I say, open the borders, let everybody in, in every profession. It'll depress our wages, but at least it'll keep immigrant workers spending their money in *our* economy, and hopefully some of them will decide to become citizens and come to expect our standards of living.
not really.. most people send every dime they can home as fast as possible.. one way immigrants (permanent or otherwise) manage to start businesses is by being as economical as possible while starting (10 people in a 4 person house) to save on expenses..
so read what you quoted from me "[quote]this has nothing to do with RIAA tactics vs. B&M stores-- it's about allowing a reasonable recovery of costs..[/quote]"
REASONABLE RECOVERY.. and yes, 3 years of PI for 5$ is unreasonable.
I don't disagree that 1 million is reasonable against an individual
-- but I ask you/others to consider
What is reasonable?
there are two prongs to the penalty. 1- to recover costs of protecting intellectual property, make whole the damaged party.
2- to punish those who broke the law-- as a deterrent to others.
I have downloaded in the past large #'s of songs.. I don't do it anymore-- not because music is crap, not because I'm afraid of the RIAA but I've realized, it's just wrong....
200 times might be pretty severe, but $200 as a minimum amount is not.
Let's put it this way. for one song- what do you expect would be the minimum legal costs to the RIAA to track you down? a lawyer, writing a subpeona, filing it, and contacting the ISP, and contacting the individual.
that would be a reasonable minimum per user who is downloading songs.
this has nothing to do with RIAA tactics vs. B&M stores-- it's about allowing a reasonable recovery of costs..
so lets say- 1500 -2500 (we are talking about a national search, not limited to the interior of one store) for cost recovery- not per song-- but per person/IP tracked down. Remember- they are using lawyers, not LP (loss prevention) security guard types--
then we tack on damages as well.
what do you estimate the RIAA's damages for one song to be?
at some point, you have to acknowledge that breaking the law has consequences, and people who own property are entitled to recovery of costs in protecting their property.
I haven't had a run in with the **AA's I have had experience with youthful offender civil crimes.. personal experience and knowledge of the experience of others.
and a little shoplifting can easily cost a few grand.....
it's punitive, and can be reasonable -it is meant to be a deterrent-- it is reasonable to make the financial recompse for a crime more than what the thing is worth at retail
if you shoplift, many state laws allow the store to require recompensation in excess of the item stolen, this to repay the costs of having the security that the thieves make necassary.
reading your comment it would seem the ultimate would be killing EVERYONE- sacraficing yourself so that no one could commit suicide or any other mortal sins--
unlike the rest of the world, I LIKE typing in "my computer" and not having a new window pop open.
I understand the differences about where I am navigating to when I type in \\servername\ or \\localpc\ or \\remotepc\ I'm vpn connected to or//google.com 'control panel' or 'network connections'
or whatever, and still be working in the same damn window..
the whole 'new window based on name' thing drives me up the fraking wall..
they just manage to come across some incomplete records... remnents from the amazing output of the GAO printing office, that indicate where there are 5-6 tons of high precision refined metals buried in the desert,
without knowing why.. so they mine them anyway....
thank you for that link, really.. for all the brevity it intrigues me, I note that about 'display' technology not 'input/digitize' side of things-- but it is the same idea.
It seems to me, for the most part-- things you want to shoot with a 50 megapixle lens, are things that don't move so fast that a sensor capable of XX frames per second -- it would notice the difference..
aren't cmos sensors capable of two images a very small slice of a second apart?
how impossible is it to take a shot- and move the sensor- and reshoot?
imagine a 25 MP sensor mounted with something that expands when a current is applied. take a picture, and apply a smidge of current, and take a picture.
now process the two results into one double resolution pixle picture-- offset just enough of a hair to get double the resolution.
