I didn't see the tweet denying that the shoot-on-the-porch was them.
That wasn't a police Bearcat leading them. It was a HMMWV in desert camouflage outfitted with a turret. Does the local law enforcement operate those? With a modern GPK (Gunner Protection Kit)?
I'm guessing that the statement was a very narrow denial, along the lines that "tear gas wasn't used in Layafette Park" where they meant 'we used OC gas in the park itself'.
I imagine the record companies were always planning on bypassing the termination agreement, but technology changed the game underneath them.
At the end of 35 years of sales they would have an excellent prediction of future sales. They just needed to press enough vinyl and record enough 8 track tape at 34.9 years to handle the anticipated demand, and sell those copies to a fully-controlled subsidiary.
Digital rights are now worth more than the right to make physical copies, so the record companies now need to make termination a catch-22 situation.
The million dollar NYC taxi medallion shows that operating a taxi is a profitable business.
The problem with the system is that the medallion sucks all of the profit to the medallion holder. It's an capitalistic disaster -- a share of a government enforced monopoly, with rent-seeking operators funding the retirement of the original medallion holder.
Grading on a curve, Uber and Lyft look like angels compared to the taxi medallion system. There was plenty of room for everyone to make a fair profit, except those that had 'invested' by over-paying for the government-granted right to sell into an artificial scarcity.
I wouldn't stand on the lack of consideration making the contract invalid.
The AP could claim that promotion of the photo was consideration.
Which sounds absurd until you realize that many "news" stories are made available at no cost by PR agencies. Read the 'Home and Garden' or 'Fashion' section of a local newspaper and you'll find plenty of those stories.
Can anyone knowledgeable comment on how consolidating the cases in Iowa affects the choice-of-law aspect where the California SLAPP statute might apply?
The consolidation might be a clever way to avoid paying legal fees. The Nunes family in Iowa and Biss in Virginia can claim to have minimal connection to California and thus assert that it would be unjust for the California law to apply to the consolidated case.
Reports indicate that it was Mitch McConnell that announced Burr would be stepping down from the committee.
"Senator Burr contacted me this morning to inform me of his decision to step aside as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee during the pendency of the investigation," McConnell said in a written statement. "We agreed that this decision would be in the best interests of the committee and will be effective at the end of the day tomorrow."
That suggests that McConnell told Burr that he was off of the committee, and Burr didn't go along with the plan enough to announce it himself. A resignation doesn't seem likely at this point.
I came here to question why that obviously-wrong statement was in a headline, and found that most people here agree that it is close to useless.
Contact tracing could have helped in the very early stages, but it's nearly useless now. And smartphone-location-based contact tracing is an absurd misapplication of the technology.
Signing up for a subscription is a doubly bad deal. We've learned that privacy statements are as ephemeral as glowing phosphor dots on a CRT: terms can change at any time.
This is a company that unilaterally changed the contract terms with effectively no notice. Are you really going to give them more money PLUS the additional information and power that goes with billing your credit card?
Trading on "public information" isn't the criteria, nor should it be.
Once you know the inside information it's easy to find public information that supports a trade. The key question was whether the inside information was communicated and triggered the trade.
I had missed that the SLAPP legislation was a procedural change and would apply immediately.
But for the SLAPP sanctions to be applied the lawsuits would have to be ongoing.
Nunes now has to decide if he will continue pursue to the lawsuits, or figure out when and how to back out of them.
If he cuts and runs, that increases the chance that the judges will grant the defendants legal fees. Especially if discovery has been noticed. But it's still less risky than having the legislature return and quickly pass a bill.
But what if he doesn't have the money for a potential sanction? Biss isn't going to help, or be happy with a walk-away. Biss has money issues of his own, as evidenced by his eviction for non-payment of his rent. He is likely working for the publicity and a cut of any payout. If the publicity isn't yet bringing in lucrative clients, and his isn't winning any lawsuits, a walk-away settlement is a double loss.
So Nunes might be stuck. He can afford the modest costs keeping the lawsuits going, and he can hold out hope that they settle. He risks being insolvent if dismissing them goes badly. But it only gets worse if he waits.
I'm struggling to see the ISOC viewpoint.
