the 9th circuit never banned the pledge of alliegence. They just said no-one should be forced to say it (although they could always say it on their free will). That decision does not sound crackpot at all to me.
But dont worry, that is a common mistake made by angry idiiots.
And by the way the 9th circuit is the appeals system. Supreme court review is technicaly not an appeal and it is very unlikely the SC will take this case anyway.
How do you become such a prominent columnist and get pulitzer non the less, by wrtiting humor columns that are not at all funny. Not even in the slightest.
I have thought about that for a while, and i believe it would make sence to exclude open source from all software liability.
After all when you distribute the source code it is ok to distribute it "as is" because any client/user can know exactly what they are getting.
Now we both know most people will not bother looking trough source code, but it is an option and at least it provides the opportunity to get an impartial test and audit.
The reason for antitrust laws is that monopolies always end up gauging the consumer, and only have low prices to drive a particular compwtitor away.
As long as there is no gouging going on and the city does not attempt to buy out of the competing avenues of access (such as cable, telephone wires) i do not really see a problem.
If it was head mounted it would give you even worse head aches. Head aches are caused by un coordinated sensory input. If you move the head and the world in front of you does not move accordingly you get a headache.
I really doubt virtual boy could have had the positioning hardware and the high speed software to make the image move with ever small move of the head. Thats why they made it stationary.
Of course it still gave you headaches because you would still move around when playing. And the resolution probably did not help either.
First of all "secular government"??? Do we live in the same ocuntry?
But all joking aside, there is a serious problem with the "we all get richer" argument.
The problem is that other people get richer not you. And i am not talking about indian workers either, because they are not getting payed very much. The people that do getr richer are the investors, of large companies, and those guys are unlikely to stimulate the economy because they have reached their peak consumer good purchasing long time ago.
My biggest problem with globalisation is not that i will have to compete with people from the developing world. It is that forces lower salaries for both me and the guy in the developing world.
People keep talking about supply and demand in relation to jobs, but the reality is a bit different. Most of the time it is not about supply and demand it is about bargaining power.
And the bargaining power comparison is simple... employers are becoming ever more organized consolidated and stronger with globalisation, and employees are becoming ever more weaker. This results in lower salaries over all, and (i apologise for the cliche but it is true) in ever greater separation between rich and poor, employees and investors.
And that is the problem.
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The problem is such. Whenever you offer a "trade-off" to a powerfull group such as the copyright lobby, they will take the benefit but not the burden.
The copyright lobby mind you essentially control the media, and thus only few magazines like the Economist (which pride themselves on being controlled by the international investment institutions instead) even dare suggest reducing the terms of copyright.
And since they control the media they can easily spin the story and make the public forget about any trade-offs. And terms of copyright will be once again long.
There are many examples where similar trade-offs have been essentially forgotten. The most drastic example is where the US tevision networks received a monopoly on a huge and increidbly valuable piece of the spectrum in exchange to performing a public function. And nowadays that tradeoff is complketely forgotten and no television network will ever admit that it owes anything to the public nor they will ever perform a public service that hurts their profits.
So my belief is that in these situations we should not do any gives and takes... Because they will take without giving.
The movie rating scheme has resulted in mostly juvenile movies. A truly adult movie that is not porn will have no chance of success, because every one will think it is porn and nobody will sell it.
R rated movies themselves are censored, and very often in bizarre and random ways. Incredible ammounts of violence have been let in in R rated movies while at the same time many movies have had to be changed by content.
Motorized wheelchairs, are used by the disabled and elderly only which means:
a) if you are not in certain florida neighborhoods there will be very few motorized wheechairs around, so they generally do not cause congestion.
b) a user of a motorized wheelchair cannot walk and thus it would be much more of an inconvenience for him/her if motorized wheelchairs were banned.
I dont think people using walkers should use segways. First of all they usually have a bad sence of balance, second of all, if they will be completely helpless if the segway stops or gets stuck for any reason.
Well as i see it it makes perfect sense. I live in a crowded city as well and for me it is obvious that putting any kind of machine on the sidewalk would be dangerous at least for some, would cause congestions and havoc.
So the only machines allowed are for people that could not move around if it wasnt for machines, because it would be cruel to render them unable to get out of their homes. But fortunately the numbers of the disabled are not large enough to cause problems.
