I'm sorry, but exactly what alternatives are there out there that are a replacement to Usenet? I know that it is one of the original internet technologies, but there are very many newsgroups that are quite useful even today.
AVForums and AVSForum are two completely different sites. And of course you will get a wide variety of levels of expertise. But if you take your time to weed through the chaff there is a lot of good information on AVS Forum.
Denon makes very good stuff in a variety of price categories. They have some very good engineering and some of their products like the AVP-A1HD are to die for. Of course you can't trust marketing claims though - ever. You have to do your homework too.
I'd bet that the persons receiving the computers loaded with pirated software would be pretty upset to find out that they didn't have licensed software.
Notice that I also said money. Money also buys skills. The Chinese have the 5th largest economy in the world. They can afford to hire some skilled people.
I have two Leap chairs that I purchased from dealers on Ebay. In my opinion they are very ergonomically sound and well made. I would much rather have one of these than an Aeron.
The problem is how do you prove intent in a court of law? IANL but it seems to me that the intent part is a pretty weak part of the law unless you find something obvious like a DVD cracking program on the hard drive.
You really can't limit term of copyright to the author's lifetime. People work for companies that fund their work in exchange for a regular salary. This would bind the value of the work to the age and health of the employee, leading to all sorts of economic pressure to not fund the work of older people.
Scientific journals need to have a paper version for archival reasons. Companies come and go, and their websites change with time. However once a paper journal is distributed across a large number of institutional libraries it is essentially proof against anything except an extinction event.
You did not answer the question. If the 16th amendment is repealed as the Fair Tax web site you link to advocates, the Fair tax that you describe would be just as unconstitutional as the original income tax was because it is not apportioned among the states according to the census.
Look, I am very sympathetic to the idea that taxation is one of the greatest impositions on personal freedom there is in the modern world. But tax reform is barking up the wrong tree. No matter how tax is allocated it is going to gore somebody's ox. AND THE FUNDAMENTAL RULE THAT PEOPLE FORGET IS THAT YOUR TAXES EXACTLY EQUAL WHAT GOVERNMENT SPENDS. It doesn't matter if you write a check for that amount to the government or not. Those tricky guys can just print as much money as they want and spend that, thus reducing the value of your savings (take a look at the trends regarding the value of the dollar). Or they can sell bonds and other instruments of public debt that will bite you in the butt later. Or sell public (i.e. YOUR) assets like land, highways, natural resources or whatever. Or they can create entitlement programs that create 'obligations' that grow without limit even though they sound like a good idea at the time.
Control of and reduction of government spending is the only true act of tax reform that matters. Everything else is just moving the pain from one place to another.
I am sorry, but I am familiar with IP laws in most of the rest of the developed world. I have 12 patents in my name that have been issued in multiple countries. Japan is actually more lenient in granting patents than the US. The EU is a little more strict but not much. In other areas (copyright) most countries have either a 50 year or 70 year post-mortem copyright period. The US is not at all unusual with it's 70 year period.
Yes China's situation is a bit different as a developing nation but it is rapidly becoming normalized with the rest of the world as they are starting to develop their own "imaginary property". They are now a member of WIPO, the Paris convention, the Madrid Agreement and have a State Patent and Trademarks office. While enforcement is spotty the trend is obvious.
Any claim that the US economy isat a disadvantage due to IP laws is hooey.
That is absurd. The US has been running deficit budgets (to pay for wars) and balance of payments for decades. Consumers have not been saving; in fact the rate of savings in the US is negative.
Other parts of the world with strong economies have IP laws that are just as strong as in the US and are doing fine.
It is all about unwise fiscal policies that are resulting in the decline of the dollar.
That is what is important to me since I have a 30mbit connection.
I am a little concerned about the selection. It sounds like a bunch of low quality old source material that wouldn't look that great on a HDTV even if they were run through a good video processor.
At the price though it might be worth experimenting with.
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I agree. I've had nothing but pain with SuSE's package management over the years. I'm sticking with Mr. U.
More than two - it could get blocked by customs because it infringes on patents (i.e. HDMI) needed to receive that HD content.
Maybe he means the ham they make hamburgers from.
Then why does pretty much every ISP use some form of QoS today?
Because laptops need a lot more power than you are going to get out of a USB port.
I'm sorry, but exactly what alternatives are there out there that are a replacement to Usenet? I know that it is one of the original internet technologies, but there are very many newsgroups that are quite useful even today.
I would think the cable companies would fight this since it decreases the value of having a DVR.
So which Chinese consumer electronics company owns the Westinghouse brand name these days?
Funai?
AVForums and AVSForum are two completely different sites. And of course you will get a wide variety of levels of expertise. But if you take your time to weed through the chaff there is a lot of good information on AVS Forum.
Denon makes very good stuff in a variety of price categories. They have some very good engineering and some of their products like the AVP-A1HD are to die for. Of course you can't trust marketing claims though - ever. You have to do your homework too.
Fraud is usually defined as theft by deception.
I'd bet that the persons receiving the computers loaded with pirated software would be pretty upset to find out that they didn't have licensed software.
Notice that I also said money. Money also buys skills. The Chinese have the 5th largest economy in the world. They can afford to hire some skilled people.
+1.
I have two Leap chairs that I purchased from dealers on Ebay. In my opinion they are very ergonomically sound and well made. I would much rather have one of these than an Aeron.
China has the money and skills to build the Great Firewall. They are clearly capable.
This bill passed 410-12. Dems or Reps it wasn't going to matter.
Fortunately for you the vote was like 410 - 12 so all your have to do is vote for the non-incumbent and you will have a 98% chance of being right.
The problem is how do you prove intent in a court of law? IANL but it seems to me that the intent part is a pretty weak part of the law unless you find something obvious like a DVD cracking program on the hard drive.
You really can't limit term of copyright to the author's lifetime. People work for companies that fund their work in exchange for a regular salary. This would bind the value of the work to the age and health of the employee, leading to all sorts of economic pressure to not fund the work of older people.
> Thief
> Jackass
Argumentation ad hominem = you lose.
Scientific journals need to have a paper version for archival reasons. Companies come and go, and their websites change with time. However once a paper journal is distributed across a large number of institutional libraries it is essentially proof against anything except an extinction event.
You did not answer the question. If the 16th amendment is repealed as the Fair Tax web site you link to advocates, the Fair tax that you describe would be just as unconstitutional as the original income tax was because it is not apportioned among the states according to the census.
Look, I am very sympathetic to the idea that taxation is one of the greatest impositions on personal freedom there is in the modern world. But tax reform is barking up the wrong tree. No matter how tax is allocated it is going to gore somebody's ox. AND THE FUNDAMENTAL RULE THAT PEOPLE FORGET IS THAT YOUR TAXES EXACTLY EQUAL WHAT GOVERNMENT SPENDS. It doesn't matter if you write a check for that amount to the government or not. Those tricky guys can just print as much money as they want and spend that, thus reducing the value of your savings (take a look at the trends regarding the value of the dollar). Or they can sell bonds and other instruments of public debt that will bite you in the butt later. Or sell public (i.e. YOUR) assets like land, highways, natural resources or whatever. Or they can create entitlement programs that create 'obligations' that grow without limit even though they sound like a good idea at the time.
Control of and reduction of government spending is the only true act of tax reform that matters. Everything else is just moving the pain from one place to another.
I am sorry, but I am familiar with IP laws in most of the rest of the developed world. I have 12 patents in my name that have been issued in multiple countries. Japan is actually more lenient in granting patents than the US. The EU is a little more strict but not much. In other areas (copyright) most countries have either a 50 year or 70 year post-mortem copyright period. The US is not at all unusual with it's 70 year period.
Yes China's situation is a bit different as a developing nation but it is rapidly becoming normalized with the rest of the world as they are starting to develop their own "imaginary property". They are now a member of WIPO, the Paris convention, the Madrid Agreement and have a State Patent and Trademarks office. While enforcement is spotty the trend is obvious.
Any claim that the US economy isat a disadvantage due to IP laws is hooey.
That is absurd. The US has been running deficit budgets (to pay for wars) and balance of payments for decades. Consumers have not been saving; in fact the rate of savings in the US is negative.
Other parts of the world with strong economies have IP laws that are just as strong as in the US and are doing fine.
It is all about unwise fiscal policies that are resulting in the decline of the dollar.
That is what is important to me since I have a 30mbit connection.
I am a little concerned about the selection. It sounds like a bunch of low quality old source material that wouldn't look that great on a HDTV even if they were run through a good video processor.
At the price though it might be worth experimenting with.