Neither supports it. There are enough statements about it already. And it's an annoyingly phrased question, because while I support a fair tax system, I most certainly do not support the FairTax(tm) system. A better way of phasing it would be: do you support the repeal of all taxes and the establishment of a national 15% sales tax?
Actually what the Bible says is, based solely on our actions, all of us, including Christians, deserve to go to Hell. We are all sinners, and there is nothing any of us can do to earn our way into Heaven.
The Act was intended to penalize "competitor's" who engaged in the infringement where income was earned on the enterprise, not so much a consumer who is actually getting nothing in the process. Hence why the damages seem so excessive, the law wasn't really designed to cope with these circumstances. The infringing party makes no money on the enterprise and are usually private individuals...applying a "business" penalty to an individual is why they seem so grossly out of proportion.
Actually, the act exclusively and explicitly applied only to people who earned income on distribution. It was only 10 years ago that the act was amended to include not-for-profit distribution. But the judge is right that the penalties were never adjusted downward when that happened.
Only because of price fixing and content monopoly. In a real free market you'd expect them to be forced to sell cheaper in order to sell at all.
How is a content monopoly that naturally evolved not an outgrowth of the free market? And you wouldn't expect them to sell cheaper, you'd expect them to differentiate their product more, so they could compete without lowering prices. For instance, each could burn proprietary strings of ones and zeros onto the Blu-ray medium so that people who wanted that particular string would have to pay a premium.
If you want to be a free-market libertarian, please take some econ courses, maybe some business courses, so you can know of what you speak. There are compelling, although I believe flawed, arguments for laissez faire capitalism; you present a strawman of these.
It's been in service just over 15 years, and now the Admiral lamented that a single Blackberry has more com bandwidth than an entire Burke destroyer.
Yeah, but an EMP kills the blackberry. And you have to compare it to civilian boats, not civilian cellphones. It's cheaper to replace one than the other.
Gov. Schwarzenegger ordered a cut in pay to California state workers, and was told that it would be impossible to implement because the payroll system is in Cobol and nobody can touch it.
Correction, Gov. Schwarzeneggar wanted to partially defer pay to California state workers, and pay them in the next quarter. That's what was impossible. And yes, that seems like it would be a lot of work, even if the language wasn't an issue, with the possibility of breaking quite high.
Answer: Good schools, good teachers, and maybe a corporate grant program.
I found great success in writing to companies/professors/schools, explaining I was doing a project, and getting help. I had materials, programs and books donated. Typically the materials were small in quantity, but very useful.
Any bets on whether Meadow Park Middle School is a government-run public school?
It is. So is Boston Latin, Stuyvesant, Bronx Sci, Thomas Jefferson, etc. They're magnet schools, and considered some of the best high schools in the nation. People always focus on the public/private nature when talking about "private schools" being better. In reality, selective schools are better. But all private schools are selective, and few public schools.
Keep making excuses for why psychics write books and make TV appearances claiming to have powers but don't actually demonstrate it.
I never said those people were psychic. My point is if real psychics exist, it would be a lot more profitable for them to remain underground. A corrollary is that anyone who claims to be a psychic is either a) lying or b) dumb.
Because as soon as you prove you have psychic powers, you'll be forbidden from competing in the lottery/WSOP. Or the lottery will be shut down, because it's no longer going to be a moneymaker. Or you'll be dragged off by the NSA.
The prize is less about money and more about actually demonstrating psychic powers publicly under scientific controls
And how would that benefit me, the psychic? Wouldn't I rather have a hidden advantage?
And personally, I have to deal with so many languages in one day that I'm lousy at remembering syntax, or the differences between java io library and C# io library, I have to use cheat sheets that I've built up. Doesn't mean I'm a crappy programmer.
Correct. And any test that doesn't accept pseudocode is retarded.
If psychics are so real, how come none have come forward to debunk James Randi (the way that he has debunked dozens of them)?
If I was a psychic, as in able to read the future, I certainly wouldn't. One lottery win would net me more money and less publicity. If I was able to read other people's minds instead of the future, I could do the same in the world series of poker.
You should be using Dreamweaver. Everyone uses dreamweaver and you're doing hand-coding.
This is not necessarily a bad argument. Forcing you to use an inferior tool because there is a standard everyone at the company has to use means anyone can pick up your work later. It decreases your ability to do the spectacular. But it increases your ability to be replaced if the worst happens.
And, I don't have much experience with Dreamweaver, or know exactly what you were querying from the DB, but some simple variables I can imagine being automated.
