The name Babylon means "Gate of God", but Nostradamus quatrains are B.S. whether they are authentically his or not. The future is a book that hasn't been written yet, so you can't skip ahead to the end. There is no such thing as a psychic.
Get your affairs in order, the end is near! This would be the perfect time for the Zhti Ti Kofft, as the Martians call themselves, to invade and conquer.
"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries". This is all that is in the constitution. The first copyright law based on this had a term of 14 years, and was renewable once if the author or artist still was alive, and still had something commercially viable, but they had to apply for renewal, it was not automatic.
That original law was perfectly adequate to encourage authors and artists to keep creating. It was always done for the benefit of society as a whole, not a few greedy profiteers. It did not create "intellectual property", a highly offensive misnomer, it created a temporary loan from the public domain, to which all ideas belong once expressed. There is similar language in the laws of many other countries.
Copyright extentions have totally ruined the purpose of copyright to the point that just undoing them may not fix it any more. Perhaps copyright should simply be abolished. Yes, that would take an amendment, but overturning extentions would only take simple legislation. Too bad the greedy profiteers who oppose it own congress. We need to vote the bums out!
14 year copyright was renewable once if authors and artists still were alive, and still had something commercially viable, but they had to apply for renewal, it was not automatic. That original law was perfectly adequate to encourage authors and artists to keep creating. It was always done for the benefit of society as a whole. That is what the US Constitution means when it says, "to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries".
This did not create "intellectual property", a highly offensive misnomer, it created a temporary loan from the public domain, to which all ideas belong once expressed. There is similar language in the laws of many other countries.
Since copyright has ceased to serve its purpose, it is time either to return it to 14 years, renewable once, or to abolish it entirely.
That could work, if they really let users determine the playlists. Artists and music fans would probably both be satisfied. It would take constant watchdogging to keep it form turning into the payola infested cesspool that is commercial radio, though.
You can avoid the most of the CD-R tax by buying the ones that say they are for computers, not the ones that say they are for music. Did you ever notice that the ones marked, "for music" cost more? The recording industry pockets the difference. Why do they need that, and "copy protected" disks that won't play in a computer? Boycott the recording industry.
This is yet another plot by the RIAA to make the end user pay for listening to music. It doesn't work that way with radio. What a load! File trading is a form of promotion as good or better than radio, and they don't even have to payola the file trading networks. If students have to pay for this whether they use it or not, that would be theft.
It is more likely that frustrated buyers will go back to
Morpheus
and
Kazaa. Do it! Those idiots at the big record labels will never figure this stuff out.
To hell with the RIAA, an illegal trust that needs to be busted, and all the corporate coke snorters at RIAA affiliated labels. Boycott them. Don't Buy CDs.
The real sick thing is that Walt Disney has been dead a long time, and Michael Eisner did not create Mickey Mouse. I wrote an editorial similar to the one this thread is discussing. The more people point out that we all can benefit from copyrights expiring, the sooner Congress will understand. We are all the public domain. Copyright extentions steal from us.
The author of this article is looking hard for a silver lining in the cloud of the Eldred decision, and thinks he has found it in Justice Ginsburg's wording. I don't see it. This court is very pro business, and has given it's Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur to perpetual copyright through repeated extention. If the question on the DMCA comes before them, they will recieve many friend of the court letters from the likes of the MPAA, and RIAA that will convince them to uphold it. Citing precedent, future Supreme Courts won't give us back anything the DMCA and CTEA have taken from us, and neither will Congress. They are puppets on the strings of their corporate special interest masters. Here is link to what I wrote when the Eldred decision came out. Though I was very emotional at the time, and said some inflammatory things, I stand by my words.
They just don't get it yet at the ESA, or NASA that the Zhti Ti Kofft are tired of us spying on them. We probably know about as much about Mars as they plan to let us discover.
Slashdot whipper-snappers don't remember Q*bert. I guess that is why so few are posting on this thread. Us old-timers remember the game well. I was a lot of fun. Back then, you could play a game for a quarter!
My non-techie hobby is Karaoke. I sing a lot of hard rock and heavy metal when most other singers are doing country shiat. I especially love to do Ozzy, Black Sabbath, and Alice Cooper. That stuff is rarely published for karaoke, so you really have to search to find it.
It has been demonstrated again and again that file trading is free promotion. It increases the sales of music. It only threatens the power of parasites in the recording industry over artists. The big labels don't deserve out patronage. Unless you are buying direct form an independent artist, Don't buy CDs.
First he advocates committing a crime, destruction of private property to combat piracy, then it turns out he is a pirate. Senator Hatch should be censured.
If I own the statue of David, and I want to put pants on it, that's my business. While editing a director's work may hurt his/her feelings, tough shiat! Boo hoo hoo. There is no law against hurting feelings, and I oppose making one. Besides, Hollywood is just a business, not high art like Michaelangelo's David.
Considering that the launcher has to already be in space to fling a satellite or probe deeper into space, this idea is just impractical. They should stick to an earthbound system such as the X-4000 Launch Aparatus.
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The name Babylon means "Gate of God", but Nostradamus quatrains are B.S. whether they are authentically his or not. The future is a book that hasn't been written yet, so you can't skip ahead to the end. There is no such thing as a psychic.
