But if we seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright -- to promote progress, for the benefit of the public -- then we must make changes in the other direction.
I would suggest that 'promoting progress for the benefit of the public' being the only legitimate purpose of copyright requires justification.
Another possible purpose is to protect the right of the creator to be the sole beneficiary of his labour.
Points to consider include dependence on earlier work and novelty and the benefits of the creation vs. the costs of protection with respect to those who have to pay.
"Suppose you hire one person to clean your home, and it takes five hours, or 300 minutes, for the person to perform each task, one after the other," Vishkin said. "That's analogous to the current serial processing method. Now imagine that you have 100 cleaning people who can work on your home at the same time! That's the parallel processing method.
As in: the two window cleaners, the guy mopping the floor, and the wall-washer who all need one of the two buckets available and access to the (single) sink which is currently being monopolized by the person washing the dishes?
OR
If one woman can have a baby in nine months, why can't nine women have a baby in one month?
'And to be honest, shouldnt we be using something OTHER than Mother's maiden name to reset passwords and crap by now?'
Yes. However, the banks, etc., don't really care what answer you use for mother's maiden name; give them anything you want which you will remember if needed. This applies to any of these test questions; the answer need not have anything to do with reality.
' If you can't stay up all night hacking and eating cold pizza, why would I want to hire you...'
If they have to stay up all night hacking, then either they cannot competently do the work or you're incompetent in project management (scheduling and budgetting). In the first case, you shouldn't keep them and in the second, good people won't work for you (for long, anyway); in neither case is the ability to "stay up all night hacking and eating cold pizza" relevant.
'...salaries over $1,000,000 probably number far fewer than a million... shall we stop chasing income of that subset?'
Well, given the arcana of the current tax laws plus "deductions" and loopholes, they mostly have except for the very stupid.
Additionally, that accounts for more than 1 billion (trillion in the US) dollars; far more than the few million (if that) accounted for by the eBay sellers.
'This idea, that logic in a sense precedes God, is controversial, and debate on this is one of the most lively issues in philosophy of religion at the moment.' [emphasis mine]
And people talk about trekkies needing to get a life!
'PS: As for the "much better actress", Julianne Moore never in her life played a role that had a tenth the sex appeal of Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully.'
Certainly the government's selection process and criteria should be available for judgement of its fairness. However, evaluation of whether it was properly applied requires that the competitors' proposals are also made public. I have found that bidders frequently do not want this, usually claming proprietory or confidential information. Unless the bids are made public, the bidders should be told to bugger off.
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Those who run schools which don't assign homework, perhaps?
Bubu is the one who can learn!
or this by ESR as well.
Ha! In my day, we had fully automatic telephones. Just pick it up and say:
'Hello, Mabel, please connect me to WOPR. I want to play "Thermonuclear War".'
Sorry, I don't programme outdoors; I'm in my parents' basement!
True, but the talk was given in Canada.
I would suggest that 'promoting progress for the benefit of the public' being the only legitimate purpose of copyright requires justification.
Another possible purpose is to protect the right of the creator to be the sole beneficiary of his labour.
Points to consider include dependence on earlier work and novelty and the benefits of the creation vs. the costs of protection with respect to those who have to pay.
A skisuit/parka with silver mylar coating.
Carbon tubes for a strong intarweb!
As in: the two window cleaners, the guy mopping the floor, and the wall-washer who all need one of the two buckets available and access to the (single) sink which is currently being monopolized by the person washing the dishes?
OR
If one woman can have a baby in nine months, why can't nine women have a baby in one month?
Yes. However, the banks, etc., don't really care what answer you use for mother's maiden name; give them anything you want which you will remember if needed. This applies to any of these test questions; the answer need not have anything to do with reality.
When it involves those are are not disobeying laws or is otherwise arbitrary in whom it targets.
NO, "All our media are belong to them!"
Well, it seems that he has a long history with tubes!
If they have to stay up all night hacking, then either they cannot competently do the work or you're incompetent in project management (scheduling and budgetting). In the first case, you shouldn't keep them and in the second, good people won't work for you (for long, anyway); in neither case is the ability to "stay up all night hacking and eating cold pizza" relevant.
Well, given the arcana of the current tax laws plus "deductions" and loopholes, they mostly have except for the very stupid.
Additionally, that accounts for more than 1 billion (trillion in the US) dollars; far more than the few million (if that) accounted for by the eBay sellers.
Legos LEGOS legos legoes
Nyahh Nyahh Nyahh!
That's just to remove him as a co-worker and inflict him on other bosses! ;)
(I really wish that weren't a joke
'There are no super hackers out there.'
In refutation, I give you the story of Mel.
'Actually, since the NT Kernel was heavily influenced by some coders (and code) from DEC...
We're talking about UNIX and VMS.'
I've worked with VMS a lot, and Windows NT is not VMS!
'This idea, that logic in a sense precedes God, is controversial, and debate on this is one of the most lively issues in philosophy of religion at the moment.' [emphasis mine]
And people talk about trekkies needing to get a life!
'PS: As for the "much better actress", Julianne Moore never in her life played a role that had a tenth the sex appeal of Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully.'
Either has Gillian Anderson.
Yeah, Ludwig should be good for centuries!
Yes in cooling the burn, but may cause infection if the skin is burnt off.
'Is non-sterile gauze cheaper than sterile gauze, & if so, where can it be purchased ?'
In grocery and kitchen supply stores under the name "cheesecloth".
Certainly the government's selection process and criteria should be available for judgement of its fairness. However, evaluation of whether it was properly applied requires that the competitors' proposals are also made public. I have found that bidders frequently do not want this, usually claming proprietory or confidential information. Unless the bids are made public, the bidders should be told to bugger off.