Creative Professionals needs to make a living, however the price of their ideas have reached free. So we need to really think of how to reward creative professionals.
Or we need to ask whether our society does indeed owe a living to "creative professionals".
I would agree with such a tax but only if there were an exemption for various large corporations like Disney, Universal, Time Warner, etc. (as well as any company or individual that could make a large enough donation to Washington politicians) from having to pay it.
Unfortunately, I can't see something like this being passed by today's congress.
But that's in principle. In practice somehow it turns out to be managed by complete morons that even after getting involved in the center of a huge scandal, still manage to show amazing incompetence and disregard for public safety
Remember that you're looking at the worst example in today's nuclear industry - don't ask me how TEPCO manages to be such a bunch of incompetent morons, but France, the UK, China, India, and (these days) Russia for example have nuclear power pretty well licked, safety-wise. No major problems for decades. US nuclear power is probably worse because US nuclear politics (actually, US politics in general) is so dysfunctional.
If you didn't like that, you should've paid more attention when they removed the "tabs on bottom" functionality against the will of large numbers of long-time users. That's when I switched to SeaMonkey.
Out of interest, why do you think a company that would have to be so regulated most of its behaviour would be dictated by government would be any better than just having the government flat-out run it?
Do you seriously think a new company would have the resources to lay new cable to millions of homes? What about 2 new companies, or 3? This would be ridiculous redundancy, like laying 3 or 4 roads down parallel to each other. Don't you see that? Telephony infrastructure is a natural monopoly and should therefore be in the hands of the government for the common good. Even phone lines and cable are basically redundant; every home should have one high-speed "data line" whose services can be provided by any company but whose infrastructure should be managed by the only entity that stands a chance of not fucking people over, the government (yeah, I did say a *chance*).
The Windows desktop is extremely popular, and you think becoming more of a Windows clone is the problem? Windows GUI is pretty well-designed. The problem is they totally fucked up GNOME 3 and programming GUIs in C without any decent dev tools is not exactly fun.
it is easier, cheaper, quicker and garners more positive publicity for the politicians involved to get the ISP to block something (anything, does not really matter what, as long as something is blocked) than it is to actually tackle the underlying problem and catch the child abusers.
This isn't even blocking child porn - it's blocking ALL porn because the prime minister is on a Victorianesque moral crusade to prevent people children from seeing nipples. It really sucks that this country has come to this.
PS. The bolded 'people' above should be strikethrough but Slashdot doesn't seem to allow strikethrough.
Really, take an hour-long walk and think about the big picture. You'll realise most idiocies today boil down to either money or religion; money is one we can choose to get rid of, or at least minimise its importance
Why can money be gotten rid of any easier than religion (or vice-versa)?
I've never understood why, when you get an Android app update and the permissions are changed, it goes ahead and lists ALL the app's permissions again rather than just the new ones. And they are so vague as well, like "access to the network" or something. In practice, I just ignore the permission requirements, rendering the system totally worthless.
On the contrary. There are plenty of prefixes after quad- (quint-, sext-, sept-, oct-, etc.) which almost never get used. Even quadrillion is very rare. The long scale needlessly wastes these prefixes and confusingly (IMHO) alternates two suffixes.
surprisingly all four are non-English words including . ("Web" in Arabic); . ("Game" in Chinese); . ("Online" in Russian); and . ("Web site" in Russian).
That's an amazing co-incidence that all those languages use a mere full stop to mean different things!
Of course they're at war. This is one of the most incompetent and scientifically illiterate governments in living memory. It's packed full of lunatic ideologues like Ian Duncan Smith and Teresa May who sideline professional academic advice time and time again in favour of their own prejudices [guardian.co.uk] stupidity [independent.co.uk] and ignorance
And virtually everyone commenting on this issue (and there are LOTS of them, even on the BBC website which might be considered more "representative" of the average UK citizen than Slashdot) think the government are a bunch of pricks for wanting this.
SO WHY THE FUCKING HELL DO PEOPLE KEEP VOTING TORY AT THE GENERAL ELECTIONS?!
The phrase "not guilty" is a very unfortunate one in common law. We really should say "not proven", because "not guilty" really does sound synonymous with "innocent", which it isn't.
If you're using the thing recreationally you can store them on a gun club's premesis. The only vaguely decent argument about having them in your house is the self-defence one. Face it; the real reason "recreational" gun users want the things in their homes is so they can stroke them as if it's their penis.
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First, Obama "welcomed" a discussion. Then, he got caught lying with "the nobody is reading your emails" line.
Out of interest, in what way did he get caught on that? I thought he claimed the email recording was just metadata.
Creative Professionals needs to make a living, however the price of their ideas have reached free. So we need to really think of how to reward creative professionals.
Or we need to ask whether our society does indeed owe a living to "creative professionals".
I would agree with such a tax but only if there were an exemption for various large corporations like Disney, Universal, Time Warner, etc. (as well as any company or individual that could make a large enough donation to Washington politicians) from having to pay it.
