Monthly Archives: January 2015

F-35 Can’t Fire Its Gun Until 2019 – And even then hardly

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America’s $400 billion Joint Strike Fighter, or F-35, is slated to join fighter squadrons next year—but missing software will render its 25mm cannon useless.

The Pentagon’s newest stealth jet, the nearly $400 billion Joint Strike Fighter, won’t be able to fire its gun during operational missions until 2019, three to four years after it becomes operational.

Even though the Joint Strike Fighter, or F-35, is supposed to join frontline U.S. Marine Corps fighter squadrons next year and Air Force units in 2016, the jet’s software does not yet have the ability to shoot its 25mm cannon. But even when the jet will be able to shoot its gun, the F-35 barely carries enough ammunition to make the weapon useful.

New U.S. Stealth Jet Can’t Fire Its Gun Until 2019 – The Daily Beast.

hahahahaha this programme is a joke! Except it’s so expensive to taxpayers!

What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2015?

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Current US law extends copyright for 70 years after the date of the author’s death, and corporate “works-for-hire” are copyrighted for 95 years after publication. But prior to the 1976 Copyright Act (which became effective in 1978), the maximum copyright term was 56 years—an initial term of 28 years, renewable for another 28 years. Under those laws, works published in 1958 would enter the public domain on January 1, 2015, where they would be “free as the air to common use.” Under current copyright law, we’ll have to wait until 2054.1 And no published works will enter our public domain until 2019. The laws in other countries are different—thousands of works are entering the public domain in Canada and the EU on January 1

via What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2015?.

So, the family of dead people are still being paid sometimes huge amounts of money for creativity they didn’t display themselves. Copyright is crazy.