Bingo, as a "rightwing nut" I couldn't care as long as he does his job when he's supposed to.
That disqualifies you from being a "nut" - at least in this area. Now if you want to lay claim to believing Obama was born in Kenya and is a secret muslim terrorist, you can have that title back.
Sadly all the technology in the world did not stop James from making one of the worst movies ever.
Yeah, yeah, sanctimonious hyperbole. If you think Avatar is literally one of the worst movies ever you've never seen an Uwe Bolle film - he's got a couple of dozen big-budget crapfests. Then there are all the evangelical-produced end-days/rapture movies which as a genre are uniformly terrible. After those easy categories there are still thousands of really poor films out there in all genres. Avatar may have had pedestrian story-telling but only a reverse-fan-boi is going to claim that it is close to the bottom of the barrel.
Yeah, that's why JMS is starving in the street and posting from a laptop salvaged from the trash. (IOW, horseshit.)
Yeah, writing the scripts for hundreds of other shows and movies like Changeling and Ninja Assassin haven't made him a dime, its all about those DVD residuals he's lying about.
They don't let banks cheat and collapse the country like in the US where everyone must get the latest HDTV, big cars and just spend money on non-important items and entertainment.
Lol. Just because you aren't aware of the problems doesn't mean they don't exist. For example, the housing market in China has tripled prices over the last 5 years. The details aren't identical to the US (and European) problems, but they've still got problems. Plus, you can expect the one-child policy to have a massive impact as their workforce ages and there are only half as many people in the next generation to support them - think US social-security's problems to the 10th.
Input content *will* usually have been compressed with H264. Even the likes of Google will find itself transcoding 99% of its content into VP8 from some other codec. That might suck for comparison tests but its a fact of life.
That's not relevant to the point - the problem is that the tests measure how well each codec reproduces the input, but there is little value accurately to reproducing errors. So what if VP8 fudges macroblocked input? If it was macroblocked to begin with, then short of doing something crazy like xor-ing the colors, it doesn't really matter if VP8 fudges it up a little bit, its still going to look all blocky anyway.
Yes, and we're talking about a hypothetical in which it's just death. Keep up or shut up.
Write what you mean - "if we are going to have copyright, we ought to not make it based on life of the creator" since we do have copyright that's the context you are writing in if that's not enough, you were responding to a post that said copyright is for zombies -- obviously the current life+X.
There is never the guarantee of making any money and always the chance of punishment whenever murder is committed, yet people commit murder for profit every day. I don't think that bringing logic into it will help when people are known to make illogical decisions.
Well, you just now said your own idea is stupid because murder is an illogical decision and you don't think bringing logic into it will help.
I'm done when the other guy starts claiming my point as his own.
You write a song. I write a song which is considered to infringe. I kill you, now there is no one to make a claim of infringement, because you are dead and the copyright term is tied to the length of your life. Now I am free to continue to profit from my song. If no one can prove I have killed you, my career will indeed likely improve due to the notoriety.
Still stupid.
(A) Term of copyright now is death+X years. It's never been just death.
(B) Even if it were just death, the estate of the deceased is still owed any royalties prior to his death - and killing over a song that is not already a hit is no different from killing before even writing a song - there is no guarantee of making any money.
Typical response of a coward who is afraid to own his own words. A search that comes back with a bunch of hits - the most obvious of which don't say anything like you claim. The closet thing you've got is "My agenda was your agenda" not "I am here to serve you." But you know what you crazy mutherfucka? It is the job of politicians to serve the electorate, that a politician would actually say so ain't no scandal.
Distrusting strangers (government) to run your life is a logical thing to do.
Holy shit, that's some fucking crazy right there. Seriously.
Did you not read the part where I said he's totally wrong about healthcare? Where I said that he did the wrong thing with the banking bailout? Your brain is stuck in its own narrative of crazy. In this conversation where I dispute your claims all you can do is attribute false beliefs to me.
You sure do like to let your crazy flag fly high don't you?
Someone made a point that I think made sense......if we're going to have copyright, we ought to not make it based on the life of the creator.....otherwise it will be motivation to kill artists.
No, it was a stupid point then and a stupid point now - hence your 'funny' rating rather than insightful.
Why is it stupid? Because the only thing to be gained by such a murder is release to the public domain after which there is no competitive advantage to anyone.
If anything, a fixed copyright duration would encourage such murders by those who will inherit the copyrights since they then will receive whatever income the copyrights generate.
Tenuous? I've seen videos of Obama telling SEIU that he's there to serve them. He was also a part of the organization back in the 90s. That's a SOLID link not a tenuous one.
Link? Lets see the actual words said, not your interpretation.
