And that is deeply shameful. It is only a minority of prisoners that cannot be rehabilitated under any circumstances, but what you are saying here is that prisons are not even trying; the idea never occurred. Punishment without purpose only breaks a person down and makes him (or her) less fit to come back into society.
The major reason that convicts couldn't come back into society, I believe, is not being broken in the prison but the society itself that does not embrace/accept them back. What do you think how people would react when they know that a person who just comes back into their social was a convict? How about employers reaction when they recruit a candidate and found out that the person was a convict?
gtall post is reasonable that the dough should be focusing on the programs outside prison, not inside.
That's a good question. It seems that your info matched Windows Defender Wikipedia page. However, if you look at GeCAD page, there is a portion of info that should give you some thought.
... Its most prominent product, Reliable Antivirus, or RAV, was first developed in 1994.[1] In 2003, after amassing over 10 million users in 60 countries worldwide, the technology was acquired by Microsoft...
So the question would be, what did Microsoft do with the RAV "technology" which was very popular at the time??? Could it be merged into Giant AntiSpyware???
Does it not bother anybody else that these people were punished for what they wrote in a *private* group?
The problem is not what you think. You should read the original from Harvard Crimson link instead of TFA.
The chat grew out of a roughly 100-member messaging group that members of the Class of 2021 set up in early December to share memes about popular culture. Admitted students found and contacted each other using the official Harvard College Class of 2021 Facebook group.
“A lot of students were excited about forming group chats with people who shared similar interests,” Jessica Zhang ’21, an incoming freshman who joined both chats, wrote in an email. “Someone posted about starting a chat for people who liked memes.”
Messages shared in the original group were mostly “lighthearted,” wrote Zhang, who said she did not post in the splitoff meme group and that her admission offer was not rescinded. But some members soon suggested forming “a more R-rated” meme chat, according to Cassandra Luca ’21, who joined the first meme group but not the second, and who also said her offer was not revoked.
Luca said the founders of the “dark” group chat demanded that students post provocative memes in the larger messaging group before allowing them to join the splinter group.
“They were like, ‘Oh, you have to send a meme to the original group to prove that you could get into the new one,’” Luca said. “This was a just-because-we-got-into-Harvard-doesn’t-mean-we-can’t-have-fun kind of thing.”
I also don't believe that she was being harassed or catcalled after seeing a picture of her.
I'm not sure that the harassment was specifically on her according to what she told TG back in February. Who knows?
Vandermeyden recounted to the Guardian an incident in 2015 when she said a group of roughly 20 men standing on a platform above her and a female colleague began taunting as they walked past.
Though, why did she expect that the company would keep her when she was actually damaging the company's image whether or not it is true. Companies are always companies; especially when they are big (e.g. corporation)...
Vandermeyden recently took out a hefty loan to buy the cheapest version of the Model S Tesla car and has a reservation for the upcoming Model 3. She is hopeful her lawsuit and public comments won’t end her career at a company she loves: "I think they’re a revolutionary and innovative company."
Well, the cops are going to give her the benefit of the doubt, unless the law says they must do otherwise. If he's dressed like a man, and looks like a man, and has the creepy vibe, but says "I identify as a woman today", is he safe? All depends on the law.
No one cares about the flip side. Really. You'll be lucky if the cops don't arrest you if you report it. (Person A is standing nude in their house, Person B sees them though the window. Who's at fault - exhibitionist or peeping tom? Answer: the male goes to prison.)
The argument of someone who is a man and dressed like a man but identified himself as a woman wouldn't make sense to anyone. It is obvious that you don't know how a tran develop to be a tran. Someone who is a tran will never go into a woman's bathroom unless the person feels that he is a woman and would want to blend into female group. No one becomes a tran all of the sudden. It is a long process.
