To be fair, that's not true, as Copyright is expiring again, as it did last year and this year, and will again this coming New Year's Day. It's just that the terms are so goddamn long that it raises the question as to who the copyright is serving because the public sure ain't the beneficiaries…
I was thinking the same thing. I get criticizing fundamentalist and puritan Christians, but Quakers? They're one of the most liberal sects of American Christianity apart from Unitarians.
People who think the public domain is the “death of culture” or whatever couldn’t be more wrong. The public domain is where culture thrives — both in distribution and inspiration. To destroy or malign the public domain is to attack the place where culture lives.
Ironically, the best example to prove this point home is Disney, seeing as their most popular works are remixes of Public Domain stories (Yes, even Frozen, which is adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's The Ice Queen).
or rather, actual troops in an actual war can be accountable to military justice and many seem to face punishment if they commit crimes. The Police? Extremely rare if an officer is punished for killing someone without just cause.
Hulu is not entirely owned by Disney. It's actually 2/3 owned by Disney, but 1/3 owned by Comcast. Disney completely controls it, though: See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulu
Was just about to comment on that very thing given this is Nintendo we're talking about, a company run by control freaks with a penchant of crushing anything related to their games that they don't control. [ED: emphasis mine]
Keyword is "games". I know for a fact that Nintendo hasn't taken action (that I know of) related to their old systems, because I've played reëngineered and updated versions of Nintendo hardware (such as having USB power and HDMI output), as well as made and used software and files that played back on such hardware. If I were to make a new Mario Bros. fan-game, however, yes, Nintendo would indeed come after me. If I were to make a new original game that could be played on the NES or Super NES? Not so much.
The Iraq War Crime was extremely unpopular and it partially led Obama to victory (the other was the 2008 stock market crash). Of course, when a Democrat is elected president as a progressive or a (non-right-wing) populist, they tend to abandon some of their campaign promises (to be fair to Obama, he kept some of his, such as the Iran deal). Republicans tend to either keep theirs or make it worse.
Much as people want to escape the two-party system in the US, we've always had one. First it was the Federalists vs. the Democratic-Republicans, then the Democrats vs. the Whigs, and now the current state of the Democrats vs. the Republicans. If a third party were to ever be elected president again, it's only to replace a dead second party.
It wasn't until recently that an actual American left wing was revived in both the federal (see: representatives AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley) and state (See Delegate Lee Carter in Virginia, State Senators Summer Lee and Sara Innamorato in Pennsylvania, and State Senator Julia Salazar in New York State) level. McCarthyism in the 1950's suppressed open leftism for generations and it wasn't until recently where people's economic well-being was so poor that they thought socialism seemed like a good idea again.
You know how bad and insular Hollywood is? Washington is like that, except they have actual power (the MPAA wouldn't have power if it weren't for Washington). People in Washington don't give a shit about what's happening in the real world or how people can make ends meet or the consequences of their actions; it is an island in and of itself.
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The only acceptable answer for China is apparently "China's 38th Province".
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To be fair, that's not true, as Copyright is expiring again, as it did last year and this year, and will again this coming New Year's Day. It's just that the terms are so goddamn long that it raises the question as to who the copyright is serving because the public sure ain't the beneficiaries…
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Fair enough. I guess I was wrong.
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I was thinking the same thing. I get criticizing fundamentalist and puritan Christians, but Quakers? They're one of the most liberal sects of American Christianity apart from Unitarians.
It's just weird is all.
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Also, that pesky first amendment.
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[citation needed]
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My pick for a Trump's deposition…
Metric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRtd8ArvH_s
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Ironically, the best example to prove this point home is Disney, seeing as their most popular works are remixes of Public Domain stories (Yes, even Frozen, which is adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's The Ice Queen).
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or rather, actual troops in an actual war can be accountable to military justice and many seem to face punishment if they commit crimes. The Police? Extremely rare if an officer is punished for killing someone without just cause.
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Which is extremely interesting considering that actual troops in an actual war have rules of engagement as well as accountability for war crimes.
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When Stephen Colbert said that "Reality has a well-known liberal bias".
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You're welcome! It was my pleasure and I can't wait for the mask to arrive!
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Great point! So I think the keywords should be "their games".
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Hulu is not entirely owned by Disney. It's actually 2/3 owned by Disney, but 1/3 owned by Comcast. Disney completely controls it, though: See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulu
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Fair. I deserved that.
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Fair enough, except for one thing, though:
The legalization of Marijuana throughout many different states suggests otherwise.
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Keyword is "games". I know for a fact that Nintendo hasn't taken action (that I know of) related to their old systems, because I've played reëngineered and updated versions of Nintendo hardware (such as having USB power and HDMI output), as well as made and used software and files that played back on such hardware. If I were to make a new Mario Bros. fan-game, however, yes, Nintendo would indeed come after me. If I were to make a new original game that could be played on the NES or Super NES? Not so much.
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Several reasons:
The Iraq War Crime was extremely unpopular and it partially led Obama to victory (the other was the 2008 stock market crash). Of course, when a Democrat is elected president as a progressive or a (non-right-wing) populist, they tend to abandon some of their campaign promises (to be fair to Obama, he kept some of his, such as the Iran deal). Republicans tend to either keep theirs or make it worse.
Much as people want to escape the two-party system in the US, we've always had one. First it was the Federalists vs. the Democratic-Republicans, then the Democrats vs. the Whigs, and now the current state of the Democrats vs. the Republicans. If a third party were to ever be elected president again, it's only to replace a dead second party.
It wasn't until recently that an actual American left wing was revived in both the federal (see: representatives AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley) and state (See Delegate Lee Carter in Virginia, State Senators Summer Lee and Sara Innamorato in Pennsylvania, and State Senator Julia Salazar in New York State) level. McCarthyism in the 1950's suppressed open leftism for generations and it wasn't until recently where people's economic well-being was so poor that they thought socialism seemed like a good idea again.
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Update: Mask purchased.
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Correction: I will buy a mask tomorrow, when my credit card statement renews.
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