As a side note with the abuse of the commerce clause I wonder if one could get around all of the federal machine gun laws if one were to smelt their own iron/steel and entirely manufacture the device within their state using only in state resources (wood, ore, and hand made tools). It would take a long time to do, but I think that would eliminate any interstate commerce implications thus making that exempt.
Nah. That's already been addressed by Wickard vs Filburn. The fact that you are producing it for your own consumption means that you are interfering with interstate trade by denying a purchase on that market.
I was thinking it could be used in conjunction with MRIs, but in a different way...
Could this shielding be used on devices that are too sensitive to allow MRIs (like pacemakers) so that the recipient of the device would be allowed to obtain MRIs?
Because some services to some customer are free does not mean that all services are free.
Just because a companies provides ten services for free and only charges for one which is to business customers doesn't mean they can't be found in violation of anti-trust legislation over the service they charge for.
I used to play that. I would get a successful park then after that I would see how quickly I could kill my attendance with death coasters. The best part was that deleting a single track space and rebuilding it would make visitors thing it was a whole new roller coaster that was safe! Silly stupid AI humans. I also made sure all my janitors didn't bother with vomit. I still had the sweep the paths, clean up the trash, and mow the grass but I made vomit a feature!
I thank you for your compliment. At least I'm taking it as a compliment.
You're basically telling me I'm probably better than the current crop of Slashdot editors. Given the general nature of the comments on Slashdot regarding the editors that doesn't seem to be too hard of a bar to surpass.
I would say that story at least has more validity to be on Slashdot than this one. It does involve the distribution of the document about how the Canadian government was responding to copyright among other things. It basically presented a FAQ that wasn't normally available.
This story is just....
I blogged! I got fired because I blogged in violation of company confidentiality policy!
Is there any other substance to it? Not really. Maybe that they guy gave some favorable opinions about WP7.
As far as stories go, this is the same vein as an "Ask Slashdot" story. The content is pretty much solely generated through the comments on the "story".
Microsoft employee violated company policy about blogging by posting details about the phone. Employee was going to be fired for violating the policy. It doesn't matter if the violation was benign or not. The only reasons this is on slashdot is because
A. The story is about Microsoft. B. It's about company policies perhaps being "unfair".
That doesn't mean another fork won't happen in another years. What features will be added to MySQL that MariaDB doesn't have? Either those features get merged into MariaDB or a fork happens when Oracle wants to shut down MySQL.
So when a building falls on you, you are supposed to urinate in your pants so they can find you with this ammonia sniffer thing? Or is there really enough ammonia in sweat for this to detect it?
Well, given the choice between pissing yourself or retaining your dignity and dying which would you choose?
Price tweaking is set by supply and demand. There is a floor to how low a product will be set and taxes are part of that floor. If you raise taxes on the company then they will go and do a study on how much they can increase the price by without significantly impacting revenues in order to offset the cost of the taxes.
And I'm pretty sure you don't want to maximize revenue. You want to fund your expenses while reducing GDP by as little as possible. Or if you are politician then fundng your expenses while incentivising the things you like and punishing the things you don't like.
That point along the curve is going to be some point before reaching maximum revenue as you will see a drop off in revenues past that and an ever increasing hit to GDP.
Did you completely forget the scene in Episode VI where the snubfighters blow up the shield generator on the Executor after which an A-Wing plows through the bridge causing it to crash into the Death Star? Those spheres on all star destroyers are their shield generators.
I think the move is smart for Netflix. They're looking at what they're seeing now and what the field looks like in the future. They're looking to cut the disc based business to avoid having it drag down the streaming business. There's a lot of potential out in the future that could cripple the disc-based side of things (look at the current turmoil involved with the Post Office). If the disc-based side goes too far in the red it would drag down the streaming side. They're trying to find ways to maintain profitability in the disc side and you can tell with how they're looking to expand into game discs in addition to DVDs.
It's been pretty obvious to me for awhile that Netflix was looking to divorce the two sides as much as possible. I didn't realize they would straight out split into two companies. I imagine that if they don't use the same databases or servers they will eventually develop the processes to tie them together.
Of course it is, but that little fact isn't going to stop the people who want socialized medicine in the US from using this article as a strawman to attack US health care.
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I had initially interpreted as a news story surfacing about fires on/in the Kindle.
It will not. It will tarnish their honor and by bushido the only recourse is to commit seppuku.
I don't agree with it at all.
Wickard vs Filburn is one of the cases that basically solidified the Commerce Clause lets Congress interfere with whatever the fuck they want.
I like to compare Twilight to trashy romance novels.
I think trashy romance novels are better because you still get the sex.
Plus it's fun to recite them out loud in a dead pan voice.
