Governments have been given the power by the people to regulate businesses. Businesses cannot regulate themselves, even over the short term (Wells Fargo bank fraud, the financial crisis, etc.) so we have delegated that job as we see fit. If you have a problem with that, go to Somalia. No law there except at the point of a gun - and you'll have no legal recourse.
And grow-ops illegally modify wiring, so, as you yourself conceded "demonstrated anything except that the power will be cut off if the wiring has been illegally tampered with and/or is a hazard. " And when you argue that "That's a long way from it being used to deny a criminal electricy (sic)" you're overlooking the obvious - meter tampering is illegal.in and of itself, as is theft of electricity.
Sure you did, a couple of months ago. I guess the fat got to your brain.
You've clearly got a bug up your arse if you are willing to so distort the truth as to insist that someone's legal name is a lie. And it doesn't matter what I believe - my birth certificate, etc., are all that counts. You can argue all you want otherwise, but you are distorting reality.
Doesn't have to, same as 2nd amendment freaks argue that the "militia" part has nothing to do with anyone else's right to bear arms. Go argue with the NRA and the Supreme Court. The portion of a law that describes the purpose is irrelevant to the granting actual rights granted in the law. It could have read "To promote wooden shoes" for all it matters.
CloudFlare is, to the outside world, hosting the site. After all, the site has no external IPs of it's own, which makes CloudFlare the hosting service. That's what a content distribution network does - hosts and distributes the site's content. They could certainly be ordered to stop hosting and distributing the site's files, same as any ISP can be ordered to stop hosting and distributing the site.
You already bragged about your workout routine. You don't like being called an obese fat-head, then stop calling people by other than their legal name. Otherwise, you're a big fat hypocrite.
Once police enter a grow-op, they order electricity to be cut to the building and register a Make Safe order against the property. The Electrical Safety Authority will only restore power when the building is made habitable according to a report from a qualified engineering firm or industrial hygienist.
A older home on No. 7 Road had its power off for three weeks after evidence of tampering was found on its old meter. But the tenant was never informed what the problem was, and instead was told BC Hydro suspected it was a grow-op.
If the gains from increased productivity had been distribute between the employers and the employees over the last generation, we'd be enjoying 2-day work weeks. History is no guarantee of the future. People used to say that house prices would never go down... until they did. We're still experiencing the financial hangover. People used to say that a degree was a guarantee of a job... until nowadays it mostly isn't. People used to say that oil the days of cheap oil were over because of decreasing supply... now we're in a glut and prices tanked. North Korea used to be a pimple on the world's butt... and now they have nukes. The US used to be the number one economy - now China surpasses it in terms purchasing power parity (ppp).
Past performance is no guarantee of future returns.
How do you know what they'e netting on their operations? Oh, right, you don't. The cost difference between serving the files themselves and using CloudFlare might just be enough to put them out of business. Also, then it's easy to shut down the site because they're not hiding behind CloudFlare. So CloudFlare is definitely the difference between operating and getting caught and shut down, whether they'd still be profitable or not.
Uber took away the taxi driver jobs, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't a taxi driver.
Amazon took away independent courier jobs, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't a courier.
You know how this ends...
Obviously the people downloading find some value in what they're downloading. And they're not compensating the rightful owners, who legally have the right to decide who they sell to in the first place, the price, terms, etc. You want an open society with no rules? Good luck getting any contract enforced.
Grow-ops have the power cut all the time. Why should an illegal raw milk distributor be any different?
They can also cut your physical phone line, terminate your phone service (once they seize your bank account, everything else will be cut eventually anyway), and barricade your entrance so the snowplow guy can't plow, though he won't bother once your checks are returned.
he termination of CloudFlare's CDN services would have no impact on the existence and ability of these allegedly infringing websites to continue to operate
If it would make now impact, why are they in business? Kind of hard to get people to buy a service that doesn't do anything.
The problem, the consultants found, was that feasibility studies were often badly outdated by the time the department got around to approving projects, sometimes years later. And delays in funding approval meant that existing infrastructure on reserves deteriorated, further raising costs.
