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Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Actually, this is one of those areas that you and whoever read it as this is 100% factual need to learn english.
Notice the bolded? Yeah... See I don't know what it is exactly any more because the law changes every now and then and I really don't care as other copyright laws, pretty much say, Bigger entity (company or individual) wins, regardless of any other law out there.
I know there is a law like that. I don't know how it is stated exactly, or the time periods involved.
My post took me all of 5 seconds to *research* before I posted. -
Quote:From Wiki:Originally Posted by Durakken
I believe things go into public domain 15 years after the owner dies or something like that. Obviously there are company issues and such that make those types of laws kinda dumb. Which speaking of... is why the Superman lawsuits are ridiculous... If Superman was/is still own by Siegal and Schuster the point at which it would have gone into public domain is long past...lost past even by the time of the original Superman movie if i remember right, and as such not only does DC not owe them anything, we as the public can make our own Superman stuff and sell it perfectly legally.
"Expiration of copyright
The expiration of a copyright is more complex than that of a patent. Historically the United States has specified terms of a number of years following creation or publication; this number has been increased several times. Most other countries specify terms of a number of years following the death of the last surviving creator; this number varies from one country to another (50 years and 70 years are the most common), and has also been increased in many of them. See List of countries' copyright length. Legal traditions differ on whether a work in the public domain can have its copyright restored. Term extensions by the U.S. and Australia generally have not removed works from the public domain, but merely delayed the addition of works to it. By contrast, a European Union directive harmonizing the term of copyright protection was applied retroactively, restoring and extending the terms of copyright on material previously in the public domain."
Superman has been in constant publication since creation, afaik.
Also, the who owns Superman case isn't as cut and dried as that. -
Would it really have killed them to make something about the Dark Angels or another of the more interesting Chapters? So sick of the Ultramarines.
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Quote:They're telescopic. They suck into the body in alt mode.Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
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I understand the keeping his arms and legs so that it actually looks like Bender... but at the same time doing that makes it look nothing like a transformed car. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Ironik, everyone seems to be in complete agreement that I am to be insulted and thinks that they all think the same thing, but it quite apparent they don't.
Arcanaville, while I did shorten it to just "parts in a system," you addition of interactions of the parts in that system holds no more weight than saying parts in a system.
Anyways, done with this thread and Mod 05 should lock it since it's full of you people breaking rules and such... but whatever.
You weren't insulted. People pointed out your apparent lack of an ability to make a logical argument and reassess it when your assumptions were proven to be in error. -
humbug!
and only 1 of the episodes tonight. So a "repeat" next week too
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Too true. If not, creative types won't be able to do it full time, reducing both the amount and the quality of entertainment for everyone.
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Quote:It won't work the way it was intended to. It'll no longer provide the operator with protection from the elements, road debris, insects, wind generated by moving at speed etc, making it more hazardous to operate.Originally Posted by Durakken
Wow... that is an incredibly stupid statement.
I'm sorry, it is.
Can we perform an experiment... Can I bust the windshield of your car and see if the car still works? According to you, it shouldn't.
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Quote:In this case, the 50k ships are essentially a nation. The ships each have a captain who's in charge of his own ship, and there's an elected board of captains that make decisions for the whole.Originally Posted by galadiman
I guess I have to be totally explicit.
You cannot glue 50,00 ships together and have them cooperate.
Because the captain of each ship wants to Do His Own Thing.
You would have to convince them all to cooperate.
Which is much more difficult than having One leader deciding and doing things.
Now before you use this as evidence that 50k ships is more complex than one...
The 50k ships each have their own master, but in a flotilla in which all the ships have the same goal, they're all just moving from A to B. They each take care of their own little bubble. Which is much easier than one person taking care of all their bubbles.
Here's a corollary that sums up the idea.
Did you ever go to the movies with one other person?
Did you ever go with 10 other people?
Were these 2 activities different in any way?
For example, in the larger group, was it harder to decide which movie to see?
Was it harder to decide who would sit where? Who would get the food? Who would get the tickets??
Is any of this getting through?
May I ask what you do in real life that none of this is making sense?
But again...they're not going to abandon those 50k ships for a few giant ships, as those ships house the entirety of their species. -
I don't understand how he thinks adding a more complex component doesn't mean that the whole is now more complex.
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Quote:What? The city components *are* part of the ship, otherwise it wouldn't be a city-ship. It'd be a city that the ship could visit. A city-ship is just a giant ship. Sure, just one engine (although probably more than one, even with their maguffin element). but everything else that's needed for people to live on the ship still needs to be there, working and maintained, and in sufficient amounts. Which, as everyone has been trying to explain to you, increases complexity.Originally Posted by Durakken
But in this instance that is not the case because the city components are separate as they would be so not part of the ship so the toilet example doesn't work... and there is not 100 engines for everyone, because there is no need in this situation. there is 1 engine for 1 engine.
