the answer is simply to change the law, stop any tax-sharing agreements with foreign governments that allow super-low rates of tax, or refuse to recognise any "head office" that is little more than a postbox.
I mean, if the government (not just Aus) said "We agree with tax sharing but the tax rate here is 20% (or whatever) then we will recognise the tax paid by Apple Investment Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd at 1%, but we still charge the remaining 19% to the company's revenues made here".
The head office thing can be dealt with just like the EU 1995 directive that was applied to banks after the collapse of the BCCI bank - their HQ has to be in the same place as their registered office. (this is not so they can avoid tax, more that they can be effectively regulated, but I guess it wouldn't hurt WRT tax).
exactly, Tesla could easily e a failure in no time.
The only company I know who did strong-arm into consoles was Sony with the PS1, it wiped the floor with the old Sega Saturn, mainly because it gave developers and users what they wanted. I can't help thinking that the XBox is more what Microsoft wants you to have to let them extend their monopoly to the living room, and although its been very successful (probably down to certain games), its still cost Microsoft more than they would have wanted to spend - money that they have tried to claw back through software and services instead, hence the ad-laden xbox live:(
There are others, Fortify 360 is one I used at a security-conscious company. But in all cases, they require the source code
Though, to be fair, if you're using a 3rd party closed-source library, then you're at the provider's mercy and should go for other avenues of protection - if you can't see security updates coming regularly, then after the fact protection works: you sue them if it fails. Generally, you don't need to know the source for a closed-source library, its a black box and should be treated as such.
Possibly - I think its debatable, but still the amount if investment required would have bankrupted any other company that tried to release it as their only product.
Sony seems to be winning the latest console war, with anecdotal reports of shops stacked with XB1s and PS4s sold out completely. Maybe that is more distribution and production than sales... but I think it says Sony made a good product that people want to buy, whereas Microsoft made a product they wanted to sell you.
So the final results on the XBox are still not finalised.
XBox is still a failure ultimately.. the cost outweighed the profitability until very recently, and that doesn't consider the lost opportunity that investment money could have been put to. Its a bit debatable but no other company could have done the XBox as they don't have Microsoft's bottomless pit of cash and nothing else to spend it on.
Microsoft did do some excellent hardware though - their mice were the best, their keyboards are good, and their webcams are good too.
It would make sense - when your product reaches a certain point in its life, its peaked and starts to become a target for alternatives, and when those alternatives gain enough traction (which often happens "overnight") then your product becomes an also-ran that no-one wants anymore.
Now until recently we only really had Windows, but today we have Android and iOS as serious competitors. What happens on the desktop - generally no-one cares anymore. Microsoft continues to sell fewer and fewer copies and Windows becomes a niche product.
Or they open-source it or just sell it for free and let it take over. they make their money selling Office, Sharepoint and other business tools. I'm sure if Windows server was free, the Linux offerings used in web tooling would disappear overnight. People would start writing websites in ASP.NET instead of PHP, and developers would end up knowing only the Microsoft tools for server side as well as desktop. If they gave Windows mobile away for free too I'm sure they might start to make much more market share.
Remember the only reason Windows is so popular was because it was very cheap compared to the Unix workstations people used to use. Microsoft needs to keep their pricing competitive today too, and that means free.
I notice you left all the discriminatory isms out of your list. And that you failed to bother quoting the rest of my post where I described that not all are discriminatory terms.
but the woman is free to sit on her butt and atrophy
no, that's just your mama.
Most women who become "homemakers" do a lot of work around the house, all that cleaning and cooking and child-rearing is a lot of effort. Try it some time when you get home.
they all refer to a form of discrimination - they are all forms of prejudice, where someone is pre-judged on external appearance that suggests belonging to a group with perceived negative associations rather than judging that individual on their own merits.
You can discriminate against someone on the colour of their skin, the wrinkles on their face, the bumps on their chest, or anything else too - their (lack of) height, their (excess of) weight, deformity of leg, choice of editor. Anything.
And it works the opposite way too, some supposedly discriminated-against "minority" groups will support their own and discriminate against the "mainstream".
Many of the -isms do refer to this discriminatory problem, ageism as you say, but sexism and racism is just the same - its not a theory, racism means to pre-judge based on race. not all of them - feminism for example isn't one of these, its a social/political movement.
Could it be alien space monkeys trying to destabilize our currencies and use us for slaves to harvest tasty bananas?
I for one, welcome our new shit-flinging monkey overlords. At least if I can tell the difference between them and our current political overlords, that is.
it means gamification - so getting karma in/. for example, or points on stackoverflow, or likes on facebook, or retweets on twitter.... they're all the same thing, making you come back for more. Its a non-'game' equivalent of levelling up in traditional games.
apparently pidgen s so full of security holes the Tor people looked at it and dismissed it as the basis for their messaging system. they're basing theirs on Instantbird
now that's true - accountancy breaks a lot of things.
