If CNN, Fox News et al report that ISIS introduced THE BLACK DEATH KILLER PLAGUE OF DEATH into a populated area in the US, the general reaction amongst the population and the government will do a not insignificant amount of financial damage. Actually killing people (at least directly) may be less relevant, than sheer terror and legislative kneejerking.
Apple tried this in Europe - in Denmark, a government body created a letter people could print out and take to the stores to remind the company about legal requirements and rights.
I once worked with a guy who said if a girl in college got raped when she was drunk it was her fault, except of course if it was his daughter in which case he'd shoot the guy.
Seems to be trivially fixed - get him significantly drunk, and then sexually assaulted; it was thus his own fault.
Note: Don't arrange for anyone to get sexually assaulted - or for that matter arrange for people to get intoxicated, unless they've agreed to it ahead of time.
I'm Scandinavian. I consider the Scandinavian (Nordic) countries Socialist, as would most-anyone in Scandinavia as far as I've seen.
Current PM in Denmark is the head of the Social Democrats. Previous PM in Sweden represented the Swedish Social Democratic Party. In Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, socialist parties are amongst the largest parties. (Norway recently turned toward Neo-nazism, so not going to use them as example)
Being Socialist doesn't explicitly impair your ability to have a free market.
Reading, it sounds like it is able to replicate various mag-stripes, and therefore can replicate various credit-cards.
This, in a world where credit-card issuers are trying real hard to get away from mag-stripes and over to chip-only operation, makes no sense. Personally, I've seen a LOT of stores over the last 4-5 years, where the mag-reader has been taped over (or a standard cardboard thing inserted), so the only option is to use the card-chip; likewise, several new portable readers (in restaurants, taxis), that only read chips and not mag-strips.
Sooo.. what is it about this product, that makes it worth however little money it may cost??
It sounds like Oracle's fucking business model. Overcommit, underbudget, get the job by being the "cheapest". Once the client's committed to your implementation, claim that the project brief was misleading or something and massively jack up the budget or leave the client with a stinking piece of shit.
Can confirm is not only Oracle, but any large (IT? Consulting?) company, that thinks they can get away with it, uses this strategy.
Yes, if you pay for a paper-copy of the Mail, you get ads... and paper... Naturally, this would only work if you could buy an ad-free service, i.e. it would be dependent on the content-provider to be willing to sell you an ad-free product; This is why I noted that sat-tv used to be ad-free, due to people paying for it, but contains ads despite the subscription fees.
Also, at rates of 1-10GBP, there is room for more than 4 sites before you hit 140GBP - I didn't enumerate every site on the planet, just some examples. I'm sure some are already ad-free, some have ads you do not mind or that you can ignore, so you could chose to only pay a subscription at those site where it would help you the most?
My last employer paid our private internet-bill (up to some amount), as everyone in my team needed internet when working from home during night- and weekend-shifts.
This went well until they repeatedly "forgot" to pay the bill, and the provider cut internet, phone and TV to some of the guys in the team, due to considering them all part of a single package (despite being billed separately).
I don't think you're looking at this the right way....
Ads are per-site. Those sites are generally free (ignoring the various ads).
To pay for an "ad-free internet", you would pay the sites you use directly, to get an ad-free experience with them. You use YouTube? Pay them 3GBP/month. You use Slashdot? Pay them 1GBP/month. You use Reddit?...uki, they should then pay you... You use The Daily Mail? Pay them 9.99GBP/month....and so on. Eventually, the internet bits that you use, are ad-free for you.
Yes, this doesn't make the complete internet ad-free, but it makes everything you use on the internet ad-free; your experience becomes an ad-free one. No issues with a central collection and distribution, no licensing headaches, no cumbersome barrier-of-entry for new sites, and still the presence of this "democracy" thing you talk about.
Note: The idea of for-pay TV (Satellite TV in the form of Sky) was that the consumers would pay directly, and not have any ads... not sure that worked out very well.
If GoDaddy filed an effectively-bogus DMCA, why weren't they punished?
"[..] statement by you UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf."
Slashdot Mirror
Some reports I read on this topic was for people flying "Economy Plus", which tends to be advertised as having more leg-room...
soo...
purely guess-work, but perhaps 19.9 of those atom-bomb-units were spent by the fragments passing through the atmosphere?
Depending on radiation exposure, you might be good for 5-7 days....
BOOM politics slam.
Time to stop watching John Stewart
If they are owned by the Military? lots of "interesting" things could happen.
The farmers were compensated by the EU. But rather than give the food to some needy Greeks, the food was destroyed.
The EU allowed for the fruits to be given to schools and hospitals, while compensating the farmers.
