"The vehicle registration tax (or I guess it's called a fee here in California, since that way they can raise it without a 66% majority vote) is a little more unfair, though I guess it's closer to a property tax that scales based on the value of your car."
Based on nothing like the value of your car. They do a straight 10% per year depreciation. Last I looked, my car had nowhere near 50% of it's purchase price as a value when it was 5 years old.
They're watermarking planets now!? Christ, like someone's going to make an unauthorized copy of Mars, and they going to lose out on their profit. Boo hoo.
Who do we boycott for this one? The Planetary Society?
She sold her books at the same price everyone else is selling their books at. Hers were just orders of magnitude more popular. And also more popular than other forms of entertainment.
Not to mention they are available at your local library for free.
So while I agree with your point, I think you need a better example to make it with.
If they mistakenly break in when you are home, and failing to have identified themselves, are stabbed by you with a pointy kitchen knife in defense of your home and family, what then?
Just curious, as in the U.S., this would generally be seen as legitimate action (especially Texas).
An interesting take I saw on this recently was that if these companies are too big to fail, one of the conditions of the bailout should be that they are broken into smaller companies that are not too big to fail.
Please name one or more duly elected representatives at the Federal level who, upon presented with evidence that a simple or better majority of their constituents would favor rolling back copyright to its original granted time lengths, would then work toward this end through legislation or other means.
In anticipation of the corollary response to that, please name any even semi-viable candidates at a similar level who have put forth even a weakly stated position that they would do so if the current uncooperative incumbent were voted out.
GP's solution is the only real and immediate means for the public to demonstrate its feelings on the matter. Even if that is not the actual motivation for most of them.
And no, I don't download or pirate music, movies or any other media. In fact I probably directly benefit from the current situation by being employed by the the rodent who spearheaded the extensions. I just think they are shortsighted, and would likely thrive more under our original more relaxed copyright system. Especially since that system is what Disney animation was founded and grew under (Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Pinnochio, Cinderella, etc. all public domain works they "drew" upon).
Why is Apple offering EMI tracks without DRM? Are you telling me the customers of EMI music are more shrewd purchasers than customers of other labels' music? Face it, you haven't really studied the topic very well.
The labels intentionally gave Amazon the right to offer DRM free tracks to lessen Apple's negotiating power over them. Hasn't worked very well, ITMS is still the top seller of music.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes. 9 will be much better.
Seriously though, it does look good:
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://teaser-trailer.com/2008/12/9-movie-trailer.html&sa=X&oi=revisions_result&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&usg=AFQjCNFiNU_oVWoc0wkXGkdCU9R9Nuigvg
"The vehicle registration tax (or I guess it's called a fee here in California, since that way they can raise it without a 66% majority vote) is a little more unfair, though I guess it's closer to a property tax that scales based on the value of your car."
Based on nothing like the value of your car. They do a straight 10% per year depreciation. Last I looked, my car had nowhere near 50% of it's purchase price as a value when it was 5 years old.
They're watermarking planets now!? Christ, like someone's going to make an unauthorized copy of Mars, and they going to lose out on their profit. Boo hoo.
Who do we boycott for this one? The Planetary Society?
She sold her books at the same price everyone else is selling their books at. Hers were just orders of magnitude more popular. And also more popular than other forms of entertainment.
Not to mention they are available at your local library for free.
So while I agree with your point, I think you need a better example to make it with.
. . . on Orion's belt?
Damn cat.
"There are also holograms at Disney World, most notably in the Haunted Mansion. "
Curious what you believe to be a hologram in the Haunted Mansion.
"And if people will lie about something as trivial as how many sexual partners they've had"
/.*
*checks URL to make sure am on
Are you referring to us?
As the CP below points out, most macs can run front row. I even have the hacked version of it running fine on my old G4 mini.
And so it has in some states:
http://envirowonk.com/content/view/203/1/
We're out of sugar. Would you like cream in your no coffee?
Since I don't have the patience to wait a couple of years to see this, can you explain how?
"I don't think this will work in the long run. WalMart sells most of their music for them. "
Not anymore. iTMS sells more than Walmart as of some time last year.
If they mistakenly break in when you are home, and failing to have identified themselves, are stabbed by you with a pointy kitchen knife in defense of your home and family, what then?
Just curious, as in the U.S., this would generally be seen as legitimate action (especially Texas).
Grubby little paws? Corporations I know have huge powerful sucking tentacles, and they're in everything.
What the hell took you so long? I had to read through half this entire page to see if I could post this joke without getting marked redundant.
An interesting take I saw on this recently was that if these companies are too big to fail, one of the conditions of the bailout should be that they are broken into smaller companies that are not too big to fail.
Works for me.
An even smaller number of customers who are able to pay for their goods?
It's supposed to kill sperm, not brain cells. You must have used it wrong.
Color me mildly shocked that Enderle, at least in TFS, accurately described the situation.
Please name one or more duly elected representatives at the Federal level who, upon presented with evidence that a simple or better majority of their constituents would favor rolling back copyright to its original granted time lengths, would then work toward this end through legislation or other means.
In anticipation of the corollary response to that, please name any even semi-viable candidates at a similar level who have put forth even a weakly stated position that they would do so if the current uncooperative incumbent were voted out.
GP's solution is the only real and immediate means for the public to demonstrate its feelings on the matter. Even if that is not the actual motivation for most of them.
And no, I don't download or pirate music, movies or any other media. In fact I probably directly benefit from the current situation by being employed by the the rodent who spearheaded the extensions. I just think they are shortsighted, and would likely thrive more under our original more relaxed copyright system. Especially since that system is what Disney animation was founded and grew under (Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Pinnochio, Cinderella, etc. all public domain works they "drew" upon).
Crap. Missed the funny mod and hit overrated.
I always imagined it tastes like a slim jim.
Why is Apple offering EMI tracks without DRM? Are you telling me the customers of EMI music are more shrewd purchasers than customers of other labels' music? Face it, you haven't really studied the topic very well.
The labels intentionally gave Amazon the right to offer DRM free tracks to lessen Apple's negotiating power over them. Hasn't worked very well, ITMS is still the top seller of music.
There you go, presuming a global temperature increase must be due to solar activity.
That honor belongs to Sony and their laptop batteries.