Isn't this problem a bit work related? Where I live IT is seen as a path to unemployment because of outsourcing. Especially the low end entry jobs that you start with has been outsourced so you can't get the necessary experience to get a work. This is of course fatal for a field that doesn't really have so much attraction - an career either need to have a good chance for work in it or it have to be cool. Appearing to be neither isn't helping IT along.
The copyright as we see it now is probably going to get removed soon. The copyright advocates will of course win many fight before but their own greed will ultimately make it impossible to uphold.
The thing is that copyright was quite easy to upheld when there was only a selected few who needed to think of and work with copyright, like newspapers, publishers and so on. However, now days almost everyone needs to take copyright into consideration. If you post a video on Youtube you first need to think about copyright. You need to make sure that your radio isn't playing in the background or you will violate copyright.
Copyright worked when only a selected elite was forced to work with it. Today, it simply don't work. Ordinary people can't keep up with all this. They also don't think that it matters - they simply don't give a damn about if the radio is playing in the Youtube video.
So if the general population really don't care and continues to break copyright laws, how will the copyright maffia act? The current trend to make the laws harder will fail. It will not work to punish everyone who breaks the laws so they can only take some and make them into scapegoates. The problem with that is that people will start to wounder why some get away and some don't. A legal system where chance plays a big role isn't working in the long run. And if they try to catch everyone, then no one will care about the conviction. A country where everyone is guilty of copyright intrusion isn't a country where copyright intrusion is a crime that people are afraid off committing.
So this strict copyright regime will simply fail in the future. You can't uphold a law against common will for to long, no matter how many congressmen you bribe. Copyright will need to be simplified and reduced or it will simply vanish.
No, all countries can't do that. In Sweden for instance you can't get a law tried in court if you think it violates the constitution. We actually have several laws in effect now where "lagrådet" (which is more or less the supreme court members who are giving opinions about new laws and if they violates the constitution) has said that the law is in conflict and the law have been passed anyway. However, we can't get these laws overturned because it violates the constitution. However, the law will be more or less useless since all courts will follows the supreme courts ruling off the first case that goes that far, so in practice it can't be upheld.
When it comes to complain to EU - a law has to violate some EU charter to be able to do that. Or it has to violate human rights. If the EU court finds that a law is wrong, the law has to be changed or the member state will gets fines until they change the law.
This is simply untrue. Where I live the supreme court can't declare laws that goes against the constitution illegal, so we have some laws that more or less violates the constitution and that the supreme court (they are allowed to make an opinion about the laws) has told the parliament that the law is unconstitutional but the parliament has passed them anyway.
The worst handling has to be the way Samsung has treated us who bought the Galaxy. No update to either 1.6 or 2.0 but the lower end models, like the "Spica" (which began its life as Galaxy Lite) will probably be updated.
They could at least release the source code needed for someone to compile Android as a third party software but they refuse. Really, really bad. My last Samsung phone, you can be sure of that. The phone stopped working after 3 weeks also - I am still not sure if it can be repaired.
Not, it isn't only you. The whole new EU constitution is only meant to make us more like US with a "president" and removal of veto from individual states. Next step is the EU army which is coming - "voluntary" at first... Please don't trust what EU says. We as citizens sure don't trust EU... that is perhaps why no one beside the Irish was allowed to vote on the new treaty - and they voted "no" first time so they had to re-vote to vote "right".
I agree. Let dump 10 metric ton of horse shit in front of the EU ministry building in Brussels! We need to take more drastic action like French farmers!
As long as they live in the EU the Dutch authorities can get them. Other member states will simply carry out the court ruling, i.e. collecting the fines.
EU isn't to be trusted. Here we are forced to re-vote until we vote as the elite want. See the referendum in Ireland as a proof for that. They had the nerve to vote "wrong" first time so they had to re-vote and vote right.
And Korea was a joint effort under UN mandate where several other western nations participated!
Please explain how the Vietnam war helped the Vietnamese people, the first war after WWII that USA fought for them self without help from other western nations.
The saying has always been that "fusion is still 50 years away", for fifty years ago and recent. Now EU has managed to make it 100 years away - it's an impressive achievement: they have managed to double the time we have to wait. Great use of money. Since fusion was only "50 years away" when we started we where actually better off before we started to build that reactor (or the scientists where to optimistic, but whats the fun in that?).
I think your figures are wrong. When I made my military service in the artillery our guns could shoot about 21 km and they where of an older model. The newer model could shot further and this was standard 15 cm artillery. As far as I know, battleships of WWII could fire to the horizon and could possible fire beyond it today with better aiming - according to Wikipedia an Iowa class battleship could fire it's 40cm guns at targets 39km away. I wouldn't be suprised if NK has artillery that can reach at least 40 km which is close enough to hit Seoul if you add chemical or biological weapons.
Ok, I might be wrong but didn't The Register run an article for quite a while ago that China was going to enforce legislation on all mobiles sold in China that they needed to use a standard contact for the charger? If so, isn't this really only a way to follow Chinas decision?
The anti nuclear side really don't want to solve the long term storage of nuclear waste. They also don't want to research technologies that could transmute the waste. The reason is of course that if there isn't any waste problem, a great deal of their argument against nuclear power falls. And they can't allow that.
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Isn't this problem a bit work related?
Where I live IT is seen as a path to unemployment because of outsourcing. Especially the low end entry jobs that you start with has been outsourced so you can't get the necessary experience to get a work. This is of course fatal for a field that doesn't really have so much attraction - an career either need to have a good chance for work in it or it have to be cool. Appearing to be neither isn't helping IT along.
Or you could give me a break because I am not a native english speaker? ;-)
The copyright as we see it now is probably going to get removed soon. The copyright advocates will of course win many fight before but their own greed will ultimately make it impossible to uphold.