If CNN, Fox News et al report that ISIS introduced THE BLACK DEATH KILLER PLAGUE OF DEATH into a populated area in the US, the general reaction amongst the population and the government will do a not insignificant amount of financial damage. Actually killing people (at least directly) may be less relevant, than sheer terror and legislative kneejerking.
perhaps a 5kg skull-mounted tactile transducer might do the trick?
Apple tried this in Europe - in Denmark, a government body created a letter people could print out and take to the stores to remind the company about legal requirements and rights.
I once worked with a guy who said if a girl in college got raped when she was drunk it was her fault, except of course if it was his daughter in which case he'd shoot the guy.
Seems to be trivially fixed - get him significantly drunk, and then sexually assaulted; it was thus his own fault.
Note: Don't arrange for anyone to get sexually assaulted - or for that matter arrange for people to get intoxicated, unless they've agreed to it ahead of time.
there are no clues at all that some bearded man is involved anywhere.
Ken Ham has this book with lots of historical, factual clues about some bearded man.
I'm Scandinavian.
I consider the Scandinavian (Nordic) countries Socialist, as would most-anyone in Scandinavia as far as I've seen.
Current PM in Denmark is the head of the Social Democrats.
Previous PM in Sweden represented the Swedish Social Democratic Party.
In Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, socialist parties are amongst the largest parties.
(Norway recently turned toward Neo-nazism, so not going to use them as example)
Being Socialist doesn't explicitly impair your ability to have a free market.
Well, when they escalated it to calling in bomb-threats against an aircraft last night, I think "terror" suddenly became a valid terminology.
Reading, it sounds like it is able to replicate various mag-stripes, and therefore can replicate various credit-cards.
This, in a world where credit-card issuers are trying real hard to get away from mag-stripes and over to chip-only operation, makes no sense.
Personally, I've seen a LOT of stores over the last 4-5 years, where the mag-reader has been taped over (or a standard cardboard thing inserted), so the only option is to use the card-chip; likewise, several new portable readers (in restaurants, taxis), that only read chips and not mag-strips.
Sooo.. what is it about this product, that makes it worth however little money it may cost??
Seriously, I read about this via Google+ (!) a few days ago - Slashdot is getting properly slow now.
It sounds like Oracle's fucking business model. Overcommit, underbudget, get the job by being the "cheapest". Once the client's committed to your implementation, claim that the project brief was misleading or something and massively jack up the budget or leave the client with a stinking piece of shit.
Can confirm is not only Oracle, but any large (IT? Consulting?) company, that thinks they can get away with it, uses this strategy.
So that's both CopSub and SpaceX having a boo-boo thing month - coinkidink?
Get a Dyson - it uses less power, but is more efficient at turning that power into loud noise!
Yes, if you pay for a paper-copy of the Mail, you get ads ... and paper ... Naturally, this would only work if you could buy an ad-free service, i.e. it would be dependent on the content-provider to be willing to sell you an ad-free product; This is why I noted that sat-tv used to be ad-free, due to people paying for it, but contains ads despite the subscription fees.
Also, at rates of 1-10GBP, there is room for more than 4 sites before you hit 140GBP - I didn't enumerate every site on the planet, just some examples. I'm sure some are already ad-free, some have ads you do not mind or that you can ignore, so you could chose to only pay a subscription at those site where it would help you the most?
Quite true
My last employer paid our private internet-bill (up to some amount), as everyone in my team needed internet when working from home during night- and weekend-shifts.
This went well until they repeatedly "forgot" to pay the bill, and the provider cut internet, phone and TV to some of the guys in the team, due to considering them all part of a single package (despite being billed separately).
C'mon, it is the year 2014 already - no-one uses Fahrenheit any longer.
hmm... people in low-cost countries should start studying US law, so they can give cheap legal-advice :)
I don't think you're looking at this the right way....
Ads are per-site.
Those sites are generally free (ignoring the various ads).
To pay for an "ad-free internet", you would pay the sites you use directly, to get an ad-free experience with them. ...uki, they should then pay you... ...and so on. Eventually, the internet bits that you use, are ad-free for you.
You use YouTube? Pay them 3GBP/month.
You use Slashdot? Pay them 1GBP/month.
You use Reddit?
You use The Daily Mail? Pay them 9.99GBP/month.
Yes, this doesn't make the complete internet ad-free, but it makes everything you use on the internet ad-free; your experience becomes an ad-free one.
No issues with a central collection and distribution, no licensing headaches, no cumbersome barrier-of-entry for new sites, and still the presence of this "democracy" thing you talk about.
Note: The idea of for-pay TV (Satellite TV in the form of Sky) was that the consumers would pay directly, and not have any ads ... not sure that worked out very well.
If GoDaddy filed an effectively-bogus DMCA, why weren't they punished?
"[..] statement by you UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf."