um, how can you perceive a personal attack. you hide behind 'anonymous coward' so that we don't know who you are. therefore, you are not person.
'I disagree and I state my reasons for believing what I believe.'
you haven't stated anything. you don't exist and we cannot see where you have disagreed with anything. your arguments have no value because no one stands behind them. man-up and get an account so we can have a real discussion.
just one more step in the long journey to irrelevancy. you have to hand it to them, though. this is probably the most thorough corporate turn-around since apple. except in the opposite direction.
i wonder if they are using the newspaper industry for inspiration.
they go down into your saved section at the bottom of your instant queue. when they free up again they should move back into your queue. you'll probably have to resort them.
just for the sake of argument i'm going to try the other side of the topic.
part of what makes the past "the past" is that it has faded from our collective memory. we should let these things die. with 100% recall we would never be able to escape our past. right now institutions like the smithsonian keep and display the best of the best and the worst of the worst. this works pretty well. if we keep everything then there is no nostalgia or mystery. instead of keeping everything we should make an effort to randomly delete three-fourths of all archives out there. if certain facts and accounts are important they will survive because they are better documented.
and don't forget abandoned property. if you leave property (cars, homes, cash, etc.) unattended for a certain amount of time, the government certainly can and does take it away from you. if it can contact you then fine. if not it keeps it. whole neighborhoods in detroit are be bulldozed in part because of this.
this is escheatment. and looking back at some of the posts today, it seems that these regulations may be exactly what we need to release abandoned ip back into the wild.
if having a cell phone near you can maybe, possibly cause cancer, then give this some thought: in our daily life we are surround by thousands of cell phones, dozens of cell towers, wifi routers, broadcast tv and radio, powerlines, and private radios. the cumulative effect of all of those em sources has got to be just as significant as your tiny cell phone and bluetooth connection.
ok, ok, i'll put my tinfoil hat back on and go back to my cave.
i've enjoyed reading your comments for a while and i sure thought you had a better grasp of sarcasm and facetiousness than that. maybe you can dish it, but can't take it.
i just won one last week at an alumni meeting. does that make me a criminal? i'd never make it in jail. wait...someone's coming...got to hide...oh crap!
everything in that story has had it's seeds already planted. the ultrasound photos: i've already seen things like that. how about singing in public: restaurants have now written their own happy birthday songs so they don't get sued by people who don't even have a copyright.
i am a bit of a reactionary when it comes to this type of thing. but if anyone ever tried to rope me into something like this, i would simply go somewhere else to get my content. if i couldn't find the content i would create it. some of my instructors in college (80's) were so disgusted with the state of certain textbooks back then that they wrote their own. where are these guys now?
i was just struck with the thought of how this situation of ip controls reminds me of the history of the church (and the ruling elite) using religion to control the populous for its own gains. the effect of that was that technology was set back by several hundred years. anyone doing anything that the church disagreed with (didn't benefit them) was labeled heretical and the benefits of those actions taken away. today, instead of being called a heretic people get sued.
ok, so they release it early for $30. so what? they will either make money or they won't. this is one area where the distributors have control and are welcome to it. i am not annoyed, but rather amused at the hoopla. folks, this is entertainment, not news and not public policy. if it annoys you that a distributor is doing this then just don't watch their movies.
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'I disagree and I state my reasons for believing what I believe.'
you haven't stated anything. you don't exist and we cannot see where you have disagreed with anything. your arguments have no value because no one stands behind them. man-up and get an account so we can have a real discussion.
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i wonder if they are using the newspaper industry for inspiration.
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cake and circuses
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part of what makes the past "the past" is that it has faded from our collective memory. we should let these things die. with 100% recall we would never be able to escape our past. right now institutions like the smithsonian keep and display the best of the best and the worst of the worst. this works pretty well. if we keep everything then there is no nostalgia or mystery. instead of keeping everything we should make an effort to randomly delete three-fourths of all archives out there. if certain facts and accounts are important they will survive because they are better documented.
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i wish my dog knew how to do it. at least i can trust him. well, except when that damn poodle comes around.
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this is escheatment. and looking back at some of the posts today, it seems that these regulations may be exactly what we need to release abandoned ip back into the wild.
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ok, ok, i'll put my tinfoil hat back on and go back to my cave.
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does that make me a criminal
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stupidity or opportunity
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dark ages
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