Libertarians would not regulate pollution, they'd make the business that polluted pay for the damage they cause. With freedom comes responsibility. You can do what you like, but if it affects others, you have to pay for it.
Then we'd have more superfund sites created by corporations that hid the pollution until they cashed out and dissolved, leaving the Libertarians holding the now-stinking empty bag. Maybe it would work if we abolished "corporations" and made the owners of the business personally responsible.
Unfortunately, most Libertarians are all for personal responsibility, but don't see the disjoint with the concept of corporations (which are a legal device to prevent personal responsibility).
I'd love to know how they can bill people without even knowing their name though.
The headline is a little deceptive. It sounds like what's actually going on is that they don't retain logs. From a comment to the article:
To clarify, we (Bahnhof) have not "begun deleting information" of any kind, we have always discarded this sort of informationcouplings in the earliest stage possible in our ongoing efforts to provide iNTeGriTY-marked(swedish language ahead) broadband for our customers.
While using the + in this fashion is a great idea, it breaks the specification for email addresses in the RFC.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
RFC5321 is the relevant RFC.
Wikipedia summarizes the permitted characters in a somewhat more human-readable fashion. The "local-part" is the part of the email address to the left of the @:
>The local-part of the e-mail address may use any of these ASCII characters: > > * Uppercase and lowercase English letters (a-z, A-Z) > * Digits 0 through 9 > * Characters ! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~ > * Character . provided that it is not the first nor last character, nor may it appear two or more times consecutively.
A "+" does not break the RFC. It may break some buggy address validators. (Note that there are also other interesting possibilities for breaking non-compliant software, such as case-sensitive addresses.)
I didn't mean to justify the use of incandescent bulbs, I just meant to point out that if you were really concerned about wasted power, you'd be telling me to do one or more of the following:
Of course. I think CFLs are generally a good idea. About 1/3 of the bulbs in my house are FL or CFL (note that regular FL is significantly more efficient than CFL), but that includes all of the bulbs that are on for significant lengths of time except for my desk lamp), there are a lot of other things that are worse offenders. IMO they should come up with the target energy consumption, either per capita or per household, and then set electric rates to reward those who use less, and penalize those who use more. There are a lot of changes I could make that would be more significant than replacing bulbs that are in operation 0.5% or less of the time.
The *ISSUE* for GM is NOT making cars Americans want, it's making them at an affordable price with the UAW monkey on its back.
Well, to a degree Americans want the cars that advertising sells them. That's why we have advertising. Another part of the problem is that GM was making more money on humongous vehicles and didn't hedge its bets, and have a vehicle ready for high energy costs.
GM management were all consenting adults when they signed the contracts with the UAW. Now they're whining that they don't like what they signed. They're in the position of the homeowner who bought too big, and can't afford the house any more, and wants to have the mortgage changed.
And even so, the contracts wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't for out-of-control skyrocketing health costs, especially of retirees. If we had a working health care system in the US that wasn't supposedly financed by employers, it wouldn't be that much of an issue.
I just checked the state maximum tariff for notaries and it's a lot more than a couple a bucks: 1122
Wow, either things are expensive over there in the EU, or what you call a "notary" is completely different from ours. Here (in Minnesota, USA) a notary mostly administers oaths and certifies that documents were signed in their presence. For a maximum of US$1. Anybody can become a notary for a mere $140 plus the cost of a rubber stamp.
Also, I didn't say that merely getting something notarized counts as a publication. Read it again.
So what is the purpose of getting it notarized? If you publish it, any moron can verify the date it was published, you don't need a notary. And if you don't publish it, it's not going to count as prior art no matter how many notary seals are on it.
Of course, you can also ask a notary to certify whatever method of publication you intend to use, but there are some major drawbacks. Firstly, sometimes courts only accept publications in venues which are deemed by some non-objective standard to have a wide audience. Expect to pay to be published. Secondly, the notary will want his cut. Depending on the specific details, this can actually cost you more than filing a patent.
Oh, come on. I'm a notary. If the notary wants more than a couple of bucks per copy, you need to find another notary. In my state, maximum rates are pretty much set by law, and any notary who tried to get "his cut" would be at risk of substantial legal penalties.
That said, IANAL but merely getting something notarized probably isn't going to count as "publication". The very word implies "public" distribution.
Avast! has no nag screen that pops you out of game, though it does have an irritating talking box that pops into the lower right corner to tell you when it updates the VDB or software... fortunately it just takes about 10 seconds and then you're done.
You can turn that off (program settings/update(basic)/details/silent).
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Along with all the real entries you have every pointy haired Poindexter which dilutes the effectiveness of it and should render it useless to HR - since it's self regulating the best liar wins.
posting child pornography is illegal. Posting the blacklists would be posting child pornography in all of the cases that are not borderline, and a percentage of those that are.
Don't be silly. There is a difference between a jpg (or whatever) and a link to that jpg. The link is not the file, it is a pointer to the file (or whatever file has that name at the time the link is clicked). We don't hold the phone company guilty of terrorism if they include a terrorist's phone number in the directory. If we must have an automotive analogy, the printed phrase "VW Jetta" (or even the address of a dealership) is not the same thing as a 1.5 ton metal box with wheels and motive power.
If you download a song without paying for it, and it isn't being given away for free by the author, then you are stealing money that the artist would otherwise use
Do you have any evidence that the author (as opposed to the label and middlemen) receives any significant part of that money? For each dollar spent, how many cents does the author receive? Or is the money mostly "stolen" from them by those other parties?
Do you have any evidence that any significant number of people who will download for free, actually want the file badly enough to pay for it?
And of those who would pay for it, do you have any evidence that some of them don't (later) buy a copy?
95% of professional musicians live check to check
Like most everybody else. The key thing is, those checks mostly aren't royalty checks. Of the professional musicians I know, 95% of them get most of their income from playing gigs, teaching, working a day job, or some other source.
you may want to only encrypt parts of your hard disk as encrypting the whole disk will impact performance.
Yeah, but if you're running Windows, be sure to get the swap file (depending on security concerns, maybe having Win zero the swap file at shutdown might be enough) and all that crap in Documents and Settings. If concerns run to file/folder names, don't forget the MRU lists. I do have a Truecrypt partition, but regularly find bits and pieces of stuff scattered here and there on C: unencrypted.
Win does not segregate data in a helpful fashion. If my security concerns were serious, I wouldn't dare anything less than whole disk encryption. Actually, I'd probably stop using Windows.
I'm sure verizon could have helped TONS if she would have called a helpdesk/support line instead of a lawyer.
I can't tell for sure if my sarcasm detector is working properly, but I did tap the meter and it didn't change. You haven't dealt with first-line helpdesk support at a major corporation, have you?
I've got to admit that when I first set up DSL with Qwest, calls went to engineer-types who actually knew what they were talking about. After a 2-hour wait on hold, listening to an endless loop of "Take a Chance on Love", to winnow out the callers who weren't serious. But that was a long time ago. They replaced those guys with workers whose primary qualification was they could turn the page in a binder, and it went downhill from there.
when you inspect the song in iTunes it shows you the date of purchase and email fields. They're just standard MP4 atoms, so other apps can see and remove them.
The article referred to "not visible as ID3", so I'm guessing the OP has the files in mp3 format.
Tidymp3 is a (Win, command-line) utility that will strip everything out of an mp3 except the sound frames. It rebuilds the file, so it may even correct some errors, though it comes with warnings that occasionally it may destroy a file trying.
last i checked, services weren't taxed. the services provider pays taxes on what they are paid to provide a service. i don't charge clients taxes for my professional services. though, what i have to pay in taxes are calculated into what i charge.
TWIAVBP. A lot of places, including where I live, do charge sales tax (including in my case, a "regional transit tax", a "rich guy who owns the sports team wants a stadium" tax, and several others) on a hodgepodge of services (security services, if not done by a moonlighting cop; haircuts and dog grooming; hotel rooms; telephone and cable TV; parking; auto leases; health club charges; shipping; etc.). If you have a sales tax where you are, I'd bet that it applies to some of those services too, though I could easily be wrong.
Everyone spends money...the rich spend a LOT of money....so, that way you catch everyone...and also you catch dollars from illegal businesses too....hookers and drug dealers (however you feel about said activities) often have cash transactions that go under the table. But, those people do have to buy and use goods....
...and services. They tell me we're in a "service economy" now. So long as your definition of "goods" includes everything that is sold, I'm interested. But if I have to charge tax when I sell a widget, why shouldn't a (independent) lawyer (or hooker) have to charge tax when he sells services? Why should land, or a portion of a company (stock) be exempt? Of course it would make certain things more expensive, but (assuming you set the rate appropriately) it would make other things less expensive. But as soon as you allow loopholes, it all goes to hell.
I fully expect that the same pack of weasels would be gnawing loopholes in a flat sales tax, too.
Seems to me that you are taking my point, assuming that I mean something else,
My mistake. In my defense, you are the first person I have ever heard suggest a flat tax who actually meant "flat". All the others I have heard had a long list of loopholes that should be maintained, so I assumed you did too. It was an erroneous assumption.
