As dropping those affiliates WILL cause some financial hardship, look for any problems with the law and sue to get it put down.
If that doesn't work, then go the banning route.
If I were CEO of Amazon, I would ban affiliates because it would impact New Yorkers. If I as a resident of Indiana write to a state congressman in New York protesting this law, they won't care because I am not there. If the NY residents complain, it will carry far more impact.
Secondly, litigation costs money. If the residents of NY that are impacted convince the state government to change the law, Amazon will not have to pay a penny. Any legal expense is indirectly taken on by the affiliates.
The point of being a musician, or another kind of artist, is to share the art, not to make a profit.
I'd say that the point of being an artist is to create art. The point of being a professional artist is to create a profit from selling the art.
I'd hate for somebody to tell me that the point of my chosen profession is to share my work and not make a profit and I won't do that to others. When purchasing a service or product from someone, I am perfectly ok with their motive being profit as long as they create what I want.
When I put the Geiger counter near a coconut, which accumulates radioactive material from the soil, it went berserk,
Seeing a coconut go berserk because a giger counter was near it would scare the crap out of me. No wonder nobody wants to go there. Would the coconuts act in a calm and mature manner if a tourist didn't bring a geiger counter?
Martha Stewart is a criminal. How does her prosecution in any way effect this case?
Or are you saying a criminal should go unprosecuted because somewhere some other crime is going unprosecuted?
No, I am pointing out a double standard with government agencies. Martha S. deserved to be prosecuted for lying to federal agents, among other things, yet a federal agent can lie to the senate and nothing happens. WTF.
The university, which had readily turned over the records in response to a subpoena, rejected the illegal NSL. Two weeks later, Mueller, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, portrayed the university as intransigent and said the incident showed the FBI needed the power to force the turnover of all sorts of records without having to involve the court system.
I'm just glad that they nailed Martha Stewart for lying to a federal official and this got the free pass that it deserved.
The [Secutitis and Exchange] Commission further alleges that Stewart and Bacanovic subsequently created an alibi for Stewart's ImClone sales and concealed important facts during SEC and criminal investigations into her trades.
"It can't shoot anyone [without orders]," Black says. "It's not an autonomous vehicle."
Can we not dream that there are artificially intelligent armed to the teeth robots ready to kill us at a moments notice?! If you take that away, what do we have left?! Do not bring your holier than thou facts to our paranoia party. If we believe hard enough that there are crazed, deadly robots on the loose, maybe... one day our dream might come true! So step off Sgt. Buzzkill.
Ok, they may not get orders to kill, but if their engineering is like any of the engineering that I do, autonomous killing will be a standard "feature."
...the parent is just ignorant of the cause of the problem.
New York Times: Monday, April 14, 2008
Genetically modified corn poses a ''negligible'' risk to monarch butterflies, according to a package of six papers that will soon be published in a scientific journal.
The papers, the most comprehensive peer-reviewed publications on this issue, could lay to rest one of the biggest controversies over genetically modified crops.
Remember the Monarch Butterflies? This company pursued research out in the open, without any environmental safeguards, and killed a large portion of the Monarch Butterfly population in recent years.
Wrong!
The monarch caterpillers eat milkweed and only milkweed. Monarch butterflies only lay eggs on milkweed. (http://www.gpnc.org/monarch.htm) If anyone is killing the monarch butterfly, it is the average person that mows their lawn and pulls the weeds in that lawn.
Monsanto modified corn to kill pests of various kinds and the monarch butterfly was reported incorrectly by the media to be one of those pests. The only pests that would be killed were those that ate the gm corn. Or I guess we could back the environmentally friendly crop dusting that has a tendency to kill birds, dogs, cats, mice, bugs, people, etc. that happen to be under the plane while it is dropping chemicals that drift with the wind.
Are there problems with gm corn, I don't have all the answers, but the killing of monarch butterflies is not one of the problems.
It's like switching cars from gasoline to hydrogen. Too much infrastructure to make the change easy or cheap. Yes it might be better, but the choices before we were alive will affect our grandchildren.
It's not that easy. Last night while I was getting drunk and my bitch was whoring herself for crack, our 2 year old accidentally logged onto the internet and the next thing you know, the lamp was broken.
