That's not the scary part. The scary part is that this can be made into a worm which uses a service which is installed by default on almost every windows system, and does not require user interaction to exploit. It's the perfect worm-bait. It's like a von neumann machine near the galactic core.
Covertly violating this law wouldn't pass risk analysis at even the evilest of insurance companies (is there another kind?). All it takes is one disgruntled employee or whistleblower to shut you down. They will just comply.
There are also dragons in medieval paintings. "You will have to explain why" they don't exist or else, obviously, we must accept that dragons are real. It's well known that the fire of a dragon's breath goes "from 400K to 700K in a matter of seconds," so we can safely say this is confirmed by ironclad modern empirical evidence!
Unfortunately, checks are treated different from contracts under the law, as far as I know. A better analogy is: you contracting with GM in exchange for future pension payments is legally similar to the credit card company contracting with you in exchange for future credit card payments. In either case, the debtholder is left holding the bag in case of bankruptcy.
It is the sad reality that, while CC companies calculate your risk of default and factor it into the risk premium, workers typically are completely astounded when they realize companies can go bankrupt, and debts owed by bankrupt companies have very little value (just like debts with bankrupt individuals).
Nobody can confidently claim the universe must die until we reach a 100% confidence that we completely understand all aspects of physics. That's quite a high bar.
So people in offices who don't have permission to install software can't access Silverlight apps. People with smartphones can't currently access Silverlight apps (though some may have that option in the future), and people using Linux or BSD can't access Silverlight apps. The rest can't access the apps until they install new software (which kind of defeats the purpose of RIAs). Compare that to Flash or web browsers, which are already installed almost everywhere, and it's hard to see a compelling reason to use Silverlight.
The instinct to reproduce and grow in numbers is fundamental to all life. To "hole up" is to accept death as the local star fades--contrary to the most basic life instinct.
Advanced civilizations don't "hole up," they spread.
98% of internet users have silverlight installed? I would guess more like 10%. How can that be with all the linux users, smart phones, and people who just plain never installed it?
In case that wasn't clear: You going after salaries already paid to management after bankruptcy happens is analogous to the bank taking the toys you gave to your kids three years ago for Christmas when you default on your mortgage. There's now way either would happen in bankruptcy court.
Your only chance would be to sue individuals for something not protected by corporate law and significantly more illegal than optimism.
NO no GM dies when it goes bankrupt. It's not keeping anything. When you die, you don't get to take your house with you, either;-)
I think people here realize "their" jobs don't actually belong to them. India is in the dark ages as far as public education goes, so insane stuff like that is bound to happen.
If you are developing a rich internet application and need it to work with the most possible platforms, you use AJAX. If you are willing to settle for a smaller number of platforms in exchange for more UI flexibility, you use Flex. If you are... uh... trying to watch the 2008 Olympics, you use Silverlight.
Your house analogy is wrong. If you commit to more mortgage than you can afford in a bout of optimism, you, like GM, won't be convicted of fraud. You still don't get to keep the house, you must obey the terms of the contract.
As far as who gets paid first in bankruptcy, pensioners or executives: The law states that employees get paid before anyone else in a bankruptcy. That means golden parachutes are higher priority than your mortgage. It may not be fair but it's the law... you can try drafting a bill and lobbying congress to change bankruptcy law, but you probably won't have much luck.
I don't know anything about negligence laws, but I doubt they would be of help. Bankruptcies happen all the time, and CEOs very rarely go to jail afterward.
In the finance world, this is called "counter-party risk." Any time you make a deal with someone, you have to take into account the possibility that they won't be able to pay in full. This is usually done by discounting future cashflows.
It's highly unlikely GM could be convicted of fraud. You would have to prove that they KNEW they would be unable to pay pensions. They would argue that they're just optimists.
Eventually, pensioners are going to have to line up with employees, debt holders, shareholders, and other parties to try and recover a small piece of what they were promised in bankruptcy court.
The problem is that GM is bankrupt, but it also has made a fantastic amount of pension promises without funding them. At some point, GM will be crushed under that weight, and there will be an army of angry pensioners suddenly thrust into poverty. They will blame whichever government is in power. This is a disaster for the politicians seated at the time.
As a solution, our friendly government has decided to loan ever-increasing amounts of our tax money to GM in hopes of prolonging it's life until their terms are up.
Tesla may be exactly what America needs, but it isn't a political issue, so it isn't going to get free loans from the taxpayers.
Sure, you can power trip all you want, but only an idiot on a power-trip would go after an iPod shuffle while ignoring battery-powered wrist watches. Electronically, they are basically the same, and they don't have radio transmitters.
Idiots with power are a scary thing. How long do you think you could keep your job if you went around restraining everyone with a wristwatch?
In practice, none of those things work well with Ubuntu. None of them are easy to set up. Basically, flash is still unavailable to the majority of Ubuntu users.
I sit in a cube all day. The fact that I could stick a broom handle in the ground, rub a server rail on it, and summon my own army of earthworms is news to me. It is also useful and practical, should I ever get attacked by an dirt monster.
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That's not the scary part. The scary part is that this can be made into a worm which uses a service which is installed by default on almost every windows system, and does not require user interaction to exploit. It's the perfect worm-bait. It's like a von neumann machine near the galactic core.
Since the dawn of agriculture we have been doing geoengineering whether we called it that or not.
