No more free copyright. No more copyright when ink hits the paper. If you want it, you have to register and pay for it. And you have to renew every year to keep it. It only costs a dollar the first year, and we double it every year thereafter. If there is continuing value in the copyright, they will pay. If there is not value, they can release it.
This way, Disney can keep Mickey Mouse out the hands of us mere mortals as long as they like, but they must pay. Eventually, they can pay off the national debt.
You have so many missteps in logic, I don't know where to begin:
Kids are sexualized at a very young age by both society and hormones. We used to marry 'em off around that age as SOP because hormones are hazardous
Kids are sexualized today/We used to marry 'em off young because of [the same damn reasons] Kids are no different today. Your harmless twittering was as common 40 years ago as it is today. That is what girls do when learning the "flirting" process. THEY ALWAYS DID IT! Have you never heard of a girl having a crush on her male teacher? Both of my sisters did growing up. And you want to alter societal freedom because it makes you nervous?
When I grew up I was the computer expert explaining stuff to my mom...
And yet you managed to grow up just fine back in the "freewheeling" days of yore before cops set up pervert stings and parents used whitelisting. How on Earth did you manage to avoid becoming a FidoNet statistic? You were 15 when you met an online stranger in person. Up until the eve of your eighteenth birthday, you could have been a pedophile victim. Then you are safe because you see, pedophiles all lose interest after midnight that day.
I blame all this hysteria on small families. I have four children from age eight to nineteen. I was just as overbearing and overprotective as all the other nutjobs when I had my first. By the time the last one came alone, I was a little more rational. You see, the younger ones survived just fine. After a few years and a few kids, you realize that the hysteria is irrational paranoia. I worry more about my kids being hit in a parking lot because they are only paying attention to the DS.
My kids know the rules. And if there is no way I can keep them out of anything they seriously want to find, unless I watch them 24/7 and keep them away from friends. Whitelisting my ass. You are insane if you think you can whitelist and keep them away from anything they genuinely want to discover. You can no more do that than your mother could keep you away from your neighbor friend's Penthouse when you were young.
I caught my 11 year old last fall doing a Google search for "naked girls with big boobs." Did I flip out? No. We had a talk and he has been behaving himself. If you whitelist your home and think you have solved your problem, you kid will be searching for much worse outside your home. And you will never know it.
As for Facebook and its kind, block it if you want to. The high school does. And the kids know how to proxy around it. You are NOT going to stop them. You are better off making sure they know how to use it safely than wishing it away with some half assed software block.
The population density of Singapore is 7,022 per square KILOMETER! The crime rate is one of the lowest in the world. Monaco has a population density of 39,217 per square mile. Their crime rate is low too,.You may not like the "racist" answers, but population density is just as big a pill to swallow. Culture and poverty (which are interrelated) has much more to do with it. Population density has about as much correlation as the phase of the moon.
Therein lies the rub. In order to make gun control work, the government must not only outlaw ALL guns for the unwashed masses, it must also confiscate ALL guns from those same unwashed masses. This is exactly the fear presented by anti-gun control activists. The GP's logic is quite sound. Gun control cannot work in the half assed manner that proponents seem to always encourage. It is an all or nothing proposition.
And as you pointed out, total control can only reduce the availability. It's a cultural thing. Despite the most well-intentioned rants by gun control activists, you cannot change culture by fiat.
Just remember: Those people who were 18 years old in 1969, the summer of love, will be 60 this year. Obama was born in 1961. People in power who looked the other way at illegal wiretaps, are old enough to remember COINTELPRO. George W Bush ducked the Vietnam War only to start one in Iraq and another in Afghanistan. Our government representatives ought to remember My Lai and the bombing of Cambodia, but never batted an eye at Abu Ghraib and extraordinary rendition. The generation of hippies and flower children are the ones who want to touch your junk in airports in the name of safety. The "counterculture" wants to keep you from flying on airplanes just because your parents chose your name poorly.
