Rich people with the money to hire good lawyers have been beating the justice system since the founding. If you have money you can hire a team of lawyers to attack every single thread of evidence. Poor people get a lawyer who can usually spend at best a couple hours on their case.
This is one of the many advantages of being wealthy.
Deep pockets = Someone worth suing. Tying them to it is another issue, it doesn't matter how insignificantly connected the company is. This is about money. Daesh does use Twitter, it's an open free platform designed to be compatible with SMS. But I'm sure daesh also uses a ton of other recruiting methods using all kinds of technology. I suppose what this lawsuit wants is that Twitter either filter every single tweet or we turn the friggen internet off. It's why their suit will fail.
Twitter is a common carrier and in the US at least isn't responsible for the content posted to their system. Given the volume of tweets they process I have no doubt it would be impossible for them to review with human eyes even 1%. They have to rely on people reporting stuff. Frankly it's also the reason they have such a hard time filtering jackasses and others that abuse their system to harass people.
I read every word you wrote, did you? You want to Blame Apple for following the guidance they were given by the Irish Tax Authority, the only authority on the matter. You think because Apple is a big company they should be looking at the entire EU and evaluating how the EC commission might view such a deal years (more than 8 years) down the road even though the EC has NO authority over taxation which is a sovereign right of Ireland (as defined by the EU charter).
You are wrong, and your idea that Apple because they have lots of lawyers should have seen this coming is wrong. This is ex-post-facto taxation, everything about it is wrong. If there is a guilty party here it's the Irish government who sold out the other member EU states for a few jobs. YOU want to blame apple for that. I think you are fucking nuts. Stop blaming companies for the tax policies of member states. Ireland, Denmark and Lichtenstein created this.
You don't see the real problem here, the EU as constructed allows individual member states to do bad things to other member states. France can't sue Ireland because they are both Sovereign states. That is and has been a serious problem that has existed since the EU was constructed. And what has happened is exactly what the experts predicted. Greece (and possibly others) racked up billions in debt they couldn't pay and obligated Germany and the other member states to bail them out. Three EU member countries cut sweetheart tax deals that fucked everyone else over for a few jobs and euro's of taxes.
These things will continue to happen unless they tighten up EU policies and require the member states to cede some taxation authority and create a federal type court system where states can sue each other for stupid tax policies like the Irish and Dutch policies which robbed other member states of taxes. There is no negative for Ireland to tell the EC to go pound sand, the EC has no authority to punish Ireland. Though it probably won't go that way the situation is ripe to happen with a radical government in charge.
What you suggest is absurd. The Ireland Taxing authority is THE authority for taxation in Ireland. No company in the world is going to ask the EU commission which has no authority on the matter if such an agreement is valid, because the commission has NO authority over taxation. Each state is 100% sovereign on taxation. This is why they are calling it state aid and not dealing with the tax issue.
I'll say it again, the EC is angry at it's own member states for cutting sweetheart taxing deals with companies. There is political pressure to stop this but rather than attack the member states directly (Ireland, Denmark and Lichtenstein) they are attacking innocent American companies (and only American companies). The proper solution to this is to bring their own member states to task and force them to end the sweetheart deals. But this idea that they can levy an ex-post-facto tax on these companies is complete bullshit.
I totally believe these tax deals should go away, but the solution isn't to blame the company, it's to blame the country that cut the deal to get the jobs. And the only way to fix it is for the sovereign states that are in the EU to give up part of their taxation authority. This is one of the primary problems with the EU structure, individual states can commit all the other members to bailouts and tax policies that harm other member states. Until that authority is pulled into the federal structure the EU will continue to have problems with this type of situation. Member states will continue to sell each other down the river for short term benefit.
This taxation issue is the primary threat the EU faces long term and using the popular support this has generated to end these policies would do large amounts of good to the Union long term. But I don't hold out hope honestly, the tax sovereignty issue is the biggest issue the EU faces and has since the founding.
Not responding is exactly the wrong result. An entering of default judgement is a win for the plaintiff and they can and will go after the assets of the company. You can't appeal these default judgement unless you can prove beyond a doubt you never received the process as failure to respond is essentially pleading guilty in a civil suit (that's how the courts view it).