Antitrust laws don't require a company to get "broken up"... just that fines be assessed/anticompetitive behavior halted. Of course, in cases of selling a commodity (say oil), it'll need to be broken up. But software isn't like that.
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Neither supports it. There are enough statements about it already. And it's an annoyingly phrased question, because while I support a fair tax system, I most certainly do not support the FairTax(tm) system. A better way of phasing it would be: do you support the repeal of all taxes and the establishment of a national 15% sales tax?
Citation please?
Actually, the act exclusively and explicitly applied only to people who earned income on distribution. It was only 10 years ago that the act was amended to include not-for-profit distribution. But the judge is right that the penalties were never adjusted downward when that happened.
I choose to take my cues on when to panic from someone who has mastered the conversion of fractions to percentages.
Why not just set them to clear when you close your browser?
Running out of paper is hardly an important error.
My Calculus teacher famously did that... 30% was a good grade on one of her tests. But damn, by the end of the semester we did fucking know Calculus.
Also, miraculously, everyone who stayed in the class got the same final grade and grade on the final, typically a high B/low A.
Where did you get your MBA? $40bn, just seen to secure their OS/Office suite dominance for another few decades is a bargin.
I think MS owns as much of Apple's stock as the DOJ will let them.
Nope, only 78% of them were told to carry a radio transponder. Didn't you RTFS.
How is a content monopoly that naturally evolved not an outgrowth of the free market? And you wouldn't expect them to sell cheaper, you'd expect them to differentiate their product more, so they could compete without lowering prices. For instance, each could burn proprietary strings of ones and zeros onto the Blu-ray medium so that people who wanted that particular string would have to pay a premium.
If you want to be a free-market libertarian, please take some econ courses, maybe some business courses, so you can know of what you speak. There are compelling, although I believe flawed, arguments for laissez faire capitalism; you present a strawman of these.
Yeah, but an EMP kills the blackberry. And you have to compare it to civilian boats, not civilian cellphones. It's cheaper to replace one than the other.
The laws of economics would expect them to maximize profit. They do that by selling fewer units at higher prices and throwing the rest away.
Correction, Gov. Schwarzeneggar wanted to partially defer pay to California state workers, and pay them in the next quarter. That's what was impossible. And yes, that seems like it would be a lot of work, even if the language wasn't an issue, with the possibility of breaking quite high.
There's no such thing as a "federal election" in the United States. You only vote for state representatives, not POTUS/VPOTUS.
Go to the site. It is about the Olympics. So, the who "generic" argument falls flat. And McHammer would only make sense if "Hammer" was a common food.
Yeah, but he's posting under the auspices of a Fortune 50 company. All your patent are belong to him.
I found great success in writing to companies/professors/schools, explaining I was doing a project, and getting help. I had materials, programs and books donated. Typically the materials were small in quantity, but very useful.
It is. So is Boston Latin, Stuyvesant, Bronx Sci, Thomas Jefferson, etc. They're magnet schools, and considered some of the best high schools in the nation. People always focus on the public/private nature when talking about "private schools" being better. In reality, selective schools are better. But all private schools are selective, and few public schools.
A Halo MMO seems like an eventual certainty.
I never said those people were psychic. My point is if real psychics exist, it would be a lot more profitable for them to remain underground. A corrollary is that anyone who claims to be a psychic is either a) lying or b) dumb.
Because as soon as you prove you have psychic powers, you'll be forbidden from competing in the lottery/WSOP. Or the lottery will be shut down, because it's no longer going to be a moneymaker. Or you'll be dragged off by the NSA.
And how would that benefit me, the psychic? Wouldn't I rather have a hidden advantage?
Correct. And any test that doesn't accept pseudocode is retarded.
If I was a psychic, as in able to read the future, I certainly wouldn't. One lottery win would net me more money and less publicity. If I was able to read other people's minds instead of the future, I could do the same in the world series of poker.
This is not necessarily a bad argument. Forcing you to use an inferior tool because there is a standard everyone at the company has to use means anyone can pick up your work later. It decreases your ability to do the spectacular. But it increases your ability to be replaced if the worst happens.
And, I don't have much experience with Dreamweaver, or know exactly what you were querying from the DB, but some simple variables I can imagine being automated.
Antitrust laws don't require a company to get "broken up"... just that fines be assessed/anticompetitive behavior halted. Of course, in cases of selling a commodity (say oil), it'll need to be broken up. But software isn't like that.