and I do 1.3 million dollars in taxable sales annually in NJ
My accountant tells me this is so, and I don't know where the law is as it applies to sales tax, but I do know where it is shown as required for our new hotel/motel tax http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/index.html?hotelfeeinfo.htm~mainFrame Customer Billing Guidelines: The State Occupancy Fee and the Municipal Occupancy Tax are imposed directly on the customer and must be separately stated on any bill, invoice or other document given to the customer. A vendor may not advertise that the Fee/Tax is not due, that it will pay the Fee/Tax for the customer, or that the Fee/Tax will be refunded to the customer.
about 20 miles & 4 hops apart. 3 TB on one at home, 2TB on the one at work I use the extra on the one at home for my private video collection.
so raid5X2
they are kept in constant sync with vice versa pro (server at both ends) over two comcast commercial connections that are as permanently connected over vpn as I can
they also have the infrant snapshot running
I also have a NICE workgroup scanner at work, and I scan all my crappage (taxes, bills, statements, bills, legal notices, liens, receipts, bills directly into pdf- and that gets mirrored as well.
I can use windows search to look inside the PDF's for anything I need- and my filing system can be a mess.
I atill open photo files randomly all the time knock wood- no issues yet.
once a year, I do back the PHOTOS, not video- up to a good quality dvdr
in case of a fire- the reccomendation to my wife is- grab the kids, get yourself, the turtle, and THAT BOX RIGHT THERE, out the door- and in that order (I broke the clip off the ethernet cable on purpose)
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I say, open the borders, let everybody in, in every profession. It'll depress our wages, but at least it'll keep immigrant workers spending their money in *our* economy, and hopefully some of them will decide to become citizens and come to expect our standards of living.
not really.. most people send every dime they can home as fast as possible..
one way immigrants (permanent or otherwise) manage to start businesses is by being as economical as possible while starting (10 people in a 4 person house) to save on expenses..
imagine the salivations of the UK security forces.
there is a book, 'lacey and his friends' which contains a few short stories about a society with such abilities...
not pleasant.
so read what you quoted from me
"[quote]this has nothing to do with RIAA tactics vs. B&M stores-- it's about allowing a reasonable recovery of costs..[/quote]"
REASONABLE RECOVERY.. and yes, 3 years of PI for 5$ is unreasonable.
apparently they went after someone sharing 39 songs
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=641131&cid=24539829
I don't disagree that 1 million is reasonable against an individual
-- but I ask you/others to consider
What is reasonable?
there are two prongs to the penalty.
1- to recover costs of protecting intellectual property, make whole the damaged party.
2- to punish those who broke the law-- as a deterrent to others.
I have downloaded in the past large #'s of songs.. I don't do it anymore-- not because music is crap, not because I'm afraid of the RIAA
but I've realized, it's just wrong....
200 times might be pretty severe, but $200 as a minimum amount is not.
Let's put it this way.
for one song- what do you expect would be the minimum legal costs to the RIAA to track you down?
a lawyer, writing a subpeona, filing it, and contacting the ISP, and contacting the individual.
that would be a reasonable minimum per user who is downloading songs.
this has nothing to do with RIAA tactics vs. B&M stores-- it's about allowing a reasonable recovery of costs..
so lets say- 1500 -2500 (we are talking about a national search, not limited to the interior of one store) for cost recovery- not per song-- but per person/IP tracked down.
Remember- they are using lawyers, not LP (loss prevention) security guard types--
then we tack on damages as well.
what do you estimate the RIAA's damages for one song to be?
at some point, you have to acknowledge that breaking the law has consequences, and people who own property are entitled to recovery of costs in protecting their property.
I haven't had a run in with the **AA's I have had experience with youthful offender civil crimes.. personal experience and knowledge of the experience of others.
and a little shoplifting can easily cost a few grand.....
it's punitive, and can be reasonable -it is meant to be a deterrent-- it is reasonable to make the financial recompse for a crime more than what the thing is worth at retail
if you shoplift, many state laws allow the store to require recompensation in
excess of the item stolen, this to repay the costs of having the security that the thieves make necassary.
what is the strength of a covalent bond?
a single enclosed molecule might be strong enough...
and suck out all the air (vaccuum) it should lift better than ANYTHING
-- imagine not the lifting power of helium or hydrogen, but the lifting power of vaccuum...
reading your comment it would seem the ultimate would be killing EVERYONE-
sacraficing yourself so that no one could commit suicide or any other mortal sins--
plus all the stuff you mention...
thus they don't need to be open sourced..
unlike the rest of the world, I LIKE typing in
"my computer" and not having a new window pop open.
