The problem is, we do hear about damned near every case. It's a numbers game. There's a lot of parents, or friends of parents out there. Those people want to know about threats to the kids. Thus, if you run a story involving danger to kids, you get the numbers. So every case that comes up gets publicity, even if it's on the other side of the country.
Remember, the majority of recent studies show that a) the number of incidents involving children is decreasing, and b) they're more likely to be kidnapped/abused by someone they know (parent, teacher, relative, etc) than a random stranger.
Being from Alberta, I knew that one too. It's the most annoying thing ever. Every person from the US I talk to wants to hear me say "aboot." It'd be like my asking someone from Texas to say the Minnesotan "Don'tcha know?" I pronounce it "ab-ow-t." Not "aboot."
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand now I'm flashing back to the old "My name is Joe, and I am Canadian" commercial.
Ah, thanks. I knew it wasn't "passedtime," but never used it in a formal setting, so never bothered to look it up. I shall now update my internal dictionary.
I know it's an Olympic Sport. My cousin was on Canada's team. But there's something in me that just can't bring myself to call people screaming "harder" at guys with brooms a sport.
Nearest Donut place. You're obviously not Canadian. It's "doughnut." Also, it's "Tim Horton's" and fuck the rest of the places. And I will defend curling as a wonderful pass-time. Not quite sure if it actually qualifies as a sport...
I don't think it's a British Nazi reference. It's in TFA itself, not just the summary.
"In its civil complaint, the FTC names 3FN and its various monikers, including Pricewert LLC -- the business entity named on the 3fn.net Web site registration records. "
Unless you meant the company was making a Nazi reference, in which case, carry on.
Except for the nitpick that it shouldn't be "English, nor British," that should be "American, nor English," the way you're using it. Remember, it was England's language first.
Exactly! Why are so many people bitching about "oooo, there's no alternatives! We need XP still!" If people don't wanna spend to upgrade, move to the FOSS side. It's not hard, people!
Except it's not really their fault that there's no other OS. Because there ARE other OSs. If people are that dead-set against Vista AND Win 7, they should just abandon MS all together. Move to a *nix system. If a company wants to stop selling a popular product, it's their business. Literally. Either people will move to the new product, or if there's legitimately no option (even though there is, in this case), then in this case, they can keep using the old one. After all, isn't there technically a limit on the number of copies of an OS that can be sold, which is roughly the number of computers "in the wild." Most computers recently bought will have the ability to upgrade to work well enough for most purposes for ages to come, so they don't need a new OS anyways. Their current copy is fine. Gamers might be SOL, but they should be upgrading to Vista/Win7 anyways for the new DX versions. The market can still correct. It's not as if people's copies are going to evaporate, requiring a new one. The sale of new computers will just take a hit, is all.
Yes, because after they've been forced to keep selling it, THEN people will cry out for more support. Do you honestly expect it to stop there? "Hey, we made them keep selling it, even though they didn't want to. We have new users with no idea what to do, so why not make them support those new users?"
I believe you've misunderstood. I was SAYING that that's how the Opera view-all-links panel works. Way to misread and attack me. I was giving the next step in what you were talking about. You filter in the panel so you only have the pictures, and then you can download them all. No need for a plug-in or User JS.
DownThemAll is trivial to implement in UserJS; apart from that Opera can list all links on given page.
More than just list all links on a given page, you can do a search for specific links, including by extension. If you do ".jpg", you can then highlight them all, right click, and save them all to the default folder. Thus, you've downloaded them all.
Uh, you can just go Preferences --> Advanced --> Content, and uncheck javascript, flash, plugins, etc. That should stop just about everything, no? And then you can re-enable it on a site-by-site preference. Takes about 15 seconds to re-enable a site.
Last I was aware of was the 2004 ruling saying that filesharing Canadians weren't guilty of copyright infringement. I'm not stupid enough to think that'll hold up forever, but currently, the situation is:
Blank media and media players have a levy.
This levy is ostensibly to recoup lost revenues from home duplication of media.
This levy is given to the CMRRE (RIAA equivalent in Canada) to cover royalties.
If any aspect of home copying is found to be in violation of this part of fair dealing, the entire levy system may be scrapped, meaning they get no money out of it.
The RIAA likes more money, rather than less money, so until they can work out a way to ensure that the system will find digital distribution in Canada to be infringing, while still allowing home copying, or a way to scrap all home use without scrapping the levy, they won't make a move here.
That'd make sense, if I meant the UK police are evil. Check the last bit of the GP. I meant they wanted something to "detect evil." Lack of clarity on my part, mea culpa.
I'm going to have to say "leave it." If you want to run an intercomm, it'll be useful for the wires as guides, but due to the set up, you're never going to find something useful to send over the wires themselves. Find something you DO want in every room, and just run alongside, since all the holes in the studs should be pre-drilled for you.
Not sure that's quite what they meant. I think it was more a "look, if they try to use it in this way, we can use it like this." Either way, since the law is meant to be construed narrowly, not generalized, since it specifically mentions digital downloads, then any irl situations are excluded.
Who's tax code is applied? The place where the person lives? The place where the server that processed the transaction is? The place where the store's server is? The location of the head office of the company? A branch of the company?
If I paid taxes on it when I purchased it, and the taxes went to where the item originated, am I liable for the taxes in my home state? I prefer the system of self-reporting mentioned elsewhere in the comments: on your tax form, you state how much you spent on sites like amazon or newegg, and pay taxes based on that. That's about as far as it should go. Money that was actually spent, on physical products or on services. Assigning arbitrary value to something for the purposes of taxation is a strange idea.
If we go with just the iTunes model, there's songs for $.69, $.99, and $1.29. I download some free music, which I'm now expected to pay taxes on. Which tier does it fall in to? Obviously, I'd prefer $.69, the government wants $1.29. It says "comparable" products will be used to set the price. How can you compare music? I might have purposefully downloaded something I hate for a specific purpose (thematic soundtrack for a party, perhaps), but it's a popular song for the general population. So the price goes up. But it's an old song. So does the price go down? No name recognition, price up or down?
In any case where there isn't a direct equivalent product like a CD, then there's no fair way to set the price.
Wow, you guys got the short end of the stick. We pay the blank media levy in Canada, but it makes an environment where it'd be bitch-hard for the RIAA-equivilent to sue someone, since those levies are supposed to replace any "lost" revenues from sharing.
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They want ALL of the market, not just a share of it.
You keep talking like they're not a company. You might wanna look in to that.
Nope. That was your own fault. Everyone knows "DEVELOPERS" is MS code for "hit the dirt."
Govt. healthcare? I wonder where they are going to get the money for that.
Same place the Bush government got money for the war?
The problem is, we do hear about damned near every case. It's a numbers game. There's a lot of parents, or friends of parents out there. Those people want to know about threats to the kids. Thus, if you run a story involving danger to kids, you get the numbers. So every case that comes up gets publicity, even if it's on the other side of the country.
Remember, the majority of recent studies show that a) the number of incidents involving children is decreasing, and b) they're more likely to be kidnapped/abused by someone they know (parent, teacher, relative, etc) than a random stranger.
Isn't that the magical mystical "world go away" spell?
Being from Alberta, I knew that one too. It's the most annoying thing ever. Every person from the US I talk to wants to hear me say "aboot." It'd be like my asking someone from Texas to say the Minnesotan "Don'tcha know?" I pronounce it "ab-ow-t." Not "aboot."
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand now I'm flashing back to the old "My name is Joe, and I am Canadian" commercial.
Ah, thanks. I knew it wasn't "passedtime," but never used it in a formal setting, so never bothered to look it up. I shall now update my internal dictionary.
I know it's an Olympic Sport. My cousin was on Canada's team. But there's something in me that just can't bring myself to call people screaming "harder" at guys with brooms a sport.
Nearest Donut place. You're obviously not Canadian. It's "doughnut." Also, it's "Tim Horton's" and fuck the rest of the places. And I will defend curling as a wonderful pass-time. Not quite sure if it actually qualifies as a sport...
I don't think it's a British Nazi reference. It's in TFA itself, not just the summary.
"In its civil complaint, the FTC names 3FN and its various monikers, including Pricewert LLC -- the business entity named on the 3fn.net Web site registration records. "
Unless you meant the company was making a Nazi reference, in which case, carry on.
Except for the nitpick that it shouldn't be "English, nor British," that should be "American, nor English," the way you're using it. Remember, it was England's language first.
Actually, I'm fairly certain that bestiality is illegal in a few locales. Also, incest, if it's first degree affinity or consanguinity. YMMV.
Exactly! Why are so many people bitching about "oooo, there's no alternatives! We need XP still!" If people don't wanna spend to upgrade, move to the FOSS side. It's not hard, people!
