Science might tend to disagree with you.
https://www.sciencemag.org/content/253/5023/1034.short
ABSTRACT
The anterior hypothalamus of the brain participates in the regulation of male-typical sexual behavior. The volumes of four cell groups in this region [interstitial nuclei of the anterior hypothalamus (INAH) 1, 2, 3, and 4] were measured in postmortem tissue from three subject groups: women, men who were presumed to be heterosexual, and homosexual men. No differences were found between the groups in the volumes of INAH 1, 2, or 4. As has been reported previously, INAH 3 was more than twice as large in the heterosexual men as in the women. It was also, however, more than twice as large in the heterosexual men as in the homosexual men. This finding indicates that INAH is dimorphic with sexual orientation, at least in men, and suggests that sexual orientation has a biological substrate.
If you're a corporation - which is where all transferable rights seem to end up - then current evidence seems to indicate that you can copyright seeds at the very least
I'm a little surprised to see you dismiss the value of someones opinion on the basis of potentially being a "convicted felon" . Quite a few of us might be convicted felons if the copyright maximalists get their way.
Does being convicted according to an (at any given time or location) arbitrary set of rules mean we lose our ability to reason ? Our will to change unjust laws?
Let his argument stand or fall on it's own merits.
I'd like to point you towards the Techdirt Search function. It's towards the top right hand corner. If you enter ACTA in to the little white box there and then press the button next to it you'll see roughly 250 articles since 2008.
was obviously not that at all but actually designed to stop social networking and ideas that would threaten the regime the whole premise of this article is based on nonsense.
I'll just quote from ArsTechnica
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/07/stop-red-site-copyright-group-proposes-traffic-light-search-ticks.ars
Please note the last paragraph.
"Finally, we expressed some skepticism about the overall effectiveness of the idea. The PRS proposal posits the existence of a "Moral Majority" for whom Traffic Lights will work. The system will perform the crucial role of "establishing a distinction between good and bad in the minds of users, which we hope will be enough to deter 90 percent of users from accessing problem sites."
No doubt the right light tick would scare some consumers away. But what about rebellious types, we asked, who might see a red tick as a badge of honor?
"Oh yes," Hooper agreed. "I think there will be people that deliberately go for a red light. We're realistic about this proposal?this will not eradicate piracy. What it will do is signpost to the vast majority of people who want to find legal/licensed content a great way of doing so. It will help promote those sites that have chosen to go down the route of paying creators and performers and the more traffic they experience the better for content owners and also for their own sites in terms of search rankings."
The PRS document does point out that the red light/green light system will create a "vital" distinction will provide the "bedrock" for "an escalating series of measures to deal with the remaining determined offenders."
"His $2,250 per song figure is three times the minimum statutory damages of $750."
- http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/judge-calls-15m-file-sharing-judgment-appalling-slashes-to-54000.ars
Music industry numbers from Norway - which also has had Spotify for some years.
http://www.ifpi.no/statistikk/2011/index.htm
Same month 2010 and 2011
Physical media sales down 51%
Digital sales up 228 %
Total sales same period 2010 and 2011 (January to June )
Physical media down 37%
Digital sales up 91%
Total volume all music 2009 : 505135
Total volume all music 2010 : 592975
Volume numbers make a significant jump from ca 19k to ca 55k in 2008 which is right around when Spotify surfaced in the Norwegian mainstream.
Taking this into consideration mr.out_of_the_blue (I'm assuming that's where you get your 'facts'), I'm going to have to go with "reality trumps ideology" once again.
So sorry.
pre-eminent would be my choice of research quality - not so sure about this new per-eminent type you're talking about..:P
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Science might tend to disagree with you.
https://www.sciencemag.org/content/253/5023/1034.short
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-banker-morgan-stanley-bought-a-humongous-amount-of-stock-to-try-support-price-2012-5
Re: Re: Re: Re: Naturally you're misinterpreting this
If you're a corporation - which is where all transferable rights seem to end up - then current evidence seems to indicate that you can copyright seeds at the very least
Arstechnica and Monsanto
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I'm a little surprised to see you dismiss the value of someones opinion on the basis of potentially being a "convicted felon" . Quite a few of us might be convicted felons if the copyright maximalists get their way.
