RTFA
No copyrights are being terminated, only the assignment of them to the recording labels is being terminated. The copyrights will revert to the original authors/composers/recordists (if the proper paperwork is filed)
you have on one side the association that wrote the building codes, then on the other side is the government that basically cut and pasted into the law books
The reason that there is still a question about the law being copyrighted in these cases is that the government does not copy and paste the model building codes. They reference them. So the law that says the municipality "adopts the 2006 IBC except for the following amendments" is definitely not copyrighted. But it's still unclear how that relates to the model codes themselves.
Your analogy fails. This would be closer to the situation:
If someone bought (or were given) a CD they thought was legitimate that turned out to be an illegal copying, then turned around and made thousands of copies and sold them, then no I'd say destroying it is not reasonable.
Companies want to be treated as individuals legally when it suits them. Employees given authority to act on behalf of the company can bind the company to contracts, even if their boss doesn't know it at the time and tries to back out later. Companies should not be allowed to plead that their left hand didn't know what their right hand was doing.
If infringement happened here, it will be entirely up to MS and the copyright holder to settle or go to court, just removing the infringing code would not be enough unless the copyright holder agrees to it.
If a Microsoft employee with the authority to commit changes, knowingly committed copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder to use it, then Microsoft willfully infringed, even if Balmer or a supervisor, or whoever didn't know about it. (and everything copyrightable is automatically copyrighted nowadays, so it could be hard to make an affirmative defense of unwillfulness)
Having said that, though, not everything falls under copyright, so it remains to be seen whether this is actually infringing.
No, GP had it right.
Peak Oil is not the point where new discoveries begin to decline, nor is it the point where production begins to decline. Peak Oil is the point when oil production outstrips the discovery of new oil. Since you can't reliably predict discovery, and since the definition of known reserves depends on being able to extract it economically, you'll never know for sure that you got to Peak Oil until it becomes obvious that you're past it.
On the other hand, TFA (well, the one I read, anyway) talked about predicting the peak in production, which is not the same.
Oil peaks aside, there is no shortage, current or predicted, of natural gas in the US.
The difference being, when IBM was threatened with anti-trust action, they tried to please thr justice department, but when Microsoft was threatened prosecution, they defied the justice department all the way, until a "business friendly" administration dropped the ball.
the way a GPS calculates your average speed is by measuring the distance travelled between pings and calculating an average speed, assuming that your velocity was constant between the two points.
That's not how I read TFA:(not that the articles submitted here are all that reliable).
The GPS pinged the parent's home computer with the position and "instantaneous" speed. (at least some GPS's can do this). So at one point he was going 0, and 30 seconds later, he was going 45.
Since he averaged 46.4 mph over that course, it would be entirely possible that he made a jackrabbit start, going 0 to 50 in 5 seconds, travelling around 50 mph for the whole distance, and then decelerating to 45 quickly at the end. Well, it would be possible if there weren't radar proving otherwise, anyway.
Good point, I hadn't thought of that
One of the earlier articles olden linked above says "the GPS recorded Malone sitting at a stoplight at Frates Road and 30 seconds later going 45 mph 2,040 feet farther down the road, according to Heppe". This makes his (time) average speed about 46.4 mph.
If we assume that the light did change to green immediately, then if he uniformly accelerated from 0 to 60 for 9-1/2 seconds (averaging 31 mph) and then decelerated at a constant rate from 62 to 45 (averaging 53.5 mph) for the next 20-1/2 seconds, he would have averaged about 46.4 mph. My guess would be that he accelerated a little slower than that, stayed at high speed until he saw the cop, then braked quickly. Either way, it would have been very possible for him to have hit 62 or above. Not to mention that properly maintained radar is probably much higher accuracy than GPS. Radar readings are not infallible, though. The question I still have, though, is where did the officer stop him? If it was near or after the 45 mph ping, then there would be some doubt in my mind.
No one driving an automatic would think of pushing in the clutch.
And, unfortunately, if the throttle is stuck, the emergency brake is likely to cause skidding/steering control probelms.
