This is a good idea. At one time having internet purchases be tax free was a good incentive for business to buy into this new fangled world wide web thingy. Now it is time for the web to start playing by the rules and paying its dues.
Taking it a step further, taxing internet purchases is also part of the Fair Tax - a much better idea, imho, as this is just one small part of a much bigger plan.
"U.S. Insists On Keeping Control Of Internet" Sure, that's one way to put it. Another way would be to say : U.S. Insists On Keeping Internet out of the hands of corruptpetty goons
if I didn't screw up occasionally, a lot of angry readers would have no other way to vent their rage in a safe environment. Replace "readers" with "citizens" and this sounds like an awesome way to start out the next State of the Union speech...
How exactly are you going to produce electoral reform when most of the apparatus needed to reform it is completely dominated by two parties who have no motivation to allow a 3rd party to gain viability.
There are many reasons why the vast majority registered voters in the USA are registered with either Democrat or Republican, political complacency and intellectual laziness not being the only ones. And the shortcomings of the 2 party system are not as obvious to them as it is to those in a 3rd party.
When it becomes more obvious, when the outrages of politics become greater than the desire to remain in "one-or-other", then change should occur. (However, seeing how bad it is in other places, it may have to get much much worse here before things change.)
a- the original article summary didn't mention an mp3 player. ("Creative Zens"? WTF's a Creative Zens? Who cares?!) I didn't give it a second glance and didn't know it was a dupe till just now
b- the original article summary didn't mention serial numbers- NOR did the articles pointed to- this is very useful and important info. But yeah, that info should have been put in as a reply to the original post, just as the orinal post should have been clearer.
ScuttleMonkey- you're not as bad as Zonk, but you're still a bad monkey.
Haha! You got marked Flamebait for posting a non-liberal, albeit calm and rational viewpoint. Pwned! Dude, don't you know where you are? Here watch this:
I'm with the Bureau of Analytical Design & Heuristical Analysis Coding for Known Extensions & Requirements, and I deamand you hand over to me that list of most vulnerable servers immediately... for security inspections purposes... or something... yeah.
Compare MS image of Campbell Middle School with that of GoogleMaps Exact same image - cars parked in the same place (had to zoom in pretty close with Google Earth to confirm this) except MS's version is a little clearer.
Internet Security and the Threshold of Pain How bad do things need to get for organizations to be willing to switch to IPv6? Very, says Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe, who nonetheless believes that the time has come.
Bob Metcalfe [Polaris Ventures] | POSTED: 07.17.05 @08:20 AlwaysOn: I want to talk about open source. Our view is that open source is a metaphor for a lot of things. And it's all because Metcalfe's Law is finally coming into full bloom--because everything's on the network. Community is becoming really important, and people are sharing and uploading everything from photographs to blog posts. What are your thoughts in this area?
Bob Metcalfe: I'd like to point out that two major pieces of infrastructure were left out of the Internet when it was being built--largely because it was built by graduate students (and people like graduate students). They left out security and economics. So we have the spam problem (which can be traced directly to the lack of concern for security), and we have IP rules that are in flux because the Internet doesn't have the right tools for monetizing various activities. So we're busily trying to put security and economics into the Internet.
This is a little bit counter to the open-source mentality. You have to be careful, however, because open source isn't one group. There are a bunch of different, contending open-source groups. For example, the free-software people shouldn't be confused with everybody else in open source.
I think the problem with open source is that it doesn't quite have its economics worked out. There need to be ways to own things. Private property is a great technology; it's probably one of the major tools the West has. By granting private property to people, you stimulate economic growth. And I think the same thing applies to software. So open source will have to figure out how to get monetized to protect property over time.
If you look at Windows and Linux, both are based on 25-year-old technology. Windows is sort of a GUI version of the Mac's operating system, and Linux is of course Unix, which stems from 1968. These are both old clunkers. So the question is, Where are the new operating systems likely to come from? And will that OS come from the modern software corporation (of which Microsoft is the epitome), or will it spring out of some open-source initiative at some university somewhere? My bet is that the modern U.S. corporation--like Microsoft but not Microsoft in particular--is much more likely to come out with this new OS than a loosely coordinated band of volunteers in the open-source community.
