If the current long copyrights had been in effect when Disney stole those stories, Kipling could have taken them to court. Having gotten theirs, they want no one else to be as blatant. They are hypocrites of the first water.
A broken ship's clock could be right six times a day for the right kind of breakage. Well, except in the Royal Navy for the second dogs watch. So only 5.5 times a day for them.
A broken regular chiming clock could be right 24 times a day.
First, you can't jail someone in civil court. Next, you can't sue the officers of a incorporated company unless they perform some sort of fraud. That's why companies get incorporated. It makes the company it's own entity. What made you leap to the conclusion that I was discussing mere civil penalties? They conspired to violate the 4th amendment. That's a criminal matter, just as if I had helped the police search my neighbor's house by breaking and entering.
"Bushco" refers to the entire bunch of them, and altho "Cheneyco" would probably be more accurate, it doesn't roll off the tongue as easily, and besides, Bush wanted the fancy title, let him have the fancy title.
Tell you what -- the officers of the company dictated that illegal policy, and considering the phone company's history and how long those guys have been around, they knew damned well what they were doing.
Take ALL their assets. Bankrupt them, distribute the proceeds, THEN jail the sonzabitches.
Heh. I mentioned this very show in a comment elsewhere. Other shows aren't as good as Fibber McGee and Molly. I actually look forward to the Johnson's Wax spot, they always have fun with it. Other shows are more straightforward and intrusive.
I've been listening to old radio shows on Sirius satellite when I take long drives, and I have come to look forward to the Johnson Wax spot on the Fibber McGee and Molly show. They usually did a pretty good of working it in more or less naturally; for instance, when getting a spare room ready for a boarder, the sponsor's guy comes for a visit and marvels at how good the floor looks because of its Johnson Wax coat. Part of the fun of it is them not pretending it's not a sponsor's spot. Usually Fibber will make some comment to the audience about cover your ears, once he gets going he doesn't know how to stop, and there's always some good natured ribbing. In fact, I end up looking forward to them. I imagine it was much the same for the listeners back in the day.
If sponsors could do their promos like that old show, it wouldn't be half bad. But most of the others were not nearly so slick.
When digg first came out, I thought it an incredible improvement on/. as far as getting timely stories, if they would only get nested comments. But then the fanboys hit, duplications made/. look as staid and conservative as the New York Times, and I gave up on digg. Far too much noise for far too little signal.
And since then,/. has improved immensely. No doubt the competition helped, but I care not where the incentive came from, only that/. gets better and better.
The problem with the Titanic's watertight bulkheads, as I understand it, is that they were between the firerooms and only went up to the tops of firerooms; as the bow compartments took on water, it overflowed into the next compartment back, which accelerated the flow, and the second compartment overflowed into the third compartment, and so on until the ship went down by the bow.
But also remember that the very idea of water tight compartments was new. Sailing ships, for instance, were pretty much one big compartment. My old navy ship, USS Midway CV-41, was built in WW II, and I vaguely remember being told it had 4000 water tight compartments. Warships in 1912 had more compartmentation than commercial ships, but they were still pretty primitive. Not only do (and did) warships have more compartmentation than commercial ships, 1912 was still early in the game.
The Titanic had the extra bad luck of (1) hitting an iceberg which put extra stress on the rivets, (2) doing so in cold water which made the metal weaker, and (3) scraping the entire length of the hull against said iceberg. I don't know how Olympic was hit, but even if it was a sideways scrape, no ship can exert anywhere near the same sideways pressure as a big iceberg. The Olympic was also hit in a harbor where she could get back to help prety quickly. Titanic didn't sink immediately.
Other states would lower their sales taxes to compete. Plus, states collect a certain amount of taxes one way or another, whether sales taxes, property taxes or high income taxes.
And New Hampshire doesn't have the population or infrastructure to support big companies.
Courts have determined that when you buy something through the mail, the sale takes place at the seller's location not the buyer's location.
Not quite that simple -- the seller doesn't have to pay taxes on out of state sales, which is different from brick and mortar stores. If you travel out of state to buy something from a brick and mortar, you pay that store's tax. If you travel via the web to an out of state web site, you don't pay taxes based on where the web site is, you simply don't pay any taxes.
