If there were tuition fees for attending a state school, and you had to pay them even if you went to a private school, I would object to that.
You only have to pay road tax if you want to take your car out on the public roads. If you only drive it on private roads in your estate, you don't need road tax.
The EU agricultural subsidies lead to cheaper food in the shops. I personally would prefer that the EU govt scrapped them and reduced taxes by the same amount. However, I don't think they could get the French to agree to that.
Only the "live" streams, ie the ones that show the same content as one of their channels is showing at the moment. Watching on demand streams does not require a licence.
They have similar powers to a door to door salesman, except that they are exempt from the competition act, the distance selling regulations, the anti social behavior act, and the protection from harrasment act.
This comes up regularly on uk.legal. They have never presented evidence from a TV detector to a court to support a prosecution. I doubt very much that they exist.
Given that the BBC's business model is to send lots of people to your door to harass you until you pay their "licence fee", and they have a government granted monopoly on that; I don't think MS will be putting the Beeb out of business any time soon.
The loans amount to about $833 per person in China. China could cope with that. However, if the US defaulted on its loans, nobody would ever lend to them again, so the Federal budget would collapse, the social security system would collapse and a lot of pension funds would collapse.
He also threatened North Korea, another nuclear power. However unlike Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, which are not nuclear powers, nothing actually happened.
Well there's WW2, which was ended with two nukes. They caused a lot of damage in Japan, but no noticeable difference in Europe or the US. Japan seems to have mostly recovered from it.
Actually, right wing would mean you are pro free market, and against government control of the means of production, distribution and exchange, which copyright law is an example of.
It is the left wing socialists and communists who prefer government imposed restrictions to protect the rights of workers etc.
There is a big difference between the two cases of "IP" infringement.
Turnitin are doing it for profit, and that is generally considered more serious.
I'm sure there are lots of people who think that infringing copyright for profit is a bad thing, but are quite happy with the idea of not for profit sharing of ideas. Although some people may disagree with the details of this particular opinion, it is a perfectly logical stance for someone to take, and there is no question of double standards.
Situation A is more efficient because there is more than one product involved.
British Bakeries, Arla Daries, Kellogs, Cadburys, etc, etc, etc, all deliver their stuff to the local Asda (Walmart UK) store. Then people go there and pick up all their shopping.
Alternatively, in Situation B, you have to take deliveries from all the different manufacturers.
If you are suggesting that in Situation B, the same distribution warehouse should hold all the different products, then it does happen round here. Most of the big supermarket chains, including Asda, will deliver to your house if you order online.
If you tried to sell an operating system today that required a third party TCP/IP stack at extra cost, nobody would buy it. The hassle of installing all sorts of extra bits to make your computer work is very much a thing of the past.
People need to remember that competition law exists to protect competition, not to protect competitors. Thanks to Microsoft's desire to keep one step ahead of the competition in those areas which matter to their customers, customers have benefited from easier to use software, both from Microsoft, and from alternative os suppliers.
At the moment, they do just sell back to the grid. You can do this up to the point where windfarms supply about 10% of total electricity (these are british figures, it will depend on the country in question). Currently it supplies about 1% (again British figures).
At some point, if you want supply your entire electricy requirements from things like solar, wind, tidal and hydro, then you need some way of storing the electricity until it is needed.
Hydro can do this to a certain extent, but certainly in Britain, pretty much all the suitable sites for hydro are already in use, and this doesn't provide enough electricity to meet peak demand. Mostly we use gas powered stations to meet this.
In Europe, the car manufacturers, including General Motors, are steadily improving fuel efficiency of their vehicles, to the point that a european car can do about the same number of miles per litre as an american car can do per gallon.
This probably has something to do with the fact that british petrol costs about the same per litre as american petrol does per gallon.
Incidentally, there are cars here that do 80mpg. Not by using some magic carburetor technology, but by things like not being the same size as a London double decker bus and using hybrid engines.
IM will probably replace email in the same way that telephones replaced paper mail. In other words, it will replace them for informal communications with friends and family, but for more formal communication, or for sending things you need to keep for future reference, email and paper mail are much more suitable.
One of the reasons computers are so cheap is that they are programmable, so you can build generic hardware and make it do whatever you want just by putting different programs on it.
If anything, things are moving in the other direction. Most phones these days are fairly powerful computers, certainly, as powerful as a PC from 5 years ago.
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Channel 4 is our other state broadcaster. It manages all this without exhorting the population for licence fees.
If there were tuition fees for attending a state school, and you had to pay them even if you went to a private school, I would object to that.
You only have to pay road tax if you want to take your car out on the public roads. If you only drive it on private roads in your estate, you don't need road tax.
