Since ICANN doesn't seem to be very good at "stabilizing" the Internet as they were supposed to be doing can't someone sue them for allowing this to go on?
ICANN was set up to oversee all the registrars but it seems they are just allowing Verisign to get away with whatever it wants to.
I've had Verisign attempt to hijack domains by pretending they didn't receive payments, I had them actually take domains claiming they were unpaid for when they were, I've had them steal my own domain name, transfer it to another of thier companies and then resell it to me for $1,200.
Can't ICANN be held responsible for what they are allowing Verisign to get away with?
I think people need more education in order to profit from the new technology. So maybe more educational software out there would be a good thing for those programmers to work on instead.
I always wondered why I can find about 23 different CDROM's for kids to learn how to read and 0 for teaching myself C++. Or how about a step by step "start your own business" software?"
I don't think creating bogus jobs is the correct answer. I think educating people for the jobs that need them is the better answer. There are shortages of nurses. Put out some educational nurse software and offer it for free. "How to become a nurse in 3 years or something."
If you had read the article you would have seen that they are only trying put more effort into collecting the taxes already due.
If you have a business license and live in, say, Illinois, then when you sell something via email or mail order to someone in Illinois, then you have to collect Illinois sales tax.
Walmart in the past was not paying the states sales taxes they should have been collecting from thier website. Walmart should be charging sales tax on every purchase because they have a store in every state.
That's what the article was about was collecting those taxes from stores that should be collecting them anyway for the sales done within their home states.
>Why should the sales taxes be different for orders
>placed by telephone versus ones placed by HTTP?
>What f-ing difference does it make?
There is no difference. If you order mail order from out of state there are no state taxes charged on that either. So this would affect all mail order stores too. It would really hurt the US economy because stores like Amazon could move their headquarters out of the country.
Well for your information Oprah grew up a poor black girl.
I don't care what advantages Bill Gates had. I could give you those same advantages and you would probably be bagging groceries for a living.
America is NOT the most stressful, competitive or difficult country to live in because I've been there, done that. You should try going to a place where people have to compete over even fewer resources and they have bad infrastructure to boot,(get it, to boot...hehe). But seriously, you can't work if you have no power can you? Or you can't work if you have to go and stand in line for 3 hours just to get a loaf of bread can you? How would you like to wake up in the morning and have a war going on? Or maybe you can't work because the local dictator doesn't want you to, he wants your job to go to one of his friends? Or maybe you can't work because you just got some weird disease and are ill and have to travel to try and find a doctor? Or maybe you can't work because you got gunned down by the local police or other gangster who you made mad by being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Or maybe you can't work because you are so hungry? Or maybe you are uneducated and can't read?
These are the sorts of obstacles that people in third world countries have to face every single day, and you don't. Take a prozac and be happy dude.
Actually I think the last time I bought a CD I was rather disappointed with the price and the music, that was about 4 years ago.
If I want music I generally download something from mp3.com for free and if I were so inclined I would buy a cd from there.
Maybe RIAA suing the kids will give the kids a good lesson. That lesson is: "The music you are listening to is a cash product and it's all about money, you are just a cog in our wheel."
That's a lesson I never had to face when I was buying albums. If I had I probably would have lost interest.
Until Spinal Tap came along noone I know really faced that fact that the rock music scene was just a bunch of stupid people making so-so music.
You personally do not get to decide who is an artist, okay?
If I say, "I'm an artist. I make statues out of mashed potatos." then I'm an artist.
Whether you think my art is crap or not doesn't matter.
Britany Spears driving force might be money, or it could be baring her belly button. It doesn't matter. She's put herself out as an artist so she is one. Whether or not you personally think she is any good is beside the point entirely. And you still don't have the right to take her work for free.
I'm sure Leonardo daVinci created a few paintings for money. It didn't make him less of an artist.
Gee, if all the other business' in the world started this sort of practice we would all be getting bogus bills for all sorts of things.
Cable TV bills for people who don't have cable, Book of the Month bills, etc.
Why can these people get away with this when I know if I were to do the same thing I would get smacked down pretty darn quick? How can they continue these practices that are just downright illegal?
I've had to fight for at least 5 or 6 customers who they tried to steal their domain names. They actually did steal one of mine, and then transfered it to one of their other companies and then sold it back to me for $1,200. And they hire these people in India to answer their phones so it seems like they are just incompetent but they aren't. They know exactly what they are doing. What a bunch of creeps they are.
I guess some people will just do anything for money.
I would have to say that as far as companies I hate this company would have to be #1. So anyone that sues them is doing a public service if you ask me.
Yeah like Bill Gates & Oprah - they were just born rich?
