In this particular case in the article there actually is a fraud case as the product is a proper direct rip-off with the same logo, name, and the listing even says "the original" in the title.
Though anyone selling a cheap gadget these days if they didn't think of registering a trademark at the start... well you live with the poor business decisions you make.
Now that these expensive 300-400 workers have been removed from the total cost of producing said jeans, the consumer price will surely drop.
You were going for funny, but when I look at the cost of Jeans now compared to 20 years ago there has been a steady drop in the cost of quality clothing over the years.
But relaxing the existing rules to allow competition would be DE-REGULATION! Nobody wants that, right?
The only truly stupid people are the proponents of regulation and the proponents of de-regulation. What regulation is or isn't applied needs to be assessed on very specific cases. But you're never going to get that kind of critical though applied to anything in the Un-united States of Red vs Blue
And it was mocked just as much as the iPhone X is. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be disappointed that companies are copying useless shit from each other.
So this is all good and find in theory where everyone is on fiber and perfect copper, but the vast majority of Australia is on ADSL2+ which has a theoretical speed limit of 25/5 and a practical speed limit that is very much dependent on each individual customer and not at all in control of the ISP or how much bandwidth they are able to allocate to you.
I was on a pretty good ISP and never experienced peak hour slowdowns (though I left Australia before Netflix became a thing there). However that doesn't change the fact that my 25mbit plan was never going to see more than 21mbit (I was close to the exchange) and my father on the same ISP in the same area was never going to see more than 7mbit.
How are they supposed to advertise this kind of service?
I would assume that Australia already has laws against false advertising. So, this would be redundant. I do not see how this is any worse than much other false advertising.
They do, but what they are doing is not false advertising, just dishonest. ISPs advertise the maximum speed and they are right that those are the maximum speed a customer (just not *you*) could theoretically attain. What they are suggesting here is not that the false advertisement stops, but the idea of a maximum being advertised stops and instead people get an average.
Kind of reminds me of the days people were advertising $50 boom boxes with 2000W power output with lots of fineprint saying what that one specific condition is that would allow it to produce that power for a split millisecond.
That's exactly my point. As the weather starts becoming more extreme they need to start learning to cope with the weather.
I never said that the problems weren't insurmountable or based on faulty assumptions during original airport design, just that the world is changing and in winter it seems like the two busiest hubs in Europe both managed to have a 90% reduction in capacity for several days, several months in a row.
What may have been occasional closure is unlikely to be going forward, and I would challenge if it isn't already.
Sounds like normal capitalism at work here. Was there a trademark issue? Was there a patent violated? The thing is what most people call counterfeit and infringing is nothing of the sort. There's nothing stopping me creating something that looks like something else and selling it at half the price providing there's no trademarks or patents being infringed on. That is why big companies are so strict on their IP and part of the reason why they attempt to impose some level of DRM.
If your small British company produces something high quality that gives it value over the cheaper clones it will survive. If it is exactly the same thing, like in this case, a plastic hook with double sided tape then tough. Innovate or starve.
Yeah I know right! Changing the colour of your skin is trivial for the job interview.
If it gets the point of the interview
Ok you addressed it, but you don't seem to see the point. These are policies enacted by high-ups. The interview is irrelevant in the face of policy. They aren't looking for the best technical candidate in the first cut, and they aren't looking for them in the interview either.
It doesn't really because the airports most affected by this include the 4 biggest European hubs: Heathrow, Schiphol, Charles de Gaulle and Frankfurt. Only Istanbul is alone in the top 5 that hasn't imposed runway restrictions due to weather multiple times in the past few years, each time with quite a bit of ensuing chaos throughout all of Europe.
What an asshole statement from a continent that killed tens of millions in living memory largely due to lack of things like a first amendment. How's Turkey doing on their application? And Russia?
Wow. Ignorant much?
No one is being killed and definitely not in the millions for something like a first amendment violation. Turkey has had their ascention process frozen precisely because of the attacks on their people and wouldn't have made it without changing in the first place. Russia not only is a never-was or a never-will-be, but sharing its borders with the likes of the Ukraine also struggle to become part of the EU simply because it is sharing a border with Russia.
Get a clue man. This is the age of the internet, you don't even need to pay to go to school to learn something.
The world has changed. We have staffed every level of the hierarchy all the way to the top with lapdogs and yes-men.
