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"I am sorry. We can not provide you with that kind access due to SOX compliance issues."
"I am sorry, but we can not provide you with that access because then we would not be able to provide our customers with the confidentiality they expect."
"I am sorry, but we can't do that. Doing so would mean we would have to give access to all our clients, some of whom may use that access to spy on their rivals."
At best, this is a case of comparing apples to oranges. At worst, it is a deliberate attempt to mislead the reader.
Universal complained that the $3.5 million punitive damage award was approximate 10 times the compensatory damage award of $366,939.
In the Jammie Thomas case, the award was $9,250 in statutory damages per song. There were no punitive or compensatory damages awarded which is what Universal is complaining about.
Another thing is that Thomas faced a maximum of $150,000 per song but was fined less than $10,000 per song. Universal was fined $366,939 for a sample of a single song, more than twice what Thomas faced for a single song.
This case involved a sample of a single song, which would sell for $.70. which means Universal is being fined 524,198 times the value of the song in compensatory damages and 5 million times said value in punitive damages.
This entire article is not news. It is nothing but a veil of self-serving misrepresentations of the facts.
There is no law that says children must perform hard labor. There is a law that says they must attend school to prepare for a life as adults so they will not be a drain on "the rest of us"
By becoming a worthless scumbag, they are violating my right to not have to support them or have to kill them when they try to steal from me.
My position is that we should do what is necessary to provide children with the education and training needed to make something of themselves, even if it must be forced upon them with this kind of monitoring. At the very least, we know where they are and that they are not out robbing houses. Remember, this is not being applied to every student, just the ones that are not going to school like they should.
We should spend money on the youth, via education, prevention, etc. rather than spend it on adults who have already thrown away their lives via gangs, drugs, and crime.
I am also pro choice, pro death penalty, pro sex ed, pro evolution, and anti religion. I also believe that the drinking, draft, majority, and end of education should be 20. I believe that a psychological assessment should determine whether one is tried as an adult.
I am not on the left or the right. I am on my own side.
Would you also agree that said dumbass should suffer the consequences of his folly?
Do you agree he is owed nothing from the state and should be allowed to suffer, to hunger and starve to death, to freeze in the cold and broil in the heat, to be run out of town without sympathy or support?
Do you agree that no money should be spent on the self-generated less fortunate?
Well, dumb-ass, the Constitution is not being thrown out. They were provided due-process for failing to follow the law.
They have civil responsibilities as well as civil rights. They have failed to live up to their civil responsibilities, and as such, they were accorded due process and were provided with a suitable punishment.
Are you so fucking stupid as to believe that there is only rights and not responsibilities?
First off, define "the rest of us". The rest of the kids are going to school. These kids are minors and do not have the right to say "I am not going to school." There is a law that says they will go to school. It may be a civil law, but it is still a law. They violated the law, they could go to juvenile detention. Instead they are begin forced to comply with the law.
Second, you speak of their "rights" but fail to mention their responsibilities. They have responsibilities to their parents and to the community at large.
I get the feeling you believe that rights exist without responsibilities, but that is just not so.
And, about your sig, the government and it's law exist to protect people like you from people like me. "Market actors" have no authority over those who do not subscribe to said market. If said actors did have authority over non-subscribers, then they become a de-facto government. As I would not subscribe to their market, I would be free to act as my will dictates.
Unless he decides to become a gang member, drug dealer, car thief, armed robber, murderer, etc.
I guess it never occurred to you that someone who doesn't care about working to get an education might decide it is easier and more profitable to be a criminal than a laborer.
I guess you think it is better that the kids be allowed to skip school, not get an education, and end up working mcjobs or worse as gang-bangers, thieves, drug dealers, or other criminals. Or, do you think they will make anything else of themselves after they "snooze until 2 p.m. before strolling into school" and falling falling so far behind they fail most of their classes.
Maybe you this:
Nearly one-third of American students drop out of school, and Dallas has the seventh-worst graduation rate among large school districts, according to a study released in April by Americaâ(TM)s Promise Alliance, founded by Colin L. Powell, the former secretary of state.
Maybe you missed the part where Pacheco could have been sent to juvenile detention and how his mother is glad he has to do this.
Hey, I know, maybe the truth is that you are worried that you won't have anyone to wait on you at McDonald's, mow your lawn, and do the rest of the shit jobs you don't want to do.
Or, maybe it is that you just can't wait to pay higher taxes to support the ignorant.
