So if I buy a CD of music, is it fair use for me to make copies of the songs on that CD for my use? If so, why is it not fair use to make copies of the contents of a book for my use?
People with a strong case who can't afford legal representation don't have a problem even with the current system. If you have a good strong case any lawyer will take it on contingency.
I'm in the mailing business (I don't work for USPS) and I've read the relevant law. The reason FedEx et al. get away with delivering your letter is that the law makes an exception for guarenteed short time delivery. If your neighbor and you have a mutual friend across town, and you give your neighbor 25 cents to give your mutual friend a note the next time your neighbor sees your mutual friend, you've both committed a felony. That's the way the law is written. Essentially any "letter" that USPS can carry that doesn't require guarenteed delivery within two days is illegal for anyone else to carry for pay.
Hey there Anonymous Coward, I think you have it reversed. When you hear "stem cell research" on the 6 o'clock news, they're invariably talking about embryonic stem cell research as though it's the only kind. You never ever hear of successes in adult stem cell research on network news. All you ever hear is how the crazy religous right is holding back "stem cell research".
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...there were a lot more animals in the woods...
Au contraire! For instance, there are more whitetail deer in America today than ever before. Humans have created a far more favorable habitat for them. They like boundries -- woods/field edges -- and less mature forests.
Now there are fewer species but there are more individual animals.
"I]n the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a 'shotgun having a barrel of less than 18 inches in length' at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well- regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument."
The point to really make regarding this quote from Miller is that it explitly recognizes that there is a class of weapons that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear, and that classes of weapons is those in current use by our armed forces, ie the fully automatic M-16. Another point is that the ruling really doesn't say that the government can regulate sawed-off shotguns, it says that the case has not been proven that the government cannot regulate them.
Let me preface this by saying I am a devout Christian...
You don't. You get three days and three nights from sunset Wednesday evening to sunset Saturday evening. The confusion originated centuries ago with people who were not familiar with God's holy days (the Jewish passover in this case)
See http://www.biblestudy.org/basicart/threeday.html for more info
Having ridden along in a John Deere 9750 STS combine picking wheat this summer, I don't think we need robots for crop harvesting. We picked a 37 acre field of wheat in about four hours. That took one man to drive the combine. Automation really is not a limiting factor currently. To increase crop production you either need to put more land into production, or increase yield per acre. Putting more land into production is not limited by human power but by available land. Here in central Indiana it's almost all in production. What's not in production wouldn't pay to convert to crop fields. So the big area is increasing crop yield per acre. Modern combines have yield meters which tell you how much the yield/acre at any particular spot is. That information is combined with GPS information to create yield maps of fields. These allow the farmer to concentrate fertilzation where needed.
Of course John Deere, Case, et al. would probably go out of buisness if the federal government eliminated the tax-payer funded crop price supports. But food prices would drop like a rock... The government price supports really kill the little guy and favor agribuisness because the of investment required in paperwork and meeting government requirements to get the subsidies. You have to be pretty big to break even on it.
"Honey, can you stop at the store and buy 2 80 pound bags of water softener salt, and a bag of dog food?"
Uh-huh. How do you deal with that? It's not flexible. It's a specialized solution to transportation, not a generalized solution. The only way we'll all be happy is when the Ford Excursion gets 90 MPG. People won't give up their huge machines for fuel efficiency.
Which makes me think of an excellent point -- OS/2 "has windows" and Microsoft codeveloped it! I'm sure the literature regarding it is full of examples of Microsoft themselves using the plural word 'windows' in reference to a product that is not 'Microsoft Windows'.
Actually, you can buy a car without a radio. You generally must order the car instead of buying off the lot, but you can do it, and it decreases the price of the car.
Well, do us "banjer pickers" a favor, and don't leave campus!
I lived downtown until February and hated it. You think it's like "Deliverance"? I think it was more like "Boyz in the Hood".
I moved 35 miles out of town, and it's wonderful! No street lights, little traffic, and best of all NO NEIGHBORS!
Yes, but the jihad proceeds much quicker when the users are already familiar with the tools they'll be using on Linux. And the jihad is really not about getting people to use Linux. It's about enabling people to use whatever they want.
