For those globalist forces, the present time represents their end-game. They call it the "new world order."
Geez, just how old is the tinfoil on that hat of yours? Have a look at the back of one of your greenbacks - can't remember which denomination it is, but didn't one of them have "Novus Ordo Seclorum" on it?
I'd suggest you start listening to some younger conspiratorialists, get some fresh material. That one's profoundly dated.
Good point. Blizzard's World of Warcraft has over 11 million subscribers, and online updates to the game offer P2P option for speeding up some fairly lengthy downloads. That's a lot of legitimate P2P traffic, and it's of significant import to the business model of an organisation that clears several billion dollars a year.
Now when a 2960 billion petawatt fusion reactor does something unexpected, the consequences are... severe. 1% difference in output and we'll have the mother of all ice ages next year. Right now we have about 4% difference (the sun's corona is 4% cooler
Holy bazonga, that is a lot. I'd be starting to worry about changes in the neutrino flux. I know Sol is just a yellow dwarf, but I'd hate to think of what would happen to us if it suddenly decided it had burned enough hydrogen and wanted a lifesytle change.
Not funny. 200 of our friends and neighbors just died in the most horrible possible way. More are alive and affected. Ever talked to a friend in a burn ward? Get a life.
Nor should having a silver spoon, or lots of money, or famous parents, or a successful Hollywood career, yet those pass as qualifications all the time.
You forgot "really excellent hair". Very important qualification. All the Founding Fathers and most rock stars. Except for Peter Garret of course. And Steve Ballmer.
He is also not saying that this is a copyright violation. What he explicitly said is that the kindle creates extra value for the work. In return the people who created the material should share in that extra value.
Interesting, if a bit hair splitting.
Then here's a question for the class -- if TTS is considered a derivative work, and it's entirely the product of a machine, is the claim based on the principle that machines can create infringing artistic works by themselves with effectively no human input? Is copyright extended only to humans, or are we implicitly granting this capability to a nonsentient entity? To the best of my knowledge, only humans (or corporate entities that represent groups of humans) can be subject to civil penalties.
Media companies are propaganda machines. They're staffed by the people who brought you the cold war. They're nothing but groups of evil manipulators, and it's good that they're going to die.
Not all of them, surely. Yes, the Spanish-American war was a media event ("You supply the coverage, I'll supply the war") but there are thousands of small newsletters, newspapers and private blogs that are a little more real to people who live below the stratosphere of big media. Thank all the gods that be for the Internet, the Samizdat, and the Marats out there with their tiny little operations and their big ears.
Of the two, I'd say most likely SAP. SAP runs most comfortably on Windows infrastructure (most Oracle software is indifferent to platform), can use SQL Server (competitive with Oracle databases) and I would suspect Microsoft's Chair wouldn't spend a cent toward Larry Ellison they didn't have to. Besides, Oracle is notably more closed source than even Microsoft, which might rankle a bit.
SAP software documentation originally in German written was, however, and sometimes some slight difficulty in translation because all of the verbs toward the end of their sentences putting often happens tends.
1. Free print editions...less pages and really just an advertisement "teaser" for the online version.
That's an interesting turnabout. I used to mostly see online newspapers & magazines that were advertisement teasers for the printed version. And I suspect the printed version isn't afraid to put a full page advertisement on, which does allow some continuity of revenue even though the classifieds ink is less.
A trend in our neck of the woods (Victoria, Australia) is for a thriving community newspaper industry. The adverts are tied to very local businesses - e.g. your local tyre store, not national or international brands. This sense of connectedness with folks within driving distance means a closely tied advertising demographic. The trend for these newspapers is to get thicker, not thinner, and they're distributed free. So it appears for close community work, printed newspapers are still a viable concern.
Excuse me don't excuse me ah Clem, I like your examples, but I'm not sure about the structure of your question. False dichotomy. You might as well ask why the porridge bird lays its eggs in the air.
The first example is copyright infringement, not theft. Civil matter. The second example is using a legal practice (product return) for a shonky practice (which may not be illegal, or is illegal but unenforceable, irrespective of whether it rates a punch in the nose). First one symptomatic of a broken commercial model, second one symptomatic of a broken legal one.
Hey, good derivative question -- what is it with laws that are completely unenforceable? Should they be there at all? What's their place?
