How about destroying every public review site on the internet all full of pennies per review 10 out 10 for the crappiest products imaginable. The only saving grace, there are plenty of greedy arse holes just like him and they will end up eating each others lunch and going broke trying to run fraudulent scams.
Unfortunately the logical correction, entails eliminating two decidedly homicidal groups. Both quite capable of burnt earth thinking, if they can't survive no-one should as well as of course their willingness to kill as many as necessary to gain and keep ego and lust fulfilling power.
The collapse is not karma based, simply the nature of psychopaths and narcissists willingness to destroy everything around them if they believe it will benefit them, eventually they both succeed and fail (greed driven stupidity).
Here's the difference. Patent application, 'Hey you idiots at the USPTO here's prior art' cost to submitter near zero. Secret patent, patent approved, now prove it's prior art in court, cost to submitter 100 thousand dollars in court fees.
Lets' not forget straight from the release, "allows competitors to design around U.S. technologies". So you spend millions of dollars designing and implementing the same technology only 1 month after the secret patent being filed, only to find your investment is shit and your company can be be bankrupted by a secret patent or abandon the investment or pay extortion.
Straight up US political corruption, basically legalised lying, cheating and stealing.
Let's not forget IBMs and Xerox's blunders, without the gumbies at both locations, M$ would have been dead in the water, time for one great big Homer 'douh' and that hair line, oh so appropriate.
Home networking can only be FOSS simply due to cost. Family of four, 4 phones, 4 notebooks, couple of big screens, couple of tablets, now add in the appliances, air-conditioners (efficient requires both evaporative and reverse cycle, use the most appropriate based upon temperature and humidity), stove, microwave, washing machines, dish washer, refrigerator, entry doors, security system, router, home server computer and since we are already talking rich add in the swimming pool, garage controller, games room collection, game consoles. Oh, wait, do you see the problem developing, a really well a truly limited market. Once you can afford all this your likely an asshat with servants who will do it all for you anyhow.
Humanity is a social species, You do not look at evolution the same for social species as for non-social species, the social structures of social species also evolve.
Take for example the growth of psychopathy and narcissism (non-social genetic mutations) as a proportion of the population under certain types of human societies like capitalism. Where the focus changes from working together to preying upon each other. It is quite easy to see the logical consequence of that growth, the collapse of that society as those willing to work together are reduced to such low numbers they can no longer sustain the destructive parasites, the psychopaths and narcissists. As a consequence the whole society collapses, eliminating by far the majority of it's members and basically leaving only handful of those that want to work together.
Evolution favours social groups that work together the best and cyclically eliminates self destructive groups ever where it was only a minority that developed psychologically unhealthy and destructive mutations.
In fact you can see that trend developing quite clearly developing in human society, a couple of world wars as prime examples societal collapse and self destruction all driven by an extreme minority. Of course now the US is leading permanent state of war instigated by the greed driven insanity of a minority, the psychopaths and narcissists. As the majority continue to allow this to happen so the consequences will be inevitable as demonstrated again and again by history, the complete collapse of that human society. As this one has become a global one, regardless of masquerades of nationality and race, it will be quite a unique collapse (no longer localised) with a considerable risk of extinction.
Laser weapons, if it can target you, you can target it. A 747 is pretty hard to miss.
So how long do you think it will take, even the most stupid enemy to figure out before they launch their missle they need to take out that bloody huge plane flying around and around in circles advertising it's presence.
What's really funny here is, what happens if they choose to launch only during the day and choose to use light as a defence. A nice big array of mirrors around the missile site, a focusing point and all of a sudden you have a mysteriously burning 747, right before the missile takes off.
This has nothing to do with selling product. This is all about corruptly flooding forums with trolls, thousands of them. The marketing and promotional lie is selling products to friends the reality is poisoning every possible social network with an endless stream of bullshit marketing.
How long will an social site's last when you have a couple of hundred thousand trolls flooding the site with links, desperate to collect a couple of cents per click.
