My god you're delusional. If you give "the market" free reign to do as you say, "the market" will create a rating agency that panders to the needs of the industry while pretending to cater to the needs of the customers. Yes, letting advertisers regulate themselves worked well. Worked great for content ratings too. Oh wait, no it doesn't.
And I'm sure we'd all love to live in Andrew Ryan's Rapture.
Oh get off. The stated goal of the agency (to prevent companies and individuals selling products which are patently unsafe, causing harm to consumers, or making medical claims which are patently false) is a necessary one, otherwise scumbags would be (taking it to the extreme) selling cyanide pills and claiming they cure cancer.
Whether the agency is living up the goal they claim, or acting in a corrupt fashion is another story entirely.
In my experience, any product designed for the American market is essentially useless in national public healthcare systems. Too much of the systems are based around the batshit crazy private healthcare provider with multitudes of private insurance funders.
But then again, with CSC's acquisition of iSoft, they have all they need to deliver a UK-centric healthcare system without actually having to develop anything.
And if not, I'm sure Orion will step in and sell them something.
No. Basic consumer law is that you enter into an agreement with the vendor that sells you the product, not the supplier. If you were to buy a program on iTunes and it never downloaded, that would be something you take up with Apple, not AMC. Same principle.
No it's not Windows CE at all. It's a derivative of Windows NT, the line including Windows NT 3.51, NT 4, 2000, XP, Vista and 7. CE isn't even actively developed any more. Your post is basically just full of shit.
Bullshit. NZ is a member of Five Eyes and has just as much access as the US. Not that this is a good thing.
Now, NZ was excluded for quite some time from joint military activities, and to this day isn't allowed to berth warships (hah!) at Pearl Harbour during the few we're allowed to attend...
You just described what's happening in New Zealand. Except that even when the government owned it, we got skyrocketing power prices (though the one private power company said "power needs to cost more. The state owned power companies are artificially keeping prices down").
Actually, I disagree with it on the grounds that destroying currency lessens the amount of it in circulation, which increases the value of the remaining stuff in circulation, and therefore everyone actually benefits from someone being fined, defeating the purpose of your suggestion - and in fact increasing the incentive for unrelated third parties to take action to bring litigation.
.com is a gTLD, it's not US at all. Just like.net,.org, and.xxx. None of these have country designations because they are generic..edu,.mil and.gov are abominations (should be.edu.us,.mil.us and.gov.us like everyone else has to), but too ingrained to fix now.
Open Source doesn't mean stop selling software. Just ask Red Hat, who aren't exactly small. And even being Open Source friendly doesn't mean doing Open Source yourself.
Have you not used Quicktime or Adobe Reader recently? Acts of terrorism doesn't even begin to describe the unimaginable terror these programs inflict on their unsuspecting victims.
That's fine, this article isn't about the United States. It's about Britain, and lord knows the US government has proven time and again that it certainly can go and change the course of other countries!
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Well, yes. But the side effects are a bit shit.
My god you're delusional. If you give "the market" free reign to do as you say, "the market" will create a rating agency that panders to the needs of the industry while pretending to cater to the needs of the customers. Yes, letting advertisers regulate themselves worked well. Worked great for content ratings too. Oh wait, no it doesn't.
And I'm sure we'd all love to live in Andrew Ryan's Rapture.
Thankfully, society doesn't agree with you.
Oh get off. The stated goal of the agency (to prevent companies and individuals selling products which are patently unsafe, causing harm to consumers, or making medical claims which are patently false) is a necessary one, otherwise scumbags would be (taking it to the extreme) selling cyanide pills and claiming they cure cancer.
Whether the agency is living up the goal they claim, or acting in a corrupt fashion is another story entirely.
Oh dear god, HL7. I know some people on the committee that works on that in my office, should I beat them with a cricket bat for you?
In my experience, any product designed for the American market is essentially useless in national public healthcare systems. Too much of the systems are based around the batshit crazy private healthcare provider with multitudes of private insurance funders.
But then again, with CSC's acquisition of iSoft, they have all they need to deliver a UK-centric healthcare system without actually having to develop anything.
And if not, I'm sure Orion will step in and sell them something.
Oh, you mean malpractice insurance?
There is. Its very existence of course drives up your healthcare costs.
That's fine, this has nothing to do with Doubleclick. So Anonymous really doesn't know what the hell it's talking about.
You told us what a Steambox is, but what's a Steamboxen?
No. Basic consumer law is that you enter into an agreement with the vendor that sells you the product, not the supplier. If you were to buy a program on iTunes and it never downloaded, that would be something you take up with Apple, not AMC. Same principle.
Except that it couldn't show ads, because Google wouldn't provide Microsoft with the access needed to do so. So it was actually Google's fault.
No it's not Windows CE at all. It's a derivative of Windows NT, the line including Windows NT 3.51, NT 4, 2000, XP, Vista and 7. CE isn't even actively developed any more. Your post is basically just full of shit.
Bullshit. NZ is a member of Five Eyes and has just as much access as the US. Not that this is a good thing.
Now, NZ was excluded for quite some time from joint military activities, and to this day isn't allowed to berth warships (hah!) at Pearl Harbour during the few we're allowed to attend...
Have you considered incorporating then? If what you say is true, then doing so suddenly gets you a whole lot more power.
Unless, of course, corporations are neither the government nor any significant power - which is of course the case.
That said, money talks. So naturally if you have a lot of it, even if you aren't a corporation, you will have significant power.
You just described what's happening in New Zealand. Except that even when the government owned it, we got skyrocketing power prices (though the one private power company said "power needs to cost more. The state owned power companies are artificially keeping prices down").
Actually, I disagree with it on the grounds that destroying currency lessens the amount of it in circulation, which increases the value of the remaining stuff in circulation, and therefore everyone actually benefits from someone being fined, defeating the purpose of your suggestion - and in fact increasing the incentive for unrelated third parties to take action to bring litigation.
.com is a gTLD, it's not US at all. Just like .net, .org, and .xxx. None of these have country designations because they are generic. .edu, .mil and .gov are abominations (should be .edu.us, .mil.us and .gov.us like everyone else has to), but too ingrained to fix now.
What does it cost? Just your privacy.
Open Source doesn't mean stop selling software. Just ask Red Hat, who aren't exactly small. And even being Open Source friendly doesn't mean doing Open Source yourself.
What tax? They failed to file a form saying they don't owe any tax!
Only if the revenue was earned in a country with a Double Taxation Agreement in place.
We have a team of developers still writing them.
Giving Google money doesn't make their customer support any faster. Trust me on that.
Average ping to the US would be about 150ms-200ms.
Have you not used Quicktime or Adobe Reader recently? Acts of terrorism doesn't even begin to describe the unimaginable terror these programs inflict on their unsuspecting victims.
That's fine, this article isn't about the United States. It's about Britain, and lord knows the US government has proven time and again that it certainly can go and change the course of other countries!