No we've definitely picked up some traits since then, including adaptations to language, and parasites. The parasites adaptations are very recent, since we didn't spend a great deal of time around rivers that other humans defecated in until no more than about 8000 YBP
Which is why the real crime of this decision isn't that the court upheld sovereign immunity, but that it didn't strike down FISA and a host of other unconstitutional exceptions to privacy. Once the issue is there, the court can review almost anything in reach, see "Citizens United."
"Vote for Tea Party candidates,"
The Tea Party wants more, not less, police enforcement, witness the immigration laws passed in Arizona, which make it so that everyone has to carry proof of citizenship at all times or risk arrest. It wants more, not less, corporate power, which is what drives the security state.
There are no political movements in the US that can be relied upon, the Tea Party is funded by the Club for Growth and other extreme right wing interests, and the political movements on the left will sell out for almost nothing in return for Universal Unlimited Issue of health insurance.
Classical music and games are going to converge, because music is about putting technology into the ear and the hand. Each new wave of technology has produced its wave of instruments to go with it, from the awl (the flute), tanning (the skin drum), through fine work tools and measurement (violin), metallurgy (the baroque organ), the factory (mass produced pianos), mechanics (valve instruments), and including electricity (rock and roll) and digital technology (sampling DJs). Gaming is merely an expression of the human need to put our hands on things and make it sing.
The primary requirement for being a futurist is to be a good fundraiser. Most of them are worse writers than they are thinkers. Generally they are down in the pathos end of the pathos/ethos/logos scale.
Since copyrights come from the consent of the governed, not from some metaphysical entity, it is clear that they have withdrawn their consent from those laws.
Without copyright producing content would be back down the the profitability of sweeping crumbs off tables. The real argument is how the profits are split, right now the distribution is the pipe creators (device makers, telecom companies, studios) get the vast bulk of the money, a few stars (who are products of the pipe system) get a small amount which is vast compared to what a person wants, and ordinary creators get subsistence to less than zero.
The present copyright regime allows for strip mining of public demand and turning it into bonds and equities, it does not pay creators for the most part, except to the extent they are advertising delivery vehicles.
Yes, let's just cut out the middle man in our plutocracy, it will save billionaires millions of dollars every year. Maybe some of that will be spent on hiring out of work coders to fluff wikipedia for them.
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You are a denialist, we got the point. And an anonymous coward.
Actually, if you are looking for trends, the succession of highs and lows is often far more predictive. The middle is often muddled.
No we've definitely picked up some traits since then, including adaptations to language, and parasites. The parasites adaptations are very recent, since we didn't spend a great deal of time around rivers that other humans defecated in until no more than about 8000 YBP
That Lawyers and bloggers know about bad software.
Yes it is amazing how many fewer laws a theocracy can have than a Democracy.
If you win, you get "relief."
Relief can be at law, meaning money, or for equity, meaning the court orders someone to do something, such as "deliver the computers in the contract."
Sovereign immunity applies to damages at law against the US government itself, and it applies when there is no explicit statute in place.
Which is why the real crime of this decision isn't that the court upheld sovereign immunity, but that it didn't strike down FISA and a host of other unconstitutional exceptions to privacy. Once the issue is there, the court can review almost anything in reach, see "Citizens United."
It isn't hyperbole when it is true.
"Vote for Tea Party candidates," The Tea Party wants more, not less, police enforcement, witness the immigration laws passed in Arizona, which make it so that everyone has to carry proof of citizenship at all times or risk arrest. It wants more, not less, corporate power, which is what drives the security state. There are no political movements in the US that can be relied upon, the Tea Party is funded by the Club for Growth and other extreme right wing interests, and the political movements on the left will sell out for almost nothing in return for Universal Unlimited Issue of health insurance.
Classical music and games are going to converge, because music is about putting technology into the ear and the hand. Each new wave of technology has produced its wave of instruments to go with it, from the awl (the flute), tanning (the skin drum), through fine work tools and measurement (violin), metallurgy (the baroque organ), the factory (mass produced pianos), mechanics (valve instruments), and including electricity (rock and roll) and digital technology (sampling DJs). Gaming is merely an expression of the human need to put our hands on things and make it sing.
If I were a civilized Martian, I'd be hiding from us.
I'm sure he's crying all the way to the bank.
The primary requirement for being a futurist is to be a good fundraiser. Most of them are worse writers than they are thinkers. Generally they are down in the pathos end of the pathos/ethos/logos scale.
Things rarely stay the same. Capitalism is dynamic.
Companies hire ethicists when they want to do something unethical, and people call in futurists, to come up with ideas that have no future.
You really don't want to go down this line, because at the other end waits Madame La Guillotine.
That which is underpriced, is over-consumed. In this case, government fiat is over-consumed by the content pipe industry.
Since copyrights come from the consent of the governed, not from some metaphysical entity, it is clear that they have withdrawn their consent from those laws.
Actually a socially understood rate of acceptable profit is a requirement for capitalism according to Adam Smith.
The present copyright regime allows for strip mining of public demand and turning it into bonds and equities, it does not pay creators for the most part, except to the extent they are advertising delivery vehicles.
Ask them which one the do their financial stuff in.
Now there is moderation abuse in action.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/opinion/sunday/the-cybercrime-wave-that-wasnt.html April 15th of this year.
Stock flow error.
Or maybe they will just keep it.