So there isn't a problem of mass bombings and violence?
No. there isn't.
And is this violence coming from a select group of people?
I believe people with strong anti-muslim views tend to be disproportionately represented.
The simplest solution is to say clearly that freedom of expression trumps blasphemy laws. People can say whatever they want about a religion - even if i's considered blasphemous by adherents of that religion.
Yes. Fortunately blasphemy laws were abolished 8 years ago.
And violence, and threat of violence are not acceptable with prison or deportation (if non-citizen) as punishments.
force companies to decrypt data on demand -- though the government has never been that clear on exactly how it forces foreign firms to do that that;
The idea is there's a legal framework in this country. We can use the law against any business operating in this country. If it is entirely in a foreign country, we have to use whatever framework they have in place there.
I just want to be clear - I don't in any defend this law, or even the actual law that was passed (blogs tend to hype it up a little). This comment is just an observation on a specific point in the summary.
F35's are not scheduled for first delivery until 2018 though, and there will be a bit of time to get them ready. Plus, aircraft are affected by weather. It's a partial solution but not great.
Because it didn't really happen in our universe. It virtually happened within a nested universe. It's a game, not real life. The "gain" is virtual.
Nope. Definitely happened in our universe That's how we know about it. It happened on a network located at least in part in the US; hence the FBI's involvement.
Fraud can be for anything of value, even if the value is just perceived. If I trick you into giving me 10000 Swiss Francs then it's fraud. If I trick you into giving me a first edition Harry Potter, it's fraud.
It might make sense for the accused to claim TOS violation instead. EA do crack down on trading, after all, and will happily take in-game money from people if they believe they've been cheating. It would be a little perverse to do this if they actually believe the coins have value.
If you commit a crime against criminals you're still a criminal. But that's beside the point. It's a tech story. The way they pulled of the fraud is of interest to certain people for various reasons.
It's another format that will survive because of its ubiquity. Unless you have one of the early Network Walkmans (or Redhat Linux, apparently), your device will support the format. Amazon et al. don't want a bunch of stores offering different music formats for different players.
And memory is cheap. You can mitigate the most immediate problems with mp3 by increasing the bitrate. Sorry. It's another legacy format that will stay around for ever because it's adequate.
As a hypothetical Trump voter - I'm unlikely to want an abortion. I can afford health care. I am not gay so I don't want to get married. The only pain I'll feel would be taxes, although they may not go up.
The parallels with the rise of Nazism in the 1930s are quite disturbing.
That strikes me as hysteria. You can find parallels with anything.
Is the US currently reeling from massive reparations of a war they recently lost? Is the unemployment rate pushing 30%? Is Donald Trump planning to nationalise key US industries?
This whole "wall" thing confuses me. Isn't there a wall between the two countries for most of the distance already? Or at least a fence; but I really can't imagine his supporters making that distinction or his detractors pushing too hard for an actual wall.
This does seem like a more sensble test track than LA to SF. At least land is cheap (mostly desert), power is cheap (mostly oil and solar) and labour is cheap (mostly slave).
I'm sure we'll find some explanation that requires only a fairly moderate change in our understanding of what constitutes action and reaction. Just going to be something very subtle. One group suggests that the thrust is from expelling photons.
Of course they're being cautious for good reason. They don't want this to be another "Cold Fusion"
UK Bookies William Hill are offering odds of Bernie Sanders at 66/1... Which seems bizarrely low (Johnson is at 250/1, for comparison and he's actually on the ballot).
Bear in mind that Leicester City had odds of 5000-1 against winning the Premiership, (and they did), so stranger things have happened.
I'm a great supporter of UBI and would love this to happen. I don't think it will though.
Automation has been happening for well over a century; probably back to Marc Brunel's Pulley Block production line in the 1800's. Robots improved this but we never replaced all workers at the same time. The closest we got was during the industrial revolution.
So there's no immediate need for this. Society will adapt at the same rate that automation does, and we'll have a lot of largely acceptable compromises rather than a solid solution that lots of people strongly oppose.
Is it just a side effect of today's generally narcissistic, social media driven society?
