Wrong again. The EU is not asking any money from Apple. It's rather forcing Ireland to exact a fair taxation from Apple (tax money that then will stay in Ireland, mind you). Ireland doesn't want to do that as they know low taxation is the only reason corporations place their EU presence there. With harmonized EU taxation, corporations would move where there's better infrastructure.
Yeah sure. Because all the corporations have their offices there because of the rich, flourishing Irish internal market. Or maybe because they have access to the EU market while paying tax-haven level taxation?
The fun part of your comment, is that it might as well pass for hate-speech. The sad part is everything else, including the fact that even if you were trying to make a fair point, the way you "expressed" it won't get you many replies.
Freedom of speech implies that you're allowed a voice. In the Internet era, that means web hosts. Removing already existing content over ideological dissent is called censorship, no matter how you put it.
When you sell software, you sell a licence to use it, not the code itself. This licence might include support (that's what Red Hat does). It's perfectly legal to sell a licence to a Linux distro, as long as you comply with the GPL. CentOS repackages most of RHEL, but they need to remove any Red Hat branding. Other that that, they're perfectly in scope with the requirements of GPL (and all the other FOSS licences present in the software collection).
I just gave two examples of events where bandwidth saturation is an issue, of course they use different kinds of networks. My job partially covers technical support for events organized by Unnamed Big Corporation, usually I don't even have to raise the issue of bandwidth, it's the event owner that already knows. I think here we just got a disastrous combination of incompetence and greed, incompetence in predicting an obvious technical challenge, and greed in not limiting (paid) attendance once the issues were clear. The result is so stupidly egregious that made it to/.
I used to live 10km from the Amazon warehouse that serves the whole Italy (there's another one being built near Rome now). I talked to many locals who initially thought of it as a great benefit for the zone's unemployment, only to find out that they pay wages lower than what a waiter makes, constantly cheat on extra-time while imposing draconian rules on its workers (counted toilet visits, coffee machines activate only at certain hours...). Of course they actively prevent unionization through sheer mobbing. Yet, whenever I asked for an invoice, it came from... Luxembourg. While still applying Italian VAT on the full price (17% vs 22%). So yes, the beneficial impact on employment can be absorbed by other market operators (there is a market, after all), while the general public can benefit from a company that doesn't cheat on taxes, while using public infrastructure built with tax money.
"Right now H-1B visas are awarded by random lottery and many of you will be surprised to know that about 80% of H-1B workers are paid less than the median wage in their fields. Only 5% to 6%, depending on the year, of H-1B workers command the highest wage tier recognized by the Department of Labor. [...] If you change that current system that awards visas randomly, without regard for skill or wage, to a skills-based awarding, it makes it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers [...] It's a very elegant way of solving very systemic problems in the H-1B guest worker visa."
Last time I checked, seals seem to run mostly on fish, with the occasional penguin thrown in for the sake of variety. They however seem to disregard licensing entirely, supposedly because they share the same environment with pirates.
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I lol'd.
Wrong again. The EU is not asking any money from Apple. It's rather forcing Ireland to exact a fair taxation from Apple (tax money that then will stay in Ireland, mind you).
Ireland doesn't want to do that as they know low taxation is the only reason corporations place their EU presence there. With harmonized EU taxation, corporations would move where there's better infrastructure.
What is in dispute here is that Ireland is behaving like a tax haven while enjoying full access to the EU market. Same thing for Luxembourg.
Let me ask you, are those corporations that interested in the Irish market? So why doesn't Ireland leave big bad EU?
Yeah sure. Because all the corporations have their offices there because of the rich, flourishing Irish internal market.
Or maybe because they have access to the EU market while paying tax-haven level taxation?
Google releases monthly security updates for its Nexus and Pixel lines.
The fun part of your comment, is that it might as well pass for hate-speech.
The sad part is everything else, including the fact that even if you were trying to make a fair point, the way you "expressed" it won't get you many replies.
Freedom of speech implies that you're allowed a voice. In the Internet era, that means web hosts.
Removing already existing content over ideological dissent is called censorship, no matter how you put it.
When you sell software, you sell a licence to use it, not the code itself. This licence might include support (that's what Red Hat does).
It's perfectly legal to sell a licence to a Linux distro, as long as you comply with the GPL.
CentOS repackages most of RHEL, but they need to remove any Red Hat branding. Other that that, they're perfectly in scope with the requirements of GPL (and all the other FOSS licences present in the software collection).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpg5CnagE9k
I owned a Palm Pre 2 and I still have nightmares.
Tired systemd rant #47381938475634738
I just gave two examples of events where bandwidth saturation is an issue, of course they use different kinds of networks. /.
My job partially covers technical support for events organized by Unnamed Big Corporation, usually I don't even have to raise the issue of bandwidth, it's the event owner that already knows.
I think here we just got a disastrous combination of incompetence and greed, incompetence in predicting an obvious technical challenge, and greed in not limiting (paid) attendance once the issues were clear. The result is so stupidly egregious that made it to
LAN parties? Hackatons?
An experienced event planner would have known that.
Please, tell me you're just trolling...
It's alright, we never had great expectations on your intellectual abilities.
How long can a human survive in a mild sauna?
You're that much of a moron, that you didn't notice that the data refers to last year.
Well, Apple then seems to sell a damn lot of iPhones in Ireland...
I used to live 10km from the Amazon warehouse that serves the whole Italy (there's another one being built near Rome now). I talked to many locals who initially thought of it as a great benefit for the zone's unemployment, only to find out that they pay wages lower than what a waiter makes, constantly cheat on extra-time while imposing draconian rules on its workers (counted toilet visits, coffee machines activate only at certain hours...). Of course they actively prevent unionization through sheer mobbing.
Yet, whenever I asked for an invoice, it came from... Luxembourg. While still applying Italian VAT on the full price (17% vs 22%).
So yes, the beneficial impact on employment can be absorbed by other market operators (there is a market, after all), while the general public can benefit from a company that doesn't cheat on taxes, while using public infrastructure built with tax money.
It's difficult to buy American when your wage is undercut by H1Bs.
"Right now H-1B visas are awarded by random lottery and many of you will be surprised to know that about 80% of H-1B workers are paid less than the median wage in their fields. Only 5% to 6%, depending on the year, of H-1B workers command the highest wage tier recognized by the Department of Labor. [...] If you change that current system that awards visas randomly, without regard for skill or wage, to a skills-based awarding, it makes it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers [...] It's a very elegant way of solving very systemic problems in the H-1B guest worker visa."
Seriously, it's right there in the summary.
Apparently, not the whole world uses dollars.
Last time I checked, seals seem to run mostly on fish, with the occasional penguin thrown in for the sake of variety.
They however seem to disregard licensing entirely, supposedly because they share the same environment with pirates.