This reminds me a lot of Scott's law in IL. When I went to court on a violation of Scott's Law, they didn't care about the circumstances of the offense at all. The first words out of the prosecutor's mouth were, "$250.00 and supervision or you can plead not guilty and go to court". They just wanted their money.
Yes, you're right. They are policing their own. And sure, TWC should jack up their look up rates. And the court should require separate filings for each case.
If we bog down TWC and the courts enough with these cases, it would be evident what a fruitless effort this is.
The bandwith providers want metered plans, but they don't want you to be able to measure and control your use. Comcast finally announced their 250GB/month cap in the U.S. some time ago. There still is no way to monitor your usage. It would be great if AT&T offered a way for parents to cap their child's phone's minutes as part of a family plan. They don't. My bandwith providers don't want to offer anything that is going to make me aware of going over that cap.
If it was about wanting you to curtail your use for the sake of limited network capacity, they could easily give the customer more controls.
The point is, they WANT you to go over your cap. They want metered plans, so customers have something to violate and be "fined" for.
That's why there's a no return policy on software. Everyone would. The policy will spread to hardware I'll bet. But, I do agree with you. These products won't change unless they are ignored.
The difference is that Microsoft (and Sony) are removing capabilities that were already there. There is going to be major consumer backlash over that kind of crap.
I'm not an Apple customer. If they are giving features and taking them away with a software update, let us know.
"Some people commented that they wouldn't mind losing some core features (in this case, the other os feature) if that meant an overall improvement in the console."
Updating DRM is not improvement, but error correction (there is a difference). That's a whole problem. Even if improvement was the issue, Sony isn't giving anything of value in return for what they have taken. Historically, when have they ever?
"At this point, I think it's fair to ask why the gov't should ever be allowed to rely on the stats put forth by the entertainment industry in passing legislation again."
Assuming they relied on them at all the first time. NOT!
"How many illegals are collecting welfare that we the people pay for."
That's false. The argument is that they're taking jobs. The issue is that they're not paying into Social Security, and neither are their employers. Which is why hiring them is so lucrative for cheap labor.
Take that benefit away by making those people pay into the system with no payment benefit later, and the immigration issues will take care of themselves since our jobs will be less attractive to foreigners.
One of the flaws I've always seen with Mike's visa argument is the assumption is made that these immigrants may start their own businesses and thus new jobs. I don't think it turns out that way. They only become a new cog in the system.
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I figured out the plot progression and the outcome...
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Less then a page, hardly impressive.
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The wrong word
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Scott's Law
http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2008/04/passing-along-a.html
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If we bog down TWC and the courts enough with these cases, it would be evident what a fruitless effort this is.
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That's not how I read the article at all, Mike. They may be interested, but not to the tune of thousands of requests per month.
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This reminds me of....
http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/autos.asp
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They want people to go over their caps.
If it was about wanting you to curtail your use for the sake of limited network capacity, they could easily give the customer more controls.
The point is, they WANT you to go over your cap. They want metered plans, so customers have something to violate and be "fined" for.
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Re: Apple???
I'm not an Apple customer. If they are giving features and taking them away with a software update, let us know.
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Updating DRM is not improvement, but error correction (there is a difference). That's a whole problem. Even if improvement was the issue, Sony isn't giving anything of value in return for what they have taken. Historically, when have they ever?
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Assuming they relied on them at all the first time. NOT!
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That's false. The argument is that they're taking jobs. The issue is that they're not paying into Social Security, and neither are their employers. Which is why hiring them is so lucrative for cheap labor.
Take that benefit away by making those people pay into the system with no payment benefit later, and the immigration issues will take care of themselves since our jobs will be less attractive to foreigners.
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