Apples Revenue was 182.35 billion in 2014, the fine is 532.9 Million that is 0.3% if you where on on $100,000 per year and threatened with a $300 (tax deductible) fine would even blink? Ok maybe blink but wouldn't be of significant concern, especially if that violation was making you money.
Ok, I disagree with the whole patent thing, and think they should be scrapped. But if we are to have laws that discourage it then shouldn't provide real disincentive for everyone? Not just the poor soul with millions of dollars worth of songs, that they clearly would have bought if they where not pirated.
The problem assuming the government can keep your its key safe, (Big assumption) is that the government has published its public key. While I can reasonably assume no one is willing to spend billions of dollars working out my private key from my public key I am happy to assume it is safe, however hacking the governments public key is a very rewarding exercise and I am in no doubt that there are organizations out there that are willing to invest the resources to do it.
The only difference between Greece and the US is that the US can print more money, don't you remember every couple of years the US has a crisis where it is running out of money, their solution print more money (problem solve right?).
I actually think that Greece should go bankrupt, sure it may be tough for a while but better that the whole country servicing debt indefinitely, which it cannot hope to repay.
Actually it probably will not be that bad, they probably have industries that produce essentials. I don't even think trade will stop, sure they won't be able trade Dramas for goods and services but they will be able to trade those for Euros, or US dollars and then trade those Euros for other services. Markets are wonderful like that, they adapt.
I think what the lenders are really worried about is what happens if Greece doesn't collapse, it will suddenly allow all those other poor countries that owe lots of money to contemplate doing the same thing.
It may also teach people to stop lending to entities that cannot repay, when you lend money to people to take on the risk that they may not pay you back.
Just like with an individual going bankrupt is not a desirable outcome, but is a better solution than living the rest of your life as a slave to your debt.
Although I mostly agree, I would say just because treat people differently based on their race doesn't make you a racist (ok it does), but it is all about degrees, it is totally natural for people to affiliate more with there family, then social group,...
How long do first impressions take? According to this article http://www.psychologicalscienc... 1/10 of a second. There is not much you can do about that, the key is to realize that you are doing it and attempt not to let it influence you too much.
I also think that blacks face greater challenges because these stereotypes, but I do not think providing positive discrimination help them in the long run. For the following reasons:
1. It builds resentment whether it founded or not in the dominant class. Too many times have I seen schemes that probably return only minor benefit to a minority get overblown ire from people. 2. It diminishes the achievement of those who do succeed, since they will have been seen to have not achieved on there own. 3. I think this is the most important. It builds a sense of being a victim, oh poor me, I can't do it. You start believing that you are entitled to a hand out. Once you give up your chances of success reduced to almost zero. I believe black people are just as smart and capable as any other race, I think it is time they started believing it too.
Don't get me wrong I think we should help poor people (not based on race), with supplying education, health care, food, shelter, otherwise the obstacles can become insurmountable, but we should not be forcing employers to hire people based on race, or sex.
Well you could state the good reasons, could be stated, but all we get is its like having shared changing rooms which it clearly is not. There is quite a big social taboo about the opposite sex seeing each other naked.
The other reason is poor girls somehow get less opportunity to learn programming than poor boys, where really they just show less interest, if you live in a free society then you should be free to choose what you want to do, not have it rammed down your throat.
Boys show less interest in ballet, sorry, have inherently less opportunities in ballet, does it mean we should be providing free ballet lessons for them?
The question is, are sales significantly up? Assuming that pirates are not just hiding better, then if sales aren't up then clearly piracy doesn't actually significantly effect the companies bottom line.
First how exactly do you test a lie detector? If and you don't actually feel guilty, since the crime is fake, or if you are accused of a crime which you know is fake, you are not going to feel anxious. If a normal person is accused of murder they may feel anxious even if they didn't do it.
They also probably did the standard myth busters test, we tried and can't do it so nobody can.
As for betting speed cameras, I have an idea beating at least the new infra red cameras, put lots of really bright infra red LEDs around your license plate to "blind" the camera.
He probably couldn't have passed the test, since the test is so subjective, the examiner knows he can cheat the test, they would just say that the detected him cheating, therefore he has something to hide, therefore he must be lying.
Part of his technique (if you are going to lie) is to not tell the examiner that you know how to bet the test
I think being a psychopath (or having some of those traits) makes you more likely to be a leader because more likely to manipulate your way to the top. Whether you are better leader is questionable.
Captain Kirk was a bad leader, he would risk the entire ship, go down on way missions, but this was not because he was a not a psychopath, it was because it made a more interesting show. A psychopath will do what is in their best interest, not the crews, maybe go on way missions so you can get the hot alien chick, not thinking that you may leave your entire crew captain less. If you care about others, you will also care about the other members of your crew as well, and not put there lives in jeopardy just to save a mate.
TV shows and movies tend place very little value on lives extras, you may have a show where hundreds of people die, nobody cares but if part of the main cast dies, everything is so sad. Everyone's life is valuable. Yes I don't morn every death in the world, but if am responsible for their lives, I would take into consideration their lives as well my mates.
That's not really how you cheat a lie detector you do math in your head (or other technique) on the calibration lie questions, e.g. did you ever cheat in school? The questions you are really trying to hide do nothing. So your physiological response is higher on them so they don't think you are lying on the actual questions.
Maybe what I just said, is illegal then again I am not in the US.
Also his book is/was available for free, I assume he charged for actual lessons with actual polygraphs, which actually used his time. So probably not mail order fraud, but probably still illegal.
Of course it will stop companies making more money that is why they do it. And they are much more likely to sell the content closer to the lower price because each copy costs 0 to produce.
The question is, is it far to charge a higher price to someone just because they can afford it? How would you like it if you went into mcdonalds, and they said nice rollex, and charged you $100 per burger. Or maybe because you are white, they charged you more. What is the difference?
No one has a right to profit and practices should be fair, if you can't succeed with fair rules, well perhaps you should fail.
Of course you can take resources from the poor. Take water from a lake? or pollute the air, oil from there ground, why does this resource belong to anyone in particular. In this case an innovation developed by the government, paid by tax dollars, so it should be communal property.
You are also naive to believe the main reason people get underpaid is because they are stupid, it is because they have little choice, either through force, or they have so little, that they need to take an offer or die, lack of food,...
I agree, why should they have a desire, to spreed or take over the world at all, it is a survival instinct, which they need not have.
The problem is that once a AI becomes self aware, what ever that means, it will be able to, evolve beyond what we have programmed.
In all these scenarios we credit them with super intelligence the ability to break into any system, out think us, but do not credit them with the ability to show compassion, or accept the need to diversity. I believe compassion is necessary trait in order to work well in a community. Even humans in our greed still realize that destroying other life is not beneficial, we try to protect sharks, tigers,... even though they pose a small threat. If machines truly become that intelligent we will only pose a small threat as well.
In the end the universe is an incredibly large place, and if we develop true, self replicating/ repairing AI, we will greatly expand our ability for space travel. Surely the universe is a big enough place for all of us. Possibly a highly intelligent life form will be able to recognize this.
Car keys are another example. It costs $400 a key on my $20,000 car, it came with 2 so 4% of the value of the car was in the keys. It is cheaper to buy and install an alarm system, with 2 keys than to get a new key.
I love the free market it is great, but it only works if it has competition, which forces producers to reduce there price, and become more efficient. Copyright removes competition. As a result you get crazy prices like this.
So what you are saying you should hire the man right, because in my country New Zealand, it is illegal to grant a scholarship to a male based on gender but perfectly legal to do so for a woman, right?
A is worse, especially when it comes to sex. why? 1. You are not hiring the best qualified people, therefor making your company inefficient. 2. It is unfair, why should the current generation be punished, for the views of there ancestors. 3. It breeds animosity, and removes respect for preferred people hired under the scheme. E.g. even if a women is hired, because they where the most capable, there will be a level of doubt about it.