The guy is nothing but another mass trolling pig. Doesn't give a crap about people's social interactions, quite happy to bring them all crashing down, basically he wants to become a social forum spammer and that's what the arse hole is selling to corporations.
You can filter out some IP's but not hundreds of thousands of scattered ones, you can block robots but not hundreds of thousands of pathetic greedy ignorant trolls.
A purveyor of lies on a mass scale. Of course the trolls he employs will become the most hated people on the internet, kicked out of social network after social network.
Tax havens are the bankers for crime syndicates, autocratic despots, arms smugglers, global drug smugglers, extreme political corruption and basically every kind of major crime imaginable, not just tax cheats. The appropriate penalty for those countries is zeroing of the currency, all those countries import the majority of their goods, let them beg the criminals who generate their profits for their sustenance. Exchange rates define what tax havens are capable of purchasing upon international markets, there is not a country that tax havens do not cheat, do not facilitate criminal activity and do not drive political corruption. Tariffs are not the appropriate tool for trading in the worlds blood money, a complete crippling of their economies is.
Nope, the serious underlying psychopathic sickness here is, that people are cheaper and more disposable than robotics. Those same devices manufactured in western countries would largely be automated, so the plant costs considerable more to build.
This is all about how disposable a work force is, about which countries will allow their citizens to be the most devalued.
What's needed is a fair basis of trade, where those legislated costs are applied to products whether they are locally produced or imported. It is extremely uncompetitive to penalise local manufacturers with costs and then exclude imported products from those costs in the vain attempt to appease the insatiable greed of psychopaths.
This is a regulatory issue, all products whether imported or domestic should be subject to the exact same legislated costs. Better a local automated factory than a foreign grind people up and spit them out when they are no longer of any use sweat shop.
Defences to keep the water out, sounds nice but in reality when you are talking thousands of kilometres of coastline, it all becomes horrendously expensive, especially for countries that can't maintain their roads, footpaths and even bridges. So privatising the profits and socialising the losses yet again.
The real story here is, everybody knows exactly what is going no but the government for some very strange reason continues to do absolutely nothing about it. Apparently as long as the suckers at the bottom keep paying that's all that matters and their working on ramping up taxes for the bottom 99%.
Some simple legislation could clear this up. Firstly of course give offshore tax havens some warning to clean up before zeroing the value of their currency and secondly baring states from acting as tax havens. The tax should be paid where the money is earned, not declared.
Australia basically lucked out in having the last truly successful Olympics. Since then computers, the internet and the drive for participation over sucked in by marketing passivity is taking over.
Whiny, it's not lying it's acting product promoting, athletes and their lawyers, as just so yesterday, last millennium in fact. Olympic gold medal winners are promoting crappier and crappier products, it's getting so bad, using the reduces the appearance value of a product rather than enhancing it.
Of course not to forget, generally speaking it is not a very good idea to shoot down aircraft over a crowded city. So who will be deciding who dies it stead, wait don't shoot it down yet, it'll fall on some place important. Of course this anti-aircraft missiles bullshit might be exactly that bullshit to drive marketing of the Olympics.
Well, that's the reality when you try to capture the reality of what is very much similar to a car crash, just really drawn out. The problem now of course is due to a lack of in depth story, character development or any great degree of story telling nuance, all you end up with is an series of extended car crashes.
Of course we brought it on ourselves. As geeks and nerds stayed away from the cinema preferring the interactivity of computers with big screens passive media mainly for background and buying selected content rather than buying marketing and renting the latest supposedly greatest content. We have altered the nature of the audience and they target the audience that pays them.
We will just have to wait for true life animation and virtual robotic actors (characters and scenery), for the story to take precedence and of course for a true flood of content, enough for all kinds of audiences.
Why not simply an affirmation that private companies, corporations both foreign and domestic, as well as individuals, are fully bound by the constitution and all of it's amendments and no contract clause or condition can abridge the constitution and it's amendments in any way shape or form. Then legislate major penalties for any attempt to do so, both a major fine and prison term.
