Re: Re: Uh, you get upset when artists make money...
But you don't need a big, expensive, possibly useless paywall to stop 'Big Search'. You just need a simple, free and effective little text file called 'robots.txt'. Unless you are so amazing clueless about technology and common sense....
That's the point. We'd like to 'ignore' them by getting rid of them, or at worst reforming them. Again, different industries may or may not need 'patents' on their product. Pharmaceuticals, being a physical product have some logic for patents (within reason, i.e. not naturally occuring stuff), but software? That's like patenting basic information such as "a method to structure the functional day of an under-6-year-old child so as to maximise learning and fun potentials" being a patent on organising a kindergarden's day!
Obviously that becomes a question of pricing, including whether the physical and digital minimum prices are the same, and what they are. It might be possible to say that the minimum physical is, say, 5 euros, later dropping if enough physical/digital are bought to bring a run size drop in price. But you ought to be able to find a balance where the 'free-to-produce' digital pays for the cost of pressing the physical vinyl.
Seriously, only hailing from the street? Are you saying that you can't phone for a taxi? Pardon me if that's simply not mentioned as a possibility, but if you can't remotely request a taxi in one of the biggest, busiest Western cities in the world, you are seriously seriously behind. Talk about killing competition and progress!
And apologies to all the Third World cities where this rudimentary option is already available...
Oh sure, so when someone says something disrespectful about a certain prophet, you can get criminally tried on behalf of Saudi Arabia, even though it's not a crime in the UK. Or get tried for posting a swastika on behalf of Germany, even though it's not a crime in the UK. Or a 16-year-old marrying her Army sweetheart finds him tried because he's under the (criminal) age of consent in the US. Definitely a good thing...
To be fair in this situation, Gary McKinnon *did* effectively commit a crime in the US, insofar as the internet can be locational. Certainly couldn't argue that US Gov't computers are in the US (hopefully)! However, this could easily get stretched ridiculously very quickly ("It was on the Internet so it was in my country!") - witness the daftness of libel tourism.
Depends how they found and flagged it. It also shows that they gave no thought to either fair use (which this clearly is), nor did it in any kind of timely fashion.
The only way the minimum wage has 'failed' is that it isn't high enough and hasn't followed the cost of living enough. I don't think ANYONE who has actually had to live on the minimum wage would complain "it doesn't work" compared to being paid even more of a pittance - and it saves all our jobs being given to Eastern Europeans who would have been happy to work for half minimum wage. Funny it's all the Tory whiners who think the minimum wage is doing all the 1%ers out of all their "hard-earned" gains while the minimum wagers do all the actual work...
...we're not in the US, where Sandusky can get a 'mere' 30 years, but some woman in Texas who glued her kid's hands to the wall (plus some other not nicenesses) got 99 years...
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Only if nothing replaces it. Cars replaced carts. The world didn't end at the invention of the printing press (those poor out-of-work scribes!). Trains replaced canals. So what? Times change, technology changes. Will UPS go out of business when someone invents a scramjet that can go round the world in an hour, making planes 'obselete'? Or will they 'innovate' and use the new delivery method? Did the music companies fold when TV came along, or did they find that music TV had a huge audience?
Besides, plenty of other things have bad effects on the economy, such as politicians and bankers...
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People who can't afford the downpayment on making a home energy efficient, or more likely are renting from someone who doesn't care?
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Free software has its place, although it's unlikely to be a panacea.
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Proprietary/legacy databases and software solutions.
I'd even bet a lot of regulatory software is much older than 10 years (air traffic control, power stations...).
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Yet another Third World stance for the US
And apologies to all the Third World cities where this rudimentary option is already available...
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To be fair in this situation, Gary McKinnon *did* effectively commit a crime in the US, insofar as the internet can be locational. Certainly couldn't argue that US Gov't computers are in the US (hopefully)! However, this could easily get stretched ridiculously very quickly ("It was on the Internet so it was in my country!") - witness the daftness of libel tourism.
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At least...
(Source: Telegraph)
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Besides, plenty of other things have bad effects on the economy, such as politicians and bankers...
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