Indeed! You can look at my website, The Uncoveror, then look at Snopes. My stories are not debunked, they are therefore true.
Get your affairs in order, the end is near! This would be the perfect time for the Zhti Ti Kofft, as the Martians call themselves, to invade and conquer.
That original law was perfectly adequate to encourage authors and artists to keep creating. It was always done for the benefit of society as a whole, not a few greedy profiteers. It did not create "intellectual property", a highly offensive misnomer, it created a temporary loan from the public domain, to which all ideas belong once expressed. There is similar language in the laws of many other countries. Copyright extentions have totally ruined the purpose of copyright to the point that just undoing them may not fix it any more. Perhaps copyright should simply be abolished. Yes, that would take an amendment, but overturning extentions would only take simple legislation. Too bad the greedy profiteers who oppose it own congress. We need to vote the bums out!
This did not create "intellectual property", a highly offensive misnomer, it created a temporary loan from the public domain, to which all ideas belong once expressed. There is similar language in the laws of many other countries.
Since copyright has ceased to serve its purpose, it is time either to return it to 14 years, renewable once, or to abolish it entirely.
That could work, if they really let users determine the playlists. Artists and music fans would probably both be satisfied. It would take constant watchdogging to keep it form turning into the payola infested cesspool that is commercial radio, though.
You can avoid the most of the CD-R tax by buying the ones that say they are for computers, not the ones that say they are for music. Did you ever notice that the ones marked, "for music" cost more? The recording industry pockets the difference. Why do they need that, and "copy protected" disks that won't play in a computer? Boycott the recording industry.
This is yet another plot by the RIAA to make the end user pay for listening to music. It doesn't work that way with radio. What a load! File trading is a form of promotion as good or better than radio, and they don't even have to payola the file trading networks. If students have to pay for this whether they use it or not, that would be theft.
It is more likely that frustrated buyers will go back to Morpheus and Kazaa. Do it! Those idiots at the big record labels will never figure this stuff out.
Since the FCC isn't doing its job, regulating the media, and Congress had to do it for them, the agency should be abolished.
To hell with the RIAA, an illegal trust that needs to be busted, and all the corporate coke snorters at RIAA affiliated labels. Boycott them. Don't Buy CDs.
The real sick thing is that Walt Disney has been dead a long time, and Michael Eisner did not create Mickey Mouse. I wrote an editorial similar to the one this thread is discussing. The more people point out that we all can benefit from copyrights expiring, the sooner Congress will understand. We are all the public domain. Copyright extentions steal from us.
What does a giant shark have to do with James Bond? They both have cool music, but beyond that, I don't see the connection.
Since this satellite is only looking down at Earth, the aliens will probably tolerate its presence, unlike CONTOUR, which they destroyed.
Well of course there is life on Mars. Uncoveror.com has been covering that for years now. Read more!
The author of this article is looking hard for a silver lining in the cloud of the Eldred decision, and thinks he has found it in Justice Ginsburg's wording. I don't see it. This court is very pro business, and has given it's Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur to perpetual copyright through repeated extention. If the question on the DMCA comes before them, they will recieve many friend of the court letters from the likes of the MPAA, and RIAA that will convince them to uphold it. Citing precedent, future Supreme Courts won't give us back anything the DMCA and CTEA have taken from us, and neither will Congress. They are puppets on the strings of their corporate special interest masters. Here is link to what I wrote when the Eldred decision came out. Though I was very emotional at the time, and said some inflammatory things, I stand by my words.
They just don't get it yet at the ESA, or NASA that the Zhti Ti Kofft are tired of us spying on them. We probably know about as much about Mars as they plan to let us discover.
Slashdot whipper-snappers don't remember Q*bert. I guess that is why so few are posting on this thread. Us old-timers remember the game well. I was a lot of fun. Back then, you could play a game for a quarter!
It will come out the same day as Duke Nukem Forever.
My non-techie hobby is Karaoke. I sing a lot of hard rock and heavy metal when most other singers are doing country shiat. I especially love to do Ozzy, Black Sabbath, and Alice Cooper. That stuff is rarely published for karaoke, so you really have to search to find it.
So there are atmospheric conditions in outer space, just like they said in the movie, Plan 9 From Outer Space. Maybe the aliens don't want us to know.
It has been demonstrated again and again that file trading is free promotion. It increases the sales of music. It only threatens the power of parasites in the recording industry over artists. The big labels don't deserve out patronage. Unless you are buying direct form an independent artist, Don't buy CDs.
First he advocates committing a crime, destruction of private property to combat piracy, then it turns out he is a pirate. Senator Hatch should be censured.
If I own the statue of David, and I want to put pants on it, that's my business. While editing a director's work may hurt his/her feelings, tough shiat! Boo hoo hoo. There is no law against hurting feelings, and I oppose making one. Besides, Hollywood is just a business, not high art like Michaelangelo's David.
Considering that the launcher has to already be in space to fling a satellite or probe deeper into space, this idea is just impractical. They should stick to an earthbound system such as the X-4000 Launch Aparatus.