my point is these people maybe partly unlicensed but they are STILL CUSTOMERS, where the IRS don't consider you a customer at all and it's not like there's any other tax agency competing with them.
If you think sending legal attack dogs after 92% of your business in order to collect on 8% is good business tactics then your cut from the same cloth as SCO, and we all saw how that ended up.
this is just like (but on a much smaller scale) the time the local video store sent me threating legal letters over $20 of over due fines. I used to rent a movie from there every weekend, after that letter I stopped giving them my business. they lost 100's of $ in business over $20 in fees, and it's all part of a new business culture that's been emerging where the customer is considered the enemy.... but that's a topic for another day.
it's not stealing, it's infringment, because they are using something without permission and doing so doesn't actually cost the owner anything. unlike a TV whih cost best buy money to buy and is a direct loss.
and obviously with 92% compilance they ARE customers aren't they. BSA is nothing more then a witch hunt organisation
there is a solution - have the government force comcast to give 3rd parties access to their lines, for a rental fee. this will no doubt have in the same position we in australia have though, a company desperately trying to hang onto it's monopoly, though it has had limited success after many court battles.
old monopolies don't die, they just find new ways to rip you off.
"I guess the moral is that if you treat your employees with respect and treat them well (with good pay, good benefits, etc.) then unions aren't really required."
lol try telling unions that. they'll spout all kinds of bullshit about how you "owe" them for your current conditions and how they are fighting to preserve them. in my experience unions are only there to protect useless wastes of space and create pointless busy jobs with no value.
"sending an amount of data that would cost $1 from your ISP would cost over $61 million if you were to send it over SMS"
has to be a shoe in for the most retarded comparison of the year?
yes teleco's are gouging us on everything not just sms, hence why i only have a prepaid mobile i hardly use and my home phone is VOIP. my annual telephone bill/internet/mobile expenses are under $1200.
i guess it's not a total hunk of junk on it's own, but it's not providing anything other smart phones haven't had for atleast 12 months prior, when combined with the terrible contract you have to be on i'd say it's a piece of crap for sure.
the iphone is a locked down piece of crap. why put your effort into breaking into it, when there's lots of open smart phones you can install your apps on.
The level of risk? there's been a single dramatic failure of a nuclear plant ever. just one. and even that happening again is impossible due to reactor designs changing.
yes i hear you yelling 3 mile island, but keep in mind NO ONE was injured at 3 mile and wildlife still lives in the swamp around the plant.
net banking that requires sms verification of transfers.
public, televised floggings for anyone convicted of fraud or petty theft.
only the banks can make these happen (including option 3 as well i might add, polical lobbying ftw). hell i know i'd tune into watch some scammers take a beating.
his examples are 100% on the money since they both are examples of people not being able to cope with 2 tasks at the same time as well as just one. listening the music is exactly the same, your brain is having to multitask even if you are just passively listening and not thinking about it.
example. close your eyes and all of a sudden you can hear much better. why? because your not using your eyes and can concerntrate much better.
coal is slightly unpleasant? have you ever been to a coal fired power station?
"Since air pollution from coal burning is estimated to be causing 10,000 deaths per year, there would have to be 25 melt-downs each year for nuclear power to be as dangerous as coal burning"
because building large power plants on unstable geologically active ground is a shitty idea, and while there is plenty of geothermal heat for us to use it's highly localised and unsuitable for anything but situational power needs.
coal plants release far more radiation into the environment then nuclear plants ever have. it's just effective fear mongering that's preventing them being used.
i'd like to see a link to that warnign though, i wasn't aware inland USA was that polluted.
I could believe PB would chew close to 93K a month in costs if they have 10 million users.
if 1/2 their registered users visit just once a month and they get another 5 million drive by's (which is easy to see happening) and the average bandwidth used per user is 0.5meg (also pretty mild) it would mean they need 5 terabytes of bandwidth spread out over multiple 100mbit links, not to mention how much all the rackspace would set them back.
if google can make billions providing ad based search results then i can't hold the PB guys to ransom over what ever measley profit they make. after all all the PB stuff is indexed on google anyway.
just like global warming. the real threat to our environment comes from deforestation and over fishing, yet everyone is focused on global warming even though it's a total crock of shit.
thats the same mentality that's got your country all messed up with a 2 party polical system - "why bother i can't make an impact no matter how i vote". you all need to stop that nonsense thinking and realise you DO make an impact no matter how small.
hosting in another country won't save you. if they find out who you are the government will just arrest you anyway, they don't even need a real reason these days.
