But the government tends to ignore its voters for the most part.
Ahem. The US government, perhaps. Other democracies don't suffer from a one-party system with two flavours.
A private company ignores its customers at its peril.
I thought the same was true of the USA - isn't that why you have that whole "right to bare arms" in your constitution, and why I keep hearing about the whole "soap, jury, ammo" thing?
"Hey, it's Friday!" is a great excuse to have a party.
"Hey, MS sent me marketing crap, let's have a party!" is a great excuse to dress your dogs up in sweaters, because they're the only friends you'll ever have.
I attended a talk by Michael Geist, where he said that 30% of Canadian ISPs comply with DMCA takedowns. This figure was presented by some pro-copyright lobby as "shocking" evidence that Canada is a lawless place where copyright isn't respected.
Geist agreed that it was shocking - but for a different reason. He said it was shocking that 30% of our ISPs caved to a law from a foreign country, and complied with a request they had no legal requirement or authority to obey.
*sigh* This crap gets spewed out every time there's a discussion about a corporation acting badly, and it's pure bullshit.
Corporations are *NOT* required to make money for their shareholders, unless that's what they told the investors.
The Majors are required by law to care only about shareholder profits.
Bullshit. Show me the US Code, Title, and section of said law.
Any publicly traded corporation can be sued if they put anything else but the bottom line first.
No. Publicly-traded companies issue a prospectus, which states what the company does to make money, and what the "values" of the company are. If they deviate from this, they risk a lawsuit, but the prospectus *DOES NOT* require them to put "making money for their investors" as their #1 priority. It is the investor's responsibility to read the prospectus and understand the goals of the company before they invest.
If a shareholder decides the company is not making them enough money, they can sue. But if the company is operating within it's prospectus, the suit will be thrown out of court.
Actually, in retrospect, I supposed they *are* being truthful there..
It says 100% reliable on high-volume trading days... so any day where it doesn't work won't be a high-volume day (because it doesn't work, there won't *be* any volume)
In other words, this is marketspeak for the redundant phrase "when it doesn't work, you won't be able to use it".
Everything else, your emails, your non-contracted work product, etc, would be your personal property, and then corps would literally own nothing to produce in court
So that way when you leave the company, you take all those "secrets" with you?
It's like the myth that owning a motorcyle makes you cool to the opposite sex.
How is it a myth again? The rest of that paragraph even shows it:
in 7 years of riding I've met three random girls who liked the idea. Every other woman I've met when it comes up in conversation has used this exact phrase "Thats so cool, but I could never ride a bike its too scary."
See? By your own words, every woman you've met thinks it's cool. (We assume that the three random ones that like it think it's cool.)
Incidentally, the ones who say "it's too scary" are waiting for you to convince them it's perfectly safe, so that you'll take them for a ride.:)
I ride a bike because its a joy, not because it makes me "cool".
Agreed. There is *nothing* like the freedom of a motorcycle.. the women are just a bonus.. (although not so much since I got married, but it's still a stroke of the ego when you're in your late 30's, get off the bike and a hot 19 year-old comes over to talk to you about it:)
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But the government tends to ignore its voters for the most part.
Ahem. The US government, perhaps. Other democracies don't suffer from a one-party system with two flavours.
A private company ignores its customers at its peril.
I thought the same was true of the USA - isn't that why you have that whole "right to bare arms" in your constitution, and why I keep hearing about the whole "soap, jury, ammo" thing?
It is a great excuse to have a party
No, it really isn't.
"Hey, it's Friday!" is a great excuse to have a party.
"Hey, MS sent me marketing crap, let's have a party!" is a great excuse to dress your dogs up in sweaters, because they're the only friends you'll ever have.
The ISP in question is Canadian.
I attended a talk by Michael Geist, where he said that 30% of Canadian ISPs comply with DMCA takedowns. This figure was presented by some pro-copyright lobby as "shocking" evidence that Canada is a lawless place where copyright isn't respected.
Geist agreed that it was shocking - but for a different reason. He said it was shocking that 30% of our ISPs caved to a law from a foreign country, and complied with a request they had no legal requirement or authority to obey.
If you say "I create the religion", that means that you do not believe in reality in the stuff you made up.
It means no such thing.
If he didn't believe it, why would he say he wanted to create it?
In short - prove he doesn't believe in his religion.
*sigh* This crap gets spewed out every time there's a discussion about a corporation acting badly, and it's pure bullshit.
