And for a fee, UPS stops at my dad's shop every day, to see if he's sending out any packages. FedEx hits up my company here twice a day, and DHL every day as well...
Wow, your Dad's shop for packages and your company for corporate mail. That REALLY sounds like "non-expedited personal mail", which is what is covered by the law, doesn't it?
There are post offices almost everywhere, but they are usually smaller. My grandmother lives in a town (in the US) with no local internet service (and thus no email access), but they do have a Post Office. It's in the same (small) building as the town hall, church and general store, I believe. Of course, only about 300 people live there, and I really doubt any of them have a great urge to have email...
I work at a place that has an arrangement with the postal service to deliver a mailer to _every_ household in our county, over 300,000 homes. It is very expensive, we do it once a year I believe.
Also, if Bush did utter that statement, I can be sure that you took it out of context, as you people usually do.
I like the reference to "you people". What sort of people is the poster, pray tell? And how do you know?
"Some people have too much freedom," I believe is the actual quote, and if you do a Google search for that you will get many hits. The story is that he said it after seeing a satirical web site that poked fun at him, but I can't verify that.
At least one problem with the locker system was that you could just use friends' discs to add cds to your locker.
Another reason that failed in court (and this probably will too, if tested) is that the law apparently says that you are allowed to make copies of your media for your own use, but you are not allowed to make copies of your media for _others_ to use.
As I understand it, it's legally okay to have MP3s or ROMs, but only if they were made from _your_ originals.
This method is pretty interesting, with the whole "checking out" concept, but I think they would still lose based on the above interpretations of the law.
I get my film developed to CD... The quality of the scans is _not_ enough for a gallery-quality print, but it's only $7. Then I can pick out the ones I want to scan at high quality easily and also can email them, post them on sites, etc. I'm not going to sit and scan a whole roll of film. This way works well for me and is relatively cost effective.
I actually think you are paying for McDonalds' stupidity. If they had just paid her a few grand in the first place, it never would have gone to trial.
Better yet, had they not served coffee unfit for human consumption, it never would have come up.
Another option is to not buy McDonalds' coffee, if you think it's price has been inflated due to the lawsuit. Coffee is available at many places; hopefully you'll have little trouble finding an alternate source.
Both the former slave owners AND the former slaves are long dead. 100% of the citizens of the US were born after the slaves were freed. A fair portion of descendents of current US citizens had not even immigrated to the US when the slaves were freed.
How is it justifiable to make these people pay reparations (which they would be, since it's _their_ tax money as well)?
PNG was designed to be the successor to the once-popular GIF format, which became decidedly less popular right around New Year's Day 1995 when Unisys and CompuServe suddenly announced that programs implementing GIF would require royalties, because of Unisys' patent on the LZW compression method used in GIF.
If this is the case, why do Stabucks kiosks inside other stores and drive-through-only Starbucks (they exist) charge the same amount even though there is no music being played or any other "atmosphere" to speak of?
What is up with these gibberish posts? I've been seeing a lot of posts like this... Is it an attempt to see if you can avoid getting babbled nonsense marked offtopic by making it look somewhat related to the post?
My friend is a designer and he keeps ALL the files for all his projects... All the source graphics, all the PSD files (which can be a few hundred megs each) on CDs... He uses one CD every few days, probably (one for each project).
What he does is date them and then just put them on a spindle. He keeps the spindles on a shelf. Doesn't take up much space, since each spindle holds 100. It is a lot of CDs, but he figures better safe than sorry. If a client calls back a year later and wants "something like that last thing you did for me" and he's deleted the files, that's a lot more work for him.
If she is backing up _music_ files (and by music, I mean bits of songs, samples, etc.) then the files are probably quite large (as they need to be in a high quality format, not MP3), and she probably doesn't want to overwrite them in case she wants to use them again later.
2" reel to reel tape is an expensive, speciality item. (Note that this article was written about 5 years ago, before the digital boom). Still, I bet now there would be a "computer rental fee" or some such nonsense.
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It's loud only when the disc is spinning. If you aren't loading game files, why would the disc spin?
And for a fee, UPS stops at my dad's shop every day, to see if he's sending out any packages. FedEx hits up my company here twice a day, and DHL every day as well...
Wow, your Dad's shop for packages and your company for corporate mail. That REALLY sounds like "non-expedited personal mail", which is what is covered by the law, doesn't it?
