That Breitbart will soon be a competing TV channel, next to Fox, MSNBC and others. Rather than selling cups, hats and t-shirts, they will start pulling serious dollars from serious advertisers.
Smart Executives of companies "saved" by Trump (e.g. Carrier, Ford) will find a way to advertise on those channels. At some point war hawks, such as Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop-Grumman will start advertising their strategic bombers and new generation fighters (as if those people who watch television are the target audience).
Fight for the presidency is also fight for the resources, including advertising dollars and I have a feeling that Breitbart, and their readers, will not give a dang about some pesky annoying ads that will disappear from their website. Truth is they are probably larger or at least equal to Fox now, if respective audiences are compared.
Oh, so now you choose to elaborate about the majority as per electoral college versus the popular vote count. How sweet, selective and liberal.
Haven't you missed, that the issue is the super broad painting of the basket of deplorables, etc., irrespective if the basked was a majority or minority.
Driving Uber isn't a job. Drivers set their own time. They can wait for profitable (peak) time, or can go where there is more business.
Uber does not expect drivers to be at Uber all the times. A driver can work with Lyft. They can also get business by working as a licensed taxi, also offering a ride by soliciting in person.
Uber is not meant to be employer, but some people chose to make money out of it.
Using this type of logic, Ebay would owe people a lot of money.
Signing up for Uber does not make you employee, no matter how you spin it. Selling your old cellphone on Ebay does not make you salaried sales person either.
There will be appeal process to this. During appeal process finally THE logic, the legal logic, will be used and the ruling of the lower court will be thrown away. It is that simple. Luckily there is a reasonable and predictable legal process. There are so many arguments and practical hacks against the ruling that it is not even practicable to even list those arguments, and we will not even attempt to do so.
However here is one: Under the current interpretation, all you need to do is to register yourself, and the money starts flowing. Reality is that, the law would force employment contract between Uber and the driver, while, clearly, there is no agreement between the the Uber and the driver, and Uber is under no commitment to bring business to the driver when there is none.
So, what you need to do is to open an Uber account, go to the furthest part of the island, where there is a zero demand for UBER service, preferably during the night and check-in. Leave the car overnight and let the idle car make money, while doing nothing.
Opportunities are limitless.
All it will do is that Uber will accelerate driver-less car fleet and those who were petitioning for minimum hourly rate, on behalf of all drivers, will accelerate mass joblessness, as most of the Uber drivers will be obsolete.
Clearly in this country, they want to make gun ownership more complicated more convoluted and to outlaw with the complexity. Look at the gun laws in NJ: in NJ, they need two references, they may contact your supervisor, they will force you to pay various fees, you will have to wait six month. License to carry a gun is almost never issued to the civilians (only to former military, cops). Oh, by the way, you need to be at least a resident....
That is for a "right".
Driving... Let's, say you are a Canadian, 21 years, old. You can come to this country to work. You will get your driver-learner permit same day, and you will get your license within a week or a month. You can have your Canadian drivers license.
Clearly, while guns are a right, those in power put efforts to restrict these rights and to make it a privilege, while not changing the constitution. For those who are young enough, driving used to be a right, a right that is not even questioned. You do not need to ask a permit to breathe, you do no need to ask a permit to walk, as long as you dont go on a private property. You never needed to as anyone a permit to ride a horse. It used to be an implied right.
Just because it was so obvious, it was not written on paper, as an amendment to the constitution, it was taken away.
This smart electronic is nothing else but a next attempt to put restrictions on a supposed "right".
Shareholder suing own property is just stupid. Lawsuits will cause the company to spend millions of dollars for lawyer fees and the only winner will be the third party - the lawyers. Both the company and shareholders will be poorer as an outcome of the controversy.
As such, suing the management of the company where you own some stocks is only useful if you are a lawyer (or a litigation industry).
Those at power always forget that the market takes care of most of the issues both real or bureaucrat invented. When humanity was switching from horses to ICE, there were no laws that would ban horses. Nowadays those laws would be invented for horses generate not exactly hygienic manure, tons of it, literally. Utilization of used and obsolete engines, horses, would be considered inhumane by today's standards. That being said, even the most authoritarian bureaucrats did not ban horses for all the flaws, for the emission of methane and relative impracticality.
The talks that some utilitarian technology, as ICE, needs to be banned only proves that the alternatives are not viable, and the open stated goal is, really, a population control with the baked in higher taxes.
One of the Brexit points was incandescent bulbs. At some point UK voters scratched their heads and decided that they do not need the bureaucrat what kind of bulb to use in their house.
