Hmm. Depending on the local laws, that might even be legal, except you are not allowed to seed. You are certainly entitled to scan the book yourself and read the scanned copy, but of course not to distribute it.
Yes, but you will then be in violation of the treaty. If the treaty contains any provisions for punishing for treaty-violation, you may now be punished under the same treaty. If it doesn't.. Well, nothing happens.
The financial system does contribute to society by proving risk-willing capital, that is why it was too big to fail.
The excessive gambling going on inside the system might not be to our benefit however, but all investments are fundamentally speaking gambles, so there is no way to prevent gambling in finance. We can only hope to find mechanisms that will make it safer for the rest of society.
Sales tax is the only useful way to tax companies on. If you taxes revenue, middlemen would mean multiple taxation, by keeping the tax at point-of-sale the tax is only paid once and the cost of it is spread up through price-pressure to all of the involved companies. Tax on profit is even more useless as profit can easily be redefined by accountants, which means ordinary company tax is only paid by small companies with poor accountants.
Or are you under the false assumption sales-tax are meant as a tax on consumers?
Not only does the tax reduce the percentage the price goes up, but it actually also decreased the absolute amount the price went up with. What happens is that the price in Europe is closer to a pain-threshold where consumers stop buying as much, which means the oil-producers has to live with a smaller profit when raw prices goes up. In the US the price is obviously far from the pain threshold which is why the price can up so substantial. In the last few years oil companies have made record high profits in the US, and record low profits in Europe.
Of course the pain threshold in Europe might also be lower because people have realistic alternatives to owning their own car.
Standing in the middle of the road is illegal no matter what zones you have. To violate traffic laws you need permission from the authorities, the question is why it is illegal to demonstrate without breaking traffic laws, by standing on public squares for instance.
Not unlike Game of Throne where 2 of 3 dead main characters have tendency to refuse to stay dead, or more often reveal that their death was grossly exaggerated.
Chrome is no virus, but it is technically speaking spyware, forcing Google to introduce the term badware to replace malware, because malware includes spyware but badware only includes spyware used for id-theft, not spyware used for targeted advertisement.
It is not unique to Italian politics. The former minister of education in Denmark, stated while he was visiting a physics tour for high school students that heavy objects fall faster than light objects. He was the minister for education for more than 10 years.
Of course it hasn't increased. Crime-rate continues to go down, and are like always at the lowest point in the life-span of humanity. On top of that Sweden is a much more safe place than most countries.
That is pretty dum. Here is a question for you: Where should businesses put their clients money? You claim banks does not count as secure, but do you expect businesses to have McScrooge like money-tanks? The best they can do is save the money in the bank.
Btw. unlike what you may think, mattresses are not a magically secure financial storage facility.
The ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round, and could even calculate the size somewhat accurately. This knowledge was not actually forgotten at any time, and sailors can see with the naked eye that the world is round (check the horizon next time you sail on calm waters), and they can see the stars change, and sailors have for millennia used the combination of the stars and the fact that the Earth is round to navigate by.
True, modern coal-plants are much less dangerous than old ones, but the numbers are global, so it includes crappy coal plants, just like it includes crappy nuclear plants. And just like coal plants are safer today, so are nuclear plants. The constant fear surrounding the plants, ensure that even the smallest of leaks are raised to international news, and thus leaks and raised cancer risk is non-existing around plants in the western world.
Feel free to multiply the Chernobyl numbers with 10 or 100, or even 1000. Nuclear power will still end up several magnitudes of power less dangerous than coal.
I almost agree with you. Except, the works was not going to enter public domain in the first place. The song writers already had 70 years copyright, so we were going towards a situation were the song-writers still had copyright, but the performers did not.
All the numbers include disasters. So yes, the nuclear number includes all deaths involved in "plant explosions" (sic) and more importantly the raised cancer risks in the surrounding area (which are much lower than the raised cancer risk around a coal plant).
I wonder what you friend thinks when he has to identify you and other similarly tagged people, next time he changes browser or logs in from a new machine. (I admit that mistake is facebook's too. It just an unbelievably flawed mechanism)
I think one of the points of QML is that it can access Qt objects even ones written in C++ (and vice versa). This means QML can be used to script firefox-style plugins and extensions into any Qt application.
How much is the cost of parts and labor in the parts used? Most electronics have a minimum markup of 1000% on the production cost. The markup is needed to pay for research, if you write off the research you can discount most electronics by 90% and still make a profit.
I see no double standards. Handicapping yourself does not improve the world. If you want it to change you need to play by the rules and work to change it, just ignoring bad rules will not make them go away.
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Hmm. Depending on the local laws, that might even be legal, except you are not allowed to seed. You are certainly entitled to scan the book yourself and read the scanned copy, but of course not to distribute it.
