How about "Google Website Address Assistant"?
I don't know about you, but my add/remove programs list gets very long very fast, and something that fits into an alphabetical scheme with a clear indication of who put it there seems better than what they're using.
I dunno, freedom from being indefinitely imprisoned without charge by presidential fiat seems like a biggish one you recently lost. Freedom from warrantless, gag-ordered rifling of your library borrowing records, too.
Sidenote: I've seen half a dozen slashdotters declare "OF COURSE you can't copyright a forged document!", and yet have not offered any citations, explanations (that make any kind of sense) or case history. A cookie to the first poster that does.
Maybe not 100% orthagonal to what you're talking about, but it seems like an open-and-shut unclean hands defense.
I grew up in the midwest, and for 6 months of the year, those miles and miles of farms are under a bunch of snow. Cutting off imports of southern hemisphere vegetables and fruit would mean a massive disruption to our food supply.
Considering much of our food and oil is imported, I'd say fucking with the full faith and credit of the United States government is a bad, bad idea.
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In Germany you pay between 12-15% of your salary for socialized health care.
And what percent of your salary does your employer pay for a typical full benefits package? A good PPO plan in the US can cost $25k/year for family coverage. That's money out of your pocket, even if you never see it.
How about restoring highly regressive tax rates on stratospheric tax brackets, as well as the inheritance tax, closing loopholes allowing people to offshore their wealth, and funding the IRS to enforce the laws.
Check out the top tax brackets from the 50s and 60s (a time of great economic growth) sometime.
Yes, they turned their loss into a win-win, but ET was intended from the start as a commercial sequel to RTCW, not a mod, and the six-figure Quake3 license they bought would have gone completely to waste otherwise.
Actually, ET was released because Activision killed the project (which was to a be a boxed retail game) when the multiplayer component was finished but the single-player campaign was not. The developers released the multiplayer version free so that it wouldn't be a total loss, and won themselves and their publisher some brownie points in the process.
don't tell me Will-wright got to where he was by making "casual" games,
Sim City and The Sims are arguably the biggest-selling "games for non-gamers" of all time, perhaps eclipsed only by portable Tetris and coin-op Ms. Pac Man.
Not so much. This IRS publication tells you to that "Illegal income, such as money from dealing illegal drugs, must be included in your income on Form 1040, line 21, or on Schedule C or Schedule C-EZ (Form 1040) if from your self-employment activity." Piece of cake. Just remember to classify your income as "fifth amendment" rather than "drug dealing."
My girlfriend-at-the-time and I spent countless hours and 10-spots playing Tetris.
Yes, you did. Would you now, with the availability of Popcap and handhelds?
As to Rodriguez & landmarks & things: the nuclear detonations over Japan were also landmarks in how their particular medium is created and presented to the audience. Pity he wasn't at ground zero.
You want to compare making an action movie on the cheap to the incineration of thousands of civilians? Or are you calling nuclear weaponry art? Either way, you're way off base. There's a reason you watch Birth of a Nation in film history 101, and it's not the racist agenda of Hollywood.
Sorry, I remember debates over whether Demon Attack for the Atari 2600 was too violent a game for kids ("You can shoot realistic birds!") How about Death Race 2000? Night Trap? Custer's Revenge? As with any other medium, video games have had their share of the lurid throughout their existence.
The arcade became a ghost town because the Super Nintendo eliminated the disparity between the arcade and the home, with the exception of games that either used elaborate props (pinball, sit-down racing games, rail shooters, etc.) or featured a social experience of head-to-head play you couldn't get at home(Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat). Street fighter gave the arcades a few years of life support, if anything.
Where have the simple but good video games gone? They've gone web, shareware, and portable. Would you pay 25 cents to play a game of Tetris with a joystick while standing facing a wall?
With regard to the class issue, you're totally missing the point of why Doom and Sin City are interesting. It's not the violence. Both represent landmarks in how their particular medium is created and presented to the audience, and it was pretty clear to many who saw them (moreso for Doom than Sin City, granted) that THIS is how things will be done going forward. The experience of both was totally new, even if there were clear antecedents (Wolf3D, Sky Captain, Spy Kids 3D - also by Rodriguez, etc.)
Or would like to feel included as equals in the society they are citizens of. Public places aren't the problem, government-sponsored public places are.
Besides, only 2.5 of the ten commandments forbid things that are actually illegal to do (#9 is only illegal if under oath or in special cases like fraud), and the right to break the first four are enshrined in the constitution. Posting them in a courthouse is more than a bit ironic.
That's exactly what they're doing. The GPL3 only requires that you share encryption keys that make the software build, compile, and run on the hardware. Private encryption keys used within the program to protect its data are peachy.
Yes, the right to create a derivative parody is firmly established under fair use. The right to create other kinds of derivative works is not.
A physical work of art and its copyright are two separate entities that are routinely sold/licensed separately, and making a color-corrected copy would indeed be infringement.
