Exactly my point. Are you arguing just for the sake of it?
No, but you obviously are. Njovich asked why the US brings all these copyright infringement cases against non-citizens, and I explained why. End of story.
There are an increasing number of movies where the US involvement is not much more than the guy that talks to the banks, thus a tiny step away from being a foreign studio.
Well, and you can bet that those "guys who talk to the bank" will make sure that they own the copyrights, that their movies will continue to be infringed in the US, and that those cases will continue to be heard in US courts.
Can we get the stats on how many people don't understand placeholder names or the use of personification as a literary technique?
You evidently don't, because the reply used the same literary device.
I.e., the TFA used a stupid literary device in order to avoid having to provide the facts, and Ash-Fox echoed that stupid literary device right back.
If you're still too dense to understand it, the actual meaning of the response was: "You're trying to bamboozle people and you don't have any data, that's why you're hiding behind literary devices. If you have any actual data, put it on the table."
Today there are more barriers of movement to talented people into America and distribution is not so difficult today which means you don't need Fox or Disney behind you to get your stuff out there. The Hollywood advantage is vanishing.
Well, good luck with that. I wouldn't hold my breath. Right now, continental Europe's output is pathetic.
It's really about having an established distribution network and barriers of entry to new players.
How? Places like France and Germany have large government subsidies and government mandated distribution channels for movies and anybody can get on Netflix and Amazon.
A major reason is self-inflicted as there are plenty of well-trained crews in places where Hollywood movies were made offshore for tax reasons.
Crews don't hold copyrights, so where the movies get produced hardly matters.
It should be up to Uber and their customers: if customers demand background checks, the Uber will institute them. If not, then there is no need for the city to require them.
Uber could allow the background checks (to weed out potentially dangerous people) while giving folks who've proven they're no longer a threat to society a real second chance.That would solve two problems.
And what magic technology would provide this infallible pre-crime analysis?
then yeah, it should be 24 hours. It's pretty easy to justify the expense if you factor in the savings from the wrecks.
Public transit systems require massive subsidies even for their service during high traffic hours. The idea that they could break even after midnight is utterly disconnected from reality.
They simply left because they didn't want to play by the rules.
Correct. When people don't like your rules, they leave. Get used to it: it's what happens in a free society.
when those rules don't seem to be right, work with the community to find ones that do (compromise is part of that)
Another thing you have to learn is that customers/employees/businesses/companies don't owe you any kind of explanation or opportunity to compromise: if you institute bogus rules, people just walk. Get used to it.
If you want Uber and Lyft to come back, you know what to do.
So it is purely coincidental that this Estonian national, that was living in the Netherlands, ended up in prison in the US?
No, it's not coincidental at all: he violated US copyrights, and under international agreements, that is something that the US legal system is entitled to deal with. Other countries are free to cancel those agreements any time they like. The Netherlands, Estonia, and Turkey could end extradition treaties with the US, or even break off all relations. Of course, there are unavoidable economic consequences of such choices.
There are no countries in the world where more people got hurt in anti-copyright lawsuits than the US.
That's because the US is by far the foremost producer of movies with international appeal, the foremost consumer of content, and the primary place for Internet-related innovations. So, anybody who pirates internationally is probably going to pirate American movies, make money from American audiences, and use American technology (and probably servers).
Content producers in European countries generally don't produce much of interest to other countries (with the possible exception of the UK), and when people engage in commercial copyright infringement, the infringers are dealt with in those countries and you don't even hear about it. A few countries (like Germany) also simply pay off big copyright holders with taxes in return for allowing some limited infringement, a bad deal for consumers.
Compare these with the elegance of remote procedure call approaches such as CORBA and gRPC, where one specifies a method interface just like in a normal computer language, and the marshalling and unmarshalling code is generated by a compiler.
CORBA came out in 1991 and SunRPC in 1988. REST didn't arrive until 2000. So, the history of this is that people tried to make CORBA and RPC (and Microsoft's versions of the same) work for about a decade before they gave up and switched to REST.
