why would people protest unless government was unresponsive to standard entreaties. people protest in order to show public opposition to or support for a cause that those entrenched in power disagree with. publicly disagreeing with people who think ideological battles are best fraught with guns generally holds some risk.
14+14 seems fair a few corporations owning the rights to almost all music in perpetuity is an absurdity. copyright is not in fact a right it's a useful legal fiction in that it encourages content creation but after a short time that legal fiction becomes a hindrance. for example there's a thing in music called a standard, standards are pieces of music that are widely known and often improvised around. individual artists will write new lyrics to them change passages or alter melody. this practice though having predated any type of copyright law is largely prevented from occurring. artists can not in fact make use of large sections of the cultural heritage that is rightfully their purview. the story of Cinderella as a very notable example has crossed continents and taken on culturally significant undertones but any modern retelling is under Disney's legal eye. though i don't see Britney Spears latest ode to cousin love ever becoming a standard there are significant modern works that will never under current US law see further development or refinement.
I didn't make the statement but I can probably sort of enplane some of it..
China is in fact mauist ostensibly communist they replaced a dictatorship with a all powerful oligarchy
Germany was Nazi, sort of a mash up between Fasciest and particularly brutal form of racism, though they have after the second world war become a nominally socialist country.
The US is fascist in so much as the defining characteristic of fascism is Corporatism basically primary political power is wheedled by a consortium of industry leaders. there are of course ancillary social movements that have some affect on us policy but could not be said to hold sway over any of the primary levers of power.
is the discount guaranteed in perpetuity through all windows incarnations? unless Birmingham is just a fad and will eventually fade back into the English country side the cost of windows will continue to rise the licensing costs will compound over decades and increase over generations. while on the other hand the costs associated with initial Linux deployment (mostly educational costs) will not need to be repeated and only ongoing operating expenses rather than massive licensing fees will need to be payed.
since last i checked viral disease remains unswayed by even the most cunning pundit of laissez-faire capitalism or any other neo-liberal economic thesis (i refuse to refer to it as a theory which implies some basis in observable fact). the actual standards of care in the US are declining as compared with other western countries and the relatively low levels of access to basic health care means communicable diseases that would have been treated in most other western nations are left to spread through the population and allowed to progress to a point where additional productivity is lost. i know you'll say that productivity is meaningless consumption is what's important( while sticking pins in a Nancy Pelosi doll and muttering an incantation) but i find the hamburger unmade is, in fact, the hamburger uneaten.
Also most of the drug research in the united states is done on the public dollar anyway the major private investments made in "drug development" are mostly on the marketing side and have more to do with branding then healing.
your logic is inexorable... in a free market I assume the most obvious thing for a doctor to do would be to spread disease in public places as well. since his or her patients would be the most likely to survive given the good doctors foreknowledge of the cause of the aliment.
yeah I'm sure they make tens of thousands of dollars a year speaking before concerned groups of citizens and writing books on the subject... oh can't forget about the HUGE box office success that the last peak oil film was (wasn't that the one that pushed Pirates of the Caribbean off the top spot). While on the other hand Exxon the honest paupers that they are reported quarterly profits in excess of 9 Billion.
the longer the citizenry of oil importing nations think that there is an abundance of easily obtained oil the slower they will be to develop alternatives and in case you've been in a cave for the last six years, prices have gone up by a factor of three or four in that time.
I think the point should be made that crimes were committed and should be redressed. arguing that the president shouldn't be punished for the violation of US Laws and foreign treaties in order to maintain the illusion of bipartisanship is high comedy.
what allot of people felt to be under attack in the united states was the rule of law as applied to the executive branch. what's being calibrated is a perceived re balancing of power between the legislative and the executive branches of government. there were avowed conservatives voting democrat in this election to achieve this. it's a victory for democracy not because the democrats won but because the electorate made a conscious decision about the form of government they wanted.
the reduction of airborne carcinogens, that a movement away from fossil fuels would lead to, wouldn't cure cancer exactly but lower over time it's incidence. call it win-win.
or one this study entirely ignores op-ed time. second it only uses the comparative frequency of think tank situations without regard to context. third you have to assume the average member of congress represents the true political center which is not proved by the study and seems to be refuted by poll results.
besides bias is a more subtle thing. the stories that go unprinted or unaired; the buried retractions; the amount of air time given to a viewpoint; the amount of time dedicated to a story; the type of story that gets researched in depth; the timing of news; whether "liberal" pundits are even liberal rather than centrist; all of these things are important factors when looking at media bias.
as an example of bias look at the coverage the upcoming FCC vote on proposed media ownership rule changes is getting on ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX. is there an interview with the founder of the EFF? if it's mentioned at all it will be non prime time news or it will be framed in the context of cable competition. if the EFF is mentioned or a member interviewed it will be followed by refutations of the points made.