Except it's not really their fault that there's no other OS. Because there ARE other OSs. If people are that dead-set against Vista AND Win 7, they should just abandon MS all together. Move to a *nix system. If a company wants to stop selling a popular product, it's their business. Literally. Either people will move to the new product, or if there's legitimately no option (even though there is, in this case), then in this case, they can keep using the old one. After all, isn't there technically a limit on the number of copies of an OS that can be sold, which is roughly the number of computers "in the wild." Most computers recently bought will have the ability to upgrade to work well enough for most purposes for ages to come, so they don't need a new OS anyways. Their current copy is fine. Gamers might be SOL, but they should be upgrading to Vista/Win7 anyways for the new DX versions. The market can still correct. It's not as if people's copies are going to evaporate, requiring a new one. The sale of new computers will just take a hit, is all.
Yes, because after they've been forced to keep selling it, THEN people will cry out for more support. Do you honestly expect it to stop there? "Hey, we made them keep selling it, even though they didn't want to. We have new users with no idea what to do, so why not make them support those new users?"
I believe you've misunderstood. I was SAYING that that's how the Opera view-all-links panel works. Way to misread and attack me. I was giving the next step in what you were talking about. You filter in the panel so you only have the pictures, and then you can download them all. No need for a plug-in or User JS.
Ugh.
There's a userjs for that.
The new automatic spell-check in Opera is nice too, glad they caught up to Firefox in that arena.
Little known fact: It was actually possible to add in a spell check using aspell and downloadable dictionaries.
DownThemAll is trivial to implement in UserJS; apart from that Opera can list all links on given page.
More than just list all links on a given page, you can do a search for specific links, including by extension. If you do ".jpg", you can then highlight them all, right click, and save them all to the default folder. Thus, you've downloaded them all.
Uh, you can just go Preferences --> Advanced --> Content, and uncheck javascript, flash, plugins, etc. That should stop just about everything, no? And then you can re-enable it on a site-by-site preference. Takes about 15 seconds to re-enable a site.
Look at what?
Last I was aware of was the 2004 ruling saying that filesharing Canadians weren't guilty of copyright infringement. I'm not stupid enough to think that'll hold up forever, but currently, the situation is:
Blank media and media players have a levy.
This levy is ostensibly to recoup lost revenues from home duplication of media.
This levy is given to the CMRRE (RIAA equivalent in Canada) to cover royalties.
If any aspect of home copying is found to be in violation of this part of fair dealing, the entire levy system may be scrapped, meaning they get no money out of it.
The RIAA likes more money, rather than less money, so until they can work out a way to ensure that the system will find digital distribution in Canada to be infringing, while still allowing home copying, or a way to scrap all home use without scrapping the levy, they won't make a move here.
That'd make sense, if I meant the UK police are evil. Check the last bit of the GP. I meant they wanted something to "detect evil." Lack of clarity on my part, mea culpa.
I'm going to have to say "leave it." If you want to run an intercomm, it'll be useful for the wires as guides, but due to the set up, you're never going to find something useful to send over the wires themselves. Find something you DO want in every room, and just run alongside, since all the holes in the studs should be pre-drilled for you.
Not sure that's quite what they meant. I think it was more a "look, if they try to use it in this way, we can use it like this." Either way, since the law is meant to be construed narrowly, not generalized, since it specifically mentions digital downloads, then any irl situations are excluded.
The reason it's unreasonable is this:
Who's tax code is applied? The place where the person lives? The place where the server that processed the transaction is? The place where the store's server is? The location of the head office of the company? A branch of the company?
If I paid taxes on it when I purchased it, and the taxes went to where the item originated, am I liable for the taxes in my home state? I prefer the system of self-reporting mentioned elsewhere in the comments: on your tax form, you state how much you spent on sites like amazon or newegg, and pay taxes based on that. That's about as far as it should go. Money that was actually spent, on physical products or on services. Assigning arbitrary value to something for the purposes of taxation is a strange idea.
If we go with just the iTunes model, there's songs for $.69, $.99, and $1.29. I download some free music, which I'm now expected to pay taxes on. Which tier does it fall in to? Obviously, I'd prefer $.69, the government wants $1.29. It says "comparable" products will be used to set the price. How can you compare music? I might have purposefully downloaded something I hate for a specific purpose (thematic soundtrack for a party, perhaps), but it's a popular song for the general population. So the price goes up. But it's an old song. So does the price go down? No name recognition, price up or down?
In any case where there isn't a direct equivalent product like a CD, then there's no fair way to set the price.
Wow, you guys got the short end of the stick. We pay the blank media levy in Canada, but it makes an environment where it'd be bitch-hard for the RIAA-equivilent to sue someone, since those levies are supposed to replace any "lost" revenues from sharing.