There was a time when university campuses were bastions of free thought and conscience. Of course, the administrations were usually composed of the worst variety pedantic, bum-kissing bureaucrat the academic version of Social Darwinism could produce.
Pedantry is fruitless...
Now that I have my umbrella.. ella.. ella...
Slippery slopes aside, I just can't work myself up to defend Kelly and her classmates who had to study for a bio exam and need some tunes to get fired up for college night at the pub and download the new NIN album because Josh likes that and will be at the pub...
Cultural entitlement? I love the 'ESPN Sunday Night Baseball' (watching here in Canada) where Jon Miller voices over some Pop song and tells us viewers that the CD 'drops' on such and such a day.. Thankfully, Joe Morgan stays out of it.
Ok. That's just pedantic, but sign me up for a better battle.
Do you see the 'medicinal marijuana recourse' realizing here though?
The courts ruled a section 7 deprivation (life, liberty, security of person), and then the government ended up having to supply said substance to not contravene the Charter. (At a financial consequence as well...)
IIRC, the specific and identifiable lack of alternatives to the appellant's severe epilepsy (and some overzealous law enforcement actions) caused the courts to consider what the right to life, liberty and security of person really meant. This causes me to reconsider your original point.
If lack of por- I mean internet was found to be so fundamental, would this create a similar obligation of the government to guarantee it?
I would guess that there is too much existing commercial interest to avoid a 'notwithstanding' moment.
I still think that the kids of big law firm partners go there and you'd lose a lot more than song royalties if you started snooping about the validity of full iPods of a few of the students there. Why risk it. Its not like the record companies are in pursuit of some abstract natural law restoring the free world to justice...
I found this 'Step Saver' case.. Something about people running terminals hooked up to an IBM AT.
It contains such gems as:
Step-Saver contends that the contract for each copy of the program was formed when TSL agreed, on the telephone, to ship the copy at the agreed price. The box-top license, argues Step-Saver, was a material alteration to the parties's contract which did not become a part of the contract under UCC Â 2- 207. and
Even though one or more terms are left open a contract for sale does not fail for indefiniteness if the parties have intended to make a contract and there is a reasonably certain basis for giving an appropriate remedy. I can't believe I just read (some) of that. I just had to know..
IANAL, I'll leave the rest...
Step Saver v. Wyse
Is it that the same people who plunk for a latte that have to get the newest CD? I can really see the appeal to market to the 'adult contemporary' market, if this is the group that buys $4 coffee.
But is that the 'mass' music market? Is it big stock deals by day and 50 cent at night?
(I know elasticity always enters every 'market' chat...) But I know when I was younger, I had $20 to spread over a number of available alternatives.. And now, I just don't give a shit and call it a day with a $4 latte.
I bet Wal-mart has crunched the numbers and could care less about $20-holding teenagers in their stores anyways. I would never let Mum buy me a record.
OMG! I loved the old 'fake address 30 minutes or less order scam!'
"141? I'm at 411!! What the hell! Did your operator make some kind of typo?!? You're late!!!"
Obviously they are planning to bill your mobile account even if you don't/can't show up for the $8 coffee!? So, can I steal the phone of my arch-nemesis and order grande lattes for the shop?
Ok, in all seriousness, the delivery/made to order industry has had all sorts of nefarious (read: highschool kids) scams thrust upon them, and they have dealt with them, to varying degrees, by insisting on a physical location - ie: an online pizza delivery.
So now, I can order something, that has some cost to make, without any guarantee that I will be there to pick it up.
IMHO, the sensible decision is to just make the coffee after the person shows.. Which quite defeats the purpose...
other than being the land mass upon which they sit. It's like they want to be an international laughing stock.
(John Cleese Voice) In other news, Iceland has claimed copyright of the 'Geyser...' 'Old Faithful's' widow owes fortunes due to the land that he 'sits on'. The US government, being owner of this land mass owes this fortune in regularity.... According to sources, a copyright infringement occurs every 45 to 120 minutes... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Faithful
Also... Godwin claims 'prior art' - more after this flash ad brought to you by Slashdot and IBM...
