed can be handled by any bombardment system. Dedicated "shore" bombardment is kind of obsolete when we have aircraft that do the same job no matter how far inland you go. That's what a carrier does to replace a BB in that role when we don't have an air base in the area (not a likely thing in the first place these days).
Sure, I understand the inter-service rivalries, and I appreciate the Navy's choice of James Kirk as the prospective commanding officer of this ship, but this is pure pork.
Not all submarines are the same. A handful of converted Ohio-class are our most recent guided missile submarines. Seawolf- and Virginia-class are fast attack submarines.
They're basically like telemarketers, except you only get to hang up when they figuratively call if you already have your ad-blockers installed and the proper filters set up.
And the awesome thing is, when people advertise at me, they actually reduce if not eliminate the chance that I will even consider their product.
I'm not sure you understand that your argument fundamentally ignores that the advertisers' attempts to circumvent people's wishes to not be tracked is fundamentally no less valid (and certainly on a morally higher ground) than their desire to target people for advertising.
Let's use an analogy. If the Jehovah's Witnesses followed everyone around and amassed records about everything we were doing to decide which doors to knock on, that would be equivalent to what we're seeing with today's targeted adverts.
I'll certainly agree with you on the LCS frigates, but without the railgun, this is just a really expensive platform with stealth features that just won't matter against any enemy we would actually fight that could actually win against a Burke. It's as if the Navy forgot they could build missile submarines. A successor to the Ohio-class would have made more sense than this destroyer.
To put it simply, there are three being built because we've already sunk so much (pun intended) money into them. There's really no significant advantage over a major refit and overhaul (or even new, more advanced builds) of the far, far cheaper Arleigh Burke-class.
The quality of applications is all I've come to care about. I used to be the same about trying to use GTK, but I just can't bring myself to ditch a superior program for an inferior one just because of which toolkit they use. License for their code? Sure. GTK vs QT? Meh.
Actually, this is the worst example, as Nintendo is just about the only game company that continually sells, markets, and reissues its classics in their original form for newer systems.
That said, the copyright on video games is far too long when it covers games of this age. Copyright clearly has already done its job by encouraging continued creation of works by Nintendo and their teams.
No further innovation will be discouraged or cancelled if Pacman, Asteroids, Pong, the original Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Super Mario Bros. entered the public domain tomorrow. But the ability to distribute, preserve, and enjoy the thousands of niche games that only a few remember (Basewars, Little Nemo the Dream Master, Blaster Master, Lolo, etc.) could prove an inspiration to thousands upon thousands of gamers who might try their hand at creating something of their own.
The problem is, Mario is a trademark, not a copyright. I don't see it as productive to force a trademark to be licensed against someone's will.
That said, a product containing trademark material should be able to enter the public domain. Steamboat Willie, for example, should have entered the public domain long ago, even though Mickey Mouse would remain trademarked. This seems to me the most compelling argument one could have made at the time copyright laws were extended, the idea that someone else would use trademarked characters, logos, and names to sell the now-openly-available products.
That's one of the wonderful things about the Internet. You no longer have to let hardcopy media companies handle the marketing and distribution, which makes the trademark part a non-issue.
Any derivative works, well, that enters into what I've always thought of as the "collage" issue, since rarely does a collage artist own the copyrights to every image used in his work. Puts everything in a bit of a legal spot, but to me is a compelling case for shorter copyright due to its nature as a derivative work rather than a simple copy. Very similar to how The Beastie Boys used Jimmy Page's riff from Led Zeppelin's "The Ocean" in "She's Crafty", but they are clearly separate works.
I worked on two of the numerous releases of Myst, and the biggest thing we all noticed was that the magic just wasn't the same when the graphics were no longer shockingly superior to the rest of what is available. Myst was once an amazingly beautiful place to explore, with promise of more beautiful places to explore if you punished yourself by going through their rudimentary puzzles. I'm not sure you can create a new product based on that principle when you're using a recycled engine that is already in use for fast-paced FPS.
So suddenly the NHS doesn't have enough money to provide everyone with free health care due to rising demand and cost, but you're blaming politicians for not simply handing them more money? That's not even an argument. It's a handful of highly politicized assertions that aren't really cause and effect.
If you really want to address the issue, you'll look at why costs and demand are rising. I suspect it's an aging population with increasing health needs, coupled with a declining percentage of young, healthy people who don't have those same needs who are actually paying in rather than taking out of the system. This is far more like the US's upcoming Social Security bomb than it is like Obamacare.
The main problem I see is that the airlines factor in only butts, and forget that passengers also have arms. A flight I was on a couple years ago had me in an aisle seat on a 3-3 narrowbody, and I had to spend the entire flight uncomfortably leaning into the aisle due to a broad-shouldered neighbour. Thankfully, it was only a two-hour hop, and the next flight was less full.
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People like Klaus Teuber, Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, and Alan R. Moon have won this battle. The platform? A table. With chairs around it, a refrigerator full of good beer, and some good friends. The video "game" market has been lost. There isn't that much game left in most so-called video games these days.
I wouldn't call it unlimited. The limits may not be purely defined on paper, but in practice, we've all seen what happens when people exercise that ability.
I also wouldn't call it viable. Governments come and governments go. Bankruptcy is a pretty good way to end one government and see another rise in its place (or to see subjugation at the hands of another government of course)
The thing is, it's not a power vacuum. Take, for example, the Kurds. They have no land, but are a nation unto themselves. And they get pissed all over by the governments that control the land they live on. There are leaders, and there is power, but it has been pretty lousy for the Kurds themselves in outcome. I hope these anarcho-capitalists fare better than their Kurdish counterparts.
