This law was created as the result of an female adult movie actor who was older than she looked. IMDB posted her real age to the site and she immediately lost all contracts and has not been able to work again.
It didn't matter what she looked like, this was honest to goodness age discrimination which would be impossible for her to prove.
Ah, except the recent referral for criminal contempt will see that sheriff forced to pay out of his own pocket. You don't deliberately disobey federal court orders and get off with the taxpayers paying the fines. The criminal contempt order will bar the government from paying his portion and it's going to cost him a significant amount of money to make sure his criminal contempt of judicial orders is punished appropriately.
In fact because it's criminal contempt there is a damn good chance he's going to end up in his own jail and I hope he's in the tents in a 130degree summer.
You don't just need a GPS, you need a cellular radio, a SIM that works worldwide and the ability (or a strong enough receiver) to get both signals through whatever object they put them in. Given that most electronics have metal casings I find the idea that they pulled this off on the scale they claim to be quite suspect.
As a result I'd be willing to bet that they sent out very few of these devices and "extrapolated" out the data they claim and a proper statistical review of their methods and sample size would likely indicate that their claimed result is laughably wrong. If I had to bet I would wager they sent out less than 20 of these devices and have less than that got data back and used that to claim the percentage when there are hundreds of recyclers in the US.
The second part that bothers me is that similar claims to this were debunked in the past. There was a previous article claiming the US and Europe were shipping all their electronic waste to Africa when it actually turned out that only good working salable equipment was being shipped into Africa where it was re-purposed to be used productively and that the waste the article had photographed as an example was actually Africa's own electronic waste with none of Europe or the US.
Though what you say is true about some materials, there are a large number of materials that can be recycled very easily. My municipality doesn't take those things that aren't economical to recycle but they will take any metal, plastics 1 & 2, cardboard and paper. All of these are very easily recycled, and the value of the material often covers the recycling. Plastic 1 (PET) is very easily recycled into numerous products. Paper products are so valuable these days due to the shortage of lumber for processing into paper that companies can get paid good money for their paper and cardboard (most grocery stores won't give out boxes anymore because of this). Metals are quite valuable, particularly aluminum, copper and steel but even alloys like magnesium and such are easily recycled and the recyclers usually pay per pound for them. Glass used to be included in that list but plastic has replaced most bottles these days and glass has almost no value anymore with very few products outside alcohol using it anymore.
This is standard practice nowadays. There are AstroTurfing campaigns and attacks like this going on all the time these days. There is no such thing as playing fair and letting the market decide. Ever since Tesla started plans to produce a mass consumer electric vehicle that's not handicapped and a piece of shit the oil industry has been working against them. This is why every single Model S crash is a massive public affair with news stories all over the wire. Oil companies are funding these types of articles and paying journalists to write them, probably in some cases writing them for them.
I'm glad Musk pursued the investigation and determined the person that made the call so they can get them on the stand. Expect nothing less at this point than the astroturf nonprofit that employs the guy to try to keep him from talking to anyone and when he does they will throw him under the bus and ruin his career to make it look like "one bad apple".
Like I said, standard practice these days. You can't really believe anything you see these days because of how corrupt journalism is, and the internet has only made it worse.
The only thing that is illegal in a takedown notice is if you claim ownership of something that's not yours. You think that applies but it doesn't, paramount actually owns the transformer movie they claimed ownership of. There is no cause of action for them claiming they own transformers and that X file is transformers when it's not. This is a very big hole in the law that allows these companies to make these fraudulent claims.
To sum up, the only thing that would have bee illegal is if paramount had claimed they own a movie that isn't theirs and then claimed Ubuntu was that movie. It might not make sense to you but this loophole was specifically put into the law to give the companies basically total immunity as long as they claim infringing product is something they actually own.
Your number two ignores the damage that these takedown notices cause to independent artists and small businesses. This should be taken into account and significant enough damages against the parent complainer rewarded to make the injured party whole. This would be simple if we simple added an extension to copyright making the copyright holder liable for anything they pay other companies to do regarding that copyright.
You are woefully unaware of how susceptible electronic device, particularly integrated circuits are to EM discharges. A USB port provides 500ma per second at 5V, with a few capacitors and a second or so to charge up you can transform that to 200V at a slightly reduced amperage. This would be enough juice to burn you and have you yelping in pain and you think your cheap IC circuits are going to survive that when they can barely survive a static electricity discharge with no amperage behind it?
