I use a combination of gmail and Thunderbird/IMAP. I have all of my work emails forwarded to a gmail account, then my gmail account forwards them to my IMAP server from a shared hosting provider. I use Thunderbird for the majority of my email work due to the increased ease of handling attachments, printing, and other things that just take too long with gmail. I use gmail to check my email with the gmail mobile app on my phone, to search for messages, or to check my email from a public terminal. Gmail is wonderful, but for everyday business work sometimes it's just inadequate. There are Greasemonkey scripts and such that extend its functionality some, but it's too much of a pain for me, and it's still sluggish compared to Thunderbird.
He said "maybe in Canada they can [...] (equivilant to the 15cent tax on all blank cd's that RIAA's lobbyists had imposed a few years ago)" *RIAA* hence United States. He did mention Canada, but in the context of taxes on recorded media, he was referring to the US, unless by "RIAA" he didn't mean RIAA.
Oh, you mean like this?:
"17 USC 1008 bars copyright infringement action and 17 USC 1003 provides for a royalty of 3% of the initial transfer price. The royalty rate in Section 1004 was established by the Fairness in Music Licensing Act of 1998. This only applies to CDs which are labeled and sold for music use; they do not apply to blank computer CDs"
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy# United_States
And:
"(4)(A) A "digital audio recording medium" is any material object in a form commonly distributed for use by individuals, that is primarily marketed or most commonly used by consumers for the purpose of making digital audio copied recordings by use of a digital audio recording device.
(B) Such term does not include any material object -
(i) that embodies a sound recording at the time it is first distributed by the importer or manufacturer; or
(ii) that is primarily marketed and most commonly used by consumers either for the purpose of making copies of motion pictures or other audiovisual works or for the purpose of making copies of nonmusical literary works, including computer programs or data bases."
Source: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap10.html
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I use a combination of gmail and Thunderbird/IMAP. I have all of my work emails forwarded to a gmail account, then my gmail account forwards them to my IMAP server from a shared hosting provider. I use Thunderbird for the majority of my email work due to the increased ease of handling attachments, printing, and other things that just take too long with gmail. I use gmail to check my email with the gmail mobile app on my phone, to search for messages, or to check my email from a public terminal. Gmail is wonderful, but for everyday business work sometimes it's just inadequate. There are Greasemonkey scripts and such that extend its functionality some, but it's too much of a pain for me, and it's still sluggish compared to Thunderbird.
He said "maybe in Canada they can [...] (equivilant to the 15cent tax on all blank cd's that RIAA's lobbyists had imposed a few years ago)"
*RIAA* hence United States. He did mention Canada, but in the context of taxes on recorded media, he was referring to the US, unless by "RIAA" he didn't mean RIAA.
Oh, you mean like this?: "17 USC 1008 bars copyright infringement action and 17 USC 1003 provides for a royalty of 3% of the initial transfer price. The royalty rate in Section 1004 was established by the Fairness in Music Licensing Act of 1998. This only applies to CDs which are labeled and sold for music use; they do not apply to blank computer CDs" Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy# United_States
And:
"(4)(A) A "digital audio recording medium" is any material object in a form commonly distributed for use by individuals, that is primarily marketed or most commonly used by consumers for the purpose of making digital audio copied recordings by use of a digital audio recording device.
(B) Such term does not include any material object -
(i) that embodies a sound recording at the time it is first distributed by the importer or manufacturer; or
(ii) that is primarily marketed and most commonly used by consumers either for the purpose of making copies of motion pictures or other audiovisual works or for the purpose of making copies of nonmusical literary works, including computer programs or data bases."
Source: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap10.html
Not "all" blank CDs, just those marketed as "Music CDs"