Who cares? The seller is making money and above a certain threshold he was already supposed to report it, now they're sending forms directly to sellers who are likely to exceed the limit. What the IRS knows is that money changes hands and that if enough does they get a cut. That's all they need to know to handle this case.
Offshore drilling can hurt countries who have no control over the oil well's location (it can be in another country's economic zone or completely in neutral waters) because oil can travel very far on water. I'm not sure how powers are divided up in the US but it seems states have fairly high autonomy and only a few states are affected by the current spill, if they tried overthrowing the federal government they'd have over 40 states standing against them. The power to overthrow still requires a vast majority to care, the people affected are too few to do that.
I don't have numbers but iTunes could be large enough to count as one (remember monopolies in the eye of the law don't need to fulfill the strict definition of a monopoly, merely be strong enough that they can effectively control the market) and the iDevices would then be an antitrust issue. Wasn't there even a lawsuit brought over this?
Are they investigating Sony for controlling the market for PS3 applications, or Microsoft for controlling Xbox applications?
I think that's actually long overdue, these devices were sold at a loss using the vast coffers of these megacorps in order to lock consumers into their software scheme, an investigation might be in order.
I'm inclined to agree with them, but I think it should be pointed out that this does not mean depictions of underage sex can never have literary, artistic, political or scientific value, only that protecting children is more important even if the works do have value. In other words, we are limiting free speech, but we're doing so to protect a perceived greater good.
They wrote their constitution without exceptions on the first amendment, they gotta deal with it. If they wanted to permit exceptions like that they should have added them. Change the constitution to add exceptions to the first amendment or accept that you made laws that block yourself.
What bothers me about child porn restrictions is that they tend to be expanded to cover fiction, protecting children from abuse is one thing but drawings or CG renderings are clearly not children. While I could understand covering CG that's so close to real that it could have been produced by manipulating real child porn a bit to make it look CG, drawings are clearly not photos!
Indexing doesn't just prevent selling to adults but also advertising (including putting it on shelves) where minors could see it, most stores won't stock indexed media so it's a de-facto censorship. IMO the govt needs to take measures to make indexed media commercially viable (at least not significantly less than USK/FSK 18 rated material) if it wants to claim that's not censorship.
Millions of people buy the devices without knowing about the restrictions Apple imposes. Even if they knew what they're getting into the free flow of information is still hampered and people who use Apple devices as their main news source could end up missing out on news that Apple didn't like.
Still counts for the RSF press freedom index, it even includes factors like how many competing news outlets there are (I believe that's what hurts the US score so much). Overall it indicates how free the flow of information is, doesn't matter what entities or effects disturb it, whether it is the only news corp deciding not to report on something or the supplier of software for a major device on the market deciding certain topics are taboo. Even includes stuff like death threats against members of the press.
Not all characters that get injured survive but even fictional deaths can be hilarious. In real life real injuries tend to look a whole lot nastier than fictional ones. Also in real life we know that the injury is painful and imagine what it would feel like, in a fictional context we know nobody really gets hurt (even if fictional characters do). Of course there are some real injuries and deaths that are funny(at least to hear about), usually when they involve an incredible amount of human stupidity (see Darwin Awards).
And the commodities market is less forgiving of price differences. If BP would have to sell the barrel for 10% more then the buyers will prefer buying from other sellers.
So what if they make 45M/d? Make the fine appropriately sized, like 250 billion dollars. That'd be a massive dent in their bottom line and shareholders have panicked over smaller things.
The point is that if increasing the price would actually increase profits why the hell haven't they increased prices before the spill happened? There's no reason for them to run on sub-optimal pricing until a fine comes along.
Probably has more to do with its effect on dry land, it'll do quite some damage if you pour it onto farm land but if you spread it out enough and put it back into the ocean it should be fine.
I was in a university dorm once that only allowed port 80 traffic. Game activation didn't work (fortunately the only activatable game I had back then was HL2). Using tunneling was detected by the firewall as well. I'm long since out of there but I still keep the situation in mind when thinking about schemes like this. With regular CD key systems the installer only checks against a checksum function, no internet connection required. You'd only get a proper uniqueness check when you go online.
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Yeah but then you have to make sure it's not just the presence of a giant plastic lump that's disturbing the bees.
Didn't we do that during the industrial revolution?
Might be using some software bug to circumvent the prompt but yeah.
Who cares? The seller is making money and above a certain threshold he was already supposed to report it, now they're sending forms directly to sellers who are likely to exceed the limit. What the IRS knows is that money changes hands and that if enough does they get a cut. That's all they need to know to handle this case.