The thing is that copyright was quite easy to upheld when there was only a selected few who needed to think of and work with copyright, like newspapers, publishers and so on.
However, now days almost everyone needs to take copyright into consideration. If you post a video on Youtube you first need to think about copyright. You need to make sure that your radio isn't playing in the background or you will violate copyright.
Copyright worked when only a selected elite was forced to work with it. Today, it simply don't work. Ordinary people can't keep up with all this. They also don't think that it matters - they simply don't give a damn about if the radio is playing in the Youtube video.
So if the general population really don't care and continues to break copyright laws, how will the copyright maffia act? The current trend to make the laws harder will fail. It will not work to punish everyone who breaks the laws so they can only take some and make them into scapegoates. The problem with that is that people will start to wounder why some get away and some don't. A legal system where chance plays a big role isn't working in the long run. And if they try to catch everyone, then no one will care about the conviction. A country where everyone is guilty of copyright intrusion isn't a country where copyright intrusion is a crime that people are afraid off committing.
So this strict copyright regime will simply fail in the future. You can't uphold a law against common will for to long, no matter how many congressmen you bribe. Copyright will need to be simplified and reduced or it will simply vanish.
No, all countries can't do that. In Sweden for instance you can't get a law tried in court if you think it violates the constitution. We actually have several laws in effect now where "lagrådet" (which is more or less the supreme court members who are giving opinions about new laws and if they violates the constitution) has said that the law is in conflict and the law have been passed anyway. However, we can't get these laws overturned because it violates the constitution. However, the law will be more or less useless since all courts will follows the supreme courts ruling off the first case that goes that far, so in practice it can't be upheld.
When it comes to complain to EU - a law has to violate some EU charter to be able to do that. Or it has to violate human rights.
If the EU court finds that a law is wrong, the law has to be changed or the member state will gets fines until they change the law.
This is simply untrue.
Where I live the supreme court can't declare laws that goes against the constitution illegal, so we have some laws that more or less violates the constitution and that the supreme court (they are allowed to make an opinion about the laws) has told the parliament that the law is unconstitutional but the parliament has passed them anyway.
The worst handling has to be the way Samsung has treated us who bought the Galaxy.
No update to either 1.6 or 2.0 but the lower end models, like the "Spica" (which began its life as Galaxy Lite) will probably be updated.
They could at least release the source code needed for someone to compile Android as a third party software but they refuse. Really, really bad. My last Samsung phone, you can be sure of that. The phone stopped working after 3 weeks also - I am still not sure if it can be repaired.
Not, it isn't only you. The whole new EU constitution is only meant to make us more like US with a "president" and removal of veto from individual states. Next step is the EU army which is coming - "voluntary" at first...
Please don't trust what EU says. We as citizens sure don't trust EU... that is perhaps why no one beside the Irish was allowed to vote on the new treaty - and they voted "no" first time so they had to re-vote to vote "right".
I agree. Let dump 10 metric ton of horse shit in front of the EU ministry building in Brussels! We need to take more drastic action like French farmers!
As long as they live in the EU the Dutch authorities can get them. Other member states will simply carry out the court ruling, i.e. collecting the fines.
Don't forget plain old revenge. SCO has pissed off several suits at IBM and they want to take SCO down just for the sake of it.
No problems whatsoever? Then why is the telephone companies crying in Computer Sweden about congested networks and need for customer to pay more?
EU isn't to be trusted. Here we are forced to re-vote until we vote as the elite want. See the referendum in Ireland as a proof for that. They had the nerve to vote "wrong" first time so they had to re-vote and vote right.
The world would be like hell.
I can't understand how you can live with your patent system and please don't export that shit to us other!
I think you just have predicted the next reality show.
And Korea was a joint effort under UN mandate where several other western nations participated!
Please explain how the Vietnam war helped the Vietnamese people, the first war after WWII that USA fought for them self without help from other western nations.
The saying has always been that "fusion is still 50 years away", for fifty years ago and recent.
Now EU has managed to make it 100 years away - it's an impressive achievement: they have managed to double the time we have to wait. Great use of money. Since fusion was only "50 years away" when we started we where actually better off before we started to build that reactor (or the scientists where to optimistic, but whats the fun in that?).
Well, then cloning have given us a cool dinosaur that we could use both to fix our lawns and to trim our trees! Multipurpose dino.
I think your figures are wrong. When I made my military service in the artillery our guns could shoot about 21 km and they where of an older model. The newer model could shot further and this was standard 15 cm artillery.
As far as I know, battleships of WWII could fire to the horizon and could possible fire beyond it today with better aiming - according to Wikipedia an Iowa class battleship could fire it's 40cm guns at targets 39km away.
I wouldn't be suprised if NK has artillery that can reach at least 40 km which is close enough to hit Seoul if you add chemical or biological weapons.
They brought us peace?
Our politicians are spineless lizards who simply do what USA says.
The reason we vote for them are because if we don't, maybe the wrong lizard wins.
Ok, I might be wrong but didn't The Register run an article for quite a while ago that China was going to enforce legislation on all mobiles sold in China that they needed to use a standard contact for the charger?
If so, isn't this really only a way to follow Chinas decision?
The only black holes EU can create are the agriculture budget. However, that is bad enough when you calculate how much it costs us every year...
"The irony of course is that if they actually get jobs in the sector, this will be how they actually work anyway."
The irony of course is that after their graduation, they will see that their work already is outsourced!
The anti nuclear side really don't want to solve the long term storage of nuclear waste. They also don't want to research technologies that could transmute the waste. The reason is of course that if there isn't any waste problem, a great deal of their argument against nuclear power falls. And they can't allow that.
The "national security" don't really fly as argument in Sweden.
The "think of the children" argument is going to be the one used.