Your problem is that you are facing cognitive dissonance. You don't want to admit the guy you like might not be as squeaky-clean as you'd like, so you effectively erase the facts from your head.
You mean how he renegged on his promise to end warrantless wiretaps before he even got to office? Or how gitmo is still open? Or how he put a bunch of bankers in charge of bailing out the bankers? Or how he's the first president to ever publicly sanction assassination?
No, I don't have a problem criticizing the guy at all. Hell, he's 180 degrees out of sync with what the way the healthcare pricing problem ought to be fixed.
What I do have problem with are people like you who can't even hear the crazy in your own words.
Just last week he had a show about Unions, their anti-chinese and anti-black racism (pre-1970), their anti-white racism (post-2000), and Obama's connections to these unions.
Lol you have been watching him too much if you buy into such tenuous examples of guilt by association. That's Beck's entire schtick - pick a bunch of only marginally related facts, completely ignore anything even remotely contradictory and then connect the dots as if it were a fait accompli. It's echo chamber analysis at best.
The point of releasing this information is to prompt the vendor to fix it......and probably gain more street cred.
Except that in this case it sounds like the entire point of this MSRC organization is to hide the identity of the guy who found the exploit in the first place. By using the MSRC umbrella to release the info it shields the individual from retaliation. So some street cred goes to the MSRC in general but that's not particularly useful for the guys doing the actual work.
Just because Beck has raised tokenism to a new level doesn't make him less of a hate-monger. The guy accuses Obama of being racist and then in practically the next sentence denies he ever said it.
Get back to us when he starts doing regular shows on the historic contributions of muslims to the arts and sciences.
I can confirm the first part about the contest and then then security guys hassling the photographers in the contest, but that whole bit about cutting the CEO's mic mid-speech sounds like urban legend to me.
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No, its a terrible example because of the kenyan modifier.
Bingo, as a "rightwing nut" I couldn't care as long as he does his job when he's supposed to.
That disqualifies you from being a "nut" - at least in this area.
Now if you want to lay claim to believing Obama was born in Kenya and is a secret muslim terrorist, you can have that title back.
Oh, and get a grip, wanker.
I think that's pretty much the definition of a wanker.
And yet they made two sequels.
Sadly all the technology in the world did not stop James from making one of the worst movies ever.
Yeah, yeah, sanctimonious hyperbole. If you think Avatar is literally one of the worst movies ever you've never seen an Uwe Bolle film - he's got a couple of dozen big-budget crapfests. Then there are all the evangelical-produced end-days/rapture movies which as a genre are uniformly terrible. After those easy categories there are still thousands of really poor films out there in all genres. Avatar may have had pedestrian story-telling but only a reverse-fan-boi is going to claim that it is close to the bottom of the barrel.
Sadly, in the US, being opted-in unless you opt-out (say, sneaking a clause into a Terms of Use) isn't 100% out of line yet.
Lol, that's putting it mildly.
It's freaking de rigueur in the US.
Yeah, that's why JMS is starving in the street and posting from a laptop salvaged from the trash. (IOW, horseshit.)
Yeah, writing the scripts for hundreds of other shows and movies like Changeling and Ninja Assassin haven't made him a dime, its all about those DVD residuals he's lying about.
When zealots can't distinguish between legitimate security and illegitimate spying, it hurts the credibility of civil liberties, not the NSA.
But giving the a program one of the the most Orwellian names ever - "Perfect Citizen" - sure doesn't help the NSA's credibility either.
They don't let banks cheat and collapse the country like in the US where everyone must get the latest HDTV, big cars and just spend money on non-important items and entertainment.
Lol. Just because you aren't aware of the problems doesn't mean they don't exist. For example, the housing market in China has tripled prices over the last 5 years. The details aren't identical to the US (and European) problems, but they've still got problems. Plus, you can expect the one-child policy to have a massive impact as their workforce ages and there are only half as many people in the next generation to support them - think US social-security's problems to the 10th.
You say "semantic", but what you mean is "stop pointing out that I'm wrong!".
Because irrationality is not a form of stupidity.
Oh, a semantic dork. Good luck with that.
You go ahead and assume people are stupid and that's what you'll get.
Input content *will* usually have been compressed with H264. Even the likes of Google will find itself transcoding 99% of its content into VP8 from some other codec. That might suck for comparison tests but its a fact of life.
That's not relevant to the point - the problem is that the tests measure how well each codec reproduces the input, but there is little value accurately to reproducing errors. So what if VP8 fudges macroblocked input? If it was macroblocked to begin with, then short of doing something crazy like xor-ing the colors, it doesn't really matter if VP8 fudges it up a little bit, its still going to look all blocky anyway.
