The subject matter of copyright is extremely broad, including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, audiovisual, and architectural works.
(Emphasis added) Does standup comedy not effectively take this form?
Yes, but it still only applies to the tangible medium. A video tape of a comedian's performance is definitely covered by copyright. Simply repeating a joke, especially if you don't use the exact same words, is a less clear situation.
Memories of Delerious, by Eddie Murphy.
"Now I know most of you are going to go to work tomorrow and fuck up my jokes..."
"Then she said, goonie googoo."
"Hey, I'm Mr T. I'll rip your dick off with my ass!"
The thing to remember about global warming is it's real
I stopped reading right there. Take your delusionary propaganda and stuff it.
What I have been pondering lately on this topic is, "Is it possible that the reason the climate is warming up may be due to the possibility that we are still coming out of the most recent ice age? After all, surely an ice age isn't one of those things where one day a large percentage of the world is covered by glaciers, and then all of a sudden, POP!!! Ice age is over and the planet is a temperate to tropical paradise. It would seem that the ending of an ice age is something that would take thousands, and perhaps a couple 10 thousands of years to actually complete."
Just something I have been idly pondering while enjoying my rum and weed before watching some South Park or Family Guy.:)
You don't need a prescription to get weed in California or many other states these days.
And here in Oregon, you can even grow your own recreationally (up to 4 plants at any given time per household). I just recently had my first harvest. It was totally unexpected though. I had 3 plants down in the basement grow room that I had given up for dead a year ago. Just a week or so ago, I went down there to see about setting up the lamps for the next couple I had growing in the kitchen. And lo and behold, those dead plants had budded and cured over the past year. Granted, I was only able to salvage 1/10 of an ounce. But despite how puny that sounds, it was still significant volumewise, and it is perfectly good stuff, which I have named Necro.
Prius? i will not touch with long stick. no infrastructure here.
Sorry, sir, but your countryside lacks exposure - the Prius is a hybrid, and generates its own electrification from a gasoline internal combustion engine. It needs no additional infrastructure.
But those generate far too much hazardous smug. Do you really want to be subject to frequent smug alerts?
Seriously. How backwards are Americans? I haven't carried cash on me in years (except when giving people money for birthdays or buying something at some cheap asian store that refuses to accept EFTPOS because they're too cheap to pay the bank fees).
Those networks that process debit and credit transactions have been known to go down and become inaccessible at inopportune moments. Sometimes it is a regional outage, and sometimes it is local (or just an individual store). In those cases, those who don't carry cash are completely SOL and have to abandon their shopping carts, while those who do carry can make their purchases and get on with their next activity of the day.
Its pretty damn hard to walk and bike at the same time. That's some circus stuff right there.
Now now, don't get thine pantaloons in a twist, my good sir or maam. Have you not heard of this wonderful new invention known as the Dandy Horse? This new contraption indeed allows for one to both walk and bike simultaneously.
"It was at this point that the entire industry moved over to 3D rendering. Sega failed to anticipate this, with its Saturn console, while the Sony Playstation and Nintendo 64 excelled in this area. Subsequently, Sega never made a console again."
BZZZZZT! How can he not remember the actual final console Sega made? The Dreamcast, not the Saturn, was their last; and it did do 3D.
"Mario Bros, an arcade game that was later ported to the home platforms. This first Mario game has most of the elements that we now think of as intrinsic to platform games as it’s a scrolling game world made up levels to be traversed to completion."
Again, BZZZZZZZTTTTT!!! Mario Brothers was not a side scroller. It was a nonscrolling platformer (and I believe the first to introduce Luigi). The game the author is describing is Super Mario Brothers. I would bet he thinks Mario didn't get named until then either (I think in Donkey Kong Jr., he got renamed from his original Jumpman moniker from DK, to Mario, where he was the "villain."
Those two errors do a lot to destroy any credibility this guy has as a writer on classic video game and computer history.
"Game over. Press Redo or Back." (Always thought the gal who did the female voice for TI-99/4a Speech Synthesizer games sounded hot.)
My big Asteroids memory was at our local truck stop. I was never very good at it, but I did frequently go ahead and enter initials when someone else would finish and not notice they made the high score board.
I just hope that in the future, some interstellar military talent scout doesn't find out that I was the one who would sign the abandoned boards as FUK, and then insist that I must join other 80s greats, like ASS, DIK, CUM, TIT, and CNT to save the world against an imminent combined asteroid bombardment and flying saucer attack.
What about the antihippie drill? All it requires is a pilot, a scientist, an engineer, and a token black guy to sacrifice himself if something goes wrong. Surely it can be reconfigured to work against non-hippie rabble rouser protestors?