It could have been worse - she could have killed herself.
I just wish we lived in Virginia where we could get drunk and sell our bodies without fear that our kid will log onto the internet and get hurt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellwether
A bellwether is any entity in a given arena that serves to create or influence trends or to presage future happenings.
and the very next sentnece reads:
"The term is derived from the Middle English bellewether and refers to the practice of placing a bell around the neck of a castrated ram (a wether) in order that this animal might lead its flock of sheep."
Which is what the parent stated.
If you want to be more environmentally friendly, stop working in an airline company and stop bugging us with this "Hey look! We spew our yearly CO2 quota flying forth and back between LA & NY but it's cool because we replaced newspapers with Linux machines" crap.
Thank you.
...and only use your computer for important things like posting self-rightous BS like "Hey look! I made a comment that on the surface sounds insightful, but actually contains no substance, but it's cool because I am 43 years old and live with my mom."
[Guyiu] City officials are proud of the e-waste industry but sensitive about its reputation as a dirty business that feeds off smuggled waste and abuses workers. Journalists who probe quickly find themselves detained by local thugs or police, and their digital photographs or video footage erased.
Local bosses pay little regard to workers' health or to regulations that prohibit dumping acid baths into rivers and venting toxic fumes...
...E-waste recyclers in the United States can't cover their costs with such low yields, especially while respecting environmental regulations...
It's the fault of the EPA, without environmental regulations, the USA could recycle the parts locally. Or maybe it's the fault of the Chineses government for not having environmental regulations.
Recycling e-waste is good except that it kills the workers, so throw the stuff in a landfill and waste resources and pollute the environment with materials that should be recycled.
I think people feel more invested in a smaller company, as though they personally had some hand in its success.
And everyone wants to root for the underdog. When they become the top dog, time to root for a competitor.
I posted a response to someone else's MS hating/Apple loving post that basically stated this article's points and was modded -1 Troll. I went back to my mom's basement and cried.
Because I don't own my own coal power plant. I do, however, own lighbulbs. As a result, I can control how much Mercury goes into the air when a CFL breaks, but not how much Mercury goes in the air from a coal-powered power plant.
I own a small part of a coal power plant through utility stocks, and I also own CFL bulbs. I guess that makes me Microsoft evil.
Oh well, I gotta go to Walmart to kill small town America and exploit undeducated lard asses while buying cheap products made in China.
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Secondly, litigation costs money. If the residents of NY that are impacted convince the state government to change the law, Amazon will not have to pay a penny. Any legal expense is indirectly taken on by the affiliates.
I'd hate for somebody to tell me that the point of my chosen profession is to share my work and not make a profit and I won't do that to others. When purchasing a service or product from someone, I am perfectly ok with their motive being profit as long as they create what I want.
Repeat after me: "a ferrari is a tool for getting laid."
The "giger counter/painting" reference was brilliant. I wish I could give you mod points.
Genetically modified corn poses a ''negligible'' risk to monarch butterflies, according to a package of six papers that will soon be published in a scientific journal.
The papers, the most comprehensive peer-reviewed publications on this issue, could lay to rest one of the biggest controversies over genetically modified crops.
''I don't think there's a need to consider monarchs at risk due to this technology,'' said Mark K. Sears, a professor of environmental biology at the University of Guelth in Ontario, a lead author on one of the papers.... http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E5D61E39F93BA3575AC0A9679C8B63
It's like switching cars from gasoline to hydrogen. Too much infrastructure to make the change easy or cheap. Yes it might be better, but the choices before we were alive will affect our grandchildren.
Nobody saw this coming?
It could have been worse - she could have killed herself.
I just wish we lived in Virginia where we could get drunk and sell our bodies without fear that our kid will log onto the internet and get hurt.
Thank you.
Recycling e-waste is good except that it kills the workers, so throw the stuff in a landfill and waste resources and pollute the environment with materials that should be recycled.
I posted a response to someone else's MS hating/Apple loving post that basically stated this article's points and was modded -1 Troll. I went back to my mom's basement and cried.
Oh well, I gotta go to Walmart to kill small town America and exploit undeducated lard asses while buying cheap products made in China.