Braking would be anyone's first thought, though manual shifters would automatically (no pun intended) hit the clutch first as part of braking and so be saved. Shifting to neutral would be the second thought, but it's not necessarily instinctive when you have your foot pressing hard on the brake. It's happened to me, and I did shift to neutral at the last second, but I could have just as easily been too late to avoid the car in front of me.
Easier said than done
I was having trouble with "braking" on a cold day last December, which was a reasonable assumption the first couple of times it happened, since there was snow on the ground. But when it seemed like I was going to crash into a car in front of me at a red light, it suddenly dawned on me that the engine was revving while I was braking (and, no, I didn't have my foot on the gas). I did quickly put the automatic transmission into neutral and that avoided the crash, but unfortunately, I overshot and hit park for a split second, which resulted in a slow transmission leak that showed up as a puddle in my garage a few days later.
I don't suppose you've ever heard of BASIC before, have you?
[emphasis and link added]
Although developing a hacked-up personal computer implementation of a language with a publicly available spec (note the date) unencumbered by copyrights or patents was better that Ballmer could do, it wasn't exactly a great achievement in computer science.
The learning curve has amount of time to make a single widget in the Y axis, and number of widgets made in the X axis.
It is good when that curve is steep, because that means improvement is fast. Even so, a learning curve that starts high is not that good, because it means you start off too slow,.
Either way, the important thing is that the curve drops to a small length of time per widget at the end. That's why GUIs are praised by those who "don't want to spend all their time learning esoteric commands" and disparaged by those who already know how to get things done without "being slowed down by moving hands back and forth between keyboard and mouse".
It's been known for years that activated charcoal made from coconuts is the best commercially available adsorption material for filters.
Straight from the master construction specifications of a major airport:
Media: (for both front/back access type and side-access type filters)
1. The absorbent medium shall be natural grain coconut shell activated carbon meeting the following requirements. The contractor shall furnish a manufacturer's certificate that the carbon quality meets these requirements.
a. Base material: Natural grain, coconut shell carbon
b. Activation method: High temperature steam
c. Absorption capacity: High efficiency and capacity for removal of typical odors in concentrations normally associated with the occupied spaces.
d. Absorption capacity: 60% carbon tetrachloride, ASTM D-3467.
e. Particle size distrib.: U.S. screen - particles will be of a 4 x 8 mesh, with a maximum of 5% remaining on the 4 mesh and a maximum of 5% passing thru the 8 mesh.
f. Bulk density: 0.48 to 0.54 grams per milliliter (29-34 lbs./cu. ft.) ASTM D-2854.
g. Total sulfur content: 0.1% maximum, by weight.
h. Ash content: 5% maximum, ASTM D-2866.
i. Moisture content: 5% maximum by weight, as packed, ASTM D-2867.
j. Reactivatability: Can be readily reactivated.
k. Packaging: The panel filling operation will utilize special equipment configured and fabricated to remove carbon fines and assure uniform packing density.
My plan was to put dampers to each room with a thermostat, and program the acceptable heating & cooling parameters for the room.
There are a lot of HVAC control companies that can set up systems like that. But be careful if you intend to do it yourself. For almost all residential heating and cooling equipment (and most commercial or industrial equipment) you can't just arbitrarily reduce the airflow by closing dampers. You could easily end up doing things like freezing the evaporator coil, shutting the heat off due to overtemperature safeties (you should never rely on safeties during normal operation - they're for when something unexpectedly goes wrong), damaging the ductwork from overpressurization, running the fan outside of its' stable range, and probably a few more things I can't think of off hand. Typical system like this do not allow dampers to close all the way and/or have a controlled relief damper to maintain the proper minimum airflow. Even then, there are specialized control sequences to prevent "short-cycling", that is, to prevent the heating burner and A/C compressors from turning on and off too rapidly.
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And the extra money should go to the public, since it's the public domain that's losing out from the extensions, not the artist.
My take is that it's a (too) short version of "as if I could care less."
RTFA
No copyrights are being terminated, only the assignment of them to the recording labels is being terminated. The copyrights will revert to the original authors/composers/recordists (if the proper paperwork is filed)
Why because drug dealers have been buying it to cook methamphetamine .
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Works made by state and city-level governments might be copyrighted in general, but laws are not copyrightable, federal or local.
you have on one side the association that wrote the building codes, then on the other side is the government that basically cut and pasted into the law books
The reason that there is still a question about the law being copyrighted in these cases is that the government does not copy and paste the model building codes. They reference them. So the law that says the municipality "adopts the 2006 IBC except for the following amendments" is definitely not copyrighted. But it's still unclear how that relates to the model codes themselves.
Justice and fairness are not identical.
If someone bought (or were given) a CD they thought was legitimate that turned out to be an illegal copying, then turned around and made thousands of copies and sold them, then no I'd say destroying it is not reasonable.
Companies want to be treated as individuals legally when it suits them. Employees given authority to act on behalf of the company can bind the company to contracts, even if their boss doesn't know it at the time and tries to back out later. Companies should not be allowed to plead that their left hand didn't know what their right hand was doing.
If infringement happened here, it will be entirely up to MS and the copyright holder to settle or go to court, just removing the infringing code would not be enough unless the copyright holder agrees to it.
If corporations are to be treated as people in the eyes of the law, then they cannot claim that one hand doesn't know what the other is doing.
If a Microsoft employee with the authority to commit changes, knowingly committed copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder to use it, then Microsoft willfully infringed, even if Balmer or a supervisor, or whoever didn't know about it. (and everything copyrightable is automatically copyrighted nowadays, so it could be hard to make an affirmative defense of unwillfulness)
Having said that, though, not everything falls under copyright, so it remains to be seen whether this is actually infringing.
No, GP had it right.
Peak Oil is not the point where new discoveries begin to decline, nor is it the point where production begins to decline. Peak Oil is the point when oil production outstrips the discovery of new oil. Since you can't reliably predict discovery, and since the definition of known reserves depends on being able to extract it economically, you'll never know for sure that you got to Peak Oil until it becomes obvious that you're past it.
On the other hand, TFA (well, the one I read, anyway) talked about predicting the peak in production, which is not the same.
Oil peaks aside, there is no shortage, current or predicted, of natural gas in the US.
The difference being, when IBM was threatened with anti-trust action, they tried to please thr justice department, but when Microsoft was threatened prosecution, they defied the justice department all the way, until a "business friendly" administration dropped the ball.
Correct me if I'm wrong . . .
You are wrong
the way a GPS calculates your average speed is by measuring the distance travelled between pings and calculating an average speed, assuming that your velocity was constant between the two points.
That's not how I read TFA :(not that the articles submitted here are all that reliable).
The GPS pinged the parent's home computer with the position and "instantaneous" speed. (at least some GPS's can do this). So at one point he was going 0, and 30 seconds later, he was going 45.
Since he averaged 46.4 mph over that course, it would be entirely possible that he made a jackrabbit start, going 0 to 50 in 5 seconds, travelling around 50 mph for the whole distance, and then decelerating to 45 quickly at the end. Well, it would be possible if there weren't radar proving otherwise, anyway.
Good point, I hadn't thought of that
One of the earlier articles olden linked above says "the GPS recorded Malone sitting at a stoplight at Frates Road and 30 seconds later going 45 mph 2,040 feet farther down the road, according to Heppe". This makes his (time) average speed about 46.4 mph.
If we assume that the light did change to green immediately, then if he uniformly accelerated from 0 to 60 for 9-1/2 seconds (averaging 31 mph) and then decelerated at a constant rate from 62 to 45 (averaging 53.5 mph) for the next 20-1/2 seconds, he would have averaged about 46.4 mph. My guess would be that he accelerated a little slower than that, stayed at high speed until he saw the cop, then braked quickly. Either way, it would have been very possible for him to have hit 62 or above. Not to mention that properly maintained radar is probably much higher accuracy than GPS.
Radar readings are not infallible, though. The question I still have, though, is where did the officer stop him? If it was near or after the 45 mph ping, then there would be some doubt in my mind.
