This is just another dumb move by stupid employers. Dilbert's boss outsourcing things he doesn't understand to people who don't know English and have no running water. Riiiiiight.
How can people in India honestly compete with us? I got a few Indian call centers before on the phone, it was really annoying trying to talk to them in English when they didn't know what I was saying either. All that did was annoy me and cost that company some money with no results.
The problem isn't outsourcing to India the problem is the dummies we have here at home who don't know how to run a company without running it into the ground.
You mean no reason to use the Walmart website. Not other retailers who don't have a business in every state.
But Walmart should still have a website so lazy ppl don't have to go there and shop. Shopping is boring. Who really wants to go shopping? The myth that women like to shop was created by retailers. Shopping sucks.
Wrong. If you are in the right state and you only have a business license for that one state then you can sell to anyone in any other state and not collect local state sales taxes. This is a savings to the buyer and you because you don't have to do that accounting.
It's different in every state.
For example: If I am in Colorado, I get a business license if I need one there. I sell stuff over the internet to people in California. I don't have to collect Colorado sales taxes on those sales. But if I sell to other people in Colorado I do have to collect sales taxes.
These are state taxes, which were due anyway.
If you have a business in a state, say Ohio, then you have to pay taxes on any sales you do in Ohio to Ohio residents (assuming Ohio has a state sales tax). Since Walmart and ToyRUs has business in pretty much all the states then they need to be tracking this. Any state you do business in, you have to have the licenses etc. to do business there if they require them. If you are licensed to do business there, then you pay taxes on stuff you sell to the residents of that state. Of course it is very different in every state. But Walmart should have known better.
They keep logs so they can see if anyone is looking.
But i agree all that personalization stuff is stupid. People come to the web for information.
If we asked your name, email address etc. everytime you walked into a real store you would never come back.
Oh give me a break. How are the ISP's supposed to filter your mail for you? What if they filter out the mail you want?
Spammers send out mail pretending to be other people...hello?
If it takes me an hour a day to delete all the spam then how is that not quantifiable? People don't have to throw away paper but they do have to throw away time.
Sounds like just another bunch of hype from greed-heads to me.
There is no way.pro is going to work. #1. Doctors don't want to be called a "pro" nor do lawyers. And even if they did, doctors and lawyers don't know anything but.com. And furthermore I don't think they care anywho.
Sign this company up with F*ckedCompany.com right now because it won't even get off the ground if you ask me.
If true theft were to take the fruits of collective human intellectual commons and pervert them into private property then capitalism itself would be impossible.
I couldn't even sell you an ear of corn because the corn was genetically modified over thousands of years by the American Indians.
The real question is - do we have to pay the American Indians a royalty every time we sell an ear of corn? If not, why not? Just because we don't want to? And they don't have the power to make us? Or is there some other reason?
That is why copyrights that last too long are harmful to our economy. Also the ridiculous ones that they have been handing out lately make a copyright a form of terrorism in business. Why should a drug company be able to copyright AIDS drugs? How can we monetarily ensure that companies who produce such things be rewarded? And rewarded in such a way that they are encouraged to make drugs or whatever that DO NOT require their continued involvement. I mean a CURE is much better than a REMEDY for the symptoms. But drug companies won't profit as much from actual cures. This is a problem and I see this sort of thing in the computer industry also with people wanting to sell services rather than solutions.
People should be encouraged to do things without a copyright especially when it is a new invention or breed of tomato or whatever. Somehow this needs to happen. Unfortunately good will doesn't pay the bills.
Why should Bill Gates be the richest man on earth and Linus Torvalds broke? (I don't know if he is or not but he could be for all I know.) The only real reason is because Gates still controls his product. Torvalds gave his away for free. And I would say that Torvalds is a better product especially considering the price.
Did you know the doctor who invented the small pox vaccine did it for the greater good? Apparently the medical community was too busy selling iron lungs to try to find a cure.
I think the best way to solve all of it is to encourage capitalism everywhere but there has to be a mix of capitalism and socialism. Either one exclusively and there are really big problems. And the best example of that is the sorry state of healthcare today. The doctors become doctors to make money not necessarily to help people.
And what you are advocating is pure socialism. It doesn't work. People won't work for the sake of working if they don't have to. Ask any Russian about the state of the services there before the collapse of the wall. If people know they have the next meal coming no matter what and that they won't get anything more than anyone else, this removes all ambition. People need competition to achieve. There has to be a winner.
Yes that makes sense. I guess the question that should be asked is, are you manufacturing more the item?
I mean if you give it away or sell it that should be fine. But if you are copying it and keeping the original and making MORE then that is theft.
So if I gave an e-book to someone else and removed it from my hard disk that should be okay.
