So exactly what choice does Twitter have in this matter? If they were to ignore the US court order then the exact same sorts of penalties would apply.
Given that they have far more to lose as they are US based I imagine that they would comply with the US order and then whine a lot to the US State Department.
As far as what happens if the EU decides to impose sanctions I think that Twitter would simply say yes we did what you claim, but what would you have us do? Ultimately this is not an issue that can be resolved by the company - it has to be resolved at a diplomatic level.
The EU are acting like asses imho. They know full well that Twitter has no options in this case. If they try to impose sanctions on Twitter the US will simply file a case with the WTO, or impose some sort of penalty on a EU company.
The libertarian would have a lot of trouble with that plan. Under US law states can't declare bankruptcy and just like everyone else the contracts are legally binding.
What will probably happen is that their will be significant tax increases to pay off some debts, secondary bonds will defaults which will make it impossible for the state to borrow ever again, and the unions will take over the pensions much like they did with the auto companies.
You can watch it all play out in Illinois first - they are the worst state financially.
Social security is going to an all direct deposit system. So you can cross off printing checks.
The call centers could easily be outsourced to Zimbabwe or wherever English is spoken with the worst accent possible thereby eliminating the need to pay benefits.
The data thing is the hard part. It isn't 300 million records, it's 300 million times the number of paychecks you receive in your lifetime. But that could easily be handled the same way the people who receive the paychecks do. Shoeboxes. And anyway with the Great Recession who has a job anyway?
Perhaps what Wikileaks is doing by publishing these documents is not a violation of US law. IANAL.
However the means by which these documents reached Wikileaks is very probably a violation of US law. I am sure that US investigative agencies are very interested and are quite justified in gathering as much information as possible as to how that happened.
Not only if THEIR kid gets sick, but if any other kids who have contact with their kid get sick and spread it to other kids they should become liable for damages and DRACONIAN punishments for all affected. Negligent homicide anyone?
It's actually very different from how other countries work because of the centralized acquisition program.
Still I think that this approach is only an incremental step. The Chinese may have the end technology, but it doesn't buy them the ability to develop new technologies. That is a whole different ball game.
Yes, but if you add up the total viewership of the sane news channels and compare it to the number of mouth-breathing nose-picking illiterates who watch Fox News some hope is restored.
Teach them math and language skills. These are the fundamentals of programming and it is a waste of time to teach programming until these foundations are in place.
We need someone to make Science propaganda films for 10 year old students again. The Bell Science series produced by Frank Capra and starring Dr. Bunsen Honeydew (or the prototype of his character) were terrific. If you had any sort of interest in how things work an exposure to these was a huge recruiting tool.
The science in these films was pretty forward thinking too.
Phlugh. Chinese is a crummy written language. Ideograms, etc. make it hard to learn to read. Korea had the right idea to eschew the thing and develop a very nice easy to read phonetic language which ended up giving them the highest literacy rate in the world.
If the Chinese want to saddle themselves with that sort of nonsense, fine. But I'm not going there.
The board is assembled in China. For semiconductor production (the actual GPU) NVIDIA uses Global Foundaries, a US company. Their newest facility and the most advanced fab in the world is not far from where my brother lives.
The problem with the USPS is that it while it is not funded by the Federal Government, it is controlled by it. This quasi-enterprise status is completely impractical.
To illustrate the issue the USPS has massive overcapacity for the service level it provides. Any business faced with this would consolidate or downsize in order to save money. Unfortunately Congress won't let them do it. Any time the USPS wants to close a branch, the people living in the immediate area protest to their Congresscritter who then blocks it. The result is gross inefficiency.
If it were possible to slap the Congress upside the head on this issue the USPS would have a chance. Right now it doesn't.
It is hard to imagine any private company taking on the development of space exploration, yet public funding of NASA has resulted in massive innovation and whole new industries. Communication satellites, innovative materials, technologies for miniaturization of electronics and so on.
The GAO has estimated that the tax revenues arising from industries spun off from NASA's work far exceed the cost to taxpayers from of the space program.
From Wikipedia:
Other statistics and confirmation that "Space pays" may also be found in the 1976 Chase Econometrics Associates, Inc. reports ("The Economic Impact of NASA R&D Spending: Preliminary Executive Summary.", April 1975. Also: "Relative Impact of NASA Expenditure on the Economy.", March 18, 1975) and backed by the 1989 Chapman Research report, which examined just 259 non-space applications of NASA technology during an eight year period (1976-1984) and found more than:
-- $21.6 billion in sales and benefits;
-- 352,000 (mostly skilled) jobs created or saved,and;
-- $355 million in federal corporate income taxes
Other benefits, not quantified in the study, include: state corporate income taxes, individual personal income taxes (federal and state) paid by those 352,000 workers, and incalculable benefits resulting from lives saved and improved quality of life. According to the "Nature" article, these 259 applications represent ". ..only 1% of an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 Space program spin-offs. These benefits were in addition to benefits in the Space industry itself and in addition to the ordinary multiplied effects of any government spending."
