$3,000/week isn't a big enough chunk of change to compensate for the damage to their corporate image that would result if it became widely known they were knowingly doing business with such an outfit.
If an inventor is only able to get a loan on the possibility that the loan provider can get some profit from it (as is always the case), the loan provider will not be as likely to make such a loan if, should the inventor die tomorrow, their money would be lost forever.
Couldn't the loan provider take out an insurance policy to protect against such a possibility?
His bias is explicit from the description of CNN/MSNBC as "left-leaning" and the lack of an analagous adjective being applied to Fox News.
Also, I'm quite sure that wondering how different Christianity would be if Jesus had turned low-grade marijuana [schwag] into high-grade marijuana [kind] rather than water into wine qualifying as Christian evangelism will surely come as unwelcome news to Christian evangelists! Perhaps NORML could use this strategem to further its agenda.
The UK needs to just go ahead and get it over with already. It's obvious the government won't be happy until they've shoved an electronic leash up the ass of every citizen.
The only fly in your ointment is that you don't seem to have taken the media content providers into account. 'Ad removal'? You just lost your media providers right there.
The '23' and '24' were line numbers, not part of the actual text. Just a goof on my part when I copy/pasted the text from the PDF of the legislation. Thought I had removed all of them, heh.
New York has contributed nothing so why should it profit from that which it has contributed nothing to?
This amounts to nothing more than a sales tax on internet commerce. Don't act so surprised. You didn't honestly think government was going to sit idly by, forever passing up yet another opportunity to milk taxpayers for all they're worth, did you?
On a different note, I found the following excerpt from TFA quite hilarious.
But not everyone is on board with the idea of profiting off porn. The chairman of New York's Conservative Party says that taxing it legitimizes it.
The National Republican Congressional Committee had no problem taking money from the porn industry at a 2005 fundraiser attended by President Bush.
Christian evangelical leaders called for an explanation. The only one they got, at least in public, was from a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, who said: "We'll take that money and use it to elect more Republicans."
I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning. It smells like... politics.
This is the same tired siren song that tyrants and despots have sung since the dawn of time. "In order to secure your freedom, we must sacrifice your liberty. In order to maintain security, we must sacrifice your privacy."
As always, my answer is "No, thank you."
Security is an illusion. The world is not safe and never will be. I value my privacy and freedom more than I value the fool's gold of security.
Any security measure that demands the sacrifice of my liberties is not worth having.
This is just another move by the power elite to convince us that the internet needs them as gatekeepers. All I have to say to them is FOAD.
Actually, there are about 2 million American workers who work for less than $0.41/hr. Of course, they're all in prison - but why nitpick?
All we have to do to compete in the global economy is imprison the entire country. That way American companies don't have to abide by such provincial concepts as safety regulations, labor laws, retirement and health benefits; and American workers never have to worry about a lack of employment.
I'm not so sure that requests 1. and 4. are unreasonable. After all, Canon's logo is a registered trademark. Besides, if you're going to parody the company and its employees, it's not a huge leap to parody the company logo as well.
Look at it as an opportunity to further lampoon Canon by coming up with a hilarious reworking of their logo.
As for requests 2. and 3., there's no need or justification for bringing Mr. Westfall's wife and daughter into the fray and certainly no call for references to violent acts against Mr. Westfall and his fellow employees.
Furthermore, Wordpress.com's TOS (which hosts the 'Fake Chuck Westfall' blog) clearly states:
Responsibility of Contributors. If you operate a blog, comment on a blog, post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Website (any such material, âoeContentâ), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:
the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;
the Content is not libelous or defamatory (more info on what that means), does not contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
(beginning on page 664 and continuing to page 665 of the stimulus bill)
SEC. 6003. NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN.
