If we had any, they’d be stuck in the minors. Other news broken by Slusser’s piece:
Carter, the A’s top power-hitting prospect, doesn’t appear as if he can buy a roster spot.
A’S EXPLOITING NEW MARKET INEFFICIENCY: SALE OF ROSTER SPOTS
Michael Taylor, texted him to say, “What are we going to do now?”
OBAMA URGES TAYLOR: LEARN TO HIT BASEBALL
“I have faith in myself,” Blevins said. “But it’s a competition. The jobs are out there.”
BREAKING NEWS: BLEVINS TO APPEAR AT COMIC-CON
Other links:
- DFAIS
- This is a fascinating comparison. IP is, of course, not exactly like feudalism, but there are a ton of similarities. My hope is that ebooks bring popular attention to the issue when people realize they’ll essentially never get more free books.
- The economy isn’t exactly catching up.
- OBAMA URGES AMERICANS: WTF
[Diety] is watching. Guard your stuff.
Winning uniform design
KZ for Figgins? Good idea, bad idea?
If the A’s do this they are really giving up on the long ball (and the “chick” demographic). I have no attachment to Kz, and Figgins is enough removed from the Angels that the stench is mostly gone, so sure, g’ahead. Nice finish:
Marginal upgrade with a chance to be a significant upgrade…not ideal, but I think the A’s have to take the risk.
I like it, especially since the A’s appear to have somehat addressed the power outage through other moves…not that Kz was contributing a whole lot in that regard anyway.
Big question would be payroll implications…Chone’s due something like $9M a year for three more years, right? I’m never one to be overly troubled by incursions into Wolffish’s profit margin, of course.
Yeah, it’s the opportunity cost I’m worried about
Figgins is probably 0.5-1 WAR better this year. But older.
Certainly would be a good move for this season, but trouble after that.
I approve.
This movie looks fascinating.
WE’RE ALL GONNA [DIETY]!!!
2. I really don’t think that Holbo and Yglesias have actually thought this angle through. The whole “feudalism” bit is clever agitprop designed to peel off some of the leftward margin of the most philosophically committed of the libertarians — but (a) libertarianism writ large is founded on the philosophical justification of private property, and (b) where does this argument stop? That is: why is IP any different from “normal” (real) P? If I decide I can make money by selling off my neighbor’s yard, why should some cartel or set of outmoded and competition-squashing regulations stand in my way? It also should put MY and Holbo in the position of defending foreclosure mills (and banks/financial institutions more generally), as what they do/have been doing the last 10 years is on the bleeding edge of breaking down IP feudalism by (a) taking what doesn’t belong to them (or what they can’t actually lay title to, which amounts ot the same thing, in both senses of the phrase), and (b) coming up with creative ways of transforming real P into IP, thereby demonstrating the illusory nature of the very idea of “property.”
The difference is that IP is a right granted by the government for free, whereas RP is something obtained from someone else in a transaction.
RP used to be granted by the government too, under feudal systems.
The distinction you’re asking for is that your neighbor’s yard belongs to someone else (your neighbor) so you selling it would be theft. IP didn’t exist before it was invented, and only belongs to the inventor based upon statutes.
At a time when RP
in this country was not fully ownedwest of the Appalachians was stolen from the indigenous inhabitants who had neither legal nor military tools to stop the expropriation, it was essentially distributed for free to whoever wanted to use it (land grant programs, homesteading acts, etc.) Now, though, I believe every square inch of US territory is owned by someone (including, of course, the government) so you can’t “invent” any new RP.But what’s the statute of limitations on the origin story for each type of property? As you point out, RP used to be granted by fiat — not as recently as IP, but IP is accepted by law, convention, and the market now, so why/how could we waive it any more easily than RP?
I mean, either all property is theft, or it’s not.
IP protection terms have changed over time. There is no magic in the current scheme, and the property right is essentially different from what lawyers call “fee simple” in that it does have an end date.
When you buy a house (usually), you obtain fee simple ownership of the RP. In other words it is yours forever. IP is never yours forever, but is instead granted for a determinable term by the government. Shortening that term would reduce the value of your IP, thus at least theoretically your incentive to produce IP, but also the dead-weight loss to society resulting from your monopoly. If you want to call that theft, fine, but then you think nearly everything governments do is theft (zoning, environmental laws, etc) and you’re Ron Paul.
IP and RP terms have changed over time (that was your point and mine).
The government could, if it wanted, put some horizon on your ownership of your estate — and in fact it does (in effect) with HNWIs, assessing a far higher “death tax.”
Are you occupying the position that Holbo and MY (the former more than the latter) seem to be staking out — that there should be no IP rights?
No, I’m merely saying that the analogy between IP and feudalism that I sketched out above is interesting.
If it were me, I would say copyright should last something like 50 years from creation or until the creator’s death, whichever is sooner.
Your death tax analogy, though, doesn’t move the ball at all. “Estate” there is not RP, but rather net worth. It does nothing to divest an estate of the land it holds, merely requires payment if the sum total of the assets is over a threshold. I think you’re absolutely wrong that the government could convert fee simple holdings into lesser interests (would land revert to the state upon death or something? If so that sounds… feudal).
I agree. Adopting some bold stance hostile the whole concept of IP in a blog post or series of blog posts is just silly. In MY’s original post, his point that standards for granting patents are too loose seems to be true, but does mean everyone should crusade against and try to delegitimize the IP as a whole. Recognizing IP has costs and benefits acknowledged by most people, and not recognizing IP is a radical position that I seriously doubt MY or Holbo actually hold.
Also, IP certainly has many salient differences from RP, but RP could likewise be intelligibly cast as regime of regulations instead of “property.” And arguing about what to call IP in order to influence a largely non-existent political debate about IP is also silly.
Another new alt uni shot.
1. I wonder if Beane actually let anyone spend any labor cost on putting a name on the back of that one.
2. Guy in the background — is that Glenn Dickey, Captain Kangaroo, or Brian Wilson?
2. There’s no guy in the background…the new alternate jerseys actually have a replica of Glenn Dickey’s head attached to the left shoulder.
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE… laughing
Re1: Heh.
That Leopold Bloom, he’s a work so hard…
you know, I do. And then THAT DAMN MONKEY has to go and try to revoke my FK charter!
I give and I give and I give some more…
Yes We Can
This makes a lot of sense.
Hopefully that settles that little issue, although I’m surprised there were not more details in the complaint.
Truly, the patron saint of the Tea Party
Yep. It’s, quite frankly, disgusting that this “movement” is seen as at all legitimate.
I bet every single one of them who is old enough takes their Social Security and Medicare.
FK needs more Foolsh for moments like this.
Guard your stuff, indeed:
my mother likes to tell the story of the time she took babytrebuchet shopping at the market. in one hand was babytrebuchet and in the other a bag full of just-purchased fruit. a group of monkeys came toward her and slowly began surrounding her, staring menacingly. she dropped the fruit, clutched the baby, and ran away. the monkeys then feasted on their ill-gotten gains.
Oh, crap, that’s right: it’s the last Friday of the month.
omg omg omg SOMEONE SAVE THE CAT!!!
I’ve told you they’re lovely creatures, Poppy.
i endores 98% of this
eh, fuck spelling.
Huh.
Also:
Now if only they made a hybrid.
the origins of iFSU.
Ray of hope:
This is a great article.
Oh great, now Duchscherer’s gonna be one of those Bal’mer motherfuckers showin out.
DFWAS