Or just started a multi-national corporation like Apple or Google or Facebook, all of which utilize our society, air-waves, economy, Internet-backbones, etc. yet only pay a tiny fraction of their income taxes.
Good thing for Apple, Google, Facebook, et al that utilizing all those things and paying the taxes that they do (or don't depending on your POV) isn't illegal.
I love hating Apple as much as the next guy, but "sales faltering" 1 week after the product launch? And a launch that onlysold 5 million? Maybe you could say they were faltering after a month or two of sales. But not after a week.
the Food Network recipe files (North Koreans are hungry!)
What are they going to do, print out and eat the recipes? If you're hungry, it's probably not because you have all the basic ingredients and you just don't know how to prepare them. It's because you don't have the basic ingredients. You don't have rice, grains, sufficient potable water...
I can also confidently predict that the Democrats will spend the next four years doing almost nothing, and getting outsmarted by the Republicans every time they do try to do something.
If by outsmarted you just mean the House sits on anything and everything and never lets anything pass, then yes, you are right.
However I also predict that the Republicans will spend the next four years doing almost nothing, and getting outsmarted by the Democrats every time they do try to do something.
And now you see why small businesses don't like to have to collect taxes for hundreds of different taxing jurisdictions.
Hundreds? Try over 7,000. And that is just for the different jurisdictions. Within each of those you can have different rates for regular items, food, medical, tax exempt, etc plus some items are taxed at at flat percentage, others have an incremental scale based on the value, or only the first $X or Y% of the value is taxed.
It depends. Is the buxom babe in a open field? If so, then yes, he's no more guilty. If the buxom babe is in her bathroom and the camera is hidden in a closet or in the bushes looking in the window, then no, he's more guilty.
One last thing: Do you know how they smuggle drugs via airplanes?
I just came back from a trip this last weekend. I had a 8 or 10 oz bottle of foot powder in my carry on. It flagged them for a double check. The TSA agent removed the bottle, sent the bag back through, it passed, and stuck the foot powder back in the bag.
I'm no chemist, physicist, or XRay machine technician/operator, so I don't know if a bottle of white foot powder shows up differently than a bottle of cocaine. But I have a feeling it doesn't.
No, but they will never happen as I have overdraft protection. Subsequent new debit transactions will decline, but checks will be honored up to a point. Presumably by then the fraud would have been discovered and an investigation started. And typically, during that time, again depending on the amount, provisional funds are returned back to the account pending the conclusion of the investigation.
The problem is that most of the real difficult companies are hiding their numbers and identities
BAN anonymous calls or otherwise hiding their numbers and identities. I can't think of a single legitimate reason why a call should be anonymous. REQUIRE carriers to supply valid CID information or otherwise allow calls to be identified. REQUIRE carriers to have valid information that matches a phone number with a company.
Poking them with a stick will cause your campaign war chest to diminish.
Unless you are Obama or Ron Paul, Google hasn't contributed anything significant to any politician directly (not counting lobbying expenditures). <$20k isn't exactly much of a war chest.
So not licensing something to a competitor is somewhere between shady and "being evil"? It's not like Google is the only provider of maps and directions. Does Apple license iOS to it's competitors? Is there iTunes or iCloud for Android?
Do these services have live sports or political talk shows?
No. But AtdheNet.TV does (at least for the former). It's not exactly HD quality, but it's usually more than watchable at least for football that's not on CBS/ABC/NBC/FOX or out of market games.
That's for initial deployment. With Moore's law, economy of scale, and amortization of development and regulatory costs, it could get a LOT cheaper after a few years. Especially if it becomes widely adopted.
Or it stays obscenely expensive since it's a "medical device".
The whole concept of online file storage makes no sense.
Maybe for you. Thankfully for them it makes sense for many.
Especially for consumes and especially in the U.S. where speeds are slow and costs are high.
Their service is targeted specifically for consumers and in the US. Again, maybe for you your speeds are slow and costs are high. It's all relative. I don't mind paying < $60/month for a uncapped 30mbit symmetrical connection.
Getting your data into the "cloud" is extremely slow due to the fact that all ISPs severely restrict upload speeds.
I'd be surprised if the average consumer had 60GB worth of files that needed backed up. Users with TB of data that needs backed up are small compared to the total number of potential customers out there.
60GB at 1mbit is under 6 days. Long time, yes. But you set it up to start backing up and forget about it. It'll just run in the background and eventually it's backed up. After that, incremental backups are much quicker.
Then, once you finally get it all uploaded, getting it back will be difficult, even if you are fortunate enough to live in an area with decent speed, because you are probably one of the many millions of people whose only choice for broadband internet is the local cable monopoly, which means you probably have a monthly bandwidth cap, so good luck downloading all that data that will use up 2 or 3 months of your allowed quota.
I'll guarantee you that getting the data back will be faster then not having any data at all and having to recreate it. Or redownload it. Or asking your kids|grandkids|family to recreate memories that were lost.
If they are using javascript for space flight, all we'll need to do to defeat them is fly Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith up to their ship to infect them with NoScript.
Also - why in the heck does processor speed and RAM matter on a device whose primary function is to read books?!
Because if all people wanted to do on them was read a book, they would have gone with a e-reader that's cheaper and has a screen that's easier to read but not as colorful. I bet in most cases that the primary function of the tablet e-readers isn't to read books, but more traditional table functionality (surfing, games, video, etc).
