It's thanks to the profit guaranteed by the monopoly in high traffic areas like cities that the USPS can afford to open offices in such remote locations in the first place.
That's a valid quid pro quo to compensate for the fact that mail service in the US is done for everyone, no matter how unprofitable a particular place might be.
If it were left up to the free market, they'd welch out on the boonies and stay in the cities where it's profitable.
Which would leave the USPS with nothing but losses as they get stuck with all the sucky spots.
It's a shame where covering your own ass has to be more important than fixing things.
In an ideal environment, once you've taken advantage of a duly provided opportunity to prove your mettle and become trustworthy, you get to glide through red tape like greased lightning.
Being organized and having guns is only a problem when police aren't even bound to keep up even a pretense of being under the rule of law.
Unlike some totalitarian regimes, police have PLENTY to fear from being caught abusing their authority. A free press, while scandal thirsty, is at least happy to hang the cops out to dry as any celebrity.
Now...the local mafia armed to the teeth with tommy guns? Those I definitely would think twice about crossing.
My point was that when juggernaut legal departments drag you into court it's often the case that what the law actually says isn't going to matter one iota, but that everything will depend on what it will take to stop them from grinding you down into submission.
No, but procedural laches can be used as an equitable defense if you can prove that the copyright holder knowingly let you off the hook awhile for strategic reasons.
What might help is to stop the chicken shit policy that only allows the copyright holder to initiate action.
Youtube's crowdsourcing could be used to ask flaggers "whose copyright does this violate" so that youtube can forward the notifications to the user in question whose copyright is potentially being infringed.
Nokia may, however, be liable under other laws here in the US for aiding and abetting a terrorist regime. I'm pretty sure that Iran is on some sort of federal blacklist.
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A calculator can only crunch numbers, it can't think for you.
Just because you can push buttons doesn't mean you're dumb if you use it.
You still have to be smart enough to know which buttons to push.
It's thanks to the profit guaranteed by the monopoly in high traffic areas like cities that the USPS can afford to open offices in such remote locations in the first place.
I think making it forbidden only makes it more attractive.
Streisand effect, plus people usually love breaking rules.
Or you can try to run the fiber yourself and then get sued by a telecom, who then lays the fiber themselves while you're hogtied in court.
That's a valid quid pro quo to compensate for the fact that mail service in the US is done for everyone, no matter how unprofitable a particular place might be.
If it were left up to the free market, they'd welch out on the boonies and stay in the cities where it's profitable.
Which would leave the USPS with nothing but losses as they get stuck with all the sucky spots.
Let's say you're trying to bake a cake.
You're not sure that you can do it, so you get nervous. You start messing up measurements, making mistakes, and forgetting to do important steps.
As a result, the cake is a disaster.
Whereas if you were calm and collected, you would have gotten the measurments right, done as you were supposed to and not missed anything crucial.
Confidence can be an influential factor in success and failure.
This is one reason why pep talks and motivation are very helpful.
It's a shame where covering your own ass has to be more important than fixing things.
In an ideal environment, once you've taken advantage of a duly provided opportunity to prove your mettle and become trustworthy, you get to glide through red tape like greased lightning.
Being organized and having guns is only a problem when police aren't even bound to keep up even a pretense of being under the rule of law.
Unlike some totalitarian regimes, police have PLENTY to fear from being caught abusing their authority. A free press, while scandal thirsty, is at least happy to hang the cops out to dry as any celebrity.
Now...the local mafia armed to the teeth with tommy guns? Those I definitely would think twice about crossing.
It damn well better not be illegal to jam a GPS device that was planted on your car without a warrant.
After all, if the cops don't get one, how are you to know it wasn't some abusive ex boy/girlfriend hell bent on stalking you that left it?
It does when civil forfeitures are the norm.
Yay for abusive cases for in rem jurisdiction.
United States v. $124,700 anyone?
My point was that when juggernaut legal departments drag you into court it's often the case that what the law actually says isn't going to matter one iota, but that everything will depend on what it will take to stop them from grinding you down into submission.
Yeah, the part where LucasFilm's 800-lb gorilla run legal department says "I have altered the situation, pray that I do not alter it further."
If a game has sucky graphics and gets gutted in reviews then gamers who otherwise would have enjoyed it won't even give it the time of day.
Nethack doesn't count because it's got a cult following much like Zork. New games can't exactly piggy-back on nostalgia.
There is no room in the market for diamonds in the rough that get outshone in reviews by polished turds.
And only on Slashdot does your comment get the points for a "funny" mod without you getting the boost in karma that usually goes with it.
Blue Frog had a good run until the spammers nuked it with a DDoS.
Blue Frog was perfect for this sorta thing.
Too bad it worked so well it pissed the spammers off into lobbing a DDoS nuke.
No, but procedural laches can be used as an equitable defense if you can prove that the copyright holder knowingly let you off the hook awhile for strategic reasons.
Maybe they're losing steam now that ACTA has been leaked.
It simply means they want to get chummy with gentlemen's agreements so that they don't have to go through legal channels every time.
If they can pay off, or muscle, a service provider into doing their dirty work for them, huzzah.
What might help is to stop the chicken shit policy that only allows the copyright holder to initiate action.
Youtube's crowdsourcing could be used to ask flaggers "whose copyright does this violate" so that youtube can forward the notifications to the user in question whose copyright is potentially being infringed.
It doesn't.
Among other things, Iran has sovereign immunity.
Nokia may, however, be liable under other laws here in the US for aiding and abetting a terrorist regime. I'm pretty sure that Iran is on some sort of federal blacklist.
Maybe humans just remember negatives better than positives.
They bitch and moan enough anyway.
Brackish water can kill you if it is salty enough. In some cases it's worse than being dehydrated.
Not to mention redundant.
There's this thing called Child Protective Services.