More like you leave your waffle iron in the front seat of your unlocked 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air in a side street in bangkok. Is it your fault if somebody makes a waffle?
Ah, but what if it isn't top secret information, but only copyrighted? Do you think that you have the same requirement to keep the ending of the latest Harry Potter book secret from your friends, as you do to keep the SSNs of CIA agents secret?
Actually, to be exact- you left a Flash Card of some sort on the front seat of an unlocked car. You come back, the Flash Card is still there. Somebody else copied it in the mean time, but you haven't lost anything- you still have the data on your flash card. Was it your fault that the data was copied?
What's even more interesting is the counterclaim- if the RICO suit fails, there will be case law in Oregon making it legal to copy files out of anybody's open and unprotected shares- plus it will be legal to scan for such open ports and shares. Kazaa isn't the only file sharing software out there- "I want to share my printers and I want to share my files, and I want to share my anger 'cause it's making me bloomin' wild"- ReInstalling Windows by Les Barker, from back in Windows 3.1 days. MOST basic file systems are file sharing software if you don't know, or are too stupid to, protect them.
What did it take to make them start producing "manufactured celebrities"? As far as I can tell, they were the norm before file sharing became widespread, so it must be something other than file sharing that induces this manufacturing.
In fact, near as I can tell manufactured celebrities were the norm *before* computer networks existed outside of the educational laboratories. I seem to even remember a Brady Bunch episode about the subject- from what, 1972?
Ok, based on that- innate tendency towards unselfishness is genetic, where observed behavior to the negative is primarily environmental, due to the influence of the capitalistic system.
Why are you conflating patents and copyrights? They are two very different monopolies. Patents are far more limiting (are far more of a monopoly) than are copyrights -- so that's why they are far harder to obtain, and only last 20 years. Copyrights are easy to get, but relatively hard to enforce, and only worth enforcing in certain circumstances.
Because *both* have the same Constitutional basis- rewarding intellectual work. Patents and copyrights *should* be effectively the same. They should both grant a monopoly to the guy doing the work.
But beyond that, how would not being able to transfer ownership help the patent or copyright owner? If they couldn't transfer the rights, and only have limited means for licensing the rights, then the rights aren't very valuable. Why would anyone bother? The corporations would just keep everything secret, would stop publishing papers, would tightly control access to all sorts of information. It's hard to see how such a system would promote science and the useful arts in such a case.
It's hard to see how the current system promotes science or the useful arts anyway- the corporations have all the reward, the individual worker might as well have never come up with the idea at all for all he gets out of it. But if he's guaranteed a royalty on manufacture- regardless of if some C-level executive later fires him- he's got a much better reason for making the idea public.
Also, when you come up with an invention while being PAID by a company to work on the invention, using resources the company paid for, why SHOULDN'T the company own the rights to the invention? If you work on an assembly line, should you own every widget you assemble?
A portion thereof, yes. Profits are just wages stolen from the worker.
This man Is Notwho he claims to be. He is neither being persecuted or disrespected,but rather stalks others. He is being mocked for that is all he is worthy of, under any of his hundreds of aliases here on slashdot (note, I only post under one- ever- for I do not believe in anonymity being a good thing- nor have I tried to attack any of his multiple personalities who post only one or two comments then disappear because they can't remember their own passwords).
This man Is Notwho he claims to be. He is neither being persecuted or disrespected,but rather stalks others. He is being mocked for that is all he is worthy of, under any of his hundreds of aliases here on slashdot (note, I only post under one- ever- for I do not believe in anonymity being a good thing- nor have I tried to attack any of his multiple personalities who post only one or two comments then disappear because they can't remember their own passwords).
This man Is Notwho he claims to be. He is neither being persecuted or disrespected,but rather stalks others. He is being mocked for that is all he is worthy of, under any of his hundreds of aliases here on slashdot (note, I only post under one- ever- for I do not believe in anonymity being a good thing- nor have I tried to attack any of his multiple personalities who post only one or two comments then disappear because they can't remember their own passwords).
