"Public institutions, the government, 'län' and 'kommuns' should make sure that everyone has access to good communications (Internet or otherwise). Most people are more than willing to pay for that through their taxes."
You're reasoning that because a part of the population wants tax-funded internet, the rest of us should put up with being those who are forced to pay for it, but not necessarily use it?
What nobody mentions, and most dare not say is that piracy is a reponse of the market to unbearbly high prices on software.
Piracy is a competitive factor - if companies price too high compared to the features or quality of a product, people don't pay.
If companies start doing anticompetitive shit or in general, perform actions that piss the customers off, they lose sales to piracy.
If more executives would realise that they are in the end to blame for piracy THEMSELVES, we would have much much less piracy. But no, they insist on releasing full upgrades ever other year - at full price. But the gain in productivity for most users is negligible.
Does anyone here seriously think that say, the jump from Office 97 to Office 2000 or 2000 to XP made them a lot more productive? Did Photoshop 5.5 to 6 make you more productive ? How about Mac OS X 10.2 to 10.3 (yes i dare say, keep in mind that I'm a Mac user myself, so no flames please;).
Piracy is mostly due to the customer base being pissed off.
I disagree. You and I may hate Microsoft, but look at Jobs' actions the last few years. When he took the helm @ Apple, Apple was about to get legally dragged around by Microsoft, and had lost a number of court cases, with no positive change in sight. The legal dukeouts was one of the reasons Apple was dying, albeit slowly.
Jobs came in, cute the crap, and "started the good fight", as he called it. No bruteforcing or running to Daddy Law (DoJ, which has done a POS job IMO), when Microsoft screwed them.
Instead they signed a deal with MS, and guess what ? Apple is bveating Microsoft on their home turf, and recovering teritory at the same time. Innovation! A thing which is APple at heart and a thing which Microsoft has never understood.
And it works. I think Steve's buddhist inspiration from his youth travels has paid off.
...France and Russia have allegedly negotiated a deal with the litte green men native to Sedna for rights to extraction of organic compounds and water for fusion fuel.
Jaques Chiraq and Vladimir Putin were unavailable for comment.
I have an alternative, in the hypothetical situation that I actually supported corporate taxes (I mostly don't):
% corporate tax = % market share / 2
That way, you can never pay more than half your profits in taxes, and that goes well in accordance with basic libertarian or just pragmatic ideas, that is, you work for yourself, not the state.
Not only is the power net available by almost 100% (who haven't got power these days - The Amish?), but high voltages also allow for stable data transmissions (more noise tolerance, even though i think data is transmitted with phase modulation??).
Only thing I wonder about the the quality of cabling constricting the amount of data able to be transmitted and recieved.
.... the internet backbone in European country Poland broke down today following a phenomenon known as "The slashdot effect". No people were harmed in the incident, but a lot of Slavic IT professionals were terribly inconvenienced.
I mean, the AmigaOS (as has all things Amiga) has been through hell since 1993, and I just dont see how this can be a good sign - unless it's a spinoff of the OS division, and I see no indication of that being the case.
...and this study (and studies like it) are widely used by leftists who want to smear the western world for it's alleged un-environmentalism and blind pursuit of riches. The fact that most of it is recycled water is never mentioned.
It's sad... What I mean, is the parents tells the truth (that all tricks are allowed in war), he explains the hard truth, the fact that the USA was a target of USSR agression and espionage, and took steps to prevent it. Ang he's modded down as "flamebait"?
Looks to me like some of the USA-haters used their mod points!
An open universe, that is, one where spacetime doesn't contract back into a singularity (Big Bang), implies a fundamentally different spacetime geometry that the one of a Closed Universe.
Open Universe is Hyperbolic (Infinite)
A Closed Universe is Spheric (Finite but boundaryless)
I own the book, bought it a year ago myself. A good read.
If you're looking for something a bit along the same lines, but sprinkled with history, religion and conspiracy, I can recommend "the Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown.
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...but this seems like a perverted 1984-vision. Whats next, death penalty for P2P sharing ?
Are there more of our privacies the corp execs want to relieve us of ?!
"Public institutions, the government, 'län' and 'kommuns' should make sure that everyone has access to good communications (Internet or otherwise). Most people are more than willing to pay for that through their taxes."
You're reasoning that because a part of the population wants tax-funded internet, the rest of us should put up with being those who are forced to pay for it, but not necessarily use it?
That is pure socialism.
What nobody mentions, and most dare not say is that piracy is a reponse of the market to unbearbly high prices on software.
;).
Piracy is a competitive factor - if companies price too high compared to the features or quality of a product, people don't pay.
If companies start doing anticompetitive shit or in general, perform actions that piss the customers off, they lose sales to piracy.
If more executives would realise that they are in the end to blame for piracy THEMSELVES, we would have much much less piracy. But no, they insist on releasing full upgrades ever other year - at full price. But the gain in productivity for most users is negligible.
