it's already happening. I'm a lab tech by trade, and I watched a company who had created a test for detecting the genes involved in breast cancer patent not the test--which would have made sense to me---but the GENE. the actual genome that influences whether or not one develops breast cancer....
they patented a GENE which can randomly or through familial genetics be found in any human body on the planet through no fault of the bearer of the gene...
how oh HOW did the patent office let that get thru? and if i have the gene, am i then in violation of that patent?
and if i am found to have the gene they own and suffer some harm, either physically or financially, from the genome they own, can i sue THEM for punitive damages for releasing such a harmful thing on the environment?
uhm. no. we do NOT give up the rights of ALL THE PEOPLE HERE NOW AND FOREVER TO COME on the one in a million chance they'll break up a chop shop.
That's LUDICROUS.
Otherwise, how about we also search you bodily when you walk out of walmart because you might be a shoplifter. Let's run you thru an xray machine as you walk into the bank in case your carrying a weapon, unless you live in Texas, where you'd only be letting the yahoos with guns know who to take as hostage...
If they can't ask the person CARRYING A SEMI-AUTOMATIC WEAPON INTO CHURCH if they have a LICENSE for that weapon then they sure as sam HELL are not getting hold of my phone... end. of. story.
hells yeah. and if you FIND such a program, please let us all know. I'd GLADLY pay for it.
I'm not doing anything wrong, but the constitution allows me to not have to PROVE i'm doing nothing wrong... And it seems we've forgotten it. and too many are concerned that a bad guy might go loose, that they are happily giving up the rights of the rest of us... And frankly, even the so-called bad guy has constitutional rights.
smh
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
My hubbs was telling me tonight about some encryption program that would at least slow them down...
because, you know, civil rights.
And he has already been told that I'm not giving up my phone OR my password and should I ever be requested to, he should make sure to have bail money... because I WILL take it as far as I can....
actually, can't you make a copy as long as it's for YOUR use and you retain the original?
This came up with music, specifically, because of MP3 players. We buy CDs and then upload them and put the MP3s on the ipods, etc. That's not copywrite because you own the music for YOUR use. So your argument is wrong here. otherwise, we would have no way to load our ipods and specifically other mp3 players, especially early on in that technology.
And usually, copywrite for music/movies/etc has to do with making money...
it seems to be different for pictures, but i'm not sure that i agree it should be. not for standard family/personal portraits anyway...
if i pay someone to take my family portrait, obviously i'm not going to be standing on the side of the road selling copies of it to make money...
and if you have the CD, you obviously have the rights to print the images.... otherwise what the heck would you do with the CD?
I haven't ever purchased portrait that didn't let me at least purchase for, gosh, I think the MOST I've EVER had to pay was $15, for the certificate that gave me the copywrite... and that was for my wedding pictures. Usually it's much lower. My SIL and mom only charge $10 for it... but they won't be retouched. You'll get the SOTC pictures.
I even buy it on my kid's school pictures. It's $5 and you can print it right off from the CD the pics come on... Why isn't everyone doing this?
Better yet... buy your own printer and handle this at home? For $300 (it was actually free with my camera after a rebate?) I got a really nice canon photo printer that prints up to 14x18 or some such size... way more than I'll ever need probably...
the general pissed off at the public for needing help finding a light bulb which you are being *paid* to help me locate is a pretty huge part of why i won't even darken the door of a wal-mart. not only are they bad for local businesses, the environment, overseas employees in their sweatshops, and taxing (literally!) the fiscal responsibilities of every tax payer in the US by refusing to pay a living wage to its employees, we then also have to deal with the chip on your shoulder because we dared to use the lights in our homes until the bulbs burned out and now have to ask you, who stocked the light bulbs, where they are at..which you are being paid to do... however menial the pay...
sorry you had a bad day and crappy customers and worked in the JAG office and now work at wal-mart, apparently manning the photo kiosk and stocking light bulbs.
but seriously.... so many retail employees give customers that look... that says "omg what the eff does this biatch want? can't she see that i have a migraine/need a smoke break/have a sore throat/gotta take a piss/am hungry/need a nap/miss my kid/am horny/just dealt with a douche bag?" and it sets us up to be defensive... that pendulum swings both ways...
