While written with snarky vitriol, your point has merit. The problem is mostly that the populace in China is uneducated and extremely poor, meaning belief in magic and magical cures is still rampant. An educated society is dangerous, so don't look for this to change any time soon.
The uneducated and extremely poor receive adulterated concoctions containing little if any of the very expensive raw materials they claim to have. The trade in black market materials for traditional medicine didn't explode because China got poorer but because it got wealthier. Westerner's spend Billions a year in "alternative medicine," like supplements which at best are doing little and at worst are actually harming. The Chinese are not that different in trying to cling to hope when the Medical Community offers little
Food critics will pan KFC, but if it is exactly what you are aching for RIGHT now it will be hard to believe people wouldn't eat it everyday. It doesn't make the critics wrong, but rather that tastes vary.
If you are craving, it means you are hungry. What the body wants most when hungry is a quick dose of calories sugars and fats. Taste be damned. Once the brain associates KFC or whatever junk food peddler you have close by with this quick fix that's exactly where it will push you to go next time the body sends it those hunger signals
The NYC subway L line is capable and fully tested for automation since 2009. The MTA wanted to remove the Conductors completely. The Union fought this plan as a contract violation and won. automated-train-rolls . I suspect the railroads have similar problems.
Actually the real problem is idiots buying more home then they need, or for more then they can afford because they think it is a good investment. Talk to any financial advisor and they will tell you that the home you live in is not an investment. A friend of mine "was tired of paying the landlords mortgage" so he went and bought his own, unfortunately he bought way out of a reasonable price range, his downpayment drained nearly all his investment and savings accounts and now he pays more then double per moth his previous rent, making sure that he will have little left over for a very long time for investments or savings.
Great cards otherwise, but have they fixed the horizontal tearing issues yet of the 900 series when they're used in Linux?
I've tried every fix I can find online and still can't stop that. My earlier 700 series card never had these issues.
Tearing in Linux GUI is mostly due to the antiquated X11. Switching to Wayland pretty much resolves this issue. Unfortunately the nVidia proprietary driver does not support Wayland. The open source Nouveau drivers do, but those drivers can be a noticeable step down depending on your system and what you're trying to do (gaming is a no go). Fedora 25 comes with Wayland as default if you would like to take it for a spin
A few months after Flint switched the water supply, the brass from General Motors went to the Governor (R) and complained that the Flint River water was causing their car parts to corrode when being washed on the assembly line. The Governor was appalled to hear that GM property was being damaged, so he jumped through a number of hoops and quietly spent $440,000 to hook GM back up to the Lake Huron water, while keeping the rest of Flint on the Flint River water. Which means that thatnks to the Governer while the children in Flint were drinking lead-filled water, GM was washing its cars with clean water
The C and P symmetries violations in weak interactions is not enough to explain why there is No detectable antimatter in the Universe. Scientists are performing experiments that they should know the results of in the hopes that it gives unexpected result.
Ernest Rutherford's landmark experiment with gold foil and alpha particles is just one of many experiments yielding unexpected results, invalidating the wildly accepted Plumb Pudding theory of the atom and opening the door to Quantum Mechanics. The discovery of the expansion of the universe and later its acceleration were both unexpected results. Sometimes it pay to check if the sky is actually blue (which ironically only appears to humans as blue because of a quirk of our vision system. If human (or to alien) eyes were equally sensitive to all wavelengths the sky might look violet or ultra-violet)
I we would halt all off shore wind farms and put them where the wind in strong and constant. Montana and the Dakotas. Place them among the farms, generate power all year long, day and night.
There is a reason why the U.S built its Nuclear reactors close to population centers instead of building them in the middle of the Great Basin Desert. It is the same reason why we can't cover Montana and the Dakotas with turbines to power the U.S. Transmitting energy long distances is both expensive and inefficient due to resistance loss. In much of the North East land is expensive and as a result those states lag behind in wind power generation. Well other then the Southern States which have practically no wind farms (except for Texas which ironically is the top producer of wind power) mostly due to Political ideology against Climate Change Science
The U.S finally managed to open it's first offshore wind farm. A whole of 5 turbines producing a paltry 30Mw of power, by comparison Europe added some 419 turbines producing over 3000Mw last year alone.
A) What kind of measures does this system take to mitigate the propagation of false information?
B) What would prevent data collection by third parties?
From everything I've read, there are no intrinsic defenses that ensure accuracy or privacy.