This man Is Notwho he claims to be. He is neither being persecuted or disrespected,but rather stalks others. He is being mocked for that is all he is worthy of, under any of his hundreds of aliases here on slashdot (note, I only post under one- ever- for I do not believe in anonymity being a good thing- nor have I tried to attack any of his multiple personalities who post only one or two comments then disappear because they can't remember their own passwords).
Much of the influx of Jews to Israel was the 850,000 Jews kicked out of neighboring Arab states after Isreal was established. Nobody talks about THOSE refugees because they pulled themselves into a society.
There have indeed been injustices on both sides; nobody is saying that there haven't been. Certainly the betrayal of the UN that started the Six Days War was also Arab intiated. However:
Can't say that for the welfare sucking Palestinians.
They wouldn't be welfare sucking if they were allowed to have jobs, now would they? It is said in theological reasoning that perfect circles make for truth- certainly that's true in religious bigotry as well. The Palestinians are on welfare because they're not allowed to have jobs, and according to you, aren't allowed to have jobs because they're "welfare sucking Palestinians".
Of course, the objective problem with this is that you've divorced your reasoning from reality- mixing up cause and effect. Which is why SCIENCE calls circular reasoning a fallacy.
Most states do to- for Oregon. The thing is, does it suggest alternate routes when this happens? That's what the newer GPS software can do- but in both cases, to use it mobile, you need a data plan on your phone of some sort. This MIGHT just be the killer app to make me do it.
EXACTLY my point- usury laws effectively do this by cutting the profit of the money changers whenever inflation is too high. For instance, a usury law set at 10% interest means that it is effectively unprofitable to lend money when inflation is at 11% interest- cutting down people's ability to buy and creating a deflationary cycle.
Incorrect- but you've got to dig deeper and actually almost buy the software to find out that it IS incorrect. According to Handango's site, the software for the Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone will indeed give you real time data in 60 cities. I assume you'd need one of those fancy $50/month data plans to take advantage of it though....
And in Portland, OR, with our infamous Champagne Glass Highway System- you can pretty easily predict 1-3 rush hour accidents per week on Boone Bridge over the Willamette that will fuck up the commute for everybody.
Can you give any references? IIRC, Bethlehem has been under Palestinian Authority control since the Oslo Accords. From a quick search on google, the only evidence of religious strife I can find is a tension between the local Christian and Muslim communities (which has seen the Christian population drop from ~80% to ~15% in 60 years).
I only have talks with people my priest invited to our church- Christians who have been not allowed to work in Israel thanks to the Zionists OR in Palestine thanks to the Muslims, who run a small olivewood tourist trinket industry out of Bethleham.
"Palestinian Authority"- a non government created to keep the non-Jews in line. Do you really think the Christians, who have lived in Bethleham since soon after the time of Christ, would have had these problems if Israel hadn't been kicking people out of their homes and making small communities like that one into ghettos? I don't, after talking to these people who have seen many of the ounger generation move away over the past 60 years. Bethleham is in walking distance of Jerusalem- but they're not allowed to cross the border to get jobs in Israel.
I never ran into them personally- but the only person as bad as Serdar I ever ran into was Carlos, the dispensationalist self-racist hater. He was always posting on the Catholic groups about how the King James Bible was all you needed for salvation- and how his own "mud race" was so evil to be Catholic.
Thanks- yes, Serdar Argic. Boy that's a long time ago that I wrote that- and my standard defense of the Crusades hasn't changed to this day (that post was written *before* I realized what date he was talking about).
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More like you leave your waffle iron in the front seat of your unlocked 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air in a side street in bangkok. Is it your fault if somebody makes a waffle?
There, fixed that for you.
Ah, but what if it isn't top secret information, but only copyrighted? Do you think that you have the same requirement to keep the ending of the latest Harry Potter book secret from your friends, as you do to keep the SSNs of CIA agents secret?
To stick to TFA- no, just some copyrighted MP3s.
Actually, to be exact- you left a Flash Card of some sort on the front seat of an unlocked car. You come back, the Flash Card is still there. Somebody else copied it in the mean time, but you haven't lost anything- you still have the data on your flash card. Was it your fault that the data was copied?
