You can babble all you want about "unauthorized" file sharing(as if anybody has a right to tell me what I can share), but it looks more and more like the good guys are winning. The tyrany of copyright is coming to an end, and good riddance!
...while those that use it should be labeled "bad people" (or whatever, but not pirates) since they are buying software from a developer that implemented patents without paying for them.
Well now, that certainly depends on your point of view. Some of us see intellectual property as intellectual slavery.
I look at things a bit more positively. I'm half-alive...and I can still hear up to 20K...Punk:-) Anyway, the damn thing is useless if I can't get Howard. May I assume that Sirius has undertaken a similar project?
And since most Americans care more about whether we will allow use of stem cells for medical research...
Actually, these are "media" issues created as a distraction. Many Americans really have to be prodded to form an opinion on the issue. The vast majority realize that something like abortion is a private medical issue between patient and doctor. It's a shame that this same majority falls for every trick in the book with these distractions and continue to elect politicians who will talk about nothing else. In reality most are just voting for a bigger gov't check or tax cut(same thing). So, yes, RFID, like Rock 'n Roll are here to stay.
I remember a time when it was thought to be impossible to pass better than 14.4K over a phone line. Please don't accept present day limitations to be all there is. It gets better all the time. We could have T1 on dial up if we wanted to badly enough. HA! What am I saying??? I forgot about DSL. These things were thought impossible just 30 years ago. If bandwidth is like real estate, then our knowledge is like a volcano rising out of the ocean creating more...real estate. You said it yourself in your last paragraph. The real problem here is good old fashion greed. They keep the value of their licenses by "creating" a false shortage.
They're probably "offering" now. I doubt that it's entirely voluntary. Wasn't there an SF novel about some guy who was always waking up in the morning with a new scar on his body and then finding out somebody was stealing his organs?
Of course, there is no doubt about the quality of the professors etc once you are inside the reputed colleges - they are top class.
Sounds like we need to open source the education system. Let's put these great teachers on the net so we all can benefit. I know some places are doing it. MIT?
... without that IP-based protection, nobody would pay to do the research that creates new drugs.
Yeah...right...do you actually think we're just going to lie down and die? Stop with the FUD already. We can have any thing we want without IP. Jeez...according to you people, we would still be living in caves making shadows on the wall for entertainment, or pulling ox carts screaming "bring out your dead!". In a cruel way, less drugs would mean that surviving humans would be healthier, needing less drugs still. Which brings up the thought that the drug companies don't care about curing diseases. They're better off selling more drugs to treat diseases. So now we have yet another reason to abolish IP.
I'm pretty sure that all the water on the planet is recycled. There's roughly the same amount of water now as there was when the planet was formed. Like famine, poverty, etc., water shortages are caused by mismanagement on our part. We can pipe gas and oil thousands of miles across the continents. It should be trivial to do the same with water from wet flooded areas to the drier places. We could harvest the rain water that falls on the oceans(natures great de-salinator(sp)).
Limited spectrum is why the airwaves are tightly regulated.
Actually, our limited knowledge of the spectrum(and of course politics(money)) is why the airwaves are tightly regulated. The spectrum can be divided into infinitely smaller pieces as we learn how. In fact, the spectrum is quite infinite. Each frequency can be modulated in different ways, allowing multiple signals. Multiplexing will provide more "space" also.
So the most efficient environment is one with a flickering light?
That reminds of a little story I read about a group that offered a prize for the best half baked ideas. A prayer plant opens its leaves in daylight and closes them at night. The idea was that you could decrease the length of the day-night cycle to a point that was rapid enough for the plant to pick up and fly.
Keep it at 70 or lower. If people are cold, too bad: they can wear more clothes...Damn Temperature Fascists.
Hello, Mr. Pot. Let me introduce msyself. My name is Sr. Kettle. I really don't think I'm going to lug my winter clothes to the office every day during the summer. Personally, I use a space heater in my...uuuhh...space. So go ahead and set the temp to "winter wonderland".
Having heard all the songs/interviews whining about record labels, they do this of their own free will...
Battered women frequently return to their battering husbands/boyfreinds. They don't know how to deal without them. We constantly re-elect the same corrupt politicians over and over.
