No, originally copyright was 14 years. Then we felt sorry for artists with popular songs still being played while they were broke. Then we felt sorry for their spouses and kids they were supporting... Now what?
Here's the REAL question that proves the point best: Do artists (families) get to renegotiate the contract terms for the extended 20 years? The record company didn't create the work, or extend the copyright... Why do THEY get a FREE 20 years more??
but that wireless has to connect between the towers... that means land lines have to keep up the traffic from all the wireless connections on the tower.... THAT is the limiting factor that many 3G and most 4G implementations have a limitation that rural towers just can't feed the wireless connections.
Well the problem is that when we here record profits what they REALLY mean is record EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) which is a fancy way of saying we made sales, and cut costs.. before then the accountants will start their magic JuJu to whittle the taxable portion down as far as they can so they don't have to pay dividends to shareholders. That's where executive salaries come in because companies would rather pay for ridiculous properties in New York City, multi-million dollar salaries, hoard huge sums of lucre, and racing teams than pay out the dividends or taxes. When the CEO wants X million dollars that's where it comes from... In normal business accounting you WANT to be paid out of the non-EBTDA money... because that's what investors and efficiency guys don't question.
but remember, all those programmers with an education burn out and go work for insurance companies writing boring accounting programs when they're done with games. But they wouldn't have gotten the education without the carrot of making video games. Most game companies start as small businesses, it's one of the last industries where you can start a business by yourself and grow it into multi-millions of dollars in a reasonable time. So many game houses get small-business credits for years until they get bought by the big farm companies. As games get more advanced they require more real acting talent for voice overs, motion capture, and other art needs. How many graphic arts and budget acting majors are they hiring now? Lastly, gaming is one of the big EXPORTS of the USA. Just like states tax smokes but the feds turn around and subsidize growing tobacco because it's a huge export... that means PROFITS come back to US companies.
So game companies provide jobs for beginning techies and artists, they provide startup investments for budding businessmen, they provide a huge source of export income... all for VERY low startup costs to get the ball rolling. Lots of reasons the government would have credits for them.
These aren't jet jockeys, these are the "guys in the van". Had they tried being heroic, they'd have probably crashed or been shot down over NK and then they'd have created a huge publicity stunt for North Korea to use in their own favor. There's no reason to give NK free hostages just because the GPS radio didn't work correctly.
Of course you hit one point on the head. Teachers need to ask BETTER QUESTIONS in their assignments!!! If a class has high plagiarism rates, then maybe it's time to see why you're assigning work that's easily repeatable and forgettable in the first place.
I've been going to one of the schools that has both campus and online classes. The biggest thing I see there is a shift to a focus on much more current work. Class are focused on discussing stuff happening right now, and applying topics in the reading material appropriately. It works well for "humanities" classes (which are probably the most highly copied anyway) because you're just not going to find many reports on current news articles out there.. or looking would be much more work.
Where that doesn't work are classes like first year chemistry where the department wants a "book report" on something totally irrelevant to the class work. Those are useless, a waste of time, and very easy to plagiarize because everybody is requesting the same report on the small pool of people that discovered hydrogen atoms.
But if you NEVER LOOKED at other people's papers in the first place....
then you really shouldn't have to worry about plagiarism other than to check that the paragraphs from the research you used to build your argument didn't end up on the page as "too closely worded" because you were burning the midnite oil.
Not really, because once you properly reword your paper, then it's not "plagiarism" anymore. The vast majority of undergrad stuff by definition of the assignments is borderline plagiarism anyway. They expect you to gather ideas from material, arrange them and draw a conclusion. The vast majority of what these systems "detect" are at the "gather material" step when things aren't quoted or cited exactly properly (which isn't technically plagiarism anyway) which is more of a writing quality and clear logical structure problem than a cheating problem. The work would be incomplete, not unoriginal. All that does is cough up a bunch of false positives and make the staff feel good about the few people they catch per year that actually COPIED a report from somebody else.
I see plagiarism as a lack of teaching quality writing skills. Of course Academic writing is a different beast from Business writing, Legal writing, Technical writing, Newspaper writing, or even JUST PLAIN writing. I've been going to college on and off a total of 8 years now and NEVER have we ONCE looked at the footnotes in the ASSIGNED reading material to see if it made any actual sense at all. Most students don't even have access to that level of academic papers. If you've never been TAUGHT to USE footnotes, citations, etc and you don't use them in classes that expect reports, how are you supposed to PROPERLY use them in your own works? Academic laziness isn't just the fault of the students.
