Well, technically they couldn't, or at minimal they could not use this ruling as a basis for a lawsuit. This one covered Psystar reselling copies of OSX, in theory in violation of the license agreement that they obtained the software under. So as long as your instructions did not come with a 'buy OSX now and we install it' button, such a site would be fine. Provided of course it didn't have any DMCA violations.
While conceptually the same, legally they are pretty different cases (which is why Atari v. Activision did not count as precedent in this case) since one involved stopping people from running things on their hardware while this one had to do with Apple controlling who could and could not sell its software.
I want to say this case was baffling, but I am actually not surprised. Courts have been pretty favorable to companies trying to control how their products are sold/marketed lately and they do not really conflict with earlier rulings.
Though the irony is, of course, that with the DMCA today, Atari v. Activision would have ruled rather differently.
That still uses a photograph as the source material. The suggestion here is that CGI will replace the source material with some type of super AI editing tools or database of easily modified scenes/models/objects.
True, but it was not wiped out. Specific segments of the painting industry were significantly reduced, but there is still a pretty solid luxury market for portraits. A smaller one yes, but not gone.
Which is probably what will happen with photography too (and many argue that video has already wiped out things like photojournalism, but I think they are being a bit hysterical or at least paying way too much attention to new toys).. some types will migrate to hobbies, some types will be reduced, some will probably be fine.
Hrm.. given its location, Syria might actually be able to claim that title, or at least part of it.... well, the region Syria is in at least. And only if you consider 'humanity' to be 'post-agricultural' civilization.
Because then people scream 'communism' and rewrite history to pretend that the regulation that resulted in everyone having phone access didn't work and didn't provide a massive economic boost to the country.
Though it would be far form 'instant', a massive amount of infrastructure needs to be built, but there is a game theory element to it where telcos are generally hoping one of their competitors makes the investment instead.
*nods* that tends to be one of big issues. If you are going to have a reward system you need some kind of metric by which to reward people. In sales it can kinda work since you have that bottom line sales number.. but other departments get trickier and metrics can favor behavior that doesn't really improve things or seriously favors particular personality types.
Which gets into the other way that a lot of these methods can backfire. Adding a competitive element to the workplace like leader-boards work really well for some personality types but really horribly for others. I have seen people quit over a new boss trying to implement such systems.
Pop up ads (or ads in general). While many of us use blockers and such, most people still do not. There is also the situation of simply clicking on links without knowing where they actually go... rickrolls and goatsx have gotten plenty of people over the years, it is plausible that someone could click on poorly worked links that end up being CP.
Assuming you are talking about the US, this is mostly a myth. In general (in pretty much any state) shooting an intruder will get the police talking to you to make sure the story checks out. While the details and requirements of Castle Doctrine vary from state to state, I do not know of any that criminalize use of deadly force in a life threatening situation within your own home.
That can be pretty difficult to do with electronics. Any circuit board can act as an antenna, and (apparently) these mm machines sometimes also produce x-rays beyond what one would encounter in normal life, which is what fried the pump.
My 'point' is that these experiments have been run on land, I grew up in an area that had them. They produced a lot of wealth but were horrible for most people, most did not 'live freely' because the company ends up essentially owning you since without government intervention you end up with a massive power imbalance.. companies essentially end up behaving like states. Part of the point of learning history is to not repeat it. We see this setups every few decades after memories of previous attempts have faded and the allure of 'unregulated capitalism' calls another generation.
Regardless, I would be very surprised if they actually set up the ship. BlueSeed has been around a while now, and I suspect they are more scam then venture.
As for my 'bullshit'.. child labor required a great deal of outrage to cut down on. It was cheap and thus benefited companies immediately at the cost of long term economic health of a region. Classis game theory actually. The work hours is already a problem in less regulated industries in other countries, most of the 1st world has fairly strict rules about what you can demand of employees without additional compensation. Sex with subordinates.. that is the power imbalance problem. People shouldn't have to choose between their career and a hostile environment, but it happens enough that it is illegal now... and it generaly isn't a case of 'sex with nasty boss or go to another well paying job',.. it is 'sex with nasty boss or loose your job without references and probably be on the street'. Again in less regulated countries it is a significant problem and investors really don't care.. investors rarely care if the employees are miserable or not or if they even have a future after going through the grinder... and injured people... it was not until labor laws that companies had any responsibility to employees who were injured doing their job. Take that away and you can have crappy safty conditions and just replace anyone who roles the dice badly.
The question then becomes, why would people work for such companies? Well, because those companies have the jobs. The job market does not have an unlimited selection of good and bad companies, usually there are few jobs to choose between and unscrupulous companies know how to use this imbalance to their advantage, putting people into bad situations because their options are limited.
*nods* it dovetails into the idea that somehow the people who do have power do not deserve it or got it illegitimately. Though it also depends heavily on the idea that states and companies are fundamentally different and that unless one has a police force then they can not exert control of other people's lives... thus they do not see the power of non-government entities as 'real'... thus anyone who is a 'dirty poor slave' is simply lazy or immoral since nothing is stopping them from being rich.