I'm not sure if I support a true flat tax (on either income or sales) or not, but it's an idea well worth consideration. If it could be enacted before packs of weasels descended upon it and gnawed it full of loopholes.
Are you against people keeping as much of their hard earned tax dollars, legally within the system as possible?
Nope. I'm for fixing the laws that permit (primarily) upper-income people and corporations to escape paying their fair share. Then everybody's rates can be lower.
The usual suspects who advocate "flat tax" for income want to tax wages, but give a free ride for those whose income is from other sources like rents, dividends, interest, capital gains, inheritances. I can see how this would be attractive to somebody (like, for example, Mr. Forbes) whose income is mostly from those other sources, since it means he rides free while others pay taxes).
Feh indeed. Both "flat" sales and income taxes are scams.
Come back and let's talk when:
your "flat" income tax covers all the money a person has coming in, whether it's wages, tips, dividends, interest, capital gains, inheritances, rents, gifts of more than nominal value, bonuses, options, frequent flyer miles, use of company vehicles; or
your "flat" sales tax covers everything of value that is sold, whether goods, services (including those of advertising agencies, lawyers, architects, accountants, and hookers), real estate, stocks, automobiles, gasoline, puppies.
(Granted, getting the hookers to keep proper tax records will be a challenge.)
So far, every proposal I've seen had loopholes for high-income people and/or for business that you could drive a limousine through. Yeah, I know those people cheat already, but why make it legal.
There is no privacy. Get over it. No matter how much the Planned Parenthood robots babble about the "Right to Privacy" whenever abortion is discussed. I know where my customers live.
Big talk from somebody posting as AC.
The thing is, if it's going to be that way, we need a way to find out where you live.
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Libertarians would not regulate pollution, they'd make the business that polluted pay for the damage they cause. With freedom comes responsibility. You can do what you like, but if it affects others, you have to pay for it.
Then we'd have more superfund sites created by corporations that hid the pollution until they cashed out and dissolved, leaving the Libertarians holding the now-stinking empty bag. Maybe it would work if we abolished "corporations" and made the owners of the business personally responsible.
Unfortunately, most Libertarians are all for personal responsibility, but don't see the disjoint with the concept of corporations (which are a legal device to prevent personal responsibility).
I'd love to know how they can bill people without even knowing their name though.
The headline is a little deceptive. It sounds like what's actually going on is that they don't retain logs. From a comment to the article:
To clarify, we (Bahnhof) have not "begun deleting information" of any kind, we have always discarded this sort of informationcouplings in the earliest stage possible in our ongoing efforts to provide iNTeGriTY-marked(swedish language ahead) broadband for our customers.
While using the + in this fashion is a great idea, it breaks the specification for email addresses in the RFC.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
RFC5321 is the relevant RFC.
Wikipedia summarizes the permitted characters in a somewhat more human-readable fashion. The "local-part" is the part of the email address to the left of the @:
>The local-part of the e-mail address may use any of these ASCII characters:
>
> * Uppercase and lowercase English letters (a-z, A-Z)
> * Digits 0 through 9
> * Characters ! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~
> * Character . provided that it is not the first nor last character, nor may it appear two or more times consecutively.
A "+" does not break the RFC. It may break some buggy address validators. (Note that there are also other interesting possibilities for breaking non-compliant software, such as case-sensitive addresses.)
I didn't mean to justify the use of incandescent bulbs, I just meant to point out that if you were really concerned about wasted power, you'd be telling me to do one or more of the following:
Of course. I think CFLs are generally a good idea. About 1/3 of the bulbs in my house are FL or CFL (note that regular FL is significantly more efficient than CFL), but that includes all of the bulbs that are on for significant lengths of time except for my desk lamp), there are a lot of other things that are worse offenders. IMO they should come up with the target energy consumption, either per capita or per household, and then set electric rates to reward those who use less, and penalize those who use more. There are a lot of changes I could make that would be more significant than replacing bulbs that are in operation 0.5% or less of the time.
please read the above page and get back to us about where it says the USF is collected to build out broadband infrastructure.
it is used in certain small and rural areas- but it is not for "everyone's network buildout"
Exactly. It is used to subsidize the "rugged individualists" who choose to live in places like Montana and Alaska.
The *ISSUE* for GM is NOT making cars Americans want, it's making them at an affordable price with the UAW monkey on its back.
Well, to a degree Americans want the cars that advertising sells them. That's why we have advertising. Another part of the problem is that GM was making more money on humongous vehicles and didn't hedge its bets, and have a vehicle ready for high energy costs.