Also, the sexual harassment/assault laws are in place. The law should already cover regardless the setting/place. This bathroom bill simply nit-picking which goes against the nature of laws -- should cover most cases and rely on interpretation for more extreme cases. If the punishment of the law isn't enough, then make the punishment a lot worse. It should help getting rid of many cases you are talking about
On the flip side, why no one cares? Why this bill is supposed to be for only one side? There are 2 gender bathrooms. There are 2 genders of trans. Now you want to say that the law is only for one side? Then it is clear that the bathroom bill shouldn't be implemented as law because it can't be applied to both sides (too specific).
A woman walks into the restroom and sees a man there, waiting. Can she call the cops? Draw her weapon given the reasonable suspicion? Hope it will all be OK?
Of course, she could call a cops assuming it is a female public bathroom. However, what if the person is a woman who looks like a man and dress like a man? You have to define "sees a man" because appearance may not be what you think. I've seen some of women are like that. The scenario could be treated differently if someone who looks and dresses like a woman is in a male public bathroom (and I also know some who look even prettier than a woman). What do you think?
Rape, or molestation. It's not uncommon as sex crimes go. This isn't about tans-anything, it's about a rapist or molester throwing on a dress in order to find a victim isolated in a somewhat private space.
Well, the issue is that even there are bathroom laws against them, do you still think they would stop? I highly believe it is a big NO. On the other hand, if there is no bathroom law, would their act still be a crime/illegal? I will say YES. I think that should be clear enough...
So if I put a ladies sign on the toilet in my own home,...
My question would be, "is your own home public"? Anyway, it is not the point. Though, I agree that there shouldn't be any kind of laws like this and government shouldn't be involved...
He started with $680 million. We now know why bitcoin price has spiked. He's hiding it.
The payment was in Uber stock shares evaluated at the buying time, I believe. I am not so sure that he has already converted into other forms (unless he did when the law suit was initiated)...
Levandowski took the fifth when asked to testify in court. The court ordered Uber to do everything in their power to convince Levandowski to testify. Uber had to threaten him with the strongest punishment they had available, terminating his employment. They threatened, he didn't comply, they had to carry out their threat.
Well, to me, it seems that Uber wants to fire Levandowski in the first place once they have been caught (sued). Why would a company want to hold/employ someone who is involve in a law suit, especially the law suit is about the product involved with the person who is leading the development? You may want to fight for the person if and only if you have a clear case that the person did nothing wrong and/or illegal. However, it is not the case here. Uber has been wanting to distant itself from the person, and the court just gave it an opportunity to do so.
If you really read a bit further down, you would see that the professor you are talking about is from another college. The one which is talking about 700 students is just a paragraph or two down...
If my class was 700 students I'd walk out and complain. The most students I've had in one class was 100 and that was for Econ 101.
I highly doubt that 700 students meant to be in a class room at one time. I believe they are in different time schedules; thus, they are in different classes but all are in the same course. To me, the way TFA (and summary) is written is to exaggerate what is going on, so it looks more interesting to read...
If you buy a movie on a disk can you make an mp4 and put it on your phone?
Yes, you can. However, Your question is not about patent, but it is about copyright. The content of the disc (movie) is copyrighted. Thus, you could be sued for the copied.
It's very possible. The effect found by each of these genes was very small, a fraction of an IQ point. At that small size, I would doubt that I had accounted for all confounding variables. Something as simple as hair color might be a confounding factor, and height certainly would be.
However, if you really look at the study, you should see that it has NOTHING to do with the GP accusation. I have no idea why the GP is so negative on the study??? Also, how could the post be insightful??? Abstract below...
