People who decided to work for royalties by and large get fucked. Don't forget that.
I sneer at people who work for LONG TERM royalties. Notice how I mentioned 5 years and such in my post? I'm not for the abolishment of copyright, or for people profiting from it. I'm for the abolishment of a single work providing a lifetime of security. If someone is just living off of royalties, they're contributing exactly jack and shit to society. Copyright was not meant to be a gravy train. It was meant to provide people incentive to create new things. When they stop creating new things and adding to society, copyright has failed.
It's not hypocrisy that I work a safe, cushy job with a salary. A good band that gets popular and really uses a 10 year copyright term will make much more than I'd dream of in 10 years. That's the risk/reward. If they spend it all on hookers, booze and blow and have nothing left after copyright expires, that's not my problem. Those were their bad decisions. You seem to be under the assumption that if you're a creator or an artist, you are somehow OWED profitability, and perpetual income. You aren't. I don't get paid next year for the work I did yesterday. I won't get paid in 20 years for the work I did yesterday. That's what keeps me contributing to society. How much is RCA contributing to society? Nothing with regards to Elvis' music, aside from charging a hefty fee to buy his recordings. They're not creating anything, and they're definitely draining out of it by leveraging copyright of what is now a cultural icon, and rightfully should belong to America as a whole.
I don't abuse hedge-fund managers because they take a high-risk job with a big chance of failure, and they don't have copyrights on managing hedge funds which ensures that they'll get paid 150 years from now on work they did today. Actors and studios will, which isn't right. They don't have to keep working, because the system sets up a gravy train for their type of work.
I am not a hypocrite. I understand the game perfectly. You, however, do not seem to. Go look at an economics textbook, couple that with a couple of history texts, and then get back to me. I simply expect people to behave as if this were a capitalist economy, rather than trying to game the legal system into protecting a socialist style of governmental support for non-work.
Sorry, I forgot the tags. I was referring to Henry Ford writing "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black", and eventually having to change that because of market forces. People will pay more or go elsewhere to get what they want. I can just imagine the GGP poster being perfectly happy buying a mustard and fluorescent pink Mac as long as it was fast...
Check your google-foo at the door. Sony's specs are still online for this machine (click on "Marketing Specifications").
Either way, it's still thicker and heavier for a smaller, lower-res screen, slower machine than the Apple, especially if you include the extended battery, which is necessary to make the Vaio run as long as the Apple (3.0-6.0 hours with the double-capacity battery for the Vaio, which takes the machine weight up to 3.1lbs and increases the height of it.
People do get physically hurt when you go slower than traffic, though. Please tell me that a "laws define reality, they shouldn't reflect it" type of person like you doesn't drive in the passing lane... if not, you're more of a hazard than someone who drives 10mph over the "limit" yet does so safely.
And on my planet, people think that they're entitled to record some wailing once, and then get paid for the rest of their life for it, multiple times over. And then their family gets paid, too, never actually having to have done anything. And movie actors are paid the lion's share of the movie's production budget, even though they don't do more work than anyone else on it. And often times, they do much, much less.
Funny thing is, I think we're all on the same planet.
Why experiment when you have congressmen in your pocket? Hell, Universal's CEO is so fucking incompetent that he can't even keep up with being the leader of a business that might possibly change. That's your reason right now... I don't find it incredible. I find it sickening.
If your parents don't feel cheated, it's up to you to show them how easy you have it. Then they'll feel cheated. I know mine do, and as such, have really limited their spending on media. They're going out to a lot more plays and dinner with friends instead of watching movies.
Information is power... even if they can't do it themselves, they need to know how it COULD be, rather than just deal with it as it IS.
Actually, theft of services is often a common charge. It's used primarily for when people walk out of a restaurant without paying and such, so they're liable for more than just the raw cost of the food, but I can see how they could get those charges in theaters and so on to stick.
If you haven't made something new in 5 years, you need to get your ass back to work just like everyone else. Hell, make it 10 years. Copyright as it is is a drain on society. DRM is a bad idea in general, especially relating to music. You may not be able to perform movies, but I'll guarantee you people will buy the official copies of the video if you include some other value. Say, a code that allows you to log in and email the actors a question about the movie.