I would not really mind if it took me axtra 5 minutes to get to the subway, if it was on the account of crowd caused by a disabled person on a wheelchair. But if it was caused by some guy who was too lazy to walk, then i would be mad.
Skateboards are banned on most city streets as well. There goes your semi-coherent argument.
I am really sorry to hear you are being hurt by the "current progressive tax system". although i have some trouble beleiving you. But if it is true you should keep in mind education is often tax deductable, and you sure need a lot of that.
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I am sure you need a lot of experience to learn how to click on icons and press ctrl-alt-del whenever some app crashes.
"The new face of global competition" is nothing innovative, just some really bright people that are being exploited to work long hours for low salaries because they live in an impoverished country.
Meanwhile they pull down the salaries of professionals working in america, and those lower salaries combined with the ever increasing fear of losing one's job (which is another result of global competition), so professionals decrease their spending and their standard of living and the result is a recession, we may not be able to get out of.
I am not racist and really like the fact that India is breeding smart hardworking engineers, but wish they were payed decent salaries for their sake and our own sake.
At least there is one thing that never changes. Fast Company is as always willing to give blowjobs to large corporations. I wonder what the folks at fast company received for thisd article. And i wonder if they are under pressure from third world journalist with no ethical standards.
I do not know about the system working. The constitution clearly says "limited time" and the way things are going I can not imagine copyrights ever expiring.
But who knows, if there is some kind of nuclear annihalation, maybe disney will forget to get the next extension.
Couple of years ago it looked like GM had made a breaktrough with their electric car, the EV-1.
It looked good, it ran on roads, and it had decent range. And most important of all, people that owned it loved it.
The car is now discontinued and GM wanted to (and probably did) retrieve all the cars it had leased to the public and destroyed them.
Some people that leased the car liked it so much they kept sending unsolicited checks to GM hoping that their car wont get taken away.
Now there are no mor eEV1s on the road (as far as i know) and the new electric vehicles getting sold are some ridiculous looking golf cart like thingies, that would be dangerous to drive on the road.
And people are saying that maybe GM discontinued the electric car because they did not want to have a succesful 0 emission vehicle.
It does seem very suspicious. The car did not seem to have any major problems. Even if it did have some minor ones, it certainly warranted further development. There was nothing in this car that said "this car is an utter failure. we must recall all cars on the road and stop any kind of RD in this area".
Now GM is showing off hydrogen technology, which is of course many years away. So i as i said it seems suspicious.
If you ask why would GM surrender their obvious advantage in that field. Well it just so happens california was about to enforce some pretty tough emisions requirements, which are now contested by the autoindustry on the ground that they are way too difficult to implement.
A succesful electric car would have been bad for that argument.
Other things that make me suspicious are features like that removable wheel, which are largely pointless, and yet so bizarre that they basicly communicate that this is a car that will not be in production any time soon.
I think it would be reasonable to built in some copy protection that slightly reduces the quality of copies (basicly the way VCRs work). It is not a good idea to attempt to put limits on how where and when something is watched or to spy on a person that watches a movie.
Another alternative is to give up on copyrights, and use another system for paying artists. As professor Moglen (the counsel for the FSF) noted the ancient Egyptian legal and political system resulted in the building of pyramids. Now we do not have slavery and our system is really bad at building pyramids. So what, are we really missing that much? Maybe the $100 movies are the pyramids of the 20th century.
I am not very familiar with the SC's ruling on VCR but i am pretty sure there was no DMCA when that ruling came up, so it might not hold, unless it is based purely on constitutional law.
Unfortunately the entertainment industry's DRM drive is as much about driving out competitors as it is about protecting their ip.
One will expect that the next DRM enabled devices will be made in a way that would allow fewer and fewer companies to create content for them. And if those devices become popular, than independant producers will have to beg one of the big companies to release their movies/music for them.
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the 9th circuit never banned the pledge of alliegence. They just said no-one should be forced to say it (although they could always say it on their free will). That decision does not sound crackpot at all to me.
But dont worry, that is a common mistake made by angry idiiots.
And by the way the 9th circuit is the appeals system. Supreme court review is technicaly not an appeal and it is very unlikely the SC will take this case anyway.
rofl good one... but complete bs of course.