I find it almost humorous that the generation that wanted us to turn on, tune in, and drop out and the most autocratic, dictatorial, and fascist of all. But that's okay, because it's for our own good and safety...
The Blair Witch Project was done on a shoestring budget. It cost only $35,000 and that was over ten years ago. Or how about the original Halloween? It was done on the cheap and that was in the 70's.
These may be outliers, but with technology costs dropping and distribution costs dropping faster, I would be afraid if I were a major studio. It doesn't take a genius to realize that small capital "indie" studios can pop up and eat their lunch.
Cheap productions may not be able to wreck Ferraris on camera, but CGI can be very realistic. Can you honestly saw that you know where the hardware and software tech will be in 5 years?
It's funny, I was just checking on the new Nexus S for T-Mobile last week because my contract was up this past weekend. Thanks T-Mobile. You just saved me a shitload of money. I'll just keep my cheap, dumb-as-a-brick voice phone and use my iPod Touch when I have Wifi. Give me a call when you fix your network problems and I'll reconsider you...
You do realize that Apple does not get any additional money from you when you buy AAPL stock from someone else on the stock market right? Now given that fact, what makes you think that you have a "right" to dividends? Did you invest in AAPL during their IP? Did you lend them money? If not, they why should some arbitrary stock speculator get money when all it does is erode the value of the company and reduce its liquidity?
Dude, WTF??? You DO realize as a stockholder, you are a part OWNER of the company. THAT is what gives you a right to a dividend. Now if your co-owners agree (through their proxy directors and management) that they would rather use the income for growth than dividends, that is their collective right. It doesn't have jack shit to do with whether you were part of the IPO or bought on the secondary markets.
Maybe you should research the court case Ford v. Dodge. And remember, it has never been overruled...
And as per the original poster, AAPL IS greatly overpriced. Someday, Steve Jobs is going to croak just like the rest of us and you will see just how right the OP is.
There were already regulations which limited volume.
Then those regulations weren't working to reduce the problem. I fell asleep a few nights ago in front of the set and was shocked wide awake at 1:00 by one of our local Fox affiliates' commercials. I honestly cannot fathom why they would run something so loud at 1AM unless the object was to wake up someone. It was so loud that my heart was racing and my fight or flight response had begun.
Incidentally, it was a local commercial, not a network one. I have noticed they tend to be louder. It was also a car dealership commercial. They tend to be loud too.
I reversed the DVR to verify I had not left the volume too high. Nope. There was one single commercial in a block of them that was outrageously loud...
Clearly, there is a problem. If broadcasters cannot monitor their advertisers' material or force them to self monitor, they need to purchase equipment that can do it for them.
LaHood is worse than an idiot. He is a well meaning idiot. There is nothing more dangerous to your liberty.
He is so completely convinced of his intentions and his correctness, that he is unable to see any flaw in his point of view. He is unwilling to compromise. He is unwilling to see how impractical or wrong his actions may be. He is looking out for your good, and he is convinced that only he is capable.
Over the past three years, I have been harassed by no less than four debt collectors looking for people. One debtor bore a similar name to my 8 year old son. Two others had no similarity to anyone in my family and are people I do not know. The latest one who started calling a few weeks ago is looking for my ex-wife and we have been divorced for four years.
The one looking for someone with my kids' name, robocalled with a recorded message for six months before I even knew who it was calling. The number was always "unavailable." When humans started calling, it took another three months to get them to stop. I had to get VERY nasty on the phone and threaten them with the state AG's office to get them to quit calling.
Copyright law does not protect recipes that are mere listings of ingredients. Nor does it protect other mere listings of ingredients such as those found in formulas, compounds, or prescriptions. Copyright protection may, however, extend to substantial literary expression—a description, explanation, or illustration, for example—that accompanies a recipe or formula or to a combination of recipes, as in a cookbook.
