>Actually wage garnishment is a joke in most instances. They can't garnish your wages if they don't know where you work.
But all copyright cases are federal, and I assure you that the federal system knows where you work, if you aren't somehow exempt from federal withholding and social security, not to mention the rules that require you to prove citizenship/immigration status. Maybe you can get a job as a stripper or waiting tables or whatever without submitting an I-9 or W-4 or getting a taxable wage, but good luck I say!
I stopped buying EMI products the day the Harry Fox Agency accused me of being a criminal for putting my own work on the web.
Not only did I stop buying things from this company, I went from being an *avid* collector to them being *dead to me* and unlike some others, I never looked back.
At the same time, I started discovering independent music, *many* genres with artists who are far more interested in getting their message out than getting a 1/16th cent royalty from you. Many of these artists benefit from being discovered -- not by a record producer but by YOU, the person who might become a fan after listening, and who might actually attend a concert, not at a megastadium but at a club or a festival.
I don't really care what EMI does, or doesn't do. They are dead to me, and I do not believe in ghosts.
Yeah, when an NFL star gets "fired" it's a wealthy retirement by any standards. Thanks for using that example. That's really gonna motivate me in my ERP development job.
Well, not all of them, and the truth is we don't actually know what the landing sight looks like with very close resolution. Didn't you see the photo of the footpath? Some of the footprints from Apollo 11 remain, certainly. Such details of the LEM pad site are a matter of speculation.
In previous wars we did in fact ration commodities, government controlled production, people volunteered effort, and industries were compensated with bonds.
>>What? I think you missed the point I was talking about.
Your words:
"there is something worth giving your life for and many of us have put our lives on the line for that. Your diatribe seems to invalidate the sacrifice of those that gave their lives for their countries, I think that needs to be corrected."
If you were talking about something other than what you wrote, well I'm sorry I missed that somehow.
Early 1970s Datsuns had a hydraulic clutch that had a master cylinder.
I've never heard of a car with power steering that shared a fluid reservoir with the brake cylinder. Are you claiming to know of such a thing, specifically?
During war time, there should be no profit driven motivation for developing the military, period.
War industry employees should all work for subsistence wages, and really should be volunteers if not draftees. Industrial business should not even be allowed to take profits for the duration of war. If they must be paid, they should be paid in interest bearing war bonds that are redeemable upon victory. Take away the profit-driven parts of the equation, from raw materials down to workers being paid more than subsistence wages, and I'm sure the cost of these airplanes will be considerably lower per unit.
The stakes should be "winning the war so that the nation can continue to exist", not something that's even measurable in monetary value.
>Fully competent engineers make the best PC repairmen.
Current impressions of the job market aside, why would someone qualified for a profession who can earn upwards of $100,000 per year, work in PC repair, where even the better management jobs pay less than half that?
An interesting word salad that is not nearly as useful in civil court as some would like you to believe.
Plausible deniability is a euphemism for "perjury you might get away with."
I often tell my employers that if called to testify on *anything* I will simply tell the truth, and that they should operate accordingly and make rational choices with that in mind. Sometimes they seem to think I'm joking about this. I assure you that I am not.
I wish I could make it deliver an electric shock, explode the battery or maybe a dye capsule, emit a foul-smelling and nauseating gas, or make a 911 call and report a fire at its location. Something along those lines. I don't expect thieves to be caught, so I want to somehow cause them harm directly.
I once designed a car security system that would have stood a good chance of killing the driver. I heard a lot of arguments about why that was a bad idea, but I don't buy any of them to this day. If you try to steal my radio you're in for a shock and will need a tetanus shot. I don't care much for thieves starting with whether they survive the attempt to steal my stuff, and ending there too, I suppose.
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>the extra 5%-10% that the credit card companies skim off the transaction
You misspelled "one or two percent."
Can you even show me a merchant account agreement that charges the low end of your claim?
The first ATMs in my town were "MPact" and "Pulse" so I called them "IMPulse Machines" and I still do.
>Actually wage garnishment is a joke in most instances. They can't garnish your wages if they don't know where you work.
But all copyright cases are federal, and I assure you that the federal system knows where you work, if you aren't somehow exempt from federal withholding and social security, not to mention the rules that require you to prove citizenship/immigration status. Maybe you can get a job as a stripper or waiting tables or whatever without submitting an I-9 or W-4 or getting a taxable wage, but good luck I say!
>And a 2 million dollar judgement is unpayable.
I am quite sure I would simply go to Costa Rica or something and just consider myself $2 million richer and just live the life of an expat.
Please read the GPL before making or accepting claims as to what it does or does not say.
