Yeah, like the case of Baby Jane Doe, murdered and beheaded, body left in a park in K.C. Too bad the police didn't.....
Oh, right, they did investigate the murder of this penniless poor corpse, and caught the culprits. You're apparently ranting from a poor choice of orifices.
You missed a little something. The percentage of the risk. One or ninety? Makes a huge difference.
1. a mental disorder characterized by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality.
2. any severe form of mental disorder, as schizophrenia or paranoia.
Given that psychosis is somewhat severe (above), and a decent percentage of the population smokes, I'd guess on the lower percentage.
Errors with your points (my wife works in admin for school district):
1 - at least one PHB (or PhD) - First, not different every year. Only when change dictated by state. One PHB? You do realize that the principals almost always PhD's in education, not MBA's?
2 - endless mandatory meetings - No. Mandatory meetings are usually one per quarter, and they get the day and are paid travel. Every day is a blatent lie, plus it's not held in the county seat.
3 - PHBs telling... better - That PHB is one with an education degree, you know, and more experience than the teachers below. Hardly a PHB.
4 - Time at the job is valued more - That's called tenure. It's the largest problem with ridding the system of bad teachers. When was the last time you knew a tech with tenure?
5 - can't move up to another position - A great display of your ignorance about the school systems. The organization is thus: Principal and staff followed immediately by a flat level of all the teachers (not University system). No team leaders, no senior programmers, no analysts; none of the hierarchy you see in many businesses.
"Stars metabolize but are not typically considered to be alive."
Uh, bullshit. From Random House:
1. Biol., Physiol. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Cf. anabolism, catabolism.
2. any basic process of organic functioning or operating: changes in the country's economic metabolism.
Either you're being pedantic in the extreme, re: 2 or you've purposely jumped shark in talking about biology.
You are an ignorant turd. Not only were there ground witnesses to the plane's diving to earth, there are recordings of the passenger's conversations and the impact pattern indicates a complete airplane hit the ground, not the fragments that would occur if the plane was hit by an air-to-air.
"It is the library that owns the book that is using their right to copy small portions of the book for literary endeavors. It seems pretty kosher to me."
First and formost, the library owns the copies of the book that they have on the shelf. They in no way, shape or form own the rights to the book. There may be incidences, but by and large, this is a correct statement. It is the author who owns the copyright.
Secondly, Google is not a library, they are a business in it to make money from advertisements.
From the last link:
"Through its Library program, Google is reproducing works still under the protection of copyright as well as public domain works from the collection of the University of Michigan's library."
"Google has not sought the approval of the authors of these works for this program."
"It's not up to Google or anyone other than the authors, the rightful owners of these copyrights, to decide whether and how their works will be copied."
Well, when you leave out the part that the publisher doesn't have digital records, it might sound that way. They just shouldn't be expected to have to sift through their paper records from that period for Google's benefit.
"Authors wrote and ate long before copyright laws were invented."
Indeed. That's because they had patrons. You wanna go back to that? The patron decides what you write about ya know, or if he dislikes the product, he takes the one and only copy and tosses it in the fire.
No you cannot "photocopy as much as you want". The librarians keep an eye out for that. Even if you were successful, a 200 page novel would cost you $20. Not an intelligent trade.
Anyone who holds a patent or copyright enjoys that type of benefit. If you create and sell clones of a TV, then you're breaking patent law. If you create and distribute copies of a copyrighted work, then you're breaking copyright law.
"... do they really need the sole right to reproduce that content?"
Uh, yes. That's how they get their money. People purchase legally printed and distributed materials. The publisher entered into a contract with the actual owner of the copyright to "rent" it for a while. That contract usually gives them sole privilege during a certain period or for a specified run, etc. Each contract is different.
I think Google will get slapped down on this one. From the article: "We're not aware of everything we've published," Sanfilippo said. "Back in the 50s, 60s and 70s, there were no electronic files for those books."