There is no such thing. This is why people talking about the EU just don't get it. Ground rules were established on tax rates and deficits but all taxing authority was retained as a sovereign exercise and the EC has no authority over it. This is the primary reason people in the economic community have been predicting the death of the EU since it's foundation and they pointed at Greece as a prime example and now they have another in this Ireland issue.
The EC has no authority over Irish tax rates, rules or collection policy. None. Just like they don't have any over Denmark or Lichtenstein who also put in sweetheart tax deals that fucked over everyone in the EU but them. Until there is a change in the EU charter to give them authority all they can do is nothing, they have no authority and they have no way to punish Ireland for failing to comply with their illegal order.
Only problem is the EU Commission has no authority to set tax rates as taxing authority is still a sovereign exercise. They've got ground rules and no way to enforce them.
There is no agreement or rule in place to give the EC commission power over individual member state tax rates. It's one of reasons the EU will never succeed as it exists, you can't have a union where any member country can fuck all the others out of tax revenue and where other states can run defects until they are so far in debt they cannot pay it back.
Ireland is going to win the appeal, the EC commission does not have authority here, taxing authority is specifically retained by member countries as part of the EU charter. Hopefully what comes of this is an agreement among member states to cede some tax authority to Brussles so they can actually enforce the rules that everyone is supposed to follow but in practice almost no one does.
On what grounds? The EU body does not have authority to levy taxes.
Their compliant is with their own member countries giving sweetheart deals to companies at the expense of all the other members of the EU. None of the corporations broke any laws here, the countries stepped forward with tax breaks that were against the intent but not the legal structure of the EU. Their beef is with Ireland, Denmark and Lichtenstein, not Apple, Google and all the other companies from outside the EU that homed in these countries because of sweetheart tax deals.
Trying to use this as a weapon against American companies for behavior of EU states is a good way to start a trade ware with the US and I have no doubt the WTO would rule in the US's favor.
You clearly know nothing about driving experience. What makes a driving experience good and fun is equal power and torque at the same time. The power and torque curves of ICE engines are exponential in opposite directions and you typically can only get equal HP and Torque up in the 5-6000 RPM range (near redline) where they both hit the same value (where the curves cross). Electric motors on the other hand have identical HP and Torque curves. They have maximum Torque and HP at every point along the curve.
Electric motors are the absolute funnest type of propulsion there is to drive. Why do you think the first Porsche was Electric and only went to ICE when he couldn't solve the power storage problem? You should test drive a pure electric some day and realize everything you've been missing. Because you don't know what you're talking about if you think ICE engines are the funnest to drive.
More of the breakthroughs get out into the wild than you would believe. You don't get 20% more capacity at the same weight in 5 years without it. Lithium Ion battery innovations are deployed almost immediately if they are economical and capable of mass production. It's the new battery techs being developed that have a much lower success rate. Very few have ended up competitive with lithium with the advances being done in Lithium. They target being better and cheaper than Lithium but in 5 years the Lithium batteries outpace the development.
The money Dyson is planning to spend is pennies in comparison to what is being expended right now on batteries. There are hundreds of companies both startups and large industrial conglomerates spending more. There are 10's of billions being spent on battery research right now, it wouldn't surprise me if the total R&D exceeded 100 billion or more. Lithium batteries alone have seen gains of more than 20% in 5 years time and there are a dozen different battery chemistries being deployed for various applications given the constraints to drive battery success (weight, charge rate, discharge rate, total capacity, size, life and cost). Lithium has been dominating because it does very well at all the constraints except the charge cycles (life).
The details were secure, until Chelsea manning gave them to an egomaniac sociopath that posted them on the internet without a second thought. Before that incident all these details were protected secrets and divulging of details would result in a prison sentence.
Your evidence is as strong as the evidence that "the jews control the media" because some CEO of a public company has a jewish last name. Someone jumping between government appointments and the press is NOT new, what do you think political consultants are? I personally think they should change their title to out of work politician. Do you expect presidents to hire non journalists for a press secretary position?
Seriously you act like you expect people to have a special job called presidential press secretary, even though there is only one of them and they change with every president and that after they leave they should never ever work again and certainly not in the press. After all they are just robots with no independent thought and are just arms of some giant presidential monster. In other words your argument is childish and devoid of reality.