A) A Public Key Infrastructure systems (PKI) with a A Root Certificate Authority and a chain of trust system very similar to SSL and TLS.
B) To communicate with each other the car's use their certified key to generate short-term certificates or "pseudonyms" every 5 minutes. The certificates or the data don't contain any identifiable information such as VIN numbers.
Unbelievable as it may be, it really looks like they had security-experts really think this through and implement "best-practices" in terms of security and anonimity
So, at least $1000 per vehicle, and probably a lot more?
And then they'll be able to put up a bunch of sensors along the streets to keep track of where anyone goes at any particular time, and do things like monitor adherence to traffic laws.
Of course, they'll say "we would never do that," but we all know how that sort of thing works out in the long run.
Its truly astounding but on this one they actually worked closely with security researchers to make the technology not useful for tracking. The identification number is randomized every 5 minutes and it contains no information that can tie it to the vehicle's VIN. Hopefully the standard will also specify the minimum uncertainty for the randomize routine so we don't end up in the unfortunate situation we have today with many devices that use very predictable randomize functions to generate insecure keys.
It's pretty much a foregone conclusion that past some point, life extension will require forgetting some of your life and dealing with some personality changes, as there are limits to the brain. I guess that means Dr. Who got it kinda right.
The brain compartmentalizes and prioritizes even during a normal life-cycle. This is why saying "oh yeh I forgot about that" is so common when talking about some old memories yet treating PTSD is so difficult even decades after the initial trauma
Yahoo turning down Microsoft's offer to buy them out for $45B has to go down as one of the dumbest business decisions of all time. Conversely Microsoft might win the award for biggest bullet (unintentionally) dodged of all time. Yahoo is just an absolutely pathetic company which has been badly managed for a long time.
Very likely however for the sake of accuracy I would like to note that the Microsoft sale would have included the Alibaba stake (which was much larger back then.) This stake is not included in the Verizon sale, only it's core business (largely the yahoo portal)
I just read the whole thing as "Monogamy leads to boring sex"
As most people you are confusing Monogamy with Pair bonding (something humans have formalized in the tradition and institution of marriage).
Monogamy simply means having a sexual relationship with only one partner at a time. Technically one can have 100's of monogamous relationships in their lifetime
Meanwhile in the real world, it's evil capitalism that gets things done. Before the government can steal something and give it to you, it first has to be invented by someone willing to take risk or built by someone that expects to get paid.This includes the machines that paved the road, the street lights, the gas pump, and the gasoline.
Socialist snow plows are built by capitalists.
You seem to have a chicken or the egg problem. Without Capital you can't make "the machines that paved the road, the street lights, the gas pump"etc and without those you can't support the businesses that make Capital. The truth is that the Western nations build the infrastructure and wealth necessary to support Capitalism using truly evil Economic Systems like Colonization and Slavery
It isn't working out that way. If you have over about $10,000 in rupees you need to have an explanation of where they came from. But plenty of services have popped up that, for a small cut, will spread your cash out over many smaller transactions, each under the threshold. Competition has driven the price of these laundering services down so far, that many people with legitimate cash are using them just to avoid standing in line at the bank for hours.
The rationale is to uncover the really large amounts of horded cash which would be hard to launder even through such services. A Tax amnesty program that ended earlier this year had people declaring $9.5bn and that is thought to be only a fraction of what the 700,000 suspected tax evaders contacted in the scheme are actually holding.
Of course the most significant portion of hidden assets is held in offshore bank accounts followed by property and commodities. It is unlikely that a a significant amount is held in rupee bank notes.
This is a very dramatic and visible move by a Prime minister trying to show the people he is delivering on his anti-corruption pledge. People tend to love grand gestures even ones that ultimately are largely meaningless
The Judge didn't refer to the legal precedent in the 1988 case, he merely referred to the 1988 case and then *disagreed* with the precedent set down in that case by saying he saw no distinction between identifying a key or identifying a combination - the combination he refers to is the combination of the safe in the 1988 case, not the passcode to the iPhone. He then equates the passcode to the combination.
Legal precedent can be overturned, its not set in stone forever more, and thats what this Judge is trying to do here - overturn the precedent in the 1988 case by saying there is no longer a distinction between the physical key and the ephemeral combination.
So you're saying that the supreme court can make a ruling that is on point in a specific matter, and sometime later an appeals court judge can decide that legal precedent might be overturned, and we should ask the supreme court once again "is this still your opinion"?
Here I thought that the supreme court was the court of final appeal!
The circumstances in the new case must be different enough or at the very least you must have a different argument. For example in Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court held that as long as the separate facilities for the separate races were equal, segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.
The plaintiffs in Brown vs Board of Education asserted that this system of racial separation, while masquerading as providing separate but equal treatment of both white and black Americans, instead perpetuated inferior accommodations, services, and treatment for black Americans.
The judge in this case is taking a gamble that the Supreme Court will want to hear this case in lue of Circumstances being different due to the use of smartphone technology which didn't exist at the time of the previous ruling. It is obviously quite a stretch of logic to claim that a pass-code is more akin a physical key then a key-code.
The appeals court already overturned, now this is going to go to the 11th court of appeals which baring some insanity will confirm the ruling of the appeals court. At that time an appeal will be made to the Supreme Court, which doesn't have an obligation to take the case. If that happens this case is Legal Precedent in all courts under the jurisdiction of the 11th court of appeals (FL, GL, AL) and can be referred to by courts in other jurisdictions.
And furthermore, it takes on the order of $2 million to mount a supreme court challenge, so this appeals court judge effectively just dropped a bill for that amount that the defendant *has* to pay, in order to stay out of jail. The defence relied on a supreme court decision, but it turns out that in general we can no longer do this.
And finally, suppose the defendant simply says "I forgot the passcode - it's been so long, and I haven't typed it in, that it's just escaped my memory". The judge can disbelieve the defendant and put him in contempt of court, but otherwise there's basically no crime that the defendant can be charged with for making this statement.
In matters of Constitutional importance you have Public Interests groups on both sides of the Political ideology spectrum ready to take on cases Pro-Bono. This is most certainly one that an organization like the ACLU has taken on. Finally the defended did not claim to have forgotten the pass-code therefore this is completely irrelevant to this case but if the cell phone had been recently used to make/receive phone calls or messages (something for which the phone company would have records for) you would have a very tough time convincing the judge that you no longer remember how to access it
things like Infrastructure and Education. There is a reason why Corporations only move their assets to Tax Heaven countries
A very simple yet effective way to detect half-educated retards spewing retarded bullshit is to check for abnormal capitalization in common nouns. Congratulations, you qualified!
Obviously the use of the word "retarded" several times in a sentence conveys your great intelligence and outstanding education and completely makes up for a lack of a counterargument
There are many ways to be illegal - you may be in the country legally but work illegally. Tourists on B1 as well as Students on F1 are entitled to get licenses and drive cars. Many students moonlight as cab drivers. Similarly refugees awaiting work permits moonlight as cab driver. Its one of the few jobs you can do without a US based credential as long as you know how to drive.
While there is more then a million Foreign students in the U.S the vast majority are NOT on scholarships and paying full tuition as a out of state student, which means their families are well off and the last thing they would want to do is moonlight as poorly paid Cab driver. Even in NYC the estimate is that only %20 of cab drivers are working illegally. The occupations that have the most illegal workers (NYC statistics) are Dishwasher (%54) Sewing machine operators (%35), construction/maintenance and cooks (%33 each). Again please do some research before posting
You're completely free to starve to death and die in the streets.
STOP IT. nobody is dying because they can't drive for Uber. The real wage slavery is caused by government taking up to 50% of your earnings as a baron of the land, you stupid serf.
Taxes are what allows the government to pay for things like Infrastructure and Education. There is a reason why Corporations only move their assets to Tax Heaven countries and not the business, they are underdeveloped and unable to support businesses.
Antoinette's expression is in reference the tyranny of feudalism.
Pretty sure Uber drivers aren't indentured servants, much less serfs. Seeing as how, you know, if you don't want to drive for Uber, you just don't load the app. The Gendarme isn't going to break down your door and drag you to jail.
The expression "Let them eat cake" shows a complete lack of understanding that the absence of basic food staples was due to poverty rather than a lack of supply.
