More to the point... many songs that currently have certain note sequences copyrighted probably share note sequences with earlier songs.
We need to build a database of melody sequences which are in the public domain and use that to pry any modern melody that uses those sequences into the public domain. We don't need any more musicians suing other musicians who "stole their song" when we can probably show their melodies occur in many old folk songs (which they may well have heard growing up).
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), was a United States Supreme Court decision concerning the question of whether the defendant possessed a First Amendment right to free speech against the draft during World War I.
This case is also the source of the phrase "shouting fire in a crowded theater," a misquotation of Holmes' view that "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic."
As a result of the 9-0 decision, Charles Schenck spent six months in prison.
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This was clearly wartime hysteria on the part of SCOTUS since the type of activity Schenck was engaging in was EXACTLY the kind of speech that the 1st amendment was written to protect (anti war speech in this case).
Everyone the authorities swore did something wrong.
And it gets worse- humans actively remap their memories to make them feel better. 10 years after these incidents, the police probably really DO believe their initial lies.
I've seen it in others and I've seen it in myself and I'm more careful of it than most (or at least I remember that I am!;) )
Police should be required to video tape everything they do and lack of video evidence should be a strong case against them.
People (not just police) have been shown to lie a lot more than we used to think. We need to change our systems of justice to fit reality.
After this next rally- be really careful in this market. A 29% decline (9000) is the average and 36% is the mean (8600). If we hit those and head back up- then another 3 years of a nice bull market. Hoping-- but a chance that the retiring baby boomers will depress the market for years.
It is very hard for the average "joe" to see 30 years into the future.
However, I notice executives take their cash up front except for options. And the options game is usually rigged in their favor.
I'm hesitant to do any deal where the payoff is deferred too far into the future. Because humans skip out.
For example, investors loaning money to homeowners are going to be hurting bad when those homeowners realize they are under water by a decade or more of payments.
Reasonable, well funded pensions, protect a LOT of people who absolutely suck at investing (some who are quite smart too-- making money in the market is more about emotions than brains).
With a 401k- you can see that you have $234k and it will kick off $12k per year safely to $36k per year with a lot of risk. If the market tanks- you can clearly see you can't get $12k any more and get a job at walmart and wait for the market to recover.
With a pension, you effectively get a LOT more money ( Consider $1.5k income for your last year of employment costs the company about $30k of investments- tho they structure it differently, it is a reason a lot of companies find reasons to fire/lay off people just before retire ment).
With a pension, run by professional managers, conservatively, provided by a healthy company, that has reasonable benefits, where there are not too many old employees, you get a better deal. If the company or the plan is killed, you basically have no warning. One day- you are on easy street and the next you only have SSN and your IRA income.
I have many legs to my retirement.
SSN, Pension, IRA, 401K.
My IRAs are my best hope of retiring wealthy. I am up over 40% YTD and typically do very well in them. My 401k allows me to save the hardest ( 10% of my gross) but has to sit in cash during declines so I only get the upsides.
The next two years is going to be brutal for people who must depend on "long" positions only. I am recommending to most of my friends in this situation that they reduce exposure. The potential drop is 14,000 -> 8,600 (if it passes 8,600-- get worried! 8,600 is "normal"- don't panic).
On a side note, I hope Obama wins and they tax the crap out of the super wealthy and executives making 6,000 times the average wage of their employees. The rich/executive class has lost all self control and concern for the rest of the country.
Talking to them later, they feel their self-image is threatened when they can't solve them and instead of wanting to push harder until they do solve them they get upset and stop. My response has been to be more careful about leading them into the riddles with game events or easy riddles leading to harder riddles and they are getting better. I was surprised at them being upset tho and I have to assume it has to do with the "no real winners and losers everyone has to feel happy" attitude in school these days. They can't handle losing very well. Instead of viewing it as a challenge, they view it as unfair.
To be fair, it is possible that my older players had similar issues when they were younger.
We would be buying american cars of lower quality than Toyota if they were the $3k to $5k per car cheaper due to lower retirement and medical costs.
GM/Ford/Etc. Over promised benefits 30 years ago to avoid higher salaries then. And the end result is that young workers today will cover GM/Ford/Etc's pension benefits out of their taxes (and the benefits will be reduced to about 30-50% of what was promised). Meanwhile, the executives will keep all the money that they made along the way.
Here in Houston, they stupidly promised unreasonably high pensions to our police-- some of them are making mid six figures because they were able to gimmick their last couple years to pump the payout up. The total amount is basically impossible (I think about $1billion) so at some point Houston will either raise taxes so high that business and people flee or it will default on the pension obligations.
That is why 401k's are better- you know what you are getting. You don't end up 71 years old and suddenly have your monthly income cut by 60% without warning.
