"So if you have a site called "download free hollywood movies" and you provide links to 1000 files of pirated material on someone else's servers, you should still be liable because your website as a whole functions as pirate site."
But that's not what this ruling says. If you don't put ads on the site and make no money of it, you're perfectly fine it seems.
As far as I know rents have always been rising. It's simple economics caused by inflation and the fact that most people want to live in the same places (The old real estate mantra: Location, Location, Location). Living space in New York, for example, will always be desirable and scarce.
It stands to reason that Airbnb is not helping reduce the prices but the economy is growing so it's logical the rent goes up anyway. If you want to point the finger at Airbnb as the main factor you would need to have some really hard data to back that up, especially since their "inventory" is fairly limited.
Look at London. Real estate prices are sky-rocketing because rich oil-sheiks and Russion oligarchs are buying everything that comes on the market at ridiculous prices. That will for sure impact the rental market as well.
Of course it's always nice to point at something to blame but it's rarely that simple.
I'm worried about this rhetoric but I'm just as much worried, or possibly more, about what other countries could do with statements like that.
If the US says: "I will make it clear that the United States will treat cyberattacks just like any other attack" what will stop other countries for doing the exact same thing? They'd even be justified doing so.
This remark basically say: Stuxnet is (retroactively) a declaration of war!
Do we want Russia to follow that logic? China or North Korea? I think this would be a very dangerous escalation of day to day activities. I'm sure the CIA (or another agency) is routinely trying to hack whatever country they have on their shitlist and probably most that are not as well.
So, what do you think happened first? The University thought that this well-known gesture fit their branding perfectly and they made a conscious effort to get it adapted by their fans OR the fans just started using it organically and the University adapted it in their branding by selling merchandise?
I don't know but I think the 2nd option is more likely. Assuming that is the case they're now violating their fan's trademark gesture.
Disclaimer: I'm neither American nor do I live in the U.S.
Looking from a distance I wonder how anybody can say that Hillary is anywhere close to being as bad as Trump is. Sure, I don't like her and thinking about her the words "Power hungry" are my first association.
However, she is practically political royalty. So she knows the system, has worked within the system and will follow the system. Which means that most likely her presidency will be boring and average. Kind of like Obama's presidency was boring and average despite the high expectations he managed to whip up.
Trump? Trump is a spoiled child that surrounds himself with flatterers and yes-men. He's what happens to people when your whole life everybody tells you you're the second coming of Christ: You start to believe it.
I must say though that if it wasn't so scary, it would be very entertaining to see a Trump presidency.
"Crestor is the company’s best-selling drug, accounting for $5 billion of its $23.6 billion in product sales last year"
It's clear the patents make the companies lazy and averse to innovation. No sane company would make their business so dependent on one product that it accounts for more than 20% of their sales if they didn't think they could keep that position.
It's not like high cholesterol is the last disease in the world and there is nothing else to research. There exist plenty opportunities to diversify the portfolio a bit.
This kind of overreach is what the government thinks we want. Usually when a murderer or a child pornographer walks "on a technicality" the outrage is huge. Which people get re-elected? The ones that have high conviction rates and a reputation to be tough on crime.
Look at Hollywood. How many movie cops get cheered on for having a the-end-justifies-the-means attitude? Breaking rules and laws just to get a conviction or, sometimes preferred, a dead criminal.
You get the government you deserve. As long as the majority of the population supports this kind of attitude to law enforcement, the government is happy to abuse the leeway given.
I you start thinking about it Western culture has a weird relationship with Sex and Violence.
Anecdote time: I was just now shopping for books and one of the reviews about a book about the 100 years war read (from memory): I was told it was teen literature but I don't think it is because there were sex scenes.
This book undoubtedly contained plenty of battlefield scenes including axes in faces, arrows through abdomen and swords through limbs and this guy doesn't think it's suitable for his teen son because of the sex.
To be honest on a guttural level I get it. I'm as much steeped in popular culture as the next guy and every book gets better after adding some graphic violence. On a human level it still is weird though.
