I'm sure you'll be pleased to learn that Amazon does indeed collect local taxes, and always has. I live a few blocks from their headquarters, and can assure you that they they do collect local taxes in the municipality that they are in. That problem is completely solved, they are and have always been in full compliance! They do, in fact, pay sales tax just like any other business.
It's not, however, what this article is about. It's absurd to expect that they should act as tax for some other area, and they don't. Do you expect all brick and mortar stores to begin requiring all customers to declare the location of their residence and to collect the sales tax amount for that locale? That's the equivalent of this.
The complete text is online, the word God appears only three times, two of which are in a quotation of Bacon on page ii before the title page. The only appearance of the word God in the actual text is:
He who believes that each equine species was independently created, will, I presume, assert that each species has been created with a tendency to vary, both under nature and under domestication, in this particular manner, so as often to become striped like other species of the genus; and that each has been created with a strong tendency, when crossed with species inhabiting distant quarters of the world, to produce hybrids resembling in their stripes, not their own parents, but other species of the genus. To admit this view is, as it seems to me, to reject a real for an unreal, or at least for an unknown, cause. It makes the works of God a mere mockery and deception; I would almost as soon believe with the old and ignorant cosmogonists, that fossil shells had never lived, but had been created in stone so as to mock the shells now living on the sea-shore.
... which is not exactly an expression of faith. Darwin did have deist beliefs at the time of the writing, which is reflected by his frequent references to a Creator, but that Creator is not necessarily theistic God.
No, I don't have to admit that, because it's blatantly false.
George W. Bush did not give an interview to the New York Times between Jan. 27, 2005 through the end of his second term. About the New York Times he said in June 2006, "The disclosure of this program is disgraceful. For people to leak that program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of America. It makes it harder to win this war on terror."
Cayanne8 does not recognize the blatant antagonism that the Bush administration had for the New York Times, doesn't that strike you as a little odd?
As an aside, does it not strike you as a little odd that cayenne8 did not deny that he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990?
Well, perhaps you haven't looked very hard, here's a news story from last month. In this case, "An inquest in Denbigh yesterday heard how the items were inspected by independent electrician Mike Redfern-Jones, who found no obvious faults."
The article is correct by order of discovery- it was the 45th Mersenne prime to be discovered (on August 23, 2008.) Two smaller Mersenne primes were discovered later, on September 6, 2008 and April 12, 2009, which are also included in the Wikipedia table.
It's legal as long as they don't make a false claim that they're selling you that content, such as by advertising it as being part of the purchase. If they claim they're selling you particular content, and then don't abide by First Sale Doctrine with respect to that content, then they are either A) not actually selling you a copy and thus are guilty of false advertising or B) selling you a copy and thus are guilty of violating the First Sale Doctrine. Advertising such as this press release that promotes the product as including content that is not transferrable is very much in a grey area, if not a blatant violation.
I'll take it as "lack of knowledge of the law" with some suspicion of "lying".
In the case of the golem party member, if you had a picture of it on the box- if it was formally part of the product being purchased- the Fair Use Doctrine would apply, and possession of it would be required to be transferable or indeed you would be guilty of false advertising. As it is, my understanding is that the purchaser is not "buying" this once only DLC, but is giving it to the buyer "for free" along with the game, in order not to trigger Fair Use. That's not compatible with advertising it as part of the game.
This strategy allows the publisher to more effectively circumvent the First Sale Doctrine.
The first-sale doctrine is a limitation on copyright that was recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1908 and subsequently codified in the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. Â 109. The doctrine allows the purchaser to transfer (i.e., sell or give away) a particular lawfully made copy of the copyrighted work without permission once it has been obtained.
At the same time it brings to point a thought that one of the problems with popular Sci-Fi is that it misses on potential of "stuff" "out-there" (space) being wilder and different (including life) than we've yet to imagine.
So, uh, they should write about things no one has imagined yet? Nice trick, that would be. There are "out-there" hard science fiction novels (e.g. Dragon's Egg) but they're usually not popular.
That's by design. This is a common thread through treaties at least as far back as the St. Petersburg Declaration of 1868, in which "the delegates agreed to prohibit the use of less deadly explosives that might merely injure the combatants and thereby create prolonged suffering of such combatants."
It has long been true that it is much more detrimental to an enemy to cripple a soldier than to kill one, but even by the standards of 19th century warfare it was thought to be immoral to design weapons to do so. Perhaps this seems callous with respect to individual soldiers, but they were not nearly as important to the treaty signers as national economies- large numbers of crippled veterans are not profitable.
Well, since we're quoting the Constitution - Article 1, Section 8: The Congress shall have power... To declare war...
