Average new house in 1938 was 7.5 years worth of minimum wage. A new house in 2016 is 23-27 years (median, average). Yearly Harvard tuition was 0.80 years of m.w., today it is 4 years worth. Average rent went from 0.60 to 0.95 of a m.w. a month.
Cost of living has not increased linearly with inflation. Other than movie tickets (steady around 1 hour of m.w) and a significant decrease of food and clothing costs, mostly everything has gone up at a rate way higher than inflation.
Steam (and other game companies) sells games under half of the US price in Mexico, but it's not related to GDP or out of fairness, it's the bottom line. They know they won't sell many games at $60 (median professional take home is $300 a week), but $25 is attractive enough, and the more people playing a game, the better it sells, so there's extra incentive for them to sell it cheaper.
Microsoft took a similar approach for lustrums, by letting cheaper markets pirate their software freely, then grabbing enterprise and government contracts, without much care about the small business or the home market. Again, not out of fairness.
Autodesk and Siemens have also alternate pricing on emerging markets.
Why wouldn't it be right? If your spouse takes your car and maliciously destroys it. Let's say because you cheated. You would have a legal standing about the destruction of said vehicle as a criminal mischief (This figure already exists on most places).
But if you wipe your own phone with malicious intent, that would be a crime. For example, if you were angry and threw your phone on the ground and broke it - that would be a violation.
However, the story broke on Spanish-language sites first, so claiming that it's all down to translation errors is a little odd.
Now, the fact that you'd have to sue yourself to be liable might present a challenge. But maybe someone with dissociative identity disorder would be willing to try.
You cannot file a "querella" against yourself in Mexican law. You couldn't even begin to start the legal process, even if you could it would get dismissed ASAP.
Unless "malicous intent" is very carefully defined in the law then it could mean whatever the government wants it to mean; for example, you installing an adblocker could be construed as "malicious intent" since you'd be deliberately negatively affecting advertising companies' profits. You're very naive if you believe it wouldn't be used for such purposes.
Except it is not.
"Dolo" is carefully explained in the jurisprudence of Mexican law and it's, more often than not, used in an exculpatory way than the opposite.
It implies malicious intent and awareness of the crime that's being committed. Intent is a very hard thing to prove in a tribunal of law.
And I'm not being "very naive", I understand enough of the Mexican judicial system to know how quickly a case would be dismissed if someone tried to use it for such purposes. You just would have to recourse to an "amparo" (another figure of the Mexican judicial system, kind of an emergency remedy for rights protections) citing the previous jurisprudence and suspend the charges until they could prove your intent.
None of the claims in the article are true. While the draft has many inconsistencies and deficiencies (no exceptions for white hat or academic hacking among others), it does not criminalize anything of what is said in the article. Said law has been attacked heavily due to political reasons (Senator is on his way to be a governor candidate) and not because the law itself (that is really needed as there is a void in the legislation on cyber-crime that's due for over a decade).
You have to understand the Mexican judicial system is different and laws are not interpreted in the same way as English common law (Mexico uses civil law with heavier Roman law influences).
The wording of the law where people are claiming it would be illegal to modify your own PC, specifically words "dolosamente", which roughly could be translated to "with malicious intent". So yes, the purpose of said law is to criminalize any modifications or alterations to an information system with malicious intent, not wiping your own mobile. Both the original 3RD and gizmodo articles deliberately choose to omit that part. Which any decent lawyer or tribunal wouldn't.
The law also provides that any of the crimes in it will be prosecuted as private crimes, where the affected part needs to press charges and can withdraw them (issue a private pardon) at any time; with the exception of crimes against public infrastructure. It also provides that tribunals & judges must be consulted by IT experts on any cases regarding the law (so interpretation of the law would be influenced by the industry professionals).
We once got a 2,000 person venue for free. We only had to pay for the extra security personnel, permits, and we even got a % of the beverage sales.
Lights and sound aren't that expensive to rent, and a lot of bands travel light. Hardest part of the logistics was taking care of all the legalese. You need to be smart with the planning and get as much sponsors as possible. You can even get some government money or tax discounts.
