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tyhjnmyh
16y ago
Have you seen the selection from netflix Canada ? Nobody is downloading that crap - there is no way there is any bandwidth
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tyhjnmyh
16y ago
> He said there is a potential for violation if DOT > and the public were misled by "engineering-quality work" Could be a problem here. If I make a complete balls-up of a project would the public be misled into thinking th
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tyhjnmyh
16y ago
Neither does movie studios calling me thief for watching a movie I bought on DVD on my tablet - while at the same time claiming $Bn grossing movies made a loss when it comes to paying the author.
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tyhjnmyh
16y ago
Sure - I would love the creators of the content to get paid. Unfortunately the writer of Forrest Gump didn't get paid because the movie made a loss, Stan Lee didn't get paid for Spiderman because the company that made it sold it their distr
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tyhjnmyh
16y ago
You could certainly build freeways/bridges as toll roads. All the 19C railways were built like this as are modern mega projects like the channel tunnel. There are some problems - do you allow compulsory purchase of land? If not then a singl
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tyhjnmyh
16y ago
In the UK British Telecom set up an ad service called Phorn that monitored your browsing and replaced ads with targeted ones from it's own suppliers. A huge public backlash when it replaced charity "save the children" ads with ones inviting
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>The only investments we need the "gift" of government to pursue are those that we get less value out of than we put into. Or those that need more than one person to implement. An entrepreneur can decide to buy a cab and offer rides to