We may not be able to see it in the lab in humans because our reproductive cycle takes a long time, but evolution can be demonstrated in other species with much shorter reproductive cycles, especially in bacteria and insects.
If I were RIM I wouldn't be. RIM is a Canadian company so American law makers are not particularly important, beyond being a good source of revenue. And as this decision only applies in America, RIM can instead focus on other areas to develop, such as the EU, China, etc. This ruling will definately hurt their pocketbook, but I don't think they're particularly worried if they shut down service to the American government when they shut down service to everyone else.
Paper takes up a lot of space, I would just take pictures of all my important documents on a regular film camera, then get it developed and use the negatives to safely keep everthing, they last a long time and they're fairly compact and I would think at least a little water resistant, or I would get the pictures transferred to microfiche, almost every library has a microfiche machine that you can print from. After you've made it to safety you could just print your documents in the local library.
Personally i would go for the microfiche, a role stores plenty of information and its fairly rugged in the right container.
Also if nothing else you could always look at it with a flashlight and a magnifying glass.
yes they may not make money from the sale of the cd, but people actually know who they are now and when they do a tour or play shows people might actually show up.
I have to wonder how the RIAA expects the 13 year old girl to a. pay for a lawyer, and b. pay the exorbitant amounts that they try to sue for.
If they sue the girl are they going to take her allowance?, sick a collection agent on a 13 year old? maybe force her into bankruptcy?
Could they force the parents to pay off the suit in any way?
I'm really confused as to what they expect to gain from a 13 year old.
I see a lot of people attacking the chinese government over this, but as far as I can tell from TFA there doesn't seem to have been a decision in this case. The article states that Baidu has been sued, not that it has lost a lawsuit. Not only that but the lawsuit isn't even filed by the chinese government so how is this the chinese government bowing to media companies and restricting the web.
It's possible that I just missed a link to the decision, if I did could somebody please provide me the link, I am interest in reading about it.
Upon rereading my post I feel that my profit is irrelevant comment may be ambiguous. What I mean is that because they government already owns everything there is no more that they can own, the only thing that it needs is the natural resources to continue production, thus providing anything that they could ever want or have.
What you seem to miss is that China is communist they don't need any trading partners as long as they have sufficient quantities of natural resources to meet their peoples needs. People in china don't generate and horde wealth to the same extent that capitalist societies do, they recieve enough from the government to maintain a standard of living no more no less, thus all goods and services used and produced in China are at cost, profit is irrelevant in China.
The only reason that China is playing the international money game is to source that natural resources that they lack. The chinese manufacturing sector already exceeds that of the rest of the world in terms of cost and production. America is useful to China in that china can dump their extremely cheap products on Americans and then use that money to acquire the natural resources that they lack from other nations.
America already imports far more than it exports and as the cost of importing increases due to increasing buying competition from China, india, et al, American's will purchase less manufactured goods from China as they struggle to meet their basic needs. Once this happens America will be worthless to China and china will dump those bonds.
The increasing move towards an IP economy will only hasten this. Other countries will only continue to pay the high cost of American IP as long as it benefits them. Once it no longer does, or the price becomes too high, other countries will invalidate American IP in their countries and allow anyone to use American patents and research to produce goods royalty free.
But... The 'rules' have changed haven't they? I mean it's not like the 9/11 bastards showed up in uniforms toting weapons, right? Our laws were made in a time when war was more... Uh... Civilized - if that makes any sense. Maybe organized is a better description.
I'm sure that the brits can say the same thing, its not like the americans showed up in uniform to fight the revolution. The american army was a bunch of farmers with no uniforms, who became militias. They were not civilized as far as the brits were concerned, nor did they follow the standard rules of engagement.
What it comes down to is that you have to use whatever advantage you can gain to fight a vastly superior fighting force.
I don't know why the uniform issue keeps coming up from you american's its like you don't even acknowledge your history. You won the war so got to set the tone, but I'm sure at the time the brits considered you some form of terrorists, and if they had won, I'm sure the annals of history would reflect that.
Of course, there's also a very good chance that the RIAA won't push any cases far enough to actually go to trial. After all, so far they have a perfect record -- no losses -- and they won't want to risk that unless they're sure they can win -- and the people that are sure to lose are not the people who are likely to fight it.
This is a very good point, as long as the RIAA can guarantee that they do not lose, no precedent is created against them. Even if they have to drop a couple of lawsuits because the people are actually willing to fight it, they will still continue to collect from the people who won't chance fighting, because without precedent on their side there is good chance that they can lose.
