At some point you have to say "It's not valid to count this as a cost." Why not charge military expenses to the existence of religious insanity? Why not add the cost of building roads to the price of oil? How about the cost of educating future oil company employees, or feeding them until they join the oil company?
There's a third reason more attention is paid to Hitler's Germany that Stalin's USSR, and that's current politics. Most teachers, particularly at the college level, are leftist. They properly consider Stalin's USSR leftist, and ignore its evils; they wrongly consider Hitler's Germany rightist, and teach about its evils.
If the Dems were serious about fellow citizens they would have done the following by now:
1. Passed a law forcing Free Medicare and state-subsidized medical insurance like MA has done.
The "Free Medicare and state-subsidized medical insurance" is blatantly unconstitutional and extremely damaging to both the health and wealth of Mass. residents. I note that you're honest enough to use the word "force".
Yes, the Democrats are serious about fellow citizens. They're serious about enslaving them.
Your bet is revealing. If I were to take you on and "win", the ACLU gets $1000 and both I and the nation lose. If I lose, I lose $1000 and you gain $1000. Hah!
Handing over your house is very different from allowing someone else to build a house just like yours.
No person now alive working at Disney was involved in the production of the first Disney cartoons. The potential infinite lifetime of an organization short-circuits some of the reasoning that applies to some copyright durations. So "they made them they own them" is not literally true. If it were, should Newton's "Principia" still be under copyright? Should the Vatican own the Bible?
The original article does mention the cost of enforcement. RTFA.
Welfare refers to the overall prosperity of the populace. Copyright exists because ideas are not physical things. The originator's right to his idea is limited to the things he creates on his own time with his own materials. He can keep those things forever; if he doesn't want copies made he can keep them secret. To allow him to make money off copies of his works, copyright is a compromise with the general public brokered by the government. This benefits his prosperity and the prosperity of the general public.
You seem to be implying that an author should have absolute control over all copies of his work for his lifetime or longer. This is simply not enforceable.
TFA is an economic analysis, and by the very nature of an economic analysis it must consider averages.
Your rant about force is simply inappropriate in this context.
Law must accomodate fringe cases in a reasonable manner. It's too easy for finge cases to result in severe punishment for trivial misdeeds if law is poorly crafted.
Strange you should pick the range 2-3 years to over 50 years, that's just the range that the author admits to in the pdf. I think he's made a reasonable estimate.
There are factors that the author ignores, such as
Very long copyrights cause bad cultural changes, such as the development of publisher's guilds and hereditary monopolies. These in turn have a stagnating effect on society and a corrupting effect on government.
Different forms of publications have dramatically different decay rates and initial costs. Classical music, pop music, comic books, magazines, newspapers, book fiction, technical books, etc.. This implies different optimum copyright periods, which in turn implies that publishers would try to get classified into longer period varieties.
Nonetheless, the author has made a serious attempt to rationally quantify something that up to now has been subject to little more than hand-waving arguments. If publishers disagree, it's their responsibility to come up with their own math rather than resorting to "lawyers, guns, and money".
Most of the Manhattan garages I remember are midtown and quite expensive. Relatively speaking, the area around Columbia is a slum. Generally, the garages exist where they are economically viable.
A biofilm destroyer for dental health would be a substantial boon, particularly for older folks. Many old people can't do the aggresive brushing needed to clean their teeth, because such brushing tears up their gums and the gums don't heal fast enough to recover before the next brushing. Something that destroys biofilms would make accurate, thorough brushing less important.
For several years I used autocad mouseless. When lines have to be exactly a certain length, keystrokes (with a possible 10X multiplier) beat mouse motion every time. Holding a mouse motionless while pressing or releasing a button is not reliable.
FWIW, if you've ever bothered to actually measure a Barbie doll (even the old ones, before Mattel added some politically-correct belly fat), you'd find that it is not large-breasted: a B cup at most. What it does have is an extremely tiny waist, about 17" if scaled up to the size of an average adult female.
They're getting rarer because they are recessive genes and there is an increasing incidence of mixed matings. In addition, Caucasians have been more economically successful and in modern times economic success correlates with lower birthrates (contraception and abstinence).
Blondness increases the amount of sun hitting the skin, thus increasing the amount of the essential vitamin D. Northerners get less sun; blondness is more of an advantage for them. Once fully grown, bodies don't require as much vitamin D for bone health, hair can turn darker.
The third and fourth sources for claims of sexual harassment come from women lying for malicious reasons (money, revenge, political gain, etc.), and from women who are loony. I've seen it happen. I don't doubt that some men engage in sexual harassment as the article describes, but I've seen many more cases of women claiming harassment and discrimination when they should be looking at their own deficiencies.
Why on earth does anyone believe anything from Psychology Today?
People really need to learn that militarism and fascism and nationalism are all different things. There is very little that can be rightly called fascism in Heinlein's books. There are plenty of things that Heinlein can be reasonably criticized for; fascism is not one of them.
I'm having to stretch my memory back to stuff I haven't read in 45 years, but my recollection is that he predicted the use of "crystalline electronics" for interstellar navigation. On the other hand, one book was based largely on the results of a mistaken mental numerical calculation, so the predictions aren't consistent.
Heinlein as a writer and Campbell as an editor advanced the state of the art in science fiction, and Heinlein's work was generally superior to his contemporaries. However, his last few works were interminable gab-fests; avoid them until/unless you become a dedicated fan.
There are two versions of "Stranger in a Strange Land", the book as Heinlein wanted it, and the book as the publisher forced Heinlein to rewrite it (to make it shorter). In my opinion, the shorter version is superior, and is the only one to include Heinlein's definition of love. (IIRC, "that emotion which makes the happiness of another person essential to your own")
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At some point you have to say "It's not valid to count this as a cost." Why not charge military expenses to the existence of religious insanity? Why not add the cost of building roads to the price of oil? How about the cost of educating future oil company employees, or feeding them until they join the oil company?
