With all respect, this is not a cap.
Let's do some maths here.
If your stockpile of dollars increase by 5% a year, which is very conservative when you have billions of dollars, even when inflation is considered. Let's say a generation lasts 20 years. After 20 years, your extremely rich has 265% of the money he inherited, minus what they spent, which is negligible for the extremely rich. You tax it 40%. The next generation will be left with 160% of the money left by the grand father. This is very conservative. Anyway, the family (or should we call it a dynasty?) will still multiply its wealth forever, faster and faster.
Extremely rich people are a threat to democracy. If you don't take action they become richer and richer, faster and faster and end up controlling your nation. The risk would be greatly mitigated with a cap on inheritance for instance.
How do they write their contract?
Where I live, you have a contract if you take a subsidized phone. That means you get the phone for free and pay it over 2 years or so, therefore you have a 2 year contract and if you leave before the 2 years you have to pay for the full price of the phone and less after 1 year or so. They hold you because you rent a phone and have to pay it if you leave before you've paid it full.
But if you bring your own phone you can switch to another carrier whenever you want. What happens in the US when you leave? I can't understand how they can hold you. You have your phone. What do you have to pay if you leave?
If they stop subsidizing phones, they can't hold you with a long contract anymore. That is why the biggest (At&T) will be the last to do it and the smallest are the first. The biggest have more customers and have more sake in retaining their customer and more to loose with carrier mobility.
Will it's not just the keyboard, it's the hackability. For instance, you can apt-get a LAMP server on the N900 in a few minutes. You can ssh to your phone, forward the X port and run your apps on your desktop. The N900 is just like your proper desktop computer, but in your pocket.
The best phone in 2013 is from 2009. The N900 is still unmatched. In 2013, the N900 screen is crap, the CPU is a joke, it doesn't do LTE and it is still more useful than any other phone. I'm still waiting for a replacement with better spec but I don't see that coming in the near future. This phone is the Amiga of the 21th century. They can up all the specs in their phone, they won't match the N900 until a decade or more.
If the terrorists were even smarter, they could act lazy, just wait for an accident to happen and claim responsibility. It's even harder to catch them, and they don't have to leave their couch. Then they can make threats, wait a little more and claim the next one.
Well, the explosion propagates at the speed of sound, so abandoning the site is not an option. In Toulouse, the explosion occurred when 2 chemical products entered in contact (ammonium and nitrate if I'm not mistaken)
It left a crater 200 meters wide. Although the biggest damage occurred near the factory, Steel girders were found 3km away, windows blown up 20 km away and the seismic activity was recorded in Paris (800 km away)
Fertilizers are extremely dangerous and should be handled with more care.
A similar thing happened in my town 12 years ago. If was on 21/9/2001, so 10 days after 11/9/2001 and therefore nobody heard about it but it left some 30 people dead and a city in ruins. Look up AZF in Toulouse on the web to see what I'm talking about. They first blamed it on the terrorists and later admitted it was an industrial accident.
Like in Texas, the AZF factory was build out of the town but the town grown and it found itself in the middle of it. Poor urban planning.
The MPAA once again sued on irrational claims and their claim got rejected, of course.
We shouldn't talk about it or make articles about it on Slashdot. It should have been rejected silently. The more we talk about it, the more their claim becomes normal. The MPAA is taken more and more seriously, which is scary. It doesn't deserve all that publicity. Their plea should be ignored like the random pleas from mad people that happen all the time.
(1) You obviously didn't understand what I wrote. Your language is not understandable because it contains non-english and barbaric terms. Jus civile and Jus gentium are latin terms that you would use as a lawyer, I suppose. We are not in a court room and the term "precedent" does indeed apply. It shows the reader of the article that there is a pattern that is repeating itself. It doesn't matter to the court room but it does matter to the readers of the article.
(2) So that's a 2 year legal warranty. Apple does not make it clear what is covered for free (legal guarantee) and what is covered for the money you pay (commercial guarantee). The customers are mislead because they are not lawyers and they don't know what is legal and should come free with any device. Apple is using this ignorance to its advantage, which is wrong and probably not legal.
"stare decisis" is a legal term. "Precedent" is a common term. This article is not written for lawyers like you so you can not sue them over the use of the term. There is indeed a precedent in Italy because it happened before this, and the 3 years legal guarantee is European law. Each state can implement European law the way they want but they both have to implement it.
Freedom is a relative term. There is no absolute freedom.
Your freedom stops where the one of others begin. You can have freedom OF religion or freedom FROM religion but you cannot have both. You can have the Freedom to smoke in pubs or the freedom from smoke in pubs. You can be free to kill the one who walks on your garden or be free to walk or any garden.
And you can be free to put any restriction on software or have the freedom to use the software any way you want.
And, there is no Stallman world, he lives in the same world as you and me. And no, everyone do not have to do what Stallman thinks is "ethical". I don't know what makes you think that. What you are doing here is starting from the hypotheses that Stallman is a Tyrant to prove that Stallman is a Tyrant. You are confused about him, that is why you think he is a very confused person. Actually he is not confused at all.
Seriously, data being tranfered to a proxy server is the least of your security concerns when you can't read the documentation that comes with your phone or can't read a feature list before buying it.
This feature allows you to surf the internet on low bandwidth. There is no other option when you are on low bandwidth and people with low bandwidth and who know what a bandwidth and a proxy is expect it to be compressed via a proxy server. If you don't know how what is bandwidth or proxy, then you should ask your local techie or the man who sold you the phone.
Agreeing with someone and walking through the fire with him is totally different.
For instance, you can agree that using your car to go to work instead of walking is bad for the planet and yet take your car, because you are lazy. You can agree that buying cheap clothes from sweat shops is unethical and still buy them, because you are greedy. I'm the first to do it and have no problem admitting it.
You have a problem when you can not deal with your contradictions and think that being greedy and lazy is perfectly ethical, because you are lazy and greedy.
Nobody is perfect and it's not a perfect world but blinding yourself doesn't help.
The guy speacks the truth when he points out that some things are wrong. You still have to feed your familly and live a confortable life and nobody is blaming you for not walking with the man but please don't try to hide the truth.
Your point is quite valid but what the OP overlooked is that it is happening right now, not in the 1800s. The US government and US corporations are spying, right now on pretty much every other government and corporations. Not doing so would be pretty stupid anyway. The problem is not spying, it is when you are spied. When you are spying and get caught, just deny and move along... unless you are smaller than the entity you are spying, then you are in troubles. But when you are spied, that is a huge issue. Get as much media attention as you can and point the finger at your most hated competitor and make a big fuss about it. This is totally unacceptable.
Right, but you wouldn't have satellites, mobile phones and a lot of other stuff without spying. I know it feels bad to be on the receiving end of spying but really, until we live in a world where everybody freely exchange their information for the betterment of humanity, this is really necessary.
And so what? What are you trying to say? This guy didn't break into your house, did he?
Or are you trying to say that stealing is the same as infringing copyrights?
If so, then let me educate you. "Pirating" is not theft, it's copyright infringment. Totally different concepts.
- The fact that he is devoting a lot of time studying it.
- The fact that he is articulate.
- The number of people who agree with him.
You obviously don't agree with him but what he says is important because it is the opinion of millions of people articulated by him.
You don't have to agree with Benoit XVI or Aristote or Nietches and you can debate their ethics but saying that they don't qualify as experts is not enough, you have to understand what they say and make some counter arguments instead. Otherwise, your position is empty and you are the one full of rethoric.
I understand you are probably trolling but let me get some facts straight.
Yuo didn't "kindly let us use it", we decided to use it, because it was open and free. Nobody ever required the permission of anybody to use it.
Except Slashdot, every single website I visit on a regular basis comes from France. I'm not even using Google.com if you want to know, I have a local version of it.
It's not America's internet that we want to use, it's the global one. And we could not do that without the US or it would be a Global minus the US instead of a global internet. The US can not do that either. For your information there are alternatives to the ICANN, that are in use today. The rest of the world could very well decide to vote for another root domain and use it without US permission.
Come on, the Internet is not a thing "paid for, developed and a thriving platform", it's a fucking convention. It's a protocol, like a language if you prefer. It's not a "thing". There are several other network protocols and there has been several other protocols since way before the internet. In France we were surfing on transpac and X25 before we joined the internet. The world now uses the Internet, precisely because it is very simple and open. If you really wanted to call it your own, then have fun surfing on your own web site. If the British went around calling the English language their own, the world would juse use esperanto for good.
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With all respect, this is not a cap. Let's do some maths here.
If your stockpile of dollars increase by 5% a year, which is very conservative when you have billions of dollars, even when inflation is considered. Let's say a generation lasts 20 years. After 20 years, your extremely rich has 265% of the money he inherited, minus what they spent, which is negligible for the extremely rich. You tax it 40%. The next generation will be left with 160% of the money left by the grand father. This is very conservative. Anyway, the family (or should we call it a dynasty?) will still multiply its wealth forever, faster and faster.
Extremely rich people are a threat to democracy. If you don't take action they become richer and richer, faster and faster and end up controlling your nation. The risk would be greatly mitigated with a cap on inheritance for instance.
How do they write their contract?
Where I live, you have a contract if you take a subsidized phone. That means you get the phone for free and pay it over 2 years or so, therefore you have a 2 year contract and if you leave before the 2 years you have to pay for the full price of the phone and less after 1 year or so. They hold you because you rent a phone and have to pay it if you leave before you've paid it full.
But if you bring your own phone you can switch to another carrier whenever you want. What happens in the US when you leave? I can't understand how they can hold you. You have your phone. What do you have to pay if you leave?
If they stop subsidizing phones, they can't hold you with a long contract anymore. That is why the biggest (At&T) will be the last to do it and the smallest are the first. The biggest have more customers and have more sake in retaining their customer and more to loose with carrier mobility.
Will it's not just the keyboard, it's the hackability. For instance, you can apt-get a LAMP server on the N900 in a few minutes. You can ssh to your phone, forward the X port and run your apps on your desktop. The N900 is just like your proper desktop computer, but in your pocket.
What is Nexus4 missing?
The GNU toolchain, proper Qt, dbus, gtk...
The best phone in 2013 is from 2009. The N900 is still unmatched. In 2013, the N900 screen is crap, the CPU is a joke, it doesn't do LTE and it is still more useful than any other phone. I'm still waiting for a replacement with better spec but I don't see that coming in the near future. This phone is the Amiga of the 21th century. They can up all the specs in their phone, they won't match the N900 until a decade or more.
If the terrorists were even smarter, they could act lazy, just wait for an accident to happen and claim responsibility. It's even harder to catch them, and they don't have to leave their couch. Then they can make threats, wait a little more and claim the next one.
Well, the explosion propagates at the speed of sound, so abandoning the site is not an option. In Toulouse, the explosion occurred when 2 chemical products entered in contact (ammonium and nitrate if I'm not mistaken) It left a crater 200 meters wide. Although the biggest damage occurred near the factory, Steel girders were found 3km away, windows blown up 20 km away and the seismic activity was recorded in Paris (800 km away)
Fertilizers are extremely dangerous and should be handled with more care. A similar thing happened in my town 12 years ago. If was on 21/9/2001, so 10 days after 11/9/2001 and therefore nobody heard about it but it left some 30 people dead and a city in ruins. Look up AZF in Toulouse on the web to see what I'm talking about. They first blamed it on the terrorists and later admitted it was an industrial accident. Like in Texas, the AZF factory was build out of the town but the town grown and it found itself in the middle of it. Poor urban planning.
The Mac has exactly the same problem though.
The MPAA once again sued on irrational claims and their claim got rejected, of course.
We shouldn't talk about it or make articles about it on Slashdot. It should have been rejected silently. The more we talk about it, the more their claim becomes normal. The MPAA is taken more and more seriously, which is scary. It doesn't deserve all that publicity. Their plea should be ignored like the random pleas from mad people that happen all the time.
(1) You obviously didn't understand what I wrote. Your language is not understandable because it contains non-english and barbaric terms. Jus civile and Jus gentium are latin terms that you would use as a lawyer, I suppose. We are not in a court room and the term "precedent" does indeed apply. It shows the reader of the article that there is a pattern that is repeating itself. It doesn't matter to the court room but it does matter to the readers of the article.
(2) So that's a 2 year legal warranty. Apple does not make it clear what is covered for free (legal guarantee) and what is covered for the money you pay (commercial guarantee). The customers are mislead because they are not lawyers and they don't know what is legal and should come free with any device. Apple is using this ignorance to its advantage, which is wrong and probably not legal.
"stare decisis" is a legal term. "Precedent" is a common term. This article is not written for lawyers like you so you can not sue them over the use of the term. There is indeed a precedent in Italy because it happened before this, and the 3 years legal guarantee is European law. Each state can implement European law the way they want but they both have to implement it.