The second the Executive tried to insist the Supreme Court lacks jurisdiction over an act or collection of acts committed by an Executive-run agency confined to no state, district, or even nation, it ruined any credibility of the Executive to even remark on the case without being considered suspect.
As a German-born American, I've been following this with that very eye. And it scares the hell out of me that my countrymen here in the US do nothing. We revolted against Britain for far less.
The irony is, beyond what our current DDG and CG fleet can do, anything needed can be handled by any bombardment system. Dedicated "shore" bombardment is kind of obsolete when we have aircraft that do the same job no matter how far inland you go. That's what a carrier does to replace a BB in that role when we don't have an air base in the area (not a likely thing in the first place these days).
Sure, I understand the inter-service rivalries, and I appreciate the Navy's choice of James Kirk as the prospective commanding officer of this ship, but this is pure pork.
Not all submarines are the same. A handful of converted Ohio-class are our most recent guided missile submarines. Seawolf- and Virginia-class are fast attack submarines.
I can see that we are not speaking the same language. The two look very similar, but the words have meanings that are nothing like each other.
Exactly, which makes this effort on the Zumwalt pointless.
They're basically like telemarketers, except you only get to hang up when they figuratively call if you already have your ad-blockers installed and the proper filters set up.
And the awesome thing is, when people advertise at me, they actually reduce if not eliminate the chance that I will even consider their product.
I'm not sure you understand that your argument fundamentally ignores that the advertisers' attempts to circumvent people's wishes to not be tracked is fundamentally no less valid (and certainly on a morally higher ground) than their desire to target people for advertising.
Let's use an analogy. If the Jehovah's Witnesses followed everyone around and amassed records about everything we were doing to decide which doors to knock on, that would be equivalent to what we're seeing with today's targeted adverts.
I'll certainly agree with you on the LCS frigates, but without the railgun, this is just a really expensive platform with stealth features that just won't matter against any enemy we would actually fight that could actually win against a Burke. It's as if the Navy forgot they could build missile submarines. A successor to the Ohio-class would have made more sense than this destroyer.
To put it simply, there are three being built because we've already sunk so much (pun intended) money into them. There's really no significant advantage over a major refit and overhaul (or even new, more advanced builds) of the far, far cheaper Arleigh Burke-class.
Is Windows MP use restricted to the military police?
The quality of applications is all I've come to care about. I used to be the same about trying to use GTK, but I just can't bring myself to ditch a superior program for an inferior one just because of which toolkit they use. License for their code? Sure. GTK vs QT? Meh.
Actually, this is the worst example, as Nintendo is just about the only game company that continually sells, markets, and reissues its classics in their original form for newer systems.
That said, the copyright on video games is far too long when it covers games of this age. Copyright clearly has already done its job by encouraging continued creation of works by Nintendo and their teams.
No further innovation will be discouraged or cancelled if Pacman, Asteroids, Pong, the original Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Super Mario Bros. entered the public domain tomorrow. But the ability to distribute, preserve, and enjoy the thousands of niche games that only a few remember (Basewars, Little Nemo the Dream Master, Blaster Master, Lolo, etc.) could prove an inspiration to thousands upon thousands of gamers who might try their hand at creating something of their own.
The problem is, Mario is a trademark, not a copyright. I don't see it as productive to force a trademark to be licensed against someone's will.
That said, a product containing trademark material should be able to enter the public domain. Steamboat Willie, for example, should have entered the public domain long ago, even though Mickey Mouse would remain trademarked. This seems to me the most compelling argument one could have made at the time copyright laws were extended, the idea that someone else would use trademarked characters, logos, and names to sell the now-openly-available products.
That's one of the wonderful things about the Internet. You no longer have to let hardcopy media companies handle the marketing and distribution, which makes the trademark part a non-issue.
Any derivative works, well, that enters into what I've always thought of as the "collage" issue, since rarely does a collage artist own the copyrights to every image used in his work. Puts everything in a bit of a legal spot, but to me is a compelling case for shorter copyright due to its nature as a derivative work rather than a simple copy. Very similar to how The Beastie Boys used Jimmy Page's riff from Led Zeppelin's "The Ocean" in "She's Crafty", but they are clearly separate works.
I worked on two of the numerous releases of Myst, and the biggest thing we all noticed was that the magic just wasn't the same when the graphics were no longer shockingly superior to the rest of what is available. Myst was once an amazingly beautiful place to explore, with promise of more beautiful places to explore if you punished yourself by going through their rudimentary puzzles. I'm not sure you can create a new product based on that principle when you're using a recycled engine that is already in use for fast-paced FPS.
So suddenly the NHS doesn't have enough money to provide everyone with free health care due to rising demand and cost, but you're blaming politicians for not simply handing them more money? That's not even an argument. It's a handful of highly politicized assertions that aren't really cause and effect.
If you really want to address the issue, you'll look at why costs and demand are rising. I suspect it's an aging population with increasing health needs, coupled with a declining percentage of young, healthy people who don't have those same needs who are actually paying in rather than taking out of the system. This is far more like the US's upcoming Social Security bomb than it is like Obamacare.
Mine is fully mechanical...but it's Russian so it only works right in cold weather. I live in Texas.
He's at least as trustworthy as the agencies for whom he has done work.
The main problem I see is that the airlines factor in only butts, and forget that passengers also have arms. A flight I was on a couple years ago had me in an aisle seat on a 3-3 narrowbody, and I had to spend the entire flight uncomfortably leaning into the aisle due to a broad-shouldered neighbour. Thankfully, it was only a two-hour hop, and the next flight was less full.
Bicker partisan issues all you want, it will justify neither one.
It's called fuzzy math. If the numbers don't work, your political views must be wrong.
I'm glad all that time watching Food Network has finally paid off.