Many times the vulnerabilities in insect populations are do not to harsh conditions for adults, but delicacy of their eggs. Small changes in humidity, temperature or host plant species can cause them to be non-viable This country used to be blanketed yearly by 1000 mile long carpet of locusts that blacked out the sun. But then we expanded west and turned the grassland where they buried their eggs into farmland. And then they disappeared, despite there being plenty of food left.
Then you haven't been paying very close attention. He has mentioned 1000 miles worth of wall MANY TIMES. Of course, as much as he bounces around with... well every position he has ever said, I can see how you would get confused.
Or he realized he would never get elected as a democrat. The fact that the only way he can get his agenda pushed through is by shutting down the government is not the least of the reasons why. If it was this important, a real leader would have made it happen already.
Could have something to do with the fact that the fence they are asking for is $361 PER INCH (generously, including the 150 miles of fence that is already built) and would only cover 11% of the border? Doesn't sound worth shutting down the government to me.
Man, you can tell the slashdot crowd is aging. Next people will be complaining that robots are going to break in an take their medication.
Anyone that is going to hack your phone to get the layout of your house will have the capability to know if you are there or not. If they intend you harm, it would be easier just to catch you as you leave or enter.
Not that I am endorsing a return to it, but many of the great works that we still celebrate today were done so under the system of patronage. The idea is that you, as an author or musician, find a rich person who wants to be famous for "discovering" you. They pay you a salary to create works, and you do so. The patron then releases those to the public, and is rewarded with fame.
Alternatively, a great many works of art are created as hobbies, without requiring monetary encouragement. Community theaters typically don't pay their casts. Humans, being very strange apes, are motivated very strongly by acceptance and praise.
And, lets also not forget that we live in the age of kickstarter/patreon. The public at large can decide to pay you to create a work of art, no strings attached.
Now, I do not personally believe that either of these is as effective as a limited term of copyright, but you did ask to have other systems explained to you.
I know I shouldn't feed the AC's, but.... If capitalism was a natural, emergent phenomenon, we would see it expressing itself in more than just humans. Fiddler crabs would be investing in each other with pebbles. Swallows would be transporting coconuts for trade with bunnies. No ant has ever received a paycheck.
If anything I would think that it would be easier to argue communism is the default social order in nature, though personally, I don't believe there is any thing natural about any economic system.
Just because there isn't much of a market for the meat, doesn't mean the whale has no economic value. Hell, perfumers pay top dollar for sperm whale vomit that washes up on shore. The market is a strange place.
On a separate note, I think announce that Japanese whaling ship numbers have recovered enough that we are restarting our industry of pirating whalers. Each whaling ship harvested has enormous economic benefit, and the industry as a whole can employ many peg legged captains and scurvy dogs.
The problem is that popular works have a tendency to become part of the culture at large. Stories become the basis of anecdotes and songs without people necessarily knowing their origins. It becomes a question of how much power you are willing to hand to any one entity to play thought police. Disney provides us with an excellent example. Have you ever heard the song Zipity Doo Dah?
Almost everyone in my generation can sing it, but almost none of them have seen the movie from which it came, Song of the South, which Disney locked away because it was embarrassing. So, should a company have the power to censor a whole generation of parents from explaining why they sing a song to their children, and using it as an opportunity to educate them about past vs current sensibilities.
Additionally, culture evolves through exposure to art. Breaking the 4th wall seems a little hackey and fun today, but when Cervantes first used it in his sequel to Don Quixote, it was revolutionary. Had he decided to throw it in the vault do preserve the character, we might still be waiting for someone to invent the technique, thereby giving us Deadpool. As a side note, poor cervantes could have used more copyright protection than he was afforded, which was essentially none.
Ultimately, these are the reasons that a grant of copyright was ever codified in the first place. It's a compact between the government and artists. We will protect your right to earn a living off a work, for a REASONABLE amount of time, and in return, you will release your work to the culture and help it grow. Otherwise you can go dig a ditch like everyone else.
We've just gotten to where we use our lawmaking, granted by the consent of the people, against the best interest of those people.
Not that I think this invention constitutes a booby trap, but most states do have laws forbidding the creation and deployment of booby traps, even on your own property. Usually under the guise of promoting public health and safety. Secretly, I always assumed they were about protecting police when they enter a property, but it make sense that you wouldn't want little timmy falling into a punji pit just because he chased his dog into old man crazy pants front yard. If I remember correctly, I do think it is legal in Texas as long as the trap was not created to "Knowingly harm or kill."
Anecdotally, I do know a guy that was having a hard time with people using his front yard to cut a corner in his neighnorhood, so he put down some railroad ties with spikes driven in them. Sure enough some kids ran over it and popped all 4 tires. Cop told him if he didn't remove them right then, he was going to jail. Ended up having to drag them out with his truck while the cop watched. Still ended up getting a citation for some code or another.
