Isn't it really more like buying a lottery ticket when it's already known that it won something?
Sure you have to spend something for this probe, but you don't have to launch it at an asteroid until you know that it's close to Earth and your observations indicate it could be worth something. Sure not every rock they target will be worth it, but the odds are a whole lot better then with the lottery.
As long as the crimes are truly separate then I don't see a problem with them being tried twice. Let's say that they were charged with defrauding X people in the UK, and they will be charged with defrauding Y people in the US. As long as those two sets don't have common members then prosecute away.
The question is why do you NOT believe in other gods? If you can answer that question, then you'll be one step closer to understanding why people don't believe in YOUR god.
Binary follows the same rules as decimal, hexadecimal or any other system. It's just that numbers are written with different groups of symbols. Prime numbers ('eleven' for example) will be prime in each of them. You might write it as 11, B, or 1011, but you're still thinking of the same number. Sure you could argue that the first poster did not specify that he was speaking of a decimal 2. But you also did not specify which decimal system you are using. Your assertion that there are only the numbers 0 and 1 would be wrong in a system that used X and O to mark down numbers.
Or we could assume people have an instinct toward believing things their parents/elders teach them. And those elders were once the same. If you go back far enough you usually find a guy who decided that it would be nice if young people gave him 1/3 of their food so he could sit around eating mushrooms.
Didn't some banks recommend people buy stocks and derivatives that they themselves were trying to get rid of? I suppose they're going to be charged with fraud too?
Well cows are a bit tricky. Sure they 'eat' the grass, but they can't actually digest it. They rely on bacteria for that. Then once the bacteria are done the cows digest THEM. So in a way cows are predators.
BTW athlete's foot is a parasite, since it doesn't kill the host.
Except that the competition keeps publishers in poor countries from growing too big. If they did, perhaps their products would get good enough that they'd be a able to compete in western markets. That would force western publishers to start lowering prices to a reasonable level, and we can't have that. Only WORKERS should compete in a single marketplace. Companies should obviously be exempt.
Why does he need a license. He bought a COPY. He's not planning to make more, so what does copyright have to do with it? I can see that he might need to pay some taxes for importing the books, but that's about it.
The prosecution should need to prove (beyond a reasonable doubt) you killed someone. Then, if your defense is that you did it in self defense, it should be your task to prove it, at least to some lesser standard of proof.
Can you imagine if just claiming self defense would be enough to avoid arrest until the investigation was 'complete'? Gang shooting? 'Yes officer, we were afraid they were going to hurt us, so we defended ourselves. See, they have guns, so we were obviously justified in shooting them.'
If Martin should have called the police, what about Zimmerman? Shouldn't he have called the police again after Martin started beating him up? What is a bigger and more immediate threat to your safety? Someone hitting you, or someone pointing a gun at you?
What is the guy who throws the first punch is defending himself? Let's say the other guy is threatening to shoot him, but gets close enough for the first person to hit them. Does shooting still count as self defense?
If you don't maintain a machine, even if it's not being used, it will break down eventually. Just like the human body, except not so quickly. How many people can work (well) when starving? So why not include food into business expenses? Same with shelter - just try running an office without a roof.
A corporation can define just about anything as a business expense. Even accountants and tax lawyers can be counted as costs, when they have nothing to do with the business side of the company, just with reducing it's tax burden. Avoiding taxes is not related to producing income, just profit. And a corporation that produces nothing will still need them to reduce property taxes and fight off lawsuit.
So why can't a person define some reasonable part of his own expenses as 'cost of doing business'? I'm not saying that buying an iPad should be covered (although a corporation will quickly point out that it's vital that employees have the best equipment). But things without which you'll likely be unable to work should be completely tax deductible.
Like I said, that makes 'creators' any different then makers of physical objects? You sold a copy of your work. If I choose to use it as toilet paper, that's my choice. If I then choose to nail it to wall and display it, that's my choice too.Or do you call the maker of your instrument whenever you're about to record a song and ask for permission to distribute the sound of their creation?
But why should the creator have such control of all instances of his work? Let's say the porn producers bought 1000 copies of his song from iTunes, then sold 1000 copies of their film. So they paid for all music used. Why should the musician be able to prevent this? Just because he's uncomfortable being associated with it? Can the person that made the bed the film was filmed on demand it be blurred out? The condom makers? What about a news report. Can weapons manufacturers demand that their weapons be removed from the photos of terrorists?
But if you start the discussion being 'reasonable', the copyright lobby will cry about how you're unwilling to compromise if you try to stick anywhere near it. So start at no copyright or 3 months. Then compromise to a few years. Don't do half their work for them.
But can a person also deduct the costs of generating income from his taxes? A corporation can deduct things like rent of offices and maintnance of equipment. But can a person deduct his mortgage and food bill from his taxes? A what is food and a home except an expense of generation 'labor', which is a person's way of generating income? So why can't a person buy a house, then pay no taxes for the next 20 years, since the house was such a big expense?
So it's ok if people get ruined by taxes, but businesses are somehow sacred? If corporations want to be treated like people then treat them like people. Same taxes for all.
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You haven't been on the internet long I see.
But you can exclude those that don't fit 1,2 and 4 before even sending a probe. And you can probably exclude at least some that don't fit 3.
Isn't it really more like buying a lottery ticket when it's already known that it won something?