How long until someone gets hit with this kind of judgement and goes postal on everybody. When you are in such a lopsided position of power and you put people in a position where they have nothing left to lose, some will decide to take revenge, especially if they feel it is an unfairly unjust proposition.
I must admit, I am completely stymied by anyone who is willing to dispose of rights, liberties, and/or freedoms without so much as an afterthought. Even if you do not own guns, do you want some politician telling you, that you are not trustworthy enough to have that right? Or the right to say whatever you want? Or to adopt whatever religion you want? The Brits are so proud of their gun control and has that eliminated violence? No, those who commit violence use knives instead.
I actually feel sorry for you. You are cut from the same cloth as those who would jail people for preaching the wrong religion. Or jailing those for "insulting the monarchy." You are so fixated of telling others what they should and should not do, you are willing to give up your own freedoms. On the other hand, I believe you should be permitted by default to do and say what you want as long as it does not harm anyone else.
And it is the harm that should be regulated, not the tools used to do it.
I always thought that the U.K. referred to the United Kingdoms of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. I always thought that was why the Brits get so pissed off when we Americans call all of it England.
When the remnants of Hurricane Ike came though our area, we lost power for about two weeks. A pretty large area including rural and urban areas were out. Most of the rural areas were on wells. Well pumps don't work without electricity. There were no fights. There were no hoarders or scalpers. (Well... Generators did disappear quickly) We had no perishable food for a couple of weeks, but we survived without cannibalism.
There was less civil unrest than your standard UK Soccer/Football match.
Most of my old 1.2MB 5.25" Floppies still read perfectly, but most of my old 1.44MB 3.5" floppies are completely unreadable. The 1.2s are much older. I assume the magnetic density must affect its stability. Or perhaps it is an inherent design flaw. Of course, it could be just the quality of the media too, but it seems independent of the brands.
When Blockbuster screwed me over with late fees one night when I was actually on time, I swore I would never give them another penny. That was before Netflix existed. I never stepped foot into another store. I rented everywhere else.
I have been licking my chops waiting for this day a long time...
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How about:
No more free copyright. No more copyright when ink hits the paper. If you want it, you have to register and pay for it. And you have to renew every year to keep it. It only costs a dollar the first year, and we double it every year thereafter. If there is continuing value in the copyright, they will pay. If there is not value, they can release it.
This way, Disney can keep Mickey Mouse out the hands of us mere mortals as long as they like, but they must pay. Eventually, they can pay off the national debt.
Kids are sexualized today/We used to marry 'em off young because of [the same damn reasons] Kids are no different today. Your harmless twittering was as common 40 years ago as it is today. That is what girls do when learning the "flirting" process. THEY ALWAYS DID IT! Have you never heard of a girl having a crush on her male teacher? Both of my sisters did growing up. And you want to alter societal freedom because it makes you nervous?
And yet you managed to grow up just fine back in the "freewheeling" days of yore before cops set up pervert stings and parents used whitelisting. How on Earth did you manage to avoid becoming a FidoNet statistic? You were 15 when you met an online stranger in person. Up until the eve of your eighteenth birthday, you could have been a pedophile victim. Then you are safe because you see, pedophiles all lose interest after midnight that day.
I blame all this hysteria on small families. I have four children from age eight to nineteen. I was just as overbearing and overprotective as all the other nutjobs when I had my first. By the time the last one came alone, I was a little more rational. You see, the younger ones survived just fine. After a few years and a few kids, you realize that the hysteria is irrational paranoia. I worry more about my kids being hit in a parking lot because they are only paying attention to the DS.
My kids know the rules. And if there is no way I can keep them out of anything they seriously want to find, unless I watch them 24/7 and keep them away from friends. Whitelisting my ass. You are insane if you think you can whitelist and keep them away from anything they genuinely want to discover. You can no more do that than your mother could keep you away from your neighbor friend's Penthouse when you were young.
