It's not control unless they force you to buy a house. The housing credit is an incentive, not a control. As long as you have the freedom to choose one action over another, it's not control. We are not salivating dogs that can be trained by a bell and a snack. Or at least we can choose not to be.
As I think about what kinds of things my friends and I talk about, a large portion of it is really of no interest to anyone except my friends. The things we talk about via social networks are about the same. The people that I've met who take such a hard stand against social networks, to the point where they even have to tell people just how much they won't use them, generally consider themselves very important.
Their elitist attitudes limit the quality of their communication. Because quality on social networks is not about data, but about just hanging out with people you know but can't always be in the same room drinking a beer together.
Yes, it is the fault of teachers for wanting to do more than the minimum. Don't assign homework, and you won't have to grade papers. Don't make lesson plans, just read from the required book each day, picking up where you left off.
But, if they do that, they will have to work during the summer break right? Because the summer break exists because teachers spend time during the session after hours grading papers and making lesson plans.
Hmm, well if the teach will have to work, I suppose all their students will need to come to class since they will probably need it anyway.
So if a teacher creates plans for how they want to teach a class "on their own time", those plans do not belong to them, but if they create a teaching aid like a poem or a painting "on their own time", those things do. Is this your stance? Because that is certainly not confusing, right?
If a Lit Teacher writes a poem (one evening at home) that they then share in class as a teaching aid, do they have any right of ownership? What if an art teacher paints a painting on the weekends and brings it in to class as an example of specific techniques. Does he not have any rights to the art he created? If he sells it later, does he owe the school a cut?
When you rent a video for .06 an hour, you are paying for the availability of that content, not just the time spent consuming it. Imagine if you rent 300 movies at once, all being charged by the hour. You are paying $18 an hour even though you are not watching all 300 movies at once, because you have the content available to watch.
When I subscribe to cable and have 300 channels, I have 300 hours of content available to me per hour. I have the ability to jump around and consume bits and pieces of that content however I want. Obviously I can't watch it all, but it is available.
If I rent a movie by the hour, say .06, I am paying for the availability of the content. Under that premise, taking my $150 a month for TV, 300 channels available 24/7, my cost per hour is fractional and considerably less than .06 cents.
I do not disconnect my cable when I am not watching it. Therefore the 300 channels are being made available to me 24 hours a day. When you rent something by the hour, you are paying for every hour it is available to you. Bringing it back after 110 min is certainly an option. But then the movie is no longer available. This is the same as calling the cable company and having them turn it off.
However, they are not going to reconnect my cable every time I feel like turning on the telly.
If I rent a video for .06 an hour and I watch it and return it 24 hours later, I only used it for 90 min or so, but I am still charged for every hour in which the content was available to me, whether or not I actually used it.
Laws come and go. What is right and wrong depends not only where you live but when you live. Old ways constantly make way for new ways, but that doesn't mean the changes come about with no struggle.
Intellectual property is a concept that will eventually disappear as technology evolves to the point where a system of trying to monetize an infinite good costs more than it generates.
When will that time come?
When the companies trying to protect IP cannot pay the governments enough to cover the actual costs of enforcing it.
And thinking about it, my Uverse bill also includes fiberoptic high speed Internet access, so technically I am paying slightly less for content than I first calculated.
Perhaps it's a geographical phrase. I know where I come from, saying something like "that's a helluva lot more than I would pay" is not strange at all.
The word "responsible" is not the same as "represent". The actions of employees are considered representative of a company, but do not automatically bestow responsibility for the actions onto an other individuals.
The actions of the ACORN employees reflected badly on ACORN as a whole and caused funding to be withheld and additional investigations to be launched. So, yes the actions of the employees had a representative effect on the company.
Once every common word and phrase is copyrighted, nobody will be able to write anything without being required to pay so many fees that it becomes no longer viable to communicate in any public manner.
"Vilifying patent investment companies is like vilifying investors in the physical assets of failed enterprises. These investors recycle assets and make them part of the productive economy again."
Perhaps I am just a casual observer, but I don't see how holding onto a patent, doing absolutely nothing with it, and waiting on someone else to do anything remotely similar to the general patent you have then filing suit against them for it, is recycling assets back into the economy.
If THEY were doing something with the patents they would be recycling them. What these people do is nothing more than buying a lotto ticket and waiting for their number to come up.
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Their elitist attitudes limit the quality of their communication. Because quality on social networks is not about data, but about just hanging out with people you know but can't always be in the same room drinking a beer together.
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But, if they do that, they will have to work during the summer break right? Because the summer break exists because teachers spend time during the session after hours grading papers and making lesson plans.
Hmm, well if the teach will have to work, I suppose all their students will need to come to class since they will probably need it anyway.
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When I subscribe to cable and have 300 channels, I have 300 hours of content available to me per hour. I have the ability to jump around and consume bits and pieces of that content however I want. Obviously I can't watch it all, but it is available.
If I rent a movie by the hour, say .06, I am paying for the availability of the content. Under that premise, taking my $150 a month for TV, 300 channels available 24/7, my cost per hour is fractional and considerably less than .06 cents.
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However, they are not going to reconnect my cable every time I feel like turning on the telly.
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When will IP disappear?
Intellectual property is a concept that will eventually disappear as technology evolves to the point where a system of trying to monetize an infinite good costs more than it generates.
When will that time come?
When the companies trying to protect IP cannot pay the governments enough to cover the actual costs of enforcing it.
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30 days x 24 hrs = 720 hours
300 channels provided * 720 hours = 216,000 hours of potential content
216,000 hrs * .06 = $12,960 a month.
In reality I am paying about $0.0007 an hour for available content.
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The actions of the ACORN employees reflected badly on ACORN as a whole and caused funding to be withheld and additional investigations to be launched. So, yes the actions of the employees had a representative effect on the company.
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Every person on the Internet is a person NOT shopping online. Will the government compensate ALL of the online stores for their "lost" revenue?
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Perhaps I am just a casual observer, but I don't see how holding onto a patent, doing absolutely nothing with it, and waiting on someone else to do anything remotely similar to the general patent you have then filing suit against them for it, is recycling assets back into the economy.
If THEY were doing something with the patents they would be recycling them. What these people do is nothing more than buying a lotto ticket and waiting for their number to come up.
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