The FCC is now a blatant puppy of the telecom majors. The government has achieved an almost perfect level of partisan party line bickering completely ignoring the people they represent. And Amazon will not only not be broken up, but it is still in the honeymoon process of buying Wholefoods, the government just made it bigger.
Those certificates are DEFINITELY compromised now.
Wrong analogy. Bullet meets foot implies that the action of the CEO achieved something other than what he was hoping. He wanted to revoke those certificates anyway, and when questioned whether they were compromised he compromised them.
This just shows the differences in levels of preparedness for certain weather conditions of different airports. It takes some serious weather to bring down air infrastructure in North America.
In Europe on the other hand, temperature is below 0deg, there's this very subtle white powder falling from the sky, CLOSE EVERYTHING! Facetiousness aside as climate change is expected to bring about more extreme weather conditions it's time the European airports looked across the ocean for tips on how to cope with a little bit of snow. Buying more than a handful of de-icing machines would be a start.
At least I was only delayed for 3h Friday and not cancelled.
but distance no longer makes any difference in an internet-based service
This comment is brought to you by the same thought process which comes up with: Trump was right to fire weather forecasters because we can just get the weather forecast through an app.
but pulling down a channel like that only makes it worse by lending credibility and showing its worthy of attention.
Just because I clean up a dogshit from my front yard doesn't mean that everyone suddenly feels like they wanted to have a sniff of it first. Alex Jones gets no more credibility by being removed from a platform that doesn't want him than he had before.
What he does get is media attention, but certainly not credibility or any other "worth".
You know that it wasn't part of the constitutional right until an amendment was put in place right? Constitutions get amended, they are not cast in iron. Hiding behind a piece of paper for every debate is childish.
Why should the Center for Disease Control study violence
Because it's even more childish to hide behind a single word in a title for your argument. The CDC's primary role is improving health and security of Americans. This includes studying what impacts their health. If you don't understand how your population is dying then you can't help improve this statistic. Just because a lot of their effort goes into actual diseases doesn't mean they also don't monitor death by: - Guns - Vehicles - Workplace accidents - Viral infections - General health trends (obesity, smoking etc).
Really you should learn what your government agencies do before you tell them how you think they should operate.
There is a staggeringly huge gap between an "obviously untrained" employee, and what you seem to be after: the "theoretically perfect" employee. Key part there is the theoretical. This is a process where humans judge. They will never be perfect, and mistakes do not make them "obviously untrained".
I got heat stroke once. Called ambulance. Arrived within 3 minutes. I was in the hospital 10 min later. Discharged after being on fluids for 6 hours. Total cost $30 for the taxi home.
This is a good enough concept for an airBnB where a visitor has a vested interest in getting in contact with you. But this is Amazon we're talking about. Is frigging hard enough to run to the door full speed before the delivery guy drops you a "didn't see you in the 5 seconds I waited" slip and goes on his way.
Stupid part is I checked into an airBnB yesterday that had this technology already in the doorbell. And it looks like it was installed in the 80s. Such an old concept with $1bn? I think it's time I invented a round thing to aid rolling. Maybe I'll give the wheel a cool name like "Roll".
There's nothing stopping you from cycling in the snow. Get some decent tires a good jacket and go for it. According to you you'll have an entire lane to yourself.
There are many things that stopping me: a. lack of a death wish, b. aversion to misery, c. gainful employment with standards on tardiness and appearance.
Well to address that:
a. You just said you have your own bikelanes. b. Exercise releases endorphins. You should try it. Know what is miserable? Being stuck in traffic. c. I'm not sure why that is relevant. Cycle in your suit, it worked just fine when I didn't have a shower at work.... which I do, so now I just get changed when I get to work. If you can't keep up appearance with a bicycle, you're doing it wrong.
Except that new cars aren't the entire car market. So they're not really to the median level of car spending yet. But the Model 3 is a big move in that direction.
Irrelevant on the face of the fact that Tesla are not for the 1% but priced smack bang in the middle of the average for cars. Or are you saying a run of the mill Ford is also for the 1%ers? In which case please let me know who your dealer is because I want in on whatever you're taking.
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No worries :-)
In this particular case in the article there actually is a fraud case as the product is a proper direct rip-off with the same logo, name, and the listing even says "the original" in the title.
Though anyone selling a cheap gadget these days if they didn't think of registering a trademark at the start... well you live with the poor business decisions you make.
The bezel-less trend is real.
Yes and it was started by people who knew how to make them practical before curving the display edge and taking a chunk out of it.
Now that these expensive 300-400 workers have been removed from the total cost of producing said jeans, the consumer price will surely drop.
You were going for funny, but when I look at the cost of Jeans now compared to 20 years ago there has been a steady drop in the cost of quality clothing over the years.
But relaxing the existing rules to allow competition would be DE-REGULATION! Nobody wants that, right?
The only truly stupid people are the proponents of regulation and the proponents of de-regulation. What regulation is or isn't applied needs to be assessed on very specific cases. But you're never going to get that kind of critical though applied to anything in the Un-united States of Red vs Blue
And it was mocked just as much as the iPhone X is. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be disappointed that companies are copying useless shit from each other.
So this is all good and find in theory where everyone is on fiber and perfect copper, but the vast majority of Australia is on ADSL2+ which has a theoretical speed limit of 25/5 and a practical speed limit that is very much dependent on each individual customer and not at all in control of the ISP or how much bandwidth they are able to allocate to you.
I was on a pretty good ISP and never experienced peak hour slowdowns (though I left Australia before Netflix became a thing there). However that doesn't change the fact that my 25mbit plan was never going to see more than 21mbit (I was close to the exchange) and my father on the same ISP in the same area was never going to see more than 7mbit.
How are they supposed to advertise this kind of service?
Oh you must be an ISP. You read a statement and then pointed out the *maximum* from that statement ;-)
I would assume that Australia already has laws against false advertising. So, this would be redundant. I do not see how this is any worse than much other false advertising.
They do, but what they are doing is not false advertising, just dishonest. ISPs advertise the maximum speed and they are right that those are the maximum speed a customer (just not *you*) could theoretically attain. What they are suggesting here is not that the false advertisement stops, but the idea of a maximum being advertised stops and instead people get an average.
Kind of reminds me of the days people were advertising $50 boom boxes with 2000W power output with lots of fineprint saying what that one specific condition is that would allow it to produce that power for a split millisecond.
That's exactly my point. As the weather starts becoming more extreme they need to start learning to cope with the weather.
I never said that the problems weren't insurmountable or based on faulty assumptions during original airport design, just that the world is changing and in winter it seems like the two busiest hubs in Europe both managed to have a 90% reduction in capacity for several days, several months in a row.
What may have been occasional closure is unlikely to be going forward, and I would challenge if it isn't already.
Sounds like normal capitalism at work here. Was there a trademark issue? Was there a patent violated? The thing is what most people call counterfeit and infringing is nothing of the sort. There's nothing stopping me creating something that looks like something else and selling it at half the price providing there's no trademarks or patents being infringed on. That is why big companies are so strict on their IP and part of the reason why they attempt to impose some level of DRM.
If your small British company produces something high quality that gives it value over the cheaper clones it will survive. If it is exactly the same thing, like in this case, a plastic hook with double sided tape then tough. Innovate or starve.
Yeah I know right! Changing the colour of your skin is trivial for the job interview.
If it gets the point of the interview
Ok you addressed it, but you don't seem to see the point. These are policies enacted by high-ups. The interview is irrelevant in the face of policy. They aren't looking for the best technical candidate in the first cut, and they aren't looking for them in the interview either.
That depends a lot on where you are in Europe.
It doesn't really because the airports most affected by this include the 4 biggest European hubs: Heathrow, Schiphol, Charles de Gaulle and Frankfurt. Only Istanbul is alone in the top 5 that hasn't imposed runway restrictions due to weather multiple times in the past few years, each time with quite a bit of ensuing chaos throughout all of Europe.
What an asshole statement from a continent that killed tens of millions in living memory largely due to lack of things like a first amendment. How's Turkey doing on their application? And Russia?
Wow. Ignorant much?
No one is being killed and definitely not in the millions for something like a first amendment violation.
Turkey has had their ascention process frozen precisely because of the attacks on their people and wouldn't have made it without changing in the first place.
Russia not only is a never-was or a never-will-be, but sharing its borders with the likes of the Ukraine also struggle to become part of the EU simply because it is sharing a border with Russia.
Get a clue man. This is the age of the internet, you don't even need to pay to go to school to learn something.
Why not Amazon?
