This is exactly the point that I believe MRT is trying to make. They are saying that Windows or OSX can be used as a circumvention device to circumvent other people's copyrights protection measures. They are not saying that they are worried about people circumventing Microsoft's or Apple's protections on their own copyrights.
I have not read the DMCA, but it would seem that their interpretation is way, way too broad. The aforementioned technologies do not really work that way out of the box since they require some work on the user's part plus additional software or hardware inputs to use them to circumvent. Also, they also have overwhelming non-infringing uses. So, saying that they are circumvention products is an incredible stretch. By the same logic, they could attack Dell for making general purpose computers or Intel for making general purpose CPU's.
Uh, yes it does. Micrsoft's fiscal year is defined to run from July 1 - June 30. Therefore, fiscal year 2007 started July 2006 and is July, August, September. For an example of this, see this link:
Yes, but property taxes are a different kind of tax. And it is for just what you named, public education (the lion's share), fire, police, etc. It is a tax levied by a municipality or other authority because you own property within their boundaries.
You are not taxed on the value of your home as income (or capital gains) until you sell it. The value may actually go up and down while you own it. Also you may choose to sell it for less than its "estimated" value (quick sale, etc.)
Same goes for stocks - value may go up and down, are not taxed from a income or capital gains standpoint until income is acutally realized.
I think that you'll actually find these cases to be more representative. Income tax is not collected until actual income is realized.
Dude, $80bn -> $250bn is an increase of 312%. It is faulty math like yours that has people convinced that our current national debt is no problem at all.
I think you are forgeting the situation where companies do not want to ownership.
The logging companies do not want to own the National Forests because then they couldn't get the Forest Service to spend all of the taxpayer funded budget building roads for them and would have to spend their own money replanting trees after they clear cut an area.
The mining companies do not want to own the federal lands where they do their open-pit mining because then they couldn't just walk away from an area after they have polluted the groundwater with toxic minerals and have the government responsible for cleaning it up.
Well, let me just speak up and say there is more than one out there. I am a Christian and an engineer, and one in no way impinges upon the other.
Christianity is about faith in what happened and why, not about how it happened.
Scientific investigation examines how it happened. Further investigation and discovery only seeks to clarify the mechanisms and processes in the world around us. It should have no effect on your faith, whether in Christianity or another religion. (I am not talking ID here, that is just a disguised attempt to treat religion as science.)
Portions of the Bible are clearly intended to be taken as generalizations, not an exact decision tree / flow chart. Anyone who does not see this is fooling themselves.
Oh, and you are right about this view being silent, IMHO. Probably because people that have belief system have better things to do than running around trying to impose their will on others.
I don't know the Bull's full motivations, since they are a business after all, but they are not just worried about higher insurance costs, but rather they are worried about him dropping dead on the court. So perhaps they are actually worried about him (and everyone else who is friends and family with him) as well as their bottom line (of course, him dropping dead would not be good for the bottom line either).
But as I understand it, they had offered him $400,000 a year for the next fifty years if he was found to have a heart defect. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051004/sp_nm/nba_curr y_dc
So they weren't exactly leaving him high and dry.
Portability. Same reason that we accept loss in transmission lines of electricity, use other types of energy to create hydrogen, use diesel fuel to truck gasoline out to the various filling stations, etc.
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While embedded software could be included in your above categories, I think it deserves reiteration.
Shiny box software really only installs and runs "effortlessly" on the homogeneous shiny hardware boxes. There is a lot of software that must be reworked / rewritten / reshoehorned / readapted when hardware changes. Cell phones, televisions, cars, mp3 players, etc. to name a few consumer products. Not to mention all kinds of electronic devices used industrially. Even if OSS is used for components or core functionality in these situations, there still is a great deal of work in the adaptation for changing hardware.
Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, is expecting the more stringent authentication system to be successful, as Internet attacks become ever more sophisticated and users with pirated copies of Windows become helpless to stop them.
Should be read as:
Rob Enderle, only analyst with his one man company, ignorant and uninformed quote machine as well as a paid stooge of Microsoft, says whatever they want.
Balanced Budget
Protecting American Jobs
Not being involved in needless foreign wars
Pat Buchanan, a person that some people would acknowledge as conservative, said in his most recent book that all three of those are conservative values.
I must say that "re-inventing the wheel" runs rampant in nearly every company that I have contracted to or worked for as an employee. Wheels are often re-invented within the same company multiple times. So, if the corporate world *does* in fact think that Free Software is a huge joke because of that, then they can't see their own nose in front of their face.