Bands make money from merchandise, not just tickets. And most of them just have a flat fee per concert, or charge according to venue size. Big name bands obviously have venue size requirements.
Of course you can have all kind of mental blocks to think it's not possible. I know it's possible, and can't wait for the next one.
If you want to support the artist, go to their concerts.
If they don't tour near you, go try and get a local promoter to book them, or do it yourself. Some friends and I have managed to get bands and artists we like by directly emailing their managers, then handling all the logistics ourselves. Local radio stations usually are willing to help, too. When you don't have to pay for logistics and you don't expect any profit, the final ticket cost is incredibly low. I'm not saying it was easy, it's usually a lot of hard work, but it's well worth it.
About the voter registration: http://tinyurl.com/7y484fn Mexico has about 95% of eligible voters on the registry (US is 66% at best), not as good as other countries, but it's not mandatory or enforced by any government agency. Argentina has a 100%, but their ID practices would be considered fascist by US standards.
Second generation Mexican-Americans have an average of 4 more years of school than their parents. http://www.pewhispanic.org/ is an excellent source for statistics about Hispanics in the US.
In Mexico you can't make any kind of transaction without your voter registration card. Which is fairly secure and the country's de-facto method of identification.
Having a country "mandatory" registry goes a long way to avoid identity theft and minimize fraud.
These attempts of China to flex their metaphorical muscle is just more fuel for the US conservatives to keep justifying the idiotic defense budget and the "World Cop" ideology.
Thanksgiving is closely related to harvest festivals that had long been a traditional holiday in much of Europe. The first North American celebration of these festivals by Europeans was held in Newfoundland by Martin Frobisher and the Frobisher Expedition in 1578. Another such festival occurred on December 4, 1619 when 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembarked in Virginia and gave thanks to God. Prior to this, there was also a Thanksgiving feast celebrated by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (along with friendly Teya Indians) on 23 May 1541 in Texas' Palo Duro Canyon, to celebrate his expedition's discovery of food supplies. Some hold this to be the true first Thanksgiving in North America. Another such event occurred a quarter century later on September 8, 1565 in St. Augustine when Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed; he and his men shared a feast with the natives.
"TelMex" is not a cellular company. It is a telephone/internet/long distance/frame relay company. You would be probably getting signal from TelCel, Telefonica or Pegaso, plus the fault wouldn't be from any of those companies but from AT&T for providing such a low signals at that zone. Basically at the US/Mexico border, the company that provides stronger signal owns the area.
I used to live at the border (about 5km inside mexico) and I was still able to put calls thru Nextel and I could use my Telcel phone as far as 20 km inside the US.
There's not a very good legislation regarding who owns what frequencies at the border. It looks like the FCC (USA authority) and the COFETEL (Mexico authority) don't talk to each other that much.
If you search for "Hilton Paris" (which is what you would easily type if you mean the Hilton in Paris) your first result will be www.hilton-paris.com, you type in "Paris Hilton" the search engine would go for any page that contains those words in the exact order (therefore the hilton hotels don't come at first). Looks like the engine will always look for your phrase as you type it in first, then combination of the words.
Sometimes I just wish I had some (-1 stupid) mod points.
For what I known, the time a baby takes to start to talk is independant of the time they take to develop language skills.
What I mean is:
1) If you talk to them a lot (as persons not just baby talk), they will understand everything people is talking around them faster and better. Multiples laguages spoken at them will do help them develop this faster.
2) The time when they will start talking is NOT dependant of the time they take to learn and understand the language. It's a physiological thing. Some kids develop all the necessary organs required for talk sooner than the rest, some may never develop them well (and they should require therapy).
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Inflation does not paint the whole picture.
Average new house in 1938 was 7.5 years worth of minimum wage. A new house in 2016 is 23-27 years (median, average).
Yearly Harvard tuition was 0.80 years of m.w., today it is 4 years worth.
Average rent went from 0.60 to 0.95 of a m.w. a month.
Cost of living has not increased linearly with inflation. Other than movie tickets (steady around 1 hour of m.w) and a significant decrease of food and clothing costs, mostly everything has gone up at a rate way higher than inflation.
