You weren't accused of stealing, read the post again. As it turns out I know a great deal about image rights and licences, and I'm quite surprised that you appear to have a complete mastery of model rights in every country in the world.
People are charged fees all the time for the enjoyment of specific facilities, and those who profit by those facilities are charged more. Why should photographers be any different? If photographers feel they can milk out per-view licences over fixed time periods, I feel the people really responsible for those images should be compensated duly. If you take a photo of a crowd then sell it for large amounts of money, why should people in that crowd not share the profit for their part in it?
The only suprise is there haven't been more lawsuits levied against photographers for using people's images. In a way a tax for profit making photography would be like insurance.
Assuming you're referring to photography, if you take photos of a public park, do you pay the local authority for their work in creating that park for your personal profit? Do you get everyone in crowds you take photos of to sign a model release form? No? Aren't you stealing from them, then?
Maybe the way forward is a photography tax, like a casual trading licence for street vendors.
This ignores the enormous technological and societal changes that have taken place in the interim. The concentration of power is facilitated by the dual focus of technology and technology-enabled media, along with differences in educational potential which are by this stage inbuilt into the system. Things are not the same now as they were then, far from it. There are solutions to the problem but they require considerable improvements in education and awareness.
Please, the US has been a mercantile empire from day one, the American Indians found out all about that. Adventurism has continued from that beginning all the way through to today, take a look at what Smedley Butler had to say about it, I mean when you have a father and son as president, how far away from an official aristocracy are you? You couldn't miss the signs, the entrenchment of power ironically made possible by the very freedoms espoused so strongly there, the massive military expenditure, the exclusive clubs for the wealthy in ivy league colleges, etc.
Theres nothing simple, and trying to pin things down as black and white, us and them, usually ends in disaster, but nobody can deny the trend of current events.
WebOS based flexible low-power display smart "phones" that can either be wearable, or as a small carryable.
The power of this will be in making "scroll phones", which will have semi-netbook power in a phone size bundle, with a neat pull out screen. Much like a normal phone but with maybe 10" rollaway screens, or firefly-like news sheets.
I don't even read the comments, just click reply and start typing my thought for the day. It might seem like my thought for the day is an oddly fitting response to your coment, but you'll have that.
At the beginning of the 1900s, most of the police in major US cities were Irish, you yuck, hence the name. And one fifth of US presidents have been second or third generation Irish.:D
In other words, as we cannot possibly know what will happen (note that is _not_ past tense, though in Newtonian physics that would have been "has happened") to the galaxy after the events that we are seeing, those events are in the future for us.
I think I get this, in that we can't access or otherwise change the galaxy we are observing, or have any influence on it, so it may as well not exist.
However wouldn't the state of its current existence outside of our lightcone be important if we were to say, mount a hypothetical expedition to a particular part of it at 99.99999% c, and hence would have to model where it is at the moment and where it will be when the expedition reaches it? So while not directly important it might be of indirect importance and thus impinge on our reality?
This doesn't make any sense to me. Clearly the galaxy emitted that light, there's a very high probability that it still exists in some shape or form, and given enough computing muscle we could probably model what it would look like outside of our light cone, in its current stage of matter/energy metamorphosis. The information might not be of any use to us, but it does exist.
Settle down Doris, put the handbag away. I'm just pointing out why governments are so slow to inflict massive punitive damages on oil companies, because unlike you they need to deal with the world the way it is today, not the way the world. The brutal reality from the perspective of a politician is that its better to have the occasional killoff of aquatic life than to have the stuff our transport infrastructure depends on multiply in price, and everything else along with it.
Everyone knows its not sustainable in the long term, but people still need to drive today. I'm a massive proponent of wind and electric vehicles myself, in the face of very stiff oppositon from people who rarely have clue one what they are talking about.
Do this: destroy the fucking BP if necessary and also, screw the corporate protection, arrest the management, arrest whoever wasn't doing the job right and also put every single prick from MMS (that's the Government agency literally is fucking with the corporate whores, literally) to jail for 10 consecutive life sentences. Or shoot them Chinese style.
And then no oil company will work without having full insurance cover, and insurance companies will charge a gargantuan fortune to run that kind of risk, and the cost of fuel rises to compensate, and the price of your dinner goes up 4x or 5x every year. Congratulations, you've just destroyed society.
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No, he's not stealing.
Actually, according to your own link there, he probably is in many countries, including the United States.
You weren't accused of stealing, read the post again. As it turns out I know a great deal about image rights and licences, and I'm quite surprised that you appear to have a complete mastery of model rights in every country in the world.
People are charged fees all the time for the enjoyment of specific facilities, and those who profit by those facilities are charged more. Why should photographers be any different? If photographers feel they can milk out per-view licences over fixed time periods, I feel the people really responsible for those images should be compensated duly. If you take a photo of a crowd then sell it for large amounts of money, why should people in that crowd not share the profit for their part in it?