Since when is it their work. Reality is, it is always someone else's work, they are just parasites. Their risk, never they just gamble other peoples money. Just plotting, scheming, greed and more greed and yet more greed.
The function of society is to provide the best possible services for the majority. Not a scam to allow a psychopathic minority to prey upon the majority and enforce it with extreme violence.
Clearly capitalism is a societal structure designed by psychopaths for their personal benefit. Those that benefit the most by a twisted society should clearly pay the most, keep pressing the distortion and they inevitably pay the highest price (a just price considering the harm they cause) with delusions of taking it with them.
When you up the top. You do share transfers. Simply convert your capital gains shares into dividend paying shares. It looks like your bought and sold to the smucks at the bottom but you simply made an investment conversion and woo hoo tax deducted the costs.
Dividends are not paid a year after your buy shares but a set times. So simply convert your capital gains shares into dividend paying shares just before dividends are due to be paid. Zero capital gains tax, you only pay tax on the dividend paid.
Don't tax corporations, then every rich dick will stick all their income in a corporation which then pays them a token salary. The corporation the buys the investment mansion which no one ever wants to rent and tax deducts all running and management costs. The corporation buys the supercars and limos and tax deducts them, perhaps the locate the mansion on a few acres add one horse and those supercars and limos become farm vehicles.
The mega yacht also owned by the corporation is now a marketing tool and hence tax deductible. The private jet, well that's a part time 'er' full time air charter business that loses money and is again tax deductible.
As for you dopey fuckers that can't shift you income into corporation and convert your assets into tax deductions, well, sucked in.
Buy into corporations not paying taxes and your either a psychopath or a gullible bloody idiot. Then the bullshit about corporations not have tax deductions, that's a be show laugh. So say a corporation sells concrete that means it can't tax deduct the gravel, sand, water, cement, concrete trucks and employees, oh yeah (you see how they make all the luxury personal items seem no different from tools and materials, have you never heard of tax attorneys and what their job really is).
Reality here is the bill for the cost of the effort to date should be forwarded to M$ as it were their interests that were deceitfully forwarded, M$ can then choose whether or not to get the 'bad' doctor to pay for it or not.
That companies can try this stuff on again and again, without any penalty is getting way out of hand. Some real penalties should be applied especially when they stooge up government based investigations that will likely lead to legislation.
It's called mirroring or proxy servers. The military could if they were so tied to spending billions of stuff they can throw away, burn or blow up, by a handful of petabyte servers and make available free to service personal for streaming, all the content available.
The military ie government is in the position of not paying per stream but per content and ensure even 1 DVD can be legally watched by thousands of military personal 'nearly' simultaneously by ensuring that only one person is watching a particular milli-second of content at the same, thus ensuring only one copy is available for viewing at one time.
So in this case slack backward government and military. RIAA/MPAA types just being the self serving psychopaths we expect them to be, nothing new.
Yep, and those worthless, lazy, useless minimum wage types deserve nothing but working in misery until they die due to lack of healthcare. Whips and chains should also be legal again. When those miserable minimum wage types are slacking on their employer, thus stealing his money, the employer should be able to chain them to the machines and whip them until the work faster. Even the minimum wage is too high and should be taxed as much as possible to ensure the poor appreciate their bowls of gruel, sack cloth clothing, old horse blanket on their sleeping pallet, otherwise they might get all uppity.
Sales taxes should really be targeted at products that waste the most resources and generate the most pollution, punitive taxes that prevents socialism, specifically the socialism involved in socialising the lost resources and the pollution.
Waste ten times the energy or generate 10 times the pollution of the poorest and you should be paying 100 times the tax, a sound civil penalty to ensure lessons are learned, just as fines should be an 'equal' percentage of annual income to ensure 'equal' penalty.
