Occasionally you get a team without money doing well. Remember Brawn?
Do you mean the team the was formerly Honda and is now Mercedes? A team that was in existence for a single season. Just long enough for Jenson Button to prove that with the right equipment he could win races and a championship? With Button as the primary and Rubens Barrichello as the second driver they proved to be one very good team. The TEAM wrapped up the constructors championship the same weekend in Brazil as Jenson did, before the final race of the season. A race team so good Mercedes bought a majority stake in it when the season was over? That Brawn racing? Yes, I do.
What right to repair laws do you speak of? AFAIK Massachusetts is the ONLY state to actually have a right to repair law and that was ballot initiative. There is no law at the federal level, just an agreement. The Automotive manufactures agreed to a DEAL, htttp://www.autonews.com/article/20140125/RETAIL05/301279936/automakers-agree-to-right-to-repair-deal Why do you think there are so many states with right to repair legislation? It is because of what John Deere is doing now. You can fix your tractor but until John Deere authorizes the part it won't run. At anytime the Automotive industry can do the same thing and the DMCA would allow them to do it.
Until the car companies pull a John Deere and claim DMCA. You must now use only authorized repair facilities to get your car serviced, parts are now covered by the DMCA. That is what John Deere is doing which is what sparked the right to repair bills in a lot of farm states.
Lexmark abused the DMCA about 10 years ago and lost in court. Now they are trying the same thing with patents. If Lexmark wins this we all lose.
Have you ever used any Fed Ex software? Their Ship Manager software takes longer to load than the competitors (big brown truck) ship software. Their update process for the software is terrible. Even the web based version leaves a lot to be desired. Doubtful they will ever hire competent developers given the state of the ship software. Glad we do a majority of our shipping with the other guys.
True, but renting is the word that best comes to mind to describe what is happening. It is not really a lease, as when the lease is up you return the item or vacate the property. The whole point is that what Lexmark and John Deere are both saying is that you do not own what you bought and paid for they do. In the case of Lexmark they are using patents in an attempt to circumvent existing law. John Deere is using the DMCA in the same perverted way Lexmark did.
True, but who's to say that Case or International Harvester or any other farm equipment maker isn't going to try the same thing as John Deere. They may think John Deere got away with it, look at all the money we are leaving on the table and then go and do the same thing.
Unfortunately it's still an issue. And it gets a bigger one every day.
You are correct, patents and copyrights are both problematic and will continue to be. Lexmark used the DMCA several years ago to do the same thing against Static Controls and re-manufactured ink cartridges. They lost then, now they are giving patents a try for the same thing. If Lexmark wins, we all loose. This will be just like John Deere is with their tractors, see the article titled "Why American Farmers are hacking their own Tractors" a couple of articles below this one. Spend 150K on a piece of Farm equipment that is not really yours, you are just renting it, if you use it for a purpose not authorized by them they will brick it. Pretty soon Ford, GM et al will be claiming that the money you paid for that sporty CAR is only for the right to drive it a specific way, on roads they tell you can drive on and you must take the vehicle to the dealer for service since you don't really own it, you are just renting it.
You just described the Lawyers from the Prenda Law firm. I read somewhere that Paul Hansmeier was running a ADA shake down in Minnesota before his arrest.
In California the hourly employee gets overtime for anytime over eight hours in a day. Even if it is 6 minutes you better be paying them. Where it really gets messed up is if they work a Saturday. They must have worked 40 hours during the week to get overtime. If they only worked 39 hours during the week, one of the hours worked on Saturday is regular time, the remainder of the time worked that day would be considered overtime. The bad part is that 8 hours of Holiday pay doesn't count as part of the 40 hours worked during the week. So they work the Saturday following Memorial Day or any other Holiday it is straight time. If the employer gets caught shorting the employee on overtime the employer is going to have a problem. If your time clock and payroll are done by an outside agency you still have the responsibility to review what you are paying your employees. These outside agencies that do payroll using a time clock and software to manage the clock. They use rounding to do the time calculations of the punches received from the clock. In a previous version that we used where I work I saw an employee clocked for a eight hour day and the software said pay him for 8.1 hours. When you looked at the punches recorded it was 8 hours exactly. The software was rounding up by 6 minutes so it was giving him 6 minutes overtime. We paid him for it, it is much cheaper in the long run. We generally use what the software says, again it is cheaper in the long run to just pay it.
