This is NOT (yep, yelling) something that requires or even suggests a monopoly, any more than cell phone service requires a monopoly.
So your arguments are moot from the start. No service providers other than water an sewer (and in some places Electricity) can count on a monopoly anymore, and as a consequence people can vote with their pocketbook.
Such is not the case when the government steps in, and abuses of power happen far more frequently when the government is involved than when people are free to take their account elsewhere.
'Fraid you will have to find some other excuse for living off the public teet...
Rates are set by statistical means, that take into account costs of auto repairs as well as health care needs. Its not a crap shoot.
Accident statistics from the federal highway safety admin closely parallel insurance rates.
The 20 year olds with jacked up truck WILL roll them at a greater frequency than Gramps in his 62 jimmy. Bet on it.
A good and careful driver can take calculated risks in acceleration, turns, and brakeing and not hurt himself or anyone else for his entire driving career. Yet this technology will penalize that driver based on how someone else FEELS about his driving, not on his record or the statistics.
Anyhow I dont think just adding "picocells" is going to correct the problem of poorly designed cell phones that give off EMR they are not supposed to!
But the local picocell wuill induce the cell phone to reduce its power to the bare minimum because it has such a good local signal. Cell phones have some of the most elaborate battery saving software in the world. They always try to use the absolute minimum power that will get the job done.
All the Canadian coins I can lay my magnet on are non-magnetic except the dimes. I can't find any Canadian quarters, they all seem to be stuck in the vending machines clogging them up, as I'm in the States.
So maybe dimes and quartes are magnetic, but the nickels and pennies are not.
But, while a copyright of reasonable length is still in effect, the owner of the copyright should have complete control of the work.
Why?
That isn't what copyright is supposed to offer. It is only to prevent others from copying a work and selling it. Hint: Thats why its called COPYRIGHT.
It is not now, and never was intend to be complete control.
The author does not have the right to tell you that you can only read his book in Lincoln County Nebraska on a Tuesday while holding a Ford Hupcap in your left hand.
Nor should he be allowed to dictate that you can only watch your legally purchased DVD in Holland and only with a Windows machine.
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Hey, that little inconsistency doesn't prove a thing about scamming laptops on ebay. I'm sure he was just testing several cameras he was using for his other ebay scams ^H^H^H^H sales.
Its only positive money if you win, otherwise it costs you millions for nothing.
Just keeping some on staff to look for "infringing" registrations costs about the same as keeping a low-level cog on staff to maintain all registrations for your company.
What this also means is more rapid moves for spammers.
As new domains can be brought on line instantly, they can switch source names in both the mail headers and embedded URLs and thereby more nimbly evade DNS based spam detection methods such as the newer methods (such as SURBL: http://www.surbl.org )in the upcoming Spamassassin 3.0.
There are others who are interested in quickly moving web sites from place to place, and most of them are up to no good, Such as warez, pirate, and terrorist sites etc.
Legit moves of a company's website are rare, and usually accomplished with prior planning, leaving the old site it place till the new site is established, and the transition is smooth and no mail is lost.
If things had been allowed to devlelop naturally, we'd today have a good body of common law covering all aspects of radio transmission rights, etc. Instead we have a centralised decision-making body which has inhibited the natural development of technology and stunted its integration into the economy.
Oh, please!
Since when is a hodge podge of historically built up law better than systematic and revisable regulations that have ALLOWED for the natural development of technology and HELPED to integrate them into the Economy. Pick up your cell phone and give me a call about this, or send me an email via your wireless laptop.
Perhaps we should litigate the structure of our road system, or our water system as well? Only a lawyer could rejoice at the thought of doing a title search to see if it would be legal to drive to Texas for vacation. Or being subject to a lawsuit because they made a cell phone call while standing on the wrong street corner.
There are hundreds of thousands of laws and legal decisions on the books that would be better served by whipeing the slate clean and substituting a regulatory agency, with requirement for public input, and elected over site. Society is already hamsturng by the weight of the law to the point that the average person can not get thru the day without violating some law somewhere.
Regulations can be overly burdensome too, But that is far easier to change than trying to convince your Legislature to over turn some silly provision that has built up over time.
Call me crazy, but I trust an organization staffed by engineers far more that court full of lawyers.