ok then let's deregulate the PUBLIC airwaves as well there are plenty of clever people out there that could make use of all that FREE bandwidth at least better than reruns of friends and pointless reality TV. you know i bet we could set up public/municipal/nonprofit wireless networks across the us and manage the long jumps with little problem. that dead fiber could be bought up by the municipalities i could imagine that free Internet would be a big inducement for business to move into an area. hell i bet it'll become imposable to run a phone company if people decided to just go municipal how about nonprofits there are already business groups setting up free mesh networks... hell i bet real deregulation would break the backs of the telecommunications industry but i don't think real deregulation is what's being pushed for is it.
no actually i live in the US and anyone who has a lick of sense and any knowledge of the politics of area knows the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in iran was blow-back from the shortsighted US efforts (read Eisenhower's posturing) to prevent the spread of Communism by apparently undermining any democratically elected government who even looked at socialism sideways. being blind to your mistakes doesn't mean you didn't make them. the us's backing of the violent regime of the shah led directly to the uprising that put the mullahs in power.
the corrupt are easy to control the pentagon counts them amongst their assets. if an African leader is willing crush their nation with debt to fund their military they stay in power for decades. if they aren't they end up dead or deposed to make way for someone who is corruptible. look at Iran before the US backed shah took over it was well on it's way to a healthy democracy. it's prime minister visited Philadelphia to see the liberty bell, something most Americans have never done, and spoke of the hopes of democracy with a respect that the current US president couldn't even pull off with all the botox holding his face in a perpetually fake state of sincerity.
debt and corruption are part of the current model of imperialism. your right though it's totaly racism.
on the point of computers for the "developing world" if they can be made cheaply and an entire educations worth of school books could be had for the price of a $100 laptop if the writing of the books is done on a volunteer basis. replicating them and updating them would be essentially free.
Your right I'm sick of turning on the TV and hearing some hatemonger spewing lies and and I worry about my children being exposed to to this filth. We should, you and I, start a campaign to have Fox news and the 700 Club baned from the public airwaves no parent should worry about their children picking up ignorant superstition or being exposed to neo-liberal propaganda. You know, it's broad minded people like you that make this country great.
the reason for the creation of the FCC is to ensure that the air waves, that are a public trust granted to a private company to serve the public interest, in fact do serve the public interest. if there is to be a limitation to the public use of this public resource other than broadcasting limitations then the licensing scheme that protects the exclusivity of the broadcaster to broadcast on a given frequency should be dissolved. Value for value. you imply that a broadcast license is without value although we both know that isn't true.
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why would people protest unless government was unresponsive to standard entreaties. people protest in order to show public opposition to or support for a cause that those entrenched in power disagree with. publicly disagreeing with people who think ideological battles are best fraught with guns generally holds some risk.
14+14 seems fair a few corporations owning the rights to almost all music in perpetuity is an absurdity. copyright is not in fact a right it's a useful legal fiction in that it encourages content creation but after a short time that legal fiction becomes a hindrance. for example there's a thing in music called a standard, standards are pieces of music that are widely known and often improvised around. individual artists will write new lyrics to them change passages or alter melody. this practice though having predated any type of copyright law is largely prevented from occurring. artists can not in fact make use of large sections of the cultural heritage that is rightfully their purview. the story of Cinderella as a very notable example has crossed continents and taken on culturally significant undertones but any modern retelling is under Disney's legal eye. though i don't see Britney Spears latest ode to cousin love ever becoming a standard there are significant modern works that will never under current US law see further development or refinement.
excuse the typo i was rushing and didn't proof read.
I didn't make the statement but I can probably sort of enplane some of it..
China is in fact mauist ostensibly communist they replaced a dictatorship with a all powerful oligarchy
Germany was Nazi, sort of a mash up between Fasciest and particularly brutal form of racism, though they have after the second world war become a nominally socialist country.
The US is fascist in so much as the defining characteristic of fascism is Corporatism basically primary political power is wheedled by a consortium of industry leaders. there are of course ancillary social movements that have some affect on us policy but could not be said to hold sway over any of the primary levers of power.
is the discount guaranteed in perpetuity through all windows incarnations? unless Birmingham is just a fad and will eventually fade back into the English country side the cost of windows will continue to rise the licensing costs will compound over decades and increase over generations. while on the other hand the costs associated with initial Linux deployment (mostly educational costs) will not need to be repeated and only ongoing operating expenses rather than massive licensing fees will need to be payed.
yeah but not nearly as close as the pretzel did.
since last i checked viral disease remains unswayed by even the most cunning pundit of laissez-faire capitalism or any other neo-liberal economic thesis (i refuse to refer to it as a theory which implies some basis in observable fact). the actual standards of care in the US are declining as compared with other western countries and the relatively low levels of access to basic health care means communicable diseases that would have been treated in most other western nations are left to spread through the population and allowed to progress to a point where additional productivity is lost. i know you'll say that productivity is meaningless consumption is what's important( while sticking pins in a Nancy Pelosi doll and muttering an incantation) but i find the hamburger unmade is, in fact, the hamburger uneaten.
