Do you also try to hand-craft your HTML instead of relying on a program to write it for you...? :) Congrats on being one of a very small percentage of people who can (or even want to) code your own HTML...
Ok, so how many people will die from someone 'driving' drunk on the internet?
Cars are licenced for safety reasons. You can hardly compare having an internet connection with having a car. Not if you wish to be taken even remotely seriously.
Which is one thing when you have competition n the market. But when you have a government-mandated (near-)monopoly then simple denial of service becomes a bit like telling an *accused* speeder he can't use the roads at all, not even by public transport, so he can only use someone else's means of transport. Oh, and the same applies to his whole family.
"First Strike? Ok, can't use the westbound main route."
"Second Strike? Ok, can't use the northbound main route."
"Third Strike? Ok, can't use any major roads."
etc...
It's called a "loss leader" and most retailers do it (think smell of coffee or bread in a food store). So taking a 'sales hit' is really a marketing cost. They specifically said that the freely available track outperformed every other track in the album, and the implication was clear that this didn't depend on it being a digital offering - that this had happened historically on analogue too.
He admitted guilt in doing what he did. NOT to the absurd witches' brew of fake felonies that he was being accused of. Also, the people he had supposedly offended against didn't want him prosecuted, so were hardly treating it as a crime, let alone such a serious one.
And no, people will plea bargain for a number of reasons. Maybe they don't have the money for a protracted defence. Maybe they realise a shorter sentence would lead to them being able to get on with what's left of their life sooner. Maybe they know it'll mean less public attention to what they are accused of.
If you seriously believe *only* the guilty plea bargain, the you've been watching far too much Law and Order, and I would then refer you to the Cardassian court system where only the 'guilty' are 'accused'.
Finnily enough, it takes something with the resources of one or several countries' governments to put up the satellites for a GPS system, so I hope you are putting your money where your mouth is and not using one, along with any other fruits of government such as roads, police, fire service, education... and I'm sure you think taxes are 'theft' too?
She's in Europe. The Schengen Agreement allows basically no enforced borders between any of its member states (and a few external countries), making them much like state boundaries in the US. This is why the UK hasn't signed up to Schengen...
Love the copywrong shills automatically assuming Coulter 'stole' the song when he got a mechanical licence - wait, to them it *is* stealing, because he only paid a statutory minimum amount for it, and not money for every copy he made and every play it had (even by Fox). Also, it's obviously stealing because he's such a 'big nobody' that Fox used his version (coz they're cheap?) and your coprolite masters Can Do No Wrong (tm).
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Cars are licenced for safety reasons. You can hardly compare having an internet connection with having a car. Not if you wish to be taken even remotely seriously.
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"First Strike? Ok, can't use the westbound main route."
"Second Strike? Ok, can't use the northbound main route."
"Third Strike? Ok, can't use any major roads."
etc...
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It's also good to see that J.R.R. Tolkien, Churchill and MLK are making so much money from their creative abilities.
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And no, people will plea bargain for a number of reasons. Maybe they don't have the money for a protracted defence. Maybe they realise a shorter sentence would lead to them being able to get on with what's left of their life sooner. Maybe they know it'll mean less public attention to what they are accused of.
If you seriously believe *only* the guilty plea bargain, the you've been watching far too much Law and Order, and I would then refer you to the Cardassian court system where only the 'guilty' are 'accused'.
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That's enough cyber-Sauroning for now...
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Finnily enough, it takes something with the resources of one or several countries' governments to put up the satellites for a GPS system, so I hope you are putting your money where your mouth is and not using one, along with any other fruits of government such as roads, police, fire service, education... and I'm sure you think taxes are 'theft' too?
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