What buildings near the White House are being used for comparison on this sale?
Depends if you are considering it a residence only or an office building with attached living quarters. If the latter then there are lots of office buildings nearby and I bet a lot of them have apartments or similar in among the offices. So since the WH wastes a lot of space on a huge lawn and garden and is only a few stories tall, it isn't worth much as a commercial office structure.
every Chinese worker is a member of the Chinese labor union
What do you mean? There is no labor union in China for all workers, unless you're making a joke about communism. The closest thing is the association of trade unions, but that's just an umbrella group over the various trade unions and not all workers are belong to one of those. Foxconn's employees tend to be migrant workers from the countryside who only come for a year or so - good luck organizing them and good luck getting union dues out of them.
as if the dead were taking advantage of the company's generosity
In all fairness they mean this the same way someone down on their luck buys life insurance and commits suicide is taking advantage of the insurance company. Obviously the actual dead person doesn't benefit personally but their family does get a payout.
but giving it a name like "retina" to a display is just the marketing guys trying to make you think that you won't notice any pixelation
No, giving it a name like "retina" made me think the phone wouldn't display until it checked your retina. It seemed the debate was whether the camera could scan the user's retina at a high enough resolution to be effective. I scanned several pages of comments before I figured out the fuss was about just the screen resolution. Calling it "retina" is just silly.
Where do you live that consumers buy things they don't want and are made to buy anything? Well, OK, in the US consumers are about to be made to buy health insurance products thanks to Obamacare, but until then no one was made to buy anything and no one who is rational buys things they don't want.
Corporations don't have any such preferations. They'll certainly not come back. They'll just swarm to the next flavour of the month outsourcing country
Contrary to a popularly repeated theme, corporations don't have preferences in a mindless vacuum; they prefer to make what their customers want. Since most (not all) customers in most (not all) markets want a product that meets functional specifications (first) for the lowest price (second) this drives companies to seek the lowest priced manufacturer that can produce to specification.
Note that if the customers prioritized "Made in x" then the companies would seek that. Look what happened with Walmart getting stung on fake Made in USA labels a few years back. It's now possible to find made in USA versions of many (not all, maybe not "most", but many) categories of products when shopping at Walmart.
If more companies were pressured by a majority of constomers then manufacturing would relocate locally. Until then, it isn't the companies' fault for seeking the lowest priced manufacturing worldwide.
cali pays $18 billion dollars more in fed taxes than the state receives in federal funds
Nope; Let me fix that for you:
State governments don't pay a penny in federal income taxes. Citizens within the states pay federal income taxes and then the federal government gives kickbacks to the state governments at non-uniform per-capita rates. California's local politicians just aren't as good at demanding per-capita kickback rates as some of the other states.
That whole system is a giant scam on ALL the citizens if you ask me; underperforming state fiscal behavior is rewarded and performance is penalized. The states whose citizens pay more than their state government gets need to send better representatives to the federal government.
Did the machine just say they won or did the wheels spin around and come up triple bar? That's more like the dealer dealing a winning hand and then saying it didn't count because the cards weren't shuffled well enough.
You've got it backwards - it's a lot easier for an underground structure to survive a nuclear blast (one direction, less than a second) than an earthquake (random directions, half a minute).
For a minute think that you totally, fully, blindly believe in Quran and that God/Allah is going to fry your ass if you do not follow his words
That's all very fine except no one can quote the passage dictating no pictures be made of Mr. Mohammad. The best they can do is make a tortured trail of logic between a prohibition against worshiping images leads to no pictures. If you think the people making cartoons on facebook and Dutch newspapers are in danger of worshiping them then you're sadly mistaken of the entire point of drawing them. Such intolerance is in need of correction, not ever more unilateral tolerance.
Allowing you to fire an obviously non-nuclear missile
That doesn't make sense; what about any given long range missile makes it "obviously non-nuclear"? From cruise missile to scud to icbm to a scramjet contraption, until it goes boom there's no "obvious" indicator of the warhead being nuclear, chemical, or leaflet.
Keep in mind that at mach six 200 seconds is 400 kilometers. That's already enough range to make a useful weapon
Yeah that's a great weapons platform range except to launch it they used a B52 with a 9,000+ nm range. Speed is the thing here, not range. But I don't get it because being stealthy at slower speeds is easier than super high speed for military aircraft wishing to escape countermeasures.
As if San Diego wasn't home to the largest base of the US Navy! Coincidence? I think not! My rates for security consultation are quite reasonable, I assure you.
Except on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays, after 4pm, if it makes us lots of money or if we just cant be bothered with our fake holier than thou image
Wow, you didn't even bother to the summary or even the headline before you gratuitously bashed Google. This is about turning down ad revenue because of some holier than thou impulse, not making more money no matter what.
It was both a civil war and a war for independence
A civil war is one in which both sides are fighting to control the same government. The revolution from English rule was not a civil war because the colonists were not trying to take control back in England but just for themselves. Likewise, when South Carolina secceeded and started the whole thing, they didn't control of the federal government; they just wanted out. Ergo, it was not a civil war but a war for independence.
