Define "they". You already pay sales tax, but on-line retailers have had a sweet deal for a long time, at the expense of the businesses that support your local economy.
Iit doesn't matter which state gets the sales tax for a transaction, or how much the tax is. The important thing is to settle the question and put the on-line retailers on the same footing as local retailers. On-line retail doesn't need what is effectively a government handout anymore.
1. Yelp is no Apple (iPhone/iPod/iTunes; probably the best designed/marketed/developed products in 50 years. I detest the Apple approach, but I respect their success and understanding of their market). 2. Google's first social network (Orkut) launched before Facebook, but Facebook's approach was more appealing to US consumers. But we don't yet know what's going to happen with Google+. However, Facebook is no Apple either. 3. Zagat is focused on a narrower market than Yelp.
Hopefully, Yelp will continue to develop. They have a lot of value as is. However, I wouldn't want Google to suddenly enhance one of the competitors in my space. It may be that this aquisition will actually help Yelp; we don't know what Google is planning yet.
I don't recall any of Marx's ideas being tested "at the cost of millions of lives". I recall run-of-the-mill power grabs by politicians that cost millions of lives. Some of Marx's ideas, were used as propaganda tools by some of the politicians involved.
It sounds as if you are attacking Marx's ideas solely by insulting people who think about those ideas.
A better argument would be something like the following: I understand Marx's argument that X is true. However, Marx's idea fails because of Y, as was demonstrated in example Z.
It should be noted, however, that the notion of killing people "unworthy of life" predated Hitler's rise to power, starting in the '20s in the extreme wing of Germany's eugenics movement.
It should also be noted that the same notion was used in Sparta, thousands of years before the extremists in Germany.
This article is fear-mongering. Gibson is suspected of importing illegal goods (in this case, ebony, if the article is to be believed). The CEO of Gibson says they didn't do anything wrong. There is an investigation.
Note: There was never a musician stopped by US customs for travelling with an "illegal" instrument.
Furthermore, the article doesn't give even a moment's thought to why the wood Gibson is accused of using is illegal to import, and why the government agency is required to investigate.
The "whoosh" of the original comment going over your head was audible over a thousand miles away. He intentionally confused the mascots of OSU and UO, in order to antagonize the OSU fans (and probably the UO fans as a side benefit).
Why not? It's not like patenting something dcades after it was actually invented by someone else is unusual...
as implying that the patent should be invalid because the invetion was decades old before the patent was granted.
In any case, I only suggest that it's hard to judge the validity of a patent without seeing the claims. Aside from arguments about the validity of patents in general, of course.
Speaking from personal experience, my Galaxy S had Yahoo! as the default search bundled in the stock ROM from my provider...hell...it didnt even have all of the usual google applications. I dont see either Samsung or Telcel suffering or being locked out in any way from any google things...hell, there are even updates for the phones being rolled out right now...
Informative! Crap, replying to fix accidental moderation. My apologies.
The obligation of a publicly traded company like Google is to create value for its shareholders. If it is able to do some of that by contributing to philanthropic efforts, thats's great, but they should not be spending any significant amount to do that.
The Google billionaires, on the other hand, have the means and (arguably) the moral obligation to do philanthropic work. THEY should be the ones opening their wallets, not the corporation.
Maybe now the FOSS zealots will believe the argument 'it could happen to anyone'...
What argument? They believe that distributing software without the source code is a bad thing, which is why the GPL was written. This incident only serves to illustrate their continued belief in that principle.
We have made a very bad mistake. Anyone redistributing those versions is violating the GPL, through no fault of his own.
We need to fix those releases retroactively (or else delete them), and we need to do it right away.
I see two quick ways to fix them: to delete the compiled files, or to add the sources they are made from.
-- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation
Actually you can have your cake and fucking eat it too:
Set the default USB connection activity on the phone to "CHARGE" instead of "MOUNT SDCARD LIKE A FUCKING DUMB ASS".
Then enable the lockscreen option and if someone picks your phone up and connects it to a PC, its only going to charge the battery.
Now the thing to really worry about is someone taking your phone and then pulling the SDCARD out and mounting that on their PC, that will give them full access to everything stored on it, including all downloaded emails, dirty picks and movies you've shot in the bathroom to send your partner, etc.
Replying to this interesting comment to undo my accidental moderation.
A misattributed, misunderstood literary anecdote used to draw a supposed parallel between starving peasants and Netflix users? Ah, Slashdot, you never cease to disappoint me!
And I was thinking, "Ah, Slashdot, you never disappoint me!"
You can generally understand what the laws say without attending law school. Education in the law is needed to understand how to work within a framework of legal processes.
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Define "they". You already pay sales tax, but on-line retailers have had a sweet deal for a long time, at the expense of the businesses that support your local economy.
Iit doesn't matter which state gets the sales tax for a transaction, or how much the tax is. The important thing is to settle the question and put the on-line retailers on the same footing as local retailers. On-line retail doesn't need what is effectively a government handout anymore.
Funny, but... no. There are a number of cheap solutions for this, such as this one. I wonder what Nike has in store.
1. Yelp is no Apple (iPhone/iPod/iTunes; probably the best designed/marketed/developed products in 50 years. I detest the Apple approach, but I respect their success and understanding of their market).
2. Google's first social network (Orkut) launched before Facebook, but Facebook's approach was more appealing to US consumers. But we don't yet know what's going to happen with Google+. However, Facebook is no Apple either.