Freedom is a relative term. There is no absolute freedom. Your freedom stops where the one of others begin. You can have freedom OF religion or freedom FROM religion but you cannot have both. You can have the Freedom to smoke in pubs or the freedom from smoke in pubs. You can be free to kill the one who walks on your garden or be free to walk or any garden. And you can be free to put any restriction on software or have the freedom to use the software any way you want.
And, there is no Stallman world, he lives in the same world as you and me. And no, everyone do not have to do what Stallman thinks is "ethical". I don't know what makes you think that. What you are doing here is starting from the hypotheses that Stallman is a Tyrant to prove that Stallman is a Tyrant. You are confused about him, that is why you think he is a very confused person. Actually he is not confused at all.
I hope that clears some confusions up.
Seriously, data being tranfered to a proxy server is the least of your security concerns when you can't read the documentation that comes with your phone or can't read a feature list before buying it. This feature allows you to surf the internet on low bandwidth. There is no other option when you are on low bandwidth and people with low bandwidth and who know what a bandwidth and a proxy is expect it to be compressed via a proxy server. If you don't know how what is bandwidth or proxy, then you should ask your local techie or the man who sold you the phone.
Agreeing with someone and walking through the fire with him is totally different. For instance, you can agree that using your car to go to work instead of walking is bad for the planet and yet take your car, because you are lazy. You can agree that buying cheap clothes from sweat shops is unethical and still buy them, because you are greedy. I'm the first to do it and have no problem admitting it. You have a problem when you can not deal with your contradictions and think that being greedy and lazy is perfectly ethical, because you are lazy and greedy. Nobody is perfect and it's not a perfect world but blinding yourself doesn't help. The guy speacks the truth when he points out that some things are wrong. You still have to feed your familly and live a confortable life and nobody is blaming you for not walking with the man but please don't try to hide the truth.
Your point is quite valid but what the OP overlooked is that it is happening right now, not in the 1800s. The US government and US corporations are spying, right now on pretty much every other government and corporations. Not doing so would be pretty stupid anyway. The problem is not spying, it is when you are spied. When you are spying and get caught, just deny and move along ... unless you are smaller than the entity you are spying, then you are in troubles. But when you are spied, that is a huge issue. Get as much media attention as you can and point the finger at your most hated competitor and make a big fuss about it. This is totally unacceptable.
Right, but you wouldn't have satellites, mobile phones and a lot of other stuff without spying. I know it feels bad to be on the receiving end of spying but really, until we live in a world where everybody freely exchange their information for the betterment of humanity, this is really necessary.
And so what? What are you trying to say? This guy didn't break into your house, did he? Or are you trying to say that stealing is the same as infringing copyrights? If so, then let me educate you. "Pirating" is not theft, it's copyright infringment. Totally different concepts.
What qualifies Stallman as an expert on ethics?
- The fact that he is devoting a lot of time studying it. - The fact that he is articulate. - The number of people who agree with him. You obviously don't agree with him but what he says is important because it is the opinion of millions of people articulated by him. You don't have to agree with Benoit XVI or Aristote or Nietches and you can debate their ethics but saying that they don't qualify as experts is not enough, you have to understand what they say and make some counter arguments instead. Otherwise, your position is empty and you are the one full of rethoric.
100% agreed. THAT is a good argument. "It's our own" is a boggus argument and does not stand.
I understand you are probably trolling but let me get some facts straight. Yuo didn't "kindly let us use it", we decided to use it, because it was open and free. Nobody ever required the permission of anybody to use it. Except Slashdot, every single website I visit on a regular basis comes from France. I'm not even using Google.com if you want to know, I have a local version of it. It's not America's internet that we want to use, it's the global one. And we could not do that without the US or it would be a Global minus the US instead of a global internet. The US can not do that either. For your information there are alternatives to the ICANN, that are in use today. The rest of the world could very well decide to vote for another root domain and use it without US permission.
Come on, the Internet is not a thing "paid for, developed and a thriving platform", it's a fucking convention. It's a protocol, like a language if you prefer. It's not a "thing". There are several other network protocols and there has been several other protocols since way before the internet. In France we were surfing on transpac and X25 before we joined the internet. The world now uses the Internet, precisely because it is very simple and open. If you really wanted to call it your own, then have fun surfing on your own web site. If the British went around calling the English language their own, the world would juse use esperanto for good.