Also most of the drug research in the united states is done on the public dollar anyway the major private investments made in "drug development" are mostly on the marketing side and have more to do with branding then healing.
your logic is inexorable... in a free market I assume the most obvious thing for a doctor to do would be to spread disease in public places as well. since his or her patients would be the most likely to survive given the good doctors foreknowledge of the cause of the aliment.
yeah I'm sure they make tens of thousands of dollars a year speaking before concerned groups of citizens and writing books on the subject... oh can't forget about the HUGE box office success that the last peak oil film was (wasn't that the one that pushed Pirates of the Caribbean off the top spot). While on the other hand Exxon the honest paupers that they are reported quarterly profits in excess of 9 Billion.
the longer the citizenry of oil importing nations think that there is an abundance of easily obtained oil the slower they will be to develop alternatives and in case you've been in a cave for the last six years, prices have gone up by a factor of three or four in that time.
must seem like more because of the implants.
so does this mean sharp develop will now run on mono?
I think the point should be made that crimes were committed and should be redressed. arguing that the president shouldn't be punished for the violation of US Laws and foreign treaties in order to maintain the illusion of bipartisanship is high comedy.
what allot of people felt to be under attack in the united states was the rule of law as applied to the executive branch. what's being calibrated is a perceived re balancing of power between the legislative and the executive branches of government. there were avowed conservatives voting democrat in this election to achieve this. it's a victory for democracy not because the democrats won but because the electorate made a conscious decision about the form of government they wanted.
the reduction of airborne carcinogens, that a movement away from fossil fuels would lead to, wouldn't cure cancer exactly but lower over time it's incidence. call it win-win.
or one this study entirely ignores op-ed time. second it only uses the comparative frequency of think tank situations without regard to context. third you have to assume the average member of congress represents the true political center which is not proved by the study and seems to be refuted by poll results.
besides bias is a more subtle thing. the stories that go unprinted or unaired; the buried retractions; the amount of air time given to a viewpoint; the amount of time dedicated to a story; the type of story that gets researched in depth; the timing of news; whether "liberal" pundits are even liberal rather than centrist; all of these things are important factors when looking at media bias.
as an example of bias look at the coverage the upcoming FCC vote on proposed media ownership rule changes is getting on ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX. is there an interview with the founder of the EFF? if it's mentioned at all it will be non prime time news or it will be framed in the context of cable competition. if the EFF is mentioned or a member interviewed it will be followed by refutations of the points made.
ok then let's deregulate the PUBLIC airwaves as well there are plenty of clever people out there that could make use of all that FREE bandwidth at least better than reruns of friends and pointless reality TV. you know i bet we could set up public/municipal/nonprofit wireless networks across the us and manage the long jumps with little problem. that dead fiber could be bought up by the municipalities i could imagine that free Internet would be a big inducement for business to move into an area. hell i bet it'll become imposable to run a phone company if people decided to just go municipal how about nonprofits there are already business groups setting up free mesh networks... hell i bet real deregulation would break the backs of the telecommunications industry but i don't think real deregulation is what's being pushed for is it.
Should we then view the GPL as a contract with our bloodless future selves?
no actually i live in the US and anyone who has a lick of sense and any knowledge of the politics of area knows the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in iran was blow-back from the shortsighted US efforts (read Eisenhower's posturing) to prevent the spread of Communism by apparently undermining any democratically elected government who even looked at socialism sideways. being blind to your mistakes doesn't mean you didn't make them. the us's backing of the violent regime of the shah led directly to the uprising that put the mullahs in power.
the corrupt are easy to control the pentagon counts them amongst their assets. if an African leader is willing crush their nation with debt to fund their military they stay in power for decades. if they aren't they end up dead or deposed to make way for someone who is corruptible. look at Iran before the US backed shah took over it was well on it's way to a healthy democracy. it's prime minister visited Philadelphia to see the liberty bell, something most Americans have never done, and spoke of the hopes of democracy with a respect that the current US president couldn't even pull off with all the botox holding his face in a perpetually fake state of sincerity.
debt and corruption are part of the current model of imperialism. your right though it's totaly racism.
on the point of computers for the "developing world" if they can be made cheaply and an entire educations worth of school books could be had for the price of a $100 laptop if the writing of the books is done on a volunteer basis. replicating them and updating them would be essentially free.
Your right I'm sick of turning on the TV and hearing some hatemonger spewing lies and and I worry about my children being exposed to to this filth. We should, you and I, start a campaign to have Fox news and the 700 Club baned from the public airwaves no parent should worry about their children picking up ignorant superstition or being exposed to neo-liberal propaganda. You know, it's broad minded people like you that make this country great.
it may be designed to be used against people but I suspect that it has some nasty effect on camcorders and digital cameras as well.
Maybe the discussion could be clarified by replacing the word fundamentalist with zealot or fanatic.
the reason for the creation of the FCC is to ensure that the air waves, that are a public trust granted to a private company to serve the public interest, in fact do serve the public interest. if there is to be a limitation to the public use of this public resource other than broadcasting limitations then the licensing scheme that protects the exclusivity of the broadcaster to broadcast on a given frequency should be dissolved. Value for value. you imply that a broadcast license is without value although we both know that isn't true.
i choose microwave frequencies and as much power as i can direct at passing cars.
that New Lens seems to be smeared with Vaseline.