I have some sympathy for Birkenstock, but not much. For the amount of money they are asking for essentially a good name, they can spring a few extra coins (or whatever) on holograms or some other identification that shows it's THEIR genuine product.
Other than that, knockoffs are knockoffs and if a customer just wants the design and not the name, they should have the right to buy that if that's what they want.
I can tell you from my own standpoint, I feel a hell of a lot better scuffing up and getting sand in a $10 pair of beach sandals, rather than a $135 pair of authentic Birkenstocks... that may also be a target of theft if someone recognizes them as genuine.
You mean like General Motors, which went bankrupt at the hands of a greedy UNION, and greedy GOVERNMENT?
Or Chrysler, which had to be bailed out and bought out by Italy's Fiat, for the same reasons...?
Or Compuware, another so-called "greedy corporation" which is now being parted out thanks to the recession brought about by the failed economic policies of the aforementioned greedy government?
How about the city itself, where the greed of it's former mayor and corrupt, rotten-to-the-core city "leaders" couldn't plunder it's treasury quite fast enough before getting caught with it's hands in the cookie jar...?
Bash corporations and capitalists all you like, but they are the ones that actually create and maintain the few remaining jobs Detroit has.
(I've got karma, and I know how to burn it. So here goes some.)
The same idiots that trot out this junk science and "suggest" that we all go vegan, are the same damn fools that would have us all "save the environment" by putting corn into our gas tanks; and turn California's most fertile farming area turn into a desert in order to "save" some freaking minnows that actually need MORE water, not less.
The thing that really needs to be studied is what the hell happens to areas where the so-called "intelligencia" are allowed to run amok with their foolish ideas.
Near where I live, we have just such a place. It's called Detroit.
Shut down the website. Shut down Obamacare. Both are bad and hopelessly broken ideas.
If people took better care of themselves and, as smart consumers able to vote with thier loud voices (and thick wallets) for better food and medical choices to start with, they would be healthier to begin with and not need nanny government to wipe their noses and butts for them.
For the accidents that happen, there is private insurance for that... and it is far more affordable than this socialist trainwreck we've been dragged kicking and screaming thereto. And it's not just cheaper in terms of money. It costs nothing in terms of sacrificing personal freedom as well.
All this does is weaken the ability of a carrier to enforce a contract which a paying customer willingly entered into. As a result, the paying customers who honor thier contracts will end up paying extra to cover those who bail out, and stiff the carrier for the exit fees they voluntarily agreed to pay.
This is quite the "Oops" on the part of MSFT which, even if this is nothing more than anti-MS FUD, can ill-afford this kind of bad press with a platform which has less than 4% of market share.
This has nothing to do with the concept of "corporate personhood", whether you agree with it or not.
This is a 4th Amendment issue. Searches and seizures of anything are protected for personal effects and papers. Electronic records are arguably that, but this court did not agree. It needs to be settled by SCOTUS.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
- Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution
What? Emails, text messages and other electronic communications are not "papers", you say? Well, "electronic signatures" are taken as just as legal and binding as if it were an actual signature in ink on a piece of paper.
Is this a bad laptop, or a bad iPad wannabe? I can't really tell at this point.
I've made a career and a living off Microsoft products, and I'm grateful to the life that company has allowed me to provide for myself. But it's clear now they're in decline. They've lost their edge, their focus... their ability to innovate. This is a defensive play, and it's just not gonna fly.
And I'm not just a consumer and a developer, but an MSFT shareholder. As such, I'd like to see Ballmer get out of Redmond and make way for someone to bring the company back to a leadership position... while there's still time.
Not terribly helpful for MS to do this, to keep attracting new devs coming out of school. Are they trying to kill.NET as a web platform?
New grads (or upperclassmen) now will just go with LAMP (or a variation) for web, foregoing.NET altogether. And what timing too... iOS development is really building a critical mass.
* So if the comments are really anonymous, whom do they prosecute? * If the comments and/or the websites originate from outside the jurisdiction...? * The First Amendment.
Not knocking Drupal or any other CMS, but don't get yourself boxed into just one specific platform. Keep up on where the overall development world is going.
Most shops still build their websites in-house from scratch, without a CMS. Many strictly-Microsoft shops purposely avoid using Sharepoint, for example.
