Ah. The old "two wrongs make a right" argument. Well thought through sir. What it lacks in depth, it makes up for in xenophobia.
Oh, and as you're so clued up on history, you might as well start on geography. You've got a lot to catch up with.
You're right - it is a fallacy. To be factual, the bully should sell the copies at 25 cents a time, then give the kid back 0.12 cents for each copy sold, retaining all rights over the work for fify years, then after the kid dies, try to alter the law to allow the bully to retain all rights to the work, instead of the work passing to public domain.
The Beethoven Symphonies were hugely popular last year, downloadable while a season was on radio 3. At christmas time, there was an equally superb Bach season. Why wasn't there any Bach to download? The record companies successfully argued that the BBC was unfair competition to them, using licence payer's money to fund "free music".
I'd partly paid for (in a small way) the Studio, the Orchestra, the Conductor, and The Radio Station itself through my licence fee, yet I can't own the fruits of that, simply because the Music Business didn't make a profit out of it.
The same thing will be true of the IMP; Media companies will argue that unrestricted DRM free public service IPTV will be unfair competition. And we, the consumers who have already paid for the content will be shafted once again.
Despite this being irrelevant to the discussion, I'll bite. You're comparing apples with oranges. Modaco is a windows mobile based site (tagline: "windows - mobilized"). It's like comparing slashdot.org with neowin.net. The signal to noise ratio on modaco is much better too.
Tennant was also superb in the live version of quatermass, on BBC4 last week. It was two hours of live sfi-fi on tv, brilliantly acted, and superb all round. The fact that it was actually being performed live made it all the more impressive.
Tennant would make an excellent replacement for Eccleston - he gets my vote.
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Trying to instill fear in the hearts of the populace, that people in other countries, hiding amongst their allies, are doing this sort of thing?
Sounds like terrorism to me. Ship him to Gitmo.
If Mckinnon's instilled fear in you, then you need to man the fuck up. Oh, and don't read this: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/07/china.hackers/index.html Or you'll shit yourself.
Ah. The old "two wrongs make a right" argument. Well thought through sir. What it lacks in depth, it makes up for in xenophobia. Oh, and as you're so clued up on history, you might as well start on geography. You've got a lot to catch up with.
The £100000 that could have been saved by moving to Windows would just about offset the pay of one council employee in an overpayments scandal that's been floating around Birmingham in the past few weeks. See http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/birminghampost /news/tm_method=full%26objectid=18018775%26siteid= 50002-name_page.html for some of the details. With appalling mismanagement of council finances in general, it's no wonder they've done this too.
You're right - it is a fallacy. To be factual, the bully should sell the copies at 25 cents a time, then give the kid back 0.12 cents for each copy sold, retaining all rights over the work for fify years, then after the kid dies, try to alter the law to allow the bully to retain all rights to the work, instead of the work passing to public domain.
That's the way it really works.
"Law abiding tax paying Americans are already compromised and nothing can undo it."
Really? so why do you want to make it EASIER to shaft them in the future by putting all neccessary data you need to do it accessible from one card?
"Only criminals fear the National ID card."
Huh? One word for you: McCarthy. If you truly believe that only crminals have something to fear, I fear for you and your fellow countrymen.
Fair comment, but "red ink" is still not a commonly used idiom in UK English, while "red tape" and "in the red" are.
The Beethoven Symphonies were hugely popular last year, downloadable while a season was on radio 3. At christmas time, there was an equally superb Bach season. Why wasn't there any Bach to download? The record companies successfully argued that the BBC was unfair competition to them, using licence payer's money to fund "free music".
I'd partly paid for (in a small way) the Studio, the Orchestra, the Conductor, and The Radio Station itself through my licence fee, yet I can't own the fruits of that, simply because the Music Business didn't make a profit out of it. The same thing will be true of the IMP; Media companies will argue that unrestricted DRM free public service IPTV will be unfair competition. And we, the consumers who have already paid for the content will be shafted once again.
Despite this being irrelevant to the discussion, I'll bite. You're comparing apples with oranges. Modaco is a windows mobile based site (tagline: "windows - mobilized"). It's like comparing slashdot.org with neowin.net. The signal to noise ratio on modaco is much better too.
Tennant was also superb in the live version of quatermass, on BBC4 last week. It was two hours of live sfi-fi on tv, brilliantly acted, and superb all round. The fact that it was actually being performed live made it all the more impressive. Tennant would make an excellent replacement for Eccleston - he gets my vote.