He got into their email and looked at old messages. I think it's safe to assume they were using some form of webmail, which means that their email was stored online.
Vaccines aren't profitable if everyone is making them and the only way to compete is price. Neither is penicillin, or any medication that is reasonably cheap to produce and not protected by patents. Once only 1 or 2 companies are making vaccines they'll set the price where they'll make a nice profit and laugh about how they can get a 200% margin on something that is almost required by law.
More like these tax loopholes are bugs in the law where companies can set up in multiple countries, properly follow the laws in each country, and pay very little tax anywhere. I suppose you could blame the GATT for encouraging this sort of globalization, thought personally I think globalization's benefits far outweigh its drawbacks. At this point the government has the choice of negotiating with the countries that provide the tax havens (Ireland, Bahamas, etc) to change their tax laws to close the loophole, or moving the tax burden from corporations to individuals who don't make enough money to make that sort of tax setup worthwhile. Or they could ignore it, keep pretending that there's political will to cut spending to balance the budget and scream about how it's the other guy's fault that the debt keeps ticking up.
It may surprise you to learn that there are countries outside of the USA, and many of them contain Christians. In fact, the majority of the world's Christians live somewhere other than America!
They'll fix dangerous bugs, same as they do now. It's called a product recall. On cars, it usually amounts to taking your car to the dealer and waiting while they replace a part. You won't get the software update that makes lane changes smoother on next year's model, but you'll get the bug fix for the issue where the car sometimes mistakes the ditch for the middle of the road.
You might want to read what you linked to - the levy doesn't exist on DVDs since it only covers audio. Download music in Canada, without making it available yourself (so no bittorrent), and you should be good. Download a movie and you can still be sued.
No, see, this is different because it's on a social network now. Take all the patents that were granted in the past 20 years that were obvious but had 'on the internet' appended and start appending 'on a social network'. That'll be the next 10 years of crap patents.
This may vary by area, but it's pretty common for the law to say that once your trash is on the curb it's abandoned and fair game for anyone to search through.
You're counting the cost of construction of renewables, and ignoring the cost of mining and processing the uranium for the nukes. Unless you know of some 0-carbon mining process the idea that nuclear creates 0 carbon is BS. Wind and solar are actually 0-carbon once built. This is +5 interesting why?
We built the LHC, a massive expense, for no reason other than basic science. There is, to my knowledge, no goal for the LHC that will directly justify its cost, but we built it anyway because basic science is important. This is no different. Maybe it won't work, that's fine. But we'll learn something in trying, we'll have a better understanding of what it required, maybe we'll figure out some new materials to get us closer to a working reactor, maybe we'll just end up with a lot more data to examine. If we don't keep trying what do you think will drive the other technologies required for fusion? Saying we shouldn't do it because we could put the money elsewhere is just as dumb as saying we shouldn't explore Mars because people are starving in Africa.
I was more disturbed by the article and how the lady was just determined to hate her censor.
I didn't get that out of it at all. What I read was that she didn't want to be buddies with her censor. She understood that she would want to push back against the censorship at times, and that's a hell of a lot easier to do if you aren't going to meet up for dinner after work. You see the same thing in most companies. Development and QA aren't generally too close, or QA starts ignoring minor bugs rather than pestering Dev. Sales can cause huge problems if whoever is in charge of product requirements doesn't feel like they can say no to requests because they go golfing with the sales guy. That's not to say there isn't mutual respect and a common goal, just that the individual people need some professional detachment in order to do their jobs to the best of their abilities.
There's still some air up there - otherwise the balloon wouldn't be able to get there. There's not enough for a person to self-stabilize, but he had a chute that was set to go off automatically if he spun fast enough to be dangerous that would have been enough to stabilize him.
It's only unusual if you only consider it and Christianity. In fact, it would probably be more correct to say that the offshoots of Judaism are unusual for their interest in converting the masses and disliking nonbelievers. I've never known a Hindu to try to convert someone. Or a Buddhist. I've never met someone into Zoroastrianism or Confucianism, but I've never heard about them being pushy. I've talked to native Americans about their spiritual beliefs and they were happy to talk, but certainly didn't try to make me share their beliefs.
Since Japan, you mean? And Germany before that? It's a pretty well-established way of getting to an industrialized economy. The only question is if they will be able to make the leap from cheap imitation crap to cheap imitation quality.
That depends on the problem. I assume the CIA wants it for breaking encryption, which means they want it for factoring large numbers. That's a problem that is really hard for a normal computer to do, but really easy for it to verify. If factoring a 1024 bit number takes 10000 tries, and each try takes a second, you're still several orders of magnitude better than the current state of the art and you've rendered many of the current common encryption schemes useless.
Guess I can't interview there. My contract has one of those wonderful 'all IP created during your time here belongs to the company' clauses. If I create it during my interview my current company still owns it. I've never worried about interview code before since it's all toy problems and junk code anyway, but if I was doing something commercial as part of an interview process there could be some nasty legal implications if they try to release it.
Just to be clear, that's 35 years without maintenance or refuelling. Maybe there are a couple military satellites still going that are 35 years old, but I doubt there's much else that hasn't undergone some major maintenance in that time.
While removing the SIM gets rid of the IMEI it certainly doesn't make it so that your phone is unable to connect to a cell network. 911 calls continue to work, even if your phone has no SIM. There are several other identifiers in a cell phone that the network can use for routing and tracking purposes, if they want to.
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He got into their email and looked at old messages. I think it's safe to assume they were using some form of webmail, which means that their email was stored online.
Vaccines aren't profitable if everyone is making them and the only way to compete is price. Neither is penicillin, or any medication that is reasonably cheap to produce and not protected by patents. Once only 1 or 2 companies are making vaccines they'll set the price where they'll make a nice profit and laugh about how they can get a 200% margin on something that is almost required by law.