A distinct difference between Google and a library, by the way, is that someone, somewhere purchased the book the library has on shelf. Google is scanning and providing to search materials they have given not a cent for and will make money from advertisements appearing on the page.
Google has unilaterally decided publishers need to opt-out. Perhaps someone could convince Google to eliminate ads from pages that contain links to works they haven't had clearance for. That would be much closer to the "fair use" like libraries provide and they wish to claim. They exist to make money, after all.
It's not sad, it's damn malicious. Why the hell was this post modded insightful? Causing harm to others at someone's request is just friggin' sad ? Pathetic.
You cannot create information from the above, you can only select from the existing set of letters.
"I don't happen to be an IDer..."
Baloney. Elsewise, you'd know that even if a genetically fabricated organism existed, its creator would have to have evolved. You cannot proceed backwards infinitely.
That depends on what definition of coding you use. If it means the root source, wouldn't that be DNA?
Looked at this way: I can take a novel and rearrange some of the words, take roots from others, and create a new novel or smaller story. Would that activity be the coding or would it be alteration?
Your point about the butt-load of stuff that comes along with reproduction of any variety is point-on. We'll have to find RNA that has no basis in DNA to prove the point about it being a "root" code I think. Do you agree?
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Whoever modded this insightful missed the joke.
Yes, it was wrong. The contract those people signed was violated on their part.
But, I'm willing to read your logical reasoning as to why entering into a contract with the intention of violating it is not wrong.
"If you don't have money, nobody cares for you."
.....
Yeah, like the case of Baby Jane Doe, murdered and beheaded, body left in a park in K.C. Too bad the police didn't
Oh, right, they did investigate the murder of this penniless poor corpse, and caught the culprits. You're apparently ranting from a poor choice of orifices.
You missed a little something. The percentage of the risk. One or ninety? Makes a huge difference.
1. a mental disorder characterized by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality.
2. any severe form of mental disorder, as schizophrenia or paranoia.
Given that psychosis is somewhat severe (above), and a decent percentage of the population smokes, I'd guess on the lower percentage.
Newbie, stay in a conversation about tech.
... better - That PHB is one with an education degree, you know, and more experience than the teachers below. Hardly a PHB.
Errors with your points (my wife works in admin for school district):
1 - at least one PHB (or PhD) - First, not different every year. Only when change dictated by state. One PHB? You do realize that the principals almost always PhD's in education, not MBA's?
2 - endless mandatory meetings - No. Mandatory meetings are usually one per quarter, and they get the day and are paid travel. Every day is a blatent lie, plus it's not held in the county seat.
3 - PHBs telling
4 - Time at the job is valued more - That's called tenure. It's the largest problem with ridding the system of bad teachers. When was the last time you knew a tech with tenure?
5 - can't move up to another position - A great display of your ignorance about the school systems. The organization is thus: Principal and staff followed immediately by a flat level of all the teachers (not University system). No team leaders, no senior programmers, no analysts; none of the hierarchy you see in many businesses.
"Stars metabolize but are not typically considered to be alive."
Uh, bullshit. From Random House:
1. Biol., Physiol. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Cf. anabolism, catabolism.
2. any basic process of organic functioning or operating: changes in the country's economic metabolism.
Either you're being pedantic in the extreme, re: 2 or you've purposely jumped shark in talking about biology.
AC's who post such statements without backup are, well, C's.
At least the other guy who posted this line of crap had the balls to not be AC.
You are an ignorant turd. Not only were there ground witnesses to the plane's diving to earth, there are recordings of the passenger's conversations and the impact pattern indicates a complete airplane hit the ground, not the fragments that would occur if the plane was hit by an air-to-air.
"It is the library that owns the book that is using their right to copy small portions of the book for literary endeavors. It seems pretty kosher to me."
First and formost, the library owns the copies of the book that they have on the shelf. They in no way, shape or form own the rights to the book. There may be incidences, but by and large, this is a correct statement. It is the author who owns the copyright.
Secondly, Google is not a library, they are a business in it to make money from advertisements.
