I think if people actually went and read the CONSTITUTION they would see that copyright exists for a reason - to protect the creator, to make it profitable to create, and to enbiggen a vibrant creative economy.
Go back and read it again because that's not what it says. What you've written are the means by which copyright fulfills its *actual stated* reason, "to promote the progress of science and useful arts". Everything that is created is supposed to enter the public domain and enrich society as a whole. Letting the creator have a limited (key word: LIMITED) time to make money on his works is the way by which society encourages that.
And in brief it says: The provinces shall cover healthcare.
I'm not sure this would work in the U.S. After all, this whole article is about my state closing down a TB hospital and suppressing evidence of the reasonably expected consequences having occurred. There's really no reason to expect our wonderful governor would have done anything different if he'd been given a federal mandate.
It is perfectly possible to disagree with FOSS here, you just can't expect to say "FOSS is shit" and not get modded down for it.
But this is the problem - some FOSS *is* shit, but some people will continue to insist that all FOSS is silver and gold with no concern with what the real world is like. There are definitely a lot of bright shining jewels such as Apache and of course the Linux kernel itself, but there are just too many people that aren't willing to accept that there are some commercial packages out there that truly have no equal in the FOSS world. Photoshop is probably the poster child for that - try telling a FOSS zealot that GIMP is not at the same level, and all of a sudden you've got a war on your hands.
And probably the most insidious - the presumption that they're more believable in court. There's no practical reason to expect a police officer to be any more honest than the average citizen (and plenty of reason to often assume the opposite), yet juries and certainly judges give far more weight to their testimony than that of most other people.
I suppose the next move is really to follow the police home from the station and publish their address.
Probably not a good idea. Plenty of states have made it a crime to publicize the home addresses and phone numbers of police officers and other government officials.
Please describe for me one 'privilege' that a police officer has that a citizen who is not a police officer does not have.
- Various degrees of immunity for their actions under the law
- Practically unlimited legal representation at no cost to themselves
- Other police officers who will close ranks to protect one of "their brothers" when they do something questionable
- Powerful unions that can exert substantial political pressure
- Legislation that makes it a crime to post *their* addresses
I always defended WoW's subscription model on the basis that your purchase of the game and its expansions covered "sunk" development costs and your subs covered the ongoing cost of maintaining and incrementally enhancing the game.
Based on what Blizzard said a few years ago, the subscriptions are almost pure profit when considering WoW by itself. $200 million in 2008 would have covered four years of operation/maintenance, plus the costs of developing the Burning Crusade and Lich King expansions, all covered by two months' worth of subscription income.
Also, the impressive early numbers for D3 are largely an illusion, IMO. Lots and lots of those "sales" were freebies for people that committed to a full year of WoW subscriptions, and from Blizzard's perspective I'd argue that locking in that additional $1.2 billion or so in income was far more important than the income they'd have received from paid D3 sales. Lots of people were not happy with Cataclysm, and D3 offered Blizzard an additional way to maintain those WoW subscriptions in the face of that dissatisfaction while waiting for the release of Mists of Pandaria.
An unresponsive UI isn't behind stuff like the app's apparent inability to follow outside HTML links without throwing errors, as happens all the time on the Android version for me. It really is one of the poorest excuses for an app that I've ever used.
So make the batch time quanta smaller - from a couple of seconds to a few times per second, or whatever is technically feasible. The net effect still ends up being the same, and investors can still react quickly to news and other factors that may legitimately influence prices. The idea is to attempt to put the entire market on a level playing field, where no one participant has information ahead of time that isn't available to everyone.
Or perhaps just quantizing the trading periods to whatever would be appropriate (perhaps 100ms), and apply all the trades for that period at once. You wouldn't hear about any other trades or be allowed to submit any new ones until the next period. That way, everyone hears about them at the same time and everyone can react at the same time.
Why should the borrower be relieved of their debt because a piece of paper is lost or misplaced?
It discourages the creditor from taking legal action against the debtor until they have all of the information the court needs in order to render a fair verdict, and it helps keep the dockets clear. It's no less fair than it would be for the debtor to have to spend thousands of dollars on a legal defense again and again just because the presumed holder of the note can't be bothered to have all the necessary paperwork ready for the court.
That's not how it works. The seller always gets paid exactly their Limit price.
In which case, the seller is the one paying the unwanted middleman - I apologize for my ignorance, but it seems that in either case, it's money being siphoned from a legitimate participant in the market.