Sure you have to spend something for this probe, but you don't have to launch it at an asteroid until you know that it's close to Earth and your observations indicate it could be worth something. Sure not every rock they target will be worth it, but the odds are a whole lot better then with the lottery.
As long as the crimes are truly separate then I don't see a problem with them being tried twice. Let's say that they were charged with defrauding X people in the UK, and they will be charged with defrauding Y people in the US. As long as those two sets don't have common members then prosecute away.
Did the mothers and the children follow a strict vegan diet the whole time?
The question is why do you NOT believe in other gods? If you can answer that question, then you'll be one step closer to understanding why people don't believe in YOUR god.
Binary follows the same rules as decimal, hexadecimal or any other system. It's just that numbers are written with different groups of symbols. Prime numbers ('eleven' for example) will be prime in each of them. You might write it as 11, B, or 1011, but you're still thinking of the same number.
Sure you could argue that the first poster did not specify that he was speaking of a decimal 2. But you also did not specify which decimal system you are using. Your assertion that there are only the numbers 0 and 1 would be wrong in a system that used X and O to mark down numbers.
Or we could assume people have an instinct toward believing things their parents/elders teach them. And those elders were once the same. If you go back far enough you usually find a guy who decided that it would be nice if young people gave him 1/3 of their food so he could sit around eating mushrooms.
Didn't some banks recommend people buy stocks and derivatives that they themselves were trying to get rid of? I suppose they're going to be charged with fraud too?
Did Teller write down the steps needed to do the trick? Don't magicians dislike sharing their secrets?
Well cows are a bit tricky. Sure they 'eat' the grass, but they can't actually digest it. They rely on bacteria for that. Then once the bacteria are done the cows digest THEM. So in a way cows are predators.
BTW athlete's foot is a parasite, since it doesn't kill the host.
Except that the competition keeps publishers in poor countries from growing too big. If they did, perhaps their products would get good enough that they'd be a able to compete in western markets.
That would force western publishers to start lowering prices to a reasonable level, and we can't have that. Only WORKERS should compete in a single marketplace. Companies should obviously be exempt.
Why does he need a license. He bought a COPY. He's not planning to make more, so what does copyright have to do with it? I can see that he might need to pay some taxes for importing the books, but that's about it.
The prosecution should need to prove (beyond a reasonable doubt) you killed someone. Then, if your defense is that you did it in self defense, it should be your task to prove it, at least to some lesser standard of proof.
Can you imagine if just claiming self defense would be enough to avoid arrest until the investigation was 'complete'? Gang shooting? 'Yes officer, we were afraid they were going to hurt us, so we defended ourselves. See, they have guns, so we were obviously justified in shooting them.'
If Martin should have called the police, what about Zimmerman? Shouldn't he have called the police again after Martin started beating him up?
What is a bigger and more immediate threat to your safety? Someone hitting you, or someone pointing a gun at you?
What is the guy who throws the first punch is defending himself? Let's say the other guy is threatening to shoot him, but gets close enough for the first person to hit them.
Does shooting still count as self defense?
I can't wait for the first teacher to explain Pastafarianism to his pupils.
It took them (the lawyers on both sides) 5 years to agree how to split the profits.
If you don't maintain a machine, even if it's not being used, it will break down eventually. Just like the human body, except not so quickly. How many people can work (well) when starving? So why not include food into business expenses? Same with shelter - just try running an office without a roof.
A corporation can define just about anything as a business expense. Even accountants and tax lawyers can be counted as costs, when they have nothing to do with the business side of the company, just with reducing it's tax burden. Avoiding taxes is not related to producing income, just profit. And a corporation that produces nothing will still need them to reduce property taxes and fight off lawsuit.
So why can't a person define some reasonable part of his own expenses as 'cost of doing business'? I'm not saying that buying an iPad should be covered (although a corporation will quickly point out that it's vital that employees have the best equipment). But things without which you'll likely be unable to work should be completely tax deductible.
Like I said, that makes 'creators' any different then makers of physical objects? You sold a copy of your work. If I choose to use it as toilet paper, that's my choice. If I then choose to nail it to wall and display it, that's my choice too.Or do you call the maker of your instrument whenever you're about to record a song and ask for permission to distribute the sound of their creation?
If all software reverted to public domain after that, then yes.
But why should the creator have such control of all instances of his work? Let's say the porn producers bought 1000 copies of his song from iTunes, then sold 1000 copies of their film. So they paid for all music used.
Why should the musician be able to prevent this? Just because he's uncomfortable being associated with it?
Can the person that made the bed the film was filmed on demand it be blurred out? The condom makers?
What about a news report. Can weapons manufacturers demand that their weapons be removed from the photos of terrorists?
But if you start the discussion being 'reasonable', the copyright lobby will cry about how you're unwilling to compromise if you try to stick anywhere near it.
So start at no copyright or 3 months. Then compromise to a few years. Don't do half their work for them.
But can a person also deduct the costs of generating income from his taxes? A corporation can deduct things like rent of offices and maintnance of equipment. But can a person deduct his mortgage and food bill from his taxes? A what is food and a home except an expense of generation 'labor', which is a person's way of generating income? So why can't a person buy a house, then pay no taxes for the next 20 years, since the house was such a big expense?
So it's ok if people get ruined by taxes, but businesses are somehow sacred? If corporations want to be treated like people then treat them like people. Same taxes for all.