Does being convicted according to an (at any given time or location) arbitrary set of rules mean we lose our ability to reason ? Our will to change unjust laws?
Let his argument stand or fall on it's own merits.
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Classic!
Re: Re: License: CC by NC SA(aka Creative Commons, Non-Commercial Sharealike)
Clearer explanation of reasons to avoid the NC variants
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I'd like to point you towards the Techdirt Search function. It's towards the top right hand corner. If you enter ACTA in to the little white box there and then press the button next to it you'll see roughly 250 articles since 2008.
Welcome to Techdirt.
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[Citation needed]
Re: Megaupload, Silicon Valley
That kid was Norwegian as I recall and was exonerated under Norwegian law.
Took him roughly 4 years to beat it though.
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Quoting A.C. to an AC.
I found that to be oddly hilarious :)
Thanks
I've been to Italy a few times. There's way more open wifi there than in any other country I've ever been in.
This will get interesting pretty fast.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Wrong premise: the purpose is not the stopping, it's the /control/.
You're obviously fluent in stupid, so that's ok.
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Please be specific as to what constitutes the "solid misinformation"
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I'll just quote from ArsTechnica
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/07/stop-red-site-copyright-group-proposes-traffic-light-search-ticks.ars
Please note the last paragraph.
"Finally, we expressed some skepticism about the overall effectiveness of the idea. The PRS proposal posits the existence of a "Moral Majority" for whom Traffic Lights will work. The system will perform the crucial role of "establishing a distinction between good and bad in the minds of users, which we hope will be enough to deter 90 percent of users from accessing problem sites."
No doubt the right light tick would scare some consumers away. But what about rebellious types, we asked, who might see a red tick as a badge of honor?
"Oh yes," Hooper agreed. "I think there will be people that deliberately go for a red light. We're realistic about this proposal?this will not eradicate piracy. What it will do is signpost to the vast majority of people who want to find legal/licensed content a great way of doing so. It will help promote those sites that have chosen to go down the route of paying creators and performers and the more traffic they experience the better for content owners and also for their own sites in terms of search rankings."
The PRS document does point out that the red light/green light system will create a "vital" distinction will provide the "bedrock" for "an escalating series of measures to deal with the remaining determined offenders."
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"His $2,250 per song figure is three times the minimum statutory damages of $750."
- http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/judge-calls-15m-file-sharing-judgment-appalling-slashes-to-54000.ars
Consequences?
What seems to be the consequences for the US Attorney - Richard Cheng ?
I'm assuming that he's about to be arrested for prosecutorial abuse or something ?
Re: Complete rebuttal to "a Swedish music executive":
Music industry numbers from Norway - which also has had Spotify for some years.
http://www.ifpi.no/statistikk/2011/index.htm
Same month 2010 and 2011
Physical media sales down 51%
Digital sales up 228 %
Total sales same period 2010 and 2011 (January to June )
Physical media down 37%
Digital sales up 91%
Total volume all music 2009 : 505135
Total volume all music 2010 : 592975
Volume numbers make a significant jump from ca 19k to ca 55k in 2008 which is right around when Spotify surfaced in the Norwegian mainstream.
Taking this into consideration mr.out_of_the_blue (I'm assuming that's where you get your 'facts'), I'm going to have to go with "reality trumps ideology" once again.
So sorry.
Nothing to see here
This erosion of 4th amendment has been going on for a while. Linda Greenhouse had an article about it not that long ago.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/justice-in-dreamland/
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http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2011/04/21/sony_should_pay_100_to_man_for_otheros_removal_consumer_board_says