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.- Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Federal Communications Commission shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, a report containing a national broadband plan.
b) CONTENTS OF PLAN.-The national broadband
23 plan required by this section shall seek to ensure that all 24 people of the United States have access to broadband capability and shall establish benchmarks for meeting that goal. The plan shall also include-
(1) an analysis of the most effective and efficient mechanisms for ensuring broadband access by all people of the United States;
(2) a detailed strategy for achieving affordability of such service and maximum utilization of broadband infrastructure and service by the public; and
(3) a plan for use of broadband infrastructure and services in advancing consumer welfare, civic participation, public safety and homeland security, community development, health care delivery, energy independence and efficiency, education, worker training, private sector investment, entrepreneurial activity, job creation and economic growth, and other national purposes.
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It seems to me that part (3) is broadly and vaguely worded, but given the terminology used it seems they are going to delay the attempt at killing network neutrality and possibly try to bring in through the backdoor by way of the NTIA and FCC.
Why bother with the public scrutiny of the legislative process when you can accomplish it by fiat via the bureaucracy?
You're right. What was I thinking? It's utterly impossible to write additional software to conduct different analyses on the traffic. Whew! Now that we've cleared that up, I guess my concerns were overblown after all.
You're conflating a privilege - driving an automobile on public roads - with a constitutionally protected right against unwarranted search and seizure of private communications. Even so, if a cop is sitting at a speed trap checking the speed of every vehicle that passes by, then, YES, the assumption is that everyone is breaking the law until proven innocent by the radar gun.
Slashdot Mirror
There's no call for labeling scientists 'arrogant' simply because you lack belief in their silly superstitions about 'logic' and 'reason'.
I guess we'll hear right-wing radio decrying this as yet one more example of government interference stifling innovation in the marketplace.
Apologies, but I couldn't resist.
$3,000/week isn't a big enough chunk of change to compensate for the damage to their corporate image that would result if it became widely known they were knowingly doing business with such an outfit.
I propose calling it ReVista
If an inventor is only able to get a loan on the possibility that the loan provider can get some profit from it (as is always the case), the loan provider will not be as likely to make such a loan if, should the inventor die tomorrow, their money would be lost forever.
Couldn't the loan provider take out an insurance policy to protect against such a possibility?
His bias is explicit from the description of CNN/MSNBC as "left-leaning" and the lack of an analagous adjective being applied to Fox News.
Also, I'm quite sure that wondering how different Christianity would be if Jesus had turned low-grade marijuana [schwag] into high-grade marijuana [kind] rather than water into wine qualifying as Christian evangelism will surely come as unwelcome news to Christian evangelists! Perhaps NORML could use this strategem to further its agenda.
WWJT - What Would Jesus Toke?
LOL
The argument is implicit in your 'mere statement of fact'.
Your right-leaning bias, however, is explicit.
Since my signature is merely a statement of fact, not an argument or proposition, YOU have committed a "strawman" my friend
The argument is implicit in your 'mere statement of fact'.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." -- Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
FOXnews was the 3rd most-popular cable channel in February (after USA/TNT). Left-leaning CNN/ MSNBC were a distant 15/23
Argumentum ad populum
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." -- Agent K, Men in Black
Gentoo uses bash for their init scripts citing reasons of speed.
Weird, because Debian moving away from bash to dash for exactly the same reasons.
Like the way Red Hat uses nash?
Or the way Microsoft uses cash?
I apologize, but I saw the opening and had to take the shot.
The UK needs to just go ahead and get it over with already. It's obvious the government won't be happy until they've shoved an electronic leash up the ass of every citizen.
The only fly in your ointment is that you don't seem to have taken the media content providers into account. 'Ad removal'? You just lost your media providers right there.
Good luck delivering nonexistent content
True, Google Maps is a very high traffic site, but how much traffic does the particular street view location in question get?
Little to none, I'd wager.
The '23' and '24' were line numbers, not part of the actual text. Just a goof on my part when I copy/pasted the text from the PDF of the legislation. Thought I had removed all of them, heh.
Again why is the tail wagging the dog?
Perhaps because it's not a dog that's being wagged, but rather a gluttonous pig with an insatiable appetite for money and power?
Of course, that's just my opinion and I could be wrong.
Wow... getting modded 'offtopic' when everything you mentioned is ontopic and/or from TFA... only on slashdot... lol
New York has contributed nothing so why should it profit from that which it has contributed nothing to?
