So in 2008, 4 years ago, they tried to work with him. That apparently didn't work out, why didn't that work out, and how?
Better question. Keeping in mind the laws today are the same as they were 4 years ago, SOPA et al didn't go through and all that, why did they wait 4 years to drop the hammer on him?
We do not need copyright to make money from works.
It's one thing to make money from something you've created. It's something else entirely to demand money for being creative long after the creation has run its course. 7 years is long enough for a copyright, with ONE 7 year extension. You want more money, work on creating something else that somebody might want to buy. And be creative for a change. Sequels for the sake of being sequels is ridiculous.
Check out http://vodo.net/ for a distribution network. They've got some cool shit on there like Pioneer One and L5, stuff that's free to download and distribute. All they ask is that you do so under the Creative Commons License and not remove the imbedded link screens so the creators can fund their next project. It and some of the other alternatives to big studio contracts like Kickstart are things I'm looking into for something I'm working on a bit here...
Great idea, and 250 years ago, you could pull it offToday? It'll get you a one-way ticket to Gitmo. Maybe they'll be able to do it out in the self-sufficient asteroid habitats. Oh, wait...
IANAAP, but wouldn't some of the isotopes of the impacting rock show up in the Moon's assay, which would give the geochemists the opinion of the Impact Theory being the correct one?
they all still seem to be wearing the same basic hooks and passive limbs that they've had forever
That's what their insurance covers.
And therein lies the problem. Anything more expensive than the basics, and the insurance companies weasel about paying for it. Medical insurance companies are still for-profit companies, and any payments come off the bottom line. Even with the unnecessary 'bailout' that the so-called 'Obamacare' legislation jammed down our throats, healthcare in the US hasn't been determined by qualified medical professionals (i.e., 'doctors') in decades, it's been determined by beancounters. For some serious giggles, google up the profits of the health care insurance companies and see for yourself.
Because people are still a helluva lot cheaper than drones, that's why. A completely mechanised military would cost a helluva lot more than what we in the US have now. And yeah, all those high tech toys are cool, but people did without them for millenia. You want to hold a piece of ground, a person dug in with an AK-47 can do that nicely.
Sooner or later dedicated hardware is going to disappear, just like so many devices already have done and just like newspapers are quickly disappearing. The world has moved on. If the hardware maker is smart they will may a low cost App before they lose a patent suit.
The 'dedicated hardware' that you predict disappearing gets replaced by other dedicated hardware that does the same job as well as 3 or 5 other jobs. For instance, the Palm Pilot is just as good as extinct, replaced by iPhones/Androids/Blackberries/etc, which also make phone calls and do all kinds of other things once you install the appropriate app.
Naw, if SpaceX is putting flights up for 150 mil, Congress isn't going to fund any manned flight that costs 450 mil or more. They'll grudgingly give 150 mil to SpaceX to fly it for them and then pat themselves on the back for saving the taxpaers 300 mil, then try to figure out how to cut the number of flights down for the next budget cycle. Forget the jobs they'll lose, they'll brag instead about the 'jobs created in the private sector' by 'contracting out to private enterprise'..
They're never going to finish Orion, not if Falcon/Dragon X flies. It's a few billion in pork to Lockheed that'll get cut the next time some Congresscritter needs to buy some more votes. Chopping NASA's budget is damned near the national pasttime on The Hill these days. It looks good in press releases, though, but when crunch time comes and nobody's looking, they'll kill this sucker deader than disco just like they did Ares I.
More parking at the Walmart. Doesn't disrupt classes. Doesn't keep sex offenders who are restricted from being within 200 feet of any school from voting. Sounds like a good plan.
I thought ex-convicts weren't allowed to vote. And if a sex offender is a registered sex offender, they're an ex-con.
For those that think ISOC doesn't matter, ISOC *funds* the IETF, and the IETF is one of the most important engineering bodies behind the Internet (and the least problematic of them all).
Great. Now they have an *AA pet lapdog as part of the process. Anybody taking bets on how the engineers behind the scenes will now be pressured into 'fixing' things to make the internet into Cable TV 2.0?
The report can probably be taken at face value, but if it would be interesting if the US forces had been tracking the sub all along, but never let on that they knew, so China would be caught "flat footed" in any real conflict.
Sounds more like the infamous Team B report that came out of the political analysts who invaded the CIA back in the 70's. Their purpose was to find proof that the Soviet Union was truly the 'Evil Empire' bent on starting and attempting to win a nuclear war and somehow manage world domination. They went through everything the CIA's Russian Desk had accumulated, cherrypicked the data for impact, then went through several cycles of 'What if?', each cycle building on the 'conclusions' of the previous cycle, each cycle getting further and further from reality. After reading the declassified report, I was rather surprised that Team B wasn't insisting that the Soviets could just say a magic word and make us all disappear, therefore we must immediately insert covert operatives to kill every suspected magician, warlock, medium, and psychic in the Soviet Union to preserve the 'magic gap'. Team B was that far out there.
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I'll save you a spot in the chow line, just keep Bubbah off my back.
Sounds like a good time to 'discover' oil and WMDs in Swansea, now, doesn't it?
