Sorry for double posting replies, but I read your post again, and defense isn't paid for by the State government. Police, fire and hospitals sometimes are to some extent, although that's often more local government, which is usually funded through property taxes primarily, although often municipalities, at least in California, often have a small Sales Tax as well..
That depends on where you live, some states don't have income tax. (eg. Texas) Some states don't have Sales Tax. (eg. Oregon) Some don't have either. (only New Hamshire, I think) Either way, you're sorely mistaken if you think a special purpose tax, (like a gasoline tax) actually pays for it's suposed purpose. All the money goes into one big pile and is distributed according to the whims of the legislature.
State Governemnets, (The ones that charge Sales taxes,) use the money to do things like fund schools, pave the roads, etc. It's not a user fee for the internet or e-commerce, but rather it's meant to pay for all government functions. Personally I think this is a good idea, (objections to Sales Taxes generally aside.) If you're going to tax sales as a way of funding public projects and programs, there's no reason to exempt ecommerce.
Actually she was trying to get a real job, but unsuccessfully. It's rather difficult if you're in a small town, you can only work part time, and you don't have much experience.
In all seriousness though, it is the US poor who volunteer to praticipate in research studies here too. I have one friend who paid her way through college doing this.
Fined? More like thrown in jail! Until CEOs start to personally suffer for the illegal actions of their companies, violating the law will simply be a business decision. (Expected Profit > Expected Penelty) -> Break Law.
As others have pointed out score refers to the printed music. (That is what notes you would play on the piano, guitar, etc.)
Actually I think the reverse is true. No one buys sheet music for lyrics, people buy music for the scores. Therefore, while I don't understand why they would go after people just for publishing lyrics, people publishing scores seem legitamate targets. (standard objections about copyright aside.)
This is actually the sort of trolling Wikipedia is most susceptible to: That which purports to be accurate information. Inserting a bunch of curse words, blank pages, etc. is easy to detect and fix, but inserting subtly wrong facts, (or even blatantly wrong facts,) requires someone with sufficient knowledge of the subject matter to realize the errors AND the confidence to edit it and correct them.
He hasn't. He's just a talk radio host on NPR. They chose the name "Open Source" because they felt that the format of their show reflected simlar values to Open Source ideals. It's also a bit of play on words. "Source" in this case means a News source. So the idea is that anyone can be News Source for the show, hence "Open Source."
In princple yes, but only if the software they installed in your computer disable some other software you were using to protect files that you had the copywrite to. (ie. If you wrote some word documents and put some encryption on them that Sony's rootkit somehow broke.) Even then, you'd have a weak case.
Thanks for the better link. I didn't want to spend too much time time Googling it, so I linked the first site I found that at least showed the GGP was totally distorting it, (rather than just somewhat distorting it.)
Great work taking the Pelosi quote out of context. Her comment, although arguably erroneous, was on whether congress had the power to in effect "overturn" Kelo. (She was arguing that they didn't) It was not praising the decision necessarily. Here's a little more detail from some slightly more honest Libertarians.
Furthermore, I don't really see why you all hate Kelo so much. Libertarians are all for giving power to State and Local Governement until the local government does something they don't like then they want to Federal government to get involved.
I have nothing aginst teaching religious ideas in schools as religious ideas. But to teach them as a pseudo-science is wrong regardless of what cleass you teach them in.
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Sorry for double posting replies, but I read your post again, and defense isn't paid for by the State government. Police, fire and hospitals sometimes are to some extent, although that's often more local government, which is usually funded through property taxes primarily, although often municipalities, at least in California, often have a small Sales Tax as well..
That depends on where you live, some states don't have income tax. (eg. Texas) Some states don't have Sales Tax. (eg. Oregon) Some don't have either. (only New Hamshire, I think) Either way, you're sorely mistaken if you think a special purpose tax, (like a gasoline tax) actually pays for it's suposed purpose. All the money goes into one big pile and is distributed according to the whims of the legislature.
