So Craigslist has become the defacto goto site for cutthroats and ner-do-wells all over the Internet. Why would the SC AG want to shut it down? With Craigslist, if they want to find the criminals, then there they are. Without Craigslist, you'd have to burn up some shoe leather pounding the pavement looking for these people.
That's true for Ford Pintos as I've seen one running after the battery was removed. That's not true for the two cars with electronic fuel injection that I've had battery problems with.
My Volvo 740 wouldn't stay running with a dead battery under 20 mph, and my Berretta GT stalled when the battery cable came loose.
Here's a simple suggestion if you want to ensure "fairness": Let both sides choose their lawyers, then have the judge flip a coin and swap the lawyers and clients pairings if the result is heads. That way, each side gets the best lawyers on average.
I like it. That way people won't try to hire the most expensive lawyers they can, because they'll wind up paying for the other side's lawyer.
You'd have to make District Attorneys non-trial lawyers who simply direct when another lawyer should be hired. It would make sure that the court appointed lawyers and the DA hired lawyers would be on even footing.
The gotcha is when one side hires his brother-in-law as a lawyer. If he gets the BiL, BiL tries to win, if the other side gets the BiL, the BiL tries to lose.
Right now, we have weapons that are autonomous after launch, but dumb. This is, in a way, a step up.
Once at Purdue University, representatives from the Army War College came to speak to our class. I asked about ICBMs, whether once launched, they could be shut down. I was told no, they had no recall or self destruct. Now, the guy could have been wrong, or the details were secret, but that was scary. If a missile was to be accidentally launch, we just have to wait and watch it blow up some city? Every space launch including the manned missions have self destruct systems on board, yet they think ICBMs are foolproof?
so that anybody who shoots at you is a legitimate target.
The hell you say. Just because your own troops start shooting at you, doesn't mean you should shoot back. You *should* get on the radio and tell them to stop shooting.
Star Trek replicators sound nice. But who designs the first copy and why?
The first matter replicators are limited. Those limits are slowly being overcome. There will be no *one* inventor that make a perfect replicator.
Imaging a device that could crank out legos in any color, given raw bricks of plastic. I'd buy one, and so would a lot of people, but it's not enough of a leap to disrupt the entire economy.
Is/Was owned by George Gobel of Purdue University. He had it since the early 80's, but I had heard that it had been stolen too many times, so he gave it up.
George has the distinction of having the first website that was slashdotted, long before slashdot. He had a video on his website of the world's fastest lighting of a barbeque grill. He took it from stone cold to slagged down in a few seconds. His site was mentioned in a Dave Barry column, and the poor sparc than ran his workstation couldn't keep up. (He did win an ignoble prize for the barbeque lighting.)
Judges have expressed opinions that Congress should fix bad laws in the past. How often does Congress listen to the Judiciary and fix the law? (I can't think of an example that didn't have many non-judicial lobbyists pushing for the change.)
... filed a lawsuit charging that patents on two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer are unconstitutional and invalid
If someone owned the gene the might give me cancer, I'd sue the hell out of them to take it away.
If a farmer's cow gets loose, and damages my property, the farmer is liable. If my car slips out of park, rolls downhill, and crashes into your car, I'm liable. If this gene tries to kill me, I should be able to sue the owner. "What?", you say, "You're the owner of your own genes". Well, not if this patent is valid.
You'd think Science Fiction authors would understand the consequences of exact replication. I don't remember the author, but there was a short story about aliens who gave earth replication machines. The first thing people started replicating was the machines themselves, then everything else. The economy collapsed, but the protagonist was confident that everything would sort out.
Star Trek had food replicators. Anyone know when the first matter replicator appeared in print?
Copyright holders and IP distributors need to clue in to the fact that reproducing information is cheap and easy.
You'd think Science Fiction authors would understand that. I don't remember the author, but there was a short story about aliens who gave earth replication machines. The first thing people started replicating was the machines themselves, then everything else. The economy collapsed, but the protagonist was confident that everything would sort out.
Star Trek had food replicators. Anyone know when the first matter replicator appeared in print?
That we also pay other things, like child-, education- or unemployment-benefits seems a good thing for me. After all, even if the children aren't my own, they still grow in the same society as I do. It is my gain that they get a high education and the pay check to go with it... because once they are that far, I'll be drawing my pension and and all sort of state benefits. It is better that my home country is the homeland of engineers, doctors and other highly educated people (with of course plumblers and salesmen and whatever else you need to keep a functioning society; but even they need to be well educated to do their civil duty and vote wisely).
Americans, by and large, believe the same thing about the children, but we don't want to support the parents, and we don't want to take the children away from the parents. (Mutually exclusive situations)
We're looking for the magic bullet that will punish the drunken parent and support the children of that parent without causing trauma.
This is true. However, a world where authors get nothing at all would seem to be even worse.
