The on-demand streaming video, and the for-download videos, are probably not the same quality level. (You can still download purchased videos via their Unbox client; the on-demand service is in addition to standard downloads.)
While it hasn't done so for audio, because the two post-CD audio formats died due to a war similar to the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray one, it seems to me that DVD has superseded CDs as far as computer software goes. (And it superseded them for console games years ago.)
He's not expecting to get it for free; he just said that he'd be willing to pay the license fee. He just can't, because the BBC doesn't make that an option.
You say that you're in the US, so you're not funding them; they certainly have the right to charge you.
As for charging the British... well, this certainly doesn't sound like something that comes under the remit of the TV license fee, so charging users is the only other way to get funding for it.
It would be misleading if the title said that she actually did take the tech hostage; however, that's not what it says. It says that she was charged with doing so, something which did indeed occur.
I've always wondered why Microsoft doesn't say "fsck the EU", and wait to see how long it takes after being unable* to sell new computers for them to come crawling back to Microsoft.
*For a value meaning "not many people would buy them with Linux on them", of course.
Fair enough—I could see arguments for either way, myself, but your argument is probably going to trump bandwidth concerns at this stage of the Internet's evolution.:)
For most content, certainly. But with things like corporate logos, if the choice is between a specified font or an image file, which would you, the end user, rather the designer chose?
They also cited Valve, though, whose sole connection to that culture is having licensed id's engine at one point. Splash Damage has a closer tie to id than that
You're right—I was just simplifying to income & sales. While the gas tax, etc. could be wrapped into the same category as the latter, it is ridiculous just how much the goverments steal.
How the hell does a DS charge off a USB port? Unless the DS Lite changed the power port (always possible), it doesn't exactly have anywhere to plug in a USB cable...
Easier to ensure they don't fall afoul of export regulations or have to deal with damage in international transit this way. Sucks, especially if you live in Canada, but understandable.
If the state wants a level playing field, then they should be cutting their sales tax, not trying to illegally tax up other products in a discriminating manner.
It is required, in theory, but the Interstate Commerce clause of the Constitution prevents them from collecting tax on any sales across state boundaries.
They still try to do so, generally under the guise of a "use tax" that's conveniently only applied to purchases from out-of-state, but as far as I'm aware such unequal taxes have never been tested in court. IANAL, of course.
Purely observational evidence, I'm afraid. (I've never seen a store dumb enough to have a cashier monitoring more than six—with four being the usual at all but one chain. Six is doable, depending on the cashier, but more is just asking for failure like you said happens...)
But if you replaced the U-Scans with regular registers, you'd get 3 lines per U-Scan block, not four or six (the typical block sizes) or ten. And there's no way in hell the store would have people at all three of them. Maybe two, if it's the day before Thanksgiving or something...
True, it probably will. We don't have any of your "fancy" stores locally There's one chain that I'm sure would like to claim that they are, but while they've got "everything is expensive" down pat, there's only half as many cashiers as they need at any given moment and rarely have enough baggers. I've been sufficiently unimpressed that I haven't risked asking for help.
Trivial to a point; you'd still want something like this as a backup,to at least insure that the sticker is from the right class of product. Otherwise, people will be ringing up their jalapeño peppers as much-cheaper bananas.
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Different names, different taxes. Sorry, try again.
The on-demand streaming video, and the for-download videos, are probably not the same quality level. (You can still download purchased videos via their Unbox client; the on-demand service is in addition to standard downloads.)
While it hasn't done so for audio, because the two post-CD audio formats died due to a war similar to the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray one, it seems to me that DVD has superseded CDs as far as computer software goes. (And it superseded them for console games years ago.)
He's not expecting to get it for free; he just said that he'd be willing to pay the license fee. He just can't, because the BBC doesn't make that an option.
You say that you're in the US, so you're not funding them; they certainly have the right to charge you.
As for charging the British... well, this certainly doesn't sound like something that comes under the remit of the TV license fee, so charging users is the only other way to get funding for it.
It would be misleading if the title said that she actually did take the tech hostage; however, that's not what it says. It says that she was charged with doing so, something which did indeed occur.
I've always wondered why Microsoft doesn't say "fsck the EU", and wait to see how long it takes after being unable* to sell new computers for them to come crawling back to Microsoft.
*For a value meaning "not many people would buy them with Linux on them", of course.
He did compare the balances, and complained to the bank that they were off, but never bothered to actually do the line-by-line part.
Fair enough—I could see arguments for either way, myself, but your argument is probably going to trump bandwidth concerns at this stage of the Internet's evolution. :)
For most content, certainly. But with things like corporate logos, if the choice is between a specified font or an image file, which would you, the end user, rather the designer chose?
They also cited Valve, though, whose sole connection to that culture is having licensed id's engine at one point. Splash Damage has a closer tie to id than that
You're right—I was just simplifying to income & sales. While the gas tax, etc. could be wrapped into the same category as the latter, it is ridiculous just how much the goverments steal.
Are you taxing the sale, or are you taxing the use?
If you're taxing the sale, then you're interfering with interstate commerce.
If you're taxing the use, then you're discriminating in favor of goods sold in state, because they aren't being taxed for use as well.
Heh. A reduction in income taxes? They wouldn't do that. They're too damn greedy. (Which is why they're taxing you twice on income.)
How the hell does a DS charge off a USB port? Unless the DS Lite changed the power port (always possible), it doesn't exactly have anywhere to plug in a USB cable...
Easier to ensure they don't fall afoul of export regulations or have to deal with damage in international transit this way. Sucks, especially if you live in Canada, but understandable.
That's precisely why I'm not pining for Obama. FISA was bad enough, but his economic "plan" turned me off completely.
If the state wants a level playing field, then they should be cutting their sales tax, not trying to illegally tax up other products in a discriminating manner.
I agree, in word and spirit. And also think we need to do away with the discriminatory progressive income tax too.
It is required, in theory, but the Interstate Commerce clause of the Constitution prevents them from collecting tax on any sales across state boundaries.
They still try to do so, generally under the guise of a "use tax" that's conveniently only applied to purchases from out-of-state, but as far as I'm aware such unequal taxes have never been tested in court. IANAL, of course.
Any spec without ponies is a defective spec indeed.
Purely observational evidence, I'm afraid. (I've never seen a store dumb enough to have a cashier monitoring more than six—with four being the usual at all but one chain. Six is doable, depending on the cashier, but more is just asking for failure like you said happens...)
But if you replaced the U-Scans with regular registers, you'd get 3 lines per U-Scan block, not four or six (the typical block sizes) or ten. And there's no way in hell the store would have people at all three of them. Maybe two, if it's the day before Thanksgiving or something...
True, it probably will. We don't have any of your "fancy" stores locally There's one chain that I'm sure would like to claim that they are, but while they've got "everything is expensive" down pat, there's only half as many cashiers as they need at any given moment and rarely have enough baggers. I've been sufficiently unimpressed that I haven't risked asking for help.
That depends on where in the US you live. In southeastern Michigan, that payscale is far from the case; I only made perhaps 10-15% over minimum wage.
Trivial to a point; you'd still want something like this as a backup,to at least insure that the sticker is from the right class of product. Otherwise, people will be ringing up their jalapeño peppers as much-cheaper bananas.