your links are BS because those sites submitted themselves to US laws by registering in the US.
If they don't want to be subject to US law, they are free to register a country code domain name.
Look.. I can register for a.es domain right now.. and if the spain says my site is illegal, and revokes the domain, there isn't anything I can do about it. It is a spanish domain after all.
.com,.net, and.org are US top-level domains, and are there because of the fact that the internet was created in the US. Notice that.MIL and.GOV -- also top-level generic domains -- are explicitly specified for the US.
The fact is, the generic top-level domains are under US control, and have always been under US control from the birth of the internet.
Also, you links are all BS.. since they are all for.COM,.NET, and.ORG domains. You hold up rojadirecta as an example, but rojadirecta.es continued to operate, providing exactly the same service, with no disruption or degradation of service.
Junk mail is sent in bulk (a bundle with several thousand pieces) to the destination zip code. It is not sorted. Each delivery carrier takes a stack of junk mail (enough for their route), and places it in every box. This costs as little as 14.2 cents per piece.
The only other way to get junk mail across country is the pay regular prices to ship it. If you are sending out enough pieces, and you're willing to barcode, check addresses, obtain a mailing permit (for several thousand dollars) and pre-sort the mail for the post office.. then you can obtain a modest discount. Regulations prevent them from offering real discounts (like what FedEx and UPS offer).. so when I say modest, I mean modest (think 10-15% off retail counter rates).
junk mail subsidizes first class mail. Junk mail does not need to be sorted, shipped across country, etc. The profits from junk mail are used to keep first class mail rates low.
186 arbitration claims involving employment disputes in the securities industry. The data showed that employee claimants prevailed 46% of the time in arbitration compared to 34% in federal court. The median monetary award amount was slightly higher in arbitration, and the median time from filing to judgment was 16.5 months in arbitration compared to 25 months in litigation....
noted that employees prevailed over employers in 63% of employment arbitration cases filed with the American Arbitration Association between 1993 and 1995. To compare, only 14.9% of employees who brought cases to federal district court in 1994 prevailed in their litigation. The average duration of an arbitrated claim was 8.6 months, compared to 2.5 years in litigation....
California data shows that when consumers bring arbitration claims against businesses, the consumers prevail in 65.5% of cases that reach a decision. To compare, buyer plaintiffs litigating contract claims in the 75 largest American counties prevailed 61.5% of the time overall, and 60.9% of the time in cases decided by bench trials. When businesses bring arbitration claims against California consumers, the businesses prevail in 77.7% of cases that reach a decision. To compare, seller plaintiffs litigating contract cases in the largest 75 counties prevail 76.8% of the time overall and 78.9% of the time in cases decided by bench trial.
Real facts are so much more interesting than made up facts... don't you think?
The AAA does not itself arbitrate disputes, but provides administrative support to arbitrations before a single arbitrator or a panel of three arbitrators. The arbitrators are chosen in accordance with the parties' agreement or, if the parties do not agree otherwise, in accordance with the AAA rules. Under its rules, the AAA may appoint an arbitrator in some circumstances, for example, where the parties cannot agree on an arbitrator or a party fails to exercise its right to appoint an arbitrator.
In other words, although Amazon chooses the arbitration association, it does not choose the arbitrator who will actually decide the case.
Also, what you are saying (misconduct) is a violation of the laws regulating arbitration, and would be grounds for a court to overturn the arbitrators decision and/or allow the party to pursue the case in court.
the last bit applies to the business contracts I was referring to. Obviously, PayPal and Amazon do not have a loser pays clause... which is why I included what they actually say in quotes.
We will pay the initial filing fee to commence arbitration and any arbitration hearing that you attend shall take place in the federal judicial district of your residence.
We will reimburse those fees for claims totaling less than $10,000 unless the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous. Likewise, Amazon will not seek attorneys' fees and costs in arbitration unless the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous. You may choose to have the arbitration conducted by telephone, based on written submissions, or in person in the county where you live or at another mutually agreed location.
In business contracts, the arbitration clause has been standard for years (decade+)... and it usually says something equivalent to: loser pays all arbitration costs and attorney's fees.
So if you have a legitimate claim, then you can file for arbitration, and the corporation will not only have to pay your claim, but all of the money you spent to bring the suit. This is more than you would get in court (where there is no "loser pays" clause).
All he supposedly came up with is an "innovative" way to cool it... which will be copied (in an ever-so-slightly different way to avoid the patent) in 5 4 3 2 1...
The UN is nothing more and nothing less than the collective wishes of the leaders of the world's nations.
FTFY
The UN might be a great thing if everyone was able to elect their leaders (or at least their representatives in the UN) in free elections. But that isn't going to happen anytime soon, so the free people in the world should be critical of anything and everything from the UN, and feel completely free to disregard anything from the UN that reduces their rights.
Unelected leaders rule over several billion people. Letting them have a say over the remaining several billion would be even more unjust.
