This is a chance for someone else to start a blogging platform for these sites to move to. Let's call it Flogger for the BDSM sites and Bangger for the heterosexual sites and so on.
I got as far as "Mississippi Attorney General" and stopped reading, because I knew what followed would simultaneously knock points off my IQ and make me weep for the lost potential of a once-sentient species.
1. Upload to Picasa picture of kids at birthday pool party holding balloon animals with long noses.
2. End up on floor being beaten by local SWAT team.
3. ??????
4. Prison
I'm old enough to remember when telegrams were still used in the US, mostly at memorial services. They were considered a classy way of someone unable to attend to send their regards for the deceased; the telegrams would be laid out on a table.
Somehow I don't think email, tweets or e-whatever would be an effective replacement.
I don't know - a table covered with smartphones playing videos of people who could not come crying might be cool.
How does current copyright law outstrip the original intent?
Because long copyright terms encourage rent-seeking behaviour, which was explicitly what the founders were trying to protect against with the verbiage: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.
If there would be just as much science and art with shorter copyright terms, then the law is in violation of the constitution. Congress does not have the/right/ to define a longer term.
Your arguments are specious - and I am on the same side as you. However, it is undeniable that the Constitution allows Congress to set the copyright term to a limited number of years. Your idea of what 'limited' should mean differs from Congress. As long as the number of years is defined, that term is limited.
Congress has every right to define a longer term. The Constitution gives them that leeway. What you and I need to do is change the Constitution, not try to dance around its wording.
People like Clarance Thomas talk about "original intent" but never have a problem with these matters. If there is one thing that has outstripped original intent of the constitution it's copyright.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
How does current copyright law outstrip the original intent? The original intent is clear: Congress defines the length of copyright. Otherwise the authors of the Constitution would have specified the length rather than leaving it to Congress.
As the years go by, whenever a plank rots he replaces it with a new one. Does it stop being the Argo at some point?
and if not and he then later reassembles all of the old rotten beams which is the real argo?
In the original Oz, the Tin Woodsman was originally a real human whose limbs were cut off one by one by a cursed axe. He lost his girl to her new man - his reassembled limbs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Woodman
This is the kind of shit that drives us crazy, but if we were running a company like Apple, we would do the exact same thing. In this climate you have to patent taking a crap and the manner of wiping said turd residue of the user's ass - otherwise some fucktard patent holding nonmanufacturing entity will come along and sue you for inventing sharks with frigging lasers on their heads because they bought up an old patent which described something something something in the water something something.
How did people ever manage without electronic devices to numb their kids' brains?
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
Slashdot Mirror
You will never stop us, dogs of Satan! We are everywhere!
sincerely,
Muhammad bin Occupant
This is a chance for someone else to start a blogging platform for these sites to move to. Let's call it Flogger for the BDSM sites and Bangger for the heterosexual sites and so on.
We want the Chocodile back!
He was a little old to be just a colonel in the Marines, wasn't he? He should have been up or out long before that exchange.
Unfortunately, we moved forward with a name and contest that clearly upset Turner and his community.
You didn't "move forward", you mealy-mouthed bastards. You stole his IP.
we immediately engaged with him to try to make things right.
You incredibly ignorant twats. Making it right would be immediately ceasing to use his IP.
This just in: Slashdot announced that Anonymous Coward's contract would not be renewed for next year.
I am pretty sure that tweeting that you are suicide bombing a 'merchant of death' requires the OED to make a new notation on the irony page.
Either Google Autocomplete or the War on Drugs has to go.
Only one company profits from the former, but numerous companies and politicians profit from the latter.
I got as far as "Mississippi Attorney General" and stopped reading, because I knew what followed would simultaneously knock points off my IQ and make me weep for the lost potential of a once-sentient species.
Gawd, NO! Leave them here & let's the rest of us go!
Don't worry, you can have Venus for the geeks, Jupiter for the nerds and Pluto all for yourself.
Kudos to you, brave AC, for passing on all of the obvious Uranus jokes.
My license renewal is coming up. Time to grow a beard and dye my hair.
1. Upload to Picasa picture of kids at birthday pool party holding balloon animals with long noses.
2. End up on floor being beaten by local SWAT team.
3. ??????
4. Prison
I'm old enough to remember when telegrams were still used in the US, mostly at memorial services. They were considered a classy way of someone unable to attend to send their regards for the deceased; the telegrams would be laid out on a table.
Somehow I don't think email, tweets or e-whatever would be an effective replacement.
I don't know - a table covered with smartphones playing videos of people who could not come crying might be cool.
How does current copyright law outstrip the original intent?
Because long copyright terms encourage rent-seeking behaviour, which was explicitly what the founders were trying to protect against with the verbiage: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts. If there would be just as much science and art with shorter copyright terms, then the law is in violation of the constitution. Congress does not have the /right/ to define a longer term.
Your arguments are specious - and I am on the same side as you. However, it is undeniable that the Constitution allows Congress to set the copyright term to a limited number of years. Your idea of what 'limited' should mean differs from Congress. As long as the number of years is defined, that term is limited.
Congress has every right to define a longer term. The Constitution gives them that leeway. What you and I need to do is change the Constitution, not try to dance around its wording.
People like Clarance Thomas talk about "original intent" but never have a problem with these matters. If there is one thing that has outstripped original intent of the constitution it's copyright.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
How does current copyright law outstrip the original intent? The original intent is clear: Congress defines the length of copyright. Otherwise the authors of the Constitution would have specified the length rather than leaving it to Congress.
Your idea is to let it become a craphole and take em out back and put a bullet in their heads or just let them 'eat cake'.
Jesus. I'll take the cake, please.
As the years go by, whenever a plank rots he replaces it with a new one. Does it stop being the Argo at some point?
and if not and he then later reassembles all of the old rotten beams which is the real argo?
In the original Oz, the Tin Woodsman was originally a real human whose limbs were cut off one by one by a cursed axe. He lost his girl to her new man - his reassembled limbs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Woodman
It won't be too much longer now before there is no one left who gets this joke.
Yes, nowadays it is a scream from another part of the house:"FRIGGING COMCAST IS DOWN AGAIN!"
Those are all good reasons, but they will build it in your backyard behind the shed if you pay half of the cost.
Because your bank card lacks a feature key to any phone: A camera.
Feasible: http://www.techhive.com/article/94623/article.html
This is the kind of shit that drives us crazy, but if we were running a company like Apple, we would do the exact same thing. In this climate you have to patent taking a crap and the manner of wiping said turd residue of the user's ass - otherwise some fucktard patent holding nonmanufacturing entity will come along and sue you for inventing sharks with frigging lasers on their heads because they bought up an old patent which described something something something in the water something something.
How did people ever manage without electronic devices to numb their kids' brains?
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
The system turns itself off when the taser comes out of its holster.
I see you conveniently side-stepped the fact that we now have zombie wheat, a staple of a healthy zombie diet.
GRRAAIINNNSSS!!!!!!
LOL, Rambo Indian, I'd like to see one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfvLcozLwtE