Morning people.. First up, i took down the tagboard because something is wrong with it. And it is not within my abilities/time to do something about it.. So to save all that hassle, i simply took it down. in its place, you guys can comment by clicking the small lil comment link after each entry.. Feel free.
Second, i just went Vivo city yesterday. Just to check out what is the big hoo-ha about the place.. Seriously, other than it being big, with a lot of shops, selling very expensive things, I don't see anything special about it.. There is a 'pool' on the roof, which a lot of kids went to dip their legs in, run about in the water. I'm not too sure if it was built for it, but it is what it is now. Because when my aunt commented on that feature of the shopping centre, she actually commended on how considerate the designer must be for him to think of such feature for the kid.. I tot that was what the playground on the 2nd level should do.. But since there's no use for the 'pool' right now, because some parts of the place is still under-renovation, there's no harm letting them enjoy themselves. Then i suddenly remembered how, in Singapore HDB, most of our water tanks are on the top of the buildings... And i started to wonder if the kids, when they are waist deep in the 'pool', did they relieve themselves into the pool... You make the connection...
Anyway, yesterday the PSI was pretty high when i was out. Again, feel like i stay in genting without the cool weather and plus the smell of burning.. And i saw something funny at the coffee shop.. at least to me it was funny.
A guy riding a bike, wearing a clinic mask. For those who have no idea, surgical mask do not help keep out the small little particles in the air, that you wish not to breathe in by wearing a mask. U wear this N95 (or some number) mask, that is round, that we wear during sars. Not the retangular surgical mask.. That's not all. If you are riding a bike, you are already exposed to exhaust most of the time, even when our neighbour isn't flaming the forests. And dude, by riding a bike, you are adding on to the haze.. So what's up with the mask?
Don't get me wrong, i have nothing against people who ride bike, in fact i was there with my friends who ride. And i think it is perfectly fine for someone who wished to protect himself against the killer haze out there. But perhaps buy the right mask or go public?
Oh.. And one last thing before i go back to my serious work. I happened to read Youthink TST today.. There was a section about IP rights.. Well, i'm taking a foundations of IP module this sem and i feel pretty strongly about what they've said. Let me just firstly say that when you do IP rights module, the more you despise those who 'invented' the rights.
There was an entry describing how 'hypothetically' tempting it was to download music off the internet because: (1)The CD is SGD$29.90, and she only wanted one song from it; (2)Her friend downloaded it off the internet and had it in his mobile phone, offered to bluetooth it to her; (3)A simple search on the internet, she could find the song she wanted at an instance. Therefore, temptation great, means piracy more.
Well, for the benefit of many of you out there, when we first 'invented' IP rights, the only rights these songs had, were the lyrics copyright. (if my memory hasn't failed me) Then the singers decided, hey, if they can create a right out of nothing for the lyrics, shouldn't I who sing it have some kind of right toO?
Mr/Miss Singer, i'm sorry but i'm afraid you cannot copyright a sound..
Why not? All these things are man-made anyway. If there are moral rights to lyrics and plays, there should be moral rights to my voice~~~ the way i sing the songs.
And we have the big music producing companies throwing billions of money lobbying for such copy right because they know they are going to profit from it, at the end of the battle.
As ignorant and myopic as i might sound to all the economists, IP law lecturers out there, IP right isn't a natural right. It is a freaking man-made right, created by the rich to make the poor pay, widening the gap. WHen the rich countries have no more machines to sell to the poor, the sell intangible rights like that. And the poor countries will sell more raw materials and now plus machines but buy the knowledge to better all these from the rich. Because they are part of WTO, therefore part of TRIPs. If they do not comply, trade embargo can be imposed on them. Tell me why is there still poverty in the world?
But the silver lining behind this is that: If you can sell knowledge, i bet u can sell almost anything. We even have people selling oxygen.. SELLING AIR!!!!!! Hello, what happened to Air being a free good in our first econs lecture? Are we going to sell sunlight next? What? there is already people selling UV light for tanning indoors.. K, that's the only two things that my econs lecturer said were free goods..
Yes, and i'm sure money is not the most important thing in the world, love is.. Try using love to buy all that yeah?
WR
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