You're twisting things. Yes, he visited the girl who the taliban shot in the head for promoting girls education. Then he walked outside of that same hospital (where she is unconscious in intensive care, btw) and gave that "the taliban are fighting for freedom" speech.
Two weeks ago a 14 year old girl was shot in the head while sitting on a school bus waiting to go home. She spoke out for girls education, and opposed the Taliban's burning of girls schools, etc. The Taliban said " the teenager's work had been an "obscenity" that needed to be stopped: This was a new chapter of obscenity, and we have to finish this chapter."
Khan visited the girl in the hospital, where she is unconscious in intensive care, and said:
Citing a verse from the Qur'an, he said: "It is very clear that whoever is fighting for their freedom is fighting a jihad "The people who are fighting in Afghanistan against the foreign occupation are fighting a jihad,
This is the guy you say is promoting human rights? Promoting rights for women? Do you know WTF you're talking about?
Did the hackers get access to the bitcoin VM by hacking in through XenServer/VMWare?
Because if they didn't, then it has nothing to do with Linode. Linode's only responsibility is to secure the hypervisor. The security of your VM is your problem.
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your links are BS because those sites submitted themselves to US laws by registering in the US.
If they don't want to be subject to US law, they are free to register a country code domain name.
Look.. I can register for a .es domain right now.. and if the spain says my site is illegal, and revokes the domain, there isn't anything I can do about it. It is a spanish domain after all.
.com, .net, and .org are US top-level domains, and are there because of the fact that the internet was created in the US. Notice that .MIL and .GOV -- also top-level generic domains -- are explicitly specified for the US.
The fact is, the generic top-level domains are under US control, and have always been under US control from the birth of the internet.
Also, you links are all BS.. since they are all for .COM, .NET, and .ORG domains. You hold up rojadirecta as an example, but rojadirecta.es continued to operate, providing exactly the same service, with no disruption or degradation of service.
Why do you think .EDU is American, but .COM is not? Both are top-level generic domains. So it's interesting that you assign different ownership to them.
megaupload.com
.com is a US domain name. If you don't want to be subject to US laws, don't register your name in our country.
The UN isn't going to change that.
I can't operate in your country and expect to be exempt from your laws.
So the US government (accidentally.. but that part is irrelevant) shut down a US-based service... and this effects non-US internet users how?!
Are you saying that the US has no right to enforce laws over US citizens and companies if that person/company operates on the internet?
Are you fucking serious?
Junk mail is sent in bulk (a bundle with several thousand pieces) to the destination zip code. It is not sorted. Each delivery carrier takes a stack of junk mail (enough for their route), and places it in every box. This costs as little as 14.2 cents per piece.
The only other way to get junk mail across country is the pay regular prices to ship it. If you are sending out enough pieces, and you're willing to barcode, check addresses, obtain a mailing permit (for several thousand dollars) and pre-sort the mail for the post office.. then you can obtain a modest discount. Regulations prevent them from offering real discounts (like what FedEx and UPS offer).. so when I say modest, I mean modest (think 10-15% off retail counter rates).
junk mail subsidizes first class mail. Junk mail does not need to be sorted, shipped across country, etc. The profits from junk mail are used to keep first class mail rates low.
but a quick search showed fo Credit Card companies, strangely, they had a 94% win rate.
[citation needed]
Here's an actual citation about consumer and employee win rates in arbitration:
http://overlawyered.com/2007/12/consumer-and-employee-win-rates-in-arbitration/
186 arbitration claims involving employment disputes in the securities industry. The data showed that employee claimants prevailed 46% of the time in arbitration compared to 34% in federal court. The median monetary award amount was slightly higher in arbitration, and the median time from filing to judgment was 16.5 months in arbitration compared to 25 months in litigation. ...
noted that employees prevailed over employers in 63% of employment arbitration cases filed with the American Arbitration Association between 1993 and 1995. To compare, only 14.9% of employees who brought cases to federal district court in 1994 prevailed in their litigation. The average duration of an arbitrated claim was 8.6 months, compared to 2.5 years in litigation. ...
California data shows that when consumers bring arbitration claims against businesses, the consumers prevail in 65.5% of cases that reach a decision. To compare, buyer plaintiffs litigating contract claims in the 75 largest American counties prevailed 61.5% of the time overall, and 60.9% of the time in cases decided by bench trials. When businesses bring arbitration claims against California consumers, the businesses prevail in 77.7% of cases that reach a decision. To compare, seller plaintiffs litigating contract cases in the largest 75 counties prevail 76.8% of the time overall and 78.9% of the time in cases decided by bench trial.
Real facts are so much more interesting than made up facts... don't you think?
Amazon and PayPal use large, well known arbitration associations. Amazon uses the AAA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Arbitration_Association
The AAA does not itself arbitrate disputes, but provides administrative support to arbitrations before a single arbitrator or a panel of three arbitrators.