Well, yes, but it's sort of subjective. I can imagine people wanting to tell their friends "I voted" and "Look how cool I am for voting for this candidate". It's virtue signalling, pure and simple, but that's not necessarily a terrible thing, and it does promote voting.
Sure, it's free speech to show your filled out ballot, but I feel election fraud is something we must prevent or else free speech goes out the window....
I largely agree here. Freedom of speech is important but so are free and fair election. This is one of those areas where there's a potential conflict between these two important rights.
That's the moral aspect at least. From a legal point of view, in the US it seems like this is a pure case of freedom of speech, since this is explicitly protected in the constitution and free and fair elections are not.
But it makes no difference really because Parliament will vote to invoke it in any case.
I'm not sure. There will be a lot of Tory rebels over this one, and their majority is small. If Labour decides to be difficult and actually manages to provide a united front, and the Northern Ireland parties vote against (and I'm taking it as a given that SNP and Lib dems will), the government might be defeated.
Sure, you can design an SD card slot so that it sticks out a bit. But many laptops have a push to eject so it sticks out a couple of mm at most.
And is a separate reader really less cumbersome?
But I can't work out what their real reason might be. The cost of a slot is tiny. Even third party readers aren't expensive. Adding the slot to the existing hardware must be a trivial cost.
No. Uber is offering an invitation at an agreed price. They can accept or reject it at will. They could demand more. Uber will say "no"
Negotiate the terms of the contract?
Can a McDonalds Franchisee? An employee is in a much stronger position to do so. Any contract can be negotiated. The driver is a subcontractor here so can't negotiate with the end client but they can negotiate with Uber. Uber just has a much stronger position making this ineffective.
Can the driver define how th work will be done? Etc.
Yes. They choose a car, determine the quality of service, choose a route. They determine which passengers to pick up and which to ignore.
Uber drivers can work when they choose, turn down jobs, get paid based on work done, and provide their own equipment. They can decide to just stop being Uber drivers or take on other work at the same.
The level of control doesn't seem substantially different from that of a franchisee for any other business.
Can't say I feel too badly for Uber here. Still, am a little concerned that this might have ramifications for other freelancers.
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No. there isn't.
I believe people with strong anti-muslim views tend to be disproportionately represented.
Yes. Fortunately blasphemy laws were abolished 8 years ago.
I believe this is the case.
The idea is there's a legal framework in this country. We can use the law against any business operating in this country. If it is entirely in a foreign country, we have to use whatever framework they have in place there.
I just want to be clear - I don't in any defend this law, or even the actual law that was passed (blogs tend to hype it up a little). This comment is just an observation on a specific point in the summary.
F35's are not scheduled for first delivery until 2018 though, and there will be a bit of time to get them ready. Plus, aircraft are affected by weather. It's a partial solution but not great.
Nope. Definitely happened in our universe That's how we know about it. It happened on a network located at least in part in the US; hence the FBI's involvement.
Fraud can be for anything of value, even if the value is just perceived. If I trick you into giving me 10000 Swiss Francs then it's fraud. If I trick you into giving me a first edition Harry Potter, it's fraud.
No. Picking pockets and killing people was an agreed and accepted part of the game. In this case, those coins had no real world value either.
That's an interesting one...
It might make sense for the accused to claim TOS violation instead. EA do crack down on trading, after all, and will happily take in-game money from people if they believe they've been cheating. It would be a little perverse to do this if they actually believe the coins have value.
They were authorized to use the API. But it should have been obvious to them that this was not the way the API was intended to be used.
Or maybe it isn't obvious, but I'm sure that the prosecution will be arguing that it was.
YES! This is exactly what computer fraud is!
Depends on the nature of the game and the real world value of the dagger.
If you cheated then it's potentially fraud. If you didn't then it's not.
The game rules give the intent. The API gives the actual results. Breaching the game rules is what makes it potentially fraud.
Doubt the rules and the TOS would be seen as significantly different.
If you commit a crime against criminals you're still a criminal. But that's beside the point. It's a tech story. The way they pulled of the fraud is of interest to certain people for various reasons.
It's another format that will survive because of its ubiquity. Unless you have one of the early Network Walkmans (or Redhat Linux, apparently), your device will support the format. Amazon et al. don't want a bunch of stores offering different music formats for different players.
