IF 'you' retroactively change how the accounting laws work... no its not 'the law' its a shake down. Now if the EU had closed it loop holes but not try and retroactively change them it would have 'the law'. See the difference. In one case you have zero idea if you are going to get boned because Daddy needs a new pork barrel. The other is 'yup, time to change our accounting as the new laws says X is now not allowed'.
You still think that working hard not smart is what makes people successful. In the past 30 years all tech billionaires made their money by working hard but working SMART and getting lucky.
If you dig a ditch in the morning and then fill it in the afternoon you are working hard... but not smart. Good luck getting rich working hard like that unless you strike oil/gold/etc and were smart enough to have a mineral grant before getting lucky.
Actually its is multi-billion dollars now with an uncertain future. Big companies hate uncertainty. Right now Apple has leverage, just like Google. If they USE their leverage and tell the EU to piss-off it would hurt them, but would hurt the EU more. Possibly allowing a change that is needed for the good of the EU - as once the EU is seen as anti-business... big business will leave. When the big biz leave small biz are harmed as they no longer have a major buyer of their goods. Thus the economy of the EU would be harmed. Which would harm the EU officials... as shit runs down hit.
It really comes down to how pissed off the ghost of steve handjobs is as Apple has a crap ton of liquid assets to weather the 2 or so year storm it would cause.
Personally I would not be surprised if the US intervention fails that you see 'Apple Inc' pull out of the EU, 'selling all its property in the EU' and telling the EU to piss off... while at the same time a 'Apple EU Inc' crop up to act as a distro for Europe with zero funds outside of sales (all buildings leased, etc via another holding company that is owned by Apple via Int'l cut-outs). Thus if A.EU inc is fined mega-bucks. Apple Inc declares that 'business' bankrupt, fires ALL the employees... and opens up 'FU EU inc' to replace it. Thus saving sales AND protecting themselves from gov sanctioned ransom demands. The EU would have to go along with the fiction as EU proles DEMAND apple products (or google or etc etc) thus if the EU blocked Apple EU from selling Apple Inc products the populace would see the EU as the bad guy not Apple... especially with a marketing campaign (something Apple is a master at) showing the EU 'government' as the bad guys w/ interviews from people who 'lost their job' because of it. I could see Apple getting MS and Google onboard as they too hate the EU 'government' making it impossible for the EU to continue with their ransom demand schemes.
Like it or not the genie is out of the bottle and the real power is now in the hands of corporations. No politician has the balls to severely curtail their power thus mega-rich corps will do what they want. PLUS in most cases the regular joe sees the corps as the good guys in these situation as the EU is being seen as changing the rules whenever they need to bail out a pork-barrel company that is failing.
3DXpoint is this gens NVRAM. In server testing its about 80% or better the performance. The issue with consumer optane is that they only used two (at most) 16GB ICs worth of it so the controller channels interleaving sucks. Its why the write speed of the Optane Memory module is only 300mb/s.
If people are that concerned, but are too cheap to PAY for a service they don't deserve any sympathy.
What do they expect? That all the overhead is being covered by some generous benefactor? Puhlease.
People should know by now that if you get a service for free you are NOT THE CUSTOMER, you are the product. Would anyone here be surprised if/. is selling meta-data on us and our habits? No? Why? Because the benefit outweighs the 'cost'.
IMHO peeps should STFU with their faux outrage and focus in on cases where people actually do pay for a service and still get treated like a product to be sold to others. This bullshit just diminishes the impact on companies that deserve to be tarred and feathered.
The Dutch 'managed it' by having incredibly small cities.. and building on stilts. Take a look at a map of say New Orleans. Compared it to modern NO... and it is obvious what has happened. We drained swamps, built land-level buildings (some with even below ground basements) and wonder why those 'newly reclaimed land' flood costing billions in damage.
Instead of blocking the voice. All Google has to do is redirect ALL 'what is a whopper' queries to a 'satirical' page that states something along the lines of "a whopper is a burger made by Burger King that competes with Five Guys, McDonald's, and many others large burger chain's burgers. Many find them to be inferior to the competition's offerings. Also if you were directed to this answer because of a TV commercial do you really want to do business with a company with such low ethical standards? Would you like to know where the nearest BK competitors locations are?"
Problem solved... ish.
Still doesnt fix the underlying problem with google security but it would nip this shit in the bud. As it would send a message that if you screw with google they WILL screw you worse.
