I wonder how someone would get things into the country. Not Shuriken per se but like if someone bought an antique jeweled dagger.
You have them shipped, provided that the items are otherwise legal. You can even have the items shipped at the airport (major US airports provide shipping services, albeit at airport prices) should you forget that you are carrying shurikens or possibly just a butane lighter.
FDIC protection is $250,000 not $100,000 (since May 20, 2010). This is only for non-interest bearing accounts. You get an additional 250k insured for each interest bearing account (CD, IRA, checking, savings, etc.), per bank.
Also, you can purchase insurance for higher amounts to get your account insured in full.
Winning or losing is a very innacurate way to describe what this fight is about.
This is a business model that Sony is protecting, not a couple of third graders arguing over who has cooties.
It's more like Sony is a restaurant that just realized that if someone opens a tab at the bar, they should hold a credit card or driver's license first.
Small error here, only musicians who play the kind of music that you like to listen to should make a living at their music out of your wallet .
Those of us who like to listen to music that cannot be easily or cheaply played at live performance should pay more for those performances due to the relative value of such performance .
We already have this in many cases. For example, if you like to listen to marching bands, you either go to professional festivals (tickets at $100+) or football games (tickets at $100+). If you want to see local bands, you pay a $5 cover at your local bar.
To be fair, I have never heard a cd and done anything but used it as background music; something to mostly ignore, hopefully with enough to distract me from the boredom of whatever I'm doing. If I need to concentrate on something, the music goes off. In contrast, I have been to concerts where my $200 ticket seems cheap, or where my $20 ticket seems disgustingly underpriced. I have never spent $20 on a cd and not felt ripped off, and I havent bought a cd since the 1990s.
It is a sum of money imposed for a specific act (purchasing a can or bottle), whereas a tax is a sum of money imposed for support of a specific governmental service.
Since you pay in advance, you have not received a service in return. If you recycle, in addition to the governmental recycling service provided, you get a refund of the advance fine. Therefore, this is not a tax.
Depending on your state, you may already be paying a deposit on cans/bottles. In a very accurate way, you pay a fine in advance and get refunded when you recycle.
My thought exactly. Maybe only elitist snobs took the survey? In fact, according to the study author, the surveys were taken via Facebook, which I would expect already has a bias to it. (He also mispells the name of a another stat firm, Forrester.)
Secondly, they assume "selfish elites" based on people self-identifying themselves as "interested in business and finance". This is a purely psychographic correlation. They have made ZERO correlation to income levels or other economic demographics. This study is absolutely useless as a result: a homeless man interested in business and finance would still qualify as a "selfish elite" under these methods.
From the summary,
iPad owners tend to be wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated and disproportionately interested in business and finance,
While this would indicate a correlation to income levels and other economic demographics, what homeless man has these qualities?
To use your awful director/actress analogy: this is (somewhat) equivalent to a director offering an actor to become a life-long sex slave without hope for any part. If the actor refuses, the director will kill the actor's family, village, nearby wedding parties, schools, and a large portion of the actor's country.
The consequences are out of proportion to the offense, and unreasonable.
The Taliban offered to hand over bin Laden, the US turned them down. There was never a prospect of going in until we got bin Laden, they were in it for the long haul from the start. They wanted to transform Afghanistan into a proxy state as part of their grand strategy.
President Bush rejected an offer from the taliban to discuss handing bin Laden over to a third country while researching whether bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, in return for the US to cease bombing Afghanistan.
An offer of discussion is not close to an offer to hand over.
It was the equivalent of a movie director offering to look at an actresses resume if she sleeps with him, not offering the part.
Yes, but RyanAir also only charges 5 more for the flight itself (in the summer, most flights are one euro, plus about 16 euro in fees). Granted, no assigned seats, out of the way airports where you need a train to get get to a real city, some of the worst on earth, but they will land the plane without lowering the wheels to make sure to get down on time. Perfect for students and travelers, not so much for business class.
Try reading that again, with comprehension this time.
I responded to point out that while petty theft results in no jail time, neither does copyright infringement, however the scale of the civil infraction is very different, and requires different preventative measures.