It's about time the "stars" of media started working for a living, like the rest of us. Things used to be that way until the 20's, when radio appeared, and content started centralizing. Now that the Internet has come about, we can get back to the natural order of things, where if you're a musician, you play music for a living, rather than record one hit record and then snort coke and live on the royalties. If you're a movie producer, you learn to cut your damn budget, stop overpaying moronic actors, and make a compelling story, as well as get the audience involved with the movie. If you make software, and you haven't made a new version or new product in 5-10 years, it's time to get out of the software business and dig ditches or ask people if they want fries with that.
The economy will survive. Just not looking the way that it is right now. Which means that even though some people may lose, the vast majority of us will win. And even the "losers" can win if they can figure out what way the wind is blowing soon enough. Get off your high horse... no one (with a clue) is wishing for the end of content producers. We're wishing for the end of the "a content consumer is the product, the advertiser is the customer" business model that makes some people very rich at the expense of the rest of us.
All of which led to an INCREASE in the useful arts, as you said. Which is what copyright is intended for. Copyright isn't there to guarantee people asinine profit to investment ratios. It's there to enhance culture.
There wouldn't be a drop in software production... people still need software. And 5-10 years is more than the useful life of most software. Except Windows XP, but hey, that's actually how copyright is supposed to work. Microsoft doesn't need protection if they can't make anything useful and new. I'd almost even settle to let service packs update copyright. Point is, there's plenty of room to profit... we don't need to prop up a failing, inefficient business model with laws. Let the business model fail. Business will still continue.
Prove to me gravity works. I didn't say show me an equation describing how it accelerates things, I said prove to me how it works.
You can't. Yet you claim gravity is science and deduction that there is no god based on observable evidence is not? There is no evidence of god other than some old books and human yearnings, and there's no reason that a god of some sort has to exist, so it's a much simpler (and therefore more more likely to be right) theory to postulate that there is no deity, especially one that cares about human matters. And until the evidence changes, that's the working theory. Atheism is simply the continuation scientific thought, god is a myth so people sleep well at night.
I'm not gonna kill them, but I'm also not a fan of safety labels on everything. I will laugh at people who die of their own stupidity, and hope other people learn to not be as stupid. I think despair.com said it best.
But the total mass of the hydrogen cloud will have a hell of an effect. Ever seen a tornado or a hurricane? That's just a gas traveling at a sub-sonic speed. The two masses will collide traveling at a relative non-insignificant portion of the speed of light. There will be a very large amount of "smashing", gravitational combination, possibly new stars being born. All kinds of fun stuff.
First off, that wouldn't win because they hurt someone innocent. Darwin Awards are only for people who do it of their own volition and stupidity. Now, if a non-pregnant woman thought she could fix a washing machine and electrocuted herself because she didn't unplug it first, then yes, that would be deserving of an award.
Look at the top of the stories. If they say "Unconfirmed", then they very well could be bullshit. If they're "Confirmed true by Darwin", you can be pretty sure they were fact-checked and correct.
But hey, why worry about reading comprehension when you can post an ill-informed message on/.?
Dude, I just felt like jumping into a canyon without a parachute!!! Do I deserve to die? Some people make really, really stupid decisions. Things that could be avoided with just a little bit of common sense. "Hmmm, let's go out on this roof. With no guard rails. That's sloped. And is slick metal. And hey, let's have sex, so we're paying even less attention to where we're at!" Do you not agree that they went wrong in many, many choices, and as such, ended up dying? I don't feel that bad for people doing things like that... really, you're a human being. The thing that separates you from the animals is your intellect. If you don't use that, why are you here?
That's science, buddy. There's no irrefutable evidence of how gravity works, but we all pretty much trust that it works. Atheism is simply stating that with all the scientific evidence and everything we know now, it's not very likely there's an invisible best friend to take care of some invisible part of us after we die. Atheism isn't a religion any more than E=mc^2 is a religion.
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"several" is at least 3, which means I'll be able to go from 3 hours runtime with my current setup to 9+. That's freakin' awesome.
I've actually found that both black AND white cars show dirt instantly. Get anything but those colors, and your car will look clean longer.
People who decided to work for royalties by and large get fucked. Don't forget that.