My thoughts exactly! The Schumacher name adds another layer to this. It's a common enough name in Germany though, so most likely there is no connection at all.
I am so into NASCAR that at seeing the title I thought we were talking about the offspring of Amelia until a quick Google learned me she's actually called Earhart...
Great, let's get on this logic and let's start with airport security. I remember a time where I could still board a plane without being scanned and groped and without having to take every single thing out of my bag separately.
So, let's go back to this time. Unlike phone security these procedures are actually proven to be useless so...
I remember that a while ago some scaremonger said that terrorists are now using game chats for communications. In that light the check might make some sense. Not that I believe terrorists do that but what do I know.
However, even if you believe that, it should be easy to solve. A little additional info like a copy of an ID or an SSN should be sufficient to confirm your non-terrorist status. Of course an e-mailed scan would be much better than a fax.
The whole process is obviously stupid though. It's now clear what terrorists need to do: They should all use common American names, like the aforementioned John Smith. If they play their (credit)cards right they can block the funds of a large chunk of US citizens.
After the first few lines I was wondering why anyone would care that someone burned an opium producing flower. Sounded like a protest against drugs or perhaps against involvement in Afganistan.
Then I saw the explanation and I remembered you see everybody on UK television wearing one of these flowers on their breast and something clicked.
Is it bad if you don't know what a flower looks like but you do now it's drug producing qualities?
'they usually discover that they have much more in common than they perhaps expected.'
It seems Ms Weinstein has never visited the places where someone mentions:
a. Any particular gaming console
b. Any particular subset of PCs (Windows/Mac)
c. Football should be called soccer
d. Any particular religion or lack of it
e. Praise/critique of copyright/patent laws
Recently I bought a Britisch TV-series on DVD (Yes, that was me). Instead of obnoxious 30 second warnings about stealing stuff there was a 5 second message:
"By buying this DVD you support the British Film Industry and it's actors. THANK YOU!"
I really sat back for a couple of seconds and thought this was awesome. I was treated like a customer!
I've never seen it before on anything else but I urge other companies to adopt the same strategy.
Yes, Indian eye surgeons are probably just as good or better than US surgeons, they're more innovative too. Just recently there was an article about an Indian Hospital doing cataracts operations for $50 an eye, because they used a system not unlike a conveyor belt.
The rising cost for health care is one of the major problems in the Western world, closely connected to the ageing population. It seems we need to get to the root of the problem and exorbitant profits of Pharma companies seems a good start.
Yes, I said exorbitant profits, not profits. Profit=Good, Greed=Not good.
Although I buy a big amount of books, I refuse to buy an e-book that is priced higher than the physical version. To me that's nonsense, whatever they spend on editing.
And I agree with you fully that editing seems to be much sloppier now. I'm far from being a grammar nazi but in the average e-book you'll encounter a sizeable amount of grammmar- and spelling mistakes. It does take away from the experience...
Although I buy a big amount of books, I refuse to buy an e-book that is priced higher than the physical version. To me that's nonsense, whatever they spend on editing.
And I agree with you fully that editing seems to be much sloppier now. I'm far from being a grammar nazi but in the average e-book you'll encounter a sizeable amount of grammmar- and spelling mistakes. It does take away from the experience...
It is clear that if Mr. KiD CuDi would have followed the advice of his label and made another album similar to his previous one he would have debuted at #1 instead of a weak #3!
What will happen with this world if we allow artists to experiment? The art might change beyond recognition! I still play my Beach Boys record every day and it's still as good as the day it was (over)produced! We don't need new music, we need more of the same. Ask musicians to experiment and we end up with Dubstep!
Re: You can hear the arm waving from here...
"So if you have a site called "download free hollywood movies" and you provide links to 1000 files of pirated material on someone else's servers, you should still be liable because your website as a whole functions as pirate site."
But that's not what this ruling says. If you don't put ads on the site and make no money of it, you're perfectly fine it seems.
Rent hikes are not new are they?
As far as I know rents have always been rising. It's simple economics caused by inflation and the fact that most people want to live in the same places (The old real estate mantra: Location, Location, Location). Living space in New York, for example, will always be desirable and scarce.