Meanwhile, as postage rates and eBay/PayPal fees keep going up, it will cease to be profitable to sell anything on eBay
I tried selling stuff in the early 2000's and the fees were too high to make a profit, I've looked at it again recently and they seem much more reasonable than they were then. I guess it's a matter of perspective.
Why is this news?
Slashdot changed their motto to "news for prosumers, stuff that never mattered" a long time ago.
eBay's final value fees for non-store accounts have been a flat 10% throughout most of this century, and store FvFs range from 4% to 9% depending on the category. Of course, they also charge the same rate on the shipping that you charge the buyer as well. At least if an otem goes outside the U.S. though, they only charge based on the lowest domestic rate shown in your listing. So if you were to ship a 10 pound parcel off to Australia, and your listing showed domestic "free" shipping, then you would not be charged anything at all on the postage the buyer paid.
And then PayPal fees on top of that are either 2.9% plus 10 cents or 5% plus 5 cents (if you have a micro payments account to use with items under $12). The standard rate seems to be on par with Etsy's Direct Checkout and the former Google Checkout (though initially GC was actually lower than PayPal...which would explain back then eBay's lies about GC not being an approved online payment due to "safety" concerns.
You're a bit full of it. I was easily able to get Top Seller by getting rid of junk from local auctions. I was surprised at how easy it was to get it.
TRS requirements for eBay sellers...
Top Rated Seller requirements
To become a Top Rated Seller your eBay account must have been active for at least 90 days. You must also meet sales and tracking requirements and performance standards.
Sales requirements:
You have at least 100 transactions with US buyers over the most recent 12-month period.
You have at least $1,000 in sales with US buyers over the most recent 12-month period.
Tracking requirements:
You've uploaded valid shipment tracking to My eBay within your promised handling time for at least 90% of transactions with US buyers in the last 3 months.
And there is a 2% or lower transaction "defect" rate during your most recent evaluation period.
So yeah, it is pretty easy to get TRS if you sell regularly. I have several different selling accounts for various purposes and types of products, and most of them (except for the two non-store accounts) have received and lost TRS status several times over the years. The reason mine ever lose it is due to eBay suddenly "not showing" my listings for whatever reason even in searches where they should definitely be shown, causing me to miss the sales count requirement.
ebay fast and free is always faster for me than amazon prime 2 days. yet on ebay its not 99USD/year... and the products are usually cheaper on ebay. The things i miss on ebay are ease of search and decent quality user reviews, and last but definitely not least, good customer support.
If a vendor messes stuff up on ebay changes are that you're going to have to call your bank. Amazon is the sharp opposite.
eBay's "Fast and Free" is not any sort of program that can be compared to Amazon Prime, and is really something eBay has no control over. That is just a little icon that gets put on listings that meet the requirements for Fast and Free. And if I remember right, that requirement is one day or same day handling and "free" shipping (which is simply the sellers rolling worst case scenario domestic shipping into their asking price, and calling it "free" shipping.) It is still up to the seller to get the item in the mail within their handling time, and they are still at the mercy of the carriers, whether it is USPS, UPS, FedEx, or any other.
People think that the cost of shipping something is in some way based on the cost of the item, rather than the weight and the distance. They also assume that the shipping cost per pound will be less for small packages than for big ones. Some people say, "Why can't you ship around the world for free?" People are funny.
An even bigger problem with shipping cost complaints is due to the way the USPS, eBay, and the Chinese government worked out the e-packet deal, so that shipping from China to the U.S. can be done for far far less than shipping a small package across town domestically. They think that since the Chinese can ship for "free" (not realizing that they roll their government subsidized shipping cost into their price), then domestic sellers must be ripping them off.
Slashdot Mirror
Or Sundiver.
And while they are at it, the insurance company that should underwrite the mission should be Hotblack Desiatio.
Clicked for the "night" joke. Was not disappointed, just surprised it's the first post.
Same here. Now that the night joke has manifested so early on, I am now continuing the scan and looking for Hitchhiker's Guide jokes and quotes.
The subject matter of copyright is extremely broad, including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, audiovisual, and architectural works.
(Emphasis added) Does standup comedy not effectively take this form?
Yes, but it still only applies to the tangible medium. A video tape of a comedian's performance is definitely covered by copyright. Simply repeating a joke, especially if you don't use the exact same words, is a less clear situation.
Memories of Delerious, by Eddie Murphy.
"Now I know most of you are going to go to work tomorrow and fuck up my jokes..."
"Then she said, goonie googoo."
"Hey, I'm Mr T. I'll rip your dick off with my ass!"
