Indeed, labor costs aren't affected by taxes. I'm sure you can figure out why in about 2 seconds.
The best solution is to simply tax wealthier people more and have government redistribute that wealth in accordance with social goals.
Besides, the richer you are, the more dependent you are on government, so you should pay more. Government is the reason wealth exists in the first place. A small government can only produce society's like Somalia. You need a big, socialist government to produce any sort of wealth. Your employees need to be educated via public schools, your distribution system needs roads, your natural resources need to be defended by an army, etc.. Basically everything government does is for the benefit of the wealthy.
Poor people don't give a crap about any of that because they have no ambition, but rich people need these government services to feed their own ambitions, therefore, the rich need to pay more for government.
We aren't going to get much further if we adopt your attitude every time essential services that make society work start taking advantage of asymmetric power relationships with the ultimate goal of making more money no matter what.
Credit scores are completely nonessential. You can go through life entirely without having to deal with it - just don't take any loans, don't apply for jobs that need it, don't move into housing that checks it, and so on. There are plenty of choices in all those areas that don't need credit checks.
Remember, it is their game, and their rules, that you're complaining about, not yours. You don't have to play at all, and many people don't and are just fine.
Seriously, just stop wanting what other people have, that's really all there is to it.
Dipshits like Assange thinks Rand Paul is going to save America. He actually thinks Drudge Report is useful. Basically he's a Republican, like most Libertarians.
And low-IQ high-school dropouts like Edward Snowden and their supports thinks Russia, with their explicit anti-gay human rights policies, is going to afford them human rights.
That's pretty much all you need to know about these kinds of people.
Really, these nerds are so clueless on society's power structure. Not only do they think they have some imaginary right to have their metadata kept secret, which is probably seen by dozens of organizations as it travels across the internet, but they think the NSA's metadata collection has affected them in any possible way. It's still amazing that people expect their completely open, unsecure IP metadata to be private, and that it somehow violates "human rights" if government tracks that.
lol.. "human rights" because government tracks your metadata. You do know that metadata is the LEAST private thing about your communications. It is the exact opposite of private communications. It is everything except your private communications.
Sorry that you nerds are powerless and have limited rights and it gives you a sad..but you dorks are just going to have to accept that you are losers, and that the rest of America completely disregards your views, as they should. Libertarians are way too narcissistic. You actually aren't important at all, and serve no useful role in society.
Real Americans want a bigger, stronger government, not a weaker one. A bigger, stronger government provides more services, since the purpose of government is to be a giant Costco for public services. Government isn't supposed to be an invisible belief system. We actually want government to do things, not preach.
My recommendation to you geeks is to just step back from the computer. Life isn't based around the internet. Believe me, the graphics outside are much better than the graphics on your computer. Your computer is not important.
So, in government, "building relationship" is manifested in what's called "taxes."
You kiss other people's ass in society through paying taxes and building services for them for their benefit. The millions of other members of society will then benefit you in return.
This is also known as "socialism."
Libertarianism prevents building relationships because it explicitly prohibits paying taxes and building government.
That is because libertarianism is the "me first" idea of governance: First give me what I want by not taking my tax dollars, then I will think about benefitting you later.
Really, there is a reason libertarians are considered awful people, and that's why you see them pop up so much among other awful people like in nerd sites or isolated gun or rural cultures. Try finding a libertarian among a Vogue Magazine audience or in New York City, where everyone knows to socialize.
Libertarians just don't believe in socialization, and that, by definition, makes them terrible human beings. And because they're terrible human beings, they're going to be stuck with poorer economics around them. That is why libertarians tend to exist in weaker social ares, like poor, less educated rural environments. Libertarians will always hail from the ignorant folk, as there has never been a libertarian genius. Once a person starts to think more about it, they abandon libertarianism.
Libertarianism is for people that doesn't know that it's ok to sacrifice a pawn (their taxes) to save the king (their health care), for example. They don't know that government is a giant Costco that actually benefits them in the long-run, because they see the incremental failure that is them losing tax dollars. Libertarianism really is about the "me first, then others" philosophy. It is intrinsic to their failure.
Seriously, learn to fucking think of others before you think of yourself first. It's actually better for you that way.
Nobody wants their human interaction cheapened. If you ever want to build any kind of relationship (sales, groups, fucking, etc..), you actually have to meet people in real life.
Telling someone you want to telecommute is telling someone you aren't worth their time to do something expensive for them
Telecommuting is for people that want to cheapen relationships.
Also, 100% of the population needs to build relationships. It's not a salesman-only thing. You have to build relationships with your boss, your clients, your family, your friends, your neighbors, your government representatives, etc. basically anyone you want to do you good, you need to do good for them.
Only libertarian losers that believe in "freedom" think life shouldn't be about building relationships and think of life as for themselves. Nothing could be further from the truth. You have to kiss ass to those in power if you want power back.
You can find these sorts of self-absorbed losers on computer sites like Slashdot and Reddit. There is a reason geeks are considered awful people.
Please don't make the ridiculous assumption that there was EVER some uniform web standard that authors were supposed to adhere to.
ALL web browsers are unique and have their own rendering engines with their own characteristics. There was never a situation where web browsers shared a common HTML language. so please don't propagate this myth that designers are supposed to target a common standard. There will never be a common standard since all browsers will be different.
Designers should always target your code for individual browsers, since every browser is different, and will be forever.
Pro-tip: It is fine to ignore 80% of the browser audience if that means 20% are going to have an increased loyalty to your product because you did something extra for them. The worst thing is for 100% of the audience to find your website merely ok.
these things are ready to kill a classroom full of first-graders?
Not too familiar with firearms terminology, since i'm not dumb enough to own a gun and have no desire to shoot up my family, but is that the standard measure of gun reliability? "First-graders-killed-per-minute"?
Why shouldn't someone in rural Nebraska or Korea have the same right to an obscure band as someone who lives in NYC with access to record shops stocking obscure content?
Because then they ignore their local art if they pay attention to far-away art. There is no benefit for a Korean to listen to a Williamsburg band. Tell them to go listen to their local fucking band. Their local band is just as bad as a Williamsburg band.
And, no, they're not going to have time to focus on local art if they cared about far-away art, as time is the ultimate limited.
If you want everyone in the world to be the same and destroy all cultures, then, sure, go ahead and make information free.
Free information is the death of all culture. It leads to the homogenization of society. It is why people are complaining about the stagnation of the arts since about 1995, when the internet started to become widespread. You ever notice how people's sense of style now is the same as back in 1993? Compare this to the massive stylistic shifts between 1953 to 1963 to 1973 to 1983 to 1993. Each decade was vastly different from the decade before.
This cultural & artistic stagnation is because information is free. It is because everyone in the world has access to the same information, which is not good.
Acquiring information should have a cost associated with it. Before the internet, you actually had to find a record shop to find obscure bands, costing time and effort. Now, there is no cost associated with this horrible consumer lifestyle associated with free information, and everyone has access to the same information, giving privilege to none.
People should NOT have the same information as everyone else. People should be divided and separated, as this inequality is what causes art to happen.
Sorry to all you Republican-lite libertarian freedom-lovers, but metadata was never private communications.
Metadata is everything EXCEPT your private communication, including NOT communicating.
When third-parties know all your metadata, that means it's NOT private. Do you know how many dozens of people/companies see your IP headers as it goes across the internet? Are you Republican-lites dumb enough to think that kind of metadata was supposed to be private?
The only private communications are the ones only between sender and receiver, which the NSA does not spy on without a warrant, per US constitution's 4th amendment.
Also, every single NSA employee is well aware of constitutional law as well as the Posse Comitatus act. If there WERE illegal activities at the NSA, you would know about it from actual employee leakers, like what happened during your beloved Bush administration, when several bona-fide employees leaked the illegal activities of the Bush administration under evil Dick Cheney.
Sorry to all you Slashdot Republican-lite libertarians, but the NSA under Democratic leadership is VASTLY different from the Republican party that you idolize.
That is because the Democratic party is vastly different from your dearly beloved Republican party.
Or did you think the Republicans were going to pass socialized health-care?
Everything you Republican-lites believe in is 100% incorrect. Just stop now with your dumb ideas. Don't ever have your dumb ideas anymore. You're just not smart enough. Your small-government libertarian theories is for 12-year-olds, backwater rednecks, and really poor high-school dropouts, like Edward Snowden and other morons that think people with low power have "freedom." These are some of the most insanely dumbest theories in the world that no adult takes seriously just dumb as rocks.
A big government is much better than a small government. We liberals know that, and intend to grow the power of government at the expense of private parties.
We liberal socialists do NOT want private parties to have unlimited powers. We prefer to control private parties so they don't gain too much power. There is nobody in this world that is interested in giving private citizens unlimited powers, regardless of what you free-market libertarian hippies want to believe.
Life is not about what you want to do. It is about what we want to do.
The only thing the Republican-lites need to do is follow the orders of us liberals.
There is no 'lesser' evil amongst democrats and republicans. They are a single evil on the same team.
Really? Explain yourself.
Were the Republicans going to implement socialized health care?
I thought only the Democrats were going to implement socialized health care? Did they not do that? Did the Republicans vote for socialized health care?
Right now there are idiots, such as yourself, that believe the Republicans and the Democrats are the same. These idiots fail at game theory.
You vote among the choices you have to get you what you want. NEVER vote for an ideology.
and with the wiretapping which violates our constituation's 4th amendment.
Since when was metadata supposed to be private communications?
Metadata is everything EXCEPT your private communication, including NOT communicating.
Sorry to all you Slashdot 2nd-grade libertarian gun-nut dumbasses, but you lost the Snowden case.
He stumbled upon something he, and you, don't understand (that Metadata isn't private communications) and that this is what the system was designed to know.
When third-parties know all your metadata, that means it's NOT private. Do you know how many dozens of people/companies see your IP headers as it goes across the internet? Are you dumb enough to think that kind of metadata was supposed to be private?
The only private communications are the ones only between sender and receiver, which, cry and hope and wish all you Republican-lite libertarians want, the NSA does not spy on without a warrant, per US constitution's 4th amendment.
NSA employees are well aware of constitutional law, as well as the Posse Comitatus act. If there WERE illegal activities at the NSA, you would know about it from actual employee leakers, like what happened during the Bush administration, when several bona-fide employees leaked the illegal activities of the Bush administration under evil Dick Cheney.
Instead, here we have Mr. Slashdot-Dell-repairman-contractor-high-school-dropout idjit screaming about the scary thing he saw, of which he clearly had no understanding of, because his low-IQ 2nd-grade mental capacity is incapable of understanding systematic design. This is typical of any Republican wannabe.
I love all these idiot Slashdot libertariantards. You really are Republican-lites, and scream about anything they don't understand and think its scary.
And you people are dumb as rocks. Just no getting around that fact.
Be a big government liberal. Don't be a small government libertarian. Small-government libertarians are for the weak. We big-govrernment liberals are superior.
Copyright law also allows the copyright holder to force destruction/removal of any physical manifestation of that work.
A text article is copyrighted, and if a publisher is willfully infringing on that copyright, the copyright holder can force the publisher to remove any books that contain that work, at the cost of the publisher.
Same rules apply for 3-D printed objects. The design is copyrighted, and any manifestation of that is a copy of that design.
The ads aren't the problem. No one minds the ads. In fact, if they had any skills, they would make the ads a FEATURE of the site. People actually BUY magazines like Vogue FOR the ads.
The problem is that the content is crap - photos of your friends throwing up, political rants no one cares about, etc..
Subscription services generally offer professional content worth buying. No one wants to buy photos of your friends throwing up.
Facebook tries to filter the content automatically to limit low-value content, but that only gets rid of the bottom-of-the-barrel. They still aren't going to offer professional articles, movies, music, etc.. that people generally pay for.
Their layout sucks too. The web has moved far beyond their old-school layout into magazine-quality layout. Amateur's aren't going to be able to produce magazine quality layout as well.
Facebook has 1 billion users, and ONLY makes $4billion/year. Conde-Nast makes $4billion just from 10 million readers - 1/100th less. Their amateur content is the reason they can only charge $0.10 CPM, whereas a professional media company can charge $50 CPM.
Slashdot Mirror
Not to mention fucking terrifying.
Only for non-US citizens. Sucks to be you guys!
Our military is really, really good at going after foreign targets, for the benefit of Americans.
Maybe the rest of the world should have done a better job of inventing computers & the internet.
Indeed, labor costs aren't affected by taxes. I'm sure you can figure out why in about 2 seconds.
The best solution is to simply tax wealthier people more and have government redistribute that wealth in accordance with social goals.
Besides, the richer you are, the more dependent you are on government, so you should pay more. Government is the reason wealth exists in the first place. A small government can only produce society's like Somalia. You need a big, socialist government to produce any sort of wealth. Your employees need to be educated via public schools, your distribution system needs roads, your natural resources need to be defended by an army, etc.. Basically everything government does is for the benefit of the wealthy.
Poor people don't give a crap about any of that because they have no ambition, but rich people need these government services to feed their own ambitions, therefore, the rich need to pay more for government.
You have 10 seconds to comply!
He spotted illegal actions from his client (NSA) and used his privileges to prove him right.
I'm still not sure where people get that the NSA was doing "illegal" things? Care to explain?
Are you one of those people that mistakenly think metadata is supposed to be private?
We aren't going to get much further if we adopt your attitude every time essential services that make society work start taking advantage of asymmetric power relationships with the ultimate goal of making more money no matter what.
Credit scores are completely nonessential. You can go through life entirely without having to deal with it - just don't take any loans, don't apply for jobs that need it, don't move into housing that checks it, and so on. There are plenty of choices in all those areas that don't need credit checks.
Remember, it is their game, and their rules, that you're complaining about, not yours. You don't have to play at all, and many people don't and are just fine.
Seriously, just stop wanting what other people have, that's really all there is to it.
Dipshits like Assange thinks Rand Paul is going to save America. He actually thinks Drudge Report is useful. Basically he's a Republican, like most Libertarians.
And low-IQ high-school dropouts like Edward Snowden and their supports thinks Russia, with their explicit anti-gay human rights policies, is going to afford them human rights.
That's pretty much all you need to know about these kinds of people.
Really, these nerds are so clueless on society's power structure. Not only do they think they have some imaginary right to have their metadata kept secret, which is probably seen by dozens of organizations as it travels across the internet, but they think the NSA's metadata collection has affected them in any possible way. It's still amazing that people expect their completely open, unsecure IP metadata to be private, and that it somehow violates "human rights" if government tracks that.
lol.. "human rights" because government tracks your metadata. You do know that metadata is the LEAST private thing about your communications. It is the exact opposite of private communications. It is everything except your private communications.
Sorry that you nerds are powerless and have limited rights and it gives you a sad..but you dorks are just going to have to accept that you are losers, and that the rest of America completely disregards your views, as they should. Libertarians are way too narcissistic. You actually aren't important at all, and serve no useful role in society.
Real Americans want a bigger, stronger government, not a weaker one. A bigger, stronger government provides more services, since the purpose of government is to be a giant Costco for public services. Government isn't supposed to be an invisible belief system. We actually want government to do things, not preach.
