That's why I live in Texas.... No income taxes + low corporate tax rates = lots of jobs. I came here to work and it seams to be a good choice a decade later.
Infected by Dell is more like it. Notice all the health (sick) companies use Dell. Notice that.
Seriously? If you don't load your own image on the corporate computer you purchased from Dell, you've got a problem, not Dell. I don't know of *any* corporate customer of any reasonable size that doesn't have their own commissioning process that involves wiping the disk and starting over so they can be sure that the system is 100% what they want, and nothing else.
Heck, one of the first things I do even with retail equipment is re-install everything to get rid of all the vender supplied bloat and "free" offers and get to a minimum install set. I do it for two reasons.. Clean out the junk and verify I have everything I need to recover the system in the future.
Who pays when the banks get stuck with this bad debt? It's customers and share holders. Who are these people? Why it's you and me of course. Don't be fooled into thinking it's some big evil corporation that's getting fleeced, it's really you and I who he defaulted on. And that's a bad thing overall.
Where this guy will pay for having NO CREDIT for the next 10 years at least.... I'm not so sure the time for the crime is long enough, but what are you doing to do? He DID pay back his loans, legally, though I'm pretty tired of bailing out the irresponsible because I happen to be responsible and pay my debts, I have to hand it to him, that was clever.
But I rest assured that if this idea of his becomes common practice, it will quickly be brought to an end. Credit card companies will simply start looking at student loans as *bad* marks on your credit, and all of you who came out of college saddled with huge debt, will be paying. You will have lower credit ratings and pay higher rates. The amounts you can borrow will be less, and you will pay more. And it's dolts like this guy who will be to blame.
Like my digital circuits instructor was fond of saying... "Digital circuits are just Analogue circuits that spend most of their time on or off. The fun begins when they start switching states".
It's not high altitude high speed anymore because you get shot down doing that.. It's low altitude, high speed and stealth now. You want to be FAST, LOW and invisible....
Well that or unmanned and able to stay on station for days, in which case it's just invisible you want to be..
I disagree. I think it is pretty clear how supersonic transport would or wouldn't work in today's market. The Concorde operation is the benchmark and the experience by which an airline would judge if a supersonic service would be profitable. It was proven not to be. The reason we see all the bigger and bigger aircraft is OPERATING costs per passenger mile go down and airlines make more money. Supersonic is going the wrong way, with increases in operating costs and thinner margins.
Manufacturers know that if they cannot produce the aircraft for a low enough acquisition and operating cost, no airline will sign up and order their planes. So if the manufacture is looking at the NRE costs of the Concorde, running the numbers on the operating costs for the carriers and they keep coming up with negative numbers over the life of the aircraft, nobody is going to seriously consider taking a design out of the concept drawing stage and into service.
The Concorde proved the numbers are just not there and the only thing we can hope happens is some huge bump in efficiency for supersonic flight. Where anything is possible, I just don't see us finding enough efficiency to make the numbers go positive.
We won't go down this path for commercial operations until the numbers make sense and with the state of technology today, this isn't going to happen. It's technically possible, Concorde proved that, but it's financially impossible and Concorde proved that too.
One possible way for this to become viable though is for corporate private jets to get developed or even a military supersonic transport and eventually produce an environment where the NRE for a supersonic transport becomes much lower. It just *might* be viable then. However this is obviously a few decades out given that it's not really being done, nor do I know of any projects which are on the drawing board.
No... They still work for the company and collect paychecks, but it's actually RUN by the board of directors who are elected by the share holders....
But to be fair, they have retained a lot of their original talent, it's just in the process of being watered down by MBA's and turning into what all companies become.... Which is why they are beating Yahoo... But even mighty Google is not immune to the march of the MBA's
RF back-scatter energy collection has been used since Tesla (not the company, the scientist) invented it nearly 100 years ago.... So now you can park your web camera near a WiFi RF source and get some images out of it? Color me surprised. How quaint...