This amounts to nothing more than a sales tax on internet commerce. Don't act so surprised. You didn't honestly think government was going to sit idly by, forever passing up yet another opportunity to milk taxpayers for all they're worth, did you?
On a different note, I found the following excerpt from TFA quite hilarious.
But not everyone is on board with the idea of profiting off porn. The chairman of New York's Conservative Party says that taxing it legitimizes it.
The National Republican Congressional Committee had no problem taking money from the porn industry at a 2005 fundraiser attended by President Bush.
Christian evangelical leaders called for an explanation. The only one they got, at least in public, was from a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, who said: "We'll take that money and use it to elect more Republicans."
I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning. It smells like... politics.
Apparently I erred in not adding a sarcasm tag...
This is the same tired siren song that tyrants and despots have sung since the dawn of time. "In order to secure your freedom, we must sacrifice your liberty. In order to maintain security, we must sacrifice your privacy."
As always, my answer is "No, thank you."
Security is an illusion. The world is not safe and never will be. I value my privacy and freedom more than I value the fool's gold of security.
Any security measure that demands the sacrifice of my liberties is not worth having.
This is just another move by the power elite to convince us that the internet needs them as gatekeepers. All I have to say to them is FOAD.
Actually, there are about 2 million American workers who work for less than $0.41/hr. Of course, they're all in prison - but why nitpick?
All we have to do to compete in the global economy is imprison the entire country. That way American companies don't have to abide by such provincial concepts as safety regulations, labor laws, retirement and health benefits; and American workers never have to worry about a lack of employment.
Win-Win!
I'm not so sure that requests 1. and 4. are unreasonable. After all, Canon's logo is a registered trademark. Besides, if you're going to parody the company and its employees, it's not a huge leap to parody the company logo as well.
Look at it as an opportunity to further lampoon Canon by coming up with a hilarious reworking of their logo.
As for requests 2. and 3., there's no need or justification for bringing Mr. Westfall's wife and daughter into the fray and certainly no call for references to violent acts against Mr. Westfall and his fellow employees.
Furthermore, Wordpress.com's TOS (which hosts the 'Fake Chuck Westfall' blog) clearly states:
Responsibility of Contributors. If you operate a blog, comment on a blog, post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Website (any such material, âoeContentâ), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:
It seems to be a fairly open-and-shut case to me.
(beginning on page 664 and continuing to page 665 of the stimulus bill)
SEC. 6003. NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN.
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.- Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Federal Communications Commission shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, a report containing a national broadband plan.
b) CONTENTS OF PLAN.-The national broadband 23 plan required by this section shall seek to ensure that all 24 people of the United States have access to broadband capability and shall establish benchmarks for meeting that goal. The plan shall also include-
(1) an analysis of the most effective and efficient mechanisms for ensuring broadband access by all people of the United States;
(2) a detailed strategy for achieving affordability of such service and maximum utilization of broadband infrastructure and service by the public; and
(3) a plan for use of broadband infrastructure and services in advancing consumer welfare, civic participation, public safety and homeland security, community development, health care delivery, energy independence and efficiency, education, worker training, private sector investment, entrepreneurial activity, job creation and economic growth, and other national purposes.
-----
It seems to me that part (3) is broadly and vaguely worded, but given the terminology used it seems they are going to delay the attempt at killing network neutrality and possibly try to bring in through the backdoor by way of the NTIA and FCC.
Why bother with the public scrutiny of the legislative process when you can accomplish it by fiat via the bureaucracy?
Question authority much?
You're right. What was I thinking? It's utterly impossible to write additional software to conduct different analyses on the traffic. Whew! Now that we've cleared that up, I guess my concerns were overblown after all.
You're conflating a privilege - driving an automobile on public roads - with a constitutionally protected right against unwarranted search and seizure of private communications. Even so, if a cop is sitting at a speed trap checking the speed of every vehicle that passes by, then, YES, the assumption is that everyone is breaking the law until proven innocent by the radar gun.