The business model of opening up basic-necessity stores in poor areas also doesn't work - due to shoplifting. The solution is to call the po-po and have them make some arrests and monitor the premises.
Why do you WANT to block ads on an ad-supported site that you WANT to read because you find it's content worthwhile? Feels like shoplifting. Oh, and please spare me the five page on treatise on the difference between 'theft' and copyright infringement.
Whether that was intentional or not is the crux of the matter I would think, and a difficult one to prove.
Unless, say, it also appeared you 'shared' several dozen files, in which case the sharing appears to be more than accidental. It takes a bit of intentional effort to get a torrent setup.
If they can't teach your kid basic MATHS, how the hell are they going to teach them architecture?
HSers still need a broader education. It is necessary for a democratic republic for them to be able to reason and be well literate and to have strong math, reading, and writing skills, along with science.
In a totaltarion state - well, none of that is necessary. So this career-curriculim in HS is ok for them.
The IB program is an ideal these schools need to reach for.
If you read the terms of your agreement with the ISP, you will probably find they can simply turn you off for any reason at any time.
Here's the issue. When they developed all of this, they looked at average use - even for higher end users - and made a determination as to how much bandwidth they needed. It's similar to insurance. You do not anticipate EVERY DRIVER to wreck on the same day at the same time. If they DID need to make allocations based on how much bandwidth YOU use (or I use) or someone who is non-stop maxing out upload and download 24/7, the service would be far, far more expensive.
Net Neutrality is usually a reference to limiting bandwidth of a competitor or a competing service.
The UK ISPs point isn't about limiting services, it is a fear about the sheer bandwidth of the BBC's peer-to-peer system slowing down the net for all of the consumers. Sure, BBC can distribute it's content through it's own bandwidth that it pays for - fair. The UK ISPS say it is unfair for the BBC to profit from and use the ISP's customers' bandwidth to distribute the content.
P2P bandwidth issues are becoming a severe issue for ISPs and may, on a technical legal issue, violate the terms of service (love it or hate it - don't expect or demand more than you are agreeing to pay for. If you don't like it - start your own ISP with no restrictions and see how far that gets you.)
BBC is getting singled out because it's one clear and large profit-driven business that is using P2P - not something you can say about torrent sharing sites.
The street protests are just stupid mobs getting far more publicity than their point of view deserves. Pay it no mind.
Between the consumers, the BBC, and the ISPs, a market solution will likely solve the issue in favor of the consumers.
Thanks for demonstrating your inability to explain how. See post above. My point isn't about copyrights, it's about trying to have a company's employees testify on issues they have no qualification to testify on and whose opinions are not relevant.
My point wasn't about the piracy question, though I understand how you can read that into it since it must be hard to read with all the other idiots in the asylmum screaming non-stop.
My point was that having a low-level employee of a company that is suing you testify in an attempt to undercut the company's case is... retarded.
I recently was arrested for stealing a hamburger from McDonalds. McDonalds has a new get-tough policy lately because of this growing trend of 'hamburgling.'
My lawyer has suggested - quiet brilliantly - that I subpoena Roger. Roger is the guy who works the register at the location where I've been hamburgling. He sometimes sweeps the floor. His IQ is around 75 and he has worked there for over ten years. He really knows the restaurant business because of all of that experience.
Roger agrees with me that the hamburgers cost too much and are of too low quality to pay for. He also thinks that having me come into the store in my hamburglar outfit excites the customers by giving them a little drama in their supersizeme lifestyles - so they are more likely to return and eat more. A testament to my success is that since I have been working that golden arches, on-site cardiac arrests and ambulence visits from all the McD customers have triped. Toilets overflowing incident reports have quadroupled.
We think we can get Roger to testify on my behalf that my hamburgling is actually helpful to McDonalds and that I'm not stealing anything of much value anyway.
Epic fail? You must play that game with the funny dice.
None of your 'possibilities' suggested you read the article. MS MADE the device that was tested. The coalition is made of people who want to use the channels and also make other devices similar to MS's or devices that use it.
You are a GD moron for assuming there was something... amiss. Every major player is part of the Open Spaces coalition. Every major playor. But in this case, it was MS who designed and manufactured the device that tested off.
Your comment is so stupid, I'm shocked that the mods with unlimited points haven't swooped in to make you '+5 Insightful.'
Schools are complicated. We do not know how to fix them.
No, YOU do not know how to fix them. I do.
But going back to transportation, your entire argument is totally bogus and I'm not going to go piece by piece and refute all of your bolded comments. Apologize, but you are filabustering and it's not appropriate to more than double the size of my response with yours. I have a life and do not live to win arguments on the tubes with retards.
This got so bad that voters passed a constitutional amendment directing all fees and taxes from the sale of new cars to transportation, and they still had shortfalls.
State revenues in MN have exploded under the current administration. The problem is, as Sowell points out, that the legislature has misdirected funding. It's a typical tactic to start taking hostages anytime revenue needs to be raised: it's usually emergency rooms and cops, and in this case it was funding for NEW road projects, not maintenance.
