I believe the authors should get exactly the same type of protection I do on their livelihood. I get paid hourly, once I have completed an hour of work I will never be paid for that same hour again. Why should it be different for someone who makes something copyrighted? I am not able to obtain any future royalties on the ethernet cables I install today, and the end customer gets full control of them to do whatever they want. They will never have to compensate me further if they want to move them, re-terminate them, sell them, or put data signals accross them. Once I've installed them, and they've paid me, we're done and I no longer have any say whatsoever in what they do.
Authors created work for thousands of years before copyright was invented. I don't see them stopping even if copyright were to vanish altogether.
Under your scenario, the author would not be paid while not working on a book. Seems fair. But who exactly pays the author while he's working on a book? The consumer, who doesn't get anything until it's completed, or a publisher? A publisher certainly wouldn't have any incentive, since anyone else could publish the book without paying the author a cent once it's finished. That leaves the consumers, who may not want to spend money until they can have a product in hand, by which time in your scenario they would not have any obligation to pay the author, anyway.
Ok, 30 minutes go by - they have screened all their crap and finally the splash screen for the feature presentation.
30 minutes after the scheduled start time? Over exaggerate much? What the hell theater do you go to? Every movie I've gone to it's maybe 7 minutes after the start time. Sure there are ads before the start time but it's not like you're strapped in your seat with your eyes pinned open all Robot Chicken style being forced to watch them. Also they aren't that loud.
I just watched Pacific Rim at a Regal theater this weekend. Scheduled start time was 7:40. That's when they started showing previews instead of general ads. The movie started at 8:00.
I drive an Audi A4. Nominally an entry level luxury car, but I will readily admit that while I like it, it doesn't exactly seem luxurious to me. The A8, on the other hand, has a positively decadent interior.
I think Frosty's point is that if he's lying and just made all this stuff up, he didn't actually release classified information, so what laws did he break?
No he is right. I bought a mac pro in 2008. I hoped it would last 5 years, so than the price was okay. But ever yyear it would break down once or twice. And the applecare only lasted for 3 years. After 3 years they put in a new motherboard (new is relative, it was made in 2008), the nvidia blew it self up twice, after overheating. And the power supply broke down 3 times. Instead of putting in a new better one, the always put one in, that was build in 2008, even 3 years later. And the repairs only lasted for 6 months, than I could come back.
So now that mac pro is laying somewhere, and I won't ever buy another piece of shit hardware from apple ever again.
And my anecdotal evidence: I still use the original generation MacBook I bought in late 2006 every day. Only the optical drive has stopped working.
"Then two other things must also be remembered: First, Benjamin Franklin opened other people's mail for intelligence purposes during the Revolutionary War. Second, there are two qualifiers present: essential and little temporary."
More straw-man arguments. They were at war with their own government. We are not... yet. The situation is hardly comparable.
Or are we? Our government is spying on us using authority given to fight the war on terror. Does that not mean they must be at war with us to spy on us?
They may not be required to, but both of the airports I've flown out of (KREI, KPAE) have gates that are unlocked during the day, so anyone could walk through. Your average Joe probably doesn't know about this, but there are people who neither own nor fly airplanes that fill up gas cans at the pumps.
Do you really see a slow paced sci-fi noir action/psychological/ethical thriller playing well today? No, hell, it didn't even play well when Blade Runner was made, they barely recouped their cost. No studio in their right minds would green light a true sequel to Blade Runner because it is at best a gamble and more realistically a financial wash. So what are we gonna end up with? I'm guessing a Micheal Bay-ified version, complete with explosions, spaceships, maybe even an all out human on replicant war, with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance.
Did you even read the title? They're going to green lantern the sequel.
Interesting how no one commented that maybe this isn't the best use of the Internet.......
Shouldn't all these private companies and corporations be on a "business internet" and leave the WWW for us real people out here?
Oh wait, we're all gun-toting, freedom-loving, god-fearing free-market capitalists. Can't have that, now can we?
Exactly whom do you think is consuming this bandwidth? Surely you don't think Netflix uses this all this bandwidth to stream movies back and forth between its own servers..
I don't give a shit about tax rate. Quality of life is the only measurement that matters. If I can have a high quality of life and freedom to do what I want with a 100% tax rate then by all means, take it; I don't care. Money is just a means to an end.
I don't know of anybody else working on relativity at the same time as Einstein, but considering the explosion in theoretical physics at the time (e.g. quantum mechanics) it is unlikely that relativity would have remained undiscovered for long.