My recommendation to you geeks is to just step back from the computer. Life isn't based around the internet. Believe me, the graphics outside are much better than the graphics on your computer. Your computer is not important.
So, in government, "building relationship" is manifested in what's called "taxes."
You kiss other people's ass in society through paying taxes and building services for them for their benefit. The millions of other members of society will then benefit you in return.
This is also known as "socialism."
Libertarianism prevents building relationships because it explicitly prohibits paying taxes and building government.
That is because libertarianism is the "me first" idea of governance: First give me what I want by not taking my tax dollars, then I will think about benefitting you later.
Really, there is a reason libertarians are considered awful people, and that's why you see them pop up so much among other awful people like in nerd sites or isolated gun or rural cultures. Try finding a libertarian among a Vogue Magazine audience or in New York City, where everyone knows to socialize.
Libertarians just don't believe in socialization, and that, by definition, makes them terrible human beings. And because they're terrible human beings, they're going to be stuck with poorer economics around them. That is why libertarians tend to exist in weaker social ares, like poor, less educated rural environments. Libertarians will always hail from the ignorant folk, as there has never been a libertarian genius. Once a person starts to think more about it, they abandon libertarianism.
Libertarianism is for people that doesn't know that it's ok to sacrifice a pawn (their taxes) to save the king (their health care), for example. They don't know that government is a giant Costco that actually benefits them in the long-run, because they see the incremental failure that is them losing tax dollars. Libertarianism really is about the "me first, then others" philosophy. It is intrinsic to their failure.
Seriously, learn to fucking think of others before you think of yourself first. It's actually better for you that way.
This is true.
Nothing beats actual human interaction.
Telecommuting is such a failure.
Nobody wants their human interaction cheapened. If you ever want to build any kind of relationship (sales, groups, fucking, etc..), you actually have to meet people in real life.
Telling someone you want to telecommute is telling someone you aren't worth their time to do something expensive for them
Telecommuting is for people that want to cheapen relationships.
Also, 100% of the population needs to build relationships. It's not a salesman-only thing. You have to build relationships with your boss, your clients, your family, your friends, your neighbors, your government representatives, etc. basically anyone you want to do you good, you need to do good for them.
Only libertarian losers that believe in "freedom" think life shouldn't be about building relationships and think of life as for themselves. Nothing could be further from the truth. You have to kiss ass to those in power if you want power back.
You can find these sorts of self-absorbed losers on computer sites like Slashdot and Reddit. There is a reason geeks are considered awful people.
or Gumball3000 rally.
Given enough people incentivized to do it, someone will eventually win. ..oh they meant something legal?
Have you actually read the proposal
His proposal says it'll cost $1 billion for land & permit rights.
Try $50 billion instead.
Again, the major cost of transportation is the actual cost of the land.
And the land-use issues & solutions are just as applicable to high-speed rail.
Basically this entire report is a big ad for pageview hits to the Tesla motors website.
The tubes are going to be expensive as hell.
Rail is far more efficient. The track itself is cheap, the major cost is actually buying the land. There is very little friction resistance as well.
Sorry Elon, but you're not going to be Tony Stark, even if they're just trying to make him into you.
Please don't make the ridiculous assumption that there was EVER some uniform web standard that authors were supposed to adhere to.
ALL web browsers are unique and have their own rendering engines with their own characteristics. There was never a situation where web browsers shared a common HTML language. so please don't propagate this myth that designers are supposed to target a common standard. There will never be a common standard since all browsers will be different.
Designers should always target your code for individual browsers, since every browser is different, and will be forever.
Pro-tip: It is fine to ignore 80% of the browser audience if that means 20% are going to have an increased loyalty to your product because you did something extra for them. The worst thing is for 100% of the audience to find your website merely ok.
these things are ready to kill a classroom full of first-graders?