But he was for military intervention when it was to help a catholic country fight non-catholic insergents.
... he just so racist, he rarely gets the wars he likes.
Pat is not against war
The clinton administration did arrest and send to trial the terrorists of the first WTC bombing, without trying to attack the judicial system.
Hell, even Tim McVeigh got a trial.
So no I dont think it would have been that bad if the Dems were in power.
How do you become such a prominent columnist and get pulitzer non the less, by wrtiting humor columns that are not at all funny. Not even in the slightest.
Please mod this up i really want to know.
I have thought about that for a while, and i believe it would make sence to exclude open source from all software liability.
After all when you distribute the source code it is ok to distribute it "as is" because any client/user can know exactly what they are getting.
Now we both know most people will not bother looking trough source code, but it is an option and at least it provides the opportunity to get an impartial test and audit.
The reason for antitrust laws is that monopolies always end up gauging the consumer, and only have low prices to drive a particular compwtitor away.
As long as there is no gouging going on and the city does not attempt to buy out of the competing avenues of access (such as cable, telephone wires) i do not really see a problem.
He is probably still going to be working for them.
If it was head mounted it would give you even worse head aches. Head aches are caused by un coordinated sensory input. If you move the head and the world in front of you does not move accordingly you get a headache.
I really doubt virtual boy could have had the positioning hardware and the high speed software to make the image move with ever small move of the head. Thats why they made it stationary.
Of course it still gave you headaches because you would still move around when playing. And the resolution probably did not help either.
First of all "secular government"??? Do we live in the same ocuntry?
... employers are becoming ever more organized consolidated and stronger with globalisation, and employees are becoming ever more weaker. This results in lower salaries over all, and (i apologise for the cliche but it is true) in ever greater separation between rich and poor, employees and investors.
But all joking aside, there is a serious problem with the "we all get richer" argument.
The problem is that other people get richer not you. And i am not talking about indian workers either, because they are not getting payed very much. The people that do getr richer are the investors, of large companies, and those guys are unlikely to stimulate the economy because they have reached their peak consumer good purchasing long time ago.
My biggest problem with globalisation is not that i will have to compete with people from the developing world. It is that forces lower salaries for both me and the guy in the developing world.
People keep talking about supply and demand in relation to jobs, but the reality is a bit different. Most of the time it is not about supply and demand it is about bargaining power.
And the bargaining power comparison is simple
And that is the problem.
The problem is such. Whenever you offer a "trade-off" to a powerfull group such as the copyright lobby, they will take the benefit but not the burden.
The copyright lobby mind you essentially control the media, and thus only few magazines like the Economist (which pride themselves on being controlled by the international investment institutions instead) even dare suggest reducing the terms of copyright.
And since they control the media they can easily spin the story and make the public forget about any trade-offs. And terms of copyright will be once again long.
There are many examples where similar trade-offs have been essentially forgotten. The most drastic example is where the US tevision networks received a monopoly on a huge and increidbly valuable piece of the spectrum in exchange to performing a public function. And nowadays that tradeoff is complketely forgotten and no television network will ever admit that it owes anything to the public nor they will ever perform a public service that hurts their profits.
So my belief is that in these situations we should not do any gives and takes... Because they will take without giving.
Thats not how it worked with movies.
The movie rating scheme has resulted in mostly juvenile movies. A truly adult movie that is not porn will have no chance of success, because every one will think it is porn and nobody will sell it.
R rated movies themselves are censored, and very often in bizarre and random ways. Incredible ammounts of violence have been let in in R rated movies while at the same time many movies have had to be changed by content.
Motorized wheelchairs, are used by the disabled and elderly only which means:
a) if you are not in certain florida neighborhoods there will be very few motorized wheechairs around, so they generally do not cause congestion.
b) a user of a motorized wheelchair cannot walk and thus it would be much more of an inconvenience for him/her if motorized wheelchairs were banned.
I dont think people using walkers should use segways. First of all they usually have a bad sence of balance, second of all, if they will be completely helpless if the segway stops or gets stuck for any reason.
Well as i see it it makes perfect sense. I live in a crowded city as well and for me it is obvious that putting any kind of machine on the sidewalk would be dangerous at least for some, would cause congestions and havoc.
