The Autobots are seriously offended by your statement. Expect contact from their legal representatives at Paramount and Hasbro; you are obviously an agent for the Decepticons!
Apple did not follow RU (or earlier EEC) tax law. They cut an illegal agreement with Ireland to pay far less tax than the EU trade laws allow. Apple was aware it was illegal (or do you believe that Apple lawyers didn't research the EU law and just magically picked Ireland to strong arm into breaking their trade laws). Basically, they should have to pay Ireland the taxes that were avoided, plus interest, and an additional penalty of twice that to the EU as a whole, since we can't put Apple in jail.
And make the fines non-tax-deductable, so as to keep the US from losing out on their fair share of the tax Apple should have paid the US as well.
You should not get a tax deduction for breaking the law. The little people don't.
It's obvious you didn't read the survey. Over 2,000 signatures, with names and positions. This disproves the claim that they can't speak out publicly. Nobody loses their license over this sort of thing. They know that it would just result in the Streisand Effect making the governing bodies look like fools.
My old Motorola flip phones all had radio, same as my old LG flip phone, same as my Moto smartphone. With 28 local FM stations, there's something for everyone.
Nonsense. The private sector has become dependent on governments making the general population absorb the risks for th e"too big to fail." It would have cost less to bail out every single homeowner in the housing crisis than it did to bail out the banks.
And then there are subsidies and tax breaks...
Look at Apple - sitting on a cash horde it doesn't want to pay taxes on and won't repatriate until it gets a tax holiday, reduced to removing a headphone jack as "innovation".
if the developing world actually develops, it's going to be more like the US in the future than like itself on this day so it's won't matter in the long run - we know that the global economic inequality has been decreasing for the last thirty years or so
It was expected that, with rising education and incomes, the African continent would see declining birth rates. It seemed to work at first, but with large parts of the continent stuck at 6 kids per family (the continental average is 4.5), poverty will increase.
The income level for poverty is set at $1.90/day. Using this stat, there are fewer people living in poverty, and yet real poverty is increasing
Someone living today at the new poverty line does not necessarily enjoy the same standard of living as someone at the old line did in the past, however. PPP figures do not measure the affordability of a specific bundle of goods from country to country. Every country experiences its own unique pattern of inflation, and so the new poverty line, translated into local currencies at the PPP rate, will be more than enough for a square meal in some countries, and much too low in others. Looking at national price indices rather than PPPs, half of the world’s population live in countries in which $1.90 buys you less now than $1.25 did back in 2005, according to a paper released this week by Sanjay Reddy of the New School for Social Research in New York.
So saying poverty is going down is misleading, even if it makes for feel-good stories.
Totally irrelevant to the original question, which was "Can Humankind Establish a Supply Chain in Space". Humans aren't fit for space. Robots, on the other hand... they're the only way to fly:-) It's also why any aliens we encounter won't be biological.
Also of interest is Google shutting down sites they do not agree with by denying all advertising to them.
Just taking away advertising is not "shutting down sites they do not agree with". And as we saw with Arab Spring, it doesn't matter. They had internet access, they had an uprising for change that, thanks to the Internet, propagated to many countries, and now they're worse off if anything. Same thing with the protests against the 1% in New York. The internet might let you organize stuff, but the stuff you organize on the internet doesn't change squat. The 1% see it as a way to let the proles let off steam without doing any real damage, same as online petitions.
Just look at all the Arab Spring countries, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. What are they now? Any better? Nope.
Those unions that you hate so much gave enough people a better job that even non-union companies had to offer better wages and conditions than they otherwise would have. Now with 40 years of union-busting Reaganomics taking away these jobs, the end game is upon us.
When the company using them exercises as much control as to how the contractor does the job ad they would over an employee, the "independent" of "independent contractor" is missing.
Long answer: no, not going to happen. The will and commitment are not there, the "free power" arguments are bs, we don't know where (or even if) the needed resources exist in viable quantities or concentrations, human colonies are a death sentence to anyone living there permanently (ignoring the too-low gravity and the radiation, even a minor "oops" will kill you), and at the rate we're avoiding meeting even our moderate climate change goals, we'll have a massive depopulation or extinction event long before that.
Android phones don't run Java. The source is just a very limited subset of Java code that is trancoded to byte code that will not run in a Java runtime. Oracle likes to fud up the issue.
Until we stop lying to ourselves by calling them "bugs', as if they crawled into the code on their own, software will continue to be full of errors. "Oh, we'll just patch the bug" does not fix the underlying problem, which is coders and everyone else up the food chain having an "if we fuck up, we will say it's a bug and just patch it" and wait for the next bug.
The Internet has contributed greatly to this mentally. It's a lot cheaper to have your users download a patch than to ship a CD, floppies, or tape reels to each user, so the financial incentive to get it right the first time is gone, and as an added bonus, you get to blame the customer if they don't patch your mistakes.
If you can't figure out the basics of how to use a word processor or spreadsheet on your own with a little trial and error and some googling, you're an idiot and will always be others how to do the simplest things. We don't need busywork classes for that.