From the last link:
"Through its Library program, Google is reproducing works still under the protection of copyright as well as public domain works from the collection of the University of Michigan's library."
"Google has not sought the approval of the authors of these works for this program."
"It's not up to Google or anyone other than the authors, the rightful owners of these copyrights, to decide whether and how their works will be copied."
That says it all.
Well, when you leave out the part that the publisher doesn't have digital records, it might sound that way. They just shouldn't be expected to have to sift through their paper records from that period for Google's benefit.
Incorrect, the answer can also be no.
"Authors wrote and ate long before copyright laws were invented."
Indeed. That's because they had patrons. You wanna go back to that? The patron decides what you write about ya know, or if he dislikes the product, he takes the one and only copy and tosses it in the fire.
No you cannot "photocopy as much as you want". The librarians keep an eye out for that. Even if you were successful, a 200 page novel would cost you $20. Not an intelligent trade.
"Free means you can set your own price not that you shouldn't pay."
"No donations, nobody offering free rent, etc."
Your real-world experience seems to invalidate your philosophical view. Reality trumps the abstract always.
From kavlon.org:
"A job in R&D at Google or game development at Square Soft are currently my dream jobs but those punks still haven't called me!"
Apparently not all of your code, research and inventions are up for free.
You're free to donate to the world all that you wish and keep for yourself all that you wish, as am I and other copyright holders.
"Nobody else enjoys such a benefit. "
Anyone who holds a patent or copyright enjoys that type of benefit. If you create and sell clones of a TV, then you're breaking patent law. If you create and distribute copies of a copyrighted work, then you're breaking copyright law.
"... do they really need the sole right to reproduce that content?"
Uh, yes. That's how they get their money. People purchase legally printed and distributed materials. The publisher entered into a contract with the actual owner of the copyright to "rent" it for a while. That contract usually gives them sole privilege during a certain period or for a specified run, etc. Each contract is different.
I think Google will get slapped down on this one. From the article:
"We're not aware of everything we've published," Sanfilippo said. "Back in the 50s, 60s and 70s, there were no electronic files for those books."
A distinct difference between Google and a library, by the way, is that someone, somewhere purchased the book the library has on shelf. Google is scanning and providing to search materials they have given not a cent for and will make money from advertisements appearing on the page.
Google has unilaterally decided publishers need to opt-out. Perhaps someone could convince Google to eliminate ads from pages that contain links to works they haven't had clearance for. That would be much closer to the "fair use" like libraries provide and they wish to claim. They exist to make money, after all.
"The only difference between Einstein and Pythagoras is that Einstein talked to more people?"
Arguably, the only difference between E and P is their place in time, not their intelligences.
I don't think one out of nine is too bad for a liberal arts student.
"... shouldn't I be allowed to do so?"
Like play Spiderman by climbing up the outside of a downtown building where you might fall and kill someone else?
No, you shouldn't be allowed to do that.
It's not sad, it's damn malicious. Why the hell was this post modded insightful? Causing harm to others at someone's request is just friggin' sad ? Pathetic.
"Natural selection cannot create information, it can only select between existing sets of information."
This only shows how little you understand about the subject of information.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
You cannot create information from the above, you can only select from the existing set of letters.
"I don't happen to be an IDer..."
Baloney. Elsewise, you'd know that even if a genetically fabricated organism existed, its creator would have to have evolved. You cannot proceed backwards infinitely.
"Everything seems to depend on the kind of god people worship."
Really? Name for me one religion (of any import) that has not had members that were killers.
That's your deck, and we find it to be marked.
That depends on what definition of coding you use. If it means the root source, wouldn't that be DNA?
Looked at this way: I can take a novel and rearrange some of the words, take roots from others, and create a new novel or smaller story. Would that activity be the coding or would it be alteration?
Your point about the butt-load of stuff that comes along with reproduction of any variety is point-on. We'll have to find RNA that has no basis in DNA to prove the point about it being a "root" code I think. Do you agree?