There is NOTHING to suggest that there were bridge maintenance issues related to lack of funding. Nothing. Incompetence, maybe. Besides - the bill you referenced was just vetoed.
So, no, the bridge didn't collapse because Pawlenty didn't want to raise taxes on poor people. It collapes because Karl Rove put on a a Navy SEAL outfit, swam under the bridge and planted explosives, which he detonated with his cell phone.
Incidentally, the quality of schools is almost entirely unrelated to which political party is in office in the state, and almost entirely related to percentage of the poor. So suggesting that failing schools have more than enough money would seem to be somewhat illogical on that basis.
This is false, demonstrably so. The city of Minneapolis' own school choice program illustrates this. As do certan charter schools in high-poverty areas that have massive success. Success and failure of schools for poor people is very dependent on the control that the teacher-union backed politicians. And the Feds ARE involved in local school issues and provide funding for it - more and more every years.
The chart in the NYTimes areticle you cite is bogus because it doesn't cite real dollars, just a percentage - and it does appear that feds DO fund a large amount of transportation costs.
And maybe you should read your own article that you apparently googled but did not read. It seems the vetos has nothing to do with bridge maintenance. FTA: That has often meant construction of new, politically popular roads and transit projects rather than the mundane work of maintaining the worn-out ones.
Further, the veto of the regressive taxes by Paulenty didn't reduce the spending on transportation; at best they would have allowed the Democrats in the state legislature to shift more money away from transportation to pet projects.
Sowell echoes this in his own article. Maybe you should read it - and then read the article you cited but did not read.
Got any more lies left? Given your politics, I think you have an endless supply.
Actully, I know Grover said a statement that you responded to. But you are wrong about the bridge collapsing because Republicans underfunded it. Though I think with your logic you can ALWAYS blame tax cuts for anything that's wrong in the world. Why did you hit the pothole? Because Rs cut taxes and that money could have gone to fix it. Why did your house get robbed? Because Rs cut taxes and that money could have paid for more police. Etc, etc.
There are so many problems with this way of thinking. You neglect that despite tax cuts, goverment revenue and government spending on transportation and everything else has EXPLODED.
Alternatively, how to do you explain the absolute failure of school systems with massive spending in cities that are run by Democrats - and they sucked even when Dems controlled all three parts of the Federal government. Witness DC - 12k a month per student and 2/3ds of public school teachers with children send their kids to private schools.
Oh? Is that always your standard? So all of the other cases where the RIAA rolled over the downloading thieves..... that's cool with you because, well, the prosecution either proved their case or convinced the otherside not to pursue the case.
I read the original story. His arguments are stupidly inane - IPs aren't unique to an individual, etc. - crap like that. Trying to dodge the law with gay technicalities when everyone KNOWS they were downloading Soul Plane and Mike and the Mechanics.
Please take your threatened mod point and shove it. Thaaah-yanks.
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Why do you WANT to block ads on an ad-supported site that you WANT to read because you find it's content worthwhile? Feels like shoplifting. Oh, and please spare me the five page on treatise on the difference between 'theft' and copyright infringement.
For 95% of people they are going to go after, these little 'what ifs' are not going to fly.
Unless, say, it also appeared you 'shared' several dozen files, in which case the sharing appears to be more than accidental. It takes a bit of intentional effort to get a torrent setup.
The real test for the future of chess is teams of programmers making computers that play against each other - and see what programmer team is best.
HSers still need a broader education. It is necessary for a democratic republic for them to be able to reason and be well literate and to have strong math, reading, and writing skills, along with science.
In a totaltarion state - well, none of that is necessary. So this career-curriculim in HS is ok for them.
The IB program is an ideal these schools need to reach for.
Note a story on Teletubbies boosting BBC profit... as reported by the BBC.
If you read the terms of your agreement with the ISP, you will probably find they can simply turn you off for any reason at any time.
Here's the issue. When they developed all of this, they looked at average use - even for higher end users - and made a determination as to how much bandwidth they needed. It's similar to insurance. You do not anticipate EVERY DRIVER to wreck on the same day at the same time. If they DID need to make allocations based on how much bandwidth YOU use (or I use) or someone who is non-stop maxing out upload and download 24/7, the service would be far, far more expensive.
The UK ISPs point isn't about limiting services, it is a fear about the sheer bandwidth of the BBC's peer-to-peer system slowing down the net for all of the consumers. Sure, BBC can distribute it's content through it's own bandwidth that it pays for - fair. The UK ISPS say it is unfair for the BBC to profit from and use the ISP's customers' bandwidth to distribute the content.
P2P bandwidth issues are becoming a severe issue for ISPs and may, on a technical legal issue, violate the terms of service (love it or hate it - don't expect or demand more than you are agreeing to pay for. If you don't like it - start your own ISP with no restrictions and see how far that gets you.)