Yes, you are ashamed of your city because you believe it is better to let ignorant, selfish, lazy children grow up to be ignorant, selfish, lazy adults who are a burden to the rest of society.
Yep, and it has been proven in the past. What prevents non-corporeal for-profit entities from doing the things you say is not morals, but the cost of doing them.
Using slave labor will get one banned from the major consumer economies.
Bad environmental behavior can cost one billions in cleanup costs and get one banned from major consumer markets
Murdering competitors when one's competitors are non-corporeal for profit entities requires killing off executives and key workers which becomes excessively expensive after the first one or two. Then there is the cost of hiding the crime, lawyers to fight charges, pay-offs, etc. And, if one's competitors decide to fight back in the same fashion, there is the cost of increased security. Add that to the bad publicity, the benefit does not outweigh the cost.
Of course, if one dries to murder the competition by driving them out of business, one runs in to anti-trust, predatory pricing, etc complaints.
No, here the definition has come to me exactly what he said.
Doesn't matter how much truth there is to a statement, or how much proof one provides. Disagree with the fanboys and watch your karma burn. I have actually seen fanboys go back and mod down posts I have made months back. They have formed cliques and are busy modding everyone who posts against them down.
And yet most of these projects without a QA department are still able to make software of quality rivaling these proprietary vendors.
Actually, that statement if false. The majority of OSS is half-finished, poorly-planned crap that is in perpetual beta. Of what remains, most does not come close, let alone rival, the software provided by proprietary vendors.
The truth is that, with a very few notable exceptions, OSS is generally crapware that gets abandoned once the project obtains an arbitrary level of usability and all the sexy code has been written. Just look at freshmeat or sourceforge to see the truth.
but at least there is generally some level of quality control there
Hahahahahahaha. You must not deal with much proprietary software to make such hilarious statements. In fact it my experience the statement is just the opposite.
The quoted statement above indicates there is some level quality control. Your statement above says in your experience the opposite of that is true. The opposite of "some" is "none", especially in light of the tone of your post.
Therefore, you have stated that there is no quality control in proprietary software.
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Well, first it could be a small pulsar and a large yellow star. And, if they have a low relative velocity, then the relative energy would be slow.
And, the orbit may not be stable. It could be slowly collapsing.
The pulsar was captured by the star and is now in a elongated, possibly unstable and decaying, orbit.
Oh, wait, that is too simple an explanation.
Even data on their competitors in violation of confidentiality agreements and NDAs?
"I am sorry. We can not provide you with that kind access due to SOX compliance issues."
"I am sorry, but we can not provide you with that access because then we would not be able to provide our customers with the confidentiality they expect."
"I am sorry, but we can't do that. Doing so would mean we would have to give access to all our clients, some of whom may use that access to spy on their rivals."
At best, this is a case of comparing apples to oranges. At worst, it is a deliberate attempt to mislead the reader.
Universal complained that the $3.5 million punitive damage award was approximate 10 times the compensatory damage award of $366,939.
In the Jammie Thomas case, the award was $9,250 in statutory damages per song. There were no punitive or compensatory damages awarded which is what Universal is complaining about.
Another thing is that Thomas faced a maximum of $150,000 per song but was fined less than $10,000 per song. Universal was fined $366,939 for a sample of a single song, more than twice what Thomas faced for a single song.
This case involved a sample of a single song, which would sell for $.70. which means Universal is being fined 524,198 times the value of the song in compensatory damages and 5 million times said value in punitive damages.
This entire article is not news. It is nothing but a veil of self-serving misrepresentations of the facts.
There is no law that says children must perform hard labor. There is a law that says they must attend school to prepare for a life as adults so they will not be a drain on "the rest of us"
By becoming a worthless scumbag, they are violating my right to not have to support them or have to kill them when they try to steal from me.
You can not seek restitution when you are dead.
My position is that we should do what is necessary to provide children with the education and training needed to make something of themselves, even if it must be forced upon them with this kind of monitoring. At the very least, we know where they are and that they are not out robbing houses. Remember, this is not being applied to every student, just the ones that are not going to school like they should.
We should spend money on the youth, via education, prevention, etc. rather than spend it on adults who have already thrown away their lives via gangs, drugs, and crime.
I am also pro choice, pro death penalty, pro sex ed, pro evolution, and anti religion. I also believe that the drinking, draft, majority, and end of education should be 20. I believe that a psychological assessment should determine whether one is tried as an adult.
I am not on the left or the right. I am on my own side.
