No past-tense about it: Carmine (the coloring created from ground up cochineal bugs), even if Starbucks isn't using it, is still used in A LOT of food and cosmetic products, and many considered it safer/healthier than alternatives like Red #40.
Jayne is a character from a fictional setting. Equality Now exists in the real world, and I'm sure Adam Baldwin (who also exists in the real world) approves.
They only need to release the source code to the organizations they release the compiled code to. Just because Obama'12 gives their binaries (and source) to Clinton'16, doesn't mean they have to give their binaries to _everyone_.
Not quite. GPL relies on copyright. The only thing it changes is it requires you to release the source code to anyone who you release the program to. But you can still, by license, restrict who they can give the program (and therefore, the source code) to.
I'm the first to assume malice on the part of a label, but looking at those tweets... maybe they're just filtering out the ones that contain "explicit content"?
"There is a conservative consensus that our copyright law is ineffective. We can quibble on how to fix it, and that's important, but some of the parameters of the problem are very apparent to almost all conservatives with familiarity on the subject."
And I would say the exact same words, only with s/conservative/liberal/. Or better yet, s/conservative//. The only people opposed are the ones who continue to make gobs of money by having twisted the system to their own benefit, and those who lack familiarity with the subject.
Democrat Al Franken? Great guy, super-liberal dude, I love him. But all his former (pre-congress) coworkers and employers in the entertainment business (as well as his own royalty checks) have him decidedly on the wrong side of this.
Republican Daryl Issa? Total 180 from Franken, on every issue (well, except a carbon tax) so copyright is basically the only think I agree with Issa on.
Meanwhile? Democrat Ron Wyden has been the #1 guy on the right side of this. But outside this issue, him and Franken are almost a perfect match.
This is completely outside of conservative/liberal (or at least of Republican/Democrat, which is what matters.) Which makes me very pessimistic for the future.
I know this is meant to be a joke, and that I'm about to ruin it but:
A PLS works by taking a portion of the interest that would be paid to all savers, siphoning it off, and giving it all to one winner. But the government already has a way to siphon off everyone else's savings: create inflation. Which, arguably, it should be doing now anyway, so I guess you're right after all.
B.) Even if it's the world's most reputable (and expensive) dictionary app, why would it ever need access to your twitter account, and why would you give it?
"was"?
No past-tense about it: Carmine (the coloring created from ground up cochineal bugs), even if Starbucks isn't using it, is still used in A LOT of food and cosmetic products, and many considered it safer/healthier than alternatives like Red #40.
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Sounds like 90% of the benefit of KALQ can be gotten with Dvorak (which, btw, puts Y with the other vowels.)
Malthus, and Borlaug and Hubbert
We interrupt your tech discussion to argue about the analogy used in the set-up:
If it weren't for Norman Borlaug, there's a good chance Malthus would've been right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
And if M. King Hubbert was right, Malthus may turn out to have been right anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._King_Hubbert
EFF action center
EFF: 48 Hours Left to Stop CISPA in the House
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/48-hours-left-stop-cispa-house
Re: Re: UPDATE: ThinkGeek gets even Shinier!
Jayne is a character from a fictional setting. Equality Now exists in the real world, and I'm sure Adam Baldwin (who also exists in the real world) approves.
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Wouldn't this imperil their safe harbor status?
Boston Police
Have we already forgotten Boston PDs ridiculous response to the Monninite invasion?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070131/144709.shtml
(Wow, that was six years ago? Damn I'm old...)
Anyway. Boston PD: No worse, no better.
Re:
They're non-transferable and non-convertible, so there's no problem.
Gold farmers, THEY have a problem.
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Now, I am not a basketball fan, but even I have heard of WP48, mostly because it's been talked about at Freakonomics. http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/08/14/it-really-is-all-about-the-players/
I would think that, 'by this time, only those that work really hard at staying away from' basketball 'will fail to recognize names like' Dave Berri.
That, or Tim has a skewed view of how popular baseball is.
(Probably the later.)
Re: Re:
"A completely nonsensical breaking point. Why not 50 years, and you can renew it to life+70?"
The Berne Convention.
"All works except photographic and cinematographic shall be copyrighted for at least 50 years after the author's death."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_convention#Copyright_term
Re: Can't wait!
Unlikely. No one would believe it.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Ver 2 or ver 3? (That may be the crux of our disagreement here.)
Re: Re: Upstarts know its wrong?
They only need to release the source code to the organizations they release the compiled code to. Just because Obama'12 gives their binaries (and source) to Clinton'16, doesn't mean they have to give their binaries to _everyone_.
Re: Re: Re:
Not quite. GPL relies on copyright. The only thing it changes is it requires you to release the source code to anyone who you release the program to. But you can still, by license, restrict who they can give the program (and therefore, the source code) to.
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"It's not yet clear whether the new 70-year term will be applied retroactively to works that have already entered the public domain"
If it isn't, the Beatles should refuse to produce any new songs.
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I blame Chris Dodd. No, seriously.
Filtered Tweets
I'm the first to assume malice on the part of a label, but looking at those tweets... maybe they're just filtering out the ones that contain "explicit content"?
Conservative?
And I would say the exact same words, only with s/conservative/liberal/. Or better yet, s/conservative//. The only people opposed are the ones who continue to make gobs of money by having twisted the system to their own benefit, and those who lack familiarity with the subject.
Democrat Al Franken? Great guy, super-liberal dude, I love him. But all his former (pre-congress) coworkers and employers in the entertainment business (as well as his own royalty checks) have him decidedly on the wrong side of this.
Republican Daryl Issa? Total 180 from Franken, on every issue (well, except a carbon tax) so copyright is basically the only think I agree with Issa on.
Meanwhile? Democrat Ron Wyden has been the #1 guy on the right side of this. But outside this issue, him and Franken are almost a perfect match.
This is completely outside of conservative/liberal (or at least of Republican/Democrat, which is what matters.) Which makes me very pessimistic for the future.
Re: if only...
I know this is meant to be a joke, and that I'm about to ruin it but:
A PLS works by taking a portion of the interest that would be paid to all savers, siphoning it off, and giving it all to one winner. But the government already has a way to siphon off everyone else's savings: create inflation. Which, arguably, it should be doing now anyway, so I guess you're right after all.
Really?
A.) $25 for a dictionary app? Really?
B.) Even if it's the world's most reputable (and expensive) dictionary app, why would it ever need access to your twitter account, and why would you give it?