Exactly. John Deere is using copyright and the DMCA to keep the farmers who spend 150K+ on their tractor or farm equipment from working on their own property. Or is it really the farmers property? Apparently not according to Deere. That is why these bills are in farm country, the populous of these states don't care about game consoles or Blu Ray players, a tractor, absolutely, a game console not so much. The farmers want to be able to work on their property, Deere says otherwise. Take a read here: https://www.wired.com/2015/04/... here: http://modernfarmer.com/2016/0... and here http://www.npr.org/sections/al... All because software is used in a number of places in the vehicle... Automobiles, now also because of software, are covered under the DMCA , can Ford or GM now claim the same as Deere? Sorry, but you really don't own that Ford GT 350 or that Corvette Sting Ray you think you own. How long before Ford, GM or any other automobile manufacturer for that matter do what Deere has done? The fact that they can do this, should scare anyone. That is why this type of legislation is needed everywhere. It is not about game consoles, it is about much, much more. The DMCA was bad legislation 20 years ago when it was passed. This really proves it.
That may be true, but how about California? Fully controlled by Democrats and still deferring the infrastructure maintenance. Look at that states Roads, Dams and Bridges. Just pointing out that the Democrats are not the angels you are making them out to be and they are just as complicit as the Republicans.
Al Gore led the way in the funding initiative that created the Internet.
WTF Did I miss your sarcasm tag? You really believe the Al Gore/Internet BS? He was only 20 when the ARPANET was beginning. Highly doubtful he had anything to do with the creation of the internet.
Techies, like everyday tech-minded people, need to completely and fully understand that Republicans are their enemies, by policy.
Not in all cases, TPP is dead because of a Republican.
Almost completely down the line, any policy involving tech will have the Republicans pushing policies that are the worst.
I saw a number of policies from the Obama administration that were against the electorate and our will.
Net Neutrality? It's the GOP who want to destroy it.
So far the new FCC chief, Ajit Pai, hasn't surprised me in his actions so far, complete opposite of Wheeler. Maybe he is going to surprise everyone but I doubt it.
DRM of all kinds, always Republicans.
Who signed the DMCA? Clinton, a Democrat, and he did so against what the electorate wanted. Christopher J. Dodd (D) Conn is the head of the MPAA.
So when the DMCA legislation was pending and the will of the people was against it becoming law, which party's President signed it? It was the Democratic President Clinton who signed it. Where do the Democrats get a bunch of their funding?? Hollywood. Who currently heads the MPAA? Christopher J. Dodd (D) Conn Which party's President was pushing the TPP? Which party's President killed the TPP? Whatever Hollywood wants the Democrats give them. I'm not saying the Republicans are angels, just pointing out that both parties are complicit and the Democrats are just as dirty.
What did you expect? When Ajit Pai was named FCC chairman, the former VERIZON counsel who has never voted for any pro consumer FCC action, was certainly NOT going to do anything for the consumer. Fellow FCC commissioner O'Riley doesn't see any reason to provide subsidies for Broadband . They are cutting subsidies to low income consumers . You really didn't believe that the new FCC chair would look out for the consumer, the general public or those who can least afford it. We can look forward of four years of this.
Of course. Asshole Pai is now going to chair the FCC. That means everyone better get used to getting screwed as Asshole Pai absolutely hates consumers. Everything he has done on the FCC has been anti consumer and now he is going to be the chair. Hang on everyone it is going to be a bumpy four years.
Being the patented dicks that they are. When asked if they were using this platform, instead of coming out and answering the question, they respond like the douchbags that they are with "file a FOIA request" so they can deny it and force the requester to take them to court. Why make it easy on the public they are supposed to protect and serve.
