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Yes, that could be useful and I could consider switching to such a service if it was available. I would worry though about giving total control over my subscribers to some outer service that might hike up their prices suddenly.

It would be nice though if someone else dealt with all the different payment buttons, subscription management and just wired me a lump sum monthly and sent the PDF for address labels that I need to print out for shipping.
"The only way to scale craft is through constant, effective communication."

I am skeptical of the "constant" part. Communication needs to happen, of course, but it doesn't need to happen constantly.
Well, it could be like an Etsy of subscription services where anyone could easily start one.
Yeah, but then the new class of "rightsholders" would have to pay for the enforcement of these new "rights" themselves. Surely they're entitled to have their "rights" enforced at others' expense.
I'm going to need a whole lot more than one random study from 1998 to believe that. The whole idea seems very cooky and alarmist.
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As always, what if I don't pay?

In Madoff's case, at least some of the money is off short and some is hidden.
Foreign sites are outside of the "current US law". The only way you can influence them would be to either "convince" the foreign nation to follow the US law, unlikely for most countries, or somehow block the site and hence the great US firewall.
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I have apparently not gained enough esteem in this community to have a down arrow, but that title is really bad. It's sensationalist and not descriptive enough to be useful.
I do get a bit of discount from them (5%). Mostly it's just really convenient since they save me a lot of time by doing the packaging on site. Maybe if I reached really big volume then it would start making sense. The price of product is only 23% of the cost even now. Shipping is the biggest one at 33%.
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I propose they enforce it selectively, because everybody knows that a certain class of people is entitled to show status, and that certain other classes of people are not entitled to it. "Sumptuary laws". I like that term. It lets The Police take a few people down a notch or two when they're getting too big for their britches. Yeah!
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Afaik if you send directly to someone abroad, you are not the one importing it, rather the recipient is.

I did look into importing a bulk of product to US and then shipping from a hub there. I got as far as the FDA page where I was supposed to register my product. The FDA site requires you input the code of the factory the product is produced in. I tried asking the manufacturer for the factory code, but they weren't interested in helping me.

At my scale it probably doesn't make sense yet, anyway. But since you asked, you at least need to get that factory code and fill some forms on the FDA site.
Hi bemmu.

We met at a meetup just before Startup School last year. I remember you telling me about your Japanese candy selling business. Glad to see you post an update about it. Best of luck!
At the moment the vision is to avoid them going into Gmail, or other email clients/services at all, other than sending an email notifying you of a new inquiry...

We believe that managing them in Gmail is ok, but we've found it to be less than reliable, it's easy to un-star an important email and forget it never existed, or indeed miss an inquiry due to spam filters etc...

However i'd be interested in hearing why Gmail integration would be good for you?
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I would appreciate a service that sent me the same thing over and over every two weeks, say Mini Dickmann's from Germany, they are the best.

This way people could get their favorite thing, or a selection which is tailored to them.
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Then you go to jail, simple.
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Isn't this an awesome question or is it too obvious? My answer is 0%.
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I could try that, but am hesitating a bit to introduce more complexity to this, since then I would have multiple tiers of subscribers.
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Wouldn't be surprised if this is substantially more - what's the margin of error in accounting for $400k in coins?
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The US cannot force other countries to pass DMCA-style laws. This is not a solution.

You have elided the parts of the White House response where they say not to touch DNS, to use the law with foreign criminal activity rather than domestic activity already covered under US law, and to have strong due process for interventions with ad networks and payment processors.

With those restrictions we are talking about a very different kind of legislation and the issue becomes not the means of enforcement but some kind of principle that piracy should be allowed.
Why are you being so unpleasant? Viewing a desire for bathroom privacy as reactionary is characteristic of the whole set of ideals related to the new soviet man.

"Who needs a "1"?
The voice of a "1"
is thinner than a squeak.
Who will hear it?
Only the wife...
A "1" is nonsense.
A "1" is zero."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Soviet_man#Selflessness

EDIT: And yes, the unrealistic dream of building a society of new soviet men is central to the failure of communism. Hayek's criticism of a planned economy is valid but a hypothetical society of very altruistic people could make it work much, much better than it ever did in practice.
The "gap" existing in current laws hasn't been demonstrated. That's one of the real issues here. How much harm does counterfeit drugs do? How much harm does "stolen" "IP" do?

Once we establish harm, then we can propose solutions. Once we propose solutions, we can see if any solution actually cures the problem, and doesn't cause more problems than it solves.

