mmm. though the only real difference there is that the product quality is higher. the business quality is often the same 'screw the customers' arrangement.
i really do wish it were possible to apply the old Shinsengumi ... philosophy? moto? whatever. applying it to all these *IAAs and their equivalents in other countries, large corporations of all stripes, and most governments, would improve things greatly.
i mean, it'd be a bloody mess, but it'd make more sense and being stupid would get you dead rather than rich.
so Google advertises one of it's products using a different one of it's products, both in arenas where it does not, in fact, have a monopoly?
there are other search engines.
there are other sources for maps.
it's the Internet.
now, they may be the only company bothering to do searches In French (... and seriously, if your solution to that is to make the situation such that they would want to stop doing so, you've got problems), but that's not the same thing as being the only search engine available In France. (well, unless Microsoft etc have decided to be incredibly stupid and cut off their service there when i wasn't looking, which seems unlikely.)
so, yeah, i can see the point that some of the details in the article may be wrong... but the situation isn't any less stupid for it.
this sort of issue crops up all over the place. laws with punishments that are devastating for individuals (if they even get past the cost of fighting in the first place), fitting for small businesses (maybe thirty up to a couple of hundred employees and decent sales) and completely Pointless against large corporations, who are the biggest offenders, who essentially treat it as a tax and carry on.
even before you get to specific instances of dubiousness, this is problematic.
limited monopoly: the limitation is upon the monopoly
exclusive intellectual property: a single individual used a given idea and thus now owns it and no one else can use it in any other way for perpetuity unless it is sold to them by that individual. (or something to that effect).
entirely different concepts.
you seem to be failing at understanding non-simple plain English usage.
... its relevant in that the distinction between 'infringement' and 'theft' is that 'theft' can only be applied to 'property' while 'infringement' cannot.
copyrights are infringed against, not stolen.
logic thus tells us that they are not property.
of course, using logic without common sense or sound reason is a good way to end up in a very stupid place and this argument really isn't enough in and of itself to prove anything one way or the other, despite my agreeing with the points made and conclusion reached.
he uses 'your', ownership, for 'you're', contraction so... no. no he doesn't.
not on the grammar thing anyway.
his actual Point though, yes. quite correct, and 'snowflake with arrows' AC up there is being quite silly and obnoxious in linking this grammatical error to an inability to see and point out actual Stupidity.
actually, US law enforcment would probably have pulled the same stunt they pulled on the Kiwi who managed to build a cruise missile for under 5000 NZD using off the shelf parts.*
lean on the NZ government until they came up with SOMETHING to cripple his ability to act.
* (which, it should be noted, he was planning to sell to the NZ and US military and they Only Found Out about when he made enquiries as to why on earth there was nothing legally stopping him selling to Iran when some Iranians found out about it from his online posts about how it was possible and asked him to sell them to them. did i mention he was also setting up to sell unmanned recon planes to the US and this entire round of idiocy actually DID cost NZ a couple of thousand(?) jobs when their way of dealing with it drove him to bankruptcy? so the NZ government missed out on two significant tech developments, NZ jobs, and the tax take, while the US missed out on the tech... because they freaked out when he pointed out a gap in the law that he thought needed fixing. at no point did he actually enter negotiations to sell the missiles or anything.)
might explain why Poland refuses to stay conquered :D (i don't think any other country has disappeared off the map And Come Back as many times as Poland. i could be wrong though. all sorts of perspective distorting factors that could play into that.)
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i mean, it'd be a bloody mess, but it'd make more sense and being stupid would get you dead rather than rich.
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so Google advertises one of it's products using a different one of it's products, both in arenas where it does not, in fact, have a monopoly?
there are other search engines.
there are other sources for maps.
it's the Internet.
now, they may be the only company bothering to do searches In French (... and seriously, if your solution to that is to make the situation such that they would want to stop doing so, you've got problems), but that's not the same thing as being the only search engine available In France. (well, unless Microsoft etc have decided to be incredibly stupid and cut off their service there when i wasn't looking, which seems unlikely.)
so, yeah, i can see the point that some of the details in the article may be wrong... but the situation isn't any less stupid for it.
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good God, America is screwed up.
and they want to make the rest of us like them...
*shudders*
sounds like something people should know about, really.
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also, why does the whole cow guard thing not surprise me?
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even before you get to specific instances of dubiousness, this is problematic.
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solution:
it's import tariffs.
there, your problem is solved.
good night.
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they're complete opposites.
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exclusive intellectual property: a single individual used a given idea and thus now owns it and no one else can use it in any other way for perpetuity unless it is sold to them by that individual. (or something to that effect).
entirely different concepts.
you seem to be failing at understanding non-simple plain English usage.
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copyrights are infringed against, not stolen.
logic thus tells us that they are not property.
of course, using logic without common sense or sound reason is a good way to end up in a very stupid place and this argument really isn't enough in and of itself to prove anything one way or the other, despite my agreeing with the points made and conclusion reached.
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not on the grammar thing anyway.
his actual Point though, yes. quite correct, and 'snowflake with arrows' AC up there is being quite silly and obnoxious in linking this grammatical error to an inability to see and point out actual Stupidity.
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short term chaotic mess, (and highly annoying) long term i think it'd actually be to everyone else's advantage :D
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lean on the NZ government until they came up with SOMETHING to cripple his ability to act.
* (which, it should be noted, he was planning to sell to the NZ and US military and they Only Found Out about when he made enquiries as to why on earth there was nothing legally stopping him selling to Iran when some Iranians found out about it from his online posts about how it was possible and asked him to sell them to them. did i mention he was also setting up to sell unmanned recon planes to the US and this entire round of idiocy actually DID cost NZ a couple of thousand(?) jobs when their way of dealing with it drove him to bankruptcy? so the NZ government missed out on two significant tech developments, NZ jobs, and the tax take, while the US missed out on the tech... because they freaked out when he pointed out a gap in the law that he thought needed fixing. at no point did he actually enter negotiations to sell the missiles or anything.)
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