If I download software from a UK site I have to pay VAT (17.5% sales tax) - why should it be cheaper to download it from the US.
I don't have a problem with the UK taxing its citizens regardless of where they purchase the item. But that doesn't give them a right to force U.S. companies to act as the tax collector. How are they going to stop UK citizens from evading the sales tax? Not my problem.
I worked for a dot-com in the UK which had to charge VAT on all purchases, based on the location to which it was shipping the item.
This is even worse, because it applies to items which aren't even being shipped. What do we use here, IP address? What about proxy servers? It's a nightmare.
When are governments going to grasp the idea that none of them have any jurisdiction over the Internet?
(Un)fortunately if governments gave up jurisdiction of the internet they wouldn't be able to tax their people any more. More and more sales and employment are based on information. I can work for a software company completely over the internet, both in work and in payment. You can be sure that the government is going to want to collect income tax on that employment.
Unfortunately, the behaviour of your co-editor
Michael Simms means we have to browse at -1 to see the
truth, as opposed to what you want us to see.
You're a lot braver than I am. Is there anywhere I can find a list of these unfairly moderated posts? I have a Journal entry up to try to collect them, if not.
CmdrTaco went on to call alterslash "stealing". Yes, Jamie Kellner took it one step further than Hemos and CmdrTaco, but Jamie Kellner was also interviewed by a third party, not thrown softballs selected by his own staff.
Artists don't start their own because they either don't have the time/experience to start a business beyond their group, and because if they *do* go with a big label, they have a chance at britney-spearshood
So they're not getting screwed over at all.
The solution is for them to come up with their own cooperative to compete with the RIAA. Of course then not only will they have to pay for the recording and promotion themselves, they will get the ire of napster users directly.
With the artists making a quarter-cent per downloaded song, they're probably just as happy to see it fail.
When asked about why the actual artist got so little, an RIAA representative answered "The value of the is questionable. The way we see it, we provide all the bandwidth, and without our promotions no one would even know about the artist. We have a lot of costs, so we should get a lot of money."
An RIAA representative was quoted as saying "People need ot [sic] understand that this system is much more akin to a tip jar then a true subscription."
SOHO, launched over six years ago as a project of international cooperation between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, has discovered more than 420 comets in just under six years. This makes the spacecraft the most prolific comet finder in the history of astronomy. Most of the comets were first spotted by amateurs around the world who downloaded SOHO's real-time images to their home computers. Anyone with Internet access can take part in the hunt for new comets and be a comet discoverer.
A new comet was discovered over the Internet by a Chinese amateur astronomer visiting the website for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. The comet "C/2002 G3 (SOHO)" was first reported on Friday, April 12, by XingMing Zhou of BoLe city, in the XinJiang province of China, who discovered the comet while watching SOHO real-time images of the Sun on the Internet. The comet is a new comet, not belonging to any known group.
"From September 2000 to now I have been trying to find SOHO comets, and I've discovered 13 comets, one of which, designated '2001U9' and initially cataloged by the SOHO project as 'SOHO-367,' was the brightest one in the last two years," said Zhou, who previously spent more than 1,600 hours since his 1985 graduation scanning the heavens with his 15cm F/5.3 reflector telescope to discover a single comet.
"What's exciting about these near-sun comets is that we are exploring a population of comets that has never been seen before because they are very small and faint," said Douglas Biesecker, a solar physicist with L3 Com Analytics Corporation, Vienna, Va. "By the time their orbits take them close to the Sun so they become bright, they are lost in the Sun's glare and require a space-based coronagraph like that on SOHO to be seen." Biesecker, who is affiliated with the SOHO program at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirms potential comet discoveries as they are posted to the SOHO website.
C/2002 G3 (SOHO) will be visible in SOHO's Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) C3 images until Saturday, April 20. The comet was first visible late in the day on Thursday, April 11. It entered the field of view at the bottom edge, almost directly under the Sun. It is moving upward to the left, and will eventually move back toward the right, exiting from the LASCO C3 field of view at the top edge, to the right of the Sun. First cataloged by the SOHO project as "SOHO-422," it has been officially designated C/2002 G3 (SOHO) by the International Astronomical Union.
The comet reached the point closest to the Sun in its orbit on April 17 at about 1:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, at a distance of about 7.6 million miles (12.3 million kilometers). As the week goes on, the comet will move through the field of view more quickly.