Yes, and we're talking about a hypothetical in which it's just death. Keep up or shut up.
Write what you mean - "if we are going to have copyright, we ought to not make it based on life of the creator"
since we do have copyright that's the context you are writing in
if that's not enough, you were responding to a post that said copyright is for zombies -- obviously the current life+X.
There is never the guarantee of making any money and always the chance of punishment whenever murder is committed, yet people commit murder for profit every day. I don't think that bringing logic into it will help when people are known to make illogical decisions.
Well, you just now said your own idea is stupid because murder is an illogical decision and you don't think bringing logic into it will help.
I'm done when the other guy starts claiming my point as his own.
You write a song. I write a song which is considered to infringe. I kill you, now there is no one to make a claim of infringement, because you are dead and the copyright term is tied to the length of your life. Now I am free to continue to profit from my song. If no one can prove I have killed you, my career will indeed likely improve due to the notoriety.
Still stupid.
(A) Term of copyright now is death+X years. It's never been just death.
(B) Even if it were just death, the estate of the deceased is still owed any royalties prior to his death - and killing over a song that is not already a hit is no different from killing before even writing a song - there is no guarantee of making any money.
lmgtfy
Typical response of a coward who is afraid to own his own words. A search that comes back with a bunch of hits - the most obvious of which don't say anything like you claim. The closet thing you've got is "My agenda was your agenda" not "I am here to serve you." But you know what you crazy mutherfucka? It is the job of politicians to serve the electorate, that a politician would actually say so ain't no scandal.
Distrusting strangers (government) to run your life is a logical thing to do.
Holy shit, that's some fucking crazy right there. Seriously.
Did you not read the part where I said he's totally wrong about healthcare? Where I said that he did the wrong thing with the banking bailout? Your brain is stuck in its own narrative of crazy. In this conversation where I dispute your claims all you can do is attribute false beliefs to me.
You sure do like to let your crazy flag fly high don't you?
Someone made a point that I think made sense......if we're going to have copyright, we ought to not make it based on the life of the creator.....otherwise it will be motivation to kill artists.
No, it was a stupid point then and a stupid point now - hence your 'funny' rating rather than insightful.
Why is it stupid? Because the only thing to be gained by such a murder is release to the public domain after which there is no competitive advantage to anyone.
If anything, a fixed copyright duration would encourage such murders by those who will inherit the copyrights since they then will receive whatever income the copyrights generate.
Tenuous? I've seen videos of Obama telling SEIU that he's there to serve them. He was also a part of the organization back in the 90s. That's a SOLID link not a tenuous one.
Link? Lets see the actual words said, not your interpretation.
Your problem is that you are facing cognitive dissonance. You don't want to admit the guy you like might not be as squeaky-clean as you'd like, so you effectively erase the facts from your head.
You mean how he renegged on his promise to end warrantless wiretaps before he even got to office?
Or how gitmo is still open?
Or how he put a bunch of bankers in charge of bailing out the bankers?
Or how he's the first president to ever publicly sanction assassination?
No, I don't have a problem criticizing the guy at all. Hell, he's 180 degrees out of sync with what the way the healthcare pricing problem ought to be fixed.
What I do have problem with are people like you who can't even hear the crazy in your own words.
Just last week he had a show about Unions, their anti-chinese and anti-black racism (pre-1970), their anti-white racism (post-2000), and Obama's connections to these unions.
Lol you have been watching him too much if you buy into such tenuous examples of guilt by association. That's Beck's entire schtick - pick a bunch of only marginally related facts, completely ignore anything even remotely contradictory and then connect the dots as if it were a fait accompli. It's echo chamber analysis at best.
The point of releasing this information is to prompt the vendor to fix it......and probably gain more street cred.
Except that in this case it sounds like the entire point of this MSRC organization is to hide the identity of the guy who found the exploit in the first place. By using the MSRC umbrella to release the info it shields the individual from retaliation. So some street cred goes to the MSRC in general but that's not particularly useful for the guys doing the actual work.
Just because Beck has raised tokenism to a new level doesn't make him less of a hate-monger.
The guy accuses Obama of being racist and then in practically the next sentence denies he ever said it.
Get back to us when he starts doing regular shows on the historic contributions of muslims to the arts and sciences.
Absolutely. I wanted to get a .gr domain, but I would have to be greek. Did I complain? No. I found another TLD.
grrr!
I was right. Or at least without javascript it doesn't remember it.
Wow, cool! Let's nuke it and see what happens!
And the truth about the origin of global warming is finally revealed!
I can confirm the first part about the contest and then then security guys hassling the photographers in the contest, but that whole bit about cutting the CEO's mic mid-speech sounds like urban legend to me.