If you were there you would love a good old fashioned sociopath CEO, at least they will fire 5 people to save 50.
Except that the good old fashioned sociopath CEO would never have reached this point in the first place. He'd have fired the 50 long ago to pad out his golden parachute and long since jumped ship.
So when that pesticide smell settles over your whole city you'll just go door to door at the chemical companies and say "pardon me my good sirs would you permit me to come in and see whether this noxious odor has emanated from your abode"? How many of them are going to let you on the property? How many of them are going to admit to poisoning everyone?
That this is how the EPA currently works (self inspections, self reporting, etc) because nobody will give them the money to hire inspectors with the force of government is beside the point.
Anyway you slice it they don't have the right to confiscate it without a warrant.
Oh no, they don't have the right to search YOU without a warrant, but standing jurisprudence is that your money is not a person and therefore has no rights. See Civil Forfeiture.
In order for your statement to be true - EVERY single bit of the description below would have to be included in that 70's mainframe you are talking about
In order for your statement to be true, the Doctrine of Equivalents would have to be eliminated.
The majority of the software patents I've seen are simply a statement of a problem, not a solution. They do nothing to promote the progress of science, and as such should not be considered valid patents, and the laws should be changed to make them not valid patents.
Following the EFF's proposition would be a good way to make sure that your patent states a solution and promotes the progress of science.
I can see it now, the Sherrif's officers who beat Rodney King... "Performance Art"... because it was done on camera!
So what are you saying? That it's not art?
If it's not art, then should the government be able to forbid the public from seeing its employees beat people?
I'm all for declaring beating Rodney King to be NOT art AND declaring that the government should NOT be able to ban people from seeing it because the entire concept of "art is speech" is COMPLETELY WRONG.
But yeah, I guess if you've got a hardon for keeping people from seeing two people doing it in front of a camera, you've got to draw a line somewhere, to hell with everyone on the other side of that line.
If I beat you up for your lunch money, and then offered to give it back to you, would you go without lunch despite the fact that you are of the belief that you shouldn't have your lunch money taken away in the first place? Hardly
If you started an entire movement devoted to the hatred and shunning of bullies, and one of them offers to treat you to lunch using their ill-gotten spoils, you can go to lunch if you want, but it definitely looks bad from the outside.
A program for providing recurring delivery of products consisting of a computer that: 1. Receives a designation of a "delivery slot" and a list consisting of: 1a. what to deliver 1b. how much to deliver 1c. how often to deliver it 2. Periodically creates an order with the date and time of the next delivery slot, in advance of the due date of the delivery. 3. Places items on the order based on when they were last ordered, and the frequency to deliver them. 4. Checks to see if a change is made to the list after the order is generated and before it is shipped, and if so the order is updated to reflect the change. 5. Sends the order to a fulfillment system in time to have it delivered (close to) on time.
If anything in here is novel, it's going to be automatically generating an "order" in advance, then automatically updating the "order" if necessary when the list of items is changed between when the order is created and when it's shipped.
it's not really like a milkman, or even how a milkman operated
I was a milkman once, let me tell you it was a tough job. I had no idea what my customers wanted, when they wanted it, or hell, I didn't even know where they lived, I just wandered around town until I ran out of gas then dumped the whole load of milk in the ditch and walked home.
Just think, if only someone had invented a way to keep a list of people, what they wanted, when they wanted it and where they wanted me to drop it off, I might have been able to keep my job a second day!
Amusingly, a century ago the complaint was that "tillers worked just fine for steering boats so why change things?" so the first cars were steered by tiller.
Hell, the definition of "sub-prime" is "Freddie and Fannie won't touch this".
Freddie and Fannie didn't insure a single one of these mortgages. Their problem is that they got suckered into backing their prime mortgage insurance business with investments that had been rated AAA by S&P.
Multiple bank accounts. Which is precisely what everyone does when the amounts are large enough that they need to be secured.
Unless Corporate People get different rules than People People, "everyone" doesn't do this. At a single bank, I can have an insured account in my name, an IRA containing an insured CD in my name, an insured joint account in me and my spouse's names (ok, not that one), an insured revocable trust, an insured irrevocable trust, an insured employee benefit plan, an insured corporate account, and an insured government account. Each with their own $250k limit.
The standard deposit insurance amount is $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank, for each account ownership category.
The FDIC insures deposits that a person holds in one insured bank separately from any deposits that the person owns in another separately chartered insured bank. For example, if a person has a certificate of deposit at Bank A and has a certificate of deposit at Bank B, the accounts would each be insured separately up to $250,000. Funds deposited in separate branches of the same insured bank are not separately insured.
the shareholders would be on the hook for the "non-payments".
Shareholders aren't on the hook for jack shit. They'd be "wiped out" in the sense that the C stock they paid $500 for became worth $10, but none of C's creditors got the $490 difference.
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Except when they just disconnect you.
I get "I'm sorry, that is not a valid extension" sometimes, and then the IVR starts over.