There are post offices almost everywhere, but they are usually smaller. My grandmother lives in a town (in the US) with no local internet service (and thus no email access), but they do have a Post Office. It's in the same (small) building as the town hall, church and general store, I believe. Of course, only about 300 people live there, and I really doubt any of them have a great urge to have email...
I work at a place that has an arrangement with the postal service to deliver a mailer to _every_ household in our county, over 300,000 homes. It is very expensive, we do it once a year I believe.
Also, if Bush did utter that statement, I can be sure that you took it out of context, as you people usually do.
I like the reference to "you people". What sort of people is the poster, pray tell? And how do you know?
"Some people have too much freedom," I believe is the actual quote, and if you do a Google search for that you will get many hits. The story is that he said it after seeing a satirical web site that poked fun at him, but I can't verify that.
At least one problem with the locker system was that you could just use friends' discs to add cds to your locker.
Another reason that failed in court (and this probably will too, if tested) is that the law apparently says that you are allowed to make copies of your media for your own use, but you are not allowed to make copies of your media for _others_ to use.
As I understand it, it's legally okay to have MP3s or ROMs, but only if they were made from _your_ originals.
This method is pretty interesting, with the whole "checking out" concept, but I think they would still lose based on the above interpretations of the law.
I get my film developed to CD... The quality of the scans is _not_ enough for a gallery-quality print, but it's only $7. Then I can pick out the ones I want to scan at high quality easily and also can email them, post them on sites, etc. I'm not going to sit and scan a whole roll of film. This way works well for me and is relatively cost effective.
You'd definitely need a second server to collect form data, but this would be good at preventing humilating site defacings, at least.
You _do_ realize you are babbling incoherently, right?
I actually think you are paying for McDonalds' stupidity. If they had just paid her a few grand in the first place, it never would have gone to trial.
Better yet, had they not served coffee unfit for human consumption, it never would have come up.
Another option is to not buy McDonalds' coffee, if you think it's price has been inflated due to the lawsuit. Coffee is available at many places; hopefully you'll have little trouble finding an alternate source.
The analogy is deeply flawed.
Both the former slave owners AND the former slaves are long dead. 100% of the citizens of the US were born after the slaves were freed. A fair portion of descendents of current US citizens had not even immigrated to the US when the slaves were freed.
How is it justifiable to make these people pay reparations (which they would be, since it's _their_ tax money as well)?
If this is the case, why do Stabucks kiosks inside other stores and drive-through-only Starbucks (they exist) charge the same amount even though there is no music being played or any other "atmosphere" to speak of?
Or if you've already used the THREE upgrade coupons that come with your mac when you buy it...
Didn't it also say upgrades cost $19.99...
$14 x 12 = $168, not $140
It's a bot. Read his other posts.
Of everything else said in that article, THAT'S what worries you? Jeesh.
What is up with these gibberish posts? I've been seeing a lot of posts like this... Is it an attempt to see if you can avoid getting babbled nonsense marked offtopic by making it look somewhat related to the post?
And, yes, this is offtopic.
Even if that is true, this game is by Bioware.
So your comment is pretty irrevelant.
You do know it's an Office Space reference, right?
You can most definitely overwrite the info on a rewriteable (CD-RW), by formatting it. It becomes, for all intents and purposes, blank again.
You can also write to the unused portion of a "normal" CD-R as long as you don't close the disc.
My friend is a designer and he keeps ALL the files for all his projects... All the source graphics, all the PSD files (which can be a few hundred megs each) on CDs... He uses one CD every few days, probably (one for each project).
What he does is date them and then just put them on a spindle. He keeps the spindles on a shelf. Doesn't take up much space, since each spindle holds 100. It is a lot of CDs, but he figures better safe than sorry. If a client calls back a year later and wants "something like that last thing you did for me" and he's deleted the files, that's a lot more work for him.
If she is backing up _music_ files (and by music, I mean bits of songs, samples, etc.) then the files are probably quite large (as they need to be in a high quality format, not MP3), and she probably doesn't want to overwrite them in case she wants to use them again later.
2" reel to reel tape is an expensive, speciality item. (Note that this article was written about 5 years ago, before the digital boom). Still, I bet now there would be a "computer rental fee" or some such nonsense.