It seems to me that RIANZ is doing better than the HADOPI as they charge the media companies $25 per warning while the cost of the French notices is only 10 euros.
Both of these are ridiculously low. Legal notices should cost at least $100.
Nobody is stealing from you if you are intelligent enough to put your money in a reasonable investment vehicle. It's only that sticking your money in a mattress is going be a bad idea.
The idea that Iceland has recovered in a short time is a great exaggeration. All they have left is fishing and tourism. Their standard of living will take a considerable period of time to fully recover. Many people lost 80% of their savings when the krona was devalued and purchasing power was crushed.
The average household has suffered a 30 per cent fall in purchasing power since 2008. The private sector remains heavily indebted, with household debt levels exceeding 200 per cent of disposable income and corporate debt 210 per cent of GDP, according to Fitch. Partly because of this, domestic companies are reluctant to invest."
In general what you say is true. I'm US born and have a STEM PhD. Many of my classmates were foreign elites paid to attend school in the US by their home countries.
Some of these students had family members held at risk of prison or worse if they did not return. Others, like the woman who eventually became my wife had visas that compelled their return home for a time because of treaties. It was damn difficult to get waivers for these provisions. I was lucky because a letter I wrote to President Ford was acted on favorably.
However many of the other students I worked with had their education paid for through university scholarships or research grants from companies or agencies like NASA or the NIH. So in some sense we paid for their education. But a lot of these people ended up staying in the US because they qualified for residency under various programs.
There is no question that these people should be offered the opportunity to stay in the US. Many are extremely talented.
The idea that we should stop paying for them is ludicrous. The actual cost is not high and even if their stay is temporary they enrich the US for that time.
My compliant is the H1-B program expansion that is being discussed. This brings in a potential excess of foreign workers not educated in the US. It suppresses demand for students educated in the US and harms US universities.
The point of F/OSS is to share your code. For some people that means sharing in such a way as to encourage others to share too, for others it means to share in such a way that as many people as possible can make use of it.
The 'unlicensed' idea ignores the legal system. Using something that is unlicensed is a very bad idea because the default status is full copyright.
cenÂtuÂry (snch-r) n. pl. cenÂtuÂries 1. Abbr. C. or c. or cent. a. A period of 100 years. b. Each of the successive periods of 100 years before or since the advent of the Christian era. 2. a. A unit of the Roman army originally consisting of 100 men. b. One of the 193 electoral divisions of the Roman people. 3. A group of 100 things.
Boeing didn't want to hire all the engineers needed to design the 787. So when they outsourced these subsystems they also counted on their suppliers to do the engineering of these subsystems.
The problem is that engineers are not fungible. Boeing didn't appreciate this, any more than the software industry did when it started outsourcing.
An aerospace structural frame engineer is not the same thing as a marine structure engineer. There are huge differences in the body of experience despite the fact that they both use the same tools.
This was the primary cause of the delays Boeing had. It will continue to be a problem for anyone who tries this sort of outsourcing.
The reason you are not seeing inflation is because the Fed has been paying fairly high interest rates for deposits. This has sucked a lot of excess cash out of the economy.
This article is missing a very important point. A lot of the LIBOR manipulation was done to artificially LOWER the rate for trading purposes or to make a bank look stronger than it actually was.
This lower rate benefited borrowers, just as much as the higher rate hurt them. It depends in detail what kind of loan was involved.
Some municipalities are actually suing based on the idea that they received artificially low interest rates on their bonds because of LIBOR manipulation.
Congress has the power to create money. No question about it. Article 1 Section 8. There is no particular reason they can't delegate that power to whoever they want.
And if you buy an unlocked phone the monthly T-Mobile unlimited plan will set you back $50/month.
If you are like me and use WiFi most of the time you can get a per day plan.
I figure I'll pay somewhere between $100 and $200 for my cell service this year. Including the cost of the phone it's probably a $1500 savings over 2 years vs getting an iPhone on Verizon or AT&T.
You have touched upon and misunderstood a very important point.
Contracts.
When you buy an unlocked phone you are licensing it. You don't own it. You sign a contract that specifies this relationship. If you don't want to live up to the contract, don't sign it. Get your phone in some other fashion.
If you do decide to break the contract don't be surprised if there are penalties for doing so.
At such time the contract is over then you own the phone outright and the Librarian agrees with you that you can modify it.
It can be argued this is a case of big old mean Apple just blatantly ripping off a one man company by copying his idea, which they were shown under an NDA which they cheerfully broke.
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It's not 'regulation' in the sense it's a law. It's a requirement from the people that issue liability insurance.
UL is run by a consortium of insurance companies.
It's one of those things that shows that private enterprise isn't necessarily better.
One incident in the 240 year history of the Republic vs how many gun related homicides and injuries each year?
Come on man.
It seems to me that RIANZ is doing better than the HADOPI as they charge the media companies $25 per warning while the cost of the French notices is only 10 euros.
Both of these are ridiculously low. Legal notices should cost at least $100.
In 1899, U.S. Commissioner of Patents Charles H. Duell declared that everything that could be invented had been invented.
The fact is we are riding a wave of invention unparalleled in human history.
Because they aren't on US soil.
My boss is going to turn purple. He hates git & anything devised by Torvalds.
Yes. Why don't they fix submodules? Everyone has some workaround to submodules. But nobody actually fixes it.