Look at it this way. It would be much more efficient to just have two football teams after the Superbowl. Then we'd only have to buy two team jerseys, right.
First, it wasn't "SAP" but a support company SAP bought, then discovered was doing this after the deal was done. Oracle waited to sue SAP and not the tiny little company SAP bought.
The company was using it's one customer support connection to Oracle's website to support OTHER ORACLE CUSTOMERS that needed security patches locked behind a paywall.
Unfortunately, the suit doesn't address the real problem.. Of Oracle structuring "support" rates as their own little piggy bank... How many companies have "maintenance" as X% of "current market price"... Then jack that price to 200% and grant "discounts" to anybody shopping for NEW licenses.
My own company ran into this with some other companies software that wanted more for "hardware transfer" and " maintenance" in one year than we paid for the initial license. The yearly "20%" is more like 50% of what we initially paid...
Should alert the purchasing managers that they need to limit "yearly increase" to 5% or an audit of their "sold" pricing for the year. Gotta be clever! The FUN companies are ones that want you to may maintenance AND separately for UPGRADES.
Not really, many live in countries with weak extradition, or no laws against cyber crimes in the first place. Even when they commit a crime like kidnapping, all the inetnt and evidence is based on stuff that can't be investigated internationally... So they have years head start on people looking for your kid.
Except that if you DO live in a country that cares they now have uttering death threats which is a non-cyber crime to get you with. Scams are hard to prosecute... Death threats are easy.. They can tack on the scamming at sentencing as "unrepentant offender".
Um, yahoo search is Bong now... After Yahoo taking M$ that's EXACTLY what she was supposed to do... Tend the shop until it sinks. Nearly every interesting project Yahoo! had steps on Microsoft's toes in some way.. Her "job" is to integrate with Microsoft's plans or can the projects... Oh, and to bring Yahoo! Stock to double it was when she started.
I didn't get hot lesbian sex... I got BABIES... now those Gerber folks got me for the next 3+ years. It's some kind of ensnarement to get more business.
(although Gerber should go after the 65+ crowd..it's bigger than the under 5 club. Gotta gum day food.)
Except other, more reputable, agencies handling domains always give trademark holders and current domain holders first dubs on names before allowing others in. It seems they are already to the "bidding" stage with no mechanism to allow current rights holders to protect their rights... The registrar should be sued outright for not putting methods in place every other registrar agreed to after years of lawsuits.
Well if he was Jewish too then he wouldn't need to make backroom deals in the first place... He could just go there legally and appeal. Considering Middle Eastern view of spousal abuse is generally a family matter, and generally "one punch" before you kill her, you'd have a hard time time "crying to daddy" about your terrible husband.
Even if a US court denied him custody, leaving the country and missing visitation is kidnapping, open and shut felony.. Even in US JAIL your rights to see your kids dont go away allowing your spouse to flee.
As Tim Cook was the COO I dont see that changing much.
Besides, China is supposed to be Communist... They still have The Party... It would seem like if the workers complained about conditions and evviroment the party would do something for them. It's the PEOPLE'S Republic so they must be fine.
But in these family cases you CAN'T even set foot in the country because the spouse flags you as a "stalker" and you're denied visas or turned away at customs. Unless you can get somebody in the other government to "accidentally" drive your spouse and child to the US Embasy where the FBI can detain them under the USA law that was broken you'll never see them again. You might also catch a break if the spouse leaves the country and your "friend" can get their plane grounded in a US extradition country for an hour... The only way to get justice in these cases is to get somebody in the hiding country to break their laws or misuse authority.
He married a Jew girl.. They weren't ever going to give him a visa to see his kid as he's obviously not a Jew, not in the club. Now they dont have to worry about the state department constantly filing paperwork for yet another parent to get back their stolen kid.
My whole problem is that if the guy DID do the right thing and turned in the contact, would the US Govt taken in that contact as an "enemy combatant" and used that spy to trade for his kid back? Whoever RECIEVED 62 drops needs the "public brains on concrete" approach.. Because WE'RE STILL AT WAR in that region, and they are an illegal foreign agent. Remember, summary execution of foreign agents is LEGAL internationally.
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No, originally copyright was 14 years. Then we felt sorry for artists with popular songs still being played while they were broke. Then we felt sorry for their spouses and kids they were supporting... Now what?