Steam (and other game companies) sells games under half of the US price in Mexico, but it's not related to GDP or out of fairness, it's the bottom line. They know they won't sell many games at $60 (median professional take home is $300 a week), but $25 is attractive enough, and the more people playing a game, the better it sells, so there's extra incentive for them to sell it cheaper.
Microsoft took a similar approach for lustrums, by letting cheaper markets pirate their software freely, then grabbing enterprise and government contracts, without much care about the small business or the home market. Again, not out of fairness.
Autodesk and Siemens have also alternate pricing on emerging markets.
we're all freelance contractors. You were born alone, you'll die alone, and the only one who really cares about you is you.
Considering the immense amount of care required for a newborn to reach self sustenance I believe that you are full of shit my friend.
Why wouldn't it be right? If your spouse takes your car and maliciously destroys it. Let's say because you cheated. You would have a legal standing about the destruction of said vehicle as a criminal mischief (This figure already exists on most places).
But if you wipe your own phone with malicious intent, that would be a crime. For example, if you were angry and threw your phone on the ground and broke it - that would be a violation.
However, the story broke on Spanish-language sites first, so claiming that it's all down to translation errors is a little odd.
Now, the fact that you'd have to sue yourself to be liable might present a challenge. But maybe someone with dissociative identity disorder would be willing to try.
You cannot file a "querella" against yourself in Mexican law. You couldn't even begin to start the legal process, even if you could it would get dismissed ASAP.
Unless "malicous intent" is very carefully defined in the law then it could mean whatever the government wants it to mean; for example, you installing an adblocker could be construed as "malicious intent" since you'd be deliberately negatively affecting advertising companies' profits. You're very naive if you believe it wouldn't be used for such purposes.
Except it is not.
"Dolo" is carefully explained in the jurisprudence of Mexican law and it's, more often than not, used in an exculpatory way than the opposite.
It implies malicious intent and awareness of the crime that's being committed. Intent is a very hard thing to prove in a tribunal of law.
And I'm not being "very naive", I understand enough of the Mexican judicial system to know how quickly a case would be dismissed if someone tried to use it for such purposes. You just would have to recourse to an "amparo" (another figure of the Mexican judicial system, kind of an emergency remedy for rights protections) citing the previous jurisprudence and suspend the charges until they could prove your intent.
None of the claims in the article are true. While the draft has many inconsistencies and deficiencies (no exceptions for white hat or academic hacking among others), it does not criminalize anything of what is said in the article. Said law has been attacked heavily due to political reasons (Senator is on his way to be a governor candidate) and not because the law itself (that is really needed as there is a void in the legislation on cyber-crime that's due for over a decade).
You have to understand the Mexican judicial system is different and laws are not interpreted in the same way as English common law (Mexico uses civil law with heavier Roman law influences).
The wording of the law where people are claiming it would be illegal to modify your own PC, specifically words "dolosamente", which roughly could be translated to "with malicious intent". So yes, the purpose of said law is to criminalize any modifications or alterations to an information system with malicious intent, not wiping your own mobile. Both the original 3RD and gizmodo articles deliberately choose to omit that part. Which any decent lawyer or tribunal wouldn't.
The law also provides that any of the crimes in it will be prosecuted as private crimes, where the affected part needs to press charges and can withdraw them (issue a private pardon) at any time; with the exception of crimes against public infrastructure. It also provides that tribunals & judges must be consulted by IT experts on any cases regarding the law (so interpretation of the law would be influenced by the industry professionals).
I can only assume this was a clever experiment to make your lab assistants remove their shirts, for science.
After that you just become Galactus.
This has been ongoing for at least a decade in Mexico. From the infamous blogdelnarco to twitter. I don't see how this is news today.
And this is why I always wear a donkey piñata over my head when I ride my bicycle.
Would be better if they throw those 2 millions and change into a legal and appeal the resolution.
Worse thing that can happen is patent trolls getting precedent.
We once got a 2,000 person venue for free. We only had to pay for the extra security personnel, permits, and we even got a % of the beverage sales.
