While "species" is most commonly used in a biological context, it takes its meaning in that field from its previous generic meaning of "type" or "sort".
The whole point of voting is to satisfy the majority. If you are a member of a minority, you may not want things to be decided by votes, whether monetary or at the ballot box.
My guess is that the bootloader locking isn't so much the carriers (because they already cut Huawei out) - seems to me that it is more likely a result of the ongoing pressure being applied by the feds.
And the much lower cost of long distance phone calls. I recall my parents telling me about how high long distance fees were when they were dating long distance in the 80s. Even in the early 90s, we wouldn't hear from our grandparents very often because long distance phone calls were a "special-events" sort of thing.
Actually, we only have a progressive income tax. Most of the actually rich generate most of their revenue from non-income sources that avoid this progressive tax - for example capital gains is a flat tax.
I think this is the way to think about things. The problem is that once a freedom decreasing measure is tried, it brings along with it a bureaucracy that will argue for it's continued existence, regardless of effectiveness. The TSA brought us a decrease in freedom, without an observable increase in security. Now that it exists, however, any discussion of its failings will not lead to a discussion about dismantling the TSA, it will only lead to discussions about how it must use more resources and be more intrusive. The ratchet swings only one way.
When I read Ender's game for the first time several years ago, I was struck by the idea that even though the story had been written long before the internet became what it is now, "the Nets" could still be in our future. The ever increasing geographic restrictions on the internet are taking us closer and closer to "the Nets".
Now we just gotta hope that the bugs stay away...
Asus had (has?) something like this with their ExpressGate. I only used it briefly on a laptop from them nearly a decade ago. I'm not sure whether it was a separate CPU, but I think it was running off of ROM and not the main hard drive.
The prime problem with unions in the US is that US labor laws, unlike European labor laws, encourage "monopolistic" union practices. Once a union has been formed, workers are essentially obligated to join and there isn't competition between unions within a single workplace. In europe, the competition between unions, and the freedom of workers to join them or not (pay dues or not) means that unions stay truly interested in worker rights.
If the US had EU style unions, I bet that they would be a lot more popular with the tech crowd. As it is, I don't want a US mafia style union in my workplace. I'd rather just go it alone.
"Someone looks in the trashcan, picks up the folder, reads the results, and decides to trade on the stock based on the financial results. This person is NOT guilty of insider trading."
Tell that to Martha Stewart. She went to prison for selling her position in ImClone based on a tip from a broker who noticed ImClone's CEO was dumping his stock. That's all it took for her to be guilty of insider trading.
Trading based on information not known to the public at large is all it takes to be in violation of insider-trading laws regardless of how you came into that information.
Didn't she go to prison for lying about what she did, rather than directly for what she did?
I don't know about New York, but Massachusetts actually does. There is a bill currently somewhere in the legislative process to end the practice, but as it stands now there is actually no lower limit on when a minor can marry in Massachusetts with parental consent. https://malegislature.gov/Bill...
Specifically naming the organizations in the law is going be particularly susceptible to problems.
^ This. The targeted corporations can and will take the EU to court and they will win hands down because this taxing is discriminatory. If, on the other hand, they taxed all companies operating in the EU in the same fashion then they wouldn't able to be challenged.
Except - they aren't forcing the companies to pay this tax. They are encouraging them to pay it, with the threat of making life hard for them if they don't. That seems like it would be harder to challenge.
Just because companies are technically immortal does not mean that they are actually immortal. They wither and die quite frequently - the average age of an S&P 500 company is actually falling. Most companies find a niche, have a productive "middle age" filling that niche, and then die as the niche becomes irrelevant.
As far as mating goes, companies both have mergers and spinoffs. The exchange of C-suite (and even lower level employees) between companies could also be seen as a form of "genetic" exchange. The spread of business practices like six sigma rather resemble how bacteria pass plasmids around.
It's not about not having government (of any sort), it is really more about 1. decoupling the territory from a governmental monopoly. 2. removing the monopoly on any given service. There is still government function, but without the monopoly, and with the addition of competition one would imagine the rich ruling would occur less, not more.
This was my question too, so I looked it up and holy cow, there was indeed pre-gps dead reckoning based car navigation. https://www.fastcompany.com/30...
Who doesn't like fried chicken and watermelon? That seems like a shitty example to me, because those two things are awesome. Where I grew up, everybody liked rice. EVERYBODY;)
Do people not have quad-cab trucks in the UK? Here in America, lots of people seem to use what are basically huge SUV with tiny beds for people moving. Doesn't make sense to me when a mini-van gets nearly twice the gas mileage, but mini-vans aren't cool like a big truck.
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So with writing lots of code? Sorry, I'm a horrible person.
That's not a bad folk etymology.
While "species" is most commonly used in a biological context, it takes its meaning in that field from its previous generic meaning of "type" or "sort".
