Microsoft has abandoned the end Customer and Developers as their main focus. All of their heavy marketing driven initiatives with companies usually resulting in DRM and other unwanted bloat has made their software unappealing.
So if a business comes to texas and sets up shop, you are arguing that all the taxes they pay are pure gravy. That makes no sense at all. They use roads. They user services. They need to pay taxes to support what they are getting. You are also arguing that they are creating jobs, and that that too is pure bonus. But this is just not reasonable thinking if the company is using more services and being more of a burden than they are paying in taxes and jobs. I am saying they are not able to be a desirable business for the texas community if they are given huge tax breaks. Post some numbers that prove otherwise, they don't exist showing a good result.
So you believe that it is currently costing nothing to run texas government and that businesses are purely giving huge sums of taxes to government? Sorry, I don't follow your logic. Feel free to post some numbers.
But this is not quite as rosy as you are painting. If a $1 million tax break is given to a movie, how many jobs have to be made by that movie to break even? I can see tax breaks where there is a net benefit, but I have yet to see that with Texas Movie Making. Being a "cool" industry is not enough to give away money.
I am all for good movies, but they should have to pay taxes like everyone else. Not sure how giving free money away to people who make movies is helping the people of Texas?
From everything published about this and "tube" Stevens conduct looks like he is guilty. This may even have been botched on purpose as these prosecutors are from Bush appointees.
I think the most sad thing about my comment is I meant it to be funny and it got modded informative. Oh, well. Not everyone can know what strong typing really means.
Newspapers want lots and lots of money. Who doesn't? But, newspapers want you to re-arrange your life in order to try and post online (register for an account, go through 10 screens to try and post something, talk to a representative, etc) and charge you for the privilege. They will charge you even more if you want it in newsprint. Craigslist on the other hand is easy, does not fight the user, and is not greedy. Craigslist makes lots and lots of money. News at 11.
I have direct experience with both Time Warner and DSL and that one or two hop difference is huge in consist ant reliable service. DSL wins, hands down.
I am sick of slow cable modem service in the evening when everyone gets on at the same time. Time Warner is a shared service, but DSL is a per user service.
You don't google much do you. Try it and sign up for things like the Direct Marketing Association opt out, etc. Then try to be happy, it is not all bad out there.
You can go to your post office and request a form to have spam snail mail stopped. There was a story several years ago about a postal working got fired for telling people about the form. I would have given him a raise.
they are to greedy to understand that they would make a lot more delivering something that people want that they could own than trying to squeeze a nickel out of everything even if it costs most of it to try make it work and have a draconian DRM system. I think a lot of this is driven by egos, control, and middle manager charts that are out of touch with the real world.
It is a VPN, not a regular connection and outside snooping would be pretty hard. To be honest there are probably only a hand full of gov agencies in the world that could do it and they don't care about copyright law. If you look at the competency of the prosecution in the TPB trial it is clear the RIAA don't have any access to them. Occam's razor.
They should give you your money back, let you keep the game, and give you a gift certificate. If DRM is so great then when it inconveniences the Customer they should bend over backwards to try and help you. Most don't get it though. Steam is the only one that gives you something for giving up your ownership, convenience.
That is great and all, but people like to own what they buy. No one wants a rental service as has been shown over and over in the marketplace (like the bastardized napster, *cough* *cough*)
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There are too many woahs for this to be a Keanu Reeves joke.
Microsoft has abandoned the end Customer and Developers as their main focus. All of their heavy marketing driven initiatives with companies usually resulting in DRM and other unwanted bloat has made their software unappealing.
So if a business comes to texas and sets up shop, you are arguing that all the taxes they pay are pure gravy. That makes no sense at all. They use roads. They user services. They need to pay taxes to support what they are getting. You are also arguing that they are creating jobs, and that that too is pure bonus. But this is just not reasonable thinking if the company is using more services and being more of a burden than they are paying in taxes and jobs. I am saying they are not able to be a desirable business for the texas community if they are given huge tax breaks. Post some numbers that prove otherwise, they don't exist showing a good result.
So you believe that it is currently costing nothing to run texas government and that businesses are purely giving huge sums of taxes to government? Sorry, I don't follow your logic. Feel free to post some numbers.
But this is not quite as rosy as you are painting. If a $1 million tax break is given to a movie, how many jobs have to be made by that movie to break even? I can see tax breaks where there is a net benefit, but I have yet to see that with Texas Movie Making. Being a "cool" industry is not enough to give away money.
I am all for good movies, but they should have to pay taxes like everyone else. Not sure how giving free money away to people who make movies is helping the people of Texas?
I took it as a joke. Oh well.
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From everything published about this and "tube" Stevens conduct looks like he is guilty. This may even have been botched on purpose as these prosecutors are from Bush appointees.
I think the most sad thing about my comment is I meant it to be funny and it got modded informative. Oh, well. Not everyone can know what strong typing really means.
Newspapers want lots and lots of money. Who doesn't? But, newspapers want you to re-arrange your life in order to try and post online (register for an account, go through 10 screens to try and post something, talk to a representative, etc) and charge you for the privilege. They will charge you even more if you want it in newsprint. Craigslist on the other hand is easy, does not fight the user, and is not greedy. Craigslist makes lots and lots of money. News at 11.
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Why can't the reasonable law makers come back and just pass a rescind to this legislation?
I have direct experience with both Time Warner and DSL and that one or two hop difference is huge in consist ant reliable service. DSL wins, hands down.
I am sick of slow cable modem service in the evening when everyone gets on at the same time. Time Warner is a shared service, but DSL is a per user service.
You don't google much do you. Try it and sign up for things like the Direct Marketing Association opt out, etc. Then try to be happy, it is not all bad out there.
If the trauma was not bad enough.
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You can go to your post office and request a form to have spam snail mail stopped. There was a story several years ago about a postal working got fired for telling people about the form. I would have given him a raise.
If I could have gotten a copy of that german cobot like code in english it would have knocked weeks off development.
they are to greedy to understand that they would make a lot more delivering something that people want that they could own than trying to squeeze a nickel out of everything even if it costs most of it to try make it work and have a draconian DRM system. I think a lot of this is driven by egos, control, and middle manager charts that are out of touch with the real world.
It is a VPN, not a regular connection and outside snooping would be pretty hard. To be honest there are probably only a hand full of gov agencies in the world that could do it and they don't care about copyright law. If you look at the competency of the prosecution in the TPB trial it is clear the RIAA don't have any access to them. Occam's razor.
I can imagine some of the conversations that would happen at regular places of business. *shutter*
They should give you your money back, let you keep the game, and give you a gift certificate. If DRM is so great then when it inconveniences the Customer they should bend over backwards to try and help you. Most don't get it though. Steam is the only one that gives you something for giving up your ownership, convenience.
That is great and all, but people like to own what they buy. No one wants a rental service as has been shown over and over in the marketplace (like the bastardized napster, *cough* *cough*)