*shrug* If they get to count time spent in the cafeteria as "time at work," they're getting a better deal that I ever have. Not to mention the excellent meal prices.
I just like the combination of "they spend all their time at work" and "generally in the building between 10am and 6pm." Isn't that eight hours per day right there? Then there's the part about how it changes as the employees get older, but he doesn't exactly give a shining example of that supposed change.
Or the company paid programmer rates for graphic design by a programmer rather than paying someone specialised at graphic design less money - in which case yes a "nice break" but since it's a small company surely bad financial decisions affect you pretty much directly?
I think they probably did this because, as you said, they "save the time/expense of finding a designer."
I dislike the use of RFID implanted into a human without his unreserved agreement, and "I'm doing this only because I can't get a job otherwise" is not unreserved agreement.
The "unreserved agreement" idea will make employment law really restrictive.
I'm sure there can be lots of fine discussion as to whether that would be a Good Thing or a Bad Thing.
I think this is one of those CA bills in search of a problem.
I've never had polio, so why did I have to go to the doctor to get a shot for it?
My car is running just fine, so why do I have to take it in for maintenance?
There's never been burglary in my neighborhood, so why should I bother locking the door?
The ice caps haven't melted, so why's everybody up in arms over global warming?
Why do I run a firewall and a virus scanner, even though my machine hasn't been hacked?
Like they say, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
The chances that every employer will require implantation, or even drug tests is minute
Isn't this what they said about overly restrictive software license agreements, non-disclosure/non-compete agreements for even the lowliest employees, and restrictions that only let you play your purchased media on "approved" players?
Of course, not everyone uses such things, but they are certainly more the norm than the exception. The free market has been remarkably slow to fix these issues. (Or perhaps since the free market hasn't fixed them, they are by definition non-issues?)
worried that the local scroats might have their civil liberties abused whilst they were committing vandalism, burglary and violent crimes against the person?
Useful tidbit:
There are both good cops and bad cops. It's quite possible for a police officer to victimize an innocent.
And a more general reply (not just directed at you):
Since turnabout is fair play, if law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear from cops, then cops have nothing to fear from law-abiding citizens, right?
In this case a ruling is overturned (if I'm not totally off, it was essentially done-away-with) which would seem to result in less law. As per my above observation, I think this is good.
I would say that works only to the same extent that changing from 0xdeadbeef to 0xdeadbee8 takes one bit off the number. Copyright law gives certain rights to the copyright holder and certain rights to the general public. Moving a right from one to the other doesn't seem to constitute "less law."
In any case, this ruling seems to be less about copyright law and more about what counts as separate media; it is saying that a CD-ROM distribution of a magazine is not a separate medium from the printed magazine (previous rulings said that it was).
Well, it should depend strictly on the contract the freelancer signs with the publisher, period.
I haven't read the decision yet, but it seems the contract says the publisher gets the right to use it in magazines. The question being disputed here (and answered in the ruling) is whether CD-ROM versions of magazines are still magazines (as opposed to being a separate medium). The court ruled that they are still magazines, and so the publisher owes no new royalties.
Despite the fact that government conspiracies are uncovered and brought into the public eye regularly, everyone who suspects that the government might be conspiring in any way that hasn't yet been uncovered is considered a crackpot (not to say that there are any shortage of actual crackpots).
That's the real reason right there. Sure, there's plenty of conspiracy theories that are correct, but there are so many that are completely out there that people hear one and initially guess that it's in that nutty majority.
i am not getting at that you should trust the americans. i am saying that you should trust neither
What are you suggesting isn't true here? That the U.S. employs spies? That the NSA/CIA/whatever can listen to the Blackberry network without much difficulty?
If a notorious liar tells you "2+2=4," wouldn't you believe him?
With this, it'll be bad enough that consumers will start to get offended.
Unless they can convince people that making backup DVDs has always been illegal -- then people won't think anything is being taken from them.
You can't protest an upcoming invasion of Eastasia if the soldiers have always been there.
Plaintext e-mail has been determined consistently to not have any reasonable expectation of privacy attached to it, and why should it? Anyone can read it.
The term "reasonable expectation" has nothing to do with how easy it is to read the email. It's about what sorts of actions/accesses are kosher.
A person whose admin password is "password," who never patches his system, who runs all kinds of unneeded services, and has no firewall still has a "reasonable expectation" that nobody will access his system without authorization.
A person who leaves town for a week, doesn't lock the door, and even lets his mail and newspapers pile up (showing that he isn't home) still has a "reasonable expectation" that other people will not enter his house.
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The idea that terrorism is a day-to-day threat to the average American is an illusion.
BTW, the holocaust beats terrorism by a few orders of magnitude.
*shrug* If they get to count time spent in the cafeteria as "time at work," they're getting a better deal that I ever have. Not to mention the excellent meal prices.
I just like the combination of "they spend all their time at work" and "generally in the building between 10am and 6pm." Isn't that eight hours per day right there? Then there's the part about how it changes as the employees get older, but he doesn't exactly give a shining example of that supposed change.
Or you just have to work at IBM.
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I thought leaving it out was considered the solution to DRM.
I'm sure there can be lots of fine discussion as to whether that would be a Good Thing or a Bad Thing.
My car is running just fine, so why do I have to take it in for maintenance?
There's never been burglary in my neighborhood, so why should I bother locking the door?
The ice caps haven't melted, so why's everybody up in arms over global warming?
Why do I run a firewall and a virus scanner, even though my machine hasn't been hacked?
Like they say, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Of course, not everyone uses such things, but they are certainly more the norm than the exception. The free market has been remarkably slow to fix these issues. (Or perhaps since the free market hasn't fixed them, they are by definition non-issues?)
There are both good cops and bad cops. It's quite possible for a police officer to victimize an innocent.
And a more general reply (not just directed at you):
Since turnabout is fair play, if law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear from cops, then cops have nothing to fear from law-abiding citizens, right?
Well, it wouldn't be a violation of the GPL, but it would be hard for them to make a serious lawsuit threat for using software they gave you.
In any case, this ruling seems to be less about copyright law and more about what counts as separate media; it is saying that a CD-ROM distribution of a magazine is not a separate medium from the printed magazine (previous rulings said that it was).
If a notorious liar tells you "2+2=4," wouldn't you believe him?
"You can't patent, you know, on-off-on-off code in the abstract, can you?"
-- Antonin Scalia
You can't protest an upcoming invasion of Eastasia if the soldiers have always been there.
Nah, my post was more of a "haven't we already seen this?" sort of thing.
A person whose admin password is "password," who never patches his system, who runs all kinds of unneeded services, and has no firewall still has a "reasonable expectation" that nobody will access his system without authorization.
A person who leaves town for a week, doesn't lock the door, and even lets his mail and newspapers pile up (showing that he isn't home) still has a "reasonable expectation" that other people will not enter his house.
You're using ink!? That teleprinter is ancient -- you should upgrade to something modern, like a "monitor."