Trying to claim that everyone that hears, sees, touches, mumbles, whistles, mentions, or thinks about a particular work owes you a license royalty for each and every incident is wrong.
Have you ever shared a book with someone? A CD, DVD, cassette, 8-track, or vinyl record? Or god forbid make a copy of one for a friend? Ever had someone come over to your house and watch a movie that you paid for but they didn't, or vice-versa? Guess what, the way they currently look at it you just stole, or illegally shared copyrighted material. Congratulations, you now owe them $70 trillion dollars. Because that one friend shares with his friends and they share with their friends. Pretty soon that little copy has spread all over the world. Companies are going bankrupt and people are starving in the streets because of your one selfish act.
I wonder if it's because there are less miles driven per person, so the cost is increased to whatever you will tolerate. It would be interesting to see what the average mileage driven per capita is for each country, then multiply that by fuel cost to see if it comes up close to the same.
The fact that people are able to pay that amount in Finland leads me to believe that the mileage requirement is much lower. At 7.50 USD per gallon, the US economy would grind to a halt. It may eventually get there, but it will be slowly as people adopt more fuel efficient vehicles.
The problem is the human element. There will always be corruption, it doesn't matter how many checks and balances you put in.
It's not like this problem just started. Corruption has been present nearly from the beginning, we are just able to hear about everything, instantaneously now so it seems much worse . Check out the history on Credit Mobilier of America. I'd argue this was one of the largest US corruption cases. Around 1864 Roughly $44 million dollars scammed from the US government, all with the help of Congressmen, a Vice Presidents, and a future President. That would be equal to nearly $1 trillion dollar in today's money.
So the stage hasn't really changed. We just are able to see more of it today.
No, if there is sentient life out there and a means of travel exists to get them here, where are they all at? I mean surely if there is one race, there are more given the 'vastness' of space and time. If they truly do visit this planet a) Why do they try to hide? b) If they want to remain hidden, why are they so horrible at it?
I mean these are life forms are supposedly so technologically superior to us it makes no sense what so ever. Why do they mostly visit at night? Seems like the worst time to remain hidden, because their ships are usually COVERED IN LIGHTS.
And why do they keep taking people for anal probes? They've supposedly been coming here for thousands of years, I think they would have learned all they needed to know by now.
What? Where could you have seen something if not in person?
Wow, you must really have been living under a rock. Apparently there were some inventions since you last stepped out. This one is called "figure of speech".
Because "shiny rock" has had perceived value since record history began and currently 100s of millions of people still hold that perceived value. "cryptographic hash" doesn't have value because people (at least, not enough to count) do not perceive it to have value.
Your comparing something that has been used as a monetary unit for 1000s of years with a gimmick that a handful of people are trying to get everyone else to believe in.
This was exactly my thought. Instead of wasting all of our time looking for water on planets as a sign of possible life, simply look for greenhouse gases. If there are any advanced super aliens out there, they're planet must be a veritable sauna by now.
Yes, AC. Current evidence leads us to believe that the evidence that a planet once held alien life is the non-existence of water. Ergo, the alien species that once occupied the planet has warmed the planet to such a degree that the atmosphere was destroyed and the water then evaporated into space.
There is almost irrefutable proof that this is exactly what happened on Mars.
Or how about this. Load your phone with music and movies (legally obtained of course). Get stopped and let the cop copy everything. Let your first call be to the MPAA/RIAA laywers.
We have cities with comparable populations to those entire countries. All of those combined probably do not equal the size of the US.
So you are saying because one of these small countries has a decent system that you should just be able to easily expand that 35-50x in size and get the same results?
"So you see no problem with putting thousands upon thousands of hormone enraged teens into a setting, sometimes a highly polarizing setting, where they can easily find out who one another really is?"
Slashdot Mirror
Buy two 500GB drives?
That's what I've never understood. Is there a pre-requisite that in order for something to be electric it has to be ugly as shit?
Trying to claim that everyone that hears, sees, touches, mumbles, whistles, mentions, or thinks about a particular work owes you a license royalty for each and every incident is wrong.
Have you ever shared a book with someone? A CD, DVD, cassette, 8-track, or vinyl record? Or god forbid make a copy of one for a friend? Ever had someone come over to your house and watch a movie that you paid for but they didn't, or vice-versa? Guess what, the way they currently look at it you just stole, or illegally shared copyrighted material. Congratulations, you now owe them $70 trillion dollars. Because that one friend shares with his friends and they share with their friends. Pretty soon that little copy has spread all over the world. Companies are going bankrupt and people are starving in the streets because of your one selfish act.
