You pay road tax? Do you pay road tax only for those roads you drive on? Similar system - and the best way artists have of surviving illegal downloaders reluctance to pay for what they use.
Except that setting up toll booths on every road would add a huge amount of overhead, and any kind of automated system would require tracking everybody's movement. Purchasing music, not so much.
If copyright returned to the public after a designated period then everyone will be going around listening to free 60's music, modern musicians would not earn a penny and modern music would die.
Or maybe current musicians would just have to create something that's as good as the stuff from the 60's.
You fail to grasp the postmodern movement. In the modern epistemological paradigm, if 80% of people agree that the square root of 36 is 5, then the process we are morally obliged to embark upon is a redefinition of what the square root of 36 is, followed by a re-evaluation of all of the principles that are based upon the old, now-incorrect fact.
No Canadian can grow up to be the leader of their country because the leader of the country is the head of the Church of England who must by definition be born in England. While I do like to bash to the south that doesn't mean we don't have things to work on up here.
You have to born in England to become Prime Minister of Canada?
Yes, I know what you meant, but honestly, when was the last time the queen had any influence in Canadian affairs?
$ISP is never Verizon, Comcast, AT&T, TWC or one of the other major providers... It's always some small provider like Roadrunner...
Did I miss something since moving from a Time Warner area to a Comcast area? Road Runner is Time Warner (they got the name from the Loony Tunes, i.e. Warner Bros., character of the same name).
That is ridiculous. Destroying private property is illegal, while Refusing to service someone is not. I don't know how you got modded Insightful.
For the sake of this argument, let's take the statement that Paypal froze their funds as being true (I know, this is Slashdot, where the summary is usually wrong). Refusing to give someone money that is rightfully theirs could be considered the equivalent of destroying their property. Giving them the money currently in their account and then refusing to accept any more payments is different from keeping money that was intended as a payment to them, not a payment to Paypal.
Tivo are dying, all the cable companies will let you have a box that records simultaneous HD streams, allows you to access the recordings anywhere in your home on TVs or PCs, provides real TV on demand and manage your media, plus do all the widgets crap people think is so neat these days.
And you think the cable companies are developing all of this hardware and software themselves?
Fornication, homosexuality, feminism, democracy, drug-taking, violent video games, on-line porn, science, charity, freedom of speech, blashpemy, etc. etc. all these evils will not go unpunished!
Wow, the religious zealots are getting really mean now.
I have been doing a bit of work with sqlite lately and I am surprised to find that the C api is basically a way to pass in strings containing SQL commands. Now even in C I could imagine an API which allows you to build up queries to do everything SQL does without using commands in text strings.
With an OO language it should be dead easy.
Why should anyone ever need to type text in order to write a program? After all, we have point-and-click programming like Visual Basic. That should be good enough for everyone.
You have a business website? Better withdraw your business's money or hope your bank doesn't find it!
Fixed that for you. Refusing to give someone a personal bank account because of something on the person's personal (i.e. nothing involving money) web site would be highly unlikely.
I'm interested- if I click "contact us" on Amazon, what will I see?
For me, I see a tab named "Phone" that gives me a phone number for customer service. A business obviously doesn't have to list the home address and phone number of every executive, but requiring company contact information (i.e. phone number and/or address of an office or store) seems reasonable to me.
Then what do you think the word means? The dictionary says "the science of life or living matter in all its forms and phenomena." Wouldn't non-biological life then have to differ with regards to some other part of the definition? I suppose you could argue that a pure energy life form would count, though there is that whole matter-energy equivalence thing. Unless you're proposing a life form that completely ignores science?
If you put 0 for your allowances on your W-4, the amount taken out of your paycheck will usually be quite a bit more than what you end up owing, and you'll get a check back from the IRS in the spring. The years that I've been employed full-time for the entire year, I usually ended up getting back somewhere around 4% of my total salary.
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I don't see any reason to pay taxes - they already TAKE TAX out of my check before I ever get it. Fuck paying them anything extra.
You are aware exactly how all that works, right? The amount taken from your paycheck has absolutely no effect on the total you have to pay for the year.
Go here: http://www.glennbeckclips.com/02-18-10.htm [glennbeckclips.com] (or simply glennbeckclips.com if that link is broke) and watch Segments 3 and 4, and tell me they are not insightful, or at least educational, in regards to our debt situation.
Did he manage to make it through two entire segments without crying?
Apologies if the French is totally wrong, just ran it through babelfish.:)
If I remember my high school French correctly, that would translate to "Think in the children", which is hilarious by itself. I would think the correct French would be "Pensez des enfants", though penser may be one of those weird verbs that takes an article that doesn't match the literal translation. I'm just gonna ignore the fact that "pensez" is second-person plural (i.e. a command), since I'm not sure which form is supposed to follow "somebody".
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...when was the last time any "christian" stopped you from raising your kid the way you wanted. HMMM?
I dunno, when was the last time a legislature passed a law?
You pay road tax? Do you pay road tax only for those roads you drive on? Similar system - and the best way artists have of surviving illegal downloaders reluctance to pay for what they use.
Except that setting up toll booths on every road would add a huge amount of overhead, and any kind of automated system would require tracking everybody's movement. Purchasing music, not so much.
If copyright returned to the public after a designated period then everyone will be going around listening to free 60's music, modern musicians would not earn a penny and modern music would die.