Try getting a visa with a camera... I was there on a vacation with a little SLR and had quite a hard time... It wasn't even digital!
Even Luddites would have trouble setting up a tripod without a miliary/conscript intervention.
The highlight of my trip was when some drunkard American guy tried to run up the pyramid... While the all the conscripts chased him, I sat on a big stone and got my money shot. (Of myself, on a pyramid!)
That said, if the local laws say no photos, then its no photos.. There are fences all around, the site is on a cliff, checkpoints, etc.. If you are a professional, and want a shot, then pay the visa/fees. Millions of these photos already exist, but, in HD?
I looked eye-to-eye a few ancient masks, and didn't catch a hint of copyright violations. The conscript minders had different ideas though.
folks: people could die without these radioisotopes. additionally, the safety issue is probably something extremely circumspect
Newsflash! Sick people could die! They need isotopes to complete diagnostic tests that may/may not tell them that they could die!
In other news, the citizens of a major metropolitan area, most of them not sick, are casually strolling the streets tonight, in the shadow of a nuclear facility that has scorned its regulatory oversight...
Of course the universal right of medical diagnostic tests for the percentage of the populace that require these tests or face certain death, shall not be violated in the interests of nuclear safety here in Canada.
The Auditor General of Ontario (Canada) came up with different findings. In a report released a few days ago http://www.auditor.on.ca/en/reports_en/en07/304en07.pdf the Auditor found that not only were drivers who completed an education course more likely to be involved in an accident, the Ministry of Transportation had no idea why.
The joys of public accountability intersecting with real life... I double-dare you to read the whole thing.
Internet memes... I've found suitable answers at the Yahoo site without having to troll around to find out about some fast food mishap that involved a prophylactic, and a pending lawsuit...
of course.. I.. uhh.. justed wanted to chat with the cool people at the water cooler...
That said.. I think there is some value for aggregating useless knowledge that has no journalistic value nor encyclopedic value... Ugh.. Why do I want to know those things again?
In simple terms, there are a huge number of people that will consume your good if it doesn't cost them anything (or next to nothing), but as soon as you raise the price a little bit, the number of people willing to buy the good drops substantially. This is called the price elasticity of demand.
And not to mention the marginal cost of producing an additional (pirated) unit? Especially when the producer is not even supplying the bandwidth?
I'm not sure how deadweight loss with art/culture 'commodities' can easily factor into Pareto-optimality on income alone. To suggest that the only benefit of the 'arts market' is increased income might diminish the usual concepts of 'utility.' If you could copy something a billion times, with little and shared costs, and each copy made someone happy (for a 3 minute song,) would you not argue, by standard micro economic theory, that some optimality is being achieved? I'm not positive, but I can guess that Baumol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol weighed in on this. (And there is a tonne of literature on 'public goods'...)
In the ECO101 framework, in the market for entertainment, are RIAA members 'price takers' or 'price makers'? I think the current discussion is delving more into the political-economy / legal landscape here, and these micro ideas are just silly abstractions that might better model the Dutch Floral Auction... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_industry#Dutch_Flower_Industry
That's the only example I remember (as it was constantly and almost exclusively used) from ECO101.
I live in the city. There are no longer theaters in the city.
The closest compu-hyper-mega cinema is about a 45 min drive from where I am. I used to be able to walk to 3 different 2 screen theaters in about 30 mins. They were all closed in the mid-90s as the suburbs built up, gas was cheap, and a bunch of unfortunate kids were forced to live out there and had nothing better to do.
If there is a new family flick opening, I could spend more than 30 mins looking for a parking spot.
Maybe the business model of paving over a field, building a huge sign and a crappy box just isn't valid anymore? I will agree that technology is a factor, but in my case, it only provides better options to driving, parking, and waiting in line at some kitsch, UFO-shaped cardboard box.
Don't get me wrong - there's lots not to like about this bill. But let's not kid ourselves - "personal responsibility" doesn't give you some kind of magical powers that reveal information not available to a formal investigation.
It wasn't until the second week of our honeymoon that she told me why she was really single for all that time, and where she got all of those tattoos...