Yes I would think it is fine to give it away, sell it or lend it, but not to COPY it. Just like money. I mean if you are making 100 copies then you are stealing. If you just give it to someone else it is still just 1.
So perhaps the way to think of this is - if you have something - an electronic book for instance and you lend it to someone are you creating more in numbers than you had before? If you take it off your computer completely and give it to them then that should not be theft in my book.
Bill Gates would like to charge you everytime you read the book though. Or evertime you access his software. This isn't going to work.
Bill Gates Quote: "Once you buy our software you have the ability to use if for free forever."
I think there would be less of a call for privacy if morality laws would be revoked.
Some states say you can only have sex in certain ways whether or not you are a consenting adult. I believe some states even outlaw homosexuality.
There are just too many really stupid and unenforceable laws out there for people to feel comfortable. For example: Why is it legal to pay someone to have sex on camera but illegal to pay someone to have sex with you unfilmed? Hmmm....
And the absurd war on drugs -- people would probably use less drugs if they were legal. The laws against drug use #1 assume that the citizens don't have the ability to use them intelligently and #2 force us to go to a doctor, even if we don't need or want to. I mean why should I go to a doctor to get medicine for things that are obvious? Example: head lice - uh hello, it's a bug and it's in my hair...duh.....if I can't read the outside of the box why would I be able to read my physicians handwriting???
Another problem with having no privacy is sales people. Just like Verio phoning up all the new clients in the DNS records, noone wants encyclopedia salesmen to know where they live or what their phone number is, etc. If we want to buy encyclopedias we'll call them.
And last but not least it is the power people can have over you. Mostly this is the government. I don't want the government to be able to profile me and others like me and make us the target of whatever. This wouldn't have to be just the government either it could be Jeffrey Dahmer or some other entity or individual.
There is just no way that I can see that less privacy would make American's more free. That's really impossible. Our privacy lets us speak out without fear of reprisals just like I am doing right now.
If I knew that everything I just wrote would be immediately forwarded to the FBI along with my name, and social security number, menses cycle, age, weight, color, financial status, dob, hair and eye color, copy of fingerprint, and the last 20 posts I did, last 100 web searches, & etc. Do you really think I would have written it?
I played this game once for 32 hours straight. It cured my addiction to games for quite some time. When I got off the computer, the room was spinning and I almost had to toss my cookies.
Well since they can, the fbi or nsa or whatever the heck they are (big brother), should just post the information on bomb making on the web. Then when people come to get it, they log the ip and give someone a special little phone call.
There are a lot more companies out there making silly decisions than their are companies making good decisions. Maybe the OpenSource software has nothing to do with their problems.
OpenSource is really just extending out computing power, it's like someone somewhere saying, "Okay I trust you to be intelligent enough to be able to change the programming if you want to."
Bill Gates should have known better that we are smart enough to change our own software.
Ozarks - fresh air
City - bad air that might kill me one day
Ozarks - make moonshine & sell moonshine to happy customers (give some away to the police to keep them happy too)
City - make programs on computer for irritable people who don't really understand what I do for a living
Ozarks - Work when I wake up until I don't feel like it anymore
City - work upon waking, and continue working until I fall into bed fast asleep at 4am.
Ozarks - live among natural surroundings with trees and birds and all that stuff.
City - live? I have to work!
I think the Ozarks idea sounds pretty good! You could probably afford a house in no time because you could wear ratty clothes and live in a tent too and nobody would care. You could even save on grocery money by eating roadkill.
Hmmm....now not everyone can do this or it won't work....
All you have to do to retain the rights is get a signed contract from the artist/photographer.
It is NOT ridiculous. People need to be protected or they will ALL end up like the early 50's pop stars. Famous without a penny to their name, and no way to make a dime of their life's work.
I would say it is more like leaving a door wide open on a busy street, inviting people to come inside and when they are there putting a pin on their lapel that says, My Name Is, My Browser Preference Is, I Looked in This Room Last, I went to X Before I Came Here. Etc.
If the people are going to come in and they don't want the lapel pin all they have to do is say no by turning off cookies in their browser.
Why don't they just outlaw people surfing on the Internet who don't know how to turn off cookies instead?
If they tell me I can't have cookies then that means I'll have to type in my username and password evertime to get my Yahoo mail?
God they are stupid. Why are they passing laws on things they don't understand? They apparently just know enough to be dangerous.
How about banning the spyware major corporations are putting out now instead? Oh, I know because the major corporations are above reproach right?
Spyware Info
Some of the companies putting out major spyware include:
Copernic
Real Player (but they claim they have stopped)
Norton
Macromedia
Netscape
Gator (one of the worst)
Comet Cursor (the worst, they also put a stupid cursor on your computer, sometimes against your will)
Cookies are not the problem. The real problem is Microsoft browser security holes and real spyware.