You should learn better, go to youtube and watch the video from the homemade device and learn how these things work. It also wouldn't hurt if you actually learned something about electricity as well because you apparently don't know much of anything.
The seller notes that the only immune laptops on the market are the latest Macbook Pro's because their power and data circuits are isolated and the data circuits are passed through optical transmitters which essentially eliminate the power issue. There is an somewhat easy solution to a device like this. Isolated protected power paths with optical data transmission. Thunderbird was originally supposed to be optical and Intel still plans optical in the future.
The simple solution is for Federal ADA's to start prosecuting people that replace a American worker with an H1-B. I believe they could argue quite effectively that employee A was replaced by H1-B performing exactly the same job functions and this violates the terms of the H1-B program. The H1-B holder should be immediately deported and the company(s) involved should all be fined a minimum of a years salary.
Personally I'd like to see the law expanded and have these violations make the CEO personally liable.
Didn't see the You-tube video of the concept version of this being demoed on a laptop did you? Fried the screen and board in the first pulse and took out the power system and everything else with the second (each pulse takes about a second to charge and release). These things are not pushing a 10V signal on a 5V line, they are pumping a 230V charge into the port with magnitudes more amperage than static electricity, the simple over-voltage protections on current USB ports can't protect against this.
A real solution to a device like this will require a far more robust design on the over-volt protection on the ports. Something that can resist 200V+.
There is a solution here, electrical protection on the USB port that should have been there from the start. I'm not an EE so maybe this is actually a hard problem but it would seem to be easier to put a breaker or fuse on the the thing that would protect over-voltage from coming into the circuit boards.
Cement production doesn't involve power generation so no electricity is used. Worldwide Cement production uses around 20% of the world energy. You have to heat the mixture (a man made combination of several minerals) to about 2,700 degrees F to get Cement. This tremendous amount of heat (every ounce of mineral has to sustain this temp) requires massive expenditures of energy, sometimes electricity but usually something easy like thermal coal. The resulting klinker is then ball milled into a fine powder and sold as Portland Cement Concrete.
The thing is, Binding arbitration is good for the company as long as too many don't use it. If all the class members filed Arbitration requests this would cost Uber more than the class action would. The problem is people are more willing to sign up for a class than they are to file their own arbitration. There was a case a few years ago where ATT got a class dismissed then the class members to more than 1000 people to file arbitration requests. The resulting legal fees to ATT topped anything they would have paid out in a class action. The punishment is making it cost more than they gained even if you never see a dime, most people who sign up for classes don't understand that and only want a personal pay day.
ITT was one of the groups that specifically targeted GI's. At one point I remember reading that 80% of their revenue came from the DOD. The Fed's have moved aggressively against these colleges targeting vet's. ITT was disbarred from taking GI bill money a week or so ago and this is the result.
The point of the toxin isn't to kill adult mosquito's, it's to sit in the water at high enough doses to kill the very sensitive larva while being diluted enough to not harm anything else..
Lipophobic doesn't mean you build up concentrations and never let them go, it means it's processed in the liver rather than the kidneys. Some small portion may end up stored in your fat but the bulk of the material will be processed and broken down by the liver.
It's not collusion, they've been doing that for years, this is planned obsolescence. People aren't buying new hardware because they don't need it. Newer processors aren't any faster overall and haven't been for years now. You have to go back almost 5 generations to get a significant difference between mainstream Intel CPU's (single thread performance) that would be enough to justify buying a new processor. The focus on power efficiency has essentially stalled all growth in processor power.
So they are doing what they can, you want new hardware you need a new OS. They think it's a win win for both of them, though i think it will delay the upgrade cycle even more and will end up hurting them.
Rockets explode. Even the best and most tested design will loose a rocket every now and then. That's what happens when you strap cargo or people to a few million pounds of explosive that you hope will go off in a controlled manner. The key is to iterate and learn from the mistakes.
As far as Facebook it's not a big deal, everyone buys satellite launch insurance these days. They'll have to build a new bird but it likely won't cost facebook anything other than another launch insurance. It will make the rates for a spaceX launch go up a bit do to the increased insurance cost but they are already so much cheaper than everyone else that it probably doesn't even matter. And IIRC they already have one of the lowest "anomaly" rates in the commercial launch industry.
