I run my own mail server on the net which I used for email for friends and family. About 85 people have accounts. How the hell would they tax email sent from my machine to the EU, or.it addresses?
They really need to tax the connection to the internet, not the message. Better yet only tax spam. All and all taxes are a tool to cuase people to avoid someting. If something it popular, tax it, and it becomes a little less popular. I'm just not happy about the idea of someone following me around, watching everything I do, and then asking for pennies when I do it. Imagine taking a piss at home and then getting a knock on the door from the government piss tax collector. "But Mr Piss Tax Collector Sir, why did you not just add a high tax to my water bill?" "The tax only covers pissing, and we wanted to be fair."
I'm not a pro-stupid-little-tax type. In Florida I pay $36 bucks a year becuase my rental property has a fridge, stove, and A/C. Since they send the bill to the wrong address they always send someone buy to collect the $36 each year. He said he gets paid $25/hr and drives 45min to collect the tax in a government car that gets about 25mph to the gallon. They lose about $20-25 buck each time they collect their taxes. Maybe they don't want to appear soft on people who provide renters with appliences or something. In any case tuny stupid taxes seem, not only dumb, but often moronic.
I could be wrong, and if I am I hope to change my mind.
Sure we all love our phone, but Ma Bell just never learns. If they were smart they would cozy on up to companies like Google, not try to bash them about the head and sholders with crazy fees.
Their customers are paying for the access to those site. Double chanrging Google for something their customers have already paid for is crazy! And not crazy like a fox, more like crazy in Chuck Manson and family way.
But wait! It's even more crazy than that. Imagine you are an old out date slow to move non-inivator negitive contributor type of company. The last thing you would want to do is give these amazing inivators a good reason to give their minds and actions a motive to remove the need for your old company.
It's like watching 1982 Yugo (non-transforer) picking a fight with a well armed Voltron! Don't blink or you'll miss the fight!
What I also expect is a reaction on the subject of double billing. I did not signup for internet access that was cripled to a list of specific sites. Cripled only because I need or want to view them. I bank online. Are they going to make it hard to do that.
The Internet what the postal service was in the 1700's. It's our main form of communication. We send messages and other forms of information. We shop by catlog, bank, and use this medium to carry on our business and daily lives. I hardly every use the postal service. It I need something somewhere I use FedEx or UPS. So it seems that the Internet, to me, is much more important than the postal service. Why no interest in regulating fees like this on the internet, or outlawing them? Why? I'm sure government is very converned with the young slim vs old fat Elvis stamp.
I guess they imagine that most Americans do not vote. Sadly they might be right. We're too busy eating what our Tivo's feed us. Maybe we're not their "base." Maybe we don't toss enough dollars at their feet like they were pagan gods? But maybe a few more will vote, when this issues prevents them from Googling?
Government is the weapon of last resort. Once you use it everybody pays, but in cases like this I image, other than building a much better Internet, it a justified use.
Is it my imagination or has this never before been enforced? If this is the first time that it has been enforeced, can their hold on this generic term be great?
This really does seem as silly as a PB&J parent, but it sure might be legel in the eyes of the current system.
Kidding! (maybe) Wow is entertainment, but the people I know who play have no like outside of it or EverCrack. A ban for the people I know would be like bringning the dead back to life. The time these games seem to suck from the people I know is worse than what smoking has done in the past. In the end you are working on characters you don't own. They do.
As you can see from Blizzard's replies to their user, they have more than enough people hooked and can afford to lose a few.
If Wow was a your friend's girlfriend you'd know the best thing he could do would be to leave her. It's really sad to see someone beg to stay in such a one sided relationship.
So the lesson is this: These are Blizzards toys. You can pay to play with them, but in the end these are Blizzards toys. In the distance is a faint ringing. Ask not for whom the clue phone ring, it rings for thee.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that Google Earth is Windows only?
The Linux stockings get a lump of Google Coal(tm)?
Using Linux I knew I'd be somewhat second class in the area of most comercial software, but now Google has turned Santa on me! But that's okay. I'll still leave out milk and cookies, and nice Linux live CD. I'm sure he'll change his mind next year.:)
So if the people looking at the positive side for Linux are Stalin's useful idiots. Then in his story, it seem he has poisitioned himself as Stalin?
I can't say I agree with him. This is a bit more complicated on the contract side of things. I think that this is more a projection of how he would like things to be.
I know more than a few Unix admins from the 80's that wish for the old days. Most like the comfort of a large company to provide software. Software like food is better when someone makes it quotely in different room behind closed doors.