I caught my 11 year old last fall doing a Google search for "naked girls with big boobs." Did I flip out? No. We had a talk and he has been behaving himself. If you whitelist your home and think you have solved your problem, you kid will be searching for much worse outside your home. And you will never know it.
As for Facebook and its kind, block it if you want to. The high school does. And the kids know how to proxy around it. You are NOT going to stop them. You are better off making sure they know how to use it safely than wishing it away with some half assed software block.
The population density of Singapore is 7,022 per square KILOMETER! The crime rate is one of the lowest in the world. Monaco has a population density of 39,217 per square mile. Their crime rate is low too,.You may not like the "racist" answers, but population density is just as big a pill to swallow. Culture and poverty (which are interrelated) has much more to do with it. Population density has about as much correlation as the phase of the moon.
Perhaps cohesive and cooperative would have been a better choice of words. But the GP is essentially correct.
How long until "the cloud" becomes Skynet?
Therein lies the rub. In order to make gun control work, the government must not only outlaw ALL guns for the unwashed masses, it must also confiscate ALL guns from those same unwashed masses. This is exactly the fear presented by anti-gun control activists. The GP's logic is quite sound. Gun control cannot work in the half assed manner that proponents seem to always encourage. It is an all or nothing proposition.
And as you pointed out, total control can only reduce the availability. It's a cultural thing. Despite the most well-intentioned rants by gun control activists, you cannot change culture by fiat.
Just remember: Those people who were 18 years old in 1969, the summer of love, will be 60 this year. Obama was born in 1961. People in power who looked the other way at illegal wiretaps, are old enough to remember COINTELPRO. George W Bush ducked the Vietnam War only to start one in Iraq and another in Afghanistan. Our government representatives ought to remember My Lai and the bombing of Cambodia, but never batted an eye at Abu Ghraib and extraordinary rendition. The generation of hippies and flower children are the ones who want to touch your junk in airports in the name of safety. The "counterculture" wants to keep you from flying on airplanes just because your parents chose your name poorly.
I find it almost humorous that the generation that wanted us to turn on, tune in, and drop out and the most autocratic, dictatorial, and fascist of all. But that's okay, because it's for our own good and safety...
The Blair Witch Project was done on a shoestring budget. It cost only $35,000 and that was over ten years ago. Or how about the original Halloween? It was done on the cheap and that was in the 70's.
These may be outliers, but with technology costs dropping and distribution costs dropping faster, I would be afraid if I were a major studio. It doesn't take a genius to realize that small capital "indie" studios can pop up and eat their lunch.
Cheap productions may not be able to wreck Ferraris on camera, but CGI can be very realistic. Can you honestly saw that you know where the hardware and software tech will be in 5 years?
They are guilty of commercial infringment.
It's funny, I was just checking on the new Nexus S for T-Mobile last week because my contract was up this past weekend. Thanks T-Mobile. You just saved me a shitload of money. I'll just keep my cheap, dumb-as-a-brick voice phone and use my iPod Touch when I have Wifi. Give me a call when you fix your network problems and I'll reconsider you...
Dude, WTF??? You DO realize as a stockholder, you are a part OWNER of the company. THAT is what gives you a right to a dividend. Now if your co-owners agree (through their proxy directors and management) that they would rather use the income for growth than dividends, that is their collective right. It doesn't have jack shit to do with whether you were part of the IPO or bought on the secondary markets.
Maybe you should research the court case Ford v. Dodge. And remember, it has never been overruled...
And as per the original poster, AAPL IS greatly overpriced. Someday, Steve Jobs is going to croak just like the rest of us and you will see just how right the OP is.
Will it have a tithing pond?
Then those regulations weren't working to reduce the problem. I fell asleep a few nights ago in front of the set and was shocked wide awake at 1:00 by one of our local Fox affiliates' commercials. I honestly cannot fathom why they would run something so loud at 1AM unless the object was to wake up someone. It was so loud that my heart was racing and my fight or flight response had begun.