Being called a dick for saying dickish things does not chill discourse. Your speech has social consequences and if you believe that those social consequences are a problem than you are frankly not in tune with reality. There is no belief in free speech that includes a right not to be offended and there is also no right to not be criticized.
People like you will in one breath disclaim the right to be offended and attempt to defend the right to say offending things without the social consequences those statements bring. Both quell free speech. You have a right to say whatever you want, but you don't have a right to be free of social consequences for saying unpopular things. Because the only way to take away social consequences is to take away the freedom of other people.
Your a big boy, you say things other people don't like you better damn well expect them to react in ways you probably aren't going to like. Welcome to Freedom, part of being free is understanding that your freedom to be a dick comes with the consequences of people not wanting to associate with you and calling you names. You want to wear the big boy pants and say things other people find offensive you can be a big boy and deal with the consequences of doing so.
Liar. Wind is cheaper than gas right now at about 4cents/kwh on 30 year contracts. Nuclear in old already paid for plants is 10cents/kWh and if you want to build a new one its close to 16cents/kWh.
The solar panel surface is usually glass. Snow doesn't stick to glass, even in freezing temperatures if the weight exceeds a certain amount it will break free and slide off. With a glass roof I doubt you would ever need the roof rake.
No, the really interesting thing is going to be what happens to these "shadow brokers" in time. They've hacked a state sponsored defense agency and published weapons of war for sale. This is the kind of thing that's likely to get you put on a rendition list.
HPC is not GPU. It's a whole other area of computing that has little if anything to do with graphics. The Knights landing chips are kinda like a GPU in the sense that there are lots of tiny cores good at one or two operations but it differs significantly from a standard GPU type chip that Nvidia produces in that its x86, and it's cores are a little more general purpose than a standard nvidia CUDA core.
Think of it this way, Knights Landing is marketed as 70 Atom-like cores, rather than 1200 CUDA cores. Because it's x86 you don't need a Xeon in there running command and control for the CUDA cores. The Knights Landing chip can run all on it's own and it has the interconnects and shared memory to run all those atom cores at full pace such that it can do the matrix math just like CUDA but without any of the overhead of a Xeon cpu and PCIE Cuda cores coordinating across the PCIe bus. The advantage is supposed to be that because KL is x86 you don't need to recompile the code to CUDA to get it to run while at the same time getting the same power as an Nvidia build at half the cost.
Clearly KL is making waves or nvidia wouldn't be complaining. The cost of recompiling is massive, being able to run older software on these is a huge advantage, even if you can't get the same speed, especially because it's cheaper than the equivalent nvidia build.
They all do it. Nvidia is notorious for it, probably more so than Intel, going so far as to bin chips and creating special review boards and firmwares that make the review cards 30% faster than the retail versions.
This is nothing more than a Pot meet kettle moment. Intel must be making waves in HPC with Phi to draw this strong of an Nvidia comment.
Marvel WiFi is garbage on FOSS, you'll probably have better luck running the windows driver with the NDIS shim. You should avoid Marvel wifi products like the plague if you want to run windows, they are FOSS hostile.
Why should I have to rent a box to access the content I'm paying for?
This initiative is SOLELY about opening up the box market to prevent the consumer gouging that Comcast and the other providers are engaged in. The FCC had a good plan with Cablecard but the problem was to implement it they allowed the cable companies to put a "certification laboratory" approval in front of anyone trying to sell compatible devices. On top of that they then started charging monthly fees for a cable card. These two things sunk cable card. Cable labs allowed them to raise the cost of device approval to the point that it wasn't worth the CE firms time and the cable companies made cable card use a nightmare such that almost everyone just gave up.
What the FCC is trying to do here is admirable. The cable companies oppose this because of a few key issues. The first is the lost box rental fee's. The second is the lost viewer data and the third is the lost advertising revenue. Comcast alone makes billions of dollars on the rental fee's and who knows how much selling access to viewer data and in box advertising. They also are the gateway to any in box competition, such as refusing to allow Netflix to run on their platform.
Anyway you slice it the current market encourages cable company abuse. The FCC needs to step in and allow open consumer access to purchased content.
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Rich people with the money to hire good lawyers have been beating the justice system since the founding. If you have money you can hire a team of lawyers to attack every single thread of evidence. Poor people get a lawyer who can usually spend at best a couple hours on their case.