Germany loves cars, it is, trully, a cradle of automobile production. Calls for the forceful ban of ICE, can accelerate GEREXIT at some point.
And a final point, that all the readers seem to be missing is related to the Military vehicles. When will we see solar energy powered armored personnel carriers, tanks, trucks? The country with battery or fuel cell powered army is very vulnerable.
Total ICE combustion ban, by law, is not going to happen.
There is a chance that some other countries will mandate forced switch to Linux based operating systems (some already have quasi-required to do so, such as Bulgaria).
This will require SAP, Oracle and others to have adequate client software that does operate in Linux.
We have heard this argument that it better to have one OS, but Apple OS demonstrated that competition is indeed valuable. Similiar argument could be applied to Android/iOS.
While Putin is who we know he is, in the long term, government subsidized Linux might be the best thing that happened. Some people think that government should be in healthcare, using that logic government can be subsidizing open source software.
I hope that they will do it in English, not a Russian Cyrillic masterpiece
A big picture is that EC is targeting not just the Apple, but it is targeting the business model. The principle. It impacts many of Fortune 200 companies, including Facebook, Google and many many more entities. Apple is, by far the largest. If it works on Apple, all others will just fold.
It will move the stock market. By a lot. In the long term, of course, because the ruling will have an impact to the accounting provisions which are not necessarily instantly are disclosed, or, for proprietary reasons, recognized in the financial statements.
European Commission will punish California Teachers? You don't believe it?
If a tax ruling is made, irrespective of appellation process Apple stock will take a hit. A big hit. Huge bite to capitalization.
One of the largest Apple shareholders is Vanguard Funds, and Vanguard Funds are owned by multiple 401k and pension plans in USA. Bottom line is that not only teachers, but many in the middle class will lose a boatload of money because European Commission, directed by unelected president Junker TOLD Ireland to change treatment of Ireland's laws and to extort more money.
Every time those bureaucrats try fixing and every time there will be unintended consequences, they always fuck up.
If appeals are not successful and a precedent is formed, then expect Ireland to become much less desirable manufacturing location. There will major job and investment losses.
A new law is required, which says that if CEO is a woman, and a sale occurs at a loss, a loss should be subsidized by the taxpayers. We are subsidizing Obamacare for almost everyone.
Your example is a perfect example for unintended consequences of each and every government's decision.
I can give one more example. There may be some bona-fide less desirable locations with low wages, that do have difficulty attracting qualified personel. This will be a burden for some organization in the midland of America trying to hire a skilled worker.
That being said, every law will have consequences, the outcomes that the politicians would not want to think about it. Here are the few: the limit of $100K does not appear to be indexed to inflation. Which means that in a decade the new limit of $100K will become what is now $50K.
As others already mentioned, some jobs a highly telecommutable. IT, accounting, calling centers are frequent examples, but there are many more. Because of never ending increases in taxes (local property taxes), workers demand 2-3% annual raise, annually compounding corporate costs. Basically, because of the increasing taxation and now mandatory health tax increase (wait for 2017 enrollment period), more companies will be looking for ways to cut the costs and will outsource the jobs.
Even president Trump with his promises will not be quick to help.
Finally, US will become less desirable destination to study. Which is a good thing, of course, because it will help to prick current US study cost bubble, as less foreigners (paying full price) will come to study to the USA.
All in all, increase is probably a good thing. However the blowback will be very different from what people expect.
They might have sold 50,000 units. It does not matter much.
The truth is that while there is a niche for product, the fact is that people will not be able to work on one screen for a long time. What this product is really a digital whiteboard (to produce corporate cave paintings) and high quality video teleconference device. That is about it.
If they think there will be other uses, then they need to get this: they might have resolved tons of technical challenges, kudos for that, but human psychology is far far more complicated. Unlike kids playing in a sandbox, people cannot work in a close contact with each other for a long time.
And for a whiteboard and videoconferencing device this thing is way too pricey.
Kudos MS for trying something that Apple decided not to.
I have never heard of Kickass Torrent in the past. Ever. Now I will be very curious just to see on what have they got.
Now, this attempt to arrest an individual who is hosting a server which has url information reminds me very much of recent LEO work in Orlando Disney park, after a 2 year old was snatched by the alligators.
It was surprising to see when two days after the accident the local police reported that they, the police officers, have "identified" the "guilty" alligator and "put him down". http://www.people.com/article/...
You can't make this shit up.