The only suprise is there haven't been more lawsuits levied against photographers for using people's images. In a way a tax for profit making photography would be like insurance.
Assuming you're referring to photography, if you take photos of a public park, do you pay the local authority for their work in creating that park for your personal profit? Do you get everyone in crowds you take photos of to sign a model release form? No? Aren't you stealing from them, then?
Maybe the way forward is a photography tax, like a casual trading licence for street vendors.
and I have to say that PETA annoys me to no end.
Is that you, Lo Pan?
This ignores the enormous technological and societal changes that have taken place in the interim. The concentration of power is facilitated by the dual focus of technology and technology-enabled media, along with differences in educational potential which are by this stage inbuilt into the system. Things are not the same now as they were then, far from it. There are solutions to the problem but they require considerable improvements in education and awareness.
I dunno, would you say an example from over 150 years ago or one from 2 years ago would be more relevant here?
Please, the US has been a mercantile empire from day one, the American Indians found out all about that. Adventurism has continued from that beginning all the way through to today, take a look at what Smedley Butler had to say about it, I mean when you have a father and son as president, how far away from an official aristocracy are you? You couldn't miss the signs, the entrenchment of power ironically made possible by the very freedoms espoused so strongly there, the massive military expenditure, the exclusive clubs for the wealthy in ivy league colleges, etc.
Theres nothing simple, and trying to pin things down as black and white, us and them, usually ends in disaster, but nobody can deny the trend of current events.
Bite your tongue sir. I'd let her master-race me.
Bahaha, this round to me I think, Mr Mir.
Behold the internet bullshit buzzword generator.
WebOS based flexible low-power display smart "phones" that can either be wearable, or as a small carryable.
The power of this will be in making "scroll phones", which will have semi-netbook power in a phone size bundle, with a neat pull out screen. Much like a normal phone but with maybe 10" rollaway screens, or firefly-like news sheets.
Nope! ;-)
God Eddie Izzard sucks donkey balls.
Firefox 3.6 here and no history shown... :-D
I don't even read the comments, just click reply and start typing my thought for the day. It might seem like my thought for the day is an oddly fitting response to your coment, but you'll have that.
At the beginning of the 1900s, most of the police in major US cities were Irish, you yuck, hence the name. And one fifth of US presidents have been second or third generation Irish. :D
Get laid.
You might be new here. The eponymously named erroneus is simply holding up the highest standards of slashdot commentary.
In other words, as we cannot possibly know what will happen (note that is _not_ past tense, though in Newtonian physics that would have been "has happened") to the galaxy after the events that we are seeing, those events are in the future for us.
I think I get this, in that we can't access or otherwise change the galaxy we are observing, or have any influence on it, so it may as well not exist.
However wouldn't the state of its current existence outside of our lightcone be important if we were to say, mount a hypothetical expedition to a particular part of it at 99.99999% c, and hence would have to model where it is at the moment and where it will be when the expedition reaches it? So while not directly important it might be of indirect importance and thus impinge on our reality?
This doesn't make any sense to me. Clearly the galaxy emitted that light, there's a very high probability that it still exists in some shape or form, and given enough computing muscle we could probably model what it would look like outside of our light cone, in its current stage of matter/energy metamorphosis. The information might not be of any use to us, but it does exist.
Why would it be a slur to suggest Irish people were police?
Settle down Doris, put the handbag away. I'm just pointing out why governments are so slow to inflict massive punitive damages on oil companies, because unlike you they need to deal with the world the way it is today, not the way the world. The brutal reality from the perspective of a politician is that its better to have the occasional killoff of aquatic life than to have the stuff our transport infrastructure depends on multiply in price, and everything else along with it.
Everyone knows its not sustainable in the long term, but people still need to drive today. I'm a massive proponent of wind and electric vehicles myself, in the face of very stiff oppositon from people who rarely have clue one what they are talking about.
The earth is a ball of insensate rock, its not adapting to anything. Your comment is meaningless to the point of absurdity.
Do this: destroy the fucking BP if necessary and also, screw the corporate protection, arrest the management, arrest whoever wasn't doing the job right and also put every single prick from MMS (that's the Government agency literally is fucking with the corporate whores, literally) to jail for 10 consecutive life sentences. Or shoot them Chinese style.
And then no oil company will work without having full insurance cover, and insurance companies will charge a gargantuan fortune to run that kind of risk, and the cost of fuel rises to compensate, and the price of your dinner goes up 4x or 5x every year. Congratulations, you've just destroyed society.
How would we feel about extra-terrestrial creatures coming to Earth and seeding it with THEIR kind of life, which might be actually harmful to us?
That would still be entirely natural.