The EU agricultural subsidies lead to cheaper food in the shops. I personally would prefer that the EU govt scrapped them and reduced taxes by the same amount. However, I don't think they could get the French to agree to that.
No it isn't. Because showing them that you don't have a TV doesn't stop them coming back two weeks later.
Only the "live" streams, ie the ones that show the same content as one of their channels is showing at the moment. Watching on demand streams does not require a licence.
If it is streamed simultaneously or nearly simultaneously with a broadcast TV service, from any channel, not just the BBC.
They have similar powers to a door to door salesman, except that they are exempt from the competition act, the distance selling regulations, the anti social behavior act, and the protection from harrasment act.
This comes up regularly on uk.legal. They have never presented evidence from a TV detector to a court to support a prosecution. I doubt very much that they exist.
Given that the BBC's business model is to send lots of people to your door to harass you until you pay their "licence fee", and they have a government granted monopoly on that; I don't think MS will be putting the Beeb out of business any time soon.
It is owned by News International, who also own Fox.
The loans amount to about $833 per person in China. China could cope with that. However, if the US defaulted on its loans, nobody would ever lend to them again, so the Federal budget would collapse, the social security system would collapse and a lot of pension funds would collapse.
He also threatened North Korea, another nuclear power. However unlike Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, which are not nuclear powers, nothing actually happened.
Well there's WW2, which was ended with two nukes. They caused a lot of damage in Japan, but no noticeable difference in Europe or the US. Japan seems to have mostly recovered from it.
Actually, right wing would mean you are pro free market, and against government control of the means of production, distribution and exchange, which copyright law is an example of.
It is the left wing socialists and communists who prefer government imposed restrictions to protect the rights of workers etc.
There is a big difference between the two cases of "IP" infringement.
Turnitin are doing it for profit, and that is generally considered more serious.
I'm sure there are lots of people who think that infringing copyright for profit is a bad thing, but are quite happy with the idea of not for profit sharing of ideas. Although some people may disagree with the details of this particular opinion, it is a perfectly logical stance for someone to take, and there is no question of double standards.
It may well be more efficient, but it is still the supermarkets like Walmart that do it.
But Russia is served by Grandfather Frost from Siberia, who wears blue clothes.
Situation A is more efficient because there is more than one product involved.
British Bakeries, Arla Daries, Kellogs, Cadburys, etc, etc, etc, all deliver their stuff to the local Asda (Walmart UK) store. Then people go there and pick up all their shopping.
Alternatively, in Situation B, you have to take deliveries from all the different manufacturers.
If you are suggesting that in Situation B, the same distribution warehouse should hold all the different products, then it does happen round here. Most of the big supermarket chains, including Asda, will deliver to your house if you order online.
If you tried to sell an operating system today that required a third party TCP/IP stack at extra cost, nobody would buy it. The hassle of installing all sorts of extra bits to make your computer work is very much a thing of the past.
People need to remember that competition law exists to protect competition, not to protect competitors. Thanks to Microsoft's desire to keep one step ahead of the competition in those areas which matter to their customers, customers have benefited from easier to use software, both from Microsoft, and from alternative os suppliers.
That was a later offering from the same company.
At the moment, they do just sell back to the grid. You can do this up to the point where windfarms supply about 10% of total electricity (these are british figures, it will depend on the country in question). Currently it supplies about 1% (again British figures).
At some point, if you want supply your entire electricy requirements from things like solar, wind, tidal and hydro, then you need some way of storing the electricity until it is needed.
Hydro can do this to a certain extent, but certainly in Britain, pretty much all the suitable sites for hydro are already in use, and this doesn't provide enough electricity to meet peak demand. Mostly we use gas powered stations to meet this.
In Europe, the car manufacturers, including General Motors, are steadily improving fuel efficiency of their vehicles, to the point that a european car can do about the same number of miles per litre as an american car can do per gallon.
This probably has something to do with the fact that british petrol costs about the same per litre as american petrol does per gallon.
Incidentally, there are cars here that do 80mpg. Not by using some magic carburetor technology, but by things like not being the same size as a London double decker bus and using hybrid engines.
IM will probably replace email in the same way that telephones replaced paper mail. In other words, it will replace them for informal communications with friends and family, but for more formal communication, or for sending things you need to keep for future reference, email and paper mail are much more suitable.
Or just strip out tags?
One of the reasons computers are so cheap is that they are programmable, so you can build generic hardware and make it do whatever you want just by putting different programs on it.
If anything, things are moving in the other direction. Most phones these days are fairly powerful computers, certainly, as powerful as a PC from 5 years ago.
I live in England, and car salesmen are required to make sure I'm licenced and insured before I drive the car.
Partly this is because you need to tax the car before you can drive it away, and you need this proof to get the tax disk.