That's the world of the University Professor. Most of the time, they have the pay people to publish their work. (But, it seems to work for them, mostly)
I'd really like someone to add up all the hours it would take to experience x's book or y's product and they'd soon begin to realize it would take someone an ENTIRE LIFETIME not even to get through a fraction of what is out there.
That's why publishers want to control the stuff forever. If copyrights expire, there could come a time where there's more good public domain music and novels than any one person could consume in a lifetime. Why buy the new stuff then?
My children have a library with 100s of books purchased at yard sales and used book sales, sometimes for $0.25 for a book that originally cost around $6.00. This scares the publishers, because I read the same book to each child when it was age appropriate, then we sell it at our yard sale. At least in the children's realm, there's not a lot of new stuff worth the money relative to the used stuff. Most of my favorite authors are dead, so their not turning out anything new either. (ok, sometimes someone cobbles together stuff from the authors unfinished works, but that doesn't count)
Surely you can waste a dollar on some guy's book, instead of that Hershey bar.
Of course, but a few quick searches on Google will confirm that there is a phenomenal amount of crap out there. So much so, that a regular person can't possibly wade through it all and expect to find the good stuff. Kinda like panning for gold.
Word of mouth, and professional critics are a good ways to find good places to pan.
The plain, cold truth is that probably nobody knows how this will all work out in the end. People are just trying stuff to see what might work.
That's reality. But publishers and (some) authors don't want that uncertainty, so they opt instead for control. Most people prefer control to uncertainty, so they trade liberty for safety.
The US Constitution is clear:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Patents and Copyrights exist for a purpose, not simply to give control to Authors and Inventors. "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
Everything that people are trying should be evaluated by the courts and congress as to whether it promotes "the Progress of Science and useful Arts", not whether is gives someone or some company more control or money.
Time Warner is a cable company *and* an media producer. Do they need to sue themselves? (:-) Only half joking, after AOL bought TW, TW wouldn't let AOL use TW trademarked icons like Bugs Bunny and the Coyote.
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So Craigslist has become the defacto goto site for cutthroats and ner-do-wells all over the Internet. Why would the SC AG want to shut it down? With Craigslist, if they want to find the criminals, then there they are. Without Craigslist, you'd have to burn up some shoe leather pounding the pavement looking for these people.
Rental trucks in the US tend to have governors. but they are set around 65mph, so that doesn't work in a 25mph zone.
That's true for Ford Pintos as I've seen one running after the battery was removed. That's not true for the two cars with electronic fuel injection that I've had battery problems with. My Volvo 740 wouldn't stay running with a dead battery under 20 mph, and my Berretta GT stalled when the battery cable came loose.
Sure, if they're looking for terrists, they'll look at everything on your drive, and damn whatever the court says.
When the RIAA hires Jack Bauer, be afraid, be very afraid...
He's fictional, so what? Most of what the RIAA has been doing in court is fictional anyway.
Here's a simple suggestion if you want to ensure "fairness": Let both sides choose their lawyers, then have the judge flip a coin and swap the lawyers and clients pairings if the result is heads. That way, each side gets the best lawyers on average.
I like it. That way people won't try to hire the most expensive lawyers they can, because they'll wind up paying for the other side's lawyer.
You'd have to make District Attorneys non-trial lawyers who simply direct when another lawyer should be hired. It would make sure that the court appointed lawyers and the DA hired lawyers would be on even footing.
The gotcha is when one side hires his brother-in-law as a lawyer. If he gets the BiL, BiL tries to win, if the other side gets the BiL, the BiL tries to lose.
Right now, we have weapons that are autonomous after launch, but dumb. This is, in a way, a step up.
Once at Purdue University, representatives from the Army War College came to speak to our class. I asked about ICBMs, whether once launched, they could be shut down. I was told no, they had no recall or self destruct. Now, the guy could have been wrong, or the details were secret, but that was scary. If a missile was to be accidentally launch, we just have to wait and watch it blow up some city? Every space launch including the manned missions have self destruct systems on board, yet they think ICBMs are foolproof?
so that anybody who shoots at you is a legitimate target.
The hell you say. Just because your own troops start shooting at you, doesn't mean you should shoot back. You *should* get on the radio and tell them to stop shooting.
Star Trek replicators sound nice. But who designs the first copy and why?
The first matter replicators are limited. Those limits are slowly being overcome. There will be no *one* inventor that make a perfect replicator.
Imaging a device that could crank out legos in any color, given raw bricks of plastic. I'd buy one, and so would a lot of people, but it's not enough of a leap to disrupt the entire economy.
No, they're just gross. (Although I heard a theory that many taboos arise out of the "Just Gross" category)
A pig, a boy, and a dog. What's the difference?
Is/Was owned by George Gobel of Purdue University. He had it since the early 80's, but I had heard that it had been stolen too many times, so he gave it up.
George has the distinction of having the first website that was slashdotted, long before slashdot. He had a video on his website of the world's fastest lighting of a barbeque grill. He took it from stone cold to slagged down in a few seconds. His site was mentioned in a Dave Barry column, and the poor sparc than ran his workstation couldn't keep up. (He did win an ignoble prize for the barbeque lighting.)
