Seems to me that the corporation is free to brand itself whatever it pleases. If they feel that they can justify the added expense of making new signs and advertising material with increased sales via the name change, more power to them. This re-branding doesn't seem nearly as stupid as this other one that just took place about a month ago,...;-)
In a university, most work done by the student during a PHD (because that is where most valuable work is done) is the property of the University.
This is absolutely true. And not just for graduate students, but other contract work done for the university, such as with post-doctoral researchers, research faculty/associates, etc. As a matter of fact, it's in your contract and/or university guidelines that even your laboratory notebook is the property of the University. They'll usually let you make a copy of your own notes, but the original notebook itself stays with your department or your PI. And of course, IANAL, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were some sort of legal precedent to these rules.
Even when you publish in a peer-reviewed journal, which most of the time, is a co-authored work anyway, you agree to sign away most copyright to the publisher as well. You're free to make copies of your own papers and distribute them to potential employers and others that may be interested (think distribute in person, hand them the paper directly), though technically you're not allowed to post the PDF of these papers to your own website (though most college professors don't care about this, and do it anyway).
So basically, these students -- sorry, "precious little snowflakes" -- are essentially asking to be treated differently from all the grad students, post-docs, researchers, and faculty out there, and want full copyright and ownership of their term papers that they hand in for class. Why? I am not sure? With the exception of the exceptionally rare student that goes on to become the next Shakespeare, Orwell, or J.K. Rowling, nobody's going to give a rat's ass about ever looking at their term paper again, so claiming copyright on them is essentially pointless. The school's know the sad truth that their papers will eventually become forgotten, but still have a bona fide interest in trying to combat the increasingly growing problem of plagiarism. They're not collecting these papers and selling them on the market (which would be stupid since there's basically no value anyway).
What this whole episode here does tell me, however, is that the copyright system in this nation (and the world) is essentially broken, and a disgrace, and a better solution is necessary.
Not to mention the near impossibility of some random student's paper being published in a top-notch journal like Nature without any help from the student's professor. Um, yeah,... good luck with that!
And also back in my day, if you had a pocket pager, the school administration automatically assumed that you were a drug dealer, and used that as probable cause to search your stuff. My, how things have changed!
However, their real plan involves mounting a high-powered green laser on Saturn's moon, Mimas, which would become the ultimate power in the universe. It would certainly keep the pirates in line,...
So now, we'll not only be able to store CowboyNeal's entire porn collection on one disk, but have a cheap second disk to store CowboyNeal's entire personality and consciousness! He's going to be like, immortal, or something,...;-) The only question is, WHY in the hell would we want to do that?!?!
Is that there just aren't enough women in scientific careers studying this stuff. I mean, if the researchers, which consist mostly of men, find that women are getting more and more attractive and men are getting uglier, and the researchers are primarily heterosexual men, what conclusion do you think they're going to come up with?!?!
Wonderful! So that means that Ann Coulter's and Rush Limbaugh's books -- I mean, drivel -- is likely to become immensely popular in about 100 years, after they've all died! So we'll have a whole new breed of conservatives in the 22nd century combing the amazing wisdom of Rush, the Great Philosopher! He'll become like, the next Socrates, or something. I guess I need to find some Hemlock,...;-)
Ok, then how do we scan the books ourselves, so we won't have to pay for the public-domain works? That is, how can we obtain something that is owned by the public without spending any money on it?
I suppose you're free to bring your laptop and a flatbed scanner over to the University of Michigan's library, find an empty corner, and scan away! Though it could take awhile to scan a book with 100-500 pages, so I hope you have lots of free time. Remember, you can't exactly feed a book through an automatic document feeder without destroying the book, and I don't think the library staff would be too happy if you did that to one of their books in the "old, out-of-print" section,...
Are there GW level reactor designs based on materials available in sufficient quantity?
Well, there is the "Doc Brown Design", built into the rear end of a DeLorean. Should be capable of generating the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity necessary to run the flux capacitor. But we should be able to get Mr. Fusion in about 2015, so I wouldn't worry about it!
To be honest, I don't think piracy is necessarily to blame here. Sure, there are plenty of pirated games out there, but downloading the torrents, installing them, running the cracks, and other stuff, isn't quite as straightforward as downloading a torrent of 15-20 songs on a CD and loading them into iTunes (or whatever you use). The only game I've ever actually "pirated" is Civilization IV, but that's only because the CD that I legitimately purchased got worn out, and I didn't want to deal with the hassle and bureaucracy of replacing it. So I just downloaded a new one. I wouldn't exactly call that real and true "piracy".
