SFXB Forum

> OK, for starters I think you've gotta stop taking apart > others comments and criticising them piecemeal (very> easy to do), and put forward (and defend) a coherant> codified statement of your own views (not quite so> easy to do).Ok, for starters I think you've gotta stop responding with general s...

> Felice, I'm afraid I don't see an "entertainment tax"> working. The BBC Licence Fee is pretty unpopular over> here as is. Why? Well, say I want a show making. I> don't get any say in what happens at the BBC despite> helping to fund it. Yes, that's a problem. But the solution is giving yo...

> Felice. You're missing my point, and I'm not exactly> sure what your trying to say. I was stating that all> the arguements against Ebay bootleggers can be > equally applied to Simons bootleggingNo they can't; Simon is loosing sales to the Ebay bootleggers; the copyright holders are _not_ loosing s...

> I'm pretty certain they would put exactly the same > arguements to Simon (et al) as you would put to the> Ebay sellers. Er, the difference being that the copyright holders _aren't_ making the program available. If they did, I'm sure Simon would stop selling them himself (unless they were doing som...

> data can be duplicated without diminishing the original> source of that data. However, effort is still required to> produce the original data and so there must be some> incentive for it to be produced in the first place. Tax funded seems like the only reasonable option. Or joint funding by all the...

On the topic of CD piracy, I just don't think it makes sense to charge directly for data of any kind (music, software, video, etc). Yes, there is work involved in creating the original data in the first place, but any number of copies require no additional effort to speak of, and limiting the number...

> Mmm. I'm not sure that capitalism in its "pure" form> can be blamed for all those things It might not be the sole cause of all instances of those things in the world, but it does inevitably exhibit them.> political policy has a large part in them as well of > course. Political policy is ...

> every time you buy anything commercially > you are giving someone a large chunk of money (their> profit) for no other reason than that they own the> means of production with which to produce that > product. Not wishing to go all Bolshevick but that's> just the nature of the game, it's a model of m...

Cool 8)

A mockup of the arm, closed and open, without the hand:The exhaust port half on the left is shown closed, and the one on the right irised open. With both open, the end of the arm could close around the wrist.If you really want it to look feasible, I think you're going to need to redo the visible eng...