The last time the Congress exercised its power to declare war was June 5, 1942. Thankfully, we've been at peace since World War II ended, albeit with a few military engagements that were not declared Wars per the Constitution.
Drive without car insurance? Not a problem! That's 100% legal.
Of course, you wouldn't be able to drive on public roads or public land... those do require it in most states. Just stay on private property with the permission of the owner(s) and you'll be fine. You won't even need to license the car!
NZ also has a fine counter-alien task force, the Astro Investigation and Defence Service, as shown in the Peter Jackson documentary, Bad Taste. They drove a Morris Minor.
I must quibble- although Heinlein's short story "The Roads Must Roll"(1940) did not specify a setting date in its text, it was set in the same continuity in and occured prior to "The Man who Sold the Moon"(1949), which was set in the then-future of 1978. So, the strike (and associated terrorist activity) was to have been in the then-future 1960s or 1970s, not in 2050.
Marketing directed to doctors is very active in both the US and in other first world countries. Certainly there is more marketing directly to consumers in the US, but marketing by drug companies is hardly exclusive to the US.
For the price and upkeep of 1,000 CCTV cameras I would expect that one could deploy at least one additional meat-based law inforcement unit complete with two eyes. This creature, that we'll call a 'police officer', might be expected to solve more than one crime per year.
Absolutely I would hate to see the limited government dollars allocated for police protection squandered on inefficient ways such as CCTV.
Except, of course, that Hitler was a Catholic. He was baptized, served as an altar boy. His early poilitical campaigns were run as a crusade against the "godless movement." He wrote in Mien Kampf, ""I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews. I am doing the Lord's work." He was quoted in 1941, "I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."
Campaigning against the "godless movement" was how Hitler got his political start, do you really want to follow his example?
Both of these systems are based on volume of fuel - mass of fuel would be a fairer comparison. Measuring by volume makes diesel engines appear more efficient, simply because diesel fuel is denser. More mass of diesel fuel will fit in a liter or gallon than of gasoline.
Using your dictionary of choice, Webster's includes in its definition of Atheism both 2a: a disbelief in the existence of deity and 2b: the doctrine that there is no deity
Many athiests use the 2a definition and are not religious.
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And they do! Every order shipped to the State of Washington from Amazon pays the appropriate local tax.
Of course, Amazon does not and should not have to collect taxes on the behalf of other states.
I'm sure you'll be pleased to learn that Amazon does indeed collect local taxes, and always has. I live a few blocks from their headquarters, and can assure you that they they do collect local taxes in the municipality that they are in. That problem is completely solved, they are and have always been in full compliance! They do, in fact, pay sales tax just like any other business.
It's not, however, what this article is about. It's absurd to expect that they should act as tax for some other area, and they don't. Do you expect all brick and mortar stores to begin requiring all customers to declare the location of their residence and to collect the sales tax amount for that locale? That's the equivalent of this.
He who believes that each equine species was independently created, will, I presume, assert that each species has been created with a tendency to vary, both under nature and under domestication, in this particular manner, so as often to become striped like other species of the genus; and that each has been created with a strong tendency, when crossed with species inhabiting distant quarters of the world, to produce hybrids resembling in their stripes, not their own parents, but other species of the genus. To admit this view is, as it seems to me, to reject a real for an unreal, or at least for an unknown, cause. It makes the works of God a mere mockery and deception; I would almost as soon believe with the old and ignorant cosmogonists, that fossil shells had never lived, but had been created in stone so as to mock the shells now living on the sea-shore.
... which is not exactly an expression of faith.
Darwin did have deist beliefs at the time of the writing, which is reflected by his frequent references to a Creator, but that Creator is not necessarily theistic God.
No, I don't have to admit that, because it's blatantly false.
George W. Bush did not give an interview to the New York Times between Jan. 27, 2005 through the end of his second term. About the New York Times he said in June 2006, "The disclosure of this program is disgraceful. For people to leak that program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of America. It makes it harder to win this war on terror."
Cayanne8 does not recognize the blatant antagonism that the Bush administration had for the New York Times, doesn't that strike you as a little odd?
As an aside, does it not strike you as a little odd that cayenne8 did not deny that he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990?
Well, perhaps you haven't looked very hard, here's a news story from last month. In this case, "An inquest in Denbigh yesterday heard how the items were inspected by independent electrician Mike Redfern-Jones, who found no obvious faults."
The article is correct by order of discovery- it was the 45th Mersenne prime to be discovered (on August 23, 2008.) Two smaller Mersenne primes were discovered later, on September 6, 2008 and April 12, 2009, which are also included in the Wikipedia table.
