The better argument is that if there is really a market for movies, someone will find a way to finance them, copyright or not...
I cannot disagree. In fact I have stated position before(don't remember when, but I did, I swear) Let's compromise and say the the arguments are complimentary, not contradictory.
With copyright out of the way, it might not take $50 million to make a "blockbuster" movie. And I don't know about you, but I'm not going to slit my wrists or shoot up a shopping mall if they suddenly stop making $50 million blockbuster movies.
If a person can generate his own electricity and sell it back to the electric company. We should get the same deal when we upload to the internet. Fair is fair.
Hell, they could build the plane with it, and you could probably land the thing a hell of lot harder without breaking anything, except a few bones maybe.
...never got around to having a third party in the mix
Well it has a little to do with "battered wife", Munchausen, and some city in Sweden Syndromes. Some are just too scared of the unknown.
Surely the best thing you could do for your democracy would be to outlaw the lobbyists though.
No. That, and even the money conflict with free speech issues, which is more important to me. It's much better to encourage the politicians to resist by simply not voting for them. And actually it's the voter who is more influenced by money than the politician him/herself. The politician is just using what works. Holding them responsible is the voters' obligation.
It's encompassed by "general welfare". A nice ambiguous statement that allows the government to "meddle", as some might put it, in anything it wants. That would include social security and health care.
which one wants to make us dumber. That has been spelled out pretty clearly...But neither will want us to get too smart... if they want to maintain their power.
The Democratic party, as an entity extending back to the founding of this nation, is not running in this election.
Oh please. The candidates represent the interest of the party. And the party represents the interests of its owners. And it changes hands like a tanker full of crude as it crosses the ocean from Saudi Arabia. If they didn't do what they are told, they wouldn't be up there. The party would have another set of mannequins placed in front of cameras for you all to drool over. Got news for you. There is no Santa Clause. This isn't third grade social studies. FYI The party used to actually be called the Democratic-Republican party. And it has simply split into competing factions. Though they really don't "compete" now. It's more like collude.
I wouldn't mind going back to pre 1990 CompuServe myself. Where you had to dial their number to hook up. It all seemed so...professional, you connected to actually talk to people, and downloading anything over 50K was a real chore, and movies came on 12 inch disks... *sigh* Innocence lost...
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Bacteria in the body produce a minute amount of alcohol in the gastrointestinal tract.. The closest thing to downloading a torrent would be the filling in my tooth demodulating a local AM radio station. Win-win.
Let's see you download a torrent without a computer :-)
The better argument is that if there is really a market for movies, someone will find a way to finance them, copyright or not...
I cannot disagree. In fact I have stated position before(don't remember when, but I did, I swear) Let's compromise and say the the arguments are complimentary, not contradictory.
If there was no copyright law nobody would sell VHS/DVD/BluRay...
Without prohibition nobody would sell alcohol. There wouldn't be any money in it.
With copyright out of the way, it might not take $50 million to make a "blockbuster" movie. And I don't know about you, but I'm not going to slit my wrists or shoot up a shopping mall if they suddenly stop making $50 million blockbuster movies.
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? Bueno, la idea es eso
Because that's who you're gonna look like after carrying this thing around for a couple of weeks.
Nice prank.
No president since the 1950s has served an entire term without engaging America in some foreign conflict.
Which president in the entire 20th century has served an entire term without engaging America in some foreign conflict?
Yeah, they finally caught him.
If a person can generate his own electricity and sell it back to the electric company. We should get the same deal when we upload to the internet. Fair is fair.
A box of cereal is packed the same way. It's more child proof than a bottle of Drano.
Hell, they could build the plane with it, and you could probably land the thing a hell of lot harder without breaking anything, except a few bones maybe.
Use a small pair of tin snips...
Absolutely. That's how I replace the battery in my iPod...just kidding...I don't have an iPod...Uh oh...I hope this hard plastic is fireproof.
...never got around to having a third party in the mix
Well it has a little to do with "battered wife", Munchausen, and some city in Sweden Syndromes. Some are just too scared of the unknown.
Surely the best thing you could do for your democracy would be to outlaw the lobbyists though.
No. That, and even the money conflict with free speech issues, which is more important to me. It's much better to encourage the politicians to resist by simply not voting for them. And actually it's the voter who is more influenced by money than the politician him/herself. The politician is just using what works. Holding them responsible is the voters' obligation.
It's encompassed by "general welfare". A nice ambiguous statement that allows the government to "meddle", as some might put it, in anything it wants. That would include social security and health care.
Au contraire!
which one wants to make us dumber. That has been spelled out pretty clearly...But neither will want us to get too smart... if they want to maintain their power.
McCain specifically would extend the DMCA regime.
So will Obama. What's your point?
The Democratic party, as an entity extending back to the founding of this nation, is not running in this election.
Oh please. The candidates represent the interest of the party. And the party represents the interests of its owners. And it changes hands like a tanker full of crude as it crosses the ocean from Saudi Arabia. If they didn't do what they are told, they wouldn't be up there. The party would have another set of mannequins placed in front of cameras for you all to drool over. Got news for you. There is no Santa Clause. This isn't third grade social studies. FYI The party used to actually be called the Democratic-Republican party. And it has simply split into competing factions. Though they really don't "compete" now. It's more like collude.
I wouldn't mind going back to pre 1990 CompuServe myself. Where you had to dial their number to hook up. It all seemed so...professional, you connected to actually talk to people, and downloading anything over 50K was a real chore, and movies came on 12 inch disks... *sigh* Innocence lost...
Given that this is your very first(!) post on Slashdot, I will forgive the clumsiness in your attempts at sarcasm. Practice, practice, I always say.