Most poster's fall into the demogagic trap of less taxes=good. I do share concerns that the fed will be unable to effectivly localize tax revenues to the good of the originating community (gasahol anyone?)
Rantmode=1 If you are involved in a meatspace manufacturing or retail job you concerns is retaining a living wage. It is not an issue of freedom of information but of taxing one labor intensive (read more jobs in the brick and mortar world) in order to indirectly subsidize internet sales. The internet is one of the most heavily subsidised mediums in history (arpanet anyone). Inteliigently we should move to an information service model whereby the internet moves as a medium of social benefit to all people not just those who optioned out or can afford computing resources.
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Taxes of all people built the internet is it not fair to expect they should begin to reaps its benefit?
Advanced capital accumalation is dire need of a change of models. To a large part promiscuous information begins to errode the old model of monoploy=profit. It is natural that entertainment companies who have an existing investement in information technologies (rooted in the 19th century) should begin to explore legal and otehr remedies for stabilization. The question remains' if the current evolution of information is devolving control to smaller, more relativly atonomous units, will it be able to stabilize itself into an order?
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Most poster's fall into the demogagic trap of less taxes=good. I do share concerns that the fed will be unable to effectivly localize tax revenues to the good of the originating community (gasahol anyone?)
Rantmode=1
If you are involved in a meatspace manufacturing or retail job you concerns is retaining a living wage. It is not an issue of freedom of information but of taxing one labor intensive (read more jobs in the brick and mortar world) in order to indirectly subsidize internet sales. The internet is one of the most heavily subsidised mediums in history (arpanet anyone). Inteliigently we should move to an information service model whereby the internet moves as a medium of social benefit to all people not just those who optioned out or can afford computing resources.
end rantmode
Taxes of all people built the internet is it not fair to expect they should begin to reaps its benefit?
Advanced capital accumalation is dire need of a change of models. To a large part promiscuous information begins to errode the old model of monoploy=profit. It is natural that entertainment companies who have an existing investement in information technologies (rooted in the 19th century) should begin to explore legal and otehr remedies for stabilization. The question remains' if the current evolution of information is devolving control to smaller, more relativly atonomous units, will it be able to stabilize itself into an order?
Where I would work I would hope to not "look foolish" pulling out any color laptop. But we cannot all work in a gray office