At some point then it dawns that all this fuss was about PD overtime.
Same principles apply in KickAssTorrent website: police force imitate investigative work, they convince the judge that "data is in the computer" (remember the scene from Zoolander - The files is in the computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ),they imitate the value delivered, eventually they identify the guilty server (alligator) and take him down.
The winners: police force getting a lot of overtime pay on a work which is not really dangerous nor this is a law enforcement.
Both professions, CPA and MD, are subject to "mandatory" annual "trainings"...
Both professions provide as much challenge as one desires. Retail, mainstream tax return filings do not change at all, or all of the changes are understood by tax professional in 5 minutes (change in standard deduction, change in 401k contribution limit, basically, some of the variables change) and can be presented on one sheet of paper.
Same with medical profession: PCP's do get buzzed annually and individually within trainings and by the sales reps by new diabetes, allergy, blood pressure etc. medication.
My PCP is using paper. No time spent by the doctor filling checklist and facing his tablet/laptop. My PCP does not order unnecessary tests. When I forgot to pay $10 copay for 90 days and I moved, I was not sent to collections. Well, she is 5th generation doctor, is disgusted by Obamacare (and democrat party for that matter), and is computer literate. The only difference is that she stuck with paper records. This doctor, old school - no nonsense practice, is a rather pleasant exception.
Problem is, she works and she does not write the laws.
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That Breitbart will soon be a competing TV channel, next to Fox, MSNBC and others. Rather than selling cups, hats and t-shirts, they will start pulling serious dollars from serious advertisers.
Smart Executives of companies "saved" by Trump (e.g. Carrier, Ford) will find a way to advertise on those channels. At some point war hawks, such as Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop-Grumman will start advertising their strategic bombers and new generation fighters (as if those people who watch television are the target audience).
Fight for the presidency is also fight for the resources, including advertising dollars and I have a feeling that Breitbart, and their readers, will not give a dang about some pesky annoying ads that will disappear from their website. Truth is they are probably larger or at least equal to Fox now, if respective audiences are compared.
George Soros connected company Smartmatic has provided those electronic voting machines.
Now it is all clear: Nazi collaborator Soros wanted another Hitler loving fellow Trump to win.
Sneaky Soros...
Many VPN service firms have been founded by taxpayer money, and merely are the different arm of operations.
Oh, so now you choose to elaborate about the majority as per electoral college versus the popular vote count. How sweet, selective and liberal.
Haven't you missed, that the issue is the super broad painting of the basket of deplorables, etc., irrespective if the basked was a majority or minority.
I really am.
To survive such a powerful stream of filth from massmedia, and to win in landslide.... He is the man, he rocks! True Mr. ImPerfect....
Also... sort of... shame on that arrogant MINORITY who treat MAJORITY of the country as deplorables, sexists, misogynists, racists, xenophobes.
Buying domain names is a smart and preemptive move. Domains could have been relevant in a campaign versus Bernie.
With Clinton.... Trumpists are outnumbering most online polls and forums, such as Reddit.
Many of the Berners no longer give a s**t about Clinton, many of them even will not be voting for her.
1 suicide within the trial? That is a success. 100% contraception success.
This one will sure not be able to procreate anymore.
Driving Uber isn't a job. Drivers set their own time. They can wait for profitable (peak) time, or can go where there is more business.
Uber does not expect drivers to be at Uber all the times. A driver can work with Lyft. They can also get business by working as a licensed taxi, also offering a ride by soliciting in person.
Uber is not meant to be employer, but some people chose to make money out of it.
Using this type of logic, Ebay would owe people a lot of money.
Signing up for Uber does not make you employee, no matter how you spin it. Selling your old cellphone on Ebay does not make you salaried sales person either.
There will be appeal process to this. During appeal process finally THE logic, the legal logic, will be used and the ruling of the lower court will be thrown away. It is that simple. Luckily there is a reasonable and predictable legal process. There are so many arguments and practical hacks against the ruling that it is not even practicable to even list those arguments, and we will not even attempt to do so.
However here is one:
Under the current interpretation, all you need to do is to register yourself, and the money starts flowing. Reality is that, the law would force employment contract between Uber and the driver, while, clearly, there is no agreement between the the Uber and the driver, and Uber is under no commitment to bring business to the driver when there is none.
So, what you need to do is to open an Uber account, go to the furthest part of the island, where there is a zero demand for UBER service, preferably during the night and check-in. Leave the car overnight and let the idle car make money, while doing nothing.
Opportunities are limitless.
