Re: You keep omitting that statute is "mere statute", not the whole of the law.
Aside from the other bits of your claim already addressed, rendering this point moot, i am still curious as to what you think "informed" means? A second party claims something different, therefore .. they are correct?
You can "inform" people with contrary positions to something all day. They are in no way obligated to even pay attention.
Also would like to know what parties are going to handle taxing people who look at advertisements, or read the dust jacket on a book to see if they are interested.
I suppose if someone can manage to get this passed, and stick, across Europe, then either goog relents and pays "tax", or they stop providing snippets or results, and then there will be competition among others to provide taxed results. And by that, I mean Upday monopolizes the taxed results dealio.
Can't wait to see how these taxes are disbursed to the actual copyright holders.
The rather odd thing, on its face, is that this type of legislation could equally harm the large industry players, and those of the relevant ideological persuasion, as much as it benefits them. In order to win at this consistently, they will have to demonstrate how simple favoritism and more expensive lawyers will rule the process almost entirely. (Some bit more than it already does.)
We need to put a stake in its heart. Then stomp on marketers with hidden numbers, nonsensical numbers, numbers that are local but obviously a front end to something inter/national, scam calls, and everyone violating the do not call lists.
I was pleased when Do Not Call stopped lapsing, requiring you to sign up again. But it seems less effective all the time.
That's the thing: Would this even be remotely effective? Sure, marketing will make cash, but what about the clients for whom they are shilling? They have not taken a hard enough look at current forms of advertising and marketing to begin with. But yeah it is like spam, so cheap to flood.
_ We've buried our companies under billions of dollars in taxes and fees and wasted hours trying to put all these forms together so they can pay their taxes._
That's a hoot. Uh, no, the complex tax system is the one they wanted so they can dodge them. They don't pay crap in taxes.
No, they also divorced long distance, local, and equipment. (And sadly, research.) And made it so others could compete on the same wires, and and any phone equipment could be used by the customer.
The problem is allowing such mergers/buyouts in the first place, and not limiting corporations in the first place.
And since you serve as a thoughtful juror (apparently the only one), this backs up anything else you had to say how, exactly?
I will agree that 1) jury duty is important, and 2) it is important to do a good job.
Many people lack critical thinking skills, or have them overwritten by other more compelling things like slogans and ideology... so yeah that affects citizens in many ways, even the ones who feel voting and jury duty is important. (Having someone reasonable to vote for is important also.)
Jury nullification is pretty important also, but seems to generally be abused more than used when it comes into play, whether or not they know what they are doing is nullification.
It seems like a bad idea, but there is a point about localized results being buried. I don't think that this is the way to go about making them better, or adding competing services into the market. On the other hand, and not that the fine-slappy gov types know or not, but i find google search itself has just been getting crappier, and they screw with their search operators, made "advanced" search more difficult and less flexible, etc. I can't say i was ever a fan, but they did a pretty good job for a while. I would like to know what makes their search not as good as it once was (or, just make it better), and i get the impression that some form of this goes to the complaints that were driving part of the eu decision. (I am sure there are ulterior lobbying reasons also)
I don't know why they haven't simply enacted separate laws already for protecting business models, etc., instead of trying to stretch others and cram in additions in all manner of bits of legal and civil code. It's not like they couldn't get these things passed.
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Re: You keep omitting that statute is "mere statute", not the whole of the law.
You can "inform" people with contrary positions to something all day. They are in no way obligated to even pay attention.
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Can't wait to see how these taxes are disbursed to the actual copyright holders.
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I don't know, they always seem to be winners at punt, pass, and kick.
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Re: Only two points needed to differentiate: 1) with piracy, Rights are IN CONFLICT, Copyright "Exclusive Right" versus First Amendment.
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Re: Cox is the white hat?
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I was pleased when Do Not Call stopped lapsing, requiring you to sign up again. But it seems less effective all the time.
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Re: The Monster in the Mirror
That's a hoot. Uh, no, the complex tax system is the one they wanted so they can dodge them. They don't pay crap in taxes.
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The problem is allowing such mergers/buyouts in the first place, and not limiting corporations in the first place.
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Re: Re: Re: A Fair Use Proposal
I will agree that 1) jury duty is important, and 2) it is important to do a good job.
Many people lack critical thinking skills, or have them overwritten by other more compelling things like slogans and ideology... so yeah that affects citizens in many ways, even the ones who feel voting and jury duty is important. (Having someone reasonable to vote for is important also.)
Jury nullification is pretty important also, but seems to generally be abused more than used when it comes into play, whether or not they know what they are doing is nullification.
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