Actually, we've already been through a round of this. After the Northridge quake, they retroactively applied new building codes to commercial buildings and required them to be updated, whether there was any damage to the building from the quake or not, and irrespective of whether new construction was being done. (A lot of times, when new construction is done an inspector will require additional changes to other parts of the site to comply with up to date codes.)
I was working for a property management company a couple of years after the quake and they were trying to argue with the city about it.
Next week, Samsung's CEO will also claim to be gay.
Then Microsoft will say that they've been working on gay for years, and they have their own implementation that, while being incompatible with other gays, is superior and should be a world wide standard. It will be the only standard that Windows supports.
Considering that pi is infinite and non repeating, every physics constant (to varying degrees of precision), in addition to my social security number and the longitude and latitude of where you live, is in there somewhere.
People keep saying this, but I have yet to find anyone that can definitively say that all of that stuff came from iCloud, and not Dropbox, Google Drive, or Facebook..
It depends on where you live. Where I live, what's in the barrels belongs to the city the moment you put it at the curb. It's illegal to wander around picking out the choice recyclable stuff from the recycling bins. The city gets paid for that stuff.
Los Angeles, and many communities here in California, do the same thing as Seattle as far as trash collection. Every home gets 3 bins: trash, recycle, and compost (which also includes yard trimmings). All three are collected by the city once a week and dealt with accordingly.
The stuff from the compost bins eventually finds its way back to stores as "California Compost".
But I think I would say that almost every electronic device has a computer, but not all devices are computers.
I don't think I could convince very many people (at least, not non-techies) that my dishwasher, refrigerator, and washing machine should be referred to as "computers".
You're right. It'll be the lower level employees who most likely pay.
I work for a company that got hit with a FCPA violation years ago. We couldn't send anything out of the country without explicit State Department approval for years. It pretty much drove us to bankruptcy until we got bought by a bigger company with enough pull to ease the restrictions. One of the conditions is that *every* employee now has to have annual training on the FCPA.
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Actually, we've already been through a round of this. After the Northridge quake, they retroactively applied new building codes to commercial buildings and required them to be updated, whether there was any damage to the building from the quake or not, and irrespective of whether new construction was being done. (A lot of times, when new construction is done an inspector will require additional changes to other parts of the site to comply with up to date codes.)
I was working for a property management company a couple of years after the quake and they were trying to argue with the city about it.
Youtube is going to need to dramatically increase their server capacity. There's a lot of non-information posted there.
Or maybe the computer will automatically add additional... um... "services" to your order.
I don't know whether that will really help.
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
- Joseph Stalin
Punch card ballots were banned by several states (not sure if the ban is also federal) after the 2000 election.
Yup. In L.A. County it's InkaVote. Works just fine. The ballot box verifies that it can read your ballot when you insert it.
Too bad.they've just OK'd development of a touch screen system
Next week, Samsung's CEO will also claim to be gay.
Then Microsoft will say that they've been working on gay for years, and they have their own implementation that, while being incompatible with other gays, is superior and should be a world wide standard. It will be the only standard that Windows supports.
Yeah, those of us who do much Apple watching have taken it as a fact for a while.
Maybe now that he's stated it openly, people can stop bringing it up like they're privy to some big secret.
Hey, they broke it. Now they have to buy it.
Considering that pi is infinite and non repeating, every physics constant (to varying degrees of precision), in addition to my social security number and the longitude and latitude of where you live, is in there somewhere.
But you don't understand! CurrentC was designed with your best interests in mind!
If you can't trust a statement from Walmart, who can you trust?
So the company still got their computers installed by paying minimum wage, and also bought a nice laptop for some U.S government employee.
Sounds like they got a bargain.
Lasers?! Don't be silly. What do you think they are, sharks?
People keep saying this, but I have yet to find anyone that can definitively say that all of that stuff came from iCloud, and not Dropbox, Google Drive, or Facebook..
That's not a pocket!
I hope you don't keep the business cards you hand out down there.
It depends on where you live. Where I live, what's in the barrels belongs to the city the moment you put it at the curb. It's illegal to wander around picking out the choice recyclable stuff from the recycling bins. The city gets paid for that stuff.
Um, no.
Los Angeles, and many communities here in California, do the same thing as Seattle as far as trash collection. Every home gets 3 bins: trash, recycle, and compost (which also includes yard trimmings). All three are collected by the city once a week and dealt with accordingly.
The stuff from the compost bins eventually finds its way back to stores as "California Compost".
OK, that's a new one to me :)
*sigh* I guess I'm going to have to retrain my wife - "Honey, could you check the refrigerator computer and email me the shopping list?"
I agree that it's an odd argument.
But I think I would say that almost every electronic device has a computer, but not all devices are computers.
I don't think I could convince very many people (at least, not non-techies) that my dishwasher, refrigerator, and washing machine should be referred to as "computers".
You're right. It'll be the lower level employees who most likely pay.
I work for a company that got hit with a FCPA violation years ago. We couldn't send anything out of the country without explicit State Department approval for years. It pretty much drove us to bankruptcy until we got bought by a bigger company with enough pull to ease the restrictions. One of the conditions is that *every* employee now has to have annual training on the FCPA.
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Addendum to the above
I went to the homepage of the German government (that makes me a customer, right?) and the only email address I can find is for media requests.
I think a lawsuit is merited here.
Everyone needs to send emails to the support address for the German government right now.
Let's see how they respond to 2 million requests that they aren't allowed to ignore.
Also send a request to the court that rendered the decision.
In that case /. should be collecting sales tax on my page views and remitting it to my state.
I don't think most states will accept payments in eyeballs.
The reason that dogs invariably alert to cash: 90% of bills are tainted by cocaine