It stands to reason that Airbnb is not helping reduce the prices but the economy is growing so it's logical the rent goes up anyway. If you want to point the finger at Airbnb as the main factor you would need to have some really hard data to back that up, especially since their "inventory" is fairly limited.
Look at London. Real estate prices are sky-rocketing because rich oil-sheiks and Russion oligarchs are buying everything that comes on the market at ridiculous prices. That will for sure impact the rental market as well.
Of course it's always nice to point at something to blame but it's rarely that simple.
I'm just as much worried about the reverse...
I'm worried about this rhetoric but I'm just as much worried, or possibly more, about what other countries could do with statements like that.
If the US says: "I will make it clear that the United States will treat cyberattacks just like any other attack" what will stop other countries for doing the exact same thing? They'd even be justified doing so.
This remark basically say: Stuxnet is (retroactively) a declaration of war!
Do we want Russia to follow that logic? China or North Korea? I think this would be a very dangerous escalation of day to day activities. I'm sure the CIA (or another agency) is routinely trying to hack whatever country they have on their shitlist and probably most that are not as well.
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So, what do you think happened first? The University thought that this well-known gesture fit their branding perfectly and they made a conscious effort to get it adapted by their fans OR the fans just started using it organically and the University adapted it in their branding by selling merchandise?
I don't know but I think the 2nd option is more likely. Assuming that is the case they're now violating their fan's trademark gesture.
They WANT to be
The say they WANT to be Tesla or Mercedes, so they admit they still have a (long) way to go.
If they said they ARE Mercedes or Tesla I would say that would be good grounds for a libel suite against them from either one of these companies...
Is Hillary really on the same level as Trump?
Disclaimer: I'm neither American nor do I live in the U.S.
Looking from a distance I wonder how anybody can say that Hillary is anywhere close to being as bad as Trump is. Sure, I don't like her and thinking about her the words "Power hungry" are my first association.
However, she is practically political royalty. So she knows the system, has worked within the system and will follow the system. Which means that most likely her presidency will be boring and average. Kind of like Obama's presidency was boring and average despite the high expectations he managed to whip up.
Trump? Trump is a spoiled child that surrounds himself with flatterers and yes-men. He's what happens to people when your whole life everybody tells you you're the second coming of Christ: You start to believe it.
I must say though that if it wasn't so scary, it would be very entertaining to see a Trump presidency.
The problem is now glaringly obvious
"Crestor is the company’s best-selling drug, accounting for $5 billion of its $23.6 billion in product sales last year"
It's clear the patents make the companies lazy and averse to innovation. No sane company would make their business so dependent on one product that it accounts for more than 20% of their sales if they didn't think they could keep that position.
It's not like high cholesterol is the last disease in the world and there is nothing else to research. There exist plenty opportunities to diversify the portfolio a bit.
We've got ourselves to thank?
This kind of overreach is what the government thinks we want. Usually when a murderer or a child pornographer walks "on a technicality" the outrage is huge. Which people get re-elected? The ones that have high conviction rates and a reputation to be tough on crime.
Look at Hollywood. How many movie cops get cheered on for having a the-end-justifies-the-means attitude? Breaking rules and laws just to get a conviction or, sometimes preferred, a dead criminal.
You get the government you deserve. As long as the majority of the population supports this kind of attitude to law enforcement, the government is happy to abuse the leeway given.
Re: The average age of first exposure to hard-core killing...
I you start thinking about it Western culture has a weird relationship with Sex and Violence.
Anecdote time:
I was just now shopping for books and one of the reviews about a book about the 100 years war read (from memory):
I was told it was teen literature but I don't think it is because there were sex scenes.
This book undoubtedly contained plenty of battlefield scenes including axes in faces, arrows through abdomen and swords through limbs and this guy doesn't think it's suitable for his teen son because of the sex.
To be honest on a guttural level I get it. I'm as much steeped in popular culture as the next guy and every book gets better after adding some graphic violence. On a human level it still is weird though.
