They have the Duke Nukem Intellectual Property, as well as whatever other games 3d Realms has produced over the years. Winning that in court would allow them to produce games, as well as movies or anything else. In the long term, it could be worth well north of the 12 million.
They'd have to amend the TOS to do that, otherwise most of the time, the dictionary is consulted on the meaning of a word. Although, truth in advertising might get in the way.
Then the municipal corporation would similarly deteriorate, and they'd also feel free to raise prices to whatever they want and operate it as a cash cow as well... funds diversion is nothing new in government. No competition is no competition.
But without even notifying them at the time of the disconnect? That seems shady, even with a TOS...
Also, you'd have to get into the actual facts of the case and the TOS. Then you get into is 44 gig a week really a network burden?
You can easily build a business selling internet service in New York City.
But then, isn't that the point of a municipal corporation... serving the municipality?
But would a state ran corporation do any better? The places in the middle of nowhere would still be the last to get anything, if at all. I grew up in rural Ohio... a large number of roads where I grew up were either dirt or gravel... and roads are a governmental function. State Governments and their associated corporations are heavily influenced by politics, where does most of the pork go? To where most of the voters are of the party in power... that means suburbia... the same general areas that are seeing deployments of fiber now.
Korea, and Japan are highly competitive markets when it comes to telecommunications. So, I beg to differ that "the best internet in the world with the lowest cost is municipal internet."
The problem in the US is very low population density combined with a duopoly when it comes to internet service. Municipal/Government corporations have a history of being less effective, and more expensive than private business... If anything, stimulus money needs to create competition in regions... I.E. a competitor to AT&T, and the CableCo. So, pay Verizon to overbuild AT&T... AT&T would have to compete or die. Like i said, it's simply the lack of competition.
In my current position, if I'm caught working unpaid voluntary overtime, I will be told to leave. If I am caught working overtime again, I will be fired. That is what I was told by both my superior and my professional association... and I know people who've been terminated for being busted doing VOT. So it's a YMMV.
Although, I can work overtime and get paid for it. So, it probably varies by department and implementation... I don't even think your method solves the blackberry problem. When they ask you to do something in the middle of the night, you didn't volunteer.
So, the simple solution would be for someone to come up with a "Creative Commons" type license for Internet Radio, and bam... Soundexchange can no longer collect royalties on it.
I could imagine all the messed up fun licenses that could be thought up just to mess with people.
They do it because it gets attention. It gets them two kinds of media, both earned and unearned (paid for). Not only do they get the commercial, they get the press talking about it for a month. If it *didn't* get them attention they wouldn't do it.
They may be inefficient, but they can be dimmed... Any house that uses dimmer switches will have to have it's switches replaced, not only that, you lose the convenience of being able to change a room's lighting.
Also, I had an electrical engineering professor, that turns off his overhead florescent lights when he reads and uses an incandescent because a lot of his peers who read under mainly florescent light have had problems with cataracts.
I believe that there needs to be more R&D into florescent lighting to make it compatible with dimmer switches.
I couldn't agree with you more. In fact, i campaigned for a congressional candidate in my district, he lost... but if he were in Washington right now, i *bet* he'd be a cosponsor to this kind of sensible legislation.
Not entirely true, a lot of Joe blows that I know have asked me for my Motorola Programming Cables, so they could unlock their Verizon Phones to upload ringtones. Most people don't like being locked in... and the more people that buy in, the bigger the law suit.
I remember when Motorola shipped the Moto 710 without explaining that they crippled the thing. Imagine what will happen when Apple ships this "pocket mac"/ iphone without disclosing in a way that even Stevie Wonder or the most brain dead citizen amongst us can understand that it is indeed *HEAVILY* locked down and is not a pocket mac that'll run all the applications that maccers love. I sense that Lawyers will chase after Apple/Cingular/AT&T like sharks after bleeding meat.
Also IIRC, the US Copyright office has already declared that breaking software locks on phones to make them carrier neutral is NOT a violation of copyright law.
Honestly, is this any different than a press release? I mean seriously, when i submit a press release on a slow news day, i can expect to find some to most of it copied verbatim into a news story the same day. Is this really any diffrent?
Also, what about places like CNN who *pay* al-queida for propaganda tapes and then air them? Why is this kind of thing OK to groups like Democracy Now? May that be against their political interests? hmm.
Ohio for one doesn't allow write-ins unless the person files a declaration of candidacy as a write in... but that's just signing a form. Probably different in other states, but YMMV.
Secure, but prohibitively expensive, extraordinarily labor intensive to recount, harder to actually cast a ballot, and requires *secrecy* in an office that traditionally has had open records.
This is an accident waiting for a place to happen. It'd make Florida in 2000 look like a walk in the park, a day at the beach.
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They have the Duke Nukem Intellectual Property, as well as whatever other games 3d Realms has produced over the years. Winning that in court would allow them to produce games, as well as movies or anything else. In the long term, it could be worth well north of the 12 million.
They'd have to amend the TOS to do that, otherwise most of the time, the dictionary is consulted on the meaning of a word. Although, truth in advertising might get in the way.
