Vending machines, like the computer, is just the box. And possibly, I wouldn't really know, 95% of the vending machines are filled with Coke or Pepsi products. They don't just sell soda pop.
If the concept of copyright (and patents) had been strictly limited to the issue of plagiarism, or if it is reduced to that issue alone, I wouldn't have a problem with it. That's the only natural, logical right a person has to his/her idea/invention. But the concept goes into control of distribution and how a work is used and who can use it, which by its very nature is abusive, and it has been that way since the first law was written.
Copyright doesn't keep you from criticizing in your own words.
Actually it is. It is the basis of the anti-P2P, bittorrent, and uploading in general tirade that we are up against today. It was used by the writers guild to protect their business from the printing press of old times and by the corporate controlled mass media from the internet today. It is being used to cripple all recording technology. Look what happened to the mini-disc, and even cassette tapes and CDs for that matter are being taxed. It is being used to give law enforcement probable cause to bust your door down and take away your possessions. It is truly a tool invented and maintained for nefarious purposes. And nothing to do with "protecting the artists", or assuring that "culture remains commercially viable", as one person here put it. It is a tool of pirates to steal our culture and lock it down under their control.
But I see the creation of copyright as a method to protect established businesses or industries from new technology, be it the printing press or the internet, and it should be pointed out that it is also an attempt, and a very effective one, to silence critics of the authorities, be they government or corporate. It's about the control of distribution of information by those deemed worthy.
There are three categories of individuals proposed for this initiative:
- internationally recognised terrorists and felons - major felons and suspected terrorists - subjects of terrorist investigations or criminals with international links...
Hmmmm, they forgot radical "lefties" posting on Slashdot. The most dangerous bunch of all. It must be on their "super top secret" list.
C'mon. You should know by now that the constitution went belly up back in 1798. Well, the bill of rights anyway. The parliamentary stuff in the main body is still holding up.
Unfortunately the bankers would sabotage the economy and you would be assassinated post-haste. They don't spend money on bombs and guns and bullets. They make huge profits from them. And if people aren't using them, then they aren't buying them. So then it becomes necessary to foment war and then sell to both sides. They see it as military investment, not expense. As good as your ideas are, and I would even carry them farther, they would cause a major upheaval in the military and law enforcement industries, and they simply won't stand for it. You would be arrested and/or killed, and martial law would be instituted. You would have to be prepared for all out war with these people. Which kinda puts you right back where you started. You will need the support of the population, and a lot more than just 51%, to pull it off.
The fact that you could only choose between two people who you didn't want..
And that's the real problem. People thought they could only choose the two candidates presented to them, when, in fact they could choose anybody they wanted. It's not that they could only choose between the two, it's that they would only choose between the two. Democracy is fully functional in the US despite what anybody says. Rumors of its death are highly exaggerated.
Yet. Doesn't mean they can't be some time in the future. And this investigation...or scathing congressional report? What will come of it? Will fines be paid? Jail time served? I've seen very little come from "scathing congressional reports" in the past. Will this one be any different? I would think not. Will any of this bring about a demand for freedom of movement without undue harassment? Will we finally vote for politicians who mention the word "freedom" at all? All the numbers indicate otherwise.
Well, there you go. I believe it also produces a bit of oxygen*. Even the space program would benefit:-) But I think using it for automobiles is a bit of a waste. It just seems to require too much monkey motion to make it work. Meaning a lot of fancy plumbing and electronics, where diesel fuel works with simple mechanics requiring not even an electric spark (though glow plugs might be needed up north, and speaking of being up north, how in the world am I going to keep my oil warm in the winter time when they ban incandescent light bulbs?), the way nature intended an engine to be.
*I haven't studied it at all, and am too lazy to start now, but I think some algae actually takes oxygen out of the water.
...pipe all that rainwater that falls out there at the same time. Otherwise you're going to need a pipeline....
Well, that made no sense. I should have added that the pipeline from some somebody's pond would involve paying huge water rights to the land owner, in addition to the right of way for the pipe.
...why would we destroy the ecosystem of thousands of acres of ocean as well?
I'm not sure that adding to the biomass with a natural life form would be so detrimental. Actually we would be replacing what we have already destroyed. More plankton(along with the algae) is a good thing...I think. And it might produce plenty of fuel also. Think of it as "restocking". No doubt it could cause a more dramatic climate change than our current way of life. There would be more vegetation, in the ocean and on land. That would possibly put much more moisture into the air and produce a lot of rain and snow, causing lots of flooding. Disastrous for humans maybe, but nature would like it just fine. We would create much more arable land. I'd wager the planet could support triple our current population. We certainly have the space.