Covertly violating this law wouldn't pass risk analysis at even the evilest of insurance companies (is there another kind?). All it takes is one disgruntled employee or whistleblower to shut you down. They will just comply.
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act passed! Don't you people read the news?
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Early to bed and early to rise makes Jack miss out on his peak creativity period.
There are also dragons in medieval paintings. "You will have to explain why" they don't exist or else, obviously, we must accept that dragons are real. It's well known that the fire of a dragon's breath goes "from 400K to 700K in a matter of seconds," so we can safely say this is confirmed by ironclad modern empirical evidence!
Now there's a better analogy :-)
Unfortunately, checks are treated different from contracts under the law, as far as I know. A better analogy is: you contracting with GM in exchange for future pension payments is legally similar to the credit card company contracting with you in exchange for future credit card payments. In either case, the debtholder is left holding the bag in case of bankruptcy.
It is the sad reality that, while CC companies calculate your risk of default and factor it into the risk premium, workers typically are completely astounded when they realize companies can go bankrupt, and debts owed by bankrupt companies have very little value (just like debts with bankrupt individuals).
Nobody can confidently claim the universe must die until we reach a 100% confidence that we completely understand all aspects of physics. That's quite a high bar.
So people in offices who don't have permission to install software can't access Silverlight apps. People with smartphones can't currently access Silverlight apps (though some may have that option in the future), and people using Linux or BSD can't access Silverlight apps. The rest can't access the apps until they install new software (which kind of defeats the purpose of RIAs). Compare that to Flash or web browsers, which are already installed almost everywhere, and it's hard to see a compelling reason to use Silverlight.
The instinct to reproduce and grow in numbers is fundamental to all life. To "hole up" is to accept death as the local star fades--contrary to the most basic life instinct.
Advanced civilizations don't "hole up," they spread.
Earth: The West Virgina of the galaxy.
98% of internet users have silverlight installed? I would guess more like 10%. How can that be with all the linux users, smart phones, and people who just plain never installed it?
In case that wasn't clear: You going after salaries already paid to management after bankruptcy happens is analogous to the bank taking the toys you gave to your kids three years ago for Christmas when you default on your mortgage. There's now way either would happen in bankruptcy court.
Your only chance would be to sue individuals for something not protected by corporate law and significantly more illegal than optimism.
NO no GM dies when it goes bankrupt. It's not keeping anything. When you die, you don't get to take your house with you, either ;-)
I think people here realize "their" jobs don't actually belong to them. India is in the dark ages as far as public education goes, so insane stuff like that is bound to happen.
Let me see if I have this right.
If you are developing a rich internet application and need it to work with the most possible platforms, you use AJAX. If you are willing to settle for a smaller number of platforms in exchange for more UI flexibility, you use Flex. If you are... uh... trying to watch the 2008 Olympics, you use Silverlight.
Right?
Your house analogy is wrong. If you commit to more mortgage than you can afford in a bout of optimism, you, like GM, won't be convicted of fraud. You still don't get to keep the house, you must obey the terms of the contract.
As far as who gets paid first in bankruptcy, pensioners or executives: The law states that employees get paid before anyone else in a bankruptcy. That means golden parachutes are higher priority than your mortgage. It may not be fair but it's the law... you can try drafting a bill and lobbying congress to change bankruptcy law, but you probably won't have much luck.
I don't know anything about negligence laws, but I doubt they would be of help. Bankruptcies happen all the time, and CEOs very rarely go to jail afterward.
In the finance world, this is called "counter-party risk." Any time you make a deal with someone, you have to take into account the possibility that they won't be able to pay in full. This is usually done by discounting future cashflows.
It's highly unlikely GM could be convicted of fraud. You would have to prove that they KNEW they would be unable to pay pensions. They would argue that they're just optimists.
Eventually, pensioners are going to have to line up with employees, debt holders, shareholders, and other parties to try and recover a small piece of what they were promised in bankruptcy court.
The internet has become a giant echo chamber/amplifier for whining. And slashdot gives the whiniest whiners the mic far too often, in my opinion.
The problem is that GM is bankrupt, but it also has made a fantastic amount of pension promises without funding them. At some point, GM will be crushed under that weight, and there will be an army of angry pensioners suddenly thrust into poverty. They will blame whichever government is in power. This is a disaster for the politicians seated at the time.
As a solution, our friendly government has decided to loan ever-increasing amounts of our tax money to GM in hopes of prolonging it's life until their terms are up.
Tesla may be exactly what America needs, but it isn't a political issue, so it isn't going to get free loans from the taxpayers.
...but as soon as I release my algorithm which factors the products of large prime numbers in log(n) time, they will be begging for quantum crypto.
And you will lose your job if you handcuff everybody with a wristwatch.
Sure, you can power trip all you want, but only an idiot on a power-trip would go after an iPod shuffle while ignoring battery-powered wrist watches. Electronically, they are basically the same, and they don't have radio transmitters.
Idiots with power are a scary thing. How long do you think you could keep your job if you went around restraining everyone with a wristwatch?
Utter nonsense. Doing exactly as you say fails with "Wrong architecture: i386"
In practice, none of those things work well with Ubuntu. None of them are easy to set up. Basically, flash is still unavailable to the majority of Ubuntu users.
I sit in a cube all day. The fact that I could stick a broom handle in the ground, rub a server rail on it, and summon my own army of earthworms is news to me. It is also useful and practical, should I ever get attacked by an dirt monster.