It is imperative that countries today operate with global competition in mind, just like it used to be within states, counties and cities. Any country that tries to operate autonomously in a global market will invariably be left behind.
Accepting global market competition does not imply to accept free international movement of capital. Some major player like China do not. And today IMF even advise capital movement control for countries hit by heavy crisis
figure out if they'll cut social programs or raise taxes elsewhere - all difficult decisions. Welcome to capitalism.
This is capitalism plus free international movement of capital, something that is quite new.
EU enforces that since 1992 Maastricht treaty, and US forced it with many countries using bilateral agreements. But roll back 30 years and we had capitalism with capital bound within national limits, and companies were forced to endure taxes decided by national law.
we expect that overseas cash balances will continue to grow unless tax laws are changed to encourage companies to repatriate money.
Or some general-interest minded politicians could pass laws that coerce big companies into paying their share of taxes. But today, that looks like a dream
The biggest problem with GMO is that it adds intellectual property on what we eat. And since the genes flow between species, the intellectual property-tainted life spread everywhere.
And summary does not address herbicide-resistant GMO, which cause farmers to actually use more herbicide, to kill everything else but the crops. We have a lot of studies about herbicide being very harmful at high doses for farmers.The question of low doses for consumers is still open (probably because of propaganda studies like this one)
Thank you for your insightful comment. It made me realize the trick that made WTO effective: it is open to everyone but started with only US and its friends. Now more countries joined, it is at odd that nothing harmful can be expected anymore (apart from WTO rulings). Hence TTP again.
On the DMCA being the consequence of a 1996 WIPO treaty: European Union has the EUCD directive, that was transposed in national laws. The same 1996 WIPO treaty was used to tell EU politicians that they had no alternative but to pass it. Of course, like DMCA, the EUCD goes beyond WIPO treaty requirements, but it is still a consequence.
It is nice to see EFF fighting insane rules upstream. A 1996 WIPO treaty gave us DMCA and EUCD
.
But the fact that EFF can atttend talks suggests WIPO is not the relevant place anymore for our adversaries to push such things. As summary says, it will probably come from multilateral treaties like TTP.
The innovation during industrial revolution changed workers' lives, from agricultural work to industrial work. That was not more pleasant job, but since it produced a lot, workers got access to new goods and life standard. Further innovation reduced industrial work and increased less harsh office jobs.
Now innovation is killing jobs while concentrating wealth. We still innovate, but innovation is less able to improve people's lives.
Glad they stopped collecting WiFi Passwords. What will they do with the one already collected? Can we expect a leak soon so that we know what accounts need a password reset?
How modern is this client crypto implementation? If it lacks TLS 1.2 support, forcing users to migrate until it is too late is probably a good thing for them.
As I understood, the fear is not about ionization, but about the biological effect of modulated signals. Those are low frequency: you can hear them when the phone is near a high speaker. But I am not aware of a molecular model explaining why it would harm.
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It is imperative that countries today operate with global competition in mind, just like it used to be within states, counties and cities. Any country that tries to operate autonomously in a global market will invariably be left behind.
Accepting global market competition does not imply to accept free international movement of capital. Some major player like China do not. And today IMF even advise capital movement control for countries hit by heavy crisis
figure out if they'll cut social programs or raise taxes elsewhere - all difficult decisions. Welcome to capitalism.
This is capitalism plus free international movement of capital, something that is quite new.
EU enforces that since 1992 Maastricht treaty, and US forced it with many countries using bilateral agreements. But roll back 30 years and we had capitalism with capital bound within national limits, and companies were forced to endure taxes decided by national law.
How about simply lowering rates? Why pay 35% in the U.S. when you can pay 12.5% in Ireland
This seems an ineffective fix to me, as it push all countries toward tax dumping: if US moves to 12.5%, Ireland will move to 10%, and so on.
Trump wants to legalize companies to bring in that money into the USA without having to pay taxes. Basically a big present he'll give them.
