"So while the U.K. court did not find Samsung guilty of infringement, other courts have..."
...been far more open to bribery, we mean persuasion, yes persuasion. And we don't really need the UK market, it's too small and their populace gets upset about corporations evading, I mean avoiding, legally avoiding, tax.
Is Iceland an example of good local governance considering it basically went bankrupt?
Yeah, they made the same mistakes as many other nations running up to and during the financial crisis but didn't try and prop up failure like other nations did. And they've come through it and have made changes like updating their constitution with a referendum that got an impressive turnout. If it wasn't for the fact that I find winter days short enough at just 55 degrees north I would favour living there now.
Well if you can't send observers to elections that are unlikely to be fair then you might miss an absolute gem of electoral fraud that would be great for back home.
Or do you think that the US might have already invented them all?
You're jumping to conclusions about a language you don't speak. In British English a tariff is a list or schedule of prices for such things as rail service, bus routes, and electrical usage (electrical tariff, etc.). I was unfamiliar with other uses of the word until seeing your comment and doing a 2 second google search to find that it also means a fee, not a tax, on imports or exports (trade tariff) in and out of a country, which I assume must be the main American English use of the word.
so there is more incentive to be clean these days and peoples attitudes have changed.
In the absence of environmental legislation, if it's cheaper to hire very good PR people to con people into believing that positive action is being implemented at every step than it is to actually minimize environmental impact, which way do you think a corporation is going to go?
Well depending on how you regard the veracity of Wikipedia entries...
Johnson announced his candidacy for President on April 21, 2011, as a Republican... On December 28, 2011, after being excluded from the majority of the Republican Party's presidential debates and failing to gain traction while campaigning for the New Hampshire primary, he withdrew his candidacy for the Republican nomination and announced that he would continue his presidential campaign as a candidate for the nomination of the Libertarian Party
Whenever perplexed by a decision made by someone in local or national government, don't jump to the conclusion that they're being stupid but look for the way (likely to be unethical or amoral if not downright illegal) that they are going to personally gain. It is a certainty that there will be one.
I'm Scottish and am forever thinking while dealing with a name "Oh fuck, should that be Mc or Mac?"
To be honest it's only people with a Mc or Mac surname that get really irate about it being wrong. But then I might have a more relaxed attitude about it because I am subjected to my forename (Iain) being misspelled on an almost daily basis.
Or, civilizations which advance to the point where they could send out self-replicating probes generally don't bother
As if. Their economic system concentrates the wealth among a smaller and smaller group of individuals whose only interest is to increase their own personal wealth, and self-replicating probes launched into space don't have a R.O.I.
This is the thing that probably annoys me most about our MPs. Their attendance is beyond shockingly lax and wouldn't be tolerated in the corporate world.
The only vote that they will definitely turn up for is one that their party is forcing a strong whip on. And even then they turn up only to vote according to the party line even if it would be against the wishes of the people that actually voted them to office.
Ok, people have occasionally defied a whip but it's very rare.
I don't recall a public consultation on the welfare reform. The bits that changed were all because of members of the House of Lords displaying some conscience, nothing to do with public opinion. And even after the modifications the government had to pull a hard whip on the vote to ensure it passed because they'd reached the point of wanting it through despite what anyone thought.
I can't comment on the anti-terrorism bill. I seem to have completely missed that one but I'm not convinced that it was rejected because of public criticism; there would have been another reason.
It's Welsh. An Anglicised form would probably be "Glin", rhyming with "tin".
And if anyone wants to try actually saying it with the broad "l" that features in Celtic languages, aim for "Glin" but when sounding the "l" don't touch the back of your front top teeth with the tip of your tongue but instead curl the tongue over your front top teeth and just touch the front of them with the tongue tip. It makes the "l" sound subtly different.
And if you can master that then seek out other Celtic words containing "l" and impress yourself with how better they sound with a broad "l".
When faced by overwhelming public rejection of a Bill has there ever been a modern government that has thrown one out because of that? Clearly they will just change the name and sneak it in with something else. Because what do the public know?
Government politics is now so completely flawed that it needs to be replaced. I'm with Billy Connolly when he said that "the desire to be an MP [modify as appropriate for your jurisdiction] should automatically prevent you from becoming one."
So if upheld then Apple (or indeed any American corporation that utilizes offshore manufacture of products of their own design) could forbid resale of their products so that you could only ever buy new from them.
There's nothing inherently evil about any of these corporations.
Actually, I'd say there's something inherently evil about any corporation.
Since they are not human (or even biological individuals) with an overriding primary goal of delivering the best possible shareholder value that legal restrictions permit[1] and do not acknowledge moral or ethical constraints then I think evil is the most appropriate adjective.
Disclaimer: I'm employed by one but I'm not foolish enough to actually trust it.
[1] Fortunately (for them) political entities are susceptible to bribery to get legal constraints changed.
Indeed, he's just defending his trademark. And in his pursuit of that I want to see him take on Gene Simmons over KISS using "Carnival of Souls" as an album title.
That would really be worth getting popcorn to watch.
Slashdot Mirror
"So while the U.K. court did not find Samsung guilty of infringement, other courts have..."
...been far more open to bribery, we mean persuasion, yes persuasion. And we don't really need the UK market, it's too small and their populace gets upset about corporations evading, I mean avoiding, legally avoiding, tax.
Is Iceland an example of good local governance considering it basically went bankrupt?
Yeah, they made the same mistakes as many other nations running up to and during the financial crisis but didn't try and prop up failure like other nations did. And they've come through it and have made changes like updating their constitution with a referendum that got an impressive turnout. If it wasn't for the fact that I find winter days short enough at just 55 degrees north I would favour living there now.
