Nike shoes are made in third-world sweatshops, often, by children. New Balance shoes are made in the USA by adults, and fit better too. Maye they'll use that in an advertisement.
IN the south, especially Kentucky, teaching schools has been a nepotism job for the county judge's idiot cousin, and requiring certifications has been the only way to fix that. A problem now is that people who major in education, take only that, and don't have to study the subjects they will be teaching. This is a problem in science and math more than any other subjects.
The help don't need a code of ethics. Most of us are completely ethical. Our bosses, and all the executive types are the crooks. The thing the above poster was asked to sign is absurd. It sounds like another way to give management an excuse to fire help at whim. Phony baloney codes of conduct won't prevent Enrons, Worldcoms, et all because money talks and bullshit walks. Deregulation has given businessmen licence to rob and loot, and they have used this licence. If Ken Lay, Berie Ebbers, Scott Sullivan et al faced hard time in prison, and not just fines they can pass down to the help through pay cuts and layoffs, that might motivate them to stop being robbers and looters. And by prizon, I mean the kind of dungeon a kid caught with drugs is sent to, not the kind of country club with a fence that white collor criminals and celebrities are sent to on the rare occasion that one of them does time. Will that ever happen? Probably not. Our congress is a bunch of whores, and corporate lobbyists are their Johns, and their pimps.
OK. I understand what you are saying now. These issues stir up passionate feelings, and it can be hard not to use inflammatory language. I am curious. Have you ever seen the website, dontbuycds.org? What do you think of it? Feel free to email me, rather than making a post the mods might call "off topic."
You want another term? What's wrong with "copyrighted material," or "Artistic Creations"? The term "Intellectual Property" just makes me sick, and I am not alone. Too frequently, to get published, an artist has to sell his/her rights to a greedy manager or corporation to get published, and thus loses control of anything created anyhow. If you have to sell your soul to get published, and only bloodsuckers that didn't do any creating will make the money, that is an even greater disincentive to publishing. Many artists, and some would say all true artists, create for the sake of art. Hacks do it just to get rich.
When the first copyright law was passed, Copyright lasted 14 years, renewable once. That was adequate. Also, copyright should go to the author/artist alone, not to anyone else. Far too often, people other than the creator of a work hold copyright. Here is one outrageous example. When someone buys a Beatles CD in the US, royalties got to Michael Jackson, because he bought the rights. Ringo and Paul get nothing. That is wrong.
Whether the framers of the constitution imagined that new media might exist in the future or not is irrelevant. Greedy bloodsuckers want to control every new medium that is created, to the detriment of the public and to artists. This was true of the printing press, player piano reels, the radio, and every new medium. Before the printing press, the wealthy elite controlled who would be taught to read and write!
Copyright was intended to benefit society as a whole, and creators in that order. It has become something that harms them only to enrich a scattered few undeserving bloodsuckers.
The very term, "Intellectual Property" is a perversion of the purpose of copyright. Copyright is a loan from the public domain to the copyright holder, not his or her property. The supreme court once put it this way...
copyright is not a birth right, but a "wholely statutory" grant (Wharton v. Peters, 1834). The Copyright grant exists by the grace of the public as a public investment for the public benefit, much like a loan. "The sole interest of the United States and the primary object in conferring the monopoly lie in the general benefits derived by the public from the labors of authors" (US v. Paramount Pictures, 1948; Sony v. Universal City Studios, 1984).
Elcomsoft eventually was acquitted. Nothing has been done to compensate Dmitry Sklyarov for the time he spent behind bars. Adobe's gross assets, plus 10% would be a good start.
Since the feds have strictly curtailed California's ability to take water from the Colorado River, California needs to build desalination plants like this one, and to do it quickly! Too bad they will take 10 or 20 years debating it.
It doesn't answer the question, or provide any answer at all. The search engine summarizer, Copernic Agent has an ask question feature that actually works. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Ask Jeeves sucks! Worst search engine ever. Don't waste your time with Ask Jeeves.
Remember those play once, then throw away DVDs called DivX? We all stayed away from them in droves. We will buy what we want, not what Jack Valenti wants to cram down our throats. Jack Valenti is one stupid son of a bitch.