That would need to include up to 5 times removed from the individuals involved, but I am positive we will find money changing hands from the oil industry or the Republicans to make the report turn out like this.
So the EPA makes a conclusion that you think is wrong and you blame the Republican party for bribing somebody? Um, haven't you been LISTENING to the right wing and what they say? They want to ELIMINATE the EPA to same money, or at least drastically cut it's budget... Somehow it just doesn't seem reasonable to assume there is some conspiracy here that involves the Republican party greasing the palms of the EPA just to get a favorable report on fracking...
But remember, when you do Netflix over a VPN, you are not importing a physical disk, but the logical data. It's very likely you are violating the terms of your Netflix subscription
but the copyright holder can sue you to recover damages.
Sure. What damages though? I paid them for content that wasn't otherwise available; that I consumed in the privacy of my home. What material harm are they going to show the court exactly?
I didn't say it was LIKELY they would, only that they *could* if they choose too. However, I can think of ways they could claim damages. If the content was licensed to another service in your area and you got out of paying the subscription fees to this other service (and thus affecting their revenue) by using your VPN. I don't expect they could claim all that much, so it's not likely worth their while, but they *could*....
You better bet they WILL TOS and sue their customers for this, should the copyright holders choose to sue them for distribution of content to areas they didn't have the right to.
This only works for physical copies that you obtain legally. I'm guessing that a VPN violates the terms of service you agreed to when you signed up for Netflix, which means Netflix can come after you if it chooses. So when the copyright holder sues Netflix because you are using a VPN and causing Netflix to violate it's licensing terms, expect to get sued too...
Yeah, but what if a Canadian had a friend buy an Egg McMuffin in the US and then sent it to them to be consumed in Canada. Before you answer, I should remind you that the standard Egg McMuffin includes *Canadian* bacon on it, so be careful how you word your response.;-)
(Eye-Roll)
You got me there, but let's not get ham handed with this analogy....
Since when does anyone give a crap how the vendor meant for you to use the thing they sold you?
Ever heard of a EULA? How about TERMS OF SERVICE? You may not care about them, but choosing to violate them and in this case YOU are infringing on somebody's copyright... I know they are unlikely to come after you in this case, but they *could* if they wanted too.
Because the copyright holder didn't agree to let Netflix stream their content in Canada. You are using content in a way which is NOT authorized by the people who hold the copyright.
This isn't "illegal" as to mean "criminal". You are not committing a crime when you do this, but you ARE infringing on the copyright holder's rights and as such they CAN (if they choose to) sue you for damages in civil court. You won't go to jail for this, but you might have to pay damages.
BTW, buying a DVD/BluRay in the states and then carrying it into Canada *might* be infringing too, however it's unlikely that a copyright holder would care as long as you are not importing multiple copies in order to sell them, bypassing distribution agreements they may have made.
Awh come on people... Copyright infringement is a CIVIL law issue not a criminal offense.
So the police may not be knocking down doors to stop you... However, they may be knocking ON your door to serve you with the lawsuit brought by the copyright owners and later assisting in the confiscation of damages when you have a judgment entered and have to pay.
You're importing copyrighted content from someone without the legal authority to distribute said content in Canada.
Hence the VPN. They are delivering the content to the US. The Canadian is then transporting it across the border, for person use (not redistribution).
This is exactly as illegal as buying a DVD and a book from Sam's in the states, and then driving it home to Canada with you across the border. Which is to say, "not even slightly illegal".
Not exactly the same thing and by law it *could* be illegal to buy a DVD in the US and then import it into Canada depending, but moving a physical copy of a work which you rightfully purchased for personal use is usually an exception.... But remember, when you do Netflix over a VPN, you are not importing a physical disk, but the logical data. It's very likely you are violating the terms of your Netflix subscription as well as infringing on the copyright holder's rights to control where the work can be streamed. As this is a civil law thing and not a criminal law thing, you might not be arrested for a crime, but the copyright holder can sue you to recover damages.
