About 6 or 7 years ago I worked for a small local PC repair outfit. I remember the owner used to take his truck to trade shows and distributors and buy dozens of inkjet printers at a time for $40. Then we'd take out the two $40 cartridges that came with them and put them on the shelf. The printers went into the dumpster.
People will find ways to save their money. They always do.
If it draws power from fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field, it isn't perpetual motion any more than a tidal generating station, for example. It draws power from an external source, therefore it doesn't violate the laws of thermodynamics.
Simplicity itself. Put a peice of birch bark in the box for the incumbent or a pine cone for the challenger. Nobody can possibly mistake the two, and it's simple to recount.
The other day I was driving through Bathurst and saw "CRIP 4 LIFE" spray-painted on a mailbox.
Seemed a bit pathetic at first, really, some kid from small town Canada pretending he's a member of a gang he probably saw on TV and thought looked cool. But I have to wonder if these sites aren't more of a recruitment tool than anything else, an attempt to start branches of these gangs in places where they would normally would have no reach.
Having small local gangs with national and international affiliations would be useful if you needed out-of-town locations for smuggling, safe-houses, grow-ops...
As a law, it's unenforcable. New Jersey doesn't control the internet outside the state lines. And within the state lines, how can a forum operator ensure that all his/her users give accurate information?
Even if this law passes, it won't survive the first time it gets enforced.
... now as soon as I have the blank CDs in my hand, I've already paid for whatever music I feel like downloading and putting on them. Still illegal, but at least now I don't have a guilty consience.
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About 6 or 7 years ago I worked for a small local PC repair outfit. I remember the owner used to take his truck to trade shows and distributors and buy dozens of inkjet printers at a time for $40. Then we'd take out the two $40 cartridges that came with them and put them on the shelf. The printers went into the dumpster.
People will find ways to save their money. They always do.
If it draws power from fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field, it isn't perpetual motion any more than a tidal generating station, for example. It draws power from an external source, therefore it doesn't violate the laws of thermodynamics.
It isn't pressure from Microsoft, it's the fact that they make so much money from the extra crap they install on Windows before they ship.
They can't exactly install the 30-day trial of McAffee antivirus on Ubuntu now, can they?
Simplicity itself. Put a peice of birch bark in the box for the incumbent or a pine cone for the challenger. Nobody can possibly mistake the two, and it's simple to recount.
You just need really big ballot boxes.
The other day I was driving through Bathurst and saw "CRIP 4 LIFE" spray-painted on a mailbox.
Seemed a bit pathetic at first, really, some kid from small town Canada pretending he's a member of a gang he probably saw on TV and thought looked cool. But I have to wonder if these sites aren't more of a recruitment tool than anything else, an attempt to start branches of these gangs in places where they would normally would have no reach.
Having small local gangs with national and international affiliations would be useful if you needed out-of-town locations for smuggling, safe-houses, grow-ops...
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As a law, it's unenforcable. New Jersey doesn't control the internet outside the state lines. And within the state lines, how can a forum operator ensure that all his/her users give accurate information? Even if this law passes, it won't survive the first time it gets enforced.
... now as soon as I have the blank CDs in my hand, I've already paid for whatever music I feel like downloading and putting on them. Still illegal, but at least now I don't have a guilty consience.