You have that backwards. Think about it. Drop corporate taxes to zero and raise the workers taxes to 90%-99.9%. Now the corporation has to pay the janitor $200,000 so he can take home $20,000 and pay the CEO one billion so he can take home a million. This is whether the corporation is profitable or not.
Of course it's a democracy. The people vote for their MP, usually based on party, the MP gets a say in caucus about how to run things, the party governs. If the party can't govern, eg lets say that they fail to pass a budget, the people get to vote again. It's actually possible to have multiple elections in a year rather then being stuck with a government without the support of the peoples representatives.
Would it be less tyrannical if the one sheep could decide to starve the 2 wolves? The UK is ruled by Parliament (actually the Queen in Parliament), not the PM, Parliament agrees on a PM, who has to be an elected MP or become one pretty quick as they need to be in Parliament to run things. Theresa May was elected to serve her constituents and now Parliament has decided that she's the one to herd Parliament. Ideally she'll call an election soon to have a better mandate, but as long as she can get the budget passed and win votes of confidence, she doesn't have to until an election is due. The American system of the States appointing electors, who vote for President and the fallback to Congress isn't exactly very democratic either.
They always ask me my weight when I renew my drivers license (every 5 years), I answer in lbs and they convert it. That's my Provincial government and the other Provincial ID I have (medical coverage) doesn't have my weight on it. Don't have any Federal ID such as a passport but I'd guess it also has weight and height.
Try telling the government your weight and at least in Canada, they'll want your mass in kg. Same when making a purchase, the price might be advertised in lbs but it'll be sold in grams or kg. We're just bilingual
Wasn't it '96 when the Title II provisions that the telecommunications industry operated under were repealed? Luckily the link was already posted and you even pointed out the section that says
In the United States, telecommunications carriers are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission under title II of the Communications Act of 1934.[5]
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 made extensive revisions to the "Title II" provisions regarding common carriers and repealed the judicial 1982 AT&T consent decree (often referred to as the "modification of final judgment" or "MFJ") that effectuated the breakup of AT&T's Bell System.
As I remember, before '96 it was assumed that ISPs were part of the telecommunications industry and subject to Title II, though I don't think that there had been any actual court cases to rule one way or another.
My libraries WiFi and desktops seem to be pretty locked down. Never tried to access porn there but I did get kicked off for trying to upload a zip file to a ftp site.
Too lazy to look up the numbers but the USA followed GB/UK copyright terms until around the beginning of the 20th century. The first modern copyright law was the Statute of Anne in 1703 or so, long name something like An Act to Promote Learning... which was 14+14 with a grandfather clause, the need for registration and leaving a copy at Oxford or Cambridge IIRC. What was interesting is that right from the beginning the Stationers (publishers of the day) were pushing for unlimited, "For the Authours" even though their business model was much like today, buy all the rights for a pittance and sell it forever. It was actually the unelected House of Lords that forced the limited time, returning works to the public domain to promote education (The Arts and Sciences in the US). When the first copyrights expired there was a bunch of court cases where the publishers claimed a common law right to copyright that luckily they lost. There was also some interesting speeches made in the House of Lords against the copyright extension act in the 19th century but as the elected house got more power, there was more corruption leading to to-days outrageous lengths of copyright.
Anything with 2Gbs or less memory might as well run on 32 bit, if only for the memory savings. Wife has a fairy new tablet running 32 bit Win 8.1, Atom processor and 1GB of memory with 16 GBs of storage. Be stupid to run a 64 bit OS on that. Son has a slightly older netbook with an Atom processor and 2 GBs of memory, runs 32 bit Linux (Ubuntu) on it. I have a TP 42, 12 years old and limited to 32 bit, still runs well but will never support 64 bit, (actually most Linuxes won't run on it without a custom kernel due to a bug in the CPU where cpuid doesn't correctly show support for PAE) runs very well with OS/2.
Another way is serialization. Release a chapter and then when certain funding goals are met, release another chapter. If it's a good book, the funding goal can increase with each chapter released. Authours used to do similar except releasing in a magazine or such. There's also things like book signings, release a limited amount of signed books, can even print up personalized copies. Personally I think it would be better to go back to the original 14+14 copyright term and make the authour make a token effort to copyright, perhaps 1 year automatic then a $10 registration fee. Very few works actually make money and even fewer make money for more then a decade. Good authours would still make money, the best just wouldn't be quite as filthy rich.
