Quite brilliant and at the same time obvious. If the MPA and RIAA are looked at for what thy are it is a distribution network and that's what has been replaced by the net. They can never 'get' the net as its real role is as their replacement. So who wants to help building a mechanism where we can directly and en-mass communicate, negotiate and patronize the artists?
I agree with what you say nearly completely. My point was for discussion and more my belief of where things are headed, not where they are. I would however point to a copyright case in my home town (Perth, Australia) where Marvel comics brought a Trademark infringement suit against a small fanzine over the ownership of the name and person of Thor - not exactly a character of their own devising. As is often the case in these situations it was settled out of court after much expense on both parties behalf - with an unusual result of the plantiff paying the defendent a significant sum of money.
It's interesting to note that with the long established link between Tolkien and Beowulf how stories any myths have changed little through the ages. What is worrying is that now business is trying, through the ever tightening web of copyrights, to take ownership of what seem to be demostrated to be universal human myths.
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Bicycles are terated as public property in Japan -people just take them and use them.
I'm curious to see how this will handle curbs, or steep gradients. It's still going to be unstable as its CoG is well above the gyros with the operator making up most of the mass.
Also worth noting is that the Commodore brand name was used by Escom in Europe well into the Pentium era as a badge for generic PC clones. Most of the middle easts trade is with Europe and not the US so don't presume it's related to any of the Commodores you saw.
If the FBI (not the CIA - they are prohibited from acting within the US borders, not that they pay any attention to that) had sufficient evidence of such an act of course they could act - conspiring to commit a crime (such as say multiple murders)is an offence.
"I clicked the same time I heard the boom and I knew I had it." What he had was a technically meticulous depiction of the sound barrier being broken on July 7, 1999, somewhere on the Pacific between Hawaii and Japan. Sports Illustrated, Brills Content, and Life ran the photo...
What he had was a very poor understanding of elementary physics. If he took the photo after he heard the boom he is recording the aftereffects, not the actual breaking of mach 1. It's that ever so slight discrepency between the speed of sound and speed of light.
Sadly that is exactly what will happen - it will get worse. Elz's methods were draconian but at least he was consistent and not in the pocket of big business a la ICANN. With the governments record on this sort of action it will initially be handled by business partner (read family member) of the minister responsible. After this proves to be totally incompetent it will be transfered to Telstra and the fun will really begin. My biggest problem with Elz's reign as administrator of the.au was the virtual impossibility of registering.com.au if you were a sole trader (pretty common for IT consultants) - it was easier to go.com.
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Except possibly to reduce the amount of energy used to heat/cool that enormous (relative to other countries) space that you occupy. Efficient use of space does not always mean cramped - that's a design issue.
If that is so then how did Linux ever get developed? I would have to describe any distribution as a "development of significant original software". You obviously do not understand the distributed nature of open source projects. Once the software is at a usable stage further customizations can be performed for the clients and this is the space where the smaller and still profitible service companies exist.
Well I would have Pork was the obvious complement to Apple source...
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Nobody is guaranteed a job. Nobody is guaranteed a job they enjoy. Nobody is guaranteed the job they want. Your current president would seem to set lie to this adage. He has the job and position he wanted as an accident of birth, not by any stretch of the imagination a reflection of his ability.
#1. It's just self-evident. It's why the US excels over Europe (in everything but auto manufacturing... hmmm). Well this is just laughable. The UK, Australia and South Africa are the centres of medical research, Biotech is driven by non-US companies, electrical engineering and telecoms are driven by Europe and Asia. What exactly was the US excelling in again.
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How the hell is being crippled and in pain "better off than when you started". Are you really that stupid?
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Don't forget he's Doctor Rob Sitch MD - didn't know they give those to "uni dropout" types.
It happened with the Russians - a mig 25 landed at Tokyo and the US government returned it. A year later in pieces. I'm amused to see that you are all taking your governments word as gospel in this just because it is reported in your 'impartial' (LMAO) press. Suspicion of your government is very easily subverted by appealing to your patriotism. You all seem to be conventiently forgetting that this plane WAS spying on the Chinese. How would you feel if say Libyan planes were buzzing around you coastline just in international waters listening in on commercial and security communications?
You're points are very poorly researched - leaded fuel is only more polluting if you are talking lead pollution - which is of dubious scientific value anyway. It has much lower suphur and nox emmissions. As to the Balkans it wasn't the American bombing that had the real effect but rather diplomatic moves made by the Russians. Let's try and remember a few American exploits in recent years - The Gulf War, Saddam Hussain put in power using US backing and then oversteps his corporate masters mark so he's 'evil'. Pinochet - more of the same, Nicuargua - active destabilization of a popular government by CIA funded and trained terrorists. And there's always Vietnam and Laos.
If you think that the conservatives (look at their policies and tell me that they're not, oh I see you support them) are only just becoming worried about an icreased lack of relevancy to the Australian voting public, you're deluding yourself. They have been polling very poorly since the last Federal election. You're attack of me and not my facts is far more indicative of the standard of Slashdot debate.
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Ah - you mean like income tax?
Or is that eternal vigilance?
Quite brilliant and at the same time obvious. If the MPA and RIAA are looked at for what thy are it is a distribution network and that's what has been replaced by the net.
They can never 'get' the net as its real role is as their replacement.