Intelligence is associated with important economic and health-related life outcomes. Despite intelligence having substantial heritability (0.54) and a confirmed polygenic nature, initial genetic studies were mostly underpowered. Here we report a meta-analysis for intelligence of 78,308 individuals. We identify 336 associated SNPs (METAL P < 5 × 10^-8) in 18 genomic loci, of which 15 are new. Around half of the SNPs are located inside a gene, implicating 22 genes, of which 11 are new findings. Gene-based analyses identified an additional 30 genes (MAGMA P < 2.73 × 10^-6), of which all but one had not been implicated previously. We show that the identified genes are predominantly expressed in brain tissue, and pathway analysis indicates the involvement of genes regulating cell development (MAGMA competitive P = 3.5 × 10^-6). Despite the well-known difference in twin-based heratiblity for intelligence in childhood (0.45) and adulthood (0.80), we show substantial genetic correlation (rg = 0.89, LD score regression P = 5.4 × 10^-29). These findings provide new insight into the genetic architecture of intelligence.
And the title of the study is "Genome-wide association meta-analysis of 78,308 individuals identifies new loci and genes influencing human intelligence" which has nothing to do with the GP accusation (again)...
I know that you are trolling, but I will bite. An example of a question in an IQ test could be...
The words “inclusive” and “exclusive” have:
a) The same meaning
b) Different meanings
c) Are the opposite in meaning
What would be your answer? When it comes to questions asking about language (in many different ways), those who aren't culturally English speaking country would attempt to translate the word. Often time, one English word can be more than one word/meaning in the native language. However, there is only 1 correct answer in the test. Thus, you would be able to correctly answer the question if and only if you are familiar with the culture. You got it? Maybe not...
I was once in a conversation with a friend's partner. I used the term "my wife" when speaking to her about.... my wife. This woman replied that she thought it was gross of me to refer to the woman in my life using the term "My" which implied that she was a possession, not a human being.
I am guessing that English is not her native tongue? It is rare for those who are English native speakers or are very familiar with the language to have the similar feeling toward the word "my" as she does. If English is her second or other language, then it explains why she does not feel comfortable using the possessive noun. Her native language may have different ways of use for English possessive nouns.
You pick one paragraph that you don't like, while ignoring the entire post which makes exactly your point?
If you really use your brain to think a bit out of the box, you would see that my point is directed to his main point...
Note what LeEco is saying here: they're creating Chinese content for US citizens who are of Chinese descent. They're not trying to open up the American market in general the way the Japanese did with anime, video games, etc. This is targeted by ethnicity.
That's what LeEco may want to go after because they hope that Chinese people keep up their culture and would be their consumers. Though, it seems that their strategy doesn't work (but I don't know what their strategy in doing this).
More and more this seems to really be a thing with the immigrant diasporas in the West, and it's going to bring multi-culturalism down hard. Multiculturalists like to say "well the Italians integrated you racist!!" Well, yes they did, but I also know virtually no descendants of Italian immigrants that actually think they're Italian, speak Italian and frankly give a shit what happens in Italy. It is more "cultural flavor" and closer to white Southerners being proud of their heritage than a truly distinct claim on ethnicity.
That could be true for the example you said; however, it meant that you have no idea of Chinese culture. Many Chinese people (from mainland China) are loyal to their country of origin regardless where they are residing (in China or else where). They teach their descendants to keep similar loyalty to China. Thus, the company target might work at a certain degree. However, I have no idea on the company strategy, so I can't give any comment on how successful their strategy is (likely unsuccessful).
I completely agreed on your identification of differences of those 2 logos. Though, I would point out how visual priority comes into play.
Most people who aren't color blind would quickly look and remember color much better than shape. In this case, the color of both logos are too awfully close even though Pandora has 1 P and Paypal has 2 Ps (no pun intended). In a long run, Paypal logo could be diluted to Pandora. I think that's the main issue that Paypal should use again Pandora new logo.
It's not just a stealth layoff, it's stealth ageism. I'd wager that much of IBM's older, higher salaried workforce is participating in the remote program, while the workers who are already in the urban centers around the offices or are willing to uproot their lives to move to one are younger and cheaper.
