My response to the parent was intended to point out that members of congress sending letters to foreign leadership is most certainly illegal because congress does not have the authority to negotiate with foreign leaders. It wasn't intended to be a comment on the intellectual dishonesty of the Obama administration.
Negotiating treaties is the sole purview of the executive branch. The constitution gives the Senate the right to RATIFY a treaty with a 2/3rds vote but not the power to negotiate them.
The main rationale behind wedding the eBook price to the physical price is the publishers relationship to their physical distributors. In the same way that the video game industry is dependent on the marketing, and promotion of GameStop the book publishers are dependent on their relationship with their brick and mortar store. This was one of the reasons behind the publishers motivations for their price fixing scheme with Apple. It was at the behest of the book stores.
The thing is they are kind of stuck. A significant portion of their profits are still made from physical media because they make more per sale off of those goods so they can't afford pissing off their retailers and having all of their new releases relegated to the back shelf by the bathrooms.
The thing is that at the scale Google and co operate at even a minute different in tax rates can make it economically viable to hide the money offshore. If you lower the tax rate to accommodate their demands you create a race to the bottom as every country trying to get those tax dollars lowers their tax rate to less than their "competitors." And who are the losers in this arrangement? We are. The people who have to foot the deficit created in the governments budget on account of lost tax revenue.
As for the statistic about tax laws and regulation the US has over 660,000 pages. The UK should be weak sauce compared to that!
This is just dumb. Firstly this is in Nevada. A place with precious little water to spare for a hydro system as well as a myriad of obscenely complicated water rights dating back over a hundred years. Even looking crosswise at the local rivers for use in hydro generation would cost you more money than the railroad system proposed here, and that doesn't even begin to describe the outcry environmentalists will have in the US over the construction of a dam. All said and done a new hydro system will probably cost as much as a nuclear plant.
The elastic layer itself is supposed to contained under another normal layer of material that supposedly breaks away in the event of an impact to expose the adhesive layer underneath. I don't believe that they just sprayed the top of the car with glue.
A statement made with no understanding of section 230 of the DMCA at all. The section that clearly states that platform providers are NOT liable for copyright infringement on their site so long as they were not found to be willingly complicit in its uploading. The case against Mega Upload hinges on secondary liability, a concept that doesn't exist in the current copyright statutes, and the fact that Mega employees were uploading copyrighted content to the site.
So long as no one can prove that actual Google employees were explicitly aiding the infringement of copyright on their service then YouTube is protected by section 230.
I see this argument a lot around Slashdot, and while I would agree that this is typically correct for the top end of the labor pool it fails to take into account that an influx of cheap labor impacts people who are still gaining experience. Even if you are completely amazing at your chosen profession I would wager that your abilities, like everyone else's, where built up through time and experience. Time granted by a manager who had faith in your ability to grow.
If an influx of cheap labor prevents the more inexperienced people from gaining their expertise then the country will eventually be left barren of skills as the imported labor takes their skills and experience home with them at the end of their tenure.
This doesn't just apply to people coming straight out of college either. Even people who have some experience will be affected if they are replaced with a foreign visa holder before they can make the move from technical expert to leadership role.
Hate to break it to you but this is false. Since the 90s shareholders can sue the senior executives for failing to maximize the profit of the company. There are certain types of incorporation that will allow you to bypass this, such as incorporating as a B corp as opposed to an S corp, but this is not common.
Contracts have limitations on what they can allow a party to do. Contracts are found to have unenforceable conditions all the time, and there are also limitations on what rights can be signed away. Just look at Illinois, which is allowing a lawsuit to proceed against Facebook for its attempt to tag people in photos without their permission.
A clause in a contract stating that Apple has the power to take your music permanently in exchange for using their service temporarily is almost certainly unenforceable.
You would know if you had read the articles that Apple's terms of use explicitly state that they are going to delete your local files. It was quoted in the article. This was an intended feature along with the inability to recover you music after cancelling the service. This is no bug. It is blatant theft of digital property.
Except that very exception has been in place for many of the state copyright rules that governed copy right pre 1979. In fact it is still in place for many of the golden oldies and recently came up with Sony's old recordings of unreleased Bob Dylan practice tracks that they were forced to release as a CD or lose the copyright.
maybe, but I keep a ton of tabs open at a time and in order to keep as many one the screen at the same time as possible I disabled the icon tabs. When I did this the "tabs on the tabs" became so small that they were difficult to navigate, and it was annoying when I tried to move tabs around and they would stack instead of making room for the new tab on the list.