Corporations are *NOT* required to make money for their shareholders, unless that's what they told the investors.
The Majors are required by law to care only about shareholder profits.
Bullshit. Show me the US Code, Title, and section of said law.
Any publicly traded corporation can be sued if they put anything else but the bottom line first.
No. Publicly-traded companies issue a prospectus, which states what the company does to make money, and what the "values" of the company are. If they deviate from this, they risk a lawsuit, but the prospectus *DOES NOT* require them to put "making money for their investors" as their #1 priority. It is the investor's responsibility to read the prospectus and understand the goals of the company before they invest.
If a shareholder decides the company is not making them enough money, they can sue. But if the company is operating within it's prospectus, the suit will be thrown out of court.
On the plus side, it does give you some leverage with poorly-behaved children. :)
"Eat your vegetables, or I won't pay your license fee, and Monsanto will come to take you away!"
Why would they hire some guy so inept he got caught TWICE?
For the same reason the US keeps buying stuff from China.
eg. it's *cheap*
"Backup? Whats that?"
Duh - that's the thing on the site that you put tapes in to keep the computer on when the power goes out!
Don't you know anything?
If you're gonna go and change it, why not make it correct while you're at it?
Teach the controversy, people!
Actually, in retrospect, I supposed they *are* being truthful there..
It says 100% reliable on high-volume trading days... so any day where it doesn't work won't be a high-volume day (because it doesn't work, there won't *be* any volume)
In other words, this is marketspeak for the redundant phrase "when it doesn't work, you won't be able to use it".
Heh.. I *love* this:
Benefits
One hundred per cent reliable on high-volume trading days
Umm, yeah.. for various definitions of the value "one hundred", right?
and how many have gigabit? I only see one with it listed
Funny - when I look at it, it shows the Linksys 310N, 320N, 350N, 500N, as well as the Buffalo WZR-G144NH all have gigabit.
Last time I checked, that makes 5, not 1.
N routers pretty much kill b/g routers within range. You can't do that with an ordinary dd-wrt router.
I don't understand.. are you implying that you can't run dd-wrt on an N router?
If so, you'd be wrong.
If you're trying to say something else, could you elaborate, because I don't understand.
Wait.. so you're saying that Swine flu isn't directly caused by flu shots!?!?!
Wow, thanks for clearing that up!
Microsoft like to pretend that Windows and Windows Server are hugely different, rather than that one is crippleware.
One? :)
So you're suggesting that we keep something that's *known* to be broken and inequitable, just because fixing it would be "hard"?
Have you stopped beating your wife yet?
I'm not exactly seeing this as a bad thing at all.
Then why call it silly?
Everything else, your emails, your non-contracted work product, etc, would be your personal property, and then corps would literally own nothing to produce in court
So that way when you leave the company, you take all those "secrets" with you?
How is this a bad thing again?
Entering into contracts and owning, buying and selling services and property.
Why do they need to be the equivalent of people for that?
Why not codify the law to say that corporations or people can do those things, rather than saying that corporations are people?
Congrats, man! Happy to be of help :)
Copyright is the government-backed enforcement of "you're not allowed to say that, because I said it first."
By definition, copyright is the antithesis of free speech. There is no either/or here - copyright *is* censorship.
It's like the myth that owning a motorcyle makes you cool to the opposite sex.
How is it a myth again? The rest of that paragraph even shows it:
in 7 years of riding I've met three random girls who liked the idea. Every other woman I've met when it comes up in conversation has used this exact phrase "Thats so cool, but I could never ride a bike its too scary."
See? By your own words, every woman you've met thinks it's cool. (We assume that the three random ones that like it think it's cool.)
Incidentally, the ones who say "it's too scary" are waiting for you to convince them it's perfectly safe, so that you'll take them for a ride. :)
I ride a bike because its a joy, not because it makes me "cool".
Agreed. There is *nothing* like the freedom of a motorcycle.. the women are just a bonus.. (although not so much since I got married, but it's still a stroke of the ego when you're in your late 30's, get off the bike and a hot 19 year-old comes over to talk to you about it :)
I think the term Twinking would be more apt :)
No No No.. it means that dust has been vanquished and doesn't exist anymore!
Most people can't define the difference between a megabyte and a megahertz.
That's easy. The first one is what you do when you eat a super-double cheeseburger at Carl's Junior. The second is what your colon does afterwards.