Why is A worse for sexual discrimination? When it comes to sex there is no generational injustice here you don't need to compensate a woman for x hundred years of inequality. Or adjust for the fact that the family is poorer than they would have been if there parents where not discriminated against.
The only reason you would choose B, is if you are too focused on statistics. We need 50/50 distribution of men and women to be fair. The question is why? There are a lot of trained people in the industry from many years ago that are men, it is not efficient or even plausible, to loose the skills and train women to take their place. So the solution is to hire more women who are less qualified for new entries. Well once the old men leave the workplace you will have a glut of women. Then you will be subject the males in the future of the at best unintentional gender biases of the predominantly female faculty.
Statistics like any metric, are useful but should be taken with a grain of salt. You need to understand their limitations.
I don't quite understand the whole drive to have equal numbers men an women working in IT anyway, perhaps women just do not like that type of job, is it really in societies interest to force people into career paths that they don't enjoy, just for the sake of a statistic.
10% of the situations is an incredibly bad percentage, and there are levels of bad as well, humans are not good at making perfect decisions but they are usually good enough. You make many decisions when you drive, hundreds if not thousand, most of them unconscious, If you died 1 out 10 times you would probably not make it down a good size street.
Put it this way, if I died when my computer crashed, I would most certainly dead within a year.
We are moving back, but we will move forward again, as well. Civilization moves in cycles, we get better, the elite want more, take too much, society collapses, we rebuild. But in general the curve is up. I hope that this time the rich, see that they have enough (not holding my breath), and we won't have a major collapse. I can only hope.
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Apples Revenue was 182.35 billion in 2014, the fine is 532.9 Million that is 0.3% if you where on on $100,000 per year and threatened with a $300 (tax deductible) fine would even blink? Ok maybe blink but wouldn't be of significant concern, especially if that violation was making you money.
Ok, I disagree with the whole patent thing, and think they should be scrapped. But if we are to have laws that discourage it then shouldn't provide real disincentive for everyone? Not just the poor soul with millions of dollars worth of songs, that they clearly would have bought if they where not pirated.
The problem assuming the government can keep your its key safe, (Big assumption) is that the government has published its public key. While I can reasonably assume no one is willing to spend billions of dollars working out my private key from my public key I am happy to assume it is safe, however hacking the governments public key is a very rewarding exercise and I am in no doubt that there are organizations out there that are willing to invest the resources to do it.
The only difference between Greece and the US is that the US can print more money, don't you remember every couple of years the US has a crisis where it is running out of money, their solution print more money (problem solve right?).
I actually think that Greece should go bankrupt, sure it may be tough for a while but better that the whole country servicing debt indefinitely, which it cannot hope to repay.
Actually it probably will not be that bad, they probably have industries that produce essentials. I don't even think trade will stop, sure they won't be able trade Dramas for goods and services but they will be able to trade those for Euros, or US dollars and then trade those Euros for other services. Markets are wonderful like that, they adapt.
I think what the lenders are really worried about is what happens if Greece doesn't collapse, it will suddenly allow all those other poor countries that owe lots of money to contemplate doing the same thing.
It may also teach people to stop lending to entities that cannot repay, when you lend money to people to take on the risk that they may not pay you back.
Just like with an individual going bankrupt is not a desirable outcome, but is a better solution than living the rest of your life as a slave to your debt.
Although I mostly agree, I would say just because treat people differently based on their race doesn't make you a racist (ok it does), but it is all about degrees, it is totally natural for people to affiliate more with there family, then social group, ...
How long do first impressions take? According to this article http://www.psychologicalscienc... 1/10 of a second. There is not much you can do about that, the key is to realize that you are doing it and attempt not to let it influence you too much.
I also think that blacks face greater challenges because these stereotypes, but I do not think providing positive discrimination help them in the long run. For the following reasons:
1. It builds resentment whether it founded or not in the dominant class. Too many times have I seen schemes that probably return only minor benefit to a minority get overblown ire from people.
