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Wow. After reading so many negative reviews from amazon, I am scared to even touch this book. What happened? How did it go to NYT best sellers list for 22 weeks?
Here is a little copyright intro for you. This is not legal advice; if you are in need of particular answers for your situation, please consult an attorney directly, as other commenters have indicated.

Copyright protects original creative expression. This is in contrast to general ideas, which cannot be protected by copyright. The difference between ideas and expression is hard to define, but a common example is that the concept of a story about two lovers torn by warring families is an idea (and thus unprotectable), whereas the particular story "Romeo and Juliet" is an expression of that idea (and thus protectable).

I think that most people would agree that the words of a movie are creative expression, and not general ideas.

What does someone else's copyright prevent you from doing? Copyright gives the author of a work four main exclusive rights: the right to make copies, to make derivative works, to distribute copies, and to publicly perform the work. If you perform an act that is within the author's exclusive rights during the term of a valid copyright, then you may infringe the copyright.

Subtitles and translations of subtitles would probably be considered derivative works, since they are derived from the original work, namely the movie.

There are also defenses to copyright infringement. Two come to my mind: fair use and the DMCA.

Fair use permits you to perform acts that would otherwise be infringements, because of certain public policy interests. It is extremely difficult to determine what constitutes fair use. Two considerations that are important factors are whether your use of the copyrighted work contributes something new to society and whether your use is taking away from a traditional revenue source of the author.

The DMCA provides a shield for website operators who accept user-provided content. If the website operator complies with certain requirements regarding taking down infringing content promptly, then the operator will be protected from many claims of copyright infringement.

Keep in mind that this is purely based on US copyright law, so things may be different if you are elsewhere in the world. Plus I am not considering the business side of things.
> Have nanotech magic-growth fences been invented and I didn't notice? Precisely how do you plan to do this? Oh I know, hire cheap Mexican labor? Or maybe bring over some Chinese to build the fences like we used them to build our railroads?

I do not have a problem with the rest of your post - but this statement isn't correct. A lot of countries have in the past successfully secured their borders. Even in lower technology times this was successfully done.
Again, I don't know much about pharmaceutical industry. Do anyone have any reference?
Using the quote like that makes it sound like a state employee doing the same job as a private employee will get paid 35% more, but that is far from the truth.

Different people doing different jobs get paid differently, that's about all those statistics say.
Yes, the actual cause, a problem on the wire between them and Amazon. UDP flood eating up available bandwidth.

I didn't guess it either :-)
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Pareto principle is based on Statistics. And

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There are inarguably a lot of people in the world who _do_ make their living as writers, so I think it comes down to your definition of 'reasonable'.

Re asking myself difficult questions, I think that's a fair point, and it's something I think about every day. Each time the answer is 'yes', though :-)
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Corollary: You can't get better at what you want to do by doing something else.
You are right of course, but I still think it makes sense to post a question like that in here to get some idea of whether it may or may not be legal. Consulting a lawyer is expensive and getting a feel of the territory - at least of which questions to ask - is a good strategy.
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We should send her flowers. Anyone who can get the funniest man in history back on stage is a hero.

Rumour has it he's even the originator behind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_a...
There's nothing so spectacularly funny as a bunch of Americans paying you millions to play a couple of scenes in a half-baked slap-stick comedy that'll require hardly any comedic effort.
Wow. That's very close to home.

The author's other essays (http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/index.htm) are interesting, too. I particularly like "Why I am Not a Professor". After reading that one, I wonder if the BBM he rescued in "The Bipolar Lisp Programmer" is not himself?
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Agreed. For some reason all this makes me want to throw this out there:

This "resistance" and "blacklist" and "regulator not regulating" shit (fitting word, given this topic) sounds familiar. Isn't it the same song they play on Wall Street and in Washington... the song that lead us the "financial crisis"?

I am sick of politicians and regulators being in bed with lobbyists and corporations instead of looking after us.

And I'm sick of the rest of us fucking taking it. Why are people not standing up for each other, saying they're mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore (to borrow a phrase)?

I'll close my mini-rant by posting this link to a HuffPo article that comes to mind: "Common Sense 2009" by Larry Flint (yes, that Larry Flint): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-flynt/common-sense-2009_...
It's much simpler than that actually, copying subtitles is a direct infringement on the rights of the script writer.

