The push by RIAA to eradicate Internet radio and the emergence of the "Big Box" retailing model do the same thing: they reduce the choices available to consumers to the few CDs that RIAA member companies want to push. They want a return the the glory days when the music-consuming audience was all on the same page, listening to and buying the same "hits" that were manufactured and controlled by the RIAA cartel.
Maybe that's the intent of RIAA - to take internet radio down. They don't REALLY expect a $2.3b winfall. What they want is control. Terrestial radio gave it to them...limited exposure to non-mainstream artists, and CD sales were concentrated on the artists they wanted to push. What they don't want is a fragmented audience.
Say someone buys a crapload of penny stocks, and the price zooms even though there's been no public announcement from the company (or a merger or something). That should stick out like a sore thumb. If a day or so later the same guy sells a huge number of shares and the price plummets, that should stick out like a sore thumb. Then investigate him, and look for evidence of spam. If you find it, the throw the book at him.
Do you think that the Democrats are 100% in support of free speech?
Hillary Clinton, 1998: "We are all going to have to rethink how we deal with [an uncensored internet], because there are all these competing values... Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function, what does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation?"
RIAA is enforcing against end users for the same reason it wants internet streaming stopped and satellite radio sharply curtailed in what it can offer: RIAA fears the fragmentization of its marketplace that is going on. In their ideal world, the listener's only way of hearing new music is through the FM outlets that they're able to keep in line. Then they can focus their marketing on a handful of CDs that would sell in the millions.
But now, people are finding out there's more out there than the pablum that they have been force fed. People are buying the same number of CDs as before, but there are fewer blockbuster hits. How do you market 10,000 different CDs when before you only had to market 10 or 20?
InvalidError:If you paid 20% in taxes to the feds, 20% to your work state and 20% to your home state, you are paying 50% more taxes simply because you do not reside in the same state you work in. With 60% of taxation, life can be pretty miserable compared to 40%.
I live in Mass. and work in R.I. I get a dollar-for-dollar income tax credit from Mass. for the income taxes I pay in R.I. If Mass. had the lower rate, the credit would be in reverse. In other words, I would pay the higher of the two state's rates.
Soko:Besides, does this guy get to vote in New York State elections now? If not, it's taxation without representation.
This is true for anyone who lives in one state and physically commutes to and works in another state.
Set up a VNC server on your home computer. If corporate doesn't allow you to install the viewer, use your browser and type in your IP address followed by:5800 (or is it 5900?).
The state board fined him for simply saying his company had "engineers"? If he had said "Professional Engineers" or "P.E.s" that would have been a different matter. Someone could be an "engineer" without being a "Professional Engineers" - they just couldn't stamp a drawing and would have to have a P.E. do that (after checking the work, of course).
How much of the increase in the melanoma rate is due to (1) increased life expectancy (i.e., are more cases showing up in older people who would have died at a younger age in the 1930s?) and/or to (2) the huge increase in recreational exposure to the sun?
Don't forget that the cost of WinXP and Turbotax is it self tax deductable (tax preperation expenses).
Only after you've reached the 2% floor (expenses amounting to the first 2% of your income are NOT deductible). And if you add up all of these piddling expenses (Turbo Tax, resumes, etc.) you will most likely still fall short of the floor.
I'll bash BOTH Netgear AND Linksys: BOTH are too chickenshit to issue Linux drivers for their 802.11g cards, or even ALLOW anyone to create those drivers.
Most of the 802.11g wireless cards have the Broadcom 54G chipset, and you cannot use them directly in Linux, mainly because Broadcom or whoever uses their chips (Linksys, Netgear, Microsoft) absolutely refuses to either release Linux drivers which reportedly exist, or make it impossible for anyone in the open-source community to create them. You have to try using a Linuxant or NDIS "wrapper," which may or may not work despite hours of "trying this" or "trying that."
Yes, ALL spammers are bad. Even worse than spammers are the handful of people out of 10,000,000 who buy stuff from them. It's these five or six idiots that make spam profitable.
Once again from the top...if it's spam or a junk fax, DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM THEM.
If Circuit City offered three rebates on an item - and advertising a "post-rebate" price - while it being impossible to get all of them (for example, where original UPCs are required for all of them), then Circuit City will need to "honor" whatever rebates are impossible to get.
