Did they maybe not do the same to the other side? Who cares so what?
I care. The Soviet^W Russian^W WikiLeaks dumps were giving only half the story. It's like a trial where only one side gets to present evidence. Sure, the opposition can cross-examine, but if the opposition can't call its own witnesses, the jury isn't going to get a complete picture.
we need a signature on every transaction now (because it's chip & signature, not chip & sometimes signature - but I expect that to be relaxed very soon)
Some retailers are relaxing this. I've charged over $100 at Costco using my Costco-branded card and not had to sign.
Are they going to force Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla to add in British-government-controlled certificate authorities to their browsers distributed in the UK? Or force hardware vendors to provide access to decrypted data on end-users' machines? I don't think they've thought through how little control over the process CSPs have.
I'm also wondering - does the financial sector get a pass from these directives? If not, good luck keeping London as the de-facto headquarters for the financial sector in Europe. If so, I wonder how they plan to restrict encryption to only the financial center?
He sounds moderate but his actions are pretty radical(anti abortion bills with no abortion exception even to save the life of the mother)
This is mainstream GOP policy. A human life amendment was in the GOP platform in 2012; see here (PDF) starting on page 13. Although the platform does leave some wiggle room for abortions in fetuses that cannot feel pain:
We call for legislation to ban sex-selective abortions – gender discrimination in its most lethal form—and to protect from abortion unborn children who are capable of feeling pain;...
You're talking about a project that's 10 times longer than the Channel Tunnel, which took 6 years and cost £13 billion in today's dollars. Of course, there's no English Channel overhead, so you can make boreholes overhead and pull out the rock that way instead of hauling it along the length of the tunnel. But on the other hand, you don't have the advantage of being able to choose the tunnels' path to get favorable geology - given the higher speeds, you're pretty much stuck with going through whatever rock is in your way.
Plus, a straight line tube is not going to accelerate rapidly enough to get you there in 43 minutes. Are you assuming that you're going to be accelerating at 9.81 m/s^2? I think you'd be closer to 0.3 m/s^2.
Once the new VP becomes President, then filling the VP slot will require the approval of Congress. I doubt that a Republican Congress would be willing to approve someone who would be acceptable to Democrats. Lessig's whole idea also robs the voters of the ability to choose the VP.
Plus, leaving the VP slot empty and making Boehner a heartbeat away from the presidency is a terrible idea.
Let me make the assumption that it's equally difficult to block or synthesize the protein which brakes bone growth. Let's pretend for a second that it would cost the same amount of money to do both, but there isn't enough money, so only one can be done. Blocking the protein would help millions with osteoporosis, while synthesizing it will help the thousands with sclerosteosis. It makes more sense to me to improve the lives of millions of osteoporosis sufferers first. This holds true regardless of whether or not the research is being done for profit.
In the words of H.L. Mencken, "for every complex problem, there is a solution which is simple, neat, and wrong." Running your credit into the ground is an example of this type of solution. Credit reports are, like it or not, used for judging your suitability/risk for jobs, insurance, and other tasks not related to taking out a loan. Damaging your own report may be far more costly than you realize.
In general, I do agree with you about paying off your debts and not overextending yourself. I have credit cards, but I pay them off every month. When I buy a new car (which isn't often), I pay cash. However, what's right for me isn't right for everybody. If I needed a more reliable car in order to get a job and didn't have the cash, then I would take out a loan and pay it off as soon as possible.
I was wondering the same thing. Perhaps there is some scarce resource that could be easily depleted by having too many people concentrated in one place? I don't know what that could be - there's no water, for example. Or perhaps there's some activity (e.g., mining) which would best be separated from the main settlements for safety reasons.
Most of the comments here seem to be saying that the case was decided incorrectly because the text of the law was clear and the intent doesn't matter. However, there are lots of other cases where the text of the law is equally clear and yet SCOTUS has ruled that intent matters. Let's start with the First Amendment. It's obvious that slander laws run afoul of the plain text of the First Amendment. Which part of "Congress shall make no law..." is unclear? None at all. Yet SCOTUS has ruled slander laws are allowed, as well as laws preventing inciting a riot (e.g., yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater).