CORBA's and gRPC's IDLs are a good match to programming languages, which is why they appeal to some programmers. But Internet-scale distributed systems don't behave like programming language interfaces, so treating them as such just doesn't work well. That's something most of the world learned in practice in the 1990s, but apparently the message hasn't gotten through to some corners of the world yet.
then perhaps we need to figure out how to give those things away to those who need them.
No, we don't, because if stuff becomes dirt cheap, then even the poorest can afford them without handouts.
The problem we are facing is that people keep lobbying to make stuff expensive: the price of basics like housing, transportation, food, education, medical care, and utilities is kept artificially and astronomically high through lobbying, both by corporations, unions, and other lobbies.
I hadn't see Swagger before, but it looks like a nicer design than previous web service description languages.
The "vulnerability" related to Swagger in some tools that the REST API specification (in Swagger format) into a library that talks to that API. Specifically, malicious specifications can inject code into the library. I don't think this is a major problem in practice. These translation tools are invoked by people who want to write clients for specific services; usually, that means that you know the service provider and understand your trust relationship. In addition, this is not a fully automatic process, since you'll be programming against the library that the tool generates anyway.
Keep in mind that the alternative to a REST specification that the service provider gives you a bunch of REST client libraries, and it's far easier to hide malicious code in those client libraries than in a REST specification.
I don't think it's fair to call this a significant "vulnerability", although it might still be nice if Swagger tools detected these cases and alerted the developer to it.
Can you call forcing your policies on other countries "democracy?"
Large-scale copyright infringement is a felony in many countries, and we got our current draconian copyright system in large part at the urging of European publishers. Copyright law is still more permissive in the US than elsewhere. References to the US or the "American Dream" are utterly gratuitous.
They wanted me to confess to knowing that Megaupload was earning big money from illegal movies. This I read only later on the Internet. I didn’t deal with financial issues in the company.
Someone seems to be criminally naive.
I don’t believe the US will help Estonia in any war.
And where do you think US would have been if the fed did not interfere and let the financial markets freeze?
That's the wrong question to ask. First, the US exposure was due to bad financial regulations in the first place. Furthermore, regardless of what short-term fiddling the fed may or may not have had to engage in, the US government failed to follow its own rules and used tax payer money to protect large and powerful interests from the losses that resulted from their poor investments, long after the crisis was over.
As for the various stimulus programs, according to Obama himself, we would have been better off doing nothing than we actually ended up being with Obama's programs in place.
My point is, the idea of a Euro Zone does not make much sense. It's like taking Ethiopia, Mexico, US, Canada, Sudan, China and putting them under one common currency system, with free labor markets et al. But each still remains a different country politically and "economically" at the same time. It just will not work.
There is no problem with either a common currency, free trade, or freedom of movement. Problems and conflicts arise from the combination of fiat currencies, public debt, and manipulations of the labor market. In the case of Greece, the political and social problems in Greece are not problems of the free market or the economy, they are problems of the Greek government taking on financial obligations it could never satisfy.
Well, then I would bargain for restructuring the loans, may be default on some or all.
That's what they did. And the bargain they got was "here is some additional money with conditions attached, take it or leave it". Germany didn't "impose austerity", they simply offered money under specific conditions, and it was up to the Greeks to decide to take it or leave it. They could have borrowed money somewhere else, or simply defaulted if they wanted to.
Default/debt-restructuring is not very uncommon
Well, and a lot of that "restructuring" is due to various forms of governmental corruption and cronyism. In any case, debt restructuring is something lenders do to minimize their losses; if you default on a loan, nobody is under any obligation to offer you debt restructuring.
That could just demonstrate the fact that those prone to violence or those living in violent places/situations tend to die young, so many simply don't make it out of the 18-24 age group
No, the statistics wouldn't even remotely work out on that. While homicides are much more common among the 18-24 year old group, they are nowhere near common enough to affect population statistics significantly.