In 2002, the aerospace industry contributed more than $95 billion to U.S. economic activity, which included $23.5 billion in employee earnings, and employed 576,000 people--a 16% increase in jobs from three years earlier (source: Federal Aviation Administration, March 2004).
Just 15 firms that received an initial $64 million in NASA life sciences research added $200 million of their own money and created a $1.5 billion return on investment in the form of sold commercial goods and services during 25 years.[9]
You can wonder or you might look up the facts and actually KNOW.
The internet example you mentioned was not just applied technology. The fundamental mathematics that led to the invention of packet switched networks was academic research by Kleinrock at MIT. Not industrial.
Worse the great industrial labs of the 20th century are all gone. Bell Labs is an empty building in Holmdel NJ and memories of Nobel Prizes (7 at last count), Sarnoff Labs in Princeton NJ, GE Schenectady (the scion of Edison's Menlo Park) and IBM at Yorktown are no more or vastly diminished, working only on short term projects. And even many government programs aren't what they used to be. DARPA is focused on short term goals and doesn't do fundamental work any more.
The only significant sources of money for fundamental work are the DOE, NIH and NSF. And even that is being corrupted by Congress's insane desire for earmarks.
Now we hear from Congress a desire to cut these programs. I cannot think of ANYTHING worse.
OK, if the reason we have this bloated defense budget is to assure a reliable supply of offshore oil we should properly allocate costs and fund the defense budget with a tax on imported oil.
You can imagine what this will do to encourage energy independence.
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Remember how you can lose your farm because some Monsanto-patented seed blows onto your property?
No I don't, because it has never happened.
So exactly what choice does Twitter have in this matter? If they were to ignore the US court order then the exact same sorts of penalties would apply.
Given that they have far more to lose as they are US based I imagine that they would comply with the US order and then whine a lot to the US State Department.
As far as what happens if the EU decides to impose sanctions I think that Twitter would simply say yes we did what you claim, but what would you have us do? Ultimately this is not an issue that can be resolved by the company - it has to be resolved at a diplomatic level.
The EU are acting like asses imho. They know full well that Twitter has no options in this case. If they try to impose sanctions on Twitter the US will simply file a case with the WTO, or impose some sort of penalty on a EU company.
The libertarian would have a lot of trouble with that plan. Under US law states can't declare bankruptcy and just like everyone else the contracts are legally binding.
What will probably happen is that their will be significant tax increases to pay off some debts, secondary bonds will defaults which will make it impossible for the state to borrow ever again, and the unions will take over the pensions much like they did with the auto companies.
You can watch it all play out in Illinois first - they are the worst state financially.
The philosophy of science is not a monolith. There are a wide variety of views, some of which even make sense.
Hint: if it's Postmodern it doesn't make sense.
Social security is going to an all direct deposit system. So you can cross off printing checks.
The call centers could easily be outsourced to Zimbabwe or wherever English is spoken with the worst accent possible thereby eliminating the need to pay benefits.
The data thing is the hard part. It isn't 300 million records, it's 300 million times the number of paychecks you receive in your lifetime. But that could easily be handled the same way the people who receive the paychecks do. Shoeboxes. And anyway with the Great Recession who has a job anyway?
So what's the problem?
Perhaps what Wikileaks is doing by publishing these documents is not a violation of US law. IANAL.
However the means by which these documents reached Wikileaks is very probably a violation of US law. I am sure that US investigative agencies are very interested and are quite justified in gathering as much information as possible as to how that happened.
I had a fish paste sandwich while visiting London. It seems that it is customary to serve this made with stale bread.
I'd say it's a toss-up between that and cat food.
Not only if THEIR kid gets sick, but if any other kids who have contact with their kid get sick and spread it to other kids they should become liable for damages and DRACONIAN punishments for all affected. Negligent homicide anyone?
The search needs to include the total person, i.e. all of the body characteristics.
It's actually very different from how other countries work because of the centralized acquisition program.
Still I think that this approach is only an incremental step. The Chinese may have the end technology, but it doesn't buy them the ability to develop new technologies. That is a whole different ball game.
The people who live in NY State outside of NYC would love to see NYC break off and float away.
Yes, but if you add up the total viewership of the sane news channels and compare it to the number of mouth-breathing nose-picking illiterates who watch Fox News some hope is restored.
