Gasoline taxes are extremely regressive. The rich will have no problem with the increase but you'll seriously hurt low income folks. What do you say to my gardener? He's a recent immigrant who is working hard to establish a gardening business and avoiding welfare. He drives a used pickup truck and barely breaking even. If you use government coercion to raise the cost of gasoline then you'll drive him out of business.
I'm not married to gasoline or other petroleum products as a long term transportation fuel source but I don't think the goal should be to shunt everyone onto public transport. The rich are always going to be able to pay for the convenience of private transport. Therefore, progressives should be working towards developing cheap energy sources that allow for the same thing for lower income folks. The value of personal transport for lower income folks is that it enables more means of self sufficiency. Here's an example: gardeners. My gardener is a recent immigrant who can just barely afford fuel and a used pick up truck to run his business. Do you want to force him onto a bus? How will he move is gardening gear?
Didn't you mother teach you that two wrongs do not make a right? I'm against censorship when it is comitted anywhere in the world. If China censors the internet then I am against it. If the USA censors the internet then I am against it.
Why is congress getting involved? Isn't this area sufficiently covered by state and federal law that they can leave it up to an Attorney General somewhere?
I suspect grandstanding. Get the parade grounds ready because the marching band is coming!
I'm sure that producing the Hobbit will be an expensive risk for MGM. Given that, they have every right to choose to release the Hobbit with any DRM they choose in order to protect their investment and maximize their opportunity to realize a profit and plow that into their next great film effort. That's their right as content owners. It's their decision to use DRM or not.
I agree with you tbat the Free Software community has made great contributions to society and I agree that companies like IBM have found a road to profit in that system.
But, here is my question for you: would you, given the chance, create a legal system in the USA where the Free Software model was the only one allowed? In other words, directly charging for software distribution and licensing that does not allow copying would be illegal.
It is not a surprise that he had to come to a country founded on enabling individual achievement for his invention to be recognized and utilized for the benefit of all humanity.
If you were King today, then how would you set up a patching regulatory agency? How would you staff it? Would it be a federal agency or is each state free to have unique patching regulations? How do you determine which software is subject to patch regulation?
The devil is in the details, my friend, and I suspect any attempt to do this would result in a messy hash of confusion with no winners.
This probably is not the simplistic knee jerk reaction that you describe. I'm sure that any of us could identify a lot of redundancy or simple non-performance in any organization of 100,000 people. If you were running an organization with redundancy and dead wood and you were faced with competition from AMD then what would you do?
A lot of people have create successful companies in highly competitive fields. Just go to any business section in any large book store and you'll see the books written about that. If you won't try then that action, or lack of it, is a statement about you.
This is a free market society. Why don't you create a cell phone manufacturing company that's very clear about how to wipe a phone? If the market wants or needs this then you'll get rich.
Personally, I think 99% of the negligence belongs with the consumer who is trying to eek a few pennies out of their old phone.
Your employer is free to impose 'no surf' rules or not. You are free to decide if that policy is acceptable or not. Nobody is coercing anybody. So, things are OK right now. Right?
Perhaps one way for you to address this is to start your own business and then do not adopt a no surf policy. All you have to do is create a business that sells a product that lots of people are willing to pay for. That should be easy. Right?
People who suffer damages at the hands of a corporation are free to sue. This happens everyday. Merck is facing $80 million dollar judgements related to Vioxx. In addition, corporate officers who break laws while running their company are also held accountable. Just ask Ken Lay.
So, if you were rule maker for the game, what would you do to change it today?
I have two comments regarding the nuclear waste issue for fission reactors.
I'll take the engineering challenge of storing waste as a preferrable alternative to what we are doing today with the radioactive emissions from coal burning. With coal burning we are 'storing' the radioactivity by releasing it into the atmosphere where is can be 'processed' by the lungs of our children. Radioactive waste from fission reactors can be stored in facilities engineered to handle that task and away from our children.
Let's make sure that we continue to develop and embrace breeder fission reactors. These reprocess their orginal allotment of nuclear fuel in a way that produces less waste than most fission plants that are generating electricity today.
According to the Google Search Appliance FAQ, it will index PDF. Of course, that'll only work where PDF is comprised of text documents instead of images.
They should have just started by picking a decent directory structure for the documents and then hooking up a decent search engine like the Google Appliance. Then the users could simply use web browsers instead of a weak, buggy, and expensive custom application.
Non CS people who commission custom software development often have no clue how expensive their ego driven non-standard features can be.
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Brazilian courts have asked for the data. I live in the USA. I'll destroy the data and Brazil can cry in their beer.
If Google owns the data then one option they have is to simply destroy it. No government can compell them to hand over something they no longer have.
I live in a multi-generational household. How does you solution work for moving elders and small children?
Can you refer us to the documentation of their 'hellacious profit'? What was their profit last quarter?
No, I'll just remove my lawn a replace it with gravel.