An example of civil war would be when the Sandinistas and Contras fought for control of Nicaragua. Both sides wanted to control the same level of government.
You've mis-concepted the concept; there's a LOT more money for University medical centers in researching cures than there is in actually finding a cure.
The money for merchandise with pink ribbons should go in a bounty pool. Bounties, rather than never ending research grants, are the way to find hard solutions.
Sony, like every other console manufacturer, sells below cost and make up the difference with game sales.
Which is why it shouldn't be too hard to see the solution. Version 1: gaming only console subject to mysterious and unspecified updates pushed from Sony, price subsidized. Version 2: Do whatever you want with it, price at normal hardware profit levels. All the institution users can either buy version 1 and take their chances, version 2 and be happy, or some other manufacturer's product. Units already sold under the install any os feature should be grandfathered in to version 2; it's Sony's fault for not seeing this demand ahead of time.
move in with your girlfriend, that will save you 3 keys right there
Or get one who lives in a safer neighborhood. What kind of DMZ do they live in that they each need 3 keys to get in??
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As I read it, the Clayton act prohibits charging different customers differently based on who they are. It also prohibits exclusivity contracts
You are correct in your reading but incorrect in applying to the situation outlined in the summary. This is the way it has to play out according to the Clayton Act:
1. ARM sells chips to Apple for iPhones, etc and other companies for their products 2.Apple buys ARM 3.Apple orders ARM to raise the price to prohibitive levels 4.Apple can't afford to sell iPhones/etc because the chips inside cost too much 5. ??? 6.Apple's stock plunges
The only way to avoid 4-6 is to replace 3 with:
3. ARM sells chips to Apple and others at similar prices.
Thus reducing the summary's hysterics to FUD.
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Yes, this bit in the summary: Being able to control who gets to use the processors (and, more importantly, who doesn't) Is pure fearmongering. Artificially restricting sales to a select group is completely against the Clayton Act in the US and while I don't know the name in the EU, they have similar laws.
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This is like proposing to have Stephen Hawking at the helm of reconstruction at General Motors
Then we could have cars powered by black holes!
What buildings near the White House are being used for comparison on this sale?
Depends if you are considering it a residence only or an office building with attached living quarters. If the latter then there are lots of office buildings nearby and I bet a lot of them have apartments or similar in among the offices. So since the WH wastes a lot of space on a huge lawn and garden and is only a few stories tall, it isn't worth much as a commercial office structure.
every Chinese worker is a member of the Chinese labor union
What do you mean? There is no labor union in China for all workers, unless you're making a joke about communism. The closest thing is the association of trade unions, but that's just an umbrella group over the various trade unions and not all workers are belong to one of those. Foxconn's employees tend to be migrant workers from the countryside who only come for a year or so - good luck organizing them and good luck getting union dues out of them.
as if the dead were taking advantage of the company's generosity
In all fairness they mean this the same way someone down on their luck buys life insurance and commits suicide is taking advantage of the insurance company. Obviously the actual dead person doesn't benefit personally but their family does get a payout.
it's absolutely a SQL injection attack
Exactly; just look at the logs in the second link. How hard is it anyway to program your scripts to ignore commands in aLtErNaTiNg CaPs?
but giving it a name like "retina" to a display is just the marketing guys trying to make you think that you won't notice any pixelation
No, giving it a name like "retina" made me think the phone wouldn't display until it checked your retina. It seemed the debate was whether the camera could scan the user's retina at a high enough resolution to be effective. I scanned several pages of comments before I figured out the fuss was about just the screen resolution. Calling it "retina" is just silly.
Tell your senator that you want more transportation options besides automobiles
Yes, because there aren't enough empty buses and light rail trains rumbling around town.
Where do you live that consumers buy things they don't want and are made to buy anything? Well, OK, in the US consumers are about to be made to buy health insurance products thanks to Obamacare, but until then no one was made to buy anything and no one who is rational buys things they don't want.
Corporations don't have any such preferations. They'll certainly not come back. They'll just swarm to the next flavour of the month outsourcing country
Contrary to a popularly repeated theme, corporations don't have preferences in a mindless vacuum; they prefer to make what their customers want. Since most (not all) customers in most (not all) markets want a product that meets functional specifications (first) for the lowest price (second) this drives companies to seek the lowest priced manufacturer that can produce to specification.
Note that if the customers prioritized "Made in x" then the companies would seek that. Look what happened with Walmart getting stung on fake Made in USA labels a few years back. It's now possible to find made in USA versions of many (not all, maybe not "most", but many) categories of products when shopping at Walmart.
If more companies were pressured by a majority of constomers then manufacturing would relocate locally. Until then, it isn't the companies' fault for seeking the lowest priced manufacturing worldwide.
cali pays $18 billion dollars more in fed taxes than the state receives in federal funds
Nope; Let me fix that for you:
State governments don't pay a penny in federal income taxes. Citizens within the states pay federal income taxes and then the federal government gives kickbacks to the state governments at non-uniform per-capita rates. California's local politicians just aren't as good at demanding per-capita kickback rates as some of the other states.