Is it "pro human" to let someone die of an easily-treatable health condition just because they previously depleted their savings and can't work while disabled?
What if it's a health condition that would cost $10,000 to treat? Or $100,000? Or $1,000,000? Or $10,000,000? Or $100,000,000? etc...
There is no fee for applying for Energy Star certification, nor for using the label.
I have no such optoelectronics experience, but I am as skeptical and cynical as the next guy and curious about where the "pay-for-play" aspect comes in.
You still have to pay for the lab to test the product... then you can submit to the EPA fee-free to get certified.
The maximum payload plus fuel on a Cessna is 1111kg - 767 = 334kg. If your spry pilot is 45kg, that leaves 289kg for cargo and fuel, or 26% of your gross weight. If my math is right, that would be about 25kg of fuel for Pago Pago to Faleolo, plus reserves, so say 40kg, leaving you with 249kg of cargo. The difference between 2 passengers at 124kg each and one at 249kg is linear, but if you have two seats filled with 100kg people you aren't using your full capacity.
It only makes sense if you can use every remaining kg for package cargo if you have lighter self-loading cargo.
Fuel burn increases with weight.
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And that applies to my post how? What error did I supposedly make?
It's always funny to hear your illiterate, anti-education rants. Maybe if you had taken some of those "fluff and filler" classes that maybe you could form cogent sentences?
They're by far the least evil of the major carriers in the US.
Only for certain definitions of "evil". I've been with them for 7+ years and every year the service gets a little worse, the plan gets a little more expensive, and they offer fewer new phones that I actually want to purchase. Sure, their customer service is cheery and all, but they rarely actually accomplish anything.
Interesting. I've been with them a few years and just kept the plan I started with. They no longer offer this plan, but I haven't selected another and they haven't increased the price I've been paying.
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I believe the authors should get exactly the same type of protection I do on their livelihood. I get paid hourly, once I have completed an hour of work I will never be paid for that same hour again. Why should it be different for someone who makes something copyrighted? I am not able to obtain any future royalties on the ethernet cables I install today, and the end customer gets full control of them to do whatever they want. They will never have to compensate me further if they want to move them, re-terminate them, sell them, or put data signals accross them. Once I've installed them, and they've paid me, we're done and I no longer have any say whatsoever in what they do. Authors created work for thousands of years before copyright was invented. I don't see them stopping even if copyright were to vanish altogether.
Under your scenario, the author would not be paid while not working on a book. Seems fair. But who exactly pays the author while he's working on a book? The consumer, who doesn't get anything until it's completed, or a publisher? A publisher certainly wouldn't have any incentive, since anyone else could publish the book without paying the author a cent once it's finished. That leaves the consumers, who may not want to spend money until they can have a product in hand, by which time in your scenario they would not have any obligation to pay the author, anyway.
Ok, 30 minutes go by - they have screened all their crap and finally the splash screen for the feature presentation.
30 minutes after the scheduled start time? Over exaggerate much? What the hell theater do you go to? Every movie I've gone to it's maybe 7 minutes after the start time. Sure there are ads before the start time but it's not like you're strapped in your seat with your eyes pinned open all Robot Chicken style being forced to watch them. Also they aren't that loud.
I just watched Pacific Rim at a Regal theater this weekend. Scheduled start time was 7:40. That's when they started showing previews instead of general ads. The movie started at 8:00.
I drive an Audi A4. Nominally an entry level luxury car, but I will readily admit that while I like it, it doesn't exactly seem luxurious to me. The A8, on the other hand, has a positively decadent interior.
So if it's filled only with air it will sink, but if you put stuff inside it that's denser then air it will float?
Oddly enough, only Comcast's own streaming service is slow for me.
Except in a couple years they'd cancel it.
I think Frosty's point is that if he's lying and just made all this stuff up, he didn't actually release classified information, so what laws did he break?
No he is right. I bought a mac pro in 2008. I hoped it would last 5 years, so than the price was okay. But ever yyear it would break down once or twice. And the applecare only lasted for 3 years. After 3 years they put in a new motherboard (new is relative, it was made in 2008), the nvidia blew it self up twice, after overheating. And the power supply broke down 3 times. Instead of putting in a new better one, the always put one in, that was build in 2008, even 3 years later. And the repairs only lasted for 6 months, than I could come back.
So now that mac pro is laying somewhere, and I won't ever buy another piece of shit hardware from apple ever again.
And my anecdotal evidence: I still use the original generation MacBook I bought in late 2006 every day. Only the optical drive has stopped working.