There were so many aspects of this deal that appeared corrupt that it's difficult to imagine that people at ISOC didn't see the problems immediately.
I have to wonder how this content qualifies for copyright.
It abandons the last shred of the fig leaf of the value exchange -- exclusive rights for a limited time. There is explicitly no way for this content to be preserved by the users and become public domain.
There does seem to be a huge bubble this week about "contact tracing" apps.
That ship has long sailed. I'm pretty sure that it was never in port.
There is solid evidence that two major U.S. "super spreader" events were CES in early January, and New Orleans Mardi Gras in mid-February. CES has 170K out-of-town attendees and Mardi Gras attracts about 1.4 million people, most within a day's drive. Both are so crowded that close personal contact is unavoidable.
Hmm, I'm don't really see the problem for those with convictions continuing to serve their sentence.
For federal prisoners the Bureau of Prisons decides how and where they will serve their sentences. They can unilaterally decide that a prisoner's status can be lowered to home detention, but impose prison-like restrictions on that detention. If the norm in prison is that talking to the press requires prior permission, they can presumably continue that restriction.
My initial read is that any work that previously had the copyright assigned to the government might now be argued to be in the public domain, even if they were originally written in a way that conformed to a license such as the GPL. That's going to be messy.
Plus this does not fix the problem with copyrighted works being incorporated by reference and having the force of law. The obvious case is building codes, but there are more obscure cases such as privately drawn maps used in zoning.
The argument was that utility infrastructure is so expensive to build that, by eliminating the cost of duplicate infrastructure, a monopoly would be a less expensive choice.
Many telecom arguments focus on the 'right' of companies to pursue a profit unfettered by government limits and oversight, ignoring that they are protected from competition by the government-granted monopoly that is the opposite of a capitalistic open market.
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Re:
I didn't see the tweet denying that the shoot-on-the-porch was them.
That wasn't a police Bearcat leading them. It was a HMMWV in desert camouflage outfitted with a turret. Does the local law enforcement operate those? With a modern GPK (Gunner Protection Kit)?
I'm guessing that the statement was a very narrow denial, along the lines that "tear gas wasn't used in Layafette Park" where they meant 'we used OC gas in the park itself'.
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I imagine the record companies were always planning on bypassing the termination agreement, but technology changed the game underneath them.
At the end of 35 years of sales they would have an excellent prediction of future sales. They just needed to press enough vinyl and record enough 8 track tape at 34.9 years to handle the anticipated demand, and sell those copies to a fully-controlled subsidiary.
Digital rights are now worth more than the right to make physical copies, so the record companies now need to make termination a catch-22 situation.
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Re: Racist much
Apparently you are too focused on racism.
Black Cabs in London are a specific type of taxi. Not quite the same as Yellow Cab, but equally not-about-race.
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Re: Re: "Taxi laws"
The million dollar NYC taxi medallion shows that operating a taxi is a profitable business.
The problem with the system is that the medallion sucks all of the profit to the medallion holder. It's an capitalistic disaster -- a share of a government enforced monopoly, with rent-seeking operators funding the retirement of the original medallion holder.
Grading on a curve, Uber and Lyft look like angels compared to the taxi medallion system. There was plenty of room for everyone to make a fair profit, except those that had 'invested' by over-paying for the government-granted right to sell into an artificial scarcity.
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Can you imagine le outrage, l'indignation if the U.S. government announced a project to make a copy of a successful French product?
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Re: Consideration?
I wouldn't stand on the lack of consideration making the contract invalid.
The AP could claim that promotion of the photo was consideration.
Which sounds absurd until you realize that many "news" stories are made available at no cost by PR agencies. Read the 'Home and Garden' or 'Fashion' section of a local newspaper and you'll find plenty of those stories.
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Can anyone knowledgeable comment on how consolidating the cases in Iowa affects the choice-of-law aspect where the California SLAPP statute might apply?
The consolidation might be a clever way to avoid paying legal fees. The Nunes family in Iowa and Biss in Virginia can claim to have minimal connection to California and thus assert that it would be unjust for the California law to apply to the consolidated case.
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Re: Re: Annnnnnd, he's gone!
Reports indicate that it was Mitch McConnell that announced Burr would be stepping down from the committee.
