so once you have paid the copy tax you are free to copy as much music as you like?
True, so long as your a Canadian taxpayer. Just don't get caught using your tax dollars that Canada's fascist government has earmarked for the corporations.
Suppose many people find most religious texts offensive, but for some strange reason Amazon won't ban them, yet Amazon will cave to religious groups and ban materials that only the religious groups deem offensive? Religion is, after all, the most likely source of most violence and suffering in the world. Religious people have no more claim on morality than atheists.
Ban nothing and let the readers decide for themselves, OR use logic and reason and ban all that is offensive to everyone. Which would you choose?
Put copies of the invention documents into an envelope, seal it, and mail it to yourself. But don't ever open it, and put it in a safe deposit box, or in your bomb shelter. The postmark is legal proof that you have prior art.
Ah, I stand corrected about the telomeres. It appears that independent studies on the length of telomere chains in cloned animals disagreed with each other (high error margin?), and the media originally reported the worst case scenario. I see now that the actual consensus appears to be that the telomeres are not depleted in the clone.
I am not against cloning whole animals, or even parts of animals or the human animal, with the assistance of stem cell technologies. I think that the acceptance of the ability to repair or replace one's damage d or missing body parts will be a major breakthrough.
Cloning is probably not all that difficult once you have the lab set up, so these companies charging $100,000 for a cloned pet will likely probably have a high profit margin. However, their entire business model depends on their clients emotional state, which is borderline ethical in my opinion. I also think they're charging way too much.
Otherwise, I'd run down to the hardware store and get a Cloninator for the home, if there was such a thing, to bring back the facsimile of my little dog.
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I have a rudimentary understanding of genetics, but I understand that telomeres are shortened with each cell division, and when they run out, no more cell division can occur. Essentially this is "old age".
When an old dog is cloned, how long will the cloned puppy live? Until the telomeres can be lengthened before the initial cell division begins in the new lifeform, this seems like a cruel service.
When we figure out how to lengthen telomeres in dogs, then we've pretty much got longevity treatments for humans, who can then live hundreds of years, and then not many people will be as concerned with cloning dogs as they will be about lengthening their lives.
I agree: the experimentor must choose a field of study that is more appropriate for the category of study. I can chew on that herring, but a child who plays with chemistry sets becomes an experimentor and shows a more direct scientific curiosity and may be inspired to later pursue chemistry or physics; a child who plays sports becomes a guinea pig for medicine, but does not care how or why, except that maybe will be inspired by broken bones and snapped tendons and take up sports medicine. And at the end of it all, humans will get to walk around on Mars because of discoveries made in both fields. On the other hand, one could also argue that without players of professional sports, we would not have amazing big screen HDTV technology today, that is, if we also ignore the chemistry and physics scientists who actually created that technology in the first place.
And how does one's excellence in sports directly advance discoveries in science? I suppose one could argue that a few (re)discoveries in Newtonian physics are made now and then while in the middle of performing a sport.
Actually, a Canadian who knows that his currency is only strong relative to US currency, and is getting hosed at the toy stores and car lots and book stores and the supermarket because it's all far more expensive than in the US stores only a 20 minute drive to the south.
On the other hand, I'm surprised that products in the US haven't yet skyrocketed to compensate for the falling US dollar relative to the rest of the world. Manufacturers and retailers could make a brief killing until inflation went out of control. One example would be the pricing of new foreign import cars brought recently into the US vs the yet unadjusted pricing of American manufactured cars. Later, an increase in the price of American cars to come to par with the rest of the world will make all cars in the US very expensive. And this could apply to all products in the same way.
By this example, it's easy to see that the buying power of the middle class would become more like that of the lower class/poor. The already-wealthy would still be able to afford to buy these things, but the average person would not. I predict more "inflation adjustment" union strikes and labor walkouts in the near future.
I am boycotting stores like Toys-R-Us because they advertise openly that they cheat their customers. They have not adjusted their Canadian and US prices to reflect the current dollar values. How is it that a toy that sells for $40 US is also sold for $60 Canadian, when the Canadian dollar is currently worth $1.02 US? Corporate sociopathic greed, and this from a toystore!
I started out in 1981 with a TRS-80 Model III, Level II BASIC with 48k and a tape deck. Eventually it got a 5.25" floppy drive and a 7-pin line printer. I had a lot of the crappy games for it, some of which I actually saved money to buy. Within a year or two I was doing some advanced Z-80 assembly coding, first as embedded basic strings poked into RAM, and then as EDTASM compiled programs. Everything I wrote on that computer was "fast"!
My second computer was a Tandy 1000SX with two floppy drives, which lasted me until 1990 and then I got an accelerated 16MHz 286 with 640K of RAM, Windows 3.1, and an ATI VGA Wonder video card. After that, I graduated to a 486-66DX2 and Windows 95, 33kbps modem, and a Creative VideoBlaster capture card. In 1998 I finally got a pentium II.
I've always been a bit behind the times - I still use a PIII-866MHz with 512MB, but with 370GB of hard drive storage.
