Apple did not invent the iPod either, it just came up with a catchy name for an MP3 that had a hard drive. MP3 players were on the market at least 6 years ago, manufactured by Sony, Hitachi, Matsushita, and various other companies. Sonly was even using flash memory in its more compact models (earphones that were the MP3 player itself) before the iPod came along. Apple just polished it up, and got the record labels on board as a way to sell hardware.
Other MP3 players are actually a little more advanced that the iPod, but what the iPod has that they don't is cool design and superior marketing.
Google is acting like any company that gets perceived bad press: throwing a hissy fit. The response of most companies is to yank advertising from the offending publication and/or to put the publisher on its PR Blacklist and exile its writers from press conferences.
What's that, you say? But this is Google, The Company That Does No Evil! So now we see that Goggle is a company that behaves like any other company. Bad conduct when it suits the company's interests is to be expected.
So what else is new? If you have a problem with that, use another search engine. Tell Google.
The ultimate defense plan for the home islands was brilliant simplicity itself: when it became obvious the Americans would invade from the sea, all of the old men, all women, and all school-aged children would line up on the beaches to meet the inavders with......sharpened bamboo spears. As the cowardly American forces charged onto the beaches, this invincible mass of spear-wielding Japanese would cry "Banzai! For the Emperor!" and rush the troops, spearing them all to death.
I am not kidding. I had a chat with a friend's grandmother about this a few years ago. Every day, she said, they'd take a break from whatever work they were doing for defense practice, preparing to meet the Americans head-on, by honing their spear-wielding skills.
"It was crazy," she said. "Those civil defense people were nuts. Civilian with bamboo spears attacking soldiers with carbines and machine guns?"
She told me she thought the Bomb was terrible, "But," she said, "I hate to think about what the alternative would have been. I know for sure I wouldn't be here right now telling you about any of this, and my grandaughter wouldn't be here to be your friend."
And so it did, if only in the minds of everyone inclined to feel that everything changed. But wasn't the term "internet security" just as much an oxymoron before 9/11 as after? With Windows still dominating the installed OS base and it's security holes as gaping as ever, does this really make any difference? So the Feds have a backdoor in. Given the security consciousness of most folks, ports of call have always been open, and anyone who knows what they're doing can work around it.
As for the terrorists winning, of course they are. Their agents in the USA, AKA Federal law enforcement and the US Congress, are busily stipping Americans of the basic rights that make Americans American. What terrorist could ask for more?
In the mean time, the NSA can already peek in at will. The smart guys they're after already know this and don't put much of anything on an HD, if anything at all.
Seriously. Do people still take this wonky wanker seriously? I stopped giving any credence to anything he said nearly 20 years ago, when he was hotly predicting Apple Computer's imminent demise. He has been so seriously wrong about so much, that I often wonder how much one special interest or another must be paying him to trash the competition. When Dvorak decides to trash something, it's a sure bet that it's probably something good.
Maybe it's good that we have him around as a pointer to good things for that reason alone.
Hey, what a great way for libraries in Smalltown, Bible Belt, USA, to track not just suspected terrorist sympathizers, but also morally suspect folks who read such anti-Christian stuff as CATCHER IN THE RYE or HUCKLEBERRY FIN. It would make it so much easier to locate the socially cancerous so that they could be treated. At last, we could all live morally upright lives!
Fingerprinting and other ID checks could be such a great thing in this social quest for probity, rectitude, and spiritual purity. Why, the merest inquiry about anonymous access should set off Orange Alert alarms back at Homeland Security Central!
Yes, and the more projects there are to do this, the better. Good for Google, even if they do tremble a bit at the closed-minded zealots who would be ruthless dictators beneath the mantle of religion; and good for the EU for embarking on a parallel project.
I'm sure that any laws, state or Federal, that attempt to restrict the availability of published materials will wind up in Federal court, and will be declared as unconsitutional infringements on freedom of the press and speech. This sort of thing had been going on for 200+ years, and the crazies who want to prevent people from reading things have not won yet.
What I get from this article is that the court said 100% of the income derived from the New York State source is taxable by NYS, not that any income earned elsewhere out of NYS is taxable by NYS. In other words, Huckaby earned $4,387 from the New York State source, and all of that amount (not just a percentage) is subject to NYS income tax. If Huckaby earned an additional $50,000 from work done for employers not located in NYS, none of that $50,000 can be taxed by NYS.
Most of the postings in this thread seem to suugest that Huckaby's tax burden is based on his entire income earned from all sources in and out of NYS, but that is not what the court said, at least according to what the article reports.