That whole system is a giant scam on ALL the citizens if you ask me; underperforming state fiscal behavior is rewarded and performance is penalized. The states whose citizens pay more than their state government gets need to send better representatives to the federal government.
Did the machine just say they won or did the wheels spin around and come up triple bar? That's more like the dealer dealing a winning hand and then saying it didn't count because the cards weren't shuffled well enough.
You've got it backwards - it's a lot easier for an underground structure to survive a nuclear blast (one direction, less than a second) than an earthquake (random directions, half a minute).
For a minute think that you totally, fully, blindly believe in Quran and that God/Allah is going to fry your ass if you do not follow his words
That's all very fine except no one can quote the passage dictating no pictures be made of Mr. Mohammad. The best they can do is make a tortured trail of logic between a prohibition against worshiping images leads to no pictures. If you think the people making cartoons on facebook and Dutch newspapers are in danger of worshiping them then you're sadly mistaken of the entire point of drawing them. Such intolerance is in need of correction, not ever more unilateral tolerance.
Allowing you to fire an obviously non-nuclear missile
That doesn't make sense; what about any given long range missile makes it "obviously non-nuclear"? From cruise missile to scud to icbm to a scramjet contraption, until it goes boom there's no "obvious" indicator of the warhead being nuclear, chemical, or leaflet.
Keep in mind that at mach six 200 seconds is 400 kilometers. That's already enough range to make a useful weapon
Yeah that's a great weapons platform range except to launch it they used a B52 with a 9,000+ nm range. Speed is the thing here, not range. But I don't get it because being stealthy at slower speeds is easier than super high speed for military aircraft wishing to escape countermeasures.
but I was born a few months before the PLATO of which they speak
Me too; did it scare you too when between the title and the summary it says 1973 was 50 years ago?
But lots of people wouldn't think twice about ruining perfectly good faces by attaching iPads to airbag covers.
I can get black duck eggs here in San Diego
As if San Diego wasn't home to the largest base of the US Navy! Coincidence? I think not! My rates for security consultation are quite reasonable, I assure you.
Except on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays, after 4pm, if it makes us lots of money or if we just cant be bothered with our fake holier than thou image
Wow, you didn't even bother to the summary or even the headline before you gratuitously bashed Google. This is about turning down ad revenue because of some holier than thou impulse, not making more money no matter what.
It was both a civil war and a war for independence
A civil war is one in which both sides are fighting to control the same government. The revolution from English rule was not a civil war because the colonists were not trying to take control back in England but just for themselves. Likewise, when South Carolina secceeded and started the whole thing, they didn't control of the federal government; they just wanted out. Ergo, it was not a civil war but a war for independence.
An example of civil war would be when the Sandinistas and Contras fought for control of Nicaragua. Both sides wanted to control the same level of government.
There is no money in a cure....
That's a common misconception
You've mis-concepted the concept; there's a LOT more money for University medical centers in researching cures than there is in actually finding a cure.
The money for merchandise with pink ribbons should go in a bounty pool. Bounties, rather than never ending research grants, are the way to find hard solutions.
How's peddling pot less "real" and less "work" than most other jobs in this country?
The income tax collection rate for pot peddlers
Sony, like every other console manufacturer, sells below cost and make up the difference with game sales.
Which is why it shouldn't be too hard to see the solution.
Version 1: gaming only console subject to mysterious and unspecified updates pushed from Sony, price subsidized.
Version 2: Do whatever you want with it, price at normal hardware profit levels.
All the institution users can either buy version 1 and take their chances, version 2 and be happy, or some other manufacturer's product. Units already sold under the install any os feature should be grandfathered in to version 2; it's Sony's fault for not seeing this demand ahead of time.
move in with your girlfriend, that will save you 3 keys right there
Or get one who lives in a safer neighborhood. What kind of DMZ do they live in that they each need 3 keys to get in??
As I read it, the Clayton act prohibits charging different customers differently based on who they are. It also prohibits exclusivity contracts
You are correct in your reading but incorrect in applying to the situation outlined in the summary. This is the way it has to play out according to the Clayton Act:
1. ARM sells chips to Apple for iPhones, etc and other companies for their products
2.Apple buys ARM
3.Apple orders ARM to raise the price to prohibitive levels
4.Apple can't afford to sell iPhones/etc because the chips inside cost too much
5. ???
6.Apple's stock plunges
The only way to avoid 4-6 is to replace 3 with:
3. ARM sells chips to Apple and others at similar prices.
Thus reducing the summary's hysterics to FUD.
Yes, this bit in the summary: Being able to control who gets to use the processors (and, more importantly, who doesn't) Is pure fearmongering. Artificially restricting sales to a select group is completely against the Clayton Act in the US and while I don't know the name in the EU, they have similar laws.