I agree with your post, but would go a step further and challenge even the assumption that we need plastics. The beverage industry was around for like a hundred years before plastic bottles. Food can be happily wrapped with wax paper, and electronics used to be housed in wooden cases. I'm not suggesting that we abandon all plastic, but if we were to regress packaging back to around the time of 1970, we would MASSIVELY reduce the problem.
I'm going to ignore the rest of the shocking ignorance of this post and ask what makes you think we have to halt all technological progress to correct AGW? The tech that is causing the problem was literally invented in the 19th century! If anything, combating AGW will force us to use 21st century tech.
Also, a little fact about the economy, it works best when the money keeps moving. Like when you replace all your old crap by buying new crap.
You need better local government. While my local muni can't seem to keep their website up for crap, they are exceedingly efficient at providing water/sewage/trash pickup, and at a cheaper price than the private county competitors. If you don't like the way your munis are running, go to a city council meeting and get the ball rolling on fixing them. You are your muni's shareholder, use your power.
Assuming you are talking about Trump Sr, you do realize that this is totally wrong. You CANNOT charge a sitting president with ANYTHING. DOJ regulations forbid this.
Maybe, but the state attorneys general are fully within their rights to charge a sitting president, if such crimes were committed within their jurisdictions. The question of presidential immunity is still hotly debated, but only for crimes committed while IN office. Not those committed before taking the oath.
Additionally, the congress has the power to indict all on it's own, and while I don't hold much hope that the repubs will do the right thing if credible allegations come out, there are a fair number of them that would love to see him out of office, and might pressure him to resign anyway, threatening impeachment.
I don't have anything valuable to add, I just wanted to mention this conversation is EXACTLY what I would have expected if anyone asked me, "What would it look like if nerds argued about cars?"
Funny, but not factually accurate. The KT extinction event was just the start, it took thousands of years for the extinction of species to reach its peak. We are outpacing it by a fair clip.
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Many times the vulnerabilities in insect populations are do not to harsh conditions for adults, but delicacy of their eggs. Small changes in humidity, temperature or host plant species can cause them to be non-viable This country used to be blanketed yearly by 1000 mile long carpet of locusts that blacked out the sun. But then we expanded west and turned the grassland where they buried their eggs into farmland. And then they disappeared, despite there being plenty of food left.
Then you haven't been paying very close attention. He has mentioned 1000 miles worth of wall MANY TIMES. Of course, as much as he bounces around with... well every position he has ever said, I can see how you would get confused.
Or he realized he would never get elected as a democrat. The fact that the only way he can get his agenda pushed through is by shutting down the government is not the least of the reasons why. If it was this important, a real leader would have made it happen already.
Could have something to do with the fact that the fence they are asking for is $361 PER INCH (generously, including the 150 miles of fence that is already built) and would only cover 11% of the border? Doesn't sound worth shutting down the government to me.
Einstein would have slapped you and sent you back to your mommy for conflating a sociology with statement about physics.
Man, you can tell the slashdot crowd is aging. Next people will be complaining that robots are going to break in an take their medication.
Anyone that is going to hack your phone to get the layout of your house will have the capability to know if you are there or not. If they intend you harm, it would be easier just to catch you as you leave or enter.
You are being a chicken little.
Not that I am endorsing a return to it, but many of the great works that we still celebrate today were done so under the system of patronage. The idea is that you, as an author or musician, find a rich person who wants to be famous for "discovering" you. They pay you a salary to create works, and you do so. The patron then releases those to the public, and is rewarded with fame.
Alternatively, a great many works of art are created as hobbies, without requiring monetary encouragement. Community theaters typically don't pay their casts. Humans, being very strange apes, are motivated very strongly by acceptance and praise.
And, lets also not forget that we live in the age of kickstarter/patreon. The public at large can decide to pay you to create a work of art, no strings attached.
Now, I do not personally believe that either of these is as effective as a limited term of copyright, but you did ask to have other systems explained to you.
I know I shouldn't feed the AC's, but.... If capitalism was a natural, emergent phenomenon, we would see it expressing itself in more than just humans. Fiddler crabs would be investing in each other with pebbles. Swallows would be transporting coconuts for trade with bunnies. No ant has ever received a paycheck.
If anything I would think that it would be easier to argue communism is the default social order in nature, though personally, I don't believe there is any thing natural about any economic system.
And you don't think there are abuses now?
BTW, I pay my taxes, more than most, and I know exactly what I am asking for. If one can call a road free, one can call universal healthcare free.
Or one could go a step further and make healthcare free. Then you could save the paper the bills are printed on too.
Just because there isn't much of a market for the meat, doesn't mean the whale has no economic value. Hell, perfumers pay top dollar for sperm whale vomit that washes up on shore. The market is a strange place.
