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On the post: 'Hollywood Accounting' Losing In The Courts

Palmyra ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2010 @ 11:24am

Inquiring minds want to know where is the IRS in all of this? Looks like a tax dodge to my non accountant mind. How much as the Treasury lost over the years to such shenanigans.

On the post: Marvel Pricing Digital Comics Three Times Higher Than Paper Copies [Updated]

Palmyra ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2010 @ 06:50pm

What? Comics don't cost 25 cents any longer? The next thing you will tell me is that Playboy cost more than a $1.

On the post: CNN To Dump AP As It Tries To Compete With The AP As A Wire Service

Palmyra ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2010 @ 05:47am

FOX TROLLS

are on the march. Dr. Josef Goebbels would be proud of you.

On the post: South African Politicians Want To Ban All Porn Online

Palmyra ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2010 @ 01:31pm

Re: Re: South Africa and Porn

But Your Honor, I never put my hands on that box of Cheerios. ;)

On the post: Why Does The US Gov't Get To Patent Research Paid For By Public Tax Dollars?

Palmyra ( profile ), 06 May, 2010 @ 01:02pm

Re:

Thanks RonM. To extend it further, if the government patents than no other entity, corporation or individual, can patent it for their own profit. A profit based on research paid for by all of us.

On the post: TV Broadcasters Looking At Public Safety As Justification For Next Government Handout

Palmyra ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2010 @ 02:04pm

People think!

I've read through 43 messages and I've yet to see why this will never happen. Why? "BECAUSE IT IS TOO FREAKING DANGEROUS!" States and municipalities are falling all over them selves to band texting while driving. There are already laws on the books about video in the front of cars. There is no way that this is going to be allowed unless the TV tuner is automatically shutdown when the car is moving. If that is the case then the phone/TV is useless for a large majority of the time.

Now lets look at other places where it could be used. Do you think your boss will be happy if you are watching TV on the job? Or you teacher if you are in school? How about walking into someone or something while watching? The Playboy channel while in church would go over really big with the Mrs. :)

Come to think of it I could do a lot of this on my Droid right now but I'm not.

On the post: EU Proposes Criminalizing Inducing Infringement In ACTA Draft; Could Outlaw Google

Palmyra ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2010 @ 10:34am

This is what happens when people give-up their right to "directly" elect a governing body.

On the post: Japanese Collection Society Wants To Charge You For Tweeting Lyrics

Palmyra ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2010 @ 02:38pm

Try collecting

"From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli"

Dad, GRHS, was with the 2nd Marine Division during WWII. He never did like you guys to the day he died. So in his honer and because of this collection BS I'm letting the grass grow around my house.

On the post: If You're Subversive, And Live In South Carolina, Please Register With The State Gov't

Palmyra ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2010 @ 01:46pm

Four names that should be first on the list.

Edward Rutledge, Thomas Lynch Jr., Arthur Middleton, and Thomas Heyward Jr.

On the post: Court Says U Of Southern California Only One Who Can Use USC; Sorry U Of South Carolina

Palmyra ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2010 @ 11:16am

Oh don't worry about it!

When the NCAA gets finished with USC over the Reggie Bush violations they are not going to be much of a sports school for some time to come.

On the post: Who's Behind The False Rumors That Facebook Might Start Charging?

Palmyra ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2010 @ 06:38pm

Re: Re: Not necessarilly malicious

61 yrs old, on Facebook, got my first PC in 1982, was online from Jan 83 to date, ran my own BBS for years. Built my first TV when I was 16 and can't count how many PCs I've put together. My kids come to me for help.

Protest groups? You have no idea of what protesting is until you stand across from a bunch of National Guard weekend worriers with fixed bayonets while you are protesting the war and the draft.

Don't make broad statements kid...

On the post: Man Sues Neighbor For Not Turning Off WiFi And Cell Phone

Palmyra ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2010 @ 08:16am

Aluminum Foil Hat will save the day! NT

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On the post: You Can't Be A Fan Of University Of Cincinnati's Sports Teams Unless You've Paid The Proper License

Palmyra ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2010 @ 08:20am

So help me out here.

If I wanted to make shirts showing an alligator ripping apart a cat in a bowl of sugar I would have to get permission from UC and have to pay them a fee? :)

On the post: Does It Make Sense That A Non-Official Advertiser Can't Give Away Sporting Events Tickets?

Palmyra ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2009 @ 07:31am

Major League Soccer and FIFA - Ha Ha HA

This adds new meaning to "They can't even give their tickets away" here in the US.

On the post: UK Digital Economy Bill Section 124H Would Give Ability To Silently Censor Websites

Palmyra ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2009 @ 04:43pm

Now please tell me again why the Brits do not need a written Constitution?

On the post: Warner Music's Royalty Statements: Works Of Fiction

Palmyra ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2009 @ 12:43pm

What I can't understand

is why the IRS, here in the US, does not investigate the accounting practices of the recording and the movie industries. If, as numerous stars in both fields have complained, that the accounting practices are cheating them out of money then one would think that the government is also being cheated.

On the post: Italian Prosecutors Assume Google Execs Read All YouTube Comments; Demands Jailtime Over Video

Palmyra ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2009 @ 01:18pm

Re: Re: Re: Don't forget...

By count I get 61 Italian governments since WW2. That plus 2 Republics. BTW with the exception of Nixon resignation and JFKs assignation all of our presidential changes have been due to a vote on a scheduled date.

Now Italy has had how many governments that lasted over a year? Love all those 11 and 12 day ones.

Happy my grandparents left....

On the post: Why Should You Have To Pay A Fee To Paint A Picture Of A Building?

Palmyra ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2009 @ 05:20am

The "University of Texas" is a state institution and thus the building is owned by all the people of Texas. So in my non lawyer way of thinking UT needs to send a check to every citizen of Texas for his/her portion of the fee.

On the post: Cook's Illustrated Editor: I Wish All Those Amateurs Out There Would Just Shut Up

Palmyra ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2009 @ 06:58am

1984 anyone?

While reading Kimball's comment I could not help but think of the first Mac commercial. Is Christopher Kimball the guy on the big screen? Google/internet/Twitter etc is the hammer...

Power to the people!

On the post: Olympics Tries To Block Olympian Newspaper (From Olympia, Washington) From Trademarking Its Name

Palmyra ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2009 @ 11:32am

There are others the IOC/USOC can go after

The Olympia Brewing Company and its Olympia Beer. Wonder if the IOC/USOC wants to get into a barroom brawl?

Then there is Olympia Snow Senator from Maine.

How about the USS Olympia (SSN 717)Los Angeles class attack sub?

And on and on....

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