And it's still moot, as I've explained earlier. They can't afford to build giant ships, and they wouldn't if they could because it'd increase the chances of one thing going wrong and wiping out a huge chunk of their population. -
It's still moot. The situation in question makes replacing the 50,000 ship flotilla with a handful of giant city-ships undesirable, even if it were possible (which it isn't, even with the maguffin that allows relatively tiny drives power massive ships, and the fact that the owners of said flotilla didn't/won't have the resources to undertake such a project) or practical.
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Seriously Dur. You're using the internet to post these ideas of yours. Why don't you take an extra 5 minutes or so and use it to see if the facts actually support them before you post?
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Yup...pretty much they way I figured this "debate" would go. Durakken takes a position based on flawed assumptions, then ignores all factual evidence to the contrary.
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Luminara is correct. Do you seriously think that rope is an accurate analogy to a ship?
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Quote:Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
But will they cast a non-Indian to play an Indian scientist again?
Prolly not... pretty easy to find Indians in the biz now compared to then. Not saying it was hard then, but casting agents are lazy
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Quote:Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
1) As I stated before: How does proving that they like women prove that they don't like men? I could google the word Bisexual for you, but I'm at work and like employment.
2) How are you taking this thread seriously?
It doesn't (i think I covered that...that's what "on the DL" means), and I'm not. But just playing the numbers, odds would be they're straight as opposed to bi. -
Granted, I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of ST....I've seen most of TNG era episodes( DS9, Voyager included), and a decent number of TOS...but I don't recall even *hints* about there being some sort of cover up about the "real" reason the two species split off.
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well, except in this case, there is evidence to the contrary. Namely Faultline's relationship with Fusionette, and that States has been married (to a woman) and spawned progeny. Sure, they *could* be on the DL, as the kids say, but lacking evidence of that, I'm gonna go with the position that *does* have evidence.
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Quote:I'd forgotten about those too...but then I'm not under the hood like the devs....that's something that could get uglyOriginally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
Huh, I hadn't considered the impact on pseudo-pets, it makes sense though, they spawn at your level.
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Quote:Journey was on the soundtrack of the originalOriginally Posted by DumpleBerry
I still don't grasp the significance of this.
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Quote:Oh no doubt the intention's there for him to be a problem in the next movie. His open scoffing at Bradley is proof enough that he's going to be at odds with the the new regime at Encom, and just going on who they cast (Cillian Murphy) and how little he was used you can tell they're planning for the future of the franchise.Originally Posted by Nericus
Well as Flynn described Dillinger "not as smart, but very sneaky." The impression I got from Dillinger Jr. was that he seemed like he could become very much like his father.
And yes I cant see Flynn holding a generational grudge, it just seems odd that the son of Dillinger would be there. But again, the kid is talented. -
Bipedal walking is an a surprisingly difficult thing to replicate in machines... navigating stairs even more so.
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Quote:The insertion of the Kheld specific enemies is random once the Kheld=true flag is up, afaik. I don't think it's new that one showed up there, just your friend RNG at work.Originally Posted by Deacon_NA
This just happened on an STF I did a few days ago. I wonder if this is new behavior, I've done plenty of STFs with Khelds before and never had a Kheld that needed defeating before the cutscene started.
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Quote:Dillinger Jr looks to be about Sam's age and Flynn's been out of the picture for 20 something years; DJ had to have been hired long after that. Even so, I don't see Flynn as the type to hold a generation spanning grudge against a kidOriginally Posted by Nericus
Watched TRON Legacy again and still enjoy it. A nice sequel, with a couple of loose ends that could spawn a sequel.
One minor thing though is this: given how Ed Dillinger Sr. gained control of Encom in the first place via the MCP and swiping Kevin's files, and how the evidence was revealed at the end.......I find it surprising that Dillinger's son would be part of Encom at all. Granted this is the son and not the father, but that Encom would take such a gamble no matter how smart junior is...... OF course this also presumes that Dillinger Sr. was prosecuted at all or if he copped a deal and stepped down as Senior Exec. Neither movie nor the other TRON related items a few years back ever clarified Dillinger's fate.
I don't see anything odd about someone of his talents working for what is essentially the Microsoft of that world. Not really a gamble just because his father was a jerk...we don't know anything about the kid other than who he is, that he's a capitialist and is good with software.