Sure, and after you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars buying the equipment and the chemicals and hiring people to do it, Turing Pharmaceuticals "sees the light" and drops the price to 50 cents using the profit they've collected up to that point to stay afloat. Then they buy you out of bankruptcy with the rest of their profit and burn your facility to the ground as a message to any other investors who think they can stand up to them.
Then they raise the price to $751/pill, just to make a point.
Not sure if serious, but I'll bite. The default action for URLs ending in #~~~~ is for the browser to find a tag named ~~~~ and scroll to that. It's used to link to a specific part of the page. Originally the tag needed to be an <a name="~~~~"> tag, but modern browsers will find any tag with id="~~~~" and use that.
It's used here because the browser does not send the #~~~~ part of the URL to the server, so you're not limited by the URL length limits in certain browsers*cough*IE*cough*. Instead, the webpage includes javascript that reads the window location variable to find the #~~~~ and parse it.
You forgot to add the labor required to create the plot of land, and the labor required to go down and put the metal into the ground in the first place? Or maybe some raw materials have costs that are not dependent on the labor (or machines) used to extract them?
The problem here is that they should answer to the Law, but increasingly are picking and choosing which laws they feel like answering to. If the best reason you can give for Uber to be allowed to ignore the law is "because I don't like that particular law", well... there there are a lot of laws that aren't liked by a lot of different people, and you're bound to find someone using the same justification to ignore a law that you like. I've met people who openly believe that fraud shouldn't be a crime: if you trick a person into giving you money, it should be rightfully yours. I've seen one person (maybe a troll, maybe serious) say that if you don't realize that you've been robbed, you haven't been robbed. I wouldn't invite that person to my house without comprehensively cataloging every last item of value, in the event that they try to steal something in the hopes that I wouldn't notice. I wouldn't be surprised if that person's grandmothers have "misplaced" a lot of jewelry over the years.
During the Great Depression, people picked up and moved into "Hooverville" shanty towns built from scrap wood and trash. Can you imagine a city allowing you to do that in 2010? Cops would be there to tase the shit out of you within the hour if you tried.
During the Great Recession, people (largely banks) demonstrated that they can stay irrational longer than the market can stay depressed. Rather than sell houses at a loss, entire subdivisions were razed or simply left unoccupied. With credit frozen and mortgages hard to come by, inventory was either destroyed or simply sat on, rather than lowering prices to a level that people could afford to move in to.
Don't be silly, that would cut into their profits! Profits that they invest into congresscritters to vote for laws that keep competition out of the market so they don't have to lower their prices.
One example: why should company "B" pay for burger flipping robot "A" (including the cost of maintenance) doing the work of 3-4 burger flippers when it get get 3-4 burger flippers for free.
Why only 3-4 burger flippers? I bet if you forced them to flip burgers with 3-inch long chopsticks, you could get the same number of burgers made by at least 12-14 people. While you're at it, issue the people digging that trench spoons, instead of shovels.
Sure, we have a few dozen different programs with a few dozen different bureaucracies.
If we just cut everyone a check to replace social security, disability, food stamps, WIC, section whatever housing, welfare, unemployment, etc etc etc that would drastically reduce the size of the government.
The Republicans won't have any of that, though. They need their big government scapegoat to get votes, so they can pretend to do something year after year after year. The liberals probably won't like it either, once there's a $ number on payouts to people, this will become a perpetual war to adjust that number, usually without consideration of everything that number replaced (just wait until Medicare and Medicaid are replaced by "here's $100, buy your own damn insurance").
Or, to put it differently: If we're going to become issues voters and only vote on the technology issue, why should we vote for you instead of Lawrence Lessig?
Is it the setting that allows it? Or does it work in the other settings too, but limited to just your "friends"? Now I'm tempted to see what kind of joke app I can throw together and get on my coworker's phone before Apple fixes this (of course, if I get my dev cert revoked by Apple that'd be bad, so I won't... but the temptation is there)
There's a huge discrepancy between what I can afford and what Rolls Royce thinks their cars are worth too. I mean, come on, cars are a commodity: four rubber wheels and some plastic and rubber.
Yeah, I think if I had to rate in order from most secure to least secure I'd have to say it's something like:
brokerage account SSL certfificate account bank account steam account gmail account ~~~ various forum accounts ~~~ slashdot account electric company account (please break in and pay my bill for me!)