To watch Yahoo slowly die because they got out classed by all the upstarts in the market.
Really, they fell prey to the PHB effect before their competitors did. MBA's took over too fast at Yahoo after the founders took their money and ran...
It just means that once they find out WHO did it, (or who they intend to say did it) they will blame them for doing it. It doesn't mean they will bomb them back to the stone age or put them on trial it says they will hold them accountable. Whatcha gona do? Send them a bill you cannot force them to pay?
Saying "Don't look at me, that guy over there, see him? HE DID IT!" = promise kept.
Now let's all turn our thermostats up to 75 in the summer and down to 65 in the winter and start driving no faster than 55 MPH... (Excuse me, I mean 24C, 18C and 90K/h)
Hey, I'm an American.... Football to me is that game you describe as descended from rugby. 99% of Americans who where born and raised here say football and they are referring to the rugby like game which is unique to this country. That's what football means, and what it should mean everywhere English is spoken (including the similar sounding Spanish word which is really just spelled differently but pronounced exactly the same). Nothing else matters, at least to the vast majority of Americans who see this foreign fascination with soccer as quite quaint and would see a game of rugby as no more than a bunch of adult hooligans playing keep away. Who wants to watch a game where the total score of both teams usually takes less than one hand's worth of fingers? (Or where fighting doesn't get you ejected from the game but put in "time out" for awhile, in deference to the crazy hockey watchers around.)
BTW... I'm just poking fun here... I've found the regional differences in language to be interesting and a good source of new puns and a fun way to learn about other cultures.
Still, outside the USA football = Soccer, but nobody calls it soccer and laugh at you if you do.
INSIDE the USA football means the NFL's game but is something the rest of the world would call an awkward attempt at rugby and if you start calling soccer football, you are going to confuse everybody.
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That's why I live in Texas.... No income taxes + low corporate tax rates = lots of jobs. I came here to work and it seams to be a good choice a decade later.
Infected by Dell is more like it. Notice all the health (sick) companies use Dell. Notice that.
Seriously? If you don't load your own image on the corporate computer you purchased from Dell, you've got a problem, not Dell. I don't know of *any* corporate customer of any reasonable size that doesn't have their own commissioning process that involves wiping the disk and starting over so they can be sure that the system is 100% what they want, and nothing else.
Heck, one of the first things I do even with retail equipment is re-install everything to get rid of all the vender supplied bloat and "free" offers and get to a minimum install set. I do it for two reasons.. Clean out the junk and verify I have everything I need to recover the system in the future.
On my dime actually....
Who pays when the banks get stuck with this bad debt? It's customers and share holders. Who are these people? Why it's you and me of course. Don't be fooled into thinking it's some big evil corporation that's getting fleeced, it's really you and I who he defaulted on. And that's a bad thing overall.
Where this guy will pay for having NO CREDIT for the next 10 years at least.... I'm not so sure the time for the crime is long enough, but what are you doing to do? He DID pay back his loans, legally, though I'm pretty tired of bailing out the irresponsible because I happen to be responsible and pay my debts, I have to hand it to him, that was clever.
But I rest assured that if this idea of his becomes common practice, it will quickly be brought to an end. Credit card companies will simply start looking at student loans as *bad* marks on your credit, and all of you who came out of college saddled with huge debt, will be paying. You will have lower credit ratings and pay higher rates. The amounts you can borrow will be less, and you will pay more. And it's dolts like this guy who will be to blame.
Like my digital circuits instructor was fond of saying... "Digital circuits are just Analogue circuits that spend most of their time on or off. The fun begins when they start switching states".
It's not high altitude high speed anymore because you get shot down doing that.. It's low altitude, high speed and stealth now. You want to be FAST, LOW and invisible....
Well that or unmanned and able to stay on station for days, in which case it's just invisible you want to be..
I disagree. I think it is pretty clear how supersonic transport would or wouldn't work in today's market. The Concorde operation is the benchmark and the experience by which an airline would judge if a supersonic service would be profitable. It was proven not to be. The reason we see all the bigger and bigger aircraft is OPERATING costs per passenger mile go down and airlines make more money. Supersonic is going the wrong way, with increases in operating costs and thinner margins.
