At some point the whole prosecution process is so convoluted and loaden with the egos of the prosecutors and the defense attorneys, plea bargains and with public opinions and botched investigations that the outcome of a process has nothing to do with penalizing the perpetrator, but with butchering a scapegoat.
At this point, the real question is: Why anyway?
And no, I definitely refuse any notion that at some point a conviction is final. It is always preliminary, as it is always possible that new evidence pops up.
I was not talking about industrially processed food at all, I was talking about processed food in general. And I bet, that many of the tastes you are so fond of are indeed the product of food processing. Adding spices for instance is processing. Fermenting is processing. Grinding to flour is processing. And even cooking, frying and baking are processing.
It's not about a conspiracy. The facts are in the open, and no one is actually hiding anything. Fat and carbohydrates are cheaper than proteins, thus processing them and adding flavors to trick the metabolic system into taking them as protein ersatz is just the old art of cooking. And we got better and better at it, able to produce and process giant amounts of fat and carbohydrates and refining them into meals that taste to us just as good as a protein rich diet.
The food industry didn't need to conspire for that. It was just that the food that was cheaper while still tasting nearly as good sold better than the high quality one, and with enough processing and flavoring, the cheaper food actually tasted even better. If you want success in the market, you have to offer the prices and the tastes only processed, flavored food can offer. Providers of high quality foods with low processing just got outcompeted. That's the invisible hand of the market, combined with thousands of years of cooking experience: selling shit for food.
The article talks about the fall of the Roman Republic, while the subject talks about the Roman Empire. The article argues that the ability to build large structures cheaply and fast enabled figures like Julius Ceasar and Pompey to bribe the population by building theatres and new harbours and a new bed for the Tiber river, thus creating work for many people. and fastly improving the infrastructure without much taxation or other means to raise the necessary funds. Normally such a process would be long, and expensive, so no single person could force it through. But with the cheap construction means thanks to the concrete, it was possible, and it convinced the population of Rome that an ongoing dictatorship might actually be useful to them, and thus they didn't revolt when the power was taken from the Senate and the tribuns and given first to dictator Caesar, then to the Triumvirate of Octavianus, Mark Antony and Lepidus, and then to Octavianus as new Emperor.
So concrete allowed to end the Republic and start the actual Roman Empire.
Exactly here lies the problem: The car dealerships were de iurre no franchises, but de facto they were. So they had none of the advantages of a franchisee but all the dependencies.
The fact that there have been numerous abuses of the monopoly power of the manufacturer. Per iure, the car dealerships were independent, but de facto, they had to agree to exclusive contracts, thus they were dependent on a single supplier and had to follow each of their whims without much recourse. Car dealerships which didn't agree to exclusive contracts got worse conditions, and the manufacturers were opening new or contracting with existant dealerships in the neighborhood with exclusive contracts and much better conditions.
About every country in the world has been conquered at least once in their history. (In the U.S. and Canada, the occupation has not ended yet, the mainly white, protestant conquerors are still there). Your point being?
You could actually read the blog post referenced in TFA, then you would know about the background. At first, car manufacturers were relying on local dealers to reach consumers, as 100 years ago, there were not much alternatives. But the manufacturer as the sole source of the product, the dealer was selling had much leverage in pressuring the car dealers to act in ways that benefitted the manufacturer but not the dealer (e.g. pressuring him to list certain cars for specified prices, unlist others, offer certain services etc.pp.), by threatening e.g. to open another car dealership in the vincinity, giving better conditions to dealers that agreed to the conditions etc.pp.
Thus several laws were passed to protect the car dealer from to much pressurer by the manufacturer, and one important detail was forbidding car manufacturers to operate their own dealerships in competition to the independent dealer. But Tesla Motors doesn't even sell via independent car dealers, thus they aren't in competition to dealers of their own products. In this case, all the laws passed to protect independent dealerships from too much leverage of their own supplier don't make sense, as there is exactly zero pressure from Tesla to its dealerships, as as there are none.
Bulgarian doesn't even note emphasis in the writing, and also not the length of the vowels, thus it doesn't have a fully written pronounciation. It is still possible to follow the full set of pronounciation rules in Bulgarian and still read a text completely non-understandable for a native speaker.
There are no languages where grammar and pronounciation rules are completely consistent. Spanish and Indonesian come close with regards to grammar, and Dutch and Czech, when it comes to spelling vs. pronounciation, but there just is no language which is completely consistent. Even artificial languages like Esperanto have their inconsistencies.
And still, the dismissive, pejoratively used term "Operator of Interfaces" is simply deplaced and shows that the user of the term himself has not much clue about an IT environment, otherwise he wouldn't think this would be in any way pejorative.
Actually, the firewall business will be spun off into a subsidary with all assets and liabilities, and then the subsidary files for Chapter 11 and subsequently for Chapter 7. And no hole is fixed because there is no business case.
All of the folks in IT are Operators of Interfaces. Which is nothing bad at all. If you aren't able to send 3.3 V directly from your fingertips, you need an interface to operate anything in a computer. Buttons, plugs, everything labelled I/O, shells, commands are interfaces.
I got herpes already at birth. Pray tell me, o wise Anonymous Coward, how I could have possibly avoided it. (Herpes is a STD in just the same sense that the Common Cold is a STD. It can also be transmitted through sexual contact, but this is not their main infection vector.)
I was just browsing my own business mail, and I found that 90% of them don't belong in public, because they are talking about customer installations (information which belongs to the customer, not us) or about internal administration and HR (like courses, oncall schedules, sick leaves, vacations). Only 1% are directly about what I am doing, like solution concepts, scripts or possible configurations. I can imagine that this is not so much different from most other people's business email.
