I'm not talking about admin rights (no reason for the user to have those), I'm talking about the firewall blocking gmail, yahoo mail, etc. etc. the same way it blocks pron sites, etc.
Reasonable personal usage is fine, no objection, but not software that allows for communications that aren't available for FOIA or investigation in the future.
This is the model in finance - webmail, dropbox, etc. is blocked from work computers, but nobody cares if you email your spouse about weekend plans on your work account. If you email your spouse "hey, I just heard we're helping company X buy company Y, get your dad to buy a bunch of Y stock today," that's going to present a problem.
I have no problem with using gov't computers for limited personal business. That's perfectly reasonable. The employee needs to understand that business is now a matter of public record, however.
...is why non-government webmail is allowed on government computers? Should be blocked entirely. If it's a government computer, then it's for government business, and emails for government business should be sent on government accounts that are saved should they be needed for FOIA act requests down the line. If people want to use personal email, they should do it on personal devices.
Given that the "shitty offshoot separatist colonial dialect" is closer to what the English USED to sound like than today's "English" accent, it's YOU who should be apologizing for screwing up the English language.
Wait, isn't this exactly what Herrnstein and Murray concluded back in 1994
No. To use a car analogy, which/. loves so much:
Bell Curve: Your car crashed because your left front tire was 2psi low. The car suffered $30,000 in damage. This Study: Your car crashed because you were drunk, your steering wheel fell off, you were rear-ended by a semi, and your tire was 2psi low. Had your tire not been low, the damage to your car would have been $29,850.
There's actually extremely little correlation between labor force participation rate and gov't share of GDP. Germany's only slightly below US levels on labor force participation, the UK is roughly in line, and the Scandinavian countries are actually above US levels on both labor force participation and gov't spending as a share of GDP.
These people should not be penalized for living in rural areas.
Not massively subsidizing a choice isn't the same as penalizing that choice.
By your argument, people who live in Manhattan should receive huge federal subsidies to cover the high cost of parking a car in a very densely-packed area.
Live in a rural area? Space is cheap, broadband is expensive. Live in an urban area? Space is expensive, broadband is (relatively) cheap. No reason to help the first group but not the second.
I would imagine that you could. In practice, it would be essentially impossible to enforce, but if you could somehow do it, then I don't see why it wouldn't remove the case from the district's purview...
The only way of becoming an appointed judge is by being a lower judge which is elected.
This is completely and totally untrue. Only a minority of Federal judges (none of whom are elected) were ever state or local judges prior to appointment to the Federal bench, and of those only about half were judges in courts where the judges are elected.
I still have a grandfathered Verizon unlimited plan, so I suppose I could use the setting to shift to unlimited bandwidth, but I really don't notice the difference in picture quality when I'm on cellular vs. on WiFi at home, so I'll probably leave it as it is.
Now, if only Amazon would remove the restriction that makes it impossible to download shows to your device (not stream, download) over cellular networks. Works just fine over WiFi, but it's impossible over cellular. I get why they have the restriction (someone hits download, and 600MB of wireless data zip by without them actually watching anything, and they get pissed off), but it should be an option that I can turn off (leave the default to "no download over cellular, certainly). It's not a bug or flaw, it's a conscious policy decision.
If I'm traveling, and want to download something on the way to the airport to watch on the plane, the inability to do so is pretty annoying.
They do operate under the same rules, they're all governed by the same precedent (which is typically set in the appellate courts or at SCOTUS). The concentration of patent litigation in the Eastern District of TX is an anomaly - generally, if A sues B, they have to do it either where A or B is located (i.e. if Apple sues Goldman Sachs in Federal Court, they have to file in California or New York). In the case of patent litigation, the plaintiff can argue that their rights were violated everywhere the infringing product was used, so they can, in effect, venue shop. The Eastern District was known as a place with plaintiff-friendly juries, so that attracted litigation, and things snowballed from there.
This isn't a local or state court, it's a Federal District Court (the lowest level of Federal court). Even though it's referred to as the "Eastern District of Texas," it's a Federal court. It's located IN Texas, but it's not a Texas court.
Depends on the highway. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people drive 100MPH or more every week on the Autobahn, and Germany's highway fatality rate is lower than that in the US.
100MPH on in the rain on a crowded 2-lane road with a 50MPH speed limit? Really dangerous.
100MPH on a clear day on a multi-lane highway where the average driver in the middle lane is going 80MPH or more? Not a problem.
Agreed, except this isn't how US corporate income taxes work. The reason Apple has all that cash parked overseas is that the US wants to tax Apple profits on products sold everywhere, not just in the US.
Even if we made the change to the US tax system that you suggest (move to a where earned from a HQ model), corporate taxation would still be a complex topic. If Apple sells an iPhone in Germany, it should pay taxes in Germany on that profit. But how much profit was really generated there? What's the "right" cost of that iPhone to Apple's German subsidiary?
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Sorry, shouldn't have used "software," poor choice of words.
I'm not talking about admin rights (no reason for the user to have those), I'm talking about the firewall blocking gmail, yahoo mail, etc. etc. the same way it blocks pron sites, etc.
Reasonable personal usage is fine, no objection, but not software that allows for communications that aren't available for FOIA or investigation in the future.
This is the model in finance - webmail, dropbox, etc. is blocked from work computers, but nobody cares if you email your spouse about weekend plans on your work account. If you email your spouse "hey, I just heard we're helping company X buy company Y, get your dad to buy a bunch of Y stock today," that's going to present a problem.
