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...s, not a particularly large sum for consumers. Yet for a business that spends, say, $10,000 a month on long-distance calls, the tax would equal $300 a month or $3,600 a year. If the tax remained in place over the next decade, it would have generated about $67 billion for the federal coffers, a congressional panel estimates. Altogether, the excise has raised more than $300 billion in its entire existence, the Congressional Research Service found. The excise fee was originally established in 1898 on long distance because phones were considered a luxury and only the wealthiest Americans could afford...

...their respective Writings and Discoveries." (E.g., Wikipedia, "Copyright law of the United States", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_States") Very few if any refereed academic papers are written for financial gain: Lawrence Lessig said that congressional representatives rarely hear counterarguments to the garbage they get from corporate lobbyists. The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP, and probably also the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) will strengthen the rights of corporations in this area. If you think that will limit the pr...

> On Apr 1, 2016, at 5:01 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 01/04/2016 6:46 PM, Bert Gunter wrote: >> ... of course, whether one **should** get them is questionable... > > They're just statistics. How could it hurt to look at them? Like Rolf, I thought that this utterance on April 1 deserved fortune enshrinement. It reminded me of one

...9:31AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/2136021589748759/ Looks like a lot of clickbait links, many from the same hosting providers. I am also not sure how legit the use of that cropped CentOS logo is, either. John -- Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise. -- P. J. O'Rourke (14 November 1947), American political satirist, All the Trouble in the World (1994) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size:...

...s, not a particularly large sum for consumers. Yet for a business that spends, say, $10,000 a month on long-distance calls, the tax would equal $300 a month or $3,600 a year. If the tax remained in place over the next decade, it would have generated about $67 billion for the federal coffers, a congressional panel estimates. Altogether, the excise has raised more than $300 billion in its entire existence, the Congressional Research Service found. The excise fee was originally established in 1898 on long distance because phones were considered a luxury and only the wealthiest Americans could afford...

--On Sunday, September 02, 2018 8:49 AM +0200 Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote: > Just a suggestion. I don't think this mailing list is the right place > for tutorials, the more so since they contain some wrong information. > > For this kind of thing, you can have a blog (like the one I have linked > in my signature). And use this list for the odd question

...p.johnson at gmail.com. If your organization endorses the statement, please indicate that separately, so your organization will be listed under that header. Thank you for consideration. Seth Johnson Corresponding Secretary New Yorkers for Fair Use Joint Statement to Congress: Dear (Relevant Congressional Committees) (cc the WIPO Delegation): Negotiations are currently underway at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to develop a treaty giving broadcasters power to suppress currently lawful communications. The United States delegation is also advocating similar rights for "webca...

Hi list, Does anyone know the legalities of connecting an Asterisk box to the PSTN in Manila or where I can find this info out? I know it is illegal in some countries. thanks -Matt

...vanchist Hollywood film, The Deer Hunter - is an unlimited, permanent > blank check to wage la guerre eternal - war without end. > > The White House, with none of the fictitious foreign policy fissures we've > heard so much about, and its diehard loyalists on both sides of the > Congressional aisle, have been evoking the specter of Osama bin Laden to > rally hateful and revengeful public sentiment and to personify the > oft-repeated *evil* that threatens the United States and, to quote the > president, "all democratic and freedom-loving people" - no other of whom, it...

CRAN (and crantastic) updates this week New packages ------------ * Bergm (1.0) Alberto Caimo http://crantastic.org/packages/Bergm Functions implementing Bayesian estimation for exponential random graph models via exchange algorithm Updated packages ---------------- lmtest (0.9-26), logcondens (1.3.5), MTSKNN (0.0-4), pmml (1.2.21), r2lUniv (0.9.4), rattle (2.5.11), rgdal (0.6-23),

Dears, What is this software runned as "e" showed on most Rails Videos and providing a tree browser (explorer) and editor ? Avail for Linux ? Gretz -- Mathieu