Whether someone read the script to you over the phone and you copied it down or you took it from the movie makes no difference.

No need to get into derived works.
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And allied stories ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7991706.stm : Take wi-fi out of class: teacher

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6676205.stm : Schools want urgent wi-fi advice

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6676129.stm : Wi-fi health fears are 'unproven'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6583213.stm : Teachers want wi-fi risk research

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6172257.stm : Wi-fi worry
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You need to make time to sit down and do it, whether you're working for Acme or not.
I think one of the biggest strengths for fiscal security the Texas government has to offer is our inability to take on debt. By decree of the Texas state constitution, the budget must be balanced each and every year. That's something that article misses out on.

Of course, there are some really stupid things that Texas does in relation to its spending. Namely, budgets are set two years in advance. It might have made sense when Texas was first formed, but it hardly makes sense now.
A "Dan" in my life took this path a little over a year ago... She was a an extremely well respected physician, teacher, and friend.

Tom, I wish I could tell you the answers will come with time, but if your experience is anything like mine... Well, I'm still waiting...

My sincerest condolences to Dan's friends and family, you'll certainly be in my thoughts and prayers.
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And moving beyond the visual to branding: if there is an entrenched competitor in your space that uses a certain color (lets say blue), pick an opposite color (say red or green). If you color your logo/colorscheme the same as them, you are just confirming visually that your brand is a copy of them, and not positioning yourself as different, which will make it harder to compete (gain mindshare as the marketers say).
You are looking at this through a very American lens.

There are plenty of countries in the world where gays can marry:

- Netherlands (one of the few things we did right, historically)

- Belgium

- Spain

- Canada

- South Africa

- Norway

- Sweden

Coming soon:

- Nepal

(from the wikipedia article).

So, Homosexual marriage is an oxymoron only in those places that don't allow it, and in those places that do allow it there have been no major outbreaks of anything to date, so stop being so afraid, live and let live.

Being able to marry the one you love is an essential part of the freedoms that should be accorded all human beings, including those that love others of the same sex as their own.
So for example, if you're competing with national geographic, do NOT choose yellow :)
"Sue dough" and i always think of it as pseudo.
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The state makes a distinction between 'marriage' and 'civil union' right now, I don't think that the gay movement would be too upset to be equal before the law and let the archaic church sort out if it wants to move in to the 21st century or become irrelevant at some point.

Flagged the thread btw, this is getting out of hand.
Competing with digg, do NOT choose blue. etc.
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"Societies should promote individual learning and innovation over cultural conformity, and the models for social learning should be individuals who have demonstrated that they understand how to live with the current environmental trends," says Whitehead.

The difficulty is to find out who is successful because he or she understands environmental trends and who is successful because of conformity. I doubt that prestige is a good filter.
Why are you telling us about it? Why don't you be the leader? Let us know what we can do to help you in the plan you've developed to solve the problem.
Another great book on this topic is "The Soul's Code" by James Hillman.

http://www.amazon.com/Souls-Code-Search-Character-Calling/dp...
No, they simply redefined "marriage" to suit the political climate.

> Being able to marry the one you love is an essential part

> of the freedoms that should be accorded all human beings,

> including those that love others of the same sex as their

> own.

Marriage means what it traditionally means. Redefining it to mean a generic "love" would also mean that kingkongrevenge's example of two elderly sisters could marry, or a mother can marry her son, or a man can marry his horse (provided the horse neighs in consent).

Redefining the word "marriage" to meet the whims of a minority doesn't actually change what a true marriage is.
You obviously sound like someone who is doing a large amount of armchair posturing. How do I know? looks out window Oh, hey! Mexico. I can even see the border wall from where I sit. I've met a number of illegal immigrants, I even went to school (in America!) with a few of them. The fact of the matter is that you have miles and miles of border that is damn near impossible to secure. Short of militarizing the border with some sort of armed computer-operated sentry, you aren't going to keep people from getting in. Building a wall simply forces people to either go over or under it.