Have collected/still have: TRS-80 Model III, Apple IIe, C64, CocoII, various x86 with linux on them, various ppc, sa1110, coldfire development boards.
Here's a novel concept: Record Companies make a lot of money on listeners, but what if listeners belonged to a Listeners Organisation that demanded to be paid, instead, to listen to the music? I know this sounds stupid, but Record Companies are always whining about making MORE money when they're making shitloads already. More power to the consumer, I say. If this Listeners Organisation was a billion people strong, for example, then the Record Companies would have to ease off a little.
Obviously, since Patents now impede progress and innovation on this planet more than they help progress and innovation succeed, we must do away with Patents.
Perhaps we should replace the failed Patent concept with something similar to a Public License or Creative Commons License./anti-patent//has name on a patent
We live in the age of Corporate Anarchy. A Corporation has had, in the past, essentially the same rights as an individual human. Now, however, individual rights have been taken away, yet the Corporation is free to do what it pleases. Corporations like SONY feel they are above the law, and are now testing to see how far they can go. After Corporate Anarchy comes Corporate Rule.
I would not shed a tear if the Individuals were to blow up Corporate buildings, clean out Corporate bank accounts, and fight in a [very bloody] Revolution against Government and Corporation (war against Facism, in other words). Civil war, if you could call it that, but more like the French Revolution. I think there is no other way around it, because History shows us that it will happen.
Patent debates are useless, and therefore make the Law more of a joke than it already is.
Because the whole idea of patents are now abused, they are meaningless. Patents originally existed to protect ideas from being claimed away from the actual inventors, to give credit where credit is due. Now, they're primarily used competitively, to prevent progress.
I wonder when people, corporations and lawmakers will wake up and declare that Patents can only exist as a register of ideas, not as a register of who owes money to whom, which is what it has become. Only when the Law associated with Patents has been stripped of its power can humans finally be flying around in personal spaceships, colonizing asteroids and such. Countries like China, that ignore patent law and which cannot be touched by lawyers, will reach the stars long before countries like America will.
Personally, I scoff patent law in the name of social progress, but I will give credit where credit is due. So sue me.
We have accepted sociopathic behaviour into our society, in the form of politicians, corporate leaders, or any other social positions that give one person power over many. This is our human flaw. Logically, we should do Everything by committee, but we don't.
This experiment explains a lot about human inability to choose the most efficient, logical path. Maybe Planet of the Apes wasn't so far off.
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so once you have paid the copy tax you are free to copy as much music as you like?
True, so long as your a Canadian taxpayer. Just don't get caught using your tax dollars that Canada's fascist government has earmarked for the corporations.
Suppose many people find most religious texts offensive, but for some strange reason Amazon won't ban them, yet Amazon will cave to religious groups and ban materials that only the religious groups deem offensive? Religion is, after all, the most likely source of most violence and suffering in the world. Religious people have no more claim on morality than atheists. Ban nothing and let the readers decide for themselves, OR use logic and reason and ban all that is offensive to everyone. Which would you choose?
Put copies of the invention documents into an envelope, seal it, and mail it to yourself. But don't ever open it, and put it in a safe deposit box, or in your bomb shelter. The postmark is legal proof that you have prior art.
Ah, I stand corrected about the telomeres. It appears that independent studies on the length of telomere chains in cloned animals disagreed with each other (high error margin?), and the media originally reported the worst case scenario. I see now that the actual consensus appears to be that the telomeres are not depleted in the clone. I am not against cloning whole animals, or even parts of animals or the human animal, with the assistance of stem cell technologies. I think that the acceptance of the ability to repair or replace one's damage d or missing body parts will be a major breakthrough. Cloning is probably not all that difficult once you have the lab set up, so these companies charging $100,000 for a cloned pet will likely probably have a high profit margin. However, their entire business model depends on their clients emotional state, which is borderline ethical in my opinion. I also think they're charging way too much. Otherwise, I'd run down to the hardware store and get a Cloninator for the home, if there was such a thing, to bring back the facsimile of my little dog.
I have a rudimentary understanding of genetics, but I understand that telomeres are shortened with each cell division, and when they run out, no more cell division can occur. Essentially this is "old age". When an old dog is cloned, how long will the cloned puppy live? Until the telomeres can be lengthened before the initial cell division begins in the new lifeform, this seems like a cruel service. When we figure out how to lengthen telomeres in dogs, then we've pretty much got longevity treatments for humans, who can then live hundreds of years, and then not many people will be as concerned with cloning dogs as they will be about lengthening their lives.
I agree: the experimentor must choose a field of study that is more appropriate for the category of study. I can chew on that herring, but a child who plays with chemistry sets becomes an experimentor and shows a more direct scientific curiosity and may be inspired to later pursue chemistry or physics; a child who plays sports becomes a guinea pig for medicine, but does not care how or why, except that maybe will be inspired by broken bones and snapped tendons and take up sports medicine. And at the end of it all, humans will get to walk around on Mars because of discoveries made in both fields. On the other hand, one could also argue that without players of professional sports, we would not have amazing big screen HDTV technology today, that is, if we also ignore the chemistry and physics scientists who actually created that technology in the first place.