There is lots of administrative stuff, human resources details, meeting arrangements and much more in daily mails, which all belong to your work, and none of them belongs into the public.
Actually, "civilisation" is derived from "civitas" (town), thus originally a civilisation has started to live in or around cities, which has happened already during the Copper Age. There are even Late Stone Age towns.
Actually, they don't. There have been situations where a seed company was collecting seeds of traditional crops, selecting the ones with the most marketable potential, patenting and reselling them again and suing the farmers they got the seed from originally from infringing the patent on the seeds and prevailing.
Curse the judges that handed down the verdict and the laws that allowed the company to prevail, but currently there is nothing that prevents a company from doing the same again and again.
Contracts have not to be signed. It is sufficient if both parties have an agreement. The signed, written form makes it more easy to prove afterwards which conditions were agreed upon, but it is no requirement.
As you buy the stuff not at the company, but through a trader, the only contract which exists, is the contract between you and the trader about the transfer of money in exchange for a box of cereals. So there is no contract you could be ever ignorant off. First Sale Doctrin and all that...
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At this point, the real question is: Why anyway?
And no, I definitely refuse any notion that at some point a conviction is final. It is always preliminary, as it is always possible that new evidence pops up.
I was not talking about industrially processed food at all, I was talking about processed food in general. And I bet, that many of the tastes you are so fond of are indeed the product of food processing. Adding spices for instance is processing. Fermenting is processing. Grinding to flour is processing. And even cooking, frying and baking are processing.
The food industry didn't need to conspire for that. It was just that the food that was cheaper while still tasting nearly as good sold better than the high quality one, and with enough processing and flavoring, the cheaper food actually tasted even better. If you want success in the market, you have to offer the prices and the tastes only processed, flavored food can offer. Providers of high quality foods with low processing just got outcompeted. That's the invisible hand of the market, combined with thousands of years of cooking experience: selling shit for food.
So concrete allowed to end the Republic and start the actual Roman Empire.
Exactly here lies the problem: The car dealerships were de iurre no franchises, but de facto they were. So they had none of the advantages of a franchisee but all the dependencies.
The fact that there have been numerous abuses of the monopoly power of the manufacturer. Per iure, the car dealerships were independent, but de facto, they had to agree to exclusive contracts, thus they were dependent on a single supplier and had to follow each of their whims without much recourse. Car dealerships which didn't agree to exclusive contracts got worse conditions, and the manufacturers were opening new or contracting with existant dealerships in the neighborhood with exclusive contracts and much better conditions.
About every country in the world has been conquered at least once in their history. (In the U.S. and Canada, the occupation has not ended yet, the mainly white, protestant conquerors are still there). Your point being?
Luckily, some of the largest neighbours of China and Russland have their own nuclear weapons program: India, Pakistan and North Korea.
Thus several laws were passed to protect the car dealer from to much pressurer by the manufacturer, and one important detail was forbidding car manufacturers to operate their own dealerships in competition to the independent dealer. But Tesla Motors doesn't even sell via independent car dealers, thus they aren't in competition to dealers of their own products. In this case, all the laws passed to protect independent dealerships from too much leverage of their own supplier don't make sense, as there is exactly zero pressure from Tesla to its dealerships, as as there are none.
Bulgarian doesn't even note emphasis in the writing, and also not the length of the vowels, thus it doesn't have a fully written pronounciation. It is still possible to follow the full set of pronounciation rules in Bulgarian and still read a text completely non-understandable for a native speaker.
There are no languages where grammar and pronounciation rules are completely consistent. Spanish and Indonesian come close with regards to grammar, and Dutch and Czech, when it comes to spelling vs. pronounciation, but there just is no language which is completely consistent. Even artificial languages like Esperanto have their inconsistencies.
And still, the dismissive, pejoratively used term "Operator of Interfaces" is simply deplaced and shows that the user of the term himself has not much clue about an IT environment, otherwise he wouldn't think this would be in any way pejorative.
I am not sure if this is an attempt at being ironic.
Actually, the firewall business will be spun off into a subsidary with all assets and liabilities, and then the subsidary files for Chapter 11 and subsequently for Chapter 7. And no hole is fixed because there is no business case.
So you were saying?
Oh, my mother also has the herpes since birth. It runs in the family, so to say.
I got herpes already at birth. Pray tell me, o wise Anonymous Coward, how I could have possibly avoided it. (Herpes is a STD in just the same sense that the Common Cold is a STD. It can also be transmitted through sexual contact, but this is not their main infection vector.)
I was just browsing my own business mail, and I found that 90% of them don't belong in public, because they are talking about customer installations (information which belongs to the customer, not us) or about internal administration and HR (like courses, oncall schedules, sick leaves, vacations). Only 1% are directly about what I am doing, like solution concepts, scripts or possible configurations. I can imagine that this is not so much different from most other people's business email.
There is lots of administrative stuff, human resources details, meeting arrangements and much more in daily mails, which all belong to your work, and none of them belongs into the public.
Asking for vacation, sending in sick leave requests etc.pp. is all business, and none of them belongs to the public.
Actually, "civilisation" is derived from "civitas" (town), thus originally a civilisation has started to live in or around cities, which has happened already during the Copper Age. There are even Late Stone Age towns.
Curse the judges that handed down the verdict and the laws that allowed the company to prevail, but currently there is nothing that prevents a company from doing the same again and again.
In a certain way they are, if you have a contract with them allowing them to do so.
Contracts have not to be signed. It is sufficient if both parties have an agreement. The signed, written form makes it more easy to prove afterwards which conditions were agreed upon, but it is no requirement.
As you buy the stuff not at the company, but through a trader, the only contract which exists, is the contract between you and the trader about the transfer of money in exchange for a box of cereals. So there is no contract you could be ever ignorant off. First Sale Doctrin and all that...