"mostly pointless". OK, so toss the pointless ones. But Uber/AirBnB have consistently tried to avoid enforcement of the ones concerned with safety and push all liability onto other parties.
It becomes your business when the buyers tell you they are going to use the money orders to purchase stolen credit card numbers.
http://www.int-comp.org/career...
By that definition, it's also irrelevant whether the exchange is of currency, products, or services.
I think it would still be insider information, it's just that Congress considers itself and its staff immune to prosecution for insider trading. (after passing a law saying the opposite).
https://theintercept.com/2015/...
It only went downhill from there... they ported it to IRIX in the mid-90's so that it could be run on Silicon Graphics workstations. Multiprocessor workstations, $10k, $30K a pop. We're staying late at lab to to do protein structure modeling, right guys?
That was actually the only way I played Doom until Doom III.
Cloakroom -- an anonymous messaging app for Capitol Hill staffers
I would think if someone made an app specifically for such a small user base the whole intent was to spy on their messages. After all, capital hill staffers are allowed to participate in insider trading, so the developer could turn a HUGE profit without ever leaking any of the content he intercepted.
But oddly not very representative in another way: "Boaty McBoatface" would have been a huge moneymaker for NERC: t-shirts, mugs, materials sent to prospective donors... At this point organizations are usually keenly aware when there is money sitting on the table to be grabbed. If they didn't go with Boaty, it should have been named for someone willing to cough up several million for the naming rights.
but I dread going to Huston because it's one of the smoggiest cities in the US and hot as hell on top of that.
Don't worry, around Houston it's just the poor people living downwind of the refineries that have to worry about birth defects in their kids due to BTEX exposure from the smog.
How is it bizarre if Fonseca specifically did not market to Americans? They focused on marketing to Europe and Asia.
It was the other way around: Fonseca used the US (specifically Nevada, not Delaware) to hide information for their Asian/European clients.
Considering the US government invaded Panama and made confiscating financial data a BIG priority, I don't see anything surprising about US citizens choosing other venues to hide their money.
No, Americans aren't on the list because: 1) that law firm specifically avoided marketing to Americans and 2), Americans typically use other countries (or US states with laissez faire incorporation rules) when trying to avoid taxes/maintain anonymity.
All of that money is money earned overseas. So it's not "funneled" anywhere, it's just not brought back
Actually, quite a lot of it was earned in the US an other countries with normal tax rates. But Apple, Pharmas, and other companies put their IP in holding companies in countries like Ireland. They then license the IP from the holding companies, paying the holding companies millions of dollars for the right to use their own IP. This converts taxable profits in a high tax country into income in a low tax country.
By that standard they can double the price without telling you, automatically bill your credit card, and then when they receive payment consider that acceptance of the change. Is it their fault you didn't check your credit card statement for a month or two?
and never mind that his works do feature minority characters.
Quite prominently in Farnham's Freehold.
I like Charles Stross's description of it: "a privileged white male from California, a notoriously exclusionary state, trying to understand American racism in the pre-Martin Luther King era. And getting it wrong for facepalm values of wrong, so wrong he wasn't even on the right map... but at least he wasn't ignoring it."
Line forms after me. At any rate I seem to be out of fashion: the SF I find most memorable is the SF that is the most amazing in its ideas: Greg Egan, Peter Watts, Stanislaw Lem. Authors that go beyond projecting the seven basic plots onto reshuffled tropes.
Based on their best estimates, they think consumers replace every 3 years. Not "expects" but "assumes". It's like every lifetime estimation I've seen. Civil Engineers assume a 30year lifespan on roads, etc.
Mark to model. The estimate they give to stockholders who want to hear about repeat customers may not actually be the"best" estimate they actually developed. A bit like the civil engineers in my region estimating future road traffic based on their being a lot more biking and public transportation because that fits the amount of greenhouse gas emissions California wants emitted in the future, as opposed to the engineers actually thinking people will ditch their cars and that funding will be found to create the public transportation their projections depend on.
Well put. My last macbook made it 8 years (and 3 batteries). Switching to a Windows laptop still meant an inferior trackpad, even after hunting for better drivers.
I would say the core of the problem in the US is lack of education, coupled with the IP morass, which guarentees that stuff that isn't yet another paid-for-by-advertisers cat picture site is going to be done overseas.
If there is an IP morass it may get made overseas, but it still won't get sold in the US or Europe.
1. Theranos makes(?) diagnostics. Pharm industry makes drugs.
2. The diagnostic industry already knew that blood from skinpricks not only doesn't contain the same quantities of many biomarkers as blood from venous draws, the levels can also vary wildly from drop to drop, making the results pretty useless. Why compete with that?
Except for the 13 million people in the US drinking well water with elevated levels of Arsenic.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/...
For that though, I think Bangladesh is #1.
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"mostly pointless". OK, so toss the pointless ones. But Uber/AirBnB have consistently tried to avoid enforcement of the ones concerned with safety and push all liability onto other parties.
If you want to review the legal history of sting operations and what is or is not considered entrapment, google is waiting for you.