"Senator Burr contacted me this morning to inform me of his decision to step aside as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee during the pendency of the investigation," McConnell said in a written statement. "We agreed that this decision would be in the best interests of the committee and will be effective at the end of the day tomorrow."
That suggests that McConnell told Burr that he was off of the committee, and Burr didn't go along with the plan enough to announce it himself. A resignation doesn't seem likely at this point.
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"Everyone"?
I came here to question why that obviously-wrong statement was in a headline, and found that most people here agree that it is close to useless.
Contact tracing could have helped in the very early stages, but it's nearly useless now. And smartphone-location-based contact tracing is an absurd misapplication of the technology.
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Signing up for a subscription is a doubly bad deal. We've learned that privacy statements are as ephemeral as glowing phosphor dots on a CRT: terms can change at any time.
This is a company that unilaterally changed the contract terms with effectively no notice. Are you really going to give them more money PLUS the additional information and power that goes with billing your credit card?
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Trading on "public information" isn't the criteria, nor should it be.
Once you know the inside information it's easy to find public information that supports a trade. The key question was whether the inside information was communicated and triggered the trade.
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I had missed that the SLAPP legislation was a procedural change and would apply immediately.
But for the SLAPP sanctions to be applied the lawsuits would have to be ongoing.
Nunes now has to decide if he will continue pursue to the lawsuits, or figure out when and how to back out of them.
If he cuts and runs, that increases the chance that the judges will grant the defendants legal fees. Especially if discovery has been noticed. But it's still less risky than having the legislature return and quickly pass a bill.
But what if he doesn't have the money for a potential sanction? Biss isn't going to help, or be happy with a walk-away. Biss has money issues of his own, as evidenced by his eviction for non-payment of his rent. He is likely working for the publicity and a cut of any payout. If the publicity isn't yet bringing in lucrative clients, and his isn't winning any lawsuits, a walk-away settlement is a double loss.
So Nunes might be stuck. He can afford the modest costs keeping the lawsuits going, and he can hold out hope that they settle. He risks being insolvent if dismissing them goes badly. But it only gets worse if he waits.
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I'm struggling to see the ISOC viewpoint.
There were so many aspects of this deal that appeared corrupt that it's difficult to imagine that people at ISOC didn't see the problems immediately.
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I have to wonder how this content qualifies for copyright.
It abandons the last shred of the fig leaf of the value exchange -- exclusive rights for a limited time. There is explicitly no way for this content to be preserved by the users and become public domain.
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There does seem to be a huge bubble this week about "contact tracing" apps.
That ship has long sailed. I'm pretty sure that it was never in port.
There is solid evidence that two major U.S. "super spreader" events were CES in early January, and New Orleans Mardi Gras in mid-February. CES has 170K out-of-town attendees and Mardi Gras attracts about 1.4 million people, most within a day's drive. Both are so crowded that close personal contact is unavoidable.
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Hmm, I'm don't really see the problem for those with convictions continuing to serve their sentence.
For federal prisoners the Bureau of Prisons decides how and where they will serve their sentences. They can unilaterally decide that a prisoner's status can be lowered to home detention, but impose prison-like restrictions on that detention. If the norm in prison is that talking to the press requires prior permission, they can presumably continue that restriction.
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Hmmm, I foresee bad consequences.
My initial read is that any work that previously had the copyright assigned to the government might now be argued to be in the public domain, even if they were originally written in a way that conformed to a license such as the GPL. That's going to be messy.
Plus this does not fix the problem with copyrighted works being incorporated by reference and having the force of law. The obvious case is building codes, but there are more obscure cases such as privately drawn maps used in zoning.
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Don't suspect a friend
Report him
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Re: Obamaphone Fraud
The fine should be used to audit the other claims. If they found $1.2M of fraud, the true scale is probably much higher.
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Re: How are the monopolies allowed?
Most utilities are government-granted monopolies.
The argument was that utility infrastructure is so expensive to build that, by eliminating the cost of duplicate infrastructure, a monopoly would be a less expensive choice.
Many telecom arguments focus on the 'right' of companies to pursue a profit unfettered by government limits and oversight, ignoring that they are protected from competition by the government-granted monopoly that is the opposite of a capitalistic open market.
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