It would be an interesting case, however, I'm not sure that it could be considered a stolen good. The publisher did send the books to the bookstore to be sold. They said, don't sell it until the 16th of July. Some twit opened a box early and they all sold out of that box.
Stolen may be a bit extreme, unless of course it was written directly in the contract that selling the books prior to the release date would constitute the theft of said books.
If the store paid for the shipment, they aren't stolen anymore. See the previous posters comments of a sale taking place.
I give you money for goods or services
You give me the goods or services
Transaction complete.
That's a sale.
But who cares, I have my copy reserved at 35% off. I don't care if I get it on day 1....I probably will, and have it read that day, but I'll be fooked if I'm going to be there at midnight just to get my copy...cuz then I'm going to bed right after. Ummm...can't read in my sleep......yet
But I'm working on it...already groking Slashdot in my sleep:-)
Sure, it may not have been exactly like this, but if history is correct, and not skewed, this is exactly what Adolph Hitler wanted. To weed out anyone who did not fit his "mold".
Sure, this may be an extreme, but hey, let's weed out all the dumb people. I'm sorry, but I rely on them to make me look smarter.
I mean, wasn't it about 40 years ago that it was stated that the smallest computer to effectively do anything useful would have to be the size of a building?...oh wait...that still holds true. I haven't found a useful purpose for this computer yet...
And in 1890's, the quote of "Everything that can be invented, has been invented". Perhaps he was right... Maybe we should have stopped then.
These Experts all need to just STFU in my opinion. That's all it is, my opinion. Don't say something CANNOT be done...someone will do it. Maybe Bill Gates! (hahaha)
At my bank, when I go to my banks ATM, the language is already chosen for me. It is only when I go to 3rd party ATMs that I have to choose. So it is there, just not widely recognized (they must do it by ACCT #)
Obviously not posted by a business owner of any sort. 4% loss may sound paltry, but if you choose to look at that 4% as being taken out of your net profit it'll look considerable larger, i.e. 4% out of $27B - expenses, assume a profit margin of 50%, and it's 8% Would you be happy buying a 12-pack at the corner store, but having to sacrifice one can/bottle to some guy at the exit door for no apparent reason?
It's interesting that you would say this as I just took a 4% paycut at work, does that mean I can copy my DVD's now?
Ok, I'm not going to run on about "it's all Windoze's fault". That's been beaten to death.
What I will comment on is this quote :
"The FTC last fall filed its first case against a spyware company accused of using a security flaw in Internet Explorer to cram system-glutting programs into the machines of visitors to its website. But current fraud laws only allow regulators to recover ill-gotten gains -- no matter how much more damage the bad guys have inflicted."
That sounds to me like "Hey, we have to get a law passed so we can sue everyone for everything they have, even if the spyware only trashed my pr0n collection. To me that was worth at least $5 million so I should sue for $5 million".
But, as it's based in the USA, that's the way things work. If you need money, sue somebody.
It too is an interesting concept, however I'm not sure any of this would fly. You'd have to get tons of governments on board, and that just isn't going to happen. Hell, try to get them to agree on a single item like warring with other countries...oh wait, that's not too simple.
It would still be hard to get them to do anything that involves change.
We reached the end of the universe. It's just that simple. I mean c'mon, infinite space. Yeah right, like anyone believed that. Now we have conclusive proof of the matter (or anti-matter).
"I've just gotten back from the beginning of the universe and what can I say, we had a bang of a good time"...
(paraphrase from The Restaurant at the end of the universe)
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It would be an interesting case, however, I'm not sure that it could be considered a stolen good. The publisher did send the books to the bookstore to be sold. They said, don't sell it until the 16th of July. Some twit opened a box early and they all sold out of that box. Stolen may be a bit extreme, unless of course it was written directly in the contract that selling the books prior to the release date would constitute the theft of said books. If the store paid for the shipment, they aren't stolen anymore. See the previous posters comments of a sale taking place. I give you money for goods or services You give me the goods or services Transaction complete. That's a sale. But who cares, I have my copy reserved at 35% off. I don't care if I get it on day 1....I probably will, and have it read that day, but I'll be fooked if I'm going to be there at midnight just to get my copy...cuz then I'm going to bed right after. Ummm...can't read in my sleep......yet But I'm working on it...already groking Slashdot in my sleep :-)
Sure, it may not have been exactly like this, but if history is correct, and not skewed, this is exactly what Adolph Hitler wanted. To weed out anyone who did not fit his "mold". Sure, this may be an extreme, but hey, let's weed out all the dumb people. I'm sorry, but I rely on them to make me look smarter.
I mean, wasn't it about 40 years ago that it was stated that the smallest computer to effectively do anything useful would have to be the size of a building?...oh wait...that still holds true. I haven't found a useful purpose for this computer yet...
And in 1890's, the quote of "Everything that can be invented, has been invented". Perhaps he was right... Maybe we should have stopped then.
These Experts all need to just STFU in my opinion. That's all it is, my opinion. Don't say something CANNOT be done...someone will do it. Maybe Bill Gates! (hahaha)
At my bank, when I go to my banks ATM, the language is already chosen for me. It is only when I go to 3rd party ATMs that I have to choose. So it is there, just not widely recognized (they must do it by ACCT #)
Obviously not posted by a business owner of any sort. 4% loss may sound paltry, but if you choose to look at that 4% as being taken out of your net profit it'll look considerable larger, i.e. 4% out of $27B - expenses, assume a profit margin of 50%, and it's 8% Would you be happy buying a 12-pack at the corner store, but having to sacrifice one can/bottle to some guy at the exit door for no apparent reason?
It's interesting that you would say this as I just took a 4% paycut at work, does that mean I can copy my DVD's now?
Ok, I'm not going to run on about "it's all Windoze's fault". That's been beaten to death. What I will comment on is this quote : "The FTC last fall filed its first case against a spyware company accused of using a security flaw in Internet Explorer to cram system-glutting programs into the machines of visitors to its website. But current fraud laws only allow regulators to recover ill-gotten gains -- no matter how much more damage the bad guys have inflicted." That sounds to me like "Hey, we have to get a law passed so we can sue everyone for everything they have, even if the spyware only trashed my pr0n collection. To me that was worth at least $5 million so I should sue for $5 million". But, as it's based in the USA, that's the way things work. If you need money, sue somebody.
An Anti-IE worm sounds just too beneficial to me...
And don't forget, your precious basketball was invented by... A Canadian....in Canada. We just don't care for the game all that much :-)
Recently I was pointed (thanks to http://www.userfriendly.org/) to this site which speaks of New Earth Time (NET) http://newearthtime.net/.
It too is an interesting concept, however I'm not sure any of this would fly. You'd have to get tons of governments on board, and that just isn't going to happen. Hell, try to get them to agree on a single item like warring with other countries...oh wait, that's not too simple.
It would still be hard to get them to do anything that involves change.
We reached the end of the universe. It's just that simple. I mean c'mon, infinite space. Yeah right, like anyone believed that. Now we have conclusive proof of the matter (or anti-matter). "I've just gotten back from the beginning of the universe and what can I say, we had a bang of a good time"... (paraphrase from The Restaurant at the end of the universe)