Here's the REAL question that proves the point best: Do artists (families) get to renegotiate the contract terms for the extended 20 years? The record company didn't create the work, or extend the copyright... Why do THEY get a FREE 20 years more??
but that wireless has to connect between the towers... that means land lines have to keep up the traffic from all the wireless connections on the tower.... THAT is the limiting factor that many 3G and most 4G implementations have a limitation that rural towers just can't feed the wireless connections.
Well the problem is that when we here record profits what they REALLY mean is record EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) which is a fancy way of saying we made sales, and cut costs.. before then the accountants will start their magic JuJu to whittle the taxable portion down as far as they can so they don't have to pay dividends to shareholders. That's where executive salaries come in because companies would rather pay for ridiculous properties in New York City, multi-million dollar salaries, hoard huge sums of lucre, and racing teams than pay out the dividends or taxes. When the CEO wants X million dollars that's where it comes from... In normal business accounting you WANT to be paid out of the non-EBTDA money... because that's what investors and efficiency guys don't question.
but remember, all those programmers with an education burn out and go work for insurance companies writing boring accounting programs when they're done with games. But they wouldn't have gotten the education without the carrot of making video games. Most game companies start as small businesses, it's one of the last industries where you can start a business by yourself and grow it into multi-millions of dollars in a reasonable time. So many game houses get small-business credits for years until they get bought by the big farm companies. As games get more advanced they require more real acting talent for voice overs, motion capture, and other art needs. How many graphic arts and budget acting majors are they hiring now? Lastly, gaming is one of the big EXPORTS of the USA. Just like states tax smokes but the feds turn around and subsidize growing tobacco because it's a huge export... that means PROFITS come back to US companies.
So game companies provide jobs for beginning techies and artists, they provide startup investments for budding businessmen, they provide a huge source of export income... all for VERY low startup costs to get the ball rolling. Lots of reasons the government would have credits for them.
These aren't jet jockeys, these are the "guys in the van". Had they tried being heroic, they'd have probably crashed or been shot down over NK and then they'd have created a huge publicity stunt for North Korea to use in their own favor. There's no reason to give NK free hostages just because the GPS radio didn't work correctly.
Of course you hit one point on the head. Teachers need to ask BETTER QUESTIONS in their assignments!!! If a class has high plagiarism rates, then maybe it's time to see why you're assigning work that's easily repeatable and forgettable in the first place.
I've been going to one of the schools that has both campus and online classes. The biggest thing I see there is a shift to a focus on much more current work. Class are focused on discussing stuff happening right now, and applying topics in the reading material appropriately. It works well for "humanities" classes (which are probably the most highly copied anyway) because you're just not going to find many reports on current news articles out there.. or looking would be much more work.
Where that doesn't work are classes like first year chemistry where the department wants a "book report" on something totally irrelevant to the class work. Those are useless, a waste of time, and very easy to plagiarize because everybody is requesting the same report on the small pool of people that discovered hydrogen atoms.
But if you NEVER LOOKED at other people's papers in the first place....
then you really shouldn't have to worry about plagiarism other than to check that the paragraphs from the research you used to build your argument didn't end up on the page as "too closely worded" because you were burning the midnite oil.
Not really, because once you properly reword your paper, then it's not "plagiarism" anymore. The vast majority of undergrad stuff by definition of the assignments is borderline plagiarism anyway. They expect you to gather ideas from material, arrange them and draw a conclusion. The vast majority of what these systems "detect" are at the "gather material" step when things aren't quoted or cited exactly properly (which isn't technically plagiarism anyway) which is more of a writing quality and clear logical structure problem than a cheating problem. The work would be incomplete, not unoriginal. All that does is cough up a bunch of false positives and make the staff feel good about the few people they catch per year that actually COPIED a report from somebody else.
I see plagiarism as a lack of teaching quality writing skills. Of course Academic writing is a different beast from Business writing, Legal writing, Technical writing, Newspaper writing, or even JUST PLAIN writing. I've been going to college on and off a total of 8 years now and NEVER have we ONCE looked at the footnotes in the ASSIGNED reading material to see if it made any actual sense at all. Most students don't even have access to that level of academic papers. If you've never been TAUGHT to USE footnotes, citations, etc and you don't use them in classes that expect reports, how are you supposed to PROPERLY use them in your own works? Academic laziness isn't just the fault of the students.
You saw what happened to WorldComm's CEO for not playing along.
A lot of them are Lawyers...
Mergers always mean more money for lawsuits!
Don't say that to people that can "disappear" you... Ever.
It's amazing how many executives have DNA on dead homosexual hookers this week... DOJ says so... Flies in most courts.
Obama could say that eating babies and raping women is wrong and some right wing nutjob would find in the Bible where god said those things were good.
