... consider this one, which is purely economic:

If copyrights are extended by 20 years, the entire Canadian public is deprived of value, which is handed mostly to holders of existing copyrights. What are you getting in return?

If the answer is 'nothing', then why would your MP, whose sole job is to represent the Canadian public, vote for this?

If the answer is 'more creativity', then that statement would need considerable backup before it's worthwhile changing the status quo, considering the loss involved. Last I checked there was no shortage of new novels, films and so on, and no indication that more money for the creators in the long distant future would change that.

And if the answer is 'appeasing other countries', then someone needs to justify the value of such appeasement.

Anything else would seem to be a dereliction of the MP's duty.

I think the 'supporting the established players' argument has merits.

As a young country, the US was notorious for ignoring copyrights and patents held in older, countries during its early development. Japan had the same reputation; China is arguably just leaving this phase itself, as they've tightened their IP rules for WIPO purposes in order to more easily access other markets with their products.

It would seem that, for countries and businesses both, there's a threshold they cross where they realise the value of their ideas, if copyrighted, is worth more to them than the cost of paying for the ideas of others.

Stallman himself would make the case himself that the GPL is an attempt to turn copyright against itself. It's not an argument for copyright but a means to subvert it.

Absolutely.

Of course, you could do this in the current rules is simply to stop watching and listening to them, rather than getting copies off the net.

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Ryanairs-OLeary-Greek-passengers-can-pay-in-mountain-goats-133292018.html

Imagine the coin slot size if it's going to take goats.

Recruiters are fundamentally idle. They try and send your resume to as many companies as they can without actually pissing the companies off by sending irrelevant ones, and they're not interested in spending a lot of time on any given resume or opening to work the matches out. The easiest way, for them, to do this is to try and pigeonhole you, and similarly to try and pigeonhole the job you're applying for.

They serve roughly the same function as a usenet group - one to many broadcasting, with some attempts to maintain the signal-to-noise ratio - and often have the same level of value. However, unlike a usenet group, they would like 20% of your first year's salary as a fee, please.

If you want a job in an area you don't work in, then firstly, do it yourself, not via a recruiter - looking up job ads at companies you'd like to work for, scanning job boards where companies advertise, etc. - and secondly, be speculative - apply for jobs you'd like but don't look like a perfect match for - and develop a tolerance for rejection. (And remember that a direct application doesn't come with that 20% fee. It makes you quite a bit more attractive for small companies...)

You need to find yourself a better recruiter. Seriously.

Actually we usually say we're in the automotive industry.

Compiling is not FLOP heavy.

Also, emacs compiled relatively rapidly (under an hour) 20 years ago; I'm sure it's not that bad on anything modern given they tend to have 50x the MIPS of back then.

Ah, the USA: the only country where people will fight to the death to defend their constitutional right to be shot more frequently by criminals.

> The pharma industry wasn't inept. It found a solution that was three times more expensive.

No, it found a solution it could sell for 3 times more.

The story is more 'Americans pull buttcheeks apart for big pharma to screw them with huge charges for simple products. Again.'

It has nothing to do with CFCs. The question is 'why does an asthma inhaler cost $60?'

I would agree on the Osborne effect, but since Nokia practically can't give away any of their current lineup I'm not sure they could parasitise their market ;)