I took your challenge and checked 10 cans of soup in my cupboard. 5 had MSG, which is 5 too many, but it's not even "most".
Whole chicken is usually quite inexpensive compared to other meats.
There's a third reason more attention is paid to Hitler's Germany that Stalin's USSR, and that's current politics. Most teachers, particularly at the college level, are leftist. They properly consider Stalin's USSR leftist, and ignore its evils; they wrongly consider Hitler's Germany rightist, and teach about its evils.
Whole Foods has refused to pay for a shipment from a nonprofit. http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/news.htm#FRESH
All artificial maple syrups are inferior to the genuine article.
Yes, the Democrats are serious about fellow citizens. They're serious about enslaving them.
Your bet is revealing. If I were to take you on and "win", the ACLU gets $1000 and both I and the nation lose. If I lose, I lose $1000 and you gain $1000. Hah!
No person now alive working at Disney was involved in the production of the first Disney cartoons. The potential infinite lifetime of an organization short-circuits some of the reasoning that applies to some copyright durations. So "they made them they own them" is not literally true. If it were, should Newton's "Principia" still be under copyright? Should the Vatican own the Bible?
Welfare refers to the overall prosperity of the populace. Copyright exists because ideas are not physical things. The originator's right to his idea is limited to the things he creates on his own time with his own materials. He can keep those things forever; if he doesn't want copies made he can keep them secret. To allow him to make money off copies of his works, copyright is a compromise with the general public brokered by the government. This benefits his prosperity and the prosperity of the general public.
You seem to be implying that an author should have absolute control over all copies of his work for his lifetime or longer. This is simply not enforceable.
TFA is an economic analysis, and by the very nature of an economic analysis it must consider averages.
Your rant about force is simply inappropriate in this context.
Law must accomodate fringe cases in a reasonable manner. It's too easy for finge cases to result in severe punishment for trivial misdeeds if law is poorly crafted.
There are factors that the author ignores, such as
- Very long copyrights cause bad cultural changes, such as the development of publisher's guilds and hereditary monopolies. These in turn have a stagnating effect on society and a corrupting effect on government.
- Different forms of publications have dramatically different decay rates and initial costs. Classical music, pop music, comic books, magazines, newspapers, book fiction, technical books, etc.. This implies different optimum copyright periods, which in turn implies that publishers would try to get classified into longer period varieties.
Nonetheless, the author has made a serious attempt to rationally quantify something that up to now has been subject to little more than hand-waving arguments. If publishers disagree, it's their responsibility to come up with their own math rather than resorting to "lawyers, guns, and money".Most of the Manhattan garages I remember are midtown and quite expensive. Relatively speaking, the area around Columbia is a slum. Generally, the garages exist where they are economically viable.
- Make them yourself from innocuous chemicals. Difficult, risky, somewhat expensive.
- Buy explosives. Subject to discovery through legally mandated record keeping.
- Smuggling. Cameras might be helpful in some cases.
- Theft. Cameras are likely to be helpful here; trace the thief from breakin to bomb factory.
Cameras are one tool among many to find the bad guys.A biofilm destroyer for dental health would be a substantial boon, particularly for older folks. Many old people can't do the aggresive brushing needed to clean their teeth, because such brushing tears up their gums and the gums don't heal fast enough to recover before the next brushing. Something that destroys biofilms would make accurate, thorough brushing less important.
For several years I used autocad mouseless. When lines have to be exactly a certain length, keystrokes (with a possible 10X multiplier) beat mouse motion every time. Holding a mouse motionless while pressing or releasing a button is not reliable.
There is a mouseless browsing extension for firefox that works well for the 1.5.x versions. Control number goes to the desired field.
FWIW, if you've ever bothered to actually measure a Barbie doll (even the old ones, before Mattel added some politically-correct belly fat), you'd find that it is not large-breasted: a B cup at most. What it does have is an extremely tiny waist, about 17" if scaled up to the size of an average adult female.
They're getting rarer because they are recessive genes and there is an increasing incidence of mixed matings. In addition, Caucasians have been more economically successful and in modern times economic success correlates with lower birthrates (contraception and abstinence).
The third and fourth sources for claims of sexual harassment come from women lying for malicious reasons (money, revenge, political gain, etc.), and from women who are loony. I've seen it happen. I don't doubt that some men engage in sexual harassment as the article describes, but I've seen many more cases of women claiming harassment and discrimination when they should be looking at their own deficiencies.
Why on earth does anyone believe anything from Psychology Today?
People really need to learn that militarism and fascism and nationalism are all different things. There is very little that can be rightly called fascism in Heinlein's books. There are plenty of things that Heinlein can be reasonably criticized for; fascism is not one of them.
I'm having to stretch my memory back to stuff I haven't read in 45 years, but my recollection is that he predicted the use of "crystalline electronics" for interstellar navigation. On the other hand, one book was based largely on the results of a mistaken mental numerical calculation, so the predictions aren't consistent.
Heinlein as a writer and Campbell as an editor advanced the state of the art in science fiction, and Heinlein's work was generally superior to his contemporaries. However, his last few works were interminable gab-fests; avoid them until/unless you become a dedicated fan.
There are two versions of "Stranger in a Strange Land", the book as Heinlein wanted it, and the book as the publisher forced Heinlein to rewrite it (to make it shorter). In my opinion, the shorter version is superior, and is the only one to include Heinlein's definition of love. (IIRC, "that emotion which makes the happiness of another person essential to your own")
It looks to me as if you just copied the entire contents of a copyrighted book ("The Notebooks of Lazarus Long"?) which I read yesterday.