Why is everyone bitching that the guy got in trouble for downloading free music. I was taught "don't do the crime if you cant do the time." These guys broke the law and committed a felony. They are lucky they are not going to prison. I would gladly pay $60k and keep my ass out of the prison shower room.
I think the complaint is the disproportionate punishment for the crime. He apparently downloaded 30 songs, which is about 3 CDs worth... if he'd walked into a CD store and stolen three CDs with no previous criminal record, do you really think he'd be fined $67,000 or sent to jail?
To idiot #1, its a civil infraction, not a felony, as this was not commercial infringement. Prison was never in the house, never mind on the table.
To idiot #2, stealing is very different from copyright infringement. Stealing is benefiting oneself to the detriment of the originating owner, copyright infringement is distribution without permission. Meanwhile, if he refuses to pay, he will have personal property (excepting certain legally protected property) sold at auction and if it isn't paid off, future wages garnished. Prison will not be an issue until a crime is committed, guilt found in a court of law, and legally mandated.
So if I get someone to sign a contract that allows me to kill them whenever I want, that should be allowed?
Yes, we should respect contract law. But if the contract is OBVIOUSLY unfair, there should be no legal protections for it.
Technically, someone could give you the power to end their life through power of attorney in the event that they are no longer able to make a competent decision about whether to seek medical life support, which some morons would call murder, but this valid is slightly off-topic to your straw man argument.
Contract law already makes any contract void if it requires illegal action for compliance. You can't sign a contract to get someone else to rob your neighbor's house for you.
Fairness is not a factor in the legality of a contract. Duress, incompetence, legality, and ability to perform, but not fairness.
MTV used to be hip (or cool, or whatever) because it actually used to be a channel of music television. It would play music videos and have interviews with artists about upcoming albums or tours or music news.
Now its full of crap shows where parents set their kids up on dates with strangers because they don't like the people their kids are dating followed by shows about pregnant 16 year olds showcasing how stupid these kids really are.
Reading the article, Prince believes the internet is over for his album release (it will be on cd only) and none of his music will be available on itunes or youtube and he shut down his own official website, because he believes in finding new ways to distribute music (his new album will be given away in cd form to subscribers of the Mirror).
Of course, Prince is a jehovah's witness, so I don't take anything he says seriously, and am willing to bet any amount of money that within 24 hours of release, his new album will be available on the internet (I just won't be able to purchase it legally)
Unemployment costs for a business your size are 3% of compensation costs, so a 3k credit over 2 years would directly offset unemployment costs (based on your statement of 25k per employee per year).
On the other hand, Way to be ridiculously off topic and still not have a point.
A 3k credit will make a huge difference when someone needs to pay rent and the local grocery store or restaurant is making people work overtime without overtime pay rather than hiring enough people to avoid the issue.
Regardless of the fact that you are hiring college graduates, why on earth would that be less of an investment than solar energy?
Way to be ridiculously off topic and still not have a point.
I would much prefer that 2 B be spent to pay corporations to hire people who have been unemployed for 6 months + (lets say a 3k credit over 2 years per employee, tax effective cost of 1200 per hire at 40% tax rate, bringing back 800k+ jobs, not to mention the reduction in federal unemployment payments) than to waste it on solar energy, which from a personal standpoint, takes 44 years to break even over current electrical bills.
You have the Pirate Party confused with The Pirate Bay.
There is a huge difference between working towards decriminalization of file sharing and support of unbridled copyright infringement. The pirate party is pushing for reduction of copyright to a single 5 year term and changes in the patent system (the merits for both are debatable), not the removal of the concept of copyright infringement.
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These are british terms.
Biscuit means cookie, crisp mean chips (chips would mean fries).
I wonder how someone would get things into the country. Not Shuriken per se but like if someone bought an antique jeweled dagger.
You have them shipped, provided that the items are otherwise legal. You can even have the items shipped at the airport (major US airports provide shipping services, albeit at airport prices) should you forget that you are carrying shurikens or possibly just a butane lighter.
FDIC protection is $250,000 not $100,000 (since May 20, 2010). This is only for non-interest bearing accounts. You get an additional 250k insured for each interest bearing account (CD, IRA, checking, savings, etc.), per bank.
