Split infinitive: normal English grammar. Failing to split it emphasizes the adjective. Splitting emphasizes the noun (or possibly nothing at all)
subject conflict: the users are doing the figuring. users is plural. company is a single entity with no gender, therefore its is correct for ownership(and is an adjective for the noun 'users' in this case anyway). That said, i believe 'their' is acceptable also, as a company is made up of many people.
'in the form of', 'as', i wish i could remember what the rule is covering this, but 'in the form of' is actually preferable. more worrying is the missing 'a' after this phrase and before the number.
generally one does spell out numbers ten or less, however measurements (such as grams, pounds, liters, etc) are often written as numerals regardless. years, not so much... that said, consistency and clarity are more important in this matter than whatever rule someone dug up out of a book somewhere. (especially considering that the most influential such book in the USA is, apparently, not only badly wrong but often contradicts it's rules in the explaination or examples for the rule in question)
on a distinctly more on topic note: i know NZ is weird, but seriously, what is With Europe? in some ways it's stranger to me than japan is, which is quite the achievement.
I'll admit to not exactly being familiar with British politics, but...
If it's anything like New Zealand or the USA seem to be, the worse an idea is without causing active riots in the streets and assassination attempts against it's proponents, the more likely it is that a change in governments which still leaves one of the 'big two' parties in power will not get rid of it.
in other words 'i wouldn't bet anything i couldn't afford to lose on it getting tossed even if it's current proponents loose'
I'm going with because private police forces are extremely likely to quickly become indistinguishable from, or at least gain significant overlap with, mafia-esque arrangements and/or mercenary companies.
Which rapidly leads to areas being functionally, if not on paper, at least partially controlled by whoever's pulling their strings.
The end results looks suspiciously like China back near the beginning of the era covered by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms :)
(ok, the odds of something completely different happening are not dismisably low, but still.)
the free market is a good thing... to a point.
there are some areas where it should not apply.
(i really want to turn this into a Sun Tsu rip-off, but i can't come up with anything to fill the rest of the lines :D )
actually, no. he's saying that if you don't distribute your music in the way people want, you have no right to stop Anyone Else from distributing it, so far as i can tell.
I'm fairly sure that's not quite right...
I'd give you a dictionary definition, but I'm too out of it at the moment. maybe someone else will make up for my lack of awesome...
yeah, well, most places that have the governments doing that stuff do it Instead of trying to prop up a whole bunch of useless industries.
Makes a heck of a lot more sense, too, for all that it has it's own issues.
here's a fun thing: it's not uncommon for new (stupid) ideas to be tested in small countries (like New Zealand) first.
one thing NZ has done and proved doesn't work is Proping Up Failing Industries... we got a recession, a government change, a massive change in economic policy towards the right (by our leftist, unionist party, no less!), several years of price freezes and huge unemployment out of it, the value of our currency took a hit (it was over valued anyway)...
(admittedly we also got some hydro dams built, not all of this stuff happened at once (there's a logical sequence which doesn't match the order i wrote it in)
now, that was ridiculous subsidies who's initial purpose was long gone. But the bail out packages for the various industries and institutions are basically 'subsidizing suck'... which is hardly different.
bail outs for the corporations only make sense when the reason for issues is a large scale natural disaster that's too big for the insurance companies to handle it And the corporation isn't big enough to simply soak the costs. ie, almost never.
not to mention corporations soak up a LOT more money than your common citizenry.
also note: ALL governments want to control you. it's kinda the point. heck, the need for some limited control is the reason we have them....
(and it should be noted, we have a party who actually gets in here who really IS committed to reducing the government's influence in stuff... starting with offloading all the public infrastructure onto privately owned (and usually foreign) companies. proven fact? that way lies disaster. our own rail network is evidence of it. the ridiculousness regarding water in parts of South America is evidence of it...
really, corporations serve a purpose, but if left unchecked are a Disaster.
You're right about there not being much noticeable difference between the American republicans and democrats...
From the outside, they're all crazies, and the only distinction being where they get their money (and not always that) and who they annoy more.
That still wouldn't apply in the situation this article is about. The creator created the content and made it available in a jurisdiction where doing so is legal. he is presumably the equivalent of a 'citizen' of that jurisdiction also.
worst case scenario, logically speaking, he should be required not to take orders from customers in places where it is not legal, if such is possible, and it should be the Buyers, who are violating applicable law, who get in trouble.
so it seems to me, anyway.
If we were applying the same principle to the subject and pretended states in the USA were separate legal jurisdictions...
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subject conflict: the users are doing the figuring. users is plural. company is a single entity with no gender, therefore its is correct for ownership(and is an adjective for the noun 'users' in this case anyway). That said, i believe 'their' is acceptable also, as a company is made up of many people.