Serfdom was officially abolished in France in 1789 by Antoinette's husband Louis XVI, although this was mostly a formality as there were few if any actual Serfs left in France. Most people were "free peasents" that were paid extremely low wages to work the lands of the King and Nobility
FYI: Even thou the expression "Let them eat cake" is commonly attributed to Marie Antoinette there is no record of the phrase ever being said by her
The Uber business model only works for newly laid off workers who have a nice car with car payments to make. Its not meant to be a fulltime job. The entire gig economy including iOS apps only took off as in 2008 a lot of people lost their jobs but they still had cars, computers and loads of time on their hand. As we closer to full employment people who have a choice have moved away from gigs. Taxi companies are built upon the exploitation of illegal immigrant drivers. Uber as a high visibility company cannot compete with Taxi companies as it cant hire illegal immigrants and pay them sweat wages under the table. At the same time driving a cab will not support a minimum wage so the best thing for Uber would be to go back to being a gig company. Put a hard cap of 10 hours a week on driving for a driver - that will remove the entire pool of drivers expecting to make a living from Uber, stop promoting Uber driving as a full time job and stop giving leases to drivers to buy cars to drive for Uber. Stop trying to grow for growth's sake. Stay at the size of a gig economy company like a temp agency. They have some good software - license it to taxi companies and let them use it for managing their own fleets in a mutli-tenant kind of model.
19% of Uber drivers are full-time (35 hours per week and more.) and (51%) of Uber drivers work 15 hours a week. Only 12 states issue driving licenses to illegal immigrants, a Taxi company would never hire people without licenses as they wouldn't be covered by insurance and they would be legally liable for any damage the Unlicensed driver does. Do some basic searches before posting something full of inaccuracies and speculation
What is this fucking obsession with making phones thinner? I want a phone that's sturdy. I wouldn't mind my phone being two or even three times as thick, if it could have double or triple the battery life. What I don't want is a fragile, dainty phone that's going to snap in half if I hold it the wrong way. Who is asking for thinner phones?
That's what everyone says when going to the store to pick out a new phone; And then they walk out with a iPhone or a Galaxy instead of something like the (slightly heavier and thicker) Moto Z with its 23 hour battery life
Definition of innovation (merriam-webster)
1
: the introduction of something new
2
: a new idea, method, or device : novelty
So new idea's on how to rip off your customers are technically "innovation," just not the sort of Innovation we are looking for in the field
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While written with snarky vitriol, your point has merit. The problem is mostly that the populace in China is uneducated and extremely poor, meaning belief in magic and magical cures is still rampant. An educated society is dangerous, so don't look for this to change any time soon.
The uneducated and extremely poor receive adulterated concoctions containing little if any of the very expensive raw materials they claim to have. The trade in black market materials for traditional medicine didn't explode because China got poorer but because it got wealthier. Westerner's spend Billions a year in "alternative medicine," like supplements which at best are doing little and at worst are actually harming. The Chinese are not that different in trying to cling to hope when the Medical Community offers little
Food critics will pan KFC, but if it is exactly what you are aching for RIGHT now it will be hard to believe people wouldn't eat it everyday. It doesn't make the critics wrong, but rather that tastes vary.
If you are craving, it means you are hungry. What the body wants most when hungry is a quick dose of calories sugars and fats. Taste be damned. Once the brain associates KFC or whatever junk food peddler you have close by with this quick fix that's exactly where it will push you to go next time the body sends it those hunger signals
Priority on the recipient list if the patient had been on the donor list for at least 2 years prior to getting sick
Parents can add their children to the donor list to receive this priority as well
The donor registration can no longer be overridden by the family
A tax break for being a registered donor
The NYC subway L line is capable and fully tested for automation since 2009. The MTA wanted to remove the Conductors completely. The Union fought this plan as a contract violation and won. automated-train-rolls . I suspect the railroads have similar problems.
Actually the real problem is idiots buying more home then they need, or for more then they can afford because they think it is a good investment. Talk to any financial advisor and they will tell you that the home you live in is not an investment. A friend of mine "was tired of paying the landlords mortgage" so he went and bought his own, unfortunately he bought way out of a reasonable price range, his downpayment drained nearly all his investment and savings accounts and now he pays more then double per moth his previous rent, making sure that he will have little left over for a very long time for investments or savings.
Great cards otherwise, but have they fixed the horizontal tearing issues yet of the 900 series when they're used in Linux?
I've tried every fix I can find online and still can't stop that. My earlier 700 series card never had these issues.