If you can't get keep people from getting in, how do you spot them once they're here? I work with a Mexican national (he's legal, though). Without knowing better, I wouldn't be able to tell that he's an immigrant while some other person is not, and I've lived my entire life, save for one year, on the border. You could, of course, try to document the legal people (with, I don't know, some sort of passport) and force every person that looks like they could be illegal to present identification. I know I for one would love to live in a place that unfairly persecutes anyone that isn't white! </sarcasm>

Get real, the only way to ease the problem with illegal immigration (and with borders the size of the US, you'll never get rid of it) is to make the process of becoming legal a sane experience. It takes something like 18 years just to have the chance to get into this country if they're from a Latin country. It's no wonder people would rather hop a fence.
Money is seductive. It's an easy way to get some of your needs met. But much of what it can do for you is superficial. If you are basically "living right", more money can be wonderful. If not, it really doesn't make up for all the things that are so very wrong with your life.

I already am pursuing my dreams. I continue to wrestle with how to monetize those activities so I can afford to walk away from my day job. I think I'm still moving in the right direction but I still have days when I feel like it's hopeless, it's taking too long, and I am just never going to get there from here. Bah, humbug.
I too say soodoo, FWIW.
I'm mostly all about "C" - Does this pay the mortgage?
I'm curious about your reactions because I felt a similar sense of unease while reading this article -- feeling that I was being sold something, instead of learning something. I managed to set it aside because I encountered various vestiges of this industry where I live in S.A., and was spurred to look into it a bit.

That presenting the low-cost of purchasing a slave today
comes across as shock-value to get an emotional response.
And the response that he seems to be going for is ...

I'd say that this seems at odds with

I feel like I want to see all of the numbers, and when
numbers are pushed off to the side, it feels .. deceptive

Although, as you mention, it'd be nice to see ALL of the numbers. Still, you could probably suss up your own percentage comparison with wikipedia.

But here he's just presenting a solid, straightforward bit of data: the retail price.

You said that this is (or feels) a bit disingenuous -- giving us data out of context to provoke emotion; NY isn't Haiti; it's hard to get the slaves across borders; slaves were money-making operations in the past and aren't anymore, which is why the price is down.

Incidentally, human slaves ARE still money-making machines, albeit less completely than during the days of slavery. Brothels are the most straightforward example -- in the country I live in (most of the time), prostitution itself is essentially legal; it may be illegal, but the enforcement is all of the regulatory type (stay-classy headline: "Officers Check Douches In Area Prostibulos.")

Despite this, human trafficking is a not-insignificant component of the prostitution industry there. Why?

The economy is getting better. A pretty young teenage girl has way, way more options than selling her body. So the only way to get and keep 'good talent' is, essentially, slavery that starts really young.

Now, in that context, it's clear that the retail price is an important part of the equation. If one of the ways you make money is the sex tourism industry (either globally or regionally), clearly you've figured out how to scale either the movement of your humans or the business of attracting customers to you, and the price of the humans is an important data point; the fact that it's so low, given how much harder smuggling people is than cocaine, is a disheartening problem for those considering where to target disincentives.

it's coming across as deceptive (even though the intentions may be good)

I think that it may be feel that way, but as the facts seem to be solidly behind (essentially) everything he's saying, I'd ascribe that more to the artificiality that comes from other sources.

Like being asked, over and over again (speaking engagements, book tours, countless one-off interviews like this one), to try and squeeze the impact of an important message through the needle-eye of interview questions of variable quality.
Dick Hardt's brilliant presentation on Identity 2.0 is on similar principles.
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Making discrimination according to race illegal won't make a bit of difference in peoples attitudes and beliefs. It'll probably make them hold their position even more strongly...
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I don't know...getting Norwegians to pony-up for your divorce decree is damned funny too.
From the same site:

http://zenhabits.net/2009/09/8-ways-doing-less-can-transform...

As I struggle to keep up with my email, speaking schedule, day job, writing commitments, and a side project that I'd like to have become my major source of income, I can't keep up.