I follow Growklaw(www.growlaw.com) and get the facts... and I use Linux. Maybe I am a useful idiot, but that's better than a useless smarty.:)
I'm voting DEM for Pres. Sorry. I normallu go with the Libs, but a couple of thing get me about Bush and I want to help the "not Bush" vote.
Basically I don't like killing. Maybe it's the silly commandment from God about it, or maybe it's just that I cannot see Jesus taking up and AK-47 and shooting things that move, or mayne because I value my fellow man. No matter the case I dislike killing.
I would like to see a USA that did as little killing as it could. We never only get the bad guys, and for all we know we get more civilians than bad guys.
Then there is the Bush familys rather close tries with the family of people who want to kill us all. Makes me think he does not value human life when it stand between him and a buck.
Truth be told, I would make more personal money from having Bush in office. I would, and I have. Some things are more important than money. I don't want innocencent blood on the flag. I want us to be the good guys.
I don't even have enough room to wrote about Bush's running mate, who is the envy of every bond villian.
This is really close to taxing the PBX in a business. I don't see how this is something you can easily tax.
They claim they want to tax be 9% of the deperciation or 9% of the lease payments. This just does not seem at all business friendly.
Time to give up the LAN and get printers for everyone and dialup connections.
I hope that these people get an education in how lopsided this would be for some comanies, mainly hi tech. This is the ideal way to drive hi tech out of a state.
The really bummer is that I just moved to Florida.:(
Law made by congress have enjoy complete jurisdiction over fedral lands. They however are limited in their jurisdiction of non-fedral land.
That's all i'm saying.
Sate law trumps fedral law in many cases. In the case I sited in my post. The USA is not a nation state in the sense that there is only one state. There are many. The USA is a group of states united. United, not disolved. The states are still with us, for good or ill.
I find your thinking on this subject to be flawed. Most people would not subscribe those term as you define them.
Is a company who creates a customer image on a CD for installing Windows a Windows OEM or a Microsoft? As you define it they are. Do most companies want to do that? No?
Many companies hand out Windows CDs or use Windwos update(like many Linux automatic update features). This this make them Windows distributors? Most companies don't want to be Windows distributors.
The Linux kernel is configured using modules. In all but the rarest cares a good stock PC install of Linux requires no kernel modification. I have Linux installed, as do my co-workers, on my IBM Thinkpad with nothing special needing to be done.
Sure there are companies that do not want admins at all. That's fine. Sure there are companies that like Macs and Windows more. Okay.
You point just does not hold a good deal of weight. Just replace the word Linux with Windows and you arguement is just as valid.
My point was that people can learn.
You ideas about supoort and not valid also. Support can be had from any companies for Linux. Support for Windows can be a trial of sorts. But, you milage might very.
I see what you mean, it just seems ill informed. Like somebody who likes horse speaking about how bad the car is. It's seems as though you making many assumtions and far flung claims.
Seems that Sun, like others, thinks that Linux is not free due to upgrade and maintaince costs. This might be true, except you can use your existing employes. Since they have those neat brains they can learn. Linux is documented.
Combine brains, documentation, and larning, wow.
PS: This all depends on a company making an investment in their employes. It's a big "IF"
I don't knoiw the specifics of how it could be done, but someone out there will create a new "EZ-D Extender" or "EZ-D Clean" which will reverse the blackening of the disk.
Welcome to the sideshow! Here you are argue that the DMCA does, or does not allow fair use as it existed before the DMCA.
Avoid the Sideshow. Vote. Forget this arguement. The people who passed the DMCA need to go. Do something other than letting your butt get bigger reading postings and eating hohos. Write a letter.
If you don't like it like I do, take action. Don't wait for someone to save your rights like the EFF. Help them, by donating money, time, and help yourself by writing and calling.
For God's sake please don't complain unless you are willing to do something. I hope that everyone here who cliams to have some passion about this issue is willing to do something. If that is so we'll have no trouble making our opinions known.
PS: Sorry, about the butt...errr...crack earilier in my post.:)
At what time does he think people should access his machine, his PC, and look though his files. The information contained in there could be personal and damnaging for others to know.
A popup add is one thing. The page you are viewing put that there. It's part of the whole package you have requested. That's your fault.
I cannot put it any better than the fourth ammendment. He in the US we are unique. We have rights. Yes, rights, not privileges. These rights cannot be set aside legally.
We of the US are not "lucky" to have these rights, we demand them. Once we stop our demanding they'll disapear faster than can blink. We through our contract with our governing bodies, the Constitution, give the government some powers, the states some powers, reserve some rights, and reserve all other power for the people.