Now when it comes to sales tax, here's the profit game Amazon wants to play, it's called cash flow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_flow, charging sales tax long before they actually pay for them ie borrowing money interest free from all the other tax payers so that Amazon can invest it and make money.
Supermarket bargain bins are still full of DVDs, more than you can ever hope to watch. That's the reality there is already far more content out there than you can consumer, full time doing nothing else in ten life times.
Copyright was really all about burying old content so that you would pay top dollar for new content. The producers of new content got greedy and decided to dump the old content they had buried, case of this years executives hunting this years bonus and bugger tomorrow. Worst of all most of the new content is pretty crappy and can't compete with the old content beyond of course the tasteless cheetos crowd (the boring I've watched it already and who cares about story give me un-reality TV).
The really funny thing about all this, the truly hilarious reality. Big screen, high definition 3d, high frame rates, is not good for 'fake' content or make believe, the only thing it is really good for and that people will truly enjoy, is the scenery channel. Just moving images of nature, great locations with beautiful sunsets and sunrises, of calming noon day tropical lagoons and beaches. Forget windows, filtered, conditioned air (maybe with aromas to match the view) and full wall sized video displays with high resolution like your there scenery in motion.
Great scam isn't it. Verisign get little to no money from the after market for domain names, so the only way they can ramp up profits every year, a requirement under the God of US capitalism, is to increase the number of TLD,s forcing existing companies to not only buy them up but to have to rent them year in and year out for the foreseeable future.
Catch with this, the blatant greed game is likely to piss off a bunch of other countries who are likely to turn around and cripple Verisign's get rich quick scheme and value by creating local only high level TLD's and requiring independent payment for all of them.
The new war, where will ISP's get their customers to point their DNS Address to point to. Make no mistake in the Domain Name gold mine, it is the ISP's and of course inevitably the governments that regulate them that have the upper hand, the high ground. With that DNS address entry so go the customers, the end users, the wallets to be milked.
The bigger the ISP the greater the temptation to create your own DNS database and offer up entries for sale so they can access your clients (mirror default, buy to change entry).
Apple would have hardly spent a few million dollars on advertising with Cnet if Cnet didn't call the new staff cafeteria a 'Restaurant' because Apple is special. You know when they use that word special to refer to people, who are a little mentally disadvantage and they wish to be polite, I get the feeling people are going to start referring to Apple as being special in the same way.
The whole plan is pretty special. A bit of clear thinking would have placed the new cafeteria more centrally above some of the existing carparks, in a more central foot friendly location but 'special' companies always look for 'special' solutions.
Bing is positively ancient, a Ballmer driven marketing name change to boost his ego is meaningless. A One stage MSN search (Live search) was number 2 to Alta Vista and then both M$ and Alta Vista choked the chicken by flooding the first pages with utterly pointless paid for placements. They were so bad at it, you started a search and the immediately click on page 5 or so of results. All of this before google and of course this created google's market.
Ballmer was stupid enough to say at one stage he regretted ever starting MSN just because he was screwing it up all the time. Reality is MSN should be worth more than Google, and it is the true measure of Ballmer's incompetence.
The principles behind the TSA are far worse than that. People's rights are slowly being boiled away. The TSA is about getting people used to random searches no matter where they are. There have been repeated efforts to expand the TSA to all public transport, not just planes.
Also the TSA publicly and emphatically break the principle that "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal", instead the wealthy are specifically excluded from the predation of the TSA. This is not even hidden yet the majority blindly accept that the poor and middle class are routinely abused while the wealthy are left alone shoes on, never touched, carry on assault rifles, all the fluids they want on private or charter flights.
So public enforcement of the principle that America is a classed society, those that are protected (as publicly described by a US president the haves and the haves more) from those that are abused (the have not). Then other lesson being driven home is the majority have no right to personal privacy of any kind either direct physical (naked scanners and direct sexual abuse) or belongings (phone, camera, computer data). Again with a distinction between rich and middle class/poor.
All without a single hint of protest at people being treated differently, about a grossly unequal quality of treatment for the rich.
