I thought that this article was interesting in that it gave the information, explained that the information was incomplete, explained that the information was incompatible with some common ideas about how things work, and didn't try to scare me into anything.
I didn't see any "as many as" or "could be the most" or even "may destroy civilization as we know it."
Maybe if there were more political overtones to this topic the article would be more normal?
. . . it's got to be one of the worst jobs in the world.
If you're a policeman (policeperson?), and doing your job right, you want to serve, to help people, to protect.
Then you have to stop, for speeding, one of these citizens that you want to help, and they start lying and trying to weasel their way out of something that they knew they were doing illegally, like a bratty 3-year old, only probably with worse language. The citizen ends up in his weaselly arguments at the conclusion that it is your fault that he was speeding in the first place. You are level-headed enough to write the ticket anyway. Three days later the police chief calls you into his office and explains that the speeder was the mayor's nephew, circuitously asks about ways to let the nephew off the hook. Now, you have to either stand up for your word, the law, and your principles, and risk losing your job, or knuckle under to petty corruption and lose a little more self-respect.
I think it wouldn't take very long for me to get cynical with a job like that.
It really bugs my wife. "What do you need 3 computers for? Why do you have boxes of parts?"
Because so many computers bugs my wife, I have thrown away a few, an apple//gs (last summer), and a couple of 286s, after removing the full-height hard drives.
Usually, though I give things away.
But, my first PC, an AMD 386DX-40, I didn't throw away. It has been upgraded piece-by-piece. It has been through an Intel phase. The most often replaced part has been the floppy drive. It is now an AMD K6-2 450, with none of the original parts.
Once upon a time, a telemarketer called me. I asked to speak to a manager. The manager came on and asked what was up. I explained that I was doing my part to change the business model. Then I hung up.
I don't think i changed the business model, but it was fun.
Next I will try to sell the telemarketer my old P233MMX that's sitting in the basement. (It's only US$3,200! A real bargiain! Tech support at only US$47.95/min for the first 3 min, US$97.95/min thereafter! etc. ..)
I don't think that my employer could stop me from blogging, but: I did agree not to reveal confidential things, so I'd have to be careful about that. I did agree that anything I create while employed here belongs to my employer, anything, work-related, or not, on my own time, or not, is theirs.
This last is the main barrier that I can see to my remaining with this company for the long term.
Most parents that home school aren't qualified to teach. Most parents that home school aren't willing to add the 6 - 8 hours of work/day it would require to do it right.
I've seen home schooling work, once, but it was supplemented with some public school for things like band and sports.
Administrators get paid more than teachers. Often they get paid a LOT more. District administrators get paid even more. I've known many teachers that preferred to teach, but went into administration to make enough to support a family.
We say we believe in paying teachers, but we don't believe enough to actually do it.
My high school definitely didn't make money on sports. They were fun, though. One of the better thing about sports is that they show that social promotion hasn't completely taken over public education in the US.
(The proportion of schools that give equal varsity playing time to anyone that walks on is very small)
"stay home and watch cartoons for a week" didn't work with my parents.
If I'd been suspended at home for a week: All the (hardware) windows at home would have been spotless. The yard would have been weeded. The basement would have been clean. A sibling would have brought home all my work from school, and it would all have been done. And I probably would have still had to write the 500 lines. If I had still had time, there was probably some room that needed painting, a car that needed its oil changed, some landscaping shovel work that had been planned for a while. ..
Of course, this depended on what I'd done in the first place. It could be worse.
They may get to snoop in your notebook anyway. 1. You may have signed away any ip rights when you started the company. 2. The employer may have concerns about security and you were required to give them permission to snoop anytime they wanted before they hired you.
Other than that though it seems to me that, if you own the book, then it's yours and they'd need police with a warrant (or probable cause, or something) to snoop.
Of course, if you write in the book on work time, and it's not work related, they may give you plenty of free time to write in your book at home.