As for you, you are a spoiled brat! Go live in Bangladesh and you come back on here and tell us you have no advantage!
American's really have NO idea what the rest of the world is like. All you can do is get on here and complain that you aren't as rich as these super-rich people? Instead of whining on here because you aren't a Kennedy why don't you change your name to Kennedy and see if that helps? Or maybe you could just stop whining and start your own company and see if you really believe Bill Gates got where he is today by whining that his last name wasn't Kennedy.
This pedestal type thinking about how an artist doesn't want money is laughable. Do you like starving? Most people don't. And artists are people so they do what they make money at too.
I do believe Britney Spears is an artist, I'm sure she sees herself as one also.
There is no distinction between bad or good artist here...either you are or you aren't an artist. And simply saying, "I'm an artist" puts you in the "artist" category.
In the world you envision I never would have heard of the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Nirvana, Pablo Casales or Isak Perlman. Doesn't seem like progress to me.
If copyright laws were removed there would be a lot more fast food workers, that's for sure.
Muscians don't have a right to make a living? So does that mean anything you can copy should be your right to do so? How about movies. If noone ever paid for another movie and just downloaded them what would happen to the movie industry?
Ever seen British tv? That's what it looks like to have no budget.
Travelling minstrels? No thanks I'ld rather have real music produced in a studio and all that.
You guys are nuking futs. What you basically are advocating is anarchy.
I don't like the RIAA but I do believe that artists have a right to be paid for their work. Programmers too for that matter. If they agree to sell their work to the RIAA that is their business and their right to do so or not to do so is thiers.
All this is just you trying to feel right about stealing from the artist who created the thing you want.
And hey if you think like this why don't you create your own music to listen to. Who needs artists at all? Anyone can write a song, right?
Because that would be the intelligent thing to do. Instead they would rather alienate all the people with half a brain interested in their product.
I don't agree with stealing music but these people at RIAA are just idiots. It's ludicrous that they can't seem to make enough money and are blaming it on the downloaders. The real reason they can't make enough money is because they are morons and can't figure out how to sell their products in a changing and evolving marketplace.
Also they can't sell as much because they seem to be targetting thier music to the kind of people who end up in jail. So their consumers go to jail and whoops! Can't sell him anymore angry rap CD's. Duh.
In conclusion: The RIAA is made up of bad people who aren't too smart.
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Or get one of those vacuum robots.
ICANN was set up to oversee all the registrars but it seems they are just allowing Verisign to get away with whatever it wants to.
I've had Verisign attempt to hijack domains by pretending they didn't receive payments, I had them actually take domains claiming they were unpaid for when they were, I've had them steal my own domain name, transfer it to another of thier companies and then resell it to me for $1,200.
Can't ICANN be held responsible for what they are allowing Verisign to get away with?
No he was probably one of those guys here from Russia or Monrovia on one of those work visas. He probably thought it was Gogol.com.
Just what we need, evil dictators who want to learn how to code.
I think people need more education in order to profit from the new technology. So maybe more educational software out there would be a good thing for those programmers to work on instead.
I always wondered why I can find about 23 different CDROM's for kids to learn how to read and 0 for teaching myself C++. Or how about a step by step "start your own business" software?"
I don't think creating bogus jobs is the correct answer. I think educating people for the jobs that need them is the better answer. There are shortages of nurses. Put out some educational nurse software and offer it for free. "How to become a nurse in 3 years or something."
If you have a business license and live in, say, Illinois, then when you sell something via email or mail order to someone in Illinois, then you have to collect Illinois sales tax.
Walmart in the past was not paying the states sales taxes they should have been collecting from thier website. Walmart should be charging sales tax on every purchase because they have a store in every state.
That's what the article was about was collecting those taxes from stores that should be collecting them anyway for the sales done within their home states.
>placed by telephone versus ones placed by HTTP?
>What f-ing difference does it make?
There is no difference. If you order mail order from out of state there are no state taxes charged on that either. So this would affect all mail order stores too. It would really hurt the US economy because stores like Amazon could move their headquarters out of the country.
Well if the super models are any clue it also leads to diminished brain function.
I agree after being in Hurricane Marilyn in the Caribbean this is nothing.
I don't care what advantages Bill Gates had. I could give you those same advantages and you would probably be bagging groceries for a living.