As a side note with the abuse of the commerce clause I wonder if one could get around all of the federal machine gun laws if one were to smelt their own iron/steel and entirely manufacture the device within their state using only in state resources (wood, ore, and hand made tools). It would take a long time to do, but I think that would eliminate any interstate commerce implications thus making that exempt.
Nah. That's already been addressed by Wickard vs Filburn. The fact that you are producing it for your own consumption means that you are interfering with interstate trade by denying a purchase on that market.
42.4 + 12.2 + 25.2 = 79.8
According to the article 79.8 > 80.
I think you have some tough competition as to the better CEO to ruin the company.
I was thinking it could be used in conjunction with MRIs, but in a different way...
Could this shielding be used on devices that are too sensitive to allow MRIs (like pacemakers) so that the recipient of the device would be allowed to obtain MRIs?
Because some services to some customer are free does not mean that all services are free.
Just because a companies provides ten services for free and only charges for one which is to business customers doesn't mean they can't be found in violation of anti-trust legislation over the service they charge for.
I used to play that. I would get a successful park then after that I would see how quickly I could kill my attendance with death coasters. The best part was that deleting a single track space and rebuilding it would make visitors thing it was a whole new roller coaster that was safe! Silly stupid AI humans. I also made sure all my janitors didn't bother with vomit. I still had the sweep the paths, clean up the trash, and mow the grass but I made vomit a feature!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this also means Assange won't see any royalty checks either?
I like the nytimes picture that shows a cardboard sign with the worlds "OBVIOUS THEIFZ IS OBVIOUS"
I thank you for your compliment. At least I'm taking it as a compliment.
You're basically telling me I'm probably better than the current crop of Slashdot editors. Given the general nature of the comments on Slashdot regarding the editors that doesn't seem to be too hard of a bar to surpass.
I would say that story at least has more validity to be on Slashdot than this one. It does involve the distribution of the document about how the Canadian government was responding to copyright among other things. It basically presented a FAQ that wasn't normally available.
This story is just....
I blogged!
I got fired because I blogged in violation of company confidentiality policy!
Is there any other substance to it? Not really. Maybe that they guy gave some favorable opinions about WP7.
As far as stories go, this is the same vein as an "Ask Slashdot" story. The content is pretty much solely generated through the comments on the "story".
This is a non-story.
Microsoft employee violated company policy about blogging by posting details about the phone. Employee was going to be fired for violating the policy. It doesn't matter if the violation was benign or not. The only reasons this is on slashdot is because
A. The story is about Microsoft.
B. It's about company policies perhaps being "unfair".
I think it's mostly A and very little B.
That doesn't mean another fork won't happen in another years. What features will be added to MySQL that MariaDB doesn't have? Either those features get merged into MariaDB or a fork happens when Oracle wants to shut down MySQL.
There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.
I think my irony meter exploded at this post being made by SmallFurryCreature.
I can't say that out loud without laughing out loud.
And in the mean time the rest of us don't give a snot about PETA.
So basically their plan is.
1. Do crazy shit.
2. Get donations from crazy people.
3. Lobby to get animal rights laws passed.
So when a building falls on you, you are supposed to urinate in your pants so they can find you with this ammonia sniffer thing? Or is there really enough ammonia in sweat for this to detect it?
Well, given the choice between pissing yourself or retaining your dignity and dying which would you choose?
Price tweaking is set by supply and demand. There is a floor to how low a product will be set and taxes are part of that floor. If you raise taxes on the company then they will go and do a study on how much they can increase the price by without significantly impacting revenues in order to offset the cost of the taxes.
Sure, but that wasn't the argument being made.
And I'm pretty sure you don't want to maximize revenue. You want to fund your expenses while reducing GDP by as little as possible. Or if you are politician then fundng your expenses while incentivising the things you like and punishing the things you don't like.
That point along the curve is going to be some point before reaching maximum revenue as you will see a drop off in revenues past that and an ever increasing hit to GDP.
Did you completely forget the scene in Episode VI where the snubfighters blow up the shield generator on the Executor after which an A-Wing plows through the bridge causing it to crash into the Death Star? Those spheres on all star destroyers are their shield generators.
I think the move is smart for Netflix. They're looking at what they're seeing now and what the field looks like in the future. They're looking to cut the disc based business to avoid having it drag down the streaming business. There's a lot of potential out in the future that could cripple the disc-based side of things (look at the current turmoil involved with the Post Office). If the disc-based side goes too far in the red it would drag down the streaming side. They're trying to find ways to maintain profitability in the disc side and you can tell with how they're looking to expand into game discs in addition to DVDs.
It's been pretty obvious to me for awhile that Netflix was looking to divorce the two sides as much as possible. I didn't realize they would straight out split into two companies. I imagine that if they don't use the same databases or servers they will eventually develop the processes to tie them together.
Of course it is, but that little fact isn't going to stop the people who want socialized medicine in the US from using this article as a strawman to attack US health care.