It's reasonable for an artist to expect to be able to profit from their work for a period of time. Protecting that right encourages others to spend the time to create similar work.
Absolutely. But recording artists typically get nothing from RIAA's efforts to 'collect royalties and damages'. RIAA didn't create the work, why should they get the money?
How about we shred the 'work for hire' contracts of the media companies, make copyright a limited term and not transferable ( why should my great great grandkids profit on something that I created 20 years ago? ) to a corporation or 'holding company', and set it to expire after the death of the original copyright holder?
I'm wondering if anybody has considered the effect of 'feeding' RIAA with a cut of the ad revenue. Won't that make it easier to pay their legal bills for new suits?
You wanna get rid of a pest, you stop feeding it and it dies of starvation.
Also, you dismiss it, but there's no reason why we couldn't produce the energy through nuclear power.
I don't dismiss nuclear power at all. I'd LOVE to see more nukes running, it'd clean the air even more. But when was the last time a nuke plant was authorised for operation?
Nifty site I found that talks about the Perry plant, which I'm most familiar with (I lived in Cleveland from '77 to '99ish), The Perry was started in like the early to mid 70's, seemed they were in court every goddamned week over something or other, the antinukes kept appealling any win that CEI made. The 6 billion figure includes court and lawyer fees over 30 years to get it built, online, and keep it online.
I started out on RedHat back with 3.0.3, learned to build my own RPMs, etc etc, etc. I switched over my home machine to Ubuntu with Dapper, haven't looked back. I still grok RPM, but I also now grok apt &.DEB. Slight learning curve but once you have it down, fairly easy.
Tell me again, what's that magical thing that happens at their 14. birthday that gives them that ability? The Consent Fairy arrives at midnight and blesses them? Does the state bestow a soul upon them?
Depends on the state. I'm not aware of any US state that has 14 as the age of consent. Here in Arizona, it's 18, and you goddamned well BETTER ask for her ID and know how to spot a fake. She could turn 18 at midnight, but the cops will arrest you today.
A girl, 14, did the deed with her boyfriend, 13. Due to the state's laws, the girl was classified as a victim of sexual abuse. However, as she was the one who initiated the act with another minor, she was also classified as a sexual predator.
Half jackrabbit & half antelope. Looks like a rabbit with spiked horns. You'll see a stuffed one at the register in cafes around here sometimes, and a few jackalope post cards as well for sale.
All of what you say is valid. My point is, don't be like Ed Begly Jr and pat yourself on the back just because your car has zero tailpipe emissions because it's electric. Smog is being made at the coal-fired plant that's making that electricity. We'll need lots more generating plants if we switch to 100% local electric vehicles, and odds are, they'll be coal-fired too.
Personally, I'm all for more nuke plants, but every time you say 'nuclear', the lawyers come out screaming "There's gonna be another Chernobyl! Remember Three Mile Island!" and other FUD. Hell, modern reactors are reasonably safe, especially the pebble bed reactors. And keep in mind that part of what goes up the stack in a coal-fired plant, depending on where they get the coal, is radioactive. Howbout we contain that so it doesn't get out into the wild?
Heh. Only way to harden a Diebold machine against hacking is, put it in a big box, pour concrete into it, let it harden, then drop it into the Marianas Trench without hooking it up to the internet first. There. NOW it's unhackable.
If we want to effectively reduce carbon emissions, banning black cars is hardly the way to have any significant impact. It will have an impact on freedoms and such, but relatively NOTHING on the actual emissions as compared to the HUGE volume that will still be emitted with or without the black cars.
What it does is, make it look like the politicians are actually 'doing something' but without making things noticeably worse. From here, it looks like a political 'win-win', especially since the supporters'll get bragging rights at the next election.
Hell, CA is more than broke right now....yet, they won't do anything to fix it. They won't cut wasteful programs, entitlements....they won't close the border and get rid of illegals (which overload the public school, welfare and health systems).
Thing is, politicians won't whack entitlements because the beneficiaries will vote for the other guy next time around. Statesmen will, but they tend to only do needed change on their way out the door.
Had CARB, instead of making stupid emissions rules that don't really mean shit, pushed to completely ban combustion engines in cars in the 80s --- the induced market would have us all rolling in clean electric vehicles sourcing power from renewable resources
Um, I don't think so, unless they helped push nuclear power plants to pick up the slack in power. Let's face it, if you're driving an electric car, you're really just exporting your smog to the power plant that handles your section of the grid. If it's a coal burner, well...
Level 1 ran on the Coco 1/2's with 64K. Level 2 needed 128K to 512K on the 6809. Had one of each, a CoCo2 punched out to 64K & all the aftermarket stuff like disk controllers & customised ROMS, & a 512K Level 2 machine that I screwed around a bit with for like maybe 6 months before buying a PC clone.
I'm just wondering why the ministry isn't scrutinizing the American voting system.
You can't waterboard an electronic voting machine. It shorts out and won't be capable of doing its proper function - delivering selected candidates an assured victory.
It's because prescription drugs are a slippery slope to non-prescription drugs. Once teens get used to using Ibuprofen then they will start experimenting with aspirin, then the next thing you know they're smoking tobacco, and then marijuana, and then reading Slashdot. Just Say No!
