A space station in earth orbit, where you can get fueld up for a powered journey to the moon. In moon orbit, another space station that has a shuttle down to the moon, where cheap solar energy is farmed, and used to fuel the stations, the shuttle, and to put together enough fuel for sending a fuel barge to mars.
The fuel barge docks with a small station in mars orbit. This is reserve fuel to get you home.
Now you take a powered journey to mars from moon orbit. You use the fuel from the fuel barge to return to earth.
You go powered all the way. This is the future of space travel, not the current coasting, taking years to arrive anywhere, but it needs a moonbase where fuel can be manufactured.
Truely you're preaching that consumerism is the one true way - but it's just one big pyramid scam. Not that the Russians did any better with their version of communism.
Anyway, removing patent protection from drugs does not eliminate a financial insentive - it just moves it from the drug companies to whole countries. When everyone in your country is healthy, all businesses become more productive, and the reduction in crime by making everyone feel looked after cuts costs and taxes.
Yes - get rid of drug patents too! Drug companies care about cash, not making ill people better. Far better that all drug compnaies get nationalised (then rationalised, shutting down the overlap, perhaps putting their doctors back out to practice) and that drugs are researched and produced cooperatively around the world for the benefit of people. Look at what's happening with the poor old folk from the USA who have to come to lovely Canada for their affordable medicine.
And, since when did Microsoft offer any kind of IP indemnity? He points out so called problems in Linux, but doesn't mention that his beloved Microsoft has even worse ones! The whole notion of suing an end user for IP infringement made by someone else is daft anyway.
The reason the MPAA and RIAA are hated (especially the RIAA) is that they've ripped us all off for years with price fixing and other nasties.
In the case of music - we get to listen to it for free on the radio, so why, suddenly does it cost a fortune for a CD, and why, if on-line distribution is so cheap, and CD manufacture so cheap, why does most of the money go to the RIAA and the retailer, not the starving artist. I don't think anyone objects to money going to the creative people who make the music! And why is a DVD of the movie cheaper than the soundtrack CD??????
With movies, they add stupid copy protection and stop you fast forwarding through the adverts at the start, and the stupid FBI warnings. If you scratch a DVD then it's tough shit - buy a new one, and they'll do everything in their power to stop you taking a backup copy.
So get off your moral high horse and look at the reality. Sure, there's a pile of bad copyright infringement (let's call it what it is - it's not piracy, or theft, or stealing), but there's a lot of ripping off of honest shoppers too. Perhaps they should put their own house in order first before filing law suits against everyone?
Blame it on Equity, the Actors union who didn't want the TV stations to repeat anything, thus rendering the archive of recorded TV next to useless - even with the advent of the VCR, the unions still wanted too much money making the first VHS releases unaffordable to most.... And they're also the reason why the current DVD releases of old TV are expensive.
Until Novell and SCO sorts out who owns what, anyone can just tell SCO to go to hell. That's if there's anything of SCO left by the time IBM finish with them. Anyone who now pays SCO money is stupid.
The time has come for non-commerical copyright infringement to be made legal. Stiff penalties for commercial infringement, making money from copying, and counterfeiting should remain, or perhaps even be increased.
The terms of coopyright enforcement should be brought back in line so that something you pay for in your youth is in public domain before you die. Copyright should last a generation at most - call it 30 years.
Nobody creates in a vacuum. All creative minds thrive on the cultural and creative diversity that society affords them, and hence they should pay that back to society by allowing their creative work to enter the public domain for all to enjoy, and to allow others to base their new creatives upon the old.
All this commotion over music downloads, p2p and mp3 is just clouding the greater issues. If you want to campaign for anything, campaing for limited copyrights that don't get extended, that intellectual property cannot be sold, only licenced (to stop corporations owning IP - it must be owned by the individuals that create it, but a corporation could licenece it from them), and for non-commericial use to be free for all.
Problem with that is that I have pretty much all the music I want already, on vinyl and CD, so wouldn't be able to take full use of "free" downloading.
Yes, it would absolutely seem to be a case of double dipping.
I bet SOCAN are pissed off that their lobying for the CD levy in the first place has effectively made P2P and copying you're friends CD totally legal. Now that they've made that mistake, they're going to try and make another. Who in Canada would want to buy any music at all if they get this law through? Then hopefully their sales would drop to zero, and perhaps the rest of the world would get in on the action also.
If the worst happens and SOCAN gets their own way, the ISP needs to fight back in any way possible, from charging outrageous fees to SOCAN and any other music body using the internet. If they can't let us have our internet free, then they should be paying a lot for it also...
To think of an ISP as anything other than a carrier opens up such a big can of worms that to do so would be disasterous. Canada has a very distributed population, and the internet is necessary here for communication and business. This stupid SOCAN idea is anti-business. Perhaps businesses should also band together to do anything possible to screw SOCAN and their musicians into the ground. After all, we're paying the stupid CD levy for all the source code we back up.