Most of your examples are immature or new markets where things change so fast/much that long term monopolies don't form. Microsoft is still in a monopoly position on the desktop but the desktop itself has lost its personal computing monopoly. There was a lot of abuse from MS that its monopoly position allowed. From forcing PC manufacturers to only install MS products (Be couldn't even give itself away for free) to forcing upgrades to Win 10. With the only viable desktop competition left being open source, which is sort of a different class of product. There's nothing wrong with a monopoly unless it gets abusive to its costumers or competition. Intel paying companies not to install Amd, MS obscuring hardware standards, Standard Oil partnering with the railroads to make sure the competition can't ship their products cheap (where common carrier status originated) AT&T refusing to interface with all the other phone companies so being the only long distance provider and leveraging into a monopoly with total control over the phone lines. It's not the monopoly that's the problem, it's the abuse of monopoly, and now a days monopoly is often shared between a couple of companies to keep the anti-trusters away, my cell phone prices go up regularly, with the competition moving in lock step. The price of gas where I live changes simultaneously at every gas station, my one choice of internet is expensive and slow ($35+$35 for phone line for 26.4 kb/s), everyone complains about the cable company.
The problem is that committees don't have morals as they can pass the buck around the table. This is true for government and true for most large corporations. As for the 1st Amendment, it is ignored in so many circumstances, what is one more? Or are you suggesting that outright bribery should be legal and I should be free to offer to pay off the cop, judge and legislator?
America has done pretty well by stealing property and dis-respecting the rights of various groups of people. The trick is to have good propaganda and respect the rights of the majority.
Once you have a dominant market position, through having a better/cheaper product and aggressively buying out your competition, economy of scale will allow you to keep that dominant position, even though your product is not the best, as long as it is good enough. This is most true in more mature markets, which oil, at the time of Standard Oil, was not.
What about the American Tobacco Company? Innovated at the beginning by licensing a rolling machine and invented cardboard packages along with baseball cards then aggressively bought out all the competition. There are lots of examples of companies getting into a dominant position with very little government help and without the government you still get entities like the mafia.
Yea, it's weird numbering. I guess it's how she chose to be called and she is the Queen. Prince William will be even weirder if he becomes King as the first 3 were only Kings of England so really he'd be King William the 5th and 2nd but I think will be known as the 5th even in places like Scotland.
I think all (N. American) cars/trucks have a clutch safety switch where the vehicle won't start unless the clutch pedal is depressed. First one I had like that was a '88 Ford piece of crap. The firewall was glued together and started to flex too much for the safety switch to work after a bit and I had to bypass it.
Luckily you always set your parking brake before leaving the vehicle so it doesn't matter too much that you might not have left a vehicle depending on a little metal pawl to stop it from rolling.
You're driving instructor screwed up. Redundancy is good, always leave your vehicle in gear with the parking brake set and wheels turned correctly to hit the curb or roll onto the shoulder if no curb. Always waggle the gear stick to make sure you are in neutral when starting out and engage the clutch when starting, safer and easier on the starter as it doesn't have to turn the engine and tranny over. This is especially important in the winter when that tranny fluid can be almost solid. There's been times I've had to keep the clutch down for minutes until the engine would turn the cold tranny.
You should apply the hand brake earlier in your procedure, especially in an automatic as park can bind up and it is hard on the pawl. Also depending on whether pointed up or down hill, sometimes the vehicle should be left in reverse.
You're also supposed to park with the wheels turned so you'll hit the curb or roll more onto the shoulder if no curb so the vehicle won't roll away. I've never experienced a tranny popping out of 1st or reverse when parked but have experienced my parking brake freezing up over night and learned not to use the parking brake in winter or if the vehicle is parked for a long period. I've also had my vehicle creep when parked in gear so park in such a way that it won't go far. Many parking brakes seem like crap
Especially unjust laws such as it being illegal to shoot and kill an uppity nigger, which I understand was the usual reason to use jury nullification in the good old USA where the Bill of Rights was never meant to apply to certain groups of sub-humans who obviously had no natural rights.