This is one of the many advantages of being wealthy.
FISA has existed since long before 9/11.
Deep pockets = Someone worth suing. Tying them to it is another issue, it doesn't matter how insignificantly connected the company is. This is about money. Daesh does use Twitter, it's an open free platform designed to be compatible with SMS. But I'm sure daesh also uses a ton of other recruiting methods using all kinds of technology. I suppose what this lawsuit wants is that Twitter either filter every single tweet or we turn the friggen internet off. It's why their suit will fail.
Twitter is a common carrier and in the US at least isn't responsible for the content posted to their system. Given the volume of tweets they process I have no doubt it would be impossible for them to review with human eyes even 1%. They have to rely on people reporting stuff. Frankly it's also the reason they have such a hard time filtering jackasses and others that abuse their system to harass people.
I read every word you wrote, did you? You want to Blame Apple for following the guidance they were given by the Irish Tax Authority, the only authority on the matter. You think because Apple is a big company they should be looking at the entire EU and evaluating how the EC commission might view such a deal years (more than 8 years) down the road even though the EC has NO authority over taxation which is a sovereign right of Ireland (as defined by the EU charter).
You are wrong, and your idea that Apple because they have lots of lawyers should have seen this coming is wrong. This is ex-post-facto taxation, everything about it is wrong. If there is a guilty party here it's the Irish government who sold out the other member EU states for a few jobs. YOU want to blame apple for that. I think you are fucking nuts. Stop blaming companies for the tax policies of member states. Ireland, Denmark and Lichtenstein created this.
You don't see the real problem here, the EU as constructed allows individual member states to do bad things to other member states. France can't sue Ireland because they are both Sovereign states. That is and has been a serious problem that has existed since the EU was constructed. And what has happened is exactly what the experts predicted. Greece (and possibly others) racked up billions in debt they couldn't pay and obligated Germany and the other member states to bail them out. Three EU member countries cut sweetheart tax deals that fucked everyone else over for a few jobs and euro's of taxes.
These things will continue to happen unless they tighten up EU policies and require the member states to cede some taxation authority and create a federal type court system where states can sue each other for stupid tax policies like the Irish and Dutch policies which robbed other member states of taxes. There is no negative for Ireland to tell the EC to go pound sand, the EC has no authority to punish Ireland. Though it probably won't go that way the situation is ripe to happen with a radical government in charge.
What you suggest is absurd. The Ireland Taxing authority is THE authority for taxation in Ireland. No company in the world is going to ask the EU commission which has no authority on the matter if such an agreement is valid, because the commission has NO authority over taxation. Each state is 100% sovereign on taxation. This is why they are calling it state aid and not dealing with the tax issue.
I'll say it again, the EC is angry at it's own member states for cutting sweetheart taxing deals with companies. There is political pressure to stop this but rather than attack the member states directly (Ireland, Denmark and Lichtenstein) they are attacking innocent American companies (and only American companies). The proper solution to this is to bring their own member states to task and force them to end the sweetheart deals. But this idea that they can levy an ex-post-facto tax on these companies is complete bullshit.
I totally believe these tax deals should go away, but the solution isn't to blame the company, it's to blame the country that cut the deal to get the jobs. And the only way to fix it is for the sovereign states that are in the EU to give up part of their taxation authority. This is one of the primary problems with the EU structure, individual states can commit all the other members to bailouts and tax policies that harm other member states. Until that authority is pulled into the federal structure the EU will continue to have problems with this type of situation. Member states will continue to sell each other down the river for short term benefit.
This taxation issue is the primary threat the EU faces long term and using the popular support this has generated to end these policies would do large amounts of good to the Union long term. But I don't hold out hope honestly, the tax sovereignty issue is the biggest issue the EU faces and has since the founding.
Not responding is exactly the wrong result. An entering of default judgement is a win for the plaintiff and they can and will go after the assets of the company. You can't appeal these default judgement unless you can prove beyond a doubt you never received the process as failure to respond is essentially pleading guilty in a civil suit (that's how the courts view it).
You always respond or you lose automatically.
There is no such thing. This is why people talking about the EU just don't get it. Ground rules were established on tax rates and deficits but all taxing authority was retained as a sovereign exercise and the EC has no authority over it. This is the primary reason people in the economic community have been predicting the death of the EU since it's foundation and they pointed at Greece as a prime example and now they have another in this Ireland issue.
