You keep commenting to an article about how the real O'Brien is a fraud. Of course that's what people are going to talk about here. It is not about the TV show. That's why people don't want to talk about that. It's like constantly bringing up vampire hunting in the comments to a documentary about Abraham Lincoln. The TV show is irrelevant to this article. Stop confusing reality with fantasy.
He can't be prosecuted, but he can still be sued in civil court for damages. As with O.J. Simpson, he doesn't have to be proven guilty, just considered more likely than not to be guilty.
If they were using it for video processing, which appears to be so, then five figures is possible. The 2000 plus pre-Toaster video cards plus high-capacity hard drives plus printers plus whatever else the system needed could have been at least $8000.
If a monkey, as a nonhuman, cannot legally own a copyright on a photo, then infinite monkeys in the form of a nonhuman supercomputer cannot legally own the works it generates. Likewise, the owner of the camera can't own the copyright on the photo because he had no creative input, so the owners of the monkey machine can't own copyrights on its intellectual-property-aping word search puzzles.
Registering a copyright establishes a date that can be proven for the copyright, but legally copyrights are created at the same time as their works. If you have different way to prove when a work was created, registering is unnecessary.
Don't use this show for inspiration. You are identifying with it because it offers a wish fulfillment reassurance to those who imagine they've been superior to everyone else all along.
It's a TV show, intended to make their demographics identify with them and feel better about themselves. This one is targeted to viewers who identify with genius, so it tells its viewers they're misunderstood and smart and pats them on the back. (I quit Mensa in grade school because that's all I saw happening there; a mutual back-patting society.)
If the show were about sports, it would have a dream team of physical misfits for the viewers to vicariously feel athletically superior through.
Validation should come through real-life experiences and efforts, not aggrandizing TV shows.
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It's a TV show, intended to make their demographics identify with them and feel better about themselves. This one is targeted to viewers who identify with genius, so it tells its viewers they're misunderstood and smart and pats them on the back. (I quit Mensa in grade school because that's all I saw happening there; a mutual back-patting society.)
If the show were about sports, it would have a dream team of physical misfits for the viewers to vicariously feel athletically superior through.
Validation should come through real-life experiences and efforts, not aggrandizing TV shows.
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Walter-Ego
Thanks for saving me an hour a week and TiVo space.
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