That is how it should be. Now, if NYS is trying to tax income Huckaby earned in Tennessee, that would be just cause for a tax revolt against NYS.
Someone else will probably point this out, but unlike in the book publishing business where books actually do still make profits, in the music and film and television industry, all works are eternally unprofitable. Should a movie or TV series or recording ever actually show a profit, thousands of heads would roll and the State of California unemployment lines would swell with suddenly out-of-work accountants. The First Commandment of the Film/Recording industry is:
THOU SHALT NOT SHOW A PROFIT FOR ANY PROJECT!
Cheers!
Cripes, if they can get away with it, they'll charge us for the air we breath, claiming that the oxygen their crops exhale is actually the property of Monsanto.
In Iraq, they've gone one better: the US puppet government has outlawed crop planting from seeds the farmers' natural crops produce. This is not from Monsanto (or any other US Agra-business) seed stock, but from Mother Nature's own. The farmers are required to buy seed stock from U.S. Firms.
Next, one of these company's will manage to sneak a sequence from the human genome past the patent clerks, and start levying fees against everyone who has a living body.
So what did he expect? People don't like being harassed (duh!), and this is a great shield for anyone who wants to harass someone else and escape tracing--especially the heavy breather types who won't leave your wives, daughters, sisters, or mothers alone, and anyone with a phone scam. The article suggests hackers might want to exact revenge, but I can think of more than a few non-hacker types who might be even more steamed.
But science fiction fans will be disappointed to learn that no one expects to be able to teleport people or other macroscopic objects in the foreseeable future, for a variety of engineering reasons, even though it would not violate any fundamental law to do so.
Umm, well, homicide? Identity? Probate? But I digress into the fanciful. However, grasp that, and you grasp why Dr. McCoy always hated transporters. He was never sure he wasn't just a ghost...:-)
NTT (a state enterprise) in Japan tried to push for monopolistic control of internet access in Japan, but finally the threat of trade sanctions forced the Japanese government to allow for competing internet service providers. Thus cheap 24/7 internet service is available, with no limit on uploads or downloads. Japan would probably have been like South Africa if NTT had got its way.
Now the Japanese government has plans to tax Wi-Fi, home or enterprise--something like the equivalent of US $25.000 a month.
Yes, you're absolutely right!/R/o/m/e//S/p/a/i/n//F/r/a/n/c/e//B/r/i/t/a/i/n/ America is so powerful that no one will ever be able to challenge our hegemony! We are invincible!
I suppose the lameness of this comment is intended to express some humorous dismissal of the post it's replying to, if not the entire thread.:-)
If Yahoo has taken all reasonable steps to remove the offending content from its French servers, makes nothing about its offending Nazi memorabilia available in French, and reasonably blocks all efforts on the part of anyone in France or French territory from making purchases (refusal to accept credit cards from France or with French billing addresses, refusal to ship any of the crap to France, etc.), then French authorities have no business attempting to remove what it considers illegal content from any servers anywhere outside French jurisdiction, or to make Yahoo or anyone else responsible for French citizens in France accessing that information.
To this extent, France seems to be attempting to impose its own form of the extra-territoriality of its laws that many in this overall thread are decrying as being practiced by the USA. The French government ought instead to be pursuing and prosecuting it own citizens for accessing that information from terminals located in French territory.
To the extent that Yahoo! is defending it's First Amendment rights within US territory, it is doing the right thing. The French government seems to be saying that because its citizens are able to access this information from France, its laws override those of the USA.
They don't. That's why it's important that US courts send them packing.
Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. --Groucho Marx.
Um, In most cases RIAA doesn't own the copyright, but merely the distribution rights for a particular arrangement of music. Thus, the CD you buy through an RIAA label made sound one way, but if you get the same collection of material directly from the band, it will be a little different.
The musicians own the copyrights, unless they're a house brand. What happens with the RIAA and the big labels is that the musicians usually get screwed out of their royalties by creative accounting tricks widely employed in the entertainment industry.
If at all possible, you should always try to buy your music directly from the band that made the music, IMHO. That way the band is sure to make more money and keep producing more of the music you want to hear!
Those are my priciples. If you don't like them, I have others.
--Groucho Marx
Good. I hope MS wins in court, and can find a way to legally stick it to UC and Eolas to recover costs. Every patent of the sort Eolas was granted that I've seen is spurious.
Now, if only MS would refrain from filing for the same kinds of patents... What's the most recent one? Pointing and clicking or double or triple-clicking an icon on the screen of a handheld device...?
Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. --Groucho Marx
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Apple did not invent the iPod either, it just came up with a catchy name for an MP3 that had a hard drive. MP3 players were on the market at least 6 years ago, manufactured by Sony, Hitachi, Matsushita, and various other companies. Sonly was even using flash memory in its more compact models (earphones that were the MP3 player itself) before the iPod came along. Apple just polished it up, and got the record labels on board as a way to sell hardware.
Other MP3 players are actually a little more advanced that the iPod, but what the iPod has that they don't is cool design and superior marketing.
Google is acting like any company that gets perceived bad press: throwing a hissy fit. The response of most companies is to yank advertising from the offending publication and/or to put the publisher on its PR Blacklist and exile its writers from press conferences. What's that, you say? But this is Google, The Company That Does No Evil! So now we see that Goggle is a company that behaves like any other company. Bad conduct when it suits the company's interests is to be expected. So what else is new? If you have a problem with that, use another search engine. Tell Google.
The ultimate defense plan for the home islands was brilliant simplicity itself: when it became obvious the Americans would invade from the sea, all of the old men, all women, and all school-aged children would line up on the beaches to meet the inavders with... ...sharpened bamboo spears. As the cowardly American forces charged onto the beaches, this invincible mass of spear-wielding Japanese would cry "Banzai! For the Emperor!" and rush the troops, spearing them all to death.
I am not kidding. I had a chat with a friend's grandmother about this a few years ago. Every day, she said, they'd take a break from whatever work they were doing for defense practice, preparing to meet the Americans head-on, by honing their spear-wielding skills.
"It was crazy," she said. "Those civil defense people were nuts. Civilian with bamboo spears attacking soldiers with carbines and machine guns?"
She told me she thought the Bomb was terrible, "But," she said, "I hate to think about what the alternative would have been. I know for sure I wouldn't be here right now telling you about any of this, and my grandaughter wouldn't be here to be your friend."
And so it did, if only in the minds of everyone inclined to feel that everything changed. But wasn't the term "internet security" just as much an oxymoron before 9/11 as after? With Windows still dominating the installed OS base and it's security holes as gaping as ever, does this really make any difference? So the Feds have a backdoor in. Given the security consciousness of most folks, ports of call have always been open, and anyone who knows what they're doing can work around it. As for the terrorists winning, of course they are. Their agents in the USA, AKA Federal law enforcement and the US Congress, are busily stipping Americans of the basic rights that make Americans American. What terrorist could ask for more? In the mean time, the NSA can already peek in at will. The smart guys they're after already know this and don't put much of anything on an HD, if anything at all.
Seriously. Do people still take this wonky wanker seriously? I stopped giving any credence to anything he said nearly 20 years ago, when he was hotly predicting Apple Computer's imminent demise. He has been so seriously wrong about so much, that I often wonder how much one special interest or another must be paying him to trash the competition. When Dvorak decides to trash something, it's a sure bet that it's probably something good. Maybe it's good that we have him around as a pointer to good things for that reason alone.
Hey, what a great way for libraries in Smalltown, Bible Belt, USA, to track not just suspected terrorist sympathizers, but also morally suspect folks who read such anti-Christian stuff as CATCHER IN THE RYE or HUCKLEBERRY FIN. It would make it so much easier to locate the socially cancerous so that they could be treated. At last, we could all live morally upright lives! Fingerprinting and other ID checks could be such a great thing in this social quest for probity, rectitude, and spiritual purity. Why, the merest inquiry about anonymous access should set off Orange Alert alarms back at Homeland Security Central!
Yes, and the more projects there are to do this, the better. Good for Google, even if they do tremble a bit at the closed-minded zealots who would be ruthless dictators beneath the mantle of religion; and good for the EU for embarking on a parallel project. I'm sure that any laws, state or Federal, that attempt to restrict the availability of published materials will wind up in Federal court, and will be declared as unconsitutional infringements on freedom of the press and speech. This sort of thing had been going on for 200+ years, and the crazies who want to prevent people from reading things have not won yet.
What I get from this article is that the court said 100% of the income derived from the New York State source is taxable by NYS, not that any income earned elsewhere out of NYS is taxable by NYS. In other words, Huckaby earned $4,387 from the New York State source, and all of that amount (not just a percentage) is subject to NYS income tax. If Huckaby earned an additional $50,000 from work done for employers not located in NYS, none of that $50,000 can be taxed by NYS. Most of the postings in this thread seem to suugest that Huckaby's tax burden is based on his entire income earned from all sources in and out of NYS, but that is not what the court said, at least according to what the article reports. That is how it should be. Now, if NYS is trying to tax income Huckaby earned in Tennessee, that would be just cause for a tax revolt against NYS.
Someone else will probably point this out, but unlike in the book publishing business where books actually do still make profits, in the music and film and television industry, all works are eternally unprofitable. Should a movie or TV series or recording ever actually show a profit, thousands of heads would roll and the State of California unemployment lines would swell with suddenly out-of-work accountants. The First Commandment of the Film/Recording industry is: THOU SHALT NOT SHOW A PROFIT FOR ANY PROJECT! Cheers!
Cripes, if they can get away with it, they'll charge us for the air we breath, claiming that the oxygen their crops exhale is actually the property of Monsanto.
In Iraq, they've gone one better: the US puppet government has outlawed crop planting from seeds the farmers' natural crops produce. This is not from Monsanto (or any other US Agra-business) seed stock, but from Mother Nature's own. The farmers are required to buy seed stock from U.S. Firms.
Next, one of these company's will manage to sneak a sequence from the human genome past the patent clerks, and start levying fees against everyone who has a living body.
So what did he expect? People don't like being harassed (duh!), and this is a great shield for anyone who wants to harass someone else and escape tracing--especially the heavy breather types who won't leave your wives, daughters, sisters, or mothers alone, and anyone with a phone scam. The article suggests hackers might want to exact revenge, but I can think of more than a few non-hacker types who might be even more steamed.
But science fiction fans will be disappointed to learn that no one expects to be able to teleport people or other macroscopic objects in the foreseeable future, for a variety of engineering reasons, even though it would not violate any fundamental law to do so.
Umm, well, homicide? Identity? Probate? But I digress into the fanciful. However, grasp that, and you grasp why Dr. McCoy always hated transporters. He was never sure he wasn't just a ghost...:-)
NTT (a state enterprise) in Japan tried to push for monopolistic control of internet access in Japan, but finally the threat of trade sanctions forced the Japanese government to allow for competing internet service providers. Thus cheap 24/7 internet service is available, with no limit on uploads or downloads. Japan would probably have been like South Africa if NTT had got its way.
Now the Japanese government has plans to tax Wi-Fi, home or enterprise--something like the equivalent of US $25.000 a month.
Yes, you're absolutely right! /R/o/m/e/ /S/p/a/i/n/ /F/r/a/n/c/e/ /B/r/i/t/a/i/n/ America is so powerful that no one will ever be able to challenge our hegemony! We are invincible!
:-)
I suppose the lameness of this comment is intended to express some humorous dismissal of the post it's replying to, if not the entire thread.
If Yahoo has taken all reasonable steps to remove the offending content from its French servers, makes nothing about its offending Nazi memorabilia available in French, and reasonably blocks all efforts on the part of anyone in France or French territory from making purchases (refusal to accept credit cards from France or with French billing addresses, refusal to ship any of the crap to France, etc.), then French authorities have no business attempting to remove what it considers illegal content from any servers anywhere outside French jurisdiction, or to make Yahoo or anyone else responsible for French citizens in France accessing that information.
To this extent, France seems to be attempting to impose its own form of the extra-territoriality of its laws that many in this overall thread are decrying as being practiced by the USA. The French government ought instead to be pursuing and prosecuting it own citizens for accessing that information from terminals located in French territory.
To the extent that Yahoo! is defending it's First Amendment rights within US territory, it is doing the right thing. The French government seems to be saying that because its citizens are able to access this information from France, its laws override those of the USA.
They don't. That's why it's important that US courts send them packing.
Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. --Groucho Marx.
Um, In most cases RIAA doesn't own the copyright, but merely the distribution rights for a particular arrangement of music. Thus, the CD you buy through an RIAA label made sound one way, but if you get the same collection of material directly from the band, it will be a little different.
The musicians own the copyrights, unless they're a house brand. What happens with the RIAA and the big labels is that the musicians usually get screwed out of their royalties by creative accounting tricks widely employed in the entertainment industry.
If at all possible, you should always try to buy your music directly from the band that made the music, IMHO. That way the band is sure to make more money and keep producing more of the music you want to hear!
Those are my priciples. If you don't like them, I have others.
--Groucho Marx
Good. I hope MS wins in court, and can find a way to legally stick it to UC and Eolas to recover costs. Every patent of the sort Eolas was granted that I've seen is spurious. Now, if only MS would refrain from filing for the same kinds of patents... What's the most recent one? Pointing and clicking or double or triple-clicking an icon on the screen of a handheld device...? Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. --Groucho Marx