I mean, on both the Ford and Hyundai websites, you can select and build out any model of their car offerings you want
Maybe its a Texas "Independent Dealer" thing. I just punched in my zipcode on the Hyundai website, selected a Sonata and built it out and at the end it gives me an "inventory search" button and tells me there's a dealer with that color and package 15.66 miles away. I picked a different Sonata in "lakeside blue" and got to the end and the inventory search told me there were none available and I should go talk to a local dealer to see if they could help me find a car (in the color I want, as long as I want black).
Ford's website gives me the option to search for a nearby dealer or "get an internet price" at the end, no idea if the second option actually gets me the silver fiesta I put in to test it (it wants me to fill in a bunch of stuff so someone can contact me).
Last time I went to buy a car (2010) I was told by two different dealerships (Hyundai and Ford) that requesting anything was no longer "a thing" (though I could buy an aftermarket radio upgrade at full price plus installation and no, they won't deduct the cost of the basic radio from the car). You can't even ask for them to get a car in a certain color (in my case, silver, not some freaky special order limited edition "burnt yellow ice" or whatever). You can buy what they've got on their lot or you can take your money and shove off. Ended up buying a Honda (they had a silver car in stock, so I don't know if they'd have stonewalled me as well).
why would e.g. hotmail data for some random user be accessed by MS America?
I don't know, maybe they ran whatever analytics on everyone's email or something. Like I said, if they've never accessed the data in America, then Microsoft ought to win, America should have no jurisdiction over anything that has never been in America, and the feds should use the appropriate process to retrieve the data they want from the location it's at.
the Federal Government has a right to force people to accept contracts
Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof
Is it? Does the American branch have no access at all to this data from its offices in America? I would agree if the company established that this data was never used in America, then this is Irish data used by Microsoft Ireland and not at all subject to US jurisdiction as it has never been in the US and they should win.
Otherwise, if the data is used in America by Americans then the subpoena is for data that Microsoft America has access to without leaving the country, plus mountains and mountains of precedent set by companies and the government seeking to establish that accessing something over the internet creates a local copy subject to local jurisdiction for the purpose of fining filesharers and imprisoning pedophiles. Good luck overturning that.
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Sure, and after you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars buying the equipment and the chemicals and hiring people to do it, Turing Pharmaceuticals "sees the light" and drops the price to 50 cents using the profit they've collected up to that point to stay afloat. Then they buy you out of bankruptcy with the rest of their profit and burn your facility to the ground as a message to any other investors who think they can stand up to them.
Then they raise the price to $751/pill, just to make a point.
All this stuff about non-hosted content, and the image tag points to a wikimedia picture of a kitten instead of a data: URI?
Not sure if serious, but I'll bite. The default action for URLs ending in #~~~~ is for the browser to find a tag named ~~~~ and scroll to that. It's used to link to a specific part of the page. Originally the tag needed to be an <a name="~~~~"> tag, but modern browsers will find any tag with id="~~~~" and use that.
It's used here because the browser does not send the #~~~~ part of the URL to the server, so you're not limited by the URL length limits in certain browsers*cough*IE*cough*. Instead, the webpage includes javascript that reads the window location variable to find the #~~~~ and parse it.
You forgot to add the labor required to create the plot of land, and the labor required to go down and put the metal into the ground in the first place? Or maybe some raw materials have costs that are not dependent on the labor (or machines) used to extract them?
I agree with pretty much everything you say.
The problem here is that they should answer to the Law, but increasingly are picking and choosing which laws they feel like answering to. If the best reason you can give for Uber to be allowed to ignore the law is "because I don't like that particular law", well... there there are a lot of laws that aren't liked by a lot of different people, and you're bound to find someone using the same justification to ignore a law that you like. I've met people who openly believe that fraud shouldn't be a crime: if you trick a person into giving you money, it should be rightfully yours. I've seen one person (maybe a troll, maybe serious) say that if you don't realize that you've been robbed, you haven't been robbed. I wouldn't invite that person to my house without comprehensively cataloging every last item of value, in the event that they try to steal something in the hopes that I wouldn't notice. I wouldn't be surprised if that person's grandmothers have "misplaced" a lot of jewelry over the years.
During the Great Depression, people picked up and moved into "Hooverville" shanty towns built from scrap wood and trash. Can you imagine a city allowing you to do that in 2010? Cops would be there to tase the shit out of you within the hour if you tried.
During the Great Recession, people (largely banks) demonstrated that they can stay irrational longer than the market can stay depressed. Rather than sell houses at a loss, entire subdivisions were razed or simply left unoccupied. With credit frozen and mortgages hard to come by, inventory was either destroyed or simply sat on, rather than lowering prices to a level that people could afford to move in to.