That a very poor analogy. It would be Idaho granting apple an exception on state taxes. Even if this exception violated federal law Idaho would be the responsible party, not apple. You can't get this to fit a US example because the IRS cant go back and tax anyone if they complied with the law at the time even if the law was invalid. This is retroactive taxation and this doesn't exist in the US, no court would allow it because Apple complied with the law when they filed the taxes.
This is the very definition of changing a tax rate after the taxes were paid or ex post facto taxation. This is the shit countries like Russia do, I would have never expected it from the EU.
People are more aware and far more likely to support the restrictions the FBI is asking for, not less. The FBI and law enforcement has been waging a very effective campaign of propaganda. The encryption issue was mostly dead on capital hill until the California attack when the FBI ran around saying they couldn't decrypt the terrorists phone. Even though by that point they knew who he was, that he was born in the US, that he was self radicalized, that he'd married a radical wife and had a confession from the guy that supplied the guns and apparently knew about the impending attack and that he acted alone other than his wife.
But OMG they couldn't see who he'd texted because, as we found out later, they'd fucked up and had the city reset the phone (which if they hadn't done so the could have easily synced the phone and got all the data).
This is all propaganda and it should be recognized as such, but don't think for a minute that the vast majority of people have no problem with these restrictions because they are being told what the FBI wants them to hear, that dirty murdering terrorists and criminals are using encryption to avoid being caught. Which is so utterly far from the truth that it's not even funny. The appropriate way to combat this is to talk about all the various kinds of theft (identify, stealing phones, etc) that encryption will help stop or eliminate the electronic damage. Default encryption, much like the chip'd credit cards do more to stop criminal actions than than law enforcement prosecutes without encryption.
And that's how you sell that the FBI's restrictions are bad, after all it's better to prevent 99% crime than to catch the 1% criminal after the fact. We've got to accept in this country that you aren't going to stop lone wolf crimes like the Cali terrorist. You cannot see them coming.
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This law was created as the result of an female adult movie actor who was older than she looked. IMDB posted her real age to the site and she immediately lost all contracts and has not been able to work again.
It didn't matter what she looked like, this was honest to goodness age discrimination which would be impossible for her to prove.
Ah, except the recent referral for criminal contempt will see that sheriff forced to pay out of his own pocket. You don't deliberately disobey federal court orders and get off with the taxpayers paying the fines. The criminal contempt order will bar the government from paying his portion and it's going to cost him a significant amount of money to make sure his criminal contempt of judicial orders is punished appropriately.
In fact because it's criminal contempt there is a damn good chance he's going to end up in his own jail and I hope he's in the tents in a 130degree summer.
You don't just need a GPS, you need a cellular radio, a SIM that works worldwide and the ability (or a strong enough receiver) to get both signals through whatever object they put them in. Given that most electronics have metal casings I find the idea that they pulled this off on the scale they claim to be quite suspect.
As a result I'd be willing to bet that they sent out very few of these devices and "extrapolated" out the data they claim and a proper statistical review of their methods and sample size would likely indicate that their claimed result is laughably wrong. If I had to bet I would wager they sent out less than 20 of these devices and have less than that got data back and used that to claim the percentage when there are hundreds of recyclers in the US.
The second part that bothers me is that similar claims to this were debunked in the past. There was a previous article claiming the US and Europe were shipping all their electronic waste to Africa when it actually turned out that only good working salable equipment was being shipped into Africa where it was re-purposed to be used productively and that the waste the article had photographed as an example was actually Africa's own electronic waste with none of Europe or the US.
Though what you say is true about some materials, there are a large number of materials that can be recycled very easily. My municipality doesn't take those things that aren't economical to recycle but they will take any metal, plastics 1 & 2, cardboard and paper. All of these are very easily recycled, and the value of the material often covers the recycling. Plastic 1 (PET) is very easily recycled into numerous products. Paper products are so valuable these days due to the shortage of lumber for processing into paper that companies can get paid good money for their paper and cardboard (most grocery stores won't give out boxes anymore because of this). Metals are quite valuable, particularly aluminum, copper and steel but even alloys like magnesium and such are easily recycled and the recyclers usually pay per pound for them. Glass used to be included in that list but plastic has replaced most bottles these days and glass has almost no value anymore with very few products outside alcohol using it anymore.