The arbitrators are chosen in accordance with the parties' agreement or, if the parties do not agree otherwise, in accordance with the AAA rules. Under its rules, the AAA may appoint an arbitrator in some circumstances, for example, where the parties cannot agree on an arbitrator or a party fails to exercise its right to appoint an arbitrator.
In other words, although Amazon chooses the arbitration association, it does not choose the arbitrator who will actually decide the case.
Also, what you are saying (misconduct) is a violation of the laws regulating arbitration, and would be grounds for a court to overturn the arbitrators decision and/or allow the party to pursue the case in court.
the last bit applies to the business contracts I was referring to. Obviously, PayPal and Amazon do not have a loser pays clause... which is why I included what they actually say in quotes.
(basically preventing a normal consumer from every suing you for fault since they could never recover enough to make it worth while
You've never actually read one of these arbitration clauses, have you?
Here's PayPal's
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/upcoming_policies_full
We will pay the initial filing fee to commence arbitration and any arbitration hearing that you attend shall take place in the federal judicial district of your residence.
Here's Amazon's
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=508088
We will reimburse those fees for claims totaling less than $10,000 unless the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous. Likewise, Amazon will not seek attorneys' fees and costs in arbitration unless the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous. You may choose to have the arbitration conducted by telephone, based on written submissions, or in person in the county where you live or at another mutually agreed location.
In business contracts, the arbitration clause has been standard for years (decade+)... and it usually says something equivalent to: loser pays all arbitration costs and attorney's fees.
So if you have a legitimate claim, then you can file for arbitration, and the corporation will not only have to pay your claim, but all of the money you spent to bring the suit. This is more than you would get in court (where there is no "loser pays" clause).
Norman was founded in 1984 and is based in Norway:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_(company)
Norton was started by Peter Norton in 1990 and is now owned by Symantec:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Internet_Security
So, as you can see.. Your experience with Norton Clone has nothing to do with Norman.
gross income for a business is not the same as for your personal income:
here is the business definition of gross income
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/grossincome.asp
Yes, I have seen an income statement. Here's blizzards:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=ATVI
Notice it has separate lines for
Revenue, gross profit, and net income
That is because they are DIFFERENT
"Different" is when two things are not the same.. like how revenue and gross profit are not the same.
wow... really? you wrote all that and you couldn't be bothered to look up the definition of gross income?
gross income = revenue - cost of goods sold
No, gross income is not revenue. It is revenue - cost of goods sold
Income is exactly the same as profit. I think you are confusing income with revenue in your post.
there's no "magical feat".. the enclosure is 45" deep:
http://forwardthinking.pcmag.com/none/303516-demo-fall-2012-infrastructure-products
All he supposedly came up with is an "innovative" way to cool it... which will be copied (in an ever-so-slightly different way to avoid the patent) in 5 4 3 2 1...
It is 120 3.5" drives.. but..
the enclosure is 45" deep.
http://forwardthinking.pcmag.com/none/303516-demo-fall-2012-infrastructure-products
I'm sure you won't have a hard time figuring it out now.
The UN is nothing more and nothing less than the collective wishes of the leaders of the world's nations.
FTFY
The UN might be a great thing if everyone was able to elect their leaders (or at least their representatives in the UN) in free elections. But that isn't going to happen anytime soon, so the free people in the world should be critical of anything and everything from the UN, and feel completely free to disregard anything from the UN that reduces their rights.
Unelected leaders rule over several billion people. Letting them have a say over the remaining several billion would be even more unjust.
You're twisting things. Yes, he visited the girl who the taliban shot in the head for promoting girls education. Then he walked outside of that same hospital (where she is unconscious in intensive care, btw) and gave that "the taliban are fighting for freedom" speech.
He said that (his pro-jihad speech) outside of the hospital of a 14 year old girl who the taliban shot in the head for promoting girls education.
Two weeks ago a 14 year old girl was shot in the head while sitting on a school bus waiting to go home. She spoke out for girls education, and opposed the Taliban's burning of girls schools, etc. The Taliban said " the teenager's work had been an "obscenity" that needed to be stopped: This was a new chapter of obscenity, and we have to finish this chapter."
Khan visited the girl in the hospital, where she is unconscious in intensive care, and said:
Citing a verse from the Qur'an, he said: "It is very clear that whoever is fighting for their freedom is fighting a jihad
"The people who are fighting in Afghanistan against the foreign occupation are fighting a jihad,
This is the guy you say is promoting human rights? Promoting rights for women? Do you know WTF you're talking about?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/14/imran-khan-taliban-afghanistan-islam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/09/pakistan-girl-shot-activism-swat-taliban?intcmp=239
http://status.linode.com/2012/03/manager-security-incident.html
ok.. apparently it was their fault
Did the hackers get access to the bitcoin VM by hacking in through XenServer/VMWare?
Because if they didn't, then it has nothing to do with Linode. Linode's only responsibility is to secure the hypervisor. The security of your VM is your problem.