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Station licenses aren’t nearly cheap enough or plentiful enough to do this.
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But that argument is weakened by the fact that terrestrial broadcasters just broadcast their terrestrial broadcast over the internet as well; they don’t allow for the kind of personalization that Pandora offers. Don’t get me wrong, I think Pandora should get the same terms as terrestrial stations. I just don’t see how this strengthens their case.
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The article doesn’t say (and I don’t see) how this strengthens their position, unless they’re just going to rebroadcast the terrestrial station on the Internet, but that kinds of defeats the purpose of Pandora.
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I have exactly what you need. Let me just refer you to turntable.fm (app also available for iOS and Android). Real humans djing in rooms based on genre or whatever. You can DJ as well if you like. Or you could try Piki, which is an iOS app made by the same company that let’s you follow other users and plays songs picked for you by your ‘friends’. Both seem like a good option for what you’re looking for.
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Well, for one, iTunes Match is $25 a year and Spotify is $10 a month ($120 a year), so there’s one reason.
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Recommended andrewpturko's comment in An iOS 7 Music App Concept that Makes Sense
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Exactly what I was thinking. He pretty much invited fans to do this, even though he couldn’t legally provide them with the footage to do it.
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My daughter dropped my iPhone 4 in the toilet a few years ago. I was able to revive it, but this article succeeded in making me relive the trauma. Well done.
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Recommended bobbed's comment in 'Fast & Furious 6' review: all roads lead to explosions
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That’s exactly what I meant.
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“just”
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It’s all about click-bait.
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It seems like you need to be lending a ton of stuff to need anything other than a simple reminders type app. iOS and Android both have them in droves. I no longer lend out movies or music, but I will lend out a book every now and then. Too few to worry about it much, though.
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I can tell you in one word why thorium (and all other nuclear power, for that matter) has been swept under the rug: jobs. If the US switched to primarily nuclear power it would decimate the current energy industry (and probably take down our whole economy with it).
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I’m sure there’s a fee for the install and I’m sure the second install on a new username will invalidate the first install.
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The US could effectively close the loophole if it chose to. All it needs to do is treat large corporations the same as it does individuals. If you are a US citizen working abroad, you pay taxes on what you earn abroad (there is a credit for taxes you pay to the country you work in). I could do the same thing for companies. Whether this is a good idea or not depends on what happens afterward (like corporations leaving the US, etc.), but it could be done.
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Recommended Cap'n Furious's comment in Senate probe accuses Apple of avoiding billions of dollars in taxes with offshore havens
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Yep. This whole thing makes me feel uncomfortable. If we’re not even alleging they did anything illegal, shouldn’t we be upset with the congressman/senators that passed these laws that allowed for this sort of thing in the first place?
It’s hard to be too upset with Apple if they’re just doing what makes sense within the current tax structure. I also think they’re kind of being dragged out as a scapegoat when every single large multinational corporation avoids taxes using the same sorts of loopholes.