Because each programme had to be accounted for independantly, you'd get the situation where top-end equipment would be bought for the engineers on the series, and once the series was complete would be chucked away. I recall hearing from sound engineers who had to throw perfectly good top-end headphones away because their 'accountancy values' was nothing.
Similarly for TV, I once bought a few rally high-end Dell monitors off a guy flogging them on ebay, turned out they were bought to make the animated Captain Scarlet series, and once done.. technically worthless. I paid £10 each for something that was worth hundreds.
Common sense got thrown out the window with the "feminisation" of these public sector services, where it was more important to be politically correct than actually do what you were supposed to, where it was more important to fill the place up with air-headed middle management than more working staff. Now, lets stop this bitching and all go on an ethnic diversity stress awareness course of the benefits of vegetarianism on workplace.effectiveness...
you refer to the previous government, of course. (yes, I know they call themselves Labour, but just look at their policies to see how they're true children of Thatcher. The Tories are actually more in touch with the common man!)
anyway, the only people who want independence are the Scottish national party, and even they want everything to be just as it was before only with Alex Salmond declared King of Scotland.
If you want to harp on about economic policy only affecting the South East, then you're quite right - after all, who was it that had to bail out Royal Bank of Scotland and Halifax Bank of Scotland? Those economic policies that allowed those banks to fuck up really benefited London and the rest of the UK.
Personally, I think its right that Scotland gets independence for moral reasons - all those Scottish MPs (who are either Labour ot SNP) get to vote on things that only matter in the rest of the UK, so you guys gets to tell us what to do without any for of reciprocity. - so getting rid of those useless MPs would actually be beneficial for the rest of the UK, morally.
Hey, but you could then have Gordon Brown back as PM of Scotland! Still sure you want independence:-)
Was that actually a good summary for once, or the entire article!
I guess it stops the usual misinformed, ignorant posts based on a couple of sensationalist headline based loosely upon something that was slightly related to the article from being posted.
and your point is what? Windows is the most widely used OS on the planet and yet... no-one says its the best either. Like the girl who puts out with anyone, you can be really popular yet still rather pathetic.
Youtube's business model is based around carrying these videos. If they allow others to upload on their behalf, that's fine. But that doesn't mean that can sit back and say "nothing to do with us".
The court can find that Youtube is defaming or misrepresenting the original order, and can then order a further judgement - and youtube will comply with that one too.
There's no excuse for not acting responsibly, posting childish messages that imply an agenda are really only suitable for advertising.
Not crops but animals - there's a lot of crime involving theft or plain vandalism (think people irresponsibly walking their dogs near sheep) that could be better handled by remote drones with cameras. Currently such crime is easy to perpetrate as farms are far away from anyone, including the police who aren't exactly thick on the ground in rural areas.
A drone that could stay aloft for a long time could well help deter these or at least provide some video evidence later.
tasting and altering is only required because the initial ingredients were not accurately measured or quality controlled. A robotic system wouldn't have such problems.
For example (a bad example) McDonald's burgers come out identical, every time, everywhere. Its not much of a stretch to imagine the same processes being used to produce food!
Cooking would become something designed for pleasure - a hobby or personal pastime.
You can say "no insignificant cost", others could say "attracting large advertising revenue while its still up".
Perhaps they should donate all the ad revenue for illegally uploaded videos to the licence holder, or to charity, for the duration of its time being shown by them.
That said, I think it would be hilarious if a dodgy video of you got posted to YT, and when you asked for it to be taken down they put "this video removed due to takedown notice by tlambert. Here's their email address: tlambert@gmail.com".
Well, it could say "This video is blocked because we didn't want to pay the required licence fees", which would be just as accurate.
By mentioning GEMA and saying nothing about Youtube implies that it is nothing to do with YouTube at all. Any other commercial company that wanted ad revenue from broadcasting someone else's videos without permission would get hammered on/.
what it'll take it for China to start weaponising space, "for their own defence" and then funding will immediately be made available to get other countries weapons system up there.
Why else did the US go to the Moon - it was because there was a chance the Russians might have found a way to put missiles on there of course, all dressed up as exploration and "good of mankind".
So c'mon China - we're bored of terrorists, we need a new 'enemy' to spend vast sums defending against! you guys are the only ones with enough cash to do anything.
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the answer is simply to change the law, stop any tax-sharing agreements with foreign governments that allow super-low rates of tax, or refuse to recognise any "head office" that is little more than a postbox.