2. It diminishes the achievement of those who do succeed, since they will have been seen to have not achieved on there own.
3. I think this is the most important. It builds a sense of being a victim, oh poor me, I can't do it. You start believing that you are entitled to a hand out. Once you give up your chances of success reduced to almost zero. I believe black people are just as smart and capable as any other race, I think it is time they started believing it too.
Don't get me wrong I think we should help poor people (not based on race), with supplying education, health care, food, shelter, otherwise the obstacles can become insurmountable, but we should not be forcing employers to hire people based on race, or sex.
Well you could state the good reasons, could be stated, but all we get is its like having shared changing rooms which it clearly is not. There is quite a big social taboo about the opposite sex seeing each other naked.
The other reason is poor girls somehow get less opportunity to learn programming than poor boys, where really they just show less interest, if you live in a free society then you should be free to choose what you want to do, not have it rammed down your throat.
Boys show less interest in ballet, sorry, have inherently less opportunities in ballet, does it mean we should be providing free ballet lessons for them?
what about face like masks, look like faces just not your own?
No, I think he is saying cable makers used wire cheaper than lamp wire and sold it for a higher price than lamp wire.
You would think having to control the speed when a car it is self parking kind of defeats the purpose, a lot of parking is stopping at the right time.
The question is, are sales significantly up? Assuming that pirates are not just hiding better, then if sales aren't up then clearly piracy doesn't actually significantly effect the companies bottom line.
First how exactly do you test a lie detector? If and you don't actually feel guilty, since the crime is fake, or if you are accused of a crime which you know is fake, you are not going to feel anxious. If a normal person is accused of murder they may feel anxious even if they didn't do it.
They also probably did the standard myth busters test, we tried and can't do it so nobody can.
As for betting speed cameras, I have an idea beating at least the new infra red cameras, put lots of really bright infra red LEDs around your license plate to "blind" the camera.
He probably couldn't have passed the test, since the test is so subjective, the examiner knows he can cheat the test, they would just say that the detected him cheating, therefore he has something to hide, therefore he must be lying.
Part of his technique (if you are going to lie) is to not tell the examiner that you know how to bet the test
according to this: http://www.differencebetween.n... it is far more likely that they are psychopaths.
For better or worse, there are few differences between psychopaths and sociopaths. Some medical dictionaries even consider them to be synonymous
however the differences it does list basically say, a psychopath is an organized, successful sociopath.
I think being a psychopath (or having some of those traits) makes you more likely to be a leader because more likely to manipulate your way to the top. Whether you are better leader is questionable.
Captain Kirk was a bad leader, he would risk the entire ship, go down on way missions, but this was not because he was a not a psychopath, it was because it made a more interesting show. A psychopath will do what is in their best interest, not the crews, maybe go on way missions so you can get the hot alien chick, not thinking that you may leave your entire crew captain less. If you care about others, you will also care about the other members of your crew as well, and not put there lives in jeopardy just to save a mate.
TV shows and movies tend place very little value on lives extras, you may have a show where hundreds of people die, nobody cares but if part of the main cast dies, everything is so sad. Everyone's life is valuable. Yes I don't morn every death in the world, but if am responsible for their lives, I would take into consideration their lives as well my mates.
That's not really how you cheat a lie detector you do math in your head (or other technique) on the calibration lie questions, e.g. did you ever cheat in school? The questions you are really trying to hide do nothing. So your physiological response is higher on them so they don't think you are lying on the actual questions.
Maybe what I just said, is illegal then again I am not in the US.
Also his book is/was available for free, I assume he charged for actual lessons with actual polygraphs, which actually used his time. So probably not mail order fraud, but probably still illegal.
My commitment issue is giving out credit card info, I don't by free stuff of sites want my credit card information, to make the purchase either.
Of course it will stop companies making more money that is why they do it. And they are much more likely to sell the content closer to the lower price because each copy costs 0 to produce.
