Similar arguments were made "back-in-the-day" with respect to the fundamental need for electricity. Would you rather generate your own or "rent" it off of the grid? Similar situation, yet the vast majority of people and companies weighed the economic and risk factors and went with a shared provider.
Tangential to the topic at hand, but I saw the Rover IMAX at the new Air & Space museum out by Dulles. Spirit & Opportunity are an amazing technical and engineering achievement. I remember seeing this picture with the rover a few months ago but they didn't have the zoomed in version so I couldn't tell what was a rock and what was a rover (seems like there's a song in there somewheres).
BTW, the rest of that museum is totally like mecca for any nerd.
Yes and no. Since your ads age very quickly, you have to refresh them more often than other online ad venues (dice/monster/etc). Still a good deal tho.
Do you think the Red Hat EVP of Sales is really going to say something like "HOLY CRAP! We're screwed!!!!" ? Of course not, they're going to come out swinging - that's all they can do.
HAHAHAHA. Ain't it great, I said "vote for stupidity"! It can mean "Vote" as a clever tie-in to the story subject, or "vote for stupidity" as in "I vote for stupid things", e.g. Bush, or it could be just my answer to the parent post or it....
I used the idea of a savings account to put things in the starkest light, but it really could be any property I create. If I start and then leave a profitable company... do I have to give up my stock after 50 years? Why not? If I create sculptures that I charge people to see in my gallery, do I have to give them up after 50 years? If the answer is no, why should copyright be any different? It's a product of my hard work and skills just as these other things are.
I don't know if I'm making this any clearer - I'm just uncomfortable with society appropriating my property when "it" feels I've had it long enough. Take it when I'm dead if you want, but as long as I'm alive, it should be mine.
The refutation of the extension is exactly that - refutation of an extension, not a rejection of the entire idea.
Well, what about you? Let's say that you put your savings into a bank in 1955. Should "society" have free rights to that money after 50 years? After all, you should have still have been working, right?
Trust me, I'm not fan of ridiculously long copyright periods, but saying that you have the right to take my property just because I was unwilling or unable to duplicate my previous success doesn't sound fair to me.
Does anybody still watch MTV? I haven't watched it for... (wait for it)...about 20 years. Of course, even then it had a lot of commercials, but at least there was still music.
Used to be 17 in the US until the GATT treaty - now they're 20 years. I was thinking the same thing though - some of these patents must be expired or getting pretty close to it.
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Of course I didn't RTFM, but it seems that researchers independently deciding that The Daily Show had more substance than MSM news orgs is hardly surprising or particularly illuminating. It seems like they (like most of us), probably just like the show better.
IMO, Jay Leno's monologue is an equally good news source.
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Jurassic park? I laughed when I heard that line. "Run like hell" I said, "you'll never figure out what the csh call is in time!"
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Similar arguments were made "back-in-the-day" with respect to the fundamental need for electricity. Would you rather generate your own or "rent" it off of the grid? Similar situation, yet the vast majority of people and companies weighed the economic and risk factors and went with a shared provider.
I would think that was the only question. Couldn't you just reformat the drive yourself and get to the same state?
My cat would get her own human retinal samples if she could only figure out how to use a knife.
This isn't the Data Complex I'm looking for.
And the connecting UFO-Airways flight was probably delayed coming out of Newark.
Tangential to the topic at hand, but I saw the Rover IMAX at the new Air & Space museum out by Dulles. Spirit & Opportunity are an amazing technical and engineering achievement. I remember seeing this picture with the rover a few months ago but they didn't have the zoomed in version so I couldn't tell what was a rock and what was a rover (seems like there's a song in there somewheres).
BTW, the rest of that museum is totally like mecca for any nerd.
-1 Rambling.
Uh. Google. Yahoo! Woot! That is Web 2.0 or Web Two - O! HA! [choking noise as dragged from desk and beaten by coworkers]
I think everyone can also figure out that Apple probably didn't pay Forrester enough "research" fees.
Although at $25 it can't be beat
Yes and no. Since your ads age very quickly, you have to refresh them more often than other online ad venues (dice/monster/etc). Still a good deal tho.
Do you think the Red Hat EVP of Sales is really going to say something like "HOLY CRAP! We're screwed!!!!" ? Of course not, they're going to come out swinging - that's all they can do.
I vote for stupidity.
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HAHAHAHA. Ain't it great, I said "vote for stupidity"! It can mean "Vote" as a clever tie-in to the story subject, or "vote for stupidity" as in "I vote for stupid things", e.g. Bush, or it could be just my answer to the parent post or it
-5 Inane Blathering. Karma whore no more.
Oh, cool. I thought I'd left the Mars faucet open.
I used the idea of a savings account to put things in the starkest light, but it really could be any property I create. If I start and then leave a profitable company... do I have to give up my stock after 50 years? Why not? If I create sculptures that I charge people to see in my gallery, do I have to give them up after 50 years? If the answer is no, why should copyright be any different? It's a product of my hard work and skills just as these other things are.
I don't know if I'm making this any clearer - I'm just uncomfortable with society appropriating my property when "it" feels I've had it long enough. Take it when I'm dead if you want, but as long as I'm alive, it should be mine.
The refutation of the extension is exactly that - refutation of an extension, not a rejection of the entire idea.
No argument with that, good point.
Well, what about you? Let's say that you put your savings into a bank in 1955. Should "society" have free rights to that money after 50 years? After all, you should have still have been working, right?
Trust me, I'm not fan of ridiculously long copyright periods, but saying that you have the right to take my property just because I was unwilling or unable to duplicate my previous success doesn't sound fair to me.
Does anybody still watch MTV? I haven't watched it for... (wait for it)...about 20 years. Of course, even then it had a lot of commercials, but at least there was still music.
Can someone please post his email? I'd like to send him some great money saving offers.
Used to be 17 in the US until the GATT treaty - now they're 20 years. I was thinking the same thing though - some of these patents must be expired or getting pretty close to it.
That's already been done. It's called "Open Source".
Your post gives me an idea.....
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Of course I didn't RTFM, but it seems that researchers independently deciding that The Daily Show had more substance than MSM news orgs is hardly surprising or particularly illuminating. It seems like they (like most of us), probably just like the show better.
IMO, Jay Leno's monologue is an equally good news source.
oh sure, but does it run linux? Nothing to see here, move along you beowulf cluster. In korea, only old people would find this funny.
Frist!
...if you want to make the $'s, go to law school. It doesn't matter if anything is produced, you still make money.