Because DRM, in the form of trusted platform chips, represents an end-run around free software. If you have access to the source, but the TPM chip requires anything you run on your hardware to be signed, you don't really have any of the four freedoms.
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How about "Google Website Address Assistant"? I don't know about you, but my add/remove programs list gets very long very fast, and something that fits into an alphabetical scheme with a clear indication of who put it there seems better than what they're using.
It's possible to copyright code, even "purely functional" code, and rig elements can be driven by some surprisingly complex scripts.
I dunno, freedom from being indefinitely imprisoned without charge by presidential fiat seems like a biggish one you recently lost. Freedom from warrantless, gag-ordered rifling of your library borrowing records, too.
Maybe not 100% orthagonal to what you're talking about, but it seems like an open-and-shut unclean hands defense.
I grew up in the midwest, and for 6 months of the year, those miles and miles of farms are under a bunch of snow. Cutting off imports of southern hemisphere vegetables and fruit would mean a massive disruption to our food supply.
Considering much of our food and oil is imported, I'd say fucking with the full faith and credit of the United States government is a bad, bad idea.
And what percent of your salary does your employer pay for a typical full benefits package? A good PPO plan in the US can cost $25k/year for family coverage. That's money out of your pocket, even if you never see it.
Then why is one of the main ingredients in the vitamin goo I feed my cat from time to time corn syrup, and why does he go absolutely ape for it?
Check out the top tax brackets from the 50s and 60s (a time of great economic growth) sometime.
This page on meteorite identification might help you (and/or make you sad)as well.
Yes, they turned their loss into a win-win, but ET was intended from the start as a commercial sequel to RTCW, not a mod, and the six-figure Quake3 license they bought would have gone completely to waste otherwise.
id won. Activision had already paid for the Q3 engine license. Activision lost.
Actually, ET was released because Activision killed the project (which was to a be a boxed retail game) when the multiplayer component was finished but the single-player campaign was not. The developers released the multiplayer version free so that it wouldn't be a total loss, and won themselves and their publisher some brownie points in the process.
So take your standard deduction and leave the millionaires donating significant sums to charity the hell alone.
So charitable donations and medical expenses shouldn't be tax deductible while eliminating the EIC at the same time? That's harsh.
Sim City and The Sims are arguably the biggest-selling "games for non-gamers" of all time, perhaps eclipsed only by portable Tetris and coin-op Ms. Pac Man.
Considering "people" was Osama Bin-fucking Laden, I'd say good for him.
Come visit Philadelphia sometime. It's nice.
Not so much. This IRS publication tells you to that "Illegal income, such as money from dealing illegal drugs, must be included in your income on Form 1040, line 21, or on Schedule C or Schedule C-EZ (Form 1040) if from your self-employment activity." Piece of cake. Just remember to classify your income as "fifth amendment" rather than "drug dealing."
Yes, you did. Would you now, with the availability of Popcap and handhelds?
As to Rodriguez & landmarks & things: the nuclear detonations over Japan were also landmarks in how their particular medium is created and presented to the audience. Pity he wasn't at ground zero.
You want to compare making an action movie on the cheap to the incineration of thousands of civilians? Or are you calling nuclear weaponry art? Either way, you're way off base. There's a reason you watch Birth of a Nation in film history 101, and it's not the racist agenda of Hollywood.
The arcade became a ghost town because the Super Nintendo eliminated the disparity between the arcade and the home, with the exception of games that either used elaborate props (pinball, sit-down racing games, rail shooters, etc.) or featured a social experience of head-to-head play you couldn't get at home(Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat). Street fighter gave the arcades a few years of life support, if anything.
Where have the simple but good video games gone? They've gone web, shareware, and portable. Would you pay 25 cents to play a game of Tetris with a joystick while standing facing a wall?
With regard to the class issue, you're totally missing the point of why Doom and Sin City are interesting. It's not the violence. Both represent landmarks in how their particular medium is created and presented to the audience, and it was pretty clear to many who saw them (moreso for Doom than Sin City, granted) that THIS is how things will be done going forward. The experience of both was totally new, even if there were clear antecedents (Wolf3D, Sky Captain, Spy Kids 3D - also by Rodriguez, etc.)
Besides, only 2.5 of the ten commandments forbid things that are actually illegal to do (#9 is only illegal if under oath or in special cases like fraud), and the right to break the first four are enshrined in the constitution. Posting them in a courthouse is more than a bit ironic.
That's exactly what they're doing. The GPL3 only requires that you share encryption keys that make the software build, compile, and run on the hardware. Private encryption keys used within the program to protect its data are peachy.
Yes, the right to create a derivative parody is firmly established under fair use. The right to create other kinds of derivative works is not.
A physical work of art and its copyright are two separate entities that are routinely sold/licensed separately, and making a color-corrected copy would indeed be infringement.
Because DRM, in the form of trusted platform chips, represents an end-run around free software. If you have access to the source, but the TPM chip requires anything you run on your hardware to be signed, you don't really have any of the four freedoms.