The question is, is it far to charge a higher price to someone just because they can afford it? How would you like it if you went into mcdonalds, and they said nice rollex, and charged you $100 per burger. Or maybe because you are white, they charged you more. What is the difference?
No one has a right to profit and practices should be fair, if you can't succeed with fair rules, well perhaps you should fail.
people will still use the same password even with this tool, because they are lazy.
instead of "password" for all sites they will use password.google or something similar to bypass this and the passwords will still be fished
Of course you can take resources from the poor. Take water from a lake? or pollute the air, oil from there ground, why does this resource belong to anyone in particular. In this case an innovation developed by the government, paid by tax dollars, so it should be communal property.
You are also naive to believe the main reason people get underpaid is because they are stupid, it is because they have little choice, either through force, or they have so little, that they need to take an offer or die, lack of food, ...
I agree, why should they have a desire, to spreed or take over the world at all, it is a survival instinct, which they need not have.
The problem is that once a AI becomes self aware, what ever that means, it will be able to, evolve beyond what we have programmed.
In all these scenarios we credit them with super intelligence the ability to break into any system, out think us, but do not credit them with the ability to show compassion, or accept the need to diversity. I believe compassion is necessary trait in order to work well in a community. Even humans in our greed still realize that destroying other life is not beneficial, we try to protect sharks, tigers, ... even though they pose a small threat. If machines truly become that intelligent we will only pose a small threat as well.
In the end the universe is an incredibly large place, and if we develop true, self replicating/ repairing AI, we will greatly expand our ability for space travel. Surely the universe is a big enough place for all of us. Possibly a highly intelligent life form will be able to recognize this.
Car keys are another example. It costs $400 a key on my $20,000 car, it came with 2 so 4% of the value of the car was in the keys. It is cheaper to buy and install an alarm system, with 2 keys than to get a new key.
I love the free market it is great, but it only works if it has competition, which forces producers to reduce there price, and become more efficient. Copyright removes competition. As a result you get crazy prices like this.
So what you are saying you should hire the man right, because in my country New Zealand, it is illegal to grant a scholarship to a male based on gender but perfectly legal to do so for a woman, right?
A is worse, especially when it comes to sex. why?
1. You are not hiring the best qualified people, therefor making your company inefficient.
2. It is unfair, why should the current generation be punished, for the views of there ancestors.
3. It breeds animosity, and removes respect for preferred people hired under the scheme. E.g. even if a women is hired, because they where the most capable, there will be a level of doubt about it.
Why is A worse for sexual discrimination?
When it comes to sex there is no generational injustice here you don't need to compensate a woman for x hundred years of inequality. Or adjust for the fact that the family is poorer than they would have been if there parents where not discriminated against.
The only reason you would choose B, is if you are too focused on statistics. We need 50/50 distribution of men and women to be fair. The question is why? There are a lot of trained people in the industry from many years ago that are men, it is not efficient or even plausible, to loose the skills and train women to take their place. So the solution is to hire more women who are less qualified for new entries. Well once the old men leave the workplace you will have a glut of women. Then you will be subject the males in the future of the at best unintentional gender biases of the predominantly female faculty.
Statistics like any metric, are useful but should be taken with a grain of salt. You need to understand their limitations.
I don't quite understand the whole drive to have equal numbers men an women working in IT anyway, perhaps women just do not like that type of job, is it really in societies interest to force people into career paths that they don't enjoy, just for the sake of a statistic.
Initially maybe? but that will soon pass.
10% of the situations is an incredibly bad percentage, and there are levels of bad as well, humans are not good at making perfect decisions but they are usually good enough. You make many decisions when you drive, hundreds if not thousand, most of them unconscious, If you died 1 out 10 times you would probably not make it down a good size street.
Put it this way, if I died when my computer crashed, I would most certainly dead within a year.
We are moving back, but we will move forward again, as well. Civilization moves in cycles, we get better, the elite want more, take too much, society collapses, we rebuild. But in general the curve is up. I hope that this time the rich, see that they have enough (not holding my breath), and we won't have a major collapse. I can only hope.