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How about destroying every public review site on the internet all full of pennies per review 10 out 10 for the crappiest products imaginable. The only saving grace, there are plenty of greedy arse holes just like him and they will end up eating each others lunch and going broke trying to run fraudulent scams.
Unfortunately the logical correction, entails eliminating two decidedly homicidal groups. Both quite capable of burnt earth thinking, if they can't survive no-one should as well as of course their willingness to kill as many as necessary to gain and keep ego and lust fulfilling power.
The collapse is not karma based, simply the nature of psychopaths and narcissists willingness to destroy everything around them if they believe it will benefit them, eventually they both succeed and fail (greed driven stupidity).
Here's the difference. Patent application, 'Hey you idiots at the USPTO here's prior art' cost to submitter near zero. Secret patent, patent approved, now prove it's prior art in court, cost to submitter 100 thousand dollars in court fees.
Lets' not forget straight from the release, "allows competitors to design around U.S. technologies". So you spend millions of dollars designing and implementing the same technology only 1 month after the secret patent being filed, only to find your investment is shit and your company can be be bankrupted by a secret patent or abandon the investment or pay extortion.
Straight up US political corruption, basically legalised lying, cheating and stealing.
Let's not forget IBMs and Xerox's blunders, without the gumbies at both locations, M$ would have been dead in the water, time for one great big Homer 'douh' and that hair line, oh so appropriate.
Home networking can only be FOSS simply due to cost. Family of four, 4 phones, 4 notebooks, couple of big screens, couple of tablets, now add in the appliances, air-conditioners (efficient requires both evaporative and reverse cycle, use the most appropriate based upon temperature and humidity), stove, microwave, washing machines, dish washer, refrigerator, entry doors, security system, router, home server computer and since we are already talking rich add in the swimming pool, garage controller, games room collection, game consoles. Oh, wait, do you see the problem developing, a really well a truly limited market. Once you can afford all this your likely an asshat with servants who will do it all for you anyhow.
Humanity is a social species, You do not look at evolution the same for social species as for non-social species, the social structures of social species also evolve.
Take for example the growth of psychopathy and narcissism (non-social genetic mutations) as a proportion of the population under certain types of human societies like capitalism. Where the focus changes from working together to preying upon each other. It is quite easy to see the logical consequence of that growth, the collapse of that society as those willing to work together are reduced to such low numbers they can no longer sustain the destructive parasites, the psychopaths and narcissists. As a consequence the whole society collapses, eliminating by far the majority of it's members and basically leaving only handful of those that want to work together.
Evolution favours social groups that work together the best and cyclically eliminates self destructive groups ever where it was only a minority that developed psychologically unhealthy and destructive mutations.
In fact you can see that trend developing quite clearly developing in human society, a couple of world wars as prime examples societal collapse and self destruction all driven by an extreme minority. Of course now the US is leading permanent state of war instigated by the greed driven insanity of a minority, the psychopaths and narcissists. As the majority continue to allow this to happen so the consequences will be inevitable as demonstrated again and again by history, the complete collapse of that human society. As this one has become a global one, regardless of masquerades of nationality and race, it will be quite a unique collapse (no longer localised) with a considerable risk of extinction.
Laser weapons, if it can target you, you can target it. A 747 is pretty hard to miss.
So how long do you think it will take, even the most stupid enemy to figure out before they launch their missle they need to take out that bloody huge plane flying around and around in circles advertising it's presence.
What's really funny here is, what happens if they choose to launch only during the day and choose to use light as a defence. A nice big array of mirrors around the missile site, a focusing point and all of a sudden you have a mysteriously burning 747, right before the missile takes off.
This has nothing to do with selling product. This is all about corruptly flooding forums with trolls, thousands of them. The marketing and promotional lie is selling products to friends the reality is poisoning every possible social network with an endless stream of bullshit marketing.
How long will an social site's last when you have a couple of hundred thousand trolls flooding the site with links, desperate to collect a couple of cents per click.
