Copyright should end after 10yrs max. Whatever paltry profits apple may stand to gain from hording things like this to themselves pale in comparison to the lost history if such things are destroyed before they're ever released to the public.
Hoarding things is bad, even for the Horde.
That said, I'll settle for a basic 13 year patent with a 13 year single renewal for a patent owner, and a copyright period of 17 years with a single 17 year renewal for the human that wrote it during his/her lifetime or the year of his/her death, as our Founding Fathers intended.
the poor.. anybody could use it as long as they have some basic internet access.
I don't know if you're familiar with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but he's aiming at people a couple of rungs farther down on Maslow's pyramid than that. I don't give too many fucks about the performance of Office365 when I have fucking malaria, you know?
Exactly. Products like solar-powered cell towers that also keep vaccines and medicines cool so that people can be immunized and low tech solutions to deal with the impacts of malaria are quite useful when most of your kids don't make it to adulthood, or even 5 yo.
We'll ignore your claim that the ultra-rich pay fewer taxes than the poor.* But imagine that every rich person filled the gap with charitable contributions. Why do you care that they're paying fewer taxes, when they're getting the wealth to the people who need it more directly?
* Indeed, in the USA, the poor not only avoid all federal and state income tax but they receive credits; this usually helps negate what little other taxes they pay.
Um, our state (where he lives) has no income tax. His federal return is usually around 8 percent, like mine.
I know you worship the rich, but you sure don't act like them.
Most of our taxes are sales taxes (which he doesn't pay much of, and his nonprofits either) and property taxes (ditto).
Please take your anti-tax screed worship of the ultra-rich somewhere else.
There's a reason why you hire good lawyers and accountants first, and set up trusts.
In the old days when this was a small town calling itself a city, I'd frequently be at a play with Bill or some other event.
I like his focus on where we need to fix it, but the cold hard fact is he lives in an area where the ultra-rich are taxed much less than the poor, and he goes to great lengths not to pay taxes on many levels.
Capitalism is no problem - but Adam Smith, the Father of Capitalism, railed against Mercantalism that Bill worships at the head of.
Anyone working in the security field who gives up their password is an idiot, and should be fired.
Agreed. Like that guy in San Francisco - some hacker tried to pretend to be his boss to get the passwords to the networks and he said "Only FTF, buddy".
After thinking about it, as someone who worked at Microsoft and has friends who work there, I think Elon has a very good idea there.
Going off mission like Ballmer did the last decade may feel good, but it's the wrong direction.
I may prefer LibreOffice or some other solution other friends are working on, but they really need to shake up the doom spiral that Microsoft is in, and get their heads back in gear.
I mean, if jellyfish were planning to take over the world, they'd have the largest ones in the world in Puget Sound, where the Pacific Ocean is right next to Seattle...
Oh.
Wait.
And we'd be bioengineering jellyfish genes into other DNA sequences here at the UW.
It's hard to use something that has been on the front page of newspapers as blackmail material. "Oh no, if I don't do what you say you'll publish this information that was on the front page of the paper? Oh anything but that! What if someone finds out?"
Unless you release the vids on the internal networks in France and make sure they show up during broadcasts..
1. MSM outlets - they tweet links to their stories vids etc 2. Active bloggers/users - we retweet stuff and tweet stuff - depends on when we have time 3. Passive users - they read stuff but rarely tweet anything. 4. Passive non-users - the read tweets but have no account.
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Hoarding things is bad, even for the Horde.
Then why does the Horde auction house suck, on a server where the Alliance auction is a house of plenty? No. The Horde hoards bigtime.
This is why we take double bytes, to allow for merged servers.
Be glad we never used Murloc emulator cards.
Whatever your complaints about your job, at least debugging your code doesn't involve stepping through assembly on a pencil and paper virtual machine.
How do you think we wrote our first programs?
There's a reason why I knew hex code and could debug SimCity file storage once I realized they used a two-byte hex code.
Copyright should end after 10yrs max. Whatever paltry profits apple may stand to gain from hording things like this to themselves pale in comparison to the lost history if such things are destroyed before they're ever released to the public.
Hoarding things is bad, even for the Horde.
That said, I'll settle for a basic 13 year patent with a 13 year single renewal for a patent owner, and a copyright period of 17 years with a single 17 year renewal for the human that wrote it during his/her lifetime or the year of his/her death, as our Founding Fathers intended.
I don't know if you're familiar with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but he's aiming at people a couple of rungs farther down on Maslow's pyramid than that. I don't give too many fucks about the performance of Office365 when I have fucking malaria, you know?
Exactly. Products like solar-powered cell towers that also keep vaccines and medicines cool so that people can be immunized and low tech solutions to deal with the impacts of malaria are quite useful when most of your kids don't make it to adulthood, or even 5 yo.
I for one welcome our Alpaca Space Alien overlords and welcome their return to our out of control human reservation ...