Manufacturers know that if they cannot produce the aircraft for a low enough acquisition and operating cost, no airline will sign up and order their planes. So if the manufacture is looking at the NRE costs of the Concorde, running the numbers on the operating costs for the carriers and they keep coming up with negative numbers over the life of the aircraft, nobody is going to seriously consider taking a design out of the concept drawing stage and into service.
The Concorde proved the numbers are just not there and the only thing we can hope happens is some huge bump in efficiency for supersonic flight. Where anything is possible, I just don't see us finding enough efficiency to make the numbers go positive.
We won't go down this path for commercial operations until the numbers make sense and with the state of technology today, this isn't going to happen. It's technically possible, Concorde proved that, but it's financially impossible and Concorde proved that too.
One possible way for this to become viable though is for corporate private jets to get developed or even a military supersonic transport and eventually produce an environment where the NRE for a supersonic transport becomes much lower. It just *might* be viable then. However this is obviously a few decades out given that it's not really being done, nor do I know of any projects which are on the drawing board.
No... They still work for the company and collect paychecks, but it's actually RUN by the board of directors who are elected by the share holders....
But to be fair, they have retained a lot of their original talent, it's just in the process of being watered down by MBA's and turning into what all companies become.... Which is why they are beating Yahoo... But even mighty Google is not immune to the march of the MBA's
Nothing new to see, move on...
RF back-scatter energy collection has been used since Tesla (not the company, the scientist) invented it nearly 100 years ago.... So now you can park your web camera near a WiFi RF source and get some images out of it? Color me surprised. How quaint...
That would need to include up to 5 times removed from the individuals involved, but I am positive we will find money changing hands from the oil industry or the Republicans to make the report turn out like this.
So the EPA makes a conclusion that you think is wrong and you blame the Republican party for bribing somebody? Um, haven't you been LISTENING to the right wing and what they say? They want to ELIMINATE the EPA to same money, or at least drastically cut it's budget... Somehow it just doesn't seem reasonable to assume there is some conspiracy here that involves the Republican party greasing the palms of the EPA just to get a favorable report on fracking...
But remember, when you do Netflix over a VPN, you are not importing a physical disk, but the logical data. It's very likely you are violating the terms of your Netflix subscription
but the copyright holder can sue you to recover damages.
Sure. What damages though? I paid them for content that wasn't otherwise available; that I consumed in the privacy of my home. What material harm are they going to show the court exactly?
I didn't say it was LIKELY they would, only that they *could* if they choose too. However, I can think of ways they could claim damages. If the content was licensed to another service in your area and you got out of paying the subscription fees to this other service (and thus affecting their revenue) by using your VPN. I don't expect they could claim all that much, so it's not likely worth their while, but they *could*....
They got taken over by MBA's too after the founders took their money and ran...
Facebook and Twitter are next....
You better bet they WILL TOS and sue their customers for this, should the copyright holders choose to sue them for distribution of content to areas they didn't have the right to.
This only works for physical copies that you obtain legally. I'm guessing that a VPN violates the terms of service you agreed to when you signed up for Netflix, which means Netflix can come after you if it chooses. So when the copyright holder sues Netflix because you are using a VPN and causing Netflix to violate it's licensing terms, expect to get sued too...
Yeah, but what if a Canadian had a friend buy an Egg McMuffin in the US and then sent it to them to be consumed in Canada. Before you answer, I should remind you that the standard Egg McMuffin includes *Canadian* bacon on it, so be careful how you word your response. ;-)
(Eye-Roll)
You got me there, but let's not get ham handed with this analogy....
Since when does anyone give a crap how the vendor meant for you to use the thing they sold you?
Ever heard of a EULA? How about TERMS OF SERVICE? You may not care about them, but choosing to violate them and in this case YOU are infringing on somebody's copyright... I know they are unlikely to come after you in this case, but they *could* if they wanted too.