Offshore drilling can hurt countries who have no control over the oil well's location (it can be in another country's economic zone or completely in neutral waters) because oil can travel very far on water. I'm not sure how powers are divided up in the US but it seems states have fairly high autonomy and only a few states are affected by the current spill, if they tried overthrowing the federal government they'd have over 40 states standing against them. The power to overthrow still requires a vast majority to care, the people affected are too few to do that.
The approval standards have become less strict but they still require a basic quality assurance test and an official rating.
The Wii has a news channel that mostly runs AP and equivalent stories but I guess they aren't worried about that.
I don't have numbers but iTunes could be large enough to count as one (remember monopolies in the eye of the law don't need to fulfill the strict definition of a monopoly, merely be strong enough that they can effectively control the market) and the iDevices would then be an antitrust issue. Wasn't there even a lawsuit brought over this?
Are they investigating Sony for controlling the market for PS3 applications, or Microsoft for controlling Xbox applications?
I think that's actually long overdue, these devices were sold at a loss using the vast coffers of these megacorps in order to lock consumers into their software scheme, an investigation might be in order.
I'm inclined to agree with them, but I think it should be pointed out that this does not mean depictions of underage sex can never have literary, artistic, political or scientific value, only that protecting children is more important even if the works do have value. In other words, we are limiting free speech, but we're doing so to protect a perceived greater good.
They wrote their constitution without exceptions on the first amendment, they gotta deal with it. If they wanted to permit exceptions like that they should have added them. Change the constitution to add exceptions to the first amendment or accept that you made laws that block yourself.
What bothers me about child porn restrictions is that they tend to be expanded to cover fiction, protecting children from abuse is one thing but drawings or CG renderings are clearly not children. While I could understand covering CG that's so close to real that it could have been produced by manipulating real child porn a bit to make it look CG, drawings are clearly not photos!
Indexing doesn't just prevent selling to adults but also advertising (including putting it on shelves) where minors could see it, most stores won't stock indexed media so it's a de-facto censorship. IMO the govt needs to take measures to make indexed media commercially viable (at least not significantly less than USK/FSK 18 rated material) if it wants to claim that's not censorship.
AFAIK there is spyware on the app store that will collect personal information from the device.
Millions of people buy the devices without knowing about the restrictions Apple imposes. Even if they knew what they're getting into the free flow of information is still hampered and people who use Apple devices as their main news source could end up missing out on news that Apple didn't like.
Still counts for the RSF press freedom index, it even includes factors like how many competing news outlets there are (I believe that's what hurts the US score so much). Overall it indicates how free the flow of information is, doesn't matter what entities or effects disturb it, whether it is the only news corp deciding not to report on something or the supplier of software for a major device on the market deciding certain topics are taboo. Even includes stuff like death threats against members of the press.
In Germany (and probably most of Europe) we use wires hung above the tracks, not a third rail.
Not all characters that get injured survive but even fictional deaths can be hilarious. In real life real injuries tend to look a whole lot nastier than fictional ones. Also in real life we know that the injury is painful and imagine what it would feel like, in a fictional context we know nobody really gets hurt (even if fictional characters do). Of course there are some real injuries and deaths that are funny(at least to hear about), usually when they involve an incredible amount of human stupidity (see Darwin Awards).
And the commodities market is less forgiving of price differences. If BP would have to sell the barrel for 10% more then the buyers will prefer buying from other sellers.
So what if they make 45M/d? Make the fine appropriately sized, like 250 billion dollars. That'd be a massive dent in their bottom line and shareholders have panicked over smaller things.
The point is that if increasing the price would actually increase profits why the hell haven't they increased prices before the spill happened? There's no reason for them to run on sub-optimal pricing until a fine comes along.
So what if they rebel? We'll send up our own HERCs and wreck the Prometheus core.
Bomb? They're planning a ROBOT moon base, if they launch an attack from there you'll get swarmed by mechas.
Probably has more to do with its effect on dry land, it'll do quite some damage if you pour it onto farm land but if you spread it out enough and put it back into the ocean it should be fine.
It costs nothing
Not exactly, it must be maintained by staff.
I was in a university dorm once that only allowed port 80 traffic. Game activation didn't work (fortunately the only activatable game I had back then was HL2). Using tunneling was detected by the firewall as well. I'm long since out of there but I still keep the situation in mind when thinking about schemes like this. With regular CD key systems the installer only checks against a checksum function, no internet connection required. You'd only get a proper uniqueness check when you go online.
That used to apply only to online multiplayer, now they're requiring it for singleplayer too.