3. Zagat is focused on a narrower market than Yelp.
Hopefully, Yelp will continue to develop. They have a lot of value as is. However, I wouldn't want Google to suddenly enhance one of the competitors in my space. It may be that this aquisition will actually help Yelp; we don't know what Google is planning yet.
I don't recall any of Marx's ideas being tested "at the cost of millions of lives". I recall run-of-the-mill power grabs by politicians that cost millions of lives. Some of Marx's ideas, were used as propaganda tools by some of the politicians involved.
It sounds as if you are attacking Marx's ideas solely by insulting people who think about those ideas.
A better argument would be something like the following:
I understand Marx's argument that X is true.
However, Marx's idea fails because of Y, as was demonstrated in example Z.
It should be noted, however, that the notion of killing people "unworthy of life" predated Hitler's rise to power, starting in the '20s in the extreme wing of Germany's eugenics movement.
It should also be noted that the same notion was used in Sparta, thousands of years before the extremists in Germany.
This article is fear-mongering. Gibson is suspected of importing illegal goods (in this case, ebony, if the article is to be believed). The CEO of Gibson says they didn't do anything wrong. There is an investigation.
Note: There was never a musician stopped by US customs for travelling with an "illegal" instrument.
Furthermore, the article doesn't give even a moment's thought to why the wood Gibson is accused of using is illegal to import, and why the government agency is required to investigate.
There is no threat to musicians. End of story.
Amusing, but this is the same as every other country with a functional government.
CO2 released by human activity far outpaces volcanic CO2 release. Looking for a citation for a claim helps people avoid saying things that are easily proven to be incorrect.
From the USGS article:
"....not only does volcanic CO2 not dwarf that of human activity, it actually comprises less than 1 percent of that value. "
This explains a bit about what "unemployment" statistics mean.
The "whoosh" of the original comment going over your head was audible over a thousand miles away. He intentionally confused the mascots of OSU and UO, in order to antagonize the OSU fans (and probably the UO fans as a side benefit).
Really? I interpreted
Why not? It's not like patenting something dcades after it was actually invented by someone else is unusual...
as implying that the patent should be invalid because the invetion was decades old before the patent was granted.
In any case, I only suggest that it's hard to judge the validity of a patent without seeing the claims. Aside from arguments about the validity of patents in general, of course.
Mmmm... Dare I even suggest that people read the claims of the patent before concluding that it was invalid?
Oh, right - the article didn't provide any useful details or a link to the patents, so all we can do is jump to conclusions.
Score: "Journalists" 1, Readers 0, Slashdotters -1.
(Yes, I'm in the last group. Mea culpa.)
Speaking from personal experience, my Galaxy S had Yahoo! as the default search bundled in the stock ROM from my provider...hell...it didnt even have all of the usual google applications. I dont see either Samsung or Telcel suffering or being locked out in any way from any google things...hell, there are even updates for the phones being rolled out right now...
Informative! Crap, replying to fix accidental moderation. My apologies.
Just say the freaking word.
Dear RobinEggs, I agree. And you, also, are welcome not to self-censor.
But wait, I saw a headline that says: NASA: DNA Found on Meteorites Indicates Life Originated in Space
So, by carefully eliminating some words, you can create a completely false, but much more intriguing page-hit-generator.
Well played, International Business Times, well played.
The obligation of a publicly traded company like Google is to create value for its shareholders. If it is able to do some of that by contributing to philanthropic efforts, thats's great, but they should not be spending any significant amount to do that.
The Google billionaires, on the other hand, have the means and (arguably) the moral obligation to do philanthropic work. THEY should be the ones opening their wallets, not the corporation.
Right on! What's more...
Alien & Aliens. Now THAT would be a movie.
doesn't this qualify? There's even a video game
Maybe more to the point, they'll be unable to fulfill their mission for Google within a few years. They'll be good enough for a while, though.
Maybe now the FOSS zealots will believe the argument 'it could happen to anyone'...
What argument? They believe that distributing software without the source code is a bad thing, which is why the GPL was written. This incident only serves to illustrate their continued belief in that principle.
We have made a very bad mistake. Anyone redistributing those versions
is violating the GPL, through no fault of his own.
We need to fix those releases retroactively (or else delete them), and
we need to do it right away.
I see two quick ways to fix them: to delete the compiled files, or to
add the sources they are made from.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
Actually you can have your cake and fucking eat it too:
Set the default USB connection activity on the phone to "CHARGE" instead of "MOUNT SDCARD LIKE A FUCKING DUMB ASS".
Then enable the lockscreen option and if someone picks your phone up and connects it to a PC, its only going to charge the battery.
Now the thing to really worry about is someone taking your phone and then pulling the SDCARD out and mounting that on their PC, that will give them full access to everything stored on it, including all downloaded emails, dirty picks and movies you've shot in the bathroom to send your partner, etc.
Replying to this interesting comment to undo my accidental moderation.
Isn't the problem that the application that renders the PDF/Flash/etc attachment has access to resources on the system that shouldn't be allowed?
In other words, why aren't all attachments files rendered by applications running in a "jail"?
Given the market right now, it's Facebook they'd be undercutting, not Google.
A misattributed, misunderstood literary anecdote used to draw a supposed parallel between starving peasants and Netflix users? Ah, Slashdot, you never cease to disappoint me!
And I was thinking, "Ah, Slashdot, you never disappoint me!"
There are currently 20 Senate committees.
You can generally understand what the laws say without attending law school. Education in the law is needed to understand how to work within a framework of legal processes.