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There's a lot to love about "Cause and Effect." The fetching but elusive Ensign Ro Laren is in it. Generous amounts of drive plasma are vented from the starboard warp nacelle - always good. The writers actually give Dr. Crusher something useful to do for a change, and Kelsey Grammer makes an awesome, beyond-random cameo as the captain of the other ship. Plus, the whole conceit is brilliant. It's like one of Philip K. Dick's epistemological passion plays: we watch the same scenes four times, almost word for word, and they mean something slightly different each time...
...nation's copyright laws - regulations he believes are futile, costly and culturally stifling. Citing "hybrid" economies like YouTube and Wikipedia (both of which rely on user-generated "remixes" of information, images and sound), Lessig argues in favor of what he calls a "Read/Write (RW)" culture - as opposed to "Read/Only (RO)" - that allows consumers to "create art as readily as they consume...
...song or play a video, that content is "copied" from a server somewhere to the hard drive in your computer. The same is not true when you crack open a book: "For most of American history it was extraordinarily rare for ordinary citizens to trigger copyright law ... RO culture in the digital age is thus open to control in a way that was never possible in the analog age ... For the first time, [copyright law] reaches beyond the professional to control the amateur." And when it comes to prosecuting copyright infringement, Lessig doesn't spare members of his profession...
...very best of what these new technologies make possible. If the war simply ended tomorrow, what forms of creativity could we expect? What good could we realize, and encourage, and learn from?" That doesn't mean, however, that the original composer should not be protected: "Neither RW (Read/Write) nor RO (Read Only) culture can truly flourish without copyright." But he also recognizes that not all cultural goods are created equal. Just as apples shouldn't be compared to oranges, software code shouldn't be likened to movies or music to scientific articles. Each, he argues, will require...
...owned station, which lies a short walk away from Harvard’s athletic fields, has been in its current location since 1948. “Harvard has expressed some interest in our property, but we have no deal with the university,” WBZ spokeswoman Ro Dooley Webster told The Crimson yesterday. Piette told the Globe that talks have included a possible land swap during which WBZ would be relocated to other land that Harvard owns. Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) spokeswoman Jessica Shumaker said that the city is not opposed to a possible deal at this point, although...