In all these images, the shaded disk is a mask in the instrument that blots out direct sunlight, making faint comets and the dim outer atmosphere of the Sun, or the corona, visible. The white circle added within the disk shows the size and position of the visible Sun.
Solar radiation heats the comet, which in turn causes the outgassing of its water molecules and dust. The dust scatters sunlight at visible wavelengths, making the comet bright in LASCO images. The water molecules break down into oxygen and hydrogen atoms, and the hydrogen atoms interact with the coronal plasma (electrified gas that comprises the extended atmosphere of the Sun).
That depends on whether you believe money (or other property) belongs (a) to the people, corporations, etc. who earn it or (b) to the government.
Not really. The government has already decided that it's going to collect taxes. The only question left is whether Bill Gates will pay more, less, or an equal percentage. And as it turns out, he pays a much lower percentage, by manipulating the sytem.
Because that is one of the main access controls that DeCSS was created for. Remember, the DMCA makes no requirement that the access controls make sense.
I was referring to your "extra credit assignment". Congress passes laws all the time which rely upon the Commerce Clause and have absolutely nothing to do with commercial activities.
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I thought photons were particles!
Define "particle".
Our commitment to the Itanium Processor Family remains very strong, and we continue to see Itanium as the future 64-bit microprocessor.
Does this mean HP/UX is still going to get ported to IA-64? I thought defeat was admitted on that one when they closed the NJ-FPK facility.
No, this is what happens when you give a company a license to print "money" (and start the price at $250).
Which has absolutely nothing to do with what the poster was talking about.
If they don't like it they can refuse to sell to people with UK shipping/billing addresses.
This is about software delivered over the internet. There isn't necessarily a shipping/billing address in the first place.
US companies that sell goods the traditional way to British consumers have to register for VAT
That's not true.
If I download software from a UK site I have to pay VAT (17.5% sales tax) - why should it be cheaper to download it from the US.
I don't have a problem with the UK taxing its citizens regardless of where they purchase the item. But that doesn't give them a right to force U.S. companies to act as the tax collector. How are they going to stop UK citizens from evading the sales tax? Not my problem.
I worked for a dot-com in the UK which had to charge VAT on all purchases, based on the location to which it was shipping the item.
This is even worse, because it applies to items which aren't even being shipped. What do we use here, IP address? What about proxy servers? It's a nightmare.
When are governments going to grasp the idea that none of them have any jurisdiction over the Internet?
(Un)fortunately if governments gave up jurisdiction of the internet they wouldn't be able to tax their people any more. More and more sales and employment are based on information. I can work for a software company completely over the internet, both in work and in payment. You can be sure that the government is going to want to collect income tax on that employment.
Unfortunately, the behaviour of your co-editor Michael Simms means we have to browse at -1 to see the truth, as opposed to what you want us to see.
You're a lot braver than I am. Is there anywhere I can find a list of these unfairly moderated posts? I have a Journal entry up to try to collect them, if not.
You're wasting your time. You're not going to win. If anything this silly display will only cause Hemos to act even more childish.
Ah hell, go ahead. Maybe it'll get more people to come to my site.
CmdrTaco went on to call alterslash "stealing". Yes, Jamie Kellner took it one step further than Hemos and CmdrTaco, but Jamie Kellner was also interviewed by a third party, not thrown softballs selected by his own staff.
Hemos:
Here's the reality:
You block ads.
You cost us money.
Ultimately, I mean.
Artists don't start their own because they either don't have the time/experience to start a business beyond their group, and because if they *do* go with a big label, they have a chance at britney-spearshood
So they're not getting screwed over at all.
The solution is for them to come up with their own cooperative to compete with the RIAA. Of course then not only will they have to pay for the recording and promotion themselves, they will get the ire of napster users directly.
the record companies are screwing the artists
So why don't the artists just start their own record companies then?
With the artists making a quarter-cent per downloaded song, they're probably just as happy to see it fail.
When asked about why the actual artist got so little, an RIAA representative answered "The value of the is questionable. The way we see it, we provide all the bandwidth, and without our promotions no one would even know about the artist. We have a lot of costs, so we should get a lot of money."
An RIAA representative was quoted as saying "People need ot [sic] understand that this system is much more akin to a tip jar then a true subscription."
SOHO, launched over six years ago as a project of international cooperation between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, has discovered more than 420 comets in just under six years. This makes the spacecraft the most prolific comet finder in the history of astronomy. Most of the comets were first spotted by amateurs around the world who downloaded SOHO's real-time images to their home computers. Anyone with Internet access can take part in the hunt for new comets and be a comet discoverer.