Nobody is stealing from you if you are intelligent enough to put your money in a reasonable investment vehicle. It's only that sticking your money in a mattress is going be a bad idea.
The idea that Iceland has recovered in a short time is a great exaggeration. All they have left is fishing and tourism. Their standard of living will take a considerable period of time to fully recover. Many people lost 80% of their savings when the krona was devalued and purchasing power was crushed.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8a0390dc-78c7-11e1-9f49-00144feab49a.html#ixzz2JVMREulj
The average household has suffered a 30 per cent fall in purchasing power since 2008. The private sector remains heavily indebted, with household debt levels exceeding 200 per cent of disposable income and corporate debt 210 per cent of GDP, according to Fitch. Partly because of this, domestic companies are reluctant to invest."
In general what you say is true. I'm US born and have a STEM PhD. Many of my classmates were foreign elites paid to attend school in the US by their home countries.
Some of these students had family members held at risk of prison or worse if they did not return. Others, like the woman who eventually became my wife had visas that compelled their return home for a time because of treaties. It was damn difficult to get waivers for these provisions. I was lucky because a letter I wrote to President Ford was acted on favorably.
However many of the other students I worked with had their education paid for through university scholarships or research grants from companies or agencies like NASA or the NIH. So in some sense we paid for their education. But a lot of these people ended up staying in the US because they qualified for residency under various programs.
There is no question that these people should be offered the opportunity to stay in the US. Many are extremely talented.
The idea that we should stop paying for them is ludicrous. The actual cost is not high and even if their stay is temporary they enrich the US for that time.
My compliant is the H1-B program expansion that is being discussed. This brings in a potential excess of foreign workers not educated in the US. It suppresses demand for students educated in the US and harms US universities.
No, it isn't.
The point of F/OSS is to share your code. For some people that means sharing in such a way as to encourage others to share too, for others it means to share in such a way that as many people as possible can make use of it.
The 'unlicensed' idea ignores the legal system. Using something that is unlicensed is a very bad idea because the default status is full copyright.
Nah.
cenÂtuÂry (snch-r)
n. pl. cenÂtuÂries
1. Abbr. C. or c. or cent.
a. A period of 100 years.
b. Each of the successive periods of 100 years before or since the advent of the Christian era.
2.
a. A unit of the Roman army originally consisting of 100 men.
b. One of the 193 electoral divisions of the Roman people.
3. A group of 100 things.
A small inflationary bias is helpful to economic growth because it encourages investment vs just putting money in the bank.
Try doing ROI analysis on investment projects and you will see.....
0% inflation would be quite harmful overall.
Boeing didn't want to hire all the engineers needed to design the 787. So when they outsourced these subsystems they also counted on their suppliers to do the engineering of these subsystems.
The problem is that engineers are not fungible. Boeing didn't appreciate this, any more than the software industry did when it started outsourcing.
An aerospace structural frame engineer is not the same thing as a marine structure engineer. There are huge differences in the body of experience despite the fact that they both use the same tools.
This was the primary cause of the delays Boeing had. It will continue to be a problem for anyone who tries this sort of outsourcing.
The reason you are not seeing inflation is because the Fed has been paying fairly high interest rates for deposits. This has sucked a lot of excess cash out of the economy.
It counteracts the increase in cash caused by QE.
This article is missing a very important point. A lot of the LIBOR manipulation was done to artificially LOWER the rate for trading purposes or to make a bank look stronger than it actually was.
This lower rate benefited borrowers, just as much as the higher rate hurt them. It depends in detail what kind of loan was involved.
Some municipalities are actually suing based on the idea that they received artificially low interest rates on their bonds because of LIBOR manipulation.
Congress has the power to create money. No question about it. Article 1 Section 8. There is no particular reason they can't delegate that power to whoever they want.
Lots of people were opposed to it including Jefferson and Madison. Both claimed it was unconstitutional.
And if you buy an unlocked phone the monthly T-Mobile unlimited plan will set you back $50/month.
If you are like me and use WiFi most of the time you can get a per day plan.
I figure I'll pay somewhere between $100 and $200 for my cell service this year. Including the cost of the phone it's probably a $1500 savings over 2 years vs getting an iPhone on Verizon or AT&T.
Why would anyone in their right mind do that? Buy an unlocked phone on a credit card and pay it off over whatever period of time you want to.
Then use it with whatever carrier you want and you won't be paying for two service plans.
Even though credit card interest is outrageous, it's still got to be better than your suggestion.
You have touched upon and misunderstood a very important point.
Contracts.
When you buy an unlocked phone you are licensing it. You don't own it. You sign a contract that specifies this relationship. If you don't want to live up to the contract, don't sign it. Get your phone in some other fashion.
If you do decide to break the contract don't be surprised if there are penalties for doing so.
At such time the contract is over then you own the phone outright and the Librarian agrees with you that you can modify it.
To me that was the killer app that triggered my first computer purchase.
What's really amazing is that it is still possible to enjoy this great game through the use of a ZIL interpreter.
It can be argued this is a case of big old mean Apple just blatantly ripping off a one man company by copying his idea, which they were shown under an NDA which they cheerfully broke.
http://www.pandab.org/an-absurd-patent.html
It was so groundbreaking that Apple got a patent infringement suit from it.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/20/business/apple-is-said-to-settle-suit.html
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