Just like their business masters, republicans are more about "poisoning the field" for the next election than actually doing any good.
Look at it this way. It would be much more efficient to just have two football teams after the Superbowl. Then we'd only have to buy two team jerseys, right.
First, it wasn't "SAP" but a support company SAP bought, then discovered was doing this after the deal was done. Oracle waited to sue SAP and not the tiny little company SAP bought.
The company was using it's one customer support connection to Oracle's website to support OTHER ORACLE CUSTOMERS that needed security patches locked behind a paywall.
Unfortunately, the suit doesn't address the real problem.. Of Oracle structuring "support" rates as their own little piggy bank... How many companies have "maintenance" as X% of "current market price" ... Then jack that price to 200% and grant "discounts" to anybody shopping for NEW licenses.
My own company ran into this with some other companies software that wanted more for "hardware transfer" and " maintenance" in one year than we paid for the initial license. The yearly "20%" is more like 50% of what we initially paid...
Should alert the purchasing managers that they need to limit "yearly increase" to 5% or an audit of their "sold" pricing for the year. Gotta be clever! The FUN companies are ones that want you to may maintenance AND separately for UPGRADES.
Well at least he's not collecting all their mis-addressed email...
Not really, many live in countries with weak extradition, or no laws against cyber crimes in the first place. Even when they commit a crime like kidnapping, all the inetnt and evidence is based on stuff that can't be investigated internationally... So they have years head start on people looking for your kid.
Except that if you DO live in a country that cares they now have uttering death threats which is a non-cyber crime to get you with. Scams are hard to prosecute... Death threats are easy.. They can tack on the scamming at sentencing as "unrepentant offender".
Um, yahoo search is Bong now... After Yahoo taking M$ that's EXACTLY what she was supposed to do... Tend the shop until it sinks. Nearly every interesting project Yahoo! had steps on Microsoft's toes in some way.. Her "job" is to integrate with Microsoft's plans or can the projects... Oh, and to bring Yahoo! Stock to double it was when she started.
The porn site would be a LIE!
I didn't get hot lesbian sex... I got BABIES... now those Gerber folks got me for the next 3+ years. It's some kind of ensnarement to get more business.
(although Gerber should go after the 65+ crowd..it's bigger than the under 5 club. Gotta gum day food.)
Except other, more reputable, agencies handling domains always give trademark holders and current domain holders first dubs on names before allowing others in. It seems they are already to the "bidding" stage with no mechanism to allow current rights holders to protect their rights... The registrar should be sued outright for not putting methods in place every other registrar agreed to after years of lawsuits.
But AWS is an open platform. You can use their servers, or host on another OS like Ubuntu if you want.
That would make sense to be using somebody's cloud format... Until the get it rewritten for OSX
Well if he was Jewish too then he wouldn't need to make backroom deals in the first place... He could just go there legally and appeal.
Considering Middle Eastern view of spousal abuse is generally a family matter, and generally "one punch" before you kill her, you'd have a hard time time "crying to daddy" about your terrible husband.
Even if a US court denied him custody, leaving the country and missing visitation is kidnapping, open and shut felony.. Even in US JAIL your rights to see your kids dont go away allowing your spouse to flee.
As Tim Cook was the COO I dont see that changing much.
Besides, China is supposed to be Communist... They still have The Party... It would seem like if the workers complained about conditions and evviroment the party would do something for them. It's the PEOPLE'S Republic so they must be fine.
But in these family cases you CAN'T even set foot in the country because the spouse flags you as a "stalker" and you're denied visas or turned away at customs. Unless you can get somebody in the other government to "accidentally" drive your spouse and child to the US Embasy where the FBI can detain them under the USA law that was broken you'll never see them again. You might also catch a break if the spouse leaves the country and your "friend" can get their plane grounded in a US extradition country for an hour...
The only way to get justice in these cases is to get somebody in the hiding country to break their laws or misuse authority.
He married a Jew girl.. They weren't ever going to give him a visa to see his kid as he's obviously not a Jew, not in the club. Now they dont have to worry about the state department constantly filing paperwork for yet another parent to get back their stolen kid.
My whole problem is that if the guy DID do the right thing and turned in the contact, would the US Govt taken in that contact as an "enemy combatant" and used that spy to trade for his kid back? Whoever RECIEVED 62 drops needs the "public brains on concrete" approach.. Because WE'RE STILL AT WAR in that region, and they are an illegal foreign agent. Remember, summary execution of foreign agents is LEGAL internationally.