I would reject your suggestion of many, but some do and those are the ones who can afford it. For the rest of us who don't have the money there is a good chance that we could die or receive substandard care if we had an american system where the user pays. I know I probably wouldn't be alive today or at the very best in extremely poor condition had I lived in America.
Don't fool yourself some cases may make the news because they couldn't get treatment, but many more of us do get our treatment and depending on our situation get it quickly.
And as a Canadian I am very proud of our healthcare system and many of our other socialist programs.
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We may not be able to see it in the lab in humans because our reproductive cycle takes a long time, but evolution can be demonstrated in other species with much shorter reproductive cycles, especially in bacteria and insects.
If I were RIM I wouldn't be. RIM is a Canadian company so American law makers are not particularly important, beyond being a good source of revenue. And as this decision only applies in America, RIM can instead focus on other areas to develop, such as the EU, China, etc. This ruling will definately hurt their pocketbook, but I don't think they're particularly worried if they shut down service to the American government when they shut down service to everyone else.
Paper takes up a lot of space, I would just take pictures of all my important documents on a regular film camera, then get it developed and use the negatives to safely keep everthing, they last a long time and they're fairly compact and I would think at least a little water resistant, or I would get the pictures transferred to microfiche, almost every library has a microfiche machine that you can print from. After you've made it to safety you could just print your documents in the local library.
Personally i would go for the microfiche, a role stores plenty of information and its fairly rugged in the right container.
Also if nothing else you could always look at it with a flashlight and a magnifying glass.
yes they may not make money from the sale of the cd, but people actually know who they are now and when they do a tour or play shows people might actually show up.
screw sony, i nominate IBM to buy the fifth
I have to wonder how the RIAA expects the 13 year old girl to a. pay for a lawyer, and b. pay the exorbitant amounts that they try to sue for.
If they sue the girl are they going to take her allowance?, sick a collection agent on a 13 year old? maybe force her into bankruptcy?
Could they force the parents to pay off the suit in any way?
I'm really confused as to what they expect to gain from a 13 year old.
And both will cost TiVo more than the $150 dollars that they will get from you.
I see a lot of people attacking the chinese government over this, but as far as I can tell from TFA there doesn't seem to have been a decision in this case. The article states that Baidu has been sued, not that it has lost a lawsuit. Not only that but the lawsuit isn't even filed by the chinese government so how is this the chinese government bowing to media companies and restricting the web.
It's possible that I just missed a link to the decision, if I did could somebody please provide me the link, I am interest in reading about it.
Upon rereading my post I feel that my profit is irrelevant comment may be ambiguous. What I mean is that because they government already owns everything there is no more that they can own, the only thing that it needs is the natural resources to continue production, thus providing anything that they could ever want or have.
What you seem to miss is that China is communist they don't need any trading partners as long as they have sufficient quantities of natural resources to meet their peoples needs. People in china don't generate and horde wealth to the same extent that capitalist societies do, they recieve enough from the government to maintain a standard of living no more no less, thus all goods and services used and produced in China are at cost, profit is irrelevant in China.
The only reason that China is playing the international money game is to source that natural resources that they lack. The chinese manufacturing sector already exceeds that of the rest of the world in terms of cost and production. America is useful to China in that china can dump their extremely cheap products on Americans and then use that money to acquire the natural resources that they lack from other nations.
America already imports far more than it exports and as the cost of importing increases due to increasing buying competition from China, india, et al, American's will purchase less manufactured goods from China as they struggle to meet their basic needs. Once this happens America will be worthless to China and china will dump those bonds.
The increasing move towards an IP economy will only hasten this. Other countries will only continue to pay the high cost of American IP as long as it benefits them. Once it no longer does, or the price becomes too high, other countries will invalidate American IP in their countries and allow anyone to use American patents and research to produce goods royalty free.
I don't know where you are but here 100 dvd-r's go for $30 and thats Canadian money too.
this is an excellent point
I would reject your suggestion of many, but some do and those are the ones who can afford it. For the rest of us who don't have the money there is a good chance that we could die or receive substandard care if we had an american system where the user pays. I know I probably wouldn't be alive today or at the very best in extremely poor condition had I lived in America. Don't fool yourself some cases may make the news because they couldn't get treatment, but many more of us do get our treatment and depending on our situation get it quickly. And as a Canadian I am very proud of our healthcare system and many of our other socialist programs.