Posts by Steve Barnes
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Apropos absolutely nothing.
Free Hugs -
Interesting arguments from both sides of the divide here but we all seem to be missing several basic points.
The Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Bill and similar legislation around the word is being driven by the industry that stands to profit. In what would normally be a civil matter i.e. I sue you for using my work without permission, is being turned into a criminal matter whereby the owner of the work in question has the backing of criminal law in the same way as, say, had their goods stolen. here we must define how the law regards theft. Theft, to permanently derive the lawful owner of said goods from or of enjoyment, use or possession.
It has been argued that by copying a work the rightful owner is deprived of gain or income from said work. This, however, is not the same as theft.
Example. You own a shop and sell widgets. I open a shop next to yours and sell identical widgets for less. I attract your customers and therefore deprive you of gain or income. That is not theft.
Now let's say that you invented your widget, I bought a widget from you and copied it. I then have two, or many, widgets. It is only when I sell those widgets that you are affected by my actions. (at this point we have a conundrum. My work involved in copying the widgets should be taken into account as should my expertise, my equipment, my time and some could say, my need)
So. From this perspective we should be looking at fair use versus commercial gain with regard to intellectual property right with respect to common law. Not using criminal law to protect those that have, historically, had the upper hand due to their expertise and equipment etc. which is now available to most. -
Media 7 was a bit of an eye opener for many I believe. The tie up between Fontera and the fertiliser industry could have been covered a little deeper in my view. The Probitas story is still interesting in that it shows a connection not only between Fed. Farmers and Spreadmark but also The food safety authority and the European Union. If you really want to know why so much fertiliser ends up in our waters, there is a good place to start.
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I did the gender/emotion test and was found to be decidedly average. I also suspect that they were all called Steve or Stephen or Stephanie. ;-)
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I'll forget the face, but I might remember an impressive rack.
Fnarr Fnarr
I got 65% on that test and I think I was guessing most of the time, hell, they all looked bald to me. -
@ Stephen Hill (or was that Dave ;-) )
2. The face is unfamiliar (looks like a stranger)
That's me (not the stranger but the bad memory for faces thingy)
Quite often I will recognise a face and rack (sp?) my brain for a name only to discover that I have, in fact, never met them before. Weird eh? -
Is that anything like a Malkin?
"alteration of obsolete malkin, lower-class woman, mop, from Middle English; from Malkin, diminutive of the personal name Matilda."[citation needed]
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No, Steve, I'm comparing low quality non-news with low quality non-news. I guess the difference between Brt's map of Tassie and an actual election policy is that the latter matters.
Is that the connection?
Sooo confused now. -
because we're Not Bloody Merkins.
I don't see the connection. Merkins?
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The Republicans may have sown up the "Joe six pack"
Thaaart Sara sure is hot, grab me a six pack, aahhm gonna do me some VOTIN"
Ahh, ain't them thar yanks just so damn cute?
Seriously, if McCain/ Palin get the ticket I, for one, will be convinced that the end is nigh.