They still have $127 of inventory on the books even after taking a $41 million charge in the quarter. How much is that going to be worth now that it's orphaned? Between that and the hallucinatory goodwill of $562 million, their shareholder equity is still down by $809 million. Where are all those assets they bought? If they had invested more in assets than they sold, those assets would have to show up as assets on the balance sheet somewhere. They don't.
And as I said, the world disagrees with you. You're the one stuck in the past. Fortunately, TV programs like Modern Family and the transition of Caitlyn Jenner have pretty much normalized those who do not conform to the old norms.
Their latest filing states $562 million goodwill as an asset. Do you really believe it? They tried to sell themselves off when they had more money in the bank and there were no bites.
Long-term debt usually comes with caveats. Share price, profitability, minimum revenue, etc. Also, according to their 1Q 2017 filing (you read that right, 2017) their cash on and and short-term (relatively liquid) assets is $2.5 billion (they sold off $416 million in short-term assets in the 3-month period). They also recorded long-term asset impairment of just over $500 million. Their actual long-term debt is $1.253 billion, and total debt is $2.171 billion.
Shareholder equity now stands at $2.554 billion (a loss of $801 million in the quarter), but some of the assets included in that are questionable. They're still evaluating goodwill at $562 million, which is ridiculous (and that's after taking a $46 million charge). And inventory of $127 million. Seriously, orphaned stock is not worth wholesale prices.
How many quarters will it take to wipe out shareholders? At this rate, they have 1 year. Will they go broke? No, they'll keep evaluating goodwill at an inflated level, they'll keep the unsold inventory on the books, and cross their fingers that some corporate activist doesn't say "You know, they should liquidate now, before all shareholder value is lost, and return any money to the shareholders." The only reason that's not going to happen is that an actual liquidation would come up negative after all creditors are taken over.
Yuri is waiting in line to vote, and the apparatchik gived him a sealed envelope containing his ballot, with instructions to put it in the ballot box. He starts to open the envelope, when the commissar says "Nyet, this is a SECRET vote, comrade."
Actually, you haven't. People who aren't bothered by the whole trans thing just shrug their shoulders and go along with it. You, on the other hand, are extremely vocal in your opposition. You dig up discredited or outright fraudulent "studies" while ignoring anything that disagrees with your narrative. You make up crap like how I wouldn't be safe in the majority of the world because they hate gays, when I'm not gay. You ignore that in 2008, after Khomenei's fatwa, Iran became the sex change capital of the world, with only Thailand doing more, and that Iranian birth certificates are updated to give them full legal status in their new sex - which is way ahead of where many US states are. In short, "the gentleman doth protest too much."
You have several problems. First, you refuse to accept the reality that for most of the world's population, transsexuals are legally recognized and protected. Second, you are obviously heavily invested in a world view that is distorted. It obviously is a serious problem for you to accept, or, like most people, you wouldn't really care enough to try to find reasons to back up your delusion.
The dinosaurs must have been thinking the same thing, to the extent that they could think, when the big one hit and changed the world into something they couldn't survive in, never mind understand.
Maybe you should get your obese body out more. See the world as it really is. The fat has clogged your brain.
the results for this quarter were clearer: a net loss of $372 million on revenue of $334 million.
So, for every dollar of revenue, they spent that dollar, plus more than more than another dollar. If that's the definition of a strong financial foundation, give me your credit cards and I'll make you WONDERFULLY strong. They must be using graduates from the Trump University's school of accounting.
You still haven't answered the original question - what is so hard about referring to Chelsea Manning by her legal name?
And as far as India is concerned, transgenders who aren't transsexuals are legally recognized as a "3rd gender." They're safer in India than transsexuals in many parts of the US. And Iran, transsexuals, unlike gays, are accepted because Khomenei made it clear that transsexuals are their new sex, and must be treated as such. You don't go against a fatwa without consequences.
You don't know much about this, just stuff that's been debunked and your own prejudices. Cut the hand-waving and answer the question that started this - why can't you refer to transsexuals by their legal name? Did someone touch you where they shouldn't have when you were a child?