Tough luck! Sell up and move on to a new career. The general population has been told for long enough that they "own" the music they buy.
"Sorry Son, you scratched the record, you'll have to buy it again for full price - no discounts for scratches or breaks"
"Sorry Son, you may have bought the vinyl twice, the cassette and the 8 track, but that doesn't entitle you to a discount on the CD"
"Sorry Son, you melted the CD when you left it on the dash of your car, you'll have to buy it again for full price - no discounts for melted CDs. "
If we had bought a media licence then a new physical copy should come at a massive discount. You just try getting a new media for your melted CD!!
Next they are told that music is free - because it doesn't cost anything to listen to the radio (to the end user anyway).
And finally they know music is free because it costs them nothing (practically nothing - they pay for their internet connection and blank media) to download over the internet.
People are saying that they don't rightly care if it puts musicians out of jobs, or that they get no new music because there's no profit motive to make it. They just don't give a shit.
There's no "profit motive" for many jobs that people do. There are plenty of jobs that give a living wage, but put the worker under great stress and even danger to their own lives. Nobody gets filthy rich being a public school teacher, but they do it anyway.
Who want's to work hard all day and sit down to some relaxing music and see the frivolent lifestyle of the person who made it. To ignore the "class" issue behind the copying of music is wrong.
And best of all, nusic now costs practically nothing to make! A home studio can be bought for little more than the computer it runs on, and the abundance of free music distributed over the internet by such creative people who go this route shows that there doesn't need to be a profit motive to make music.
Basically - music is free, it costs bugger all to make, doesn't need a profit motive, and who wants to support the lifestyles of the rich and famous anyway?
But on P2P you're not uploading and you're not broadcasting. You're making available for copying, just as inviting a friend around to listen to music is making your CD collection available for copying. Under Canadian law it is legal to make a copy for your own use. With P2P you, the downloader are making the copy for your own use.
Premiere's always been a dog - FCP blows it out of the water for speed and always has done. Premier isn't going to take advantage of dual processor either. Just compare the 1.8ghz single to the 2ghz dual to see the lack of dual processor support. The Photoshop scores are neck to neck with the best of the AMD scores. You'll get different milage depending on which filters you apply - some are faster some are slower as they fit in with the varying chip architectures.
It seems to make sense that if you save lots of money by basing your code on GPL code, or modifying GPL code to make things work for your circumstance or customers, then it's only fair that you give back to the community that developed the GPL code in the first place.
If you don't want to get caught using GPL code and breaking the GPL license, then spend the money to hire the programmers to write new code from scratch.
Russell T Davies also wrote Century Falls and Dark Season, which were pretty good early 90s children's TV series. However, he is a fan of Doctor Who, so as long as he can keep the "fan wank" out of the script, it should be good.
Easiest way to protect your teeth is to stop eating sugar - but that would eat into the profits of the pre-packaged food industry, wouldn't it. And the profits of dentists, and the profits of the people who want to get rid of their industrial waste - fluorosilic acid.
And as you say, it's a piss poor delivery method...
It may be good for your teeth, and maybe it's a lie. Good teeth is related to pretty much one things - the amount of sugar you consume. Eat lots of sugar - have bad teeth. If you want good teeth, don't eat sugar. flouride doesn't come into it.
Putting the industrial waste product and poison (fluoride) in the form of fluorosilic acid is not clever and not funny.
Conspiracy theorists thing that fluoride makes you dim, which is why it's added to water. I juat think adding a poison to water int he vain attempt to mass medicate an entire population is one of the greatest criminal acts of our time.
But I'm on well water (no fluoride added), so should I care?
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But the music business moved into the computer business. Now CDs are for both computer data and for audio data. Music went digital and computers are digital. Music is made on computers now. So Apple Corp should stay out of the computer business, which means no CDs, no digital.
Because you'd not just sell one song - you'd sell an album or two. At the moment I'm buying CDs second hand - good quality, at great prices. I can go in and buy twenty or so, and I don't feel bad about trying music that I might not normally.
I see the second hand market as good for music lovers, and the second hand price more accurately reflects the truer market value of a CD. Unlike a car, a second hand CD is as good as the shop bought model.
Yes, you can say the same thing about any cult - or religion for that matter. They're all the same, they're all bad, and they all try the same tricks. The only thing that holds back more traditional religions is that their leaders actually believe it!!
All churches and charities are businesses and should be taxed as such. Some churches have been around a long time and should really owe a lot of back taxes....
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A space station in earth orbit, where you can get fueld up for a powered journey to the moon. In moon orbit, another space station that has a shuttle down to the moon, where cheap solar energy is farmed, and used to fuel the stations, the shuttle, and to put together enough fuel for sending a fuel barge to mars.