Does it strike you as funny that Courtney Love only complains about record lables AFTER they spent millions of dollars making her a pop star rather than some drugged out widow of a rock star? Hmm...
Did you ever think that it might be part of the show? It certainly attracts attention, and probably many dollars to her and the labels. This stuff is as scripted as professional wrestling. It means nothing to me, and I certainly have no sympathy for people who sign up with slimeball lounge lizards in hopes of an early retirement.
Seeing that you measure accomplishment in "Grammys" and "Platinums" and "$500,000 profit worth of CDs", I can see that you're hooked on the status quo and are doing what you can to sustain it. But the end is coming, and I say good riddance! I will do what I can to hasten it, and if it comes one day sooner because of something I did, then I will consider that an accomplishment worth "writing home to mom" about. Look for another way to sell your work. The copyright gravy train is running out of track.
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If you see the world as a gravy train you're entitled to ride...
That's precisely what copyright is. A gov't provided gravy train. Wanna get paid for your work? Find a buyer. Make a contract. Do your work. Get paid. Just like the rest of us. Copyright is theft. Damn people want to make one thing and "collect the rent" for the rest of their lives.
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If I create something of value, I expect to have the right to say how it's used.
That's like telling that General Motors has a right to tell me I can't drive MY car in New York. Or Dell telling me I can't install Linux on MY machine. The point is that once I buy a copy of anybody's work, I have a right to do with it as I please. It's MY copy. I bought it and that's that. Once you've completed your creation, it's time to forget about it and move to the next one. That's how you should get paid, for your performance, not the copies.
No amount of argument will convince me that you have more right than me to decide how my work is used!
I'm not going to try to convince you. I'm just telling you that you are wrong. The things I purchase are mine, not yours to control. Any attempt to legislate that will just make me and many others an outlaw.
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Stealing software suddenly seems alot less cool when it might be your software that's being stolen.
Get it right. It's being copied, not stolen. What's being taken is control. Something which you have no right over. Just because the gov't provides you your monopoly, doesn't mean you have any natural right to control an idea once you express it. It's a gov't service. And a pretty corrupt one at that.
A campaign built mostly on lies and deception will not get you elected.
What are you talking about? Lies and deception are the ONLY thing that will get you elected. Try to see how far you get if you tell the truth or use facts in your campaign. Telling too much truth could get you killed. Make no mistake. These politicians are snake oil salesmen, and the majority falls for it every time.
Copyright infringement denies the creator's the ability to earn a living...
Copyright itself has done more to deny a creator the ability to earn a living. It has given publishers too much power over distribution. It is being used to criminalize the very tools creators need to distribute their works cheaply. It is being used to keep other tools out of reach by making them needlessly expensive. Copyright is not about creators. It's about publishers. Creators are being duped into taking up the fight for the publishers. One reason might be because they(creators) think that they can't make their living without the publishers(distributors). Creators should be more careful with the contracts they sign.
Maybe all those people were there in case of an...emergency? I think that if you went to a firestation, you might see all those firemen sitting around wasting time. Watch what happens when the alarm goes off.
At any given time, the 911E side had a dozen or so people working, most of which were not doing anything.
Maybe the dozen or so matching telephones weren't doing anything either.
I have to question anyone who merely asserts that it is the fault of politicians, or that it is the fault of businesses or corporations.
I would hope so. Usually, the only person we have a right to blame for anything is the one in the mirror. In other words, "Please, don't feed the bears."
If you think a 65mph speed limit law is unjust, are you going to complain to the ticketing officer or try to get the law changed?
Both. If I and others can make the cop feel bad for handing out a possibly unjust ticket, he might be motivated to help us change the law. In this case we must put the squeeze on ISP's to use their vast resources to help. Of course, in a couple of weeks, we have a chance to get both the republicans AND democrats out of office. Then we can fix the whole thing by the end of next year. Ooo boy, these happy pills are really kicking in.
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You can babble all you want about "unauthorized" file sharing(as if anybody has a right to tell me what I can share), but it looks more and more like the good guys are winning. The tyrany of copyright is coming to an end, and good riddance!
