The US government makes a lot off of taxing copyrighted material.
AFAIK, the only income the federal government gets from copyrighted material would be the fairly cheap cost of registration. Sales taxes on copyrighted materials go to your state and local governments.
I imagine the offense is more like "attempt" to do something much worse; for example, you could be convicted of attempted bank robbery if you are caught casing the joint. However, the prosecutor is going to first have to prove that you intended on eventually robbing the bank; a pretty tough thing to do if all they caught you doing was taking photos outside the bank and had no other evidence.
If they got a warrant for your home and found piles of burglar's tools, plans, empty money bags with big $'s on them, etc., well, then you might be in trouble.
Apparently you either didn't read the comment or don't follow the news. This is in reference to the recent DHS report regarding various potential terrorist targets around the country. Indiana listed 8,591 potential targets. The Statute of Liberty and the Empire State Building were absent from the same list.
I hear this more on the radio than I see it on TV. It's especially confusing when it's the same DJ/Radiohead that has been talking for the past 10 minutes about real news and then segues into a story about the great deals down at Joe Bob's RV's, but reads it like it's another news story.
This is part of the reason I've switched to NPR for the most part.
but can't the government do whatever it wants with anything by eminent domain?
Fifth Amendment, in part:
nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
So, it has to be taken for public use and the person has to be given just compensation. Courts have been reading "public use" a little more limitedly lately, so such a taking could be questionable.
If you live in Wisconsin but work in Chicago, you pay income tax but can't vote against Blago.
Most neighboring states have tax agreements and the like for such situations, whereby you would get all of your taxes from Illinois refunded, but then pay income taxes to Wisconsin. (I know this is the case for Ohio and its neighbors, I don't know the law of other states).
Breastfeeding could be considered abuse if in doing so you were passing potentially harmful drugs onto your child. However, after a cursory search for anyone losing a child for breastfeeding on account of it being "sexual abuse," I didn't find anything, so I question your story.
Illinois won't be paying - they will just raise taxes or cut services to recover the costs. Those who made the decision to do this will face no consequences. Rather, the taxpayer will face all of the consequences.
Uh, whether Illinois pays, or the taxpayers pay, isn't it the same result?
The taxpayers elected the people who made this decision; therefore the taxpayers are appropriately the ones who should pay. Where do you propose the money comes from? The last time I checked, states get all of their income from taxpayers.
If I, as an average citizen, espouse the opinion "Al Gore is a boring, irrelevant blowhard", I am being honest, but once I do something like rise to the presidency of my company or amass more than a million dollars in personal net worth, suddenly a statement like "I think Al Gore is a boring, irrelevant blowhard" is disingenuous?
Because the average citizen is a disinterested party. The head of a company that pumps billions of tons of carbon into the air (directly or indirectly) has a lot more to lose (short term, we all lose long term) if Al Gore is right.
You're half-right there. They can get anything they want into the record without actually having to say it in front of everyone. This is good in some respects, because it allows that person to be officially on the Congressional Record on a particular point without having to tie up the time of the congressional body.
However, they can't modify things that are already in the record (at least, not without being subjected to censure or other punishment).
It varies state to state; some states you can vote as soon as you are released from prison and re-register. Others, you can't vote until you are off supervised release. Others, it's a permanent lifetime ban. I'm not aware of any that allow voting from in prison for felons, but I don't know for sure.
Many felons have their "rights fully restored" upon completion of their sentences.
The most annoying thing about autocorrect is when it wants to superscript things like 3rd and 4th for you; or when it decides you really wanted to capitalize that letter when you didn't. I would also appreciate it if they actually printed ellipses correctly. I have other nitpicky problems, but have the time autocorrect is more of a nuisance than anything.
Oh, and if you go to law school, you'll quickly learn that whatever dictionary file ships with MS Word is definitely sub par. I'm not just talking about Latin words either. You would think it would be easy to recognize simple prefixes and suffixes on already existing words.
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However that apparently also included tax fraud related to the pump and dump scheme.
People who obtain their money illegally, seldom report it on their taxes.
How do you think we catch a lot of drug dealers? They make millions, buy fancy houses and cars, and pay nothing in taxes.
I tried a whois, and they don't have a registered www.steorn.net. Only steorn.net.
You can only register second level domains. What's the problem?
I think "extortion" is the word you are looking for, not embezzlement.
The US government makes a lot off of taxing copyrighted material.
AFAIK, the only income the federal government gets from copyrighted material would be the fairly cheap cost of registration. Sales taxes on copyrighted materials go to your state and local governments.
Copyright infringement is a crime if (1) it is done for profit; or (2) it involves a retail value in excess of $1,000 over 180 day period.
