So basically your choices are: 1. Do everything properly: Declare value, refuse to pay bribes (Illegal by US law), and have all your gear lost in customs for months, and very likely damaged. 2. Declare the value, and pay bribes out of your own pocket or with the assistance of your company. You have now committed a crime in the USA. 3. Declare the value low to go under the radar in the corrupt country. You have now committed a crime in the corrupt country, but hey, you can alway bribe your way out of it if you are cought.
4. Don't do business in Brazil.
If enough major corporations chose option 4, the problem would rectify itself.
The world of "RoboCop" is thoroughly, utterly irredeemable -- yet disturbingly familiar -- and, just to rub salt in the wound, it's served up as a camp joke.
I'd buy that for a quarter!
And, incidentally, it's a great bookend to Verhoeven's other sci-fi black satire, "Starship Troopers."
If every slashdot user on here bought one share of MSFT and voted NO to get them off the board, we would have the slashdot effect with real power to hurt Microsoft. Get organized people. VOTE THEM OFF the BoD.
Uh, no.
Based on Friday's stock price and listed market cap, Microsoft has approximately 9.375 billion shares outstanding. Slashdot UIDs are at about 1.2 million; be generous and assume that every UID is a unique user, and that there are another million ACs (personally, I think that's very generous). 2.2 million shares is only 0.02% of MSFT's outstanding stock. You ain't gonna vote anyone off anything with 0.02% of the vote.
How is this decision any different than one ordering a phone company to record all phone calls that cross its network so that recordings related to alleged crimes can be gathered for evidence?
Or perhaps, ordering a phone company to turn over all of their billing records so that the prosecution can sift through them looking for phone numbers related to alleged crimes?
I did a little calculating. At 10 million miles per hour, that means the pieces of the star are traveling at about 15 times the speed of light.
You did your calculations wrong.
c is approximately 186,282 miles per second. That translates to over 670 million miles per hour. 10 million miles per hour is only about 1.5% of lightspeed.
I use whatever tools are available and work. My employer buys licenses for Microsoft Offce for everyone, so that what I used. That is, until I was writing a functional spec for the next major release of our product.
I was using Word for writing the spec and Visio for generating ERDs as well as process flow charts, inserting them into the document as necessary. At one point Word just lost it; every time I'd insert a Visio diagram into the document, Word would crash shortly thereafter. No patches seemed to help. Creating a new document and copying/pasting content over didn't help. Word just couldn't handle it.
On a whim I tried OpenOffice.org Writer. At the time I used 2.0.3; I opened the.doc file in Writer and it opened flawlessly. I started inserting the Visio diagrams as OLE objects into the document, and it just worked. I have not had a problem with Writer, and I get free.pdf generation.
Well, that's not entirely true; Writer has some pagination quirks when working with large documents. But I've found ways to work around them, and it doesn't crash. I'll take functional quirkiness over lost work any day of the week.
I now do everything in OpenOffice.org (primarily using Writer and Calc). I see no reason to go back.
To everyone who tagged this as "obvious": absolutely.
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4. Don't do business in Brazil.
If enough major corporations chose option 4, the problem would rectify itself.
As opposed to the one that spies for all levels of government? I don't see the difference...
And Verizon is better how?
There, fixed that for you.
You're naive if you think AT&T is the only carrier assisting various TLAs.
Well, my 2-year contract ended last month; now's a good time to finally switch to AT&T and get that iPhone I've been eyeing...
I'd buy that for a quarter!
Would you like to know more?
I agree. The satire in both movies was brilliant.
I got the idea that SirSmiley is too stupid to be able to insinuate that.
Apocolypse Now Redux boring? Wow.
I, for one, can't wait for Blade Runner, The Final Cut.
Uh, no.
Based on Friday's stock price and listed market cap, Microsoft has approximately 9.375 billion shares outstanding. Slashdot UIDs are at about 1.2 million; be generous and assume that every UID is a unique user, and that there are another million ACs (personally, I think that's very generous). 2.2 million shares is only 0.02% of MSFT's outstanding stock. You ain't gonna vote anyone off anything with 0.02% of the vote.
You're in luck. With Verizon you don't have to choose.
Too late...
Or maybe not...
Then you aren't a true Red Sox fan...
8 hours sleep per night?
How about 8 hours sleep per week...
As I understand it, the GPL was never about the developer/user getting freedom; it is about the software getting freedom.
I'd prefer to put 850 in 77.1 cells and do =sum(a1:a77.1)
Sounds like standard BOFH-talk to me...
I think the official robot response to any sort of laws is: "Bite my shiny metal ass!"
I don't know. What was the last SF novel that had an initial printing run of 12 million copies?
Why would she want to see a bunch of white punks on dope?
Oh, wait...
How is this decision any different than one ordering a phone company to record all phone calls that cross its network so that recordings related to alleged crimes can be gathered for evidence?
Or perhaps, ordering a phone company to turn over all of their billing records so that the prosecution can sift through them looking for phone numbers related to alleged crimes?
I thought subpoenas had to be precise...
The public is as qualified to determine who should have reputation points as they are qualified to determine who should hold elective office.
Take that as you will...
You did your calculations wrong.
c is approximately 186,282 miles per second. That translates to over 670 million miles per hour. 10 million miles per hour is only about 1.5% of lightspeed.
No, no, no. The standard unit for speed is furlongs per fortnight. And 180 meters per second is 1,082,319.26 furlongs per fortnight.
I use whatever tools are available and work. My employer buys licenses for Microsoft Offce for everyone, so that what I used. That is, until I was writing a functional spec for the next major release of our product.
.doc file in Writer and it opened flawlessly. I started inserting the Visio diagrams as OLE objects into the document, and it just worked. I have not had a problem with Writer, and I get free .pdf generation.
I was using Word for writing the spec and Visio for generating ERDs as well as process flow charts, inserting them into the document as necessary. At one point Word just lost it; every time I'd insert a Visio diagram into the document, Word would crash shortly thereafter. No patches seemed to help. Creating a new document and copying/pasting content over didn't help. Word just couldn't handle it.
On a whim I tried OpenOffice.org Writer. At the time I used 2.0.3; I opened the
Well, that's not entirely true; Writer has some pagination quirks when working with large documents. But I've found ways to work around them, and it doesn't crash. I'll take functional quirkiness over lost work any day of the week.
I now do everything in OpenOffice.org (primarily using Writer and Calc). I see no reason to go back.
They were planning on a Lie groups for Dummies(tm), but it was still over 100 billion pages long, so they canned it.
To everyone who tagged this as "obvious": absolutely.
In a past life I was the technical lead on IndyCar Racing II at Papyrus Design Group. After spending all day driving a simulated IndyCar at 200+ MPH, it took some serious decompressing to not end up blowing down the freeway as fast as my real car would allow...