If the Grand Old Girl wants to survive it has to become more moderate. They were cheerleaders for Hillary and made Drumph out to be the devil. Every. Chance. They. Got. Add in 'you are all *ists for daring to speak out against XYZ... and poeple move on. People are stupid.. but they dont want to be called stupid IF you expect them to buy your product.
IMHO You can be biased in your opinions but reporters are SUPPOSED to reign themselves in and not put their world view first. Report the facts as colored as little as possible and both sides will read it. Don't and you loose half the readers. With so many options the only LONG TERM solution is to be moderate. Report both sides and NYT could be the leaders again in 'print' news.
Nope. It was a way of getting 'clean' water in a time when water could, would, and did kill every day. The calories were just a nice bonus/side-effect.
While the unions DID try to shame US consumers in to doing that... it didn't work. What worked was making a comparable product at a comparable price. People don't give a shit where something is made as long as it does what they want, is priced right and is durable enough for their needs.
...and.... so? If your uncle was a woman she would have been your aunt. IF both drumph and killary had been going for a popular vote they would have campaigned differently. That was not the rules.
Though the day that popular vote matters at the fed level is the day the US is no longer a United States... as there is zero reason for smaller states to stay in the union as their voice would not be heard. Only NY, TX, CA, and a few other states would matter... a 'tyranny of the majority'. THAT is the reason for the EC in the first place. Read what the founding fathers had to say on direct democracy and why they 'compromised' on a EC setup.
Not even close. Cali is bankrupt. Has been for years now. The only reason they are staying afloat is because they are part of the US and can get cheap bond loans. Cali would be utterly fucked if they go through with their threats to leave the US.
The media coined a phrase early in Bush's presidency. It was call 'mcjobs' and they went out of there way to 'explain' that even though X jobs were added most were 'mcjobs' and not 'real' jobs.
The fact of the matter is most of the jobs added have been part time crap jobs. BUT do we here a peep of 'mcjobs' anywhere on mainstream medai? Nope.
I expect mcjob to make a come back in 'news' reporters lexicon come Feb 2017 (ie one month after Drumph takes office).
Yeah... and magically companies dont fire 90% of their people when this happens. Instead they make 1000% more than they can sell. Sure they lose money but heaven forfend they tell people to 'make do with less'. Nope. Not in this world. No way do companies try to maximize profits. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Yeah. No. When Obama comes out and says on national air that you can indeed make as many coal plants as you want but we (the government) will bankrupt you for doing it... its not natural causes. Its premeditated homicide.
Coal air emissions is just like anything else. It can be clean, it can be dirty. BUT to kill the entire industry because the green nuts thick its 'icky' is the same bullshit that happened to nuclear plants in the 60s and 70s.
Sadly a large portion of workers are doing very easily automated tasks. Sadly a large portion of these people are also not creative enough.
Lets take a recent example of a spring factory that REopened in MI. In the 90s they employed 200 employees. They went over seas (out sourcing) but the QC was crap so they moved back. Just one problem. The new factory only employs 20 people as the other 180 were replaced by machines. So while YES there will 'always' be some human input needed its only 10% or less of what is needed now. Where do the other 90% go? Hell where does the 90% of 90% who are not that smart go when there are no more 'make work' jobs for them and they have neither the aptitude nor inclination to become 'creative'?
This article is pie in the sky, unicorns for everyone BS. Yes eventually humanity will figure out WTF to do... but as history has shown it takes a couple GENERATIONS for us to figure it out. Thats a lot of pissed off, hungry people with nothing to loose. That is a recipe for disaster.
But that is what you are saying. That would be the end result. "We don't wan no gawd darn chinamen in this here bar". Ready some history.
Now in theory I do agree with your POV... but the reality is that is not how it would work out. It would be 'black' bathrooms and 'white' bathrooms writ large. If a company is open to the public they do have to respect public laws. Its the only way things can work... as people suck.
NOW where it gets murky is when two rights are in conflict. Say religion vs sexuality. Then it comes down to which right is more important to society. Which impacts the most people. That is what the courts are for.;)
Gotcha. So you want 'separate but equal' for blacks to make a comeback. Same for the LGTB community. Same with Muslims? Jews? What about Asians? You really are a scumbag mate IF that is what you believe.
ALL hate speech that meets the legal definition IS punishable by jail time. We as a society don't need more gate-keepers deciding on what is or is not 'hate speech'.... let alone 'wrong thought'.