The guy is nothing but another mass trolling pig. Doesn't give a crap about people's social interactions, quite happy to bring them all crashing down, basically he wants to become a social forum spammer and that's what the arse hole is selling to corporations.
You can filter out some IP's but not hundreds of thousands of scattered ones, you can block robots but not hundreds of thousands of pathetic greedy ignorant trolls.
A purveyor of lies on a mass scale. Of course the trolls he employs will become the most hated people on the internet, kicked out of social network after social network.
Tax havens are the bankers for crime syndicates, autocratic despots, arms smugglers, global drug smugglers, extreme political corruption and basically every kind of major crime imaginable, not just tax cheats. The appropriate penalty for those countries is zeroing of the currency, all those countries import the majority of their goods, let them beg the criminals who generate their profits for their sustenance. Exchange rates define what tax havens are capable of purchasing upon international markets, there is not a country that tax havens do not cheat, do not facilitate criminal activity and do not drive political corruption. Tariffs are not the appropriate tool for trading in the worlds blood money, a complete crippling of their economies is.
Nope, the serious underlying psychopathic sickness here is, that people are cheaper and more disposable than robotics. Those same devices manufactured in western countries would largely be automated, so the plant costs considerable more to build.
This is all about how disposable a work force is, about which countries will allow their citizens to be the most devalued.
What's needed is a fair basis of trade, where those legislated costs are applied to products whether they are locally produced or imported. It is extremely uncompetitive to penalise local manufacturers with costs and then exclude imported products from those costs in the vain attempt to appease the insatiable greed of psychopaths.
This is a regulatory issue, all products whether imported or domestic should be subject to the exact same legislated costs. Better a local automated factory than a foreign grind people up and spit them out when they are no longer of any use sweat shop.
Defences to keep the water out, sounds nice but in reality when you are talking thousands of kilometres of coastline, it all becomes horrendously expensive, especially for countries that can't maintain their roads, footpaths and even bridges. So privatising the profits and socialising the losses yet again.
The real story here is, everybody knows exactly what is going no but the government for some very strange reason continues to do absolutely nothing about it. Apparently as long as the suckers at the bottom keep paying that's all that matters and their working on ramping up taxes for the bottom 99%.
Some simple legislation could clear this up. Firstly of course give offshore tax havens some warning to clean up before zeroing the value of their currency and secondly baring states from acting as tax havens. The tax should be paid where the money is earned, not declared.
Australia basically lucked out in having the last truly successful Olympics. Since then computers, the internet and the drive for participation over sucked in by marketing passivity is taking over.
Whiny, it's not lying it's acting product promoting, athletes and their lawyers, as just so yesterday, last millennium in fact. Olympic gold medal winners are promoting crappier and crappier products, it's getting so bad, using the reduces the appearance value of a product rather than enhancing it.
Of course not to forget, generally speaking it is not a very good idea to shoot down aircraft over a crowded city. So who will be deciding who dies it stead, wait don't shoot it down yet, it'll fall on some place important. Of course this anti-aircraft missiles bullshit might be exactly that bullshit to drive marketing of the Olympics.
Well, that's the reality when you try to capture the reality of what is very much similar to a car crash, just really drawn out. The problem now of course is due to a lack of in depth story, character development or any great degree of story telling nuance, all you end up with is an series of extended car crashes.
Of course we brought it on ourselves. As geeks and nerds stayed away from the cinema preferring the interactivity of computers with big screens passive media mainly for background and buying selected content rather than buying marketing and renting the latest supposedly greatest content. We have altered the nature of the audience and they target the audience that pays them.
We will just have to wait for true life animation and virtual robotic actors (characters and scenery), for the story to take precedence and of course for a true flood of content, enough for all kinds of audiences.
Why not simply an affirmation that private companies, corporations both foreign and domestic, as well as individuals, are fully bound by the constitution and all of it's amendments and no contract clause or condition can abridge the constitution and it's amendments in any way shape or form. Then legislate major penalties for any attempt to do so, both a major fine and prison term.
