rental cars when you actually need to go somewhere
With a 400 mile range it will take me from here to Chicago or St Louis with no problem. It's been years since I took a trip longer than a hundred miles.
tow trucks when you run out of charge
I have roadside assistance as part of my insurance. You know when I use it most? When the battery in my gasoline car dies and I can't find a jump. Once or twice when I was stuck in the snow.
opportunity cost because the you can't travel anywhere while your [sic] waiting for you [sic] piece of shit electric car to charge
Again, it's been years since I put that many miles on a car in one day, and it will charge while I'm sleeping. Besides, Teslas have charging stations that will fill you up in 30 minutes, not that much longer than to fill a gasoline car at a crowded gas station... hell, I've waited in line that long at the checkout counter.
Indeed, and it's why I traded my debit card for a couple of credit cards. Quite a few years back a woman watched me drunkenly punch my PIN into an ATM. She later stole the card and a book of checks and emptied my bank account -- and I had just bought my car and the $1000 down payment bounced, leading me to a bit of legal trouble.
The forged checks the bank made good, but if someone has your PIN, even if they stole it, they're authorized to use the card even if they stole that as well.
When I use my credit card, the most I can lose is fifty bucks. I can take that kind of loss (hell, I just paid the veterenarian $277 for a sixteen year old cat).
I haven't been in an airplane since 1987. Why am I forced to subsidize the rich fucks who fly weekly? Airline travel isn't much different than luxury cars; how often do most middle class people fly?
And how about that mortgage deduction that the rich and middle class get that the poor don't, since they rent?
I could think of more if I wasn't drinking. Alcohol never raised anybody's IQ.
Do you realize what site you're on, dufus? If you do, know that you're trolling and PLEASE STOP before every fucking comment you make is modded to oblivion. Now listen up, jocktroll, we're nerds. We LOVE space exploration and if you don't, you don't belong here.
Pay attention to all the folks who responded to you who are at least 25 points higher than you on the IQ graph, you may learn something if you're at least almost normally intelligent.
If NASA were privately funded, we might still not have walked on the moon, we would not have Hubble and the other space telescopes, we would not have robots on mars, we would not now have a craft exiting the solar system, we would not have a HELL of a lot of science we do.
If governments hadn't gone to space, you would not have a Space-X or Virgin Galactic today.
So why don't you just crawl back to your 4chan bridge, troll, and leave us nerds alone.
Indeed, I'll bet I've spent a bigger proportion of my money to charity than Zuckerberg and you probably have, too. Why does he get ink for being charitable to his own organization but you don't for putting that C-note in the Salvation Army bucket? Mark 12:41-44
And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
Then there's Matthew 6:2,
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
I don't think Zuckerberg cares, he's certainly not Christian. His name sounds Jewish, and few Jews (God's chosen people) are Christians. But I could be wrong, I often am.
Oh, and merry Christmas, everyone! Can we stop being mean o each other? Please?
You're confusing GPS with an odometer. GPS, unlike your odometer, doesn't measure your wheels' rotation, it measures your GPS unit's position in relation to satellites. Spinning your tires all day won't budge the GPS.
This wasn't about "exposing" the NSA -- anyone with half a brain realizes that the very definition of a spy agency is that it spies on people. "They were spying on americans!" Yeah, ok, and?
And it's fucking ILLEGAL, damn it. Have a look at this article written by J. Kirk Wiebe, a retired NSA executive:
But how can anyone believe that Snowden would not be deserving of amnesty? Clearly it is the government and its senior officials who committed the crime -- people who took oaths to defend the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic and who failed to take to heart the words they swore to uphold. Indeed, Snowden did not -- nor does any government employee -- swear allegiance to the president of the United States, or even to the secretary of Defense or the director of NSA. No, he swore to uphold and defend the Constitution.
Unfortunately, while federal law protects whistleblowers who work in other government sectors from reprisals for truth-telling and have paths for reporting wrongdoing and mismanagement, those who work in intelligence are expressly denied such rights. When Senior Staff Representative Diane Roark and longtime senior NSA employees Bill Binney, Ed Loomis, and I submitted a formal complaint about mismanagement at the agency, the government's response on July 26, 2007, was to send the FBI to raid our homes, searching them for seven hours and seizing our computers, phones and other digital media. We are just now getting our property back after having successfully sued the government in December 2012.