Not too familiar with firearms terminology, since i'm not dumb enough to own a gun and have no desire to shoot up my family, but is that the standard measure of gun reliability? "First-graders-killed-per-minute"?
Why shouldn't someone in rural Nebraska or Korea have the same right to an obscure band as someone who lives in NYC with access to record shops stocking obscure content?
Because then they ignore their local art if they pay attention to far-away art. There is no benefit for a Korean to listen to a Williamsburg band. Tell them to go listen to their local fucking band. Their local band is just as bad as a Williamsburg band.
And, no, they're not going to have time to focus on local art if they cared about far-away art, as time is the ultimate limited.
If you want everyone in the world to be the same and destroy all cultures, then, sure, go ahead and make information free.
Free information is the death of all culture. It leads to the homogenization of society. It is why people are complaining about the stagnation of the arts since about 1995, when the internet started to become widespread. You ever notice how people's sense of style now is the same as back in 1993? Compare this to the massive stylistic shifts between 1953 to 1963 to 1973 to 1983 to 1993. Each decade was vastly different from the decade before.
This cultural & artistic stagnation is because information is free. It is because everyone in the world has access to the same information, which is not good.
Acquiring information should have a cost associated with it. Before the internet, you actually had to find a record shop to find obscure bands, costing time and effort. Now, there is no cost associated with this horrible consumer lifestyle associated with free information, and everyone has access to the same information, giving privilege to none.
People should NOT have the same information as everyone else. People should be divided and separated, as this inequality is what causes art to happen.
Life should be unfair. It is better that way.
That temperature affects violence, according to many studies?
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/hot-weather-violence/
Solution: move everyone to cold places!
Sorry to all you Republican-lite libertarian freedom-lovers, but metadata was never private communications.
Metadata is everything EXCEPT your private communication, including NOT communicating.
When third-parties know all your metadata, that means it's NOT private. Do you know how many dozens of people/companies see your IP headers as it goes across the internet? Are you Republican-lites dumb enough to think that kind of metadata was supposed to be private?
The only private communications are the ones only between sender and receiver, which the NSA does not spy on without a warrant, per US constitution's 4th amendment.
Also, every single NSA employee is well aware of constitutional law as well as the Posse Comitatus act. If there WERE illegal activities at the NSA, you would know about it from actual employee leakers, like what happened during your beloved Bush administration, when several bona-fide employees leaked the illegal activities of the Bush administration under evil Dick Cheney.
Sorry to all you Slashdot Republican-lite libertarians, but the NSA under Democratic leadership is VASTLY different from the Republican party that you idolize.
That is because the Democratic party is vastly different from your dearly beloved Republican party.
Or did you think the Republicans were going to pass socialized health-care?
Everything you Republican-lites believe in is 100% incorrect. Just stop now with your dumb ideas. Don't ever have your dumb ideas anymore. You're just not smart enough. Your small-government libertarian theories is for 12-year-olds, backwater rednecks, and really poor high-school dropouts, like Edward Snowden and other morons that think people with low power have "freedom." These are some of the most insanely dumbest theories in the world that no adult takes seriously just dumb as rocks.
A big government is much better than a small government. We liberals know that, and intend to grow the power of government at the expense of private parties.
We liberal socialists do NOT want private parties to have unlimited powers. We prefer to control private parties so they don't gain too much power. There is nobody in this world that is interested in giving private citizens unlimited powers, regardless of what you free-market libertarian hippies want to believe.
Life is not about what you want to do. It is about what we want to do.
The only thing the Republican-lites need to do is follow the orders of us liberals.
Thanks.
Apple has more cash than Intel's entire market cap, they might as well buy them out since they need their fabs so much.
If not them, then buy out at least TSMC/GlobalFoundries/etc..
If Apple is as systems-oriented as they seem, then owning a fab is just the next logical step.
IBM has their own fabs, Apple should as well.
There is no 'lesser' evil amongst democrats and republicans. They are a single evil on the same team.