Remember when ColdFusion was a big deal? Not so anymore. GoDaddy is dropping it from their hosting accounts.
Keep your foot in general Java or.NET or PHP development... stay focused on the bigger picture, not just in a specific type of project. Watch the trends. What may be popular today will become passe tomorrow.
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
Life ain't fair, the world isn't perfect and it doesn't owe you a damn thing. Quit bitching and get to work. Don't like the results? Work harder, or better yet, work smarter, if you can figure it out. Either way, quit relying on others to give you something that someone else worked their asses off to earn.
Clever? I think not. Facebook satire has been around ever since Facebook hit the big time. This is not original by any means.
On top of that, the lefty drivel and Bush-bashing has no appeal for, oh, at least half of the NYT's potential audience. Unless of course, they no longer have any interest in having readership that leans to the right.
Great idea for living creatures, stupid as all hell for machines. I mean, seriously... we are feeding machines with perfectly good food. Hello?
Let's leave the food for the living and stop rewarding this stupidity with the further stupidity of the government stealing the fruits of our labors to subsidize this lame-brained bullshit.
Be honest about what went wrong, and do right by the customers. Goodwill is the single most valuable asset a business can possess.
He can be shut down rather easily.
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When I was in school, I posted copyright notices on EVERY single paper I ever wrote. That was my way of ensuring no one copied my work and allowed me to defend any potential charge that I may have been a plagiarizer myself.
Texts of term papers posted on other sites (whether university or a forum or by a student) are typically copyrighted works themselves, or represent a portion of one.
DCMA, anyone?
Even a handful of violations can send this guy packing.
"Does the U.S. really want to be like China or Iran?"
Maybe the US as a citizenry doesn't want it... but this administration certainly does.
It's hard to control the message when it's free-flowing and instant via the Internet. This administration wants control, especially in any "emergency".
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I have some sympathy for Birkenstock, but not much. For the amount of money they are asking for essentially a good name, they can spring a few extra coins (or whatever) on holograms or some other identification that shows it's THEIR genuine product.
Other than that, knockoffs are knockoffs and if a customer just wants the design and not the name, they should have the right to buy that if that's what they want.
I can tell you from my own standpoint, I feel a hell of a lot better scuffing up and getting sand in a $10 pair of beach sandals, rather than a $135 pair of authentic Birkenstocks... that may also be a target of theft if someone recognizes them as genuine.
You mean like General Motors, which went bankrupt at the hands of a greedy UNION, and greedy GOVERNMENT?
Or Chrysler, which had to be bailed out and bought out by Italy's Fiat, for the same reasons...?
Or Compuware, another so-called "greedy corporation" which is now being parted out thanks to the recession brought about by the failed economic policies of the aforementioned greedy government?
How about the city itself, where the greed of it's former mayor and corrupt, rotten-to-the-core city "leaders" couldn't plunder it's treasury quite fast enough before getting caught with it's hands in the cookie jar...?
Bash corporations and capitalists all you like, but they are the ones that actually create and maintain the few remaining jobs Detroit has.
(I've got karma, and I know how to burn it. So here goes some.)
The same idiots that trot out this junk science and "suggest" that we all go vegan, are the same damn fools that would have us all "save the environment" by putting corn into our gas tanks; and turn California's most fertile farming area turn into a desert in order to "save" some freaking minnows that actually need MORE water, not less.
The thing that really needs to be studied is what the hell happens to areas where the so-called "intelligencia" are allowed to run amok with their foolish ideas.
Near where I live, we have just such a place. It's called Detroit.
Shut down the website. Shut down Obamacare. Both are bad and hopelessly broken ideas.
If people took better care of themselves and, as smart consumers able to vote with thier loud voices (and thick wallets) for better food and medical choices to start with, they would be healthier to begin with and not need nanny government to wipe their noses and butts for them.
For the accidents that happen, there is private insurance for that... and it is far more affordable than this socialist trainwreck we've been dragged kicking and screaming thereto. And it's not just cheaper in terms of money. It costs nothing in terms of sacrificing personal freedom as well.
All this does is weaken the ability of a carrier to enforce a contract which a paying customer willingly entered into. As a result, the paying customers who honor thier contracts will end up paying extra to cover those who bail out, and stiff the carrier for the exit fees they voluntarily agreed to pay.
This is nothing more but welfare for scofflaws.