Ohhh, you didn't want to pay for the parts you weren't watching? Well, that'll be another $120/mo in processing fees.
If you were there you would love a good old fashioned sociopath CEO, at least they will fire 5 people to save 50.
Except that the good old fashioned sociopath CEO would never have reached this point in the first place. He'd have fired the 50 long ago to pad out his golden parachute and long since jumped ship.
yet it will employ nobody except a couple of engineers to watch over the plants.
Why would they do that? When it catches fire and burns to the ground, they'll just file an insurance claim.
Subdomains are free. With a wildcard DNS record, you have nearly an infinite supply of them.
They just put one of those little rubber cable covers across it it to keep the cars from tripping as they drove over the fiber.
Oh wow, the Fortune 500! That's what, 0.0001% of all the companies in the world? I'm sure that's totally representative of how things are done.
and you'll see polluters paying restitution.
So when that pesticide smell settles over your whole city you'll just go door to door at the chemical companies and say "pardon me my good sirs would you permit me to come in and see whether this noxious odor has emanated from your abode"? How many of them are going to let you on the property? How many of them are going to admit to poisoning everyone?
That this is how the EPA currently works (self inspections, self reporting, etc) because nobody will give them the money to hire inspectors with the force of government is beside the point.
Anyway you slice it they don't have the right to confiscate it without a warrant.
Oh no, they don't have the right to search YOU without a warrant, but standing jurisprudence is that your money is not a person and therefore has no rights. See Civil Forfeiture.
In order for your statement to be true - EVERY single bit of the description below would have to be included in that 70's mainframe you are talking about
In order for your statement to be true, the Doctrine of Equivalents would have to be eliminated.
Silly Americans naming the metal flap that covers a car engine after a type of headwear... oh, wait... :-)
says the people who load all their groceries into their footwear to carry it back home.
The majority of the software patents I've seen are simply a statement of a problem, not a solution. They do nothing to promote the progress of science, and as such should not be considered valid patents, and the laws should be changed to make them not valid patents.
Following the EFF's proposition would be a good way to make sure that your patent states a solution and promotes the progress of science.
I can see it now, the Sherrif's officers who beat Rodney King ... "Performance Art" ... because it was done on camera!
So what are you saying? That it's not art?
If it's not art, then should the government be able to forbid the public from seeing its employees beat people?
I'm all for declaring beating Rodney King to be NOT art AND declaring that the government should NOT be able to ban people from seeing it because the entire concept of "art is speech" is COMPLETELY WRONG.
But yeah, I guess if you've got a hardon for keeping people from seeing two people doing it in front of a camera, you've got to draw a line somewhere, to hell with everyone on the other side of that line.
If you started an entire movement devoted to the hatred and shunning of bullies, and one of them offers to treat you to lunch using their ill-gotten spoils, you can go to lunch if you want, but it definitely looks bad from the outside.
knew how to "block all of the Chinese IP ranges"
Okean.com has the goods.
If anything in here is novel, it's going to be automatically generating an "order" in advance, then automatically updating the "order" if necessary when the list of items is changed between when the order is created and when it's shipped.
it's not really like a milkman, or even how a milkman operated
I was a milkman once, let me tell you it was a tough job. I had no idea what my customers wanted, when they wanted it, or hell, I didn't even know where they lived, I just wandered around town until I ran out of gas then dumped the whole load of milk in the ditch and walked home.
Just think, if only someone had invented a way to keep a list of people, what they wanted, when they wanted it and where they wanted me to drop it off, I might have been able to keep my job a second day!
Amusingly, a century ago the complaint was that "tillers worked just fine for steering boats so why change things?" so the first cars were steered by tiller.
Hell, the definition of "sub-prime" is "Freddie and Fannie won't touch this".
Freddie and Fannie didn't insure a single one of these mortgages. Their problem is that they got suckered into backing their prime mortgage insurance business with investments that had been rated AAA by S&P.
Oh yeah? Well mine's Korect hors battrey stappl
Is everyone really 6 degrees from Kevin Bacon?
Multiple bank accounts. Which is precisely what everyone does when the amounts are large enough that they need to be secured.
Unless Corporate People get different rules than People People, "everyone" doesn't do this. At a single bank, I can have an insured account in my name, an IRA containing an insured CD in my name, an insured joint account in me and my spouse's names (ok, not that one), an insured revocable trust, an insured irrevocable trust, an insured employee benefit plan, an insured corporate account, and an insured government account. Each with their own $250k limit.
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and those propsing the same kind of "banking" will never get promoted again.
Also LOL. Property-backed CDOs are on the rebound. This time will be different!
the shareholders would be on the hook for the "non-payments".
Shareholders aren't on the hook for jack shit. They'd be "wiped out" in the sense that the C stock they paid $500 for became worth $10, but none of C's creditors got the $490 difference.
I'm sure the lawyers in charge of the Bar associations will get right on that.