So the only machines allowed are for people that could not move around if it wasnt for machines, because it would be cruel to render them unable to get out of their homes. But fortunately the numbers of the disabled are not large enough to cause problems.
I would not really mind if it took me axtra 5 minutes to get to the subway, if it was on the account of crowd caused by a disabled person on a wheelchair. But if it was caused by some guy who was too lazy to walk, then i would be mad.
Skateboards are banned on most city streets as well. There goes your semi-coherent argument.
I am really sorry to hear you are being hurt by the "current progressive tax system". although i have some trouble beleiving you. But if it is true you should keep in mind education is often tax deductable, and you sure need a lot of that.
I am sure you need a lot of experience to learn how to click on icons and press ctrl-alt-del whenever some app crashes.
Even most famous artists say that they make money mostly by concerts, and t0shirt sales.
"The new face of global competition" is nothing innovative, just some really bright people that are being exploited to work long hours for low salaries because they live in an impoverished country.
Meanwhile they pull down the salaries of professionals working in america, and those lower salaries combined with the ever increasing fear of losing one's job (which is another result of global competition), so professionals decrease their spending and their standard of living and the result is a recession, we may not be able to get out of.
I am not racist and really like the fact that India is breeding smart hardworking engineers, but wish they were payed decent salaries for their sake and our own sake.
At least there is one thing that never changes. Fast Company is as always willing to give blowjobs to large corporations. I wonder what the folks at fast company received for thisd article. And i wonder if they are under pressure from third world journalist with no ethical standards.
I do not know about the system working. The constitution clearly says "limited time" and the way things are going I can not imagine copyrights ever expiring.
But who knows, if there is some kind of nuclear annihalation, maybe disney will forget to get the next extension.
Couple of years ago it looked like GM had made a breaktrough with their electric car, the EV-1.
It looked good, it ran on roads, and it had decent range. And most important of all, people that owned it loved it.
The car is now discontinued and GM wanted to (and probably did) retrieve all the cars it had leased to the public and destroyed them.
Some people that leased the car liked it so much they kept sending unsolicited checks to GM hoping that their car wont get taken away.
Now there are no mor eEV1s on the road (as far as i know) and the new electric vehicles getting sold are some ridiculous looking golf cart like thingies, that would be dangerous to drive on the road.
And people are saying that maybe GM discontinued the electric car because they did not want to have a succesful 0 emission vehicle.
It does seem very suspicious. The car did not seem to have any major problems. Even if it did have some minor ones, it certainly warranted further development. There was nothing in this car that said "this car is an utter failure. we must recall all cars on the road and stop any kind of RD in this area".
Now GM is showing off hydrogen technology, which is of course many years away. So i as i said it seems suspicious.
If you ask why would GM surrender their obvious advantage in that field. Well it just so happens california was about to enforce some pretty tough emisions requirements, which are now contested by the autoindustry on the ground that they are way too difficult to implement.
A succesful electric car would have been bad for that argument.
Other things that make me suspicious are features like that removable wheel, which are largely pointless, and yet so bizarre that they basicly communicate that this is a car that will not be in production any time soon.
the supreme court has jurisdiction over all federal law.
I think it would be reasonable to built in some copy protection that slightly reduces the quality of copies (basicly the way VCRs work). It is not a good idea to attempt to put limits on how where and when something is watched or to spy on a person that watches a movie.
Another alternative is to give up on copyrights, and use another system for paying artists. As professor Moglen (the counsel for the FSF) noted the ancient Egyptian legal and political system resulted in the building of pyramids. Now we do not have slavery and our system is really bad at building pyramids. So what, are we really missing that much? Maybe the $100 movies are the pyramids of the 20th century.
I am not very familiar with the SC's ruling on VCR but i am pretty sure there was no DMCA when that ruling came up, so it might not hold, unless it is based purely on constitutional law.
Unfortunately the entertainment industry's DRM drive is as much about driving out competitors as it is about protecting their ip.
One will expect that the next DRM enabled devices will be made in a way that would allow fewer and fewer companies to create content for them. And if those devices become popular, than independant producers will have to beg one of the big companies to release their movies/music for them.
Not a good prospect.
"That's what digital rights management does: it enables business models."
so does slavery.