It's legal as long as they don't make a false claim that they're selling you that content, such as by advertising it as being part of the purchase. If they claim they're selling you particular content, and then don't abide by First Sale Doctrine with respect to that content, then they are either A) not actually selling you a copy and thus are guilty of false advertising or B) selling you a copy and thus are guilty of violating the First Sale Doctrine. Advertising such as this press release that promotes the product as including content that is not transferrable is very much in a grey area, if not a blatant violation.
I'll take it as "lack of knowledge of the law" with some suspicion of "lying".
In the case of the golem party member, if you had a picture of it on the box- if it was formally part of the product being purchased- the Fair Use Doctrine would apply, and possession of it would be required to be transferable or indeed you would be guilty of false advertising. As it is, my understanding is that the purchaser is not "buying" this once only DLC, but is giving it to the buyer "for free" along with the game, in order not to trigger Fair Use. That's not compatible with advertising it as part of the game.
Apologia all you want.
This strategy allows the publisher to more effectively circumvent the First Sale Doctrine.
The first-sale doctrine is a limitation on copyright that was recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1908 and subsequently codified in the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. Â 109. The doctrine allows the purchaser to transfer (i.e., sell or give away) a particular lawfully made copy of the copyrighted work without permission once it has been obtained.
At the same time it brings to point a thought that one of the problems with popular Sci-Fi is that it misses on potential of "stuff" "out-there" (space) being wilder and different (including life) than we've yet to imagine.
So, uh, they should write about things no one has imagined yet? Nice trick, that would be. There are "out-there" hard science fiction novels (e.g. Dragon's Egg) but they're usually not popular.
That's by design. This is a common thread through treaties at least as far back as the St. Petersburg Declaration of 1868, in which "the delegates agreed to prohibit the use of less deadly explosives that might merely injure the combatants and thereby create prolonged suffering of such combatants."
It has long been true that it is much more detrimental to an enemy to cripple a soldier than to kill one, but even by the standards of 19th century warfare it was thought to be immoral to design weapons to do so. Perhaps this seems callous with respect to individual soldiers, but they were not nearly as important to the treaty signers as national economies- large numbers of crippled veterans are not profitable.
Well, since we're quoting the Constitution - Article 1, Section 8: The Congress shall have power ... To declare war...
The last time the Congress exercised its power to declare war was June 5, 1942. Thankfully, we've been at peace since World War II ended, albeit with a few military engagements that were not declared Wars per the Constitution.
Drive without car insurance? Not a problem! That's 100% legal.
Of course, you wouldn't be able to drive on public roads or public land... those do require it in most states. Just stay on private property with the permission of the owner(s) and you'll be fine. You won't even need to license the car!
NZ also has a fine counter-alien task force, the Astro Investigation and Defence Service, as shown in the Peter Jackson documentary, Bad Taste. They drove a Morris Minor.
The modest proposal of separating children from those most likely to harm them was examined in detail by South Park.
I must quibble- although Heinlein's short story "The Roads Must Roll"(1940) did not specify a setting date in its text, it was set in the same continuity in and occured prior to "The Man who Sold the Moon"(1949), which was set in the then-future of 1978. So, the strike (and associated terrorist activity) was to have been in the then-future 1960s or 1970s, not in 2050.
Marketing directed to doctors is very active in both the US and in other first world countries. Certainly there is more marketing directly to consumers in the US, but marketing by drug companies is hardly exclusive to the US.
For the price and upkeep of 1,000 CCTV cameras I would expect that one could deploy at least one additional meat-based law inforcement unit complete with two eyes. This creature, that we'll call a 'police officer', might be expected to solve more than one crime per year.
Absolutely I would hate to see the limited government dollars allocated for police protection squandered on inefficient ways such as CCTV.
Except, of course, that Hitler was a Catholic. He was baptized, served as an altar boy. His early poilitical campaigns were run as a crusade against the "godless movement." He wrote in Mien Kampf, ""I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews. I am doing the Lord's work." He was quoted in 1941, "I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."
Campaigning against the "godless movement" was how Hitler got his political start, do you really want to follow his example?
Ah, a Literacy test. What could go wrong?
You measure temperature in Kelvins. Temperature 1 is 150 times as many Kelvins as temperature 2.
Nah, it just took them 10 minutes to compile.
Both of these systems are based on volume of fuel - mass of fuel would be a fairer comparison. Measuring by volume makes diesel engines appear more efficient, simply because diesel fuel is denser. More mass of diesel fuel will fit in a liter or gallon than of gasoline.
atheism - noun
2. disbelief in the existence of a supreme being or beings. - Random House Dictionary
Trying to claim an entire group of people believe something that most of them don't in order to use it as an attack point just makes you an ass.
Using your dictionary of choice, Webster's includes in its definition of Atheism both
2a: a disbelief in the existence of deity and
2b: the doctrine that there is no deity
Many athiests use the 2a definition and are not religious.