That's basic policy making 101. Don't make everyone look at your Beautiful Assistant while you shove the problems induced by the solution behind the black curtain.
The sooner she starts her term the sooner she gets out, so this is good for her.

The obvious problem here is sending copyright violators to federal prison for long terms, costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. Killers and drug dealers often get shorter sentences, and bankers that steal billions don't go to prison at all.

To say this is justice is a stretch.

Running a video site that hosts unlicensed content uploaded by users is what youtube did for years. Where are the prison terms for their founders?
Just out of curiosity, if that person owned TapTyping.com before you started your business, is it really possible to create a trademark after the fact that would rule out him using the domain for anything typing relate?

Looking at it from the point of view of the domain owner, if I'm developing a website/product with a long development cycle, should I be trying to trademark the name as soon as I get the domain name to avoid someone swooping in after I buy the domain but before my site goes live?
I have a question. Why does the shuffled deck have the cards criss-crossed with its neighbors? I'm not sure what it's suppose to represent.
I don't see any correlation between busy airports and amount of change collected. Maybe New York passengers are just richer, or more careless? Scatter plot: http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/8898/screenshot20120114at11...
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> He seemed to represent hope

> How did this happen?

The word that you're looking for is "rube", as in "he played you for a sucker". Or rather, you played yourself for a sucker.

Obama has behaved as expected by anyone who actually paid attention.
Just noticed your addition regarding `vb.ly` and had a quick route around, it seems that they seized it due to it containing content that fell outside of Libyan Islamic/Sharia Law.

I don't think we'll have any issues with this as we're not linking off to any content we don't know about.
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You may not want increased visibility or findability online, which is fine, but for any person or business who does, these changes from Google mean they have stronger incentives to use Google+.
He does alright on the social media front. He's also got five albums. Plays gigs pretty constantly. Beloved in the gamer community. Has had spots on NPR. Etc. Etc.

I've been a fan ever since his 2003 song fight entries and I still typo his domain from time to time.
I think the onus lies on the distributor (Amazon, Hulu, NinjaViedo) more so than the consumer. I do believe the consumer holds a relative degree of responsibility (and I guess this is what should be determined by a court) - e.g. it's obvious with Ninja, but some sites might not be so obvious e.g. if, like Amazon, Netflix distributed a movie that they did not have rights to -- then it falls on them.
Looks great, signing up to see if this could make running Candy Japan easier or provide more payment options.
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What punishment, if any, do you believe is fair for her?
How would you streamline the shipping process?

It would seem that the next wave of movement to web services will be SAAS services that address larger business side services like shipping and piece-meal manufacturing, but I'm not sure how that is going to be done.

/thread-highjacking.
Suppose (for hypothetical example) that Warner contracts with its distributors not to stream a "Batman" movie until it's been in theaters for a month.

That contract is not unlawful, nor is it immoral. It is not the government's job to block such contracts by declaring it lawful for you to pirate new stuff just because otherwise you would have to pay the theater or wait to see it.

Warner has rights to call the shots on how the "Batman" movie is distributed - in that limited sense they "own" it.

This is the polar opposite of ridiculous "download a car" arguments. I certainly think that public domain should kick in far earlier, that the media industry isn't in real trouble, that RIAA's tactics have made it a sort of copyright secret police against downloaders, etc. but you do not have a special right to pirate the latest thing just because it isn't going to be released fast enough for you unless you pay a premium.
Have you thought about adding a candy "rewards" program?

If someone starts a subscription from a referral maybe they and the referrer can each get a bonus candy package when they start? That would probably be much cheaper than trying to do advertising with only a marginal increase in packaging complexity.
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Depends on what she actually did. Isn't copyright violation a civil and not criminal matter? How is what she did different from youtube? You know, even today there are hundreds of thousands of hours of unlicensed movie and show content on youtube. Why aren't they being investigated.