Of course, during the formal investigation, I didn't check with every jurisdiction, nor wonder why all of the tattoos were in Cyrillic...
Not only the alumni directory.. Who's kids go to the school now?
If the RIAA went poking through internet usage at Harvard, what might be found? If I was a Senator/big lawyer, I wouldn't want anyone to know my kids downloaded Eminem...
Slashdot Mirror
but Arnold knew this in college.
Canadian Tire has a 'solar powered shed light. It is sold for $29.99.
Solar Powered Shed Light
I can't imagine spending too much time fiddling with equations without first plunking $30 to see if this junk will do the trick...
Dawson
Pedantry is fruitless...
Now that I have my umbrella.. ella.. ella...
Slippery slopes aside, I just can't work myself up to defend Kelly and her classmates who had to study for a bio exam and need some tunes to get fired up for college night at the pub and download the new NIN album because Josh likes that and will be at the pub...
Cultural entitlement? I love the 'ESPN Sunday Night Baseball' (watching here in Canada) where Jon Miller voices over some Pop song and tells us viewers that the CD 'drops' on such and such a day.. Thankfully, Joe Morgan stays out of it.
Ok. That's just pedantic, but sign me up for a better battle.
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dawsShould I add something about using Adblock Plus here?
The courts ruled a section 7 deprivation (life, liberty, security of person), and then the government ended up having to supply said substance to not contravene the Charter. (At a financial consequence as well...)
IIRC, the specific and identifiable lack of alternatives to the appellant's severe epilepsy (and some overzealous law enforcement actions) caused the courts to consider what the right to life, liberty and security of person really meant. This causes me to reconsider your original point.
If lack of por- I mean internet was found to be so fundamental, would this create a similar obligation of the government to guarantee it?
I would guess that there is too much existing commercial interest to avoid a 'notwithstanding' moment.
I still think that the kids of big law firm partners go there and you'd lose a lot more than song royalties if you started snooping about the validity of full iPods of a few of the students there. Why risk it. Its not like the record companies are in pursuit of some abstract natural law restoring the free world to justice...
--Dawson
Dawson
Love the comment, and just my $0.02
Is it that the same people who plunk for a latte that have to get the newest CD? I can really see the appeal to market to the 'adult contemporary' market, if this is the group that buys $4 coffee.
But is that the 'mass' music market? Is it big stock deals by day and 50 cent at night?
(I know elasticity always enters every 'market' chat...) But I know when I was younger, I had $20 to spread over a number of available alternatives.. And now, I just don't give a shit and call it a day with a $4 latte.
I bet Wal-mart has crunched the numbers and could care less about $20-holding teenagers in their stores anyways. I would never let Mum buy me a record.
OMG! I loved the old 'fake address 30 minutes or less order scam!'
"141? I'm at 411!! What the hell! Did your operator make some kind of typo?!? You're late!!!"
Obviously they are planning to bill your mobile account even if you don't/can't show up for the $8 coffee!? So, can I steal the phone of my arch-nemesis and order grande lattes for the shop?
Ok, in all seriousness, the delivery/made to order industry has had all sorts of nefarious (read: highschool kids) scams thrust upon them, and they have dealt with them, to varying degrees, by insisting on a physical location - ie: an online pizza delivery.
So now, I can order something, that has some cost to make, without any guarantee that I will be there to pick it up.
IMHO, the sensible decision is to just make the coffee after the person shows.. Which quite defeats the purpose...
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Go, Daws. Go!
(John Cleese Voice)
In other news, Iceland has claimed copyright of the 'Geyser...' 'Old Faithful's' widow owes fortunes due to the land that he 'sits on'. The US government, being owner of this land mass owes this fortune in regularity.... According to sources, a copyright infringement occurs every 45 to 120 minutes... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Faithful
Also... Godwin claims 'prior art' - more after this flash ad brought to you by Slashdot and IBM...
--
Go, Daws. Go!
Try getting a visa with a camera... I was there on a vacation with a little SLR and had quite a hard time... It wasn't even digital!
Even Luddites would have trouble setting up a tripod without a miliary/conscript intervention.