Damned right. Look at how well it's worked in Iraq and Afghanistan. Make the world safe for Corporate America.
Better question. Keeping in mind the laws today are the same as they were 4 years ago, SOPA et al didn't go through and all that, why did they wait 4 years to drop the hammer on him?
It's one thing to make money from something you've created. It's something else entirely to demand money for being creative long after the creation has run its course. 7 years is long enough for a copyright, with ONE 7 year extension. You want more money, work on creating something else that somebody might want to buy. And be creative for a change. Sequels for the sake of being sequels is ridiculous.
Check out http://vodo.net/ for a distribution network. They've got some cool shit on there like Pioneer One and L5, stuff that's free to download and distribute. All they ask is that you do so under the Creative Commons License and not remove the imbedded link screens so the creators can fund their next project. It and some of the other alternatives to big studio contracts like Kickstart are things I'm looking into for something I'm working on a bit here...
Have you ever been to Cleveland???
If you're a big corporation, piracy is a Good Thing, especially if it takes down a rival corporation.
But if you or I download 1 song 'illegally', it's 250,000 in fines and five years in pound-them-in-the-ass prison.
Have I got this right?
Great idea, and 250 years ago, you could pull it offToday? It'll get you a one-way ticket to Gitmo. Maybe they'll be able to do it out in the self-sufficient asteroid habitats. Oh, wait...
I can see 'securing the borders', sort of, in a declared emergency during a declared war. None of which has happened.
Seriously, body cavity searches for a flight going from Las Vegas to Cleveland? Admittedly, Cleveland is another planet at times, but still...
FTFY.
Or so it it seems to me lately...
Now the patent trolls can't sue me for violating a megacorps' 'patent' because I'm still breathing!
What's the catch? If Apple is giving this up royalty-free, what are they getting out of it?
IANAAP, but wouldn't some of the isotopes of the impacting rock show up in the Moon's assay, which would give the geochemists the opinion of the Impact Theory being the correct one?
And therein lies the problem. Anything more expensive than the basics, and the insurance companies weasel about paying for it. Medical insurance companies are still for-profit companies, and any payments come off the bottom line. Even with the unnecessary 'bailout' that the so-called 'Obamacare' legislation jammed down our throats, healthcare in the US hasn't been determined by qualified medical professionals (i.e., 'doctors') in decades, it's been determined by beancounters. For some serious giggles, google up the profits of the health care insurance companies and see for yourself.
Because people are still a helluva lot cheaper than drones, that's why. A completely mechanised military would cost a helluva lot more than what we in the US have now. And yeah, all those high tech toys are cool, but people did without them for millenia. You want to hold a piece of ground, a person dug in with an AK-47 can do that nicely.
The 'dedicated hardware' that you predict disappearing gets replaced by other dedicated hardware that does the same job as well as 3 or 5 other jobs. For instance, the Palm Pilot is just as good as extinct, replaced by iPhones/Androids/Blackberries/etc, which also make phone calls and do all kinds of other things once you install the appropriate app.
Naw, if SpaceX is putting flights up for 150 mil, Congress isn't going to fund any manned flight that costs 450 mil or more. They'll grudgingly give 150 mil to SpaceX to fly it for them and then pat themselves on the back for saving the taxpaers 300 mil, then try to figure out how to cut the number of flights down for the next budget cycle. Forget the jobs they'll lose, they'll brag instead about the 'jobs created in the private sector' by 'contracting out to private enterprise'..
They're never going to finish Orion, not if Falcon/Dragon X flies. It's a few billion in pork to Lockheed that'll get cut the next time some Congresscritter needs to buy some more votes. Chopping NASA's budget is damned near the national pasttime on The Hill these days. It looks good in press releases, though, but when crunch time comes and nobody's looking, they'll kill this sucker deader than disco just like they did Ares I.
The People for Eating Tasty Animals? Why would they have a problem with this? Squirrel, the other white meat...
But for misdemeanor 'sex offenses' like indecent exposure or public urination, there isn't a manditory registration, is there?
I thought ex-convicts weren't allowed to vote. And if a sex offender is a registered sex offender, they're an ex-con.
That's about on a par with saying 'Hey, Hitler wasn't all bad. After all, he did kill Hitler!'
Great. Now they have an *AA pet lapdog as part of the process. Anybody taking bets on how the engineers behind the scenes will now be pressured into 'fixing' things to make the internet into Cable TV 2.0?
Sounds more like the infamous Team B report that came out of the political analysts who invaded the CIA back in the 70's. Their purpose was to find proof that the Soviet Union was truly the 'Evil Empire' bent on starting and attempting to win a nuclear war and somehow manage world domination. They went through everything the CIA's Russian Desk had accumulated, cherrypicked the data for impact, then went through several cycles of 'What if?', each cycle building on the 'conclusions' of the previous cycle, each cycle getting further and further from reality. After reading the declassified report, I was rather surprised that Team B wasn't insisting that the Soviets could just say a magic word and make us all disappear, therefore we must immediately insert covert operatives to kill every suspected magician, warlock, medium, and psychic in the Soviet Union to preserve the 'magic gap'. Team B was that far out there.