For another example near and dear to conservatives' hearts, consider the Second Amendment. The Roberts court has ruled (District of Columbia vs. Heller, 2008) that the Second Amendment establishes an individual right to carry arms, despite the fact the amendment only mentions carrying arms in the context of a militia.
With the current case, the intent of the law was clear (and most of the drafters are still around to ask), so that's what SCOTUS used. Judges aren't just implementations of parsing algorithms that spit out yes or no results based on the text of the laws.
Isn't this incredibly risky for Disney? the government could cut down on the numbers of h1b's any year and then they would be boned.
No, it's not risky. First, any reduction in H1-Bs would only affect future years. It's very unlikely that Congress would throw out existing visa holders. Second, Disney wouldn't care even if they do throw out existing visa holders. This is because the newly-trained Infosys employees are probably already back in India, where their wages are much, much lower than comparable wages in America. If these workers stayed in America, they would be entitled to pay comparable to those of the recently laid off workers, so there would be no savings to Disney.
The first paragraph of Article 1, Section 6 is (emphasis added):
The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
Sales tax is collected when the vehicle is registered, not sold.
NJ isn't losing much, if any, tax revenue, because the existing showrooms are converting to "galleries" where you can do everything but negotiate a price or place an order.
If Knight had put the $460 million in a pile and burned it, there would be no fine. The problem was that their algorithm was wildly buying and selling shares in the open market, and thus distorting that market. See the graph at http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/the-knightmare for an example of a stock that was affected. What if you were an investor in that stock who had set a stop-loss at $10? Knight's wild selling would have triggered the stop-loss, and you'd lose money because of Knight's actions. This gross market distortion is what the fine was meant to punish.
No. What you may be thinking of is the rule that if a sale in one period is contingent on an event in another period, then you can't book all of the revenue from the sale in the first period. However, that doesn't apply here, since sales of the iPod Touch were not contingent on anything (nitpick: Apple has to make the usual set-asides for returns, repairs covered by the limited warranty, etc.). There is absolutely no accounting reason why Apple can't give away the software update.
Sun open-sourced StarOffice and Solaris, both of which were acquired or developed at a cost of many millions of dollars. How many other companies have done this?
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Did they maybe not do the same to the other side? Who cares so what?
I care. The Soviet^W Russian^W WikiLeaks dumps were giving only half the story. It's like a trial where only one side gets to present evidence. Sure, the opposition can cross-examine, but if the opposition can't call its own witnesses, the jury isn't going to get a complete picture.
One of Trump's frequent arguments is that he's so much better than Clinton because he "hires the best people." This story puts the lie to that.
Some retailers are relaxing this. I've charged over $100 at Costco using my Costco-branded card and not had to sign.
Mitchell and Webb covered this hilariously at https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Are they going to force Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla to add in British-government-controlled certificate authorities to their browsers distributed in the UK? Or force hardware vendors to provide access to decrypted data on end-users' machines? I don't think they've thought through how little control over the process CSPs have.
I'm also wondering - does the financial sector get a pass from these directives? If not, good luck keeping London as the de-facto headquarters for the financial sector in Europe. If so, I wonder how they plan to restrict encryption to only the financial center?
AC didn't consider that there are probably plenty of other apps that sell the user's location data to Facebook.
It's probably a compilation of data from public records (such as voting registration) and private records (household surveys, etc.).
Mass shootings happen so frequently that it's helpful to describe some characteristics so that we can tell them apart.
This is mainstream GOP policy. A human life amendment was in the GOP platform in 2012; see here (PDF) starting on page 13. Although the platform does leave some wiggle room for abortions in fetuses that cannot feel pain:
Theranos has been making extraordinary claims and providing no proof (to the public, anyway).
Plus, a straight line tube is not going to accelerate rapidly enough to get you there in 43 minutes. Are you assuming that you're going to be accelerating at 9.81 m/s^2? I think you'd be closer to 0.3 m/s^2.
wmic baseboard get product,Manufacturer,version,serialnumber
Once the new VP becomes President, then filling the VP slot will require the approval of Congress. I doubt that a Republican Congress would be willing to approve someone who would be acceptable to Democrats. Lessig's whole idea also robs the voters of the ability to choose the VP.
Plus, leaving the VP slot empty and making Boehner a heartbeat away from the presidency is a terrible idea.