I kept thinking about this and I am not so sure that the policy would be successful in cutting older/higher salaries people. If those people are in their 50s or 60s, they are too young to be retired. They would have to put up for some times. They know that getting a new job would be limited in the field for their age. Yes, some of them (low percentage) may be very good and could find a job later on, but most of them, I doubt, can do that. Putting up with move, and then try to find something else along the way would be a better choice (and that meant the new policy isn't effective because looking for a new job while working can take a long time).
If they are a couple years away from their retirement, it could be even less effective to cut these people off. Early retirement may not give as good life as they expect. Logically, these people would just put up a couple more years, so that they could be retired and enjoy lives as expected.
The only people they might have cut down actually are younger people in my opinion. They may not be able to afford the move, but they could use the IBM name in their resume to find a new job in their area. Only those who like adventure may want to move with the job. If they are married and have a family, then it could become more difficult to move.
That's why I'm not really sure that the policy will weed out older/higher pay but rather the opposite...
so "can you copyright a joke"? that's subjective, it depends on the case, it depends on the Judge. (Yes copyright makes no sense)
Well, if it is written in a tangible medium, then yes it can be copyrighted. If it is just a tell-tell, then I am afraid it is not. Though, if one copyrights a joke, then it is against its purpose and it won't be a joke anymore...
Copyright is a form of protection provided by U.S. law to the authors of "original works of authorship" fixed in any tangible medium of expression. The manner and medium of fixation are virtually unlimited. Creative expression may be captured in words, numbers, notes, sounds, pictures, or any other graphic or symbolic media. The subject matter of copyright is extremely broad, including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, audiovisual, and architectural works. Copyright protection is available to both published and unpublished works.
Here is a list of articles/studies/etc divided into both yes (pros) and no (cons). However, keep in mind, they both involve other factors (especially economic & politic) into the account of what could and could not...
Slashdot Mirror
And that is deeply shameful. It is only a minority of prisoners that cannot be rehabilitated under any circumstances, but what you are saying here is that prisons are not even trying; the idea never occurred. Punishment without purpose only breaks a person down and makes him (or her) less fit to come back into society.
The major reason that convicts couldn't come back into society, I believe, is not being broken in the prison but the society itself that does not embrace/accept them back. What do you think how people would react when they know that a person who just comes back into their social was a convict? How about employers reaction when they recruit a candidate and found out that the person was a convict?
gtall post is reasonable that the dough should be focusing on the programs outside prison, not inside.
That's a good question. It seems that your info matched Windows Defender Wikipedia page. However, if you look at GeCAD page, there is a portion of info that should give you some thought.
... Its most prominent product, Reliable Antivirus, or RAV, was first developed in 1994.[1] In 2003, after amassing over 10 million users in 60 countries worldwide, the technology was acquired by Microsoft...
So the question would be, what did Microsoft do with the RAV "technology" which was very popular at the time??? Could it be merged into Giant AntiSpyware???
Does it not bother anybody else that these people were punished for what they wrote in a *private* group?
The problem is not what you think. You should read the original from Harvard Crimson link instead of TFA.
The chat grew out of a roughly 100-member messaging group that members of the Class of 2021 set up in early December to share memes about popular culture. Admitted students found and contacted each other using the official Harvard College Class of 2021 Facebook group.
“A lot of students were excited about forming group chats with people who shared similar interests,” Jessica Zhang ’21, an incoming freshman who joined both chats, wrote in an email. “Someone posted about starting a chat for people who liked memes.”
Messages shared in the original group were mostly “lighthearted,” wrote Zhang, who said she did not post in the splitoff meme group and that her admission offer was not rescinded. But some members soon suggested forming “a more R-rated” meme chat, according to Cassandra Luca ’21, who joined the first meme group but not the second, and who also said her offer was not revoked.
Luca said the founders of the “dark” group chat demanded that students post provocative memes in the larger messaging group before allowing them to join the splinter group.
“They were like, ‘Oh, you have to send a meme to the original group to prove that you could get into the new one,’” Luca said. “This was a just-because-we-got-into-Harvard-doesn’t-mean-we-can’t-have-fun kind of thing.”
