Unfortunately for the publishers, they failed to read my EUBA (End User Buyer's Agreement) which says that if they choose to sell to me then I am allowed to resell. If they don't want to agree to my terms, then they have the right not to sell to me. It's there on my website in Ugaritic, Aramaic and Sanskrit so there's no reason for them to feel cheated.
If selling copies were legal, it would make it impossible to sell copies of digital goods, as there's always be someone willing to sell for cheaper and the race to the bottom would make everything free.
That would pretty much mean the end of large portions of the entertainment industry such as movies, television, video games, and books.
Live performances such as plays and music could still exist, as could low production value "indie" stuff fincnaed via something like kicksarter but, it's mean more stuff like Star Wreck and nothing like say the Marvel movies.
Good point. Imagine what would happen if search engine sites were free. Companies providing search would all go out of business. Oh, wait...
to use the force of law to help you make money is morally wrong.
So shoplifting should be legal? After all, supermarkets use the force of law against people who reduce their profits by thieving stuff.
Except your example is exactly the wrong way around. Supermarkets buy goods from farmers and then claim they have a right to resell it to the general public at a higher price, depriving the farmers the additional money that they could have made selling it directly. The farmers should get together and sue the supermarkets to recover their lost profits. That's essentially what the publishers are claiming.
If games cannot be made free software, some people would prefer to keep the development and production environments and the games environment completely segregated. The former environments would run all free software, while the games environment would be a PlayStation 4 console.
That's the Tivo model. Sell the software so it only runs on hardware that you sell.
Old model. The last startup I worked at had 8 programmers in 7 different states. Nobody was "at the office" ever. But I could get online on my couch with a cat on my lap from 8 am til late at night and knew that most of the others were as well. All connected via chat room. Saving two hours a day of commuting made us all more productive.
The pundit class has always been wrong. Their continued existence is based on the knowledge that people have short memories. The reason is that they make predictions based on their personal biases without letting nuisances like objective reality get in the way.
How about you cut the nanny-state "legislate all the things" lefty horseshit and let the market do what the market does best?
What's that? Dump mercury in the rivers? Make you sign agreements that say you can't sue when they sell you a defective product? Lie about the dangers of tobacco?
The TSA's employees need training on an app that randomly tells people to go left or right?
The app was the easy part. The expensive part was being able to answer "Do you mean my right or your right?" every time they tell someone which line to get in. Anti-violence training is expensive.
What happens when ISIS uses one of the well-known DNS holes to redirect http://www.yesnogenerator.com/ to a site that returns the answer that they want? You just let 5 terrorists get through security.
Do you think that the companies who are outsourcing their IT jobs and network management to companies in India care about security? Anybody have numbers on what percent of breaches are either inside jobs or recently laid-off workers?
Penalizing the victims leads to a bad outcome. It will discourage companies from being open about security problems that they've experienced so that they can be fixed everywhere.
Your idea would be fine except that hiring managers meet with the people that they hire and then make a subjective decision on what "best" means. Tests have shown that if you swap the resumes and verbal responses given by the applicants, "best" still tends to be the white male. I think you fail at SJW-ness.
Already standard procedure in many European countries. No, what we need now is full recordings of all calls, voice recognition and automatic transcripts. Same voice appears to be using more than two phones? Arrest immediately.
I like this idea because everyone who works for a call center will be arrested. No more phone calls at dinner time!
Except wouldn't slowing down the cars or making them stay apart by "safe distances" decrease the traffic flow anyways? So you're just back where you started from
Not true. They just added a traffic light at a "T" intersection near me. Now it only handles 1/3 of the traffic since each leg gets green only 1/3 of the time. Traffic is now backed up on all 3 legs where before it was only on the left turn leg.
It feels very strange to me that someone could be set for life, catapaulted to wealth far beyond what most individuals might accrue, based on a legal judgement like this.
What seems strange to me is that a celebrity can sue and win over someone using their personal data, but not a regular individual. In that case it's their data because you were forced to agree to the fine print where you gave up rights to sue. And just to kick you in the teeth they send you their "privacy policy" every year..
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Unfortunately for the publishers, they failed to read my EUBA (End User Buyer's Agreement) which says that if they choose to sell to me then I am allowed to resell. If they don't want to agree to my terms, then they have the right not to sell to me. It's there on my website in Ugaritic, Aramaic and Sanskrit so there's no reason for them to feel cheated.
If selling copies were legal, it would make it impossible to sell copies of digital goods, as there's always be someone willing to sell for cheaper and the race to the bottom would make everything free.