The government even indicted Tom Drake, although it dropped its criminal charges in the case against him. Still, for the five of us, it was the equivalent of a punch in the face and a warning to other would-be "truth-tellers" not to report wrongful government activities or the government will come after you.
Snowden clearly saw what the government does to whistleblowers who try to work within government to fix things that are wrong. He knew that our complaint to the United States Department of Defense inspector general in September 2002 went for naught. Although the report agreed that our complaint was well-founded, nothing happened -- no one was found guilty of wrongful behavior or waste of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
Even before writing the complaint, we -- all longtime and senior NSA employees -- along with Diane Roark, a senior staffer on the House Permanent Select Subcommittee on Intelligence, had approached Congress in 2001 about the matter of illegal collection of data about U.S. citizens. No action. Snowden might have known that we were ultimately punished by approaching officials, and even had our security clearances revoked when the FBI raided our homes -- despite the fact that four of the five of us were not indicted and none of us was found guilty of committing a crime.
For employees in the business of intelligence, there are no honest brokers, no viable paths to follow to report the subverting of the U.S. Constitution. It is the reason Snowden went first to Hong Kong and ultimately Moscow to seek refuge. He did not go to those places to give away national secrets, rather he needed a place to stay that was safe from extradition and where he could wait while the United States sorted through the facts, especially those regarding government leaders who violated the most basic of our nation's laws -- the right to privacy.
BTW, your sig is right on target this time -- you've pissed off fans of freedom and privacy.
Also written about by damned near every sci-fi writer there ever was. I'm wondering what someone who has never heard of it is doing at slashdot? Since he's AC he's probably a jocktroll. The lack of capitalization suggests he's a young jocktroll who wishes he was smart enough to be a nerd.
I certainly hope you saw a retina specialist, there may have been something he could have done to negate the harmful effects. Many welders go blind in their old age from unshielded glimpses of the arc welder (I knew one such fellow).
The number of aliterates who are visiting slashdot these days astounds me. People who don't read on a nerd site? It's sad how many people here in the last five years or so can't handle homophones, use grocers' apostrophes, and think "lose" and "loose" are synonyms (if the word "synonym is even in their vocabulary).
As to the aliterate's comment, he was right -- just look at this comment. A humorous jab at Microsoft's most hated OS ever and he gets modded "troll". Nobody but a shill would downmod that comment, it should be +3 funny and the shill who modded him down should never get mod points again.
Hubble's mirror design changed to match the existing mirrors already deployed in spy satellites -- Aiming an army of Hubbles at earth? That's some awesome spying capability; No terrorists or enemies could make a significant move against us without us finding out immediately already thanks to space spying programs. And, when we launch more impressive satellites the old spy-sats can be donated to NASA and pointed into space, or sent to other planets. [space.com]
I think you have that backwards. The NSA gets the most advanced toys first, why do you thing they changed Hubble's design? Because the spy telescopes were more powerful.
That isn't what I logged in to say, though -- even though TFA was published yesterday, they must need some lead time because the Senate just voted for a budget, no more sequesters for two more years. My guess is the article was written and edited weeks ago.
There's a good point hidden in the above AC's trollish "joke"; inbreeding happens with almost all, if not all, species, especially when there is a small population of that species. That includes Neanderthals and modern humans, dogs, cats, bonobos...
This story brings to mind an old pop song by some one hit wonder I haven't heard in almost half a century --
I'm a neanderthal man You're a Neanderthal girl Lets make Neanderthal love In this Neanderthal world
(IIRC it was that one verse repeated over and over, a really repetitious and stupid but catchy pop song)
Not connecting them to the internet wouldn't have helped. From what I heard on TV, the card readers themselves were physically compromised. It looks to me like a large criminal organization has infiltrated Target's employee ranks.
That statement is ridiculous. Christianity has been around a thousand times as long os BitCoin, do you really think BitCoin will be around 2000 years in the future?
A third of the world's population is Christian. What tiny fraction of a percent of the world's population uses BitCoin? I don't, and neither does a single pesron I know IRL.
My employer replaced all our XP computers with W7 last year. They only had single core CPUs and 256 megs of RAM.
As to your "everybody knew" that's bullshit. People in IT knew, you knew and I knew but George Sixpack never had a clue. He doesn't follow the tech journals and had no idea, it isn't like his computer came with a big red warning sticker saying "you will have repairs equal to half the cost or more of your computer in 2014". He had no warning whatever.