I also don't believe that she was being harassed or catcalled after seeing a picture of her.
I'm not sure that the harassment was specifically on her according to what she told TG back in February. Who knows?
Vandermeyden recounted to the Guardian an incident in 2015 when she said a group of roughly 20 men standing on a platform above her and a female colleague began taunting as they walked past.
Though, why did she expect that the company would keep her when she was actually damaging the company's image whether or not it is true. Companies are always companies; especially when they are big (e.g. corporation)...
Vandermeyden recently took out a hefty loan to buy the cheapest version of the Model S Tesla car and has a reservation for the upcoming Model 3. She is hopeful her lawsuit and public comments won’t end her career at a company she loves: "I think they’re a revolutionary and innovative company."
Well, the cops are going to give her the benefit of the doubt, unless the law says they must do otherwise. If he's dressed like a man, and looks like a man, and has the creepy vibe, but says "I identify as a woman today", is he safe? All depends on the law.
No one cares about the flip side. Really. You'll be lucky if the cops don't arrest you if you report it. (Person A is standing nude in their house, Person B sees them though the window. Who's at fault - exhibitionist or peeping tom? Answer: the male goes to prison.)
The argument of someone who is a man and dressed like a man but identified himself as a woman wouldn't make sense to anyone. It is obvious that you don't know how a tran develop to be a tran. Someone who is a tran will never go into a woman's bathroom unless the person feels that he is a woman and would want to blend into female group. No one becomes a tran all of the sudden. It is a long process.
Also, the sexual harassment/assault laws are in place. The law should already cover regardless the setting/place. This bathroom bill simply nit-picking which goes against the nature of laws -- should cover most cases and rely on interpretation for more extreme cases. If the punishment of the law isn't enough, then make the punishment a lot worse. It should help getting rid of many cases you are talking about
On the flip side, why no one cares? Why this bill is supposed to be for only one side? There are 2 gender bathrooms. There are 2 genders of trans. Now you want to say that the law is only for one side? Then it is clear that the bathroom bill shouldn't be implemented as law because it can't be applied to both sides (too specific).
A woman walks into the restroom and sees a man there, waiting. Can she call the cops? Draw her weapon given the reasonable suspicion? Hope it will all be OK?
Of course, she could call a cops assuming it is a female public bathroom. However, what if the person is a woman who looks like a man and dress like a man? You have to define "sees a man" because appearance may not be what you think. I've seen some of women are like that. The scenario could be treated differently if someone who looks and dresses like a woman is in a male public bathroom (and I also know some who look even prettier than a woman). What do you think?
Rape, or molestation. It's not uncommon as sex crimes go. This isn't about tans-anything, it's about a rapist or molester throwing on a dress in order to find a victim isolated in a somewhat private space.
Well, the issue is that even there are bathroom laws against them, do you still think they would stop? I highly believe it is a big NO. On the other hand, if there is no bathroom law, would their act still be a crime/illegal? I will say YES. I think that should be clear enough...
So if I put a ladies sign on the toilet in my own home, ...
My question would be, "is your own home public"? Anyway, it is not the point. Though, I agree that there shouldn't be any kind of laws like this and government shouldn't be involved...
He started with $680 million. We now know why bitcoin price has spiked. He's hiding it.
The payment was in Uber stock shares evaluated at the buying time, I believe. I am not so sure that he has already converted into other forms (unless he did when the law suit was initiated)...
Levandowski took the fifth when asked to testify in court. The court ordered Uber to do everything in their power to convince Levandowski to testify. Uber had to threaten him with the strongest punishment they had available, terminating his employment. They threatened, he didn't comply, they had to carry out their threat.