The fuel barge docks with a small station in mars orbit. This is reserve fuel to get you home.
Now you take a powered journey to mars from moon orbit. You use the fuel from the fuel barge to return to earth.
You go powered all the way. This is the future of space travel, not the current coasting, taking years to arrive anywhere, but it needs a moonbase where fuel can be manufactured.
Truely you're preaching that consumerism is the one true way - but it's just one big pyramid scam. Not that the Russians did any better with their version of communism.
Anyway, removing patent protection from drugs does not eliminate a financial insentive - it just moves it from the drug companies to whole countries. When everyone in your country is healthy, all businesses become more productive, and the reduction in crime by making everyone feel looked after cuts costs and taxes.
Yes - get rid of drug patents too! Drug companies care about cash, not making ill people better. Far better that all drug compnaies get nationalised (then rationalised, shutting down the overlap, perhaps putting their doctors back out to practice) and that drugs are researched and produced cooperatively around the world for the benefit of people. Look at what's happening with the poor old folk from the USA who have to come to lovely Canada for their affordable medicine.
And, since when did Microsoft offer any kind of IP indemnity? He points out so called problems in Linux, but doesn't mention that his beloved Microsoft has even worse ones! The whole notion of suing an end user for IP infringement made by someone else is daft anyway.
The reason the MPAA and RIAA are hated (especially the RIAA) is that they've ripped us all off for years with price fixing and other nasties.
In the case of music - we get to listen to it for free on the radio, so why, suddenly does it cost a fortune for a CD, and why, if on-line distribution is so cheap, and CD manufacture so cheap, why does most of the money go to the RIAA and the retailer, not the starving artist. I don't think anyone objects to money going to the creative people who make the music! And why is a DVD of the movie cheaper than the soundtrack CD??????
With movies, they add stupid copy protection and stop you fast forwarding through the adverts at the start, and the stupid FBI warnings. If you scratch a DVD then it's tough shit - buy a new one, and they'll do everything in their power to stop you taking a backup copy.
So get off your moral high horse and look at the reality. Sure, there's a pile of bad copyright infringement (let's call it what it is - it's not piracy, or theft, or stealing), but there's a lot of ripping off of honest shoppers too. Perhaps they should put their own house in order first before filing law suits against everyone?
Blame it on Equity, the Actors union who didn't want the TV stations to repeat anything, thus rendering the archive of recorded TV next to useless - even with the advent of the VCR, the unions still wanted too much money making the first VHS releases unaffordable to most.... And they're also the reason why the current DVD releases of old TV are expensive.
Until Novell and SCO sorts out who owns what, anyone can just tell SCO to go to hell. That's if there's anything of SCO left by the time IBM finish with them. Anyone who now pays SCO money is stupid.
The time has come for non-commerical copyright infringement to be made legal. Stiff penalties for commercial infringement, making money from copying, and counterfeiting should remain, or perhaps even be increased.
The terms of coopyright enforcement should be brought back in line so that something you pay for in your youth is in public domain before you die. Copyright should last a generation at most - call it 30 years.
Nobody creates in a vacuum. All creative minds thrive on the cultural and creative diversity that society affords them, and hence they should pay that back to society by allowing their creative work to enter the public domain for all to enjoy, and to allow others to base their new creatives upon the old.
All this commotion over music downloads, p2p and mp3 is just clouding the greater issues. If you want to campaign for anything, campaing for limited copyrights that don't get extended, that intellectual property cannot be sold, only licenced (to stop corporations owning IP - it must be owned by the individuals that create it, but a corporation could licenece it from them), and for non-commericial use to be free for all.
And don't get me started about patents....
It's also the British model, and I suspect a lot of other countries use it. Perhaps the USA doesn't because it's too hard for them to understand....
Problem with that is that I have pretty much all the music I want already, on vinyl and CD, so wouldn't be able to take full use of "free" downloading.
Well, actually, you're out of date - some of the levy has been payed to artists, about $6million out of the $28 million collected, I think.
Yes, it would absolutely seem to be a case of double dipping.
I bet SOCAN are pissed off that their lobying for the CD levy in the first place has effectively made P2P and copying you're friends CD totally legal. Now that they've made that mistake, they're going to try and make another. Who in Canada would want to buy any music at all if they get this law through? Then hopefully their sales would drop to zero, and perhaps the rest of the world would get in on the action also.
If the worst happens and SOCAN gets their own way, the ISP needs to fight back in any way possible, from charging outrageous fees to SOCAN and any other music body using the internet. If they can't let us have our internet free, then they should be paying a lot for it also...
To think of an ISP as anything other than a carrier opens up such a big can of worms that to do so would be disasterous. Canada has a very distributed population, and the internet is necessary here for communication and business. This stupid SOCAN idea is anti-business. Perhaps businesses should also band together to do anything possible to screw SOCAN and their musicians into the ground. After all, we're paying the stupid CD levy for all the source code we back up.