The HFT isn't going to buy unless they already know for a fact that there's someone else to sell to at a higher price, right? If the seller has to reprice, it means there wasn't anyone willing to buy at that price and they're going to have to do it regardless of the HFT's involvement - HFTs aren't buying on speculation, and I would argue that the fraction of a second that the HFT will be holding on to the stock before the trade completes with the ultimate buyer isn't going to make any difference in the end, and they're effectively draining wealth from those that are actually participating in the market.
The seller's order gets executed at their asking price sooner, which is good for them.
Like a fraction of a second is going to matter to them. It's not like these shares are sitting unsold for days.
The HFT skims a small amount in exchange for making a match which made the market more efficient.
I'm sure the seller would be much happier waiting a few tiny fractions of a second longer for a trade rather than effectively being forced to pay an unwanted middleman.
The next time you visit Disneyland, or Disneyworld, be sure to thank them for helping to pave the road to copyright hell. They were among the first influential people to begin lobbying congress for extended copyright laws, and other stupid shit.
And ironically, a substantial part of Disney's success owes itself to recycling material already in the public domain.
The government is too afraid of the NRA to suggest any laws that might offend them.
To clarify - the government isn't afraid of the NRA. The NRA is made up of more than 4 million potential voters, and *that* is what the government is afraid of, and rightly so.
I think it's safe to say that there will be a winner every time a lottery is held... The probability doesn't approach one, it is one!
Lotteries go without anyone having chosen a winning number all the time. Those $100 million Powerball jackpots don't just appear about of thin air - they accumulate because the jackpot rolls over for weeks and weeks where no one wins.
In which case, they can figure out how much it costs to hire their replacement and roll a substantial fraction of that cost into the employee's salary/benefits. There are plenty of folks out there willing to sign an agreement promising to stay for X years if the overall compensation is sufficient.
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I think if people actually went and read the CONSTITUTION they would see that copyright exists for a reason - to protect the creator, to make it profitable to create, and to enbiggen a vibrant creative economy.
Go back and read it again because that's not what it says. What you've written are the means by which copyright fulfills its *actual stated* reason, "to promote the progress of science and useful arts". Everything that is created is supposed to enter the public domain and enrich society as a whole. Letting the creator have a limited (key word: LIMITED) time to make money on his works is the way by which society encourages that.
And in brief it says: The provinces shall cover healthcare.
I'm not sure this would work in the U.S. After all, this whole article is about my state closing down a TB hospital and suppressing evidence of the reasonably expected consequences having occurred. There's really no reason to expect our wonderful governor would have done anything different if he'd been given a federal mandate.
Nothing, because they're actually coordinates that I converted to NAD27 before I wrote them down!!!
It is perfectly possible to disagree with FOSS here, you just can't expect to say "FOSS is shit" and not get modded down for it.
But this is the problem - some FOSS *is* shit, but some people will continue to insist that all FOSS is silver and gold with no concern with what the real world is like. There are definitely a lot of bright shining jewels such as Apache and of course the Linux kernel itself, but there are just too many people that aren't willing to accept that there are some commercial packages out there that truly have no equal in the FOSS world. Photoshop is probably the poster child for that - try telling a FOSS zealot that GIMP is not at the same level, and all of a sudden you've got a war on your hands.
And probably the most insidious - the presumption that they're more believable in court. There's no practical reason to expect a police officer to be any more honest than the average citizen (and plenty of reason to often assume the opposite), yet juries and certainly judges give far more weight to their testimony than that of most other people.
I suppose the next move is really to follow the police home from the station and publish their address.
Probably not a good idea. Plenty of states have made it a crime to publicize the home addresses and phone numbers of police officers and other government officials.
Please describe for me one 'privilege' that a police officer has that a citizen who is not a police officer does not have.
- Various degrees of immunity for their actions under the law
- Practically unlimited legal representation at no cost to themselves
- Other police officers who will close ranks to protect one of "their brothers" when they do something questionable
- Powerful unions that can exert substantial political pressure
- Legislation that makes it a crime to post *their* addresses
I can keep going - is this enough to start?
And we have a winner for a DOD grant for research in the new field of death/destruction by excessive mass.
I'd have thought McDonald's would have had that locked up years ago.
I always defended WoW's subscription model on the basis that your purchase of the game and its expansions covered "sunk" development costs and your subs covered the ongoing cost of maintaining and incrementally enhancing the game.
Based on what Blizzard said a few years ago, the subscriptions are almost pure profit when considering WoW by itself. $200 million in 2008 would have covered four years of operation/maintenance, plus the costs of developing the Burning Crusade and Lich King expansions, all covered by two months' worth of subscription income.
