It is not a military problem. The reason the Europe is seeking redundancy with the GPS is really that in the coming decades, the GPS system will be instrumental to any economic activity, as it will replace radio-nav for airplane and ship traffic, will be massively used by road traffic, etc.... The GPS will become to the movement of things what the IP protocol is to the movement of data. Economic activity as a whole would be severely impaired if it were to be disabled over a particular area.
If the US had a monopoly on it, at any moment it could start charging for its usage and kevy a tax on the whole world, or threaten to do so in trade negociations.
Thanks to Europe, and especially France which is the only nation to have consistently pushed for it within the EU (even the Germans were convinced only recently), this will not happen.
It's true but I personnaly prefer living space and intimacy to electronic gadgets. I get to have kids on my own and to build up property ownership, while shelling out the money on tech is like burning it as far as my net worth is concerned. It is also possible in Japan because they have fewer children on average and not a lot of immigration, and also because the pressure on women to marry rather than stay single at the beginning of their career is much more important. So overall there is much less need for adding new housing units to the nation than in the US, and even than in Europe which is kind of halfway between the two (except that in Europe the corresponding extra cash ends up in welfare rather than tech).
At least for a while, all of my DVD players at home and on my computers will be high def. I'll probably first have one optimal system with an HD projector with a high-def player hooked up by HDMI on my living room, but still another TV with a regular DVD player in the bedroom, plus my laptop, in-car player, my desktop computer, etc will all have regular DVD. So I will need hybrid discs to be able to watch them not only in the living room.
The US does not output anything. Have you checked the US trade balance lately ? How come a nation with 31% of the world "output" does not export anything ? You are counting the GDP. But the US GDP includes stuff like the markup retailers make on imported Chinese goods, the legal costs of the Clinton-Lewinsky incident, the health insurance industry profits, the DoD purchasing of the bombs that killed 100,000 human beings in Irak recently, the profits of people who cashed out of their Manhattan apt and went to retire in Florida. It's just a number, just an accounting figure.
The share of "useless" GDP is higher in the US than in most industrialized nation. Plus it is compared with other nation's figures using purchasing power parity conversion, which values the USD much more than the currency market currently does.
I doubt that any European country's tax convention with the US allows Americans to live in their territory and be taxed in the US. This is the default for Americans in general, but this does not apply when the host country has a bilateral tax convention with the US, which is the case of all industrialized country, and these conventions usually mean that you're taxed by the country you live in for your activity income. Details for other incomes such as real-estate (if you rent out the home you have in the US while living abroad for example), as well as retirement planning vary.
I his wife is eligible for an Italian citizenship, he would not need to get one as well, he could just get a residency permit through sponsorship of his wife. He actually can do that not only in Italy but in any EU country, plus Iceland, Norway and Lichtenchtein, to be precise. His wife is directly eligible for a residency permit as an EU citizen, and he is as the spouse of a new resident.
Work permits for non-EU citizens are not transportable within the EU AFAIK. It is true though that some EU countries have rather flexible laws for granting citizenships through ancestry, even after a generation has been skipped. An American could use that if eligible, and then leverage EU citizenship to get a work permit anywhere in the EU.
I know of an American who got a Canadian passport somehow, just so that she could benefit from Australia's 1 year Work-Vacation program, which does not include the US.
Shipping is generally free at Amazon if you buy at least $25, and I guess similar systems apply to other merchants. As for the delay, just look atthe price difference and figure out if it's worth it for you. I have gotten used to a delay between purchase and delivery as I have ordered online most of the CDs, DVDs and books that I have bought in the last three years. I ofter place new orders even before I receive those that are already out.
Even not mentionning the price, I prefer to dig unbiased into Amazon's millions of references rather than pick whatever's in stock or whatever the store choses to display prominently.
Then buy used books. That's what I already do : I write down the ISBN of boks I like in the bookstore, then I buy them on Amazon Marketplace or Half.com
It's been a while I haven't bought anything in the bookstore where I hang out an average of two hours per week. When I find a book that I like, I write down its ISBN on a piece of paper, or, ironically, I voice-memo it on my cellphone. When I'm back home I look it up on Amazon and I buy it used from someone on the Amazon Marketplace.
I have even formulated the idea that bookstores should just give up on selling books and have people pay a flat fee to hang out, and provide internet terminals where we could order on the spot from any website we like.
Well apparently it's not dead since it's about to start being applied. Yet another domain where the supposedly hegemonic US failed to twist the arm of other nations.