Then the municipal corporation would similarly deteriorate, and they'd also feel free to raise prices to whatever they want and operate it as a cash cow as well... funds diversion is nothing new in government. No competition is no competition.
Correct, but it explains the digital divide... the newest, latest, and greatest stuff tends to go to the places that has the most bang for the buck.
But without even notifying them at the time of the disconnect? That seems shady, even with a TOS... Also, you'd have to get into the actual facts of the case and the TOS. Then you get into is 44 gig a week really a network burden?
But far, FAR more even.
You can easily build a business selling internet service in New York City.
But then, isn't that the point of a municipal corporation... serving the municipality?
But would a state ran corporation do any better? The places in the middle of nowhere would still be the last to get anything, if at all. I grew up in rural Ohio... a large number of roads where I grew up were either dirt or gravel... and roads are a governmental function. State Governments and their associated corporations are heavily influenced by politics, where does most of the pork go? To where most of the voters are of the party in power... that means suburbia... the same general areas that are seeing deployments of fiber now.
Korea, and Japan are highly competitive markets when it comes to telecommunications. So, I beg to differ that "the best internet in the world with the lowest cost is municipal internet." The problem in the US is very low population density combined with a duopoly when it comes to internet service. Municipal/Government corporations have a history of being less effective, and more expensive than private business... If anything, stimulus money needs to create competition in regions... I.E. a competitor to AT&T, and the CableCo. So, pay Verizon to overbuild AT&T... AT&T would have to compete or die. Like i said, it's simply the lack of competition.
Yeah, IANAL, but to cut you without notice like that... I think could be a problem for them.
In my current position, if I'm caught working unpaid voluntary overtime, I will be told to leave. If I am caught working overtime again, I will be fired. That is what I was told by both my superior and my professional association... and I know people who've been terminated for being busted doing VOT. So it's a YMMV. Although, I can work overtime and get paid for it. So, it probably varies by department and implementation... I don't even think your method solves the blackberry problem. When they ask you to do something in the middle of the night, you didn't volunteer.
Non-exempt people cannot legally work voluntary overtime (at least those in the federal service)... even if they want to.
and less secure... I connect to e-mail through SSL, not to mention that i can easily use enigmail to encrypt it.
It's also the combination for the Druidian Air Shield.
Don't tell Dark Helmet!
Sad, My mod points expired yesterday.
So, the simple solution would be for someone to come up with a "Creative Commons" type license for Internet Radio, and bam... Soundexchange can no longer collect royalties on it.
I could imagine all the messed up fun licenses that could be thought up just to mess with people.
They do it because it gets attention. It gets them two kinds of media, both earned and unearned (paid for). Not only do they get the commercial, they get the press talking about it for a month. If it *didn't* get them attention they wouldn't do it.
They may be inefficient, but they can be dimmed... Any house that uses dimmer switches will have to have it's switches replaced, not only that, you lose the convenience of being able to change a room's lighting.
Also, I had an electrical engineering professor, that turns off his overhead florescent lights when he reads and uses an incandescent because a lot of his peers who read under mainly florescent light have had problems with cataracts.
I believe that there needs to be more R&D into florescent lighting to make it compatible with dimmer switches.
But that'd be stating the obvious... we netzians call it pr0n!
I couldn't agree with you more. In fact, i campaigned for a congressional candidate in my district, he lost... but if he were in Washington right now, i *bet* he'd be a cosponsor to this kind of sensible legislation.
I have a V3C from Alltel.
I do not have this problem, OBEX seems to be completely open.
Not entirely true, a lot of Joe blows that I know have asked me for my Motorola Programming Cables, so they could unlock their Verizon Phones to upload ringtones. Most people don't like being locked in... and the more people that buy in, the bigger the law suit.
I remember when Motorola shipped the Moto 710 without explaining that they crippled the thing. Imagine what will happen when Apple ships this "pocket mac"/ iphone without disclosing in a way that even Stevie Wonder or the most brain dead citizen amongst us can understand that it is indeed *HEAVILY* locked down and is not a pocket mac that'll run all the applications that maccers love. I sense that Lawyers will chase after Apple/Cingular/AT&T like sharks after bleeding meat.
Also IIRC, the US Copyright office has already declared that breaking software locks on phones to make them carrier neutral is NOT a violation of copyright law.
Not if you view in plain text. But then, very little effects you if you use that.
CowboyNeal did it. In the parlor, with the bookend.
*puts clue game away.*
Honestly, is this any different than a press release? I mean seriously, when i submit a press release on a slow news day, i can expect to find some to most of it copied verbatim into a news story the same day. Is this really any diffrent?
Also, what about places like CNN who *pay* al-queida for propaganda tapes and then air them? Why is this kind of thing OK to groups like Democracy Now? May that be against their political interests? hmm.
Was he on the ballot???
Ohio for one doesn't allow write-ins unless the person files a declaration of candidacy as a write in... but that's just signing a form. Probably different in other states, but YMMV.
Secure, but prohibitively expensive, extraordinarily labor intensive to recount, harder to actually cast a ballot, and requires *secrecy* in an office that traditionally has had open records.
This is an accident waiting for a place to happen. It'd make Florida in 2000 look like a walk in the park, a day at the beach.