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by bugsy 16y ago
You are right there is public domain content. This is public domain and is not even a point of contention. The only possible issue here is the non-public domain content, so that is what I mentioned. That is contributed under a CC license an
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by bugsy 16y ago
Well the system doesn't work at all for the little guy. I was talking patent/copyright in general. As far as software patents, my own opinion is software is obviously copyrightable but not patentable. However, that is not the current viewpo
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by bugsy 16y ago
Your mention of Wikipedia is a red herring since the idea there is the content is user generated and donated by the creator with a CC license. Things that are found to have been copy-pasted are removed. JSTOR sells content so that's also a
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by bugsy 16y ago
The answer is not quite correct. Corporate protectionism is what destroys innovation. Abuse of the patent and copyright systems is part of corporate protectionism. Patent and copyright are great things to protect the little innovator guy th
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by bugsy 16y ago
They don't exist anymore! It may appeal to your Schadenfreude to know that shortly after this they went bankrupt - because I wasn't there and so they couldn't complete contracts and got sued into oblivion by their clients. I guess I'll ment
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by bugsy 16y ago
Ah, OK, I should have noticed! Thanks.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Thanks for the detailed reply. I found a post from 2002 with a similar citation regarding NY's classes of employees: http://www.perlmonks.org/?displaytype=print;node_id=153046 He doesn't explicitly state if his open source work was entire
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by bugsy 16y ago
Do you have a citation for your statement that "what you do in your spare time" is not owned by you in New York?
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by bugsy 16y ago
I worked for a company that not only had this clause, but it extended to any and all inventions pertaining to the employers line of business for 12 months after employment terminated. When employment terminated and I intended to go work for
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by bugsy 16y ago
I hate many things about Photoshop, and also find it to be the best at many of the things that it does and therefore, unfortunately, is indispensable. For example, if I want to save a gif or png file, Photoshop is going to give me a smaller
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by bugsy 16y ago
Indian Food Made Easy is one of them I'll be saving. There's a big one on WWII. It's really a mixed bag. The full list is in the torrent file.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Many Egyptians were talking about having a constitutional convention to decide what sort of government they want. Perhaps it will acknowledge inalienable rights reserved to the people for example. Hopefully that will be the next step, anyth
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by bugsy 16y ago
Just a note for those wondering about the content of the archive. Having downloaded it, it's around 2GB compressed. It contains images, but most pages are nonfunctional, due to links being specified from the site root /. To view it properly
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by bugsy 16y ago
There are lots of articles like this. They seldom discuss the effects of inflation or properly plot things out on a logarithmic scale.
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by bugsy 16y ago
"According to a White House report, new manufacturing jobs might be as close as your nearest drive-thru." is somewhat telling, as is the message in the report that if you agree you are a manufacturer, you get tax breaks. It's had an effect
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by bugsy 16y ago
Perhaps in your imagination. Speaking of clarity, I hope you will come to some clarity in your mind that you are the only person here trying to insert these qualifiers into this discussion.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Citations: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/20/politics/main60133... http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/20/business/in-the-new-econom... I await your apology.
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by bugsy 16y ago
How do you feel about being required to work 80 hours each week, being paid only for 40, and then being required to work an additional 10 hours on top of that cleaning the bathrooms and kitchen because since you're on salary, your time is f
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by bugsy 16y ago
The real question is how much is the CEO getting paid to wash dishes? It would make more sense to hire someone for minimum wage to clean the bathrooms, empty trash and wash dishes, and free up time for the CEO to do other things.
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by bugsy 16y ago
When I am a guest at someone's house I always stay and help clean up, and wash dishes. Love to do my share. But it is foolish to be doing janitorial duties at work. A situation a few years ago will serve as an example. As an expert, my tim
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by bugsy 16y ago
I was reading about how the US now considers McDonalds hamburgers to be part of US manufacturing output, whereas in the past that was credited as service since it was a restaurant. So we must ask. Does the claim made by boston.com include h
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by bugsy 16y ago
The selection of chattel is your own arbitrary distinction. Being held against one's will, forced to labor, and not paid, is slavery. Is your concern that slaves are not being bought and sold as property? Well they are bought and sold in ma
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by bugsy 16y ago
Huh, what's that word where someone describes themselves and applies it to others? Like a smug person calling another person smug? Oh yeah, projection, it's called projection. Lots of real modern slavery in the US and elsewhere regardless o
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by bugsy 16y ago
I enjoyed your post. It does demonstrate that Tiger mom raised Chinese kids lack any ability to understand gentle ribbing, being far too uptight and serious about stuff.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Oh sorry, to clarify, I didn't mean stop to look at schools, I meant if you are headed to Seattle for whatever (not sure what there is to do in Seattle, I lived there and don't really think of it as a tourist destination of any kind, but ma
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by bugsy 16y ago
I can think of dozens of engineering schools. I listed the only one in the east that is comparable to Stanford or CalTech, not a comprehensive list of all the schools that are not as good. I hope now you understand the purpose of my previou
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by bugsy 16y ago
Cornell and Princeton have very poor engineering schools compared to Stanford. Princeton's physics and sciences are great, but not engineering is not comparable at all.
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by bugsy 16y ago
I enjoyed your post. It does demonstrate that Tiger mom raised Chinese kids lack any ability to understand humor, being far too uptight and serious about stuff.
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by bugsy 16y ago
If he's doing engineering there's not much on the east coast other than MIT. Stanford, CalTech and MIT are the three on the top and there is a big gap before the next one down. Of these three, Stanford is the only one where a normal social
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by bugsy 16y ago
If you do this, take the Coast Starlight train from SF and stop in Portland on the way.

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