Well, despite what the guy at the top might have thought, your rank-and-file German soldier still had "Gott mit uns" on his belt.
Well if you can't send observers to elections that are unlikely to be fair then you might miss an absolute gem of electoral fraud that would be great for back home.
Or do you think that the US might have already invented them all?
If it hits the wrong target, no civilian casualties.
You killed my World of Warcraft! You bastards!
You're jumping to conclusions about a language you don't speak. In British English a tariff is a list or schedule of prices for such things as rail service, bus routes, and electrical usage (electrical tariff, etc.). I was unfamiliar with other uses of the word until seeing your comment and doing a 2 second google search to find that it also means a fee, not a tax, on imports or exports (trade tariff) in and out of a country, which I assume must be the main American English use of the word.
A-ha! A perfect cover story for the X-37B. Expect to read it in a press release soon.
so there is more incentive to be clean these days and peoples attitudes have changed.
In the absence of environmental legislation, if it's cheaper to hire very good PR people to con people into believing that positive action is being implemented at every step than it is to actually minimize environmental impact, which way do you think a corporation is going to go?
Well depending on how you regard the veracity of Wikipedia entries...
Johnson announced his candidacy for President on April 21, 2011, as a Republican... On December 28, 2011, after being excluded from the majority of the Republican Party's presidential debates and failing to gain traction while campaigning for the New Hampshire primary, he withdrew his candidacy for the Republican nomination and announced that he would continue his presidential campaign as a candidate for the nomination of the Libertarian Party
Absolutely.
Whenever perplexed by a decision made by someone in local or national government, don't jump to the conclusion that they're being stupid but look for the way (likely to be unethical or amoral if not downright illegal) that they are going to personally gain. It is a certainty that there will be one.
I'm Scottish and am forever thinking while dealing with a name "Oh fuck, should that be Mc or Mac?"
To be honest it's only people with a Mc or Mac surname that get really irate about it being wrong. But then I might have a more relaxed attitude about it because I am subjected to my forename (Iain) being misspelled on an almost daily basis.
I'm a UK citizen
By birth? Or did you move here? Not a great advert for our education system if you were raised in it.
HIs defence played the old suicide card
As pointed out by many that argument was used against extradition. I can't see it having much sway as a defense in the criminal case that will follow.
Or, civilizations which advance to the point where they could send out self-replicating probes generally don't bother
As if. Their economic system concentrates the wealth among a smaller and smaller group of individuals whose only interest is to increase their own personal wealth, and self-replicating probes launched into space don't have a R.O.I.
Ideal for a small set of medically related electronic devices, it seems.
I don't think it's likely to replace glass for anything else.
She didn't even turn up to the vote.
This is the thing that probably annoys me most about our MPs. Their attendance is beyond shockingly lax and wouldn't be tolerated in the corporate world.
The only vote that they will definitely turn up for is one that their party is forcing a strong whip on. And even then they turn up only to vote according to the party line even if it would be against the wishes of the people that actually voted them to office.
Ok, people have occasionally defied a whip but it's very rare.
I don't recall a public consultation on the welfare reform. The bits that changed were all because of members of the House of Lords displaying some conscience, nothing to do with public opinion. And even after the modifications the government had to pull a hard whip on the vote to ensure it passed because they'd reached the point of wanting it through despite what anyone thought.
I can't comment on the anti-terrorism bill. I seem to have completely missed that one but I'm not convinced that it was rejected because of public criticism; there would have been another reason.
What a sylly name. How is that even pronounced?
It's Welsh. An Anglicised form would probably be "Glin", rhyming with "tin".
And if anyone wants to try actually saying it with the broad "l" that features in Celtic languages, aim for "Glin" but when sounding the "l" don't touch the back of your front top teeth with the tip of your tongue but instead curl the tongue over your front top teeth and just touch the front of them with the tongue tip. It makes the "l" sound subtly different.
And if you can master that then seek out other Celtic words containing "l" and impress yourself with how better they sound with a broad "l".
Latha math (Good day)
When faced by overwhelming public rejection of a Bill has there ever been a modern government that has thrown one out because of that? Clearly they will just change the name and sneak it in with something else. Because what do the public know?
Government politics is now so completely flawed that it needs to be replaced. I'm with Billy Connolly when he said that "the desire to be an MP [modify as appropriate for your jurisdiction] should automatically prevent you from becoming one."
So if upheld then Apple (or indeed any American corporation that utilizes offshore manufacture of products of their own design) could forbid resale of their products so that you could only ever buy new from them.
Seems like a win for them.
Er... so you missed the bit where everyone became a potential terrorist in the perception of authorities?
Get used to it, you'll always be treated as one now.
Pfft. Next you'll be claiming that there is intelligent life on Earth.
Why download Chrome for Android when you can download Opera Mini?
Looked at it. Didn't like it much.
Then read some of the few comments attached to articles. Still didn't like it much.
There's nothing inherently evil about any of these corporations.
Actually, I'd say there's something inherently evil about any corporation.
Since they are not human (or even biological individuals) with an overriding primary goal of delivering the best possible shareholder value that legal restrictions permit[1] and do not acknowledge moral or ethical constraints then I think evil is the most appropriate adjective.
Disclaimer: I'm employed by one but I'm not foolish enough to actually trust it.
[1] Fortunately (for them) political entities are susceptible to bribery to get legal constraints changed.
Indeed, he's just defending his trademark. And in his pursuit of that I want to see him take on Gene Simmons over KISS using "Carnival of Souls" as an album title.
That would really be worth getting popcorn to watch.