Really the only difference I see is she is black and doesn't have friends in high places. If she sold the site to Google she'd be on the cover of Forbes rather than in jail.
Nevermind. I just answered my own question. It's a result of the original deck being fanned visually. So when he reshuffles the deck, the cards are still orientated in the same direction as they were in the original deck, so you get the visual side-effect of having cross-crossed cards. So you can tell approximately which side of the deck the card was from originally. And by visual estimation, a properly shuffled deck should have a combination of cards orientated in all different directions.
And a red car is a subset of all cars, but we don't make up a special term for it. Many caching techniques have implementation details that distinguish them from one another, but we nonetheless refer to them by the same term. Caching from a database is different from caching in a CPU, but the basic mechanism and purpose is the same so we use the same term for clarity. I've never seen an article on memoization that couldn't be made more clear by substituting 'caching' wherever it used 'memoization'.
I completely agree with this post. Beauty of code is directly indicative of more meaningful quality metrics. I don't think this is merely a chance correlation either. I think beauty itself is our minds way of noticing certain qualities that have proven to indicate quality.
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> A Swiss government study found out that people's entertainment budgets are relatively constant - what we don't spend for digital content, we spend for concerts and such. So, there is no real economic harm from piracy

Your second sentence does not follow at all from the first. When people have a fixed budget, piracy might not change how much they spend, but it will change the distribution of the spending.

For instance, if someone could not pirate, they might buy two albums a month and see one movie in a theater. If they pirate, they can pirate the music, and go out to the movies twice. Same total spent, but the musicians have been harmed, and the movie producers have benefited.
Isn't this sentiment self-fulfilling, if shared by enough people? (full disclosure: although I don't work in politics, I live in DC and my SO works in congress).

When Lamar Smith held hearings on the bill, Google was the only anti-SOPA tech company invited to speak. Truth is, Google was a cynical choice for the token opposition, since they aren't very popular in congress right now — because of anti-trust, among other things — and they're terribly disorganized when it comes to politics. So there was no real tech input in crafting or modifying this legislation (I don't count GoDaddy). If this response is genuine in its request for legislation crafted by both sides of the issue, it will not be an amended version of any of the current bills. Anyway, I'm told that it's extremely unlikely SOPA will make it out of committee — non-judiciary members who don't have a stake in the issue are inclined to vote no after being flooded by constituent calls, and leadership doesn't like to introduce bills on the floor of the house that won't pass.

If you're offered a seat at the table, isn't it better to try to influence the process? Sure, if you get steam-rolled and ignored you have every right to complain and be angry, but why not do so when and if that happens, not before?
No. Seriously. The people that know are bound by nondisclosure agreements that exclude you (and me). Everybody else is just speculating.
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The angle of the lines encodes the value of the card. The lowest-value cards lean left, and the highest-value cards lean right. The in-order deck, therefore, neatly fans from left-to-right. In the shuffled deck the values are in random order, so the lines often cross.
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Indeed, communists do argue that, and the experiment of basing a society on that theory has been done a number of times. The outcomes have generally been poor.

There is also a physical difference, which has been pointed out many times: if I take your car and dinner plates, you no longer have them. If I make a copy of your data, you still have it.

There is also a contemporary debate about whether the term of ownership for physical property should be for limited times, or whether rent should be charged on physical property. Of course, the debate is not framed this way, it is instead framed in terms of levying property taxes, sales, taxes, and inheritance taxes. This is another example of how framing the debate can affect the outcome.
Which framework do you recommend? I know of Unity, Marmalade, Corona and Cocos2d-x. (I once tried porting an SDL application to Android and gave up, after many many hours sunk.)
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Very few governments will ever willfully simplify themselves. The trend is always for more complexity, more departments, more officials, more wars, more government employees. This happened with the Maya, the Romans, the Egyptians, and practically ever other fallen civilization. That's because a civilization gets used to solving problems in a certain way and when they start to get a negative marginal return on their investment, they keep trudging along and eventually the society collapses unless there's a new source of technological capability that can keep things moving along. Anyway, that's just Joseph A. Tainter's "Collapse Of Complex Societies" in a nutshell for ya'.
It was discovered that you could embed user images for chat based on user id, or reference, a few weeks ago [1]. I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't related to this as well. I haven't seen this before, but I do agree it's pretty interesting.

[1]: http://mashable.com/2011/12/26/facebook-chat-gimmick/
HN is used by a miniscule number of internet users almost 100% of HN users are pretty much aware of SOPA and why it is bad. Shutting it down even for a day will actually help the government because we wont be able to discuss why SOPA is bad for that particular day.

HN should be up. Instead of going dark, a better thing to do will be to declare the day SOPA protest day and post links/discussions related only to SOPA. Or get prominent people to write/live chat/video chat about why SOPA is bad.
What she was doing was definitely not what YouTube does / did! YouTube is a video sharing website, where the intent is to share video in which you own the copyright to, obviously with such a large community you will have people that will break the rules.