State Governemnets, (The ones that charge Sales taxes,) use the money to do things like fund schools, pave the roads, etc. It's not a user fee for the internet or e-commerce, but rather it's meant to pay for all government functions. Personally I think this is a good idea, (objections to Sales Taxes generally aside.) If you're going to tax sales as a way of funding public projects and programs, there's no reason to exempt ecommerce.
Actually she was trying to get a real job, but unsuccessfully. It's rather difficult if you're in a small town, you can only work part time, and you don't have much experience.
In all seriousness though, it is the US poor who volunteer to praticipate in research studies here too. I have one friend who paid her way through college doing this.
My aunt was a programmer when she was young, (she's 62 now,) but she got board of it and moved on to other things. She's a curator at a Museum now.
With both links to the journals where you can buy the articles and the professor's websites where you can read them for free?
Again, this is only my own experience, but most of the wives/fiances/girlfriends of my co-workers and programmer friends are reasonably hot.
I question whether this stereotype is true. Most nerdy slashdot-reading guys I know, (myself included,) are either married or have girlfriends.
Indeed. As Ambrose Bierce said:
CORPORATION, n.
An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Fined? More like thrown in jail! Until CEOs start to personally suffer for the illegal actions of their companies, violating the law will simply be a business decision. (Expected Profit > Expected Penelty) -> Break Law.
$50 Billion here, $50 Billion there, pretty soon you're talking real money...
As others have pointed out score refers to the printed music. (That is what notes you would play on the piano, guitar, etc.)
Actually I think the reverse is true. No one buys sheet music for lyrics, people buy music for the scores. Therefore, while I don't understand why they would go after people just for publishing lyrics, people publishing scores seem legitamate targets. (standard objections about copyright aside.)
In Soviet Russia, Patents screw you!
Oh wait...
Actually a priest can take anyones confession, so the Pope confesses to a Priest as well.
This is actually the sort of trolling Wikipedia is most susceptible to: That which purports to be accurate information. Inserting a bunch of curse words, blank pages, etc. is easy to detect and fix, but inserting subtly wrong facts, (or even blatantly wrong facts,) requires someone with sufficient knowledge of the subject matter to realize the errors AND the confidence to edit it and correct them.
If I knew the Xbox 360 were going to be hackable, I'd be more interested in buying one now, at full price.
Yes, but they don't make money off you hacking it. Even at full price, it's still sold at a loss.
He hasn't. He's just a talk radio host on NPR. They chose the name "Open Source" because they felt that the format of their show reflected simlar values to Open Source ideals. It's also a bit of play on words. "Source" in this case means a News source. So the idea is that anyone can be News Source for the show, hence "Open Source."
Actually that may be only partially true. The Chinese governemnet still does wiretaps on phones and they probably see VOIP as a threat to that.
In princple yes, but only if the software they installed in your computer disable some other software you were using to protect files that you had the copywrite to. (ie. If you wrote some word documents and put some encryption on them that Sony's rootkit somehow broke.) Even then, you'd have a weak case.
HA! Let me clarify... I suspect that they'll have to pay large settlements. This in no way gets them off the hook.
For the damage their program has already caused.
I forsee big lawsuits.
Thanks for the better link. I didn't want to spend too much time time Googling it, so I linked the first site I found that at least showed the GGP was totally distorting it, (rather than just somewhat distorting it.)
Great work taking the Pelosi quote out of context. Her comment, although arguably erroneous, was on whether congress had the power to in effect "overturn" Kelo. (She was arguing that they didn't) It was not praising the decision necessarily. Here's a little more detail from some slightly more honest Libertarians.
Furthermore, I don't really see why you all hate Kelo so much. Libertarians are all for giving power to State and Local Governement until the local government does something they don't like then they want to Federal government to get involved.
I have nothing aginst teaching religious ideas in schools as religious ideas. But to teach them as a pseudo-science is wrong regardless of what cleass you teach them in.