So you think Canada and most of the Caribbean countries are part of the US then?
More like these tax loopholes are bugs in the law where companies can set up in multiple countries, properly follow the laws in each country, and pay very little tax anywhere. I suppose you could blame the GATT for encouraging this sort of globalization, thought personally I think globalization's benefits far outweigh its drawbacks. At this point the government has the choice of negotiating with the countries that provide the tax havens (Ireland, Bahamas, etc) to change their tax laws to close the loophole, or moving the tax burden from corporations to individuals who don't make enough money to make that sort of tax setup worthwhile. Or they could ignore it, keep pretending that there's political will to cut spending to balance the budget and scream about how it's the other guy's fault that the debt keeps ticking up.
You can do that with prepared queries directly against tables, you don't need to use stored procedures to get that benefit.
It may surprise you to learn that there are countries outside of the USA, and many of them contain Christians. In fact, the majority of the world's Christians live somewhere other than America!
They'll fix dangerous bugs, same as they do now. It's called a product recall. On cars, it usually amounts to taking your car to the dealer and waiting while they replace a part. You won't get the software update that makes lane changes smoother on next year's model, but you'll get the bug fix for the issue where the car sometimes mistakes the ditch for the middle of the road.
You might want to read what you linked to - the levy doesn't exist on DVDs since it only covers audio. Download music in Canada, without making it available yourself (so no bittorrent), and you should be good. Download a movie and you can still be sued.
Important to realize here is that Ontario and Quebec, where engineer is definitely a protected title, represent about 60% of the population of Canada.
No, see, this is different because it's on a social network now. Take all the patents that were granted in the past 20 years that were obvious but had 'on the internet' appended and start appending 'on a social network'. That'll be the next 10 years of crap patents.
This may vary by area, but it's pretty common for the law to say that once your trash is on the curb it's abandoned and fair game for anyone to search through.
You're counting the cost of construction of renewables, and ignoring the cost of mining and processing the uranium for the nukes. Unless you know of some 0-carbon mining process the idea that nuclear creates 0 carbon is BS. Wind and solar are actually 0-carbon once built. This is +5 interesting why?
We built the LHC, a massive expense, for no reason other than basic science. There is, to my knowledge, no goal for the LHC that will directly justify its cost, but we built it anyway because basic science is important. This is no different. Maybe it won't work, that's fine. But we'll learn something in trying, we'll have a better understanding of what it required, maybe we'll figure out some new materials to get us closer to a working reactor, maybe we'll just end up with a lot more data to examine. If we don't keep trying what do you think will drive the other technologies required for fusion? Saying we shouldn't do it because we could put the money elsewhere is just as dumb as saying we shouldn't explore Mars because people are starving in Africa.
I was more disturbed by the article and how the lady was just determined to hate her censor.
I didn't get that out of it at all. What I read was that she didn't want to be buddies with her censor. She understood that she would want to push back against the censorship at times, and that's a hell of a lot easier to do if you aren't going to meet up for dinner after work. You see the same thing in most companies. Development and QA aren't generally too close, or QA starts ignoring minor bugs rather than pestering Dev. Sales can cause huge problems if whoever is in charge of product requirements doesn't feel like they can say no to requests because they go golfing with the sales guy. That's not to say there isn't mutual respect and a common goal, just that the individual people need some professional detachment in order to do their jobs to the best of their abilities.
Is this how they're getting their predictions?
There's still some air up there - otherwise the balloon wouldn't be able to get there. There's not enough for a person to self-stabilize, but he had a chute that was set to go off automatically if he spun fast enough to be dangerous that would have been enough to stabilize him.
It's only unusual if you only consider it and Christianity. In fact, it would probably be more correct to say that the offshoots of Judaism are unusual for their interest in converting the masses and disliking nonbelievers. I've never known a Hindu to try to convert someone. Or a Buddhist. I've never met someone into Zoroastrianism or Confucianism, but I've never heard about them being pushy. I've talked to native Americans about their spiritual beliefs and they were happy to talk, but certainly didn't try to make me share their beliefs.
Since Japan, you mean? And Germany before that? It's a pretty well-established way of getting to an industrialized economy. The only question is if they will be able to make the leap from cheap imitation crap to cheap imitation quality.
The building is still usually metered, and whoever owns it has to pay. If people use more water they'll just raise rent on everyone.
That depends on the problem. I assume the CIA wants it for breaking encryption, which means they want it for factoring large numbers. That's a problem that is really hard for a normal computer to do, but really easy for it to verify. If factoring a 1024 bit number takes 10000 tries, and each try takes a second, you're still several orders of magnitude better than the current state of the art and you've rendered many of the current common encryption schemes useless.
Butterflies...
Pharmaceutical inventors don’t claim “an arrangement of atoms that cures cancer,”
Excuse me for a moment, need to fill out a patent application form...
Guess I can't interview there. My contract has one of those wonderful 'all IP created during your time here belongs to the company' clauses. If I create it during my interview my current company still owns it. I've never worried about interview code before since it's all toy problems and junk code anyway, but if I was doing something commercial as part of an interview process there could be some nasty legal implications if they try to release it.
Just to be clear, that's 35 years without maintenance or refuelling. Maybe there are a couple military satellites still going that are 35 years old, but I doubt there's much else that hasn't undergone some major maintenance in that time.
While removing the SIM gets rid of the IMEI it certainly doesn't make it so that your phone is unable to connect to a cell network. 911 calls continue to work, even if your phone has no SIM. There are several other identifiers in a cell phone that the network can use for routing and tracking purposes, if they want to.