Re: Schumacher
My thoughts exactly! The Schumacher name adds another layer to this. It's a common enough name in Germany though, so most likely there is no connection at all.
I am so into NASCAR that at seeing the title I thought we were talking about the offspring of Amelia until a quick Google learned me she's actually called Earhart...
"if that was okay a few years ago, why isn't it okay now?"
Great, let's get on this logic and let's start with airport security. I remember a time where I could still board a plane without being scanned and groped and without having to take every single thing out of my bag separately.
So, let's go back to this time. Unlike phone security these procedures are actually proven to be useless so...
Terrorist manual in the making
I remember that a while ago some scaremonger said that terrorists are now using game chats for communications. In that light the check might make some sense. Not that I believe terrorists do that but what do I know.
However, even if you believe that, it should be easy to solve. A little additional info like a copy of an ID or an SSN should be sufficient to confirm your non-terrorist status. Of course an e-mailed scan would be much better than a fax.
The whole process is obviously stupid though. It's now clear what terrorists need to do: They should all use common American names, like the aforementioned John Smith. If they play their (credit)cards right they can block the funds of a large chunk of US citizens.
Silver bullit
Wait, wait! I have the arguments to end all arguments:
- Encryption doesn't kill people, people kill people!
- If encryption is against the law, only criminals have encryption!
I understand this works well with other constitutional issues.
I should get my mind out of the gutter
After the first few lines I was wondering why anyone would care that someone burned an opium producing flower. Sounded like a protest against drugs or perhaps against involvement in Afganistan.
Then I saw the explanation and I remembered you see everybody on UK television wearing one of these flowers on their breast and something clicked.
Is it bad if you don't know what a flower looks like but you do now it's drug producing qualities?
Not so sure...
'they usually discover that they have much more in common than they perhaps expected.'
It seems Ms Weinstein has never visited the places where someone mentions:
a. Any particular gaming console
b. Any particular subset of PCs (Windows/Mac)
c. Football should be called soccer
d. Any particular religion or lack of it
e. Praise/critique of copyright/patent laws
3,2,1... Start Flame war!
This is how it can be done!
Recently I bought a Britisch TV-series on DVD (Yes, that was me). Instead of obnoxious 30 second warnings about stealing stuff there was a 5 second message:
"By buying this DVD you support the British Film Industry and it's actors. THANK YOU!"
I really sat back for a couple of seconds and thought this was awesome. I was treated like a customer!
I've never seen it before on anything else but I urge other companies to adopt the same strategy.
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Yes, Indian eye surgeons are probably just as good or better than US surgeons, they're more innovative too. Just recently there was an article about an Indian Hospital doing cataracts operations for $50 an eye, because they used a system not unlike a conveyor belt.
The rising cost for health care is one of the major problems in the Western world, closely connected to the ageing population. It seems we need to get to the root of the problem and exorbitant profits of Pharma companies seems a good start.
Yes, I said exorbitant profits, not profits. Profit=Good, Greed=Not good.
Re: eBook price fixing
Although I buy a big amount of books, I refuse to buy an e-book that is priced higher than the physical version. To me that's nonsense, whatever they spend on editing.
And I agree with you fully that editing seems to be much sloppier now. I'm far from being a grammar nazi but in the average e-book you'll encounter a sizeable amount of grammmar- and spelling mistakes. It does take away from the experience...
Re: eBook price fixing
Although I buy a big amount of books, I refuse to buy an e-book that is priced higher than the physical version. To me that's nonsense, whatever they spend on editing.
And I agree with you fully that editing seems to be much sloppier now. I'm far from being a grammar nazi but in the average e-book you'll encounter a sizeable amount of grammmar- and spelling mistakes. It does take away from the experience...
You don't understand!
It is clear that if Mr. KiD CuDi would have followed the advice of his label and made another album similar to his previous one he would have debuted at #1 instead of a weak #3!
What will happen with this world if we allow artists to experiment? The art might change beyond recognition! I still play my Beach Boys record every day and it's still as good as the day it was (over)produced! We don't need new music, we need more of the same. Ask musicians to experiment and we end up with Dubstep!
/sarc