I understand the differences about where I am navigating to when I type in //google.com
\\servername\ or \\localpc\ or \\remotepc\ I'm vpn connected to or
'control panel' or 'network connections'
or whatever, and still be working in the same damn window..
the whole 'new window based on name' thing drives me up the fraking wall..
they just manage to come across some incomplete records...
remnents from the amazing output of the GAO printing office, that indicate where there are 5-6 tons of high precision refined metals buried in the desert,
without knowing why.. so they mine them anyway....
hmm.. choice one
100 healthy years, 900 years sick
choice two
100 healthy years
hmmmmmm
I refuse to be impressed.
I can create a 2 bit air hockey robot that will lose to everyone but Butters!
thank you for that link, really.. for all the brevity it intrigues me, I note that about 'display' technology not 'input/digitize' side of things-- but it is the same idea.
It seems to me, for the most part-- things you want to shoot with a 50 megapixle lens, are things that don't move so fast that a sensor capable of XX frames per second -- it would notice the difference..
aren't cmos sensors capable of two images a very small slice of a second apart?
H. Beam Piper.
2-3 sequels..
fuzzy sapiens...
a great read- similar to heinline juveniles.
hard to find-- worth the search....
how impossible is it to take a shot- and move the sensor- and reshoot?
imagine a 25 MP sensor mounted with something that expands when a current is applied.
take a picture, and apply a smidge of current, and take a picture.
now process the two results into one double resolution pixle picture-- offset just enough of a hair to get double the resolution.
now factor in anti-virus over three years..
210-150= 60$
$60/3=20
so 20$ a year gets antivirus.. (not my choice of antivirus, but still)
especially spyware with names like
resume.doc.com
and I do 1.3 million dollars in taxable sales annually in NJ
My accountant tells me this is so, and I don't know where the law is as it applies to sales tax, but I do know where it is shown as required for our new hotel/motel tax
http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/index.html?hotelfeeinfo.htm~mainFrame
Customer Billing Guidelines: The State Occupancy Fee and the Municipal Occupancy Tax are imposed directly on the customer and must be separately stated on any bill, invoice or other document given to the customer. A vendor may not advertise that the Fee/Tax is not due, that it will pay the Fee/Tax for the customer, or that the Fee/Tax will be refunded to the customer.
it's illegal here to pay the tax on behalf of the buyer.
you MUST COLLECT or face penalties or fines.
about 20 miles & 4 hops apart.
3 TB on one at home, 2TB on the one at work
I use the extra on the one at home for my private video collection.
so raid5X2
they are kept in constant sync with vice versa pro
(server at both ends) over two comcast commercial connections that are as permanently connected over vpn as I can
they also have the infrant snapshot running
I also have a NICE workgroup scanner at work, and I scan all my crappage (taxes, bills, statements, bills, legal notices, liens, receipts, bills directly into pdf- and that gets mirrored as well.
I can use windows search to look inside the PDF's for anything I need- and my filing system can be a mess.
I atill open photo files randomly all the time knock wood- no issues yet.
once a year, I do back the PHOTOS, not video- up to a good quality dvdr
in case of a fire- the reccomendation to my wife is- grab the kids, get yourself, the turtle, and THAT BOX RIGHT THERE, out the door- and in that order
(I broke the clip off the ethernet cable on purpose)
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run your house cooling lines right into the trunk baby....
70 degrees sounds kinda sweet-- better than running the rods 150 feet underground...
can take the pressure off of hundreds of other women