Posts by Tom 35 3040 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
It would only be Forgery if you try to pass off your copy as an original. If you have a limited edition print say #34/100 and you make a copy and sell it as the original it's Forgery, and there are now two #34 and there should only be one.
If you copy a poster, song, or movie it's copyright infringement as they are already copies, you just are not authorized to make more copies.
And if you got caught shoplifting $30 (about the value of 30 MP3s) do you think you would get a $67,000 fine? Even $670?
If you are damaged and you sue someone do you think you would get punitive (more then your proven loss) damages?
Why is copyright special, so special that it gets different treatment?
"For customers who do not toggle location-based service capabilities to 'Off,' Apple collects information about the devices's location (latitude/longitude coordinates) when an ad request is made."
So you have to turn it completely off or Apple collects your info .
From what I"ve seen that would be clear cut the lot and plant a tree farm all in neat rows, all of the same fast growing species, only useful for making news print and butt wipe.
Hello Chinese Academy of Sciences, this is the government that gives you all your money, we would like a study that says we should burn more coal.
People who say "digital quality" piss me off. VCD is digital quality so no need for DVD or Blu ray right?
Most often used by some one trying to sell some over compressed crap like the local digital cable TV or DAB.
In future anyone who uses the phrase "digital quality" should have a badger stuffed down their pants.
No gaffer tape is different. When you peel it off you don't have sticky bits left behind. Duck tape is designed to stay stuck, gaffer tape is designed to stick for a time (say holding down cables) then come off clean when the job is done. It also costs a lot more then duck tape.
Fuel tax is already a use tax. The system to collect it is already in place.
But lets build a new road use tax system. Think of all the new jobs (and fat contracts for the usual suspects). In the end it will collect just as much money or more, it will still be pored into general revenue, and less will be spent on the roads because now they have to pay to run the new road use spy system.
Next I expect them to say that this will be self funding... :P
Really? I just set it to be deleted on exit. The cookie is no big deal. But the logs Google keeps I can't do anything about from my end. Scroogle makes the logs mostly useless when it comes to connecting search history to a user, far more important then a cookie that the user can delete.
Some are just cheap. They will watch it for free, but there is no way they are going to pay $10 for a movie ticket (more for the latest 3D fad), $10 for some flat watered down pop and over salted popcorn.
If they had a magic button that would block all movie bootlegs it would not cause sales of theatre tickets and DVDs to jump by millions of dollars (forget billions). Some of the less hyped movies might even go down.
The "each download = the loss of the full SRP" is crap.
The 'everyone is hurt, your going to lose your job, there will be no milk for your baby" stuff is crap. It's not magic money, people have a fixed amount and it will be spent some place else.
The number of downloads claimed is crap. They pull a number out of their ass, then multiply by 10.
Crap^3
I find it hard to feel sorry for them.
99.9% will say no.
You can block cookies, but most people will just keep the default (I expect most people don't even know what they are) and allow cookies. This is what they count on. If it becomes opt-in their whole business model is shot.
And don't forget that they use things other then normal cookies, like flash. Flash LSOs can act just like a cookie and there is no built in access to settings, you have to go to a website,
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html
or download 3rd party software like the firefox Better Privacy addon.
I could see it being used at trade shows. The convention centre will charge you an arm and a leg for a phone line, your other arm and leg for a power drop. If you could just use a cell phone that would save a load of money.
The only thing is that they already have cellular based credit card systems that you can rent, but they are a little expensive too.
No I'm not. There are at least 4 free papers here, they range from half ads to one that's a few pages wrapping a ton of inserts from Wallmart, bestbuy and such. The advertisers pay for the paper and ink. Even if I buy a regular daily I'm only paying a fraction of the cost to print the paper. I expect it would cost about $50 to print one of the big weekend papers with HP ink.
Not that I would touch an HP printer, this is just one more reason to stick with Canon.
Fax spam is outlawed in Canada too, but we get at least 10 spams a day on our fax at the office, most sent from outside of the country. If there is any way to spam them, (not white list by default) then they will be spammed.
A friend got fired from his sales job even though he was #1 in sales 3 months running. Didn't sell enough extended warranties and over priced cables. Selling a $300 DVD player was nothing, you had to sell a $69 DVD player with a $120 Monster cable set, and a $30 extended warranty for it to be a good sale.
Here is a story that BestBuy/Futureshop in Canada HATE... :)
http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2008/02/20/packing_the_deal/
Want to buy HDMI calbes without getting ripped off? Try www.monoprice.com
"Tesco don't sell massive dildos, do they?" No, but I'm sure I could find several down town that would be happy to sell me any size dildo I wanted, I expect there are lots of online stores that would too.
I'm not limited to Tesco, I can shop where I want.
And if I started making massive dildos I would not be limited to selling them at Tesco.
You think Apple is locking up the store just to protect you (because you can't protect your self)?
All they would need to do is give a warning when you install a non approved app. Something like...
'this app has not been approved by Apple, it may rape your mother, and kill your cat. You should only install approved apps if you want to be kept safe and happy by your friends at Apple' Continue?
That way people would not need to jailbreak their phones if they want to install a program that Apple will not approve of (like a wifi scanner for example).
" though Labour claimed this would be self-funding by charges to the public."
It's ok because we are not going to take the money from your right pocket... we are taking it from your left pocket...
Paying for something that only a few use with user fees instead of tax is fine. People who don't use it don't have to pay for it. But as soon as most/all have to pay it's just another tax.
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