Well, to me, it seems that Uber wants to fire Levandowski in the first place once they have been caught (sued). Why would a company want to hold/employ someone who is involve in a law suit, especially the law suit is about the product involved with the person who is leading the development? You may want to fight for the person if and only if you have a clear case that the person did nothing wrong and/or illegal. However, it is not the case here. Uber has been wanting to distant itself from the person, and the court just gave it an opportunity to do so.
If you really read a bit further down, you would see that the professor you are talking about is from another college. The one which is talking about 700 students is just a paragraph or two down...
If my class was 700 students I'd walk out and complain. The most students I've had in one class was 100 and that was for Econ 101.
I highly doubt that 700 students meant to be in a class room at one time. I believe they are in different time schedules; thus, they are in different classes but all are in the same course. To me, the way TFA (and summary) is written is to exaggerate what is going on, so it looks more interesting to read...
If you buy a movie on a disk can you make an mp4 and put it on your phone?
Yes, you can. However, Your question is not about patent, but it is about copyright. The content of the disc (movie) is copyrighted. Thus, you could be sued for the copied.
I pay my doctor not the AI. I will hold my doctor responsible not the AI.
And ultimately some insurance company pays you regardless of who is at fault.
Perhaps!
It's very possible. The effect found by each of these genes was very small, a fraction of an IQ point. At that small size, I would doubt that I had accounted for all confounding variables. Something as simple as hair color might be a confounding factor, and height certainly would be.
However, if you really look at the study, you should see that it has NOTHING to do with the GP accusation. I have no idea why the GP is so negative on the study??? Also, how could the post be insightful??? Abstract below...
Intelligence is associated with important economic and health-related life outcomes. Despite intelligence having substantial heritability (0.54) and a confirmed polygenic nature, initial genetic studies were mostly underpowered. Here we report a meta-analysis for intelligence of 78,308 individuals. We identify 336 associated SNPs (METAL P < 5 × 10^-8) in 18 genomic loci, of which 15 are new. Around half of the SNPs are located inside a gene, implicating 22 genes, of which 11 are new findings. Gene-based analyses identified an additional 30 genes (MAGMA P < 2.73 × 10^-6), of which all but one had not been implicated previously. We show that the identified genes are predominantly expressed in brain tissue, and pathway analysis indicates the involvement of genes regulating cell development (MAGMA competitive P = 3.5 × 10^-6). Despite the well-known difference in twin-based heratiblity for intelligence in childhood (0.45) and adulthood (0.80), we show substantial genetic correlation (rg = 0.89, LD score regression P = 5.4 × 10^-29). These findings provide new insight into the genetic architecture of intelligence.
And the title of the study is "Genome-wide association meta-analysis of 78,308 individuals identifies new loci and genes influencing human intelligence" which has nothing to do with the GP accusation (again)...
Show me the cultural bias in the tests.
I know that you are trolling, but I will bite. An example of a question in an IQ test could be...
The words “inclusive” and “exclusive” have:
What would be your answer? When it comes to questions asking about language (in many different ways), those who aren't culturally English speaking country would attempt to translate the word. Often time, one English word can be more than one word/meaning in the native language. However, there is only 1 correct answer in the test. Thus, you would be able to correctly answer the question if and only if you are familiar with the culture. You got it? Maybe not...
I was once in a conversation with a friend's partner. I used the term "my wife" when speaking to her about .... my wife. This woman replied that she thought it was gross of me to refer to the woman in my life using the term "My" which implied that she was a possession, not a human being.
I am guessing that English is not her native tongue? It is rare for those who are English native speakers or are very familiar with the language to have the similar feeling toward the word "my" as she does. If English is her second or other language, then it explains why she does not feel comfortable using the possessive noun. Her native language may have different ways of use for English possessive nouns.
I never saw that argument, maybe I missed it. He did look angry though. That said he's an entertainer, and an actor, but it seemed genuine.
Then swillden is completely correct about you after all -- you made an assumption/guess...
You pick one paragraph that you don't like, while ignoring the entire post which makes exactly your point?
