...is for someone to steal the template of their shitty site and make a duplicate site that only serves up illegal links (ala the late great TV-Links and the numerous alternatives that appeared when it shut down). That way, we get what we want AND completely undermine their "consumers are just confused" charade.
I really don't understand the purpose of holding back a trailer and only showing it to a select few people. If it was unfinished or something, It'd be understandable, but these are finished already. It's for promotional use, it's to promote the film, SURELY you want as many people as possible to see it? Or maybe I missed something?
Oh. Well that's a bit of a pisser. Really, they should make it so that one patent can be invalidated by any kind of prior art that applies to it, to stop big companies making stupid balloon patents that just encompass absolutely everything.
I notice a lot of people tend to make really really really generic patents these days, presumably to give them more control over who they get to sue, but when it comes to Prior art, does just one instance invalidate the whole patent, or does it only invalidate certain aspects of it?
That depends entirely on where your moral line of when-is-it-right-to-kill lies. For some people, killing is never acceptable, even for those who murdered thousands of people, for others it's justified to kill someone just for breaking a minor law.
I am not a Lawyer (And I refuse to say IANAL - it took me 3 months to figure out what that meant), so I'm curious as to what the legal implications are for downloading DRM free versions of songs you LEGALLY own (in one form or another)? I know that in the case of software, it's perfectly legal to download pirated versions providing you legitimately own it (ROMs in particular are a good example of this), but what about media?
I'm not saying that aliens WILL be that kind of shape or have those proportion, I'm just trying to say that we have absolutely no friggin' idea what life might be like on other planets - intelligent or not - the only thing we have to go on is our own planet and for SOME reason, we became vastly dominant over every other species here and by a huge degree. Whatever it is that caused that, be it a bigger brain, thumbs, a combination of both or whatever, is probably something we WILL share in common with aliens.
Maybe in the grand scheme of things, 5 fingers is the absolute optimum number to have? (Well ok, 4 fingers and a thumb, you know what I mean). I mean, I'm not saying one way or the other, we all know the huge differences one subtle change in our physiological appearance could make, if we only had 4 fingers on each hand, we might not have been able to climb trees as well, if we had 6, we might not have been able to handle smaller objects as well, it could be that we're "just right" for spreading intelligently like we have (I'm not saying that we're perfect - far from it, I just mean that maybe enough things have to be "right" for a species to take off like we have).
Until we actually DO meet other intelligent life out there, I don't think we'll know for sure just how different (or similar) they'll be to us.
Personally, I'm hoping that they're entirely different, I mean COMPLETELY different, not just different looking. That sounds a lot more exciting to me.
Not that I'm disagreeing with your overall argument, but I'd like to point out one thing - The Area 51 aliens look "too" much like us? True, there's a huge variety of species on our planet that look completely different to humans, but how many of them have ever built anything beyond a simple structure to live in? It's entirely plausible that for one species to become the dominant species of an entire planet and go on to self-evolve through feats of engineering (I'm sure there's a better term for it, but just run with me here), certain criteria NEEDS to be met. We obviously met them, so we're the precedent, what's to say that on an entirely different planet that's similar to earth, the same thing couldn't happen to a species that resembles our own?
Go into any good supermarket and you can pick up a full 3D model of Mars for pennies. Screw the 3D glasses, you can feel the ridges on it yourself, even dig to find if there really IS water beneath the surface. So far, all I've found is Nougat and Caramel, though...
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...is for someone to steal the template of their shitty site and make a duplicate site that only serves up illegal links (ala the late great TV-Links and the numerous alternatives that appeared when it shut down).
That way, we get what we want AND completely undermine their "consumers are just confused" charade.
Ack, messed up my sentence!
Yeah, it's definitely worth trying out.
Yeah, it's definitely werth trying oot.
Yeah but to be fair, this is the kind of thing you don't mind hearing about twice.
I really don't understand the purpose of holding back a trailer and only showing it to a select few people. If it was unfinished or something, It'd be understandable, but these are finished already.
