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  1. Re:They should be doing the opposite on The Great Canadian Copyright Giveaway: Copyright Extension For Sound Recordings · · Score: 1

    I was replying to the utter bullshit that is this ---> "If you reuse copyright material you aren't being very creative". ...

  2. Do I really care if a "musician" gets his CR extended? No, but how about drugs? Or specific equipment or firmware.

    It appears to me the corps (and others) are trying to get increase, not only in time, but what is covered and allowed.
    The people behind these moves never invent anything, they are the lawyers and business class people.
    The termites... the bean counters, the useless, never made a thing in their lives but know exactly how top extract monetization from some naive kid and his first hit song/invention.

    “The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.”

      George Bernard Shaw

  3. Re:They should be doing the opposite on The Great Canadian Copyright Giveaway: Copyright Extension For Sound Recordings · · Score: 1

    Wow fail... you clearly have no clue if you believe that, or you chose to take the strawman route and proclaim "an exact copy" is what's occurring in every instance..

  4. Hmm on YouTube Going Dark On Older Devices · · Score: 1

    Which is why I bought a huge LCD screen that was just a screen, not "smart" at all.
    The computer tied to the end of it is cheap and easily replaceable.

  5. Re:Laugh on Using Adderall In the Office To Get Ahead · · Score: 1

    So the cause and effect are the same in your version... with a twist...

  6. Laugh on Using Adderall In the Office To Get Ahead · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Americans work longer hours and take fewer vacations than most others in the developed world.

    We shoot each other more often as well.

  7. Re:Hmm on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 1

    Making assumptions... of course you would have asked in ASL (or GSL depending on critter) but you just "assumed" I meant otherwise.

    In December of that same year, All Ball escaped from Koko's cage and was hit and killed by a car. Later, Patterson said that when she signed to Koko that All Ball had been killed, Koko signed "Bad, sad, bad" and "Frown, cry, frown, sad". Patterson also reported later hearing Koko making a sound similar to human weeping.[32]

  8. Re:Catch 22 on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 1

    You have not spent any time with chimps, I can tell when a person is speaking from assumption instead of experience.

  9. Re:Hmm on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 1

    Yes, Washoe taught her adopted son Loulis to sign some words.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

  10. Re:Hmm on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

    Washoe learned approximately 350 words of ASL.[2] She also taught her adopted son Loulis some American Sign Language.[3][4][5]

  11. Re:Hmm on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 1

    So they are intelligent, just not at the same level...

    Feels like high school all over again.

    Just out of curiosity if you could ask a chimp "Can I kill you in the name of science?" what do you think the answer would be?

  12. Really? on Robot Workers' Real Draw: Reducing Dependence on Human Workers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Technology in the workplace is as much about power and control as it is about productivity and efficiency."

    It's sounding more like oppression to me.

  13. Hmm on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 2, Informative

    When it is possible to sit down with your lab "animal" and have a conversation in sign language...

    Maybe they shouldn't be a lab animal.

  14. What a freak on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 2

    There is never too much water, and frankly this is what you get when you build in a desert.

    It won’t be much longer before mountains have no snow, then there will be no rivers, no fish, nothing.

    When the Last Tree Is Cut Down, the Last Fish Eaten, and the Last Stream Poisoned, You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Money
    -Cree Indian

  15. Re:A bit off topic on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1

    There's nothing in my comments that indicates I was referring to the "iron curtain" speech, why do you say that?

  16. Re:A bit off topic on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1

    You did notice the he said it to Truman correct? It was not stated as part of his speech even though the dates match.

    - Winston Churchill to Truman (Fultun, USA March 1946)

    Since it is a quote between 2 people you can't prove it didn't happen, and I can't prove it did.

    So you went and dug up his Fulton speech but you didn't even notice it was between Truman and Winston.
    Or did you?

    In addition, I believe I stated it may be propaganda.

    Turns out, unless you have video of them saying it, quotes are difficult to prove either way.
    With video only slightly less difficult.

    There's nothing funny about it, all humans lie and obfuscate, take a look at the Palestinian conflict...

  17. Re:A bit off topic on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1

    The guy that runs that site has a Jewish name as well...

  18. Re:A bit off topic on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1

    Maybe it was removed, maybe it's propaganda.

  19. Re:We Remember things which Affect Us on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1

    because we were all involved in the war

    The majority of the World was involved in WW2, everyone learned of it, and *ALMOST* no one walking around today was involved...

    The truth is one gets discussed and "used" far more than any others.

  20. Piffle on If Earth Never Had Life, Continents Would Be Smaller · · Score: 1

    If a planet has liquid water on it it's just a matter of when life exist not if.

    Personally I think a lot of cellular level life is out there blowing around like dandelions, they drop in and adapt.

  21. Re:laugh on How Uber Surge Pricing Really Works · · Score: 2

    HFT is physical of course, hardware, network, etc, but it resides in a digital domain while Uber is out and about in the physical World.
    Yes they use their systems to manipulate pricing, location, etc to their advantage.

    But the results occurs in the physical.
    Nothing "physical" about stocks... unless you want to argue minutiae.

  22. You're day is over... on Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Good riddance.

  23. Re:This is EA. Expect Greatness! Oops, I mean shit on Star Wars Battlefront Game Trailer Is So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage · · Score: 1

    I agree, if you need evidence of this claim look to Hardline.

  24. Only 40 players on Star Wars Battlefront Game Trailer Is So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage · · Score: 1

    Won't buy it then.

  25. laugh on How Uber Surge Pricing Really Works · · Score: 2

    The HFT of the physical World.