I sneer at people who work for LONG TERM royalties. Notice how I mentioned 5 years and such in my post? I'm not for the abolishment of copyright, or for people profiting from it. I'm for the abolishment of a single work providing a lifetime of security. If someone is just living off of royalties, they're contributing exactly jack and shit to society. Copyright was not meant to be a gravy train. It was meant to provide people incentive to create new things. When they stop creating new things and adding to society, copyright has failed.
It's not hypocrisy that I work a safe, cushy job with a salary. A good band that gets popular and really uses a 10 year copyright term will make much more than I'd dream of in 10 years. That's the risk/reward. If they spend it all on hookers, booze and blow and have nothing left after copyright expires, that's not my problem. Those were their bad decisions. You seem to be under the assumption that if you're a creator or an artist, you are somehow OWED profitability, and perpetual income. You aren't. I don't get paid next year for the work I did yesterday. I won't get paid in 20 years for the work I did yesterday. That's what keeps me contributing to society. How much is RCA contributing to society? Nothing with regards to Elvis' music, aside from charging a hefty fee to buy his recordings. They're not creating anything, and they're definitely draining out of it by leveraging copyright of what is now a cultural icon, and rightfully should belong to America as a whole.
I don't abuse hedge-fund managers because they take a high-risk job with a big chance of failure, and they don't have copyrights on managing hedge funds which ensures that they'll get paid 150 years from now on work they did today. Actors and studios will, which isn't right. They don't have to keep working, because the system sets up a gravy train for their type of work.
I am not a hypocrite. I understand the game perfectly. You, however, do not seem to. Go look at an economics textbook, couple that with a couple of history texts, and then get back to me. I simply expect people to behave as if this were a capitalist economy, rather than trying to game the legal system into protecting a socialist style of governmental support for non-work.
Sorry, I forgot the tags. I was referring to Henry Ford writing "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black", and eventually having to change that because of market forces. People will pay more or go elsewhere to get what they want. I can just imagine the GGP poster being perfectly happy buying a mustard and fluorescent pink Mac as long as it was fast...
Check your google-foo at the door. Sony's specs are still online for this machine (click on "Marketing Specifications").
Either way, it's still thicker and heavier for a smaller, lower-res screen, slower machine than the Apple, especially if you include the extended battery, which is necessary to make the Vaio run as long as the Apple (3.0-6.0 hours with the double-capacity battery for the Vaio, which takes the machine weight up to 3.1lbs and increases the height of it.
People do get physically hurt when you go slower than traffic, though. Please tell me that a "laws define reality, they shouldn't reflect it" type of person like you doesn't drive in the passing lane... if not, you're more of a hazard than someone who drives 10mph over the "limit" yet does so safely.
Seriously. Why does anyone want a car in a color other than black?
And on my planet, people think that they're entitled to record some wailing once, and then get paid for the rest of their life for it, multiple times over. And then their family gets paid, too, never actually having to have done anything. And movie actors are paid the lion's share of the movie's production budget, even though they don't do more work than anyone else on it. And often times, they do much, much less.
Funny thing is, I think we're all on the same planet.
Why experiment when you have congressmen in your pocket? Hell, Universal's CEO is so fucking incompetent that he can't even keep up with being the leader of a business that might possibly change. That's your reason right now... I don't find it incredible. I find it sickening.
If your parents don't feel cheated, it's up to you to show them how easy you have it. Then they'll feel cheated. I know mine do, and as such, have really limited their spending on media. They're going out to a lot more plays and dinner with friends instead of watching movies.
Information is power... even if they can't do it themselves, they need to know how it COULD be, rather than just deal with it as it IS.
Actually, theft of services is often a common charge. It's used primarily for when people walk out of a restaurant without paying and such, so they're liable for more than just the raw cost of the food, but I can see how they could get those charges in theaters and so on to stick.
Didja try AmaroK with the iPod video? I've had decent luck with that. I don't personally own an iPod, but my fiancee does.
If you haven't made something new in 5 years, you need to get your ass back to work just like everyone else. Hell, make it 10 years. Copyright as it is is a drain on society. DRM is a bad idea in general, especially relating to music. You may not be able to perform movies, but I'll guarantee you people will buy the official copies of the video if you include some other value. Say, a code that allows you to log in and email the actors a question about the movie.