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The push by RIAA to eradicate Internet radio and the emergence of the "Big Box" retailing model do the same thing: they reduce the choices available to consumers to the few CDs that RIAA member companies want to push. They want a return the the glory days when the music-consuming audience was all on the same page, listening to and buying the same "hits" that were manufactured and controlled by the RIAA cartel.
Maybe that's the intent of RIAA - to take internet radio down. They don't REALLY expect a $2.3b winfall. What they want is control. Terrestial radio gave it to them...limited exposure to non-mainstream artists, and CD sales were concentrated on the artists they wanted to push. What they don't want is a fragmented audience.
Say someone buys a crapload of penny stocks, and the price zooms even though there's been no public announcement from the company (or a merger or something). That should stick out like a sore thumb. If a day or so later the same guy sells a huge number of shares and the price plummets, that should stick out like a sore thumb. Then investigate him, and look for evidence of spam. If you find it, the throw the book at him.
Hillary Clinton, 1998: "We are all going to have to rethink how we deal with [an uncensored internet], because there are all these competing values ... Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function, what does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation?"
RIAA is enforcing against end users for the same reason it wants internet streaming stopped and satellite radio sharply curtailed in what it can offer: RIAA fears the fragmentization of its marketplace that is going on. In their ideal world, the listener's only way of hearing new music is through the FM outlets that they're able to keep in line. Then they can focus their marketing on a handful of CDs that would sell in the millions. But now, people are finding out there's more out there than the pablum that they have been force fed. People are buying the same number of CDs as before, but there are fewer blockbuster hits. How do you market 10,000 different CDs when before you only had to market 10 or 20?
Toxoplasma infection...has been estimated...[to range]...from 22% in the UK to 84% in France.
If that's the case, then why do French tanks have a reverse gear?
I live in Mass. and work in R.I. I get a dollar-for-dollar income tax credit from Mass. for the income taxes I pay in R.I. If Mass. had the lower rate, the credit would be in reverse. In other words, I would pay the higher of the two state's rates.
Soko: Besides, does this guy get to vote in New York State elections now? If not, it's taxation without representation. This is true for anyone who lives in one state and physically commutes to and works in another state.
Set up a VNC server on your home computer. If corporate doesn't allow you to install the viewer, use your browser and type in your IP address followed by :5800 (or is it 5900?).
The state board fined him for simply saying his company had "engineers"? If he had said "Professional Engineers" or "P.E.s" that would have been a different matter. Someone could be an "engineer" without being a "Professional Engineers" - they just couldn't stamp a drawing and would have to have a P.E. do that (after checking the work, of course).
How much of the increase in the melanoma rate is due to (1) increased life expectancy (i.e., are more cases showing up in older people who would have died at a younger age in the 1930s?) and/or to (2) the huge increase in recreational exposure to the sun?
Only after you've reached the 2% floor (expenses amounting to the first 2% of your income are NOT deductible). And if you add up all of these piddling expenses (Turbo Tax, resumes, etc.) you will most likely still fall short of the floor.
I have a Linksys WMP54G. It has a Broadcom chip. Which Linksys 802.11g card has either a Prism or Atheros chip?
I'll bash BOTH Netgear AND Linksys: BOTH are too chickenshit to issue Linux drivers for their 802.11g cards, or even ALLOW anyone to create those drivers.
> As I understood it, it's similar to the anti-junk fax laws, which were put in place because you pay for the ink and paper that is wasted.
I haven't received an illegal junk fax in ages. Yeah, right.
Most of the 802.11g wireless cards have the Broadcom 54G chipset, and you cannot use them directly in Linux, mainly because Broadcom or whoever uses their chips (Linksys, Netgear, Microsoft) absolutely refuses to either release Linux drivers which reportedly exist, or make it impossible for anyone in the open-source community to create them. You have to try using a Linuxant or NDIS "wrapper," which may or may not work despite hours of "trying this" or "trying that."
You mean...as an astrologer...you don't KNOW how many planets there are?
Yes, ALL spammers are bad. Even worse than spammers are the handful of people out of 10,000,000 who buy stuff from them. It's these five or six idiots that make spam profitable.
Once again from the top...if it's spam or a junk fax, DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM THEM.
Has anyone complained to the FCC about this?
If Circuit City offered three rebates on an item - and advertising a "post-rebate" price - while it being impossible to get all of them (for example, where original UPCs are required for all of them), then Circuit City will need to "honor" whatever rebates are impossible to get.