The argument is wrong anyway. Of course governments can copyright things. Just try and use symbols copyrighted by the NYC gov't and see how sued you get. The correct argument here is that data in and of itself is not copyrightable under US law.
No, instead what they do is drive around the city all day in sound trucks festooned with campaign posters, bunting and giant speakers, with the candidate waving from te window an a woman chanting 'Mr. Kanagawa for city council! Please vote for Mr. Kanagawa!' etc over and over again in a sing-song voice at deafening volume. For weeks. It's enough to drive you mad. I'll take political ads any day. At least you can turn the TV off.
What's more, one of the hallmarks of autism appears to a lesser degree of this sort of pre-conscious filtering. If you sensed everything all the time it would be somewhat hard to function.
Humans can be conditioned to believe they must obey society or the state too, and if they are never even exposed before adulthood to the idea they might have an immortal aspect or be an aspect of the very ground of being, or whatever, then they are easily told there is absolutely nothing more enduring or powerful than the all powerful government, and opposing that government is absolute wrongthink.
Consider this: The Ten Commandments contain 297 words, the Bill of Rights 463 words, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 266 words. A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
Also it would be utterly suicidal, as the roads are super curvy and bounded by stone walls. Makes for an interesting motorcycle race, but when we went it was a tad bit scary even in our crappy rental car. Even the TT racers get pasted relatively often. Unless you are driving on the airport runway you and your Bugatti would quickly become part of the landscape.
This was my thought too. I don't know what kind of death march no bathroom break driving people do, but when I drive long distances I occasionally stop for meals and to stretch my legs. I think the people who are complaining are the same people who make their kids pee in a bottle rather then pull over at a rest stop.
It's funny, the Buddha said the same thing, with a slightly different emphasis. All you have to do is stop having irrational attachments. Only he wasn't being sarcastic.
Why do you believe that the Federal Gov't has any such power to regulate state-issued driver's licenses? Or are you advocating a national driver's license? Sounds like the Real ID plan.
Did he somewhere say when he was referring to? Presumably at some time people thought the world was flat (it is after all a reasonable assumption for people living on land).
I have often though one of the more admirable things about our Constitution is the way in which it deliberately introduces inefficiencies into our governmental processes. How terrifying it would be if we could quickly and easily change things on a whim, or on the word of a demogogue. Our constitution would basically be dictated by Rush Limbaugh or DailyKos (more than it is now). 'Efficient government' is a scary phrase.
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What an awesome turkey shoot that would be in low-sec. Unattended bot miners, I get happy just thinking about that.
The argument is wrong anyway. Of course governments can copyright things. Just try and use symbols copyrighted by the NYC gov't and see how sued you get. The correct argument here is that data in and of itself is not copyrightable under US law.
No, instead what they do is drive around the city all day in sound trucks festooned with campaign posters, bunting and giant speakers, with the candidate waving from te window an a woman chanting 'Mr. Kanagawa for city council! Please vote for Mr. Kanagawa!' etc over and over again in a sing-song voice at deafening volume. For weeks. It's enough to drive you mad. I'll take political ads any day. At least you can turn the TV off.
He specified 'Canadians'. /oh snap /duck
"That which is not just, is not law" -- William Lloyd Garrison
Dante was engaged in political satire and moral philosophy. He did not intend to literally describe hell.
Man, they are really annoying when they are reflexively cynical, aren't they?
It's sad, that is the same exact thing I thought. Is 'ISK' really the abbreviation for krona? Makes sense I suppose, but I never put 2 and 2 together.
There should be a '+1 Awesome' mod.
What's more, one of the hallmarks of autism appears to a lesser degree of this sort of pre-conscious filtering. If you sensed everything all the time it would be somewhat hard to function.
Wow, your above prediction has proven to be amazingly correct. May lack of faith in humanity is justified once more.
And that is how Marines are made.
Consider this: The Ten Commandments contain 297 words, the Bill of Rights 463 words, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 266 words. A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
Nice try but that is a very old troll indeed.
Well, it is down from a US high in 1990 of 13k+ warheads, so progress has been made.
You forgot to include 'Don't be Chinese' on that list. Also 'Don't have Korean ancestry' and 'Don't come from a family that used to be tanners'.
Also it would be utterly suicidal, as the roads are super curvy and bounded by stone walls. Makes for an interesting motorcycle race, but when we went it was a tad bit scary even in our crappy rental car. Even the TT racers get pasted relatively often. Unless you are driving on the airport runway you and your Bugatti would quickly become part of the landscape.
This was my thought too. I don't know what kind of death march no bathroom break driving people do, but when I drive long distances I occasionally stop for meals and to stretch my legs. I think the people who are complaining are the same people who make their kids pee in a bottle rather then pull over at a rest stop.
The '20k toilet seat' was actually more like 'complete toilet enclosure for a submarine', but that doesn't stop this meme from circulating.
LA is really more like a bunch of random towns and cities, and the suburbs thereof, that kinda glommed together to fill the available area.
It's funny, the Buddha said the same thing, with a slightly different emphasis. All you have to do is stop having irrational attachments. Only he wasn't being sarcastic.
Why do you believe that the Federal Gov't has any such power to regulate state-issued driver's licenses? Or are you advocating a national driver's license? Sounds like the Real ID plan.
Makers of rouge do in fact get paid, unless you shoplift their products from the drugstore...
Did he somewhere say when he was referring to? Presumably at some time people thought the world was flat (it is after all a reasonable assumption for people living on land).
I have often though one of the more admirable things about our Constitution is the way in which it deliberately introduces inefficiencies into our governmental processes. How terrifying it would be if we could quickly and easily change things on a whim, or on the word of a demogogue. Our constitution would basically be dictated by Rush Limbaugh or DailyKos (more than it is now). 'Efficient government' is a scary phrase.
Reminds me of 'A Tale in the Desert'