If you really use your brain to think a bit out of the box, you would see that my point is directed to his main point...
Note what LeEco is saying here: they're creating Chinese content for US citizens who are of Chinese descent. They're not trying to open up the American market in general the way the Japanese did with anime, video games, etc. This is targeted by ethnicity.
That's what LeEco may want to go after because they hope that Chinese people keep up their culture and would be their consumers. Though, it seems that their strategy doesn't work (but I don't know what their strategy in doing this).
More and more this seems to really be a thing with the immigrant diasporas in the West, and it's going to bring multi-culturalism down hard. Multiculturalists like to say "well the Italians integrated you racist!!" Well, yes they did, but I also know virtually no descendants of Italian immigrants that actually think they're Italian, speak Italian and frankly give a shit what happens in Italy. It is more "cultural flavor" and closer to white Southerners being proud of their heritage than a truly distinct claim on ethnicity.
That could be true for the example you said; however, it meant that you have no idea of Chinese culture. Many Chinese people (from mainland China) are loyal to their country of origin regardless where they are residing (in China or else where). They teach their descendants to keep similar loyalty to China. Thus, the company target might work at a certain degree. However, I have no idea on the company strategy, so I can't give any comment on how successful their strategy is (likely unsuccessful).
I completely agreed on your identification of differences of those 2 logos. Though, I would point out how visual priority comes into play.
Most people who aren't color blind would quickly look and remember color much better than shape. In this case, the color of both logos are too awfully close even though Pandora has 1 P and Paypal has 2 Ps (no pun intended). In a long run, Paypal logo could be diluted to Pandora. I think that's the main issue that Paypal should use again Pandora new logo.
It's not just a stealth layoff, it's stealth ageism. I'd wager that much of IBM's older, higher salaried workforce is participating in the remote program, while the workers who are already in the urban centers around the offices or are willing to uproot their lives to move to one are younger and cheaper.
I kept thinking about this and I am not so sure that the policy would be successful in cutting older/higher salaries people. If those people are in their 50s or 60s, they are too young to be retired. They would have to put up for some times. They know that getting a new job would be limited in the field for their age. Yes, some of them (low percentage) may be very good and could find a job later on, but most of them, I doubt, can do that. Putting up with move, and then try to find something else along the way would be a better choice (and that meant the new policy isn't effective because looking for a new job while working can take a long time).
If they are a couple years away from their retirement, it could be even less effective to cut these people off. Early retirement may not give as good life as they expect. Logically, these people would just put up a couple more years, so that they could be retired and enjoy lives as expected.
The only people they might have cut down actually are younger people in my opinion. They may not be able to afford the move, but they could use the IBM name in their resume to find a new job in their area. Only those who like adventure may want to move with the job. If they are married and have a family, then it could become more difficult to move.
That's why I'm not really sure that the policy will weed out older/higher pay but rather the opposite...
You can't copyright data; Elsevier just has the copyright on the papers themselves.
Well, until the data is being delievered as a file/paper format which is a type of media. Sadly...
so "can you copyright a joke"? that's subjective, it depends on the case, it depends on the Judge. (Yes copyright makes no sense)
Well, if it is written in a tangible medium, then yes it can be copyrighted. If it is just a tell-tell, then I am afraid it is not. Though, if one copyrights a joke, then it is against its purpose and it won't be a joke anymore...
From here...
Copyright is a form of protection provided by U.S. law to the authors of "original works of authorship" fixed in any tangible medium of expression. The manner and medium of fixation are virtually unlimited. Creative expression may be captured in words, numbers, notes, sounds, pictures, or any other graphic or symbolic media. The subject matter of copyright is extremely broad, including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, audiovisual, and architectural works. Copyright protection is available to both published and unpublished works.
Here is a list of articles/studies/etc divided into both yes (pros) and no (cons). However, keep in mind, they both involve other factors (especially economic & politic) into the account of what could and could not...