The USA is on the list of countries for which you can get an exemption from the quarantine requirement when importing dogs into the UK that have been vaccinated against rabies. So strike reason 3 from your list.
There's no evidence that Google has what it takes to make this work. Paypal's edge is that they understand risk management better than anyone else, so they reject fewer legitimate transactions and reject fewer fraudulent transactions. Google is good at distributed processing and search, and I don't see how they can duplicate Paypal's expertise.
The starting point is to know the name of every character on the keyboard, including things like pipe and tilde, and that # is a hash and £ is a pound sign, and the two should not be confused.
Yes, basically. If they want to be helpful, they might add that there's an untested and undocumented fix in CVS that could solve the problem, without implying in any way that that means the bug is no longer an issue. And if they want to be really helpful, they might also want to give the schedule for the release that will contain the tested and documented fix.
The problem is that developers (open source or not) tend to think that "committed to CVS" == "fixed. Once it's been tested, documented and released, then it's fixed -- until then, a fix is simply in the early stages of development.
If you can't think of any grocery stores in more than two EU countries, you're not thinking very hard. Try Aldi and Lidl, who both operate in numerous EU countries. In other sectors, there are chains like IKEA.
No, it can only be selected if there is genetic differentiation in it. So if susceptibility levels to the "full world" meme vary for different alleles of the same gene, the less susceptible versions will be selected for. But if that genetic variation doesn't exist, it can't be selected for.
It works the other way round, too. Anything that has evolved has clearly been subject to inheritable differences in the past, and it probably still is, unless the selective pressure for it is so strong that the population is essentially homeogenous. This is the strongest argument for there being a genetic basis to intelligence level, since intelligence has clearly evolved in the fairly recent past.
It's not obvious at all. DRM systems don't turn themselves off upon copyright expiry, but they could do so. They could be legally required to do so, and it could be illegal to use any DRM system that continued to prevent copying beyond the copyright expiry date, if our legislatures weren't in the pockets of the big media companies.
If Sony realise that there's no point putting DRM on any movie that's available on DVD, given how easily DVDs can be ripped, then they could clean up by selling their back catalogue in a DRM-free open format that can be easily transcoded for use on portable devices, streamed around the house, lent to your friends, and so on.
The current government is incapable of coherent thought: on the one hand, giving the police more powers to deal with the growing binge-drinking culture, while also loosening licensing laws so pubs and bars can stay open all day.
But those policies are both intended to address binge drinking. If you don't have every pub in a city full of people drinking as fast as they can in order to drink as much as possible before the pubs close at 11, and then throw them all out onto the street at the same time, it will reduce rather than increasing binge drinking and alcohol-fuelled violence.
Best option is to change the copyright law. Any content not released for sale at a reasonable price (no more than DRMed versions) in an unDRMed high density format on a reasonable timescale (say two years after first release) automatically loses its copyright, in perpetuity, and anti-circumvention laws do not apply to circumvention of DRM done solely in order to copy this now uncopyrighted work. Then Hollywood gets very very keen to make sure that it releases everything without DRM.
7. The duration of the copyright term of a work is fixed when the work is first published, and may not be either shortened or extended by subsequent legislation.
There's also the psychological factor. Depression is common, and often fatal (not necessarily through suicide, but through self-neglect). Skin cancer is less common, and usually treatable. And sunbathing is good for depression, so might well save more lives than it costs on that basis, too.
I don't know about regulation in the US, although I note that PayPal is licensed in some way or other in the majority of states, but PayPal UK is regulated by the FSA as an electronic money institution.
Most likely bet is that they're creating their own currency, called (say) Gbucks, which can pass instantaneously from one user's account to another, and can be cashed in for real money with Google whenever you want to.
The broascast flag could equally well be considered a bill of attainder -- it too revokes certain legal rights from an identifiable group without a trial.
The MPAA is playing a dangerous game by threatening to take its ball home. Copyright is designed to encourage content creators to publish their work. If they use copyright to prevent work from being published, then a much simpler legislative solution than the broadcast flag is to tweak the copyright legislation a bit and immediately revoke the copyright from any film or TV show that has not been shown on broadcast TV within two years of first showing. This would completely solve the problem, without restricting consumers' or manufacturers' rights in any way.
Perhaps it's because we don't have most of those things. Overall taxation as a percentage of GDP is one of the lowest rates in Europe (it's higher than the US, but then we actually get some public services). Our health care is optional, cheap, and pretty effective. TV license enforcement officers are not entitled to enter your home without a warrant.
And most of the cameras are privately owned and operated; surely as a libertarian you are in favour of people having the right to set up monitoring cameras if they want to.
My favourite is probably a progressive consumption tax. How much cash did you receive last year from all sources -- employment, dividends, interest, gifts, sale of shares, sale of property, etc. How much did you save? You pay a tax on the difference, with a progressive scale.
It's just one of the many idiocies that arise from taxing "unearned" income less than "earned" income. Income from all sources should be taxed the same, to avoid giving people reason to come up with complicated schemes to move their income between categories. But given that the tax system sucks, you can't blame people for taking advantage of that fact.
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The USA is on the list of countries for which you can get an exemption from the quarantine requirement when importing dogs into the UK that have been vaccinated against rabies. So strike reason 3 from your list.
Sorry, that should be "accept fewer fraudulent transactions".
There's no evidence that Google has what it takes to make this work. Paypal's edge is that they understand risk management better than anyone else, so they reject fewer legitimate transactions and reject fewer fraudulent transactions. Google is good at distributed processing and search, and I don't see how they can duplicate Paypal's expertise.
The starting point is to know the name of every character on the keyboard, including things like pipe and tilde, and that # is a hash and £ is a pound sign, and the two should not be confused.
Yes, basically. If they want to be helpful, they might add that there's an untested and undocumented fix in CVS that could solve the problem, without implying in any way that that means the bug is no longer an issue. And if they want to be really helpful, they might also want to give the schedule for the release that will contain the tested and documented fix.
The problem is that developers (open source or not) tend to think that "committed to CVS" == "fixed. Once it's been tested, documented and released, then it's fixed -- until then, a fix is simply in the early stages of development.
If you can't think of any grocery stores in more than two EU countries, you're not thinking very hard. Try Aldi and Lidl, who both operate in numerous EU countries. In other sectors, there are chains like IKEA.
"Doodlebugs" were V1s, and weren't rockets -- they were cruise missiles. You're thinking of the V2.
No, it can only be selected if there is genetic differentiation in it. So if susceptibility levels to the "full world" meme vary for different alleles of the same gene, the less susceptible versions will be selected for. But if that genetic variation doesn't exist, it can't be selected for.
It works the other way round, too. Anything that has evolved has clearly been subject to inheritable differences in the past, and it probably still is, unless the selective pressure for it is so strong that the population is essentially homeogenous. This is the strongest argument for there being a genetic basis to intelligence level, since intelligence has clearly evolved in the fairly recent past.
It's not obvious at all. DRM systems don't turn themselves off upon copyright expiry, but they could do so. They could be legally required to do so, and it could be illegal to use any DRM system that continued to prevent copying beyond the copyright expiry date, if our legislatures weren't in the pockets of the big media companies.
Try SafariBlock, which aims to replicate AdBlock in Safari.
If Sony realise that there's no point putting DRM on any movie that's available on DVD, given how easily DVDs can be ripped, then they could clean up by selling their back catalogue in a DRM-free open format that can be easily transcoded for use on portable devices, streamed around the house, lent to your friends, and so on.
The current government is incapable of coherent thought: on the one hand, giving the police more powers to deal with the growing binge-drinking culture, while also loosening licensing laws so pubs and bars can stay open all day.
But those policies are both intended to address binge drinking. If you don't have every pub in a city full of people drinking as fast as they can in order to drink as much as possible before the pubs close at 11, and then throw them all out onto the street at the same time, it will reduce rather than increasing binge drinking and alcohol-fuelled violence.
Best option is to change the copyright law. Any content not released for sale at a reasonable price (no more than DRMed versions) in an unDRMed high density format on a reasonable timescale (say two years after first release) automatically loses its copyright, in perpetuity, and anti-circumvention laws do not apply to circumvention of DRM done solely in order to copy this now uncopyrighted work. Then Hollywood gets very very keen to make sure that it releases everything without DRM.
7. The duration of the copyright term of a work is fixed when the work is first published, and may not be either shortened or extended by subsequent legislation.
There's also the psychological factor. Depression is common, and often fatal (not necessarily through suicide, but through self-neglect). Skin cancer is less common, and usually treatable. And sunbathing is good for depression, so might well save more lives than it costs on that basis, too.
I don't know about regulation in the US, although I note that PayPal is licensed in some way or other in the majority of states, but PayPal UK is regulated by the FSA as an electronic money institution.
Most likely bet is that they're creating their own currency, called (say) Gbucks, which can pass instantaneously from one user's account to another, and can be cashed in for real money with Google whenever you want to.
The USGS has street-level maps of the UK? URL please -- this will be very useful.
Remember that Google Maps doesn't just cover the US.
The broascast flag could equally well be considered a bill of attainder -- it too revokes certain legal rights from an identifiable group without a trial.
The MPAA is playing a dangerous game by threatening to take its ball home. Copyright is designed to encourage content creators to publish their work. If they use copyright to prevent work from being published, then a much simpler legislative solution than the broadcast flag is to tweak the copyright legislation a bit and immediately revoke the copyright from any film or TV show that has not been shown on broadcast TV within two years of first showing. This would completely solve the problem, without restricting consumers' or manufacturers' rights in any way.
Perhaps it's because we don't have most of those things. Overall taxation as a percentage of GDP is one of the lowest rates in Europe (it's higher than the US, but then we actually get some public services). Our health care is optional, cheap, and pretty effective. TV license enforcement officers are not entitled to enter your home without a warrant.
And most of the cameras are privately owned and operated; surely as a libertarian you are in favour of people having the right to set up monitoring cameras if they want to.
My favourite is probably a progressive consumption tax. How much cash did you receive last year from all sources -- employment, dividends, interest, gifts, sale of shares, sale of property, etc. How much did you save? You pay a tax on the difference, with a progressive scale.
But the incentive is supposed to be the chance to make more money, not pay less tax.
It's just one of the many idiocies that arise from taxing "unearned" income less than "earned" income. Income from all sources should be taxed the same, to avoid giving people reason to come up with complicated schemes to move their income between categories. But given that the tax system sucks, you can't blame people for taking advantage of that fact.