All it will do is that Uber will accelerate driver-less car fleet and those who were petitioning for minimum hourly rate, on behalf of all drivers, will accelerate mass joblessness, as most of the Uber drivers will be obsolete.
That is a matter of a decade.
And you do not need to be a sir Newton to figure that out.
It is the British pound that lost value.
Notice how companies are quick to raise prices, but are very slow to reduce the prices when currency is strong (hint: Switzerland).
Not all is negative in this: UK may consider switching to OS software in the long term.
Clearly in this country, they want to make gun ownership more complicated more convoluted and to outlaw with the complexity. Look at the gun laws in NJ: in NJ, they need two references, they may contact your supervisor, they will force you to pay various fees, you will have to wait six month. License to carry a gun is almost never issued to the civilians (only to former military, cops). Oh, by the way, you need to be at least a resident....
That is for a "right".
Driving ... Let's, say you are a Canadian, 21 years, old. You can come to this country to work. You will get your driver-learner permit same day, and you will get your license within a week or a month. You can have your Canadian drivers license.
Clearly, while guns are a right, those in power put efforts to restrict these rights and to make it a privilege, while not changing the constitution. For those who are young enough, driving used to be a right, a right that is not even questioned. You do not need to ask a permit to breathe, you do no need to ask a permit to walk, as long as you dont go on a private property. You never needed to as anyone a permit to ride a horse. It used to be an implied right.
Just because it was so obvious, it was not written on paper, as an amendment to the constitution, it was taken away.
This smart electronic is nothing else but a next attempt to put restrictions on a supposed "right".
Right.....
Shareholder suing own property is just stupid. Lawsuits will cause the company to spend millions of dollars for lawyer fees and the only winner will be the third party - the lawyers. Both the company and shareholders will be poorer as an outcome of the controversy.
As such, suing the management of the company where you own some stocks is only useful if you are a lawyer (or a litigation industry).
Those at power always forget that the market takes care of most of the issues both real or bureaucrat invented. When humanity was switching from horses to ICE, there were no laws that would ban horses. Nowadays those laws would be invented for horses generate not exactly hygienic manure, tons of it, literally. Utilization of used and obsolete engines, horses, would be considered inhumane by today's standards. That being said, even the most authoritarian bureaucrats did not ban horses for all the flaws, for the emission of methane and relative impracticality.
The talks that some utilitarian technology, as ICE, needs to be banned only proves that the alternatives are not viable, and the open stated goal is, really, a population control with the baked in higher taxes.
One of the Brexit points was incandescent bulbs. At some point UK voters scratched their heads and decided that they do not need the bureaucrat what kind of bulb to use in their house.
Germany loves cars, it is, trully, a cradle of automobile production. Calls for the forceful ban of ICE, can accelerate GEREXIT at some point.
And a final point, that all the readers seem to be missing is related to the Military vehicles. When will we see solar energy powered armored personnel carriers, tanks, trucks? The country with battery or fuel cell powered army is very vulnerable.
Total ICE combustion ban, by law, is not going to happen.
If I go offline for 24 hours, I will no longer receive slashdot vanity bonus points for daily login.
Nah, can't do that.
There is a chance that some other countries will mandate forced switch to Linux based operating systems (some already have quasi-required to do so, such as Bulgaria).
This will require SAP, Oracle and others to have adequate client software that does operate in Linux.
We have heard this argument that it better to have one OS, but Apple OS demonstrated that competition is indeed valuable. Similiar argument could be applied to Android/iOS.
While Putin is who we know he is, in the long term, government subsidized Linux might be the best thing that happened. Some people think that government should be in healthcare, using that logic government can be subsidizing open source software.
I hope that they will do it in English, not a Russian Cyrillic masterpiece
A big picture is that EC is targeting not just the Apple, but it is targeting the business model. The principle. It impacts many of Fortune 200 companies, including Facebook, Google and many many more entities. Apple is, by far the largest. If it works on Apple, all others will just fold.
It will move the stock market. By a lot. In the long term, of course, because the ruling will have an impact to the accounting provisions which are not necessarily instantly are disclosed, or, for proprietary reasons, recognized in the financial statements.
European Commission will punish California Teachers? You don't believe it?
If a tax ruling is made, irrespective of appellation process Apple stock will take a hit. A big hit. Huge bite to capitalization.
One of the largest Apple shareholders is Vanguard Funds, and Vanguard Funds are owned by multiple 401k and pension plans in USA. Bottom line is that not only teachers, but many in the middle class will lose a boatload of money because European Commission, directed by unelected president Junker TOLD Ireland to change treatment of Ireland's laws and to extort more money.