Oh, boy! That's right, we need more laws to protect us! Laws do not work! You should know by now that laws are never enforced by government against government. Campaign Finance Reform is perhaps the most blatant violation of the First Amendment ever and the SCOTUS let it stand! As a simple every day example, how often do cops get ticketed for speeding off duty? NEVER! The only way to protect our privacy from the government, is to limit the size of government. Fewer laws, not more! If a thing isn't illegal, then the government has no need to know if you were doing it in the first place.
Ethanol production does not necessarily require fossil fuels. People have been making liqour for a lot longer than they've been using gasoline. Any heat source can be used for the distillation process, e.g. solar collectors, burning wood, burning alcohol, geothermal even. The only thing required is to cook the mash a little, and heat the still beer above the boiling point of the alcohol.
Also note that the vast majority of the price you pay on a bottle of liqour goes to the government in taxes (excise, sales, income on wages). The actual time and materials required to produce alcohol are minimal.
As to it being a particularly efficient method of energy storage, the gazillion year cycle needed to create oil is efficient?
I heartily agree that ethanol in America today is just a way to fill ADM's pockets with government money.
China and India may have imposed reproduction limits, but that's not even necessarily required. Europeans are hardly reproducing themselves at all anymore. In Italy for example, couples have on average 1.4 children, a sure formula for population decline. Almost all of Europe's population growth is in immigration. So the real answer to overpopulation is the "good life"!
In fact it was Theodore Roosevelt's presidency that proclaimed us a super power when he sent the "Great White Fleet" around the world. The US Navy was the first to do so and was able to do so because of our economic might.
On another note... As long as Syria is allowed to be on the Human Rights Council, let alone chair it, I will be anti-UN. the biggest problem with the UN and government in general is that they are predicated on the belief that everyone will participate in a fair and trustworthy manner.
The one thing that sets the US goverment apart from others is that the US Constitution was written with the view that government will do evil because it is run by fallible and often evil people and so must be restrained.
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So if I buy a CD of music, is it fair use for me to make copies of the songs on that CD for my use? If so, why is it not fair use to make copies of the contents of a book for my use?
But it's obviously fake! Everyone knows the moon is made of GREEN cheese!
People with a strong case who can't afford legal representation don't have a problem even with the current system. If you have a good strong case any lawyer will take it on contingency.
I'm in the mailing business (I don't work for USPS) and I've read the relevant law. The reason FedEx et al. get away with delivering your letter is that the law makes an exception for guarenteed short time delivery. If your neighbor and you have a mutual friend across town, and you give your neighbor 25 cents to give your mutual friend a note the next time your neighbor sees your mutual friend, you've both committed a felony. That's the way the law is written. Essentially any "letter" that USPS can carry that doesn't require guarenteed delivery within two days is illegal for anyone else to carry for pay.
Hence ClearChannel buying up markets!
This will limit the damage of stupid patents, and with the pace of technology today, even valid patents are pointless after a couple of years.
Hey there Anonymous Coward, I think you have it reversed. When you hear "stem cell research" on the 6 o'clock news, they're invariably talking about embryonic stem cell research as though it's the only kind. You never ever hear of successes in adult stem cell research on network news. All you ever hear is how the crazy religous right is holding back "stem cell research".
Au contraire! For instance, there are more whitetail deer in America today than ever before. Humans have created a far more favorable habitat for them. They like boundries -- woods/field edges -- and less mature forests.
Now there are fewer species but there are more individual animals.
The point to really make regarding this quote from Miller is that it explitly recognizes that there is a class of weapons that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear, and that classes of weapons is those in current use by our armed forces, ie the fully automatic M-16. Another point is that the ruling really doesn't say that the government can regulate sawed-off shotguns, it says that the case has not been proven that the government cannot regulate them.
Read the full text of the decision here: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/wbardw el/public/nfalist/miller.txt
YMMV. I'm using Firefox 1.0 and it renders fine for me...
