The village idiot just proves the old adage, "It's not what you know, it's who you know!" The actor is actually doing a fairly decent job. The "singer"?!? Well, he was a better comedian than singer, and to this day I cannot figure out how he actually got elected.
His political books like Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot were only a small facet of his career in comedy. My biggest objections to his books is he always says something like "I'm not going to stoop to the same level as the Republicans" just before stooping to the same level as the Republicans. Apparently he thinks this is being "ironic". His Stuart Smalley books sucked. However, his body of work on SNL was world class IMHO.
No, if they changed the lyrics to make fun of Henley, that would be parody. If they change the lyrics to make fun of someone else completely unrelated to Henley, that is not justification for using the copyrighted music without permission. Henley hasn't endorsed the Repub's opponent either.
And no, I am not a liberal, I am a libertarian. In general I oppose the current copyright laws. But I believe if someone asks you to stop using their music without permission, giving them the finger and continuing to use their music is an inappropriate response.
So, if I live in England, legally buy an Omega watch there, then legally immigrate to the US, it is now a copyright violation to resell that watch on eBay?!? This flies in the face of common sense!
Free market is free market. Once you sell something, you should have zero authority to dictate where it is shipped to and resold (with the exception of munitions, of course). Oh, and we should be able to import prescription drugs at much lower prices from other countries too!
I stand corrected. With so much repug douchebaggery out there, like Gheen's "outing" of Graham, perhaps it is time to start a website: www.republicandouchebaggery.com. Surprisingly enough, the URL is still available!
Haven't they already done all the metal foaming and silicone crystal growth experiments in microgravity? What other materials science experiments are left?
I'll bet the use of your taxes to pay for public libraries really pisses you off too! You just sit there drinking your tang, typing on your computer and watching your satellite TV, bitching about all the money wasted on the space program...
ATMs don't talk... it is pretty much impossible to use an ATM without seeing the screen. Sure, you could memorize the entire sequence of screens, but then the first time they updated the software, you'd be screwed. Also, if you have a driver, wouldn't it be easier and faster to just let the driver do the transaction?
Great! So now my movie entitled Star Wars: The Musical can proceed as planned; it serves a different function, so it obviously should be considered fair use!
That's the key. That is not the key at all. If you record music someone else has copyrighted, you owe the copyright holder performance royalties. Generally, you cannot get away with "similarities" that exceed 7 consecutive notes. Also, Weird Al doesn't rely on Fair Use law at all -- he always asks the copyright holder for permission first.
Use of Don Henley's well-known music implies that he supports the DeVore, which he clearly does not. In that sense, it is defamatory to Don Henley. Also, there argument that "It is parody because Henley is a liberal" is absurd, they seem to be arguing that it would be unlawful to rip off a well known conservative's music, but it is perfectly ok to rip off a well-known liberal?!? This is the same race that saw Carly Fiorina's "Demonic Sheep" ads? I think it will go down in history as the pinnacle of Repugnantcan douchebaggery, an affront to intellectual conservatives everywhere.
I bought my wife a brand new manual Subaru Forester... she very quickly learned how to drive stick! This teacher should stop whining and do the same... keeping this car will make her VERY popular with her male students!
Wouldn't happen in the good ol' USA... the Americans with Disabilities Act forbids this type of douchebaggery. We even have braille keyboards on drive up ATMs!
No, the business plan worked as designed. Motorola conceived Iridium as a way to sell a lot of equipment, for which they made a huge profit, while at the same time they had very little financial stake in Iridium actually succeeding. So from Motorola's viewpoint, Iridium was a huge success. From the viewpoint of all the other investors stupid enough to put money into it, Iridium was an abject failure. (I think there was also an implicit suggestion that the US government would by enough "money is no object" satellite phone service to make it cost effective, but this was a false notion.)
Regulating the phone company's tariffs cost the phone company 15% in potential revenues, therefore regulating how traffic is treated by cable companies will cost the cable companies 15% of their revenue? WTF?!?
The Pope is head of the same organization insisted that the Bible only be published all masses only be said in Latin, a language only the priests understood, because it was dangerous for lay people to actually understand the religion they were worshiping. The biggest change that the Protestant Revolution brought about was the notion that the Bible should be translated into all languages, so that people could read and understand it on their own, and not be reliant on a priestly class to interpret it for them. He was also a member of the Nazi Youth Movement. So of course he would consider it a bad thing for people to be able to find information on their own, instead of relying on the pronouncements of the ruling class. What he should be doing is warning that most of what is said on the internet is untrue, not railing against people's search for the truth.
Being a journalist doesn't protect him from charges of receiving stolen property. However, they already had written evidence to convict him of that. The only reason to subpoena all computer data is to try to discover who gave him the phone. But in doing so, they are violating the confidentiality of the journalist's source, so journalistic privilege arguably applies to protecting the identity of the original finder of the phone.
We have a responsibility to our kids and our communities to protect against the effects of games that depict ultra-violent actions, just as we already do with movies.
First, we have a responsibility to our kids and our communities to prove scientifically exactly what the effects of games that depict ultra-violent actions are, which we haven't done with movies either. I'm not against ratings systems, but they don't currently stop kids from buying tickets to Winnie the Pooh then switching theaters to Saw IV. So I'm not to sure how effective they would be in keeping the same kids that have no problem getting their hands on drugs, alcohol, or cigarettes from getting their hands on violent games.
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The village idiot just proves the old adage, "It's not what you know, it's who you know!" The actor is actually doing a fairly decent job. The "singer"?!? Well, he was a better comedian than singer, and to this day I cannot figure out how he actually got elected.
i can see why.