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This is just another dumb move by stupid employers. Dilbert's boss outsourcing things he doesn't understand to people who don't know English and have no running water. Riiiiiight.
How can people in India honestly compete with us? I got a few Indian call centers before on the phone, it was really annoying trying to talk to them in English when they didn't know what I was saying either. All that did was annoy me and cost that company some money with no results.
The problem isn't outsourcing to India the problem is the dummies we have here at home who don't know how to run a company without running it into the ground.
Hmmm...don't know what you mean here. Overhead on what? I think I was refering to something else.
If you can start a business just like thiers and compete with those jerks, maybe you can hire all their unhappy employees from them.
You mean no reason to use the Walmart website. Not other retailers who don't have a business in every state. But Walmart should still have a website so lazy ppl don't have to go there and shop. Shopping is boring. Who really wants to go shopping? The myth that women like to shop was created by retailers. Shopping sucks.
Wrong. If you are in the right state and you only have a business license for that one state then you can sell to anyone in any other state and not collect local state sales taxes. This is a savings to the buyer and you because you don't have to do that accounting. It's different in every state. For example: If I am in Colorado, I get a business license if I need one there. I sell stuff over the internet to people in California. I don't have to collect Colorado sales taxes on those sales. But if I sell to other people in Colorado I do have to collect sales taxes.
These are state taxes, which were due anyway. If you have a business in a state, say Ohio, then you have to pay taxes on any sales you do in Ohio to Ohio residents (assuming Ohio has a state sales tax). Since Walmart and ToyRUs has business in pretty much all the states then they need to be tracking this. Any state you do business in, you have to have the licenses etc. to do business there if they require them. If you are licensed to do business there, then you pay taxes on stuff you sell to the residents of that state. Of course it is very different in every state. But Walmart should have known better.
They keep logs so they can see if anyone is looking. But i agree all that personalization stuff is stupid. People come to the web for information. If we asked your name, email address etc. everytime you walked into a real store you would never come back.
Oh give me a break. How are the ISP's supposed to filter your mail for you? What if they filter out the mail you want? Spammers send out mail pretending to be other people...hello? If it takes me an hour a day to delete all the spam then how is that not quantifiable? People don't have to throw away paper but they do have to throw away time.
Yeah you don't know much about genetics do ya? Read a book.
Sounds like an advertisement for a Mac to me.
Sounds like just another bunch of hype from greed-heads to me.
.pro is going to work. #1. Doctors don't want to be called a "pro" nor do lawyers. And even if they did, doctors and lawyers don't know anything but .com. And furthermore I don't think they care anywho.
There is no way
Sign this company up with F*ckedCompany.com right now because it won't even get off the ground if you ask me.
Oh and ICANN sucks!
I couldn't even sell you an ear of corn because the corn was genetically modified over thousands of years by the American Indians.
The real question is - do we have to pay the American Indians a royalty every time we sell an ear of corn? If not, why not? Just because we don't want to? And they don't have the power to make us? Or is there some other reason?
That is why copyrights that last too long are harmful to our economy. Also the ridiculous ones that they have been handing out lately make a copyright a form of terrorism in business. Why should a drug company be able to copyright AIDS drugs? How can we monetarily ensure that companies who produce such things be rewarded? And rewarded in such a way that they are encouraged to make drugs or whatever that DO NOT require their continued involvement. I mean a CURE is much better than a REMEDY for the symptoms. But drug companies won't profit as much from actual cures. This is a problem and I see this sort of thing in the computer industry also with people wanting to sell services rather than solutions.
People should be encouraged to do things without a copyright especially when it is a new invention or breed of tomato or whatever. Somehow this needs to happen. Unfortunately good will doesn't pay the bills.
Why should Bill Gates be the richest man on earth and Linus Torvalds broke? (I don't know if he is or not but he could be for all I know.) The only real reason is because Gates still controls his product. Torvalds gave his away for free. And I would say that Torvalds is a better product especially considering the price.
Did you know the doctor who invented the small pox vaccine did it for the greater good? Apparently the medical community was too busy selling iron lungs to try to find a cure.
I think the best way to solve all of it is to encourage capitalism everywhere but there has to be a mix of capitalism and socialism. Either one exclusively and there are really big problems. And the best example of that is the sorry state of healthcare today. The doctors become doctors to make money not necessarily to help people.
And what you are advocating is pure socialism. It doesn't work. People won't work for the sake of working if they don't have to. Ask any Russian about the state of the services there before the collapse of the wall. If people know they have the next meal coming no matter what and that they won't get anything more than anyone else, this removes all ambition. People need competition to achieve. There has to be a winner.
Yes that makes sense. I guess the question that should be asked is, are you manufacturing more the item? I mean if you give it away or sell it that should be fine. But if you are copying it and keeping the original and making MORE then that is theft. So if I gave an e-book to someone else and removed it from my hard disk that should be okay.