i'm certainly not saying it's okay for people to scream and call you names.... i sold cars for years, and you wouldn't believe some of the crap customers say and do. the only people worse are patients who tell you what they will and won't allow you to do to/for them when they're in the dang ER... i swear... one more person to tell me that if I miss a vein they will stick a needle in my eye and see how i like it... dude. i didn't miss your vein. the girl at your doc's office did... *smh* we have to learn to shake it off. one awful douche of a customer/patient/student/teacher/cop/parent/spouse/in-law does not make all of them douches.
and seriously, that rant up there? it's All. Over. Your. Face. every time you put your name tag on... and we see it. (or those that won't patently refuse to walk in that store do) and we react to it. it's angry. and patronizing. and intimidating. and unpleasant. you gotta shake it off... or it will just recycle on through infinity ad nauseum.
plus... have you ever seen someone who's being a real dick try to scream and yell and you *don't* respond? Just breath slowing and calmly and smile like he's the nicest person you've met all day...
zomg nothing, NOTHING makes them madder... that in itself is sooo much fun...
ha! this is AWESOME. *Makes notes from Amazon's patent information to set up my new DSLR*
I take shots of items I make to sell. :) I just bought my first DSLR camera and have been struggling with settings so I can get the best shot. Now I know what to click all those dials to. thanks amazon!
The thing is, thepiratebay.com is absolutely no different than google or yahoo or any other search engine. It is simply a catalog of where to get files.
The act if infringement rests in the person searching for and downloading illegal files and the person making those files available for illegal download. Not in the website/search engine that points to them.
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it's already happening. I'm a lab tech by trade, and I watched a company who had created a test for detecting the genes involved in breast cancer patent not the test--which would have made sense to me---but the GENE. the actual genome that influences whether or not one develops breast cancer....
they patented a GENE which can randomly or through familial genetics be found in any human body on the planet through no fault of the bearer of the gene...
how oh HOW did the patent office let that get thru?
and if i have the gene, am i then in violation of that patent?
and if i am found to have the gene they own and suffer some harm, either physically or financially, from the genome they own, can i sue THEM for punitive damages for releasing such a harmful thing on the environment?
Re: gaslighting video
just, you know, for the record here...
psychiatrists are neurologists, and very much have ALWAYS been doctors.
You may possibly be thinking of psychologist, and I use the term thinking very broadly in your case...
however, psychologists don't prescribe medications. Only psychiatrists, who, again, are NEUROLOGISTS... who are and always HAVE been physicians...
Re: Re: gaslighting video
ooh good. did ANYTHING in that rant actually make sense?
Thinking I missed my serving of whatever kool-aid he was given...
yikes
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yeah. based on this, if I tell my husband where I'm going, apparently that means that I have given up my rights to NOT tell everyone?
uhm. no.
smh
Re: Police and Your Cell Phone
uhm. no. we do NOT give up the rights of ALL THE PEOPLE HERE NOW AND FOREVER TO COME on the one in a million chance they'll break up a chop shop.
That's LUDICROUS.
Otherwise, how about we also search you bodily when you walk out of walmart because you might be a shoplifter. Let's run you thru an xray machine as you walk into the bank in case your carrying a weapon, unless you live in Texas, where you'd only be letting the yahoos with guns know who to take as hostage...
If they can't ask the person CARRYING A SEMI-AUTOMATIC WEAPON INTO CHURCH if they have a LICENSE for that weapon then they sure as sam HELL are not getting hold of my phone...
end. of. story.
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hells yeah. and if you FIND such a program, please let us all know. I'd GLADLY pay for it.
I'm not doing anything wrong, but the constitution allows me to not have to PROVE i'm doing nothing wrong... And it seems we've forgotten it. and too many are concerned that a bad guy might go loose, that they are happily giving up the rights of the rest of us...
And frankly, even the so-called bad guy has constitutional rights.
smh
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
My hubbs was telling me tonight about some encryption program that would at least slow them down...
because, you know, civil rights.
And he has already been told that I'm not giving up my phone OR my password and should I ever be requested to, he should make sure to have bail money... because I WILL take it as far as I can....