I would imagine that they are incredibly useful if you learn the hotkeys, but I haven't had the time or the desire to do so at the moment.
The main reason for me is that I really need side tabs. That was the one feature keeping me in fire fox for years because I have anywhere from 20 to 50 tabs open at a time. This is simply not doable in Chrome or Chromium without really hackish addons that create sepperate windows for the tabs. All in all Vivaldi was everything I wanted in a browser. (Chrome - Google) + side tabs
I switched to Vivaldi recently and after fiddling through the options for a bit I was able to get a pretty good browser out of it. Basically i went through the options and disabled all of the new UX design stuff, like tab stacking, and moved the tabs to the side. Its built on top of Chromium though so you still get the extensions.
Anyone can see the src and des fields in a packet, they are publicly available. They have to be other wise the router would have no idea how to route the packet. Deep packet inspection by definition means that they are inspecting the actual payload of the packet. This can also imply that the company is also doing ssl stripping or other means of defeating in transit encryption (apart from encryption done to the packets contents).
I switched to Vivaldi a few days ago. At first the new UI pissed me off, but after fiddling in the enormous amount of options I was able to get the browser that I want. Chrome - Google + Vertical Tabs. Haven't encountered a single bug so far, but that could be because I have turned off almost all of the new features like thumbnail tabs and tab stacking.
This is true normally, but in some places the new minimum wage is being extended to waiters and other tipped staff as well. So far the businesses have adapted by paying the wages and compensating by adding the cost on to the meals with a notice that tips are no longer necessary. This has worked out pretty well for the vast majority of users, and that is to be expected as this was the model for paying waiters prior to the great depression.
Funny enough before the stock market crashed in the great depression tipping was considered an un American practice as every man was worth the full attention of their server regardless of their ability to pay. Is wasn't until restaurant profits fell after the crash that employers came up with the tipping scheme as a way to avoid paying their staff.
5% is a problem but far less of one because the average amount gained by someone who negotiates their salary and someone who doesn't is 7%, and men are twice as likely to negotiate for a salary increase as women. Factoring that in the pay gap shrinks to within a pretty comfortable margin of error.
The FBI was the one that filed the public briefing against the wishes of Apple, and without giving time for a response from Apple's legal team. You theory kind of breaks down in the face of that little detail.
No the shooter was using the newer version of iOS. The FBI became unable to access the device because they accidentally asked the company that issued the phone to change the password. There is another trial case going on in New York that is revolving around an earlier version of the operating system.
Maybe a gamer who wanted the to play the games that are exclusive to the windows store such as Quantum Break, which is what caused the entire controversy in the first place. What this represents is the carving up of the PC space into a console like model of distribution where Microsoft is the gatekeeper of the PC gaming experience.
What you suggest is tying punishment to the whims of the victims. This isn't justice as it cannot be consistently applied to similar cases, but rather asks those in the most compromised emotional position to be making rational decisions. This isn't justice, it's vengeance.
The big problem with just paying the fine is the sheer scale of money at stake. If the US government were to actually fine VW for the full amount then VW would go bankrupt causing the destruction of untold numbers of jobs, as well as putting a serious damper on relations with Germany. If they reduce the fine so that VW is able to pay then VW wraps the fine into the cost of business and goes on its merry way. Obviously neither of these are an ideal solution which is why a third option was presented.
The third solution is to force VW to pay the full amount of the fine in a manner that doesn't bankrupt them. IE investing in certain infrastructure an manufacturing that repays America for the laws that they broke, while also offering them the possibility of earning back their investment. This has several benefits for the American people, most obvious of which is that it brings high skill manufacturing jobs to the United States. Manufacturing jobs are almost always excellent for the economy as it represents a large chain of supply benefiting many people along the way.
Another benefit is that is cements America as the center for development on electric vehicles. This is a position that could be invaluable in the long term as it represents the potential for large influxes of talent into American markets and the potential for high value exports. All of this will directly benefit the American people, who were the people harmed by the flaunting of the law in the first place.
While I do agree that it doesn't feel right to see them get off "scott free" the solutions that have everyone win are often times worth the sacrifice. This method, if implemented well, could represent a genuinely positive long term solution.
