I am so, so sorry. I did very miniature version of that today and it was brutal. From southwestern CT to slightly more north and east southwestern CT (Stamford to Stratford). I feel your pain sir. You're a glutton for punishment.
Poking around to see which blues standards are and aren't copyright, and it turns out that not only are Robert Johnson's songs still copyright, they're copyright for bullshit reasons. Johnson's music wasn't filed for copyright until 1990, but was somehow still able to be registered. Weirder still, the Rolling Stones got sued for their two uses of Johnson's music, both of which were published roughly twenty years before the copyright was registered.
Poking around to see which blues standards are and aren't copyright, and it turns out that not only are Robert Johnson's songs still copyright, they're copyright for bullshit reasons. Johnson's music wasn't filed for copyright until 1990, but was somehow still able to be registered. Weirder still, the Rolling Stones got sued for their two uses of Johnson's music, both of which were published roughly twenty years before the copyright was registered.
What. The. Fuck.
Copyright is automatic, dude. You don't have to file to get it. Filing just makes it easier to go after people who have violated your copyright. You have copyright on your work from the moment you create it. And you can sell/will the copyright to anyone you want without having had it registered.
So yeah, none of that is bullshit or weird. It's just how our copyright system works.
Poking around to see which blues standards are and aren't copyright, and it turns out that not only are Robert Johnson's songs still copyright, they're copyright for bullshit reasons. Johnson's music wasn't filed for copyright until 1990, but was somehow still able to be registered. Weirder still, the Rolling Stones got sued for their two uses of Johnson's music, both of which were published roughly twenty years before the copyright was registered.
What. The. Fuck.
Copyright is automatic, dude. You don't have to file to get it. Filing just makes it easier to go after people who have violated your copyright. You have copyright on your work from the moment you create it. And you can sell/will the copyright to anyone you want without having had it registered.
So yeah, none of that is bullshit or weird. It's just how our copyright system works.
The bullshit is that Johnson's music shouldn't have been under copyright in 1990. He died in 1938, so the copyright would've expired decades earlier.
Copyright is automatic, dude. You don't have to file to get it. Filing just makes it easier to go after people who have violated your copyright. You have copyright on your work from the moment you create it. And you can sell/will the copyright to anyone you want without having had it registered.
So yeah, none of that is bullshit or weird. It's just how our copyright system works.
The bullshit is that Johnson's music shouldn't have been under copyright in 1990. He died in 1938, so the copyright would've expired decades earlier.
Ah, ok yeah, that's before we changed the law to make it automatic. Without declaration when it was published and subsequent registration, it would have been in the public domain at least two decades before 1990.
But then, there are all kinds of special cases. Courts can grant special dispensation. Most of the reason we extended copyright duration to what it is now is because Disney wanted to be able to keep their shit locked down and didn't want to have to go to court every time they needed to extend one of their properties.
Unfortunately a case of a court sticking to the letter, rather than the spirit, of the law. I hope after this they will amend the law in question and nail him next time he tries this.
Unfortunately a case of a court sticking to the letter, rather than the spirit, of the law. I hope after this they will amend the law in question and nail him next time he tries this.
That's what happened in MA, including the law update.
So uh, a guy I went to high school with is potentially looking at four felony charges for secretly recording women topless while giving them massages as an athletic trainer. And he was also assigned at a middle/high school so here's hoping the only victims were adults.
I just spent about a week on a cruise which was composed of 75% rich (mostly fat, no like scary I didn't realise you could have such a high average weight) white Americans.
I shared table talk during breakfast and overheard their chatter at bars and cafes. The number of dog whistles going off in every conversation was insane. It was hilarious and sad how uncomfortable they were to even sit with me at a table and talk about the scary nature of immigrants and poorer people then themselves. I never had a situation where any of my counter points were addressed, just a hasty change of topic or complete silence and quiet anger.
Weirdly enough I got laughed at for admitting I wasn't going to be able to afford a $22,000 signed reproduction of a painting at an auction but would gladly pay $5 for a poster of it. Apparently these people didn't realise they were bidding on signed, framed posters and not the originals.
There were a few Australians and Europeans with similar attitudes, e.g. the immigrants brought into the EU and the Queenslanders not comfortable with the tourist industry setup on the Gold Coast to accommodate Japanese tourists. From my anecdotal experience they seemed to be specific groups for people from these regions.
I thought I found a pretty cool old couple from Florida and then they revealed the horrific truth about having to be a grade teacher who taught "American Indians". When they realised I knew more about the sociopolitical aspects than they did (basically they wanted to complain why the Native American children's parents could afford Cadillacs and white people could not), they seemed extremely unhappy, even more so when I brought up the likelihood that money was not being shared evenly amongst the population and there were kids not getting an education at all.
Old white Americans are just about as scary as young Republicans.
Vote Trump, to flush out your dog whistlers and the farce of a democracy.
Well the problem is you went on a cruise what did you expect? Cruises are for old white Americans to be shipped off and not bother people for a couple weeks.
Yeah, I've had a number of conversations like that myself over the years on cruise ships. As I'm employed by the cruise lines, I feel I have to bite my tongue way more than I'd like. But once, after a guy said he was against illegal immigration, the conversation went a bit like this:
Me: But illegal immigration doesn't matter!
Him: Yes it does!
Me: To you?
Him: Yes.
Me: How has illegal immigration ever effected your life in any way?
Him: Let me think...
Me: Look, I don't mean to be insensitive, but I know illegal immigration has never effected you life, because you are retired with enough money to come on a 22 day luxury cruise! If illegal immigration disappeared today, your life would be no better off. Even if illegal immigration increased by 100%, your life would be no worse in any way.