We'll ignore your claim that the ultra-rich pay fewer taxes than the poor.* But imagine that every rich person filled the gap with charitable contributions. Why do you care that they're paying fewer taxes, when they're getting the wealth to the people who need it more directly?
* Indeed, in the USA, the poor not only avoid all federal and state income tax but they receive credits; this usually helps negate what little other taxes they pay.
Um, our state (where he lives) has no income tax. His federal return is usually around 8 percent, like mine.
I know you worship the rich, but you sure don't act like them.
Most of our taxes are sales taxes (which he doesn't pay much of, and his nonprofits either) and property taxes (ditto).
Please take your anti-tax screed worship of the ultra-rich somewhere else.
There's a reason why you hire good lawyers and accountants first, and set up trusts.
In the old days when this was a small town calling itself a city, I'd frequently be at a play with Bill or some other event.
I like his focus on where we need to fix it, but the cold hard fact is he lives in an area where the ultra-rich are taxed much less than the poor, and he goes to great lengths not to pay taxes on many levels.
Capitalism is no problem - but Adam Smith, the Father of Capitalism, railed against Mercantalism that Bill worships at the head of.
Rights? You have to upgrade your service plan to get those.
Remember, it's a business, not a place for scholarly pursuits ...
I really don't see how this is such a surprise.
There have been cleaner wood burning stoves than the proposed EPA regs since the 70s - when I was growing up in BC we used them.
If you can't get your act together in half a century you have no sympathy from me.
There are no secrets.. They eventually get out.
Who killed Lincoln? Who killed JFK? Who planned 9/11?
Tip: money makes truths.
Lincoln? The guy my great-grand-uncle rented the horses to escape afterwards to. His name was Booth, a reputable actor at the time.
JFK? I'm sorry, but you're not cleared to know that. Let's just say Germans do very good work.
9-11? He's at the bottom of the ocean. Having Pakistan as your buddies won't save you from us.
Anyone working in the security field who gives up their password is an idiot, and should be fired.
Agreed. Like that guy in San Francisco - some hacker tried to pretend to be his boss to get the passwords to the networks and he said
"Only FTF, buddy".
You can't trust anyone.
FTF ftw!
After thinking about it, as someone who worked at Microsoft and has friends who work there, I think Elon has a very good idea there.
Going off mission like Ballmer did the last decade may feel good, but it's the wrong direction.
I may prefer LibreOffice or some other solution other friends are working on, but they really need to shake up the doom spiral that Microsoft is in, and get their heads back in gear.
How does Childs "know" the person trying to get him to email the passwords "is" his employer?
FTF is the only verifiable way.
Social engineering for password theft after job changes is a major threat risk.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Oh, and that pic of your mistress? Priceless.
Be a shame if it ended up being mailed to all the news media ...
SyFy now has a new milkcow: Great White JellyShark!
Man-o-warriors?
Ray stingers?
Bobbers... OF DEATH!?
Well, there is the third SyFy movie set in Seattle in the #Sharknado series ...
And we do have the world's largest jellyfish here.
I mean, if jellyfish were planning to take over the world, they'd have the largest ones in the world in Puget Sound, where the Pacific Ocean is right next to Seattle ...
Oh.
Wait.
And we'd be bioengineering jellyfish genes into other DNA sequences here at the UW.
Um. ...
I for one welcome our Jellyfish Overlords!
It's hard to use something that has been on the front page of newspapers as blackmail material. "Oh no, if I don't do what you say you'll publish this information that was on the front page of the paper? Oh anything but that! What if someone finds out?"
Unless you release the vids on the internal networks in France and make sure they show up during broadcasts ..
No problem, we can just restore it from the Wayback Machine.
Um.
The reign in Spain falls mainly on the reins, but the Rain never complains.
And are using it to blackmail him right now.
Oh, wait, sorry, in spook speak that's "encourage cooperation".
Well, my results may be different from yours, because I live in Seattle, and we're the top city for twitter trends.
We start trends here. We make San Francisco look like a backwards place.
Except when it extorts things to stop a crackdown on illegal acts.
Snowden is still a patriot, but Freedom is never free.
If you don't understand that, realize it's 1984 right now.
And you're all Serfs.
1. The end of the world is nigh and the Big J is coming (oil/gas backers view)
2. Fracking is causing this.
Choose one. Because climate change is now, and sticking your head in the tar sands won't change that basic fact.
LOL. How naive you are.
I've been investing in tech since buying shares of Apple on Black Monday.
Stuff changes. FB is starting to die, and a lot of us "still on it" are migrating off of it day by day.
Keep dreaming.
That reminds me, I need to update AdBlocker again.
There are four types of twitter users.
1. MSM outlets - they tweet links to their stories vids etc
2. Active bloggers/users - we retweet stuff and tweet stuff - depends on when we have time
3. Passive users - they read stuff but rarely tweet anything.
4. Passive non-users - the read tweets but have no account.