I mean, if the government (not just Aus) said "We agree with tax sharing but the tax rate here is 20% (or whatever) then we will recognise the tax paid by Apple Investment Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd at 1%, but we still charge the remaining 19% to the company's revenues made here".
The head office thing can be dealt with just like the EU 1995 directive that was applied to banks after the collapse of the BCCI bank - their HQ has to be in the same place as their registered office. (this is not so they can avoid tax, more that they can be effectively regulated, but I guess it wouldn't hurt WRT tax).
exactly, Tesla could easily e a failure in no time.
The only company I know who did strong-arm into consoles was Sony with the PS1, it wiped the floor with the old Sega Saturn, mainly because it gave developers and users what they wanted. I can't help thinking that the XBox is more what Microsoft wants you to have to let them extend their monopoly to the living room, and although its been very successful (probably down to certain games), its still cost Microsoft more than they would have wanted to spend - money that they have tried to claw back through software and services instead, hence the ad-laden xbox live :(
IIRC FxCop is a source-code analyser.
There are others, Fortify 360 is one I used at a security-conscious company. But in all cases, they require the source code
Though, to be fair, if you're using a 3rd party closed-source library, then you're at the provider's mercy and should go for other avenues of protection - if you can't see security updates coming regularly, then after the fact protection works: you sue them if it fails. Generally, you don't need to know the source for a closed-source library, its a black box and should be treated as such.
Possibly - I think its debatable, but still the amount if investment required would have bankrupted any other company that tried to release it as their only product.
Sony seems to be winning the latest console war, with anecdotal reports of shops stacked with XB1s and PS4s sold out completely. Maybe that is more distribution and production than sales... but I think it says Sony made a good product that people want to buy, whereas Microsoft made a product they wanted to sell you.
So the final results on the XBox are still not finalised.
XBox is still a failure ultimately.. the cost outweighed the profitability until very recently, and that doesn't consider the lost opportunity that investment money could have been put to. Its a bit debatable but no other company could have done the XBox as they don't have Microsoft's bottomless pit of cash and nothing else to spend it on.
Microsoft did do some excellent hardware though - their mice were the best, their keyboards are good, and their webcams are good too.
It would make sense - when your product reaches a certain point in its life, its peaked and starts to become a target for alternatives, and when those alternatives gain enough traction (which often happens "overnight") then your product becomes an also-ran that no-one wants anymore.
Now until recently we only really had Windows, but today we have Android and iOS as serious competitors. What happens on the desktop - generally no-one cares anymore. Microsoft continues to sell fewer and fewer copies and Windows becomes a niche product.
Or they open-source it or just sell it for free and let it take over. they make their money selling Office, Sharepoint and other business tools. I'm sure if Windows server was free, the Linux offerings used in web tooling would disappear overnight. People would start writing websites in ASP.NET instead of PHP, and developers would end up knowing only the Microsoft tools for server side as well as desktop. If they gave Windows mobile away for free too I'm sure they might start to make much more market share.
Remember the only reason Windows is so popular was because it was very cheap compared to the Unix workstations people used to use. Microsoft needs to keep their pricing competitive today too, and that means free.
I notice you left all the discriminatory isms out of your list. And that you failed to bother quoting the rest of my post where I described that not all are discriminatory terms.
I may be illiterate, but you sir are a bigot.
but the woman is free to sit on her butt and atrophy
no, that's just your mama.
Most women who become "homemakers" do a lot of work around the house, all that cleaning and cooking and child-rearing is a lot of effort. Try it some time when you get home.
they all refer to a form of discrimination - they are all forms of prejudice, where someone is pre-judged on external appearance that suggests belonging to a group with perceived negative associations rather than judging that individual on their own merits.
You can discriminate against someone on the colour of their skin, the wrinkles on their face, the bumps on their chest, or anything else too - their (lack of) height, their (excess of) weight, deformity of leg, choice of editor. Anything.
And it works the opposite way too, some supposedly discriminated-against "minority" groups will support their own and discriminate against the "mainstream".
Many of the -isms do refer to this discriminatory problem, ageism as you say, but sexism and racism is just the same - its not a theory, racism means to pre-judge based on race. not all of them - feminism for example isn't one of these, its a social/political movement.
Could it be alien space monkeys trying to destabilize our currencies and use us for slaves to harvest tasty bananas?
I for one, welcome our new shit-flinging monkey overlords. At least if I can tell the difference between them and our current political overlords, that is.
it means gamification - so getting karma in /. for example, or points on stackoverflow, or likes on facebook, or retweets on twitter.... they're all the same thing, making you come back for more. Its a non-'game' equivalent of levelling up in traditional games.
apparently pidgen s so full of security holes the Tor people looked at it and dismissed it as the basis for their messaging system. they're basing theirs on Instantbird
we've already got that - between Gibraltar and Spain. If only there was free movement of people and goods in the EU!