NinjaVideo is a site that's #1 purpose is to upload copyrighted tv shows and movies, hours after their airing. Its defined purpose is piracy.

Clear difference from YouTube here.

As to your "Why aren't they being investigated." comment -- they are, YouTube is quite proactive in automatic removals, DMCA's, detection of copyrighted music, etc.
The Citi claim is based upon absolutely nothing. For that matter every single "Microsoft makes $X from Android" are based upon nothing but speculation.

Show me a line item in either HTC or Microsoft's quarterlies validating that?

It is interesting that virtually every agreement that Microsoft has achieved has been with vendors that sell Microsoft products.
Yeah, I recall you also have a Japanese wife. Startup School was a lot of fun, hoping to get a chance to visit SF again too.
Amazon does this. It works well from what I've heard.

http://www.amazonservices.com/content/fulfillment-by-amazon....

There's a full API:

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they absolutely have broken the EWTD - i have ample evidence of no 11-hour between shifts and 7 day weeks, they have been very careful never to deny this part of my accusations and they probably realise that if it goes to court they have absolutely no defence.

their comment about TOIL is a political manoeuvre and not relevant to my complaints in the least. all they are doing is confirming that they did something dickish in language that makes it look like i am in the wrong. its a very old trick...

thanks for the wish of luck :)
That video on your site is so surreal. In that way it really fits with the Japan-theme.
I'm scared of a world where governments become the policemen of large corporations, specially corporations like movie studios that largely work like a gambling operation.

In fact, 'henchmen' would be a more appropriate term, because the laws they are enforcing is not the law of the country but rather a law dictated by their mafiosi overlords.

I hate being this political this early in the morning (heck, I need some coffee first!), but the US is increasingly becoming like a magnified version of the corrupt governments I grew up despising.
I'm glad you brought up the point about people profiting from copyrighted works for which they do not have the rights because in the US, that is the only thing that is criminally offensive wrt piracy. Downloading content without payment simply for personal consumption, however, is a civil matter between the copyright holder and the downloader.

The current legislation under consideration surrounding copyrights attempts to shift the burden of enforcement from the private, copyright-holding entities to the public, or another private company that is only tangentially related (i.e. advertising platforms).
Because it would obviously make sense to cut off funding for Veteran's health and ongoing security operations just to head off anyone telling outrageous stretchers about how it creates "martial law".

Either way, the GOP wins
Yes, that's been on my mind, especially since I keep having candy left over because there is a difference between the bulk amounts I buy (which have to be divisible by 60 generally) and the amount of subscribers I have.

I have to be careful though, since it does actually cost a bit to send a package. Another thing I considered was starting some page similar to http://duckduckgo.com/spread.html and reward the most helpful people (as judged by me or by voting) with free extra packages.
Lots of old folks lost their pensions because of Madoff. People lost their homes. People lost their health insurance. People have died because of what he, and most everyone else on wall street has been up to. So yes theirs was a violent crime. Not that they will ever be punished. We know now that they own the government, bought with the money the stole.

As far as this woman, she ran a video site that had user uploaded content that was streamed to other users. Same business model as youtube and google videos, and youtube has more unlicensed content than ninja video ever did yet isn't being investigated at all.
Have you tried Amazon? Amazon is the first place I go for non-perishable specialty food items.
they absolutely have broken the EWTD - i have ample evidence of no 11-hour between shifts and 7 day weeks, they have been very careful never to deny this part of my accusations and they probably realise that if it goes to court they have absolutely no defence. i want to be compensated for their violating my rights - its pretty simple, but subtly different to asking for money to be compensated for overtime that i knew would be unpaid.

their comment about TOIL is a political manoeuvre and not relevant to my complaints in the least. all they are doing is confirming that they did something dickish in language that makes it look like i am in the wrong. its a very old trick...

i'm not justifying keeping the money either. i want to pay it back and have been 100% cooperative in this regard. this is a completely separate issue and this is why i can not just move on. they operate illegally and immorally and get away with it through fear. i can not tolerate this. nobody should be able to...

thanks for the comment. :)
I would love to hear your explanation on why piracy is not wrong! That was the exact purpose of the question, so others would share their views on the matter and I would have an enlightened view.
Thanks. Having a video on the site has also improved conversions a lot. I suppose it gives people confidence in subscribing to see that there are actually people in Japan running this service.