Where the server is, is irrelevant. If an email that has anything to do with her being Secretary of State, then that email, regardless of what server it is located on, is property of the United States government. It is called work product and belongs to the employer, in this case the United States government. It is subject to records retention acts. Hillary, as a lawyer, knew or should have known that. Instructing someone else to delete them is the same as deleting them yourself. Just like a mob boss who instructs an associate to kill someone, the mob boss is still guilty of the persons murder. Again she is a lawyer, she knew or should have know that also. Her willful mishandling of CLASSIFIED information is yet another fine example. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, especially for a lawyer, which she is. She says she doesn't remember the training for how to treat classified information, even though that training is required. I believe that that one one was in front of congress. No, it is not an excuse that she no longer holds a license to practice law, she let hers lapse in '02. The fact that she knew or should have known what she was doing or having done by another party, was against the law and did it anyway, speaks for itself.
How about lying to Congress or lying to the FBI during the course of an investigation. How about destruction of government property, those 30,000 emails were property of the United States government. I would also include violating the Freedom of Information Act, those 30,000 email again, but I believe that is a civil matter. How about the presidential records act?
Exactly. The Dems and Hillary did this to themselves. I wouldn't bet against you on the '08 compromise. They could have won had they not screwed over Bernie. Instead of putting someone with as much baggage as Hillary has they could have gone with Bernie.
Nope!! She lost because she is a lying criminal who should be doing 5-10 in club fed. She lied to Congress, she lied to the American public and she lied to the FBI while they were conducting a criminal investigation. She doesn't know how to tell the truth, never has.
Yep that is exactly what they just did. They lost to a republican like Trump instead of continuing to occupy the White House with a democrat like Sanders. He would have defeated Trump. Cut their nose off to spite their face the DNC did running Hillary like it was her time to lead or it was owed to her.
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Because she is NOT Hillary Clinton.
Occasionally you get a team without money doing well. Remember Brawn?
Do you mean the team the was formerly Honda and is now Mercedes?
A team that was in existence for a single season.
Just long enough for Jenson Button to prove that with the right equipment he could win races and a championship?
With Button as the primary and Rubens Barrichello as the second driver they proved to be one very good team.
The TEAM wrapped up the constructors championship the same weekend in Brazil as Jenson did, before the final race of the season.
A race team so good Mercedes bought a majority stake in it when the season was over?
That Brawn racing?
Yes, I do.
What right to repair laws do you speak of?
AFAIK Massachusetts is the ONLY state to actually have a right to repair law and that was ballot initiative.
There is no law at the federal level, just an agreement.
The Automotive manufactures agreed to a DEAL, htttp://www.autonews.com/article/20140125/RETAIL05/301279936/automakers-agree-to-right-to-repair-deal
Why do you think there are so many states with right to repair legislation?
It is because of what John Deere is doing now. You can fix your tractor but until John Deere authorizes the part it won't run.
At anytime the Automotive industry can do the same thing and the DMCA would allow them to do it.
The DMCA, Providing bad law for over 20 years.
Until the car companies pull a John Deere and claim DMCA.
You must now use only authorized repair facilities to get your car serviced, parts are now covered by the DMCA.
That is what John Deere is doing which is what sparked the right to repair bills in a lot of farm states.
Lexmark abused the DMCA about 10 years ago and lost in court.
Now they are trying the same thing with patents.
If Lexmark wins this we all lose.
The DMCA, providing bad law for over 20 years.
Have you ever used any Fed Ex software?
Their Ship Manager software takes longer to load than the competitors (big brown truck) ship software.
Their update process for the software is terrible.
Even the web based version leaves a lot to be desired.
Doubtful they will ever hire competent developers given the state of the ship software.
Glad we do a majority of our shipping with the other guys.
True, but renting is the word that best comes to mind to describe what is happening.
It is not really a lease, as when the lease is up you return the item or vacate the property.
The whole point is that what Lexmark and John Deere are both saying is that you do not own what you bought and paid for they do.
In the case of Lexmark they are using patents in an attempt to circumvent existing law.
John Deere is using the DMCA in the same perverted way Lexmark did.