Incidentally, it was a local commercial, not a network one. I have noticed they tend to be louder. It was also a car dealership commercial. They tend to be loud too.
I reversed the DVR to verify I had not left the volume too high. Nope. There was one single commercial in a block of them that was outrageously loud...
Clearly, there is a problem. If broadcasters cannot monitor their advertisers' material or force them to self monitor, they need to purchase equipment that can do it for them.
LaHood is worse than an idiot. He is a well meaning idiot. There is nothing more dangerous to your liberty.
He is so completely convinced of his intentions and his correctness, that he is unable to see any flaw in his point of view. He is unwilling to compromise. He is unwilling to see how impractical or wrong his actions may be. He is looking out for your good, and he is convinced that only he is capable.
Over the past three years, I have been harassed by no less than four debt collectors looking for people. One debtor bore a similar name to my 8 year old son. Two others had no similarity to anyone in my family and are people I do not know. The latest one who started calling a few weeks ago is looking for my ex-wife and we have been divorced for four years.
The one looking for someone with my kids' name, robocalled with a recorded message for six months before I even knew who it was calling. The number was always "unavailable." When humans started calling, it took another three months to get them to stop. I had to get VERY nasty on the phone and threaten them with the state AG's office to get them to quit calling.
They are genuine scum!
Recipes aren't copyrightable. I suspect Cooks Source printed more than just a recipe.
From the US Copyright Office: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html
Copyright law does not protect recipes that are mere listings of ingredients. Nor does it protect other mere listings of ingredients such as those found in formulas, compounds, or prescriptions. Copyright protection may, however, extend to substantial literary expression—a description, explanation, or illustration, for example—that accompanies a recipe or formula or to a combination of recipes, as in a cookbook.
How long until someone gets hit with this kind of judgement and goes postal on everybody. When you are in such a lopsided position of power and you put people in a position where they have nothing left to lose, some will decide to take revenge, especially if they feel it is an unfairly unjust proposition.
Troll or not, I must respond...
I must admit, I am completely stymied by anyone who is willing to dispose of rights, liberties, and/or freedoms without so much as an afterthought. Even if you do not own guns, do you want some politician telling you, that you are not trustworthy enough to have that right? Or the right to say whatever you want? Or to adopt whatever religion you want? The Brits are so proud of their gun control and has that eliminated violence? No, those who commit violence use knives instead.
I actually feel sorry for you. You are cut from the same cloth as those who would jail people for preaching the wrong religion. Or jailing those for "insulting the monarchy." You are so fixated of telling others what they should and should not do, you are willing to give up your own freedoms. On the other hand, I believe you should be permitted by default to do and say what you want as long as it does not harm anyone else.
And it is the harm that should be regulated, not the tools used to do it.
I always thought that the U.K. referred to the United Kingdoms of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. I always thought that was why the Brits get so pissed off when we Americans call all of it England.
Kinky...
When the remnants of Hurricane Ike came though our area, we lost power for about two weeks. A pretty large area including rural and urban areas were out. Most of the rural areas were on wells. Well pumps don't work without electricity. There were no fights. There were no hoarders or scalpers. (Well... Generators did disappear quickly) We had no perishable food for a couple of weeks, but we survived without cannibalism.
There was less civil unrest than your standard UK Soccer/Football match.
Kill everybody who says "boxen" instead. ;-)
Most of my old 1.2MB 5.25" Floppies still read perfectly, but most of my old 1.44MB 3.5" floppies are completely unreadable. The 1.2s are much older. I assume the magnetic density must affect its stability. Or perhaps it is an inherent design flaw. Of course, it could be just the quality of the media too, but it seems independent of the brands.
When Blockbuster screwed me over with late fees one night when I was actually on time, I swore I would never give them another penny. That was before Netflix existed. I never stepped foot into another store. I rented everywhere else.
I have been licking my chops waiting for this day a long time...
Sorry... I already trademarked that one in tribute to my ex-wife.