Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
But if you tell them what goes into the mystery meat then they won't eat it.
"They say there are two things you shouldn't watch being made: laws and sausage."
That depends on the people. British Chef and TV personality Jamie Oliver did a tour trying to get children to eat healthy foods. One of the demonstrations he'd do is to show kids how chicken nuggets were processed and prepared. In the UK and other parts of Europe, the children were turned off by what they saw and refused to eat the processed chicken.
His surprise came when he tried this demonstration in the U.S.. American children would eat the processed meat - even though they saw the process for themselves.
As for mystery meat and my sausage quotation? Meat processing has a lot more oversight and regulation than Government.
I'm not sure how a published work from 1615 (re: Don Quixote) doesn't count as "commentary."
But since you seem to want a clearer opinion of the people who actually initiated copyright in the United States, I give you the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In it you can see that Jefferson was opposed to such monopolies while Madison couldn't foresee the the abuses that would come about.
Luckily, others have already done the work for us:
The saying there shall be no monopolies lessens the incitements to ingenuity, which is spurred on by the hope of a monopoly for a limited time, as of 14 years; but the benefit even of limited monopolies is too doubtful to be opposed to that of their general suppression.
Here we see a limit on government granted monopolies which was applied to patents to 14 years. This matches what the law had been at the time.
If you read the article I've linked, you can see that Jefferson felt that protection of the people from monopolies was so important, that it be included into the Bill of Rights along with "...freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land..."
Now it's easy for someone to dismiss this argument since it talks about patents and not copyrights. It wasn't until 1790 that Congress passed the first copyright law which gave a limited monopoly to creators. Before that it was considered a legal issue for individual States. Copyright protection in the United States was first championed by a group of authors, including Noah Webster and Joel Barlow. (source - Warning: PDF) http://lsolum.typepad.com/copyfutures/files/nachbar_constructing_copyright.pdf
Legislation conferring exclusive rights upon the author of books not yet printed or published for a period of 14 years and for a further 14 years if the author was still alive at the end of the first period. The legislation also provided the same rights for the authors or owners of books already in print for a single 21 year term.
As with each extension to Copyright Law in the United States, there was discussion for and against it by representatives in congress and those who would benefit from it the most. This includes the 1909 Act which rewrote Copyright law. A response by the then music industry against player pianos of all things. Then there's the Renewal Acts of 1962 and 1974 which continued the posthumous copyright extensions and removed the registration requirements. Congress commissioned multiple studies on a general revision of copyright law, culminating in a published report in 1961. A draft of the bill was introduced in both the House and Senate in 1964, but the original version of the Act was revised multiple times between 1964 and 1976.
To try to suppose that none of these changes and extensions to copyright before 1974 were without debate is absurd.
First of all, why would it ever want a cut of the profits in a Hollywood movie?
Well there's the FBI and ICE working on behalf of the RIAA and MPAA. Also with so many Entertainment Industry people - from actors, to lawyers, to lobbyists, to CEOs - running and influencing the U.S. Government in various departments, why wouldn't they?
Well almost. Geocities was bought up by Yahoo! and put some questionable passages in their updated Terms of Service. Plus with the bandwith limits added and HUGE adspace hijacks, most of Geocities users left the service. Yahoo!Geocities languished for a number of years afterwards. A lot of people went to the next thing - Livejournal!
While Livejournal is still around and in use, I don't know anyone personally that still uses it. Hardly ever hear about it any longer except in passing memory. A lot of people moved from LJ to MySpace. Then MySpace to Facebook. Now with G+ and Dispora cropping up, who knows what the next social site will be.
Re: Just sayin...
That'll cost another $20,000,000.
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Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Narrator: A major one.
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When the simple answer to a headline like that is, "No," then I don't see why the rest of the article should be written.
Re: Stages of Grief
Grieving is a process. Maybe they should just hit the pillow?
Re: Re: Give them time to get it right than
But if you tell them what goes into the mystery meat then they won't eat it.
"They say there are two things you shouldn't watch being made: laws and sausage."
That depends on the people. British Chef and TV personality Jamie Oliver did a tour trying to get children to eat healthy foods. One of the demonstrations he'd do is to show kids how chicken nuggets were processed and prepared. In the UK and other parts of Europe, the children were turned off by what they saw and refused to eat the processed chicken.
His surprise came when he tried this demonstration in the U.S.. American children would eat the processed meat - even though they saw the process for themselves.