I have to do less. These articles have helped me rethink what I'm doing.
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the assumptions that people make when looking at a product, programmers or not, are probably valid (anecdotal evidence from OP and myself).

this is obviously a big issue, but how come people can't just talk about it. are there managers who really wouldn't listen to the state of things and plan accordingly?

i have a sense that improving communication would solve a lot of the misunderstandings, especially if there are negative or counter productive attitudes present.

everyone has assumptions. they effect more than this particular situation, too....if you let them.
He's on the panel at a screenwriting expo I was going to go to (but couldn't afford the plane fare from UK to L.A.).
I'm just barely part of this community and even I recognised the HN name "fallentimes" and the quality of his posts (I now get why PG asks for HN names). I'll miss just these little comments. I truly cannot begin to comprehend how those who knew Dan more must miss him. My thoughts go out to those who knew him.
So, how do you think we got to those traditions in the first place ?

Traditions change over time, the time for change has come, since we are now societally at a level advanced enough to recognize that when we say that everybody is equal before the law we actually should mean it.

Two elderly sisters marrying is fine with me, it doesn't bother me in the least what two elderly sisters are up to.

A mother marrying her son has connotations that society will probably never be comfortable with, even though in some countries it actually is legal.

A man marrying his horse is a funny example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-animal_marriage

But personally I'd probably limit it to transactions between consenting humans.

My personal opinion on all this is that consenting people should be free to do whatever they want as long as it does not directly harm others.

Mental harm because they 'degrade' what you can do by doing it too does not count.
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I'm at a loss for words. Thinking back about Dan and the three months we spent together in YC, there were so many things this guy did right. Both as an entrepreneur and a human being, he was a role model for me. The world is truly a poorer place without him.
The side of a debate that has the power of the state behind it is at a distinct advantage.
Yes. Books are "barely" pirated now because it is impossible to find most books from pirate sources. Hell, it's hard to find most books from legitimate sources online.

Books have an advantage on other media in that they are traditionally physical and their quality (when they are presented in a quality form) will still help sell them.

Having said that, the day someone manages to release a way (iphone app?) of letting you scan books easily (for book authors but lets not pretend it won't get used both ways) will be pretty awesome.
I think the publishing industry is in a much better place to encourage licensed use of their work than the music industry was. Look at the kindle and how simple and easy it is to grab a book. Imagine if an ipod could do that in 1999.
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Women can also be found in abundance on parenting email lists.
Debt slaves are not held by debt. Debt is merely the nominal excuse. The use and threat of violence coupled with an insulation from or complete lack of law drives slavery. And that is why I think it is such a pervasive problem. Solutions that work may require carrying a bigger stick -- and using it. That terrifies me. I abhor state military intervention, but I also abhor slavery through violence. Most people are similar which is why they stress alternative measures like economic disincentives and UN resolutions which don't seem to work well.
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By the same logic, universal suffrage is an unfortunate political compromise to meet the whims of minorities, and the "true" right to vote belongs to upper-class men only, as established by the traditional definition of democracy.
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All the techniques described in this book use rate-based coding. That is, they assume that the important dynamic property is the level of activation or, in biological terms, the neuron's firing rate. Biological evidence shows that correlations in spike timing is also very important for both the network's behaviour and for learning (called "spike-timing-dependent plasticity").

Some people have started developing computer models of this property, but unfortunately it's not a widely known research topic. One paper I've read is Gerstner et al. (1999) in which they describe a model of unsupervised learning. Gerstner also has a book called Spiking Neuron Models, which is available online, that goes into a lot of detail on the topic. Other people have done supervised learning by evolving network topologies using genetic algorithms.

The advantage of spike-based models is that they they also seem to scale better to larger networks, and have greater power for networks of similar complexity.

I'm quite optimistic about this field of research. Neural network research has seemed to become stagnant recently for some reason, but I think switching to spike-based models is the way out of that.
I was thinking about something very similar yesterday. People have goals for what they want to do in life. Maybe it's what they want to become -- their own boss, a missionary or an independently wealthy person. Maybe it's what they want to do -- fish, drive fast cars, or see every continent in person.

Regardless, people should come up a plan for how to do -- or become those things. And the goals they set for themselves should be ones that really do get them closer to what they want.

Any time spent doing things that don't really help you toward your goal (this includes surviving in order to meet your goal, duh!) is basically a betrayal of one's self.
As for me? I just want to help people. I do it by learning things well enough to teach them to others, by honing my writing and speaking skills, by writing and speaking about helpful things, and -- of course -- by lending a hand to people whom I know how to help.