It's for promotional use, it's to promote the film, SURELY you want as many people as possible to see it?
Or maybe I missed something?
I patented any and all "soviet russia" jokes. Now you all owe me royalties, bitches.
Well shit...you got me!
I ain't even married.
Oh.
Well that's a bit of a pisser. Really, they should make it so that one patent can be invalidated by any kind of prior art that applies to it, to stop big companies making stupid balloon patents that just encompass absolutely everything.
I notice a lot of people tend to make really really really generic patents these days, presumably to give them more control over who they get to sue, but when it comes to Prior art, does just one instance invalidate the whole patent, or does it only invalidate certain aspects of it?
Tick the "Post Anonymously" box next time.
You have no idea how disappointed I was when I found out that web site didn't actually exist.
Kind of like how you couldn't be bothered to read the other comments, where you would have found out that he was being distinctly Ironic?
Look around, particularly at the majority of the "frost piss"s lately. Is it really that big a leap?
Since when was understanding it a requirement for it to be Sarcasm?
That depends entirely on where your moral line of when-is-it-right-to-kill lies.
For some people, killing is never acceptable, even for those who murdered thousands of people, for others it's justified to kill someone just for breaking a minor law.
Well done on missing both the point of my post and the sarcasm held within it.
I'm glad your homepage is broken =P
I am not a Lawyer (And I refuse to say IANAL - it took me 3 months to figure out what that meant), so I'm curious as to what the legal implications are for downloading DRM free versions of songs you LEGALLY own (in one form or another)?
I know that in the case of software, it's perfectly legal to download pirated versions providing you legitimately own it (ROMs in particular are a good example of this), but what about media?
Does that constitute as a Beowulf cluster of women?
Then where's my cheap 24" OLED monitor?
I'm not saying that aliens WILL be that kind of shape or have those proportion, I'm just trying to say that we have absolutely no friggin' idea what life might be like on other planets - intelligent or not - the only thing we have to go on is our own planet and for SOME reason, we became vastly dominant over every other species here and by a huge degree. Whatever it is that caused that, be it a bigger brain, thumbs, a combination of both or whatever, is probably something we WILL share in common with aliens.
Maybe in the grand scheme of things, 5 fingers is the absolute optimum number to have? (Well ok, 4 fingers and a thumb, you know what I mean).
I mean, I'm not saying one way or the other, we all know the huge differences one subtle change in our physiological appearance could make, if we only had 4 fingers on each hand, we might not have been able to climb trees as well, if we had 6, we might not have been able to handle smaller objects as well, it could be that we're "just right" for spreading intelligently like we have (I'm not saying that we're perfect - far from it, I just mean that maybe enough things have to be "right" for a species to take off like we have).
Until we actually DO meet other intelligent life out there, I don't think we'll know for sure just how different (or similar) they'll be to us.
Personally, I'm hoping that they're entirely different, I mean COMPLETELY different, not just different looking. That sounds a lot more exciting to me.
Not that I'm disagreeing with your overall argument, but I'd like to point out one thing -
The Area 51 aliens look "too" much like us?
True, there's a huge variety of species on our planet that look completely different to humans, but how many of them have ever built anything beyond a simple structure to live in? It's entirely plausible that for one species to become the dominant species of an entire planet and go on to self-evolve through feats of engineering (I'm sure there's a better term for it, but just run with me here), certain criteria NEEDS to be met. We obviously met them, so we're the precedent, what's to say that on an entirely different planet that's similar to earth, the same thing couldn't happen to a species that resembles our own?
Go into any good supermarket and you can pick up a full 3D model of Mars for pennies. Screw the 3D glasses, you can feel the ridges on it yourself, even dig to find if there really IS water beneath the surface.
So far, all I've found is Nougat and Caramel, though...
Well you're all in deep shit, I patented "beating a dead horse through overuse of a tired old joke" way back in 1996, so you'd better get wise
This is the first post I'm making informing you of your new, patent-holding, overlord. I suggest you welcome him, you insensitive Clod!