All the music stores have that same loop hole. My problem is, what happens 10 years from now if the iTMS is no more? Will I be able to play those AAC files? Maybe or maybe not. By then the CD-R I burned them to probably won't be working any more (most of my CD-R's start to degrade after a few years with any frequent use). However all the CD's I own still play in all my CD players. And since I've ripped them all to FLAC I can convert them to any other format I want without loss. Until a music store gives me that kind of freedom, I'm not going to be participating.
That would not do one thing to stop the terrorists. Osama and his henchman have been rather rich and could afford this on their own.
But can he afford to do both? If Osama is spending his money killing people and we spend our money helping people the world wide opinion of the US is going to get better.
This would also do nothing, as the terrorists are rich (aside from the fact that the IMF had nothing to do with ruining economies).
The terrorist leaders are rich, but the ones doing the grunt work are poor. They join the terrorist organizations because they are poor and they don't have a lot of oppertunities in their own country. If you started to eliminate poverty in the terrorist countries they would loose a large percentage of the recruiting base.
I never said that outlawing guns would decrease crime (although I'm sure I could point to papers that refute the one link you provided). I only said you couldn't compare Geneva and DC.
37.6% of Geneva are foreigners. I doubt you'll find a similar number in DC. The only way to really find a meaningful way to see how the number of guns affect crime would be to find two nearly identical cities that have contrasting gun laws (very difficult) or show an increase or decrease in crime as guns are either outlawed or legagalized in a country.
The median income maybe the same in both, however the gap between rich and poor is much likely much larger in DC than in geneva. Geneva also has a much different drug policy then they have in DC. And although both have diverse populations there is a huge difference between the kind of diversity that exists in both places. Not to mention that Swiss culture is very different that American culture. It's just not a valid comparisson.
But when Joe Sixpack downloads a new ROM for his router and breaks the damn thing he's going to complain to Linksys not the person who wrote the ROM. Linksys rightly shouldn't provide support for using unsupported software on their product, but the user isn't going to care, he's going to blame them.
That's because if they tell you what it does they also have to tell you the side effects. Most likely one or more of the side effects sounds so horrible they didn't want to broadcast it on TV.
It probably grew out of compuserve. All the businesses I worked at in the early 90's used compuserve as dial-in service to access the company network. AOL probably just transitioned them.
The problem is that if laymen can check that their votes were counted after the fact, it is possible to sell your vote and let a 3rd party check on this as well. Any design where you keep the recipet is flawed.
It doesn't even need to be scantron. If your computer printout is going to print out only a few options you could make it just about anything and have it computer readable. The peoples names or what ever else is deemed easiest to read.
Except that then they can't distribute to 80% of theaters. Which is what the lawsuit is really about. The MPAA is an illegal trust forcing these studios to play by their rules or die.
Aren't the Academy members also in charge of nominations? So the fact that these movies were just nominated is evidence that screeners help. Also, just because they didn't win the big awards didn't mean that they didn't win things like best costumes, best makeup, etc.
Most likely you get kicked out of the MPAA. This may not seem like a big deal until you realize that the MPAA has exclusive contracts with 80% of the distribution channels.
But we're talking indie films here. I live in Seattle and before that Dallas. I have no problem seeing any film I want to. However if you don't live in a major metropolitan area chances are you aren't going to see a lot of these movies come to town. Hell, when I lived in Tulsa we didn't get that many foreign or indie movies coming to town. So that puts the indies at a severe disadvantage, unless they are allowed to send out screeners.
As they should... just because you technically did not have income doesn't mean you didn't improve your worth. If I own 15 properties and millions of dollars worth of stock I should pay more taxes than someone who has no accumulated wealth and makes the same amount of money. Of course this is almost impossible to do, so we work on the assumption that those with higher incomes are able to accumulate more wealth and therefore pay higher taxes.
You will notice that I didn't use the term income in my previous post. I used wealth. There is more to being rich than just having income. My parents do not have a high income, but do have lots of accumulated wealth. When you factor in wealth and not just income things scew more towards the rich.
For instance lets say bill gates has a salary of $500,000 a year. that is his income. Unless he is selling off stock or receiving intrest payments on other investments he has a small income. Even if his stock doubles in price, he didn't earn any money so he doesn't have to pay taxes.
The same thing that happens if I accidentally mark the wrong name on my paper ballot. I walk up to my election official and say, "Excuse me, I've made a mistake on this ballot." My ballot is destroyed and I am given a new one. In the case of this system, each paper recipet could have a unique identification number. The election official takes your reciept, types in the number into his terminal, and the vote is discarded. The paper reciept is then destroyed and you are allowed to go back into the voting booth. What makes that so difficult?
But if he steps out of his voting both and slides his reciept into a lockbox, how does this change the secrecy of the ballot? Right now when I vote I mark my paper ballot, step out of the voting booth, and slide the thing into a lockbox.
I don't believe the parent was talking about someone taking the reciept home with him. If so, that would be a bad idea. But it is not a bad idea to let the voter touch his reciept at all.
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All the music stores have that same loop hole. My problem is, what happens 10 years from now if the iTMS is no more? Will I be able to play those AAC files? Maybe or maybe not. By then the CD-R I burned them to probably won't be working any more (most of my CD-R's start to degrade after a few years with any frequent use). However all the CD's I own still play in all my CD players. And since I've ripped them all to FLAC I can convert them to any other format I want without loss. Until a music store gives me that kind of freedom, I'm not going to be participating.