Stop me if you've copyrighted this one:
There once was a man from Nantucket...
Whose limericks never did rhyme.
Try as he might,
He could not get them to work out properly.
So he gave up and left to do something more useful.
I stopped reading right there. Take your delusionary propaganda and stuff it.
What I have been pondering lately on this topic is, "Is it possible that the reason the climate is warming up may be due to the possibility that we are still coming out of the most recent ice age? After all, surely an ice age isn't one of those things where one day a large percentage of the world is covered by glaciers, and then all of a sudden, POP!!! Ice age is over and the planet is a temperate to tropical paradise. It would seem that the ending of an ice age is something that would take thousands, and perhaps a couple 10 thousands of years to actually complete."
Just something I have been idly pondering while enjoying my rum and weed before watching some South Park or Family Guy. :)
You don't need a prescription to get weed in California or many other states these days.
And here in Oregon, you can even grow your own recreationally (up to 4 plants at any given time per household). I just recently had my first harvest. It was totally unexpected though. I had 3 plants down in the basement grow room that I had given up for dead a year ago. Just a week or so ago, I went down there to see about setting up the lamps for the next couple I had growing in the kitchen. And lo and behold, those dead plants had budded and cured over the past year. Granted, I was only able to salvage 1/10 of an ounce. But despite how puny that sounds, it was still significant volumewise, and it is perfectly good stuff, which I have named Necro.
Prius? i will not touch with long stick. no infrastructure here.
Sorry, sir, but your countryside lacks exposure - the Prius is a hybrid, and generates its own electrification from a gasoline internal combustion engine. It needs no additional infrastructure.
But those generate far too much hazardous smug. Do you really want to be subject to frequent smug alerts?
You just had to ask...
Seriously. How backwards are Americans? I haven't carried cash on me in years (except when giving people money for birthdays or buying something at some cheap asian store that refuses to accept EFTPOS because they're too cheap to pay the bank fees).
Those networks that process debit and credit transactions have been known to go down and become inaccessible at inopportune moments. Sometimes it is a regional outage, and sometimes it is local (or just an individual store). In those cases, those who don't carry cash are completely SOL and have to abandon their shopping carts, while those who do carry can make their purchases and get on with their next activity of the day.
Wow! This sounds very similar to the plot of what was the last episode of Salvage I that I can remember seeing.
Now time to go see if Netflix has it; and if not Netflix, see if anyone has ever uploaded episodes to YouTube.
They took our jobs!!!
Yeah fuck white people! Lets put some burning crosses on their lawns.
No no no. You got it wrong. It is the rich we are supposed to hate; and you burn a lower case t on their lawn as a sign that it is time to leave.
And if that fails, dress up as the thing rich folk are most scared of, ghosts.
Its pretty damn hard to walk and bike at the same time. That's some circus stuff right there.
That's why I work from home. God, I am so fat.
Perhaps for a little motivation to get in shape (other than round), you might consider hiring someone to follow you around with a tuba?
Its pretty damn hard to walk and bike at the same time. That's some circus stuff right there.
Now now, don't get thine pantaloons in a twist, my good sir or maam. Have you not heard of this wonderful new invention known as the Dandy Horse? This new contraption indeed allows for one to both walk and bike simultaneously.
From TFA...
"It was at this point that the entire industry moved over to 3D rendering. Sega failed to anticipate this, with its Saturn console, while the Sony Playstation and Nintendo 64 excelled in this area. Subsequently, Sega never made a console again."
BZZZZZT! How can he not remember the actual final console Sega made? The Dreamcast, not the Saturn, was their last; and it did do 3D.
"Mario Bros, an arcade game that was later ported to the home platforms. This first Mario game has most of the elements that we now think of as intrinsic to platform games as it’s a scrolling game world made up levels to be traversed to completion."
Again, BZZZZZZZTTTTT!!! Mario Brothers was not a side scroller. It was a nonscrolling platformer (and I believe the first to introduce Luigi). The game the author is describing is Super Mario Brothers. I would bet he thinks Mario didn't get named until then either (I think in Donkey Kong Jr., he got renamed from his original Jumpman moniker from DK, to Mario, where he was the "villain."
Those two errors do a lot to destroy any credibility this guy has as a writer on classic video game and computer history.
"Game over. Press Redo or Back." (Always thought the gal who did the female voice for TI-99/4a Speech Synthesizer games sounded hot.)
My big Asteroids memory was at our local truck stop. I was never very good at it, but I did frequently go ahead and enter initials when someone else would finish and not notice they made the high score board.