I think the "Nanosolar" technology (being used to build German Solar Plants) is the way to go-- they just need to get their production ramped up (100% is going to those german plants).
It is 1/50th the weight and essentially just a long roll of plastic covered with nano particles. Easy to transport and install compared to traditional solar panels. Less expensive too.
How many friends do you have outside of your wealth level? Personally- I have quite a few through "Meetups" for my hobbies which cut across class lines. I am careful to not let people know how well off I am.
If not for the meetups and internet- all my friends would be in my same wealth class. The normal pattern I've seen in life is 1) The poor envy the wealthy- ends friendship. 2) The poor get into a crisis and want to be bailed out- ends friendship. 3) The wealthy go do activities their poor friends can't do- ends friendship.
Socially, I'm lower class headed towards middle class. I will never be upper class. The personal transformation I would have to go through is just too painful. I would feel like I was not me any more.
Right... as opposed to her being bored because I didn't teach her soon enough.
"No Win" Jeopardy-- it's a game anyone can play.
It is what it is. She was encouraged. She did enjoy it. But in college she found other things (including a husband, partying and her MRS. that appealed to her more).
What we can learn from this is that we need to THINK about the consequences of our actions.
Would he have kept doing this if he had stopped for a second and considered "what's the worst thing that can happen if I keep doing this?"
Stop for a second and consider something you are doing that might turn out badly. This is slashdot so none of you are having affairs that could get you or someone else killed but perhaps you are thinking of cheating on a test (death to your degree) or actively disengaged from work (which is bad with the recession that's coming).
Poor woman. Poor little 3 year old. Poor grandparents. Was it worth it? Is what you may be doing worth the possible consequences?
I started my daughter on math with parabolas at about 6. She was an honors student in math.
Though she was good at math-- she never really liked it. Now she is a graphic artist and happy. She has also enjoyed managing people at a fast food restaurant during college. Her husband is the gearhead of the family.
And by SOX separation of duties, only certain people are allowed to know/do certain things.
Childs having the only password protects against someone else screwing with logs or data.
Hmmm.. 1 bad incident of a bad admin that was minorly costly and annoying vs numerous incidents that have cost billions of dollars where executives had the data changed.
Plugs in like a normal headset but the magnet is 3' from your head.
Question tho....
I haven't read the article yet but if your odds are 3/1,000,000 without a cell phone and 5/1,000,000 with a cell phone- do you REALLY care about the 40% increase in cancer rates even if it is a real, statistically significant increase?
Percentages are often used to make things really scary that are not.
If you tell me the sky is black, and I look out the window and it's blue and my friends agree it is blue then it is anecdotal but you are not going to convince me.
Perhaps you are on the other side of the world where it is indeed black. Perhaps you are buying $9 CFL's instead of $5.
Perhaps the drop in lumen output doesn't bother you-- I have a friend who can see the difference between 60hz and 50hz-- I can't. It's been related to me anecdotally that a friend who was getting an EKG was shown that his brain reacted to incandescent light once but reacted to every pulse of the florescent lights.
New CFL's are bright enough that they bother my eyes a bit when I look at them. I have other CFL's under 2 years old that I can look at and see they look dim.
I use 5 light fixtures and what works for me is 4CFL's (one cool, three warm) and an incandescent.
It's not like I don't use CFLs when I say that they have serious performance issues from experience.
I think they must be cheating slightly on the lumen ratings because the total light in the room is just lower for a 60w cfl vs a 60w incandescent. I have to go to 75w cfls to feel the same about the light levels (and that's about 22w so it's still a great savings).
Anyway.. this is getting old- take a last reply if you want and i'm going to move on.
I respect the chinese to run their own country the way they want to run it.
I desire that they get more racially integrated with the rest of the world because they have a pretty strong inferiority/superiority complex going and don't quite view the rest of us as human. That's dangerous because you can do what you want to people who are not human.
We need for lots and lots of immigrant workers to go to china and mix in with them. Make them gray and muddy like the rest of us.
Sorry dude, the light from florescent sucks compared to incandescent. Most of my friends feel the same.
If CFL works for you- more power to you.
CFL bulbs are only full power for about 12-15 months- for the rest of their lifespan, they put out less light.
Hopefully GE will get the new incandescents that are more efficient on line. Hopefully they will get LED's working- because the quality is decent but too weak.
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More to the point... many songs that currently have certain note sequences copyrighted probably share note sequences with earlier songs.
We need to build a database of melody sequences which are in the public domain and use that to pry any modern melody that uses those sequences into the public domain. We don't need any more musicians suing other musicians who "stole their song" when we can probably show their melodies occur in many old folk songs (which they may well have heard growing up).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), was a United States Supreme Court decision concerning the question of whether the defendant possessed a First Amendment right to free speech against the draft during World War I.
