Yes they are, for a non-socialized country they sure are. I pay over 50% in combined taxes, regulatory fees and permits, and still have to shell out more for things like healthcare and get no government benefit because I "make too much." So bite me.

Which is bull. Doctrine of First Sale. Name any other tangible item you can do that with. You can't! They even tried it with books, but doctrine of first sale prevails.

Because then large groups like families could never afford to get tickets together early. That's not better.

EXACTLY.

It also leaves little room for large groups like families to buy a lot of tickets early at a sane price. I say let the free market decide. If scalpers are buying up all the tickets, it was priced too low, and if the scalpers couldn't sell all the tickets, then frankly the show wouldn't have sold them either, and did sell more because of the scalpers, so the venue has little to complain about.

That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard, and I get to weigh in because I'm a gigging musician as well.

If a family member can't get all the tickets for their group, then that really sucks ass.

Secondly, if the venue looks empty, then that's because the scalper couldn't sell all the tickets in the first place, which means the venue actually sold more than they would have anyway, so they have little to complain about.

I don't think you SHOULD have any legal say about what I do with my tickets I purchase; they're mine. This sets an AWFUL precedent.

shut up jackass. my father-in-law was nearly killed by one of these impossible events.

my father-in-law was nearly killed by one of these acceleration events and he's not even close to elderly. he was sitting at a stop sign waiting for a train to pass when the car inexplicably accelerates and lurched forward. he told me this story before the media broke any of theirs. he said this happened several times with this car and it wasn't a floor mat or anything like that. so I think it's idiotic to completely dismiss this as driver error.

that is foolish. my father-in-law was nearly killed by one of these acceleration events, which happened several times. he was sitting at a stop sign with his foot in the brake when the engine revved. it was NOT the floor mat.

Ok. it's very real. happened to my father-in-law several times before any news broke of this. so claiming it's the driver is pointless waste of time. now you can actually suggest something helpful.

What is the difference? They still shoot the same. They still have capability to kill. I have even seen some semi-auto rifles that are pink and have "Hello Kitty" on them. Does that make them less threatening, or less dangerous?

I'm willing to bet you don't even know what an assault rifle is. Further, I'm also willing to bet that you're going to go look it up now and quickly realize the likelihood of being killed by someone with an assault rifle (unless you're an active criminal) is far smaller than with any other normal non-automatic weapon. Why the focus on an assault rifle? Or did you really just mean to say "any threatening-looking style of fire-arm"?

It's just "Ukraine" not "the Ukraine." (Perhaps you're thinking of "the U.K.")

What? I call bullshit. I used to be a Patent Paralegal for a prominent computer company. You can do a LOT of litigation for $50,000. So unless they are asking for an amount more than that, it's just a nuisance and that's why many of these companies have settled. And you most certainly can try to counter-sue.

Here's what a patent troll does: They go around to smaller and foreign companies, hitting them with some scary patent that *looks* like some basic technology they've been using, and threatens to sue --- or we could settle for $23,000 + future licensing fees and royalties.

The troll goes around long enough to endow their war chest, and then they go after a really big company. Which, by then, they're a little harder to defeat -- but not impossible. Just opt for litigating, then call a patent buster, and they're done. Most tech companies already have a legal team with intellectual property divisions just for this exact scenario.

Apparently my sarcasm parser was not enabled when I read your original post.

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Oh.