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Apple Sued in France for iPod Music Royalties
alex_guy_CA writes "A musicians rights group in France is suing Apple Computer for back royalties due from iPod sales. It seems in France, all CDs, hard drives, and the like owe musicians money in case any of it is used for piracy. Only Apple isn't paying up." I want compensation from sales of Microsoft Windows just in case it is used for spreading viruses.
And Jesus was a socialist, btw ;)
Lets examine the differences...
1) Close Allies: (Iraq) Saudi A, Kuaitt; (Korea) Russia, S. Korea, Japan.
2) Risk to Allies if us attacks: (Iraq) Low, (Korea) High.
3) Destabiliztion Risk: (Iraq) Low as Iran, SaudiA, Kuaitt, and Turkey were not close friends of Iraq only one neighbor Syria was a serios risk; (Korea) HIGH! China could become involved (as they did in the Korean War), and the conflict could spread into a Taiwan/China conflict.
As Oil if a fungable commodity if the US wanted cheap oil they could have voted with France to releasse sancations it would have cost a lot less money and driven down the cost of oil far quicker.
Sure, that makes plenty of sense! If you consider Kim Il Jong's "Screw the US and screw the UN; we are going to go ahead and build nukes whether you like it or not" stance as a sign of willingness to talk, I guess you could definitely see the impotent dictator Saddam "Look how long my fox-hole-grown beard is now!" Hussein as the bigger threat.
I'm not pretending that he should have been left alone or that the Iraqis won't _eventually_ be better off without him, but you can't defend Bush's actions by pretending that Saddam was a threat.
We're safer because of it, and the Iraqi people are better off because of it.
Don't make me laugh. You were never in danger because he was never a threat, and the Iraqi people will only be better off when the US military is gone and the country can put itself back together.
This whole oil idea is so stupid I'm surprised people still bring it up. You'd think they'd be ashamed at looking like total morons.
This whole "we are acting in the best interest of the Iraqi people out of goodwill and benevolence" idea is so stupid I'm surprised people still bring it up. You'd think they'd be ashamed at looking like total morons.
And how exactly? because of not being allowed to wear very visible religious symbols while in class in public schools? You are not allowed to wear a hat there either.
Is this a restriction of religious rights? definitely not. You can believe whatever you believe, and if you are so insistent on wearing whatever religious symbols in class then you better go visit a private school.
This all has to do with 2 things:
- Not being allowed to wear other things that hide part of the face because it simply gets in the way of normal contact between teacher and student, counter argument was that it had to be allowed because of being a religious symbol.
- Actual provocations usign such 'symbols' in schools.
Many countries mandate school uniforms, you also screaming about them? because that definitely also restricts peoples rights to wear what they feel they should wear, including things they'd wear as a religious symbol.
Last but not least, the real problem is a very small group of very vocal muslim people, many muslims of the younger generations here in Erope don't wear a veil and those who do do so more for fashion reasons then religious ones usually (there are exceptions, but see above, those really do have a choice and can wear them almost always if they feel like that, even at school if they dont go to public school but to a private one that allows it)
Most people seem to only know the stereotype muslim woman with veil, well, within the muslim world there is disagreement over if this is actually a required thing, and if it has to do with the religion at all.
At any rate, before you americans scream religious restrictions, you should really look at what the situation is about, and take a look at how the school system there actually works, this is not what it seems, and is definitely not what you (and some small but very vocal muslims) seem to make out of it.
That's pretty funny, seeing as the US Dollar is now trading at roughly the same exchange with the Euro as the Canadian dollar is to the US Dollar.
This "weak dollar" policy of the Bush administration is likely what's drving the economy at the moment, not the silly tax cuts to the rich.