Posts by Don Christie
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I'm just puzzled noone seems to be able to answer roobery's basic question!
robbery asks a lot of basic questions. Answer one and he moves on claiming you haven't answered "this one".
I have seen the question about property rights answered a number of times in perfectly reasonable ways. I just gave you a short one myself. You disagree with the answer but it does not mean that the "basic question" has gone unanswered.
you can't copyright an "idea" for a work- or stop anyone else creating along the same lines
Which is why Copyright is certainly a superior concept than patenting. I think we have complete common ground there. I think your Copyright terms are too prescriptive and as others have maybe implied there should be and are different terms different types of work. There are very good arguments for keeping terms short which have been explored up this thread.
However, the core issue right now is not really whether life, five, ten 100 years is the correct term, the core issue is that as a society we are trading away so key civil rights to help with the short term enforcement of Copyright. this is at the same time as Copyright holders are demanding huge increases in term. It will be hard to get those rights back once they have been handed over to the people robbery doesn't represent and this is bad.
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Oh, maybe I should mention softball. I mean, I get the tension, kind of, but could someone hit the bloody ball, just occasionally, please.
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This is a general question, not just to Don: is there any sport where you find women's version is more interesting than the men's?
Certainly hockey, as you mentioned.
There are a raft of sports where the gender doesn't matter, as seen in the Olympics...athletics, swimming, cycling, sailing and so on. I think male rugby is still more interesting to watch but I would rather watch a WC women's soccer match than The Pheonix (who I do shell out to see occasionally).
I must admit I am a bit of s sucker for all sports no matter what the gender of the players. The netball thing is a bit tongue in cheek but of the sports I see in NZ it rates as my least preferred.
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Intellectual property is a different sort of property
It is different. Mainly because intellectual endeavour is akin to a classic "Commons". It is hard to identify where the personal ownership starts and ends.
It obviously and demonstrably does usually survive without tragic consequences.
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So, in my original post I deleted my rant about netball as a spectator sport (frankly women's hockey, football, cricket are all far more entertaining). But I can't let this go without comment:
And the netballers played a three-test series in a week! And a world cup over 8 days! (or thereabouts).
That's because the rules of the game are to stop whenever you get the friggin ball and only run around in a little area of the court. Shesh, no wonder they have the energy left over for more games.
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Unless, of course, there is some fatal flaw in his plan that means everything will go horribly wrong.
Not something you would rule out in David's case. But, hey, at least we'll get a funny blog post out of that...
Are you holding the Alan Bollard posts back for a special edition or am I misreading the TOC?
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Points off to the first person to congratulate Canterbury on beating Hawke's Bay or to weep over Hawke's Bay's loss.
I can't wait for your topic in then (albeit unlikely) event that Wellington pull off a win on Saturday, No doubt there will be a fascinating game in the World Beach Frisbee series that grabs your attention.
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From TFA:
Critics say Turkey's penal code makes it too easy to obtain blocking orders, although in practice prohibitions are often easily overcome through proxy servers.
Sighs
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BTW - shutting down the internet is not something restricted to recording companies. Creationists will love our Copyright Act.
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However, it's distinctly undesirable for any investment fund to be holding anything vaguely close to even 50% of the market, never mind something that looks more like 100%. The NZX-50 would need to grow by 100% and Fonterra would need to list before the Cullen fund's projected 40% was less than half the market value of the top listings.
Exactly. Which is why it won't happen like that. Which is why I say that ultimately most of the 40% represents your tax cut. One way or another this fund is being raided, along with the R&D tax credit and Kiwi Saver contributions.