I just hope that in the future, some interstellar military talent scout doesn't find out that I was the one who would sign the abandoned boards as FUK, and then insist that I must join other 80s greats, like ASS, DIK, CUM, TIT, and CNT to save the world against an imminent combined asteroid bombardment and flying saucer attack.
All you have to do is find the heart of the Wal-Mart, and destroy it.
Just take care not to be standing underneath after it starts to implode. The results are rather grody.
What about the antihippie drill? All it requires is a pilot, a scientist, an engineer, and a token black guy to sacrifice himself if something goes wrong. Surely it can be reconfigured to work against non-hippie rabble rouser protestors?
What the fuck? Sounds like you work in a prison... ... as inmates
Or a special ed class... as students.
To honor the days when the internet was fun: they can suck a llama's ass
I think you have been doing it wrong all these years. You are supposed to whip the llama's ass, not suck it.
Meanwhile, as postage rates and eBay/PayPal fees keep going up, it will cease to be profitable to sell anything on eBay
I tried selling stuff in the early 2000's and the fees were too high to make a profit, I've looked at it again recently and they seem much more reasonable than they were then. I guess it's a matter of perspective.
Why is this news?
Slashdot changed their motto to "news for prosumers, stuff that never mattered" a long time ago.
eBay's final value fees for non-store accounts have been a flat 10% throughout most of this century, and store FvFs range from 4% to 9% depending on the category. Of course, they also charge the same rate on the shipping that you charge the buyer as well. At least if an otem goes outside the U.S. though, they only charge based on the lowest domestic rate shown in your listing. So if you were to ship a 10 pound parcel off to Australia, and your listing showed domestic "free" shipping, then you would not be charged anything at all on the postage the buyer paid.
And then PayPal fees on top of that are either 2.9% plus 10 cents or 5% plus 5 cents (if you have a micro payments account to use with items under $12). The standard rate seems to be on par with Etsy's Direct Checkout and the former Google Checkout (though initially GC was actually lower than PayPal...which would explain back then eBay's lies about GC not being an approved online payment due to "safety" concerns.
You're a bit full of it. I was easily able to get Top Seller by getting rid of junk from local auctions. I was surprised at how easy it was to get it.
TRS requirements for eBay sellers...
Top Rated Seller requirements
To become a Top Rated Seller your eBay account must have been active for at least 90 days. You must also meet sales and tracking requirements and performance standards.
Sales requirements:
You have at least 100 transactions with US buyers over the most recent 12-month period.
You have at least $1,000 in sales with US buyers over the most recent 12-month period.
Tracking requirements:
You've uploaded valid shipment tracking to My eBay within your promised handling time for at least 90% of transactions with US buyers in the last 3 months.
And there is a 2% or lower transaction "defect" rate during your most recent evaluation period.
So yeah, it is pretty easy to get TRS if you sell regularly. I have several different selling accounts for various purposes and types of products, and most of them (except for the two non-store accounts) have received and lost TRS status several times over the years. The reason mine ever lose it is due to eBay suddenly "not showing" my listings for whatever reason even in searches where they should definitely be shown, causing me to miss the sales count requirement.
ebay fast and free is always faster for me than amazon prime 2 days. yet on ebay its not 99USD/year... and the products are usually cheaper on ebay.
The things i miss on ebay are ease of search and decent quality user reviews, and last but definitely not least, good customer support.
If a vendor messes stuff up on ebay changes are that you're going to have to call your bank. Amazon is the sharp opposite.
eBay's "Fast and Free" is not any sort of program that can be compared to Amazon Prime, and is really something eBay has no control over. That is just a little icon that gets put on listings that meet the requirements for Fast and Free. And if I remember right, that requirement is one day or same day handling and "free" shipping (which is simply the sellers rolling worst case scenario domestic shipping into their asking price, and calling it "free" shipping.) It is still up to the seller to get the item in the mail within their handling time, and they are still at the mercy of the carriers, whether it is USPS, UPS, FedEx, or any other.
People think that the cost of shipping something is in some way based on the cost of the item, rather than the weight and the distance. They also assume that the shipping cost per pound will be less for small packages than for big ones. Some people say, "Why can't you ship around the world for free?" People are funny.
An even bigger problem with shipping cost complaints is due to the way the USPS, eBay, and the Chinese government worked out the e-packet deal, so that shipping from China to the U.S. can be done for far far less than shipping a small package across town domestically. They think that since the Chinese can ship for "free" (not realizing that they roll their government subsidized shipping cost into their price), then domestic sellers must be ripping them off.
That is where you secure cooperation with NAMBLA...aka the North American Marlon Brando Look Alikes.