I quite liked that book, except for the ending. The first three quarters were pretty cool, then the main character goes on a bad trip and gets laid, and everything's suddenly alright. His other works are deservedly more well-known in my opinion.
Yeah, because deregulating a monopoly is going to lower prices way down.
The connectivity situation in Australia sucks. Deregulate it in its current state, and it would suck more. If you want to fix, have the government split up Telstra (they still own a controlling share), spin off the infrastructure into a government department, and the rest into a private corporation. Rent the infrastructure to the telcos, and use the money to keep it up (ideally, the infrastructure department should then be cost-neutral, but knowing government, it probably wouldn't be). That levels the playing field between Telstra and every other provider - a situation where deregulation might be considered. But to do so now would just line Telstra's pockets at the expense of everyone else.
My point, if you missed it, is that nothing anyone does now has any effect on the greatness, or lack thereof, of the original books. If someone goes and makes a crappy movie of a great book, it doesn't "damage" the book in any way. It's just a crap movie. I played the LotR Open Beta, and I think it's a fairly lousy MMORPG. It has no effect on my enjoyment of the books though.
Developers are almost forced to switch from rpgs to mmorpgs to atleast pay the bills, real rpgs aren't made anymore they pretty much died by the world of mmorpgs and yes maybe by the force of using 3d too.
*Watches as his copies of Oblivion and Final Fantasy XII pop out of existence after reading the AC's comment*
A further note: this is Mr Period ".". He is your friend. He often brings Mr Capitalization along with him. Together you can enjoy many hours writing readable sentences.
You're right. Why, I opened up my copy of The Fellowship of the Ring this morning, turned to "In the House of Tom Bombadil" only to find the chapter had vanished! And in "At the Sign of the Prancing Pony" there were hobbits shouting "LOL" in the streets, and Frodo and company could barely make their way in to the inn because of all the loutish humans asking for help doing their quests.
These derivative works really damage the originals!
What a lame argument. Of course there may be some bias, but the fact is that: Oracle kicks every other RDBMS at pretty much everything: Stability, speed (optimizations up the wazoo), features, consistency.
At least he'd be easy to perform a body cavity search on. In and out in a matter of minutes, so to speak.
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Did I say I opposed or agreed with either stance? I just outlined what was and wasn't a part of a free market, not necessarily that a free market is good.
And a copyright isn't a an offshoot of contracts for two reasons. Firstly, there's no agreement (I've never signed anything), and more and more, there's no consideration (when protected material is never released into the public domain). Besides, what you outline above isn't a sale. It's a rental. A sale is an exchange of ownership. If the previous owner retails control over what the new "owner" does with the item, then the ownership has not been exchanged.
I'd like to hear your argument for how land ownership is a government-granted monopoly. It's no more so than any other type of physical possession.
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Because the concept of a "free market" necessitates no government interference, other than the minimum necessary to ensure that the market remains free (ie: the breaking up of abusive monopolies). Whether or not a purely free market is a good economic model is another question entirely, but copyrights, as an artificial, government-granted monopoly, has no place in a free market.
Thing is, BSD is public domain in all but name, really. The only condition it makes is that you cite the source which, especially in source code that nobody really sees, is just generally polite, and useful for tracking down code sources when it comes to auditing anyway. I can't imagine any BSD authors would be too severely put out if all their stuff was made public domain - and they could always pay to keep it.
Personally, I'd make the tax relative to the length of the copyright. A copyright that's been held for two years should attract minimal tax. One that's been held for fifty should attract a hefty one. But even if copyright was totally abolished, and everything chucked into a public domain, Open Source would survive it far better than a commercial entity.
Copyright was intended as a means to prevent monopolies on publication and distribution.
I have no idea how you were modded insightful. Explain to me how the granting of monopolies acts to prevent monopolies...
Copyright in Britain was originally established so that printing houses who'd just bought an author's book wouldn't be undercut by other printing houses who could just run off copies without paying the author's fee (1). Copyright in the US was constitutionally established to promote the progress of science and useful arts (2). Copyright was intended to enforce artificial monopolies, not prevent them.
If you want people to look it up, maybe you should provide some credible references for your claims.
A rather lengthy quote from Jefferson that I think sums up what people on this thread are saying:
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
Except that judges these days habitually neglect to inform jurors of Jury Nullification. Your situation requires that the jurors are actually well-informed regarding their role and powers - which it's in the government's interest not to do. It doesn't particularly help that "judge" is a political position as well as a judiciary one.
...ther was an Aussie admin who was constantly closing threads as "Asked and answered" "No longer relavent" and the best yet "Off Topic" the funny part about the off topic one was that it was in a section of the board specifically labeled as the Off Topic section
You don't. You use a library like GD and a scripting language to generate the charts as images(alternatively, if your chart is representing static data, you can just whip up a static image in excel/gnuplot/whatever). There are also libraries built on top of GD (I use jpGraph with PHP) which simplify the process.
You can probably emulate a bar graph using tables, if you're particularly anal about doing it in HTML. Hell, you could probably do a line graph with a whole tonne of 1-pixel cells in a table, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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The problem would be having to refill the RNG every time a grad student walks past. People only try and drink a lava-lamp once.
I quite liked that book, except for the ending. The first three quarters were pretty cool, then the main character goes on a bad trip and gets laid, and everything's suddenly alright. His other works are deservedly more well-known in my opinion.
Yeah, because deregulating a monopoly is going to lower prices way down.