Does this data mining stuff remind anyone of the old urban legend about "The Beast?" A super computer in Antwerp of Brussels that knows everythin about everyone? Is that idea still as ridiculous as it was back in the day?
All of Microsoft's advocates and apologists were going to comment about how that article is nonsense, and Linux just isn't any good, but their PCs crashed, and are on the blue screen of death. Guess they'll have to reboot before we hear from them.
What now? I was just playing Duke Nukem Forever. I got it on a warez site. It Rocks!!! The graphics are amazing, and Duke has a lot of cool new phrases like, "Suck Deez Nutz, Bubba," "How ya like dem apples, Beyotch!" and...
It was just in the news that Mcdonalds is changing the recipe for their hamburgers. Not only could this be the next "new coke," but it could also be that they are using frankenstein meat. Is that creepy or what?
There are people on the right and the left who completely agree with Phyllis Schlafley on this one, myself included. This isn't about right vs left, it's about right vs. wrong. Copyright law has been perverted. The term, "Intellectual property" is a product of this perversion. Copyright is supposed to be a loan to artists and authors from the public domain, to whom any idea once expressed, belongs. One thing consumers can do to fight back against entertainment robber barons is to refuse to buy their products.
This is no big deal. The music industry has been cloning teen idols, and whole boy bands for a long time now. You did notice that New Kids on the Block, The Backstreet Boys, and N'Sync are all the same, didn't you?
If you bought any of the "copy protected" discs that won't play in your computer, Follow this link to the Milberg Weiss Law firm, and join Dickey V. Universal Music Group et. al, a class action suit against the manufacturers of these defective discs that frequently use the Compact Disc digital audio logo improperly.
That comes off the links page of a consumer group boycotting the recording industry, for DRM, price gouging, and harassment of file traders. Dontbuycds.org
A previous poster gave the link to that organization, but not to the class action suit, so , pay attantion mods, this post is not redundant!
Biblical scholars and archaeologists have positively established the date of Jesus' birth. It was February 29!!! I guess Christmas will have to be once every four years from now on.
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Nike shoes are made in third-world sweatshops, often, by children. New Balance shoes are made in the USA by adults, and fit better too. Maye they'll use that in an advertisement.
So, a judge has ruled that California may squeeze the Sharman. Does Mr. Whipple know about this?
IN the south, especially Kentucky, teaching schools has been a nepotism job for the county judge's idiot cousin, and requiring certifications has been the only way to fix that. A problem now is that people who major in education, take only that, and don't have to study the subjects they will be teaching. This is a problem in science and math more than any other subjects.
The help don't need a code of ethics. Most of us are completely ethical. Our bosses, and all the executive types are the crooks. The thing the above poster was asked to sign is absurd. It sounds like another way to give management an excuse to fire help at whim. Phony baloney codes of conduct won't prevent Enrons, Worldcoms, et all because money talks and bullshit walks. Deregulation has given businessmen licence to rob and loot, and they have used this licence. If Ken Lay, Berie Ebbers, Scott Sullivan et al faced hard time in prison, and not just fines they can pass down to the help through pay cuts and layoffs, that might motivate them to stop being robbers and looters. And by prizon, I mean the kind of dungeon a kid caught with drugs is sent to, not the kind of country club with a fence that white collor criminals and celebrities are sent to on the rare occasion that one of them does time. Will that ever happen? Probably not. Our congress is a bunch of whores, and corporate lobbyists are their Johns, and their pimps.
OK. I understand what you are saying now. These issues stir up passionate feelings, and it can be hard not to use inflammatory language. I am curious. Have you ever seen the website, dontbuycds.org? What do you think of it? Feel free to email me, rather than making a post the mods might call "off topic."
When the first copyright law was passed, Copyright lasted 14 years, renewable once. That was adequate. Also, copyright should go to the author/artist alone, not to anyone else. Far too often, people other than the creator of a work hold copyright. Here is one outrageous example. When someone buys a Beatles CD in the US, royalties got to Michael Jackson, because he bought the rights. Ringo and Paul get nothing. That is wrong.
