I think it's funny how people talk about how the market is a good moral judge until questions start coming about the fair market value of human life.
But if you think laws aren't an issue, maybe you should go back and look at contract law. By agreeing to deliver electronic mail (both to and from) in exchange for money, AOL is legally bound to actually provide that service. Unless, of course, the terms of the sale of email service include that AOL can choose whether or not it will actually deliver a message -- but then the contract would not be valid, and all AOL users would be entitled to a refund.
Here's how I've come to understand the issue with EULAs: According to the contract of the sale, the buyer is entitled to the use of the software as long as it keeps within "fair use" bounds. By refusing to uphold it's proper consideration until the buyer agrees to an additional contract, the seller is actually breaching the contract of the sale; the buyer is entitled to damages equivalent to the seller's consideration (in this case, a copy of the software, bound by fair use) in addition to being relieved of his own consideration (whatever money he paid for the software).
Untrue, the estate tax is a way of limiting social mobility of the middle class. ...
How many middle-class people die and leave estates valued on the order of millions of dollars?
How rich is "rich"? If you think a family with a household income of $250-300k isn't going to act like what you call middle class, you need to see a bit more of the world.
As a result the offspring of the thief will always get a better education and have a better starting point than your own children.
You must realize... the utilitarian choice isn't necessarily painless.
The majority of the population has had it just good enough to be able to ignore the infractions and keep moving on. Good for them. I'm not in that group.
Now if only there were more voters like this....
Well, I don't know of any notification service, but I'll tell you this:
Set up a special bank account for your meal there. Prices are pretty steep at Milliways, but if you invest a little bit now, with all the interest building up over billions of years, you should be just fine.
Actually, I regularly do all of that on my laptop. And given the way I've arranged my desk, the distinction between "laptop" and "desktop" is getting a bit blurry as well.
The issue here is that the country is alienating its citizens. It is the duty of a democracy to be inclusive.
No, it's not society's job to move individual's to greener pastures -- it's society's job to make the current pasture greener.
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I think it's funny how people talk about how the market is a good moral judge until questions start coming about the fair market value of human life.
But if you think laws aren't an issue, maybe you should go back and look at contract law. By agreeing to deliver electronic mail (both to and from) in exchange for money, AOL is legally bound to actually provide that service. Unless, of course, the terms of the sale of email service include that AOL can choose whether or not it will actually deliver a message -- but then the contract would not be valid, and all AOL users would be entitled to a refund.
Here's how I've come to understand the issue with EULAs: According to the contract of the sale, the buyer is entitled to the use of the software as long as it keeps within "fair use" bounds. By refusing to uphold it's proper consideration until the buyer agrees to an additional contract, the seller is actually breaching the contract of the sale; the buyer is entitled to damages equivalent to the seller's consideration (in this case, a copy of the software, bound by fair use) in addition to being relieved of his own consideration (whatever money he paid for the software).
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Untrue, the estate tax is a way of limiting social mobility of the middle class.
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How many middle-class people die and leave estates valued on the order of millions of dollars?
How rich is "rich"? If you think a family with a household income of $250-300k isn't going to act like what you call middle class, you need to see a bit more of the world.
As a result the offspring of the thief will always get a better education and have a better starting point than your own children.
You must realize... the utilitarian choice isn't necessarily painless.
The majority of the population has had it just good enough to be able to ignore the infractions and keep moving on. Good for them. I'm not in that group.
Now if only there were more voters like this....
IIRC, Uranus's axis of rotation points towards the sun.
Well, I don't know of any notification service, but I'll tell you this:
Set up a special bank account for your meal there. Prices are pretty steep at Milliways, but if you invest a little bit now, with all the interest building up over billions of years, you should be just fine.
Actually, I regularly do all of that on my laptop. And given the way I've arranged my desk, the distinction between "laptop" and "desktop" is getting a bit blurry as well.
Humor appears to be lost on you.
The issue here is that the country is alienating its citizens. It is the duty of a democracy to be inclusive.
No, it's not society's job to move individual's to greener pastures -- it's society's job to make the current pasture greener.