We do pay federal taxes, yes. But those aren't being allocated to fund this bill. Some of us pay state taxes, but one would think that the states would be the ones to decide how to use the money they collect. A lot of people have a problem with the federal government mandating how states will spend the tax money they collect.
Yes, but if you're the one who sees a need for improvement, you need to be able to pay for it. You don't just walk up to people and say, "hey, I need you to redo your entire process, now go find the money for it".
It's not just the physical ID requirements. There's a huge cost associated with training staff on the new document requirements. Even moreso, there's a large section of the RealID act that would require the state to build, staff, and maintain massive data centers that can interface with the rest of the system. The requirements for those parts of the system are extremely strict, and would cost a whole lot of money. The actual cost of phasing in a new look for the licenses is not the worst part by any means.
Honestly, even if you have an HDTV the PS2 is pretty cool. Most games out in the past couple years support widescreen with progressive scan, which looks pretty damn nice on my 32".
That brings up an interesting problem, though. Less motivated students are prone to ripping off large sections of text books. So would putting their work up on wikipedia end up being more damaging than helpful? (Of course, that assumes that WP is mostly free of plagiarism in the first place).
Nowhere on the box did it say, "Requires Steam to be run." So you can imagine my surprise when I tried to install the game and it tried to install Steam instead. I PURCHASED the fracking thing; I have the shiny pressed disc in my hands. Yet they have the audacity to tell me that I need *THEIR* permission to play it whenever I want to.
I tried to take it back to store, but like most places they would only do exchanges on opened software.
In this case, the law is actually on the side of the consumer. If the product is mis-represented in the store and there are aspects of it which you can't reasonably know about until after the purchase, they're required to take the product back. If they won't, it's quite easy and legal to reverse the charge on your credit card (provided you used one to make the purchase in the first place).
Fair enough. I guess I'm used to the "get off my damn lawn" of "get off my damn lawn" complaints, in that I am still annoyed by people "friending" passing acquaintances rather than actual "friends".
Not even CLOSE to true, at least not among my crowd (young college graduates). Everyone adds everyone whose name they remember from high school, people that they meet twice in passing at a company event, etc.
Yeah, one failure means it's completely pointless to try to maintain a well-educated society. You should go ask Africa how well that's working out for them.
You deal with it every time you interact with another person. You deal with it every day you come home and your house hasn't been burglarized, whether you're prepared to "defend it yourself or not".
You're asking if RADIOHEAD had shelf space for earlier CDs? Radiohead. The band whose albums typically place in those "top 25 albums of all time" lists you find from various sources. The band who has been copied ridiculously many times in the last decade. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they got a lot of press just for making damn fine music. Not everyone successful gets that way by buying face time. Some of them genuinely deserve it.
When you're talking about massive loss of life while testing armed robots that the military wants to turn loose on the world, sometimes humor is the only way to deal with reality.
Virtually no restaurant in the entire US provides ISO 3103 compliant tea (although they no longer make it with salt water).
There's probably a good reason for that. Likely:
This standard is not meant to define the only proper method for brewing tea, but rather how to brew tea "for use in sensory tests". An example of such test is a taste-test to establish which blend of teas to choose for a particular brand in order to maintain a consistent tasting brewed drink from harvest to harvest.
I suspect they're working under the old, "If you say something enough times it becomes true" assumption. There's no other explanation; they have to know that they're absolutely wrong.
...and I guess that somebody should tell Sony about a little legal detail called Fair Use.
Oh, they know. In fact, towards the end of the article, the crazy lady says something along the lines of "just because there's no mechanism to prevent format shifting doesn't mean we've authorized it as fair use".
I'm pretty sure that if CD means "Compact Disk", the plural of the acronym is CDs... you're not really dropping letters, they're just folded up in the acronym.
What happened is economic disparity between countries. It's cheaper to employ people elsewhere, because they get paid less relative to workers in the US. It's like asking why there are no electronics manufacturing plants in downtown Manhattan, but on a global scale.
This leaves a lower-middle class living standard for a family with one kid, with enough left over for annual unexpected costs.
The problem, of course, is that you're doing these calculations with the assumption that this family is going to live below their means. That's not something most people in this country do, anymore.
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We do pay federal taxes, yes. But those aren't being allocated to fund this bill. Some of us pay state taxes, but one would think that the states would be the ones to decide how to use the money they collect. A lot of people have a problem with the federal government mandating how states will spend the tax money they collect.
Yes, but if you're the one who sees a need for improvement, you need to be able to pay for it. You don't just walk up to people and say, "hey, I need you to redo your entire process, now go find the money for it".
It's not just the physical ID requirements. There's a huge cost associated with training staff on the new document requirements. Even moreso, there's a large section of the RealID act that would require the state to build, staff, and maintain massive data centers that can interface with the rest of the system. The requirements for those parts of the system are extremely strict, and would cost a whole lot of money. The actual cost of phasing in a new look for the licenses is not the worst part by any means.
Honestly, even if you have an HDTV the PS2 is pretty cool. Most games out in the past couple years support widescreen with progressive scan, which looks pretty damn nice on my 32".
Not true. There's Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails (well, sort of), and certainly more to follow.
That brings up an interesting problem, though. Less motivated students are prone to ripping off large sections of text books. So would putting their work up on wikipedia end up being more damaging than helpful? (Of course, that assumes that WP is mostly free of plagiarism in the first place).
Fair enough. I guess I'm used to the "get off my damn lawn" of "get off my damn lawn" complaints, in that I am still annoyed by people "friending" passing acquaintances rather than actual "friends".
You might want to read all of the comment you're responding to before ranting about people not reading things...
Yeah, one failure means it's completely pointless to try to maintain a well-educated society. You should go ask Africa how well that's working out for them.
You're asking if RADIOHEAD had shelf space for earlier CDs? Radiohead. The band whose albums typically place in those "top 25 albums of all time" lists you find from various sources. The band who has been copied ridiculously many times in the last decade. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they got a lot of press just for making damn fine music. Not everyone successful gets that way by buying face time. Some of them genuinely deserve it.
Here's hoping they'll charge ridiculously inflated rates that will keep the majority of people from using this.
When you're talking about massive loss of life while testing armed robots that the military wants to turn loose on the world, sometimes humor is the only way to deal with reality.
Actually, the jury can overturn a law from the bench. It's rare, but it happens.
I suspect they're working under the old, "If you say something enough times it becomes true" assumption. There's no other explanation; they have to know that they're absolutely wrong.
It's not even close to that point, aside from southern California and parts of Texas and New Mexico.
Nobody wants to change to that because it's ugly as hell.
I'm pretty sure that if CD means "Compact Disk", the plural of the acronym is CDs... you're not really dropping letters, they're just folded up in the acronym.
What happened is economic disparity between countries. It's cheaper to employ people elsewhere, because they get paid less relative to workers in the US. It's like asking why there are no electronics manufacturing plants in downtown Manhattan, but on a global scale.
Maybe they share that view, but chose to release the code anyway...