"Congress did have a little something to do with it"
So does a rubber stamp. I can't say Disney literally wrote the legislation text as Mike has often pointed out other lobbyists have done in other fields (telecom, emissions regulation, safety), but the extension literally came about to meet Disney's demands. Dsney got as much as they thought they could get and so allowed the proposed law to go proceed.
$14M or15M income and a mere $175K to the Gov't? Admittedly that's more than most billionaires pay in taxes, but that's still a really good return on investment for Powell, et al.
Now, if the DOJ or someone decided the whole $14M are proceeds of crime and seized it, then maybe that might pull the rug out from under the scam.
I am seriously inclined to join, but only if when I get booted off, it's Trump telling me, "I'm very disappointed with your performance on my website. You're fired!", Cameo style!
I'm sure two won't be readily confused. One refers to a world of incredible character building, fantasy, and magic. The other is a card game with a digital footprint.
Maybe now that the Supreme Court has explained to them how state published books and copyright work, Georgia can petition them explain how broadcasting and the internet works too!
Damn kids ... They did not think this one through.
Ythey should have used Twitter, not TikTok. Then Trump could do us all a favour and use an EO to ban Twitter. Some really narcissist Twiiter user is really punkng the reat of us. Maybe next time.
That's correct, you will never find canada.gov. Canada is an independent country, not the 51st state. Thus we would never qualify for a dotgov domain, not that we'd want to (except maybe back in 1812).
The gov domain is administered by the General Services Administration (GSA), an independent agency of the United States federal government.
The U.S. is the only country that has a government-specific top-level domain in addition to its country-code top-level domain ... Other countries typically delegate a second-level domain for this purpose; for example, .gc.ca is the second-level domain for the Government of Canada and all subdomains.
Feel free to visit the Government of Canada at gc.ca or canada.ca, or when the world's longest un-militarized border is reopened to non-essential travel, come see the real thing. ps: we also do not have a 2nd Amendment, so please leave your fireams at home.
From a TELUS new release, Canada fared best across 45 countries tested for 4G download speeds for mobile experience and had virtually no change between January, and the last week of March, when all Canadians were following social distancing protocols.
From OpenSignal's report, "North American Opensignal users did not observe any significant changes in their 4G Download Speeds between the last week of January and the fourth week of March", it should be noted the average speeds were:
Canada - 61.6 Mbps
Mexico - 23.9 Mbps
USA - 26.8 Mbps
Canada's western provinces have also had available Gigabit Fibre (FTTH) to the home since 2010 and is broadly available in most major cities across every province, occasionally with competing (non-cable) providers, as well as cable competition.
Canadians do pay a premium, but it's there and it works.
We're doing all right up here; thanks for checking in on us.
Re: Car analogy (now don't start that again!)
Parades can only be classified if the participants are unmasked and unvaxxed, otherwise they are unlawful assemblies.
Re: Re: fixed it ...
fixed it ...
Fixed it ...
"It's been four years now since Disney finally started allowing old works to enter the public domain".
I think they realized Star Wars is going sustain them well thru this century, so don't need to worry so much about the last.
Re:
$14M or15M income and a mere $175K to the Gov't? Admittedly that's more than most billionaires pay in taxes, but that's still a really good return on investment for Powell, et al.
Now, if the DOJ or someone decided the whole $14M are proceeds of crime and seized it, then maybe that might pull the rug out from under the scam.
ToS Grifter typo
There's a typo in the Terms of Service ..
That should read, "... to facilitate the proper funding of the Site"
You know the Grifter-in-Chief is just running this as another scam to part fans from their money.
You're fired!
I am seriously inclined to join, but only if when I get booted off, it's Trump telling me, "I'm very disappointed with your performance on my website. You're fired!", Cameo style!
Re: re: Name Change
I'm sure two won't be readily confused. One refers to a world of incredible character building, fantasy, and magic. The other is a card game with a digital footprint.
Re: If you don't want it up, don't put it up
If memory serves, this is the same state that had to have the Supreme Court explain to them you cannot copyright "the law"...
Supreme Court Says Georgia's 'Official Code' Is Public Domain -- Including Annotations
Maybe now that the Supreme Court has explained to them how state published books and copyright work, Georgia can petition them explain how broadcasting and the internet works too!
Re:
Also Trump: "you also had free speech that were very fine free speech, on both sides."
Re: What a coincidence...
Damn kids ... They did not think this one through.
Ythey should have used Twitter, not TikTok. Then Trump could do us all a favour and use an EO to ban Twitter. Some really narcissist Twiiter user is really punkng the reat of us. Maybe next time.
Google AI achieves sentience ?
Google AI finally achieves (common) sentience, starts flagging Google products and provided content as harmful. The circle is complete.
Re: Re: Just look "up" ...
That's correct, you will never find canada.gov. Canada is an independent country, not the 51st state. Thus we would never qualify for a dotgov domain, not that we'd want to (except maybe back in 1812).
Wikipedia even references Canada as an example:
Feel free to visit the Government of Canada at gc.ca or canada.ca, or when the world's longest un-militarized border is reopened to non-essential travel, come see the real thing. ps: we also do not have a 2nd Amendment, so please leave your fireams at home.
Just look "up" ...
Americans probably get really tired of looking up to their northern neighbors: free health care, actually available covid-19 testing, people getting COVID relief cheques (and in bigger amounts than expected), a coherent leader, AND really damn good internet and mobile data ...
Canada’s 4G Download Speeds are performing extremely well under the demands of COVID-19 according to Opensignal’s Mobile Experience report during the COVID-19 pandemic.
From a TELUS new release,
Canada fared best across 45 countries tested for 4G download speeds for mobile experience and had virtually no change between January, and the last week of March, when all Canadians were following social distancing protocols.From OpenSignal's report, "North American Opensignal users did not observe any significant changes in their 4G Download Speeds between the last week of January and the fourth week of March", it should be noted the average speeds were:
Canada's western provinces have also had available Gigabit Fibre (FTTH) to the home since 2010 and is broadly available in most major cities across every province, occasionally with competing (non-cable) providers, as well as cable competition.
Canadians do pay a premium, but it's there and it works.
We're doing all right up here; thanks for checking in on us.
ps: Our Covid-19 numbers are doing reasonably well too.
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