Really? Explain yourself.
Were the Republicans going to implement socialized health care?
I thought only the Democrats were going to implement socialized health care? Did they not do that? Did the Republicans vote for socialized health care?
Right now there are idiots, such as yourself, that believe the Republicans and the Democrats are the same. These idiots fail at game theory.
You vote among the choices you have to get you what you want. NEVER vote for an ideology.
and with the wiretapping which violates our constituation's 4th amendment.
Since when was metadata supposed to be private communications?
Metadata is everything EXCEPT your private communication, including NOT communicating.
Sorry to all you Slashdot 2nd-grade libertarian gun-nut dumbasses, but you lost the Snowden case.
He stumbled upon something he, and you, don't understand (that Metadata isn't private communications) and that this is what the system was designed to know.
When third-parties know all your metadata, that means it's NOT private. Do you know how many dozens of people/companies see your IP headers as it goes across the internet? Are you dumb enough to think that kind of metadata was supposed to be private?
The only private communications are the ones only between sender and receiver, which, cry and hope and wish all you Republican-lite libertarians want, the NSA does not spy on without a warrant, per US constitution's 4th amendment.
NSA employees are well aware of constitutional law, as well as the Posse Comitatus act. If there WERE illegal activities at the NSA, you would know about it from actual employee leakers, like what happened during the Bush administration, when several bona-fide employees leaked the illegal activities of the Bush administration under evil Dick Cheney.
Instead, here we have Mr. Slashdot-Dell-repairman-contractor-high-school-dropout idjit screaming about the scary thing he saw, of which he clearly had no understanding of, because his low-IQ 2nd-grade mental capacity is incapable of understanding systematic design. This is typical of any Republican wannabe.
I love all these idiot Slashdot libertariantards. You really are Republican-lites, and scream about anything they don't understand and think its scary.
And you people are dumb as rocks. Just no getting around that fact.
Be a big government liberal. Don't be a small government libertarian. Small-government libertarians are for the weak. We big-govrernment liberals are superior.
PS...
*BOO*
HAHAHA losers
How about lets just decide to not tell people what they can and can't print with their 3-d printers?
Why? If I design something, I don't want you to print that without paying me.
Don't want to pay me? Don't print it.
I don't make my designs to benefit you. I make my designs to benefit me.
Copyright law also allows the copyright holder to force destruction/removal of any physical manifestation of that work.
A text article is copyrighted, and if a publisher is willfully infringing on that copyright, the copyright holder can force the publisher to remove any books that contain that work, at the cost of the publisher.
Same rules apply for 3-D printed objects. The design is copyrighted, and any manifestation of that is a copy of that design.
Seriously? Gee, I don't know... maybe it's because those private parties can't ruin your fucking life like a government can?
Any private party can initiate executive power - just call your local government official.
Just because it's from a private party doesn't mean they have no power over you.
Also, the government is granted power because we DON'T want private parties to have that power.
The ads aren't the problem. No one minds the ads. In fact, if they had any skills, they would make the ads a FEATURE of the site. People actually BUY magazines like Vogue FOR the ads.
The problem is that the content is crap - photos of your friends throwing up, political rants no one cares about, etc..
Subscription services generally offer professional content worth buying. No one wants to buy photos of your friends throwing up.
Facebook tries to filter the content automatically to limit low-value content, but that only gets rid of the bottom-of-the-barrel. They still aren't going to offer professional articles, movies, music, etc.. that people generally pay for.
Their layout sucks too. The web has moved far beyond their old-school layout into magazine-quality layout. Amateur's aren't going to be able to produce magazine quality layout as well.
Facebook has 1 billion users, and ONLY makes $4billion/year. Conde-Nast makes $4billion just from 10 million readers - 1/100th less. Their amateur content is the reason they can only charge $0.10 CPM, whereas a professional media company can charge $50 CPM.
people LOVE complaining.