No, that's exactly what's covered by the patent : comparing two references with one operators. In C, references being pointers, you just use the scalar equality to compare them.
How do you explain that the life expectancy at birth, infant mortality rates and life expectancy after cancer diagnosis are significantly higher in Europe than in the US ?
I do that for videogames. I have realized how many hours of entertainment one can get from old games. On my PC I'm playing a 2 y/o strategy game (Europa Universalis II) that I got from a bargain bin at $15 and that has already provided hours and hours of entertainment to me. Plus all the patches are already available so I'm not a beta-tester. Plus other people have already spent man*years analyzing the game and all the tips and tricks are available on the net. I also own a Sega Genesis with ~25 games, $35 on eBay including all shipping, which represents even more hours of playing, and a nostalgic factor. And I have a Dreamcast, also from eBay, that I haven't yet unpacked because I'm too busy with the rest of the stuff, but I got it for a fifth of the price that a typical hardcore gamer will spend on an serious video adapter.
There are other benefits of European TVs : all of them are RGB monitors, which means a much better quality for console gaming out-of-the-box. Also most of those sold nowadays can display both in 480 and 575 lines, 50, 60 and sometimes 100Hz, with pretty much any color scheme (NTSC and all the flavors of PAL and SECAM), which allows to plug in any VCR or DVD player from around the world. US TVs rarely have RGB inputs, and adapters have to be added to game systems to use the YUV component inputs. Also they display NTSC and only NTSC, so when you want to watch PAL DVDs on a zone-free player for example, you have to go through a scaling that very often does not turn out good.
I think the VelSatis has a sequential gearbox -- a clutchless manual that can either be controlled manually or by a computer. It's relatively common on newer cars in Europe, unlike traditionnal auto which indeed has always been rare.
An analogy - this would be similar to asking Linux to remove zlib entirely. Because, you know, not many people ever really need to compress things, right? Therefore zlib couldn't be that important, right?
The key to why your analogy is nonsense is in the "asking Linux" expression. It does not mean anything to "ask linux something" because there is no such person or company. You can ask Microsoft things since it's incorporated. Now as for the Linux distribution vendors, the license of the software they distribute is such that it cannot be proven that they leverage including any sub-part of the distribution for profit.
Firstly what is forbidden is to leverage a monopoly, and Linux is in no position of monopoly, nor is any distribution vendor within the linux market.
Secondly, distribution vendors don't get any royalty for any part of their distribution being used, unlike Microsoft which profits from WMP through royalties on streaming servers.
Distribution vendors profit from one single thing : the assembly of the different parts of the distribution. In terms of IP this is a single, undivisible product and thus cannot be considered a bundling.
Actually the 1Ds line, as opposed to co-existing 1D line (both are now at their Mark II), is the one that privileges pixel count over shooting frame rate. The "s" stands for "studio". A pro would make a very uninformed choice to bring a 1Ds MkII rather than a 1D MkII at a sporting event. And pros are the only one who in their right mind would pay into the 1D line.
For mail-order within the EU normally you pay the VAT of the destination country. When buying in a brick and mortar store you pay the VAT of the country where the store is located, except for cars, for which you pay the VAT, and any other applicable tax, of the registration country. Note that customers in the EU are supposed to be charged the VAT of their home country when they purchase "immaterial" goods over the internet from wherever. Thus for example if, hypothetically, a European customer could access Apple's US iTunes Music Store, Apple would have to charge her for the VAT of her country in addition the the 99c/song. Instead of that in this case Apple prefers to region-lock their virtual store and open special local branches, but this system should apply to any online business.
A contemporary French constitutionalist once said "The genius of the framers of the US constitution is how they at once, in a single document, gave the power to the people and took it away from them"
define the fact that my car is my property by the fact that I'm the only one who gets to drive it. I don't need laws for this to be a fact. I could assume that I cannot be hot wired somehow, or I could sleep in it with a shotgun by my side.
No : you don't need laws for physical property to exist. Conceptually, we could all be physically defending our property by violence, which is exactly how it worked for example in the Dark Ages Europe, until societies collectively realized that the rule of law was more efficient for the common good.
By saying that I would sell my extra copies of the DVDs you assume the artificial scarcity that copyright creates. I was trying to reason independently of the existing IP framework.
Let's pick a more appropriate example : I'm sitting in front of the bomb that will explode in one minute. I would value it very much if someone would be so kind as to telling me whether I should cut the red wire or the green wire. However, I don't care if that person tells me 500 times the same thing.
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Better spent like what ? Paying for infrastructures in Hungary that Hungarians cannot pay for themselves ?
It is not a military problem. The reason the Europe is seeking redundancy with the GPS is really that in the coming decades, the GPS system will be instrumental to any economic activity, as it will replace radio-nav for airplane and ship traffic, will be massively used by road traffic, etc.... The GPS will become to the movement of things what the IP protocol is to the movement of data. Economic activity as a whole would be severely impaired if it were to be disabled over a particular area.
If the US had a monopoly on it, at any moment it could start charging for its usage and kevy a tax on the whole world, or threaten to do so in trade negociations.
Thanks to Europe, and especially France which is the only nation to have consistently pushed for it within the EU (even the Germans were convinced only recently), this will not happen.
It's true but I personnaly prefer living space and intimacy to electronic gadgets. I get to have kids on my own and to build up property ownership, while shelling out the money on tech is like burning it as far as my net worth is concerned. It is also possible in Japan because they have fewer children on average and not a lot of immigration, and also because the pressure on women to marry rather than stay single at the beginning of their career is much more important. So overall there is much less need for adding new housing units to the nation than in the US, and even than in Europe which is kind of halfway between the two (except that in Europe the corresponding extra cash ends up in welfare rather than tech).
At least for a while, all of my DVD players at home and on my computers will be high def. I'll probably first have one optimal system with an HD projector with a high-def player hooked up by HDMI on my living room, but still another TV with a regular DVD player in the bedroom, plus my laptop, in-car player, my desktop computer, etc will all have regular DVD. So I will need hybrid discs to be able to watch them not only in the living room.
The US does not output anything. Have you checked the US trade balance lately ? How come a nation with 31% of the world "output" does not export anything ? You are counting the GDP. But the US GDP includes stuff like the markup retailers make on imported Chinese goods, the legal costs of the Clinton-Lewinsky incident, the health insurance industry profits, the DoD purchasing of the bombs that killed 100,000 human beings in Irak recently, the profits of people who cashed out of their Manhattan apt and went to retire in Florida. It's just a number, just an accounting figure.
The share of "useless" GDP is higher in the US than in most industrialized nation. Plus it is compared with other nation's figures using purchasing power parity conversion, which values the USD much more than the currency market currently does.
I doubt that any European country's tax convention with the US allows Americans to live in their territory and be taxed in the US. This is the default for Americans in general, but this does not apply when the host country has a bilateral tax convention with the US, which is the case of all industrialized country, and these conventions usually mean that you're taxed by the country you live in for your activity income. Details for other incomes such as real-estate (if you rent out the home you have in the US while living abroad for example), as well as retirement planning vary.
I his wife is eligible for an Italian citizenship, he would not need to get one as well, he could just get a residency permit through sponsorship of his wife. He actually can do that not only in Italy but in any EU country, plus Iceland, Norway and Lichtenchtein, to be precise. His wife is directly eligible for a residency permit as an EU citizen, and he is as the spouse of a new resident.
Work permits for non-EU citizens are not transportable within the EU AFAIK. It is true though that some EU countries have rather flexible laws for granting citizenships through ancestry, even after a generation has been skipped. An American could use that if eligible, and then leverage EU citizenship to get a work permit anywhere in the EU.
I know of an American who got a Canadian passport somehow, just so that she could benefit from Australia's 1 year Work-Vacation program, which does not include the US.
Shipping is generally free at Amazon if you buy at least $25, and I guess similar systems apply to other merchants. As for the delay, just look atthe price difference and figure out if it's worth it for you. I have gotten used to a delay between purchase and delivery as I have ordered online most of the CDs, DVDs and books that I have bought in the last three years. I ofter place new orders even before I receive those that are already out.
Even not mentionning the price, I prefer to dig unbiased into Amazon's millions of references rather than pick whatever's in stock or whatever the store choses to display prominently.
Then buy used books. That's what I already do : I write down the ISBN of boks I like in the bookstore, then I buy them on Amazon Marketplace or Half.com
It's been a while I haven't bought anything in the bookstore where I hang out an average of two hours per week. When I find a book that I like, I write down its ISBN on a piece of paper, or, ironically, I voice-memo it on my cellphone. When I'm back home I look it up on Amazon and I buy it used from someone on the Amazon Marketplace.
I have even formulated the idea that bookstores should just give up on selling books and have people pay a flat fee to hang out, and provide internet terminals where we could order on the spot from any website we like.