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You have that backwards. Think about it. Drop corporate taxes to zero and raise the workers taxes to 90%-99.9%. Now the corporation has to pay the janitor $200,000 so he can take home $20,000 and pay the CEO one billion so he can take home a million. This is whether the corporation is profitable or not.
Of course it's a democracy. The people vote for their MP, usually based on party, the MP gets a say in caucus about how to run things, the party governs. If the party can't govern, eg lets say that they fail to pass a budget, the people get to vote again. It's actually possible to have multiple elections in a year rather then being stuck with a government without the support of the peoples representatives.
Would it be less tyrannical if the one sheep could decide to starve the 2 wolves?
The UK is ruled by Parliament (actually the Queen in Parliament), not the PM, Parliament agrees on a PM, who has to be an elected MP or become one pretty quick as they need to be in Parliament to run things. Theresa May was elected to serve her constituents and now Parliament has decided that she's the one to herd Parliament. Ideally she'll call an election soon to have a better mandate, but as long as she can get the budget passed and win votes of confidence, she doesn't have to until an election is due.
The American system of the States appointing electors, who vote for President and the fallback to Congress isn't exactly very democratic either.
They always ask me my weight when I renew my drivers license (every 5 years), I answer in lbs and they convert it. That's my Provincial government and the other Provincial ID I have (medical coverage) doesn't have my weight on it. Don't have any Federal ID such as a passport but I'd guess it also has weight and height.
Try telling the government your weight and at least in Canada, they'll want your mass in kg. Same when making a purchase, the price might be advertised in lbs but it'll be sold in grams or kg.
We're just bilingual
The US Statute mile was standardized in 1959.
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Wasn't it '96 when the Title II provisions that the telecommunications industry operated under were repealed? Luckily the link was already posted and you even pointed out the section that says
As I remember, before '96 it was assumed that ISPs were part of the telecommunications industry and subject to Title II, though I don't think that there had been any actual court cases to rule one way or another.
My libraries WiFi and desktops seem to be pretty locked down. Never tried to access porn there but I did get kicked off for trying to upload a zip file to a ftp site.
Too lazy to look up the numbers but the USA followed GB/UK copyright terms until around the beginning of the 20th century. The first modern copyright law was the Statute of Anne in 1703 or so, long name something like An Act to Promote Learning... which was 14+14 with a grandfather clause, the need for registration and leaving a copy at Oxford or Cambridge IIRC.
What was interesting is that right from the beginning the Stationers (publishers of the day) were pushing for unlimited, "For the Authours" even though their business model was much like today, buy all the rights for a pittance and sell it forever. It was actually the unelected House of Lords that forced the limited time, returning works to the public domain to promote education (The Arts and Sciences in the US). When the first copyrights expired there was a bunch of court cases where the publishers claimed a common law right to copyright that luckily they lost.
There was also some interesting speeches made in the House of Lords against the copyright extension act in the 19th century but as the elected house got more power, there was more corruption leading to to-days outrageous lengths of copyright.
Anything with 2Gbs or less memory might as well run on 32 bit, if only for the memory savings. Wife has a fairy new tablet running 32 bit Win 8.1, Atom processor and 1GB of memory with 16 GBs of storage. Be stupid to run a 64 bit OS on that. Son has a slightly older netbook with an Atom processor and 2 GBs of memory, runs 32 bit Linux (Ubuntu) on it. I have a TP 42, 12 years old and limited to 32 bit, still runs well but will never support 64 bit, (actually most Linuxes won't run on it without a custom kernel due to a bug in the CPU where cpuid doesn't correctly show support for PAE) runs very well with OS/2.
Another way is serialization. Release a chapter and then when certain funding goals are met, release another chapter. If it's a good book, the funding goal can increase with each chapter released. Authours used to do similar except releasing in a magazine or such.
There's also things like book signings, release a limited amount of signed books, can even print up personalized copies.
Personally I think it would be better to go back to the original 14+14 copyright term and make the authour make a token effort to copyright, perhaps 1 year automatic then a $10 registration fee. Very few works actually make money and even fewer make money for more then a decade. Good authours would still make money, the best just wouldn't be quite as filthy rich.