Yes I would think it is fine to give it away, sell it or lend it, but not to COPY it. Just like money. I mean if you are making 100 copies then you are stealing. If you just give it to someone else it is still just 1.
So perhaps the way to think of this is - if you have something - an electronic book for instance and you lend it to someone are you creating more in numbers than you had before? If you take it off your computer completely and give it to them then that should not be theft in my book.
Bill Gates would like to charge you everytime you read the book though. Or evertime you access his software. This isn't going to work.
Bill Gates Quote: "Once you buy our software you have the ability to use if for free forever."
(Like we would want to!)
I think there would be less of a call for privacy if morality laws would be revoked.
Some states say you can only have sex in certain ways whether or not you are a consenting adult. I believe some states even outlaw homosexuality.
There are just too many really stupid and unenforceable laws out there for people to feel comfortable. For example: Why is it legal to pay someone to have sex on camera but illegal to pay someone to have sex with you unfilmed? Hmmm....
And the absurd war on drugs -- people would probably use less drugs if they were legal. The laws against drug use #1 assume that the citizens don't have the ability to use them intelligently and #2 force us to go to a doctor, even if we don't need or want to. I mean why should I go to a doctor to get medicine for things that are obvious? Example: head lice - uh hello, it's a bug and it's in my hair...duh.....if I can't read the outside of the box why would I be able to read my physicians handwriting???
Another problem with having no privacy is sales people. Just like Verio phoning up all the new clients in the DNS records, noone wants encyclopedia salesmen to know where they live or what their phone number is, etc. If we want to buy encyclopedias we'll call them.
And last but not least it is the power people can have over you. Mostly this is the government. I don't want the government to be able to profile me and others like me and make us the target of whatever. This wouldn't have to be just the government either it could be Jeffrey Dahmer or some other entity or individual.
There is just no way that I can see that less privacy would make American's more free. That's really impossible. Our privacy lets us speak out without fear of reprisals just like I am doing right now.
If I knew that everything I just wrote would be immediately forwarded to the FBI along with my name, and social security number, menses cycle, age, weight, color, financial status, dob, hair and eye color, copy of fingerprint, and the last 20 posts I did, last 100 web searches, & etc. Do you really think I would have written it?
I played this game once for 32 hours straight. It cured my addiction to games for quite some time. When I got off the computer, the room was spinning and I almost had to toss my cookies.
Well since they can, the fbi or nsa or whatever the heck they are (big brother), should just post the information on bomb making on the web. Then when people come to get it, they log the ip and give someone a special little phone call.
I'm sure they already do this anyway.
Oh yeah right they are terrified of you learning MORE than what they are teaching, not of you friggin up their computers...nope.
But personally I wouldn't mind living in the ozarks and having a good internet connection....
OpenSource is really just extending out computing power, it's like someone somewhere saying, "Okay I trust you to be intelligent enough to be able to change the programming if you want to."
Bill Gates should have known better that we are smart enough to change our own software.
Ozarks - fresh air City - bad air that might kill me one day
Ozarks - make moonshine & sell moonshine to happy customers (give some away to the police to keep them happy too) City - make programs on computer for irritable people who don't really understand what I do for a living
Ozarks - Work when I wake up until I don't feel like it anymore City - work upon waking, and continue working until I fall into bed fast asleep at 4am.
Ozarks - live among natural surroundings with trees and birds and all that stuff. City - live? I have to work!
I think the Ozarks idea sounds pretty good! You could probably afford a house in no time because you could wear ratty clothes and live in a tent too and nobody would care. You could even save on grocery money by eating roadkill.
Hmmm....now not everyone can do this or it won't work....
I wouldn't sign it unless it was a really big company and they paid me a really good salary.
All you have to do to retain the rights is get a signed contract from the artist/photographer.
It is NOT ridiculous. People need to be protected or they will ALL end up like the early 50's pop stars. Famous without a penny to their name, and no way to make a dime of their life's work.
If the people are going to come in and they don't want the lapel pin all they have to do is say no by turning off cookies in their browser.
Why don't they just outlaw people surfing on the Internet who don't know how to turn off cookies instead?
God they are stupid. Why are they passing laws on things they don't understand? They apparently just know enough to be dangerous.
How about banning the spyware major corporations are putting out now instead? Oh, I know because the major corporations are above reproach right? Spyware Info
Some of the companies putting out major spyware include:
Copernic
Real Player (but they claim they have stopped)
Norton
Macromedia
Netscape
Gator (one of the worst)
Comet Cursor (the worst, they also put a stupid cursor on your computer, sometimes against your will)
Cookies are not the problem. The real problem is Microsoft browser security holes and real spyware.