Of course this only works if you build multiple cable plants (read 5 times the wires) or going to a shared cable plant (which will suffer the fate of the commons).
TVoverIP is a long way off for the masses, and HDTVoverIP even farther off. We will be stuck with bandwidt limited cable plants for decades.
Now if the FCC forced the separation of cable plant ownershif from content provider ownership then your idea might have a chance of working.
But other than that, some things just naturally belong in a monopoly.
I'd like a choice of who provides my water service too, but the ground can only hold so many pipes.
The cost is set at $30 for the entire flight or $10 for 30 minutes."
Its hard to know which will expire first, my wallet or my Battery.
How does one open a lap top in those cramped seats anyway?
The guy in front decides to recline and your screen needs replacement. The only defense is to recline first. Ok troups, back to front reclining ONLY. And don't even THINK about getting up to go to the head.
And once you get used to the way Adobe feels and organizes tools, you get accustomed to it, so much so that it becomes a pain to try to use other non-Adobe programs.
Well that is because there IS some orgianization to adobe tools, whereas the GIMP is totally disorganized with often needed functions hidden several menus deep, under non-intuitive tree structures and also given quirky names to boot.
If the GIMP were just given a face lift and reorganized with options re-named along industry standards it might make a passible second level image editor.
At least the system would government controlled and thus a lesser evil than the tyranny of vigilante groups like SPEWS.
Boy you are a True Believer(tm) aren't you!?!
Name one thing the Government (any government) does well? As For SPEWS and others, their actions are based on actual monitored events (spam) and not the whim of some dictator or someone doing a favor for a bribe.
Further, the use of these BlackLists is TOTALLY voluntary. You don't have to use them. Run your own MTA.
But let the government get ahold of this and no one will speak out of turn.
How come we can't find Osama, and we can't stop bombers in Madrid before the fact, but we can expend police resources on a worldwide scale to enforce "property rights".
Is this the police equivlent if the "Turkey Farm" where we use to send programmers that couldn't find the end of an IF statement with both hands? Surely we are not expending our best cops' minds on chaseing song pirates... Tell me its not so!!
Is any of the cost of this being charged back to the companies who's property they are "protecting"? I can't even call the fire department without getting a bill! Yet someone managed to obtain the services of an international organization of police forces to basically run a "stop loss" operation for an over priced product.
Ah yes the old Cell Phone detection cricuit wired into the tv trick....
Look, airplane TV is just a VCR feeding a coax. Nothing there is sensitive to cell phones. Feel free to try it at home.
I've seen many airplane tvs go wonky for no obvious reason and plenty of sharp eye'd STUs catch phone yackers that did not think the rules applied the THEM.
The price of ONE years subscription will buy you a boxed set of the Personal edition of just about any Linux Distribution you'd care to name. Problem solved.
A poor struggeling college student can't afford to run Windows.
But if you are a small business you often CAN NOT buy your reverse dns even if you CAN purchase a static IP for your linux server.
This forces you send all your aol mail thru your ISPs mailserver even when your ISPs AUP may not allow your emails to your subscriber list due to bulk rules.
Further, AOL selectivly decides which IPs it will receive email from based on the netblock. If your ISP assigns you a static out of the same block as it uses for cable modems or ADSL you are just out of luck.
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This is NOT (yep, yelling) something that requires or even suggests a monopoly, any more than cell phone service requires a monopoly.
So your arguments are moot from the start.
No service providers other than water an sewer (and in some places Electricity) can count on a monopoly anymore, and as a consequence people can vote with their pocketbook.
Such is not the case when the government steps in, and abuses of power happen far more frequently when the government is involved than when people are free to take their account elsewhere.
'Fraid you will have to find some other excuse for living off the public teet...
But the places they lit up already had cameras!! They lit them up so the cameras could work better.
The study was flawed, and this has been pointed out in the Brit press all ready.
Rates are set by statistical means, that take into account costs of auto repairs as well as health care needs. Its not a crap shoot.
Accident statistics from the federal highway safety admin closely parallel insurance rates.
The 20 year olds with jacked up truck WILL roll them at a greater frequency than Gramps in his 62 jimmy. Bet on it.
