I don't remember what its OS was called. . . probably something stupidly simple like AmigaOS. Anyway, the reason I bring it up is the Guru Meditation Error. As frustrating as it was to see this--it was an ancestor to the BSoD--at least it showed you can work in the OS business and still have a sense of humor.
You're joking, right? I mean, they spelled out exactly what rights you have to copy media under the Fair Use clause of the U.S. Copyright Act--so just becuase they don't say, "Fair Use," you're going to throw a fit. Bravo.
Only for the people who can deduce that sort of information on their own. Remember, most journalists have to write to a much larger audience--which means, typically, stating the what, where, when, how, and why in terms an eighth-grader could comprehend.
The financially ignorant, credit card debt having, stock market avoiding, liberal idiots who love this tax system so much are the ones who end up paying the most taxes- cause they can't be bothered (or think its "immoral") to legally avoid those taxes.
I'm a financially-ignorant, credit-card-debt-having, stock-market-avoiding, liberal. I'm not an idiot, and I certainly don't pay the most taxes. . . in fact, my income tax last year was about $11. Oops.
Also: at some point, avoiding taxes does become immoral - if not for citizens, than certainly for corporations. Can you honestly argue that Enron deserved a $600M tax refund in 2001?
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On posts like this, it's a damn shame the point limit can't be modded above five.
I'm thinking a bit more generically than that. Looking beyond the purpose of the components--resistors, logic gates, chips, whatever they put in cellphones and computers--the basic materials used to make them are more-or-less the same.
Good point about the disposability. I just can't picture throwing out my computer - I've only ever owned the one, and just upgraded it as I felt the need. But one iMac or eMachine is probably as toxic as a dozen cellphones; and thanks to the way they're designed, there's not much else you can do with those computers once they become obsolete.
Of course they're an environmental hazard.
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After all, they're made from the same stuff as your computer or your VCR. If other electronic devices, made from the same component parts, pose an environmental hazard, why is it a surprise when cellphones follow the same pattern?
First you say you have ethical problems with video monitoring systems. Then you say, "if the cop isn't paying attention, or isn't there when I blow by their hiding spot in the middle of the road at 105, tough."
You don't have ethical problems with video monitoring systems. You just have ethical problems with being caught whilst breaking the law and endangering the safety of everyone around you.
Mostly because no existing government would give up their sovereignty willingly.
And consider that an internet government would be at least as crooked as any other - and who would it answer to when it ran amok with whatever powers it was given?
Feh. Astrology accounted for Chiron when it was discovered back in the seventies. For that matter, astrology accounted for Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto after their respective discoveries. Whether you believe in astrology or not, you can count on people writing papers and books to describe what effects Quaoam (or Qualcomm, or whatever. . . damn, what a forgettable name for a planet) will have on their personal lives.
. ..or maybe astrology won't account for it. Most astrologers still don't account for precession of the earth's axis and the presence of Ophiucus in the Zodiac. . . so ya never know.
Obesity is not a disability in and of itself. Yes, there are medical conditions, such as poly-cystic ovarian syndrome in women and giantism in men, which can make fitting into a sardine-sized airline seat difficult. However, the majority of people in the United States are obese because they made themselves that way--and I feel no remorse for someone who's charged for two seats because he ate himself into occupying 1½.
It's not the media to educate them, they should educate themselves first.
I agree, on both points you mention. But consider: at what point in his education does the average American learn how to educate himself? Maybe, maybe in college. . . certainly not in public school, nor I suspect in most parochial schools. People are taught not how to think, but what to think. And then, because they have zero critical-thinking skills, they're lead around by the nose for the rest of their lives.
A responsible media apparatus could counteract this by leaving its bias on the editorial pages. Of course, I'd be the last one to accuse Fox and their kin of being responsible. But even American newspapers--whom you'd think would be the first to go for the cartoid here--can't be bothered to mention the DMCA's goings-on in court.
The Sherman AntiTrust Act harnesses government power and focuses it against corporations to protect voting citizens. The DMCA harnesses government power and focuses it against voting citizens to protect corporations.
You may as well compare the Voting Rights Act with a Jim Crow voting law: yeah, they each used government to determine who could vote; but the latter oppressed Americans, and was therefore morally wrong.
. ..that American citizens who're interested in the progress of American case law have to turn to British news corporations to hear it; while all Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc., can be bothered to report is Bush's latest wag-the-dog blather or Britney Spears' latest bra size.
It's no surprise to me that the media doesn't want the public educated about the ins and outs of the DMCA, but it is disappointing.
"MercExchange founder Thomas Woolston, an inventor and patent attorney who has been granted four online auction-related patents since 1998 and has some 10 others pending, said he sued eBay in 2001 after negotiations broke down over the auction site's offer to purchase his patents."
Then this should be thrown out before it goes anywhere. I've had my E-bay account since 1997, and they were using the same auction methods then that they're using today. Ergo, prior art; case dismissed!
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I don't remember what its OS was called. . . probably something stupidly simple like AmigaOS. Anyway, the reason I bring it up is the Guru Meditation Error. As frustrating as it was to see this--it was an ancestor to the BSoD--at least it showed you can work in the OS business and still have a sense of humor.
