Making the copyright permanent would create a greater incentive to create and would lower the cost for consumers by extending the time to earn back the investment and shifting the intersection of the price-demand curve down.

And do the same thing for drugs while you are at it.

I always appreciate software assessments from people never used the software.

Thanks.

Also, why does Slashdot ignore my first paragraph break? It has been doing this ever since I joined the site.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070221065200.htm

This is a time-old tactic that goes back to the founding of this country (the Founders published tracts and newspapers, etc.)

Besides, even if you find it distasteful, our enemies use of the same tactic necessitates that we use it as well.

For public institutions, this law only says that you can't deny someone tenure or employment based on their questioning of the predominant theory of the origin of species.

They need to add another law that prevents people from being denied tenure due to political beliefs in, say, an engineering department, which is quiet common.

Ah, no. The 'entrepreneurs' just didn't have their act together enough to get cards because they are really just unemployed people with an idea and some money from the 'rents.

They were the ones who walked away from that encounter embarrassed not to have cards to give him while looking terribly unprofessional.

If not being just like a video game makes a movie suck...... well, that's most movies.