Whoa there. If you want to prevent atmospheric pollution caused by burning gasoline, a battery subsidy is not the correct way to do it. Instead, a tax on gasoline (or other CO2 sources) is the way to go.
Doesn't work. I've watched the price of gasoline go from US$0.22/gal in California to A$1.50/litre here in Australia (that's about a dollar a quart, US). It's an essential commodity, and despite the rise in price over the intervening 40 years people have not really reduced their usage all that much.
Because of its perception as a baseline expense, the rest of the economy simply adjusted itself around the price per barrel.
If you want to see less of your paycheck contributing to the Sultan of Brunei's fleet of Bentleys, you'll need a better motive than changing the price. Education and leadership might help, but enlightened self-interest is not purely a matter of price in an educated populace. It's important, to be sure, but it's excessively, ineffectively cynical to believe it's the only dial on the box.
This is called "the principle of Bit Decay". It posits that any piece of working software, if left to itself long enough, will eventually cease to run.
Correct. Wire-guided missiles prevent piracy. A well-placed naval warship prevents piracy. What DRM prevents is the non-destructive copy of a copyrighted work. This is annoyance, not murder
Pirates are people who invade ships and deny them to their owners by force of arms.
Mind you, there are times when I'd like to put DRM proponents into a Zodiac painted "Billion Dollar Cargo" and send them adrift off Somalia, but that'd be crossing the line I think...
You'd probably have to brick up the windows, too. What happens if you work a reflected beam of light into an interferometer? Glass flexes, and the reflected beam would be displaced. Voice changes sound pressure in an enclosed room. A flat pane of glass picks up the vibrations. Track the wigglies and turn them into audio. Signal process the result.
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For those globalist forces, the present time represents their end-game. They call it the "new world order."
Geez, just how old is the tinfoil on that hat of yours? Have a look at the back of one of your greenbacks - can't remember which denomination it is, but didn't one of them have "Novus Ordo Seclorum" on it?
I'd suggest you start listening to some younger conspiratorialists, get some fresh material. That one's profoundly dated.
Good point. Blizzard's World of Warcraft has over 11 million subscribers, and online updates to the game offer P2P option for speeding up some fairly lengthy downloads. That's a lot of legitimate P2P traffic, and it's of significant import to the business model of an organisation that clears several billion dollars a year.
Now when a 2960 billion petawatt fusion reactor does something unexpected, the consequences are ... severe. 1% difference in output and we'll have the mother of all ice ages next year. Right now we have about 4% difference (the sun's corona is 4% cooler
Holy bazonga, that is a lot. I'd be starting to worry about changes in the neutrino flux. I know Sol is just a yellow dwarf, but I'd hate to think of what would happen to us if it suddenly decided it had burned enough hydrogen and wanted a lifesytle change.
Time to build a space ark?
Not funny. 200 of our friends and neighbors just died in the most horrible possible way. More are alive and affected. Ever talked to a friend in a burn ward? Get a life.
They're Australians, what the hell is sufficiently "revolting or abhorrent phenomena" to shock them?
Mate, if we can handle Question Time in Parliament we can handle anything you throw at us.
"Ready the wave motion gun!"
Nor should having a silver spoon, or lots of money, or famous parents, or a successful Hollywood career, yet those pass as qualifications all the time.
You forgot "really excellent hair". Very important qualification. All the Founding Fathers and most rock stars. Except for Peter Garret of course. And Steve Ballmer.
Oh, wait...
He is also not saying that this is a copyright violation. What he explicitly said is that the kindle creates extra value for the work. In return the people who created the material should share in that extra value.
Interesting, if a bit hair splitting.
Then here's a question for the class -- if TTS is considered a derivative work, and it's entirely the product of a machine, is the claim based on the principle that machines can create infringing artistic works by themselves with effectively no human input? Is copyright extended only to humans, or are we implicitly granting this capability to a nonsentient entity? To the best of my knowledge, only humans (or corporate entities that represent groups of humans) can be subject to civil penalties.
"The beatings will continue until morale improves".
Media companies are propaganda machines. They're staffed by the people who brought you the cold war. They're nothing but groups of evil manipulators, and it's good that they're going to die.
Not all of them, surely. Yes, the Spanish-American war was a media event ("You supply the coverage, I'll supply the war") but there are thousands of small newsletters, newspapers and private blogs that are a little more real to people who live below the stratosphere of big media. Thank all the gods that be for the Internet, the Samizdat, and the Marats out there with their tiny little operations and their big ears.