You're joking, right? I mean, they spelled out exactly what rights you have to copy media under the Fair Use clause of the U.S. Copyright Act--so just becuase they don't say, "Fair Use," you're going to throw a fit. Bravo.
Imagine if they'd suckered you into a recording contract, instead: they'd skin you for double that without even having to take you to court!
Too bad this patent doesn't keep people from reinventing it.
Sure they are. They just have the wrong ideas about where a woman keeps it.
Crushing people into blood-balloons, mostly.
Only for the people who can deduce that sort of information on their own. Remember, most journalists have to write to a much larger audience--which means, typically, stating the what, where, when, how, and why in terms an eighth-grader could comprehend.
The financially ignorant, credit card debt having, stock market avoiding, liberal idiots who love this tax system so much are the ones who end up paying the most taxes- cause they can't be bothered (or think its "immoral") to legally avoid those taxes.
I'm a financially-ignorant, credit-card-debt-having, stock-market-avoiding, liberal. I'm not an idiot, and I certainly don't pay the most taxes. . . in fact, my income tax last year was about $11. Oops.
Also: at some point, avoiding taxes does become immoral - if not for citizens, than certainly for corporations. Can you honestly argue that Enron deserved a $600M tax refund in 2001?
On posts like this, it's a damn shame the point limit can't be modded above five.
I'm thinking a bit more generically than that. Looking beyond the purpose of the components--resistors, logic gates, chips, whatever they put in cellphones and computers--the basic materials used to make them are more-or-less the same.
Good point about the disposability. I just can't picture throwing out my computer - I've only ever owned the one, and just upgraded it as I felt the need. But one iMac or eMachine is probably as toxic as a dozen cellphones; and thanks to the way they're designed, there's not much else you can do with those computers once they become obsolete.
After all, they're made from the same stuff as your computer or your VCR. If other electronic devices, made from the same component parts, pose an environmental hazard, why is it a surprise when cellphones follow the same pattern?
First you say you have ethical problems with video monitoring systems. Then you say, "if the cop isn't paying attention, or isn't there when I blow by their hiding spot in the middle of the road at 105, tough."
You don't have ethical problems with video monitoring systems. You just have ethical problems with being caught whilst breaking the law and endangering the safety of everyone around you.
Mostly because no existing government would give up their sovereignty willingly.
And consider that an internet government would be at least as crooked as any other - and who would it answer to when it ran amok with whatever powers it was given?
Feh. Astrology accounted for Chiron when it was discovered back in the seventies. For that matter, astrology accounted for Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto after their respective discoveries. Whether you believe in astrology or not, you can count on people writing papers and books to describe what effects Quaoam (or Qualcomm, or whatever. . . damn, what a forgettable name for a planet) will have on their personal lives.
. . .or maybe astrology won't account for it. Most astrologers still don't account for precession of the earth's axis and the presence of Ophiucus in the Zodiac. . . so ya never know.
Obesity is not a disability in and of itself. Yes, there are medical conditions, such as poly-cystic ovarian syndrome in women and giantism in men, which can make fitting into a sardine-sized airline seat difficult. However, the majority of people in the United States are obese because they made themselves that way--and I feel no remorse for someone who's charged for two seats because he ate himself into occupying 1½.
Of course. Porn in braille is what you do after you turn off the lights.
Shit, man, I was exaggerating. Figures, though.
It's not the media to educate them, they should educate themselves first.
I agree, on both points you mention. But consider: at what point in his education does the average American learn how to educate himself? Maybe, maybe in college. . . certainly not in public school, nor I suspect in most parochial schools. People are taught not how to think, but what to think. And then, because they have zero critical-thinking skills, they're lead around by the nose for the rest of their lives.
A responsible media apparatus could counteract this by leaving its bias on the editorial pages. Of course, I'd be the last one to accuse Fox and their kin of being responsible. But even American newspapers--whom you'd think would be the first to go for the cartoid here--can't be bothered to mention the DMCA's goings-on in court.
The Sherman AntiTrust Act harnesses government power and focuses it against corporations to protect voting citizens. The DMCA harnesses government power and focuses it against voting citizens to protect corporations.
You may as well compare the Voting Rights Act with a Jim Crow voting law: yeah, they each used government to determine who could vote; but the latter oppressed Americans, and was therefore morally wrong.
. . .that American citizens who're interested in the progress of American case law have to turn to British news corporations to hear it; while all Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc., can be bothered to report is Bush's latest wag-the-dog blather or Britney Spears' latest bra size.
It's no surprise to me that the media doesn't want the public educated about the ins and outs of the DMCA, but it is disappointing.
Cartman Mad is a Good Thing. . . umm, if he still has that V-chip in his head. :)
"MercExchange founder Thomas Woolston, an inventor and patent attorney who has been granted four online auction-related patents since 1998 and has some 10 others pending, said he sued eBay in 2001 after negotiations broke down over the auction site's offer to purchase his patents."
Then this should be thrown out before it goes anywhere. I've had my E-bay account since 1997, and they were using the same auction methods then that they're using today. Ergo, prior art; case dismissed!
No, he got it right. It's supposed to be horribly-translated, remember.
And who has open networks on purpose, besides people who want to pay for total strangers' bandwidth?