This is quite the "Oops" on the part of MSFT which, even if this is nothing more than anti-MS FUD, can ill-afford this kind of bad press with a platform which has less than 4% of market share.
This has nothing to do with the concept of "corporate personhood", whether you agree with it or not.
This is a 4th Amendment issue. Searches and seizures of anything are protected for personal effects and papers. Electronic records are arguably that, but this court did not agree. It needs to be settled by SCOTUS.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
- Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution
What? Emails, text messages and other electronic communications are not "papers", you say? Well, "electronic signatures" are taken as just as legal and binding as if it were an actual signature in ink on a piece of paper.
This needs to be taken to SCOTUS, extra pronto.
Because this will break it beyond repair.
Is this a bad laptop, or a bad iPad wannabe? I can't really tell at this point.
I've made a career and a living off Microsoft products, and I'm grateful to the life that company has allowed me to provide for myself. But it's clear now they're in decline. They've lost their edge, their focus... their ability to innovate. This is a defensive play, and it's just not gonna fly.
And I'm not just a consumer and a developer, but an MSFT shareholder. As such, I'd like to see Ballmer get out of Redmond and make way for someone to bring the company back to a leadership position... while there's still time.
Not terribly helpful for MS to do this, to keep attracting new devs coming out of school. Are they trying to kill .NET as a web platform?
New grads (or upperclassmen) now will just go with LAMP (or a variation) for web, foregoing .NET altogether. And what timing too... iOS development is really building a critical mass.
Bad move, Redmond...
Three things:
* So if the comments are really anonymous, whom do they prosecute?
* If the comments and/or the websites originate from outside the jurisdiction...?
* The First Amendment.
This is not terribly different from different countries on the map lining up with either the US or the Soviets... or going non-aligned.
It's a good old fashioned "military alliance"... just with patents and lawyers instead of nuclear warheads.
Not knocking Drupal or any other CMS, but don't get yourself boxed into just one specific platform. Keep up on where the overall development world is going.
Most shops still build their websites in-house from scratch, without a CMS. Many strictly-Microsoft shops purposely avoid using Sharepoint, for example.
Remember when ColdFusion was a big deal? Not so anymore. GoDaddy is dropping it from their hosting accounts.
Keep your foot in general Java or .NET or PHP development... stay focused on the bigger picture, not just in a specific type of project. Watch the trends. What may be popular today will become passe tomorrow.
Does that mean the staff of your ISP has to be hauled into The Hague and charged with Crimes Against Humanity, for denying you of your "human rights"?
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
Life ain't fair, the world isn't perfect and it doesn't owe you a damn thing. Quit bitching and get to work. Don't like the results? Work harder, or better yet, work smarter, if you can figure it out. Either way, quit relying on others to give you something that someone else worked their asses off to earn.
Clever? I think not. Facebook satire has been around ever since Facebook hit the big time. This is not original by any means.
On top of that, the lefty drivel and Bush-bashing has no appeal for, oh, at least half of the NYT's potential audience. Unless of course, they no longer have any interest in having readership that leans to the right.
I've posted that passage from the Declaration on my Facebook page many times - including today - and I haven't been "shut down".
And you know what? They ain't shutting me down... or shutting me UP... until I stop making CO2.
Great idea for living creatures, stupid as all hell for machines. I mean, seriously... we are feeding machines with perfectly good food. Hello?
Let's leave the food for the living and stop rewarding this stupidity with the further stupidity of the government stealing the fruits of our labors to subsidize this lame-brained bullshit.
Even if it's truly deleted, I'll bet the data is out there in an archive somewhere.
Be honest about what went wrong, and do right by the customers. Goodwill is the single most valuable asset a business can possess.
When I was in school, I posted copyright notices on EVERY single paper I ever wrote. That was my way of ensuring no one copied my work and allowed me to defend any potential charge that I may have been a plagiarizer myself.
Texts of term papers posted on other sites (whether university or a forum or by a student) are typically copyrighted works themselves, or represent a portion of one.
DCMA, anyone?
Even a handful of violations can send this guy packing.
"Does the U.S. really want to be like China or Iran?"
Maybe the US as a citizenry doesn't want it... but this administration certainly does.
It's hard to control the message when it's free-flowing and instant via the Internet. This administration wants control, especially in any "emergency".