1. Have LOTS of wild ideas that you would like to try. 2. Try them. 3. Some of them work. 4. Patent. 5. Repeat steps 1 - 4. 6. BIG profit (eventually).
The trick is to finding a way to pay for the initial development and some way to test all the solutions to the wild ideas. The restaurant does both of those.
Forget viny, forget CD, forget DVD audio, forget 8-track. The only way to go is to get the whole orchestra in your house, and bring John Williams himself home to conduct it.
Anything less is for pikers who might as well just listen to 75-year-old AM radio playing scratchy wire-recordings, or the neighborhood cats singing in the street.
I don't make money from copyrights, patents, or trade secrets (a counterexample of your assertion of the impossibility of private property that is information), but I still support them, at least as they've been for the past few years.
I'll risk an analogy here: If you are a plaintiff in a court, would you trust a judge that gets rewarded if defandants win more often?
From that analogy, and your implied admission that you profit by copyright law violations (if not habitually), I hope that you can understand why I won't give your opinion the credibility you likely feel it deserves.
Similarly, neither can I fully trust the opinons of people that make money by selling copyrighted works.
If you can find someone that doesn't EVER profit by breaking copyright laws (or plan to), but still thinks it's ok, point me at them. I'd like to hear what they have say.
Is that greed as in, "I could go to the store and buy it legally, or change the law, or move to another place where I like the law, but I think I'll just copy instead." Maybe that's sloth, not greed.
Perhaps the greed is in, "I didn't write the script, draw the pictures, or create the music, but I'm entitled to them anyway.?"
Or maybe it's just delusions of grandeur, like, "Foo can't be owned. I'm entitled to foo because I could create foo just as well. Anyone can. I just don't happen to feel like it today."
I do. I already have the salt, power source, water.
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Whether I agree or disagree with their politics:
When they drag their business into their politics, they have to expect the politics of others to affect their business. Civic-mindedness works both ways.
Quote: "As the saying goes, you get what you paid for."
In the case of Windows, you pay for a monopoly. In the case of Pepsi, Coke, most beer (at least in the US), and many other things you pay for a lot of fancy advertising.
In the case of Macs, you pay some for advertising, some for the people that design the nifty-looking stuff, some for R&D, etc.
Again Quote: "As the saying goes, you get what you paid for."
Advertising works, and sometimes we get fooled, and pay for it.
If you give, to anyone who asks, detailed specific instructions where illegal drugs are for sale, who to ask, how much they cost, and how to get them, with the intent of making it easier for sale and distribution of illegal drugs then . ..
Yes, you should be charged.
OTOH, if you merely gossip, (Quote) "You know, I hear there are lots of drug dealers on the corner of 3rd and Main"..., then you probably shouldn't be.
Apparently the guy in the story was more like the first case.
I agree that expansion by conquest is a "Bad Thing" and shouldn't be done. However, who should give back the territory they conquered? I am a US citizen, with light skin. Does that mean that I have to leave the current boundaries of the US and go back to where my ancestors vcame from? Very difficult. I was born in Japan. My father and his parents were born in Mexico. Some of my ancestors signed the documents that made the US a nation. Others of my ancestors were still in Denmark 3 generations ago. Who the ground belongs to gets awfully fuzzy awfully quickly. Who gets Egypt? There have been how many conquerings and empires there?
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I thought that this article was interesting in that it gave the information, explained that the information was incomplete, explained that the information was incompatible with some common ideas about how things work, and didn't try to scare me into anything.
I didn't see any "as many as" or "could be the most" or even "may destroy civilization as we know it."
Maybe if there were more political overtones to this topic the article would be more normal?
. . . it's got to be one of the worst jobs in the world.
If you're a policeman (policeperson?), and doing your job right, you want to serve, to help people, to protect.