The US political divisions can all levy their own sales taxes. There is no national sales tax, but there are state, county, and city taxes, not to mention all sorts of special tax districts -- mosquito abatement, hospital, etc -- which all have their own sales taxes, altho I think these last have to be given permission by the states, cities, and/or counties -- those details escape me.
If you have a brick and mortar store, it stays put and your sales taxes don't change from one sale to the next, only when the governments change them, and so it's a simple matter of looking up the tax on a chart or reloading the cash register.
The trouble begins with out of area transactions. If amazon in Washington state sells to someone across the country in Virginia, how are they supposed to know what that local Virginia tax should be? It's not just the varying state taxes, it's all the little divisiosns, and especially counties and all the mosquito abatement districts, since no one puts those down in their address, yet the tax depends on that. There are some horrendously complicated programs to determine county and tax district from the street address, and not only do they not work well even with perfect data, people misspell names and use Street instead of Avenue all the time. Thus the principle was established that the out of state retailer doesn't have to collect sales tax unless they have a physical presence in that state, and then I don't know the details of how they compute it, but presumably it is supposed to be easier. So Starbucks, for instance -- if they have a web store, they presumably have to collect sales tax based on the buyer's location, not any of their stores.
This whole thing could be cut like the Gordian knot if they changed the rules to say that every retailer, like amazon, collected taxes based on where the seller is, not the buyer -- after all, that's how brick and mortar taxes work. If you travel across state boundaries to buy something, say on vacation, you don't show an id to the clerk to establish your address so they can figure out the taxes -- they charge based on the store's location.
Imagine how much simpler it would all be. Of course, amazon would have to charge sales taxes on every thing they sold, not just things sent to Washington state addresses. That would lead to bidding wars, with states even offering special reduced sales tax rates to entice busienss to their area. The loser states would complain that this was unfair, as if the current situation has any resemblance to fair. Customers would also gripe and moan. But I personally wish someone would take the bull by the horns and push for this change, just to get rid of all the bureaucracy that goes along with the thousands of different tax rates.
I believe they are combining the dynamic IP address with IS records of which customer it was assigned to. So yes, they can locate the specific DSL box or firewall or whatever DHCP client asked for the address. However, a family computer is not necessarily only used by just one person. Even if the owner lives alone, there may have been friends over.
On the other hand, an office ought to be better controlled, especially something as sensitive as private security investigators. Their only defense would be that they do not control access to their computers, in which case their evidence on those computers ought to be thrown out. Evidence is supposed to be under control at all times. If they don't have control, it could have been tampered with. Either they have shoddy control which invalidates all their other evidence used to help the MAFIAA, or they have excellent control and only their private investigators used that computer for illegal activity.
Nice hijacking, and throwing in the political agenda is a similar nice touch, but in spite of that, I agree with the gist of your post.
What Ou seems to be saying in his own spitting rant is that P2P is blocking legitimate web traffic and this isn't fair (pout pout)!
Seems to me that if 99% of web traffic is P2P (to pull a number out of my hat, or maybe goatse's orifice), that is what users want, and that makes it legitimate. Another way to put it is that maybe the non-P2P world needs to catch up. I don't have any interest in downloading movies, but that's only now, and only because I think the current state of availability and quality sucks. It will be better in 5 years, and then I will want to download movies instead of renting DVDs. At some point, most net traffic will be P2P video download, and then it will all be fair again.
Ou is a buggy whip maker complaining that cars are hogging the road and move too fast and need to have a flagman walking ahead of them. It's not because he really thinks they are unsafe, but because he doesn't like new fangled things.
Japan's history is replete with examples of Buddhist sects battling each other, including Zen Buddhism.
There's a pilgrimage around Shikoku visiting 88 numbered temples plus a dozen or two unnumbered temples (I did parts of it by bicycle a few years back). There are two temples claiming to be #30, with the government choosing one then the other depending on the political mood. Other temples have waged war with each other over the years (the pilgrimage started 1200 years ago, I think)
There was an article a few months back about whale meat going on sale because people weren't buying it. No, I have no references. The gist of the article was that the whale catchers were not doing it because of demand, but because to stop would be to lose face after all their years of claiming whale meat as a popular Japanese tradition.
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If the current long copyrights had been in effect when Disney stole those stories, Kipling could have taken them to court. Having gotten theirs, they want no one else to be as blatant. They are hypocrites of the first water.