Also, you can purchase insurance for higher amounts to get your account insured in full.
Winning or losing is a very innacurate way to describe what this fight is about.
This is a business model that Sony is protecting, not a couple of third graders arguing over who has cooties.
It's more like Sony is a restaurant that just realized that if someone opens a tab at the bar, they should hold a credit card or driver's license first.
Small error here, only musicians who play the kind of music that you like to listen to should make a living at their music out of your wallet .
Those of us who like to listen to music that cannot be easily or cheaply played at live performance should pay more for those performances due to the relative value of such performance .
We already have this in many cases. For example, if you like to listen to marching bands, you either go to professional festivals (tickets at $100+) or football games (tickets at $100+). If you want to see local bands, you pay a $5 cover at your local bar.
To be fair, I have never heard a cd and done anything but used it as background music; something to mostly ignore, hopefully with enough to distract me from the boredom of whatever I'm doing. If I need to concentrate on something, the music goes off. In contrast, I have been to concerts where my $200 ticket seems cheap, or where my $20 ticket seems disgustingly underpriced. I have never spent $20 on a cd and not felt ripped off, and I havent bought a cd since the 1990s.
You do know that not every religion has the Judeo-Christian concepts of heaven, hell, and "judgement", don't you?
For example, Judaism does not have the concept of hell.
It is a sum of money imposed for a specific act (purchasing a can or bottle), whereas a tax is a sum of money imposed for support of a specific governmental service.
Since you pay in advance, you have not received a service in return. If you recycle, in addition to the governmental recycling service provided, you get a refund of the advance fine. Therefore, this is not a tax.
Depending on your state, you may already be paying a deposit on cans/bottles. In a very accurate way, you pay a fine in advance and get refunded when you recycle.
Just an off-thought: how do you make a web device (or anything else for that matter) accessible to a mute, blind, deaf, quadriplegic?
How would a mute, blind, deaf quadriplegic complain that anything was not accessible to them?
My valet should not be drinking and parking.
On the other hand, I would never buy a car that comes with an ignition lock, and neither would anyone else not under court order.
My thought exactly. Maybe only elitist snobs took the survey? In fact, according to the study author, the surveys were taken via Facebook, which I would expect already has a bias to it. (He also mispells the name of a another stat firm, Forrester.)
Secondly, they assume "selfish elites" based on people self-identifying themselves as "interested in business and finance". This is a purely psychographic correlation. They have made ZERO correlation to income levels or other economic demographics. This study is absolutely useless as a result: a homeless man interested in business and finance would still qualify as a "selfish elite" under these methods.
From the summary,
iPad owners tend to be wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated and disproportionately interested in business and finance,
While this would indicate a correlation to income levels and other economic demographics, what homeless man has these qualities?
To use your awful director/actress analogy: this is (somewhat) equivalent to a director offering an actor to become a life-long sex slave without hope for any part. If the actor refuses, the director will kill the actor's family, village, nearby wedding parties, schools, and a large portion of the actor's country.
The consequences are out of proportion to the offense, and unreasonable.
No it isn't.
The taliban is the movie director, not the US.
The Taliban offered to hand over bin Laden, the US turned them down. There was never a prospect of going in until we got bin Laden, they were in it for the long haul from the start. They wanted to transform Afghanistan into a proxy state as part of their grand strategy.
Not quite. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5
President Bush rejected an offer from the taliban to discuss handing bin Laden over to a third country while researching whether bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, in return for the US to cease bombing Afghanistan.
An offer of discussion is not close to an offer to hand over.
It was the equivalent of a movie director offering to look at an actresses resume if she sleeps with him, not offering the part.
Oral agreements aren't valid if the contract cannot be settled within one year.
Meanwhile, Sally and Billy are both below the age of 18, and until they turn 18, even if the contract was written, they can both cancel the agreement.
The game has been in development since 2003 and you are complaining that the download version will not be activateable for one extra day.
Its not your new kidney, its just a new game.
Yes, but RyanAir also only charges 5 more for the flight itself (in the summer, most flights are one euro, plus about 16 euro in fees). Granted, no assigned seats, out of the way airports where you need a train to get get to a real city, some of the worst on earth, but they will land the plane without lowering the wheels to make sure to get down on time. Perfect for students and travelers, not so much for business class.
Try reading that again, with comprehension this time.
I responded to point out that while petty theft results in no jail time, neither does copyright infringement, however the scale of the civil infraction is very different, and requires different preventative measures.
I await your apology.
Why is everyone bitching that the guy got in trouble for downloading free music. I was taught "don't do the crime if you cant do the time." These guys broke the law and committed a felony. They are lucky they are not going to prison. I would gladly pay $60k and keep my ass out of the prison shower room.
I think the complaint is the disproportionate punishment for the crime. He apparently downloaded 30 songs, which is about 3 CDs worth... if he'd walked into a CD store and stolen three CDs with no previous criminal record, do you really think he'd be fined $67,000 or sent to jail?
To idiot #1, its a civil infraction, not a felony, as this was not commercial infringement. Prison was never in the house, never mind on the table.
To idiot #2, stealing is very different from copyright infringement. Stealing is benefiting oneself to the detriment of the originating owner, copyright infringement is distribution without permission. Meanwhile, if he refuses to pay, he will have personal property (excepting certain legally protected property) sold at auction and if it isn't paid off, future wages garnished. Prison will not be an issue until a crime is committed, guilt found in a court of law, and legally mandated.
So if I get someone to sign a contract that allows me to kill them whenever I want, that should be allowed?
Yes, we should respect contract law. But if the contract is OBVIOUSLY unfair, there should be no legal protections for it.
Technically, someone could give you the power to end their life through power of attorney in the event that they are no longer able to make a competent decision about whether to seek medical life support, which some morons would call murder, but this valid is slightly off-topic to your straw man argument.
Contract law already makes any contract void if it requires illegal action for compliance. You can't sign a contract to get someone else to rob your neighbor's house for you.
Fairness is not a factor in the legality of a contract. Duress, incompetence, legality, and ability to perform, but not fairness.
se.
MTV used to be hip (or cool, or whatever) because it actually used to be a channel of music television. It would play music videos and have interviews with artists about upcoming albums or tours or music news.
Now its full of crap shows where parents set their kids up on dates with strangers because they don't like the people their kids are dating followed by shows about pregnant 16 year olds showcasing how stupid these kids really are.
Reading the article, Prince believes the internet is over for his album release (it will be on cd only) and none of his music will be available on itunes or youtube and he shut down his own official website, because he believes in finding new ways to distribute music (his new album will be given away in cd form to subscribers of the Mirror).
Of course, Prince is a jehovah's witness, so I don't take anything he says seriously, and am willing to bet any amount of money that within 24 hours of release, his new album will be available on the internet (I just won't be able to purchase it legally)
Unemployment costs for a business your size are 3% of compensation costs, so a 3k credit over 2 years would directly offset unemployment costs (based on your statement of 25k per employee per year).
On the other hand, Way to be ridiculously off topic and still not have a point.
You obviously aren't the target market.
A 3k credit will make a huge difference when someone needs to pay rent and the local grocery store or restaurant is making people work overtime without overtime pay rather than hiring enough people to avoid the issue.
Regardless of the fact that you are hiring college graduates, why on earth would that be less of an investment than solar energy?
Way to be ridiculously off topic and still not have a point.
To be accurate, the answer is nuclear, not solar.
I would much prefer that 2 B be spent to pay corporations to hire people who have been unemployed for 6 months + (lets say a 3k credit over 2 years per employee, tax effective cost of 1200 per hire at 40% tax rate, bringing back 800k+ jobs, not to mention the reduction in federal unemployment payments) than to waste it on solar energy, which from a personal standpoint, takes 44 years to break even over current electrical bills.
You have the Pirate Party confused with The Pirate Bay.
There is a huge difference between working towards decriminalization of file sharing and support of unbridled copyright infringement. The pirate party is pushing for reduction of copyright to a single 5 year term and changes in the patent system (the merits for both are debatable), not the removal of the concept of copyright infringement.
I would be even more worried that college students are listening to Britney Spears in the first place.