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my point is these people maybe partly unlicensed but they are STILL CUSTOMERS, where the IRS don't consider you a customer at all and it's not like there's any other tax agency competing with them.
If you think sending legal attack dogs after 92% of your business in order to collect on 8% is good business tactics then your cut from the same cloth as SCO, and we all saw how that ended up.
this is just like (but on a much smaller scale) the time the local video store sent me threating legal letters over $20 of over due fines. I used to rent a movie from there every weekend, after that letter I stopped giving them my business. they lost 100's of $ in business over $20 in fees, and it's all part of a new business culture that's been emerging where the customer is considered the enemy.... but that's a topic for another day.
thanks for playing.
and obviously with 92% compilance they ARE customers aren't they. BSA is nothing more then a witch hunt organisation
old monopolies don't die, they just find new ways to rip you off.
open your eyes, everything uses torrents these days, game demo's/patches for everything and they are as big as a gig each.
lol try telling unions that. they'll spout all kinds of bullshit about how you "owe" them for your current conditions and how they are fighting to preserve them. in my experience unions are only there to protect useless wastes of space and create pointless busy jobs with no value.
has to be a shoe in for the most retarded comparison of the year?
yes teleco's are gouging us on everything not just sms, hence why i only have a prepaid mobile i hardly use and my home phone is VOIP. my annual telephone bill/internet/mobile expenses are under $1200.
i guess it's not a total hunk of junk on it's own, but it's not providing anything other smart phones haven't had for atleast 12 months prior, when combined with the terrible contract you have to be on i'd say it's a piece of crap for sure.
the iphone is a locked down piece of crap. why put your effort into breaking into it, when there's lots of open smart phones you can install your apps on.
nothing is going to stop a massive lump of metal doing mach 8.
can you even read? show me where it actaully says they are banned.
yes i hear you yelling 3 mile island, but keep in mind NO ONE was injured at 3 mile and wildlife still lives in the swamp around the plant.
net banking that requires sms verification of transfers.
public, televised floggings for anyone convicted of fraud or petty theft.
only the banks can make these happen (including option 3 as well i might add, polical lobbying ftw). hell i know i'd tune into watch some scammers take a beating.
as a side note i did one of the tests after a six pack and scored in the 90's :/
example. close your eyes and all of a sudden you can hear much better. why? because your not using your eyes and can concerntrate much better.
"Since air pollution from coal burning is estimated to be causing 10,000 deaths per year, there would have to be 25 melt-downs each year for nuclear power to be as dangerous as coal burning"
http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/np-risk.htm
please read and take note, nuclear power is MUCH safer and just as useful as any form of power generation we have.
because building large power plants on unstable geologically active ground is a shitty idea, and while there is plenty of geothermal heat for us to use it's highly localised and unsuitable for anything but situational power needs.
i'd like to see a link to that warnign though, i wasn't aware inland USA was that polluted.
the 1950's called and they want their nuclear tech back. no one has built a new plant based on water cooling in 50 years.
if 1/2 their registered users visit just once a month and they get another 5 million drive by's (which is easy to see happening) and the average bandwidth used per user is 0.5meg (also pretty mild) it would mean they need 5 terabytes of bandwidth spread out over multiple 100mbit links, not to mention how much all the rackspace would set them back.
if google can make billions providing ad based search results then i can't hold the PB guys to ransom over what ever measley profit they make. after all all the PB stuff is indexed on google anyway.
if the device is powered off, they can't track you since it can't emit a signal. case closed thanks for playing.
just like global warming. the real threat to our environment comes from deforestation and over fishing, yet everyone is focused on global warming even though it's a total crock of shit.
thats the same mentality that's got your country all messed up with a 2 party polical system - "why bother i can't make an impact no matter how i vote". you all need to stop that nonsense thinking and realise you DO make an impact no matter how small.
I won't buy anything that tracks me, just like i refuse to purchase software the requires it to phone home.
hosting in another country won't save you. if they find out who you are the government will just arrest you anyway, they don't even need a real reason these days.