Nearly all portable players support WMA, it's just that since everyone kept their collections as MP3 no one ever used the feature.
Microsoft made the licensing terms of WMA so easy that companies were able to throw it on as an extra feature for next to nothing.
That would not do one thing to stop the terrorists. Osama and his henchman have been rather rich and could afford this on their own.
But can he afford to do both? If Osama is spending his money killing people and we spend our money helping people the world wide opinion of the US is going to get better.
This would also do nothing, as the terrorists are rich (aside from the fact that the IMF had nothing to do with ruining economies).
The terrorist leaders are rich, but the ones doing the grunt work are poor. They join the terrorist organizations because they are poor and they don't have a lot of oppertunities in their own country. If you started to eliminate poverty in the terrorist countries they would loose a large percentage of the recruiting base.
I never said that outlawing guns would decrease crime (although I'm sure I could point to papers that refute the one link you provided). I only said you couldn't compare Geneva and DC.
37.6% of Geneva are foreigners. I doubt you'll find a similar number in DC. The only way to really find a meaningful way to see how the number of guns affect crime would be to find two nearly identical cities that have contrasting gun laws (very difficult) or show an increase or decrease in crime as guns are either outlawed or legagalized in a country.
The median income maybe the same in both, however the gap between rich and poor is much likely much larger in DC than in geneva. Geneva also has a much different drug policy then they have in DC. And although both have diverse populations there is a huge difference between the kind of diversity that exists in both places. Not to mention that Swiss culture is very different that American culture. It's just not a valid comparisson.
Of course that ignores a whole lot of other socio-economic factors. You really compare two very dissimilar cities.
But when Joe Sixpack downloads a new ROM for his router and breaks the damn thing he's going to complain to Linksys not the person who wrote the ROM. Linksys rightly shouldn't provide support for using unsupported software on their product, but the user isn't going to care, he's going to blame them.
That's because if they tell you what it does they also have to tell you the side effects. Most likely one or more of the side effects sounds so horrible they didn't want to broadcast it on TV.
It probably grew out of compuserve. All the businesses I worked at in the early 90's used compuserve as dial-in service to access the company network. AOL probably just transitioned them.
The problem is that if laymen can check that their votes were counted after the fact, it is possible to sell your vote and let a 3rd party check on this as well. Any design where you keep the recipet is flawed.
It doesn't even need to be scantron. If your computer printout is going to print out only a few options you could make it just about anything and have it computer readable. The peoples names or what ever else is deemed easiest to read.
Except that then they can't distribute to 80% of theaters. Which is what the lawsuit is really about. The MPAA is an illegal trust forcing these studios to play by their rules or die.
Aren't the Academy members also in charge of nominations? So the fact that these movies were just nominated is evidence that screeners help. Also, just because they didn't win the big awards didn't mean that they didn't win things like best costumes, best makeup, etc.
Most likely you get kicked out of the MPAA. This may not seem like a big deal until you realize that the MPAA has exclusive contracts with 80% of the distribution channels.
But we're talking indie films here. I live in Seattle and before that Dallas. I have no problem seeing any film I want to. However if you don't live in a major metropolitan area chances are you aren't going to see a lot of these movies come to town. Hell, when I lived in Tulsa we didn't get that many foreign or indie movies coming to town. So that puts the indies at a severe disadvantage, unless they are allowed to send out screeners.
I would further qualify that statement by saying HP is only good for their business printers. They're consumer lines have an extremly high TCO.
I use FLAC. I store all my music in FLAC. I then switch it to a different format for transfer to my portable player.
The Nazi's were facists not socialists... just because they had socialist in their name didn't make it so.
Or maybe I just want to strip the DRM off so I can play the music I payed for on my mp3 player?
As they should... just because you technically did not have income doesn't mean you didn't improve your worth. If I own 15 properties and millions of dollars worth of stock I should pay more taxes than someone who has no accumulated wealth and makes the same amount of money. Of course this is almost impossible to do, so we work on the assumption that those with higher incomes are able to accumulate more wealth and therefore pay higher taxes.
You will notice that I didn't use the term income in my previous post. I used wealth. There is more to being rich than just having income. My parents do not have a high income, but do have lots of accumulated wealth. When you factor in wealth and not just income things scew more towards the rich.
For instance lets say bill gates has a salary of $500,000 a year. that is his income. Unless he is selling off stock or receiving intrest payments on other investments he has a small income. Even if his stock doubles in price, he didn't earn any money so he doesn't have to pay taxes.
wouldn't it also be fair to say that the "rich" 50% have at least 96% of the wealth, so therefore should pay 96% of the taxes?
The same thing that happens if I accidentally mark the wrong name on my paper ballot. I walk up to my election official and say, "Excuse me, I've made a mistake on this ballot." My ballot is destroyed and I am given a new one. In the case of this system, each paper recipet could have a unique identification number. The election official takes your reciept, types in the number into his terminal, and the vote is discarded. The paper reciept is then destroyed and you are allowed to go back into the voting booth. What makes that so difficult?
But if he steps out of his voting both and slides his reciept into a lockbox, how does this change the secrecy of the ballot? Right now when I vote I mark my paper ballot, step out of the voting booth, and slide the thing into a lockbox.
I don't believe the parent was talking about someone taking the reciept home with him. If so, that would be a bad idea. But it is not a bad idea to let the voter touch his reciept at all.