(ie the Spanish make things hard at the border for their own political reasons, regardless of what the rules say)
now that's true - accountancy breaks a lot of things.
Because each programme had to be accounted for independantly, you'd get the situation where top-end equipment would be bought for the engineers on the series, and once the series was complete would be chucked away. I recall hearing from sound engineers who had to throw perfectly good top-end headphones away because their 'accountancy values' was nothing.
Similarly for TV, I once bought a few rally high-end Dell monitors off a guy flogging them on ebay, turned out they were bought to make the animated Captain Scarlet series, and once done.. technically worthless. I paid £10 each for something that was worth hundreds.
Common sense got thrown out the window with the "feminisation" of these public sector services, where it was more important to be politically correct than actually do what you were supposed to, where it was more important to fill the place up with air-headed middle management than more working staff. Now, lets stop this bitching and all go on an ethnic diversity stress awareness course of the benefits of vegetarianism on workplace.effectiveness...
absolutely.. buy the T-Shirt
you refer to the previous government, of course. (yes, I know they call themselves Labour, but just look at their policies to see how they're true children of Thatcher. The Tories are actually more in touch with the common man!)
anyway, the only people who want independence are the Scottish national party, and even they want everything to be just as it was before only with Alex Salmond declared King of Scotland.
If you want to harp on about economic policy only affecting the South East, then you're quite right - after all, who was it that had to bail out Royal Bank of Scotland and Halifax Bank of Scotland? Those economic policies that allowed those banks to fuck up really benefited London and the rest of the UK.
Personally, I think its right that Scotland gets independence for moral reasons - all those Scottish MPs (who are either Labour ot SNP) get to vote on things that only matter in the rest of the UK, so you guys gets to tell us what to do without any for of reciprocity. - so getting rid of those useless MPs would actually be beneficial for the rest of the UK, morally.
Hey, but you could then have Gordon Brown back as PM of Scotland! Still sure you want independence :-)
Was that actually a good summary for once, or the entire article!
I guess it stops the usual misinformed, ignorant posts based on a couple of sensationalist headline based loosely upon something that was slightly related to the article from being posted.
and your point is what?
Windows is the most widely used OS on the planet and yet... no-one says its the best either. Like the girl who puts out with anyone, you can be really popular yet still rather pathetic.
Youtube's business model is based around carrying these videos. If they allow others to upload on their behalf, that's fine. But that doesn't mean that can sit back and say "nothing to do with us".
The court can find that Youtube is defaming or misrepresenting the original order, and can then order a further judgement - and youtube will comply with that one too.
There's no excuse for not acting responsibly, posting childish messages that imply an agenda are really only suitable for advertising.
Not crops but animals - there's a lot of crime involving theft or plain vandalism (think people irresponsibly walking their dogs near sheep) that could be better handled by remote drones with cameras. Currently such crime is easy to perpetrate as farms are far away from anyone, including the police who aren't exactly thick on the ground in rural areas.
A drone that could stay aloft for a long time could well help deter these or at least provide some video evidence later.
tasting and altering is only required because the initial ingredients were not accurately measured or quality controlled. A robotic system wouldn't have such problems.
For example (a bad example) McDonald's burgers come out identical, every time, everywhere. Its not much of a stretch to imagine the same processes being used to produce food!
Cooking would become something designed for pleasure - a hobby or personal pastime.
You can say "no insignificant cost", others could say "attracting large advertising revenue while its still up".
Perhaps they should donate all the ad revenue for illegally uploaded videos to the licence holder, or to charity, for the duration of its time being shown by them.
That said, I think it would be hilarious if a dodgy video of you got posted to YT, and when you asked for it to be taken down they put "this video removed due to takedown notice by tlambert. Here's their email address: tlambert@gmail.com".
Well, it could say "This video is blocked because we didn't want to pay the required licence fees", which would be just as accurate.
By mentioning GEMA and saying nothing about Youtube implies that it is nothing to do with YouTube at all. Any other commercial company that wanted ad revenue from broadcasting someone else's videos without permission would get hammered on /.
and when they realised their mistake, they started building those pyramids in Central America and Polynesia instead.
what it'll take it for China to start weaponising space, "for their own defence" and then funding will immediately be made available to get other countries weapons system up there.
Why else did the US go to the Moon - it was because there was a chance the Russians might have found a way to put missiles on there of course, all dressed up as exploration and "good of mankind".
So c'mon China - we're bored of terrorists, we need a new 'enemy' to spend vast sums defending against! you guys are the only ones with enough cash to do anything.