JBlad’s Comments

• Sep 3rd, 2015 @ 9:41am

  How does this work?

  on How Record Labels Conspired To Kill Off Public Domain Beatles Music In Canada
  This is a real question that I am having a hard time figuring out. Can anyone explain how it works for there to be a sound recording in the public domain that is of a copyrighted composition? I can understand it the other way around, but this is confusing to me. If the recording is in the public domain, but the composition is copyrighted, what can I do with the recording? Would I need to pay to license the composition if I wanted to sample the recording and incorporate it into my own song?
  
  Also, does the copyright on sound recordings operate with different terms than the copyright on compositions?
• Sep 1st, 2015 @ 9:11pm

  Re: Re: Solution

  on Parents Sue School, Claim Wi-Fi Made Son Sick
  Running cable is often not without cost or complication. If it's bogus, then they shouldn't have to do anything.
• Sep 1st, 2015 @ 9:00pm

  Re: Re:

  on Parents Sue School, Claim Wi-Fi Made Son Sick
  I'm not sure your confirmation bias chart has been calibrated properly. Seriously, visit any other site. Unless you are cleverly demonstrating the use of confirmation bias to reach that conclusion, in which case: Excellently done!
• Sep 1st, 2015 @ 8:53pm

  Re: (as Jason Baldus)

  on Parents Sue School, Claim Wi-Fi Made Son Sick
  if you like the technology, you very easily dismiss things like this as poppycock or bad science.
  No, if you know science, you dismiss claims that have a great deal of evidence against them. Which this does.
• Sep 1st, 2015 @ 8:38pm

  Re: Prove you are healthy (as Jason Baldus)

  on Parents Sue School, Claim Wi-Fi Made Son Sick
  By the way, would you ask any other person claiming to have a serious health issue to "prove it and, by the way, don't bleed on my couch"?
  
  If you were suing me for stabbing you, then I would want you to prove that you are bleeding because I stabbed you. But I'll be generous and take it on good faith that you are actually bleeding.
  
  But seriously, don't get that on the couch--it's new.
• Jul 25th, 2014 @ 7:27am

  Too quick to admit bad judgement (as Jason Baldus)

  on DailyDirt: Bad Parental Judgment
  One thing that struck me in reading the Salon article about Kim Brooks leaving her son in the car is how quickly even the people defending her jump to her having "made a bad decision" or having a "lapse of judgement". The only way it makes sense to think of her choice of leaving her 4 year old in the car with the doors locked and child-locked with the window cracked on a cool day in a safe suburban parking lot in a parking spot close to the store as a bad decision or lapse of judgement is that she did not consider that other people would report this safe and innocuous action to the police. As she herself reports in the article, 300 kids are killed every day in car accidents, so her son was at more risk in getting to the store than in sitting in the parking log. Yet she still thinks she made a lapse of judgement!
  
  The truth is that the lapse of judgement was made by the police officer when he decided to pursue the matter. She was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, which she definitely didn't do. Her lawyer gets her to cop a deal, implying that the stakes involved with fighting this ridiculous charge is losing her children. The police officer should have taken one look at the video and been able to discern that Brooks' actions are not cause to suspect child abuse or neglect, and left it at that.
  
  Sometimes we forget that we have brains in our heads.