The word used in the Swedish foreign ministry regulation (idrott) means an athletic/physical sport.
E-sports do count as ”sport”, just not ”idrott”. Chess is in the same part of the Venn diagram, so no chess tournaments for Sweden, either.
This could go away with the stroke of a pen if the Swedish foreign ministry wanted to tweak one word in their rule.
On Sunday, Dr Fox said that it was "shocking that someone would think it acceptable to recreate the acts of the British soldiers against the Afghan people".
"At the hands of the British, children have lost fathers and wives have lost husbands," he said.
Buying something increases the velocity of money, it does not create new money.
The whole point of having a market is to allocate scarce resources (via money): inevitably there will be winners and losers. D'oh.
If something is an axiom, that just means means that it is not derived from existing facts, and that it is assumed to be true in the rest of the argument. So the judge's statement that "it is axiomatic that the availability...undermines...the market..." makes some sense on its own, but it seems crazy to introduce your own axioms about the world in a legal ruling.
It would make a lot of sense for the Colbert report (& maybe the daily show) to explicitly exclude webcasting to the UK, in order to avoid libel tourism.
You actually make a good point, but not the one you think that you're making.
When you boycott a manufacturer of a scarce good, you should not keep buying the same good (or a close substitute), since that would sustain the demand for that good and thus the manufacturer in question (unless the boycott is sufficiently widespread).
However, if you instead violate copyright or patent rights, the (direct) effect on the boycotted party is a loss.
An example is the boycott of western pharmaceutical patent licensors by e.g. India; it led to further price reductions and special considerations for emergency manufacturing.
I don't quite succeed to "take a step back and look at the overall economics of such markets, [and] quickly realize how much bigger they get when you free the content from the constraints and scarcity of physical media."
Why should the size of the (music) market increase when distribution costs decrease?
Unless you mean in units consumed, rather than dollars paid; the latter is what the RIAA and friends are worried about.
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The word used in the Swedish foreign ministry regulation (idrott) means an athletic/physical sport.
E-sports do count as ”sport”, just not ”idrott”. Chess is in the same part of the Venn diagram, so no chess tournaments for Sweden, either.
This could go away with the stroke of a pen if the Swedish foreign ministry wanted to tweak one word in their rule.
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Visa and Mastercard need to comply with this Swedish law if they want to do business in Sweden.
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Visa and Mastercard need to comply with this Swedish law if they want to do business in Sweden.
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Visa and Mastercard need to comply with this Swedish law if they want to do business in Sweden.
Shoe on the other foot
"At the hands of the British, children have lost fathers and wives have lost husbands," he said.
InPrivate Filtering is still in IE 8
As with most things MS, there is a registry hack that gives you the sane behaviour (ON) by default.
http://www.vista4beginners.com/Keep-InPrivate-Filtering-Enabled-Forever
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The whole point of having a market is to allocate scarce resources (via money): inevitably there will be winners and losers. D'oh.
Axiomatic
Only the UK blocked?
Is anyone reading this outside the UK blocked?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I'm an avid reader...
When you boycott a manufacturer of a scarce good, you should not keep buying the same good (or a close substitute), since that would sustain the demand for that good and thus the manufacturer in question (unless the boycott is sufficiently widespread).
However, if you instead violate copyright or patent rights, the (direct) effect on the boycotted party is a loss.
An example is the boycott of western pharmaceutical patent licensors by e.g. India; it led to further price reductions and special considerations for emergency manufacturing.
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Why should the size of the (music) market increase when distribution costs decrease?
Unless you mean in units consumed, rather than dollars paid; the latter is what the RIAA and friends are worried about.
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