In any case, there are plenty of other scientific results that show that young males are prone to violence, prejudice, and sociopathy, something that gradually diminishes as people get older.
Agreed, it was Greece that mismanaged its finances. But Germany did screw up Greece by imposing more and more austerity measures just when the country needed a boost from fiscal spending.
Germany (and other countries) said: "if you want more money from us, you need to make these changes". That is, Germany didn't reach into Greece's political process and imposed "austerity", Germany made an offer for conditions under which Germany would lend more money.
Remember, when Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns et al went down, if US govt prescribed austerity where do you think US economy and unemployment would have been? Instead, the Fed bailed out all and sundry. And that resulted in a quick recovery and a return to stability of the markets. In the long run,
That's bullshit. This recovery has been one of the slowest and worst in US history, and ended up even worse than Obama's own predictions for "doing nothing". If we take Obama and his expert economists at their word, then we have to conclude that the bailouts and stimulus programs of his administration were extremely harmful.
If Greece had its own currency, a currency devaluation, and may be a QE would have helped Greece.
No, it wouldn't. Currency devaluation would have meant that any hard currency loans would have been astronomically expensive. And even if you believe the QE hocus pocus, even according to its own proponents, it wouldn't make any difference in a country with a Greek-style economy.
I think its best in the long run that the the Euro is disbanded.
In the long run, it's best that national fiat currencies be disbanded; monetary policy has been a complete failure whenever countries have been engaging in it.
The reasonable alternative would have been to allow Greece to declare bankrupcy and allow those banks who invested in Greece to fail.
Many of those banks were either partly government owned or otherwise deeply intertwined with government interests. That's why governments went out of their way to try to "rescue" Greece. Furthermore, if Greece had declared bankruptcy, it would have been far worse off, since it wouldn't have received any loans for a while.
The Greeks have no cause to complain about the EU: the EU went out of its way throwing good money after bad, for the interests of its own political and banking class. The people who have cause to complain about Greece are the tax payers in places like Germany and the UK. And that kind of things is probably why the UK voted to get out.
Had Greece been out of the EU, they could have devalued their currency and/or defaulted on their debts.
Greece could default on their debt any time they wanted, EU or not. And devaluation isn't really a policy alternative: it amounts to roughly the same thing as defaulting on part of your debt.
By insisting on Greece paying debts at a rate that is insurmountable and not providing any form of relief.
Why should British or German tax payers pay hundreds of Euros extra per year just so that Greek civil servants can enjoy a pension that they never paid for?
It is not reasonable, however, to deprive others of their right to self defense because you harbor irrational fears.
Random violence with legal guns is extremely rare.
Furthermore, if you're really concerned about people getting violent in response to your behavior, you should reconsider hire you behave around others: you can be pretty certain that getting shot is the least of your worries in response to your behavioral problems
How would the due process to be listed work? Someone on the terrorism watch list hasn't committed a crime yet, and they're innocent until they have committed a crime, so how could due process be applied to bar an innocent person from their 2nd amendment rights?
Why would you bar an innocent, legally competent person from their Second Amendment rights?
If you think that every non-criminal should be allowed to purchase firearms, then just cut to the chase and say so.
That's what the Constitution says. Depriving people of their Constitutional rights because you don't like what they say or how they behave is the antithesis of a free society. If you want to create a totalitarian society, then just cut to the chase and say so.
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No, but you obviously are. Njovich asked why the US brings all these copyright infringement cases against non-citizens, and I explained why. End of story.
Well, and you can bet that those "guys who talk to the bank" will make sure that they own the copyrights, that their movies will continue to be infringed in the US, and that those cases will continue to be heard in US courts.
You evidently don't, because the reply used the same literary device.
I.e., the TFA used a stupid literary device in order to avoid having to provide the facts, and Ash-Fox echoed that stupid literary device right back.
If you're still too dense to understand it, the actual meaning of the response was: "You're trying to bamboozle people and you don't have any data, that's why you're hiding behind literary devices. If you have any actual data, put it on the table."
That will be (pinky to lips) one million pounds in tax revenues.
Well, good luck with that. I wouldn't hold my breath. Right now, continental Europe's output is pathetic.
How? Places like France and Germany have large government subsidies and government mandated distribution channels for movies and anybody can get on Netflix and Amazon.
Crews don't hold copyrights, so where the movies get produced hardly matters.
What's idiotic is that people like you pretend to stand up for the little guy, while embracing policies that serve crony capitalists and the wealthy.
Don't you worry your pretty little head about my ass, worry about your own future.
It should be up to Uber and their customers: if customers demand background checks, the Uber will institute them. If not, then there is no need for the city to require them.
And what magic technology would provide this infallible pre-crime analysis?
Public transit systems require massive subsidies even for their service during high traffic hours. The idea that they could break even after midnight is utterly disconnected from reality.
Correct. When people don't like your rules, they leave. Get used to it: it's what happens in a free society.
Another thing you have to learn is that customers/employees/businesses/companies don't owe you any kind of explanation or opportunity to compromise: if you institute bogus rules, people just walk. Get used to it.
If you want Uber and Lyft to come back, you know what to do.
You must not be paying attention: "we" already did, and "we" sentenced them to multi-year prison terms: http://tinyurl.com/gpkbabm http://tinyurl.com/jd58qqz
No, it's not coincidental at all: he violated US copyrights, and under international agreements, that is something that the US legal system is entitled to deal with. Other countries are free to cancel those agreements any time they like. The Netherlands, Estonia, and Turkey could end extradition treaties with the US, or even break off all relations. Of course, there are unavoidable economic consequences of such choices.
That's because the US is by far the foremost producer of movies with international appeal, the foremost consumer of content, and the primary place for Internet-related innovations. So, anybody who pirates internationally is probably going to pirate American movies, make money from American audiences, and use American technology (and probably servers).
Content producers in European countries generally don't produce much of interest to other countries (with the possible exception of the UK), and when people engage in commercial copyright infringement, the infringers are dealt with in those countries and you don't even hear about it. A few countries (like Germany) also simply pay off big copyright holders with taxes in return for allowing some limited infringement, a bad deal for consumers.
CORBA came out in 1991 and SunRPC in 1988. REST didn't arrive until 2000. So, the history of this is that people tried to make CORBA and RPC (and Microsoft's versions of the same) work for about a decade before they gave up and switched to REST.
CORBA's and gRPC's IDLs are a good match to programming languages, which is why they appeal to some programmers. But Internet-scale distributed systems don't behave like programming language interfaces, so treating them as such just doesn't work well. That's something most of the world learned in practice in the 1990s, but apparently the message hasn't gotten through to some corners of the world yet.
No, we don't, because if stuff becomes dirt cheap, then even the poorest can afford them without handouts.
The problem we are facing is that people keep lobbying to make stuff expensive: the price of basics like housing, transportation, food, education, medical care, and utilities is kept artificially and astronomically high through lobbying, both by corporations, unions, and other lobbies.
I hadn't see Swagger before, but it looks like a nicer design than previous web service description languages.
The "vulnerability" related to Swagger in some tools that the REST API specification (in Swagger format) into a library that talks to that API. Specifically, malicious specifications can inject code into the library. I don't think this is a major problem in practice. These translation tools are invoked by people who want to write clients for specific services; usually, that means that you know the service provider and understand your trust relationship. In addition, this is not a fully automatic process, since you'll be programming against the library that the tool generates anyway.
Keep in mind that the alternative to a REST specification that the service provider gives you a bunch of REST client libraries, and it's far easier to hide malicious code in those client libraries than in a REST specification.
I don't think it's fair to call this a significant "vulnerability", although it might still be nice if Swagger tools detected these cases and alerted the developer to it.
Large-scale copyright infringement is a felony in many countries, and we got our current draconian copyright system in large part at the urging of European publishers. Copyright law is still more permissive in the US than elsewhere. References to the US or the "American Dream" are utterly gratuitous.
