Please tell me that Paypal is not being held responsible for actions it knew nothing about. Please tell me that Paypal is not being held to a higher standard than a regular bank. Please tell me that the United States government has bigger fish to fry than people gamboling of their own free will.
The sky is blue.
The language of England is English.
If you're out in the rain, you'll get wet.
Well...anyone have any more stories for the "Obvious News Network"?
Those who prefer to change their "poisoned" number rather than face punishment incur the fees and inconvenience of switching, and also lose any business their ad might have generated.
The system also dents the advertisers' bottom line as ad respondents are unlikely to get through, thanks to the mobile barrage.
OK, these people probably have a fair ammount of money, so "fees" aren't going to be an issue. And as for losing business, the "mobile barrage" will cause them to do that anyway. I see no reason why these people won't just change their numbers.
The way I see it, I have two options: 1)Spend hours doing the procedure described in the article 2)Spend minutes installing an emulator. What do you think is the more logical option?
Yes, this decision sucks, but it is DALnet's network, and they can do what they want with it. Our rights are not affected by the owner of a network deciding that a certian activity is prohibited. We can go to another network, or start our own.
Patent reform is a great idea, but I'd be more interested in hearing how you plan to implement it.
How about this: If an inventor does not collect royalities or otherwise enforce a pantent within two years of its granting, the patent is declared null and void, and the invention goes into the public domain.
Hey, here's an idea! I think I'll patent "putting one foot in front of the other in such a manner as to propel oneself forward". Then, I'll patent "inhaling and exhaling air". I'll be rich!!!
How are Internet stores different from mail order? Or the Home Shopping Network? Or ordering anything by phone? If sales tax is charged for Internet sales, it should also be charged for these things.
Where I live, Comcast has a monopoly on consumer broadband.
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My boss gets lots of complaints because we pass the 3% credit card charge on directly. Like somehow people who pay with cash or check should subsidize the credit industry.
I thought that the CC companies revoked the right to accept cards to businesses who charge credit card fees.
This sounds like a perfectly reasonable solution. Those parents that do not restrict what their kids see online (like mine) do not have to worry about having the government do it for them. Those parents that do want to restrict what their kids see online have to make sure that their restrictions only affect their kids, and not anyone else. In both cases, the control is with the parents where it belongs.
The article said nothing about mail order companies being forced to collect sales tax. How is buying over the Internet different from buying from a mail order company?
My question is- Why not save yourself 1 1/2 hrs and possibly a buck and drive to the video store? The only thing I can think of is no late fees. A little more convenient in that sense.
If it's late fees you're worried about, just use a service like Netflix.
I want to be able to watch the movie as much as I want. I want to be able to burn the movie to a DVD-R and watch it on a TV screen instead of a computer monitor. Until the movie industry offers a service that lets me do this, I will not use services like Movielink for my movie downloading needs.
If you are finding problems, I'd recommend getting a rooter/firewall that can do throttling with traffic shaping. Once you have a system that prioritises ACKs, games and http over the p2p traffic and limits the upstream to 90-95% if your maximum, you should never really notice that p2p is running.
This sounds like a good idea. Can anyone recommend a firewall that can do this that runs on WinXP?
I don't know whether you have lived in a small town. I have, in Europe. It took three minutes to walk to the supermarket, five minutes to walk to work, and three minutes to walk to the train station (which would take me directly to the airport and pretty much anywhere else). For short distance trips, I'd use a bicycle or the bus (fast and on-time).
You're right -- this ruling is protectionism. It protects the majority of consumers from a few who can abuse the system by getting services at a fraction of the cost, thereby increasing the cost to the majority.
You're right. And while we're at it, let's "protect the majority of consumers" by outlawing email. After all, it takes business away from the post office. I can send an email for a fraction of the cost of a stamp (considering all the messages I send; YMMV). So, clearly Post Office users are "subsidizing" me! This injustice must be corrected!
