Such as NOTHING Let's face it, Copyright didn't exist in Mozart's days did it? and his more famous than most of the crap that gets put out on the radio these days.... Go Figure.
Fame didn't put bread on his table - the commissions of wealthy patrons did and occasional teaching gigs. And still it seems he died in a parlous financial position.
So there's one idea of how creative people could afford (struggle?) to survive in the absence of copyright, by attracting commissions. Shall we consider how tenable a position that would be for more "niche" artists than Mozart? Or whether the world would be a better or worse place if some of these recent artists couldn't find a way to earn a reliable living from creating?
Let's just get rid of copyright and replace it with something sane.
Maybe it's a sign of my age, but when someone comes out with a sentence like that, I feel I've got to ask "such as?"
Sure, you'll get plenty of "stick it to the man" positive moderation, but you haven't really made the world a better place, have you? Nor have I, so I'll shut up and crawl back to my coding.
A portion of the money spent on "iGear" may well go to China, but a far larger proportion (I suspect) goes to AAPL in the US. The immigrants are feeding, clothing and sheltering themselves - money spent on all that is going to the US economy, eventually.
At the risk of feeding the troll: the people who are deeply saddened are "within the miniscule circle of people who watched Dr. Who". They are sharing their grief, in a natural, human way.
Your mealy-mouthed quotes ("deeply saddened") are unnecessary - many people are genuinely saddened to see another part of their childhood gone. That more than anything is what gets me thinking.
I am not as saddened by her passing as I was by the death of my father last year of cancer, aged 67, but the parallels are all too plain for me, and I suspect others who have posted here and in other forums.
Feel free to go and puke, we'll carry on without you quite happily.
Their current efforts surely are part of "prepping for the next rover mission"? Anything done on this mission provides data for the next one. Don't switch it off early and waste the opportunity to analyse end-game scenarios.
Fair points, well made. As a MINI owner myself, with a Caterham on the cards for next year, I have no problem with two-seaters (the back seats of the MINI are never used). My boss has a Tesla on order right now and for him it's an entirely viable choice of transport.
Interesting point on the Li-Ions. I don't know what the access is like or whether Tesla will provide cover under warranty. But I've driven my fair share of unreliable ICE-powered machines (mostly Fiats and Peugeots in my youth!).
A Linux user might also completely fail to read the article and discover that some of his users weren't happy with the results of various electronic and noise-based generators that he's used in the past.
Rob (a not-PC user, in a snarky mood for some reason)
Pedant alert: didn't you mean to title your comment "notnews" or "!news", rather than "!notnews"?
Anyway, with my "Systems Manager for a London University" hat on, I agree. We're still using XP on our student desktops and in classic mode, to boot. We're agonising over Vista right now because some staff have a perception that students "want Vista" and also a tiny percentage of the applications we provide are starting to require Vista.
Makes me wonder what you would say if she had been in a coma for last 20yrs, still not relevant?
Did you read what I said? "If she was deaf it would add an extra layer." In other words, her specific disability would have contributed materially to the case and would therefore be of importance to the news summary. So no, 20 years of coma would not be irrelevant, since it would imply that the RIAA had made an obvious mistake.
It strongly implies she is financialy and physically helpless and thus it superficially supports her counter claim of bullying.
And presumptions like that are why I don't feel the woman's disability should have been in the summary. Disability is not a shorthand for helplessness of any kind. Using it as a bargaining chip or as a tool for spinning a story would be reprehensible.
We all have a pretty clear picture of the RIAA's moral standing already. So again, why drag this woman's disability into a news summary? Has she made it a central platform of her defence?
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Such as NOTHING
Let's face it, Copyright didn't exist in Mozart's days did it?
and his more famous than most of the crap that gets put out on the radio these days....
Go Figure.
Fame didn't put bread on his table - the commissions of wealthy patrons did and occasional teaching gigs. And still it seems he died in a parlous financial position.
So there's one idea of how creative people could afford (struggle?) to survive in the absence of copyright, by attracting commissions. Shall we consider how tenable a position that would be for more "niche" artists than Mozart? Or whether the world would be a better or worse place if some of these recent artists couldn't find a way to earn a reliable living from creating?
Let's just get rid of copyright and replace it with something sane.
Maybe it's a sign of my age, but when someone comes out with a sentence like that, I feel I've got to ask "such as?"