Or maybe current musicians would just have to create something that's as good as the stuff from the 60's.
You fail to grasp the postmodern movement. In the modern epistemological paradigm, if 80% of people agree that the square root of 36 is 5, then the process we are morally obliged to embark upon is a redefinition of what the square root of 36 is, followed by a re-evaluation of all of the principles that are based upon the old, now-incorrect fact.
Can't we just edit Wikipedia instead?
Last I checked, most Christians consider Sunday the Sabbath. I think the Seventh-Day Adventists changed to Saturday for some reason.
How about working on Sundays and being Christian? How about eating shellfish and being Christian?
Why Can't I Own a Canadian?
"Remember: Mentioning Jesus in your speech: Small government. Doing what Jesus asked: Big government." - Stephen Colbert
No Canadian can grow up to be the leader of their country because the leader of the country is the head of the Church of England who must by definition be born in England. While I do like to bash to the south that doesn't mean we don't have things to work on up here.
You have to born in England to become Prime Minister of Canada?
Yes, I know what you meant, but honestly, when was the last time the queen had any influence in Canadian affairs?
Yes, politicians have been running our schools for at least 40 years. It is not in their interest to have an eductaed [sic] populace.
Fixed that for you
The best interests of a nation and not annoying the government are not necessarily the same thing.
Deliberately and needlessly introducing a single point of failure to your system is patently dumb
Quiet! You'll give them ideas.
$ISP is never Verizon, Comcast, AT&T, TWC or one of the other major providers... It's always some small provider like Roadrunner...
Did I miss something since moving from a Time Warner area to a Comcast area? Road Runner is Time Warner (they got the name from the Loony Tunes, i.e. Warner Bros., character of the same name).
That is ridiculous. Destroying private property is illegal, while Refusing to service someone is not. I don't know how you got modded Insightful.
For the sake of this argument, let's take the statement that Paypal froze their funds as being true (I know, this is Slashdot, where the summary is usually wrong). Refusing to give someone money that is rightfully theirs could be considered the equivalent of destroying their property. Giving them the money currently in their account and then refusing to accept any more payments is different from keeping money that was intended as a payment to them, not a payment to Paypal.
Tivo are dying, all the cable companies will let you have a box that records simultaneous HD streams, allows you to access the recordings anywhere in your home on TVs or PCs, provides real TV on demand and manage your media, plus do all the widgets crap people think is so neat these days.
And you think the cable companies are developing all of this hardware and software themselves?
Fornication, homosexuality, feminism, democracy, drug-taking, violent video games, on-line porn, science, charity, freedom of speech, blashpemy, etc. etc. all these evils will not go unpunished!
Wow, the religious zealots are getting really mean now.
I have been doing a bit of work with sqlite lately and I am surprised to find that the C api is basically a way to pass in strings containing SQL commands. Now even in C I could imagine an API which allows you to build up queries to do everything SQL does without using commands in text strings.
With an OO language it should be dead easy.
Why should anyone ever need to type text in order to write a program? After all, we have point-and-click programming like Visual Basic. That should be good enough for everyone.
You have a business website? Better withdraw your business's money or hope your bank doesn't find it!
Fixed that for you. Refusing to give someone a personal bank account because of something on the person's personal (i.e. nothing involving money) web site would be highly unlikely.
I'm interested- if I click "contact us" on Amazon, what will I see?
For me, I see a tab named "Phone" that gives me a phone number for customer service. A business obviously doesn't have to list the home address and phone number of every executive, but requiring company contact information (i.e. phone number and/or address of an office or store) seems reasonable to me.
Unless you're proposing a life form that completely ignores science?
Hey, we have those, too. They're called "creationists".
Well played, sir.
Then what do you think the word means? The dictionary says "the science of life or living matter in all its forms and phenomena." Wouldn't non-biological life then have to differ with regards to some other part of the definition? I suppose you could argue that a pure energy life form would count, though there is that whole matter-energy equivalence thing. Unless you're proposing a life form that completely ignores science?
If you put 0 for your allowances on your W-4, the amount taken out of your paycheck will usually be quite a bit more than what you end up owing, and you'll get a check back from the IRS in the spring. The years that I've been employed full-time for the entire year, I usually ended up getting back somewhere around 4% of my total salary.
I don't see any reason to pay taxes - they already TAKE TAX out of my check before I ever get it. Fuck paying them anything extra.
You are aware exactly how all that works, right? The amount taken from your paycheck has absolutely no effect on the total you have to pay for the year.
Because biologic life is the only life that could possibly arise.
Um, you are aware of what "bio" means, right?
Go here: http://www.glennbeckclips.com/02-18-10.htm [glennbeckclips.com] (or simply glennbeckclips.com if that link is broke) and watch Segments 3 and 4, and tell me they are not insightful, or at least educational, in regards to our debt situation.
Did he manage to make it through two entire segments without crying?
Pensez aux enfants!?
Apologies if the French is totally wrong, just ran it through babelfish. :)
If I remember my high school French correctly, that would translate to "Think in the children", which is hilarious by itself. I would think the correct French would be "Pensez des enfants", though penser may be one of those weird verbs that takes an article that doesn't match the literal translation. I'm just gonna ignore the fact that "pensez" is second-person plural (i.e. a command), since I'm not sure which form is supposed to follow "somebody".