The world has changed. We have staffed every level of the hierarchy all the way to the top with lapdogs and yes-men.
The FCC is now a blatant puppy of the telecom majors.
The government has achieved an almost perfect level of partisan party line bickering completely ignoring the people they represent.
And Amazon will not only not be broken up, but it is still in the honeymoon process of buying Wholefoods, the government just made it bigger.
Those certificates are DEFINITELY compromised now.
Wrong analogy. Bullet meets foot implies that the action of the CEO achieved something other than what he was hoping. He wanted to revoke those certificates anyway, and when questioned whether they were compromised he compromised them.
Nail meets coffin.
This just shows the differences in levels of preparedness for certain weather conditions of different airports. It takes some serious weather to bring down air infrastructure in North America.
In Europe on the other hand, temperature is below 0deg, there's this very subtle white powder falling from the sky, CLOSE EVERYTHING!
Facetiousness aside as climate change is expected to bring about more extreme weather conditions it's time the European airports looked across the ocean for tips on how to cope with a little bit of snow. Buying more than a handful of de-icing machines would be a start.
At least I was only delayed for 3h Friday and not cancelled.
but distance no longer makes any difference in an internet-based service
This comment is brought to you by the same thought process which comes up with: Trump was right to fire weather forecasters because we can just get the weather forecast through an app.
but pulling down a channel like that only makes it worse by lending credibility and showing its worthy of attention.
Just because I clean up a dogshit from my front yard doesn't mean that everyone suddenly feels like they wanted to have a sniff of it first. Alex Jones gets no more credibility by being removed from a platform that doesn't want him than he had before.
What he does get is media attention, but certainly not credibility or any other "worth".
and certainly not a constitutional right
You know that it wasn't part of the constitutional right until an amendment was put in place right? Constitutions get amended, they are not cast in iron. Hiding behind a piece of paper for every debate is childish.
Why should the Center for Disease Control study violence
Because it's even more childish to hide behind a single word in a title for your argument. The CDC's primary role is improving health and security of Americans. This includes studying what impacts their health. If you don't understand how your population is dying then you can't help improve this statistic. Just because a lot of their effort goes into actual diseases doesn't mean they also don't monitor death by:
- Guns
- Vehicles
- Workplace accidents
- Viral infections
- General health trends (obesity, smoking etc).
Really you should learn what your government agencies do before you tell them how you think they should operate.
obviously untrained
There is a staggeringly huge gap between an "obviously untrained" employee, and what you seem to be after: the "theoretically perfect" employee. Key part there is the theoretical. This is a process where humans judge. They will never be perfect, and mistakes do not make them "obviously untrained".
Truly a 3rd world medical system.
I got heat stroke once. Called ambulance. Arrived within 3 minutes. I was in the hospital 10 min later. Discharged after being on fluids for 6 hours. Total cost $30 for the taxi home.
This is a good enough concept for an airBnB where a visitor has a vested interest in getting in contact with you. But this is Amazon we're talking about. Is frigging hard enough to run to the door full speed before the delivery guy drops you a "didn't see you in the 5 seconds I waited" slip and goes on his way.
Stupid part is I checked into an airBnB yesterday that had this technology already in the doorbell. And it looks like it was installed in the 80s. Such an old concept with $1bn? I think it's time I invented a round thing to aid rolling. Maybe I'll give the wheel a cool name like "Roll".
I think you are getting direct and indirect confused.
There's nothing stopping you from cycling in the snow. Get some decent tires a good jacket and go for it. According to you you'll have an entire lane to yourself.
There are many things that stopping me: a. lack of a death wish, b. aversion to misery, c. gainful employment with standards on tardiness and appearance.
Well to address that:
a. You just said you have your own bikelanes. ... which I do, so now I just get changed when I get to work. If you can't keep up appearance with a bicycle, you're doing it wrong.
b. Exercise releases endorphins. You should try it. Know what is miserable? Being stuck in traffic.
c. I'm not sure why that is relevant. Cycle in your suit, it worked just fine when I didn't have a shower at work.
Except that new cars aren't the entire car market. So they're not really to the median level of car spending yet. But the Model 3 is a big move in that direction.
Irrelevant on the face of the fact that Tesla are not for the 1% but priced smack bang in the middle of the average for cars. Or are you saying a run of the mill Ford is also for the 1%ers? In which case please let me know who your dealer is because I want in on whatever you're taking.