Kdawson hasn't done much to earn his editor keep here, but he has done much to cement his reputation for knee jerkery.
Nice flinch you got there, buddy. He wants to ID thieves who visit when he isn't around. How he handles them when he is home is not under discussion.
Learn how to read responsibly. Knee jerk responses won't save you from "overrated" mods. Proper comprehension of the English language will.
In North Korea, only old kernels reboot only old people!
Or is that any kernels reboot only old people?
Or perhaps only old kernels reboot any people?
Or do any kernels reboot any people, but lately?
I am confoozed.
A broken ship's clock could be right six times a day for the right kind of breakage. Well, except in the Royal Navy for the second dogs watch. So only 5.5 times a day for them.
A broken regular chiming clock could be right 24 times a day.
"Bushco" refers to the entire bunch of them, and altho "Cheneyco" would probably be more accurate, it doesn't roll off the tongue as easily, and besides, Bush wanted the fancy title, let him have the fancy title.
Tell you what -- the officers of the company dictated that illegal policy, and considering the phone company's history and how long those guys have been around, they knew damned well what they were doing.
Take ALL their assets. Bankrupt them, distribute the proceeds, THEN jail the sonzabitches.
Heh. I mentioned this very show in a comment elsewhere. Other shows aren't as good as Fibber McGee and Molly. I actually look forward to the Johnson's Wax spot, they always have fun with it. Other shows are more straightforward and intrusive.
I've been listening to old radio shows on Sirius satellite when I take long drives, and I have come to look forward to the Johnson Wax spot on the Fibber McGee and Molly show. They usually did a pretty good of working it in more or less naturally; for instance, when getting a spare room ready for a boarder, the sponsor's guy comes for a visit and marvels at how good the floor looks because of its Johnson Wax coat. Part of the fun of it is them not pretending it's not a sponsor's spot. Usually Fibber will make some comment to the audience about cover your ears, once he gets going he doesn't know how to stop, and there's always some good natured ribbing. In fact, I end up looking forward to them. I imagine it was much the same for the listeners back in the day.
If sponsors could do their promos like that old show, it wouldn't be half bad. But most of the others were not nearly so slick.
Who wants to grow up normal? What sane parent would inflict normality on their children?
When digg first came out, I thought it an incredible improvement on /. as far as getting timely stories, if they would only get nested comments. But then the fanboys hit, duplications made /. look as staid and conservative as the New York Times, and I gave up on digg. Far too much noise for far too little signal.
/. has improved immensely. No doubt the competition helped, but I care not where the incentive came from, only that /. gets better and better.
And since then,
The problem with the Titanic's watertight bulkheads, as I understand it, is that they were between the firerooms and only went up to the tops of firerooms; as the bow compartments took on water, it overflowed into the next compartment back, which accelerated the flow, and the second compartment overflowed into the third compartment, and so on until the ship went down by the bow.
But also remember that the very idea of water tight compartments was new. Sailing ships, for instance, were pretty much one big compartment. My old navy ship, USS Midway CV-41, was built in WW II, and I vaguely remember being told it had 4000 water tight compartments. Warships in 1912 had more compartmentation than commercial ships, but they were still pretty primitive. Not only do (and did) warships have more compartmentation than commercial ships, 1912 was still early in the game.
The Titanic had the extra bad luck of (1) hitting an iceberg which put extra stress on the rivets, (2) doing so in cold water which made the metal weaker, and (3) scraping the entire length of the hull against said iceberg. I don't know how Olympic was hit, but even if it was a sideways scrape, no ship can exert anywhere near the same sideways pressure as a big iceberg. The Olympic was also hit in a harbor where she could get back to help prety quickly. Titanic didn't sink immediately.
Other states would lower their sales taxes to compete. Plus, states collect a certain amount of taxes one way or another, whether sales taxes, property taxes or high income taxes.
And New Hampshire doesn't have the population or infrastructure to support big companies.
Courts have determined that when you buy something through the mail, the sale takes place at the seller's location not the buyer's location.