What if someone legitimately bought a bottling plant's bottle of water and then shared it with you? Did you just steal from the bottling plant?
Unfortunately, the probability of you finding one of those just went from 1:50 billion to 1:100 billion.
I wonder if it's because there are less miles driven per person, so the cost is increased to whatever you will tolerate. It would be interesting to see what the average mileage driven per capita is for each country, then multiply that by fuel cost to see if it comes up close to the same.
The fact that people are able to pay that amount in Finland leads me to believe that the mileage requirement is much lower. At 7.50 USD per gallon, the US economy would grind to a halt. It may eventually get there, but it will be slowly as people adopt more fuel efficient vehicles.
The problem is the human element. There will always be corruption, it doesn't matter how many checks and balances you put in.
It's not like this problem just started. Corruption has been present nearly from the beginning, we are just able to hear about everything, instantaneously now so it seems much worse . Check out the history on Credit Mobilier of America. I'd argue this was one of the largest US corruption cases. Around 1864 Roughly $44 million dollars scammed from the US government, all with the help of Congressmen, a Vice Presidents, and a future President. That would be equal to nearly $1 trillion dollar in today's money.
So the stage hasn't really changed. We just are able to see more of it today.
No, if there is sentient life out there and a means of travel exists to get them here, where are they all at? I mean surely if there is one race, there are more given the 'vastness' of space and time. If they truly do visit this planet a) Why do they try to hide? b) If they want to remain hidden, why are they so horrible at it?
I mean these are life forms are supposedly so technologically superior to us it makes no sense what so ever. Why do they mostly visit at night? Seems like the worst time to remain hidden, because their ships are usually COVERED IN LIGHTS.
And why do they keep taking people for anal probes? They've supposedly been coming here for thousands of years, I think they would have learned all they needed to know by now.
So can we make laws that make it illegal to:
Look in the back seat
Use the radio
Use the air conditioning
Use any kind of navigation device
Take your eyes off the road
What percentage of accidents could be reduced if these laws were in place? On paper probably a lot. In reality not many.
Wait, explain how does being cautious of electricity somehow equates to him being a racist again.
This will in no way affect your bitcoin collection. They will still be as big of a joke in the future as they are now.
What? Where could you have seen something if not in person?
Wow, you must really have been living under a rock. Apparently there were some inventions since you last stepped out. This one is called "figure of speech".
**You're
Shut up I was in a hurry
Because "shiny rock" has had perceived value since record history began and currently 100s of millions of people still hold that perceived value. "cryptographic hash" doesn't have value because people (at least, not enough to count) do not perceive it to have value.
Your comparing something that has been used as a monetary unit for 1000s of years with a gimmick that a handful of people are trying to get everyone else to believe in.
Which will more likely be fought in other parts of the world. Destroying even more of their own resources.
This was exactly my thought. Instead of wasting all of our time looking for water on planets as a sign of possible life, simply look for greenhouse gases. If there are any advanced super aliens out there, they're planet must be a veritable sauna by now.
Yes, AC. Current evidence leads us to believe that the evidence that a planet once held alien life is the non-existence of water. Ergo, the alien species that once occupied the planet has warmed the planet to such a degree that the atmosphere was destroyed and the water then evaporated into space.
There is almost irrefutable proof that this is exactly what happened on Mars.
We must fight to end global warming or this will only continue to get worse!
Or how about this. Load your phone with music and movies (legally obtained of course). Get stopped and let the cop copy everything. Let your first call be to the MPAA/RIAA laywers.
Are we thinking about the same Europe?
Whoosh, Whoosh, Whoosh, Whoosh
Go watch Office Space then come back and re-read his comment in proper context :)
By your logic Netflix should have never went into business.
WD does Netflix as well
We have cities with comparable populations to those entire countries. All of those combined probably do not equal the size of the US.
So you are saying because one of these small countries has a decent system that you should just be able to easily expand that 35-50x in size and get the same results?
"So you see no problem with putting thousands upon thousands of hormone enraged teens into a setting, sometimes a highly polarizing setting, where they can easily find out who one another really is?"
Kind of like a Highschool?