What's even more interesting is the counterclaim- if the RICO suit fails, there will be case law in Oregon making it legal to copy files out of anybody's open and unprotected shares- plus it will be legal to scan for such open ports and shares. Kazaa isn't the only file sharing software out there- "I want to share my printers and I want to share my files, and I want to share my anger 'cause it's making me bloomin' wild"- ReInstalling Windows by Les Barker, from back in Windows 3.1 days. MOST basic file systems are file sharing software if you don't know, or are too stupid to, protect them.
What did it take to make them start producing "manufactured celebrities"? As far as I can tell, they were the norm before file sharing became widespread, so it must be something other than file sharing that induces this manufacturing.
In fact, near as I can tell manufactured celebrities were the norm *before* computer networks existed outside of the educational laboratories. I seem to even remember a Brady Bunch episode about the subject- from what, 1972?
Ok, based on that- innate tendency towards unselfishness is genetic, where observed behavior to the negative is primarily environmental, due to the influence of the capitalistic system.
Why are you conflating patents and copyrights? They are two very different monopolies. Patents are far more limiting (are far more of a monopoly) than are copyrights -- so that's why they are far harder to obtain, and only last 20 years. Copyrights are easy to get, but relatively hard to enforce, and only worth enforcing in certain circumstances.
Because *both* have the same Constitutional basis- rewarding intellectual work. Patents and copyrights *should* be effectively the same. They should both grant a monopoly to the guy doing the work.
But beyond that, how would not being able to transfer ownership help the patent or copyright owner? If they couldn't transfer the rights, and only have limited means for licensing the rights, then the rights aren't very valuable. Why would anyone bother? The corporations would just keep everything secret, would stop publishing papers, would tightly control access to all sorts of information. It's hard to see how such a system would promote science and the useful arts in such a case.
It's hard to see how the current system promotes science or the useful arts anyway- the corporations have all the reward, the individual worker might as well have never come up with the idea at all for all he gets out of it. But if he's guaranteed a royalty on manufacture- regardless of if some C-level executive later fires him- he's got a much better reason for making the idea public.
Also, when you come up with an invention while being PAID by a company to work on the invention, using resources the company paid for, why SHOULDN'T the company own the rights to the invention? If you work on an assembly line, should you own every widget you assemble?
A portion thereof, yes. Profits are just wages stolen from the worker.
This man Is Not who he claims to be. He is neither being persecuted or disrespected, but rather stalks others. He is being mocked for that is all he is worthy of, under any of his hundreds of aliases here on slashdot (note, I only post under one- ever- for I do not believe in anonymity being a good thing- nor have I tried to attack any of his multiple personalities who post only one or two comments then disappear because they can't remember their own passwords).
This man Is Not who he claims to be. He is neither being persecuted or disrespected, but rather stalks others. He is being mocked for that is all he is worthy of, under any of his hundreds of aliases here on slashdot (note, I only post under one- ever- for I do not believe in anonymity being a good thing- nor have I tried to attack any of his multiple personalities who post only one or two comments then disappear because they can't remember their own passwords).
This man Is Not who he claims to be. He is neither being persecuted or disrespected, but rather stalks others. He is being mocked for that is all he is worthy of, under any of his hundreds of aliases here on slashdot (note, I only post under one- ever- for I do not believe in anonymity being a good thing- nor have I tried to attack any of his multiple personalities who post only one or two comments then disappear because they can't remember their own passwords).
This man Is Not who he claims to be. He is neither being persecuted or disrespected, but rather stalks others. He is being mocked for that is all he is worthy of, under any of his hundreds of aliases here on slashdot (note, I only post under one- ever- for I do not believe in anonymity being a good thing- nor have I tried to attack any of his multiple personalities who post only one or two comments then disappear because they can't remember their own passwords).
And based on that, I propose the following changes to copyright and patent law:
1. Copyrights and patents can only be granted for personal creative work, and are not transferable or inheritable.
2. Copyrights and patents are owned by the sole inventor, not the corporation they work for.
3. Copyrights and patents may be licensed to manufacturers and distributers, but only in narrow form for specific products.
