The cost of the OS is paid, dude. It not having an official cost is like claiming free soda refills and napkins at fast food have no official cost. Technically true, but effectively false. If every person suddenly started using twice as many napkins, those costs would be factored into future food costs. There's a reason the same hardware costs more when it's apple and less when it's not. The costs are ultimately passed onto the consumer, just like with OSX/IOS. Don't be naive.
By "dies" let us assume it is "unfixably" broken'. Not repariable in either case. Not by microsoft, apple, your mom, geeks on call, or anybody else.
So for Microsoft, you'd buy new hardware, install your OS from your legally purchased disc, and re-buy a new copy Office.
For apple, you'd buy new hardware, pay for another copy of the same OS you already had [baked into the increased price for Macs], and... Re-buy a new copy of Office [assuming that was what you used].
Let's face it... Apple is no better. The real winner here is OpenOffice.org.
The people who'd miss it the most would be in a cemetery after not being able to defend themselves: Guns stop more crimes than they create, but it's not sensational news to report on it.
The change in buying a house between 1998 and today has nothing to do with the situation discussed by the original poster - $1300 mortgage vs $1500 rent does not justify being broke on $80K more income. I could find an apartment to rent for the same price as my house very easily. I'd have less room, cheaper electrical bills, and no maintenance costs.
And i'm not comparing 2 incomes to 1. I'm comparing total income. I wasn't working. The $50K was my wife, while I wasn't working. But it could be both of us wokring $25K/yr jobs as well.
So your comment is quite off. $120K vs $50K. One residence. Number of people in it doesn't really matter -- though I have house maintenance, which mr. "I make $120K and can barely make ends meet with $1500/mo rent" doesn't.
But the original example was $1500 rent. That's only $250 more than I paid (before refinancing). So that's only a need for $250 * 12 = 3000 post-tax, so.... 5000 pre-tax dollars more. So that would justify $55K instead of $50K, but not $120K like OP mentioned. Now consider I have to pay for house maintenance and an apartment dweller doesn't, and the small $5000 difference starts to shrink.
$2500 for a single window (really, a set of 3). Here's one and here's the other.
Now, we lucked out in finding a single-family home that was only $141K in 1998. It's old and has problems, but we've been there 13 yrs and are happy. It was literally about the cheapest non-townhouse in Fairfax County on sale at th etime. It goes for almost double that now, though finding a buyer would be hard with what we've done to it. We also built an addition ($85K) around 2005, which is a factor in why the house is worth about double now.
Now, the $50K was only for the 4.5 yrs I didn't work (or the 2.5 yrs i didn't work 1999-2001ish). On years we both worked we'd pull in $90-100K. So there was always a savings to fall back on. But in 4.5 yrs of $50K-only, our savings only dropped 50% ($20K->$10K). Plus we refinanced last year, which got our mortgage down from $1300 to $1030.
It's not as cut and dried as I laid it out in my first post.... But... Someone making $120K whining about not making ends meet with a $1500/mo apartment definitely makes my bullshit meter fire off!:) I think it's pretty easy to make ends meet unless you have some odd sickness or legal problems (kids kind of fall into both of thos categories, haha).
Also it's probably easier for us because we're highschool sweethearts so we never had to set up alone... out of our parents' houses into our own. The economy of scale goes back to our dorm days..
Yes, he's a spoiled brat. My wife & I made $50K total for 4 yrs, living in a similarly expensive area (inside d.c. beltway)... and were quite comfortable. No frills, but we still got to buy some $2500 window replacements a couple years, and new harddrives when we needed 'em. GP is a total fucking spoiled brat.
(I finally got a job, so... now we're making more than that, yay.)
what a load of bullshit. Our mortgage + utilities was $1500/mo and my wife & I lived comfortably on $50K total income for 4 years straight. "The closet of living in the city" must include a lot of self-rationalized, unnecessary bullshit... Because living in the D.C. beltway isn't the cheapest place either.
Executives don't NEED constant benefit. Once you're rich, getting more rich or not getting any more rich doesn't really matter.
I realize folks are in a panic over losing Twinkies and Wonder Bread, but just take in for a moment the following tidbit of information: Hostess Executives provided themselves 70% raises last year. Today they announce they're closing the company because their rank-and-file workers refused to take an 8% pay cut. Consider who will be hurt by closing the company. (Hint: it won't be the executives.)
I realize folks are in a panic over losing Twinkies and Wonder Bread, but just take in for a moment the following tidbit of information:
Hostess Executives provided themselves 70% raises last year. Today they announce they're closing the company because their rank-and-file workers refused to take an 8% pay cut. Consider who will be hurt by closing the company. (Hint: it won't be the executives.)
He sold 5 discs. The 10,000 in his house could just be his personal collection. If you backup a netflix movie (8G) to a DVD-4 you're gonna need 2 discs if you insist on no compression. If you keep 2 copies of everything, it's now 4 discs. And 1080p rips are often >8G.
2500 movies in a personal collection is not at all unheard of.
You really should read the articles linked to (footnotes) from that wikipedia page above poster posted - it specifically addressed non-celebrities. I don't know how to say it nicely, but you're just wrong. Sorry. Research it more.
Alas... It's not that, so much as I am surprised the quality of the public doesn't somehow improve over time with regard to awareness to basic rights. Sigh:)
Facts. 8. This is private property. The case in this slashdot article is about public property. Not the same thing, and I already made the public/private property distinction in my previous comment. You won't find many lawyers who will take a case against a guy like the guy in this slashdot article. Pro bono, you probably won't find one in the country.
You're actually engaging in FUD by not thinking about the issue clearly, reading what I said, and responding to what was actually said in this slashdot discussion.
Again: Suggested reading: PhotographyIsNotACrime blog by Carlos Miller.
Again, you're going by wikipedia definitions, not real law. Model releases are for publishing something in a for profit publication. They do not apply to personal photography. At. All. They also only apply to people who are on private property. If you're in public, I can take your photo and publish it in a for-profit publication without a model release. This is *basic* photographers' rights knowledge. I don't know why people who don't know this want to comment as if they are an authority. Total FUD.
No, it can't. You really shouldn't post if you don't understand the law. BTW, you inform every celebrity that they could be using this against every paparazzi. Apparently you know something their lawyers don't. Your comment is FUD of the highest degree. Might I recommend RSS-subscribing to PhotographyIsNotACrime?
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The cost of the OS is paid, dude. It not having an official cost is like claiming free soda refills and napkins at fast food have no official cost. Technically true, but effectively false. If every person suddenly started using twice as many napkins, those costs would be factored into future food costs. There's a reason the same hardware costs more when it's apple and less when it's not. The costs are ultimately passed onto the consumer, just like with OSX/IOS. Don't be naive.
By "dies" let us assume it is "unfixably" broken'. Not repariable in either case. Not by microsoft, apple, your mom, geeks on call, or anybody else.
So for Microsoft, you'd buy new hardware, install your OS from your legally purchased disc, and re-buy a new copy Office.
For apple, you'd buy new hardware, pay for another copy of the same OS you already had [baked into the increased price for Macs], and... Re-buy a new copy of Office [assuming that was what you used].
Let's face it... Apple is no better. The real winner here is OpenOffice.org.
how dare they!
I'm not convinced that addition has greater death than seizure.
I tip my hat to you, sir.
The people who'd miss it the most would be in a cemetery after not being able to defend themselves: Guns stop more crimes than they create, but it's not sensational news to report on it.
I'm sure a law against guns would have stopped this guy, just like a law against murder did.
lol... i'm still bitter anyway! hehehehe
And i'm not comparing 2 incomes to 1. I'm comparing total income. I wasn't working. The $50K was my wife, while I wasn't working. But it could be both of us wokring $25K/yr jobs as well.
So your comment is quite off. $120K vs $50K. One residence. Number of people in it doesn't really matter -- though I have house maintenance, which mr. "I make $120K and can barely make ends meet with $1500/mo rent" doesn't.
But the original example was $1500 rent. That's only $250 more than I paid (before refinancing). So that's only a need for $250 * 12 = 3000 post-tax, so.... 5000 pre-tax dollars more. So that would justify $55K instead of $50K, but not $120K like OP mentioned. Now consider I have to pay for house maintenance and an apartment dweller doesn't, and the small $5000 difference starts to shrink.
Now, we lucked out in finding a single-family home that was only $141K in 1998. It's old and has problems, but we've been there 13 yrs and are happy. It was literally about the cheapest non-townhouse in Fairfax County on sale at th etime. It goes for almost double that now, though finding a buyer would be hard with what we've done to it. We also built an addition ($85K) around 2005, which is a factor in why the house is worth about double now.
Now, the $50K was only for the 4.5 yrs I didn't work (or the 2.5 yrs i didn't work 1999-2001ish). On years we both worked we'd pull in $90-100K. So there was always a savings to fall back on. But in 4.5 yrs of $50K-only, our savings only dropped 50% ($20K->$10K). Plus we refinanced last year, which got our mortgage down from $1300 to $1030.
It's not as cut and dried as I laid it out in my first post.... But... Someone making $120K whining about not making ends meet with a $1500/mo apartment definitely makes my bullshit meter fire off! :) I think it's pretty easy to make ends meet unless you have some odd sickness or legal problems (kids kind of fall into both of thos categories, haha).
Also it's probably easier for us because we're highschool sweethearts so we never had to set up alone... out of our parents' houses into our own. The economy of scale goes back to our dorm days..
(I finally got a job, so... now we're making more than that, yay.)
what a load of bullshit. Our mortgage + utilities was $1500/mo and my wife & I lived comfortably on $50K total income for 4 years straight. "The closet of living in the city" must include a lot of self-rationalized, unnecessary bullshit... Because living in the D.C. beltway isn't the cheapest place either.
I realize folks are in a panic over losing Twinkies and Wonder Bread, but just take in for a moment the following tidbit of information: Hostess Executives provided themselves 70% raises last year. Today they announce they're closing the company because their rank-and-file workers refused to take an 8% pay cut. Consider who will be hurt by closing the company. (Hint: it won't be the executives.)
Hostess Executives provided themselves 70% raises last year. Today they announce they're closing the company because their rank-and-file workers refused to take an 8% pay cut. Consider who will be hurt by closing the company. (Hint: it won't be the executives.)
2500 movies in a personal collection is not at all unheard of.
that person is probably 300 times more racist than someone with just one account
With your ability for nuance, the debate is bound to go far!
You really should read the articles linked to (footnotes) from that wikipedia page above poster posted - it specifically addressed non-celebrities. I don't know how to say it nicely, but you're just wrong. Sorry. Research it more.
Alas... It's not that, so much as I am surprised the quality of the public doesn't somehow improve over time with regard to awareness to basic rights. Sigh :)
You're actually engaging in FUD by not thinking about the issue clearly, reading what I said, and responding to what was actually said in this slashdot discussion.
Again: Suggested reading: PhotographyIsNotACrime blog by Carlos Miller.
Again, you're going by wikipedia definitions, not real law. Model releases are for publishing something in a for profit publication. They do not apply to personal photography. At. All. They also only apply to people who are on private property. If you're in public, I can take your photo and publish it in a for-profit publication without a model release. This is *basic* photographers' rights knowledge. I don't know why people who don't know this want to comment as if they are an authority. Total FUD.
No, it can't. You really shouldn't post if you don't understand the law. BTW, you inform every celebrity that they could be using this against every paparazzi. Apparently you know something their lawyers don't. Your comment is FUD of the highest degree. Might I recommend RSS-subscribing to PhotographyIsNotACrime?
I wish I'd remembered how specific I had to be when talking about this stuff :)
brace myself... corrective responses are coming