The nature of coding has changed tremendously over the years. What they learn today will have to be unlearned, because by then it will become the wrong way to do it. And that's if there is still a need to do it at all.
Cars don't need a tune-up and chassis lube anymore, so learning that at school was a waste of time. Better to give them needed skills that will not become obsolete, like spelling. Researching a topic and writing about it. An appreciation of world history so that they can understand just how stupid American exceptionalism is. Science so that they don't think the Bible is the final authority on any subject, not even religion. Geography, so that they don't think Australia or Canada are part of Europe.
For the vast majority, coding will not only be useless, but will lead to the same safety issues as doing their own electrical wiring or trying to repair their TV - it will just make things worse.
As I pointed out, everyone has a constitutionally protected right to express their opinions. If you can find a section of the constitution that lists exceptions, then we'll talk. As I've pointed out elsewhere, psychiatrists have been giving opinions (and continue to do so) without having examined the subject. The Goldwater rule is unenforceable.
I've seen plenty of my submissions on the front page - including the killing of Osama bin Laden (under my old account) that are news for nerds, not news about nerds. There's a difference but some people fail to grasp it. All news is fair game, as long as (some) nerds might have an interest in it. if you don't like a story, JUST DON'T READ IT. Unless you have OCD, this should not be a problem. You can even log in and alter your preferences to hide stories in specific categories.
First, over 2000 psychiatrists and other mental health professionals disagree with your claim. They had no problem signing a petition about Donald Trump's effect on people's mental health, even though they had not examined either Trump or the public.An opinion is NOT a diagnosis.
Do a search for "psychiatric evaluation of hitler" (hello, Godwin). You'll find many psychiatrists who freely give psychiatric opinions of Hitler without ever having met, never mind examined, the man. The same for many dead people. You don't see their estates suing, because they'd lose.
Also, there have been cases of psychiatrists being called as rebuttal witnesses without having examined the accused. We had one recently here.
The US has been doing psychological and psychiatric profiles of foreign leaders since at least the 2nd world war - without the subject's knowledge or consent, and without ever having met the subject.
The so-called "Goldwater Rule" is unenforced, and unenforceable.
There can be no consequences (or they can be challenged) when a portion of a code of conduct is unconstitutional. That's one of the consequences of passing codes of conduct that violate the constitution.
Cyrano Jones, in "The Trouble with Tribbles", after giving Uhuru a tribble, says that "A tribble is the only love money can buy." Money is still used in the Star Trek universe.
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false positives from auto bot take downs?
The Autobots are seriously offended by your statement. Expect contact from their legal representatives at Paramount and Hasbro; you are obviously an agent for the Decepticons!
And make the fines non-tax-deductable, so as to keep the US from losing out on their fair share of the tax Apple should have paid the US as well.
You should not get a tax deduction for breaking the law. The little people don't.
Porting code between bad (apple) and Linux is a lot easier than porting from Windows to Apple.
It's obvious you didn't read the survey. Over 2,000 signatures, with names and positions. This disproves the claim that they can't speak out publicly. Nobody loses their license over this sort of thing. They know that it would just result in the Streisand Effect making the governing bodies look like fools.
I don't see anyone, least of all you, offering citations to prove I'm wrong. So take your [citation needed] and stick it.
My old Motorola flip phones all had radio, same as my old LG flip phone, same as my Moto smartphone. With 28 local FM stations, there's something for everyone.
Nonsense. The private sector has become dependent on governments making the general population absorb the risks for th e"too big to fail." It would have cost less to bail out every single homeowner in the housing crisis than it did to bail out the banks.
And then there are subsidies and tax breaks ...
Look at Apple - sitting on a cash horde it doesn't want to pay taxes on and won't repatriate until it gets a tax holiday, reduced to removing a headphone jack as "innovation".
if the developing world actually develops, it's going to be more like the US in the future than like itself on this day so it's won't matter in the long run - we know that the global economic inequality has been decreasing for the last thirty years or so
It was expected that, with rising education and incomes, the African continent would see declining birth rates. It seemed to work at first, but with large parts of the continent stuck at 6 kids per family (the continental average is 4.5), poverty will increase.
The income level for poverty is set at $1.90/day. Using this stat, there are fewer people living in poverty, and yet real poverty is increasing
Someone living today at the new poverty line does not necessarily enjoy the same standard of living as someone at the old line did in the past, however. PPP figures do not measure the affordability of a specific bundle of goods from country to country. Every country experiences its own unique pattern of inflation, and so the new poverty line, translated into local currencies at the PPP rate, will be more than enough for a square meal in some countries, and much too low in others. Looking at national price indices rather than PPPs, half of the world’s population live in countries in which $1.90 buys you less now than $1.25 did back in 2005, according to a paper released this week by Sanjay Reddy of the New School for Social Research in New York.
So saying poverty is going down is misleading, even if it makes for feel-good stories.