Does anyone here seriously think that say, the jump from Office 97 to Office 2000 or 2000 to XP made them a lot more productive? Did Photoshop 5.5 to 6 make you more productive ? How about Mac OS X 10.2 to 10.3 (yes i dare say, keep in mind that I'm a Mac user myself, so no flames please
Piracy is mostly due to the customer base being pissed off.
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How do you feel, HAL ?
I'm sorry Dave, I won't answer that question due to my religious beliefs.
Jobs "know to be a coward" ?
I disagree. You and I may hate Microsoft, but look at Jobs' actions the last few years. When he took the helm @ Apple, Apple was about to get legally dragged around by Microsoft, and had lost a number of court cases, with no positive change in sight. The legal dukeouts was one of the reasons Apple was dying, albeit slowly.
Jobs came in, cute the crap, and "started the good fight", as he called it. No bruteforcing or running to Daddy Law (DoJ, which has done a POS job IMO), when Microsoft screwed them.
Instead they signed a deal with MS, and guess what ? Apple is bveating Microsoft on their home turf, and recovering teritory at the same time. Innovation! A thing which is APple at heart and a thing which Microsoft has never understood.
And it works. I think Steve's buddhist inspiration from his youth travels has paid off.
...France and Russia have allegedly negotiated a deal with the litte green men native to Sedna for rights to extraction of organic compounds and water for fusion fuel.
Jaques Chiraq and Vladimir Putin were unavailable for comment.
THE 2004 JEFFERSON MUZZLES GO TO ...
(individual accounts of the winners follows)
Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum
The U.S. Department of Defense
The United States Secret Service
The Albemarle County (VA) School Board
Baseball Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey
CBS Television
The University of New Orleans Administration
The Administration of Dearborn High School (Michigan)
The South Carolina House of Representatives
The Parks and Recreation Division of Broward County (Florida)
Jeff Webster of Soldotna, Alaska, and the Unnamed Arsonist of Harrisonburg, Virginia
The Arizona State License Commission
The Pilot Point (Texas) Police Department
I have an alternative, in the hypothetical situation that I actually supported corporate taxes (I mostly don't):
% corporate tax = % market share / 2
That way, you can never pay more than half your profits in taxes, and that goes well in accordance with basic libertarian or just pragmatic ideas, that is, you work for yourself, not the state.
Not only is the power net available by almost 100% (who haven't got power these days - The Amish?), but high voltages also allow for stable data transmissions (more noise tolerance, even though i think data is transmitted with phase modulation??).
Only thing I wonder about the the quality of cabling constricting the amount of data able to be transmitted and recieved.
.... the internet backbone in European country Poland broke down today following a phenomenon known as "The slashdot effect". No people were harmed in the incident, but a lot of Slavic IT professionals were terribly inconvenienced.
That's funny - I was modded down as troll for suggesting that in another thread.
Strange world.
I don't see Macs or Linux boxen having "features" like this.
And no, that is most certainly not a troll, it's a statement of fact. If you were thinking of modding me down, you're just pissed that I'm right.
I mean, the AmigaOS (as has all things Amiga) has been through hell since 1993, and I just dont see how this can be a good sign - unless it's a spinoff of the OS division, and I see no indication of that being the case.
:(
Only more delays, excuses, no-shows.... sad
(I'm an Amiga user since 1990, I might add)
...and this study (and studies like it) are widely used by leftists who want to smear the western world for it's alleged un-environmentalism and blind pursuit of riches. The fact that most of it is recycled water is never mentioned.
It's sad... What I mean, is the parents tells the truth (that all tricks are allowed in war), he explains the hard truth, the fact that the USA was a target of USSR agression and espionage, and took steps to prevent it. Ang he's modded down as "flamebait"?
Looks to me like some of the USA-haters used their mod points!
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...but theories generally aren't wrong. I think you mean a hypothesis, right ?
Correction - that should not be Big Bang, but Big Crunch.
An open universe, that is, one where spacetime doesn't contract back into a singularity (Big Bang), implies a fundamentally different spacetime geometry that the one of a Closed Universe.
Open Universe is Hyperbolic (Infinite)
A Closed Universe is Spheric (Finite but boundaryless)
Then we're screwed. Life is doomed to die out with the heat death of the universe. We won't go with a bang, but with a whimper...
I own the book, bought it a year ago myself. A good read.
If you're looking for something a bit along the same lines, but sprinkled with history, religion and conspiracy, I can recommend "the Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown.
Hardly a surprise seeing that that came from an AC.
I suppose you also think that all American men are never impotent, and thus don't need viagra.
How about american men often engaging in gang bangs, and high-fiving each other when they do a facial cumshot on a girl?
PS - i forgot to mention the widespread censorship of the internet and free information in islamic countries. FFS, if there even is internet!
I mean, you cant be a geek if you don't have access to porn online! (duh)