Depends on your definition of a 'sex offender'. Is a kid having sex with his girlfriend over the course of a longterm relationship suddenly a sex offender the instant he turns 18 and she isn't? I don't think so. Is the guy who steps out of the car at 3 am blind drunk to relieve himself in an alley a sex offender? I don't think so. Is somebody arrested for 'indecent exposure' a sex offender? I don't think so.
Rape? Definitely a felony offense. Child molestation? Definitely, if the child is too young to understand what sex is to begin with. If 15 year olds want to have sex with each other, where's the problem? Just give them condoms, put her on the pill, and tell them to be careful.
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Absolutely. But recording artists typically get nothing from RIAA's efforts to 'collect royalties and damages'. RIAA didn't create the work, why should they get the money?
How about we shred the 'work for hire' contracts of the media companies, make copyright a limited term and not transferable ( why should my great great grandkids profit on something that I created 20 years ago? ) to a corporation or 'holding company', and set it to expire after the death of the original copyright holder?
I might watch this over a buddy's house, or on cable when it hits, but I'm not going to the theatre for it. And I won't bother stealing it, either.
Bout the ONLY funny thing I've seen all day!
You wanna get rid of a pest, you stop feeding it and it dies of starvation.
Course, my hearing's a bit shot from all those years listening to rock at max volume, so 128kbs sounds good to me. I'm not an audiphile.
I don't dismiss nuclear power at all. I'd LOVE to see more nukes running, it'd clean the air even more. But when was the last time a nuke plant was authorised for operation?
Nifty site I found that talks about the Perry plant, which I'm most familiar with (I lived in Cleveland from '77 to '99ish), The Perry was started in like the early to mid 70's, seemed they were in court every goddamned week over something or other, the antinukes kept appealling any win that CEI made. The 6 billion figure includes court and lawyer fees over 30 years to get it built, online, and keep it online.
I started out on RedHat back with 3.0.3, learned to build my own RPMs, etc etc, etc. I switched over my home machine to Ubuntu with Dapper, haven't looked back. I still grok RPM, but I also now grok apt & .DEB. Slight learning curve but once you have it down, fairly easy.
Depends on the state. I'm not aware of any US state that has 14 as the age of consent. Here in Arizona, it's 18, and you goddamned well BETTER ask for her ID and know how to spot a fake. She could turn 18 at midnight, but the cops will arrest you today.
Lemme guess, Arizona, right?
Half jackrabbit & half antelope. Looks like a rabbit with spiked horns. You'll see a stuffed one at the register in cafes around here sometimes, and a few jackalope post cards as well for sale.
Personally, I'm all for more nuke plants, but every time you say 'nuclear', the lawyers come out screaming "There's gonna be another Chernobyl! Remember Three Mile Island!" and other FUD. Hell, modern reactors are reasonably safe, especially the pebble bed reactors. And keep in mind that part of what goes up the stack in a coal-fired plant, depending on where they get the coal, is radioactive. Howbout we contain that so it doesn't get out into the wild?
Heh. Only way to harden a Diebold machine against hacking is, put it in a big box, pour concrete into it, let it harden, then drop it into the Marianas Trench without hooking it up to the internet first. There. NOW it's unhackable.
You'll need a toxic waste permit. And a liability bond.
What it does is, make it look like the politicians are actually 'doing something' but without making things noticeably worse. From here, it looks like a political 'win-win', especially since the supporters'll get bragging rights at the next election.
Thing is, politicians won't whack entitlements because the beneficiaries will vote for the other guy next time around. Statesmen will, but they tend to only do needed change on their way out the door.
Um, I don't think so, unless they helped push nuclear power plants to pick up the slack in power. Let's face it, if you're driving an electric car, you're really just exporting your smog to the power plant that handles your section of the grid. If it's a coal burner, well...
Level 1 ran on the Coco 1/2's with 64K. Level 2 needed 128K to 512K on the 6809. Had one of each, a CoCo2 punched out to 64K & all the aftermarket stuff like disk controllers & customised ROMS, & a 512K Level 2 machine that I screwed around a bit with for like maybe 6 months before buying a PC clone.
IIRC, they did the CGI to Babylon 5 on Amigas. Basically, started the whole process of CGI.
At the end of the day, they're supposed to work for the American people, with decent oversight. El Presidente has enough troops, thankyouverymuch.
As in, "Hey, we couldn't fix that election! Somebody else got there first!" perhaps?
Obviously a CIA plot. Alright, Slashdotters, grab your debuggers! Lock and load!!
You can't waterboard an electronic voting machine. It shorts out and won't be capable of doing its proper function - delivering selected candidates an assured victory.
Dude, they said text editor, not religion. vi, you insensitive clod!!!
Fixed that for ya.
Point taken, but in this case, a crime was done on a 13 year old girl. Forget the example, these idiots need jail time now.
Rape? Definitely a felony offense. Child molestation? Definitely, if the child is too young to understand what sex is to begin with. If 15 year olds want to have sex with each other, where's the problem? Just give them condoms, put her on the pill, and tell them to be careful.