Comment Re:Manufacturing (Score 1) 268
That graph is very misleading. I just put the inferred numbers into a spreadsheet and if you adjust for inflation you will find it increases into the early 90's and then begins to decline.
Comment Re:This will end badly (Score 1) 231
>43,000 or more of the United States’ population die due to vehicular accidents
>It is also affirmed that car accidents kill a child every 3 minutes.
43000/365/24/60 =
That second statement is either entirely made up or is misleadingly referring to the entire world
Comment Re:Logical Fallacy Bingo (Score 1) 698
Mod parent up.
Submission + - ASCAP War on Free Culture Escalates (zeropaid.com)
An anonymous reader writes: After ASCAP declared war on free culture and the response from Creative Commons on the incident, the war of words have apparently escalated. Drew Wilson of ZeroPaid has been following this story closely. The EFF responded to the ASCAP letter saying, "we don’t think that ASCAP characterized EFF and its work accurately. We believe that artists should be compensated for their work, and one proposal we have for that is Voluntary Collective Licensing." The response from the EFF came with a study and a letter written by one irate ASCAP member where the member donated to the EFF and Public Knowledge as a result of the ASCAP letter. Public Knowledge also responded to the letter saying, “It’s obvious that the characterization of Public Knowledge is false. Public Knowledge advocates for balanced copyright and an open Internet the empowers creators and the public. What we oppose are overreaching policies proposed by large corporate copyright holders that punish lawful users of technology and copyrighted works.” Interestingly enough, things have escalated further now with the NMPA saying that organizations like Public Knowledge and the EFF "have an extremist radical anti-copyright agenda" according to a transcript of a speech posted on Billboard. Public Knowledge dismissed those allegations saying, "anybody who has spent more than 5 minutes on our website or talking to our staff knows that these things are not true."