Totally irrelevant to the original question, which was "Can Humankind Establish a Supply Chain in Space". Humans aren't fit for space. Robots, on the other hand ... they're the only way to fly :-) It's also why any aliens we encounter won't be biological.
Why would they send humans to explore space when robots can do (and are doing) the job?
The Germans would disagree with you (and they're not the only ones). Even aircrews within the protection of Earth's magnetosphere flying at high altitudes receive higher radiation doses (the FAA classifies flight crew as radiation workers, and on average they receive twice the radiation exposure of someone working in a nuclear power plant). >p>The moon doesn't have the protection the earth does. And it looks like the Apollo moon walkers have a much higher rate of radiation-induced cardiovascular disease than those who stayed within the earth's radiation shield.
Also of interest is Google shutting down sites they do not agree with by denying all advertising to them.
Just taking away advertising is not "shutting down sites they do not agree with". And as we saw with Arab Spring, it doesn't matter. They had internet access, they had an uprising for change that, thanks to the Internet, propagated to many countries, and now they're worse off if anything. Same thing with the protests against the 1% in New York. The internet might let you organize stuff, but the stuff you organize on the internet doesn't change squat. The 1% see it as a way to let the proles let off steam without doing any real damage, same as online petitions.
Just look at all the Arab Spring countries, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. What are they now? Any better? Nope.
"I'm in fine health. *cough* *cough*
-- Hillary Clinton
Translation: I have pneumonia.
Those unions that you hate so much gave enough people a better job that even non-union companies had to offer better wages and conditions than they otherwise would have. Now with 40 years of union-busting Reaganomics taking away these jobs, the end game is upon us.
When the company using them exercises as much control as to how the contractor does the job ad they would over an employee, the "independent" of "independent contractor" is missing.
Long answer: no, not going to happen. The will and commitment are not there, the "free power" arguments are bs, we don't know where (or even if) the needed resources exist in viable quantities or concentrations, human colonies are a death sentence to anyone living there permanently (ignoring the too-low gravity and the radiation, even a minor "oops" will kill you), and at the rate we're avoiding meeting even our moderate climate change goals, we'll have a massive depopulation or extinction event long before that.
Android phones don't run Java. The source is just a very limited subset of Java code that is trancoded to byte code that will not run in a Java runtime. Oracle likes to fud up the issue.
The Internet has contributed greatly to this mentally. It's a lot cheaper to have your users download a patch than to ship a CD, floppies, or tape reels to each user, so the financial incentive to get it right the first time is gone, and as an added bonus, you get to blame the customer if they don't patch your mistakes.
The nature of coding has changed tremendously over the years. What they learn today will have to be unlearned, because by then it will become the wrong way to do it. And that's if there is still a need to do it at all.
Cars don't need a tune-up and chassis lube anymore, so learning that at school was a waste of time. Better to give them needed skills that will not become obsolete, like spelling. Researching a topic and writing about it. An appreciation of world history so that they can understand just how stupid American exceptionalism is. Science so that they don't think the Bible is the final authority on any subject, not even religion. Geography, so that they don't think Australia or Canada are part of Europe.
For the vast majority, coding will not only be useless, but will lead to the same safety issues as doing their own electrical wiring or trying to repair their TV - it will just make things worse.
As I pointed out, everyone has a constitutionally protected right to express their opinions. If you can find a section of the constitution that lists exceptions, then we'll talk. As I've pointed out elsewhere, psychiatrists have been giving opinions (and continue to do so) without having examined the subject. The Goldwater rule is unenforceable.
I've seen plenty of my submissions on the front page - including the killing of Osama bin Laden (under my old account) that are news for nerds, not news about nerds. There's a difference but some people fail to grasp it. All news is fair game, as long as (some) nerds might have an interest in it. if you don't like a story, JUST DON'T READ IT. Unless you have OCD, this should not be a problem. You can even log in and alter your preferences to hide stories in specific categories.
First, over 2000 psychiatrists and other mental health professionals disagree with your claim. They had no problem signing a petition about Donald Trump's effect on people's mental health, even though they had not examined either Trump or the public.An opinion is NOT a diagnosis.
Do a search for "psychiatric evaluation of hitler" (hello, Godwin). You'll find many psychiatrists who freely give psychiatric opinions of Hitler without ever having met, never mind examined, the man. The same for many dead people. You don't see their estates suing, because they'd lose.
Also, there have been cases of psychiatrists being called as rebuttal witnesses without having examined the accused. We had one recently here.
The US has been doing psychological and psychiatric profiles of foreign leaders since at least the 2nd world war - without the subject's knowledge or consent, and without ever having met the subject.
The so-called "Goldwater Rule" is unenforced, and unenforceable.
There can be no consequences (or they can be challenged) when a portion of a code of conduct is unconstitutional. That's one of the consequences of passing codes of conduct that violate the constitution.
It can alter the proportion of good stories. As I said, problem solved.
Cyrano Jones, in "The Trouble with Tribbles", after giving Uhuru a tribble, says that "A tribble is the only love money can buy." Money is still used in the Star Trek universe.