Also, the impressive early numbers for D3 are largely an illusion, IMO. Lots and lots of those "sales" were freebies for people that committed to a full year of WoW subscriptions, and from Blizzard's perspective I'd argue that locking in that additional $1.2 billion or so in income was far more important than the income they'd have received from paid D3 sales. Lots of people were not happy with Cataclysm, and D3 offered Blizzard an additional way to maintain those WoW subscriptions in the face of that dissatisfaction while waiting for the release of Mists of Pandaria.
Delicious, smooth, yummy, *salty* chocolate.
Or buy a ready-made toaster for the purpose.
I'd rather spend a bit of time in Sweden than a lifetime in Ecuador. I don't think Ecuador is too much fun when your money runs out.
Probably not, but I'll bet it's still more fun than any U.S. federal prison, which is where he's likely to end up if he goes to Sweden.
An unresponsive UI isn't behind stuff like the app's apparent inability to follow outside HTML links without throwing errors, as happens all the time on the Android version for me. It really is one of the poorest excuses for an app that I've ever used.
So make the batch time quanta smaller - from a couple of seconds to a few times per second, or whatever is technically feasible. The net effect still ends up being the same, and investors can still react quickly to news and other factors that may legitimately influence prices. The idea is to attempt to put the entire market on a level playing field, where no one participant has information ahead of time that isn't available to everyone.
Or perhaps just quantizing the trading periods to whatever would be appropriate (perhaps 100ms), and apply all the trades for that period at once. You wouldn't hear about any other trades or be allowed to submit any new ones until the next period. That way, everyone hears about them at the same time and everyone can react at the same time.
Why should the borrower be relieved of their debt because a piece of paper is lost or misplaced?
It discourages the creditor from taking legal action against the debtor until they have all of the information the court needs in order to render a fair verdict, and it helps keep the dockets clear. It's no less fair than it would be for the debtor to have to spend thousands of dollars on a legal defense again and again just because the presumed holder of the note can't be bothered to have all the necessary paperwork ready for the court.
That's not how it works. The seller always gets paid exactly their Limit price.
In which case, the seller is the one paying the unwanted middleman - I apologize for my ignorance, but it seems that in either case, it's money being siphoned from a legitimate participant in the market.
The HFT isn't going to buy unless they already know for a fact that there's someone else to sell to at a higher price, right? If the seller has to reprice, it means there wasn't anyone willing to buy at that price and they're going to have to do it regardless of the HFT's involvement - HFTs aren't buying on speculation, and I would argue that the fraction of a second that the HFT will be holding on to the stock before the trade completes with the ultimate buyer isn't going to make any difference in the end, and they're effectively draining wealth from those that are actually participating in the market.
The seller's order gets executed at their asking price sooner, which is good for them.
Like a fraction of a second is going to matter to them. It's not like these shares are sitting unsold for days.
The HFT skims a small amount in exchange for making a match which made the market more efficient.
I'm sure the seller would be much happier waiting a few tiny fractions of a second longer for a trade rather than effectively being forced to pay an unwanted middleman.
The next time you visit Disneyland, or Disneyworld, be sure to thank them for helping to pave the road to copyright hell. They were among the first influential people to begin lobbying congress for extended copyright laws, and other stupid shit.
And ironically, a substantial part of Disney's success owes itself to recycling material already in the public domain.
Why worry about guns, when any day of the week you can find someone filling up their car while smoking a cigarette? Low-hanging fruit, and all.
And they aren't guaranteed to get away even if they decide to be assholes. Their shells could identify them.
Maybe on CSI, but that's not how it works in the real world.
The government is too afraid of the NRA to suggest any laws that might offend them.
To clarify - the government isn't afraid of the NRA. The NRA is made up of more than 4 million potential voters, and *that* is what the government is afraid of, and rightly so.
I think it's safe to say that there will be a winner every time a lottery is held... The probability doesn't approach one, it is one!
Lotteries go without anyone having chosen a winning number all the time. Those $100 million Powerball jackpots don't just appear about of thin air - they accumulate because the jackpot rolls over for weeks and weeks where no one wins.
It used to take a good twenty minutes or so to write a job application. Now, it's one click to send a form-email.
:-)
Sounds like someone that's never been subjected to a Brassring site.
In which case, they can figure out how much it costs to hire their replacement and roll a substantial fraction of that cost into the employee's salary/benefits. There are plenty of folks out there willing to sign an agreement promising to stay for X years if the overall compensation is sufficient.