It is a short, easy read in plain English.
I stopped buying EMI products the day the Harry Fox Agency accused me of being a criminal for putting my own work on the web.
Not only did I stop buying things from this company, I went from being an *avid* collector to them being *dead to me* and unlike some others, I never looked back.
At the same time, I started discovering independent music, *many* genres with artists who are far more interested in getting their message out than getting a 1/16th cent royalty from you. Many of these artists benefit from being discovered -- not by a record producer but by YOU, the person who might become a fan after listening, and who might actually attend a concert, not at a megastadium but at a club or a festival.
I don't really care what EMI does, or doesn't do. They are dead to me, and I do not believe in ghosts.
> Then I wanna work for the other side!
No, you will be put to death for just saying that. This is *war* and that belief makes YOU the ENEMY.
Maybe someone would like to buy a specific device without being bound to a license brought in by a separate party.
To you, that may be an unreasonable demand.
Is it your call?
Yeah, when an NFL star gets "fired" it's a wealthy retirement by any standards. Thanks for using that example. That's really gonna motivate me in my ERP development job.
One of my houses is literally on a farm.
Well, not all of them, and the truth is we don't actually know what the landing sight looks like with very close resolution. Didn't you see the photo of the footpath? Some of the footprints from Apollo 11 remain, certainly. Such details of the LEM pad site are a matter of speculation.
>How about you ride your bike to an electric light rail station?
Yeah, I'd love that. Too bad the light rail serves neither the residential nor the industrial parts of town.
So, between three cents and four cents per mile. My relative gas-guzzling Volvo station wagon costs a bit over 3 cents per mile too.
Operating hours per joule of energy used, represented in a way that includes torgue, velocity, acceleration, and payload coefficients.
I'm sure if we had that though, people would use it to claim that everyone should drive a diesel tractor-trailer rig.
In previous wars we did in fact ration commodities, government controlled production, people volunteered effort, and industries were compensated with bonds.
>>What? I think you missed the point I was talking about.
Your words:
"there is something worth giving your life for and many of us have put our lives on the line for that. Your diatribe seems to invalidate the sacrifice of those that gave their lives for their countries, I think that needs to be corrected."
If you were talking about something other than what you wrote, well I'm sorry I missed that somehow.
Early 1970s Datsuns had a hydraulic clutch that had a master cylinder.
I've never heard of a car with power steering that shared a fluid reservoir with the brake cylinder.
Are you claiming to know of such a thing, specifically?
>Plenty of old cars shared a reservoir for the brake and power steering fluids.
Never saw that. Even the Chrysler Imperial had separate systems.
During war time, there should be no profit driven motivation for developing the military, period.
War industry employees should all work for subsistence wages, and really should be volunteers if not draftees. Industrial business should not even be allowed to take profits for the duration of war. If they must be paid, they should be paid in interest bearing war bonds that are redeemable upon victory. Take away the profit-driven parts of the equation, from raw materials down to workers being paid more than subsistence wages, and I'm sure the cost of these airplanes will be considerably lower per unit.
The stakes should be "winning the war so that the nation can continue to exist", not something that's even measurable in monetary value.
>I wouldn't leave bills in my car if I was going to a car mechanic
Why not leave the bait? A successful lawsuit against a dealer's bond will pay a lot of bills.
>Fully competent engineers make the best PC repairmen.
Current impressions of the job market aside, why would someone qualified for a profession who can earn upwards of $100,000 per year, work in PC repair, where even the better management jobs pay less than half that?
So suicide is wrong because it weakens your basis for feeling superior.
>Would you rather they have no jobs than the sweatshop?
I think I might. If people weren't deprived of their time and energy, they might be able to subsist *and* overthrow their government.
>Plausible deniability!
An interesting word salad that is not nearly as useful in civil court as some would like you to believe.
Plausible deniability is a euphemism for "perjury you might get away with."
I often tell my employers that if called to testify on *anything* I will simply tell the truth, and that they should operate accordingly and make rational choices with that in mind.
Sometimes they seem to think I'm joking about this. I assure you that I am not.
I wish I could make it deliver an electric shock, explode the battery or maybe a dye capsule, emit a foul-smelling and nauseating gas, or make a 911 call and report a fire at its location. Something along those lines. I don't expect thieves to be caught, so I want to somehow cause them harm directly.
I once designed a car security system that would have stood a good chance of killing the driver. I heard a lot of arguments about why that was a bad idea, but I don't buy any of them to this day. If you try to steal my radio you're in for a shock and will need a tetanus shot. I don't care much for thieves starting with whether they survive the attempt to steal my stuff, and ending there too, I suppose.