This case is also the source of the phrase "shouting fire in a crowded theater," a misquotation of Holmes' view that "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic."
As a result of the 9-0 decision, Charles Schenck spent six months in prison.
---
This was clearly wartime hysteria on the part of SCOTUS since the type of activity Schenck was engaging in was EXACTLY the kind of speech that the 1st amendment was written to protect (anti war speech in this case).
You realize what this means of course.... extremely courteous and polite terrorists.
So how explosive is a ball of 11/5 cubic meters of uncompressed hydrogen?
Everyone the authorities swore did something wrong.
And it gets worse- humans actively remap their memories to make them feel better. 10 years after these incidents, the police probably really DO believe their initial lies.
I've seen it in others and I've seen it in myself and I'm more careful of it than most (or at least I remember that I am! ;) )
Police should be required to video tape everything they do and lack of video evidence should be a strong case against them.
People (not just police) have been shown to lie a lot more than we used to think. We need to change our systems of justice to fit reality.
Thanks AK.
After this next rally- be really careful in this market. A 29% decline (9000) is the average and 36% is the mean (8600). If we hit those and head back up- then another 3 years of a nice bull market. Hoping-- but a chance that the retiring baby boomers will depress the market for years.
It is very hard for the average "joe" to see 30 years into the future.
However, I notice executives take their cash up front except for options. And the options game is usually rigged in their favor.
I'm hesitant to do any deal where the payoff is deferred too far into the future. Because humans skip out.
For example, investors loaning money to homeowners are going to be hurting bad when those homeowners realize they are under water by a decade or more of payments.
You have a good point.
Reasonable, well funded pensions, protect a LOT of people who absolutely suck at investing (some who are quite smart too-- making money in the market is more about emotions than brains).
With a 401k- you can see that you have $234k and it will kick off $12k per year safely to $36k per year with a lot of risk. If the market tanks- you can clearly see you can't get $12k any more and get a job at walmart and wait for the market to recover.
With a pension, you effectively get a LOT more money ( Consider $1.5k income for your last year of employment costs the company about $30k of investments- tho they structure it differently, it is a reason a lot of companies find reasons to fire/lay off people just before retire ment).
With a pension, run by professional managers, conservatively, provided by a healthy company, that has reasonable benefits, where there are not too many old employees, you get a better deal. If the company or the plan is killed, you basically have no warning. One day- you are on easy street and the next you only have SSN and your IRA income.
I have many legs to my retirement.
SSN, Pension, IRA, 401K.
My IRAs are my best hope of retiring wealthy. I am up over 40% YTD and typically do very well in them. My 401k allows me to save the hardest ( 10% of my gross) but has to sit in cash during declines so I only get the upsides.
The next two years is going to be brutal for people who must depend on "long" positions only. I am recommending to most of my friends in this situation that they reduce exposure. The potential drop is 14,000 -> 8,600 (if it passes 8,600-- get worried! 8,600 is "normal"- don't panic).
On a side note, I hope Obama wins and they tax the crap out of the super wealthy and executives making 6,000 times the average wage of their employees. The rich/executive class has lost all self control and concern for the rest of the country.
My older D&D players love them or ignore them.
Some of my younger D&D players got very upset.
Talking to them later, they feel their self-image is threatened when they can't solve them and instead of wanting to push harder until they do solve them they get upset and stop. My response has been to be more careful about leading them into the riddles with game events or easy riddles leading to harder riddles and they are getting better. I was surprised at them being upset tho and I have to assume it has to do with the "no real winners and losers everyone has to feel happy" attitude in school these days. They can't handle losing very well. Instead of viewing it as a challenge, they view it as unfair.
To be fair, it is possible that my older players had similar issues when they were younger.
We would be buying american cars of lower quality than Toyota if they were the $3k to $5k per car cheaper due to lower retirement and medical costs.
GM/Ford/Etc. Over promised benefits 30 years ago to avoid higher salaries then. And the end result is that young workers today will cover GM/Ford/Etc's pension benefits out of their taxes (and the benefits will be reduced to about 30-50% of what was promised). Meanwhile, the executives will keep all the money that they made along the way.
Here in Houston, they stupidly promised unreasonably high pensions to our police-- some of them are making mid six figures because they were able to gimmick their last couple years to pump the payout up. The total amount is basically impossible (I think about $1billion) so at some point Houston will either raise taxes so high that business and people flee or it will default on the pension obligations.
That is why 401k's are better- you know what you are getting. You don't end up 71 years old and suddenly have your monthly income cut by 60% without warning.
You can revoke their charter to incorporate but that's extremely rare (I think it has happened once).
It is essentially killing the corporation.
However.. i think they would have some slimy way to start a new corporation and transfer the assets and managers quickly to it.
I think the "Nanosolar" technology (being used to build German Solar Plants) is the way to go-- they just need to get their production ramped up (100% is going to those german plants).