Now, I have an XP computer I use to sample LPs and cassettes. My W7 notebook has no burner and the other tower runs kubuntu, and Audacity lacks needed features that EAC has. I'll just unplug the modem when I turn it on but George has no clue.
Joe isn't irresponsible, he's ignorant, and his ignorance is the result of Microsoft's irresponsibility. Making the arbitrary decision to EOL the software long before the hardware dies was also irresponsible of Microsoft.
Buying Window rather than using Linux was irresponsible on the part of OEMs, who knew full well when XP would end. Had the computers been sold with Linux rather than Windows this problem would not have existed.
So, how long until most of that hardware fails, then?
From my experience, at least another 5 years. In the last 30 years the average computer I've had has lasted at least ten years but something usually fails by the time it's 15.
Vista was released in 2007, so there are XP computers only 7 years old. A seven year lifespan for an OS is ridiculously short. If MS can't afford to fix its bugs and design flaws longer than 7 years they should charge more for it.
Oh, the novel would be written but nobody could read it because I wouldn't let it out if I thought some asshole would make tons of money from it and I'd get jack shit. Now, if you had a moneyless Star Trek utopia there would be no reason for copyrights or patents.
Everything you say is true, including that pot isn't a gateway drug. At least, it isn't in Washington and Oregon, because of the laws against it make it a "gateway drug" because the folks who sell cocaine also sell pot. Back when Reagan started his version of Nixon's "war on drugs" the war was really on marijuana only. It got pretty dry, was hard to find for a while. Everywhere I went looking for pot the response was "sorry, man, it's really dry. I have some coke, though."
When was the last time the liquor store guy said "we're all out of beer, want some cigarettes instead?"
And then there's drug testing. I know several people who ultimately became crack addicts because their employers tested for drugs. Pot is easily detected for a month, while the cheap tests the employers use can only detect cocaine 3 days later. So folks stopped smoking pot and started smoking crack... and ruined their lives.
The government demonizes pot, one of the least harmful drugs (legal or not) in existence, so a young person starts smoking pot, discovers that the government is full of lying sacks of shit, why would he then believe the government propaganda about heroin when it's been proven they lied about pot?
So you are correct, pot doesn't lead to harder drugs. The laws against it, however, do.
No, they're not spreading FUD. What causes it is that disease symptoms are often the result of the immune system fighting the disease. Fever kills viruses, so you get a fever with the flu. Coughing and your nose running are your body trying to wash the nasties out of your body. When you get that flu shot, it won't work if the immune system doesn't see it as a threat, and when it sees a threat, you get the disease symptoms.
Google, i dare you, i really dare you, make android by default, whitelist countries IP addresses. So that I can choose, EU only, or Asia only, except china/korea. Or USA only ip addresses. Yeah its drastic, but 99% of users wont access websites outside usa, or their home country or two.
Do you have citations or experience to back that claim up? I live in Illinois, my web site is in Canada. I had a pretty popular Quake site from 1998 to 2003 that used the same host as I'm using now. My traffic came from all over the world, and actually less than half of the traffic I got was from the US.
So you're Canadian and you want to block US sites? Mine still shows up because it's hosted in Canada.
What I'd like to have is the ability to search by root domain, e.g. "semiconductors site:*.edu" or "health site:*.gov". I often want results only from an edu domain, but there's no way I know of to do that.
Yes, and it's born of ignorance. Listen to a Led Zeppelin LP, then the CD, the LP will sound better. Listen to a Cars LP and a Cars CD and the CD will sound better. Why? Because the Zep was recorded in analog and the Cars were recorded digitally. Each format has its own benefits and detriments, and when you mix the two you get the worst of both worlds.
Yeah, your computer mouse is broken, so just throw out the whole new computer because obviously it's not needed since it's broken. Just like copyright.
The MAFIAA isn't the only entity who relies on copyright. Programmers, even GPL programmers, depend on copyright.
I depend on copyright. I just released a sci-fi novel, and since I don't have a kings ransom for marketing it isn't selling many copies. Without copyright I would sell none at all, because anyone with a publishing company could sell as many as they wanted, and they have the marketing muscle to completely bury me.