Not quite that simple -- the seller doesn't have to pay taxes on out of state sales, which is different from brick and mortar stores. If you travel out of state to buy something from a brick and mortar, you pay that store's tax. If you travel via the web to an out of state web site, you don't pay taxes based on where the web site is, you simply don't pay any taxes.The US political divisions can all levy their own sales taxes. There is no national sales tax, but there are state, county, and city taxes, not to mention all sorts of special tax districts -- mosquito abatement, hospital, etc -- which all have their own sales taxes, altho I think these last have to be given permission by the states, cities, and/or counties -- those details escape me.
If you have a brick and mortar store, it stays put and your sales taxes don't change from one sale to the next, only when the governments change them, and so it's a simple matter of looking up the tax on a chart or reloading the cash register.
The trouble begins with out of area transactions. If amazon in Washington state sells to someone across the country in Virginia, how are they supposed to know what that local Virginia tax should be? It's not just the varying state taxes, it's all the little divisiosns, and especially counties and all the mosquito abatement districts, since no one puts those down in their address, yet the tax depends on that. There are some horrendously complicated programs to determine county and tax district from the street address, and not only do they not work well even with perfect data, people misspell names and use Street instead of Avenue all the time. Thus the principle was established that the out of state retailer doesn't have to collect sales tax unless they have a physical presence in that state, and then I don't know the details of how they compute it, but presumably it is supposed to be easier. So Starbucks, for instance -- if they have a web store, they presumably have to collect sales tax based on the buyer's location, not any of their stores.
This whole thing could be cut like the Gordian knot if they changed the rules to say that every retailer, like amazon, collected taxes based on where the seller is, not the buyer -- after all, that's how brick and mortar taxes work. If you travel across state boundaries to buy something, say on vacation, you don't show an id to the clerk to establish your address so they can figure out the taxes -- they charge based on the store's location.
Imagine how much simpler it would all be. Of course, amazon would have to charge sales taxes on every thing they sold, not just things sent to Washington state addresses. That would lead to bidding wars, with states even offering special reduced sales tax rates to entice busienss to their area. The loser states would complain that this was unfair, as if the current situation has any resemblance to fair. Customers would also gripe and moan. But I personally wish someone would take the bull by the horns and push for this change, just to get rid of all the bureaucracy that goes along with the thousands of different tax rates.
To ring the patent office or not to ring, that is the question.
I believe they are combining the dynamic IP address with IS records of which customer it was assigned to. So yes, they can locate the specific DSL box or firewall or whatever DHCP client asked for the address. However, a family computer is not necessarily only used by just one person. Even if the owner lives alone, there may have been friends over.
On the other hand, an office ought to be better controlled, especially something as sensitive as private security investigators. Their only defense would be that they do not control access to their computers, in which case their evidence on those computers ought to be thrown out. Evidence is supposed to be under control at all times. If they don't have control, it could have been tampered with. Either they have shoddy control which invalidates all their other evidence used to help the MAFIAA, or they have excellent control and only their private investigators used that computer for illegal activity.
Nice hijacking, and throwing in the political agenda is a similar nice touch, but in spite of that, I agree with the gist of your post.
What Ou seems to be saying in his own spitting rant is that P2P is blocking legitimate web traffic and this isn't fair (pout pout)!
Seems to me that if 99% of web traffic is P2P (to pull a number out of my hat, or maybe goatse's orifice), that is what users want, and that makes it legitimate. Another way to put it is that maybe the non-P2P world needs to catch up. I don't have any interest in downloading movies, but that's only now, and only because I think the current state of availability and quality sucks. It will be better in 5 years, and then I will want to download movies instead of renting DVDs. At some point, most net traffic will be P2P video download, and then it will all be fair again.
Ou is a buggy whip maker complaining that cars are hogging the road and move too fast and need to have a flagman walking ahead of them. It's not because he really thinks they are unsafe, but because he doesn't like new fangled things.
Ou, yes, STFU.
Japan's history is replete with examples of Buddhist sects battling each other, including Zen Buddhism.
There's a pilgrimage around Shikoku visiting 88 numbered temples plus a dozen or two unnumbered temples (I did parts of it by bicycle a few years back). There are two temples claiming to be #30, with the government choosing one then the other depending on the political mood. Other temples have waged war with each other over the years (the pilgrimage started 1200 years ago, I think)
There was an article a few months back about whale meat going on sale because people weren't buying it. No, I have no references. The gist of the article was that the whale catchers were not doing it because of demand, but because to stop would be to lose face after all their years of claiming whale meat as a popular Japanese tradition.