By forming and announcing the existence of a group dedicated specifically to protecting artists' rights, this group of senators has provided a focal point for the flow of donations, allowing the *AA to keep yet more of their ill gotten gains, whilst fucking over the artists whose works are going to be protected.
The simple answer: Because it's cheaper than producing something new
The more complex answer: Because there's a finite number of stories to be written. The plots seem the same, because on their most basic level, they are the same.
Whilst I agree with your sentiments, the Democrats aren't really any much better. After all, which president was it that started killing Americans unconstitutionally? Oh yes, that would be a Democrat. At least the Democrats *say* they want to return to a slightly more reasonable tax regime in order to try and balance the books.
Indeed, keeping it on topic with the story, isn't Judy Chu a Democrat? Do you really think this Congressional Creative Rights Caucus will do anything to protect the other half of the Intellectual Property rights - the Public Domain? I seriously doubt it.
And as a result, 60% of bankruptcies in America occur because of your bat shit crazy insurance system.
And before someone tells me it's because of government regulation, please explain to me how come a completely government regulated system (ie socialised/universal healthcare) costs half what America pays?
Or perhaps just because they are sick and tired of having to answer to their electorate about why their six year old died because of yet another school shooting?
And worse, all the major companies tend to cross license with each other. So the big boys don't sue each other as often as they should (round corners etc not withstanding). This puts the little guy at an even bigger disadvantage as they don't have a large patent portfolio to leverage.
Compound that with the fact that the cheapest PC money will buy now will do everything the vast majority want to do with a PC - word processing, email, facebook.
And who in the consumer world expects their device to go wrong and therefore need to be repaired. People just don't think like that. They've got used to laptops being so expensive to repair they might as well buy a new one - tablets are just as bad.
For a group who are supposed to hold the moral high ground because of their job, you should expect it to be considerably lower. Much like you would expect the crime rate among judges and police to be lower - because it is their role in society to have the moral high ground. It's also why the law should come down harder on police and judges when they do step out of line
Or at least "earned income is earned income". The income you make from investments, and the income you make from working should be taxed at the same rate. Then there wouldn't be any of this bullshit Rmoney pulls where he delivers a speech to a company (which, lacking a better term, is work) and yet his accountants put it down as an investment in the company and there for is taxed at 15%. And yes, if you make a bad investment, you get to write off that bad investment against the good investments. But at the end of the day, earned income is earned income - and that decides what rate you pay income tax at.
It seems to me that being a citizen of the US is largely irrelevant to the political system. Unless of course you're part of the 1% seeing as you can just buy the politicians with "campaign contributions"
More likely they don't care about the amount of the settlement. What they want is to be able to skip the entire legal process and charge people just on their whim. It's so expensive to go through the courts and more often than not they don't get the results they want - ie the amount of money is so high they have absolutely no hope of ever getting that money
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By forming and announcing the existence of a group dedicated specifically to protecting artists' rights, this group of senators has provided a focal point for the flow of donations, allowing the *AA to keep yet more of their ill gotten gains, whilst fucking over the artists whose works are going to be protected.
FTFY
The simple answer: Because it's cheaper than producing something new
The more complex answer: Because there's a finite number of stories to be written. The plots seem the same, because on their most basic level, they are the same.
Yeah, but corporations are people don't-ya-know
Whilst I agree with your sentiments, the Democrats aren't really any much better. After all, which president was it that started killing Americans unconstitutionally? Oh yes, that would be a Democrat. At least the Democrats *say* they want to return to a slightly more reasonable tax regime in order to try and balance the books.
Indeed, keeping it on topic with the story, isn't Judy Chu a Democrat? Do you really think this Congressional Creative Rights Caucus will do anything to protect the other half of the Intellectual Property rights - the Public Domain? I seriously doubt it.
Does MS not have a credit card its vendor can keep on file?
... except Canada has on average a better life expectancy
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And as a result, 60% of bankruptcies in America occur because of your bat shit crazy insurance system.
And before someone tells me it's because of government regulation, please explain to me how come a completely government regulated system (ie socialised/universal healthcare) costs half what America pays?
Or perhaps just because they are sick and tired of having to answer to their electorate about why their six year old died because of yet another school shooting?
Bullshit. Corporate greed is what hurts everyone but the 1%.
FTFY
And worse, all the major companies tend to cross license with each other. So the big boys don't sue each other as often as they should (round corners etc not withstanding). This puts the little guy at an even bigger disadvantage as they don't have a large patent portfolio to leverage.
We have them for work, but they are only firmware 2.1 so you can't use them for Windows authentication
Agreed.
And yes - most of the hack attempts I'm seeing are coming from China
My defenses include:
Adding ALL : ALL to my hosts.deny
Adding the ranges I want to allow access to my hosts.allow
Denying root access
I'm also hoping to start using a Yubikey for password authentication, just waiting for my hardware token to arrive in the mail.
... fricking lasers? Would there be sharks?
Compound that with the fact that the cheapest PC money will buy now will do everything the vast majority want to do with a PC - word processing, email, facebook.
Because tech nerds == "People"? No. I mean consumers, not people like us who expect to be able to repair/upgrade/change the OS of our devices
And who in the consumer world expects their device to go wrong and therefore need to be repaired. People just don't think like that. They've got used to laptops being so expensive to repair they might as well buy a new one - tablets are just as bad.
For a group who are supposed to hold the moral high ground because of their job, you should expect it to be considerably lower. Much like you would expect the crime rate among judges and police to be lower - because it is their role in society to have the moral high ground. It's also why the law should come down harder on police and judges when they do step out of line
... and in other news Pope is catholic. Even if he's quitting in a month's time
Or at least "earned income is earned income". The income you make from investments, and the income you make from working should be taxed at the same rate. Then there wouldn't be any of this bullshit Rmoney pulls where he delivers a speech to a company (which, lacking a better term, is work) and yet his accountants put it down as an investment in the company and there for is taxed at 15%. And yes, if you make a bad investment, you get to write off that bad investment against the good investments. But at the end of the day, earned income is earned income - and that decides what rate you pay income tax at.
It seems to me that being a citizen of the US is largely irrelevant to the political system. Unless of course you're part of the 1% seeing as you can just buy the politicians with "campaign contributions"
More likely they don't care about the amount of the settlement. What they want is to be able to skip the entire legal process and charge people just on their whim. It's so expensive to go through the courts and more often than not they don't get the results they want - ie the amount of money is so high they have absolutely no hope of ever getting that money
The Viet Cong have to face drones?
Equal footing with whom exactly?
Cos you're really going to be able to stop the tyrannical government with your AR-15 vs their cruise missiles and drones.