Shouldn't all copyright laws be stricken down as ex post facto laws, with the laws in place when something was copyrighted have domain over that item?
In other words, if congress wants to make anything copyrighted now still copyrighted 100 years after their authors death fine. But something created nearly a century ago and going into the public domain in a few years?
You have to be of native birth to run for president; the constitution was writen specifically with this limitation so that Alexander Hamilton could not run for president.
According to my Chem class: Law - A mathematical relationship in nature supported by many experiments Theory - An explanation of a relationship in nature supported by many experiments.
If I write a C major chord into a piece of music do I suddenly owe somebody money? Its four notes (C, E, G, C) after all.
This can't possibly be true. I mean; how many pieces of music have a scale built in? A trill? Chromatics? This would mean that everything in western music is a derivative work from somebody else and every artist and song writer owes somebody else money.
The 30 billion dollars discussed here wasn't spent last year, it was spent over the decades this project has been in effect. Take a look at some of the things we're spending in defense; two billion a pop for a B-2 and the air force hates the things. Take a look the national budget each year and tell me that 30 billion over 15-20 years isn't an insignifigant amount compared to whats being dumped into welfare and other programs.
NASA has accomplished many feats in the past decade despite many of yours insitence to the contrary. HST remains to be the best observatory in existence and has a two year waiting list for astronomers to use it last I heard (of course that comes from my father's rant about the gyros failing a week before he had his time).
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Shouldn't all copyright laws be stricken down as ex post facto laws, with the laws in place when something was copyrighted have domain over that item?
In other words, if congress wants to make anything copyrighted now still copyrighted 100 years after their authors death fine. But something created nearly a century ago and going into the public domain in a few years?
You have to be of native birth to run for president; the constitution was writen specifically with this limitation so that Alexander Hamilton could not run for president.
According to my Chem class:
Law - A mathematical relationship in nature supported by many experiments
Theory - An explanation of a relationship in nature supported by many experiments.
If I write a C major chord into a piece of music do I suddenly owe somebody money? Its four notes (C, E, G, C) after all. This can't possibly be true. I mean; how many pieces of music have a scale built in? A trill? Chromatics? This would mean that everything in western music is a derivative work from somebody else and every artist and song writer owes somebody else money.
I wonder what type of performance OSX gets on x86 processors; photoshop doesn't count.
The 30 billion dollars discussed here wasn't spent last year, it was spent over the decades this project has been in effect. Take a look at some of the things we're spending in defense; two billion a pop for a B-2 and the air force hates the things. Take a look the national budget each year and tell me that 30 billion over 15-20 years isn't an insignifigant amount compared to whats being dumped into welfare and other programs.
NASA has accomplished many feats in the past decade despite many of yours insitence to the contrary. HST remains to be the best observatory in existence and has a two year waiting list for astronomers to use it last I heard (of course that comes from my father's rant about the gyros failing a week before he had his time).