Teach them math and language skills. These are the fundamentals of programming and it is a waste of time to teach programming until these foundations are in place.
We need someone to make Science propaganda films for 10 year old students again. The Bell Science series produced by Frank Capra and starring Dr. Bunsen Honeydew (or the prototype of his character) were terrific. If you had any sort of interest in how things work an exposure to these was a huge recruiting tool.
The science in these films was pretty forward thinking too.
Here's a clip from one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7ksqNV1IiE
Eh, chemistry can work that way too. I taught a section of Intro Organic Chem to a bunch of Nursing majors.
Oh My.
Phlugh. Chinese is a crummy written language. Ideograms, etc. make it hard to learn to read. Korea had the right idea to eschew the thing and develop a very nice easy to read phonetic language which ended up giving them the highest literacy rate in the world.
If the Chinese want to saddle themselves with that sort of nonsense, fine. But I'm not going there.
My experience with teaching students from India is that they do great on the theory, but in the lab not watch out.
The board is assembled in China. For semiconductor production (the actual GPU) NVIDIA uses Global Foundaries, a US company. Their newest facility and the most advanced fab in the world is not far from where my brother lives.
http://fab2construction.com/
The problem with the USPS is that it while it is not funded by the Federal Government, it is controlled by it. This quasi-enterprise status is completely impractical.
To illustrate the issue the USPS has massive overcapacity for the service level it provides. Any business faced with this would consolidate or downsize in order to save money. Unfortunately Congress won't let them do it. Any time the USPS wants to close a branch, the people living in the immediate area protest to their Congresscritter who then blocks it. The result is gross inefficiency.
If it were possible to slap the Congress upside the head on this issue the USPS would have a chance. Right now it doesn't.
Let's drop the idea that University is free or better in Sweden. It is paid for with your taxes over your working life.
Sounds like a disciple of the well-known crackpot Weston Price.
All computers are obsolete.
It is hard to imagine any private company taking on the development of space exploration, yet public funding of NASA has resulted in massive innovation and whole new industries. Communication satellites, innovative materials, technologies for miniaturization of electronics and so on.
The GAO has estimated that the tax revenues arising from industries spun off from NASA's work far exceed the cost to taxpayers from of the space program.
From Wikipedia:
Other statistics and confirmation that "Space pays" may also be found in the 1976 Chase Econometrics Associates, Inc. reports ("The Economic Impact of NASA R&D Spending: Preliminary Executive Summary.", April 1975. Also: "Relative Impact of NASA Expenditure on the Economy.", March 18, 1975) and backed by the 1989 Chapman Research report, which examined just 259 non-space applications of NASA technology during an eight year period (1976-1984) and found more than:
-- $21.6 billion in sales and benefits;
-- 352,000 (mostly skilled) jobs created or saved,and;
-- $355 million in federal corporate income taxes
Other benefits, not quantified in the study, include: state corporate income taxes, individual personal income taxes (federal and state) paid by those 352,000 workers, and incalculable benefits resulting from lives saved and improved quality of life. According to the "Nature" article, these 259 applications represent ". . .only 1% of an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 Space program spin-offs. These benefits were in addition to benefits in the Space industry itself and in addition to the ordinary multiplied effects of any government spending."
In 2002, the aerospace industry contributed more than $95 billion to U.S. economic activity, which included $23.5 billion in employee earnings, and employed 576,000 people--a 16% increase in jobs from three years earlier (source: Federal Aviation Administration, March 2004).
Just 15 firms that received an initial $64 million in NASA life sciences research added $200 million of their own money and created a $1.5 billion return on investment in the form of sold commercial goods and services during 25 years.[9]
You can wonder or you might look up the facts and actually KNOW.
The internet example you mentioned was not just applied technology. The fundamental mathematics that led to the invention of packet switched networks was academic research by Kleinrock at MIT. Not industrial.
Worse the great industrial labs of the 20th century are all gone. Bell Labs is an empty building in Holmdel NJ and memories of Nobel Prizes (7 at last count), Sarnoff Labs in Princeton NJ, GE Schenectady (the scion of Edison's Menlo Park) and IBM at Yorktown are no more or vastly diminished, working only on short term projects. And even many government programs aren't what they used to be. DARPA is focused on short term goals and doesn't do fundamental work any more.
The only significant sources of money for fundamental work are the DOE, NIH and NSF. And even that is being corrupted by Congress's insane desire for earmarks.
Now we hear from Congress a desire to cut these programs. I cannot think of ANYTHING worse.
OK, if the reason we have this bloated defense budget is to assure a reliable supply of offshore oil we should properly allocate costs and fund the defense budget with a tax on imported oil.
You can imagine what this will do to encourage energy independence.