BBC is getting singled out because it's one clear and large profit-driven business that is using P2P - not something you can say about torrent sharing sites.
The street protests are just stupid mobs getting far more publicity than their point of view deserves. Pay it no mind.
Between the consumers, the BBC, and the ISPs, a market solution will likely solve the issue in favor of the consumers.
I'm not angry at you. I'm disappointed. Like your parents.
Er. Kinda like Apple makes the Ipod.
Try reading it again without the crack pipe.
My analogy is not about theft. It's about an employee's opinion on the matter's relevence to the legal issues at hand.
And it doesn't matter if the employees liked the 'advertisent.' It's wholly irrelevant.
Thanks for demonstrating your inability to explain how. See post above. My point isn't about copyrights, it's about trying to have a company's employees testify on issues they have no qualification to testify on and whose opinions are not relevant.
My point was that having a low-level employee of a company that is suing you testify in an attempt to undercut the company's case is... retarded.
My lawyer has suggested - quiet brilliantly - that I subpoena Roger. Roger is the guy who works the register at the location where I've been hamburgling. He sometimes sweeps the floor. His IQ is around 75 and he has worked there for over ten years. He really knows the restaurant business because of all of that experience.
Roger agrees with me that the hamburgers cost too much and are of too low quality to pay for. He also thinks that having me come into the store in my hamburglar outfit excites the customers by giving them a little drama in their supersizeme lifestyles - so they are more likely to return and eat more. A testament to my success is that since I have been working that golden arches, on-site cardiac arrests and ambulence visits from all the McD customers have triped. Toilets overflowing incident reports have quadroupled.
We think we can get Roger to testify on my behalf that my hamburgling is actually helpful to McDonalds and that I'm not stealing anything of much value anyway.
Robble Robble.
None of your 'possibilities' suggested you read the article. MS MADE the device that was tested. The coalition is made of people who want to use the channels and also make other devices similar to MS's or devices that use it.
Here is another for comparison.
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Your comment is so stupid, I'm shocked that the mods with unlimited points haven't swooped in to make you '+5 Insightful.'
-1 Troll here I come.
No, YOU do not know how to fix them. I do.
But going back to transportation, your entire argument is totally bogus and I'm not going to go piece by piece and refute all of your bolded comments. Apologize, but you are filabustering and it's not appropriate to more than double the size of my response with yours. I have a life and do not live to win arguments on the tubes with retards.
This got so bad that voters passed a constitutional amendment directing all fees and taxes from the sale of new cars to transportation, and they still had shortfalls.
State revenues in MN have exploded under the current administration. The problem is, as Sowell points out, that the legislature has misdirected funding. It's a typical tactic to start taking hostages anytime revenue needs to be raised: it's usually emergency rooms and cops, and in this case it was funding for NEW road projects, not maintenance.
There is NOTHING to suggest that there were bridge maintenance issues related to lack of funding. Nothing. Incompetence, maybe. Besides - the bill you referenced was just vetoed.
So, no, the bridge didn't collapse because Pawlenty didn't want to raise taxes on poor people. It collapes because Karl Rove put on a a Navy SEAL outfit, swam under the bridge and planted explosives, which he detonated with his cell phone.
This is false, demonstrably so. The city of Minneapolis' own school choice program illustrates this. As do certan charter schools in high-poverty areas that have massive success. Success and failure of schools for poor people is very dependent on the control that the teacher-union backed politicians. And the Feds ARE involved in local school issues and provide funding for it - more and more every years.
The chart in the NYTimes areticle you cite is bogus because it doesn't cite real dollars, just a percentage - and it does appear that feds DO fund a large amount of transportation costs.
And maybe you should read your own article that you apparently googled but did not read. It seems the vetos has nothing to do with bridge maintenance. FTA: That has often meant construction of new, politically popular roads and transit projects rather than the mundane work of maintaining the worn-out ones.
Further, the veto of the regressive taxes by Paulenty didn't reduce the spending on transportation; at best they would have allowed the Democrats in the state legislature to shift more money away from transportation to pet projects.
Sowell echoes this in his own article. Maybe you should read it - and then read the article you cited but did not read.
Got any more lies left? Given your politics, I think you have an endless supply.
There are so many problems with this way of thinking. You neglect that despite tax cuts, goverment revenue and government spending on transportation and everything else has EXPLODED.
Alternatively, how to do you explain the absolute failure of school systems with massive spending in cities that are run by Democrats - and they sucked even when Dems controlled all three parts of the Federal government. Witness DC - 12k a month per student and 2/3ds of public school teachers with children send their kids to private schools.
That just blows everything you have to say to hell. The best response to your line of thinking is a recent column by Thomas Sowell - bridges are too important to be left to government.
Where did you get your signature?
Oh? Is that always your standard? So all of the other cases where the RIAA rolled over the downloading thieves..... that's cool with you because, well, the prosecution either proved their case or convinced the otherside not to pursue the case.
Please take your threatened mod point and shove it. Thaaah-yanks.