Then you have to stop, for speeding, one of these citizens that you want to help, and they start lying and trying to weasel their way out of something that they knew they were doing illegally, like a bratty 3-year old, only probably with worse language. The citizen ends up in his weaselly arguments at the conclusion that it is your fault that he was speeding in the first place. You are level-headed enough to write the ticket anyway. Three days later the police chief calls you into his office and explains that the speeder was the mayor's nephew, circuitously asks about ways to let the nephew off the hook. Now, you have to either stand up for your word, the law, and your principles, and risk losing your job, or knuckle under to petty corruption and lose a little more self-respect.
I think it wouldn't take very long for me to get cynical with a job like that.
This is finally a way to get rid of the ???.
It used to be:
1. Do something with computers.
2. ???
3. Proft!
If this bill passes, a bunch of people will:
1. Do something with computers.
2. Get a recycling-fee funded grant.
3. Proft!
It isn't that do-gooders are always trying to take our money.
It is that people trying to take our money find it easier if they pretend to do good.
I like to keep old computers.
//gs (last summer), and a couple of 286s, after removing the full-height hard drives.
It really bugs my wife. "What do you need 3 computers for? Why do you have boxes of parts?"
Because so many computers bugs my wife, I have thrown away a few, an apple
Usually, though I give things away.
But, my first PC, an AMD 386DX-40, I didn't throw away. It has been upgraded piece-by-piece. It has been through an Intel phase. The most often replaced part has been the floppy drive. It is now an AMD K6-2 450, with none of the original parts.
I always read documents before I sign them. The trouble is that I don't always consider what I've read.
In this case I did consider. I had been effectively out of work for over 18 months, and considered it was my best option.
Quote: "Why such a high spousal and child abuse rate?"
Partner and child abuse is higher among people living together who are NOT married.
Once upon a time, a telemarketer called me.
.)
I asked to speak to a manager.
The manager came on and asked what was up.
I explained that I was doing my part to change the business model.
Then I hung up.
I don't think i changed the business model, but it was fun.
Next I will try to sell the telemarketer my old P233MMX that's sitting in the basement. (It's only US$3,200! A real bargiain! Tech support at only US$47.95/min for the first 3 min, US$97.95/min thereafter! etc. .
I don't think that my employer could stop me from blogging, but:
I did agree not to reveal confidential things, so I'd have to be careful about that.
I did agree that anything I create while employed here belongs to my employer, anything, work-related, or not, on my own time, or not, is theirs.
This last is the main barrier that I can see to my remaining with this company for the long term.
Most parents that home school aren't qualified to teach.
Most parents that home school aren't willing to add the 6 - 8 hours of work/day it would require to do it right.
I've seen home schooling work, once, but it was supplemented with some public school for things like band and sports.
Quote: "Politicians become adminstrators"
Administrators get paid more than teachers. Often they get paid a LOT more. District administrators get paid even more. I've known many teachers that preferred to teach, but went into administration to make enough to support a family.
We say we believe in paying teachers, but we don't believe enough to actually do it.
My high school definitely didn't make money on sports. They were fun, though.
One of the better thing about sports is that they show that social promotion hasn't completely taken over public education in the US.
(The proportion of schools that give equal varsity playing time to anyone that walks on is very small)
"stay home and watch cartoons for a week" didn't work with my parents.
.
If I'd been suspended at home for a week:
All the (hardware) windows at home would have been spotless.
The yard would have been weeded.
The basement would have been clean.
A sibling would have brought home all my work from school, and it would all have been done.
And I probably would have still had to write the 500 lines.
If I had still had time, there was probably some room that needed painting, a car that needed its oil changed, some landscaping shovel work that had been planned for a while. .
Of course, this depended on what I'd done in the first place. It could be worse.
I'm very grateful for my parents.
They may get to snoop in your notebook anyway.
1. You may have signed away any ip rights when you started the company.
2. The employer may have concerns about security and you were required to give them permission to snoop anytime they wanted before they hired you.