Yep. That is the idea. Reap the benefits they want directly want, get the advantages of benefits that effect them indirectly (like the education system), but not have to pay for any of it and claim with a strait face that they are dong the capitalist thing of paying only for services they use.
Realisticly it doesn't actually bring much, but it draws on a rather heavy Ayn Rand mythology that they are hoping to capitalize on. The theory is supposed to be that if you take away all those pesky regulations then 'real entrepreneurs '.. some kind of the 'the best rise in power when not being kept down by other people in power, except each other since that is dog eat dog, but because people who already have power are bad we need to stop them, but not new power which should be unchecked'. So beyond just taxes and visas they can suspend things like workers rights, wages, etc... so all those pesky things like stopping child labor, taking sexual advantage of your subordinates, firing injured people, making them work 140 hour weeks but still in debt to the company store, all those things are perfectly legal again... and part of the mythology is whitewashing how badly those went the first time around.
Oh, and of course the ship will probably have its own company store.. so everyone there will have to pay whatever prices the Blueseed charges for things like food, power, internet access, etc.
Which is why sane companies will probably stay away, but gullible startups who have read more fiction then done research might find the place appealing.
They would be within US waters, so the Coast Guard would still protect them from pirates. The landlord/tenant problem is a big one though since they would need their own police and court system... and we have all seen how well private courts work.
Well, their plan is they will not be in international waters so the commute is pretty short. Instead they will fly the flag of some minor country and anchor within US waters, which is a legal grey area that in theory should leave them outside US/CA regulation/taxation yet still be able to commute in for meetings.
But as others have pointed out it has many of the same problems as Sealand did. It is a nice concept in theory and in fiction, but in reality such plans have significant issues and, for their customers, end up with the same basic issues that basing out of a major country has with the added problem of not having a robust legal system. If nothing else, one of their big claims is that they avoid the 'immigration' problem.. by implementing their own immigration system. So you still have to go through an immigration process, just an easier to bribe one.
I am skeptical that many of these startups are expressing real 'I would pay' interest or have really thought about the full legal ramifications of such a setup. Blueseed really seems to be more of a scam to get investor money then anything else.
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Well, technically they couldn't, or at minimal they could not use this ruling as a basis for a lawsuit. This one covered Psystar reselling copies of OSX, in theory in violation of the license agreement that they obtained the software under. So as long as your instructions did not come with a 'buy OSX now and we install it' button, such a site would be fine. Provided of course it didn't have any DMCA violations.
While conceptually the same, legally they are pretty different cases (which is why Atari v. Activision did not count as precedent in this case) since one involved stopping people from running things on their hardware while this one had to do with Apple controlling who could and could not sell its software.
I want to say this case was baffling, but I am actually not surprised. Courts have been pretty favorable to companies trying to control how their products are sold/marketed lately and they do not really conflict with earlier rulings.
Though the irony is, of course, that with the DMCA today, Atari v. Activision would have ruled rather differently.
That still uses a photograph as the source material. The suggestion here is that CGI will replace the source material with some type of super AI editing tools or database of easily modified scenes/models/objects.
True, but it was not wiped out. Specific segments of the painting industry were significantly reduced, but there is still a pretty solid luxury market for portraits. A smaller one yes, but not gone.
Which is probably what will happen with photography too (and many argue that video has already wiped out things like photojournalism, but I think they are being a bit hysterical or at least paying way too much attention to new toys).. some types will migrate to hobbies, some types will be reduced, some will probably be fine.
Well, for advertising at least it might already be covered under rules governing fraud or false/misleading advertising.
Example: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/are-smart-people-getting-smarter/ It is actually a pretty well documented occurrence.
Hrm.. given its location, Syria might actually be able to claim that title, or at least part of it.... well, the region Syria is in at least. And only if you consider 'humanity' to be 'post-agricultural' civilization.
Because then people scream 'communism' and rewrite history to pretend that the regulation that resulted in everyone having phone access didn't work and didn't provide a massive economic boost to the country.
Though it would be far form 'instant', a massive amount of infrastructure needs to be built, but there is a game theory element to it where telcos are generally hoping one of their competitors makes the investment instead.
*nods* that tends to be one of big issues. If you are going to have a reward system you need some kind of metric by which to reward people. In sales it can kinda work since you have that bottom line sales number.. but other departments get trickier and metrics can favor behavior that doesn't really improve things or seriously favors particular personality types.
Which gets into the other way that a lot of these methods can backfire. Adding a competitive element to the workplace like leader-boards work really well for some personality types but really horribly for others. I have seen people quit over a new boss trying to implement such systems.
*smirk* that would indeed be an good example.
Pop up ads (or ads in general). While many of us use blockers and such, most people still do not. There is also the situation of simply clicking on links without knowing where they actually go... rickrolls and goatsx have gotten plenty of people over the years, it is plausible that someone could click on poorly worked links that end up being CP.
Moral panics do not need justification, all they need is outrage and 'reasons' become 'common sense'.