I cannot put it better than the fourth ammendment, so I'll post it here.
Forth Ammendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrents shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmantion, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or things to be seized.
Take care, and protect your rights. Anything not maintained will fall into disrepair. Keep our rights from falling into disrepair.
-- James Dornan
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With a HREF you can set a taget window. If that window does not exist it's greated. Popped-up, as it were. You can place any kind of content in that window. Java script allows you to pop this extra target up with a specific size. This is all a given.
At the time this functionality was created there were ads on the web. They were a known type of content. The idea was that they would bring in money. We all know this.
This guys "innovation" is placing an add in new target window? The US Patent Office is grteat pleace. I'm sure it was totally non-obvious.
Patents in the US should be halted, until something can be done. This is causing harm to us all. Not this Patent issued. Issued falsely I'd say. It's the fact that a patent limits the rest of us. It allows an inventor(not in this case) to own an idea for a while.
Owned ideas are bad when they are ebvous, such as this one. To know when is and is not ebvous is way beyond the scope of our government. These are not the simplier times when Patents were penned into being in this country.
Patents should be rolled back, and used only in areas where innovation needs to be stoked. Computer and tech innovation is on a roll, and patens will only halt that trend.
It harms all of us to retard our progress and innovation by allowing a patnet office which cannot see the obvious from the innovaiton.
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During discovery you get all the numbers they called and the number of times they called and ask for $500 per call. Seriously could this be done?
...which removes any fear it had of it's people.
How? How would one tax email and SMS?
.it addresses?
Also: What does this offset?
I run my own mail server on the net which I used for email for friends and family. About 85 people have accounts. How the hell would they tax email sent from my machine to the EU, or
They really need to tax the connection to the internet, not the message. Better yet only tax spam. All and all taxes are a tool to cuase people to avoid someting. If something it popular, tax it, and it becomes a little less popular. I'm just not happy about the idea of someone following me around, watching everything I do, and then asking for pennies when I do it. Imagine taking a piss at home and then getting a knock on the door from the government piss tax collector. "But Mr Piss Tax Collector Sir, why did you not just add a high tax to my water bill?" "The tax only covers pissing, and we wanted to be fair."
I'm not a pro-stupid-little-tax type. In Florida I pay $36 bucks a year becuase my rental property has a fridge, stove, and A/C. Since they send the bill to the wrong address they always send someone buy to collect the $36 each year. He said he gets paid $25/hr and drives 45min to collect the tax in a government car that gets about 25mph to the gallon. They lose about $20-25 buck each time they collect their taxes. Maybe they don't want to appear soft on people who provide renters with appliences or something. In any case tuny stupid taxes seem, not only dumb, but often moronic.
I could be wrong, and if I am I hope to change my mind.
Sure we all love our phone, but Ma Bell just never learns. If they were smart they would cozy on up to companies like Google, not try to bash them about the head and sholders with crazy fees.
Their customers are paying for the access to those site. Double chanrging Google for something their customers have already paid for is crazy! And not crazy like a fox, more like crazy in Chuck Manson and family way.
But wait! It's even more crazy than that. Imagine you are an old out date slow to move non-inivator negitive contributor type of company. The last thing you would want to do is give these amazing inivators a good reason to give their minds and actions a motive to remove the need for your old company.
It's like watching 1982 Yugo (non-transforer) picking a fight with a well armed Voltron! Don't blink or you'll miss the fight!
What I also expect is a reaction on the subject of double billing. I did not signup for internet access that was cripled to a list of specific sites. Cripled only because I need or want to view them. I bank online. Are they going to make it hard to do that.
The Internet what the postal service was in the 1700's. It's our main form of communication. We send messages and other forms of information. We shop by catlog, bank, and use this medium to carry on our business and daily lives. I hardly every use the postal service. It I need something somewhere I use FedEx or UPS. So it seems that the Internet, to me, is much more important than the postal service. Why no interest in regulating fees like this on the internet, or outlawing them? Why? I'm sure government is very converned with the young slim vs old fat Elvis stamp.
I guess they imagine that most Americans do not vote. Sadly they might be right. We're too busy eating what our Tivo's feed us. Maybe we're not their "base." Maybe we don't toss enough dollars at their feet like they were pagan gods? But maybe a few more will vote, when this issues prevents them from Googling?
Government is the weapon of last resort. Once you use it everybody pays, but in cases like this I image, other than building a much better Internet, it a justified use.
Great! Mind if I use those names for a few Champions characts?
Is it my imagination or has this never before been enforced? If this is the first time that it has been enforeced, can their hold on this generic term be great?
This really does seem as silly as a PB&J parent, but it sure might be legel in the eyes of the current system.
Kidding! (maybe) Wow is entertainment, but the people I know who play have no like outside of it or EverCrack. A ban for the people I know would be like bringning the dead back to life. The time these games seem to suck from the people I know is worse than what smoking has done in the past. In the end you are working on characters you don't own. They do.
As you can see from Blizzard's replies to their user, they have more than enough people hooked and can afford to lose a few.
If Wow was a your friend's girlfriend you'd know the best thing he could do would be to leave her. It's really sad to see someone beg to stay in such a one sided relationship.
So the lesson is this: These are Blizzards toys. You can pay to play with them, but in the end these are Blizzards toys. In the distance is a faint ringing. Ask not for whom the clue phone ring, it rings for thee.
What the hell is Snaple, then?
What! Damnit! You're saying we only get Beta Coal and not even real coal! Damn.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that Google Earth is Windows only?
:)
The Linux stockings get a lump of Google Coal(tm)?
Using Linux I knew I'd be somewhat second class in the area of most comercial software, but now Google has turned Santa on me! But that's okay. I'll still leave out milk and cookies, and nice Linux live CD. I'm sure he'll change his mind next year.
So if the people looking at the positive side for Linux are Stalin's useful idiots. Then in his story, it seem he has poisitioned himself as Stalin?
... and I use Linux. Maybe I am a useful idiot, but that's better than a useless smarty. :)
I can't say I agree with him. This is a bit more complicated on the contract side of things. I think that this is more a projection of how he would like things to be.
I know more than a few Unix admins from the 80's that wish for the old days. Most like the comfort of a large company to provide software. Software like food is better when someone makes it quotely in different room behind closed doors.
I follow Growklaw(www.growlaw.com) and get the facts
I flew from Orlando, FL to NY, NY with my wife and our two kids. We all had to show our passports to travel from one state to the other, on a plane.
Soon we might have to all show ID at checkpoints. Sometimes between states, and maybe while traveling within a state.
I'm sure it could never happen, but then again I was sure my 1 and 2 years olds would never have to have a passport to travel.
I'm voting DEM for Pres. Sorry. I normallu go with the Libs, but a couple of thing get me about Bush and I want to help the "not Bush" vote.
Basically I don't like killing. Maybe it's the silly commandment from God about it, or maybe it's just that I cannot see Jesus taking up and AK-47 and shooting things that move, or mayne because I value my fellow man. No matter the case I dislike killing.
I would like to see a USA that did as little killing as it could. We never only get the bad guys, and for all we know we get more civilians than bad guys.
Then there is the Bush familys rather close tries with the family of people who want to kill us all. Makes me think he does not value human life when it stand between him and a buck.
Truth be told, I would make more personal money from having Bush in office. I would, and I have. Some things are more important than money. I don't want innocencent blood on the flag. I want us to be the good guys.
I don't even have enough room to wrote about Bush's running mate, who is the envy of every bond villian.
Take care, and please vote.
-- James Dornan
This is really close to taxing the PBX in a business. I don't see how this is something you can easily tax.
They claim they want to tax be 9% of the deperciation or 9% of the lease payments. This just does not seem at all business friendly.
Time to give up the LAN and get printers for everyone and dialup connections.
I hope that these people get an education in how lopsided this would be for some comanies, mainly hi tech. This is the ideal way to drive hi tech out of a state.
The really bummer is that I just moved to Florida.
-- James Dornan
Law made by congress have enjoy complete jurisdiction over fedral lands. They however are limited in their jurisdiction of non-fedral land.
That's all i'm saying.
Sate law trumps fedral law in many cases. In the case I sited in my post. The USA is not a nation state in the sense that there is only one state. There are many. The USA is a group of states united. United, not disolved. The states are still with us, for good or ill.
-- James Dornan
I really thought that congress passed Fedral laws. As we have a fedral government.
Immigration, money, and so on are some of the powers of congress. You are correct.
Now for today's test, name all 18 powers granted to the congress by the constitution.
-- James Dornan
"Since the Federal government has been considering a national law along these lines, these decisions on local laws may be important soon."
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In the USA, the only law which effects the entire nation is the constitution. There are federal laws which govern items like commerce between states.
I doubt there would be jurisdiction enough to bring such a law to court.
See this opinion by Chief Justice Rehnquist on the subject.
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html
-- James Dornan
I find your thinking on this subject to be flawed. Most people would not subscribe those term as you define them.
Is a company who creates a customer image on a CD for installing Windows a Windows OEM or a Microsoft? As you define it they are. Do most companies want to do that? No?
Many companies hand out Windows CDs or use Windwos update(like many Linux automatic update features). This this make them Windows distributors? Most companies don't want to be Windows distributors.
The Linux kernel is configured using modules. In all but the rarest cares a good stock PC install of Linux requires no kernel modification. I have Linux installed, as do my co-workers, on my IBM Thinkpad with nothing special needing to be done.
Sure there are companies that do not want admins at all. That's fine. Sure there are companies that like Macs and Windows more. Okay.
You point just does not hold a good deal of weight. Just replace the word Linux with Windows and you arguement is just as valid.
My point was that people can learn.
You ideas about supoort and not valid also. Support can be had from any companies for Linux. Support for Windows can be a trial of sorts. But, you milage might very.
I see what you mean, it just seems ill informed. Like somebody who likes horse speaking about how bad the car is. It's seems as though you making many assumtions and far flung claims.
If you need some Linux support, just email me.
-- James Dornan
Seems that Sun, like others, thinks that Linux is not free due to upgrade and maintaince costs. This might be true, except you can use your existing employes. Since they have those neat brains they can learn. Linux is documented.
Combine brains, documentation, and larning, wow.
PS: This all depends on a company making an investment in their employes. It's a big "IF"
-- James Dornan
I don't knoiw the specifics of how it could be done, but someone out there will create a new "EZ-D Extender" or "EZ-D Clean" which will reverse the blackening of the disk.
I ONLY WISH IT WAS ME!!!!
-- James Dornan
Welcome to the sideshow! Here you are argue that the DMCA does, or does not allow fair use as it existed before the DMCA.
:)
Avoid the Sideshow. Vote. Forget this arguement. The people who passed the DMCA need to go. Do something other than letting your butt get bigger reading postings and eating hohos. Write a letter.
If you don't like it like I do, take action. Don't wait for someone to save your rights like the EFF. Help them, by donating money, time, and help yourself by writing and calling.
For God's sake please don't complain unless you are willing to do something. I hope that everyone here who cliams to have some passion about this issue is willing to do something. If that is so we'll have no trouble making our opinions known.
PS: Sorry, about the butt...errr...crack earilier in my post.
-- James Dornan
That is the special message for those of us who have alien mind control blocking sunglasses.
PS: This is a joke. If you don't get it watch the 'B' movie They Live.
At what time does he think people should access his machine, his PC, and look though his files. The information contained in there could be personal and damnaging for others to know.
A popup add is one thing. The page you are viewing put that there. It's part of the whole package you have requested. That's your fault.
I cannot put it any better than the fourth ammendment. He in the US we are unique. We have rights. Yes, rights, not privileges. These rights cannot be set aside legally.
We of the US are not "lucky" to have these rights, we demand them. Once we stop our demanding they'll disapear faster than can blink. We through our contract with our governing bodies, the Constitution, give the government some powers, the states some powers, reserve some rights, and reserve all other power for the people.
I cannot put it better than the fourth ammendment, so I'll post it here.
Forth Ammendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrents shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmantion, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or things to be seized.
Take care, and protect your rights. Anything not maintained will fall into disrepair. Keep our rights from falling into disrepair.
-- James Dornan
With a HREF you can set a taget window. If that window does not exist it's greated. Popped-up, as it were. You can place any kind of content in that window. Java script allows you to pop this extra target up with a specific size. This is all a given.
At the time this functionality was created there were ads on the web. They were a known type of content. The idea was that they would bring in money. We all know this.
This guys "innovation" is placing an add in new target window? The US Patent Office is grteat pleace. I'm sure it was totally non-obvious.
Patents in the US should be halted, until something can be done. This is causing harm to us all. Not this Patent issued. Issued falsely I'd say. It's the fact that a patent limits the rest of us. It allows an inventor(not in this case) to own an idea for a while.
Owned ideas are bad when they are ebvous, such as this one. To know when is and is not ebvous is way beyond the scope of our government. These are not the simplier times when Patents were penned into being in this country.
Patents should be rolled back, and used only in areas where innovation needs to be stoked. Computer and tech innovation is on a roll, and patens will only halt that trend.
It harms all of us to retard our progress and innovation by allowing a patnet office which cannot see the obvious from the innovaiton.
-- James Dornan