Twit and Facebook has proven to block and disable any account that was intolerant of the left's POV. Saying Hillary lied =/= hate speech.
Like it or not a huge majority of people get their NEWS from Facebook. Thus censorship is a bad thing m'kay.
Its almost as if you came sooo close to grasping the concept of freedom of speech and protection thereof... then you lost it.
Groceries ARE regulated. Ever hear of the FDA... the FOOD and drug admin? Hmm?
Freedom of speech is a civil right. It was just so damn important it was added directly to the constitution.
You are wrong on cab companies. They are regulated because they are using public roads and thus CAN be regulated under the interstate commerce clause.
Most of the Internet is built upon public funds. The US alone gave billions (and still does) to ISP to build the internet... that is what makes what Google and GoogleFibre so radical as they are/gasp/ paying for it themselves.
The problem is defining 'hate speech'. Right now that is anything joe admin does not like at facebook. The other has a very narrowly defined legal definition. Facebook has been shown to censor ALL right wing groups under the umbrella of 'hate speech'... so much so the zuck had to kiss ass and try and make nice due to the backlash from blocking news from rather large right wing groups. That is discrimination, not protection from hate speech.
Personally Im in favor of all speech being free and uncensored. Yes that means some asshats will say shit that few agree with. BUT it is better to have that out in the open then have it go under ground. Its better to talk things out than the let the cancer fester.
Right now the left AND the right live in their own echo chamber... and lot of that is because each side censors thoughts/ideas it considers offensive. This is not a good thing.
At one point AT&T / 'Ma Bell' were private entity that could do what they like. Now they are regulated. Once society feels something is important enough / would hinder human interaction enough... it can indeed be regulated much like MOST non-gov entities in existance. Facebook and Twitter have already surpassed that standard. These companies make use of a publicly created and funded system: the internet. They can not have it both ways and claim to be private and still benefit from the public. Much like a taxi cab company can not use the public roads and discriminate against groups of people.
That or are you OK with the phone companies all not selling to black people, women, homosexuals, and other groups... as they are simply a 'private platform'?
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IF 'you' retroactively change how the accounting laws work... no its not 'the law' its a shake down. Now if the EU had closed it loop holes but not try and retroactively change them it would have 'the law'. See the difference. In one case you have zero idea if you are going to get boned because Daddy needs a new pork barrel. The other is 'yup, time to change our accounting as the new laws says X is now not allowed'.
You still think that working hard not smart is what makes people successful. In the past 30 years all tech billionaires made their money by working hard but working SMART and getting lucky.
If you dig a ditch in the morning and then fill it in the afternoon you are working hard... but not smart. Good luck getting rich working hard like that unless you strike oil/gold/etc and were smart enough to have a mineral grant before getting lucky.
Actually its is multi-billion dollars now with an uncertain future. Big companies hate uncertainty. Right now Apple has leverage, just like Google. If they USE their leverage and tell the EU to piss-off it would hurt them, but would hurt the EU more. Possibly allowing a change that is needed for the good of the EU - as once the EU is seen as anti-business... big business will leave. When the big biz leave small biz are harmed as they no longer have a major buyer of their goods. Thus the economy of the EU would be harmed. Which would harm the EU officials... as shit runs down hit.
It really comes down to how pissed off the ghost of steve handjobs is as Apple has a crap ton of liquid assets to weather the 2 or so year storm it would cause.
Personally I would not be surprised if the US intervention fails that you see 'Apple Inc' pull out of the EU, 'selling all its property in the EU' and telling the EU to piss off... while at the same time a 'Apple EU Inc' crop up to act as a distro for Europe with zero funds outside of sales (all buildings leased, etc via another holding company that is owned by Apple via Int'l cut-outs). Thus if A.EU inc is fined mega-bucks. Apple Inc declares that 'business' bankrupt, fires ALL the employees... and opens up 'FU EU inc' to replace it. Thus saving sales AND protecting themselves from gov sanctioned ransom demands. The EU would have to go along with the fiction as EU proles DEMAND apple products (or google or etc etc) thus if the EU blocked Apple EU from selling Apple Inc products the populace would see the EU as the bad guy not Apple... especially with a marketing campaign (something Apple is a master at) showing the EU 'government' as the bad guys w/ interviews from people who 'lost their job' because of it. I could see Apple getting MS and Google onboard as they too hate the EU 'government' making it impossible for the EU to continue with their ransom demand schemes.
