>We can own a physical object forever, I do not see why we cannot own an idea, like a disney film or character, forever too.
>If we are to be honest, we must impose terms of limitation on physical property too, such as the holdings a company or person owns. Of course, this is unfair and unworkable.
Actually there are limits to property ownership. In the U.S. its called death taxes, the purpose being to redistribute weath and not have an aristocracy. Given that corporations never really die, they could hold property forever.
Since corporations are treated like people, couldn't their wealth be redistributed when they are purchased by other corportations or go out of business?
On a side note, aparently congress sees more innovation resulting from the far shorter time limits placed on patents. Why 20 years versus life+75?
Actually its reasonably balenced.
""The fascinating thing to me is to consider that these cartoons are made and air in a country with one of the lowest rates of violence in the world," said Mike Lazzo, senior vice president for programming and production at the Cartoon Network."
Although they really don't discuss this aspect. Later they also mention its not a big deal to parents as they grew up with violent cartoons as well. Never is it mentioned that kids are now more "violent" after watching anime.
In regards to Cardcaptors. I doubt that the author would look in to the japanese version if not that many americans will ever see it.
I own a Fisher Space pen and according to the literature in the pen case, the pen was vital to saving the mission. Supposedly one of the switches in the lander broke and the pen was used in its place.
Maybe a pencil would have broken? Then again, if they had a screwdriver it probably would have worked too.
"The brick and mortar business are paying for roads, police and fire departments, local city improvements, etc with their taxes. Yet an internet business in the same area uses all of these things, yet doesn't have to pay for any of it? That doesn't make any sense at all. If they use all of the local amenities, they should pay the same local taxes as everyone else."
Internet business still have to pay the same taxes as everyone else, be it property as well as income taxes. It is the consumer who pays for sales tax, which goes to state government and not federal government. I am not aware of too many "tax free" industries other than organized religion.
Anyone else ever come to the conclusion that "E-Commerce" is just a dressed up version of mail oder catalogs. I for one have ordered from mail order catalogs in the past(and still do today), in addition to getting information off the web. If taxes are imposed just upon net transactions, wouldn't that boost mail order sales which would not have additional sales taxes placed upon them? As it stands in the U.S. there is no "National" sales tax. It is up to each individual state to set up the taxes. As a result, wouldn't new taxes on the internet have to be placed by the federal government due because these are interstate transactions? Also wouldn't the federal government be the recepient of these funds? I don't think traditional retailers are hurting too much by mail order orders. I still prefer to go to a real store and see and feel the object I wish to buy. For items like movies and computer hardware ordering from the internet is fine, but you won't catch me ordering an automobile online without a test drive.
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>We can own a physical object forever, I do not see why we cannot own an idea, like a disney film or character, forever too.
>If we are to be honest, we must impose terms of limitation on physical property too, such as the holdings a company or person owns. Of course, this is unfair and unworkable.
Actually there are limits to property ownership. In the U.S. its called death taxes, the purpose being to redistribute weath and not have an aristocracy. Given that corporations never really die, they could hold property forever.
Since corporations are treated like people, couldn't their wealth be redistributed when they are purchased by other corportations or go out of business?
On a side note, aparently congress sees more innovation resulting from the far shorter time limits placed on patents. Why 20 years versus life+75?
Actually its reasonably balenced. ""The fascinating thing to me is to consider that these cartoons are made and air in a country with one of the lowest rates of violence in the world," said Mike Lazzo, senior vice president for programming and production at the Cartoon Network." Although they really don't discuss this aspect. Later they also mention its not a big deal to parents as they grew up with violent cartoons as well. Never is it mentioned that kids are now more "violent" after watching anime. In regards to Cardcaptors. I doubt that the author would look in to the japanese version if not that many americans will ever see it.
I believe we saw this story on slashdot before http://slashdot.org/articles/00/04/16/1953243.shtm l
back in april.
Also there was a move of some sort by the japanese government to restrict shipments before.
I own a Fisher Space pen and according to the literature in the pen case, the pen was vital to saving the mission. Supposedly one of the switches in the lander broke and the pen was used in its place.
Maybe a pencil would have broken? Then again, if they had a screwdriver it probably would have worked too.
"The brick and mortar business are paying for roads, police and fire departments, local city improvements, etc with their taxes. Yet an internet business in the same area uses all of these things, yet doesn't have to pay for any of it? That doesn't make any sense at all. If they use all of the local amenities, they should pay the same local taxes as everyone else."
Internet business still have to pay the same taxes as everyone else, be it property as well as income taxes. It is the consumer who pays for sales tax, which goes to state government and not federal government. I am not aware of too many "tax free" industries other than organized religion.
Anyone else ever come to the conclusion that "E-Commerce" is just a dressed up version of mail oder catalogs. I for one have ordered from mail order catalogs in the past(and still do today), in addition to getting information off the web. If taxes are imposed just upon net transactions, wouldn't that boost mail order sales which would not have additional sales taxes placed upon them? As it stands in the U.S. there is no "National" sales tax. It is up to each individual state to set up the taxes. As a result, wouldn't new taxes on the internet have to be placed by the federal government due because these are interstate transactions? Also wouldn't the federal government be the recepient of these funds? I don't think traditional retailers are hurting too much by mail order orders. I still prefer to go to a real store and see and feel the object I wish to buy. For items like movies and computer hardware ordering from the internet is fine, but you won't catch me ordering an automobile online without a test drive.