Since when is it their work. Reality is, it is always someone else's work, they are just parasites. Their risk, never they just gamble other peoples money. Just plotting, scheming, greed and more greed and yet more greed.
The function of society is to provide the best possible services for the majority. Not a scam to allow a psychopathic minority to prey upon the majority and enforce it with extreme violence.
Clearly capitalism is a societal structure designed by psychopaths for their personal benefit. Those that benefit the most by a twisted society should clearly pay the most, keep pressing the distortion and they inevitably pay the highest price (a just price considering the harm they cause) with delusions of taking it with them.
When you up the top. You do share transfers. Simply convert your capital gains shares into dividend paying shares. It looks like your bought and sold to the smucks at the bottom but you simply made an investment conversion and woo hoo tax deducted the costs.
Dividends are not paid a year after your buy shares but a set times. So simply convert your capital gains shares into dividend paying shares just before dividends are due to be paid. Zero capital gains tax, you only pay tax on the dividend paid.
Don't tax corporations, then every rich dick will stick all their income in a corporation which then pays them a token salary. The corporation the buys the investment mansion which no one ever wants to rent and tax deducts all running and management costs. The corporation buys the supercars and limos and tax deducts them, perhaps the locate the mansion on a few acres add one horse and those supercars and limos become farm vehicles.
The mega yacht also owned by the corporation is now a marketing tool and hence tax deductible. The private jet, well that's a part time 'er' full time air charter business that loses money and is again tax deductible.
As for you dopey fuckers that can't shift you income into corporation and convert your assets into tax deductions, well, sucked in.
Buy into corporations not paying taxes and your either a psychopath or a gullible bloody idiot. Then the bullshit about corporations not have tax deductions, that's a be show laugh. So say a corporation sells concrete that means it can't tax deduct the gravel, sand, water, cement, concrete trucks and employees, oh yeah (you see how they make all the luxury personal items seem no different from tools and materials, have you never heard of tax attorneys and what their job really is).
Reality here is the bill for the cost of the effort to date should be forwarded to M$ as it were their interests that were deceitfully forwarded, M$ can then choose whether or not to get the 'bad' doctor to pay for it or not.
That companies can try this stuff on again and again, without any penalty is getting way out of hand. Some real penalties should be applied especially when they stooge up government based investigations that will likely lead to legislation.
It's called mirroring or proxy servers. The military could if they were so tied to spending billions of stuff they can throw away, burn or blow up, by a handful of petabyte servers and make available free to service personal for streaming, all the content available.
The military ie government is in the position of not paying per stream but per content and ensure even 1 DVD can be legally watched by thousands of military personal 'nearly' simultaneously by ensuring that only one person is watching a particular milli-second of content at the same, thus ensuring only one copy is available for viewing at one time.
So in this case slack backward government and military. RIAA/MPAA types just being the self serving psychopaths we expect them to be, nothing new.
Yep, and those worthless, lazy, useless minimum wage types deserve nothing but working in misery until they die due to lack of healthcare. Whips and chains should also be legal again. When those miserable minimum wage types are slacking on their employer, thus stealing his money, the employer should be able to chain them to the machines and whip them until the work faster. Even the minimum wage is too high and should be taxed as much as possible to ensure the poor appreciate their bowls of gruel, sack cloth clothing, old horse blanket on their sleeping pallet, otherwise they might get all uppity.
Sales taxes should really be targeted at products that waste the most resources and generate the most pollution, punitive taxes that prevents socialism, specifically the socialism involved in socialising the lost resources and the pollution.
Waste ten times the energy or generate 10 times the pollution of the poorest and you should be paying 100 times the tax, a sound civil penalty to ensure lessons are learned, just as fines should be an 'equal' percentage of annual income to ensure 'equal' penalty.