Gasoline taxes are extremely regressive. The rich will have no problem with the increase but you'll seriously hurt low income folks. What do you say to my gardener? He's a recent immigrant who is working hard to establish a gardening business and avoiding welfare. He drives a used pickup truck and barely breaking even. If you use government coercion to raise the cost of gasoline then you'll drive him out of business.
I'm not married to gasoline or other petroleum products as a long term transportation fuel source but I don't think the goal should be to shunt everyone onto public transport. The rich are always going to be able to pay for the convenience of private transport. Therefore, progressives should be working towards developing cheap energy sources that allow for the same thing for lower income folks. The value of personal transport for lower income folks is that it enables more means of self sufficiency. Here's an example: gardeners. My gardener is a recent immigrant who can just barely afford fuel and a used pick up truck to run his business. Do you want to force him onto a bus? How will he move is gardening gear?
Didn't you mother teach you that two wrongs do not make a right? I'm against censorship when it is comitted anywhere in the world. If China censors the internet then I am against it. If the USA censors the internet then I am against it.
That's my moral compass, dude. What's yours?
Why is congress getting involved? Isn't this area sufficiently covered by state and federal law that they can leave it up to an Attorney General somewhere?
I suspect grandstanding. Get the parade grounds ready because the marching band is coming!
I'm sure that producing the Hobbit will be an expensive risk for MGM. Given that, they have every right to choose to release the Hobbit with any DRM they choose in order to protect their investment and maximize their opportunity to realize a profit and plow that into their next great film effort. That's their right as content owners. It's their decision to use DRM or not.
I agree with you tbat the Free Software community has made great contributions to society and I agree that companies like IBM have found a road to profit in that system.
But, here is my question for you: would you, given the chance, create a legal system in the USA where the Free Software model was the only one allowed? In other words, directly charging for software distribution and licensing that does not allow copying would be illegal.
It is not a surprise that he had to come to a country founded on enabling individual achievement for his invention to be recognized and utilized for the benefit of all humanity.
That's an incredibly strong incentive to not maintain a distro. I suspect that you won't see many left.
In the case of an open source OS that needed a patch, who would you fine?
If you were King today, then how would you set up a patching regulatory agency? How would you staff it? Would it be a federal agency or is each state free to have unique patching regulations? How do you determine which software is subject to patch regulation?
The devil is in the details, my friend, and I suspect any attempt to do this would result in a messy hash of confusion with no winners.
This probably is not the simplistic knee jerk reaction that you describe. I'm sure that any of us could identify a lot of redundancy or simple non-performance in any organization of 100,000 people. If you were running an organization with redundancy and dead wood and you were faced with competition from AMD then what would you do?
Practicality is a matter of chosen perspective.
A lot of people have create successful companies in highly competitive fields. Just go to any business section in any large book store and you'll see the books written about that. If you won't try then that action, or lack of it, is a statement about you.
This is a free market society. Why don't you create a cell phone manufacturing company that's very clear about how to wipe a phone? If the market wants or needs this then you'll get rich.
Personally, I think 99% of the negligence belongs with the consumer who is trying to eek a few pennies out of their old phone.
Dude,
Your employer is free to impose 'no surf' rules or not. You are free to decide if that policy is acceptable or not. Nobody is coercing anybody. So, things are OK right now. Right?
Perhaps one way for you to address this is to start your own business and then do not adopt a no surf policy. All you have to do is create a business that sells a product that lots of people are willing to pay for. That should be easy. Right?
People who suffer damages at the hands of a corporation are free to sue. This happens everyday. Merck is facing $80 million dollar judgements related to Vioxx. In addition, corporate officers who break laws while running their company are also held accountable. Just ask Ken Lay.
So, if you were rule maker for the game, what would you do to change it today?
I have two comments regarding the nuclear waste issue for fission reactors.
I'll take the engineering challenge of storing waste as a preferrable alternative to what we are doing today with the radioactive emissions from coal burning. With coal burning we are 'storing' the radioactivity by releasing it into the atmosphere where is can be 'processed' by the lungs of our children. Radioactive waste from fission reactors can be stored in facilities engineered to handle that task and away from our children.
Let's make sure that we continue to develop and embrace breeder fission reactors. These reprocess their orginal allotment of nuclear fuel in a way that produces less waste than most fission plants that are generating electricity today.
What, exactly, does 'sitting in their own little pond' mean? What's your own little pond? What's mine? Why do I have to stay in it?
What would you say to blacksmith's when Henry Ford was getting started? Were horseshoes their pond? Would you make them stay in it?
According to the Google Search Appliance FAQ, it will index PDF. Of course, that'll only work where PDF is comprised of text documents instead of images.
They should have just started by picking a decent directory structure for the documents and then hooking up a decent search engine like the Google Appliance. Then the users could simply use web browsers instead of a weak, buggy, and expensive custom application.
Non CS people who commission custom software development often have no clue how expensive their ego driven non-standard features can be.