The EC has no authority over Irish tax rates, rules or collection policy. None. Just like they don't have any over Denmark or Lichtenstein who also put in sweetheart tax deals that fucked over everyone in the EU but them. Until there is a change in the EU charter to give them authority all they can do is nothing, they have no authority and they have no way to punish Ireland for failing to comply with their illegal order.
Only problem is the EU Commission has no authority to set tax rates as taxing authority is still a sovereign exercise. They've got ground rules and no way to enforce them.
There is no agreement or rule in place to give the EC commission power over individual member state tax rates. It's one of reasons the EU will never succeed as it exists, you can't have a union where any member country can fuck all the others out of tax revenue and where other states can run defects until they are so far in debt they cannot pay it back.
Ireland is going to win the appeal, the EC commission does not have authority here, taxing authority is specifically retained by member countries as part of the EU charter. Hopefully what comes of this is an agreement among member states to cede some tax authority to Brussles so they can actually enforce the rules that everyone is supposed to follow but in practice almost no one does.
On what grounds? The EU body does not have authority to levy taxes.
Their compliant is with their own member countries giving sweetheart deals to companies at the expense of all the other members of the EU. None of the corporations broke any laws here, the countries stepped forward with tax breaks that were against the intent but not the legal structure of the EU. Their beef is with Ireland, Denmark and Lichtenstein, not Apple, Google and all the other companies from outside the EU that homed in these countries because of sweetheart tax deals.
Trying to use this as a weapon against American companies for behavior of EU states is a good way to start a trade ware with the US and I have no doubt the WTO would rule in the US's favor.
You clearly know nothing about driving experience. What makes a driving experience good and fun is equal power and torque at the same time. The power and torque curves of ICE engines are exponential in opposite directions and you typically can only get equal HP and Torque up in the 5-6000 RPM range (near redline) where they both hit the same value (where the curves cross). Electric motors on the other hand have identical HP and Torque curves. They have maximum Torque and HP at every point along the curve.
Electric motors are the absolute funnest type of propulsion there is to drive. Why do you think the first Porsche was Electric and only went to ICE when he couldn't solve the power storage problem? You should test drive a pure electric some day and realize everything you've been missing. Because you don't know what you're talking about if you think ICE engines are the funnest to drive.
More of the breakthroughs get out into the wild than you would believe. You don't get 20% more capacity at the same weight in 5 years without it. Lithium Ion battery innovations are deployed almost immediately if they are economical and capable of mass production. It's the new battery techs being developed that have a much lower success rate. Very few have ended up competitive with lithium with the advances being done in Lithium. They target being better and cheaper than Lithium but in 5 years the Lithium batteries outpace the development.
The money Dyson is planning to spend is pennies in comparison to what is being expended right now on batteries. There are hundreds of companies both startups and large industrial conglomerates spending more. There are 10's of billions being spent on battery research right now, it wouldn't surprise me if the total R&D exceeded 100 billion or more. Lithium batteries alone have seen gains of more than 20% in 5 years time and there are a dozen different battery chemistries being deployed for various applications given the constraints to drive battery success (weight, charge rate, discharge rate, total capacity, size, life and cost). Lithium has been dominating because it does very well at all the constraints except the charge cycles (life).
The details were secure, until Chelsea manning gave them to an egomaniac sociopath that posted them on the internet without a second thought. Before that incident all these details were protected secrets and divulging of details would result in a prison sentence.
Your evidence is as strong as the evidence that "the jews control the media" because some CEO of a public company has a jewish last name. Someone jumping between government appointments and the press is NOT new, what do you think political consultants are? I personally think they should change their title to out of work politician. Do you expect presidents to hire non journalists for a press secretary position?
Seriously you act like you expect people to have a special job called presidential press secretary, even though there is only one of them and they change with every president and that after they leave they should never ever work again and certainly not in the press. After all they are just robots with no independent thought and are just arms of some giant presidential monster. In other words your argument is childish and devoid of reality.
Being called a dick for saying dickish things does not chill discourse. Your speech has social consequences and if you believe that those social consequences are a problem than you are frankly not in tune with reality. There is no belief in free speech that includes a right not to be offended and there is also no right to not be criticized.