Most of your examples are immature or new markets where things change so fast/much that long term monopolies don't form. Microsoft is still in a monopoly position on the desktop but the desktop itself has lost its personal computing monopoly. There was a lot of abuse from MS that its monopoly position allowed. From forcing PC manufacturers to only install MS products (Be couldn't even give itself away for free) to forcing upgrades to Win 10. With the only viable desktop competition left being open source, which is sort of a different class of product.
There's nothing wrong with a monopoly unless it gets abusive to its costumers or competition. Intel paying companies not to install Amd, MS obscuring hardware standards, Standard Oil partnering with the railroads to make sure the competition can't ship their products cheap (where common carrier status originated) AT&T refusing to interface with all the other phone companies so being the only long distance provider and leveraging into a monopoly with total control over the phone lines.
It's not the monopoly that's the problem, it's the abuse of monopoly, and now a days monopoly is often shared between a couple of companies to keep the anti-trusters away, my cell phone prices go up regularly, with the competition moving in lock step. The price of gas where I live changes simultaneously at every gas station, my one choice of internet is expensive and slow ($35+$35 for phone line for 26.4 kb/s), everyone complains about the cable company.
The problem is that committees don't have morals as they can pass the buck around the table. This is true for government and true for most large corporations.
As for the 1st Amendment, it is ignored in so many circumstances, what is one more? Or are you suggesting that outright bribery should be legal and I should be free to offer to pay off the cop, judge and legislator?
America has done pretty well by stealing property and dis-respecting the rights of various groups of people. The trick is to have good propaganda and respect the rights of the majority.
Once you have a dominant market position, through having a better/cheaper product and aggressively buying out your competition, economy of scale will allow you to keep that dominant position, even though your product is not the best, as long as it is good enough. This is most true in more mature markets, which oil, at the time of Standard Oil, was not.
What about the American Tobacco Company? Innovated at the beginning by licensing a rolling machine and invented cardboard packages along with baseball cards then aggressively bought out all the competition.
There are lots of examples of companies getting into a dominant position with very little government help and without the government you still get entities like the mafia.
Yea, it's weird numbering. I guess it's how she chose to be called and she is the Queen.
Prince William will be even weirder if he becomes King as the first 3 were only Kings of England so really he'd be King William the 5th and 2nd but I think will be known as the 5th even in places like Scotland.
Read the first sentence again. I'll quote the relevant part,
It's generally better for the vehicle to roll into the bush then down the road
I think all (N. American) cars/trucks have a clutch safety switch where the vehicle won't start unless the clutch pedal is depressed. First one I had like that was a '88 Ford piece of crap. The firewall was glued together and started to flex too much for the safety switch to work after a bit and I had to bypass it.
Luckily you always set your parking brake before leaving the vehicle so it doesn't matter too much that you might not have left a vehicle depending on a little metal pawl to stop it from rolling.
You're driving instructor screwed up. Redundancy is good, always leave your vehicle in gear with the parking brake set and wheels turned correctly to hit the curb or roll onto the shoulder if no curb.
Always waggle the gear stick to make sure you are in neutral when starting out and engage the clutch when starting, safer and easier on the starter as it doesn't have to turn the engine and tranny over. This is especially important in the winter when that tranny fluid can be almost solid. There's been times I've had to keep the clutch down for minutes until the engine would turn the cold tranny.
You should apply the hand brake earlier in your procedure, especially in an automatic as park can bind up and it is hard on the pawl.
Also depending on whether pointed up or down hill, sometimes the vehicle should be left in reverse.
You're also supposed to park with the wheels turned so you'll hit the curb or roll more onto the shoulder if no curb so the vehicle won't roll away.
I've never experienced a tranny popping out of 1st or reverse when parked but have experienced my parking brake freezing up over night and learned not to use the parking brake in winter or if the vehicle is parked for a long period. I've also had my vehicle creep when parked in gear so park in such a way that it won't go far. Many parking brakes seem like crap
Especially unjust laws such as it being illegal to shoot and kill an uppity nigger, which I understand was the usual reason to use jury nullification in the good old USA where the Bill of Rights was never meant to apply to certain groups of sub-humans who obviously had no natural rights.
Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen of Canada, not to be confused with Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom.