You should look up the Licensing Order of 1643 and add it to your rant. Copyright has been a distinct, from theft, legal concept for hundreds of years. Originally copyright was a censorship tool. Only later did business embrace it for monetary gain.
Admins are upkeep. They can pay the profits to themselves as wage and claim the site isn't making money. Accountingly it's not. In the USoA you can even pay them as 1099s (work for hire) and they are legally expenses rather than employees. Sweden may or may not have something similar.
Additionally their home net feeds, their transportation, personal hardware, personal mobiles, etc could all be owned/payed for by the business. Another way "wage" becomes "expense." Legally. Once again Sweden may or may not be different.
There are a ton of ways for a business to profit while technically and legally not making momey or breaking even. "Non-profits" and "charities", that are really businesses intent on making money, use it all the time.
ATMs are audited every couple days. Most people audit their bank account at least once a month. If there is a problem they _will_ be caught.
If their ATM screws up there are hundreds of years of case history that state they will be punished. They will be punished hard. They will loose significant amounts of money. Banks will stop doing business with them.
Who audits the vote counts? What penalty will they face if there is a problem? What's the case law?
I'm sure you are. However it won't be from me as my comment was on gene-modding as a whole. We will continue to do it. It will transfer or jump. We will be fucked. Hopefully for smaller values of fucked.
Wouldn't this negate the T's common carrier status? There are significant legal protections they would give up.
Basically if they start policing content and start stopping the transfer of copy written material then they become liable for anything they don't stop.
Look at the kill count from your average person based suicide bombing in a crowded area. They're significantly less than the number of people on any flight I've been on in the last few years. Any of the really big kill counts were with vehicle based bombs.
For example look at the Bhutto killing. That was a packed crowd, literally shoulder to shoulder, with the bomber in the crowd and it only killed 20 people.
Where as with a plane everyone on it is dying. Even the turbo prop region jets I ride on carry 60ish.
he rationale for having me boot my computer apparently was that it may be a bomb, not that my contents might be suspicious. The logic of having me sit in front of them and power on a bomb just to find out if it is, in fact, a bomb still escapes me to this day. This is rather simple. If the bomb went off in customs it would kill less than on a plane.
The logic of having me sit in front of them and power on a bomb just to find out if it is, in fact, a bomb still escapes me to this day. Nearly as bizarre as the giant liquids disposal vat at security check: "Please mix your bomb ingredients in this packed airport instead of on the plane. Thankyou." The reason is that the liquid ban is security theater. They don't expect someone to use liquid explosives. The whole idea is fairly comical. They put the ban in place to make people feel better. Also they can claim we stopped 125,000 prohibited objects last ^timeunit. Then people say, "Wow the TSA is protecting us." However if 0 of those items were bombs that someone was going to use to take out a plane then what did they really do?
Is it legal for border security to open every binder of notes, and open every letter on your person, including medical records, bank statements, things marked "private" or "confidential" or "top secret"? Seriously? So I can just write private the outside of my bag and they can't open it? Why are smugglers going through elaborate routes then? Throw some contra-band in a box label it confidential and walk on through the front door?
Labeling something "confidential" is functionally identical as labeling it "bumper".
You rely on a huge stipulation. For your post to be accurate the VR machine must be able to identify any of the infinite possible actions/experiments that would identify said VR machine.
Yes I know it's more of a tech demo than a game but Assassin's Creed is my choice for GotY.
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Yup that's why they do low altitude static line drops with rounds. Much quicker and safer. But boy do you land hard.
I jump for fun. Hence why I jump from alititude and use a canopy that I can steer and flare.
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round chutes *shudder* No thank you.
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Notice the words:
and his parachute was ripped away in the jet stream No parachute and thunderstorm or no the updrafts aren't going to do anything.
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He was caught in the wild air currents of a major storm moving along the jet stream Again learn your physics. Not in freefall he wasn't. It just doesn't work that way. I may only be an A license holder with the US Parachute Assoc but I have over half hour of free fall time. At 48,000 with no chute and flight gear he'd be on the ground in 5 minutes.
Then the artists should stop signing work for hire contracts.
If the artists don't like record companies making the majority of the money then maybe they should stop agreeing to terms where the record company gets the majority of the money.
If you can find people stupid enough to sign their right over for you to make money on then that's just capitalism. The artists are most of the problem.
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Please review your physics. Falling 48,000 would take no where near an hour. Sport skydivers in the belly down position fall about 10K a minute.
If he was an ejected pilot he would have more weight, gear, and less surface area, tumbling rather than a stable body position. Thus he would fall faster than 10K a minute.
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Yeah well I'm offended by people who are offended by things. Oh crap I just broke something.
You should look up the Licensing Order of 1643 and add it to your rant. Copyright has been a distinct, from theft, legal concept for hundreds of years. Originally copyright was a censorship tool. Only later did business embrace it for monetary gain.
Admins are upkeep. They can pay the profits to themselves as wage and claim the site isn't making money. Accountingly it's not. In the USoA you can even pay them as 1099s (work for hire) and they are legally expenses rather than employees. Sweden may or may not have something similar.
Additionally their home net feeds, their transportation, personal hardware, personal mobiles, etc could all be owned/payed for by the business. Another way "wage" becomes "expense." Legally. Once again Sweden may or may not be different.
There are a ton of ways for a business to profit while technically and legally not making momey or breaking even. "Non-profits" and "charities", that are really businesses intent on making money, use it all the time.
Care to post something to back up your position?
Second-Gen gamer here. River Raid on the 2600 my father bought for himself. Over Christmas he was yelled at for playing too much RockBand.
ATMs are audited every couple days. Most people audit their bank account at least once a month. If there is a problem they _will_ be caught.
If their ATM screws up there are hundreds of years of case history that state they will be punished. They will be punished hard. They will loose significant amounts of money. Banks will stop doing business with them.
Who audits the vote counts? What penalty will they face if there is a problem? What's the case law?
I'm sure you are. However it won't be from me as my comment was on gene-modding as a whole. We will continue to do it. It will transfer or jump. We will be fucked. Hopefully for smaller values of fucked.
As this is exactly how gene-modding will lead to a significant crisis some day. I hope we come through it mostly intact.
Wouldn't this negate the T's common carrier status? There are significant legal protections they would give up.
Basically if they start policing content and start stopping the transfer of copy written material then they become liable for anything they don't stop.
What's your point?
As long as we keep letting people on planes there will be a risk that said people will try and eventually take down the plane.
I think that link makes my point.
It detenated 1 row in front of the fuel tank. It failed to compromise the fuselage. It only killed the person sitting on it.
Yes I have.
Look at the kill count from your average person based suicide bombing in a crowded area. They're significantly less than the number of people on any flight I've been on in the last few years. Any of the really big kill counts were with vehicle based bombs.
For example look at the Bhutto killing. That was a packed crowd, literally shoulder to shoulder, with the bomber in the crowd and it only killed 20 people.
Where as with a plane everyone on it is dying. Even the turbo prop region jets I ride on carry 60ish.
Labeling something "confidential" is functionally identical as labeling it "bumper".
Um, maybe :)
You rely on a huge stipulation. For your post to be accurate the VR machine must be able to identify any of the infinite possible actions/experiments that would identify said VR machine.
I second that. Put up or shut up.
Yes I know it's more of a tech demo than a game but Assassin's Creed is my choice for GotY.
Yup that's why they do low altitude static line drops with rounds. Much quicker and safer. But boy do you land hard.
I jump for fun. Hence why I jump from alititude and use a canopy that I can steer and flare.
round chutes *shudder* No thank you.
Then the artists should stop signing work for hire contracts.
If the artists don't like record companies making the majority of the money then maybe they should stop agreeing to terms where the record company gets the majority of the money.
If you can find people stupid enough to sign their right over for you to make money on then that's just capitalism. The artists are most of the problem.
Please review your physics. Falling 48,000 would take no where near an hour. Sport skydivers in the belly down position fall about 10K a minute.
If he was an ejected pilot he would have more weight, gear, and less surface area, tumbling rather than a stable body position. Thus he would fall faster than 10K a minute.