Him: I guess that's true.
Of course, it all comes down to the fact that most people are racist in some way. But rich people seem so needlessly racist. Really, of all the people who might have a grudge against other people, they seem to have the least reason.
Don't forget kids. Old white Americans and sometimes their kids. I only say this because I've been on 2 cruises, both times before 18 and both times with my parents, who are old white... basically Americans (one's an Italian immigrant).
Well the problem is you went on a cruise what did you expect? Cruises are for old white Americans to be shipped off and not bother people for a couple weeks.
I didn't know what to expect as this was my first ever cruise, I was expecting something along these lines but experiencing it was different. My Mum wanted to do it for a family holiday before my brother moved to America and for my Dad's birthday along with a visit to Tokyo.
Of course, it all comes down to the fact that most people are racist in some way. But rich people seem so needlessly racist. Really, of all the people who might have a grudge against other people, they seem to have the least reason.
I can't think of how crazy annoying your day to day life would be when around these individuals.
Beyond being usually racist, older cruise people are generally just annoying as shit. Seattle is a pretty big cruise hub for going up along the coast to around Alaska. My girlfriend worked at a Target downtown where people would go and get like last minute supplies for their cruise and they were just the most insufferable people ever.
People on cruises aren't all the same. The idiots stand out though.
I've often wondered how so many people seem to be so clueless, yet still earned enough money to be on a cruise. I've concluded that people turn on a different part of their brain when on a cruise vacation, and turn off a lot of their normal brain functions. They expect everything to be smooth and things will just happen to and for them without them having to think. That often works, but if any tiny thing is out of line, it takes them ages to re-engage their brains to sort it out.
I was ordering a hamburger from the grill and this old lady was asking for "hot chips", the guy was making new batches every few minutes due to the frequency of customers. He literally took a new basked out 1 minute before she emphasised that she wanted them "hot". She got served the fresh chips but because she didn't physically see them come out of the fryer sh just dumped out the entire plate and said they weren't hot enough.
I felt pretty bad for the guy as he was working outside over a grill with full length protective shirt and pants on with 100% humidity plus had to deal with this bullshit and was likely not being paid enough.
I felt like I was being babied the entire way. Luckily we spent a week doing whatever we wanted in Tokyo but due to family commitments couldn't catch up with other forum members.
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I would voluntarily buy a house in NJ before I drove in CT again.
What. The. Fuck.
So yeah, none of that is bullshit or weird. It's just how our copyright system works.
But then, there are all kinds of special cases. Courts can grant special dispensation. Most of the reason we extended copyright duration to what it is now is because Disney wanted to be able to keep their shit locked down and didn't want to have to go to court every time they needed to extend one of their properties.
I shared table talk during breakfast and overheard their chatter at bars and cafes. The number of dog whistles going off in every conversation was insane. It was hilarious and sad how uncomfortable they were to even sit with me at a table and talk about the scary nature of immigrants and poorer people then themselves. I never had a situation where any of my counter points were addressed, just a hasty change of topic or complete silence and quiet anger.
Weirdly enough I got laughed at for admitting I wasn't going to be able to afford a $22,000 signed reproduction of a painting at an auction but would gladly pay $5 for a poster of it. Apparently these people didn't realise they were bidding on signed, framed posters and not the originals.
There were a few Australians and Europeans with similar attitudes, e.g. the immigrants brought into the EU and the Queenslanders not comfortable with the tourist industry setup on the Gold Coast to accommodate Japanese tourists. From my anecdotal experience they seemed to be specific groups for people from these regions.
I thought I found a pretty cool old couple from Florida and then they revealed the horrific truth about having to be a grade teacher who taught "American Indians". When they realised I knew more about the sociopolitical aspects than they did (basically they wanted to complain why the Native American children's parents could afford Cadillacs and white people could not), they seemed extremely unhappy, even more so when I brought up the likelihood that money was not being shared evenly amongst the population and there were kids not getting an education at all.
Old white Americans are just about as scary as young Republicans.
Vote Trump, to flush out your dog whistlers and the farce of a democracy.
Me: But illegal immigration doesn't matter!
Him: Yes it does!
Me: To you?
Him: Yes.
Me: How has illegal immigration ever effected your life in any way?
Him: Let me think...
Me: Look, I don't mean to be insensitive, but I know illegal immigration has never effected you life, because you are retired with enough money to come on a 22 day luxury cruise! If illegal immigration disappeared today, your life would be no better off. Even if illegal immigration increased by 100%, your life would be no worse in any way.
Him: I guess that's true.
Of course, it all comes down to the fact that most people are racist in some way. But rich people seem so needlessly racist. Really, of all the people who might have a grudge against other people, they seem to have the least reason.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/07/26/these_off_grid_allen_family_wants_you_to_give_them_100_000.html
But they were the Taylors in that show.
I've often wondered how so many people seem to be so clueless, yet still earned enough money to be on a cruise. I've concluded that people turn on a different part of their brain when on a cruise vacation, and turn off a lot of their normal brain functions. They expect everything to be smooth and things will just happen to and for them without them having to think. That often works, but if any tiny thing is out of line, it takes them ages to re-engage their brains to sort it out.
She got served the fresh chips but because she didn't physically see them come out of the fryer sh just dumped out the entire plate and said they weren't hot enough.
I felt pretty bad for the guy as he was working outside over a grill with full length protective shirt and pants on with 100% humidity plus had to deal with this bullshit and was likely not being paid enough.
I felt like I was being babied the entire way. Luckily we spent a week doing whatever we wanted in Tokyo but due to family commitments couldn't catch up with other forum members.