Whether the framers of the constitution imagined that new media might exist in the future or not is irrelevant. Greedy bloodsuckers want to control every new medium that is created, to the detriment of the public and to artists. This was true of the printing press, player piano reels, the radio, and every new medium. Before the printing press, the wealthy elite controlled who would be taught to read and write!
Copyright was intended to benefit society as a whole, and creators in that order. It has become something that harms them only to enrich a scattered few undeserving bloodsuckers.
copyright is not a birth right, but a "wholely statutory" grant (Wharton v. Peters, 1834). The Copyright grant exists by the grace of the public as a public investment for the public benefit, much like a loan. "The sole interest of the United States and the primary object in conferring the monopoly lie in the general benefits derived by the public from the labors of authors" (US v. Paramount Pictures, 1948; Sony v. Universal City Studios, 1984).
Elcomsoft eventually was acquitted. Nothing has been done to compensate Dmitry Sklyarov for the time he spent behind bars. Adobe's gross assets, plus 10% would be a good start.
Will they be selling the new .cum top level domain for prOn?
Since the feds have strictly curtailed California's ability to take water from the Colorado River, California needs to build desalination plants like this one, and to do it quickly! Too bad they will take 10 or 20 years debating it.
It doesn't answer the question, or provide any answer at all. The search engine summarizer, Copernic Agent has an ask question feature that actually works. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Ask Jeeves sucks! Worst search engine ever. Don't waste your time with Ask Jeeves.
Remember those play once, then throw away DVDs called DivX? We all stayed away from them in droves. We will buy what we want, not what Jack Valenti wants to cram down our throats. Jack Valenti is one stupid son of a bitch.
Worst search engine ever! Try Google, try Dogpile, just don't wate your time with Ask Jeeves.
Does this data mining stuff remind anyone of the old urban legend about "The Beast?" A super computer in Antwerp of Brussels that knows everythin about everyone? Is that idea still as ridiculous as it was back in the day?
All of Microsoft's advocates and apologists were going to comment about how that article is nonsense, and Linux just isn't any good, but their PCs crashed, and are on the blue screen of death. Guess they'll have to reboot before we hear from them.
What now? I was just playing Duke Nukem Forever. I got it on a warez site. It Rocks!!! The graphics are amazing, and Duke has a lot of cool new phrases like, "Suck Deez Nutz, Bubba," "How ya like dem apples, Beyotch!" and ...
It was just in the news that Mcdonalds is changing the recipe for their hamburgers. Not only could this be the next "new coke," but it could also be that they are using frankenstein meat. Is that creepy or what?
That's not meat. That's giblets. Mmmm, giblets!
There are people on the right and the left who completely agree with Phyllis Schlafley on this one, myself included. This isn't about right vs left, it's about right vs. wrong. Copyright law has been perverted. The term, "Intellectual property" is a product of this perversion. Copyright is supposed to be a loan to artists and authors from the public domain, to whom any idea once expressed, belongs. One thing consumers can do to fight back against entertainment robber barons is to refuse to buy their products.
Just how many times will slashdotters exploit this hole?
This is no big deal. The music industry has been cloning teen idols, and whole boy bands for a long time now. You did notice that New Kids on the Block, The Backstreet Boys, and N'Sync are all the same, didn't you?
If you bought any of the "copy protected" discs that won't play in your computer, Follow this link to the Milberg Weiss Law firm, and join Dickey V. Universal Music Group et. al, a class action suit against the manufacturers of these defective discs that frequently use the Compact Disc digital audio logo improperly.
That comes off the links page of a consumer group boycotting the recording industry, for DRM, price gouging, and harassment of file traders. Dontbuycds.org A previous poster gave the link to that organization, but not to the class action suit, so , pay attantion mods, this post is not redundant!
Biblical scholars and archaeologists have positively established the date of Jesus' birth. It was February 29!!! I guess Christmas will have to be once every four years from now on.
Due to overwealming popularity of sunny days, New Jersey outlaws rain.
Why not mod a shredder to look just like a fax machine. Take it to the office, and watch hilarity insue!