If taxes were there, I would imagine most internet stores would have to close.. thing's would just be too expensive to buy online, then have shipped to your house.
They don't have a inalienable right to make money. Remember Spam? Telemarketting? RIAA? Bashing people on the head and taking their stuff? If a particular business model doesn't work and the market kills it, then the market is not broken. The business model is. Kill the business model, not the fair market.
Which state gets the taxes? Is it a federal tax? What about people buying things internationally, will they be taxed too?
Now you're talking. States don't have this authority.
It's MUCH clearer to say "the super flat paperlike thing that your TV will become" rather than saying electronic paper, which the average technophobe will just laugh at?
Just write your own web server, in whatever language. You will become intimately familiar with the HTTP protocol. That is if you implement form processing, cookies, and multi-part encodings and such.
And how would you approach that?
Coding at random until all user agents worked with it.
Experience of drivers. Although technically the UK national speed limit is 70mph provided coniditions are right speeds up to 100mph are sort of tolerated on motorways. If you ask any driver over here, most would say they've driven at atleast 80mph, and probably 90mph at some point or other. And yet our road death toll is proportionally far less than the US and motorways are the safest roads in the UK. In Germany on the autobahns speeds of 150mph are not unknown. It's because we're used to these speeds.
Can you expand on what you mean by proportionally? Is it possible that a lower number of accidents in Europe are due to Americans driving cars everywhere for lack of public transportation? Or are your numbers for per mile driven?
Please don't take COPS as a reference for American culture. Crap, the weathermen act like a snowstorm is some sort of national emergency. And all that means is that sensationalism sells TV ads.
It's called trade secrets, and has nothing to do with antitrust. If I invent a widget that only I know how to build, there are laws that protect me from a) People making money off my widget by building a knock-off b)People reverse engineering my widget and c)Having to release the manufacturing process of my widget.
IANAL, but trade secrets aren't legally protected from reverse engineering. Even the DMCA explicitly reserves the right to reverse engineer:
f ) Reverse Engineering.--(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and that have not previously been readily available to the person engaging in the circumvention, to the extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement under this title.
Let's see. Suppose a government has started several bloody wars on its neighbors, has attempted to develop weapons of mass destruction, and has paid rewards to suicide bombers in other nations. Now, suppose also that said government is overthrown and replaced by a government that does not start wars, does not attempt to develop weapons of mass destructions, and does not pay rewards to suicide bombers. Do you think the overthrow of the first government would promote stability? I think the answer is obvious.
I'm not saying there couldn't be a change to a better government. I think "stability" is a poor choice of words to convey this idea; since in fact the point is to alter the current status.
In a mission spanning three decades, the Galileo space probe has answered many of humanity's questions about space and presented us with the knowledge to ask many more which will be answered by the next generation of Jovian explorer.
Javian explorer? I thought they just changed it Firebird? I'm so confused.
Ultimately, whoever has the best luck completing monopolies right at the beginning will win even though it can take hours for them to finally win. I guess this is where you're saying the beginning is tedious because all you do is buy everything in sight; there's no thinking, and the end is tedious because all you do is throw the dice over and over until pure random chance picks the winner; once everyone has their properies and hotels there are no decisions to be made.
I consider the first part of the game a longish way to deal the properties. It's the trading phase that's interesting.
At the point where the outcome becomes obvious, it's much more fun if the losing players concede. I've played Axis & Allies out to an Allied victory maybe once or twice, because we always concede at the point when it stops being fun. I wouldn't consider that a fatal flaw.
Risk is the game that drives me nuts now. It doesn't tend toward a conclusion when played well.
You've made good points. Now if only Settlers expansions didn't end up costing $200.
Everyone's played monopoly (which is a lousy game), but who here has even heard of Puerto Rico or Settlers of Catan which are two of the best games on the market now.
I actually like Monopoly, except for the very beginning and the very end can be tedious. I think Settlers of Catan has a lot of the same elements of game play. What don't you like about Monopoly?
Sure it was. You made a point about the distinction betweeen girls (immature) and women (mature). And then you called the moderators boys. Is there not the implication that the moderators are immature? Does this statement attack their argument or them personally?
You're verging on incoherent, but you're looking for a place where there are women (*ahem* not girls) who don't like diamonds and/or who would reject a diamond because of its surrounding politics?
Try any of the following: 1) Local chapter of ACLU 2) Local Amnestry group 3) Local artist or arts school 4) Any town with a healthy population of liberals
It really says something about Slashdot that a moderater scored you as 'Insightful.' Such a sad, sad group of boys.
I think you had a point without the ad-hominem note.
Using that hypothetical, if Caldera (International) put something into the GPL, with copyright attribution, the whole nine yards, they can't make the claim about what that thing is that they put in there.
I'd tell you what he means by that, but I'm afraid I'd be violating the DMCA.
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They don't have a inalienable right to make money. Remember Spam? Telemarketting? RIAA? Bashing people on the head and taking their stuff? If a particular business model doesn't work and the market kills it, then the market is not broken. The business model is. Kill the business model, not the fair market.
Now you're talking. States don't have this authority.
That's GNU/the-super-flat-paperlike-thing-that-your-TV-w
#/usr/bin/perl
print "We're doing more layoffs and getting more bonuses.";
Do you have a reference for that? (Serious question, not a challenge.)
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Woof. Yeah. I agree whole-heartedly. One of the questions on my drivers test (and I'm not making this up) was this:
Since lives are at stake, it would make sense to require people actually drive around and demonstrate competence.
Please don't take COPS as a reference for American culture. Crap, the weathermen act like a snowstorm is some sort of national emergency. And all that means is that sensationalism sells TV ads.
Yeah, no human would throw rocks like that.
(When's there's something strange, in your forest glade, Who ya gonna call?)
Got it. Thanks.
It looks like there are also some Plug-In Hybrids, which is what I was imagining.
Are we ignoring it because it's small? How small?
IANAL, but trade secrets aren't legally protected from reverse engineering. Even the DMCA explicitly reserves the right to reverse engineer:
I'm not saying there couldn't be a change to a better government. I think "stability" is a poor choice of words to convey this idea; since in fact the point is to alter the current status.
How does overthrowing a government promote stability? Seriously, what exactly does stabilization mean in this context?
While true, this doesn't make any difference to the people paying for the work.
Exactly right, it's an urban legend according to snopes.
Yeah, that will never happen.
Amazon has it, if anyone's interested.
Javian explorer? I thought they just changed it Firebird? I'm so confused.
Thanks for the tip. I was considering the expansions until I saw your message.
I consider the first part of the game a longish way to deal the properties. It's the trading phase that's interesting.
At the point where the outcome becomes obvious, it's much more fun if the losing players concede. I've played Axis & Allies out to an Allied victory maybe once or twice, because we always concede at the point when it stops being fun. I wouldn't consider that a fatal flaw.
Risk is the game that drives me nuts now. It doesn't tend toward a conclusion when played well.
You've made good points. Now if only Settlers expansions didn't end up costing $200.
If that's the case (and you're probably right), the anti-trust suit was a miserable failure.
I actually like Monopoly, except for the very beginning and the very end can be tedious. I think Settlers of Catan has a lot of the same elements of game play. What don't you like about Monopoly?
Sure it was. You made a point about the distinction betweeen girls (immature) and women (mature). And then you called the moderators boys. Is there not the implication that the moderators are immature? Does this statement attack their argument or them personally?
I think you had a point without the ad-hominem note.