As for mystery meat and my sausage quotation? Meat processing has a lot more oversight and regulation than Government.
Re: Re:
I take it you haven't seen the documentary film "Red Dawn."
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
I'm not sure how a published work from 1615 (re: Don Quixote) doesn't count as "commentary."
But since you seem to want a clearer opinion of the people who actually initiated copyright in the United States, I give you the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In it you can see that Jefferson was opposed to such monopolies while Madison couldn't foresee the the abuses that would come about.
Luckily, others have already done the work for us:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/bparchive?year=1999&post=1999-02-11$2
Thom as Jefferson:
Here we see a limit on government granted monopolies which was applied to patents to 14 years. This matches what the law had been at the time.
If you read the article I've linked, you can see that Jefferson felt that protection of the people from monopolies was so important, that it be included into the Bill of Rights along with "...freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land..."
Now it's easy for someone to dismiss this argument since it talks about patents and not copyrights. It wasn't until 1790 that Congress passed the first copyright law which gave a limited monopoly to creators. Before that it was considered a legal issue for individual States. Copyright protection in the United States was first championed by a group of authors, including Noah Webster and Joel Barlow. (source - Warning: PDF) http://lsolum.typepad.com/copyfutures/files/nachbar_constructing_copyright.pdf
The Copyright Act of 1790 was an altered, rewritten version of England’s 1710 Statute of Anne.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
Legislation conferring exclusive rights upon the author of books not yet printed or published for a period of 14 years and for a further 14 years if the author was still alive at the end of the first period. The legislation also provided the same rights for the authors or owners of books already in print for a single 21 year term.
As with each extension to Copyright Law in the United States, there was discussion for and against it by representatives in congress and those who would benefit from it the most. This includes the 1909 Act which rewrote Copyright law. A response by the then music industry against player pianos of all things. Then there's the Renewal Acts of 1962 and 1974 which continued the posthumous copyright extensions and removed the registration requirements. Congress commissioned multiple studies on a general revision of copyright law, culminating in a published report in 1961. A draft of the bill was introduced in both the House and Senate in 1964, but the original version of the Act was revised multiple times between 1964 and 1976.
To try to suppose that none of these changes and extensions to copyright before 1974 were without debate is absurd.
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I will still mock you if you wear socks with sandals.
Re:
Break the word down. Face + Book. Obviously a book of faces. If I had to guess, it's a book that police use to for mug shots.
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I think it's great that Bloomberg wants to learn to code. I'm just wondering if anyone still uses COBOL.
Re: Oh No
No kidding. If people don't lock up their networks, those tech savvy little cybermiscreants will break into your cybersystem and cause cyberhavoc!
Re: Re: Re:
Steam itself uses bittorrent protocols to distribute software.
(untitled comment)
Well there's the FBI and ICE working on behalf of the RIAA and MPAA. Also with so many Entertainment Industry people - from actors, to lawyers, to lobbyists, to CEOs - running and influencing the U.S. Government in various departments, why wouldn't they?
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For some reason I just got a mental image of Oliver Twist holding up his bowl and saying, "Please sir, may I enter the public domain?"
Re: Re: Re: Speaking of cabals...
Kent Brockman! Holy crap! Now it makes sense. It all fell together perfectly like Tetris pieces then suddenly vanished.
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Both grow on trees. Both start as flowers. Both are fruit. Both produce seeds (except Naval Oranges). Both are round. Both are nutritious.
I don't get the analogy.
Re: Re:
OK, that's kinda sad and awesome at the same time. I LOL'd
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Well almost. Geocities was bought up by Yahoo! and put some questionable passages in their updated Terms of Service. Plus with the bandwith limits added and HUGE adspace hijacks, most of Geocities users left the service. Yahoo!Geocities languished for a number of years afterwards. A lot of people went to the next thing - Livejournal!
While Livejournal is still around and in use, I don't know anyone personally that still uses it. Hardly ever hear about it any longer except in passing memory. A lot of people moved from LJ to MySpace. Then MySpace to Facebook. Now with G+ and Dispora cropping up, who knows what the next social site will be.
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What do you mean MySpace won't be around in 20 years? I bet it'll be around as long as my Geocities page I made in 1998!
Huh, I don't seem to have a Geocities page any longer.
Re: Re: Re: Let's be fair...
That's 70s porn. People rediscovered the act of shaving in the 80s.