Don't be silly, that would cut into their profits! Profits that they invest into congresscritters to vote for laws that keep competition out of the market so they don't have to lower their prices.
Why only 3-4 burger flippers? I bet if you forced them to flip burgers with 3-inch long chopsticks, you could get the same number of burgers made by at least 12-14 people. While you're at it, issue the people digging that trench spoons, instead of shovels.
FTFY. As the cost of labor trends to zero, the cost of goods trends to the cost of raw materials.
Please share with us your magical job listing site that has millions of openings for people to answer phones and stuff envelopes.
The fact is, nobody is going to hire people they don't need just to give them busy work to stroke your puritan work ethic.
Sure, we have a few dozen different programs with a few dozen different bureaucracies.
If we just cut everyone a check to replace social security, disability, food stamps, WIC, section whatever housing, welfare, unemployment, etc etc etc that would drastically reduce the size of the government.
The Republicans won't have any of that, though. They need their big government scapegoat to get votes, so they can pretend to do something year after year after year. The liberals probably won't like it either, once there's a $ number on payouts to people, this will become a perpetual war to adjust that number, usually without consideration of everything that number replaced (just wait until Medicare and Medicaid are replaced by "here's $100, buy your own damn insurance").
Or, to put it differently: If we're going to become issues voters and only vote on the technology issue, why should we vote for you instead of Lawrence Lessig?
The ones who press "Like" when their friend reports that their little kid has cancer.
I consider the setting that allows it
Is it the setting that allows it? Or does it work in the other settings too, but limited to just your "friends"? Now I'm tempted to see what kind of joke app I can throw together and get on my coworker's phone before Apple fixes this (of course, if I get my dev cert revoked by Apple that'd be bad, so I won't... but the temptation is there)
"You are free to do what I want you to do"
There's a huge discrepancy between what I can afford and what Rolls Royce thinks their cars are worth too. I mean, come on, cars are a commodity: four rubber wheels and some plastic and rubber.
Precedent (President Hoover) indicates that this is not the fourteen most recent years.
Yeah, I think if I had to rate in order from most secure to least secure I'd have to say it's something like:
brokerage account
SSL certfificate account
bank account
steam account
gmail account
~~~
various forum accounts
~~~
slashdot account
electric company account (please break in and pay my bill for me!)
Maybe its a Texas "Independent Dealer" thing. I just punched in my zipcode on the Hyundai website, selected a Sonata and built it out and at the end it gives me an "inventory search" button and tells me there's a dealer with that color and package 15.66 miles away. I picked a different Sonata in "lakeside blue" and got to the end and the inventory search told me there were none available and I should go talk to a local dealer to see if they could help me find a car (in the color I want, as long as I want black).
Ford's website gives me the option to search for a nearby dealer or "get an internet price" at the end, no idea if the second option actually gets me the silver fiesta I put in to test it (it wants me to fill in a bunch of stuff so someone can contact me).
that you can request to have or not have
Last time I went to buy a car (2010) I was told by two different dealerships (Hyundai and Ford) that requesting anything was no longer "a thing" (though I could buy an aftermarket radio upgrade at full price plus installation and no, they won't deduct the cost of the basic radio from the car). You can't even ask for them to get a car in a certain color (in my case, silver, not some freaky special order limited edition "burnt yellow ice" or whatever). You can buy what they've got on their lot or you can take your money and shove off. Ended up buying a Honda (they had a silver car in stock, so I don't know if they'd have stonewalled me as well).
I don't know, maybe they ran whatever analytics on everyone's email or something. Like I said, if they've never accessed the data in America, then Microsoft ought to win, America should have no jurisdiction over anything that has never been in America, and the feds should use the appropriate process to retrieve the data they want from the location it's at.
Microsoft et al. should really investigate the idea of collecting money from individual citizens and sheltering that money abroad
I think they call that "MSFT"
Is it? Does the American branch have no access at all to this data from its offices in America? I would agree if the company established that this data was never used in America, then this is Irish data used by Microsoft Ireland and not at all subject to US jurisdiction as it has never been in the US and they should win.
Otherwise, if the data is used in America by Americans then the subpoena is for data that Microsoft America has access to without leaving the country, plus mountains and mountains of precedent set by companies and the government seeking to establish that accessing something over the internet creates a local copy subject to local jurisdiction for the purpose of fining filesharers and imprisoning pedophiles. Good luck overturning that.