A good and careful driver can take calculated risks in acceleration, turns, and brakeing and not hurt himself or anyone else for his entire driving career. Yet this technology will penalize that driver based on how someone else FEELS about his driving, not on his record or the statistics.
Anyhow I dont think just adding "picocells" is going to correct the problem of poorly designed cell phones that give off EMR they are not supposed to!
But the local picocell wuill induce the cell phone to reduce its power to the bare minimum because it has such a good local signal. Cell phones have some of the most elaborate battery saving software in the world. They always try to use the absolute minimum power that will get the job done.
They're blatantly using the MST3k formula.
Using the Formula?
If that were a crime, then half the sitcoms on tv would be in violation.
All the Canadian coins I can lay my magnet on are non-magnetic except the dimes. I can't find any Canadian quarters, they all seem to be stuck in the vending machines clogging them up, as I'm in the States.
So maybe dimes and quartes are magnetic, but the nickels and pennies are not.
Seimens cordless work great for me...r /0,2241 ,hq_en_0_15735_rArNrNrNrN,00.html
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But, while a copyright of reasonable length is still in effect, the owner of the copyright should have complete control of the work.
Why?
That isn't what copyright is supposed to offer. It is only to prevent others from copying a work and selling it. Hint: Thats why its called COPYRIGHT.
It is not now, and never was intend to be complete control.
The author does not have the right to tell you that you can only read his book in Lincoln County Nebraska on a Tuesday while holding a Ford Hupcap in your left hand.
Nor should he be allowed to dictate that you can only watch your legally purchased DVD in Holland and only with a Windows machine.
Your argument is bogus.
I mean really
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P7120633.JPG: JPEG image data, EXIF standard 0.73, 10752 x 2048
Hey, that little inconsistency doesn't prove a thing about scamming laptops on ebay. I'm sure he was just testing several cameras he was using for his other ebay scams ^H^H^H^H sales.
If you wanted to prohibit only "use in commercial purposes" you would write "possession and use for commercial purposes".
The statement as it stands is unambiguous and you are wrong.
No, he is not wrong, and the commas DO matter. They matter both in common English and in Law, and they certainly matter in English Law.
Never assume General British Style (whatever that may be) applies to case law or rulings thereof. Find ONE British legal expert to back up your claim.
As the poster said, there would be no reason to itemize those things/acts that are wrong if all things are wrong.
Its only positive money if you win, otherwise it costs you millions for nothing.
Just keeping some on staff to look for "infringing" registrations costs about the same as keeping a low-level cog on staff to maintain all registrations for your company.
What this also means is more rapid moves for spammers.
As new domains can be brought on line instantly, they can switch source names in both the mail headers and embedded URLs and thereby more nimbly evade DNS based spam detection methods such as the newer methods (such as SURBL: http://www.surbl.org )in the upcoming Spamassassin 3.0.
There are others who are interested in quickly moving web sites from place to place, and most of them are up to no good, Such as warez, pirate, and terrorist sites etc.
Legit moves of a company's website are rare, and usually accomplished with prior planning, leaving the old site it place till the new site is established, and the transition is smooth and no mail is lost.
Sometimes a little inerta is a good thing.
I wonder if we will have to register just to view
these old news papers? What are they going to use the registration for, improving their reporting?
Lets see, most of the authors are dead, most of the subjects are dead...
Registration should not be necessary, as they will be reading along with us over our shoulder.
If things had been allowed to devlelop naturally, we'd today have a good body of common law covering all aspects of radio transmission rights, etc. Instead we have a centralised decision-making body which has inhibited the natural development of technology and stunted its integration into the economy.
Oh, please!
Since when is a hodge podge of historically built up law better than systematic and revisable regulations that have ALLOWED for the natural development of technology and HELPED to integrate them into the Economy. Pick up your cell phone and give me a call about this, or send me an email via your wireless laptop.
Perhaps we should litigate the structure of our road system, or our water system as well? Only a lawyer could rejoice at the thought of doing a title search to see if it would be legal to drive to Texas for vacation. Or being subject to a lawsuit because they made a cell phone call while standing on the wrong street corner.
