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• On the post: Pilot Not Allowed Through Security After He Refuses 'Naked' Backscatter Scan

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2010 @ 10:21am

  Re: Re: Really

  Even if he doesn't want to kill *everyone* on board, he has *an axe* right next to his seat (for hacking through wreckage in the event of a crash.)
  
  If I were a pilot, I'd try to bring an axe through security. Dollars to doughnuts the petty tyrants would confiscate it.

• On the post: Why Haven't Any Movie Studios Become The 'Fan Friendly' Studio?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2010 @ 10:58am

  To ask is to answer

  "There are some smallish indie studios that are sorta trying, but that's not quite the same thing. "
  
  Well, no, pretty much by definition.
  
  HD-DVD would have provided something similar to the DVD experience (which was something of a success) but the industry was mesmerized by the siren call of Blu-Ray which was essentially the same thing with AN EXTRA LAYER OF SHIT! ALSO FIRMWARE REBOOTS!
  
  Frak 'em. I don't even care about the *pirated* Blu-Ray crap, since that only encourages them (and also it's way huge. TMI, guys.)

• On the post: Irony: Eugene Roddenberry Might Sue You For Using A Replicator To Create Your Own Star Trek Prop

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2010 @ 10:44am

  Re: Before you rip him a new one...

  That's likely true (and I like Rod) but he's where the buck stops, ultimately, so he gets to shoulder the criticism.

• On the post: Why Won't Universal Music Let You See The 20/20 Report From 1980 About How The Music Industry Is Dying?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2010 @ 10:39am

  Re: Moldy Oldies

  Amen. It should have been in the Public Domain ten years ago. Anything past a generation is theft of culture.

• On the post: Patents Create Incentives For More Patents, Not Innovation

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2010 @ 10:33am

  Re: Re: Re: Those who are afraid of China should rejoice...

  They learned from us. We didn't enforce foreign copyrights (not clear on patents) in our early days. It wasn't until the publishers thought they had more to gain from excluding cheap (non-copyrighted) foreign works that we started to police them.
  
  The Chinese seem to have gamed that system. Nominal enforcement of foreign claims, but vigorous enforcement of their own. Berne has left us vulnerable to just such an attack.
  
  Who needs CYBERWAR when you can just do East Texas?

• On the post: Patents Create Incentives For More Patents, Not Innovation

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2010 @ 09:51am

  Re: Those who are afraid of China should rejoice...

  Remains to be seen. They seem to be min/maxing it. Foreign patents get clucking noises, while the domestic ones are actively protected. Win-win!

• On the post: Patents Create Incentives For More Patents, Not Innovation

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2010 @ 09:37am

  Once again

  It's the lawyers who win.

• On the post: Irony: Eugene Roddenberry Might Sue You For Using A Replicator To Create Your Own Star Trek Prop

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2010 @ 08:44am

  Re: $129

  I think the issue is that, unlike your off-the-shelf model kits, this is pretty much what the prop guys were working with when they assembled the originals (not clear from the description if these were 'hero' models.) That has a lot of appeal to a certain subset of fans, but they're a minority so the markup is going to be higher than for a snap-tite kit.
  
  Whether duplication of 'industrial' parts has any protection under the myriad of "IP" laws, I'll leave to the lawyers.

• On the post: Why Won't Universal Music Let You See The 20/20 Report From 1980 About How The Music Industry Is Dying?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2010 @ 08:27am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Y'know, were I Mike I'd avoid your purposeful obtuseness too.
  
  "I know you must defend Mike at all costs, CHT..."
  
  We've already demonstrated that you don't know as much as you think you do. No need to keep proving that point.

• On the post: Irony: Eugene Roddenberry Might Sue You For Using A Replicator To Create Your Own Star Trek Prop

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2010 @ 08:14am

  It's the future

  We have no need of money, right?

• On the post: Why Won't Universal Music Let You See The 20/20 Report From 1980 About How The Music Industry Is Dying?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2010 @ 04:44pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  You've had the answer a dozen times over. Somehow I doubt that Mike stating it a thirteenth time is going to clarify things for you.

• On the post: Why Won't Universal Music Let You See The 20/20 Report From 1980 About How The Music Industry Is Dying?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2010 @ 10:26am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  "Mike made the claim. He should be the one to back it up with analysis."
  
  You're also making a claim, and I see no analysis.

• On the post: Why Won't Universal Music Let You See The 20/20 Report From 1980 About How The Music Industry Is Dying?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2010 @ 10:05am

  Re: Re: Re:

  How is it not fair use?

• On the post: Officer Bubbles Sues To Find Out Identity Of Anonymous YouTubers

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2010 @ 10:02am

  Re: Comment at your own risk

  Blood and stones.
  
  Also, bubbles.

• On the post: Officer Bubbles Sues To Find Out Identity Of Anonymous YouTubers

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2010 @ 09:38am

  Re: Re: Re: Assault with a cuddly bubble?

  "Whoever came up with that get bonus miles for Clarity."
  
  Bonus for Pithy, at least.
  
  The problem isn't solely their ignorance, it's also their knowledge they can behave badly, even escalate a situation, and nothing will happen to them. Heck, he was probably getting overtime for that.

• On the post: Officer Bubbles Sues To Find Out Identity Of Anonymous YouTubers

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2010 @ 09:08am

  Re: Assault with a cuddly bubble?

  Next demonstration, I'm totally bringing a comfy chair...

• On the post: BSA Sends Ridiculously Bogus Letter To European Commission

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2010 @ 08:49am

  Re: FSFE and others misrepresent the patent problem

  I don't think they're saying it's not possible, but that it's demonstrably not necessary, which undermines the BSA's point.

• On the post: Officer Bubbles Sues To Find Out Identity Of Anonymous YouTubers

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2010 @ 08:47am

  Re: Question....

  It's called 'being the biggest asshole in the room' and is a pretty standard policing tactic for projecting authority these days, unfortunately (I'm sure they call it something different.) Constable Adam "Bubbles" Josephs seems to be taking this attitude to the courts.
  
  I don't know much about Canadian courts, but this may pay off for him, even if the suit doesn't. He's demonstrated a willingness to be unreasonably aggressive on the legal front as well and that may dissuade suits or even speech by the victims of his official behavior, as well as giving his superiors something to consider if they think to discipline him.

• On the post: Would Copyright Work Better If It Was Treated More Like Property?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2010 @ 07:19pm

  Re:

  "Copyright provides incentives to authors to create new works. It is that creativity that is the scarcity."
  
  Right, and artificially creating a scarcity of *works* is counter-productive. If your *grandsons* can make money off of a popular work, it's hardly an incentive to produce new ones.

• On the post: Would Copyright Work Better If It Was Treated More Like Property?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2010 @ 07:12pm

  Re: Re: Re: Oh please...

  How so?

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