Like it or not the genie is out of the bottle and the real power is now in the hands of corporations. No politician has the balls to severely curtail their power thus mega-rich corps will do what they want. PLUS in most cases the regular joe sees the corps as the good guys in these situation as the EU is being seen as changing the rules whenever they need to bail out a pork-barrel company that is failing.
3DXpoint is this gens NVRAM. In server testing its about 80% or better the performance. The issue with consumer optane is that they only used two (at most) 16GB ICs worth of it so the controller channels interleaving sucks. Its why the write speed of the Optane Memory module is only 300mb/s.
If people are that concerned, but are too cheap to PAY for a service they don't deserve any sympathy.
/. is selling meta-data on us and our habits? No? Why? Because the benefit outweighs the 'cost'.
What do they expect? That all the overhead is being covered by some generous benefactor? Puhlease.
People should know by now that if you get a service for free you are NOT THE CUSTOMER, you are the product. Would anyone here be surprised if
IMHO peeps should STFU with their faux outrage and focus in on cases where people actually do pay for a service and still get treated like a product to be sold to others. This bullshit just diminishes the impact on companies that deserve to be tarred and feathered.
The Dutch 'managed it' by having incredibly small cities.. and building on stilts. Take a look at a map of say New Orleans. Compared it to modern NO... and it is obvious what has happened. We drained swamps, built land-level buildings (some with even below ground basements) and wonder why those 'newly reclaimed land' flood costing billions in damage.
Instead of blocking the voice. All Google has to do is redirect ALL 'what is a whopper' queries to a 'satirical' page that states something along the lines of "a whopper is a burger made by Burger King that competes with Five Guys, McDonald's, and many others large burger chain's burgers. Many find them to be inferior to the competition's offerings. Also if you were directed to this answer because of a TV commercial do you really want to do business with a company with such low ethical standards? Would you like to know where the nearest BK competitors locations are?"
Problem solved... ish.
Still doesnt fix the underlying problem with google security but it would nip this shit in the bud. As it would send a message that if you screw with google they WILL screw you worse.
Mother Of All Bombs. IE The yanks take on the Russians Fuel-Air bombs (which are bigger). Think near nuclear explosion without the fall out.
If the Grand Old Girl wants to survive it has to become more moderate. They were cheerleaders for Hillary and made Drumph out to be the devil. Every. Chance. They. Got. Add in 'you are all *ists for daring to speak out against XYZ... and poeple move on. People are stupid.. but they dont want to be called stupid IF you expect them to buy your product.
IMHO You can be biased in your opinions but reporters are SUPPOSED to reign themselves in and not put their world view first. Report the facts as colored as little as possible and both sides will read it. Don't and you loose half the readers. With so many options the only LONG TERM solution is to be moderate. Report both sides and NYT could be the leaders again in 'print' news.
Nope. It was a way of getting 'clean' water in a time when water could, would, and did kill every day. The calories were just a nice bonus/side-effect.
While the unions DID try to shame US consumers in to doing that... it didn't work. What worked was making a comparable product at a comparable price. People don't give a shit where something is made as long as it does what they want, is priced right and is durable enough for their needs.
OR almonds in Cali... or other extremely thirsty crops in areas not really meant for growing them!
...and.... so?
If your uncle was a woman she would have been your aunt.
IF both drumph and killary had been going for a popular vote they would have campaigned differently. That was not the rules.
Though the day that popular vote matters at the fed level is the day the US is no longer a United States... as there is zero reason for smaller states to stay in the union as their voice would not be heard. Only NY, TX, CA, and a few other states would matter... a 'tyranny of the majority'. THAT is the reason for the EC in the first place. Read what the founding fathers had to say on direct democracy and why they 'compromised' on a EC setup.
Not even close. Cali is bankrupt. Has been for years now. The only reason they are staying afloat is because they are part of the US and can get cheap bond loans. Cali would be utterly fucked if they go through with their threats to leave the US.
The media coined a phrase early in Bush's presidency. It was call 'mcjobs' and they went out of there way to 'explain' that even though X jobs were added most were 'mcjobs' and not 'real' jobs.
The fact of the matter is most of the jobs added have been part time crap jobs. BUT do we here a peep of 'mcjobs' anywhere on mainstream medai? Nope.
I expect mcjob to make a come back in 'news' reporters lexicon come Feb 2017 (ie one month after Drumph takes office).
Butyric Acid is the sour note you are tasting. Its used in a LOT of North American 'chocolate'.