Other than that though it seems to me that, if you own the book, then it's yours and they'd need police with a warrant (or probable cause, or something) to snoop.
Of course, if you write in the book on work time, and it's not work related, they may give you plenty of free time to write in your book at home.
He's going about this exactly the right way.
1. Have LOTS of wild ideas that you would like to try.
2. Try them.
3. Some of them work.
4. Patent.
5. Repeat steps 1 - 4.
6. BIG profit (eventually).
The trick is to finding a way to pay for the initial development and some way to test all the solutions to the wild ideas. The restaurant does both of those.
Forget digital, go vinyl.
But, if you're really serious:
Forget viny, forget CD, forget DVD audio, forget 8-track. The only way to go is to get the whole orchestra in your house, and bring John Williams himself home to conduct it.
Anything less is for pikers who might as well just listen to 75-year-old AM radio playing scratchy wire-recordings, or the neighborhood cats singing in the street.
I don't make money from copyrights, patents, or trade secrets (a counterexample of your assertion of the impossibility of private property that is information), but I still support them, at least as they've been for the past few years.
I'll risk an analogy here:
If you are a plaintiff in a court, would you trust a judge that gets rewarded if defandants win more often?
From that analogy, and your implied admission that you profit by copyright law violations (if not habitually), I hope that you can understand why I won't give your opinion the credibility you likely feel it deserves.
Similarly, neither can I fully trust the opinons of people that make money by selling copyrighted works.
If you can find someone that doesn't EVER profit by breaking copyright laws (or plan to), but still thinks it's ok, point me at them. I'd like to hear what they have say.
Is that greed as in, "I could go to the store and buy it legally, or change the law, or move to another place where I like the law, but I think I'll just copy instead." Maybe that's sloth, not greed.
Perhaps the greed is in, "I didn't write the script, draw the pictures, or create the music, but I'm entitled to them anyway.?"
Or maybe it's just delusions of grandeur, like, "Foo can't be owned. I'm entitled to foo because I could create foo just as well. Anyone can. I just don't happen to feel like it today."
Quote: "I don't see much advantage over a dremel"
I do.
I already have the salt, power source, water.
Whether I agree or disagree with their politics:
When they drag their business into their politics, they have to expect the politics of others to affect their business. Civic-mindedness works both ways.
Quote: "As the saying goes, you get what you paid for."
In the case of Windows, you pay for a monopoly.
In the case of Pepsi, Coke, most beer (at least in the US), and many other things you pay for a lot of fancy advertising.
In the case of Macs, you pay some for advertising, some for the people that design the nifty-looking stuff, some for R&D, etc.
Again Quote: "As the saying goes, you get what you paid for."
Advertising works, and sometimes we get fooled, and pay for it.
Well, guess it's back to the VESA Local bus Diamond Speedstar Pro, then.
If you give, to anyone who asks, detailed specific instructions where illegal drugs are for sale, who to ask, how much they cost, and how to get them, with the intent of making it easier for sale and distribution of illegal drugs then . . .
Yes, you should be charged.
OTOH, if you merely gossip, (Quote) "You know, I hear there are lots of drug dealers on the corner of 3rd and Main"..., then you probably shouldn't be.
Apparently the guy in the story was more like the first case.
I think that the key to this decision was that it seemed clear to the court that his intent was copyright violation.
FTA: 'his actions "were premeditated and worthy of criticism."'
I agree that expansion by conquest is a "Bad Thing" and shouldn't be done.
However, who should give back the territory they conquered?
I am a US citizen, with light skin. Does that mean that I have to leave the current boundaries of the US and go back to where my ancestors vcame from? Very difficult. I was born in Japan. My father and his parents were born in Mexico. Some of my ancestors signed the documents that made the US a nation. Others of my ancestors were still in Denmark 3 generations ago.
Who the ground belongs to gets awfully fuzzy awfully quickly.
Who gets Egypt? There have been how many conquerings and empires there?