There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise.
How is he being silly? He's telling you what the actually statute says. This is backed up by the US Treasury Department as well. You are claiming to know what you are talking about when you are instead spewing bullshit.
What it says on US currency is true: "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE" (yes, it's in caps). That means buying an iPad, or buying a cup of coffee.
I suggest you actually read up on the statute before shouting your mouth off:
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise.
Apple makes the same amount of profit per unit whether one or several million people buy them so why should they care at all?
Because they wanted to make sure more people were able to get them?
Now not only does Apple want to control your software and hardware choices, they also want to mess with the laws of economy as well.
It's actually pretty common for companies to set limits on the number of products one can buy especially on items with low supply. Sony is doing it right now with people buying PS3s from them (they also have a limit of 2 per person). Places like FRYS Electronics also only let you, for example, buy 2 hard drives per purchase.
Of course they are and Apple wasn't stopping anyone from reselling their iPad at whatever price they wanted. They just weren't going to let people buy an unlimited amount when their supply was low.
It is even legal for Apple to refuse payment in cash?
Of course it is. A private business can determine what form of payment they will accept.
That smacks of a federal crime or something....
Except for that pesky fact that it isn't one. I suggest you give this page a read:
There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise.
Most of us have been reading slashdot long enough that "several times a year" qualifies as sufficiently regular.
And yet going back even farther to more than 6 months I've yet to see a single one of those supposed articles that criticize Linux security. Care to actually link to even a single article that isn't more than a year old?
Not to mention how easy it is to find numerous cases of people being falsely accused of such crimes and with a number of them leading to wrongful convictions as well.
You mean the same Youtube that uses progressive download to serve content instead of streaming? That Youtube? I suggest you look up on the differences between the two before you speak up again.
Why is it supposedly illegal to download a show that is freely broadcast over public airwaves?
Because even though you can record a show off of TV for your own personal use that doesn't grant you have the right to share it on the internet with others. It never has.
Telling Americans to do something because Europe's been doing it is a lot like telling a 5-year-old not to go near the cookie jar.
This seems confused. Telling a kid not to go near the cookie jar usually leads them to doing so anyway. But this goes contrary to your point which is that telling Americans that Europeans are doing it will mean they won't want to do it.
How so? Just because you cure current people of cancer doesn't mean that more people aren't still going to develop it too. Considering how people are living longer and longer the probability of cancer of this individual getting cancer of some form goes up. The drug companies still have a huge potential supply of people to sell the cure to.
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And they don't scan them for viruses and malware before handing them out?
He look! Another idiot who knows nothing about what he speaks!
From here:
There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise.
They most likely were also tracking people by name and address.
How is he being silly? He's telling you what the actually statute says. This is backed up by the US Treasury Department as well. You are claiming to know what you are talking about when you are instead spewing bullshit.
What it says on US currency is true: "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE" (yes, it's in caps). That means buying an iPad, or buying a cup of coffee.
I suggest you actually read up on the statute before shouting your mouth off:
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise.
From here.
Apple makes the same amount of profit per unit whether one or several million people buy them so why should they care at all?
Because they wanted to make sure more people were able to get them?
Now not only does Apple want to control your software and hardware choices, they also want to mess with the laws of economy as well.
It's actually pretty common for companies to set limits on the number of products one can buy especially on items with low supply. Sony is doing it right now with people buying PS3s from them (they also have a limit of 2 per person). Places like FRYS Electronics also only let you, for example, buy 2 hard drives per purchase.
Of course they are and Apple wasn't stopping anyone from reselling their iPad at whatever price they wanted. They just weren't going to let people buy an unlimited amount when their supply was low.
It is even legal for Apple to refuse payment in cash?
Of course it is. A private business can determine what form of payment they will accept.
That smacks of a federal crime or something....
Except for that pesky fact that it isn't one. I suggest you give this page a read:
There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise.
Good luck finding actual CD-quality music in games today!
Most games use either uncompressed wav, flac or something like theora.
THIS. IS. SLASHDOT!!!
Most of us have been reading slashdot long enough that "several times a year" qualifies as sufficiently regular.
And yet going back even farther to more than 6 months I've yet to see a single one of those supposed articles that criticize Linux security. Care to actually link to even a single article that isn't more than a year old?
Slashdot regularly runs stories criticizing Linux's security,
So they regularly run such stories and yet not a single one appears after going back more than a month through the Linux section?
I believe a court would also find that you lack any sense of humor. The D&R license is a joke.
But...but... with that netbook you are paying the Microsoft tax... wait you say it's 100 dollars cheaper?
It's also a scam.
Cool story, brah.
It's funny also in light of the fact that many of them claim Jefferson as a hero and yet Jefferson was very much anti-corporation.
Not to mention how easy it is to find numerous cases of people being falsely accused of such crimes and with a number of them leading to wrongful convictions as well.
Keeping a technology as a trade secret doesn't make you immune to patent litigation. This is why many companies have a defensive patent portfolio.
Have you heard of YouTube?
You mean the same Youtube that uses progressive download to serve content instead of streaming? That Youtube? I suggest you look up on the differences between the two before you speak up again.
Why is it supposedly illegal to download a show that is freely broadcast over public airwaves?
Because even though you can record a show off of TV for your own personal use that doesn't grant you have the right to share it on the internet with others. It never has.
...and entertainment budgets tend to be the first cut during hard economic times.
Which would mean that the bigger declines would have happened previous to now.
Telling Americans to do something because Europe's been doing it is a lot like telling a 5-year-old not to go near the cookie jar.
This seems confused. Telling a kid not to go near the cookie jar usually leads them to doing so anyway. But this goes contrary to your point which is that telling Americans that Europeans are doing it will mean they won't want to do it.
Do the 99% of the people who are buying an iPad or iPhone care about not being able to hack their device? I'm pretty sure that's a resounding no.
There is no money in a cure....
How so? Just because you cure current people of cancer doesn't mean that more people aren't still going to develop it too. Considering how people are living longer and longer the probability of cancer of this individual getting cancer of some form goes up. The drug companies still have a huge potential supply of people to sell the cure to.