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My response to the parent was intended to point out that members of congress sending letters to foreign leadership is most certainly illegal because congress does not have the authority to negotiate with foreign leaders. It wasn't intended to be a comment on the intellectual dishonesty of the Obama administration.
Negotiating treaties is the sole purview of the executive branch. The constitution gives the Senate the right to RATIFY a treaty with a 2/3rds vote but not the power to negotiate them.
The main rationale behind wedding the eBook price to the physical price is the publishers relationship to their physical distributors. In the same way that the video game industry is dependent on the marketing, and promotion of GameStop the book publishers are dependent on their relationship with their brick and mortar store. This was one of the reasons behind the publishers motivations for their price fixing scheme with Apple. It was at the behest of the book stores.
The thing is they are kind of stuck. A significant portion of their profits are still made from physical media because they make more per sale off of those goods so they can't afford pissing off their retailers and having all of their new releases relegated to the back shelf by the bathrooms.
The thing is that at the scale Google and co operate at even a minute different in tax rates can make it economically viable to hide the money offshore. If you lower the tax rate to accommodate their demands you create a race to the bottom as every country trying to get those tax dollars lowers their tax rate to less than their "competitors." And who are the losers in this arrangement? We are. The people who have to foot the deficit created in the governments budget on account of lost tax revenue.
As for the statistic about tax laws and regulation the US has over 660,000 pages. The UK should be weak sauce compared to that!
This is just dumb. Firstly this is in Nevada. A place with precious little water to spare for a hydro system as well as a myriad of obscenely complicated water rights dating back over a hundred years. Even looking crosswise at the local rivers for use in hydro generation would cost you more money than the railroad system proposed here, and that doesn't even begin to describe the outcry environmentalists will have in the US over the construction of a dam. All said and done a new hydro system will probably cost as much as a nuclear plant.
The elastic layer itself is supposed to contained under another normal layer of material that supposedly breaks away in the event of an impact to expose the adhesive layer underneath. I don't believe that they just sprayed the top of the car with glue.
A statement made with no understanding of section 230 of the DMCA at all. The section that clearly states that platform providers are NOT liable for copyright infringement on their site so long as they were not found to be willingly complicit in its uploading. The case against Mega Upload hinges on secondary liability, a concept that doesn't exist in the current copyright statutes, and the fact that Mega employees were uploading copyrighted content to the site.
So long as no one can prove that actual Google employees were explicitly aiding the infringement of copyright on their service then YouTube is protected by section 230.
I see this argument a lot around Slashdot, and while I would agree that this is typically correct for the top end of the labor pool it fails to take into account that an influx of cheap labor impacts people who are still gaining experience. Even if you are completely amazing at your chosen profession I would wager that your abilities, like everyone else's, where built up through time and experience. Time granted by a manager who had faith in your ability to grow.
If an influx of cheap labor prevents the more inexperienced people from gaining their expertise then the country will eventually be left barren of skills as the imported labor takes their skills and experience home with them at the end of their tenure.
This doesn't just apply to people coming straight out of college either. Even people who have some experience will be affected if they are replaced with a foreign visa holder before they can make the move from technical expert to leadership role.
Hate to break it to you but this is false. Since the 90s shareholders can sue the senior executives for failing to maximize the profit of the company. There are certain types of incorporation that will allow you to bypass this, such as incorporating as a B corp as opposed to an S corp, but this is not common.
Contracts have limitations on what they can allow a party to do. Contracts are found to have unenforceable conditions all the time, and there are also limitations on what rights can be signed away. Just look at Illinois, which is allowing a lawsuit to proceed against Facebook for its attempt to tag people in photos without their permission.
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A clause in a contract stating that Apple has the power to take your music permanently in exchange for using their service temporarily is almost certainly unenforceable.
You would know if you had read the articles that Apple's terms of use explicitly state that they are going to delete your local files. It was quoted in the article. This was an intended feature along with the inability to recover you music after cancelling the service. This is no bug. It is blatant theft of digital property.
"canning" existed for years before the can opener by using jars and pickling the food that you wanted to preserve.
Except that very exception has been in place for many of the state copyright rules that governed copy right pre 1979. In fact it is still in place for many of the golden oldies and recently came up with Sony's old recordings of unreleased Bob Dylan practice tracks that they were forced to release as a CD or lose the copyright.
maybe, but I keep a ton of tabs open at a time and in order to keep as many one the screen at the same time as possible I disabled the icon tabs. When I did this the "tabs on the tabs" became so small that they were difficult to navigate, and it was annoying when I tried to move tabs around and they would stack instead of making room for the new tab on the list.