Just one more piece of evidence that the God particle is the Murphy particle.
You might not want to turn off the engine if you have power steering.
No one driving an automatic would think of pushing in the clutch.
And, unfortunately, if the throttle is stuck, the emergency brake is likely to cause skidding/steering control probelms.
Braking would be anyone's first thought, though manual shifters would automatically (no pun intended) hit the clutch first as part of braking and so be saved. Shifting to neutral would be the second thought, but it's not necessarily instinctive when you have your foot pressing hard on the brake. It's happened to me, and I did shift to neutral at the last second, but I could have just as easily been too late to avoid the car in front of me.
Easier said than done
I was having trouble with "braking" on a cold day last December, which was a reasonable assumption the first couple of times it happened, since there was snow on the ground. But when it seemed like I was going to crash into a car in front of me at a red light, it suddenly dawned on me that the engine was revving while I was braking (and, no, I didn't have my foot on the gas). I did quickly put the automatic transmission into neutral and that avoided the crash, but unfortunately, I overshot and hit park for a split second, which resulted in a slow transmission leak that showed up as a puddle in my garage a few days later.
We lost full-service gas stations when they implemented minimum wage laws
US has had minimum wage laws since 1938.
We didn't lose full-service gas stations until the '70s.
I don't suppose you've ever heard of BASIC before, have you?
[emphasis and link added]
Although developing a hacked-up personal computer implementation of a language with a publicly available spec (note the date) unencumbered by copyrights or patents was better that Ballmer could do, it wasn't exactly a great achievement in computer science.
The learning curve has amount of time to make a single widget in the Y axis, and number of widgets made in the X axis.
It is good when that curve is steep, because that means improvement is fast. Even so, a learning curve that starts high is not that good, because it means you start off too slow,.
Either way, the important thing is that the curve drops to a small length of time per widget at the end. That's why GUIs are praised by those who "don't want to spend all their time learning esoteric commands" and disparaged by those who already know how to get things done without "being slowed down by moving hands back and forth between keyboard and mouse".
Media: (for both front/back access type and side-access type filters)
1. The absorbent medium shall be natural grain coconut shell activated carbon meeting the following requirements. The contractor shall furnish a manufacturer's certificate that the carbon quality meets these requirements.
a. Base material: Natural grain, coconut shell carbon
b. Activation method: High temperature steam
c. Absorption capacity: High efficiency and capacity for removal of typical odors in concentrations normally associated with the occupied spaces.
d. Absorption capacity: 60% carbon tetrachloride, ASTM D-3467.
e. Particle size distrib.: U.S. screen - particles will be of a 4 x 8 mesh, with a maximum of 5% remaining on the 4 mesh and a maximum of 5% passing thru the 8 mesh.
f. Bulk density: 0.48 to 0.54 grams per milliliter (29-34 lbs./cu. ft.) ASTM D-2854.
g. Total sulfur content: 0.1% maximum, by weight.
h. Ash content: 5% maximum, ASTM D-2866.
i. Moisture content: 5% maximum by weight, as packed, ASTM D-2867.
j. Reactivatability: Can be readily reactivated.
k. Packaging: The panel filling operation will utilize special equipment configured and fabricated to remove carbon fines and assure uniform packing density.
My plan was to put dampers to each room with a thermostat, and program the acceptable heating & cooling parameters for the room.
There are a lot of HVAC control companies that can set up systems like that. But be careful if you intend to do it yourself. For almost all residential heating and cooling equipment (and most commercial or industrial equipment) you can't just arbitrarily reduce the airflow by closing dampers. You could easily end up doing things like freezing the evaporator coil, shutting the heat off due to overtemperature safeties (you should never rely on safeties during normal operation - they're for when something unexpectedly goes wrong), damaging the ductwork from overpressurization, running the fan outside of its' stable range, and probably a few more things I can't think of off hand. Typical system like this do not allow dampers to close all the way and/or have a controlled relief damper to maintain the proper minimum airflow. Even then, there are specialized control sequences to prevent "short-cycling", that is, to prevent the heating burner and A/C compressors from turning on and off too rapidly.