Unfortunately, I can't see something like this being passed by today's congress.
But that's in principle. In practice somehow it turns out to be managed by complete morons that even after getting involved in the center of a huge scandal, still manage to show amazing incompetence and disregard for public safety
Remember that you're looking at the worst example in today's nuclear industry - don't ask me how TEPCO manages to be such a bunch of incompetent morons, but France, the UK, China, India, and (these days) Russia for example have nuclear power pretty well licked, safety-wise. No major problems for decades. US nuclear power is probably worse because US nuclear politics (actually, US politics in general) is so dysfunctional.
If you didn't like that, you should've paid more attention when they removed the "tabs on bottom" functionality against the will of large numbers of long-time users. That's when I switched to SeaMonkey.
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Since the cold war? :-)
Then the question has to be asked: if that's the case, what is the difference between a President and a King?)
A King gets to do it his whole life but a president only gets to do it for 4 or 8 years. :-)
Last-mile providers would be a regulated monopoly
Out of interest, why do you think a company that would have to be so regulated most of its behaviour would be dictated by government would be any better than just having the government flat-out run it?
Do you seriously think a new company would have the resources to lay new cable to millions of homes? What about 2 new companies, or 3? This would be ridiculous redundancy, like laying 3 or 4 roads down parallel to each other. Don't you see that? Telephony infrastructure is a natural monopoly and should therefore be in the hands of the government for the common good. Even phone lines and cable are basically redundant; every home should have one high-speed "data line" whose services can be provided by any company but whose infrastructure should be managed by the only entity that stands a chance of not fucking people over, the government (yeah, I did say a *chance*).
Hah, I kind of assumed banks would at least ban people from using the most obvious combinations like 1234 or 1111!
The Windows desktop is extremely popular, and you think becoming more of a Windows clone is the problem? Windows GUI is pretty well-designed. The problem is they totally fucked up GNOME 3 and programming GUIs in C without any decent dev tools is not exactly fun.
it is easier, cheaper, quicker and garners more positive publicity for the politicians involved to get the ISP to block something (anything, does not really matter what, as long as something is blocked) than it is to actually tackle the underlying problem and catch the child abusers.
This isn't even blocking child porn - it's blocking ALL porn because the prime minister is on a Victorianesque moral crusade to prevent people children from seeing nipples. It really sucks that this country has come to this.
PS. The bolded 'people' above should be strikethrough but Slashdot doesn't seem to allow strikethrough.
Really, take an hour-long walk and think about the big picture. You'll realise most idiocies today boil down to either money or religion; money is one we can choose to get rid of, or at least minimise its importance
Why can money be gotten rid of any easier than religion (or vice-versa)?
I've never understood why, when you get an Android app update and the permissions are changed, it goes ahead and lists ALL the app's permissions again rather than just the new ones. And they are so vague as well, like "access to the network" or something. In practice, I just ignore the permission requirements, rendering the system totally worthless.
Disband their organization, and charge every single employee and contractor with high treason. It's the only way to make things right.
No. Nuking em from orbit is.
On the contrary. There are plenty of prefixes after quad- (quint-, sext-, sept-, oct-, etc.) which almost never get used. Even quadrillion is very rare. The long scale needlessly wastes these prefixes and confusingly (IMHO) alternates two suffixes.
surprisingly all four are non-English words including . ("Web" in Arabic); . ("Game" in Chinese); . ("Online" in Russian); and . ("Web site" in Russian).
That's an amazing co-incidence that all those languages use a mere full stop to mean different things!
American media are busy trying to inform you of the NSA being the good guys on their five-hour long morning show
Don't worry. The BBC are busy trying to do that as well.
Of course they're at war. This is one of the most incompetent and scientifically illiterate governments in living memory. It's packed full of lunatic ideologues like Ian Duncan Smith and Teresa May who sideline professional academic advice time and time again in favour of their own prejudices [guardian.co.uk] stupidity [independent.co.uk] and ignorance
And virtually everyone commenting on this issue (and there are LOTS of them, even on the BBC website which might be considered more "representative" of the average UK citizen than Slashdot) think the government are a bunch of pricks for wanting this.
SO WHY THE FUCKING HELL DO PEOPLE KEEP VOTING TORY AT THE GENERAL ELECTIONS?!
Don't you mean "having their kids accidentally exposed to a hole by the filter"?
I was interested in this trial because I did wonder what laws were broken.
2nd or 3rd degree murder? If GZ approached the kid unnecessarily like a vigilante, I think murder is bordering on a reasonable description.
The phrase "not guilty" is a very unfortunate one in common law. We really should say "not proven", because "not guilty" really does sound synonymous with "innocent", which it isn't.
Actually he means the Administrator cause.
If you're using the thing recreationally you can store them on a gun club's premesis. The only vaguely decent argument about having them in your house is the self-defence one. Face it; the real reason "recreational" gun users want the things in their homes is so they can stroke them as if it's their penis.