I imagine the offense is more like "attempt" to do something much worse; for example, you could be convicted of attempted bank robbery if you are caught casing the joint. However, the prosecutor is going to first have to prove that you intended on eventually robbing the bank; a pretty tough thing to do if all they caught you doing was taking photos outside the bank and had no other evidence.
If they got a warrant for your home and found piles of burglar's tools, plans, empty money bags with big $'s on them, etc., well, then you might be in trouble.
Apparently you either didn't read the comment or don't follow the news. This is in reference to the recent DHS report regarding various potential terrorist targets around the country. Indiana listed 8,591 potential targets. The Statute of Liberty and the Empire State Building were absent from the same list.
Soybeans?
The article is about high schools, not colleges.
I hear this more on the radio than I see it on TV. It's especially confusing when it's the same DJ/Radiohead that has been talking for the past 10 minutes about real news and then segues into a story about the great deals down at Joe Bob's RV's, but reads it like it's another news story.
This is part of the reason I've switched to NPR for the most part.
Statements against one's pecuniary or proprietary interest, which would otherwise be hearsay, are admissible if that person is now unavailable
but can't the government do whatever it wants with anything by eminent domain?
Fifth Amendment, in part:
nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
So, it has to be taken for public use and the person has to be given just compensation. Courts have been reading "public use" a little more limitedly lately, so such a taking could be questionable.
If you live in Wisconsin but work in Chicago, you pay income tax but can't vote against Blago.
Most neighboring states have tax agreements and the like for such situations, whereby you would get all of your taxes from Illinois refunded, but then pay income taxes to Wisconsin. (I know this is the case for Ohio and its neighbors, I don't know the law of other states).
Breastfeeding could be considered abuse if in doing so you were passing potentially harmful drugs onto your child. However, after a cursory search for anyone losing a child for breastfeeding on account of it being "sexual abuse," I didn't find anything, so I question your story.
Illinois won't be paying - they will just raise taxes or cut services to recover the costs. Those who made the decision to do this will face no consequences. Rather, the taxpayer will face all of the consequences.
Uh, whether Illinois pays, or the taxpayers pay, isn't it the same result?
The taxpayers elected the people who made this decision; therefore the taxpayers are appropriately the ones who should pay. Where do you propose the money comes from? The last time I checked, states get all of their income from taxpayers.
Given that it was a Volume License Key, it probably does not require activation.
Mainly because the major media outlets stand to lose from non-television entertainment.
So, is the video-game industry behind all the stories telling me to watch less television?
If I, as an average citizen, espouse the opinion "Al Gore is a boring, irrelevant blowhard", I am being honest, but once I do something like rise to the presidency of my company or amass more than a million dollars in personal net worth, suddenly a statement like "I think Al Gore is a boring, irrelevant blowhard" is disingenuous?
Because the average citizen is a disinterested party. The head of a company that pumps billions of tons of carbon into the air (directly or indirectly) has a lot more to lose (short term, we all lose long term) if Al Gore is right.
You're half-right there. They can get anything they want into the record without actually having to say it in front of everyone. This is good in some respects, because it allows that person to be officially on the Congressional Record on a particular point without having to tie up the time of the congressional body.
However, they can't modify things that are already in the record (at least, not without being subjected to censure or other punishment).
...that Firefox is being bundled with Real's stuff, not the other way around.
Idiots.
Regardless, when you make a deal with the devil, you only get burnt.
Did you know felons can't vote?
It varies state to state; some states you can vote as soon as you are released from prison and re-register. Others, you can't vote until you are off supervised release. Others, it's a permanent lifetime ban. I'm not aware of any that allow voting from in prison for felons, but I don't know for sure.
Many felons have their "rights fully restored" upon completion of their sentences.
The most annoying thing about autocorrect is when it wants to superscript things like 3rd and 4th for you; or when it decides you really wanted to capitalize that letter when you didn't. I would also appreciate it if they actually printed ellipses correctly. I have other nitpicky problems, but have the time autocorrect is more of a nuisance than anything.
Oh, and if you go to law school, you'll quickly learn that whatever dictionary file ships with MS Word is definitely sub par. I'm not just talking about Latin words either. You would think it would be easy to recognize simple prefixes and suffixes on already existing words.
Um, no. The claim of an invention is pronounced "pay-tent" in the UK. I routinely talk with people from that part of the world.
I said the US, not the UK. In the US "pay-tent" is the opposite of latent, and "pat-ent" is the claim of an invention.
For instance, the word "patent" is pronounced differently in the UK from North America. In the UK it is "pay-tent" and over here it's "pah-tent".
Actually, in the U.S., the word "patent" pronounced "pa-tent" and the word "patent" pronounced "pay-tent" have two very different meanings.
"Pa-tent" can be a type of deed, a letters patent, etc. "Pay-tent" is the opposite of latent.
Would it kill the editors to provide some context for those of us who haven't been in high school in quite some time?