Well apparently it's not dead since it's about to start being applied. Yet another domain where the supposedly hegemonic US failed to twist the arm of other nations.
No, that's exactly what's covered by the patent : comparing two references with one operators. In C, references being pointers, you just use the scalar equality to compare them.
How do you explain that the life expectancy at birth, infant mortality rates and life expectancy after cancer diagnosis are significantly higher in Europe than in the US ?
I do that for videogames. I have realized how many hours of entertainment one can get from old games. On my PC I'm playing a 2 y/o strategy game (Europa Universalis II) that I got from a bargain bin at $15 and that has already provided hours and hours of entertainment to me. Plus all the patches are already available so I'm not a beta-tester. Plus other people have already spent man*years analyzing the game and all the tips and tricks are available on the net.
I also own a Sega Genesis with ~25 games, $35 on eBay including all shipping, which represents even more hours of playing, and a nostalgic factor. And I have a Dreamcast, also from eBay, that I haven't yet unpacked because I'm too busy with the rest of the stuff, but I got it for a fifth of the price that a typical hardcore gamer will spend on an serious video adapter.
There are other benefits of European TVs : all of them are RGB monitors, which means a much better quality for console gaming out-of-the-box. Also most of those sold nowadays can display both in 480 and 575 lines, 50, 60 and sometimes 100Hz, with pretty much any color scheme (NTSC and all the flavors of PAL and SECAM), which allows to plug in any VCR or DVD player from around the world. US TVs rarely have RGB inputs, and adapters have to be added to game systems to use the YUV component inputs. Also they display NTSC and only NTSC, so when you want to watch PAL DVDs on a zone-free player for example, you have to go through a scaling that very often does not turn out good.
But that makes him a true geek, doesn't it ?
I think the VelSatis has a sequential gearbox -- a clutchless manual that can either be controlled manually or by a computer. It's relatively common on newer cars in Europe, unlike traditionnal auto which indeed has always been rare.
The key to why your analogy is nonsense is in the "asking Linux" expression. It does not mean anything to "ask linux something" because there is no such person or company. You can ask Microsoft things since it's incorporated. Now as for the Linux distribution vendors, the license of the software they distribute is such that it cannot be proven that they leverage including any sub-part of the distribution for profit.
Firstly what is forbidden is to leverage a monopoly, and Linux is in no position of monopoly, nor is any distribution vendor within the linux market.
Secondly, distribution vendors don't get any royalty for any part of their distribution being used, unlike Microsoft which profits from WMP through royalties on streaming servers.
Distribution vendors profit from one single thing : the assembly of the different parts of the distribution. In terms of IP this is a single, undivisible product and thus cannot be considered a bundling.
Actually the 1Ds line, as opposed to co-existing 1D line (both are now at their Mark II), is the one that privileges pixel count over shooting frame rate. The "s" stands for "studio". A pro would make a very uninformed choice to bring a 1Ds MkII rather than a 1D MkII at a sporting event. And pros are the only one who in their right mind would pay into the 1D line.
For mail-order within the EU normally you pay the VAT of the destination country. When buying in a brick and mortar store you pay the VAT of the country where the store is located, except for cars, for which you pay the VAT, and any other applicable tax, of the registration country. Note that customers in the EU are supposed to be charged the VAT of their home country when they purchase "immaterial" goods over the internet from wherever. Thus for example if, hypothetically, a European customer could access Apple's US iTunes Music Store, Apple would have to charge her for the VAT of her country in addition the the 99c/song. Instead of that in this case Apple prefers to region-lock their virtual store and open special local branches, but this system should apply to any online business.
A contemporary French constitutionalist once said "The genius of the framers of the US constitution is how they at once, in a single document, gave the power to the people and took it away from them"
define the fact that my car is my property by the fact that I'm the only one who gets to drive it. I don't need laws for this to be a fact. I could assume that I cannot be hot wired somehow, or I could sleep in it with a shotgun by my side.
Laws just make my life simpler.
No : you don't need laws for physical property to exist. Conceptually, we could all be physically defending our property by violence, which is exactly how it worked for example in the Dark Ages Europe, until societies collectively realized that the rule of law was more efficient for the common good.
By saying that I would sell my extra copies of the DVDs you assume the artificial scarcity that copyright creates. I was trying to reason independently of the existing IP framework.
Let's pick a more appropriate example : I'm sitting in front of the bomb that will explode in one minute. I would value it very much if someone would be so kind as to telling me whether I should cut the red wire or the green wire. However, I don't care if that person tells me 500 times the same thing.