Do Google have monopoly on map data? My HTC Desire Z has map and turn by turn navigation by TomTom that works out of the box
No, Google doesn't have a monopoly on map data. However providing Google Maps as the primary map application but then having a 3rd party app by TomTom, Garmen, et al to do the turn by turn is a less than ideal situation. Ideally you'd want something that's completely integrated.
Apple could have gone with another 3rd party solution, but ultimately then they would end up in the same boat, hostage to whatever terms the 3rd party wanted with there setup instead of something developed in house.
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It would be easier and a smaller list to just keep a list of those who are NOT IP offenders.
Good thing for Apple, Google, Facebook, et al that utilizing all those things and paying the taxes that they do (or don't depending on your POV) isn't illegal.
I love hating Apple as much as the next guy, but "sales faltering" 1 week after the product launch? And a launch that onlysold 5 million? Maybe you could say they were faltering after a month or two of sales. But not after a week.
What are they going to do, print out and eat the recipes? If you're hungry, it's probably not because you have all the basic ingredients and you just don't know how to prepare them. It's because you don't have the basic ingredients. You don't have rice, grains, sufficient potable water...
If by outsmarted you just mean the House sits on anything and everything and never lets anything pass, then yes, you are right.
However I also predict that the Republicans will spend the next four years doing almost nothing, and getting outsmarted by the Democrats every time they do try to do something.
Be sure to buy the large bucket of it. Leave any extra nearby your computer. You might want to pick up a box or two of tissues.
Hundreds? Try over 7,000. And that is just for the different jurisdictions. Within each of those you can have different rates for regular items, food, medical, tax exempt, etc plus some items are taxed at at flat percentage, others have an incremental scale based on the value, or only the first $X or Y% of the value is taxed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2226214/Apple-reprimanded-Samsung-apology--claims-WEEKS-replacement-web-site.html:
It depends. Is the buxom babe in a open field? If so, then yes, he's no more guilty. If the buxom babe is in her bathroom and the camera is hidden in a closet or in the bushes looking in the window, then no, he's more guilty.
I just came back from a trip this last weekend. I had a 8 or 10 oz bottle of foot powder in my carry on. It flagged them for a double check. The TSA agent removed the bottle, sent the bag back through, it passed, and stuck the foot powder back in the bag.
I'm no chemist, physicist, or XRay machine technician/operator, so I don't know if a bottle of white foot powder shows up differently than a bottle of cocaine. But I have a feeling it doesn't.
Yes. It's called the iPod Touch.
No, but they will never happen as I have overdraft protection. Subsequent new debit transactions will decline, but checks will be honored up to a point. Presumably by then the fraud would have been discovered and an investigation started. And typically, during that time, again depending on the amount, provisional funds are returned back to the account pending the conclusion of the investigation.
No, but ultimately there is a carrier that has a customer that is making the call. That is, unless it's the carrier itself that is making the call.
BAN anonymous calls or otherwise hiding their numbers and identities. I can't think of a single legitimate reason why a call should be anonymous.
REQUIRE carriers to supply valid CID information or otherwise allow calls to be identified.
REQUIRE carriers to have valid information that matches a phone number with a company.
Unless you are Obama or Ron Paul, Google hasn't contributed anything significant to any politician directly (not counting lobbying expenditures). <$20k isn't exactly much of a war chest.
So not licensing something to a competitor is somewhere between shady and "being evil"? It's not like Google is the only provider of maps and directions. Does Apple license iOS to it's competitors? Is there iTunes or iCloud for Android?
No. But AtdheNet.TV does (at least for the former). It's not exactly HD quality, but it's usually more than watchable at least for football that's not on CBS/ABC/NBC/FOX or out of market games.
Or it stays obscenely expensive since it's a "medical device".
Maybe for you. Thankfully for them it makes sense for many.
Their service is targeted specifically for consumers and in the US. Again, maybe for you your speeds are slow and costs are high. It's all relative. I don't mind paying < $60/month for a uncapped 30mbit symmetrical connection.
I'd be surprised if the average consumer had 60GB worth of files that needed backed up. Users with TB of data that needs backed up are small compared to the total number of potential customers out there.
60GB at 1mbit is under 6 days. Long time, yes. But you set it up to start backing up and forget about it. It'll just run in the background and eventually it's backed up. After that, incremental backups are much quicker.
I'll guarantee you that getting the data back will be faster then not having any data at all and having to recreate it. Or redownload it. Or asking your kids|grandkids|family to recreate memories that were lost.
Actually they built a detector that can detect explosive boarding gates.
If they are using javascript for space flight, all we'll need to do to defeat them is fly Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith up to their ship to infect them with NoScript.
You're right. Sometimes it's more then twice the price.
Because if all people wanted to do on them was read a book, they would have gone with a e-reader that's cheaper and has a screen that's easier to read but not as colorful. I bet in most cases that the primary function of the tablet e-readers isn't to read books, but more traditional table functionality (surfing, games, video, etc).
Well they are normally transmitted plain text so why shouldn't they be logged in plain text too?
No, Google doesn't have a monopoly on map data. However providing Google Maps as the primary map application but then having a 3rd party app by TomTom, Garmen, et al to do the turn by turn is a less than ideal situation. Ideally you'd want something that's completely integrated.
Apple could have gone with another 3rd party solution, but ultimately then they would end up in the same boat, hostage to whatever terms the 3rd party wanted with there setup instead of something developed in house.