People like you will in one breath disclaim the right to be offended and attempt to defend the right to say offending things without the social consequences those statements bring. Both quell free speech. You have a right to say whatever you want, but you don't have a right to be free of social consequences for saying unpopular things. Because the only way to take away social consequences is to take away the freedom of other people.
Your a big boy, you say things other people don't like you better damn well expect them to react in ways you probably aren't going to like. Welcome to Freedom, part of being free is understanding that your freedom to be a dick comes with the consequences of people not wanting to associate with you and calling you names. You want to wear the big boy pants and say things other people find offensive you can be a big boy and deal with the consequences of doing so.
Liar. Wind is cheaper than gas right now at about 4cents/kwh on 30 year contracts. Nuclear in old already paid for plants is 10cents/kWh and if you want to build a new one its close to 16cents/kWh.
Nuclear isn't cost competitive against anything.
The solar panel surface is usually glass. Snow doesn't stick to glass, even in freezing temperatures if the weight exceeds a certain amount it will break free and slide off. With a glass roof I doubt you would ever need the roof rake.
No, the really interesting thing is going to be what happens to these "shadow brokers" in time. They've hacked a state sponsored defense agency and published weapons of war for sale. This is the kind of thing that's likely to get you put on a rendition list.
According to this Phi can be had for $200 at the low end. You can't buy a Nvidia Tesla product for that.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan....
HPC is not GPU. It's a whole other area of computing that has little if anything to do with graphics. The Knights landing chips are kinda like a GPU in the sense that there are lots of tiny cores good at one or two operations but it differs significantly from a standard GPU type chip that Nvidia produces in that its x86, and it's cores are a little more general purpose than a standard nvidia CUDA core.
Think of it this way, Knights Landing is marketed as 70 Atom-like cores, rather than 1200 CUDA cores. Because it's x86 you don't need a Xeon in there running command and control for the CUDA cores. The Knights Landing chip can run all on it's own and it has the interconnects and shared memory to run all those atom cores at full pace such that it can do the matrix math just like CUDA but without any of the overhead of a Xeon cpu and PCIE Cuda cores coordinating across the PCIe bus. The advantage is supposed to be that because KL is x86 you don't need to recompile the code to CUDA to get it to run while at the same time getting the same power as an Nvidia build at half the cost.
Clearly KL is making waves or nvidia wouldn't be complaining. The cost of recompiling is massive, being able to run older software on these is a huge advantage, even if you can't get the same speed, especially because it's cheaper than the equivalent nvidia build.
They all do it. Nvidia is notorious for it, probably more so than Intel, going so far as to bin chips and creating special review boards and firmwares that make the review cards 30% faster than the retail versions.
This is nothing more than a Pot meet kettle moment. Intel must be making waves in HPC with Phi to draw this strong of an Nvidia comment.
Failure to allow US Customs access to your electronic devices is grounds for them to seize the device. Just a warning.
Considering there is research indicating that almost all US currency has traces of cocaine on it then it wouldn't be very hard for them to claim that.
Marvel WiFi is garbage on FOSS, you'll probably have better luck running the windows driver with the NDIS shim. You should avoid Marvel wifi products like the plague if you want to run windows, they are FOSS hostile.
Why should I have to rent a box to access the content I'm paying for?
This initiative is SOLELY about opening up the box market to prevent the consumer gouging that Comcast and the other providers are engaged in. The FCC had a good plan with Cablecard but the problem was to implement it they allowed the cable companies to put a "certification laboratory" approval in front of anyone trying to sell compatible devices. On top of that they then started charging monthly fees for a cable card. These two things sunk cable card. Cable labs allowed them to raise the cost of device approval to the point that it wasn't worth the CE firms time and the cable companies made cable card use a nightmare such that almost everyone just gave up.
What the FCC is trying to do here is admirable. The cable companies oppose this because of a few key issues. The first is the lost box rental fee's. The second is the lost viewer data and the third is the lost advertising revenue. Comcast alone makes billions of dollars on the rental fee's and who knows how much selling access to viewer data and in box advertising. They also are the gateway to any in box competition, such as refusing to allow Netflix to run on their platform.
Anyway you slice it the current market encourages cable company abuse. The FCC needs to step in and allow open consumer access to purchased content.