I was a little concerned about this when I first heard it, but upon reflection I assume they are sure they can convict him without a confession, so they'll just go ahead and interrogate him to find out if there are any other conspirators.
It's obvious that a clearinghouse for sales taxes would solve all these problems. Jurisdictions register their sales taxes with the clearinghouse. It provides your store with a table of sales tax by zip code, and you send one payment along with a computer file that shows the distribution by zip code. Pretty simple if you ask me.
While it's the right of any spectator to record what's going on, I don't believe it's that kid's right to record while he is the subject of enforcement. The cops are within their right to ask him to stop recording, as well as to stop doing just about anything that is disruptive, e.g., remove ear buds.
The cop made the mistake of using a bad justification (phone can be a weapon) and should have just said "Stop that or you'll get more than a ticket, and I don't have to explain why right now, your lawyer can explain it to you when you are in jail" which is in fact what happened. So, basically the only mistake the cop made was bothering to justify to a moron the fact that he needs to control the situation.
Who else is expecting an anthrax-style false flag hacker attack with some localized fatalities but with widespread reporting and fear-mongering to build up the nation's immune response to hackers resulting in another round of self-inflicted security lupus?
Instead of refunding just her a few bucks maybe they should change their policy? I think that's what she wants. Probably they won't do it because they feel bullied. It simply wouldn't do to have their customers tell them how to please their customers!
We're always amused to hear people talking about how copyright "protects the creator," when we mostly see cases where the original creators have effectively sold off their copyrights to giant gatekeepers: record labels, movie studios, book publishers, etc.
I keep seeing this concept in TechDirt articles and I don't think it helps our cause. The gatekeepers paid real money for the rights and the creators got paid to transfer those rights. It's not a valid criticism of copyright to say that the creators got some kind of a bad deal.
Where are the IRS getting those emails from? From their own deals with email hosting companies? Or from the other government organizations that area already forking the internet fire hose?
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The cop made the mistake of using a bad justification (phone can be a weapon) and should have just said "Stop that or you'll get more than a ticket, and I don't have to explain why right now, your lawyer can explain it to you when you are in jail" which is in fact what happened. So, basically the only mistake the cop made was bothering to justify to a moron the fact that he needs to control the situation.
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I keep seeing this concept in TechDirt articles and I don't think it helps our cause. The gatekeepers paid real money for the rights and the creators got paid to transfer those rights. It's not a valid criticism of copyright to say that the creators got some kind of a bad deal.
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