Don't "throw the baby out with the bathwater", to use an old overused cliche. The system is broken, and was broken deliberately by monied interests. Copyright lengths are way too long and things that used to be copyrightable now aren't -- for an example, the JD Sallinger's heirs successfully sued a guy for writing a sequel to Catcher in teh Rye. That just simply should not be. George Harrison should not have been successfully sued for "My Sweet Lord" and ZZ Top should certainly not have been sued for "La Grange", that was the fucktardedest one of all; what was copied was "ah how how how".
The arts are like technology and science in that everything new springs from the old. Like Newton, Van Gogh and Mark Twain stood on the shoulders of giants. Imagine how technology would suffer if patents lasted as long as copyrights? Nothing written or painted before 1990 should still be covered. "To promote the progress of science and the useful arts", how are you going to convince Jimi Hendrix to write and sing any more songs?
But completely revoking it is childish madness. You are out of your mind for suggesting it. Get a clue, dude. I wrote that book so it would be read (I'm posting it on my web site for free, only physical copies cost) but if someone else is making money on work I did, I want my share.
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rental cars when you actually need to go somewhere
With a 400 mile range it will take me from here to Chicago or St Louis with no problem. It's been years since I took a trip longer than a hundred miles.
tow trucks when you run out of charge
I have roadside assistance as part of my insurance. You know when I use it most? When the battery in my gasoline car dies and I can't find a jump. Once or twice when I was stuck in the snow.
opportunity cost because the you can't travel anywhere while your [sic] waiting for you [sic] piece of shit electric car to charge
Again, it's been years since I put that many miles on a car in one day, and it will charge while I'm sleeping. Besides, Teslas have charging stations that will fill you up in 30 minutes, not that much longer than to fill a gasoline car at a crowded gas station... hell, I've waited in line that long at the checkout counter.
So... which oil company do you work for, AC?
Indeed, and it's why I traded my debit card for a couple of credit cards. Quite a few years back a woman watched me drunkenly punch my PIN into an ATM. She later stole the card and a book of checks and emptied my bank account -- and I had just bought my car and the $1000 down payment bounced, leading me to a bit of legal trouble.
The forged checks the bank made good, but if someone has your PIN, even if they stole it, they're authorized to use the card even if they stole that as well.
When I use my credit card, the most I can lose is fifty bucks. I can take that kind of loss (hell, I just paid the veterenarian $277 for a sixteen year old cat).
I haven't been in an airplane since 1987. Why am I forced to subsidize the rich fucks who fly weekly? Airline travel isn't much different than luxury cars; how often do most middle class people fly?
And how about that mortgage deduction that the rich and middle class get that the poor don't, since they rent?
I could think of more if I wasn't drinking. Alcohol never raised anybody's IQ.
Do you realize what site you're on, dufus? If you do, know that you're trolling and PLEASE STOP before every fucking comment you make is modded to oblivion. Now listen up, jocktroll, we're nerds. We LOVE space exploration and if you don't, you don't belong here.
Pay attention to all the folks who responded to you who are at least 25 points higher than you on the IQ graph, you may learn something if you're at least almost normally intelligent.
If NASA were privately funded, we might still not have walked on the moon, we would not have Hubble and the other space telescopes, we would not have robots on mars, we would not now have a craft exiting the solar system, we would not have a HELL of a lot of science we do.
If governments hadn't gone to space, you would not have a Space-X or Virgin Galactic today.
So why don't you just crawl back to your 4chan bridge, troll, and leave us nerds alone.
From what I read, his father (an IBM lawyer!) shamed him into it.
Indeed, I'll bet I've spent a bigger proportion of my money to charity than Zuckerberg and you probably have, too. Why does he get ink for being charitable to his own organization but you don't for putting that C-note in the Salvation Army bucket? Mark 12:41-44
Then there's Matthew 6:2,
I don't think Zuckerberg cares, he's certainly not Christian. His name sounds Jewish, and few Jews (God's chosen people) are Christians. But I could be wrong, I often am.
Oh, and merry Christmas, everyone! Can we stop being mean o each other? Please?
You're confusing GPS with an odometer. GPS, unlike your odometer, doesn't measure your wheels' rotation, it measures your GPS unit's position in relation to satellites. Spinning your tires all day won't budge the GPS.
Considering that (TFA didn't mention but GMA did) the readers themselves were what was compromised, a PIN wouldn't have helped at all.
The government *WANTS* to splash it.
Which government? Jesus, Dave, that was really stupid. You do know that the I in ISS stands for "international", don't you?
This wasn't about "exposing" the NSA -- anyone with half a brain realizes that the very definition of a spy agency is that it spies on people. "They were spying on americans!" Yeah, ok, and?
And it's fucking ILLEGAL, damn it. Have a look at this article written by J. Kirk Wiebe, a retired NSA executive:
BTW, your sig is right on target this time -- you've pissed off fans of freedom and privacy.
Also written about by damned near every sci-fi writer there ever was. I'm wondering what someone who has never heard of it is doing at slashdot? Since he's AC he's probably a jocktroll. The lack of capitalization suggests he's a young jocktroll who wishes he was smart enough to be a nerd.
I certainly hope you saw a retina specialist, there may have been something he could have done to negate the harmful effects. Many welders go blind in their old age from unshielded glimpses of the arc welder (I knew one such fellow).
(By the way, "their" should have been "there").
The number of aliterates who are visiting slashdot these days astounds me. People who don't read on a nerd site? It's sad how many people here in the last five years or so can't handle homophones, use grocers' apostrophes, and think "lose" and "loose" are synonyms (if the word "synonym is even in their vocabulary).
As to the aliterate's comment, he was right -- just look at this comment. A humorous jab at Microsoft's most hated OS ever and he gets modded "troll". Nobody but a shill would downmod that comment, it should be +3 funny and the shill who modded him down should never get mod points again.
That's troll's getting a little old, son. Better quit now before you lose all your karma... if you have any left.
Hubble's mirror design changed to match the existing mirrors already deployed in spy satellites -- Aiming an army of Hubbles at earth? That's some awesome spying capability; No terrorists or enemies could make a significant move against us without us finding out immediately already thanks to space spying programs. And, when we launch more impressive satellites the old spy-sats can be donated to NASA and pointed into space, or sent to other planets. [space.com]
I think you have that backwards. The NSA gets the most advanced toys first, why do you thing they changed Hubble's design? Because the spy telescopes were more powerful.
That isn't what I logged in to say, though -- even though TFA was published yesterday, they must need some lead time because the Senate just voted for a budget, no more sequesters for two more years. My guess is the article was written and edited weeks ago.
There's a good point hidden in the above AC's trollish "joke"; inbreeding happens with almost all, if not all, species, especially when there is a small population of that species. That includes Neanderthals and modern humans, dogs, cats, bonobos...
This story brings to mind an old pop song by some one hit wonder I haven't heard in almost half a century --
I'm a neanderthal man
You're a Neanderthal girl
Lets make Neanderthal love
In this Neanderthal world
(IIRC it was that one verse repeated over and over, a really repetitious and stupid but catchy pop song)
Not connecting them to the internet wouldn't have helped. From what I heard on TV, the card readers themselves were physically compromised. It looks to me like a large criminal organization has infiltrated Target's employee ranks.
That statement is ridiculous. Christianity has been around a thousand times as long os BitCoin, do you really think BitCoin will be around 2000 years in the future?
A third of the world's population is Christian. What tiny fraction of a percent of the world's population uses BitCoin? I don't, and neither does a single pesron I know IRL.
My employer replaced all our XP computers with W7 last year. They only had single core CPUs and 256 megs of RAM.
As to your "everybody knew" that's bullshit. People in IT knew, you knew and I knew but George Sixpack never had a clue. He doesn't follow the tech journals and had no idea, it isn't like his computer came with a big red warning sticker saying "you will have repairs equal to half the cost or more of your computer in 2014". He had no warning whatever.
Now, I have an XP computer I use to sample LPs and cassettes. My W7 notebook has no burner and the other tower runs kubuntu, and Audacity lacks needed features that EAC has. I'll just unplug the modem when I turn it on but George has no clue.
Joe isn't irresponsible, he's ignorant, and his ignorance is the result of Microsoft's irresponsibility. Making the arbitrary decision to EOL the software long before the hardware dies was also irresponsible of Microsoft.
Buying Window rather than using Linux was irresponsible on the part of OEMs, who knew full well when XP would end. Had the computers been sold with Linux rather than Windows this problem would not have existed.
So, how long until most of that hardware fails, then?
From my experience, at least another 5 years. In the last 30 years the average computer I've had has lasted at least ten years but something usually fails by the time it's 15.