On a separate note, I think announce that Japanese whaling ship numbers have recovered enough that we are restarting our industry of pirating whalers. Each whaling ship harvested has enormous economic benefit, and the industry as a whole can employ many peg legged captains and scurvy dogs.
The problem is that popular works have a tendency to become part of the culture at large. Stories become the basis of anecdotes and songs without people necessarily knowing their origins. It becomes a question of how much power you are willing to hand to any one entity to play thought police. Disney provides us with an excellent example. Have you ever heard the song Zipity Doo Dah?
Almost everyone in my generation can sing it, but almost none of them have seen the movie from which it came, Song of the South, which Disney locked away because it was embarrassing. So, should a company have the power to censor a whole generation of parents from explaining why they sing a song to their children, and using it as an opportunity to educate them about past vs current sensibilities.
Additionally, culture evolves through exposure to art. Breaking the 4th wall seems a little hackey and fun today, but when Cervantes first used it in his sequel to Don Quixote, it was revolutionary. Had he decided to throw it in the vault do preserve the character, we might still be waiting for someone to invent the technique, thereby giving us Deadpool. As a side note, poor cervantes could have used more copyright protection than he was afforded, which was essentially none.
Ultimately, these are the reasons that a grant of copyright was ever codified in the first place. It's a compact between the government and artists. We will protect your right to earn a living off a work, for a REASONABLE amount of time, and in return, you will release your work to the culture and help it grow. Otherwise you can go dig a ditch like everyone else.
We've just gotten to where we use our lawmaking, granted by the consent of the people, against the best interest of those people.
Not that I think this invention constitutes a booby trap, but most states do have laws forbidding the creation and deployment of booby traps, even on your own property. Usually under the guise of promoting public health and safety. Secretly, I always assumed they were about protecting police when they enter a property, but it make sense that you wouldn't want little timmy falling into a punji pit just because he chased his dog into old man crazy pants front yard. If I remember correctly, I do think it is legal in Texas as long as the trap was not created to "Knowingly harm or kill."
Anecdotally, I do know a guy that was having a hard time with people using his front yard to cut a corner in his neighnorhood, so he put down some railroad ties with spikes driven in them. Sure enough some kids ran over it and popped all 4 tires. Cop told him if he didn't remove them right then, he was going to jail. Ended up having to drag them out with his truck while the cop watched. Still ended up getting a citation for some code or another.
When i was a kid i would collect coke bottles to buy a Coke. They were selling just fine. Besides, cans are still cheaper than plastic bottled Cokes.
I agree with your post, but would go a step further and challenge even the assumption that we need plastics. The beverage industry was around for like a hundred years before plastic bottles. Food can be happily wrapped with wax paper, and electronics used to be housed in wooden cases. I'm not suggesting that we abandon all plastic, but if we were to regress packaging back to around the time of 1970, we would MASSIVELY reduce the problem.
I'm going to ignore the rest of the shocking ignorance of this post and ask what makes you think we have to halt all technological progress to correct AGW? The tech that is causing the problem was literally invented in the 19th century! If anything, combating AGW will force us to use 21st century tech.
Also, a little fact about the economy, it works best when the money keeps moving. Like when you replace all your old crap by buying new crap.
You need better local government. While my local muni can't seem to keep their website up for crap, they are exceedingly efficient at providing water/sewage/trash pickup, and at a cheaper price than the private county competitors. If you don't like the way your munis are running, go to a city council meeting and get the ball rolling on fixing them. You are your muni's shareholder, use your power.
Assuming you are talking about Trump Sr, you do realize that this is totally wrong. You CANNOT charge a sitting president with ANYTHING. DOJ regulations forbid this.
Maybe, but the state attorneys general are fully within their rights to charge a sitting president, if such crimes were committed within their jurisdictions. The question of presidential immunity is still hotly debated, but only for crimes committed while IN office. Not those committed before taking the oath.
Additionally, the congress has the power to indict all on it's own, and while I don't hold much hope that the repubs will do the right thing if credible allegations come out, there are a fair number of them that would love to see him out of office, and might pressure him to resign anyway, threatening impeachment.
Steam punk? STEAM PUNK!?!?! Turn in your nerd card now AC....
I don't have anything valuable to add, I just wanted to mention this conversation is EXACTLY what I would have expected if anyone asked me, "What would it look like if nerds argued about cars?"
This post getting modded up to +4 interesting is a perfect example of how slashdot has jumped the shark. Or at the very least proof of mod bots.
Funny, but not factually accurate. The KT extinction event was just the start, it took thousands of years for the extinction of species to reach its peak. We are outpacing it by a fair clip.
Being cut off from the real world is the whole reason I bought my headsets.
next to my "Beefed up" stock 15-year-old computer
I think we just discovered why you don't like VR.
God I wish I had mod points to give you.