And memory is cheap. You can mitigate the most immediate problems with mp3 by increasing the bitrate. Sorry. It's another legacy format that will stay around for ever because it's adequate.
As a hypothetical Trump voter - I'm unlikely to want an abortion. I can afford health care. I am not gay so I don't want to get married. The only pain I'll feel would be taxes, although they may not go up.
That strikes me as hysteria. You can find parallels with anything.
Is the US currently reeling from massive reparations of a war they recently lost? Is the unemployment rate pushing 30%? Is Donald Trump planning to nationalise key US industries?
This whole "wall" thing confuses me. Isn't there a wall between the two countries for most of the distance already? Or at least a fence; but I really can't imagine his supporters making that distinction or his detractors pushing too hard for an actual wall.
This does seem like a more sensble test track than LA to SF. At least land is cheap (mostly desert), power is cheap (mostly oil and solar) and labour is cheap (mostly slave).
I'm sure we'll find some explanation that requires only a fairly moderate change in our understanding of what constitutes action and reaction. Just going to be something very subtle. One group suggests that the thrust is from expelling photons.
Of course they're being cautious for good reason. They don't want this to be another "Cold Fusion"
UK Bookies William Hill are offering odds of Bernie Sanders at 66/1... Which seems bizarrely low (Johnson is at 250/1, for comparison and he's actually on the ballot).
Bear in mind that Leicester City had odds of 5000-1 against winning the Premiership, (and they did), so stranger things have happened.
I'm a great supporter of UBI and would love this to happen. I don't think it will though.
Automation has been happening for well over a century; probably back to Marc Brunel's Pulley Block production line in the 1800's. Robots improved this but we never replaced all workers at the same time. The closest we got was during the industrial revolution.
So there's no immediate need for this. Society will adapt at the same rate that automation does, and we'll have a lot of largely acceptable compromises rather than a solid solution that lots of people strongly oppose.
I thought that meant survivable to all lifeforms not wearing a red shirt.
Well, yes, but it's sort of subjective. I can imagine people wanting to tell their friends "I voted" and "Look how cool I am for voting for this candidate". It's virtue signalling, pure and simple, but that's not necessarily a terrible thing, and it does promote voting.
I largely agree here. Freedom of speech is important but so are free and fair election. This is one of those areas where there's a potential conflict between these two important rights.
That's the moral aspect at least. From a legal point of view, in the US it seems like this is a pure case of freedom of speech, since this is explicitly protected in the constitution and free and fair elections are not.
I'm not sure. There will be a lot of Tory rebels over this one, and their majority is small. If Labour decides to be difficult and actually manages to provide a united front, and the Northern Ireland parties vote against (and I'm taking it as a given that SNP and Lib dems will), the government might be defeated.
The court has ruled that, according to UK law (as legislated by the elected government), the decision must come from the elected government.
Not exactly seeing this as a major setback for democracy.
That is a really weird excuse.
Sure, you can design an SD card slot so that it sticks out a bit. But many laptops have a push to eject so it sticks out a couple of mm at most.
And is a separate reader really less cumbersome?
But I can't work out what their real reason might be. The cost of a slot is tiny. Even third party readers aren't expensive. Adding the slot to the existing hardware must be a trivial cost.
No. Uber is offering an invitation at an agreed price. They can accept or reject it at will. They could demand more. Uber will say "no"
Can a McDonalds Franchisee? An employee is in a much stronger position to do so. Any contract can be negotiated. The driver is a subcontractor here so can't negotiate with the end client but they can negotiate with Uber. Uber just has a much stronger position making this ineffective.
Yes. They choose a car, determine the quality of service, choose a route. They determine which passengers to pick up and which to ignore.
Uber drivers can work when they choose, turn down jobs, get paid based on work done, and provide their own equipment. They can decide to just stop being Uber drivers or take on other work at the same.
The level of control doesn't seem substantially different from that of a franchisee for any other business.
Can't say I feel too badly for Uber here. Still, am a little concerned that this might have ramifications for other freelancers.
Maybe, but as a contractor, I'm a sucker who gets paid substantially more and has a decent level of flexibility.