Vista was released in 2007, so there are XP computers only 7 years old. A seven year lifespan for an OS is ridiculously short. If MS can't afford to fix its bugs and design flaws longer than 7 years they should charge more for it.
Oh, the novel would be written but nobody could read it because I wouldn't let it out if I thought some asshole would make tons of money from it and I'd get jack shit. Now, if you had a moneyless Star Trek utopia there would be no reason for copyrights or patents.
Everything you say is true, including that pot isn't a gateway drug. At least, it isn't in Washington and Oregon, because of the laws against it make it a "gateway drug" because the folks who sell cocaine also sell pot. Back when Reagan started his version of Nixon's "war on drugs" the war was really on marijuana only. It got pretty dry, was hard to find for a while. Everywhere I went looking for pot the response was "sorry, man, it's really dry. I have some coke, though."
When was the last time the liquor store guy said "we're all out of beer, want some cigarettes instead?"
And then there's drug testing. I know several people who ultimately became crack addicts because their employers tested for drugs. Pot is easily detected for a month, while the cheap tests the employers use can only detect cocaine 3 days later. So folks stopped smoking pot and started smoking crack... and ruined their lives.
The government demonizes pot, one of the least harmful drugs (legal or not) in existence, so a young person starts smoking pot, discovers that the government is full of lying sacks of shit, why would he then believe the government propaganda about heroin when it's been proven they lied about pot?
So you are correct, pot doesn't lead to harder drugs. The laws against it, however, do.
No, they're not spreading FUD. What causes it is that disease symptoms are often the result of the immune system fighting the disease. Fever kills viruses, so you get a fever with the flu. Coughing and your nose running are your body trying to wash the nasties out of your body. When you get that flu shot, it won't work if the immune system doesn't see it as a threat, and when it sees a threat, you get the disease symptoms.
Google, i dare you, i really dare you, make android by default, whitelist countries IP addresses. So that I can choose, EU only, or Asia only, except china/korea. Or USA only ip addresses. Yeah its drastic, but 99% of users wont access websites outside usa, or their home country or two.
Do you have citations or experience to back that claim up? I live in Illinois, my web site is in Canada. I had a pretty popular Quake site from 1998 to 2003 that used the same host as I'm using now. My traffic came from all over the world, and actually less than half of the traffic I got was from the US.
So you're Canadian and you want to block US sites? Mine still shows up because it's hosted in Canada.
What I'd like to have is the ability to search by root domain, e.g. "semiconductors site:*.edu" or "health site:*.gov". I often want results only from an edu domain, but there's no way I know of to do that.
Yes, and it's born of ignorance. Listen to a Led Zeppelin LP, then the CD, the LP will sound better. Listen to a Cars LP and a Cars CD and the CD will sound better. Why? Because the Zep was recorded in analog and the Cars were recorded digitally. Each format has its own benefits and detriments, and when you mix the two you get the worst of both worlds.
Yeah, your computer mouse is broken, so just throw out the whole new computer because obviously it's not needed since it's broken. Just like copyright.
The MAFIAA isn't the only entity who relies on copyright. Programmers, even GPL programmers, depend on copyright.
I depend on copyright. I just released a sci-fi novel, and since I don't have a kings ransom for marketing it isn't selling many copies. Without copyright I would sell none at all, because anyone with a publishing company could sell as many as they wanted, and they have the marketing muscle to completely bury me.
Don't "throw the baby out with the bathwater", to use an old overused cliche. The system is broken, and was broken deliberately by monied interests. Copyright lengths are way too long and things that used to be copyrightable now aren't -- for an example, the JD Sallinger's heirs successfully sued a guy for writing a sequel to Catcher in teh Rye. That just simply should not be. George Harrison should not have been successfully sued for "My Sweet Lord" and ZZ Top should certainly not have been sued for "La Grange", that was the fucktardedest one of all; what was copied was "ah how how how".
The arts are like technology and science in that everything new springs from the old. Like Newton, Van Gogh and Mark Twain stood on the shoulders of giants. Imagine how technology would suffer if patents lasted as long as copyrights? Nothing written or painted before 1990 should still be covered. "To promote the progress of science and the useful arts", how are you going to convince Jimi Hendrix to write and sing any more songs?
But completely revoking it is childish madness. You are out of your mind for suggesting it. Get a clue, dude. I wrote that book so it would be read (I'm posting it on my web site for free, only physical copies cost) but if someone else is making money on work I did, I want my share.