I think the real problem is that the game content has just gotten old, repetitive, and has lost its "wow factor". I mean, when Doom and Quake came out in the 90s, we were amazed at the graphics, and the levels, and searching for stuff, and blowing up monsters. But that sort of shoot-em-up mantra gets old after awhile. Plus, we've been promised a hugely awesome Duke Nukem Forever game, and they've hyped that like crazy every 2-3 years, for the past 15 years,... and we've still seen nothing. So if they can't figure out why their sales are dropping, I got nothin' for 'em!
The problem is, after we've evolved several generations, our porn won't be nearly as enticing to future generations as it is to us. They'll be wondering where the extra pair of titties is?;-)
Is she really, or does she just get mentioned by everyone, everywhere pointlessly, such as in a thread discussing something weird in the ocean?
You might be *part* of the problem, sir.
Shh! They might discover my secret love affair for the woman, and my desire to make mad, sweet love to her and move to a small, deserted, tropical island with her to raise all of our autistic children! If this gets out, I might have to settle for the Octo-Mom instead!;-)
You know the conservative attention whore is going to try to capitalize on this somehow,... like trying to connect this blob with the second coming of Christ, or the rapture, or something? Or, she'll go for the Ghostbusters explanation, saying that the blob contains all the evil left wing energy from California that's been seeping into the Ocean over the past 50 years from all the liberals and fags. She'll then hire the FagBusters from Kansas, led by Rev. Fred Phelps, arm them with unlicensed nuclear accelerators, to come up with a solution. Naturally, our only defense against this will be some dickless guy from the EPA,...;-)
The Y chromosome wouldn't be needed. The lesbians would only be capable of producing more women, which only requires the X chromosome. Which is probably fine with them, since they most likely hate men anyways,...
Or, 3. if they took stem cells from a lesbian, they could generate some sperm for her, thereby along her to impregnate her other female partner. Next, all they need to do is to generate an egg cell from a homosexual male stem cell. Then, once same-sex couples can successfully reproduce, the religious right is going to go apeshit and all hell is going to break loose!;-)
Hate to point this out, but didn't somebody else already come up with an operating system that was tightly integrated with their web browser? That worked out so well for them!
This will go great combined with facial recognition goggles... so, when you flip someone the bird, your iPhone simultaneous texts them, "FU!" while also hacking into their bank account and stealing all their money!;-)
Usenet is still being used? I didn't think anybody posted there anymore. Oh wait, that's right -- it's only used for sending spam and trading copyrighted files. So, by shutting it down, they can claim to be fighting internet piracy under the guise of fighting spam. Sounds like a win-win for them!
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Seems to me that the corporation is free to brand itself whatever it pleases. If they feel that they can justify the added expense of making new signs and advertising material with increased sales via the name change, more power to them. This re-branding doesn't seem nearly as stupid as this other one that just took place about a month ago,... ;-)
This is absolutely true. And not just for graduate students, but other contract work done for the university, such as with post-doctoral researchers, research faculty/associates, etc. As a matter of fact, it's in your contract and/or university guidelines that even your laboratory notebook is the property of the University. They'll usually let you make a copy of your own notes, but the original notebook itself stays with your department or your PI. And of course, IANAL, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were some sort of legal precedent to these rules.
Even when you publish in a peer-reviewed journal, which most of the time, is a co-authored work anyway, you agree to sign away most copyright to the publisher as well. You're free to make copies of your own papers and distribute them to potential employers and others that may be interested (think distribute in person, hand them the paper directly), though technically you're not allowed to post the PDF of these papers to your own website (though most college professors don't care about this, and do it anyway).
So basically, these students -- sorry, "precious little snowflakes" -- are essentially asking to be treated differently from all the grad students, post-docs, researchers, and faculty out there, and want full copyright and ownership of their term papers that they hand in for class. Why? I am not sure? With the exception of the exceptionally rare student that goes on to become the next Shakespeare, Orwell, or J.K. Rowling, nobody's going to give a rat's ass about ever looking at their term paper again, so claiming copyright on them is essentially pointless. The school's know the sad truth that their papers will eventually become forgotten, but still have a bona fide interest in trying to combat the increasingly growing problem of plagiarism. They're not collecting these papers and selling them on the market (which would be stupid since there's basically no value anyway).
What this whole episode here does tell me, however, is that the copyright system in this nation (and the world) is essentially broken, and a disgrace, and a better solution is necessary.
Not to mention the near impossibility of some random student's paper being published in a top-notch journal like Nature without any help from the student's professor. Um, yeah,... good luck with that!
I must've failed math. All I got was 55378008.