Judges have expressed opinions that Congress should fix bad laws in the past. How often does Congress listen to the Judiciary and fix the law? (I can't think of an example that didn't have many non-judicial lobbyists pushing for the change.)
by John Cage's estate. They've already successfully sued a guy for releasing 1 minute of silence. (He settled for $100K)
In case anyone thinks this is a joke http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/23/uk.silence/
He's better keep that blank CDR to himself.
And "Candy" is a stripper name.
Candi or Candie would be the spelling a stripper would use.
... filed a lawsuit charging that patents on two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer are unconstitutional and invalid
If someone owned the gene the might give me cancer, I'd sue the hell out of them to take it away.
If a farmer's cow gets loose, and damages my property, the farmer is liable. If my car slips out of park, rolls downhill, and crashes into your car, I'm liable. If this gene tries to kill me, I should be able to sue the owner. "What?", you say, "You're the owner of your own genes". Well, not if this patent is valid.
You'd think Science Fiction authors would understand the consequences of exact replication. I don't remember the author, but there was a short story about aliens who gave earth replication machines. The first thing people started replicating was the machines themselves, then everything else. The economy collapsed, but the protagonist was confident that everything would sort out. Star Trek had food replicators. Anyone know when the first matter replicator appeared in print?
Copyright holders and IP distributors need to clue in to the fact that reproducing information is cheap and easy.
You'd think Science Fiction authors would understand that. I don't remember the author, but there was a short story about aliens who gave earth replication machines. The first thing people started replicating was the machines themselves, then everything else. The economy collapsed, but the protagonist was confident that everything would sort out.
Star Trek had food replicators. Anyone know when the first matter replicator appeared in print?
That we also pay other things, like child-, education- or unemployment-benefits seems a good thing for me. After all, even if the children aren't my own, they still grow in the same society as I do. It is my gain that they get a high education and the pay check to go with it... because once they are that far, I'll be drawing my pension and and all sort of state benefits. It is better that my home country is the homeland of engineers, doctors and other highly educated people (with of course plumblers and salesmen and whatever else you need to keep a functioning society; but even they need to be well educated to do their civil duty and vote wisely).
Americans, by and large, believe the same thing about the children, but we don't want to support the parents, and we don't want to take the children away from the parents. (Mutually exclusive situations)
We're looking for the magic bullet that will punish the drunken parent and support the children of that parent without causing trauma.
This is true. However, a world where authors get nothing at all would seem to be even worse.
That's the world of the University Professor. Most of the time, they have the pay people to publish their work. (But, it seems to work for them, mostly)
I'd really like someone to add up all the hours it would take to experience x's book or y's product and they'd soon begin to realize it would take someone an ENTIRE LIFETIME not even to get through a fraction of what is out there.
That's why publishers want to control the stuff forever. If copyrights expire, there could come a time where there's more good public domain music and novels than any one person could consume in a lifetime. Why buy the new stuff then?
My children have a library with 100s of books purchased at yard sales and used book sales, sometimes for $0.25 for a book that originally cost around $6.00. This scares the publishers, because I read the same book to each child when it was age appropriate, then we sell it at our yard sale. At least in the children's realm, there's not a lot of new stuff worth the money relative to the used stuff. Most of my favorite authors are dead, so their not turning out anything new either. (ok, sometimes someone cobbles together stuff from the authors unfinished works, but that doesn't count)
Surely you can waste a dollar on some guy's book, instead of that Hershey bar.
Of course, but a few quick searches on Google will confirm that there is a phenomenal amount of crap out there. So much so, that a regular person can't possibly wade through it all and expect to find the good stuff. Kinda like panning for gold.
Word of mouth, and professional critics are a good ways to find good places to pan.
The plain, cold truth is that probably nobody knows how this will all work out in the end. People are just trying stuff to see what might work.
That's reality. But publishers and (some) authors don't want that uncertainty, so they opt instead for control. Most people prefer control to uncertainty, so they trade liberty for safety.
The US Constitution is clear:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Patents and Copyrights exist for a purpose, not simply to give control to Authors and Inventors. "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
Everything that people are trying should be evaluated by the courts and congress as to whether it promotes "the Progress of Science and useful Arts", not whether is gives someone or some company more control or money.
Which, of course, doesn't mean I must refuse to see the flaws in whatever it is that makes me happy.
Stark Reality rarely makes people happy. People who are unaware are often happier than others.
A moment of carelessness, a lifetime of regret.
A lifetime of carelessness, a moment of regret.
--- The American Book of the Dead
Perhaps they've colluded in order to get the courts to arrive at a decision that is anti-consumer.
Time Warner is a cable company *and* an media producer. Do they need to sue themselves? (:-) Only half joking, after AOL bought TW, TW wouldn't let AOL use TW trademarked icons like Bugs Bunny and the Coyote.