The reasons you would want to become a 501(c)(3) foundation are so that you can accept tax-deductible donations, and (with the proper state paperwork) you can be freed from paying state sales tax. The biggest restrictions are on paying and loaning money to directors, and on selling stock in your own company. There's no restriction on making a "profit" per se, you just can't pay it out to shareholders or directors. Profit generally must be reinvested in the foundation.
If you have no intention of taking donations, there's really no reason to waste time on the 501(c)(3).
Is highbrow merely a synonym for "pretentious and boring"? I can't find it in me to cry about "pretentious and boring" not being well represented in gaming.
Is highbrow something like "acquired taste"?
Is highbrow "difficult to understand"?
The head of the music industry's trade group said the XM Satellite device is legally indistinguishable from iPods and other portable music players that work with downloading services. "Yahoo!, Rhapsody, iTunes and Napster all have licenses," said Mitch Bainwol, chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of America. "There's no reason XM shouldn't as well."
Hang on a second. Yahoo!, Rhapsody, iTunes and Napster all let me instantaneously choose the song I want to record, and then pay for it. XM (and Sirius) are broadcast services. With the XM receiver I have (Pioneer AirWare) I can just push a record button and capture whatever is being played at the current time. Just like I used to do with my cassette deck back in 1983. EXCEPT for the part where I can't do anything with the recording. At least with the cassette deck, I could take the cassette out and store it somewhere.
Hopefully one of XM's lawyers will be able to make a similar case.
Seriously, though. How is this any different from a Barbie? Mattel has specifically created the doll so that her clothes can be removed. This facilitates the changing of clothes, so that (unlike a Raggedy Ann) you don't have to buy a different doll to get a different outfit.
I haven't seen the mod, so I can't really comment on one potential difference... Do the models have nipples? Apparently that's the line-that-cannot-be-crossed in Barbie's world.
This is not at all similar to Hot Coffee, where the developers included the ability to see sex scenes. This is an art asset issue, not some developer's idea of a saucy easter egg.
I haven't tested it, but there's a pretty good chance that the digitally encoded silence actually contains some white noise or other artifact of the digitizing process. Would that be copyrightable?
I agree with you. Don't save your Mp3s on my network drives, or I will delete them without warning.
But! Not being able to use the CD drive to listen to music? How could that possibly have any effect on company resources? What, because it might wear out more quickly? Is it okay if I use the headphone jack?
That's what I was responding to. And I still think it's draconian.
I've always envisioned an LA to Vegas line. You can't get there on Amtrak (unless you want to change trains in Bakersfield, which is totally out of the way). And a bus takes WAY longer than necessary.
What about earthquakes, though? A quake-safe bridge between LA and Vegas would be, um, expensive.
Agreed. An excellent book.
I must say that I HATE the "reading group guide" at the end of the book. It's like having a smarmy, psuedo-intellectual, 9th grade English teacher waiting on your porch for you to get home so she can give you a pop quiz. That bitch.
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Hmm. The Intel Pocket Concert mp3 player I just threw away had an AM/FM tuner. Guess I should have put it on ebay. http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2001/pocketcrev iew.html
The reasons you would want to become a 501(c)(3) foundation are so that you can accept tax-deductible donations, and (with the proper state paperwork) you can be freed from paying state sales tax. The biggest restrictions are on paying and loaning money to directors, and on selling stock in your own company. There's no restriction on making a "profit" per se, you just can't pay it out to shareholders or directors. Profit generally must be reinvested in the foundation. If you have no intention of taking donations, there's really no reason to waste time on the 501(c)(3).
Dude. That was "A Long Time Ago..." remember? The seriously-are-you-really-totally-positive button wasn't invented until, like 1993.
OMG. Where are my mod points when I need them. hehe.
Yeah, on EARTH! Those tricky bastards...
Why is there no option to mod something "Awesome"?
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Hopefully one of XM's lawyers will be able to make a similar case.
I haven't seen the mod, so I can't really comment on one potential difference... Do the models have nipples? Apparently that's the line-that-cannot-be-crossed in Barbie's world.
This is not at all similar to Hot Coffee, where the developers included the ability to see sex scenes. This is an art asset issue, not some developer's idea of a saucy easter egg.
I haven't tested it, but there's a pretty good chance that the digitally encoded silence actually contains some white noise or other artifact of the digitizing process. Would that be copyrightable?
I agree with you. Don't save your Mp3s on my network drives, or I will delete them without warning. But! Not being able to use the CD drive to listen to music? How could that possibly have any effect on company resources? What, because it might wear out more quickly? Is it okay if I use the headphone jack? That's what I was responding to. And I still think it's draconian.
Wow. That's pretty draconian. Do they let you use their air-conditioning during lunch, or do you have to go outside?
Read the post title as Trepanning Software for Linux. Sounds more appropriate for the Mac.
I've always envisioned an LA to Vegas line. You can't get there on Amtrak (unless you want to change trains in Bakersfield, which is totally out of the way). And a bus takes WAY longer than necessary.
What about earthquakes, though? A quake-safe bridge between LA and Vegas would be, um, expensive.
This is just more proof that there's something seriously wrong at NASA (I know, it's JPL...)
Agreed. An excellent book. I must say that I HATE the "reading group guide" at the end of the book. It's like having a smarmy, psuedo-intellectual, 9th grade English teacher waiting on your porch for you to get home so she can give you a pop quiz. That bitch.