AlwaysOn: Because?
Metcalfe: Because modern software corporations know how to align the interests of the people. They know how to motivate people. They know how to sustain themselves over a long period of time, whereas I'm suspicious about the motivational structure of an open-source community and wonder whether it's sustainable.
I'm thinking of investing in a company that sells software, and its competitors are open source. I've been speaking to the company's customers and asking them why they'd buy this software instead of just taking the open source. Their answer: 'We don't want to learn about the software, and we need it serviced and supported, so we're going to buy it from this company instead of taking it free from the open-source community.'
In that case, it's the motivation of customers. A little earlier I was talking about the motivation of employees: How companies pay people and what they offer in terms of stock options, management structures, performance reviews, and all of that people technology we associate with modern corporations.
AlwaysOn: You're the perfect person to ask a question I've been wondering about for a decade--and which goes back to your point about security and why IPv6 hasn't been adopted. It seems to me that protocol-level changes, IETF changes could actually resolve some of this question--something like a nonspoofable header origination packet, so
This really is too cool. I mean that- the coolness of this is a problem. I open a browser with my personlised google, and bam, the news, weather and other interesting info makes me forget what I was gonna search for.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes.
Well maybe...
No.
I dunno...
Yes.
You mean Hong Kong, China? Wow, imagine that, internet restrictions happening there. Must be indicative of future trends worldwide...
1- The website being discussed: Pandora
2- While free and very cool, this service is only free for the first 10 hrs
do as Romans do.
When you visit the HBO HQ, poison an HBO exec.
This is a good idea. At one time having internet purchases be tax free was a good incentive for business to buy into this new fangled world wide web thingy. Now it is time for the web to start playing by the rules and paying its dues.
Taking it a step further, taxing internet purchases is also part of the Fair Tax - a much better idea, imho, as this is just one small part of a much bigger plan.
"U.S. Insists On Keeping Control Of Internet"
Sure, that's one way to put it. Another way would be to say :
U.S. Insists On Keeping Internet out of the hands of corrupt petty goons
if I didn't screw up occasionally, a lot of angry readers would have no other way to vent their rage in a safe environment.
Replace "readers" with "citizens" and this sounds like an awesome way to start out the next State of the Union speech...
They're giving it away for free now? Damnit! And here I was gonna start selling those registration codes they were temporarily giving away.
It's buboes, not bubons
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How exactly are you going to produce electoral reform when most of the apparatus needed to reform it is completely dominated by two parties who have no motivation to allow a 3rd party to gain viability.
There are many reasons why the vast majority registered voters in the USA are registered with either Democrat or Republican, political complacency and intellectual laziness not being the only ones. And the shortcomings of the 2 party system are not as obvious to them as it is to those in a 3rd party.
When it becomes more obvious, when the outrages of politics become greater than the desire to remain in "one-or-other", then change should occur. (However, seeing how bad it is in other places, it may have to get much much worse here before things change.)
Pcitures? Probably:
it presents a greater amount of hard data than I have ever seen on this topic before.
Huh-huh huh-huh, hard...
affects players with serial numbers between 1230528000001 and 1230533001680
Is that inclusive?
OK, yeah, it's a dupe, but
a- the original article summary didn't mention an mp3 player. ("Creative Zens"? WTF's a Creative Zens? Who cares?!) I didn't give it a second glance and didn't know it was a dupe till just now
b- the original article summary didn't mention serial numbers- NOR did the articles pointed to- this is very useful and important info. But yeah, that info should have been put in as a reply to the original post, just as the orinal post should have been clearer.
ScuttleMonkey- you're not as bad as Zonk, but you're still a bad monkey.
Haha! You got marked Flamebait for posting a non-liberal, albeit calm and rational viewpoint. Pwned!
Dude, don't you know where you are?
Here watch this:
ROB FROM THE RICH, GIVE TO TO THE POOR!