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Governments have been given the power by the people to regulate businesses. Businesses cannot regulate themselves, even over the short term (Wells Fargo bank fraud, the financial crisis, etc.) so we have delegated that job as we see fit. If you have a problem with that, go to Somalia. No law there except at the point of a gun - and you'll have no legal recourse.
And grow-ops illegally modify wiring, so, as you yourself conceded "demonstrated anything except that the power will be cut off if the wiring has been illegally tampered with and/or is a hazard. " And when you argue that "That's a long way from it being used to deny a criminal electricy (sic)" you're overlooking the obvious - meter tampering is illegal.in and of itself, as is theft of electricity.
Sure you did, a couple of months ago. I guess the fat got to your brain.
You've clearly got a bug up your arse if you are willing to so distort the truth as to insist that someone's legal name is a lie. And it doesn't matter what I believe - my birth certificate, etc., are all that counts. You can argue all you want otherwise, but you are distorting reality.
Doesn't have to, same as 2nd amendment freaks argue that the "militia" part has nothing to do with anyone else's right to bear arms. Go argue with the NRA and the Supreme Court. The portion of a law that describes the purpose is irrelevant to the granting actual rights granted in the law. It could have read "To promote wooden shoes" for all it matters.
CloudFlare is, to the outside world, hosting the site. After all, the site has no external IPs of it's own, which makes CloudFlare the hosting service. That's what a content distribution network does - hosts and distributes the site's content. They could certainly be ordered to stop hosting and distributing the site's files, same as any ISP can be ordered to stop hosting and distributing the site.
Doesn't change the fact you're a huge fat-head.
You already bragged about your workout routine. You don't like being called an obese fat-head, then stop calling people by other than their legal name. Otherwise, you're a big fat hypocrite.
Here you go
Once police enter a grow-op, they order electricity to be cut to the building and register a Make Safe order against the property. The Electrical Safety Authority will only restore power when the building is made habitable according to a report from a qualified engineering firm or industrial hygienist.
Even suspected grow-ps have their power cut
A older home on No. 7 Road had its power off for three weeks after evidence of tampering was found on its old meter. But the tenant was never informed what the problem was, and instead was told BC Hydro suspected it was a grow-op.
Meter tampering usually means there's a grow-op.
If the gains from increased productivity had been distribute between the employers and the employees over the last generation, we'd be enjoying 2-day work weeks. History is no guarantee of the future. People used to say that house prices would never go down ... until they did. We're still experiencing the financial hangover. People used to say that a degree was a guarantee of a job ... until nowadays it mostly isn't. People used to say that oil the days of cheap oil were over because of decreasing supply ... now we're in a glut and prices tanked. North Korea used to be a pimple on the world's butt ... and now they have nukes. The US used to be the number one economy - now China surpasses it in terms purchasing power parity (ppp).
Past performance is no guarantee of future returns.
Competitive? That's not how I'd spell operating an illegal public transport business.
How do you know what they'e netting on their operations? Oh, right, you don't. The cost difference between serving the files themselves and using CloudFlare might just be enough to put them out of business. Also, then it's easy to shut down the site because they're not hiding behind CloudFlare. So CloudFlare is definitely the difference between operating and getting caught and shut down, whether they'd still be profitable or not.
Uber took away the taxi driver jobs, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't a taxi driver. ...
Amazon took away independent courier jobs, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't a courier.
You know how this ends
Obviously the people downloading find some value in what they're downloading. And they're not compensating the rightful owners, who legally have the right to decide who they sell to in the first place, the price, terms, etc. You want an open society with no rules? Good luck getting any contract enforced.
Grow-ops have the power cut all the time. Why should an illegal raw milk distributor be any different?
They can also cut your physical phone line, terminate your phone service (once they seize your bank account, everything else will be cut eventually anyway), and barricade your entrance so the snowplow guy can't plow, though he won't bother once your checks are returned.
Of course they're lying. Quote
he termination of CloudFlare's CDN services would have no impact on the existence and ability of these allegedly infringing websites to continue to operate
If it would make now impact, why are they in business? Kind of hard to get people to buy a service that doesn't do anything.