Well, once money is back in US, it is still time to change our mind and tax it as capital instead of income.
we expect that overseas cash balances will continue to grow unless tax laws are changed to encourage companies to repatriate money.
Or some general-interest minded politicians could pass laws that coerce big companies into paying their share of taxes. But today, that looks like a dream
To be fair, we have not waited GMO to fail mono-cultures. Take the Gros Michel banana for instance.
But indeed, GMO pushes a lot toward this this kind of failure
The biggest problem with GMO is that it adds intellectual property on what we eat. And since the genes flow between species, the intellectual property-tainted life spread everywhere.
And summary does not address herbicide-resistant GMO, which cause farmers to actually use more herbicide, to kill everything else but the crops. We have a lot of studies about herbicide being very harmful at high doses for farmers.The question of low doses for consumers is still open (probably because of propaganda studies like this one)
Do they really work seven day a week, without any rest ever? If that is the case, I wonder how long before they burn out.
Even God had to rest the seventh day, after all :-)
Thank you for your insightful comment. It made me realize the trick that made WTO effective: it is open to everyone but started with only US and its friends. Now more countries joined, it is at odd that nothing harmful can be expected anymore (apart from WTO rulings). Hence TTP again.
On the DMCA being the consequence of a 1996 WIPO treaty: European Union has the EUCD directive, that was transposed in national laws. The same 1996 WIPO treaty was used to tell EU politicians that they had no alternative but to pass it. Of course, like DMCA, the EUCD goes beyond WIPO treaty requirements, but it is still a consequence.
It is nice to see EFF fighting insane rules upstream. A 1996 WIPO treaty gave us DMCA and EUCD
.
But the fact that EFF can atttend talks suggests WIPO is not the relevant place anymore for our adversaries to push such things. As summary says, it will probably come from multilateral treaties like TTP.
This looks like the perfect setup for a police sting operation.
I will teach you how to perform an harmless hack, then catch you for it
Creating a human from all synthetic DNA would be a certain failure.
There are huge parts of the genome we do not fully understand. For instance we have ancient viruses incorporated in an harmless form. Removing that sequences cause vulnerability more diseases.
The synthetic human will quickly die from a random disease that everyone else can cope with.
The innovation during industrial revolution changed workers' lives, from agricultural work to industrial work. That was not more pleasant job, but since it produced a lot, workers got access to new goods and life standard. Further innovation reduced industrial work and increased less harsh office jobs.
Now innovation is killing jobs while concentrating wealth. We still innovate, but innovation is less able to improve people's lives.
Glad they stopped collecting WiFi Passwords. What will they do with the one already collected? Can we expect a leak soon so that we know what accounts need a password reset?
Will he get his machines back, loaded with police spyware. We know they can even stick that in hard disk's firmware.
How modern is this client crypto implementation? If it lacks TLS 1.2 support, forcing users to migrate until it is too late is probably a good thing for them.
Photons from microwaves can't ionize matter.
As I understood, the fear is not about ionization, but about the biological effect of modulated signals. Those are low frequency: you can hear them when the phone is near a high speaker. But I am not aware of a molecular model explaining why it would harm.
Oddly, they did not enable Strict-Transport-Security
Information about NK may be true or false, who knows? How can we have reliable sources for such a closed country?
Why should you be paying? Because while storage is cheap, backups are expensive.
It seems to make sense to pay to never hear "we lost your data, sorry", but unortunately providers do not tell much about how they do backups.
"Designing BSD Rootkits". Seems cool stuff, but very specialized, indeed!
Mod parent up! This is probably the actual reason.
Summary says
The Higgs is believed to endow other particles with mass
I am no specialist, but I understood the Higgs is only used to explain the masses of bosons W+, W- and Z0. It is not involved for other particles.
global crop water productivity will increase by 10 to 27 percent by the 2080s
Too bad at the same time population will have increased of much more than 27%. And we do not know how water supply will have evolved at that time.
But if you want a perfect example of something that doesn't break down but has a serious effect: lead.
Yes, I have heavy metals in mind when writing my comment. The problem with lead is that it is not expelled from the body.