...while those that use it should be labeled "bad people" (or whatever, but not pirates) since they are buying software from a developer that implemented patents without paying for them.
Well now, that certainly depends on your point of view. Some of us see intellectual property as intellectual slavery.
...a half-deaf 50 year old audience...
:-) Anyway, the damn thing is useless if I can't get Howard. May I assume that Sirius has undertaken a similar project?
I look at things a bit more positively. I'm half-alive...and I can still hear up to 20K...Punk
Shut up you silly bitch, it was only a bit of fun.
And since most Americans care more about whether we will allow use of stem cells for medical research...
Actually, these are "media" issues created as a distraction. Many Americans really have to be prodded to form an opinion on the issue. The vast majority realize that something like abortion is a private medical issue between patient and doctor. It's a shame that this same majority falls for every trick in the book with these distractions and continue to elect politicians who will talk about nothing else. In reality most are just voting for a bigger gov't check or tax cut(same thing). So, yes, RFID, like Rock 'n Roll are here to stay.
I remember a time when it was thought to be impossible to pass better than 14.4K over a phone line. Please don't accept present day limitations to be all there is. It gets better all the time. We could have T1 on dial up if we wanted to badly enough. HA! What am I saying??? I forgot about DSL. These things were thought impossible just 30 years ago. If bandwidth is like real estate, then our knowledge is like a volcano rising out of the ocean creating more...real estate. You said it yourself in your last paragraph. The real problem here is good old fashion greed. They keep the value of their licenses by "creating" a false shortage.
They're probably "offering" now. I doubt that it's entirely voluntary. Wasn't there an SF novel about some guy who was always waking up in the morning with a new scar on his body and then finding out somebody was stealing his organs?
Of course, there is no doubt about the quality of the professors etc once you are inside the reputed colleges - they are top class.
Sounds like we need to open source the education system. Let's put these great teachers on the net so we all can benefit. I know some places are doing it. MIT?
... without that IP-based protection, nobody would pay to do the research that creates new drugs.
Yeah...right...do you actually think we're just going to lie down and die? Stop with the FUD already. We can have any thing we want without IP. Jeez...according to you people, we would still be living in caves making shadows on the wall for entertainment, or pulling ox carts screaming "bring out your dead!". In a cruel way, less drugs would mean that surviving humans would be healthier, needing less drugs still. Which brings up the thought that the drug companies don't care about curing diseases. They're better off selling more drugs to treat diseases. So now we have yet another reason to abolish IP.
I'm pretty sure that all the water on the planet is recycled. There's roughly the same amount of water now as there was when the planet was formed. Like famine, poverty, etc., water shortages are caused by mismanagement on our part. We can pipe gas and oil thousands of miles across the continents. It should be trivial to do the same with water from wet flooded areas to the drier places. We could harvest the rain water that falls on the oceans(natures great de-salinator(sp)).
Limited spectrum is why the airwaves are tightly regulated.
Actually, our limited knowledge of the spectrum(and of course politics(money)) is why the airwaves are tightly regulated. The spectrum can be divided into infinitely smaller pieces as we learn how. In fact, the spectrum is quite infinite. Each frequency can be modulated in different ways, allowing multiple signals. Multiplexing will provide more "space" also.
...you must regulate it so no market player can become too powerful.
Conversely, you could stop protecting the monopolies.
So the most efficient environment is one with a flickering light?
That reminds of a little story I read about a group that offered a prize for the best half baked ideas. A prayer plant opens its leaves in daylight and closes them at night. The idea was that you could decrease the length of the day-night cycle to a point that was rapid enough for the plant to pick up and fly.
Keep it at 70 or lower. If people are cold, too bad: they can wear more clothes...Damn Temperature Fascists.
Hello, Mr. Pot. Let me introduce msyself. My name is Sr. Kettle. I really don't think I'm going to lug my winter clothes to the office every day during the summer. Personally, I use a space heater in my...uuuhh...space. So go ahead and set the temp to "winter wonderland".
Encoded Packets doesn't Solve Problems People solve problems!
I don't think I'm getting paid for my good looks, so I must be contributing something...Just for the record, of course.
...and crap is flying.