I have no problem with using gov't computers for limited personal business. That's perfectly reasonable. The employee needs to understand that business is now a matter of public record, however.
...is why non-government webmail is allowed on government computers? Should be blocked entirely. If it's a government computer, then it's for government business, and emails for government business should be sent on government accounts that are saved should they be needed for FOIA act requests down the line. If people want to use personal email, they should do it on personal devices.
Given that the "shitty offshoot separatist colonial dialect" is closer to what the English USED to sound like than today's "English" accent, it's YOU who should be apologizing for screwing up the English language.
http://the-toast.net/2014/03/1...
Said practically nobody who lived in Chicago and didn't own a hotel.
I had two reactions to this.
1. You're a terrible person, and should be ashamed of yourself.
2. Trying to clean Diet Coke off my monitor when it's also filling my sinuses sucks.
Wait, isn't this exactly what Herrnstein and Murray concluded back in 1994
No. To use a car analogy, which /. loves so much:
Bell Curve: Your car crashed because your left front tire was 2psi low. The car suffered $30,000 in damage.
This Study: Your car crashed because you were drunk, your steering wheel fell off, you were rear-ended by a semi, and your tire was 2psi low. Had your tire not been low, the damage to your car would have been $29,850.
Socialism — measured as the part of the GDP spent by government — sucks.
There's actually extremely little correlation between labor force participation rate and gov't share of GDP. Germany's only slightly below US levels on labor force participation, the UK is roughly in line, and the Scandinavian countries are actually above US levels on both labor force participation and gov't spending as a share of GDP.
I have a laptop from 2011. Swapped out the HDD for an SSD a year ago, and it runs everything I need beautifully.
If you're actually trying to run HFT from a farm, broadband availability is the least of your worries.
Way to assume that they didn't have sufficient sample size.
These people should not be penalized for living in rural areas.
Not massively subsidizing a choice isn't the same as penalizing that choice.
By your argument, people who live in Manhattan should receive huge federal subsidies to cover the high cost of parking a car in a very densely-packed area.
Live in a rural area? Space is cheap, broadband is expensive. Live in an urban area? Space is expensive, broadband is (relatively) cheap. No reason to help the first group but not the second.
Yup. The 4K plan gets you 4 simultaneous streams.
It didn't have enough y's and f's.
One, the court would lose influence, and two, the morons that live there might pressure their elected representatives to not have a kangaroo court.
The "morons" that live there don't really have a say in the matter - it's a Federal court.
I would imagine that you could. In practice, it would be essentially impossible to enforce, but if you could somehow do it, then I don't see why it wouldn't remove the case from the district's purview...
The only way of becoming an appointed judge is by being a lower judge which is elected.
This is completely and totally untrue. Only a minority of Federal judges (none of whom are elected) were ever state or local judges prior to appointment to the Federal bench, and of those only about half were judges in courts where the judges are elected.
I don't have that problem - their originals look spectacular in 4k.
I still have a grandfathered Verizon unlimited plan, so I suppose I could use the setting to shift to unlimited bandwidth, but I really don't notice the difference in picture quality when I'm on cellular vs. on WiFi at home, so I'll probably leave it as it is.
Now, if only Amazon would remove the restriction that makes it impossible to download shows to your device (not stream, download) over cellular networks. Works just fine over WiFi, but it's impossible over cellular. I get why they have the restriction (someone hits download, and 600MB of wireless data zip by without them actually watching anything, and they get pissed off), but it should be an option that I can turn off (leave the default to "no download over cellular, certainly). It's not a bug or flaw, it's a conscious policy decision.
If I'm traveling, and want to download something on the way to the airport to watch on the plane, the inability to do so is pretty annoying.
They do operate under the same rules, they're all governed by the same precedent (which is typically set in the appellate courts or at SCOTUS). The concentration of patent litigation in the Eastern District of TX is an anomaly - generally, if A sues B, they have to do it either where A or B is located (i.e. if Apple sues Goldman Sachs in Federal Court, they have to file in California or New York). In the case of patent litigation, the plaintiff can argue that their rights were violated everywhere the infringing product was used, so they can, in effect, venue shop. The Eastern District was known as a place with plaintiff-friendly juries, so that attracted litigation, and things snowballed from there.
This isn't a local or state court, it's a Federal District Court (the lowest level of Federal court). Even though it's referred to as the "Eastern District of Texas," it's a Federal court. It's located IN Texas, but it's not a Texas court.
Depends on the highway. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people drive 100MPH or more every week on the Autobahn, and Germany's highway fatality rate is lower than that in the US.
100MPH on in the rain on a crowded 2-lane road with a 50MPH speed limit? Really dangerous.
100MPH on a clear day on a multi-lane highway where the average driver in the middle lane is going 80MPH or more? Not a problem.
Agreed, except this isn't how US corporate income taxes work. The reason Apple has all that cash parked overseas is that the US wants to tax Apple profits on products sold everywhere, not just in the US.
Even if we made the change to the US tax system that you suggest (move to a where earned from a HQ model), corporate taxation would still be a complex topic. If Apple sells an iPhone in Germany, it should pay taxes in Germany on that profit. But how much profit was really generated there? What's the "right" cost of that iPhone to Apple's German subsidiary?