This is standard practice nowadays. There are AstroTurfing campaigns and attacks like this going on all the time these days. There is no such thing as playing fair and letting the market decide. Ever since Tesla started plans to produce a mass consumer electric vehicle that's not handicapped and a piece of shit the oil industry has been working against them. This is why every single Model S crash is a massive public affair with news stories all over the wire. Oil companies are funding these types of articles and paying journalists to write them, probably in some cases writing them for them.
I'm glad Musk pursued the investigation and determined the person that made the call so they can get them on the stand. Expect nothing less at this point than the astroturf nonprofit that employs the guy to try to keep him from talking to anyone and when he does they will throw him under the bus and ruin his career to make it look like "one bad apple".
Like I said, standard practice these days. You can't really believe anything you see these days because of how corrupt journalism is, and the internet has only made it worse.
Your suggestion only works if the candidates are truthful. No politician is truthful and the two running for president are damn near compulsive liars.
The only thing that is illegal in a takedown notice is if you claim ownership of something that's not yours. You think that applies but it doesn't, paramount actually owns the transformer movie they claimed ownership of. There is no cause of action for them claiming they own transformers and that X file is transformers when it's not. This is a very big hole in the law that allows these companies to make these fraudulent claims.
To sum up, the only thing that would have bee illegal is if paramount had claimed they own a movie that isn't theirs and then claimed Ubuntu was that movie. It might not make sense to you but this loophole was specifically put into the law to give the companies basically total immunity as long as they claim infringing product is something they actually own.
Your number two ignores the damage that these takedown notices cause to independent artists and small businesses. This should be taken into account and significant enough damages against the parent complainer rewarded to make the injured party whole. This would be simple if we simple added an extension to copyright making the copyright holder liable for anything they pay other companies to do regarding that copyright.
The only SJW I see here is you.
You are woefully unaware of how susceptible electronic device, particularly integrated circuits are to EM discharges. A USB port provides 500ma per second at 5V, with a few capacitors and a second or so to charge up you can transform that to 200V at a slightly reduced amperage. This would be enough juice to burn you and have you yelping in pain and you think your cheap IC circuits are going to survive that when they can barely survive a static electricity discharge with no amperage behind it?
You should learn better, go to youtube and watch the video from the homemade device and learn how these things work. It also wouldn't hurt if you actually learned something about electricity as well because you apparently don't know much of anything.
The seller notes that the only immune laptops on the market are the latest Macbook Pro's because their power and data circuits are isolated and the data circuits are passed through optical transmitters which essentially eliminate the power issue. There is an somewhat easy solution to a device like this. Isolated protected power paths with optical data transmission. Thunderbird was originally supposed to be optical and Intel still plans optical in the future.
The simple solution is for Federal ADA's to start prosecuting people that replace a American worker with an H1-B. I believe they could argue quite effectively that employee A was replaced by H1-B performing exactly the same job functions and this violates the terms of the H1-B program. The H1-B holder should be immediately deported and the company(s) involved should all be fined a minimum of a years salary.
Personally I'd like to see the law expanded and have these violations make the CEO personally liable.
Didn't see the You-tube video of the concept version of this being demoed on a laptop did you? Fried the screen and board in the first pulse and took out the power system and everything else with the second (each pulse takes about a second to charge and release). These things are not pushing a 10V signal on a 5V line, they are pumping a 230V charge into the port with magnitudes more amperage than static electricity, the simple over-voltage protections on current USB ports can't protect against this.
A real solution to a device like this will require a far more robust design on the over-volt protection on the ports. Something that can resist 200V+.
There is a solution here, electrical protection on the USB port that should have been there from the start. I'm not an EE so maybe this is actually a hard problem but it would seem to be easier to put a breaker or fuse on the the thing that would protect over-voltage from coming into the circuit boards.
That depends on whether you consider filibustering, invading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Personally I consider it an invasion.
Cement production doesn't involve power generation so no electricity is used. Worldwide Cement production uses around 20% of the world energy. You have to heat the mixture (a man made combination of several minerals) to about 2,700 degrees F to get Cement. This tremendous amount of heat (every ounce of mineral has to sustain this temp) requires massive expenditures of energy, sometimes electricity but usually something easy like thermal coal. The resulting klinker is then ball milled into a fine powder and sold as Portland Cement Concrete.