That would pretty much mean the end of large portions of the entertainment industry such as movies, television, video games, and books.
Live performances such as plays and music could still exist, as could low production value "indie" stuff fincnaed via something like kicksarter but, it's mean more stuff like Star Wreck and nothing like say the Marvel movies.
Good point. Imagine what would happen if search engine sites were free. Companies providing search would all go out of business. Oh, wait...
So shoplifting should be legal? After all, supermarkets use the force of law against people who reduce their profits by thieving stuff.
Except your example is exactly the wrong way around. Supermarkets buy goods from farmers and then claim they have a right to resell it to the general public at a higher price, depriving the farmers the additional money that they could have made selling it directly. The farmers should get together and sue the supermarkets to recover their lost profits. That's essentially what the publishers are claiming.
If games cannot be made free software, some people would prefer to keep the development and production environments and the games environment completely segregated. The former environments would run all free software, while the games environment would be a PlayStation 4 console.
That's the Tivo model. Sell the software so it only runs on hardware that you sell.
Old model. The last startup I worked at had 8 programmers in 7 different states. Nobody was "at the office" ever. But I could get online on my couch with a cat on my lap from 8 am til late at night and knew that most of the others were as well. All connected via chat room. Saving two hours a day of commuting made us all more productive.
the more you use closed source applications on open source environments, the more will be made available.
Why would I, hypothetical FOSS advocate, want more closed-source applications?
Games.
Which card was it?
The pundit class has always been wrong. Their continued existence is based on the knowledge that people have short memories. The reason is that they make predictions based on their personal biases without letting nuisances like objective reality get in the way.
I hope he doesn't run into Russell's teapot.
"UVBY Photometry of Blue Stragglers in NGC 7789". Astronomical Journal 90: 1247
Yeah. Just famous for being famous. Let me know when you can get through the abstract.
How about you cut the nanny-state "legislate all the things" lefty horseshit and let the market do what the market does best?
What's that? Dump mercury in the rivers? Make you sign agreements that say you can't sue when they sell you a defective product? Lie about the dangers of tobacco?
The TSA's employees need training on an app that randomly tells people to go left or right?
The app was the easy part. The expensive part was being able to answer "Do you mean my right or your right?" every time they tell someone which line to get in. Anti-violence training is expensive.
What happens when ISIS uses one of the well-known DNS holes to redirect http://www.yesnogenerator.com/ to a site that returns the answer that they want? You just let 5 terrorists get through security.
I guess Hershey's hooks 1000's of new addicts. Or did you mean coca? I'm confused.
Do you think that the companies who are outsourcing their IT jobs and network management to companies in India care about security? Anybody have numbers on what percent of breaches are either inside jobs or recently laid-off workers?
Penalizing the victims leads to a bad outcome. It will discourage companies from being open about security problems that they've experienced so that they can be fixed everywhere.
Let everyone give up their privacy so you can look at a few pictures on a phone you had plenty of time to ask the password for.
Dude, seriously.
Umm. Trying to imagine that ask. Awk-ward.
Your idea would be fine except that hiring managers meet with the people that they hire and then make a subjective decision on what "best" means. Tests have shown that if you swap the resumes and verbal responses given by the applicants, "best" still tends to be the white male. I think you fail at SJW-ness.
the extra cost on society of old, feeble, decrepit bodies.
My insurance rates beg to differ with you:
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It's the young and stupid who cost more. And of course, the ypotame.
David Cronenberg was so far ahead of his time with Videodrome. One of his characters is dead but continues doing talk shows via video clips.
Already standard procedure in many European countries. No, what we need now is full recordings of all calls, voice recognition and automatic transcripts. Same voice appears to be using more than two phones? Arrest immediately.
I like this idea because everyone who works for a call center will be arrested. No more phone calls at dinner time!
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Except wouldn't slowing down the cars or making them stay apart by "safe distances" decrease the traffic flow anyways? So you're just back where you started from
Not true. They just added a traffic light at a "T" intersection near me. Now it only handles 1/3 of the traffic since each leg gets green only 1/3 of the time. Traffic is now backed up on all 3 legs where before it was only on the left turn leg.
They are definitely better, especially when more than 2 roads come into an intersection.
It feels very strange to me that someone could be set for life, catapaulted to wealth far beyond what most individuals might accrue, based on a legal judgement like this.
What seems strange to me is that a celebrity can sue and win over someone using their personal data, but not a regular individual. In that case it's their data because you were forced to agree to the fine print where you gave up rights to sue. And just to kick you in the teeth they send you their "privacy policy" every year..