4. Copyrights and patents that are broadly licensed OR where the copyright or patent holder dies, fall into the public domain.
This to me fullfills the specific meaning of the constitution- while locking out corporations from owning copyrights and patents forever.
That's because every other fucking person crosing the fence was wearing a bomb belt.
Justified racism is still racism. There are other ways around that problem, especially now that Princeton has invented a portable tricorder.
Israel has draconian border rules because they'd have long since been bombed into nonexistance without them.
Yes, but that doesn't mean that Christians in Bethleham are not being treated unjustly, only that the injustice has a reasonable cause.
Much of the influx of Jews to Israel was the 850,000 Jews kicked out of neighboring Arab states after Isreal was established. Nobody talks about THOSE refugees because they pulled themselves into a society.
There have indeed been injustices on both sides; nobody is saying that there haven't been. Certainly the betrayal of the UN that started the Six Days War was also Arab intiated. However:
Can't say that for the welfare sucking Palestinians.
They wouldn't be welfare sucking if they were allowed to have jobs, now would they? It is said in theological reasoning that perfect circles make for truth- certainly that's true in religious bigotry as well. The Palestinians are on welfare because they're not allowed to have jobs, and according to you, aren't allowed to have jobs because they're "welfare sucking Palestinians".
Of course, the objective problem with this is that you've divorced your reasoning from reality- mixing up cause and effect. Which is why SCIENCE calls circular reasoning a fallacy.
Most states do to- for Oregon. The thing is, does it suggest alternate routes when this happens? That's what the newer GPS software can do- but in both cases, to use it mobile, you need a data plan on your phone of some sort. This MIGHT just be the killer app to make me do it.
EXACTLY my point- usury laws effectively do this by cutting the profit of the money changers whenever inflation is too high. For instance, a usury law set at 10% interest means that it is effectively unprofitable to lend money when inflation is at 11% interest- cutting down people's ability to buy and creating a deflationary cycle.
Good. Banks have way too high of margins to begin with for what they do to the economy, which is encourage bad debt.
Incorrect- but you've got to dig deeper and actually almost buy the software to find out that it IS incorrect. According to Handango's site, the software for the Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone will indeed give you real time data in 60 cities. I assume you'd need one of those fancy $50/month data plans to take advantage of it though....
And in Portland, OR, with our infamous Champagne Glass Highway System- you can pretty easily predict 1-3 rush hour accidents per week on Boone Bridge over the Willamette that will fuck up the commute for everybody.
Can you give any references? IIRC, Bethlehem has been under Palestinian Authority control since the Oslo Accords. From a quick search on google, the only evidence of religious strife I can find is a tension between the local Christian and Muslim communities (which has seen the Christian population drop from ~80% to ~15% in 60 years).
I only have talks with people my priest invited to our church- Christians who have been not allowed to work in Israel thanks to the Zionists OR in Palestine thanks to the Muslims, who run a small olivewood tourist trinket industry out of Bethleham.
"Palestinian Authority"- a non government created to keep the non-Jews in line. Do you really think the Christians, who have lived in Bethleham since soon after the time of Christ, would have had these problems if Israel hadn't been kicking people out of their homes and making small communities like that one into ghettos? I don't, after talking to these people who have seen many of the ounger generation move away over the past 60 years. Bethleham is in walking distance of Jerusalem- but they're not allowed to cross the border to get jobs in Israel.
I never ran into them personally- but the only person as bad as Serdar I ever ran into was Carlos, the dispensationalist self-racist hater. He was always posting on the Catholic groups about how the King James Bible was all you needed for salvation- and how his own "mud race" was so evil to be Catholic.
Thanks- yes, Serdar Argic. Boy that's a long time ago that I wrote that- and my standard defense of the Crusades hasn't changed to this day (that post was written *before* I realized what date he was talking about).
Close. I don't remember his name now- but he was so famous on usenet he had his own alt.fan group.
He was a real looney- most of the e-mails I got were carbon copies of one another.
It existed- but it existed *before* widespread usury laws, which were a post-depression artifiact.