Someone seems to be criminally naive.
I don't either. Your point being?
That's the wrong question to ask. First, the US exposure was due to bad financial regulations in the first place. Furthermore, regardless of what short-term fiddling the fed may or may not have had to engage in, the US government failed to follow its own rules and used tax payer money to protect large and powerful interests from the losses that resulted from their poor investments, long after the crisis was over.
As for the various stimulus programs, according to Obama himself, we would have been better off doing nothing than we actually ended up being with Obama's programs in place.
There is no problem with either a common currency, free trade, or freedom of movement. Problems and conflicts arise from the combination of fiat currencies, public debt, and manipulations of the labor market. In the case of Greece, the political and social problems in Greece are not problems of the free market or the economy, they are problems of the Greek government taking on financial obligations it could never satisfy.
That's what they did. And the bargain they got was "here is some additional money with conditions attached, take it or leave it". Germany didn't "impose austerity", they simply offered money under specific conditions, and it was up to the Greeks to decide to take it or leave it. They could have borrowed money somewhere else, or simply defaulted if they wanted to.
Well, and a lot of that "restructuring" is due to various forms of governmental corruption and cronyism. In any case, debt restructuring is something lenders do to minimize their losses; if you default on a loan, nobody is under any obligation to offer you debt restructuring.
No, the statistics wouldn't even remotely work out on that. While homicides are much more common among the 18-24 year old group, they are nowhere near common enough to affect population statistics significantly.
In any case, there are plenty of other scientific results that show that young males are prone to violence, prejudice, and sociopathy, something that gradually diminishes as people get older.
Germany (and other countries) said: "if you want more money from us, you need to make these changes". That is, Germany didn't reach into Greece's political process and imposed "austerity", Germany made an offer for conditions under which Germany would lend more money.
That's bullshit. This recovery has been one of the slowest and worst in US history, and ended up even worse than Obama's own predictions for "doing nothing". If we take Obama and his expert economists at their word, then we have to conclude that the bailouts and stimulus programs of his administration were extremely harmful.
No, it wouldn't. Currency devaluation would have meant that any hard currency loans would have been astronomically expensive. And even if you believe the QE hocus pocus, even according to its own proponents, it wouldn't make any difference in a country with a Greek-style economy.
In the long run, it's best that national fiat currencies be disbanded; monetary policy has been a complete failure whenever countries have been engaging in it.
Many of those banks were either partly government owned or otherwise deeply intertwined with government interests. That's why governments went out of their way to try to "rescue" Greece. Furthermore, if Greece had declared bankruptcy, it would have been far worse off, since it wouldn't have received any loans for a while.
The Greeks have no cause to complain about the EU: the EU went out of its way throwing good money after bad, for the interests of its own political and banking class. The people who have cause to complain about Greece are the tax payers in places like Germany and the UK. And that kind of things is probably why the UK voted to get out.
Greece could default on their debt any time they wanted, EU or not. And devaluation isn't really a policy alternative: it amounts to roughly the same thing as defaulting on part of your debt.
Why should British or German tax payers pay hundreds of Euros extra per year just so that Greek civil servants can enjoy a pension that they never paid for?
By age group, 18-24 year olds are the most homicidal and most hate-filled group:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/previe...
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/8...
The naked truth is that you are envious and wish that Spain was powerful and wealthy enough to be able to stand on its own too.
It is not reasonable, however, to deprive others of their right to self defense because you harbor irrational fears.
Random violence with legal guns is extremely rare.
Furthermore, if you're really concerned about people getting violent in response to your behavior, you should reconsider hire you behave around others: you can be pretty certain that getting shot is the least of your worries in response to your behavioral problems
Why would you bar an innocent, legally competent person from their Second Amendment rights?
That's what the Constitution says. Depriving people of their Constitutional rights because you don't like what they say or how they behave is the antithesis of a free society. If you want to create a totalitarian society, then just cut to the chase and say so.