Now when it comes to sales tax, here's the profit game Amazon wants to play, it's called cash flow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_flow, charging sales tax long before they actually pay for them ie borrowing money interest free from all the other tax payers so that Amazon can invest it and make money.
Supermarket bargain bins are still full of DVDs, more than you can ever hope to watch. That's the reality there is already far more content out there than you can consumer, full time doing nothing else in ten life times.
Copyright was really all about burying old content so that you would pay top dollar for new content. The producers of new content got greedy and decided to dump the old content they had buried, case of this years executives hunting this years bonus and bugger tomorrow. Worst of all most of the new content is pretty crappy and can't compete with the old content beyond of course the tasteless cheetos crowd (the boring I've watched it already and who cares about story give me un-reality TV).
The really funny thing about all this, the truly hilarious reality. Big screen, high definition 3d, high frame rates, is not good for 'fake' content or make believe, the only thing it is really good for and that people will truly enjoy, is the scenery channel. Just moving images of nature, great locations with beautiful sunsets and sunrises, of calming noon day tropical lagoons and beaches. Forget windows, filtered, conditioned air (maybe with aromas to match the view) and full wall sized video displays with high resolution like your there scenery in motion.
Great scam isn't it. Verisign get little to no money from the after market for domain names, so the only way they can ramp up profits every year, a requirement under the God of US capitalism, is to increase the number of TLD,s forcing existing companies to not only buy them up but to have to rent them year in and year out for the foreseeable future.
Catch with this, the blatant greed game is likely to piss off a bunch of other countries who are likely to turn around and cripple Verisign's get rich quick scheme and value by creating local only high level TLD's and requiring independent payment for all of them.
The new war, where will ISP's get their customers to point their DNS Address to point to. Make no mistake in the Domain Name gold mine, it is the ISP's and of course inevitably the governments that regulate them that have the upper hand, the high ground. With that DNS address entry so go the customers, the end users, the wallets to be milked.
The bigger the ISP the greater the temptation to create your own DNS database and offer up entries for sale so they can access your clients (mirror default, buy to change entry).
Apple would have hardly spent a few million dollars on advertising with Cnet if Cnet didn't call the new staff cafeteria a 'Restaurant' because Apple is special. You know when they use that word special to refer to people, who are a little mentally disadvantage and they wish to be polite, I get the feeling people are going to start referring to Apple as being special in the same way.
The whole plan is pretty special. A bit of clear thinking would have placed the new cafeteria more centrally above some of the existing carparks, in a more central foot friendly location but 'special' companies always look for 'special' solutions.
Bing is positively ancient, a Ballmer driven marketing name change to boost his ego is meaningless. A One stage MSN search (Live search) was number 2 to Alta Vista and then both M$ and Alta Vista choked the chicken by flooding the first pages with utterly pointless paid for placements. They were so bad at it, you started a search and the immediately click on page 5 or so of results. All of this before google and of course this created google's market.
Ballmer was stupid enough to say at one stage he regretted ever starting MSN just because he was screwing it up all the time. Reality is MSN should be worth more than Google, and it is the true measure of Ballmer's incompetence.
The principles behind the TSA are far worse than that. People's rights are slowly being boiled away. The TSA is about getting people used to random searches no matter where they are. There have been repeated efforts to expand the TSA to all public transport, not just planes.
Also the TSA publicly and emphatically break the principle that "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal", instead the wealthy are specifically excluded from the predation of the TSA. This is not even hidden yet the majority blindly accept that the poor and middle class are routinely abused while the wealthy are left alone shoes on, never touched, carry on assault rifles, all the fluids they want on private or charter flights.
So public enforcement of the principle that America is a classed society, those that are protected (as publicly described by a US president the haves and the haves more) from those that are abused (the have not). Then other lesson being driven home is the majority have no right to personal privacy of any kind either direct physical (naked scanners and direct sexual abuse) or belongings (phone, camera, computer data). Again with a distinction between rich and middle class/poor.
All without a single hint of protest at people being treated differently, about a grossly unequal quality of treatment for the rich.