Lights and sound aren't that expensive to rent, and a lot of bands travel light. Hardest part of the logistics was taking care of all the legalese. You need to be smart with the planning and get as much sponsors as possible. You can even get some government money or tax discounts.
Bands make money from merchandise, not just tickets. And most of them just have a flat fee per concert, or charge according to venue size. Big name bands obviously have venue size requirements.
Of course you can have all kind of mental blocks to think it's not possible. I know it's possible, and can't wait for the next one.
If you want to support the artist, go to their concerts.
If they don't tour near you, go try and get a local promoter to book them, or do it yourself. Some friends and I have managed to get bands and artists we like by directly emailing their managers, then handling all the logistics ourselves. Local radio stations usually are willing to help, too. When you don't have to pay for logistics and you don't expect any profit, the final ticket cost is incredibly low. I'm not saying it was easy, it's usually a lot of hard work, but it's well worth it.
About the voter registration: http://tinyurl.com/7y484fn
Mexico has about 95% of eligible voters on the registry (US is 66% at best), not as good as other countries, but it's not mandatory or enforced by any government agency. Argentina has a 100%, but their ID practices would be considered fascist by US standards.
Second generation Mexican-Americans have an average of 4 more years of school than their parents. http://www.pewhispanic.org/ is an excellent source for statistics about Hispanics in the US.
In Mexico you can't make any kind of transaction without your voter registration card. Which is fairly secure and the country's de-facto method of identification.
Having a country "mandatory" registry goes a long way to avoid identity theft and minimize fraud.
These attempts of China to flex their metaphorical muscle is just more fuel for the US conservatives to keep justifying the idiotic defense budget and the "World Cop" ideology.
And I, for one, welcome our new penguin alien overlords.
Talking about cannabis and conspiracy theories on the same post is awesome for credibility purposes.
According to wikipedia...
Thanksgiving is closely related to harvest festivals that had long been a traditional holiday in much of Europe. The first North American celebration of these festivals by Europeans was held in Newfoundland by Martin Frobisher and the Frobisher Expedition in 1578. Another such festival occurred on December 4, 1619 when 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembarked in Virginia and gave thanks to God. Prior to this, there was also a Thanksgiving feast celebrated by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (along with friendly Teya Indians) on 23 May 1541 in Texas' Palo Duro Canyon, to celebrate his expedition's discovery of food supplies. Some hold this to be the true first Thanksgiving in North America. Another such event occurred a quarter century later on September 8, 1565 in St. Augustine when Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed; he and his men shared a feast with the natives.
Actually only about 6% of the world population actually cares about thanksgiving.
But this is slashdot after all.
"TelMex" is not a cellular company. It is a telephone/internet/long distance/frame relay company. You would be probably getting signal from TelCel, Telefonica or Pegaso, plus the fault wouldn't be from any of those companies but from AT&T for providing such a low signals at that zone. Basically at the US/Mexico border, the company that provides stronger signal owns the area.
I used to live at the border (about 5km inside mexico) and I was still able to put calls thru Nextel and I could use my Telcel phone as far as 20 km inside the US.
There's not a very good legislation regarding who owns what frequencies at the border. It looks like the FCC (USA authority) and the COFETEL (Mexico authority) don't talk to each other that much.
No, you have to mark the code as unsafe not unmanaged.
If you search for "Hilton Paris" (which is what you would easily type if you mean the Hilton in Paris) your first result will be www.hilton-paris.com, you type in "Paris Hilton" the search engine would go for any page that contains those words in the exact order (therefore the hilton hotels don't come at first). Looks like the engine will always look for your phrase as you type it in first, then combination of the words.
Sometimes I just wish I had some (-1 stupid) mod points.
For what I known, the time a baby takes to start to talk is independant of the time they take to develop language skills.
What I mean is:
1) If you talk to them a lot (as persons not just baby talk), they will understand everything people is talking around them faster and better. Multiples laguages spoken at them will do help them develop this faster.
2) The time when they will start talking is NOT dependant of the time they take to learn and understand the language. It's a physiological thing. Some kids develop all the necessary organs required for talk sooner than the rest, some may never develop them well (and they should require therapy).