5. Sell your user list to spam agencies. (Note: Spam begets spam, so this is an exponential increase. And notice how you conveniently let them screw themselves over.)
6. Hire some lawyers.
7. Reap the millions! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Learnin' from each other's knowin,
>so, which of the countries are entitled to duty? we are downloading from england to england, but the data is going to AOL's US server enroute
I doubt it matters which countries are entitled to the duty, but moreso which ones are going to take it anyway. Rules for all that will be banged out as each country pleases. Enforcement may be difficult (I mean, how DOES America expect to be able to track my purchase of prOn from Amsterdam?) but if America wanted some money from that transaction, America would find a way to take my money.
To say that a product/service distrubuted via the internet is any different than a product/service distributed by any other means is wrong anyway. If you would like to propose that all import/export taxation be lifted, then you could begin an arguement for this, but A) that's not gonna happen any time soon and B) I don't know if that is the right thing to do anyway. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -=- Learnin' from each other's knowin,
I'd always envisioned that when I "grew up" and became a serious coder (I'm still not there yet) then it would be a great idea to torture the world with a virus sort of based on the principles of this interface.
Instead of processes though, you'd have files representing monsters and folders representing the rooms they were in. When you killed the monster, the corresponding file was deleted. You complete a level, and it just gets rid of the folder as well.
Bigger files got to be bigger monsters, and files that were in use would be stored in rooms many levels away (it just wouldn't due to have a user deleting the virus itself or the OS when there was plenty of other important stuff to kill).
Finally there's the big showdown with NTOSKRNL.EXE and by this time if you die you're screwed and if you win then you're doubly so.:)
I know, I'll build it and call it a system format utility! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=- Learnin' from each other's knowin,
I have an Aerospace Engineering Friend who's senior project was to work on a team and research this sort of thing for NASA. He told me about it, and sort of scoffed at the idea because of some of it's prohibitive factors. To power Houston lets say, I believe it was going to take a solar array 1 kilometer long and 700 meters wide. This would require 1750 launches to get all this equipment into space. The costs for all this are of course astronimical. And then there's maintaining this array with chips of paint and such space degree zooming around at a few thousand miles per hour. Of course, I don't know where these robots came from, and his project was completed over a year ago, so maybe the solar cell technology has gotten a lot better while I wasn't paying attention.
I saw the midnight showing here in Austin, and there were plenty of seats empty. But then, the movie was probably showing simultaneously on 50+ screens around town, and this wasn't the best theatre to see it in.
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1. Get some investment capital.
2. Move to Colorado.
3. Start an ISP.
4. Get a sizable naieve user base.
5. Sell your user list to spam agencies.
(Note: Spam begets spam, so this is an exponential increase.
And notice how you conveniently let them screw themselves over.)
6. Hire some lawyers.
7. Reap the millions!
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Learnin' from each other's knowin,
I doubt it matters which countries are entitled to the duty, but moreso which ones are going to take it anyway. Rules for all that will be banged out as each country pleases. Enforcement may be difficult (I mean, how DOES America expect to be able to track my purchase of prOn from Amsterdam?) but if America wanted some money from that transaction, America would find a way to take my money.
To say that a product/service distrubuted via the internet is any different than a product/service distributed by any other means is wrong anyway. If you would like to propose that all import/export taxation be lifted, then you could begin an arguement for this, but A) that's not gonna happen any time soon and B) I don't know if that is the right thing to do anyway.= -=-
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Learnin' from each other's knowin,
I'd always envisioned that when I "grew up" and became a serious coder (I'm still not there yet) then it would be a great idea to torture the world with a virus sort of based on the principles of this interface.
Instead of processes though, you'd have files representing monsters and folders representing the rooms they were in. When you killed the monster, the corresponding file was deleted. You complete a level, and it just gets rid of the folder as well.
Bigger files got to be bigger monsters, and files that were in use would be stored in rooms many levels away (it just wouldn't due to have a user deleting the virus itself or the OS when there was plenty of other important stuff to kill).
Finally there's the big showdown with NTOSKRNL.EXE and by this time if you die you're screwed and if you win then you're doubly so. :)
I know, I'll build it and call it a system format utility!- =-=-
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Learnin' from each other's knowin,
I have an Aerospace Engineering Friend who's senior project was to work on a team and research this sort of thing for NASA. He told me about it, and sort of scoffed at the idea because of some of it's prohibitive factors. To power Houston lets say, I believe it was going to take a solar array 1 kilometer long and 700 meters wide. This would require 1750 launches to get all this equipment into space. The costs for all this are of course astronimical. And then there's maintaining this array with chips of paint and such space degree zooming around at a few thousand miles per hour. Of course, I don't know where these robots came from, and his project was completed over a year ago, so maybe the solar cell technology has gotten a lot better while I wasn't paying attention.
I saw the midnight showing here in Austin, and there were plenty of seats empty. But then, the movie was probably showing simultaneously on 50+ screens around town, and this wasn't the best theatre to see it in.