The thing is, Binding arbitration is good for the company as long as too many don't use it. If all the class members filed Arbitration requests this would cost Uber more than the class action would. The problem is people are more willing to sign up for a class than they are to file their own arbitration. There was a case a few years ago where ATT got a class dismissed then the class members to more than 1000 people to file arbitration requests. The resulting legal fees to ATT topped anything they would have paid out in a class action. The punishment is making it cost more than they gained even if you never see a dime, most people who sign up for classes don't understand that and only want a personal pay day.
ITT was one of the groups that specifically targeted GI's. At one point I remember reading that 80% of their revenue came from the DOD. The Fed's have moved aggressively against these colleges targeting vet's. ITT was disbarred from taking GI bill money a week or so ago and this is the result.
The point of the toxin isn't to kill adult mosquito's, it's to sit in the water at high enough doses to kill the very sensitive larva while being diluted enough to not harm anything else..
Lipophobic doesn't mean you build up concentrations and never let them go, it means it's processed in the liver rather than the kidneys. Some small portion may end up stored in your fat but the bulk of the material will be processed and broken down by the liver.
Aegis egypti the mosquito responsible for numerous tropical diseases was eliminated by DDT in the US. It previosly ranged throughout the southern US.
It's not collusion, they've been doing that for years, this is planned obsolescence. People aren't buying new hardware because they don't need it. Newer processors aren't any faster overall and haven't been for years now. You have to go back almost 5 generations to get a significant difference between mainstream Intel CPU's (single thread performance) that would be enough to justify buying a new processor. The focus on power efficiency has essentially stalled all growth in processor power.
So they are doing what they can, you want new hardware you need a new OS. They think it's a win win for both of them, though i think it will delay the upgrade cycle even more and will end up hurting them.
Rockets explode. Even the best and most tested design will loose a rocket every now and then. That's what happens when you strap cargo or people to a few million pounds of explosive that you hope will go off in a controlled manner. The key is to iterate and learn from the mistakes.
As far as Facebook it's not a big deal, everyone buys satellite launch insurance these days. They'll have to build a new bird but it likely won't cost facebook anything other than another launch insurance. It will make the rates for a spaceX launch go up a bit do to the increased insurance cost but they are already so much cheaper than everyone else that it probably doesn't even matter. And IIRC they already have one of the lowest "anomaly" rates in the commercial launch industry.
That a very poor analogy. It would be Idaho granting apple an exception on state taxes. Even if this exception violated federal law Idaho would be the responsible party, not apple. You can't get this to fit a US example because the IRS cant go back and tax anyone if they complied with the law at the time even if the law was invalid. This is retroactive taxation and this doesn't exist in the US, no court would allow it because Apple complied with the law when they filed the taxes.
This is the very definition of changing a tax rate after the taxes were paid or ex post facto taxation. This is the shit countries like Russia do, I would have never expected it from the EU.
People are more aware and far more likely to support the restrictions the FBI is asking for, not less. The FBI and law enforcement has been waging a very effective campaign of propaganda. The encryption issue was mostly dead on capital hill until the California attack when the FBI ran around saying they couldn't decrypt the terrorists phone. Even though by that point they knew who he was, that he was born in the US, that he was self radicalized, that he'd married a radical wife and had a confession from the guy that supplied the guns and apparently knew about the impending attack and that he acted alone other than his wife.
But OMG they couldn't see who he'd texted because, as we found out later, they'd fucked up and had the city reset the phone (which if they hadn't done so the could have easily synced the phone and got all the data).
This is all propaganda and it should be recognized as such, but don't think for a minute that the vast majority of people have no problem with these restrictions because they are being told what the FBI wants them to hear, that dirty murdering terrorists and criminals are using encryption to avoid being caught. Which is so utterly far from the truth that it's not even funny. The appropriate way to combat this is to talk about all the various kinds of theft (identify, stealing phones, etc) that encryption will help stop or eliminate the electronic damage. Default encryption, much like the chip'd credit cards do more to stop criminal actions than than law enforcement prosecutes without encryption.
And that's how you sell that the FBI's restrictions are bad, after all it's better to prevent 99% crime than to catch the 1% criminal after the fact. We've got to accept in this country that you aren't going to stop lone wolf crimes like the Cali terrorist. You cannot see them coming.