BTW, I am assuming that you meant
NIH (not invented here) rather than
NIMBY (not in my back yard).
Like has been said elsewhere, this is not about traditional farm smells. It is about about what someone else labeled as CAFO's, highly concentrated corporate livestock facilities.
There is an ongoing issue in Iowa, as there probably is in other states, about these facilities. There are additional problems associated with them, including disposal of solid waste generated and contamination of groundwater due to all the animal waste generated in a confined area.
While I am sure that there are issues with people building subdivisions next to farms and then complaining about the smell in various places, this probably is not what this operation is trying to address.
Rather than "kick the common working main in America in the balls", it is probably actually helps the smaller farmer against cooporate feedlot operations.
If the talked about manfacturing cost vs. price numbers for the XBox are to be believed, a slowing in hardware sales of the XBox would BOOST profits for Microsoft.
This is exactly the essence of it. All the GPL does is specify the redistribution rights.
Every copyrighted work that that has the rights retained by the author (unless the the "author" is a corporation) has specified redistribution rights. If not, how would any publishing house be able to publish and sell it?
I tend to agree with earlier statements that they are going for an insanity defense. It's too bad that the penalties for abusing the court system are not more effective. Something like putting them in the stocks in a public square and spanking them.
Do you really think that Microsoft, with their iron-fist, secret licenses to PC manufacturers and the masters of business ass-pounding that they are, would really not leave themselves a clause to pump in more money as needed? Something like a quarterly / annual update fee?
Even if they didn't, they could always say that it was a "secret" part of the contract that couldn't be revealed to anyone.
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This is exactly the point that I believe MRT is trying to make. They are saying that Windows or OSX can be used as a circumvention device to circumvent other people's copyrights protection measures. They are not saying that they are worried about people circumventing Microsoft's or Apple's protections on their own copyrights.
I have not read the DMCA, but it would seem that their interpretation is way, way too broad. The aforementioned technologies do not really work that way out of the box since they require some work on the user's part plus additional software or hardware inputs to use them to circumvent. Also, they also have overwhelming non-infringing uses. So, saying that they are circumvention products is an incredible stretch. By the same logic, they could attack Dell for making general purpose computers or Intel for making general purpose CPU's.
Actual link:m icrosoft_fisca_6.html
http://www.microsoftmonitor.com/archives/2006/10/
Uh, yes it does. Micrsoft's fiscal year is defined to run from July 1 - June 30. Therefore, fiscal year 2007 started July 2006 and is July, August, September. For an example of this, see this link:
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From the linked article:
"This afternoon, Microsoft announced results for its fiscal 2007 first quarter, ended September 30."
So January 1 - March 31, 2006 was their third fiscal quarter for fiscal year 2006.
Yes, but property taxes are a different kind of tax. And it is for just what you named, public education (the lion's share), fire, police, etc. It is a tax levied by a municipality or other authority because you own property within their boundaries.
You are not taxed on the value of your home as income (or capital gains) until you sell it. The value may actually go up and down while you own it. Also you may choose to sell it for less than its "estimated" value (quick sale, etc.)
Same goes for stocks - value may go up and down, are not taxed from a income or capital gains standpoint until income is acutally realized.
I think that you'll actually find these cases to be more representative. Income tax is not collected until actual income is realized.
Dude, $80bn -> $250bn is an increase of 312%. It is faulty math like yours that has people convinced that our current national debt is no problem at all.
when there is competition, there are some winners and some losers.
Don't waste your clicks.
I think you are forgeting the situation where companies do not want to ownership.
The logging companies do not want to own the National Forests because then they couldn't get the Forest Service to spend all of the taxpayer funded budget building roads for them and would have to spend their own money replanting trees after they clear cut an area.
The mining companies do not want to own the federal lands where they do their open-pit mining because then they couldn't just walk away from an area after they have polluted the groundwater with toxic minerals and have the government responsible for cleaning it up.
Workaround -
A button that says:
Buy it... wait... Ok, now
Well, let me just speak up and say there is more than one out there. I am a Christian and an engineer, and one in no way impinges upon the other.
Christianity is about faith in what happened and why, not about how it happened.
Scientific investigation examines how it happened. Further investigation and discovery only seeks to clarify the mechanisms and processes in the world around us. It should have no effect on your faith, whether in Christianity or another religion. (I am not talking ID here, that is just a disguised attempt to treat religion as science.)