'in the form of', 'as', i wish i could remember what the rule is covering this, but 'in the form of' is actually preferable. more worrying is the missing 'a' after this phrase and before the number.
generally one does spell out numbers ten or less, however measurements (such as grams, pounds, liters, etc) are often written as numerals regardless. years, not so much... that said, consistency and clarity are more important in this matter than whatever rule someone dug up out of a book somewhere. (especially considering that the most influential such book in the USA is, apparently, not only badly wrong but often contradicts it's rules in the explaination or examples for the rule in question)
on a distinctly more on topic note: i know NZ is weird, but seriously, what is With Europe? in some ways it's stranger to me than japan is, which is quite the achievement.
of course, the USA's no better, so meh *shrugs*
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because if you mean Christians/Christianity as a whole, i really hate to think what sort of people claiming that label you've had interaction with...
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Re: So much for the land of the free...
also, it's entirely too expected.
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(honestly, i haven't got a freaking clue here, but this begged for a completely irrelevant punchline :D )
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If it's anything like New Zealand or the USA seem to be, the worse an idea is without causing active riots in the streets and assassination attempts against it's proponents, the more likely it is that a change in governments which still leaves one of the 'big two' parties in power will not get rid of it.
in other words 'i wouldn't bet anything i couldn't afford to lose on it getting tossed even if it's current proponents loose'
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no one knows their name though
_>
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but rarely seriously :D
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Which rapidly leads to areas being functionally, if not on paper, at least partially controlled by whoever's pulling their strings.
The end results looks suspiciously like China back near the beginning of the era covered by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms :)
(ok, the odds of something completely different happening are not dismisably low, but still.)
the free market is a good thing... to a point.
there are some areas where it should not apply.
(i really want to turn this into a Sun Tsu rip-off, but i can't come up with anything to fill the rest of the lines :D )
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just some of the many possibilities.
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you can still distribute it all you like.
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that said, it's kinda a joke to call it a TV. i don't actually watch television on it *laughs*
just use it for consoles, dvd players, and the PC... it's more a computer monitor that can be used for the consoles in practice.
but yeah, probably not so common, i guess.
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I'd give you a dictionary definition, but I'm too out of it at the moment. maybe someone else will make up for my lack of awesome...
Not that it's terribly important.
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at least in the USA.
outside, more like 75% of the same...
pulling numbers out of the air here, mind you.
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yeah, well, most places that have the governments doing that stuff do it Instead of trying to prop up a whole bunch of useless industries.
Makes a heck of a lot more sense, too, for all that it has it's own issues.
here's a fun thing: it's not uncommon for new (stupid) ideas to be tested in small countries (like New Zealand) first.
one thing NZ has done and proved doesn't work is Proping Up Failing Industries... we got a recession, a government change, a massive change in economic policy towards the right (by our leftist, unionist party, no less!), several years of price freezes and huge unemployment out of it, the value of our currency took a hit (it was over valued anyway)...
(admittedly we also got some hydro dams built, not all of this stuff happened at once (there's a logical sequence which doesn't match the order i wrote it in)
now, that was ridiculous subsidies who's initial purpose was long gone. But the bail out packages for the various industries and institutions are basically 'subsidizing suck'... which is hardly different.
bail outs for the corporations only make sense when the reason for issues is a large scale natural disaster that's too big for the insurance companies to handle it And the corporation isn't big enough to simply soak the costs. ie, almost never.
not to mention corporations soak up a LOT more money than your common citizenry.
also note: ALL governments want to control you. it's kinda the point. heck, the need for some limited control is the reason we have them....
(and it should be noted, we have a party who actually gets in here who really IS committed to reducing the government's influence in stuff... starting with offloading all the public infrastructure onto privately owned (and usually foreign) companies. proven fact? that way lies disaster. our own rail network is evidence of it. the ridiculousness regarding water in parts of South America is evidence of it...
really, corporations serve a purpose, but if left unchecked are a Disaster.
You're right about there not being much noticeable difference between the American republicans and democrats...
From the outside, they're all crazies, and the only distinction being where they get their money (and not always that) and who they annoy more.
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That still wouldn't apply in the situation this article is about. The creator created the content and made it available in a jurisdiction where doing so is legal. he is presumably the equivalent of a 'citizen' of that jurisdiction also.
worst case scenario, logically speaking, he should be required not to take orders from customers in places where it is not legal, if such is possible, and it should be the Buyers, who are violating applicable law, who get in trouble.
so it seems to me, anyway.
If we were applying the same principle to the subject and pretended states in the USA were separate legal jurisdictions...
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