This is a net zero to the issuer, the bank and the insurance company. They will just right it off as "Bad Debt" and save the same amout in taxes.
No big deal, it is done every day. The only reason this got any press is because it has both Internet and Credit Card in the subject matter. This time of year, with all the online shopping, anything negative with these two items will get attention.
as a society to work towards a genetic cocktail that would produce assembly line style life, maybe it is time the human race gives up.Using this type of technology to do some good, ie curing disease etc. is a great idea, butI think that if/when we start manufacturing life, we have overstayed our welocome as a participant.Scary stuff, look a cloning with the sheep. What was that 2 years ago? Now almost every high end scientific country is doing it and we never hear about it in the trades. And when we do hear, it is about some "BIG" success, we never hear about all the failures.
They are the same, right? The quality of the copy should not be of any weight. If I copy it magnetically, on an old Betamax with just the audio, on a cassette or on MP3, isn't his the same action? Is it because of the "Mass" distribution capabilities?
"I am STEALING. I am stealing their copyrighted information, and displaying it to their intended audience without their permission. And that, like it or not, is wrong.
And all the disclaimers in the world will not change the fact that they are hijacking without permission.
I think that AT&T will be the buyer on this one, with their ever expanding cable plant and cable influence they would be a very good partner to the networks. I can't see the broadcast TV advertisers or production companies making too much noise, the net-net of this is that they will get a larger audience for their product.
Especially with the rate technology is moving. I really think that in 40 years we will look back on today as the good old days when we had the privacy we do now and wonder where it went.
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McHair pi, now that's the way to end a meal!
They have been in it for the money ever since the first pirate short.
The fact that there is still folks out there who like SP and would buy their product is fine.
Personally I will wait until I can view it on iCraveTV.
No big deal, it is done every day. The only reason this got any press is because it has both Internet and Credit Card in the subject matter. This time of year, with all the online shopping, anything negative with these two items will get attention.
Lots of additional information on the technology and the socio-political debates on the issue from the folks at Resurgence.
as a society to work towards a genetic cocktail that would produce assembly line style life, maybe it is time the human race gives up.Using this type of technology to do some good, ie curing disease etc. is a great idea, butI think that if/when we start manufacturing life, we have overstayed our welocome as a participant.Scary stuff, look a cloning with the sheep. What was that 2 years ago? Now almost every high end scientific country is doing it and we never hear about it in the trades. And when we do hear, it is about some "BIG" success, we never hear about all the failures.
They are the same, right? The quality of the copy should not be of any weight. If I copy it magnetically, on an old Betamax with just the audio, on a cassette or on MP3, isn't his the same action? Is it because of the "Mass" distribution capabilities?
"I am STEALING. I am stealing their copyrighted information, and displaying it to their intended audience without their permission. And that, like it or not, is wrong.
And all the disclaimers in the world will not change the fact that they are hijacking without permission.
I think that AT&T will be the buyer on this one, with their ever expanding cable plant and cable influence they would be a very good partner to the networks. I can't see the broadcast TV advertisers or production companies making too much noise, the net-net of this is that they will get a larger audience for their product.
Especially with the rate technology is moving. I really think that in 40 years we will look back on today as the good old days when we had the privacy we do now and wonder where it went.