True, but who's to say that Case or International Harvester or any other farm equipment maker isn't going to try the same thing as John Deere.
They may think John Deere got away with it, look at all the money we are leaving on the table and then go and do the same thing.
Unfortunately it's still an issue. And it gets a bigger one every day.
You are correct, patents and copyrights are both problematic and will continue to be.
Lexmark used the DMCA several years ago to do the same thing against Static Controls and re-manufactured ink cartridges.
They lost then, now they are giving patents a try for the same thing.
If Lexmark wins, we all loose.
This will be just like John Deere is with their tractors, see the article titled "Why American Farmers are hacking their own Tractors" a couple of articles below this one. Spend 150K on a piece of Farm equipment that is not really yours, you are just renting it, if you use it for a purpose not authorized by them they will brick it.
Pretty soon Ford, GM et al will be claiming that the money you paid for that sporty CAR is only for the right to drive it a specific way, on roads they tell you can drive on and you must take the vehicle to the dealer for service since you don't really own it, you are just renting it.
You just described the Lawyers from the Prenda Law firm. I read somewhere that Paul Hansmeier was running a ADA shake down in Minnesota before his arrest.
In California the hourly employee gets overtime for anytime over eight hours in a day. Even if it is 6 minutes you better be paying them. Where it really gets messed up is if they work a Saturday. They must have worked 40 hours during the week to get overtime. If they only worked 39 hours during the week, one of the hours worked on Saturday is regular time, the remainder of the time worked that day would be considered overtime. The bad part is that 8 hours of Holiday pay doesn't count as part of the 40 hours worked during the week. So they work the Saturday following Memorial Day or any other Holiday it is straight time.
If the employer gets caught shorting the employee on overtime the employer is going to have a problem.
If your time clock and payroll are done by an outside agency you still have the responsibility to review what you are paying your employees. These outside agencies that do payroll using a time clock and software to manage the clock. They use rounding to do the time calculations of the punches received from the clock. In a previous version that we used where I work I saw an employee clocked for a eight hour day and the software said pay him for 8.1 hours. When you looked at the punches recorded it was 8 hours exactly. The software was rounding up by 6 minutes so it was giving him 6 minutes overtime. We paid him for it, it is much cheaper in the long run. We generally use what the software says, again it is cheaper in the long run to just pay it.
looks that way.
Here are the links as text: https://www.wired.com/2015/04/...
http://modernfarmer.com/2016/0...
http://www.npr.org/sections/al...
Exactly. ...
John Deere is using copyright and the DMCA to keep the farmers who spend 150K+ on their tractor or farm equipment from working on their own property.
Or is it really the farmers property? Apparently not according to Deere.
That is why these bills are in farm country, the populous of these states don't care about game consoles or Blu Ray players, a tractor, absolutely, a game console not so much.
The farmers want to be able to work on their property, Deere says otherwise.
Take a read here: https://www.wired.com/2015/04/...
here: http://modernfarmer.com/2016/0...
and here http://www.npr.org/sections/al...
All because software is used in a number of places in the vehicle
Automobiles, now also because of software, are covered under the DMCA , can Ford or GM now claim the same as Deere?
Sorry, but you really don't own that Ford GT 350 or that Corvette Sting Ray you think you own.
How long before Ford, GM or any other automobile manufacturer for that matter do what Deere has done?
The fact that they can do this, should scare anyone.
That is why this type of legislation is needed everywhere.
It is not about game consoles, it is about much, much more.
The DMCA was bad legislation 20 years ago when it was passed.
This really proves it.
So we both agree that Al Gore had nothing to do with the funding or research that created the internet.
That may be true, but how about California?
Fully controlled by Democrats and still deferring the infrastructure maintenance.
Look at that states Roads, Dams and Bridges.
Just pointing out that the Democrats are not the angels you are making them out to be and they are just as complicit as the Republicans.
Al Gore led the way in the funding initiative that created the Internet.
WTF Did I miss your sarcasm tag?
You really believe the Al Gore/Internet BS?
He was only 20 when the ARPANET was beginning.
Highly doubtful he had anything to do with the creation of the internet.
