I'm not really sure about Wisconsin, but I don't think it's anywhere near being an important part of the growing Internet culture/business/what-have-you. Doesn't this seem like exactly what the state doesn't need? Discouraging citizens from purchasing online products with a tax on the downloads and encouraging them to find ways to not pay for the Internet and its many bounties? What's worse is that the Governor is telling them that it's logical to tax "intangible" items the same way tangible items. Should there be a tax on ideas and principles when they are exchanged? What about words? If I sit on the corner of the street, playing my beat-up old guitar for passers-by, who kindly toss me a few quarters, should they be taxed for listening to my music? No, wait... I've got it! Air is tangible, isn't it? Hmm....
The Demand for movies is "constant," but the supply for DVDs and VHSs is far, far less than the supply of downloadable movies, so the price of the VHSs and DVDs is greater, and the quantity demanded is less. Because providing a movie on the internet is costless, save the price of keeping up the server, the supply of internet provided movies is nearly infinite: they're simply not scarce. The quantity of movies demanded if the price is $49.99 is fairly high, but the quantity demanded if the price is $0.00 will always be greater.
Regardless, the point is that it isn't about the downloading, it's about the money.
I swear, this would be so much easier if I could draw a picture of this, but, eh.
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Oh great, just what I've always wanted... to have Windows ON MY FACE!
Anyone familiar with the exploits of LUE members on the gamefaqs forums knows that a well organized group of gamers can be very dangerous/hilarious. The Aimbot "smarterchild" was influeced to say weird stuff by LUEers, and I can see the same thing happening here: The Sims TV Show is a big hit until the FCC fines the network it's featured after some unnamed viewers vote en masse to make the characters say "George Bush is a W4NG" eight hundred times on primetime TV.
What kind of baller has the time, money, skill, and support to do something like this? When you think about how much of an investment that project is, it would have been impressive even if it took him years to get it working the way he wanted it. And he did all of this for fun! Just because it could be done! Also, I have to give him props for making such a detailed documentation of his work and putting it on the web rather keeping it to himself.
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The boost is even bigger than that, because only a portion of the 360,000 Ivy League graduates are going directly into business. Many of them are becoming lawyers, scientists, professors, and *gasp* politicians. If only 100,000 of those 360,000 actually try to go directly into a business job, the percentage of the eligible C-level job candidate pool they take up is even smaller than 2.8%.
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I'm not really sure about Wisconsin, but I don't think it's anywhere near being an important part of the growing Internet culture/business/what-have-you. Doesn't this seem like exactly what the state doesn't need? Discouraging citizens from purchasing online products with a tax on the downloads and encouraging them to find ways to not pay for the Internet and its many bounties? What's worse is that the Governor is telling them that it's logical to tax "intangible" items the same way tangible items. Should there be a tax on ideas and principles when they are exchanged? What about words? If I sit on the corner of the street, playing my beat-up old guitar for passers-by, who kindly toss me a few quarters, should they be taxed for listening to my music? No, wait... I've got it! Air is tangible, isn't it? Hmm....
... hate to be the anal one, but:
The Demand for movies is "constant," but the supply for DVDs and VHSs is far, far less than the supply of downloadable movies, so the price of the VHSs and DVDs is greater, and the quantity demanded is less. Because providing a movie on the internet is costless, save the price of keeping up the server, the supply of internet provided movies is nearly infinite: they're simply not scarce. The quantity of movies demanded if the price is $49.99 is fairly high, but the quantity demanded if the price is $0.00 will always be greater.
Regardless, the point is that it isn't about the downloading, it's about the money.
I swear, this would be so much easier if I could draw a picture of this, but, eh.
Supported OS: Windows XP, 2000, ME or 98SE (98SE requires additional driver); Mac OS 9.2.2, OS X 10.1.5, OS X 10.2 or OS X 10.3 Oh great, just what I've always wanted... to have Windows ON MY FACE!
Anyone familiar with the exploits of LUE members on the gamefaqs forums knows that a well organized group of gamers can be very dangerous/hilarious. The Aimbot "smarterchild" was influeced to say weird stuff by LUEers, and I can see the same thing happening here: The Sims TV Show is a big hit until the FCC fines the network it's featured after some unnamed viewers vote en masse to make the characters say "George Bush is a W4NG" eight hundred times on primetime TV.
What kind of baller has the time, money, skill, and support to do something like this? When you think about how much of an investment that project is, it would have been impressive even if it took him years to get it working the way he wanted it. And he did all of this for fun! Just because it could be done! Also, I have to give him props for making such a detailed documentation of his work and putting it on the web rather keeping it to himself.
The boost is even bigger than that, because only a portion of the 360,000 Ivy League graduates are going directly into business. Many of them are becoming lawyers, scientists, professors, and *gasp* politicians. If only 100,000 of those 360,000 actually try to go directly into a business job, the percentage of the eligible C-level job candidate pool they take up is even smaller than 2.8%.