Yeah, but he had 4 sexy women on his ship and under his authority, and I think a lot of people can't see much past that part of the ideal ^_^
*nods* which is why all real systems are hybrids, taking pieces from various ideals and counterbalancing them.
That is the problem. Too much liberty just makes it easier for someone else to implement the tyranny since no one will stop them.
Simple, become rich and move elsewhere.
Assuming you are talking about the US, this is mostly a myth. In general (in pretty much any state) shooting an intruder will get the police talking to you to make sure the story checks out. While the details and requirements of Castle Doctrine vary from state to state, I do not know of any that criminalize use of deadly force in a life threatening situation within your own home.
Less 'over' and more 'switched sides'... at least our government did.
That can be pretty difficult to do with electronics. Any circuit board can act as an antenna, and (apparently) these mm machines sometimes also produce x-rays beyond what one would encounter in normal life, which is what fried the pump.
My 'point' is that these experiments have been run on land, I grew up in an area that had them. They produced a lot of wealth but were horrible for most people, most did not 'live freely' because the company ends up essentially owning you since without government intervention you end up with a massive power imbalance.. companies essentially end up behaving like states. Part of the point of learning history is to not repeat it. We see this setups every few decades after memories of previous attempts have faded and the allure of 'unregulated capitalism' calls another generation.
Regardless, I would be very surprised if they actually set up the ship. BlueSeed has been around a while now, and I suspect they are more scam then venture.
As for my 'bullshit'.. child labor required a great deal of outrage to cut down on. It was cheap and thus benefited companies immediately at the cost of long term economic health of a region. Classis game theory actually. The work hours is already a problem in less regulated industries in other countries, most of the 1st world has fairly strict rules about what you can demand of employees without additional compensation. Sex with subordinates.. that is the power imbalance problem. People shouldn't have to choose between their career and a hostile environment, but it happens enough that it is illegal now... and it generaly isn't a case of 'sex with nasty boss or go to another well paying job',.. it is 'sex with nasty boss or loose your job without references and probably be on the street'. Again in less regulated countries it is a significant problem and investors really don't care.. investors rarely care if the employees are miserable or not or if they even have a future after going through the grinder... and injured people... it was not until labor laws that companies had any responsibility to employees who were injured doing their job. Take that away and you can have crappy safty conditions and just replace anyone who roles the dice badly.
The question then becomes, why would people work for such companies? Well, because those companies have the jobs. The job market does not have an unlimited selection of good and bad companies, usually there are few jobs to choose between and unscrupulous companies know how to use this imbalance to their advantage, putting people into bad situations because their options are limited.
*nods* it dovetails into the idea that somehow the people who do have power do not deserve it or got it illegitimately. Though it also depends heavily on the idea that states and companies are fundamentally different and that unless one has a police force then they can not exert control of other people's lives... thus they do not see the power of non-government entities as 'real'... thus anyone who is a 'dirty poor slave' is simply lazy or immoral since nothing is stopping them from being rich.
Yep. That is the idea. Reap the benefits they want directly want, get the advantages of benefits that effect them indirectly (like the education system), but not have to pay for any of it and claim with a strait face that they are dong the capitalist thing of paying only for services they use.
Realisticly it doesn't actually bring much, but it draws on a rather heavy Ayn Rand mythology that they are hoping to capitalize on. The theory is supposed to be that if you take away all those pesky regulations then 'real entrepreneurs '.. some kind of the 'the best rise in power when not being kept down by other people in power, except each other since that is dog eat dog, but because people who already have power are bad we need to stop them, but not new power which should be unchecked'. So beyond just taxes and visas they can suspend things like workers rights, wages, etc... so all those pesky things like stopping child labor, taking sexual advantage of your subordinates, firing injured people, making them work 140 hour weeks but still in debt to the company store, all those things are perfectly legal again... and part of the mythology is whitewashing how badly those went the first time around.
Oh, and of course the ship will probably have its own company store.. so everyone there will have to pay whatever prices the Blueseed charges for things like food, power, internet access, etc.
Which is why sane companies will probably stay away, but gullible startups who have read more fiction then done research might find the place appealing.
They would be within US waters, so the Coast Guard would still protect them from pirates. The landlord/tenant problem is a big one though since they would need their own police and court system... and we have all seen how well private courts work.
Well, their plan is they will not be in international waters so the commute is pretty short. Instead they will fly the flag of some minor country and anchor within US waters, which is a legal grey area that in theory should leave them outside US/CA regulation/taxation yet still be able to commute in for meetings.
But as others have pointed out it has many of the same problems as Sealand did. It is a nice concept in theory and in fiction, but in reality such plans have significant issues and, for their customers, end up with the same basic issues that basing out of a major country has with the added problem of not having a robust legal system. If nothing else, one of their big claims is that they avoid the 'immigration' problem.. by implementing their own immigration system. So you still have to go through an immigration process, just an easier to bribe one.
I am skeptical that many of these startups are expressing real 'I would pay' interest or have really thought about the full legal ramifications of such a setup. Blueseed really seems to be more of a scam to get investor money then anything else.