America is NOT the most stressful, competitive or difficult country to live in because I've been there, done that. You should try going to a place where people have to compete over even fewer resources and they have bad infrastructure to boot,(get it, to boot...hehe). But seriously, you can't work if you have no power can you? Or you can't work if you have to go and stand in line for 3 hours just to get a loaf of bread can you? How would you like to wake up in the morning and have a war going on? Or maybe you can't work because the local dictator doesn't want you to, he wants your job to go to one of his friends? Or maybe you can't work because you just got some weird disease and are ill and have to travel to try and find a doctor? Or maybe you can't work because you got gunned down by the local police or other gangster who you made mad by being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Or maybe you can't work because you are so hungry? Or maybe you are uneducated and can't read?
These are the sorts of obstacles that people in third world countries have to face every single day, and you don't. Take a prozac and be happy dude.
Maybe the RIAA is thinking, "any publicity is good publicity" and that is why they are suing kids and old people.
If I want music I generally download something from mp3.com for free and if I were so inclined I would buy a cd from there.
Maybe RIAA suing the kids will give the kids a good lesson. That lesson is: "The music you are listening to is a cash product and it's all about money, you are just a cog in our wheel."
That's a lesson I never had to face when I was buying albums. If I had I probably would have lost interest.
Until Spinal Tap came along noone I know really faced that fact that the rock music scene was just a bunch of stupid people making so-so music.
You personally do not get to decide who is an artist, okay?
If I say, "I'm an artist. I make statues out of mashed potatos." then I'm an artist.
Whether you think my art is crap or not doesn't matter.
Britany Spears driving force might be money, or it could be baring her belly button. It doesn't matter. She's put herself out as an artist so she is one. Whether or not you personally think she is any good is beside the point entirely. And you still don't have the right to take her work for free.
I'm sure Leonardo daVinci created a few paintings for money. It didn't make him less of an artist.
Cable TV bills for people who don't have cable, Book of the Month bills, etc.
Why can these people get away with this when I know if I were to do the same thing I would get smacked down pretty darn quick? How can they continue these practices that are just downright illegal?
I've had to fight for at least 5 or 6 customers who they tried to steal their domain names. They actually did steal one of mine, and then transfered it to one of their other companies and then sold it back to me for $1,200. And they hire these people in India to answer their phones so it seems like they are just incompetent but they aren't. They know exactly what they are doing. What a bunch of creeps they are.
I guess some people will just do anything for money.
I would have to say that as far as companies I hate this company would have to be #1. So anyone that sues them is doing a public service if you ask me.
Yeah and if Bill Gates is stealing then how come I'm using his operating system right now? Hello???
As for you, you are a spoiled brat! Go live in Bangladesh and you come back on here and tell us you have no advantage!
American's really have NO idea what the rest of the world is like. All you can do is get on here and complain that you aren't as rich as these super-rich people? Instead of whining on here because you aren't a Kennedy why don't you change your name to Kennedy and see if that helps? Or maybe you could just stop whining and start your own company and see if you really believe Bill Gates got where he is today by whining that his last name wasn't Kennedy.
This pedestal type thinking about how an artist doesn't want money is laughable. Do you like starving? Most people don't. And artists are people so they do what they make money at too.
I do believe Britney Spears is an artist, I'm sure she sees herself as one also.
There is no distinction between bad or good artist here...either you are or you aren't an artist. And simply saying, "I'm an artist" puts you in the "artist" category.
In the world you envision I never would have heard of the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Nirvana, Pablo Casales or Isak Perlman. Doesn't seem like progress to me.
If copyright laws were removed there would be a lot more fast food workers, that's for sure.
I'm willing to listen to the argument against copyright but I don't see a better idea in it's place.
Ever seen British tv? That's what it looks like to have no budget.
Travelling minstrels? No thanks I'ld rather have real music produced in a studio and all that.
You guys are nuking futs. What you basically are advocating is anarchy.
I don't like the RIAA but I do believe that artists have a right to be paid for their work. Programmers too for that matter. If they agree to sell their work to the RIAA that is their business and their right to do so or not to do so is thiers.
All this is just you trying to feel right about stealing from the artist who created the thing you want.
And hey if you think like this why don't you create your own music to listen to. Who needs artists at all? Anyone can write a song, right?
I don't agree with stealing music but these people at RIAA are just idiots. It's ludicrous that they can't seem to make enough money and are blaming it on the downloaders. The real reason they can't make enough money is because they are morons and can't figure out how to sell their products in a changing and evolving marketplace.
Also they can't sell as much because they seem to be targetting thier music to the kind of people who end up in jail. So their consumers go to jail and whoops! Can't sell him anymore angry rap CD's. Duh.
In conclusion: The RIAA is made up of bad people who aren't too smart.
Oh well, you can't blame them for trying. lol
I think the nationwide salary survey results report has out lived it's usefulness.
They only have that view of humanity because that's how they are. They do what they can to get what they want. Too bad they are so stupid.