This seems like an opportunity to repeal this ridiculous tax. I might use a photocopier to photocopy a book. Should the publishing industry get royalties? I might use silly putty to lift comic strips from the newspaper. Should the silly putty people be forced to send money to the creator of Hi and Lois?
This screws the little guy. If a person is injured by a large corporation and sues, the large corp pulls in its team of expensive lawyer, and the victim is now in the position of either winning a million or owing a million if the judge is a friend of a friend of the company or uses their shampoo, or whatever.
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There's no way any intelligent company or admin would adopt a system that puts Microsoft in control of global messaging.
Hmmmm, "Intelligent company or admin". Maybe the government is its first target...
We need to get an administration in that's serious about anti-trust. This is as Rockefellerian (to coin a term) as it gets.
I'm not saying Kerry is it, but it sure as heck isn't the Bush Jr. administration that's going to hold Microsoft's feet to the fire. Do we HAVE to rely on the EU to do our dirty work?
This problem needs solving. But the fact there is a problem does not eliminate the need for the service.
Add a geographic tag of some sort to the wireless standard for stations that pick up your signal that tell any VOIP operator what 911 district you'e in.
Extensions are needed for roaming and handoff anyway. Add this in.
"The truth was sometimes arbitrarily chosen and sometimes outright false"
Like denying global warning?
"biology professors were forced to teach this theory despite the obvious holes in it"
Like creationism being taught in our school districts?
We don't yet threaten scientists lives, but we sure as hell threaten their funding and livelihoods. Try being a medical researcher or high-energy physicist who's not working directly towards a patentable product. You are almost certainly going to rely on the government for funding and if you're working on a controversial topic, they are going to try to direct your research.
I may have a "vast wealth of ignorance" but I also have the balls to stand behind my words. Come out from behind the coward cloak and defend yours.
Like the Patriot Act that's not patriotic, this is not a fair tax.
No business to business transactions are taxed? Used items are not taxed? I think I just found two loopholes large enough to drive a corporate jet through.
It won't be used against CEO's or other wealthy tax dodgers. This system, like all the other ones out there will be aimed at Joe Q. Middle-Class.
Read "Perfectly Legal" by David Cay Johnston to see how both parties have ensured that their wealthy donors get all the breaks while we pick up the tab.
I can only read a chapter at a time because the book makes me so angry.
We stopped a lot of bitching by weighing the bags the whiners were using and replacing them with lightweight bags with almost no storage space beyond the laptop itself.
Complaints stopped, and the execs had to carry more bags and more total weight to bring all the crap they brought before.
No let's get started how if I were the one encrypting, which I would be, if they were voices in MY head, I would need the private key to do so.
Decrypting would need the public key. It's a private joke, pal.
And then let's talk about how you don't have the balls to post as anything but an AC.
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Screw that.
This screws the little guy. If a person is injured by a large corporation and sues, the large corp pulls in its team of expensive lawyer, and the victim is now in the position of either winning a million or owing a million if the judge is a friend of a friend of the company or uses their shampoo, or whatever.
Hmmmm, "Intelligent company or admin". Maybe the government is its first target...
More like a stack of newspapers.
Oh crap, I gave all my computers to the Boy Scouts' paper drive!
I'm not saying Kerry is it, but it sure as heck isn't the Bush Jr. administration that's going to hold Microsoft's feet to the fire. Do we HAVE to rely on the EU to do our dirty work?
Actually, my comment was posted before the Chrysler story came up.
Maybe I can buy an alternator or some floormats from them...
If they don't cave, I know where I'm buying my next car.
Parent is not flamebait. Mod is a poopy-head.
Add a geographic tag of some sort to the wireless standard for stations that pick up your signal that tell any VOIP operator what 911 district you'e in.
Extensions are needed for roaming and handoff anyway. Add this in.
We're not talking issues of free commerce here, we're talking about people's lives.
I'm sorry, is this the same nutfree coward or a new one? I can't tell.
Like denying global warning?
"biology professors were forced to teach this theory despite the obvious holes in it"
Like creationism being taught in our school districts? We don't yet threaten scientists lives, but we sure as hell threaten their funding and livelihoods. Try being a medical researcher or high-energy physicist who's not working directly towards a patentable product. You are almost certainly going to rely on the government for funding and if you're working on a controversial topic, they are going to try to direct your research.
I may have a "vast wealth of ignorance" but I also have the balls to stand behind my words. Come out from behind the coward cloak and defend yours.
If I was trying to bait, it would have been much more flame-y than that.
Good job, shrub.
No business to business transactions are taxed? Used items are not taxed? I think I just found two loopholes large enough to drive a corporate jet through.
Read "Perfectly Legal" by David Cay Johnston to see how both parties have ensured that their wealthy donors get all the breaks while we pick up the tab.
I can only read a chapter at a time because the book makes me so angry.
Complaints stopped, and the execs had to carry more bags and more total weight to bring all the crap they brought before.
Man, are people annoying.
Is he any relation to E.L. Doctrow, the late author of Ragtime?
Lighten the fuck up.
Where else would you put it?
Touche.
And then let's talk about how you don't have the balls to post as anything but an AC.
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Preach it, brother.