Let me make the assumption that it's equally difficult to block or synthesize the protein which brakes bone growth. Let's pretend for a second that it would cost the same amount of money to do both, but there isn't enough money, so only one can be done. Blocking the protein would help millions with osteoporosis, while synthesizing it will help the thousands with sclerosteosis. It makes more sense to me to improve the lives of millions of osteoporosis sufferers first. This holds true regardless of whether or not the research is being done for profit.
In the words of H.L. Mencken, "for every complex problem, there is a solution which is simple, neat, and wrong." Running your credit into the ground is an example of this type of solution. Credit reports are, like it or not, used for judging your suitability/risk for jobs, insurance, and other tasks not related to taking out a loan. Damaging your own report may be far more costly than you realize.
In general, I do agree with you about paying off your debts and not overextending yourself. I have credit cards, but I pay them off every month. When I buy a new car (which isn't often), I pay cash. However, what's right for me isn't right for everybody. If I needed a more reliable car in order to get a job and didn't have the cash, then I would take out a loan and pay it off as soon as possible.
I was wondering the same thing. Perhaps there is some scarce resource that could be easily depleted by having too many people concentrated in one place? I don't know what that could be - there's no water, for example. Or perhaps there's some activity (e.g., mining) which would best be separated from the main settlements for safety reasons.
Most of the comments here seem to be saying that the case was decided incorrectly because the text of the law was clear and the intent doesn't matter. However, there are lots of other cases where the text of the law is equally clear and yet SCOTUS has ruled that intent matters. Let's start with the First Amendment. It's obvious that slander laws run afoul of the plain text of the First Amendment. Which part of "Congress shall make no law..." is unclear? None at all. Yet SCOTUS has ruled slander laws are allowed, as well as laws preventing inciting a riot (e.g., yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater).
For another example near and dear to conservatives' hearts, consider the Second Amendment. The Roberts court has ruled (District of Columbia vs. Heller, 2008) that the Second Amendment establishes an individual right to carry arms, despite the fact the amendment only mentions carrying arms in the context of a militia.
With the current case, the intent of the law was clear (and most of the drafters are still around to ask), so that's what SCOTUS used. Judges aren't just implementations of parsing algorithms that spit out yes or no results based on the text of the laws.
No, it's not risky. First, any reduction in H1-Bs would only affect future years. It's very unlikely that Congress would throw out existing visa holders. Second, Disney wouldn't care even if they do throw out existing visa holders. This is because the newly-trained Infosys employees are probably already back in India, where their wages are much, much lower than comparable wages in America. If these workers stayed in America, they would be entitled to pay comparable to those of the recently laid off workers, so there would be no savings to Disney.
See the Wikipedia article on the Speech and Debate Clause or read it for yourself in the Constitution. So he can talk all about the program during a speech on the floor of the Senate, and nothing can be done to him.
Sales tax is collected when the vehicle is registered, not sold.
NJ isn't losing much, if any, tax revenue, because the existing showrooms are converting to "galleries" where you can do everything but negotiate a price or place an order.
If Knight had put the $460 million in a pile and burned it, there would be no fine. The problem was that their algorithm was wildly buying and selling shares in the open market, and thus distorting that market. See the graph at http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/the-knightmare for an example of a stock that was affected. What if you were an investor in that stock who had set a stop-loss at $10? Knight's wild selling would have triggered the stop-loss, and you'd lose money because of Knight's actions. This gross market distortion is what the fine was meant to punish.
No. What you may be thinking of is the rule that if a sale in one period is contingent on an event in another period, then you can't book all of the revenue from the sale in the first period. However, that doesn't apply here, since sales of the iPod Touch were not contingent on anything (nitpick: Apple has to make the usual set-asides for returns, repairs covered by the limited warranty, etc.). There is absolutely no accounting reason why Apple can't give away the software update.
MediaWiki for all the text-only stuff. Use the Graphviz extension for nice flowcharts (not necessarily pretty flowcharts - use Visio for that).
Sun open-sourced StarOffice and Solaris, both of which were acquired or developed at a cost of many millions of dollars. How many other companies have done this?
And don't work on the brilliant ideas using school resources: school-owned equipment, school employees (i.e. faculty, TAs), school network.