To use your example (and I might be reading your intent wrong so please excuse me if I am) The idea of charging the sender for something you requested is different than what ISPs want to do. They want to charge Netflix for the bandwidth you already paid for.
So to put it in your example, You buy something from Shirt.woot.com, they include the cost of shipping in their price. UPS shows up at your house and before giving it to you, charges you the delivery cost again. So both parties pay for the same service.
Also most phones now adays wont store it in the phone but in a memory card where it can be there until the card gets destroyed or it gets erased, but even after being erased it can possibly be saved. Solid state drives FTW
"AFACT is actually the Australian district of FACT. Otherwise, they'd be plagiarizing their federation's name, which is, in their eyes...content theft."
Not entirely true, there have been may occasions where the labels stole their own content and simply blamed someone else.
There was another political scandal in [insert American city here].
"How many times is this going to happen before Congress finally wakes up and takes action?" Some Senator says. "This latest incident once again brings into sharp focus the need to pass another pay-raise for ourselves."
I can easily go through 8gb a month if I don't watch it (I am only allowed 2GB a month) just using my phone. I stream audio/video on my phone while I workout, when driving cross country, when sitting in parking lots waiting for my second job to start. 5 Episodes of my current show watching list gets me dangerously close to 1.8 GB. 4 workouts does the same. My work phone is a hotspot and I have unlimited plans on it (its not truely unlimited, we have a plan of 600GB for 75 phones and its just pooled there). What they should do to make it better, not that they want to make it better for us, let us bank bandwidth. Say I use only 1 GB one month, let me bank 10% or more of the left over to use up later that year. if I don't use it in a year, wipe it off.
Seems the site allows people from all over the world to sign it, do they actually count people from Spain that sign the petition? (I just realized this)
Actually...the team of scientists that developed it in the Manhatten Project were American, Canadian, and the Brits, but lets not split hairs here...Yes the US used the bomb, many people regret that here in the US and have made great strides to have them removed however someone will always have one and I am willing to bet the next one used will not be by the US. Don't like the US? Fine, want to bash the US? Fine. If the US were to stop supporting the rest of the world I am willing to bed out debt issues here in the US would be lesser and the rest of the world would be screwed.
On that, I would like to state, lets not bash the people because someone crapped in your cheerios. Bash the person who didn't make it to the toilet. KTHXBYE
using the speed limit thing is actually a good idea. In my life time, it was a Federal Speed limit of 55MPH. 55 stay alive! That was the *max* speed limit in the US. Now its 65, and now there is talk to bump it up to 75-80. As times change, cars can handle higher speeds and still meet the safety requirements needed. So as these change, so does the law.
Carry that over to IP laws and the like, these laws have not changed with the times, its trying to change contrary to the times. its trying to bring people BACKWARDS.
Lets do the murder one. Murder used to be illegal. Period, doesn't matter what the reason was. Now it has exceptions such as self defense, accidental death. it works at trying to look at the not so black and white of it all.
Those of us who have gone overboard setting their houses up with home automation, already hooked our heaters and ac conditioners to the internet. I remember in 2001 when I used my home automation software and a clever little script to turn my heat/AC on when I left work through my website so it would be cool/warm when I got home.
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So to put it in your example, You buy something from Shirt.woot.com, they include the cost of shipping in their price. UPS shows up at your house and before giving it to you, charges you the delivery cost again. So both parties pay for the same service.
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Not entirely true, there have been may occasions where the labels stole their own content and simply blamed someone else.
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"How many times is this going to happen before Congress finally wakes up and takes action?" Some Senator says. "This latest incident once again brings into sharp focus the need to pass another pay-raise for ourselves."
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Actually...the team of scientists that developed it in the Manhatten Project were American, Canadian, and the Brits, but lets not split hairs here...Yes the US used the bomb, many people regret that here in the US and have made great strides to have them removed however someone will always have one and I am willing to bet the next one used will not be by the US. Don't like the US? Fine, want to bash the US? Fine. If the US were to stop supporting the rest of the world I am willing to bed out debt issues here in the US would be lesser and the rest of the world would be screwed.
On that, I would like to state, lets not bash the people because someone crapped in your cheerios. Bash the person who didn't make it to the toilet. KTHXBYE
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To quote the movie "Black Sheep"
Gas Station Attendant: Well, get yourself a new map...
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Carry that over to IP laws and the like, these laws have not changed with the times, its trying to change contrary to the times. its trying to bring people BACKWARDS.
Lets do the murder one. Murder used to be illegal. Period, doesn't matter what the reason was. Now it has exceptions such as self defense, accidental death. it works at trying to look at the not so black and white of it all.
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