No, you can not pick and choose. Why should my taxes go to support someone who chooses to be an ignorant, lazy leach?
Why should any money be spent on them? As the old saying goes, "they made their bed, now they can sleep in it."
Would you also agree that said dumbass should suffer the consequences of his folly?
Do you agree he is owed nothing from the state and should be allowed to suffer, to hunger and starve to death, to freeze in the cold and broil in the heat, to be run out of town without sympathy or support?
Do you agree that no money should be spent on the self-generated less fortunate?
No, you fucking dip-shit. They are not tagging all the students and tracking their every move. Maybe you should learn to fucking read.
They are tagging the once that are failing to live up to their civic responsibilities and fallow the law.
Well, dumb-ass, the Constitution is not being thrown out. They were provided due-process for failing to follow the law.
They have civil responsibilities as well as civil rights. They have failed to live up to their civil responsibilities, and as such, they were accorded due process and were provided with a suitable punishment.
Are you so fucking stupid as to believe that there is only rights and not responsibilities?
First off, define "the rest of us". The rest of the kids are going to school. These kids are minors and do not have the right to say "I am not going to school." There is a law that says they will go to school. It may be a civil law, but it is still a law. They violated the law, they could go to juvenile detention. Instead they are begin forced to comply with the law.
Second, you speak of their "rights" but fail to mention their responsibilities. They have responsibilities to their parents and to the community at large.
I get the feeling you believe that rights exist without responsibilities, but that is just not so.
And, about your sig, the government and it's law exist to protect people like you from people like me. "Market actors" have no authority over those who do not subscribe to said market. If said actors did have authority over non-subscribers, then they become a de-facto government. As I would not subscribe to their market, I would be free to act as my will dictates.
Unless he decides to become a gang member, drug dealer, car thief, armed robber, murderer, etc.
I guess it never occurred to you that someone who doesn't care about working to get an education might decide it is easier and more profitable to be a criminal than a laborer.
What is the matter? Can't take the truth?
Maybe you this:
Maybe you missed the part where Pacheco could have been sent to juvenile detention and how his mother is glad he has to do this.
Hey, I know, maybe the truth is that you are worried that you won't have anyone to wait on you at McDonald's, mow your lawn, and do the rest of the shit jobs you don't want to do.
Or, maybe it is that you just can't wait to pay higher taxes to support the ignorant.
Yes, you are ashamed of your city because you believe it is better to let ignorant, selfish, lazy children grow up to be ignorant, selfish, lazy adults who are a burden to the rest of society.
You are a dumb-ass.
Stop contributing to your company 401K and then roll the funds into an IRA.
Problem solved.
Yep, and it has been proven in the past. What prevents non-corporeal for-profit entities from doing the things you say is not morals, but the cost of doing them.
Using slave labor will get one banned from the major consumer economies.
Bad environmental behavior can cost one billions in cleanup costs and get one banned from major consumer markets
Murdering competitors when one's competitors are non-corporeal for profit entities requires killing off executives and key workers which becomes excessively expensive after the first one or two. Then there is the cost of hiding the crime, lawyers to fight charges, pay-offs, etc. And, if one's competitors decide to fight back in the same fashion, there is the cost of increased security. Add that to the bad publicity, the benefit does not outweigh the cost.
Of course, if one dries to murder the competition by driving them out of business, one runs in to anti-trust, predatory pricing, etc complaints.
So you are psychic and can read Sergey's mind now, eh?
No, here the definition has come to me exactly what he said.
Doesn't matter how much truth there is to a statement, or how much proof one provides. Disagree with the fanboys and watch your karma burn. I have actually seen fanboys go back and mod down posts I have made months back. They have formed cliques and are busy modding everyone who posts against them down.
And, I am pretty sure you are one of them.
Actually, that statement if false. The majority of OSS is half-finished, poorly-planned crap that is in perpetual beta. Of what remains, most does not come close, let alone rival, the software provided by proprietary vendors.
The truth is that, with a very few notable exceptions, OSS is generally crapware that gets abandoned once the project obtains an arbitrary level of usability and all the sexy code has been written. Just look at freshmeat or sourceforge to see the truth.
The quoted statement above indicates there is some level quality control. Your statement above says in your experience the opposite of that is true. The opposite of "some" is "none", especially in light of the tone of your post.
Therefore, you have stated that there is no quality control in proprietary software.
So, you admit your intent was to change the argument to something you could defend rather than something you could not.
You loose.