The government should keep to what it's best at: protecting the commonwealth from harm.
Spam is an annoyance, but not a threat to my liberty! I'd rather pay a company $20 per year for their sotfware filtering service than pay the gov't even $5 a year for "preventing" spam. At least I know that the company will do more to protect me, because if they don't I'll go to their competitors! It's one of the few good qualities of capitalism.
What if the gov't does a bad job at preventing spam? Ever try to get money from the gov't when your car wheel gets mashed in an unfixed pothole?
Less gov't is good - let's them focus on the truly important aspects of individual freedoms. I'd rather the gov't tax my bread to prevent hunger than tax my e-mail to prevent spam.
Web sites will post in whatever format the visitor stats support. We monitor our streaming stats for just this reason. Most people who visit our site, when given a choice of qt, wmv, or real, choose wmv seconded by qt.
And now of course there's a flash streaming movie format. The plugin is free, and almost everyone who uses the Web can already support this.
So if Real keeps up these (not illegal but annoying) practices, they will find that less and less people are downloading their free player and less and less developers are encoding in their format.
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The government should keep to what it's best at: protecting the commonwealth from harm.
Spam is an annoyance, but not a threat to my liberty! I'd rather pay a company $20 per year for their sotfware filtering service than pay the gov't even $5 a year for "preventing" spam. At least I know that the company will do more to protect me, because if they don't I'll go to their competitors! It's one of the few good qualities of capitalism.
What if the gov't does a bad job at preventing spam? Ever try to get money from the gov't when your car wheel gets mashed in an unfixed pothole?
Less gov't is good - let's them focus on the truly important aspects of individual freedoms. I'd rather the gov't tax my bread to prevent hunger than tax my e-mail to prevent spam.
Web sites will post in whatever format the visitor stats support. We monitor our streaming stats for just this reason. Most people who visit our site, when given a choice of qt, wmv, or real, choose wmv seconded by qt. And now of course there's a flash streaming movie format. The plugin is free, and almost everyone who uses the Web can already support this. So if Real keeps up these (not illegal but annoying) practices, they will find that less and less people are downloading their free player and less and less developers are encoding in their format.