Will tin foil protect me from that?
Having heard all the songs/interviews whining about record labels, they do this of their own free will...
Battered women frequently return to their battering husbands/boyfreinds. They don't know how to deal without them. We constantly re-elect the same corrupt politicians over and over.
Does it strike you as funny that Courtney Love only complains about record lables AFTER they spent millions of dollars making her a pop star rather than some drugged out widow of a rock star? Hmm...
Did you ever think that it might be part of the show? It certainly attracts attention, and probably many dollars to her and the labels. This stuff is as scripted as professional wrestling. It means nothing to me, and I certainly have no sympathy for people who sign up with slimeball lounge lizards in hopes of an early retirement.
Seeing that you measure accomplishment in "Grammys" and "Platinums" and "$500,000 profit worth of CDs", I can see that you're hooked on the status quo and are doing what you can to sustain it. But the end is coming, and I say good riddance! I will do what I can to hasten it, and if it comes one day sooner because of something I did, then I will consider that an accomplishment worth "writing home to mom" about. Look for another way to sell your work. The copyright gravy train is running out of track.
If you see the world as a gravy train you're entitled to ride...
That's precisely what copyright is. A gov't provided gravy train. Wanna get paid for your work? Find a buyer. Make a contract. Do your work. Get paid. Just like the rest of us. Copyright is theft. Damn people want to make one thing and "collect the rent" for the rest of their lives.
If I create something of value, I expect to have the right to say how it's used.
That's like telling that General Motors has a right to tell me I can't drive MY car in New York. Or Dell telling me I can't install Linux on MY machine. The point is that once I buy a copy of anybody's work, I have a right to do with it as I please. It's MY copy. I bought it and that's that. Once you've completed your creation, it's time to forget about it and move to the next one. That's how you should get paid, for your performance, not the copies.
No amount of argument will convince me that you have more right than me to decide how my work is used!
I'm not going to try to convince you. I'm just telling you that you are wrong. The things I purchase are mine, not yours to control. Any attempt to legislate that will just make me and many others an outlaw.
Stealing software suddenly seems alot less cool when it might be your software that's being stolen.
Get it right. It's being copied, not stolen. What's being taken is control. Something which you have no right over. Just because the gov't provides you your monopoly, doesn't mean you have any natural right to control an idea once you express it. It's a gov't service. And a pretty corrupt one at that.
A campaign built mostly on lies and deception will not get you elected.
What are you talking about? Lies and deception are the ONLY thing that will get you elected. Try to see how far you get if you tell the truth or use facts in your campaign. Telling too much truth could get you killed. Make no mistake. These politicians are snake oil salesmen, and the majority falls for it every time.
Copyright infringement denies the creator's the ability to earn a living...
Copyright itself has done more to deny a creator the ability to earn a living. It has given publishers too much power over distribution. It is being used to criminalize the very tools creators need to distribute their works cheaply. It is being used to keep other tools out of reach by making them needlessly expensive. Copyright is not about creators. It's about publishers. Creators are being duped into taking up the fight for the publishers. One reason might be because they(creators) think that they can't make their living without the publishers(distributors). Creators should be more careful with the contracts they sign.
Maybe all those people were there in case of an...emergency? I think that if you went to a firestation, you might see all those firemen sitting around wasting time. Watch what happens when the alarm goes off.
At any given time, the 911E side had a dozen or so people working, most of which were not doing anything.
Maybe the dozen or so matching telephones weren't doing anything either.
I have to question anyone who merely asserts that it is the fault of politicians, or that it is the fault of businesses or corporations.
I would hope so. Usually, the only person we have a right to blame for anything is the one in the mirror. In other words, "Please, don't feed the bears."
If you think a 65mph speed limit law is unjust, are you going to complain to the ticketing officer or try to get the law changed?
Both. If I and others can make the cop feel bad for handing out a possibly unjust ticket, he might be motivated to help us change the law. In this case we must put the squeeze on ISP's to use their vast resources to help. Of course, in a couple of weeks, we have a chance to get both the republicans AND democrats out of office. Then we can fix the whole thing by the end of next year. Ooo boy, these happy pills are really kicking in.