Yeah, some people can't get VoIP, so, in the name of equality, noone should be able to use it. For that matter, some people are homeless, so, in the name of equality, everyone should be forced to live in cardboard boxes. Can you think of any economies that are currently trying it this way (hint: Cuba)?
I'll just patent "putting one foot in front of the other". PanIP may own the patent on ecommerce, but people will have to pay me to walk to their computer (or anywhere for that matter)!
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Please tell me that Paypal is not being held responsible for actions it knew nothing about.
Please tell me that Paypal is not being held to a higher standard than a regular bank.
Please tell me that the United States government has bigger fish to fry than people gamboling of their own free will.
The sky is blue.
The language of England is English.
If you're out in the rain, you'll get wet.
Well...anyone have any more stories for the "Obvious News Network"?
OK, these people probably have a fair ammount of money, so "fees" aren't going to be an issue. And as for losing business, the "mobile barrage" will cause them to do that anyway. I see no reason why these people won't just change their numbers.
AOL used banner ads in its online service well before the establishment of Amazon.com.
Does anyone know how to implement this under Windows XP Home?
The way I see it, I have two options:
1)Spend hours doing the procedure described in the article
2)Spend minutes installing an emulator.
What do you think is the more logical option?
Yes, this decision sucks, but it is DALnet's network, and they can do what they want with it. Our rights are not affected by the owner of a network deciding that a certian activity is prohibited. We can go to another network, or start our own.
How about this: If an inventor does not collect royalities or otherwise enforce a pantent within two years of its granting, the patent is declared null and void, and the invention goes into the public domain.
Hey, here's an idea!
I think I'll patent "putting one foot in front of the other in such a manner as to propel oneself forward". Then, I'll patent "inhaling and exhaling air". I'll be rich!!!
Try your local community college. The courses are cheap, and the chances are the teacher won't teach to the exam.
How are Internet stores different from mail order? Or the Home Shopping Network? Or ordering anything by phone? If sales tax is charged for Internet sales, it should also be charged for these things.
Because Internet stores are no different than mail order, and sales tax is not charged on mail order.
How long before the RIAA uses this to, say, trash an MP3 downloader's hard drive? And how much do you want to bet that Congress will legalize this?
Where I live, Comcast has a monopoly on consumer broadband.
I thought that the CC companies revoked the right to accept cards to businesses who charge credit card fees.
This sounds like a perfectly reasonable solution. Those parents that do not restrict what their kids see online (like mine) do not have to worry about having the government do it for them. Those parents that do want to restrict what their kids see online have to make sure that their restrictions only affect their kids, and not anyone else. In both cases, the control is with the parents where it belongs.
The article said nothing about mail order companies being forced to collect sales tax. How is buying over the Internet different from buying from a mail order company?
I would have liked to see some captions explaining the pictures. Otherwise, good job.
If it's late fees you're worried about, just use a service like Netflix.
I want to be able to watch the movie as much as I want.
I want to be able to burn the movie to a DVD-R and watch it on a TV screen instead of a computer monitor.
Until the movie industry offers a service that lets me do this, I will not use services like Movielink for my movie downloading needs.
This sounds like a good idea. Can anyone recommend a firewall that can do this that runs on WinXP?
What did you do when the weather was bad?
You're right. And while we're at it, let's "protect the majority of consumers" by outlawing email. After all, it takes business away from the post office. I can send an email for a fraction of the cost of a stamp (considering all the messages I send; YMMV). So, clearly Post Office users are "subsidizing" me! This injustice must be corrected!
Yeah, some people can't get VoIP, so, in the name of equality, noone should be able to use it. For that matter, some people are homeless, so, in the name of equality, everyone should be forced to live in cardboard boxes. Can you think of any economies that are currently trying it this way (hint: Cuba)?
I'll just patent "putting one foot in front of the other". PanIP may own the patent on ecommerce, but people will have to pay me to walk to their computer (or anywhere for that matter)!