Yeah... and magically companies dont fire 90% of their people when this happens. Instead they make 1000% more than they can sell. Sure they lose money but heaven forfend they tell people to 'make do with less'. Nope. Not in this world. No way do companies try to maximize profits. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Yeah. No. When Obama comes out and says on national air that you can indeed make as many coal plants as you want but we (the government) will bankrupt you for doing it... its not natural causes. Its premeditated homicide.
Coal air emissions is just like anything else. It can be clean, it can be dirty. BUT to kill the entire industry because the green nuts thick its 'icky' is the same bullshit that happened to nuclear plants in the 60s and 70s.
Sadly a large portion of workers are doing very easily automated tasks. Sadly a large portion of these people are also not creative enough.
Lets take a recent example of a spring factory that REopened in MI. In the 90s they employed 200 employees. They went over seas (out sourcing) but the QC was crap so they moved back. Just one problem. The new factory only employs 20 people as the other 180 were replaced by machines. So while YES there will 'always' be some human input needed its only 10% or less of what is needed now. Where do the other 90% go? Hell where does the 90% of 90% who are not that smart go when there are no more 'make work' jobs for them and they have neither the aptitude nor inclination to become 'creative'?
This article is pie in the sky, unicorns for everyone BS. Yes eventually humanity will figure out WTF to do... but as history has shown it takes a couple GENERATIONS for us to figure it out. Thats a lot of pissed off, hungry people with nothing to loose. That is a recipe for disaster.
But that is what you are saying. That would be the end result. "We don't wan no gawd darn chinamen in this here bar". Ready some history.
;)
Now in theory I do agree with your POV... but the reality is that is not how it would work out. It would be 'black' bathrooms and 'white' bathrooms writ large. If a company is open to the public they do have to respect public laws. Its the only way things can work... as people suck.
NOW where it gets murky is when two rights are in conflict. Say religion vs sexuality. Then it comes down to which right is more important to society. Which impacts the most people. That is what the courts are for.
Gotcha. So you want 'separate but equal' for blacks to make a comeback. Same for the LGTB community. Same with Muslims? Jews? What about Asians? You really are a scumbag mate IF that is what you believe.
ALL hate speech that meets the legal definition IS punishable by jail time. We as a society don't need more gate-keepers deciding on what is or is not 'hate speech'.... let alone 'wrong thought'.
Twit and Facebook has proven to block and disable any account that was intolerant of the left's POV. Saying Hillary lied =/= hate speech.
Like it or not a huge majority of people get their NEWS from Facebook. Thus censorship is a bad thing m'kay.
Its almost as if you came sooo close to grasping the concept of freedom of speech and protection thereof... then you lost it.
/gasp/ paying for it themselves.
Groceries ARE regulated. Ever hear of the FDA... the FOOD and drug admin? Hmm?
Freedom of speech is a civil right. It was just so damn important it was added directly to the constitution.
You are wrong on cab companies. They are regulated because they are using public roads and thus CAN be regulated under the interstate commerce clause.
Most of the Internet is built upon public funds. The US alone gave billions (and still does) to ISP to build the internet... that is what makes what Google and GoogleFibre so radical as they are
The problem is defining 'hate speech'. Right now that is anything joe admin does not like at facebook. The other has a very narrowly defined legal definition. Facebook has been shown to censor ALL right wing groups under the umbrella of 'hate speech'... so much so the zuck had to kiss ass and try and make nice due to the backlash from blocking news from rather large right wing groups. That is discrimination, not protection from hate speech.
Personally Im in favor of all speech being free and uncensored. Yes that means some asshats will say shit that few agree with. BUT it is better to have that out in the open then have it go under ground. Its better to talk things out than the let the cancer fester.
Right now the left AND the right live in their own echo chamber... and lot of that is because each side censors thoughts/ideas it considers offensive. This is not a good thing.
Bullshit.
At one point AT&T / 'Ma Bell' were private entity that could do what they like. Now they are regulated. Once society feels something is important enough / would hinder human interaction enough... it can indeed be regulated much like MOST non-gov entities in existance. Facebook and Twitter have already surpassed that standard. These companies make use of a publicly created and funded system: the internet. They can not have it both ways and claim to be private and still benefit from the public. Much like a taxi cab company can not use the public roads and discriminate against groups of people.
That or are you OK with the phone companies all not selling to black people, women, homosexuals, and other groups... as they are simply a 'private platform'?