And also back in my day, if you had a pocket pager, the school administration automatically assumed that you were a drug dealer, and used that as probable cause to search your stuff. My, how things have changed!
However, their real plan involves mounting a high-powered green laser on Saturn's moon, Mimas, which would become the ultimate power in the universe. It would certainly keep the pirates in line,...
So now, we'll not only be able to store CowboyNeal's entire porn collection on one disk, but have a cheap second disk to store CowboyNeal's entire personality and consciousness! He's going to be like, immortal, or something,... ;-) The only question is, WHY in the hell would we want to do that?!?!
Is that there just aren't enough women in scientific careers studying this stuff. I mean, if the researchers, which consist mostly of men, find that women are getting more and more attractive and men are getting uglier, and the researchers are primarily heterosexual men, what conclusion do you think they're going to come up with?!?!
Dammit, Jim! I'm a Doctor! Not a scribe! =)
Wonderful! So that means that Ann Coulter's and Rush Limbaugh's books -- I mean, drivel -- is likely to become immensely popular in about 100 years, after they've all died! So we'll have a whole new breed of conservatives in the 22nd century combing the amazing wisdom of Rush, the Great Philosopher! He'll become like, the next Socrates, or something. I guess I need to find some Hemlock,... ;-)
I suppose you're free to bring your laptop and a flatbed scanner over to the University of Michigan's library, find an empty corner, and scan away! Though it could take awhile to scan a book with 100-500 pages, so I hope you have lots of free time. Remember, you can't exactly feed a book through an automatic document feeder without destroying the book, and I don't think the library staff would be too happy if you did that to one of their books in the "old, out-of-print" section,...
Well, there is the "Doc Brown Design", built into the rear end of a DeLorean. Should be capable of generating the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity necessary to run the flux capacitor. But we should be able to get Mr. Fusion in about 2015, so I wouldn't worry about it!
Either that, or all of CowboyNeal's porn. Though I'm sure CowboyNeal has more than 256 GB of porn,...
I think the real problem is that the game content has just gotten old, repetitive, and has lost its "wow factor". I mean, when Doom and Quake came out in the 90s, we were amazed at the graphics, and the levels, and searching for stuff, and blowing up monsters. But that sort of shoot-em-up mantra gets old after awhile. Plus, we've been promised a hugely awesome Duke Nukem Forever game, and they've hyped that like crazy every 2-3 years, for the past 15 years,... and we've still seen nothing. So if they can't figure out why their sales are dropping, I got nothin' for 'em!
The problem is, after we've evolved several generations, our porn won't be nearly as enticing to future generations as it is to us. They'll be wondering where the extra pair of titties is? ;-)
You might be *part* of the problem, sir.
Shh! They might discover my secret love affair for the woman, and my desire to make mad, sweet love to her and move to a small, deserted, tropical island with her to raise all of our autistic children! If this gets out, I might have to settle for the Octo-Mom instead! ;-)
You know the conservative attention whore is going to try to capitalize on this somehow,... like trying to connect this blob with the second coming of Christ, or the rapture, or something? Or, she'll go for the Ghostbusters explanation, saying that the blob contains all the evil left wing energy from California that's been seeping into the Ocean over the past 50 years from all the liberals and fags. She'll then hire the FagBusters from Kansas, led by Rev. Fred Phelps, arm them with unlicensed nuclear accelerators, to come up with a solution. Naturally, our only defense against this will be some dickless guy from the EPA,... ;-)
Thus ending seven years of interplanetary porn,...
Wonderful! So now, instead of seeing a BSOD in Windows, we'll look outside our windows and see a BSOD!
Dude! How in the frak did that get modded "-1 Troll"?!?!
The Y chromosome wouldn't be needed. The lesbians would only be capable of producing more women, which only requires the X chromosome. Which is probably fine with them, since they most likely hate men anyways,...
Or, 3. if they took stem cells from a lesbian, they could generate some sperm for her, thereby along her to impregnate her other female partner. Next, all they need to do is to generate an egg cell from a homosexual male stem cell. Then, once same-sex couples can successfully reproduce, the religious right is going to go apeshit and all hell is going to break loose! ;-)
Hate to point this out, but didn't somebody else already come up with an operating system that was tightly integrated with their web browser? That worked out so well for them!
This will go great combined with facial recognition goggles ... so, when you flip someone the bird, your iPhone simultaneous texts them, "FU!" while also hacking into their bank account and stealing all their money! ;-)
Usenet is still being used? I didn't think anybody posted there anymore. Oh wait, that's right -- it's only used for sending spam and trading copyrighted files. So, by shutting it down, they can claim to be fighting internet piracy under the guise of fighting spam. Sounds like a win-win for them!