"Then two other things must also be remembered: First, Benjamin Franklin opened other people's mail for intelligence purposes during the Revolutionary War. Second, there are two qualifiers present: essential and little temporary."
More straw-man arguments. They were at war with their own government. We are not... yet. The situation is hardly comparable.
Or are we? Our government is spying on us using authority given to fight the war on terror. Does that not mean they must be at war with us to spy on us?
They may not be required to, but both of the airports I've flown out of (KREI, KPAE) have gates that are unlocked during the day, so anyone could walk through. Your average Joe probably doesn't know about this, but there are people who neither own nor fly airplanes that fill up gas cans at the pumps.
Well you see, not everyone targets Windows.
Do you really see a slow paced sci-fi noir action/psychological/ethical thriller playing well today? No, hell, it didn't even play well when Blade Runner was made, they barely recouped their cost. No studio in their right minds would green light a true sequel to Blade Runner because it is at best a gamble and more realistically a financial wash. So what are we gonna end up with? I'm guessing a Micheal Bay-ified version, complete with explosions, spaceships, maybe even an all out human on replicant war, with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance.
Did you even read the title? They're going to green lantern the sequel.
So, even though it won't run on any of the millions of computers with Java VMs installed, you still think it should be called Java?
You have to have friends or at least social acquaintances.
Remember where you are posting.
Good point. A designated driver is useless in the basement.
FTFA: "Our software synthesis package, FDS (Finite Difference Synthesizer), was designed to operate on Mac OSX and Linux."
Interesting how no one commented that maybe this isn't the best use of the Internet....... Shouldn't all these private companies and corporations be on a "business internet" and leave the WWW for us real people out here? Oh wait, we're all gun-toting, freedom-loving, god-fearing free-market capitalists. Can't have that, now can we?
Exactly whom do you think is consuming this bandwidth? Surely you don't think Netflix uses this all this bandwidth to stream movies back and forth between its own servers..
I don't give a shit about tax rate. Quality of life is the only measurement that matters. If I can have a high quality of life and freedom to do what I want with a 100% tax rate then by all means, take it; I don't care. Money is just a means to an end.
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And who's going to take away your garbage?
I don't know of anybody else working on relativity at the same time as Einstein, but considering the explosion in theoretical physics at the time (e.g. quantum mechanics) it is unlikely that relativity would have remained undiscovered for long.
I suspect the GP is referring to the Lorentz transformation.
How about the VW Jetta TDI Sportwagen? $25k, 40 MPG highway.
Is it "pro human" to let someone die of an easily-treatable health condition just because they previously depleted their savings and can't work while disabled?
What if it's a health condition that would cost $10,000 to treat? Or $100,000? Or $1,000,000? Or $10,000,000? Or $100,000,000? etc...
Until you find your own piece of software closed so you can't use it, and a majority of users switch to that enhanced version by FooCorp.
Or, try to cross-compile anything to OS X.
I've compiled X11-based open source software on OS X. What is your point?
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There is no fee for applying for Energy Star certification, nor for using the label.
I have no such optoelectronics experience, but I am as skeptical and cynical as the next guy and curious about where the "pay-for-play" aspect comes in.
You still have to pay for the lab to test the product... then you can submit to the EPA fee-free to get certified.
The maximum payload plus fuel on a Cessna is 1111kg - 767 = 334kg. If your spry pilot is 45kg, that leaves 289kg for cargo and fuel, or 26% of your gross weight. If my math is right, that would be about 25kg of fuel for Pago Pago to Faleolo, plus reserves, so say 40kg, leaving you with 249kg of cargo. The difference between 2 passengers at 124kg each and one at 249kg is linear, but if you have two seats filled with 100kg people you aren't using your full capacity.
It only makes sense if you can use every remaining kg for package cargo if you have lighter self-loading cargo.
Fuel burn increases with weight.
And that applies to my post how? What error did I supposedly make?
It's always funny to hear your illiterate, anti-education rants. Maybe if you had taken some of those "fluff and filler" classes that maybe you could form cogent sentences?
They're by far the least evil of the major carriers in the US.
Only for certain definitions of "evil". I've been with them for 7+ years and every year the service gets a little worse, the plan gets a little more expensive, and they offer fewer new phones that I actually want to purchase. Sure, their customer service is cheery and all, but they rarely actually accomplish anything.
Interesting. I've been with them a few years and just kept the plan I started with. They no longer offer this plan, but I haven't selected another and they haven't increased the price I've been paying.