I would imagine that they are incredibly useful if you learn the hotkeys, but I haven't had the time or the desire to do so at the moment.
The main reason for me is that I really need side tabs. That was the one feature keeping me in fire fox for years because I have anywhere from 20 to 50 tabs open at a time. This is simply not doable in Chrome or Chromium without really hackish addons that create sepperate windows for the tabs. All in all Vivaldi was everything I wanted in a browser. (Chrome - Google) + side tabs
I switched to Vivaldi recently and after fiddling through the options for a bit I was able to get a pretty good browser out of it. Basically i went through the options and disabled all of the new UX design stuff, like tab stacking, and moved the tabs to the side. Its built on top of Chromium though so you still get the extensions.
Anyone can see the src and des fields in a packet, they are publicly available. They have to be other wise the router would have no idea how to route the packet. Deep packet inspection by definition means that they are inspecting the actual payload of the packet. This can also imply that the company is also doing ssl stripping or other means of defeating in transit encryption (apart from encryption done to the packets contents).
I switched to Vivaldi a few days ago. At first the new UI pissed me off, but after fiddling in the enormous amount of options I was able to get the browser that I want. Chrome - Google + Vertical Tabs. Haven't encountered a single bug so far, but that could be because I have turned off almost all of the new features like thumbnail tabs and tab stacking.
This is true normally, but in some places the new minimum wage is being extended to waiters and other tipped staff as well. So far the businesses have adapted by paying the wages and compensating by adding the cost on to the meals with a notice that tips are no longer necessary. This has worked out pretty well for the vast majority of users, and that is to be expected as this was the model for paying waiters prior to the great depression.
Funny enough before the stock market crashed in the great depression tipping was considered an un American practice as every man was worth the full attention of their server regardless of their ability to pay. Is wasn't until restaurant profits fell after the crash that employers came up with the tipping scheme as a way to avoid paying their staff.
5% is a problem but far less of one because the average amount gained by someone who negotiates their salary and someone who doesn't is 7%, and men are twice as likely to negotiate for a salary increase as women. Factoring that in the pay gap shrinks to within a pretty comfortable margin of error.
The FBI was the one that filed the public briefing against the wishes of Apple, and without giving time for a response from Apple's legal team. You theory kind of breaks down in the face of that little detail.
No the shooter was using the newer version of iOS. The FBI became unable to access the device because they accidentally asked the company that issued the phone to change the password. There is another trial case going on in New York that is revolving around an earlier version of the operating system.
Maybe a gamer who wanted the to play the games that are exclusive to the windows store such as Quantum Break, which is what caused the entire controversy in the first place. What this represents is the carving up of the PC space into a console like model of distribution where Microsoft is the gatekeeper of the PC gaming experience.
What you suggest is tying punishment to the whims of the victims. This isn't justice as it cannot be consistently applied to similar cases, but rather asks those in the most compromised emotional position to be making rational decisions. This isn't justice, it's vengeance.
The big problem with just paying the fine is the sheer scale of money at stake. If the US government were to actually fine VW for the full amount then VW would go bankrupt causing the destruction of untold numbers of jobs, as well as putting a serious damper on relations with Germany. If they reduce the fine so that VW is able to pay then VW wraps the fine into the cost of business and goes on its merry way. Obviously neither of these are an ideal solution which is why a third option was presented.
The third solution is to force VW to pay the full amount of the fine in a manner that doesn't bankrupt them. IE investing in certain infrastructure an manufacturing that repays America for the laws that they broke, while also offering them the possibility of earning back their investment. This has several benefits for the American people, most obvious of which is that it brings high skill manufacturing jobs to the United States. Manufacturing jobs are almost always excellent for the economy as it represents a large chain of supply benefiting many people along the way.
Another benefit is that is cements America as the center for development on electric vehicles. This is a position that could be invaluable in the long term as it represents the potential for large influxes of talent into American markets and the potential for high value exports. All of this will directly benefit the American people, who were the people harmed by the flaunting of the law in the first place.
While I do agree that it doesn't feel right to see them get off "scott free" the solutions that have everyone win are often times worth the sacrifice. This method, if implemented well, could represent a genuinely positive long term solution.