...SAP or Oracle Financials.
Of the two, I'd say most likely SAP. SAP runs most comfortably on Windows infrastructure (most Oracle software is indifferent to platform), can use SQL Server (competitive with Oracle databases) and I would suspect Microsoft's Chair wouldn't spend a cent toward Larry Ellison they didn't have to. Besides, Oracle is notably more closed source than even Microsoft, which might rankle a bit.
SAP software documentation originally in German written was, however, and sometimes some slight difficulty in translation because all of the verbs toward the end of their sentences putting often happens tends.
I'm certainly not bipolar. And neither am I.
1. Free print editions...less pages and really just an advertisement "teaser" for the online version.
That's an interesting turnabout. I used to mostly see online newspapers & magazines that were advertisement teasers for the printed version. And I suspect the printed version isn't afraid to put a full page advertisement on, which does allow some continuity of revenue even though the classifieds ink is less.
A trend in our neck of the woods (Victoria, Australia) is for a thriving community newspaper industry. The adverts are tied to very local businesses - e.g. your local tyre store, not national or international brands. This sense of connectedness with folks within driving distance means a closely tied advertising demographic. The trend for these newspapers is to get thicker, not thinner, and they're distributed free. So it appears for close community work, printed newspapers are still a viable concern.
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Excuse me don't excuse me ah Clem, I like your examples, but I'm not sure about the structure of your question. False dichotomy. You might as well ask why the porridge bird lays its eggs in the air.
The first example is copyright infringement, not theft. Civil matter. The second example is using a legal practice (product return) for a shonky practice (which may not be illegal, or is illegal but unenforceable, irrespective of whether it rates a punch in the nose). First one symptomatic of a broken commercial model, second one symptomatic of a broken legal one.
Hey, good derivative question -- what is it with laws that are completely unenforceable? Should they be there at all? What's their place?
Oh come on. Are you really seriously arguing that gasoline usage is not connected to price at all over the long term?
Really? http://tinyurl.com/ak5qrk
Ok, so it's diesel. But it comes out of the same hole in the ground.
"incentivize" bothers you? I guess I'm just not orientated that way.
Whoa there. If you want to prevent atmospheric pollution caused by burning gasoline, a battery subsidy is not the correct way to do it. Instead, a tax on gasoline (or other CO2 sources) is the way to go.
Doesn't work. I've watched the price of gasoline go from US$0.22/gal in California to A$1.50/litre here in Australia (that's about a dollar a quart, US). It's an essential commodity, and despite the rise in price over the intervening 40 years people have not really reduced their usage all that much.
Because of its perception as a baseline expense, the rest of the economy simply adjusted itself around the price per barrel.
If you want to see less of your paycheck contributing to the Sultan of Brunei's fleet of Bentleys, you'll need a better motive than changing the price. Education and leadership might help, but enlightened self-interest is not purely a matter of price in an educated populace. It's important, to be sure, but it's excessively, ineffectively cynical to believe it's the only dial on the box.
Good reminder, thanks. Mine - work laptop - now says "Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by People Who Watch Your Every Move".
This is called "the principle of Bit Decay". It posits that any piece of working software, if left to itself long enough, will eventually cease to run.
Yes. I accidentally the whole internet.
Is that bad?
Oh dear gods, you didn't delete that little "e" with the bit of gold on it did you?
You weren't supposed to do that...
DRM does not prevent piracy
Correct. Wire-guided missiles prevent piracy. A well-placed naval warship prevents piracy. What DRM prevents is the non-destructive copy of a copyrighted work. This is annoyance, not murder
Pirates are people who invade ships and deny them to their owners by force of arms.
Mind you, there are times when I'd like to put DRM proponents into a Zodiac painted "Billion Dollar Cargo" and send them adrift off Somalia, but that'd be crossing the line I think...
Technologically it's a piezo cake.
i would be incredibly surprised if obama was allowed to use any common carrier or protocol
Allowed? Hello? He's the President. Head of the Executive branch of the US Government. How much higher do you think he has to go to get approval?
Not if you turn the building into a Faraday cage.
You'd probably have to brick up the windows, too. What happens if you work a reflected beam of light into an interferometer? Glass flexes, and the reflected beam would be displaced. Voice changes sound pressure in an enclosed room. A flat pane of glass picks up the vibrations. Track the wigglies and turn them into audio. Signal process the result.