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actually, can't you make a copy as long as it's for YOUR use and you retain the original?
This came up with music, specifically, because of MP3 players. We buy CDs and then upload them and put the MP3s on the ipods, etc. That's not copywrite because you own the music for YOUR use. So your argument is wrong here. otherwise, we would have no way to load our ipods and specifically other mp3 players, especially early on in that technology.
And usually, copywrite for music/movies/etc has to do with making money...
it seems to be different for pictures, but i'm not sure that i agree it should be. not for standard family/personal portraits anyway...
if i pay someone to take my family portrait, obviously i'm not going to be standing on the side of the road selling copies of it to make money...
and if you have the CD, you obviously have the rights to print the images.... otherwise what the heck would you do with the CD?
Re: Stupid...
i don't think i would have shared this if i were you. it makes you look like a bully... and worse...
uhm...
I haven't ever purchased portrait that didn't let me at least purchase for, gosh, I think the MOST I've EVER had to pay was $15, for the certificate that gave me the copywrite... and that was for my wedding pictures. Usually it's much lower. My SIL and mom only charge $10 for it... but they won't be retouched. You'll get the SOTC pictures.
I even buy it on my kid's school pictures. It's $5 and you can print it right off from the CD the pics come on... Why isn't everyone doing this?
Better yet... buy your own printer and handle this at home? For $300 (it was actually free with my camera after a rebate?) I got a really nice canon photo printer that prints up to 14x18 or some such size... way more than I'll ever need probably...
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the general pissed off at the public for needing help finding a light bulb which you are being *paid* to help me locate is a pretty huge part of why i won't even darken the door of a wal-mart. not only are they bad for local businesses, the environment, overseas employees in their sweatshops, and taxing (literally!) the fiscal responsibilities of every tax payer in the US by refusing to pay a living wage to its employees, we then also have to deal with the chip on your shoulder because we dared to use the lights in our homes until the bulbs burned out and now have to ask you, who stocked the light bulbs, where they are at..which you are being paid to do... however menial the pay...
sorry you had a bad day and crappy customers and worked in the JAG office and now work at wal-mart, apparently manning the photo kiosk and stocking light bulbs.
but seriously.... so many retail employees give customers that look... that says "omg what the eff does this biatch want? can't she see that i have a migraine/need a smoke break/have a sore throat/gotta take a piss/am hungry/need a nap/miss my kid/am horny/just dealt with a douche bag?" and it sets us up to be defensive... that pendulum swings both ways...
i'm certainly not saying it's okay for people to scream and call you names.... i sold cars for years, and you wouldn't believe some of the crap customers say and do. the only people worse are patients who tell you what they will and won't allow you to do to/for them when they're in the dang ER... i swear... one more person to tell me that if I miss a vein they will stick a needle in my eye and see how i like it... dude. i didn't miss your vein. the girl at your doc's office did... *smh* we have to learn to shake it off. one awful douche of a customer/patient/student/teacher/cop/parent/spouse/in-law does not make all of them douches.
and seriously, that rant up there? it's All. Over. Your. Face. every time you put your name tag on... and we see it. (or those that won't patently refuse to walk in that store do) and we react to it. it's angry. and patronizing. and intimidating. and unpleasant.
you gotta shake it off... or it will just recycle on through infinity ad nauseum.
plus... have you ever seen someone who's being a real dick try to scream and yell and you *don't* respond? Just breath slowing and calmly and smile like he's the nicest person you've met all day...
zomg nothing, NOTHING makes them madder... that in itself is sooo much fun...
ha! this is AWESOME. *Makes notes from Amazon's patent information to set up my new DSLR*
I take shots of items I make to sell. :) I just bought my first DSLR camera and have been struggling with settings so I can get the best shot. Now I know what to click all those dials to. thanks amazon!
Re: Re: Middle ground?
yeap. ZOMG terrorists
And the next favorite is
*but think of the chilllllldrennnnn*
(insert mock whiney voice oozing with fake concern*
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The thing is, thepiratebay.com is absolutely no different than google or yahoo or any other search engine. It is simply a catalog of where to get files.
The act if infringement rests in the person searching for and downloading illegal files and the person making those files available for illegal download. Not in the website/search engine that points to them.