You just can't compare the two. Coulter has a much bigger adam's apple.
His political books like Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot were only a small facet of his career in comedy. My biggest objections to his books is he always says something like "I'm not going to stoop to the same level as the Republicans" just before stooping to the same level as the Republicans. Apparently he thinks this is being "ironic". His Stuart Smalley books sucked. However, his body of work on SNL was world class IMHO.
No, if they changed the lyrics to make fun of Henley, that would be parody. If they change the lyrics to make fun of someone else completely unrelated to Henley, that is not justification for using the copyrighted music without permission. Henley hasn't endorsed the Repub's opponent either.
And no, I am not a liberal, I am a libertarian. In general I oppose the current copyright laws. But I believe if someone asks you to stop using their music without permission, giving them the finger and continuing to use their music is an inappropriate response.
So, if I live in England, legally buy an Omega watch there, then legally immigrate to the US, it is now a copyright violation to resell that watch on eBay?!? This flies in the face of common sense!
Free market is free market. Once you sell something, you should have zero authority to dictate where it is shipped to and resold (with the exception of munitions, of course). Oh, and we should be able to import prescription drugs at much lower prices from other countries too!
I believe that is exactly the reason why this video has not been taken down -- it properly qualifies as parody.
I stand corrected. With so much repug douchebaggery out there, like Gheen's "outing" of Graham, perhaps it is time to start a website: www.republicandouchebaggery.com. Surprisingly enough, the URL is still available!
Haven't they already done all the metal foaming and silicone crystal growth experiments in microgravity? What other materials science experiments are left?
I'll bet the use of your taxes to pay for public libraries really pisses you off too! You just sit there drinking your tang, typing on your computer and watching your satellite TV, bitching about all the money wasted on the space program...
Do you have any idea how difficult it is to clean "bodily fluids" out of the air in zero-g?
Yes, "zero-g sex!" was my immediate reaction to this article as well.
ATMs don't talk... it is pretty much impossible to use an ATM without seeing the screen. Sure, you could memorize the entire sequence of screens, but then the first time they updated the software, you'd be screwed. Also, if you have a driver, wouldn't it be easier and faster to just let the driver do the transaction?
Great! So now my movie entitled Star Wars: The Musical can proceed as planned; it serves a different function, so it obviously should be considered fair use!
That's the key. That is not the key at all. If you record music someone else has copyrighted, you owe the copyright holder performance royalties. Generally, you cannot get away with "similarities" that exceed 7 consecutive notes. Also, Weird Al doesn't rely on Fair Use law at all -- he always asks the copyright holder for permission first.
Use of Don Henley's well-known music implies that he supports the DeVore, which he clearly does not. In that sense, it is defamatory to Don Henley. Also, there argument that "It is parody because Henley is a liberal" is absurd, they seem to be arguing that it would be unlawful to rip off a well known conservative's music, but it is perfectly ok to rip off a well-known liberal?!? This is the same race that saw Carly Fiorina's "Demonic Sheep" ads? I think it will go down in history as the pinnacle of Repugnantcan douchebaggery, an affront to intellectual conservatives everywhere.
I bought my wife a brand new manual Subaru Forester... she very quickly learned how to drive stick! This teacher should stop whining and do the same... keeping this car will make her VERY popular with her male students!
Wouldn't happen in the good ol' USA... the Americans with Disabilities Act forbids this type of douchebaggery. We even have braille keyboards on drive up ATMs!
You'd think the fact that THE MAN WAS BLIND would have been a major hint that this was actually a guide dog!
Yes, they can.
No, the business plan worked as designed. Motorola conceived Iridium as a way to sell a lot of equipment, for which they made a huge profit, while at the same time they had very little financial stake in Iridium actually succeeding. So from Motorola's viewpoint, Iridium was a huge success. From the viewpoint of all the other investors stupid enough to put money into it, Iridium was an abject failure. (I think there was also an implicit suggestion that the US government would by enough "money is no object" satellite phone service to make it cost effective, but this was a false notion.)
Regulating the phone company's tariffs cost the phone company 15% in potential revenues, therefore regulating how traffic is treated by cable companies will cost the cable companies 15% of their revenue? WTF?!?
The Pope is head of the same organization insisted that the Bible only be published all masses only be said in Latin, a language only the priests understood, because it was dangerous for lay people to actually understand the religion they were worshiping. The biggest change that the Protestant Revolution brought about was the notion that the Bible should be translated into all languages, so that people could read and understand it on their own, and not be reliant on a priestly class to interpret it for them. He was also a member of the Nazi Youth Movement. So of course he would consider it a bad thing for people to be able to find information on their own, instead of relying on the pronouncements of the ruling class. What he should be doing is warning that most of what is said on the internet is untrue, not railing against people's search for the truth.
Being a journalist doesn't protect him from charges of receiving stolen property. However, they already had written evidence to convict him of that. The only reason to subpoena all computer data is to try to discover who gave him the phone. But in doing so, they are violating the confidentiality of the journalist's source, so journalistic privilege arguably applies to protecting the identity of the original finder of the phone.
We have a responsibility to our kids and our communities to protect against the effects of games that depict ultra-violent actions, just as we already do with movies.
First, we have a responsibility to our kids and our communities to prove scientifically exactly what the effects of games that depict ultra-violent actions are, which we haven't done with movies either. I'm not against ratings systems, but they don't currently stop kids from buying tickets to Winnie the Pooh then switching theaters to Saw IV. So I'm not to sure how effective they would be in keeping the same kids that have no problem getting their hands on drugs, alcohol, or cigarettes from getting their hands on violent games.