Let me preface this by saying I am a devout Christian... You don't. You get three days and three nights from sunset Wednesday evening to sunset Saturday evening. The confusion originated centuries ago with people who were not familiar with God's holy days (the Jewish passover in this case) See http://www.biblestudy.org/basicart/threeday.html for more info
Having ridden along in a John Deere 9750 STS combine picking wheat this summer, I don't think we need robots for crop harvesting. We picked a 37 acre field of wheat in about four hours. That took one man to drive the combine. Automation really is not a limiting factor currently. To increase crop production you either need to put more land into production, or increase yield per acre. Putting more land into production is not limited by human power but by available land. Here in central Indiana it's almost all in production. What's not in production wouldn't pay to convert to crop fields. So the big area is increasing crop yield per acre. Modern combines have yield meters which tell you how much the yield/acre at any particular spot is. That information is combined with GPS information to create yield maps of fields. These allow the farmer to concentrate fertilzation where needed. Of course John Deere, Case, et al. would probably go out of buisness if the federal government eliminated the tax-payer funded crop price supports. But food prices would drop like a rock... The government price supports really kill the little guy and favor agribuisness because the of investment required in paperwork and meeting government requirements to get the subsidies. You have to be pretty big to break even on it.
Do they intend to totally confuse everyone?
"Honey, can you stop at the store and buy 2 80 pound bags of water softener salt, and a bag of dog food?" Uh-huh. How do you deal with that? It's not flexible. It's a specialized solution to transportation, not a generalized solution. The only way we'll all be happy is when the Ford Excursion gets 90 MPG. People won't give up their huge machines for fuel efficiency.
Which makes me think of an excellent point -- OS/2 "has windows" and Microsoft codeveloped it! I'm sure the literature regarding it is full of examples of Microsoft themselves using the plural word 'windows' in reference to a product that is not 'Microsoft Windows'.
Monsanto has already sued farmers and won in the US for saving and replanting Roundup Ready canola seed.
Actually, you can buy a car without a radio. You generally must order the car instead of buying off the lot, but you can do it, and it decreases the price of the car.
Shouldn't that be from his parents' hard earned cash?
Well, do us "banjer pickers" a favor, and don't leave campus! I lived downtown until February and hated it. You think it's like "Deliverance"? I think it was more like "Boyz in the Hood". I moved 35 miles out of town, and it's wonderful! No street lights, little traffic, and best of all NO NEIGHBORS!
There is a more powerful version of the EZBake. It's called a microwave. It's been out a good long time now.
Yes, but the jihad proceeds much quicker when the users are already familiar with the tools they'll be using on Linux. And the jihad is really not about getting people to use Linux. It's about enabling people to use whatever they want.
Oh, boy! That's right, we need more laws to protect us! Laws do not work! You should know by now that laws are never enforced by government against government. Campaign Finance Reform is perhaps the most blatant violation of the First Amendment ever and the SCOTUS let it stand! As a simple every day example, how often do cops get ticketed for speeding off duty? NEVER! The only way to protect our privacy from the government, is to limit the size of government. Fewer laws, not more! If a thing isn't illegal, then the government has no need to know if you were doing it in the first place.
Ethanol production does not necessarily require fossil fuels. People have been making liqour for a lot longer than they've been using gasoline. Any heat source can be used for the distillation process, e.g. solar collectors, burning wood, burning alcohol, geothermal even. The only thing required is to cook the mash a little, and heat the still beer above the boiling point of the alcohol. Also note that the vast majority of the price you pay on a bottle of liqour goes to the government in taxes (excise, sales, income on wages). The actual time and materials required to produce alcohol are minimal. As to it being a particularly efficient method of energy storage, the gazillion year cycle needed to create oil is efficient? I heartily agree that ethanol in America today is just a way to fill ADM's pockets with government money.
China and India may have imposed reproduction limits, but that's not even necessarily required. Europeans are hardly reproducing themselves at all anymore. In Italy for example, couples have on average 1.4 children, a sure formula for population decline. Almost all of Europe's population growth is in immigration. So the real answer to overpopulation is the "good life"!
In fact it was Theodore Roosevelt's presidency that proclaimed us a super power when he sent the "Great White Fleet" around the world. The US Navy was the first to do so and was able to do so because of our economic might. On another note... As long as Syria is allowed to be on the Human Rights Council, let alone chair it, I will be anti-UN. the biggest problem with the UN and government in general is that they are predicated on the belief that everyone will participate in a fair and trustworthy manner. The one thing that sets the US goverment apart from others is that the US Constitution was written with the view that government will do evil because it is run by fallible and often evil people and so must be restrained.