There is a kernal of validity to your point, but let’s not pretend like those things are at all the same. The difference between copyright violation for personal use and copyright violation for commercialization is many orders of magnitude.
Embrace the wisdom of the immortal’s experience, you little shit.
Her to her 24 year old activist granddaughter: “You kids need to just shut up. You have no idea how the world works.”
It goes like this, on the the 25th. A minor shock? No. Death madeshift.
I had not read it. I appreciate the correction
If I buy a product for which the selling point over others products is that it can be controlled with a free app. And then years later, for no reason at all, you decide that the app will require a subscription to use, let alone at a ridiculous fee like 10 dollars a month for a niche cooking appliance, I would be suing. I don’t care what the legalese in the terms of service said. The advertisement and information at the time of purchase should hold true for all existing consumers. If you want to charge new users, or create a new non-free app for future models, or whatever, that is a terrible idea, but your prerogative. But customers that bought the product under the old agreement should be grandfathered to that agreement. If you negatively change the terms of the consumer’s use case of your product for profit without any sort of consideration for them, that should be illegal. If it already isn’t, I would fight for it to be. That shit is absurd.
I could truly only make out D, and I still already knew.
Edit: lol, what are you people down voting for? The fact that I’m actually color blind or the fact that I recognized an incredibly overused meme with only one of the 4 panels?
I’m gonna make some tooth brushes in two marginally different styles and sell one in rainbow and various LGBT flag patterns for the left and sell the other in camo, thin blue line flag and gun metal grey patterns for the right. Market the hell out of both of them based solely on being ideologically polarized to those each side hates. Milk everyone on both sides of their cash. And when they finally inevitably find out that they’re both produced by the same company, I’ll gamify it, posting weekly sales totals for each line and promising 20% of the profits at the end of the year get donated the a non-profit supported by the winning side. Let them fight each other by paying me. Also, no matter how overwhelming one side was actually winning, my posts would always indicate that it is a really close race, so that if just a few more people bought them, it might make a big difference.
That’s all bullshit, I’d never do that because I’m not evil. But dozens of Libertarian sociopaths are taking notes right now.
Yes… unfortunately. Still does not work.
I paid for this uncomfortable hotel mattress, and I’m going to damn well use the fucking thing!
We have different vacation philosophies. Mornings are nebulous unplanned times for everyone to do what they want like sleeping in, relaxing by the pool, getting brunch at a nice place, and light sight seeing. I usually don’t have scheduled goals/events for the day until afternoons and evenings while on vacation. I can’t enjoy being somewhere new if I’m too burnt out and exhausted to participate and experience it properly.
I heard him defend it in an interview once. This is legit what he said: “Under Pressure goes ‘Buh duh duh duh duhduh duh dum. Buh duh duh duh duh duhduh duh dum.’ But Ice Ice baby goes ‘Buh duh duh duh duhduh duh dum. Buh duh duh duh duh duhduh duh dum tss.’” That’s a whole new work of art, guys! Like if I copied the Mona Lisa, but gave her like a strand of hair hanging down over her eyes. Artistically and legally distinct!
Well, yeah. If you’re self employed, you have to report yourself too.
A flat tax is a poor tax. 5% of your income means WAAAAY more to someone working minimum wage with two kids than someone who has a second home, even if dollars and cents it’s way less. And the wealthy will evade a flat tax as much as they already do a progressive tax.
It should also be noted that if the vast majority of people do nothing special on their taxes and just accept the government’s assessment, then that leaves a much smaller group of people to be audited. And a much larger portion of those people will be those who are trying to weasel their way out of paying their share. Right now, with the IRS being criminally underfunded, they only focus on low hanging fruit, the small fries. With those people being boiler plater auto-accepting tax payers, that would mean the IRS has no reason to audit them and can focus on the big boys where the real cheats are. That’s another big reason we do not have that sort of system and why the IRS is currently so underfunded (despite every dollar spent on the IRS generating between 5 and 9 dollars in revenue from tax fraud/evasion). Those kinds of people pay to make sure it doesn’t happen.
You all nag about how Americans have no food culture of their own, that they just steal and adapt other countries’ foods. Then when you see true American creation and innovation, you reel back in fear and disgusting. Cowards!