Let's permit a corporation to bring Shakespeare's works into copyright, so they can profit. Maybe the government, or better, a private entity can auction the rights worldwide to the highest bidder.
Then the plays and sonnets and their revenue stream can be controlled and taxed.
Corporate profits seem to be the primary driver in copyright, so lets take it all the way.
Eliminate all public domain works, and assign copyright to all of it.
If it's not copyrighted, let's patent it, from forks, knives, spoons, cups, to everything ever created by man.
If it can't be patented, then we'll use trademarks, the Mona Lisa, Rodin's "Thinker" all of it will signify a marque and be protected.
Revenue streams are the only things that are good.
Why not copyright the Bible, the Koran, and Talmud as well. Quote the Bible, pay a fee. (This is my favorite, and may benefit society, beyond corporations)
Patent walking, so nearly everyone on Earth would need to pay a license fee from before preschool.
If the populace can be enslaved in this way, from birth, instead of empowered, then these poor corporations might actually stand to make a buck. (or Euro, as it were).
What a funny ape, this Homo Sapiens, as he calls himself.
Finding all manner of methods to launch projectiles at his own kind.
The League of Deities need to punish his Creator again, for the sick way he entertains himself.
The metric system lost by a mile in the US.
The Imperial system is too ingrained in the stubborn American psyche.
We don't go to McDonalds and order a 113 gram burger.
If someone gives you a centimeter do you take a kilometer? Do Texans wear 40 liter hats?
Did you read the Bradbury book "234 Celsius"?
Is a gram of prevention worth a kilogram of cure?
Is that little half-pint kid down the block now just a quarter liter?
Does your car get good fuel kilometerage?
The metric system lost by a mile in the US.
The Imperial system is too ingrained in the stubborn American psyche.
We don't go to McDonalds and order a 113 gram burger.
If someone gives you a centimeter do you take a kilometer?
Do Texans wear 40 liter hats?
Did you read the Bradbury book "234 Celsius"?
Is a gram of prevention worth a kilogram of cure?
Is that little half-pint kid down the block now just a quarter liter?
Does your car get good fuel kilometerage?
etc..etc...
In the case of GW Bush he bought votes with tax cuts. And being that the country is $10tr in debt, it's your grandchildren and great grandchildren who will pay for your vote against their own interests. Brilliant!
and other physical objects to protect and secure the borders, and not electronic data, which can be electronically be transmitted without physically transporting it.
All this talk of the safety and harmlessness of nuclear waste brings up the question, "why do we need to do anything with it?". Lets just leave it in your backyard.
Creationists are already perplexed and confounded, which is how they got where they are to begin with.
Don't expect facts to get in the way of their thinking, they rely on beliefs instead.
Americans need larger vehicles, to contain their testicles and egos.
America is a larger continent, so Americans, (using their testicles again for cognitive processes) believe they need less fuel efficient vehicles.
Also, Americans must trailer boats and horse trailers offroad pretty frequently.
Plus Americans are precious, and their fragile egos, and bodies and limbs must be protected from the other drivers on the road, 90% of whom are less competent.
To me, an SUV is about as sexy as a chuck wagon.
In fact those dorky rims that people add to them look to me like chrome wagon wheels.
I recall a poster citing the glee he would feel, when the price of fuel increased, and those ugly, inefficient vehicles were in the junk yard, how he would laugh.
I'm happy to report that time is finally here.
I actually prefer Spanish "platanos" (plantains)
They're quite delicious, but they only taste good raw when the skin is completely black.
They're much bigger/beefier with a much sweeter flavor and denser, less 'aerated' and bland of the commonly found cavendish.
Kind of like the difference between 'Wonderbread" and a hearty whole wheat bread.
The only problem is they take a damn long time to ripen from yellow to black, (around a week), so patience and planning is key.
...that houses on the market are treated proprietary secrets...if you were selling your house, wouldn't you want anyone and everyone to be able to find it?
Much like the travel agent business, it looks like the internet is finally liberating all this information.
...that China is using torture, and illegal detainment. United States corporations should force China to comply with international human rights standards.
Mankind as a whole hasn't shown much positive virtue. He is just a ravenous, greedy, selfish ape, content to destroy his own kind, as well as others, for his individual gain.
Neither the planet nor other creatures of the Earth have benefited from this monkey's dominance.
The next steps to be expected from this primate range from starvation due to overpopulation, and the self destruction of his habitat, and/or near total self annihilation in an atomic apocalypse.
He's already begun tampering with the DNA of his food sources, bred and evolved super-bug bacteria using antibiotics, and has considered outer space his destiny after the inevitable burning and poisoning of his own environment by his own hand.
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I'm surprised it wasn't tried nearer the summer solstice, around the 3rd week of June, for the longest daylight.
I myself will claim ownership of the sun, and all the light and energy it emits.
Let's permit a corporation to bring Shakespeare's works into copyright, so they can profit. Maybe the government, or better, a private entity can auction the rights worldwide to the highest bidder.
Then the plays and sonnets and their revenue stream can be controlled and taxed.
Corporate profits seem to be the primary driver in copyright, so lets take it all the way.
Eliminate all public domain works, and assign copyright to all of it.
If it's not copyrighted, let's patent it, from forks, knives, spoons, cups, to everything ever created by man.
If it can't be patented, then we'll use trademarks, the Mona Lisa, Rodin's "Thinker" all of it will signify a marque and be protected.
Revenue streams are the only things that are good.
Why not copyright the Bible, the Koran, and Talmud as well. Quote the Bible, pay a fee. (This is my favorite, and may benefit society, beyond corporations)
Patent walking, so nearly everyone on Earth would need to pay a license fee from before preschool.
If the populace can be enslaved in this way, from birth, instead of empowered, then these poor corporations might actually stand to make a buck. (or Euro, as it were).
What a funny ape, this Homo Sapiens, as he calls himself.
Finding all manner of methods to launch projectiles at his own kind.
The League of Deities need to punish his Creator again, for the sick way he entertains himself.
The metric system lost by a mile in the US.
The Imperial system is too ingrained in the stubborn American psyche.
We don't go to McDonalds and order a 113 gram burger.
If someone gives you a centimeter do you take a kilometer?
Do Texans wear 40 liter hats?
Did you read the Bradbury book "234 Celsius"?
Is a gram of prevention worth a kilogram of cure?
Is that little half-pint kid down the block now just a quarter liter?
Does your car get good fuel kilometerage?
The metric system lost by a mile in the US.
The Imperial system is too ingrained in the stubborn American psyche.
We don't go to McDonalds and order a 113 gram burger.
If someone gives you a centimeter do you take a kilometer? Do Texans wear 40 liter hats?
Did you read the Bradbury book "234 Celsius"?
Is a gram of prevention worth a kilogram of cure?
Is that little half-pint kid down the block now just a quarter liter?
Does your car get good fuel kilometerage?
etc..etc...
You can fully well lie to investigators. Hans did.
In the case of GW Bush he bought votes with tax cuts. And being that the country is $10tr in debt, it's your grandchildren and great grandchildren who will pay for your vote against their own interests. Brilliant!
and other physical objects to protect and secure the borders, and not electronic data, which can be electronically be transmitted without physically transporting it.
All this talk of the safety and harmlessness of nuclear waste brings up the question, "why do we need to do anything with it?". Lets just leave it in your backyard.
How is this not double jeopardy?
Creationists are already perplexed and confounded, which is how they got where they are to begin with.
Don't expect facts to get in the way of their thinking, they rely on beliefs instead.
Americans need larger vehicles, to contain their testicles and egos.
America is a larger continent, so Americans, (using their testicles again for cognitive processes) believe they need less fuel efficient vehicles.
Also, Americans must trailer boats and horse trailers offroad pretty frequently.
Plus Americans are precious, and their fragile egos, and bodies and limbs must be protected from the other drivers on the road, 90% of whom are less competent.
To me, an SUV is about as sexy as a chuck wagon.
In fact those dorky rims that people add to them look to me like chrome wagon wheels.
I recall a poster citing the glee he would feel, when the price of fuel increased, and those ugly, inefficient vehicles were in the junk yard, how he would laugh.
I'm happy to report that time is finally here.
It's first request was a drink of something hot, and a blanket.
I actually prefer Spanish "platanos" (plantains)
They're quite delicious, but they only taste good raw when the skin is completely black.
They're much bigger/beefier with a much sweeter flavor and denser, less 'aerated' and bland of the commonly found cavendish.
Kind of like the difference between 'Wonderbread" and a hearty whole wheat bread.
The only problem is they take a damn long time to ripen from yellow to black, (around a week), so patience and planning is key.
I happen to be a Banana Republican you insensitive clod!
Is that what they're made from?
I'll have to try that in my kitchen ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h laboratory.
...But will it run Vista?
...that houses on the market are treated proprietary secrets...if you were selling your house, wouldn't you want anyone and everyone to be able to find it?
Much like the travel agent business, it looks like the internet is finally liberating all this information.
I'd rather be jet lagged, than feeling starved.
...Or is this simply the pet project of those who want to put our rights to privacy, liberty, and freedom on the butcher block?
What senator wants to be known for vetoing the "anti-child pornography" bill.
The country is $10 trillion in debt, and falling deeper by $500 billion every year, but Americans will only vote in the "tax cut" candidate.
..."See? We told you Vista was better than XP!"
...that China is using torture, and illegal detainment. United States corporations should force China to comply with international human rights standards.
...relieving the world of excess humans.
Mankind as a whole hasn't shown much positive virtue. He is just a ravenous, greedy, selfish ape, content to destroy his own kind, as well as others, for his individual gain.
Neither the planet nor other creatures of the Earth have benefited from this monkey's dominance.
The next steps to be expected from this primate range from starvation due to overpopulation, and the self destruction of his habitat, and/or near total self annihilation in an atomic apocalypse.
He's already begun tampering with the DNA of his food sources, bred and evolved super-bug bacteria using antibiotics, and has considered outer space his destiny after the inevitable burning and poisoning of his own environment by his own hand.