The highlight of my trip was when some drunkard American guy tried to run up the pyramid... While the all the conscripts chased him, I sat on a big stone and got my money shot. (Of myself, on a pyramid!)
That said, if the local laws say no photos, then its no photos.. There are fences all around, the site is on a cliff, checkpoints, etc.. If you are a professional, and want a shot, then pay the visa/fees. Millions of these photos already exist, but, in HD?
I looked eye-to-eye a few ancient masks, and didn't catch a hint of copyright violations. The conscript minders had different ideas though.
... i'm on an amiga.
Newsflash! Sick people could die! They need isotopes to complete diagnostic tests that may/may not tell them that they could die!
In other news, the citizens of a major metropolitan area, most of them not sick, are casually strolling the streets tonight, in the shadow of a nuclear facility that has scorned its regulatory oversight...
Of course the universal right of medical diagnostic tests for the percentage of the populace that require these tests or face certain death, shall not be violated in the interests of nuclear safety here in Canada.
--
Go, Daws. Go!
The Auditor General of Ontario (Canada) came up with different findings. In a report released a few days ago http://www.auditor.on.ca/en/reports_en/en07/304en07.pdf the Auditor found that not only were drivers who completed an education course more likely to be involved in an accident, the Ministry of Transportation had no idea why.
The joys of public accountability intersecting with real life... I double-dare you to read the whole thing.
--
Go, Daws. Go!
Internet memes... I've found suitable answers at the Yahoo site without having to troll around to find out about some fast food mishap that involved a prophylactic, and a pending lawsuit...
of course.. I.. uhh.. justed wanted to chat with the cool people at the water cooler...
That said.. I think there is some value for aggregating useless knowledge that has no journalistic value nor encyclopedic value... Ugh.. Why do I want to know those things again?
-- Go, Daws. Go!
And not to mention the marginal cost of producing an additional (pirated) unit? Especially when the producer is not even supplying the bandwidth?
I'm not sure how deadweight loss with art/culture 'commodities' can easily factor into Pareto-optimality on income alone. To suggest that the only benefit of the 'arts market' is increased income might diminish the usual concepts of 'utility.' If you could copy something a billion times, with little and shared costs, and each copy made someone happy (for a 3 minute song,) would you not argue, by standard micro economic theory, that some optimality is being achieved? I'm not positive, but I can guess that Baumol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol weighed in on this. (And there is a tonne of literature on 'public goods'...)
In the ECO101 framework, in the market for entertainment, are RIAA members 'price takers' or 'price makers'? I think the current discussion is delving more into the political-economy / legal landscape here, and these micro ideas are just silly abstractions that might better model the Dutch Floral Auction... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_industry#Dutch_Flower_Industry
That's the only example I remember (as it was constantly and almost exclusively used) from ECO101.
I live in the city. There are no longer theaters in the city.
The closest compu-hyper-mega cinema is about a 45 min drive from where I am. I used to be able to walk to 3 different 2 screen theaters in about 30 mins. They were all closed in the mid-90s as the suburbs built up, gas was cheap, and a bunch of unfortunate kids were forced to live out there and had nothing better to do.
If there is a new family flick opening, I could spend more than 30 mins looking for a parking spot.
Maybe the business model of paving over a field, building a huge sign and a crappy box just isn't valid anymore? I will agree that technology is a factor, but in my case, it only provides better options to driving, parking, and waiting in line at some kitsch, UFO-shaped cardboard box.
It wasn't until the second week of our honeymoon that she told me why she was really single for all that time, and where she got all of those tattoos...
Of course, during the formal investigation, I didn't check with every jurisdiction, nor wonder why all of the tattoos were in Cyrillic...
Not only the alumni directory.. Who's kids go to the school now?
If the RIAA went poking through internet usage at Harvard, what might be found? If I was a Senator/big lawyer, I wouldn't want anyone to know my kids downloaded Eminem...
Currency From: CAD
Currency To: USD
Exchange Rate: 1.03014 From our friends at the Canadian Revenue Agency:
"Generally, you cannot claim donations made to U.S. charities on your Canadian income tax."
I'll take that 3 cents on the dollar though!
(If you have US Income, you can use the donation to off-set that...)
Dawson