Bizzam- instant +5 insightful
I'm with the Bureau of Analytical Design & Heuristical Analysis Coding for Known Extensions & Requirements, and I deamand you hand over to me that list of most vulnerable servers immediately... for security inspections purposes... or something... yeah.
---
Karma is bullshit without reasons
Yo this is so fresh dope. Maybe now they can put this to some g funk happening beat, foo.
Compare MS image of Campbell Middle School with that of GoogleMaps
Exact same image - cars parked in the same place (had to zoom in pretty close with Google Earth to confirm this) except MS's version is a little clearer.
Internet Security and the Threshold of Pain
How bad do things need to get for organizations to be willing to switch to IPv6? Very, says Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe, who nonetheless believes that the time has come.
Bob Metcalfe [Polaris Ventures] | POSTED: 07.17.05 @08:20
AlwaysOn: I want to talk about open source. Our view is that open source is a metaphor for a lot of things. And it's all because Metcalfe's Law is finally coming into full bloom--because everything's on the network. Community is becoming really important, and people are sharing and uploading everything from photographs to blog posts. What are your thoughts in this area?
Bob Metcalfe: I'd like to point out that two major pieces of infrastructure were left out of the Internet when it was being built--largely because it was built by graduate students (and people like graduate students). They left out security and economics. So we have the spam problem (which can be traced directly to the lack of concern for security), and we have IP rules that are in flux because the Internet doesn't have the right tools for monetizing various activities. So we're busily trying to put security and economics into the Internet.
This is a little bit counter to the open-source mentality. You have to be careful, however, because open source isn't one group. There are a bunch of different, contending open-source groups. For example, the free-software people shouldn't be confused with everybody else in open source.
I think the problem with open source is that it doesn't quite have its economics worked out. There need to be ways to own things. Private property is a great technology; it's probably one of the major tools the West has. By granting private property to people, you stimulate economic growth. And I think the same thing applies to software. So open source will have to figure out how to get monetized to protect property over time.
If you look at Windows and Linux, both are based on 25-year-old technology. Windows is sort of a GUI version of the Mac's operating system, and Linux is of course Unix, which stems from 1968. These are both old clunkers. So the question is, Where are the new operating systems likely to come from? And will that OS come from the modern software corporation (of which Microsoft is the epitome), or will it spring out of some open-source initiative at some university somewhere? My bet is that the modern U.S. corporation--like Microsoft but not Microsoft in particular--is much more likely to come out with this new OS than a loosely coordinated band of volunteers in the open-source community.
AlwaysOn: Because?
Metcalfe: Because modern software corporations know how to align the interests of the people. They know how to motivate people. They know how to sustain themselves over a long period of time, whereas I'm suspicious about the motivational structure of an open-source community and wonder whether it's sustainable.
I'm thinking of investing in a company that sells software, and its competitors are open source. I've been speaking to the company's customers and asking them why they'd buy this software instead of just taking the open source. Their answer: 'We don't want to learn about the software, and we need it serviced and supported, so we're going to buy it from this company instead of taking it free from the open-source community.'
In that case, it's the motivation of customers. A little earlier I was talking about the motivation of employees: How companies pay people and what they offer in terms of stock options, management structures, performance reviews, and all of that people technology we associate with modern corporations.
AlwaysOn: You're the perfect person to ask a question I've been wondering about for a decade--and which goes back to your point about security and why IPv6 hasn't been adopted. It seems to me that protocol-level changes, IETF changes could actually resolve some of this question--something like a nonspoofable header origination packet, so
A circular or conical chart is obviously required by the last two rows not fitting right in a rectangular chart; but I still much prefer this version
Read the rest of TFA. It explains this.
This really is too cool. I mean that- the coolness of this is a problem. I open a browser with my personlised google, and bam, the news, weather and other interesting info makes me forget what I was gonna search for.
Like a baby, we won't really appreciate its value until it's matured a bit.
And if it dies, we'll be left with a lot of jokes
"Apparently the patent was filed one month after 9/11"
Shouldn't that make this Microsoft's 1011 Patent?
"Fahrenheit or Celsius?"
"First one, then the other."