Every time those bureaucrats try fixing and every time there will be unintended consequences, they always fuck up.
If appeals are not successful and a precedent is formed, then expect Ireland to become much less desirable manufacturing location. There will major job and investment losses.
Expect eventually Ireland to leave EU
You would be pretty irresponsible to register at Infowars.com using your real identity.
If you do register, you should expect that one day you will end up in someone's shit list, according to the lessons of the history. That day has come.
That being said, if only email and login credentials have been hacked, then it is not a big issue. Website will ask users to update passwords.
What's the value of having the listing of 50,000 emails? Start marketing guns, gold, food ?
Selling for $5B is sexist.
A new law is required, which says that if CEO is a woman, and a sale occurs at a loss, a loss should be subsidized by the taxpayers. We are subsidizing Obamacare for almost everyone.
Your example is a perfect example for unintended consequences of each and every government's decision.
I can give one more example. There may be some bona-fide less desirable locations with low wages, that do have difficulty attracting qualified personel. This will be a burden for some organization in the midland of America trying to hire a skilled worker.
That being said, every law will have consequences, the outcomes that the politicians would not want to think about it. Here are the few: the limit of $100K does not appear to be indexed to inflation. Which means that in a decade the new limit of $100K will become what is now $50K.
As others already mentioned, some jobs a highly telecommutable. IT, accounting, calling centers are frequent examples, but there are many more. Because of never ending increases in taxes (local property taxes), workers demand 2-3% annual raise, annually compounding corporate costs. Basically, because of the increasing taxation and now mandatory health tax increase (wait for 2017 enrollment period), more companies will be looking for ways to cut the costs and will outsource the jobs.
Even president Trump with his promises will not be quick to help.
Finally, US will become less desirable destination to study. Which is a good thing, of course, because it will help to prick current US study cost bubble, as less foreigners (paying full price) will come to study to the USA.
All in all, increase is probably a good thing. However the blowback will be very different from what people expect.
They might have sold 50,000 units. It does not matter much.
The truth is that while there is a niche for product, the fact is that people will not be able to work on one screen for a long time. What this product is really a digital whiteboard (to produce corporate cave paintings) and high quality video teleconference device. That is about it.
If they think there will be other uses, then they need to get this: they might have resolved tons of technical challenges, kudos for that, but human psychology is far far more complicated. Unlike kids playing in a sandbox, people cannot work in a close contact with each other for a long time.
And for a whiteboard and videoconferencing device this thing is way too pricey.
Kudos MS for trying something that Apple decided not to.
I have never heard of Kickass Torrent in the past. Ever. Now I will be very curious just to see on what have they got.
Now, this attempt to arrest an individual who is hosting a server which has url information reminds me very much of recent LEO work in Orlando Disney park, after a 2 year old was snatched by the alligators.
It was surprising to see when two days after the accident the local police reported that they, the police officers, have "identified" the "guilty" alligator and "put him down". http://www.people.com/article/...
You can't make this shit up.
At some point then it dawns that all this fuss was about PD overtime.
Same principles apply in KickAssTorrent website: police force imitate investigative work, they convince the judge that "data is in the computer" (remember the scene from Zoolander - The files is in the computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ),they imitate the value delivered, eventually they identify the guilty server (alligator) and take him down.
The winners: police force getting a lot of overtime pay on a work which is not really dangerous nor this is a law enforcement.
We agree, and agree to agree.
Both professions, CPA and MD, are subject to "mandatory" annual "trainings"...
Both professions provide as much challenge as one desires. Retail, mainstream tax return filings do not change at all, or all of the changes are understood by tax professional in 5 minutes (change in standard deduction, change in 401k contribution limit, basically, some of the variables change) and can be presented on one sheet of paper.
Same with medical profession: PCP's do get buzzed annually and individually within trainings and by the sales reps by new diabetes, allergy, blood pressure etc. medication.
My PCP is using paper. No time spent by the doctor filling checklist and facing his tablet/laptop. My PCP does not order unnecessary tests. When I forgot to pay $10 copay for 90 days and I moved, I was not sent to collections. Well, she is 5th generation doctor, is disgusted by Obamacare (and democrat party for that matter), and is computer literate. The only difference is that she stuck with paper records. This doctor, old school - no nonsense practice, is a rather pleasant exception.
Problem is, she works and she does not write the laws.