You are looking at it wrong way.

In past, short copyright made sense for publishers, because older items on their catalogue were not worth reproducing anymore anyway.

Right now, with digital they can keep selling 30 year old stuff without any issues. Only five people per year wants to hear certain song? No problem. Technically, it is not different from handling latest hit. So they would, of course, want to have as long as possible to exploit it because demand never drops to zero.

If they had to press CDs (or books or vinyls or DVDs), it would be unprofitable to make them, but now they can just give customer license and let him download from big archive which is way cheaper.

Simply put, if you have infinite stock, you need infinite time to sell it.

If you were crinimal, your nickname would be "idiot rezalas".

Police will not really work hard when investigating typical robbery. Even if homeowner saw someone, police will have rather casuall aproach because there are usually more important crimes to solve like...

Murdered family? Well, enjoy your manhunt because now you are high-priority target which made some headlines. Expect police to to a lot more thorou, dedicate more men, public call for help of witneses, check security cameras, ask cell phone operators for co-location profile of cell phones, Snitches, Bounties, Maybe short spot at news etc etc...

Just showing gun might make you improtant enough that your case will be actually investigated rather than filed. Killing someone? Con-fucking-gratulations, genius, you *really* made sure you are not getting caught, now didn't you?

Thanks for illustrating shortsigtedness of gun-people.

Order more drives. Hope for jackpot.

Solution: Make personal encryption and anonymization illegal (or allow it to exist provided that goverment gets all the keys). If you have nothing to hide and whatnot (+ terrorists) ... Plus anonymizers help evil pedos, if you run anon node, you are accessory to child abuse.

That was not so hard.

What next - steganography? Right, it is oh-so-easy to hide 4GB image of dvd movie... ...

Yay for filesharing doing its share of helping to drive war on privacy.

That is not overhead, that is normal operation.

Problem is that there are charities where leadership recieves executive-grade paychecks, get nice company car, have offices in expensive districts, etc... They are being ran as for-profit company that is doing extremelly well and can waste money.

I once recieved snail-mail letter from (unicef or doctors without borders, i do not remember which, materials had touching pictures of starving children), all neighbours recieved the same letter. It contained brochure, refilled money transfer order, leaflet, letter, all high quality prints ... it must have cost about 3$ to send this kind of stuff.

Needless to say, I was pretty disgusted. It was pretty obvious that friend of someone higher-up in that charity got pretty profitable comision. And that is not mentioning prefilled money transfer order in that mail (and snail-mail spam).

Sickening approach. I hoped it was some scammer hoping people will simply send him money without checking bank account, but it was not the case.

Just like you have cop-assisted suicide, you also have apple-assisted Streisand effect.

If you think about it, producing controversial app that you know since day 1 of development to not pass review process, is extemely cheap way to get your name on title pages.

I bet app authors would be royally pissed if it actually passed review process and appeared in app store.

This so much.

I want to obliterate certain sites from search results:

Stuff like this, for example: http://tapix/ . ru/mobile/t64340 (it is inscredible how many sites which are basically list of sequential numbers there are.)

Various newsgroup, forum and mailing list scrappers.

javadoc and opensource code mirrors.

goddamn www.roseindia . net/java/

etc... There is just too much of redundant clutter.

Do not overdo 1).

You will come across as desperate. Especially if your future target sees you hitting on someone else several times before. Small sub-community (workplace, school... ) is no-no for this approach.

On other accounts, you are right. Stop being shy and you will get laid. You will be suprised how much success you will have.

Hard part is not asking girl out on date and then getting her to bed. It is after you start dating.

Now, imagine life evolved there...

Not only that, it is also providing service to people who in past refused to use facebook.

In my opinion, Batle is very biased and frankly, a bit dinosaur.

He is the guy that argues that "Permanent Death" is good thing for MMO (and only hated because of bad past implementations and that intelligent player can be convinced it is good thing for him).

Then, it goes downhill. He is basically all about trying to convicne people that good old hardocre muds were fun and if you do not find then fun, you are stupid. Any innovation is, of course, stupid too because it dilludes old and superior design. He is the guy that mocks player who wants to join up group of his friends in dungeon without havign to travel world for half and hour.

Game designed by this guy would be, well, disaster. Marketers made better games than him because they make games for their current customers while he wants to make game for his 20-something self.

Read and laugh: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2157/soapbox_why_virtual_worlds_are_.php

Not sure what you meant by "clearly have no idea about communism either in theory or practice", but I would guess you are hanging onto "greed and envy".

When you convert country to communist one, you desperatelly depend on average guy hating guts of more succesfull people and wanting to destroy them out of spite. By, say, confiscating factories. Or houses. Or piece of land. And you pay on greed of rest of people whom you convince that they are going to be piece of action from it - either by helping themselves to some property or position of power (say, management position in factory or nice flat in confiscated house or part of harvest from confiscated land).

Key is to be prophet and leader of this change so that you end up "owning" this place. At first, you offer paradise, then you offer some looting and ability to kick powerfull people in balls.

(And yes, I have lived in communist country, i know very well how it works in practice, thank you very much.)

And this "ideology" was proven again and again to lead to corrupt and flawed regimes.

Because it is just another tool to fool masses and get to the top. It was never supposed to be more than propaganda piece that plays on human greed and envy.

but you end up getting nice Paycheck ...or not.