Total tax is closer to 60% when you include things such as fuel, food, clothes.. etc..
Its really sick what is being done to us, and not enough people care to stop it. And if you speak to your 'representatives', they dont listen, and just increase the rates.. or shuffle it around so its harder to notice.
This is sort of garbage is why this country was created in the first place.
DVD's are permanent ( well for the most part, I realize they will degrade in time ) but a 'service' is not. You end up continually paying to watch your stuff.
Your DVR's HD crashes.. You may be screwed, especially if you recorded/bought/leased some obscure item
"As I've said before, I think the only way to ensure new, quality, Sci-Fi will be if we all want to pay for it, ala HBO - Sci-fi."
'cable' is out for $ like everyone else. And its not you that it footing the bill for the show, its the adverts.. the amount that the viewers contribute is minor..
No, i didnt say that. I never claimed it was ok, only that it was normal operating procedures.
Please dont put words in my mouth.
Personally i dont approve of the practices of todays businesses. But i also know that its how thing work. Screw the customer, screw the competition. Make as much $ as you can and forget anything else.
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Oh wait, I'm an American.. 'screw France'.. but wait this is good 'go France'. arrgh!
All kidding aside, this could be a good use of the evil WTO's reciprocal commerce laws..
Not the parent poster.
Serves them right for installing that evil bad software that only pirates use..
For the slower moderators out there today, this is referred to as sarcasm.
Total tax is closer to 60% when you include things such as fuel, food, clothes.. etc..
Its really sick what is being done to us, and not enough people care to stop it. And if you speak to your 'representatives', they dont listen, and just increase the rates.. or shuffle it around so its harder to notice.
This is sort of garbage is why this country was created in the first place.
DVD's are permanent ( well for the most part, I realize they will degrade in time ) but a 'service' is not. You end up continually paying to watch your stuff.
Your DVR's HD crashes.. You may be screwed, especially if you recorded/bought/leased some obscure item
Will they be offering this to anyone that drives into town and turns on their wifi card?
What about visitors that havent paid local taxes...
What about the evil 'terrorists' that use the network for evil...
of more governmental censorship taking hold..
As long as they follow the GPL rules, they can still 'release and sell' a product based on a GPL application.
Lots of companies are doing that.. Ever hear of Redhat or IBM?
Oh wait, this is Australia, the citizens have no freedoms..
Guess that is what you get for living in a ex-penal colony...
On a more serious note, it is scary.. more restrictions on pure information..
While running it as the client is cool, are there patches to run the BSD's as the server side as well?
Nothign against the use of linux in general, I just prefer FBSD for servers..
Im a borderline luddite :)
Welcome to the real world.. Time to grow up and watch your back.
Just bought a 256mb flash, with am/fm/tv for under 100 last month. Integrated USB port, and about the size of a fat but short magic marker..
Has a SD slot to boot.
Doesnt beat my Ipod, but its rugged AND IT HAS A F-ING RADIO ( do you hear that apple? )
Honestly, no I would not care. But in that case they would not be *deserving*, but they would not be relevant.
Its wrong, regardless of any bogus vague law.
They are Indian companies.. who cares. they deserve to be blown off the map for the jobs they took from this country anyway.
No, i was not being funny.
It offers 90% of the features 90% of the users need, and is lighter weight then OO.
Too bad i didnt patent the idea when i had it, 20 years ago..
Though with the technology of the day, couldnt even record one full song, but it was the same concept.
Doh..!
Since when was a *technology* illegitimate? Since when was a site that posts nothing infringing illegitimate?
Talk about a biased statement... Helping to perpetuate the public's perception of all the 'evil pirates and their tools'.
Must be a laywer.
More ways to control the content on MY computer.
I see you left out testing Kword...
Donno about you , but last time i wached SCIFI, I saw commercials for products...
"As I've said before, I think the only way to ensure new, quality, Sci-Fi will be if we all want to pay for it, ala HBO - Sci-fi."
'cable' is out for $ like everyone else. And its not you that it footing the bill for the show, its the adverts.. the amount that the viewers contribute is minor..
No, i didnt say that. I never claimed it was ok, only that it was normal operating procedures.
Please dont put words in my mouth.
Personally i dont approve of the practices of todays businesses. But i also know that its how thing work. Screw the customer, screw the competition. Make as much $ as you can and forget anything else.
Need one of those for when people get accused of piracy and downloading infringing items.
Between these things, and open wifi, its going to be hard to prove intent.