Tough luck! Sell up and move on to a new career. The general population has been told for long enough that they "own" the music they buy.
"Sorry Son, you scratched the record, you'll have to buy it again for full price - no discounts for scratches or breaks"
"Sorry Son, you may have bought the vinyl twice, the cassette and the 8 track, but that doesn't entitle you to a discount on the CD"
"Sorry Son, you melted the CD when you left it on the dash of your car, you'll have to buy it again for full price - no discounts for melted CDs. "
If we had bought a media licence then a new physical copy should come at a massive discount. You just try getting a new media for your melted CD!!
Next they are told that music is free - because it doesn't cost anything to listen to the radio (to the end user anyway).
And finally they know music is free because it costs them nothing (practically nothing - they pay for their internet connection and blank media) to download over the internet.
People are saying that they don't rightly care if it puts musicians out of jobs, or that they get no new music because there's no profit motive to make it. They just don't give a shit.
There's no "profit motive" for many jobs that people do. There are plenty of jobs that give a living wage, but put the worker under great stress and even danger to their own lives. Nobody gets filthy rich being a public school teacher, but they do it anyway.
Who want's to work hard all day and sit down to some relaxing music and see the frivolent lifestyle of the person who made it. To ignore the "class" issue behind the copying of music is wrong.
And best of all, nusic now costs practically nothing to make! A home studio can be bought for little more than the computer it runs on, and the abundance of free music distributed over the internet by such creative people who go this route shows that there doesn't need to be a profit motive to make music.
Basically - music is free, it costs bugger all to make, doesn't need a profit motive, and who wants to support the lifestyles of the rich and famous anyway?
But on P2P you're not uploading and you're not broadcasting. You're making available for copying, just as inviting a friend around to listen to music is making your CD collection available for copying. Under Canadian law it is legal to make a copy for your own use. With P2P you, the downloader are making the copy for your own use.
Premiere's always been a dog - FCP blows it out of the water for speed and always has done. Premier isn't going to take advantage of dual processor either. Just compare the 1.8ghz single to the 2ghz dual to see the lack of dual processor support. The Photoshop scores are neck to neck with the best of the AMD scores. You'll get different milage depending on which filters you apply - some are faster some are slower as they fit in with the varying chip architectures.
It seems to make sense that if you save lots of money by basing your code on GPL code, or modifying GPL code to make things work for your circumstance or customers, then it's only fair that you give back to the community that developed the GPL code in the first place.
If you don't want to get caught using GPL code and breaking the GPL license, then spend the money to hire the programmers to write new code from scratch.
Russell T Davies also wrote Century Falls and Dark Season, which were pretty good early 90s children's TV series. However, he is a fan of Doctor Who, so as long as he can keep the "fan wank" out of the script, it should be good.
Easiest way to protect your teeth is to stop eating sugar - but that would eat into the profits of the pre-packaged food industry, wouldn't it. And the profits of dentists, and the profits of the people who want to get rid of their industrial waste - fluorosilic acid.
And as you say, it's a piss poor delivery method...
It may be good for your teeth, and maybe it's a lie. Good teeth is related to pretty much one things - the amount of sugar you consume. Eat lots of sugar - have bad teeth. If you want good teeth, don't eat sugar. flouride doesn't come into it.
Putting the industrial waste product and poison (fluoride) in the form of fluorosilic acid is not clever and not funny.
Conspiracy theorists thing that fluoride makes you dim, which is why it's added to water. I juat think adding a poison to water int he vain attempt to mass medicate an entire population is one of the greatest criminal acts of our time.
But I'm on well water (no fluoride added), so should I care?
But the music business moved into the computer business. Now CDs are for both computer data and for audio data. Music went digital and computers are digital. Music is made on computers now. So Apple Corp should stay out of the computer business, which means no CDs, no digital.
Because you'd not just sell one song - you'd sell an album or two. At the moment I'm buying CDs second hand - good quality, at great prices. I can go in and buy twenty or so, and I don't feel bad about trying music that I might not normally.
I see the second hand market as good for music lovers, and the second hand price more accurately reflects the truer market value of a CD. Unlike a car, a second hand CD is as good as the shop bought model.
Yes, you can say the same thing about any cult - or religion for that matter. They're all the same, they're all bad, and they all try the same tricks. The only thing that holds back more traditional religions is that their leaders actually believe it!!
All churches and charities are businesses and should be taxed as such. Some churches have been around a long time and should really owe a lot of back taxes....
In Canada, all CDs, wether Data or Audio have the levy attached. Audio CDs are only good in stand-alone audio CD recorders.
So no, you can't avoid the levy unless you pop over the border to the US. Because it's a levy, not a tax, personal importation is fine.