Techies, like everyday tech-minded people, need to completely and fully understand that Republicans are their enemies, by policy.
Not in all cases, TPP is dead because of a Republican.
Almost completely down the line, any policy involving tech will have the Republicans pushing policies that are the worst.
I saw a number of policies from the Obama administration that were against the electorate and our will.
Net Neutrality? It's the GOP who want to destroy it.
So far the new FCC chief, Ajit Pai, hasn't surprised me in his actions so far, complete opposite of Wheeler. Maybe he is going to surprise everyone but I doubt it.
DRM of all kinds, always Republicans.
Who signed the DMCA?
Clinton, a Democrat, and he did so against what the electorate wanted.
Christopher J. Dodd (D) Conn is the head of the MPAA.
So when the DMCA legislation was pending and the will of the people was against it becoming law, which party's President signed it?
It was the Democratic President Clinton who signed it.
Where do the Democrats get a bunch of their funding?? Hollywood.
Who currently heads the MPAA?
Christopher J. Dodd (D) Conn
Which party's President was pushing the TPP?
Which party's President killed the TPP?
Whatever Hollywood wants the Democrats give them.
I'm not saying the Republicans are angels, just pointing out that both parties are complicit and the Democrats are just as dirty.
What did you expect? When Ajit Pai was named FCC chairman, the former VERIZON counsel who has never voted for any pro consumer FCC action, was certainly NOT going to do anything for the consumer. Fellow FCC commissioner O'Riley doesn't see any reason to provide subsidies for Broadband . They are cutting subsidies to low income consumers . You really didn't believe that the new FCC chair would look out for the consumer, the general public or those who can least afford it. We can look forward of four years of this.
Of course. Asshole Pai is now going to chair the FCC. That means everyone better get used to getting screwed as Asshole Pai absolutely hates consumers. Everything he has done on the FCC has been anti consumer and now he is going to be the chair. Hang on everyone it is going to be a bumpy four years.
Being the patented dicks that they are. When asked if they were using this platform, instead of coming out and answering the question, they respond like the douchbags that they are with "file a FOIA request" so they can deny it and force the requester to take them to court. Why make it easy on the public they are supposed to protect and serve.
Where the server is, is irrelevant. If an email that has anything to do with her being Secretary of State, then that email, regardless of what server it is located on, is property of the United States government. It is called work product and belongs to the employer, in this case the United States government. It is subject to records retention acts. Hillary, as a lawyer, knew or should have known that. Instructing someone else to delete them is the same as deleting them yourself. Just like a mob boss who instructs an associate to kill someone, the mob boss is still guilty of the persons murder. Again she is a lawyer, she knew or should have know that also. Her willful mishandling of CLASSIFIED information is yet another fine example. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, especially for a lawyer, which she is. She says she doesn't remember the training for how to treat classified information, even though that training is required. I believe that that one one was in front of congress.
No, it is not an excuse that she no longer holds a license to practice law, she let hers lapse in '02. The fact that she knew or should have known what she was doing or having done by another party, was against the law and did it anyway, speaks for itself.
How about lying to Congress or lying to the FBI during the course of an investigation.
How about destruction of government property, those 30,000 emails were property of the United States government.
I would also include violating the Freedom of Information Act, those 30,000 email again, but I believe that is a civil matter.
How about the presidential records act?
W did also but we are not talking about him.
Exactly. The Dems and Hillary did this to themselves.
I wouldn't bet against you on the '08 compromise.
They could have won had they not screwed over Bernie.
Instead of putting someone with as much baggage as Hillary has they could have gone with Bernie.
Nope!!
She lost because she is a lying criminal who should be doing 5-10 in club fed.
She lied to Congress, she lied to the American public and she lied to the FBI while they were conducting a criminal investigation.
She doesn't know how to tell the truth, never has.
Yep that is exactly what they just did.
They lost to a republican like Trump instead of continuing to occupy the White House with a democrat like Sanders.
He would have defeated Trump.
Cut their nose off to spite their face the DNC did running Hillary like it was her time to lead or it was owed to her.