Yes, but you will then be in violation of the treaty. If the treaty contains any provisions for punishing for treaty-violation, you may now be punished under the same treaty. If it doesn't.. Well, nothing happens.
The financial system does contribute to society by proving risk-willing capital, that is why it was too big to fail.
The excessive gambling going on inside the system might not be to our benefit however, but all investments are fundamentally speaking gambles, so there is no way to prevent gambling in finance. We can only hope to find mechanisms that will make it safer for the rest of society.
Sales tax is the only useful way to tax companies on. If you taxes revenue, middlemen would mean multiple taxation, by keeping the tax at point-of-sale the tax is only paid once and the cost of it is spread up through price-pressure to all of the involved companies. Tax on profit is even more useless as profit can easily be redefined by accountants, which means ordinary company tax is only paid by small companies with poor accountants.
Or are you under the false assumption sales-tax are meant as a tax on consumers?
Not only does the tax reduce the percentage the price goes up, but it actually also decreased the absolute amount the price went up with. What happens is that the price in Europe is closer to a pain-threshold where consumers stop buying as much, which means the oil-producers has to live with a smaller profit when raw prices goes up. In the US the price is obviously far from the pain threshold which is why the price can up so substantial. In the last few years oil companies have made record high profits in the US, and record low profits in Europe.
Of course the pain threshold in Europe might also be lower because people have realistic alternatives to owning their own car.
Standing in the middle of the road is illegal no matter what zones you have. To violate traffic laws you need permission from the authorities, the question is why it is illegal to demonstrate without breaking traffic laws, by standing on public squares for instance.
This is why the freedom of speech is usually followed by the freedom to assemble, so you can't make that silly loophole to free speech.
By make a really high estimate for any company that can not or has not let inspectors make a better estimate.
Not unlike Game of Throne where 2 of 3 dead main characters have tendency to refuse to stay dead, or more often reveal that their death was grossly exaggerated.
GoT has invented dark fantasy soap.
Chrome is no virus, but it is technically speaking spyware, forcing Google to introduce the term badware to replace malware, because malware includes spyware but badware only includes spyware used for id-theft, not spyware used for targeted advertisement.
It is not unique to Italian politics. The former minister of education in Denmark, stated while he was visiting a physics tour for high school students that heavy objects fall faster than light objects. He was the minister for education for more than 10 years.
Of course it hasn't increased. Crime-rate continues to go down, and are like always at the lowest point in the life-span of humanity. On top of that Sweden is a much more safe place than most countries.
No, it is not a real problem.
They are just ehm.. "thinking of the children"..
That is pretty dum. Here is a question for you: Where should businesses put their clients money? You claim banks does not count as secure, but do you expect businesses to have McScrooge like money-tanks? The best they can do is save the money in the bank.
Btw. unlike what you may think, mattresses are not a magically secure financial storage facility.
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The ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round, and could even calculate the size somewhat accurately. This knowledge was not actually forgotten at any time, and sailors can see with the naked eye that the world is round (check the horizon next time you sail on calm waters), and they can see the stars change, and sailors have for millennia used the combination of the stars and the fact that the Earth is round to navigate by.
True, modern coal-plants are much less dangerous than old ones, but the numbers are global, so it includes crappy coal plants, just like it includes crappy nuclear plants. And just like coal plants are safer today, so are nuclear plants. The constant fear surrounding the plants, ensure that even the smallest of leaks are raised to international news, and thus leaks and raised cancer risk is non-existing around plants in the western world.
Feel free to multiply the Chernobyl numbers with 10 or 100, or even 1000. Nuclear power will still end up several magnitudes of power less dangerous than coal.
X-COM as a cover-based shooter where you are fighting invading polygons from outer space.
I almost agree with you. Except, the works was not going to enter public domain in the first place. The song writers already had 70 years copyright, so we were going towards a situation were the song-writers still had copyright, but the performers did not.
All the numbers include disasters. So yes, the nuclear number includes all deaths involved in "plant explosions" (sic) and more importantly the raised cancer risks in the surrounding area (which are much lower than the raised cancer risk around a coal plant).
I wonder what you friend thinks when he has to identify you and other similarly tagged people, next time he changes browser or logs in from a new machine. (I admit that mistake is facebook's too. It just an unbelievably flawed mechanism)
I think one of the points of QML is that it can access Qt objects even ones written in C++ (and vice versa). This means QML can be used to script firefox-style plugins and extensions into any Qt application.
I am more concerned about the 'again' part. This story is a 2 year old blog-post. I am pretty sure it was linked too the first time around too.
How much is the cost of parts and labor in the parts used? Most electronics have a minimum markup of 1000% on the production cost. The markup is needed to pay for research, if you write off the research you can discount most electronics by 90% and still make a profit.
I see no double standards. Handicapping yourself does not improve the world. If you want it to change you need to play by the rules and work to change it, just ignoring bad rules will not make them go away.