Tearing in Linux GUI is mostly due to the antiquated X11. Switching to Wayland pretty much resolves this issue. Unfortunately the nVidia proprietary driver does not support Wayland. The open source Nouveau drivers do, but those drivers can be a noticeable step down depending on your system and what you're trying to do (gaming is a no go). Fedora 25 comes with Wayland as default if you would like to take it for a spin
A few months after Flint switched the water supply, the brass from General Motors went to the Governor (R) and complained that the Flint River water was causing their car parts to corrode when being washed on the assembly line. The Governor was appalled to hear that GM property was being damaged, so he jumped through a number of hoops and quietly spent $440,000 to hook GM back up to the Lake Huron water, while keeping the rest of Flint on the Flint River water. Which means that thatnks to the Governer while the children in Flint were drinking lead-filled water, GM was washing its cars with clean water
The C and P symmetries violations in weak interactions is not enough to explain why there is No detectable antimatter in the Universe. Scientists are performing experiments that they should know the results of in the hopes that it gives unexpected result. Ernest Rutherford's landmark experiment with gold foil and alpha particles is just one of many experiments yielding unexpected results, invalidating the wildly accepted Plumb Pudding theory of the atom and opening the door to Quantum Mechanics. The discovery of the expansion of the universe and later its acceleration were both unexpected results. Sometimes it pay to check if the sky is actually blue (which ironically only appears to humans as blue because of a quirk of our vision system. If human (or to alien) eyes were equally sensitive to all wavelengths the sky might look violet or ultra-violet)
I we would halt all off shore wind farms and put them where the wind in strong and constant. Montana and the Dakotas. Place them among the farms, generate power all year long, day and night.
There is a reason why the U.S built its Nuclear reactors close to population centers instead of building them in the middle of the Great Basin Desert. It is the same reason why we can't cover Montana and the Dakotas with turbines to power the U.S. Transmitting energy long distances is both expensive and inefficient due to resistance loss. In much of the North East land is expensive and as a result those states lag behind in wind power generation. Well other then the Southern States which have practically no wind farms (except for Texas which ironically is the top producer of wind power) mostly due to Political ideology against Climate Change Science
The U.S finally managed to open it's first offshore wind farm. A whole of 5 turbines producing a paltry 30Mw of power, by comparison Europe added some 419 turbines producing over 3000Mw last year alone.
A) What kind of measures does this system take to mitigate the propagation of false information? B) What would prevent data collection by third parties?
From everything I've read, there are no intrinsic defenses that ensure accuracy or privacy.
A) A Public Key Infrastructure systems (PKI) with a A Root Certificate Authority and a chain of trust system very similar to SSL and TLS.
B) To communicate with each other the car's use their certified key to generate short-term certificates or "pseudonyms" every 5 minutes. The certificates or the data don't contain any identifiable information such as VIN numbers.
Unbelievable as it may be, it really looks like they had security-experts really think this through and implement "best-practices" in terms of security and anonimity
"Only $350 per vehicle"
So, at least $1000 per vehicle, and probably a lot more?
And then they'll be able to put up a bunch of sensors along the streets to keep track of where anyone goes at any particular time, and do things like monitor adherence to traffic laws.
Of course, they'll say "we would never do that," but we all know how that sort of thing works out in the long run.
Its truly astounding but on this one they actually worked closely with security researchers to make the technology not useful for tracking. The identification number is randomized every 5 minutes and it contains no information that can tie it to the vehicle's VIN. Hopefully the standard will also specify the minimum uncertainty for the randomize routine so we don't end up in the unfortunate situation we have today with many devices that use very predictable randomize functions to generate insecure keys.
It's pretty much a foregone conclusion that past some point, life extension will require forgetting some of your life and dealing with some personality changes, as there are limits to the brain. I guess that means Dr. Who got it kinda right.
The brain compartmentalizes and prioritizes even during a normal life-cycle. This is why saying "oh yeh I forgot about that" is so common when talking about some old memories yet treating PTSD is so difficult even decades after the initial trauma
Yahoo turning down Microsoft's offer to buy them out for $45B has to go down as one of the dumbest business decisions of all time. Conversely Microsoft might win the award for biggest bullet (unintentionally) dodged of all time. Yahoo is just an absolutely pathetic company which has been badly managed for a long time.
Very likely however for the sake of accuracy I would like to note that the Microsoft sale would have included the Alibaba stake (which was much larger back then.) This stake is not included in the Verizon sale, only it's core business (largely the yahoo portal)
I just read the whole thing as "Monogamy leads to boring sex"
As most people you are confusing Monogamy with Pair bonding (something humans have formalized in the tradition and institution of marriage). Monogamy simply means having a sexual relationship with only one partner at a time. Technically one can have 100's of monogamous relationships in their lifetime
Meanwhile in the real world, it's evil capitalism that gets things done. Before the government can steal something and give it to you, it first has to be invented by someone willing to take risk or built by someone that expects to get paid.This includes the machines that paved the road, the street lights, the gas pump, and the gasoline.
Socialist snow plows are built by capitalists.
You seem to have a chicken or the egg problem. Without Capital you can't make "the machines that paved the road, the street lights, the gas pump"etc and without those you can't support the businesses that make Capital. The truth is that the Western nations build the infrastructure and wealth necessary to support Capitalism using truly evil Economic Systems like Colonization and Slavery
It isn't working out that way. If you have over about $10,000 in rupees you need to have an explanation of where they came from. But plenty of services have popped up that, for a small cut, will spread your cash out over many smaller transactions, each under the threshold. Competition has driven the price of these laundering services down so far, that many people with legitimate cash are using them just to avoid standing in line at the bank for hours.
The rationale is to uncover the really large amounts of horded cash which would be hard to launder even through such services. A Tax amnesty program that ended earlier this year had people declaring $9.5bn and that is thought to be only a fraction of what the 700,000 suspected tax evaders contacted in the scheme are actually holding. Of course the most significant portion of hidden assets is held in offshore bank accounts followed by property and commodities. It is unlikely that a a significant amount is held in rupee bank notes.
This is a very dramatic and visible move by a Prime minister trying to show the people he is delivering on his anti-corruption pledge. People tend to love grand gestures even ones that ultimately are largely meaningless
The Judge didn't refer to the legal precedent in the 1988 case, he merely referred to the 1988 case and then *disagreed* with the precedent set down in that case by saying he saw no distinction between identifying a key or identifying a combination - the combination he refers to is the combination of the safe in the 1988 case, not the passcode to the iPhone. He then equates the passcode to the combination.
Legal precedent can be overturned, its not set in stone forever more, and thats what this Judge is trying to do here - overturn the precedent in the 1988 case by saying there is no longer a distinction between the physical key and the ephemeral combination.
So you're saying that the supreme court can make a ruling that is on point in a specific matter, and sometime later an appeals court judge can decide that legal precedent might be overturned, and we should ask the supreme court once again "is this still your opinion"?
Here I thought that the supreme court was the court of final appeal!
The circumstances in the new case must be different enough or at the very least you must have a different argument. For example in Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court held that as long as the separate facilities for the separate races were equal, segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. The plaintiffs in Brown vs Board of Education asserted that this system of racial separation, while masquerading as providing separate but equal treatment of both white and black Americans, instead perpetuated inferior accommodations, services, and treatment for black Americans.
The judge in this case is taking a gamble that the Supreme Court will want to hear this case in lue of Circumstances being different due to the use of smartphone technology which didn't exist at the time of the previous ruling. It is obviously quite a stretch of logic to claim that a pass-code is more akin a physical key then a key-code.
The appeals court already overturned, now this is going to go to the 11th court of appeals which baring some insanity will confirm the ruling of the appeals court. At that time an appeal will be made to the Supreme Court, which doesn't have an obligation to take the case. If that happens this case is Legal Precedent in all courts under the jurisdiction of the 11th court of appeals (FL, GL, AL) and can be referred to by courts in other jurisdictions.
And furthermore, it takes on the order of $2 million to mount a supreme court challenge, so this appeals court judge effectively just dropped a bill for that amount that the defendant *has* to pay, in order to stay out of jail. The defence relied on a supreme court decision, but it turns out that in general we can no longer do this.
And finally, suppose the defendant simply says "I forgot the passcode - it's been so long, and I haven't typed it in, that it's just escaped my memory". The judge can disbelieve the defendant and put him in contempt of court, but otherwise there's basically no crime that the defendant can be charged with for making this statement.
In matters of Constitutional importance you have Public Interests groups on both sides of the Political ideology spectrum ready to take on cases Pro-Bono. This is most certainly one that an organization like the ACLU has taken on. Finally the defended did not claim to have forgotten the pass-code therefore this is completely irrelevant to this case but if the cell phone had been recently used to make/receive phone calls or messages (something for which the phone company would have records for) you would have a very tough time convincing the judge that you no longer remember how to access it
things like Infrastructure and Education. There is a reason why Corporations only move their assets to Tax Heaven countries
A very simple yet effective way to detect half-educated retards spewing retarded bullshit is to check for abnormal capitalization in common nouns. Congratulations, you qualified!
Obviously the use of the word "retarded" several times in a sentence conveys your great intelligence and outstanding education and completely makes up for a lack of a counterargument
There are many ways to be illegal - you may be in the country legally but work illegally. Tourists on B1 as well as Students on F1 are entitled to get licenses and drive cars. Many students moonlight as cab drivers. Similarly refugees awaiting work permits moonlight as cab driver. Its one of the few jobs you can do without a US based credential as long as you know how to drive.
While there is more then a million Foreign students in the U.S the vast majority are NOT on scholarships and paying full tuition as a out of state student, which means their families are well off and the last thing they would want to do is moonlight as poorly paid Cab driver. Even in NYC the estimate is that only %20 of cab drivers are working illegally. The occupations that have the most illegal workers (NYC statistics) are Dishwasher (%54) Sewing machine operators (%35), construction/maintenance and cooks (%33 each). Again please do some research before posting
GAWD!!!
You're completely free to starve to death and die in the streets.
STOP IT. nobody is dying because they can't drive for Uber. The real wage slavery is caused by government taking up to 50% of your earnings as a baron of the land, you stupid serf.
Taxes are what allows the government to pay for things like Infrastructure and Education. There is a reason why Corporations only move their assets to Tax Heaven countries and not the business, they are underdeveloped and unable to support businesses.
Antoinette's expression is in reference the tyranny of feudalism.
Pretty sure Uber drivers aren't indentured servants, much less serfs. Seeing as how, you know, if you don't want to drive for Uber, you just don't load the app. The Gendarme isn't going to break down your door and drag you to jail.
The expression "Let them eat cake" shows a complete lack of understanding that the absence of basic food staples was due to poverty rather than a lack of supply. Serfdom was officially abolished in France in 1789 by Antoinette's husband Louis XVI, although this was mostly a formality as there were few if any actual Serfs left in France. Most people were "free peasents" that were paid extremely low wages to work the lands of the King and Nobility FYI: Even thou the expression "Let them eat cake" is commonly attributed to Marie Antoinette there is no record of the phrase ever being said by her
The Uber business model only works for newly laid off workers who have a nice car with car payments to make. Its not meant to be a fulltime job. The entire gig economy including iOS apps only took off as in 2008 a lot of people lost their jobs but they still had cars, computers and loads of time on their hand. As we closer to full employment people who have a choice have moved away from gigs. Taxi companies are built upon the exploitation of illegal immigrant drivers. Uber as a high visibility company cannot compete with Taxi companies as it cant hire illegal immigrants and pay them sweat wages under the table. At the same time driving a cab will not support a minimum wage so the best thing for Uber would be to go back to being a gig company. Put a hard cap of 10 hours a week on driving for a driver - that will remove the entire pool of drivers expecting to make a living from Uber, stop promoting Uber driving as a full time job and stop giving leases to drivers to buy cars to drive for Uber. Stop trying to grow for growth's sake. Stay at the size of a gig economy company like a temp agency. They have some good software - license it to taxi companies and let them use it for managing their own fleets in a mutli-tenant kind of model.
19% of Uber drivers are full-time (35 hours per week and more.) and (51%) of Uber drivers work 15 hours a week. Only 12 states issue driving licenses to illegal immigrants, a Taxi company would never hire people without licenses as they wouldn't be covered by insurance and they would be legally liable for any damage the Unlicensed driver does. Do some basic searches before posting something full of inaccuracies and speculation
enables Samsung to make the Galaxy S8 thinner
What is this fucking obsession with making phones thinner? I want a phone that's sturdy. I wouldn't mind my phone being two or even three times as thick, if it could have double or triple the battery life. What I don't want is a fragile, dainty phone that's going to snap in half if I hold it the wrong way. Who is asking for thinner phones?
That's what everyone says when going to the store to pick out a new phone; And then they walk out with a iPhone or a Galaxy instead of something like the (slightly heavier and thicker) Moto Z with its 23 hour battery life
Definition of innovation (merriam-webster) 1 : the introduction of something new 2 : a new idea, method, or device : novelty So new idea's on how to rip off your customers are technically "innovation," just not the sort of Innovation we are looking for in the field