There are hundreds of thousands of laws and legal decisions on the books that would be better served by whipeing the slate clean and substituting a regulatory agency, with requirement for public input, and elected over site. Society is already hamsturng by the weight of the law to the point that the average person can not get thru the day without violating some law somewhere.
Regulations can be overly burdensome too, But that is far easier to change than trying to convince your Legislature to over turn some silly provision that has built up over time.
Call me crazy, but I trust an organization staffed by engineers far more that court full of lawyers.
Of course this only works if you build multiple cable plants (read 5 times the wires) or going to a shared cable plant (which will suffer the fate of the commons).
TVoverIP is a long way off for the masses, and HDTVoverIP even farther off. We will be stuck with bandwidt limited cable plants for decades.
Now if the FCC forced the separation of cable plant ownershif from content provider ownership then your idea might have a chance of working.
But other than that, some things just naturally belong in a monopoly.
I'd like a choice of who provides my water service too, but the ground can only hold so many pipes.
The cost is set at $30 for the entire flight or $10 for 30 minutes."
Its hard to know which will expire first, my wallet or my Battery.
How does one open a lap top in those cramped seats anyway?
The guy in front decides to recline and your screen needs replacement. The only defense is to recline first. Ok troups, back to front reclining ONLY. And don't even THINK about getting up to go to the head.
You'r now free to move around the internet.
And once you get used to the way Adobe feels and organizes tools, you get accustomed to it, so much so that it becomes a pain to try to use other non-Adobe programs.
Well that is because there IS some orgianization to adobe tools, whereas the GIMP is totally disorganized with often needed functions hidden several menus deep, under non-intuitive tree structures and also given quirky names to boot.
If the GIMP were just given a face lift and reorganized with options re-named along industry standards it might make a passible second level image editor.
At least the system would government controlled and thus a lesser evil than the tyranny of vigilante groups like SPEWS.
Boy you are a True Believer(tm) aren't you!?!
Name one thing the Government (any government) does well?
As For SPEWS and others, their actions are based on actual monitored events (spam) and not the whim of some dictator or someone doing a favor for a bribe.
Further, the use of these BlackLists is TOTALLY voluntary. You don't have to use them. Run your own MTA.
But let the government get ahold of this and no one will speak out of turn.
And if the ISP ever turns off port 25, I may have no choice but to relay through their servers
Why?
Surely if someone other than your ISP will let you relay mail thru them they must trust you
enough to allow you to use ssh, no?
How come we can't find Osama, and we can't stop bombers in Madrid before the fact, but we can expend police resources on a worldwide scale to enforce "property rights".
Is this the police equivlent if the "Turkey Farm" where we use to send programmers that couldn't find the end of an IF statement with both hands? Surely we are not expending our best cops' minds on chaseing song pirates... Tell me its not so!!
Is any of the cost of this being charged back to the companies who's property they are "protecting"? I can't even call the fire department without getting a bill! Yet someone managed to obtain the services of an international organization of police forces to basically run a "stop loss" operation for an over priced product.
Believe it. Its true.
The FCC demanded this rule, not the FAA.
As for all the other country's agencies... who do you think they are emulating?
HINT: The faa does not look to France for direction.
Ah yes the old Cell Phone detection cricuit
wired into the tv trick....
Look, airplane TV is just a VCR feeding a coax.
Nothing there is sensitive to cell phones.
Feel free to try it at home.
I've seen many airplane tvs go wonky for no
obvious reason and plenty of sharp eye'd STUs
catch phone yackers that did not think the rules
applied the THEM.
The price of ONE years subscription will buy you
a boxed set of the Personal edition of just
about any Linux Distribution you'd care to name.
Problem solved.
A poor struggeling college student can't afford
to run Windows.
All well and good if you host your own domain.
But if you are a small business you often CAN NOT buy your reverse dns even if you CAN purchase a static IP for your linux server.
This forces you send all your aol mail thru your ISPs mailserver even when your ISPs AUP may not allow your emails to your subscriber list due to bulk rules.
Further, AOL selectivly decides which IPs it will receive
email from based on the netblock. If your ISP assigns you a static out of the same block as it uses for cable modems or ADSL you are just out of luck.
"we have found that most of the time the AOL users are reporting our email as spam on accident!"
...
ON Purpose.
BY Accident.
English.