Isn't this more or less what Amazon is trying to do right now with Twitch?
Because they want to be able to get back into the market in a couple of years?
The whole point of voting is to satisfy the majority. If you are a member of a minority, you may not want things to be decided by votes, whether monetary or at the ballot box.
My guess is that the bootloader locking isn't so much the carriers (because they already cut Huawei out) - seems to me that it is more likely a result of the ongoing pressure being applied by the feds.
And the much lower cost of long distance phone calls. I recall my parents telling me about how high long distance fees were when they were dating long distance in the 80s. Even in the early 90s, we wouldn't hear from our grandparents very often because long distance phone calls were a "special-events" sort of thing.
Actually, we only have a progressive income tax. Most of the actually rich generate most of their revenue from non-income sources that avoid this progressive tax - for example capital gains is a flat tax.
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I think this is the way to think about things. The problem is that once a freedom decreasing measure is tried, it brings along with it a bureaucracy that will argue for it's continued existence, regardless of effectiveness. The TSA brought us a decrease in freedom, without an observable increase in security. Now that it exists, however, any discussion of its failings will not lead to a discussion about dismantling the TSA, it will only lead to discussions about how it must use more resources and be more intrusive. The ratchet swings only one way.
When I read Ender's game for the first time several years ago, I was struck by the idea that even though the story had been written long before the internet became what it is now, "the Nets" could still be in our future. The ever increasing geographic restrictions on the internet are taking us closer and closer to "the Nets". Now we just gotta hope that the bugs stay away...
Asus had (has?) something like this with their ExpressGate. I only used it briefly on a laptop from them nearly a decade ago. I'm not sure whether it was a separate CPU, but I think it was running off of ROM and not the main hard drive.
The prime problem with unions in the US is that US labor laws, unlike European labor laws, encourage "monopolistic" union practices. Once a union has been formed, workers are essentially obligated to join and there isn't competition between unions within a single workplace. In europe, the competition between unions, and the freedom of workers to join them or not (pay dues or not) means that unions stay truly interested in worker rights. If the US had EU style unions, I bet that they would be a lot more popular with the tech crowd. As it is, I don't want a US mafia style union in my workplace. I'd rather just go it alone.
"Someone looks in the trashcan, picks up the folder, reads the results, and decides to trade on the stock based on the financial results. This person is NOT guilty of insider trading."
Tell that to Martha Stewart. She went to prison for selling her position in ImClone based on a tip from a broker who noticed ImClone's CEO was dumping his stock. That's all it took for her to be guilty of insider trading.
Trading based on information not known to the public at large is all it takes to be in violation of insider-trading laws regardless of how you came into that information.
Didn't she go to prison for lying about what she did, rather than directly for what she did?
I don't know about New York, but Massachusetts actually does. There is a bill currently somewhere in the legislative process to end the practice, but as it stands now there is actually no lower limit on when a minor can marry in Massachusetts with parental consent. https://malegislature.gov/Bill...
Specifically naming the organizations in the law is going be particularly susceptible to problems.
^ This. The targeted corporations can and will take the EU to court and they will win hands down because this taxing is discriminatory. If, on the other hand, they taxed all companies operating in the EU in the same fashion then they wouldn't able to be challenged.
Except - they aren't forcing the companies to pay this tax. They are encouraging them to pay it, with the threat of making life hard for them if they don't. That seems like it would be harder to challenge.
Just imagine how much of a sad, pathetic cunt you have to be to write all this jizz. Scary stuff.
It boggles my mind as well.
Just because companies are technically immortal does not mean that they are actually immortal. They wither and die quite frequently - the average age of an S&P 500 company is actually falling. Most companies find a niche, have a productive "middle age" filling that niche, and then die as the niche becomes irrelevant. As far as mating goes, companies both have mergers and spinoffs. The exchange of C-suite (and even lower level employees) between companies could also be seen as a form of "genetic" exchange. The spread of business practices like six sigma rather resemble how bacteria pass plasmids around.
I'm really happy to get this reference. :D
It's not about not having government (of any sort), it is really more about 1. decoupling the territory from a governmental monopoly. 2. removing the monopoly on any given service. There is still government function, but without the monopoly, and with the addition of competition one would imagine the rich ruling would occur less, not more.
This was my question too, so I looked it up and holy cow, there was indeed pre-gps dead reckoning based car navigation. https://www.fastcompany.com/30...
Even if the insuring entity makes no profit, it must still have administrative overhead.
Who doesn't like fried chicken and watermelon? That seems like a shitty example to me, because those two things are awesome. Where I grew up, everybody liked rice. EVERYBODY ;)
Do people not have quad-cab trucks in the UK? Here in America, lots of people seem to use what are basically huge SUV with tiny beds for people moving. Doesn't make sense to me when a mini-van gets nearly twice the gas mileage, but mini-vans aren't cool like a big truck.