The modding of this comment is ridiculous. You may not like the conclusion but this is how we should hope people engage on a community forum. You know, by explaining themselves in detail. Obviously it's debatable, but 100% unassailability should not be the threshold for being modded up or down.

I think endless copyright and the advent of more server-side applications are somewhat related but mostly different things.

Also, I suspect (hope? dream?) the days of extending copyright indefinitely are over. One of the big excuses with the Bono act was that it put us in line with the rest of the world (read: Europe), I don't think there have been any extensions to Copyright beyond the status quo globally to support that. I also think the 98 fight woke a lot of people up to this racket and there will be major push back.

We live in an age where the ability to create new works is more democratic than ever and my guess is people will be more enthused about leveraging that to reimagine and elaborate on older works than ever. I'm looking forward to seeing what people do with The Great Gatsby and The Trial.

Having said all of that, maybe I am naive. I certainly expect Big IP to put forward some nonsense nakedly self-serving argument to extend again but I think a lot of the consolidation we've seen on media production side indicates they know the jig is probably up.

Maybe I am misreading you, but to act like there is no difference between Feudalism and Capitalism is a stretch that even Karl Marx would call you out on.

How exactly? I hear this a lot but I don't see much empirical to support this claim. I ask as a "black" person from the US.

Where the hell do you live that $10,000 a month isn't enough to cover your costs of living and save some money?

I love you.

I've been doing this for 30+ years professionally. If she's comfortable with Windows then stick with it. I tell people that ask me to go up to the store and find one that's comfortable for them. By that I mean, does the keyboard fit your hands, do you want a full numeric keypad, make sure the screen is the size that work for their eyes, pick it up and figure out if the weight is good, etc. Have her do that then, as her employer, find the one that best fits HER needs. You're not buying 800 laptops, just one.Then go configure the best make and model that fits those requirements. It sounds cheesy but an employee happy with the tool that they're going to spend most of their time on is a productive employee.

I'm old but I vote Voyagers! The ! is actually part of the name.

My bad, 96863066.6668 gallons of farts per hour.

Man, I have been farting all day. An average of 8 seconds per fart. There are are 7.7 billion people in the world. Let's say 35% of those people fart 8 seconds per fart. That is 2.695 billion people farting for an average of 8 seconds per fart. That is roughly a little less than 22 billion fart seconds per day. Or 366666666.667 farts per hours. The average volume of a fart is 0.264172 gallons. That equals 366666666.667 gallons of farts per hour. Talk about man made global warming. We should tax farts.

And take some basic and intermediate accounting classes. If the company takes off you'll actually be able to understand what your accountant is saying.

Why can I use my Moderator Points on every post but this one?

Or, as it is in the United States, what Google doesn't want you to see.

Trump won 2600 counties to Clinton's 500. That's 84%. How is that razor thin? You can blame the Electoral College but it is there for a reason so that voters in the middle of Kansas or Montana or Nevada or Illinois have just as a loud a voice as everyone else.

The tech industry works in waves. I lost a lot of money in 1999 when VA Linux went public at $324 a share. I'm older now (obviously) and am more conservative in my investments. I should have invested in the online Porn industry, I'd own an island by now. https://www.cnet.com/news/10-y... Waves. Everything comes and goes.