Portions of the Bible are clearly intended to be taken as generalizations, not an exact decision tree / flow chart. Anyone who does not see this is fooling themselves.
Oh, and you are right about this view being silent, IMHO. Probably because people that have belief system have better things to do than running around trying to impose their will on others.
I don't know the Bull's full motivations, since they are a business after all, but they are not just worried about higher insurance costs, but rather they are worried about him dropping dead on the court. So perhaps they are actually worried about him (and everyone else who is friends and family with him) as well as their bottom line (of course, him dropping dead would not be good for the bottom line either).
r y_dc
But as I understand it, they had offered him $400,000 a year for the next fifty years if he was found to have a heart defect.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051004/sp_nm/nba_cur
So they weren't exactly leaving him high and dry.
Possession of tools that allow circumventing copy protection mechanisms will be illegal. Even for personal use.
So if some particular copy protection is totally shitty and is defeated by common items, those common items suddenly become contraband?
Unfortunately, coal is a rather dirty alternative and not one I would go to voluntarily.
Portability. Same reason that we accept loss in transmission lines of electricity, use other types of energy to create hydrogen, use diesel fuel to truck gasoline out to the various filling stations, etc.
While embedded software could be included in your above categories, I think it deserves reiteration.
Shiny box software really only installs and runs "effortlessly" on the homogeneous shiny hardware boxes. There is a lot of software that must be reworked / rewritten / reshoehorned / readapted when hardware changes. Cell phones, televisions, cars, mp3 players, etc. to name a few consumer products. Not to mention all kinds of electronic devices used industrially. Even if OSS is used for components or core functionality in these situations, there still is a great deal of work in the adaptation for changing hardware.
Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, is expecting the more stringent authentication system to be successful, as Internet attacks become ever more sophisticated and users with pirated copies of Windows become helpless to stop them.
Should be read as:
Rob Enderle, only analyst with his one man company, ignorant and uninformed quote machine as well as a paid stooge of Microsoft, says whatever they want.
Maybe he's talking about the other head.
"..We simply have to start from the premise that we have to undertake pre-emptive decisions."
Sounds like he means we should use prophylactics. Practice safe computing! Abstinence is not the answer!
Balanced Budget
Protecting American Jobs
Not being involved in needless foreign wars
Pat Buchanan, a person that some people would acknowledge as conservative, said in his most recent book that all three of those are conservative values.
Of course there are WMD there. They found evidence of hydrocarbons there. Better mount an invasion to secure the oil... err- liberate the Titans.
I must say that "re-inventing the wheel" runs rampant in nearly every company that I have contracted to or worked for as an employee. Wheels are often re-invented within the same company multiple times. So, if the corporate world *does* in fact think that Free Software is a huge joke because of that, then they can't see their own nose in front of their face.
BTW, I am assuming that you meant
NIH (not invented here) rather than
NIMBY (not in my back yard).
More likely:
ActiveTrueSearch
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MyDirectSearches
Like has been said elsewhere, this is not about traditional farm smells. It is about about what someone else labeled as CAFO's, highly concentrated corporate livestock facilities.
There is an ongoing issue in Iowa, as there probably is in other states, about these facilities. There are additional problems associated with them, including disposal of solid waste generated and contamination of groundwater due to all the animal waste generated in a confined area.
While I am sure that there are issues with people building subdivisions next to farms and then complaining about the smell in various places, this probably is not what this operation is trying to address.
Rather than "kick the common working main in America in the balls", it is probably actually helps the smaller farmer against cooporate feedlot operations.
If the talked about manfacturing cost vs. price numbers for the XBox are to be believed, a slowing in hardware sales of the XBox would BOOST profits for Microsoft.
This is exactly the essence of it. All the GPL does is specify the redistribution rights.
Every copyrighted work that that has the rights retained by the author (unless the the "author" is a corporation) has specified redistribution rights. If not, how would any publishing house be able to publish and sell it?
I tend to agree with earlier statements that they are going for an insanity defense. It's too bad that the penalties for abusing the court system are not more effective. Something like putting them in the stocks in a public square and spanking them.
Oh come on.
Do you really think that Microsoft, with their iron-fist, secret licenses to PC manufacturers and the masters of business ass-pounding that they are, would really not leave themselves a clause to pump in more money as needed? Something like a quarterly / annual update fee?
Even if they didn't, they could always say that it was a "secret" part of the contract that couldn't be revealed to anyone.
If you go this route and they don't hang up and keep talking, do your rates automatically switch over to $1.99 / minute?