A new comet was discovered over the Internet by a Chinese amateur astronomer visiting the website for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. The comet "C/2002 G3 (SOHO)" was first reported on Friday, April 12, by XingMing Zhou of BoLe city, in the XinJiang province of China, who discovered the comet while watching SOHO real-time images of the Sun on the Internet. The comet is a new comet, not belonging to any known group.
"From September 2000 to now I have been trying to find SOHO comets, and I've discovered 13 comets, one of which, designated '2001U9' and initially cataloged by the SOHO project as 'SOHO-367,' was the brightest one in the last two years," said Zhou, who previously spent more than 1,600 hours since his 1985 graduation scanning the heavens with his 15cm F/5.3 reflector telescope to discover a single comet.
"What's exciting about these near-sun comets is that we are exploring a population of comets that has never been seen before because they are very small and faint," said Douglas Biesecker, a solar physicist with L3 Com Analytics Corporation, Vienna, Va. "By the time their orbits take them close to the Sun so they become bright, they are lost in the Sun's glare and require a space-based coronagraph like that on SOHO to be seen." Biesecker, who is affiliated with the SOHO program at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirms potential comet discoveries as they are posted to the SOHO website.
C/2002 G3 (SOHO) will be visible in SOHO's Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) C3 images until Saturday, April 20. The comet was first visible late in the day on Thursday, April 11. It entered the field of view at the bottom edge, almost directly under the Sun. It is moving upward to the left, and will eventually move back toward the right, exiting from the LASCO C3 field of view at the top edge, to the right of the Sun. First cataloged by the SOHO project as "SOHO-422," it has been officially designated C/2002 G3 (SOHO) by the International Astronomical Union.
The comet reached the point closest to the Sun in its orbit on April 17 at about 1:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, at a distance of about 7.6 million miles (12.3 million kilometers). As the week goes on, the comet will move through the field of view more quickly.
In all these images, the shaded disk is a mask in the instrument that blots out direct sunlight, making faint comets and the dim outer atmosphere of the Sun, or the corona, visible. The white circle added within the disk shows the size and position of the visible Sun.
Solar radiation heats the comet, which in turn causes the outgassing of its water molecules and dust. The dust scatters sunlight at visible wavelengths, making the comet bright in LASCO images. The water molecules break down into oxygen and hydrogen atoms, and the hydrogen atoms interact with the coronal plasma (electrified gas that comprises the extended atmosphere of the Sun).
Story from NASA website. Modifications made.
a) So people have to put themselves at risk of legal action to provide you with a copy, and this is fine as long as YOU don't come under fire?
I'm not fine with copyright law, but I do accept it as a fact of life. People don't have to put themselves at risk of legal action - they choose to.
b) you really think they couldn't come after you for downloading, say on a conspiracy charge?
Yes, of course I do, otherwise I wouldn't be admitting to doing it on a public forum.
That depends on whether you believe money (or other property) belongs (a) to the people, corporations, etc. who earn it or (b) to the government.
Not really. The government has already decided that it's going to collect taxes. The only question left is whether Bill Gates will pay more, less, or an equal percentage. And as it turns out, he pays a much lower percentage, by manipulating the sytem.
As much as I dislike Bill Gates, I have no problem with his doing this.
I don't really either. I'd probably do the same thing in his situation. What I do have a problem with is that the government lets him do it.
But why the region lock?
Because that is one of the main access controls that DeCSS was created for. Remember, the DMCA makes no requirement that the access controls make sense.
So you're fine for DeCSS, since you managed to get a copy before the final set of rules kicked in.
It's not illegal to download (unless you're downloading from outside the country), only to distribute.
Anyone who doesn't have a copy now is out of luck, and you're out of luck when the next protection scheme is released.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
I was referring to your "extra credit assignment". Congress passes laws all the time which rely upon the Commerce Clause and have absolutely nothing to do with commercial activities.
I don't make nearly enough money to screw over the American public.
Will you release this interview under an open content license?
People talk about "Microsoft's $40 billion," but Microsoft is owned by individuals. It does not exist without the individuals
But I wasn't talking about Microsoft avoiding taxes. I was talking about Bill Gates using Microsoft as a tax shelter to avoid taxes.
How does one go about "unsubmitting" a comment? You're right. I'm wrong. I'm going to go to sleep now.