The connectivity situation in Australia sucks. Deregulate it in its current state, and it would suck more. If you want to fix, have the government split up Telstra (they still own a controlling share), spin off the infrastructure into a government department, and the rest into a private corporation. Rent the infrastructure to the telcos, and use the money to keep it up (ideally, the infrastructure department should then be cost-neutral, but knowing government, it probably wouldn't be). That levels the playing field between Telstra and every other provider - a situation where deregulation might be considered. But to do so now would just line Telstra's pockets at the expense of everyone else.
Funny. Everyone else seems to think so. You just keep playing your classic gold boxes, and telling yourself you're the only true RPGer left.
My point, if you missed it, is that nothing anyone does now has any effect on the greatness, or lack thereof, of the original books. If someone goes and makes a crappy movie of a great book, it doesn't "damage" the book in any way. It's just a crap movie. I played the LotR Open Beta, and I think it's a fairly lousy MMORPG. It has no effect on my enjoyment of the books though.
Developers are almost forced to switch from rpgs to mmorpgs to atleast pay the bills, real rpgs aren't made anymore they pretty much died by the world of mmorpgs and yes maybe by the force of using 3d too.
*Watches as his copies of Oblivion and Final Fantasy XII pop out of existence after reading the AC's comment*
A further note: this is Mr Period ".". He is your friend. He often brings Mr Capitalization along with him. Together you can enjoy many hours writing readable sentences.
You're right. Why, I opened up my copy of The Fellowship of the Ring this morning, turned to "In the House of Tom Bombadil" only to find the chapter had vanished! And in "At the Sign of the Prancing Pony" there were hobbits shouting "LOL" in the streets, and Frodo and company could barely make their way in to the inn because of all the loutish humans asking for help doing their quests.
These derivative works really damage the originals!
What a lame argument. Of course there may be some bias, but the fact is that: Oracle kicks every other RDBMS at pretty much everything: Stability, speed (optimizations up the wazoo), features, consistency.
And price.
At least he'd be easy to perform a body cavity search on. In and out in a matter of minutes, so to speak.
Did I say I opposed or agreed with either stance? I just outlined what was and wasn't a part of a free market, not necessarily that a free market is good.
And a copyright isn't a an offshoot of contracts for two reasons. Firstly, there's no agreement (I've never signed anything), and more and more, there's no consideration (when protected material is never released into the public domain). Besides, what you outline above isn't a sale. It's a rental. A sale is an exchange of ownership. If the previous owner retails control over what the new "owner" does with the item, then the ownership has not been exchanged.
I'd like to hear your argument for how land ownership is a government-granted monopoly. It's no more so than any other type of physical possession.
Because the concept of a "free market" necessitates no government interference, other than the minimum necessary to ensure that the market remains free (ie: the breaking up of abusive monopolies). Whether or not a purely free market is a good economic model is another question entirely, but copyrights, as an artificial, government-granted monopoly, has no place in a free market.
Wrong. The FSF lists BSD as a Free Software license - in fact, it also includes "being in the public domain" as a GPL-compatible "license" - http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html
Thing is, BSD is public domain in all but name, really. The only condition it makes is that you cite the source which, especially in source code that nobody really sees, is just generally polite, and useful for tracking down code sources when it comes to auditing anyway. I can't imagine any BSD authors would be too severely put out if all their stuff was made public domain - and they could always pay to keep it.
Personally, I'd make the tax relative to the length of the copyright. A copyright that's been held for two years should attract minimal tax. One that's been held for fifty should attract a hefty one. But even if copyright was totally abolished, and everything chucked into a public domain, Open Source would survive it far better than a commercial entity.
Copyright was intended as a means to prevent monopolies on publication and distribution.
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I have no idea how you were modded insightful. Explain to me how the granting of monopolies acts to prevent monopolies...
Copyright in Britain was originally established so that printing houses who'd just bought an author's book wouldn't be undercut by other printing houses who could just run off copies without paying the author's fee (1). Copyright in the US was constitutionally established to promote the progress of science and useful arts (2). Copyright was intended to enforce artificial monopolies, not prevent them.
If you want people to look it up, maybe you should provide some credible references for your claims.
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright
2: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/a
Look it up.
Nope, only the GPL. BSD and any other lenient license would still be perfectly fine.
A rather lengthy quote from Jefferson that I think sums up what people on this thread are saying: "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
Except that judges these days habitually neglect to inform jurors of Jury Nullification. Your situation requires that the jurors are actually well-informed regarding their role and powers - which it's in the government's interest not to do. It doesn't particularly help that "judge" is a political position as well as a judiciary one.
Probably because the Hong Kong physical-media pirates pay taxes.
Cause that turned out great for the English, huh?
Dude, it's an article about web piracy. He's just practicing what he preaches.
"but we regular folk would rather just pay the man his money if we want to watch his content."
If you have cable, you're already paying the man for his content. What this is doing is actually letting you watch what you paid for.
Probably whoever pays for the bandwidth for the satellite.
The only reason why the incompetant teaches in kangarooland haven't gone to court
As opposed to the ones that taught you to spell?
...ther was an Aussie admin who was constantly closing threads as "Asked and answered" "No longer relavent" and the best yet "Off Topic" the funny part about the off topic one was that it was in a section of the board specifically labeled as the Off Topic section
Obviously his post must have been on topic.
You don't. You use a library like GD and a scripting language to generate the charts as images(alternatively, if your chart is representing static data, you can just whip up a static image in excel/gnuplot/whatever). There are also libraries built on top of GD (I use jpGraph with PHP) which simplify the process.
You can probably emulate a bar graph using tables, if you're particularly anal about doing it in HTML. Hell, you could probably do a line graph with a whole tonne of 1-pixel cells in a table, but I wouldn't recommend it.