It's about time the "stars" of media started working for a living, like the rest of us. Things used to be that way until the 20's, when radio appeared, and content started centralizing. Now that the Internet has come about, we can get back to the natural order of things, where if you're a musician, you play music for a living, rather than record one hit record and then snort coke and live on the royalties. If you're a movie producer, you learn to cut your damn budget, stop overpaying moronic actors, and make a compelling story, as well as get the audience involved with the movie. If you make software, and you haven't made a new version or new product in 5-10 years, it's time to get out of the software business and dig ditches or ask people if they want fries with that.
The economy will survive. Just not looking the way that it is right now. Which means that even though some people may lose, the vast majority of us will win. And even the "losers" can win if they can figure out what way the wind is blowing soon enough. Get off your high horse... no one (with a clue) is wishing for the end of content producers. We're wishing for the end of the "a content consumer is the product, the advertiser is the customer" business model that makes some people very rich at the expense of the rest of us.
All of which led to an INCREASE in the useful arts, as you said. Which is what copyright is intended for. Copyright isn't there to guarantee people asinine profit to investment ratios. It's there to enhance culture.
There wouldn't be a drop in software production... people still need software. And 5-10 years is more than the useful life of most software. Except Windows XP, but hey, that's actually how copyright is supposed to work. Microsoft doesn't need protection if they can't make anything useful and new. I'd almost even settle to let service packs update copyright. Point is, there's plenty of room to profit... we don't need to prop up a failing, inefficient business model with laws. Let the business model fail. Business will still continue.
Prove to me gravity works. I didn't say show me an equation describing how it accelerates things, I said prove to me how it works.
You can't. Yet you claim gravity is science and deduction that there is no god based on observable evidence is not? There is no evidence of god other than some old books and human yearnings, and there's no reason that a god of some sort has to exist, so it's a much simpler (and therefore more more likely to be right) theory to postulate that there is no deity, especially one that cares about human matters. And until the evidence changes, that's the working theory. Atheism is simply the continuation scientific thought, god is a myth so people sleep well at night.
Klaatu! Verata! N... necktie? nickle? I'm sure it was an N word...
Whether filmmakers did it or not, the trick is that it's been done cheaper now, so that non-studios can do it.
I'm not gonna kill them, but I'm also not a fan of safety labels on everything. I will laugh at people who die of their own stupidity, and hope other people learn to not be as stupid. I think despair.com said it best.
But the total mass of the hydrogen cloud will have a hell of an effect. Ever seen a tornado or a hurricane? That's just a gas traveling at a sub-sonic speed. The two masses will collide traveling at a relative non-insignificant portion of the speed of light. There will be a very large amount of "smashing", gravitational combination, possibly new stars being born. All kinds of fun stuff.
The gray alien football players. It's like an intergalactic wedgie.
First off, that wouldn't win because they hurt someone innocent. Darwin Awards are only for people who do it of their own volition and stupidity. Now, if a non-pregnant woman thought she could fix a washing machine and electrocuted herself because she didn't unplug it first, then yes, that would be deserving of an award.
Moron.
Look at the top of the stories. If they say "Unconfirmed", then they very well could be bullshit. If they're "Confirmed true by Darwin", you can be pretty sure they were fact-checked and correct.
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But hey, why worry about reading comprehension when you can post an ill-informed message on
Dude, I just felt like jumping into a canyon without a parachute!!! Do I deserve to die? Some people make really, really stupid decisions. Things that could be avoided with just a little bit of common sense. "Hmmm, let's go out on this roof. With no guard rails. That's sloped. And is slick metal. And hey, let's have sex, so we're paying even less attention to where we're at!" Do you not agree that they went wrong in many, many choices, and as such, ended up dying? I don't feel that bad for people doing things like that... really, you're a human being. The thing that separates you from the animals is your intellect. If you don't use that, why are you here?
If they don't know, the status is Unconfimed. If it's confirmed true, you can be pretty damn sure it happened.
That's science, buddy. There's no irrefutable evidence of how gravity works, but we all pretty much trust that it works. Atheism is simply stating that with all the scientific evidence and everything we know now, it's not very likely there's an invisible best friend to take care of some invisible part of us after we die. Atheism isn't a religion any more than E=mc^2 is a religion.