The problem, the consultants found, was that feasibility studies were often badly outdated by the time the department got around to approving projects, sometimes years later. And delays in funding approval meant that existing infrastructure on reserves deteriorated, further raising costs.
They still have $127 of inventory on the books even after taking a $41 million charge in the quarter. How much is that going to be worth now that it's orphaned? Between that and the hallucinatory goodwill of $562 million, their shareholder equity is still down by $809 million. Where are all those assets they bought? If they had invested more in assets than they sold, those assets would have to show up as assets on the balance sheet somewhere. They don't.
And as I said, the world disagrees with you. You're the one stuck in the past. Fortunately, TV programs like Modern Family and the transition of Caitlyn Jenner have pretty much normalized those who do not conform to the old norms.
And for porn, there's always Depravda
Their latest filing states $562 million goodwill as an asset. Do you really believe it? They tried to sell themselves off when they had more money in the bank and there were no bites.
Shareholder equity now stands at $2.554 billion (a loss of $801 million in the quarter), but some of the assets included in that are questionable. They're still evaluating goodwill at $562 million, which is ridiculous (and that's after taking a $46 million charge). And inventory of $127 million. Seriously, orphaned stock is not worth wholesale prices.
How many quarters will it take to wipe out shareholders? At this rate, they have 1 year. Will they go broke? No, they'll keep evaluating goodwill at an inflated level, they'll keep the unsold inventory on the books, and cross their fingers that some corporate activist doesn't say "You know, they should liquidate now, before all shareholder value is lost, and return any money to the shareholders." The only reason that's not going to happen is that an actual liquidation would come up negative after all creditors are taken over.
Yuri is waiting in line to vote, and the apparatchik gived him a sealed envelope containing his ballot, with instructions to put it in the ballot box. He starts to open the envelope, when the commissar says "Nyet, this is a SECRET vote, comrade."
Come on, it's clearly visible in the second picture. See how it comes to a point?
Actually, you haven't. People who aren't bothered by the whole trans thing just shrug their shoulders and go along with it. You, on the other hand, are extremely vocal in your opposition. You dig up discredited or outright fraudulent "studies" while ignoring anything that disagrees with your narrative. You make up crap like how I wouldn't be safe in the majority of the world because they hate gays, when I'm not gay. You ignore that in 2008, after Khomenei's fatwa, Iran became the sex change capital of the world, with only Thailand doing more, and that Iranian birth certificates are updated to give them full legal status in their new sex - which is way ahead of where many US states are. In short, "the gentleman doth protest too much."
You have several problems. First, you refuse to accept the reality that for most of the world's population, transsexuals are legally recognized and protected. Second, you are obviously heavily invested in a world view that is distorted. It obviously is a serious problem for you to accept, or, like most people, you wouldn't really care enough to try to find reasons to back up your delusion.
The dinosaurs must have been thinking the same thing, to the extent that they could think, when the big one hit and changed the world into something they couldn't survive in, never mind understand.
Maybe you should get your obese body out more. See the world as it really is. The fat has clogged your brain.
the results for this quarter were clearer: a net loss of $372 million on revenue of $334 million.
So, for every dollar of revenue, they spent that dollar, plus more than more than another dollar. If that's the definition of a strong financial foundation, give me your credit cards and I'll make you WONDERFULLY strong. They must be using graduates from the Trump University's school of accounting.
You still haven't answered the original question - what is so hard about referring to Chelsea Manning by her legal name?
And as far as India is concerned, transgenders who aren't transsexuals are legally recognized as a "3rd gender." They're safer in India than transsexuals in many parts of the US. And Iran, transsexuals, unlike gays, are accepted because Khomenei made it clear that transsexuals are their new sex, and must be treated as such. You don't go against a fatwa without consequences.
You don't know much about this, just stuff that's been debunked and your own prejudices. Cut the hand-waving and answer the question that started this - why can't you refer to transsexuals by their legal name? Did someone touch you where they shouldn't have when you were a child?