...not necessarily in the oceans but in controlled pools/tanks in the desert...
Yeah, I see your point about using the desert. I just thought that we could collect and pipe all that rainwater that falls out there at the same time. Otherwise you're going to need a pipeline. And with natural blue-green algae a little leakage shouldn't be a big issue. I was thinking of using something cheap, like big inflatable "swimming pools" floating on the surface, so even being destroyed by a storm wouldn't hurt much either. Though the greedy bastards would probably do it anyway, genetically modifying it is even less necessary than food grains. The stuff is fairly abundant, but leave to them to convince us that we have an "algae shortage". Who knows? Maybe a net with a really fine mesh could be used to scoop it up, so we wouldn't even need to cultivate it.
Personal, or at least local production is best where possible, but it is important to be able to transport water wherever it's needed, like to some parts of Georgia for instance;-) Local production of everything else would soon follow. I see politics as being the biggest impediment to it. All those ranchers up in Wyoming wouldn't have very many customers in California to screw over like they did in '76-77. The planet's desalination process requires very little effort on our part to exploit. I don't believe we need all these distilleries or reverse osmosis contraptions to supply our fresh water needs. Not when it already falls from the sky for free. Manna from heaven that we let run down the storm drains.
Most likely we will be looking at using waste chicken litter for a feedstock source...
Yuck! Mad chickens! But it could make cock fights more entertaining.
Music shouldn't be free or you wouldn't have an industry...
Music doesn't need an industry to survive, or even thrive. Distribution is no longer an issue, except to those who wish to control it. Production will always be profitable, if enough people like what you produce.
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cloned humans? Or maybe just a kidney? Or rump roast? And aren't apple trees a clone?
Vending machines, like the computer, is just the box. And possibly, I wouldn't really know, 95% of the vending machines are filled with Coke or Pepsi products. They don't just sell soda pop.
You were too fast to live, too young to die, bye bye.
If the concept of copyright (and patents) had been strictly limited to the issue of plagiarism, or if it is reduced to that issue alone, I wouldn't have a problem with it. That's the only natural, logical right a person has to his/her idea/invention. But the concept goes into control of distribution and how a work is used and who can use it, which by its very nature is abusive, and it has been that way since the first law was written.
They have a way out of this actually. They can just deliver their products through a warez site. Plausible deniability at work.
Copyright doesn't keep you from criticizing in your own words.
Actually it is. It is the basis of the anti-P2P, bittorrent, and uploading in general tirade that we are up against today. It was used by the writers guild to protect their business from the printing press of old times and by the corporate controlled mass media from the internet today. It is being used to cripple all recording technology. Look what happened to the mini-disc, and even cassette tapes and CDs for that matter are being taxed. It is being used to give law enforcement probable cause to bust your door down and take away your possessions. It is truly a tool invented and maintained for nefarious purposes. And nothing to do with "protecting the artists", or assuring that "culture remains commercially viable", as one person here put it. It is a tool of pirates to steal our culture and lock it down under their control.
But I see the creation of copyright as a method to protect established businesses or industries from new technology, be it the printing press or the internet, and it should be pointed out that it is also an attempt, and a very effective one, to silence critics of the authorities, be they government or corporate. It's about the control of distribution of information by those deemed worthy.
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There are three categories of individuals proposed for this initiative:
- internationally recognised terrorists and felons
- major felons and suspected terrorists
- subjects of terrorist investigations or criminals with international links...
Hmmmm, they forgot radical "lefties" posting on Slashdot. The most dangerous bunch of all. It must be on their "super top secret" list.
Search for porn? That funny. I never have to search for it. It justs pops up, all by itself.
...as long as the constitution holds out...
C'mon. You should know by now that the constitution went belly up back in 1798. Well, the bill of rights anyway. The parliamentary stuff in the main body is still holding up.
To do what they have been doing all along?