So who wants to help building a mechanism where we can directly and en-mass communicate, negotiate and patronize the artists?
So let's tell the slashdot editors what the word should be then:
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Immersive
Thats better then
I agree with what you say nearly completely. My point was for discussion and more my belief of where things are headed, not where they are.
I would however point to a copyright case in my home town (Perth, Australia) where Marvel comics brought a Trademark infringement suit against a small fanzine over the ownership of the name and person of Thor - not exactly a character of their own devising.
As is often the case in these situations it was settled out of court after much expense on both parties behalf - with an unusual result of the plantiff paying the defendent a significant sum of money.
It's interesting to note that with the long established link between Tolkien and Beowulf how stories any myths have changed little through the ages.
What is worrying is that now business is trying, through the ever tightening web of copyrights, to take ownership of what seem to be demostrated to be universal human myths.
Bicycles are terated as public property in Japan -people just take them and use them. I'm curious to see how this will handle curbs, or steep gradients. It's still going to be unstable as its CoG is well above the gyros with the operator making up most of the mass.
Also worth noting is that the Commodore brand name was used by Escom in Europe well into the Pentium era as a badge for generic PC clones. Most of the middle easts trade is with Europe and not the US so don't presume it's related to any of the Commodores you saw.
You might want to do some research in the RIP bill - it gives the authority to the UK government to do these things already.
If the FBI (not the CIA - they are prohibited from acting within the US borders, not that they pay any attention to that) had sufficient evidence of such an act of course they could act - conspiring to commit a crime (such as say multiple murders)is an offence.
"I clicked the same time I heard the boom and I knew I had it." What he had was a technically meticulous depiction of the sound barrier being broken on July 7, 1999, somewhere on the Pacific between Hawaii and Japan. Sports Illustrated, Brills Content, and Life ran the photo...
What he had was a very poor understanding of elementary physics. If he took the photo after he heard the boom he is recording the aftereffects, not the actual breaking of mach 1. It's that ever so slight discrepency between the speed of sound and speed of light.
Sadly that is exactly what will happen - it will get worse. Elz's methods were draconian but at least he was consistent and not in the pocket of big business a la ICANN. .au was the virtual impossibility of registering .com.au if you were a sole trader (pretty common for IT consultants) - it was easier to go .com.
With the governments record on this sort of action it will initially be handled by business partner (read family member) of the minister responsible. After this proves to be totally incompetent it will be transfered to Telstra and the fun will really begin.
My biggest problem with Elz's reign as administrator of the
Except possibly to reduce the amount of energy used to heat/cool that enormous (relative to other countries) space that you occupy. Efficient use of space does not always mean cramped - that's a design issue.
If that is so then how did Linux ever get developed? I would have to describe any distribution as a "development of significant original software". You obviously do not understand the distributed nature of open source projects.
Once the software is at a usable stage further customizations can be performed for the clients and this is the space where the smaller and still profitible service companies exist.
Just in answer to your spelling question. Media is the plural of medium.
With Sun announcing their development of a JVM for the PS2 it's going to complete the internet appliance/pc conversion.
You have no inkling of irony what so ever, do you?
Let the pork jokes begin...
Well I would have Pork was the obvious complement to Apple source...
Nobody is guaranteed a job. Nobody is guaranteed a job they enjoy. Nobody is guaranteed the job they want.
Your current president would seem to set lie to this adage. He has the job and position he wanted as an accident of birth, not by any stretch of the imagination a reflection of his ability.
#1. It's just self-evident. It's why the US excels over Europe (in everything but auto manufacturing... hmmm).
Well this is just laughable. The UK, Australia and South Africa are the centres of medical research, Biotech is driven by non-US companies, electrical engineering and telecoms are driven by Europe and Asia. What exactly was the US excelling in again.
How the hell is being crippled and in pain "better off than when you started".
Are you really that stupid?
Don't forget he's Doctor Rob Sitch MD - didn't know they give those to "uni dropout" types.
It happened with the Russians - a mig 25 landed at Tokyo and the US government returned it. A year later in pieces.
I'm amused to see that you are all taking your governments word as gospel in this just because it is reported in your 'impartial' (LMAO) press. Suspicion of your government is very easily subverted by appealing to your patriotism.
You all seem to be conventiently forgetting that this plane WAS spying on the Chinese. How would you feel if say Libyan planes were buzzing around you coastline just in international waters listening in on commercial and security communications?
You're points are very poorly researched - leaded fuel is only more polluting if you are talking lead pollution - which is of dubious scientific value anyway. It has much lower suphur and nox emmissions.
As to the Balkans it wasn't the American bombing that had the real effect but rather diplomatic moves made by the Russians.
Let's try and remember a few American exploits in recent years - The Gulf War, Saddam Hussain put in power using US backing and then oversteps his corporate masters mark so he's 'evil'. Pinochet - more of the same, Nicuargua - active destabilization of a popular government by CIA funded and trained terrorists. And there's always Vietnam and Laos.
If you think that the conservatives (look at their policies and tell me that they're not, oh I see you support them) are only just becoming worried about an icreased lack of relevancy to the Australian voting public, you're deluding yourself. They have been polling very poorly since the last Federal election.
You're attack of me and not my facts is far more indicative of the standard of Slashdot debate.
Actually it is true. The loss of America as a place to transport convicts was the impetus for founding the Australian colonies.