It becomes your business when the buyers tell you they are going to use the money orders to purchase stolen credit card numbers. http://www.int-comp.org/career... By that definition, it's also irrelevant whether the exchange is of currency, products, or services.
There's no reason at all a ship of this size shouldn't have a reactor for its fuel.
Liability.
The insurance cost(if they could get it) would be prohibitive.
Many of the ports that cruise ships visit would ban them.
I think it would still be insider information, it's just that Congress considers itself and its staff immune to prosecution for insider trading. (after passing a law saying the opposite). https://theintercept.com/2015/...
It only went downhill from there ... they ported it to IRIX in the mid-90's so that it could be run on Silicon Graphics workstations. Multiprocessor workstations, $10k, $30K a pop. We're staying late at lab to to do protein structure modeling, right guys?
That was actually the only way I played Doom until Doom III.
Cloakroom -- an anonymous messaging app for Capitol Hill staffers
I would think if someone made an app specifically for such a small user base the whole intent was to spy on their messages. After all, capital hill staffers are allowed to participate in insider trading, so the developer could turn a HUGE profit without ever leaking any of the content he intercepted.
But oddly not very representative in another way: "Boaty McBoatface" would have been a huge moneymaker for NERC: t-shirts, mugs, materials sent to prospective donors ... At this point organizations are usually keenly aware when there is money sitting on the table to be grabbed. If they didn't go with Boaty, it should have been named for someone willing to cough up several million for the naming rights.
If politicians do not have money then they cannot spend them.
That level of ignorance puts you at the kid's table for this discussion.
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.html
Don't worry, around Houston it's just the poor people living downwind of the refineries that have to worry about birth defects in their kids due to BTEX exposure from the smog.
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1002212/
You should really move to like Wyoming or something. Infrastructure is good and no state income tax.
Because until the oil boom the federal government was the main source for the state budget. Now that oil is bust, that will probably be true again.
Considering the US government invaded Panama and made confiscating financial data a BIG priority, I don't see anything surprising about US citizens choosing other venues to hide their money.
No, Americans aren't on the list because: 1) that law firm specifically avoided marketing to Americans and 2), Americans typically use other countries (or US states with laissez faire incorporation rules) when trying to avoid taxes/maintain anonymity.
All of that money is money earned overseas. So it's not "funneled" anywhere, it's just not brought back
Actually, quite a lot of it was earned in the US an other countries with normal tax rates. But Apple, Pharmas, and other companies put their IP in holding companies in countries like Ireland. They then license the IP from the holding companies, paying the holding companies millions of dollars for the right to use their own IP. This converts taxable profits in a high tax country into income in a low tax country.
By that standard they can double the price without telling you, automatically bill your credit card, and then when they receive payment consider that acceptance of the change. Is it their fault you didn't check your credit card statement for a month or two?
An artist doesn't get to say when or where you're allowed to hear his music or play his CD.
To a limited extent he does, if it is a public performance. Check out "right of publicity".
and never mind that his works do feature minority characters.
Quite prominently in Farnham's Freehold.
I like Charles Stross's description of it: "a privileged white male from California, a notoriously exclusionary state, trying to understand American racism in the pre-Martin Luther King era. And getting it wrong for facepalm values of wrong, so wrong he wasn't even on the right map ... but at least he wasn't ignoring it."
No one reads all that crap. How many entrants?
Just 5 for best novel.
Hmmm. Where do I sign up for this job?
Line forms after me. At any rate I seem to be out of fashion: the SF I find most memorable is the SF that is the most amazing in its ideas: Greg Egan, Peter Watts, Stanislaw Lem. Authors that go beyond projecting the seven basic plots onto reshuffled tropes.
Starship Troopers (the movie): taking the piss out of the right wing, but still plenty of viscera and guts.
So where does Mad Max: Fury Road, which is actually on the ballot, go?
Based on their best estimates, they think consumers replace every 3 years. Not "expects" but "assumes". It's like every lifetime estimation I've seen. Civil Engineers assume a 30year lifespan on roads, etc.
Mark to model. The estimate they give to stockholders who want to hear about repeat customers may not actually be the"best" estimate they actually developed. A bit like the civil engineers in my region estimating future road traffic based on their being a lot more biking and public transportation because that fits the amount of greenhouse gas emissions California wants emitted in the future, as opposed to the engineers actually thinking people will ditch their cars and that funding will be found to create the public transportation their projections depend on.
Well put. My last macbook made it 8 years (and 3 batteries). Switching to a Windows laptop still meant an inferior trackpad, even after hunting for better drivers.
I would say the core of the problem in the US is lack of education, coupled with the IP morass, which guarentees that stuff that isn't yet another paid-for-by-advertisers cat picture site is going to be done overseas.
If there is an IP morass it may get made overseas, but it still won't get sold in the US or Europe.
1. Theranos makes(?) diagnostics. Pharm industry makes drugs.
2. The diagnostic industry already knew that blood from skinpricks not only doesn't contain the same quantities of many biomarkers as blood from venous draws, the levels can also vary wildly from drop to drop, making the results pretty useless. Why compete with that?
oops, those were laws.
Except for the 13 million people in the US drinking well water with elevated levels of Arsenic. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/... For that though, I think Bangladesh is #1.