Unfortunately the bankers would sabotage the economy and you would be assassinated post-haste. They don't spend money on bombs and guns and bullets. They make huge profits from them. And if people aren't using them, then they aren't buying them. So then it becomes necessary to foment war and then sell to both sides. They see it as military investment, not expense. As good as your ideas are, and I would even carry them farther, they would cause a major upheaval in the military and law enforcement industries, and they simply won't stand for it. You would be arrested and/or killed, and martial law would be instituted. You would have to be prepared for all out war with these people. Which kinda puts you right back where you started. You will need the support of the population, and a lot more than just 51%, to pull it off.
so that the next version of windows (Vista 2K10) will work?
It might be anecdotal, but this may shed some light.
If you can do anything besides just counting beans, and you stay out of debt, you are recession proof.
The fact that you could only choose between two people who you didn't want..
And that's the real problem. People thought they could only choose the two candidates presented to them, when, in fact they could choose anybody they wanted. It's not that they could only choose between the two, it's that they would only choose between the two. Democracy is fully functional in the US despite what anybody says. Rumors of its death are highly exaggerated.
Yet. Doesn't mean they can't be some time in the future. And this investigation...or scathing congressional report? What will come of it? Will fines be paid? Jail time served? I've seen very little come from "scathing congressional reports" in the past. Will this one be any different? I would think not. Will any of this bring about a demand for freedom of movement without undue harassment? Will we finally vote for politicians who mention the word "freedom" at all? All the numbers indicate otherwise.
Nixon's the one.
Well, there you go. I believe it also produces a bit of oxygen*. Even the space program would benefit :-) But I think using it for automobiles is a bit of a waste. It just seems to require too much monkey motion to make it work. Meaning a lot of fancy plumbing and electronics, where diesel fuel works with simple mechanics requiring not even an electric spark (though glow plugs might be needed up north, and speaking of being up north, how in the world am I going to keep my oil warm in the winter time when they ban incandescent light bulbs?), the way nature intended an engine to be.
*I haven't studied it at all, and am too lazy to start now, but I think some algae actually takes oxygen out of the water.
...pipe all that rainwater that falls out there at the same time. Otherwise you're going to need a pipeline....
Well, that made no sense. I should have added that the pipeline from some somebody's pond would involve paying huge water rights to the land owner, in addition to the right of way for the pipe.
...why would we destroy the ecosystem of thousands of acres of ocean as well?
I'm not sure that adding to the biomass with a natural life form would be so detrimental. Actually we would be replacing what we have already destroyed. More plankton(along with the algae) is a good thing...I think. And it might produce plenty of fuel also. Think of it as "restocking". No doubt it could cause a more dramatic climate change than our current way of life. There would be more vegetation, in the ocean and on land. That would possibly put much more moisture into the air and produce a lot of rain and snow, causing lots of flooding. Disastrous for humans maybe, but nature would like it just fine. We would create much more arable land. I'd wager the planet could support triple our current population. We certainly have the space.
Well, the buffaloes might produce plenty of methane, if you get my drift. Wouldn't want to live downwind of that ranch.
...not necessarily in the oceans but in controlled pools/tanks in the desert...
;-) Local production of everything else would soon follow. I see politics as being the biggest impediment to it. All those ranchers up in Wyoming wouldn't have very many customers in California to screw over like they did in '76-77. The planet's desalination process requires very little effort on our part to exploit. I don't believe we need all these distilleries or reverse osmosis contraptions to supply our fresh water needs. Not when it already falls from the sky for free. Manna from heaven that we let run down the storm drains.
Yeah, I see your point about using the desert. I just thought that we could collect and pipe all that rainwater that falls out there at the same time. Otherwise you're going to need a pipeline. And with natural blue-green algae a little leakage shouldn't be a big issue. I was thinking of using something cheap, like big inflatable "swimming pools" floating on the surface, so even being destroyed by a storm wouldn't hurt much either. Though the greedy bastards would probably do it anyway, genetically modifying it is even less necessary than food grains. The stuff is fairly abundant, but leave to them to convince us that we have an "algae shortage". Who knows? Maybe a net with a really fine mesh could be used to scoop it up, so we wouldn't even need to cultivate it.
Personal, or at least local production is best where possible, but it is important to be able to transport water wherever it's needed, like to some parts of Georgia for instance
Most likely we will be looking at using waste chicken litter for a feedstock source...
Yuck! Mad chickens! But it could make cock fights more entertaining.
...religion is high...
Wish I was...
Music shouldn't be free or you wouldn't have an industry...
Music doesn't need an industry to survive, or even thrive. Distribution is no longer an issue, except to those who wish to control it. Production will always be profitable, if enough people like what you produce.