And how does one's excellence in sports directly advance discoveries in science? I suppose one could argue that a few (re)discoveries in Newtonian physics are made now and then while in the middle of performing a sport.
Actually, a Canadian who knows that his currency is only strong relative to US currency, and is getting hosed at the toy stores and car lots and book stores and the supermarket because it's all far more expensive than in the US stores only a 20 minute drive to the south.
On the other hand, I'm surprised that products in the US haven't yet skyrocketed to compensate for the falling US dollar relative to the rest of the world. Manufacturers and retailers could make a brief killing until inflation went out of control. One example would be the pricing of new foreign import cars brought recently into the US vs the yet unadjusted pricing of American manufactured cars. Later, an increase in the price of American cars to come to par with the rest of the world will make all cars in the US very expensive. And this could apply to all products in the same way.
By this example, it's easy to see that the buying power of the middle class would become more like that of the lower class/poor. The already-wealthy would still be able to afford to buy these things, but the average person would not. I predict more "inflation adjustment" union strikes and labor walkouts in the near future.
So much for the so-called "free trade" deal. It obviously doesn't benefit anyone these days.
I am boycotting stores like Toys-R-Us because they advertise openly that they cheat their customers. They have not adjusted their Canadian and US prices to reflect the current dollar values. How is it that a toy that sells for $40 US is also sold for $60 Canadian, when the Canadian dollar is currently worth $1.02 US? Corporate sociopathic greed, and this from a toystore!
A chemistry set likely doesn't inspire a kid to take up football as a career. Lawn darts might.
I started out in 1981 with a TRS-80 Model III, Level II BASIC with 48k and a tape deck. Eventually it got a 5.25" floppy drive and a 7-pin line printer. I had a lot of the crappy games for it, some of which I actually saved money to buy. Within a year or two I was doing some advanced Z-80 assembly coding, first as embedded basic strings poked into RAM, and then as EDTASM compiled programs. Everything I wrote on that computer was "fast"! My second computer was a Tandy 1000SX with two floppy drives, which lasted me until 1990 and then I got an accelerated 16MHz 286 with 640K of RAM, Windows 3.1, and an ATI VGA Wonder video card. After that, I graduated to a 486-66DX2 and Windows 95, 33kbps modem, and a Creative VideoBlaster capture card. In 1998 I finally got a pentium II. I've always been a bit behind the times - I still use a PIII-866MHz with 512MB, but with 370GB of hard drive storage. Have collected/still have: TRS-80 Model III, Apple IIe, C64, CocoII, various x86 with linux on them, various ppc, sa1110, coldfire development boards.
Here's a novel concept: Record Companies make a lot of money on listeners, but what if listeners belonged to a Listeners Organisation that demanded to be paid, instead, to listen to the music? I know this sounds stupid, but Record Companies are always whining about making MORE money when they're making shitloads already. More power to the consumer, I say. If this Listeners Organisation was a billion people strong, for example, then the Record Companies would have to ease off a little.
Obviously, since Patents now impede progress and innovation on this planet more than they help progress and innovation succeed, we must do away with Patents. Perhaps we should replace the failed Patent concept with something similar to a Public License or Creative Commons License. /anti-patent //has name on a patent
We live in the age of Corporate Anarchy. A Corporation has had, in the past, essentially the same rights as an individual human. Now, however, individual rights have been taken away, yet the Corporation is free to do what it pleases. Corporations like SONY feel they are above the law, and are now testing to see how far they can go. After Corporate Anarchy comes Corporate Rule. I would not shed a tear if the Individuals were to blow up Corporate buildings, clean out Corporate bank accounts, and fight in a [very bloody] Revolution against Government and Corporation (war against Facism, in other words). Civil war, if you could call it that, but more like the French Revolution. I think there is no other way around it, because History shows us that it will happen.
Patent debates are useless, and therefore make the Law more of a joke than it already is. Because the whole idea of patents are now abused, they are meaningless. Patents originally existed to protect ideas from being claimed away from the actual inventors, to give credit where credit is due. Now, they're primarily used competitively, to prevent progress. I wonder when people, corporations and lawmakers will wake up and declare that Patents can only exist as a register of ideas, not as a register of who owes money to whom, which is what it has become. Only when the Law associated with Patents has been stripped of its power can humans finally be flying around in personal spaceships, colonizing asteroids and such. Countries like China, that ignore patent law and which cannot be touched by lawyers, will reach the stars long before countries like America will. Personally, I scoff patent law in the name of social progress, but I will give credit where credit is due. So sue me.
We have accepted sociopathic behaviour into our society, in the form of politicians, corporate leaders, or any other social positions that give one person power over many. This is our human flaw. Logically, we should do Everything by committee, but we don't. This experiment explains a lot about human inability to choose the most efficient, logical path. Maybe Planet of the Apes wasn't so far off.