It is 1/50th the weight and essentially just a long roll of plastic covered with nano particles. Easy to transport and install compared to traditional solar panels. Less expensive too.
I don't think NOAA has any frikkin right to do this to anyone except U.S. citizens-- and I'm not sure about us.
You have a key point...
And highlights a lamentable loss of distinction.
There is money and there is class.
Today we have a lot of wealthy low class people.
How many friends do you have outside of your wealth level?
Personally- I have quite a few through "Meetups" for my hobbies which cut across class lines.
I am careful to not let people know how well off I am.
If not for the meetups and internet- all my friends would be in my same wealth class.
The normal pattern I've seen in life is
1) The poor envy the wealthy- ends friendship.
2) The poor get into a crisis and want to be bailed out- ends friendship.
3) The wealthy go do activities their poor friends can't do- ends friendship.
Socially, I'm lower class headed towards middle class. I will never be upper class. The personal transformation I would have to go through is just too painful. I would feel like I was not me any more.
And lots and lots of college students and young people.
Let's destroy the country's future to protect I.P.
True.
So local governments allow anyone admin rights?
Or do they have parallel systems that prevent random police officers from changing databases?
Right... as opposed to her being bored because I didn't teach her soon enough.
"No Win" Jeopardy-- it's a game anyone can play.
It is what it is. She was encouraged. She did enjoy it. But in college she found other things (including a husband, partying and her MRS. that appealed to her more).
What we can learn from this is that we need to THINK about the consequences of our actions.
Would he have kept doing this if he had stopped for a second and considered "what's the worst thing that can happen if I keep doing this?"
Stop for a second and consider something you are doing that might turn out badly. This is slashdot so none of you are having affairs that could get you or someone else killed but perhaps you are thinking of cheating on a test (death to your degree) or actively disengaged from work (which is bad with the recession that's coming).
Poor woman. Poor little 3 year old. Poor grandparents. Was it worth it? Is what you may be doing worth the possible consequences?
I started my daughter on math with parabolas at about 6.
She was an honors student in math.
Though she was good at math-- she never really liked it. Now she is a graphic artist and happy.
She has also enjoyed managing people at a fast food restaurant during college. Her husband is the gearhead of the family.
And by SOX separation of duties, only certain people are allowed to know/do certain things.
Childs having the only password protects against someone else screwing with logs or data.
Hmmm.. 1 bad incident of a bad admin that was minorly costly and annoying vs numerous incidents that have cost billions of dollars where executives had the data changed.
But after 70 frikkin years, why is it STILL their IP?
How many CENTURIES are they going to get to keep it?
Plugs in like a normal headset but the magnet is 3' from your head.
Question tho....
I haven't read the article yet but if your odds are 3/1,000,000 without a cell phone and 5/1,000,000 with a cell phone- do you REALLY care about the 40% increase in cancer rates even if it is a real, statistically significant increase?
Percentages are often used to make things really scary that are not.
If you tell me the sky is black, and I look out the window and it's blue and my friends agree it is blue then it is anecdotal but you are not going to convince me.
Perhaps you are on the other side of the world where it is indeed black.
Perhaps you are buying $9 CFL's instead of $5.
Perhaps the drop in lumen output doesn't bother you-- I have a friend who can see the difference between 60hz and 50hz-- I can't. It's been related to me anecdotally that a friend who was getting an EKG was shown that his brain reacted to incandescent light once but reacted to every pulse of the florescent lights.
New CFL's are bright enough that they bother my eyes a bit when I look at them. I have other CFL's under 2 years old that I can look at and see they look dim.
I use 5 light fixtures and what works for me is 4CFL's (one cool, three warm) and an incandescent.
It's not like I don't use CFLs when I say that they have serious performance issues from experience.
I think they must be cheating slightly on the lumen ratings because the total light in the room is just lower for a 60w cfl vs a 60w incandescent. I have to go to 75w cfls to feel the same about the light levels (and that's about 22w so it's still a great savings).
Anyway.. this is getting old- take a last reply if you want and i'm going to move on.
As an american,
I respect the chinese to run their own country the way they want to run it.
I desire that they get more racially integrated with the rest of the world because they have a pretty strong inferiority/superiority complex going and don't quite view the rest of us as human. That's dangerous because you can do what you want to people who are not human.
We need for lots and lots of immigrant workers to go to china and mix in with them. Make them gray and muddy like the rest of us.
Sorry dude, the light from florescent sucks compared to incandescent.
Most of my friends feel the same.
If CFL works for you- more power to you.
CFL bulbs are only full power for about 12-15 months- for the rest of their lifespan, they put out less light.
Hopefully GE will get the new incandescents that are more efficient on line. Hopefully they will get LED's working- because the quality is decent but too weak.