I suggest an amnesty period in which any Canadian can return stolen content without penalty.
How about we just let them delete it..... Wouldn't that be faster? (As in already done once the movie is over...)
Because the copyright holder didn't agree to let Netflix stream their content in Canada. You are using content in a way which is NOT authorized by the people who hold the copyright.
This isn't "illegal" as to mean "criminal". You are not committing a crime when you do this, but you ARE infringing on the copyright holder's rights and as such they CAN (if they choose to) sue you for damages in civil court. You won't go to jail for this, but you might have to pay damages.
BTW, buying a DVD/BluRay in the states and then carrying it into Canada *might* be infringing too, however it's unlikely that a copyright holder would care as long as you are not importing multiple copies in order to sell them, bypassing distribution agreements they may have made.
Awh come on people... Copyright infringement is a CIVIL law issue not a criminal offense.
So the police may not be knocking down doors to stop you... However, they may be knocking ON your door to serve you with the lawsuit brought by the copyright owners and later assisting in the confiscation of damages when you have a judgment entered and have to pay.
You're importing copyrighted content from someone without the legal authority to distribute said content in Canada.
Hence the VPN. They are delivering the content to the US. The Canadian is then transporting it across the border, for person use (not redistribution).
This is exactly as illegal as buying a DVD and a book from Sam's in the states, and then driving it home to Canada with you across the border. Which is to say, "not even slightly illegal".
Not exactly the same thing and by law it *could* be illegal to buy a DVD in the US and then import it into Canada depending, but moving a physical copy of a work which you rightfully purchased for personal use is usually an exception.... But remember, when you do Netflix over a VPN, you are not importing a physical disk, but the logical data. It's very likely you are violating the terms of your Netflix subscription as well as infringing on the copyright holder's rights to control where the work can be streamed. As this is a civil law thing and not a criminal law thing, you might not be arrested for a crime, but the copyright holder can sue you to recover damages.
To watch Yahoo slowly die because they got out classed by all the upstarts in the market.
Really, they fell prey to the PHB effect before their competitors did. MBA's took over too fast at Yahoo after the founders took their money and ran...
Hold Accountable != punish
It just means that once they find out WHO did it, (or who they intend to say did it) they will blame them for doing it. It doesn't mean they will bomb them back to the stone age or put them on trial it says they will hold them accountable. Whatcha gona do? Send them a bill you cannot force them to pay?
Saying "Don't look at me, that guy over there, see him? HE DID IT!" = promise kept.
Half of that wasn't bad at all....
Issue was money. The US is BIG
But Carter had just peanuts.... I know, I know...
Now let's all turn our thermostats up to 75 in the summer and down to 65 in the winter and start driving no faster than 55 MPH... (Excuse me, I mean 24C, 18C and 90K/h)
Hey, I'm an American.... Football to me is that game you describe as descended from rugby. 99% of Americans who where born and raised here say football and they are referring to the rugby like game which is unique to this country. That's what football means, and what it should mean everywhere English is spoken (including the similar sounding Spanish word which is really just spelled differently but pronounced exactly the same). Nothing else matters, at least to the vast majority of Americans who see this foreign fascination with soccer as quite quaint and would see a game of rugby as no more than a bunch of adult hooligans playing keep away. Who wants to watch a game where the total score of both teams usually takes less than one hand's worth of fingers? (Or where fighting doesn't get you ejected from the game but put in "time out" for awhile, in deference to the crazy hockey watchers around.)
BTW... I'm just poking fun here... I've found the regional differences in language to be interesting and a good source of new puns and a fun way to learn about other cultures.
Still, outside the USA football = Soccer, but nobody calls it soccer and laugh at you if you do.
INSIDE the USA football means the NFL's game but is something the rest of the world would call an awkward attempt at rugby and if you start calling soccer football, you are going to confuse everybody.
This all boils down to a marketing nightmare..