GM management were all consenting adults when they signed the contracts with the UAW. Now they're whining that they don't like what they signed. They're in the position of the homeowner who bought too big, and can't afford the house any more, and wants to have the mortgage changed.
And even so, the contracts wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't for out-of-control skyrocketing health costs, especially of retirees. If we had a working health care system in the US that wasn't supposedly financed by employers, it wouldn't be that much of an issue.
I just checked the state maximum tariff for notaries and it's a lot more than a couple a bucks: 1122
Wow, either things are expensive over there in the EU, or what you call a "notary" is completely different from ours. Here (in Minnesota, USA) a notary mostly administers oaths and certifies that documents were signed in their presence. For a maximum of US$1. Anybody can become a notary for a mere $140 plus the cost of a rubber stamp.
Also, I didn't say that merely getting something notarized counts as a publication. Read it again.
So what is the purpose of getting it notarized? If you publish it, any moron can verify the date it was published, you don't need a notary. And if you don't publish it, it's not going to count as prior art no matter how many notary seals are on it.
Of course, you can also ask a notary to certify whatever method of publication you intend to use, but there are some major drawbacks. Firstly, sometimes courts only accept publications in venues which are deemed by some non-objective standard to have a wide audience. Expect to pay to be published. Secondly, the notary will want his cut. Depending on the specific details, this can actually cost you more than filing a patent.
Oh, come on. I'm a notary. If the notary wants more than a couple of bucks per copy, you need to find another notary. In my state, maximum rates are pretty much set by law, and any notary who tried to get "his cut" would be at risk of substantial legal penalties.
That said, IANAL but merely getting something notarized probably isn't going to count as "publication". The very word implies "public" distribution.
Avast! has no nag screen that pops you out of game, though it does have an irritating talking box that pops into the lower right corner to tell you when it updates the VDB or software... fortunately it just takes about 10 seconds and then you're done.
You can turn that off (program settings/update(basic)/details/silent).
Along with all the real entries you have every pointy haired Poindexter which dilutes the effectiveness of it and should render it useless to HR - since it's self regulating the best liar wins.
I can see you haven't met the folks in HR.
if you have flashbock installed, it still tells the website that you have flash installed. so you still get counted for adobe's statistics
Ah, thanks, didn't know that. Mod parent up.
noscript has google whitelisted by default
Flashblock doesn't. And I find it much less intrusive than noscript (though granted it doesn't block anything except flash).
posting child pornography is illegal. Posting the blacklists would be posting child pornography in all of the cases that are not borderline, and a percentage of those that are.
Don't be silly. There is a difference between a jpg (or whatever) and a link to that jpg. The link is not the file, it is a pointer to the file (or whatever file has that name at the time the link is clicked). We don't hold the phone company guilty of terrorism if they include a terrorist's phone number in the directory. If we must have an automotive analogy, the printed phrase "VW Jetta" (or even the address of a dealership) is not the same thing as a 1.5 ton metal box with wheels and motive power.
Cowards often hide behind semantics.
Funny thing for an AC to say, isn't it?
If you download a song without paying for it, and it isn't being given away for free by the author, then you are stealing money that the artist would otherwise use
Do you have any evidence that the author (as opposed to the label and middlemen) receives any significant part of that money? For each dollar spent, how many cents does the author receive? Or is the money mostly "stolen" from them by those other parties?
Do you have any evidence that any significant number of people who will download for free, actually want the file badly enough to pay for it?
And of those who would pay for it, do you have any evidence that some of them don't (later) buy a copy?
95% of professional musicians live check to check
Like most everybody else. The key thing is, those checks mostly aren't royalty checks. Of the professional musicians I know, 95% of them get most of their income from playing gigs, teaching, working a day job, or some other source.
you may want to only encrypt parts of your hard disk as encrypting the whole disk will impact performance.
Yeah, but if you're running Windows, be sure to get the swap file (depending on security concerns, maybe having Win zero the swap file at shutdown might be enough) and all that crap in Documents and Settings. If concerns run to file/folder names, don't forget the MRU lists. I do have a Truecrypt partition, but regularly find bits and pieces of stuff scattered here and there on C: unencrypted.
Win does not segregate data in a helpful fashion. If my security concerns were serious, I wouldn't dare anything less than whole disk encryption. Actually, I'd probably stop using Windows.
I'm sure verizon could have helped TONS if she would have called a helpdesk/support line instead of a lawyer.
I can't tell for sure if my sarcasm detector is working properly, but I did tap the meter and it didn't change. You haven't dealt with first-line helpdesk support at a major corporation, have you?
