There is no objective difference between, on the one hand, counting towards a cap (beyond which one must pay a surcharge) only data not received from certain stated parties, and on the other, counting towards a cap only data received from certain stated parties. To claim otherwise it to play a transparently absurd word game. It's like claiming that giving a discount on cash purchases of petrol is different to assessing a surcharge on credit purchases.
Ernest Becker, in his The Denial of Death, writes that human beings deal with their awareness of their inevitable demise by seeking heroism -- success at doing or contributing to something lasting. Each culture has its own hero-system. In a pluralist society, if one's need for heroism is not being met, one will turn to a system that does meet that need.
Yes, Google was able to copy a vast trove of books. No, we don't really have access to them. Google should say To hell with the US hegemony's stupid copyright laws, and just make them all, without reservation, available from offshore servers for the benefit of all mankind.
You seem to imagine that the replicator creates matter from nothing, in violation of the first law of thermodynamics. The high expense of the replicator is brought out in TNG. Also the general scarcity of goods. While the earth gov appears to be either highly socialist or a welfare state that guarantees against starvation and freezing to death, it certainly is forced to make decisions about the allocation of scarce resources.
Prepare to be flamed by cretins who have no sympathy for your making the reasonable assumption that ISPs are common carriers (which they are by nature but not in US law).
There are only two rational choices: switch between the two for the perceived benefits, or remain on Standard year-round. If only one were observed year-round, people and organizations would adjust their schedules to be at what they consider the optimal actual times of day. Some might even have summer and winter schedules. They could and would as easily do this with Standard time as with Daylight. All else thus being equal, only an idiot would suggest that it is better to observe the time of the time zone one hour to the east. Any aliens visiting a planet on which everyone set their clocks one hour off would surely conclude that there is no intelligent life there.
The biggest winners from the law include people between the ages of 18 and 34; blacks; Hispanics; and people who live in rural areas.
The article defines "winner" in an odd and deliberately deceptive way, as meaning anyone who did not have a medical insurance policy and now does. Under that definition, even someone who was coerced into something harmful to their self-interest is a "winner".
The text is perfectly ambiguous. He took it one way, and you the other. But he still should have known better, since there were no headlines in 2009 about a lab-made hybrid killing thousands.
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So if I believe myself to be Napoleon, or a goldfish, I'm not mentally ill, as long as it causes me no distress?
Who needs pesky laws when you have a court system in your back pocket.
That one took an extra-special exercise in stupidity to pull off.
You need to work on your reading comprehension.
The government has it in their possession. No-one is denying them access to it.
There is no objective difference between, on the one hand, counting towards a cap (beyond which one must pay a surcharge) only data not received from certain stated parties, and on the other, counting towards a cap only data received from certain stated parties. To claim otherwise it to play a transparently absurd word game. It's like claiming that giving a discount on cash purchases of petrol is different to assessing a surcharge on credit purchases.
Somehow your fingers managed to slip and type "good" when you surely intended to type "no". Trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, you know.
Ernest Becker, in his The Denial of Death, writes that human beings deal with their awareness of their inevitable demise by seeking heroism -- success at doing or contributing to something lasting. Each culture has its own hero-system. In a pluralist society, if one's need for heroism is not being met, one will turn to a system that does meet that need.
Yes, Google was able to copy a vast trove of books. No, we don't really have access to them. Google should say To hell with the US hegemony's stupid copyright laws, and just make them all, without reservation, available from offshore servers for the benefit of all mankind.
You seem to imagine that the replicator creates matter from nothing, in violation of the first law of thermodynamics. The high expense of the replicator is brought out in TNG. Also the general scarcity of goods. While the earth gov appears to be either highly socialist or a welfare state that guarantees against starvation and freezing to death, it certainly is forced to make decisions about the allocation of scarce resources.
Prepare to be flamed by cretins who have no sympathy for your making the reasonable assumption that ISPs are common carriers (which they are by nature but not in US law).
"Believe"? "Imagine" or "Arbitrarily choose to declare" would come closer.
When you are utterly ignorant of a topic, you would be well advised to keep your random neural firings to yourself.
When police procedures allow an anonymous tip to endanger someone's life, the police are at fault.
My apologies for posting as AC by mistake.
Well said!
Despite protestations to the contrary, and US Supreme Court legalism, copyright is now perpetual.
There are only two rational choices: switch between the two for the perceived benefits, or remain on Standard year-round. If only one were observed year-round, people and organizations would adjust their schedules to be at what they consider the optimal actual times of day. Some might even have summer and winter schedules. They could and would as easily do this with Standard time as with Daylight. All else thus being equal, only an idiot would suggest that it is better to observe the time of the time zone one hour to the east. Any aliens visiting a planet on which everyone set their clocks one hour off would surely conclude that there is no intelligent life there.
The biggest winners from the law include people between the ages of 18 and 34; blacks; Hispanics; and people who live in rural areas.
The article defines "winner" in an odd and deliberately deceptive way, as meaning anyone who did not have a medical insurance policy and now does. Under that definition, even someone who was coerced into something harmful to their self-interest is a "winner".
Uh, why?
The text is perfectly ambiguous. He took it one way, and you the other. But he still should have known better, since there were no headlines in 2009 about a lab-made hybrid killing thousands.
Perhaps you should read what you are replying to before replying.
Well said, sir.
The state is never subject to the rules it dictates to its subjects, so there is no contradiction.
For people who understand how pointless it is to perpetually have clocks set one hour off, it should promote Russophilia.