Of course, they'd never consider REDUCING SPENDING, not so long as there's any citizen's assets left untaxed at a rate lower than 100%
It's even worse, since there's no limit to what the tax rate can be. Want to buy something that is marked at $10? If the tax rate were 200%, you'd pay $20 in taxes, $30 total. Uh oh, I hope I'm not giving them ideas now too...
This is an awful article title. "Can You Access Your Own Cash Register Data?" First I read that as some silly desire to be able to access your own data in all the stores you visit, out of some sense of entitlement. Then I read the summary, and see that's not the case. In that context, it could be read as asking store owners if they can access their cash register data, a yes/no question. But no, that's not what's about either; it's someone seeking a recommendation for a freaking cash register, as if this is Yahoo Answers or something...
Precisely. Just think of it as a feedback reaction. Someone is depressed, others dismiss it, tell them they'll get over it, etc., but don't actually listen openly to it, so it gets worse, since the person is being cut off by others. Then others cut off even more, try to be more coercive, etc. It's disgusting how supposed "support" for suicidal people is anything but thinly veiled coercion.
All the Beyond.ca guys did was identify the thief. The actual police have done all of the enforcement
They also made claims about his guilt etc. What if they were wrong, would they compensate him for their error? THAT is the problem with this, and why it has been labeled vigilantism.
I know you joke, but it's the truth. Why else do you think the government organized a huge coupon program to help people get the converter boxes? And kept pushing back the changeover date as well...
Where I live, people are apparently colorblind, because they treat a yellow light as green. Routinely people are still going through as the light turns red, with the cross-traffic having to wait, even while it has a green light. Bring on the fines, I say.
Agreed! That's why I avoid any artificial enhancements. Computers? Out, of course! Calculator? Same thing. Pen and paper? Bah, I want to use my own memory! Language? Another crutch that takes away from a sense of achievement. And of course I can't draw on the work of others, since then I'm letting them do most of the work.
it is fine for YOU as a citizen to do it for yourself but not as a PUBLIC performance which has always been a separate part of the law. If you are getting paid to do it in public you have always been required to pay a licence like this, perhaps the only difference is the industry body is now doing this.
Read the relevant condition more carefully. It doesn't have anything to do with actually playing the songs publically, just literally copying them from a collection of CDs to the editing computer. If the DJ instead kept swapping the CDs out of his computer, he wouldn't have to pay this fee (oh, and did not make any backups of his music either).
A DJ wanting to put sound recordings from his various albums on to a single source (computer hardware) for ease of use, and as a back-up in case originals get lost or stolen.
Hell, I want some kind of list of people who fell for it, perhaps in some way that only their workmates know (like serial number or something). Embarrass them, so that people will be much more reluctant to trust things like this in the future.
Just think, with old crappy analog, there was only so much that they could reduce quality until the receiver lost picture synchronization. Now with digital, there's no limit; they can keep lowering picture quality as far as they like. The first time I saw digital cable, I was struck by how crappy it looked in comparison. Lots of compression artifacts with changing scenes. Me? I stick with DVD rentals and video games. I set the schedule, and it suits me just fine.
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Maybe it's just me, but nowadays my searches are flooded with crappy blogs (and not the spam kind either, at least not true spam).
It's even worse, since there's no limit to what the tax rate can be. Want to buy something that is marked at $10? If the tax rate were 200%, you'd pay $20 in taxes, $30 total. Uh oh, I hope I'm not giving them ideas now too...
I was going to be in the market for a new hard drive, and was looking at Seagate, but I guess I better reconsider.
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Unless person B has repeatedly ignored A's polite feedback.
This is an awful article title. "Can You Access Your Own Cash Register Data?" First I read that as some silly desire to be able to access your own data in all the stores you visit, out of some sense of entitlement. Then I read the summary, and see that's not the case. In that context, it could be read as asking store owners if they can access their cash register data, a yes/no question. But no, that's not what's about either; it's someone seeking a recommendation for a freaking cash register, as if this is Yahoo Answers or something...
Don't worry, they'd never get off the ground in the first place. Weight and the endless Allow/Deny questions would see to that.
If you allow that, then we'll lose all the genes that make people good at committing suicide successfully!
Precisely. Just think of it as a feedback reaction. Someone is depressed, others dismiss it, tell them they'll get over it, etc., but don't actually listen openly to it, so it gets worse, since the person is being cut off by others. Then others cut off even more, try to be more coercive, etc. It's disgusting how supposed "support" for suicidal people is anything but thinly veiled coercion.
They also made claims about his guilt etc. What if they were wrong, would they compensate him for their error? THAT is the problem with this, and why it has been labeled vigilantism.
I know you joke, but it's the truth. Why else do you think the government organized a huge coupon program to help people get the converter boxes? And kept pushing back the changeover date as well...
Really? I thought one was supposed to wait behind the crosswalk line until there was an opening to turn.
You must be mistaken; if they put Vista into these, they would just sit there motionless.
Where I live, people are apparently colorblind, because they treat a yellow light as green. Routinely people are still going through as the light turns red, with the cross-traffic having to wait, even while it has a green light. Bring on the fines, I say.
Agreed! That's why I avoid any artificial enhancements. Computers? Out, of course! Calculator? Same thing. Pen and paper? Bah, I want to use my own memory! Language? Another crutch that takes away from a sense of achievement. And of course I can't draw on the work of others, since then I'm letting them do most of the work.
By posting about it to Slashdot, you've made it worth your trouble. Thanks.
'So, what doe's the apo'strophe mean, Mr. 'smarty pant's?
Read the relevant condition more carefully. It doesn't have anything to do with actually playing the songs publically, just literally copying them from a collection of CDs to the editing computer. If the DJ instead kept swapping the CDs out of his computer, he wouldn't have to pay this fee (oh, and did not make any backups of his music either).
Hell, I want some kind of list of people who fell for it, perhaps in some way that only their workmates know (like serial number or something). Embarrass them, so that people will be much more reluctant to trust things like this in the future.
And purple pixels are even cheaper.
Do those days fall within the month of Smarch by any chance?
6 bits per pixel means 64 colors, so this is either an April fool, or the article/summary author can't do math or can't read.
They aren't called Concast for nothing.
Just think, with old crappy analog, there was only so much that they could reduce quality until the receiver lost picture synchronization. Now with digital, there's no limit; they can keep lowering picture quality as far as they like. The first time I saw digital cable, I was struck by how crappy it looked in comparison. Lots of compression artifacts with changing scenes. Me? I stick with DVD rentals and video games. I set the schedule, and it suits me just fine.
Capitalization and punctuation seem to have suffered in your area.