I've got to admit that when I first set up DSL with Qwest, calls went to engineer-types who actually knew what they were talking about. After a 2-hour wait on hold, listening to an endless loop of "Take a Chance on Love", to winnow out the callers who weren't serious. But that was a long time ago. They replaced those guys with workers whose primary qualification was they could turn the page in a binder, and it went downhill from there.
There are a lot on IE only web sites in the on-line education industry.
Maybe they could give their web designers a chit for a free course in web design.
when you inspect the song in iTunes it shows you the date of purchase and email fields. They're just standard MP4 atoms, so other apps can see and remove them.
The article referred to "not visible as ID3", so I'm guessing the OP has the files in mp3 format.
Tidymp3 is a (Win, command-line) utility that will strip everything out of an mp3 except the sound frames. It rebuilds the file, so it may even correct some errors, though it comes with warnings that occasionally it may destroy a file trying.
MP3 Tag Tools will remove all non-ID3 tags.
I don't do iTunes, so I haven't actually tried it with one of those files, though.
last i checked, services weren't taxed. the services provider pays taxes on what they are paid to provide a service. i don't charge clients taxes for my professional services. though, what i have to pay in taxes are calculated into what i charge.
TWIAVBP. A lot of places, including where I live, do charge sales tax (including in my case, a "regional transit tax", a "rich guy who owns the sports team wants a stadium" tax, and several others) on a hodgepodge of services (security services, if not done by a moonlighting cop; haircuts and dog grooming; hotel rooms; telephone and cable TV; parking; auto leases; health club charges; shipping; etc.). If you have a sales tax where you are, I'd bet that it applies to some of those services too, though I could easily be wrong.
Everyone spends money...the rich spend a LOT of money....so, that way you catch everyone...and also you catch dollars from illegal businesses too....hookers and drug dealers (however you feel about said activities) often have cash transactions that go under the table. But, those people do have to buy and use goods....
...and services. They tell me we're in a "service economy" now. So long as your definition of "goods" includes everything that is sold, I'm interested. But if I have to charge tax when I sell a widget, why shouldn't a (independent) lawyer (or hooker) have to charge tax when he sells services? Why should land, or a portion of a company (stock) be exempt? Of course it would make certain things more expensive, but (assuming you set the rate appropriately) it would make other things less expensive. But as soon as you allow loopholes, it all goes to hell.
I fully expect that the same pack of weasels would be gnawing loopholes in a flat sales tax, too.
Seems to me that you are taking my point, assuming that I mean something else,
My mistake. In my defense, you are the first person I have ever heard suggest a flat tax who actually meant "flat". All the others I have heard had a long list of loopholes that should be maintained, so I assumed you did too. It was an erroneous assumption.
I'm not sure if I support a true flat tax (on either income or sales) or not, but it's an idea well worth consideration. If it could be enacted before packs of weasels descended upon it and gnawed it full of loopholes.
Are you against people keeping as much of their hard earned tax dollars, legally within the system as possible?
Nope. I'm for fixing the laws that permit (primarily) upper-income people and corporations to escape paying their fair share. Then everybody's rates can be lower.
The usual suspects who advocate "flat tax" for income want to tax wages, but give a free ride for those whose income is from other sources like rents, dividends, interest, capital gains, inheritances. I can see how this would be attractive to somebody (like, for example, Mr. Forbes) whose income is mostly from those other sources, since it means he rides free while others pay taxes).
So, you're advocating continuing to screw the general public on taxes because you like having a legal basis to punish the wealthy for being wealthy?
So, you're advocating screwing the general public on taxes because you don't want to close the loopholes the rich (individuals and corporations) use?
Feh indeed. Both "flat" sales and income taxes are scams.
Come back and let's talk when:
your "flat" income tax covers all the money a person has coming in, whether it's wages, tips, dividends, interest, capital gains, inheritances, rents, gifts of more than nominal value, bonuses, options, frequent flyer miles, use of company vehicles; or
your "flat" sales tax covers everything of value that is sold, whether goods, services (including those of advertising agencies, lawyers, architects, accountants, and hookers), real estate, stocks, automobiles, gasoline, puppies.
(Granted, getting the hookers to keep proper tax records will be a challenge.)
So far, every proposal I've seen had loopholes for high-income people and/or for business that you could drive a limousine through. Yeah, I know those people cheat already, but why make it legal.
There is no privacy. Get over it. No matter how much the Planned Parenthood robots babble about the "Right to Privacy" whenever abortion is discussed. I know where my customers live.
Big talk from somebody posting as AC.
The thing is, if it's going to be that way, we need a way to find out where you live.