Sure, you'll get plenty of "stick it to the man" positive moderation, but you haven't really made the world a better place, have you? Nor have I, so I'll shut up and crawl back to my coding.
A portion of the money spent on "iGear" may well go to China, but a far larger proportion (I suspect) goes to AAPL in the US. The immigrants are feeding, clothing and sheltering themselves - money spent on all that is going to the US economy, eventually.
Do children born in the US to US citizens pay any more income tax than illegal immigrants?
Both illegal immigrants and children do pay (directly or indirectly) sales taxes in states that have them.
At the risk of feeding the troll: the people who are deeply saddened are "within the miniscule circle of people who watched Dr. Who". They are sharing their grief, in a natural, human way.
Your mealy-mouthed quotes ("deeply saddened") are unnecessary - many people are genuinely saddened to see another part of their childhood gone. That more than anything is what gets me thinking.
I am not as saddened by her passing as I was by the death of my father last year of cancer, aged 67, but the parallels are all too plain for me, and I suspect others who have posted here and in other forums.
Feel free to go and puke, we'll carry on without you quite happily.
Just start small, with "failing tests" for each new bug. Bug fixed, test passes. Keep expanding the test coverage.
This needs modding up since it is the "right" answer to the question - I've got no points at the moment.
Their current efforts surely are part of "prepping for the next rover mission"? Anything done on this mission provides data for the next one. Don't switch it off early and waste the opportunity to analyse end-game scenarios.
Fair points, well made. As a MINI owner myself, with a Caterham on the cards for next year, I have no problem with two-seaters (the back seats of the MINI are never used). My boss has a Tesla on order right now and for him it's an entirely viable choice of transport.
Interesting point on the Li-Ions. I don't know what the access is like or whether Tesla will provide cover under warranty. But I've driven my fair share of unreliable ICE-powered machines (mostly Fiats and Peugeots in my youth!).
Fair point, but what I was getting at was the relative danger of the two fuel sources, exploding battery versus combusting petrol.
Is a single-seater motorbike not a viable form of transportation, then? How about a $100k truck? Your "viable" is not the same as everyone else's.
How does the energy of hundreds of laptop batteries compare with the energy of 60 litres of petrol?
Thanks for doing a bit more legwork than me! I am pretty old, you're right, not quite that old.
Stentorian, yes, though not in this context. I believe "stentoriously" may be an unnecessary neologism.
Indeed. Our student residential networks guys spend all their time dealing with letters from American lawyers.
Does "politics" == "American politics" as far as Slashdot is concerned?
Rob.
A Linux user might also completely fail to read the article and discover that some of his users weren't happy with the results of various electronic and noise-based generators that he's used in the past.
Rob (a not-PC user, in a snarky mood for some reason)
see the suit worn by Ripley in the movie Aliens... that is a real machine
Citation required.
Without OpenDNS, I get almost instant access to the home page, almost every time.
I would recommend you switch off OpenDNS' proxying then.
http://blog.opendns.com/2007/05/22/google-turns-the-page/
Don't know if it's a good enough justification by itself, but at least it's a logical explanation.
Pedant alert: didn't you mean to title your comment "notnews" or "!news", rather than "!notnews"?
Anyway, with my "Systems Manager for a London University" hat on, I agree. We're still using XP on our student desktops and in classic mode, to boot. We're agonising over Vista right now because some staff have a perception that students "want Vista" and also a tiny percentage of the applications we provide are starting to require Vista.
Rob.
Using that stick sounds equally messy for them and their competitors.
"tortious", not "torturous".
constituting a tort; wrongful.
Makes me wonder what you would say if she had been in a coma for last 20yrs, still not relevant?
Did you read what I said? "If she was deaf it would add an extra layer." In other words, her specific disability would have contributed materially to the case and would therefore be of importance to the news summary. So no, 20 years of coma would not be irrelevant, since it would imply that the RIAA had made an obvious mistake.
It strongly implies she is financialy and physically helpless and thus it superficially supports her counter claim of bullying.
And presumptions like that are why I don't feel the woman's disability should have been in the summary. Disability is not a shorthand for helplessness of any kind. Using it as a bargaining chip or as a tool for spinning a story would be reprehensible.
Notwithstanding my criticism of the story summary, I admire your legal work in this area.
We all have a pretty clear picture of the RIAA's moral standing already. So again, why drag this woman's disability into a news summary? Has she made it a central platform of her defence?