They don't actually read the bills. That's why the FBI buries the clause deep in the bill. Thank god for Ron Wyden, that man has protected the public numerous times and I hope he's able to block this.
Judges used to routinely overrule juries but the Supreme court mostly stopped this a few years ago. Current Supreme court precedent on this is that the Juries ruling is sacrosanct. About the only appeal Oracle can make at this point that has any chance is that the Jury instructions were wrong. They've announced plans for this appeal already but it's a major uphill battle on that, especially if they didn't challenge the instructions originally.
People keep saying that but I've not heard a single person quote a law she appears to be guilty of other than being a bitch. (which isn't against the law). It was stupid, it violated department policy and in my opinion nothing bad came of it, she was technically in charge of state and could set whatever policy she wanted. It would be like accusing the president of releasing classified information when he can at his will classify/unclassify anything he wants and the very act of releasing the information would be official declassification. Sometimes the boss does stupid stuff, but that's one of the advantages of being the boss.
The claim that the server was hacked has never been validated, nor has any evidence ever been provided. The claim stands as no more significant than the claim that the guy in Australia created Bitcoin. In other words without evidence it's not at all believable. The people that have made these claims are not exactly trustworthy sources.
The government routinely reverse classifies anything, particularly anything that will embarass anyone in a prominent government position or in an elected office. This is SOP.
Labor costs only account for about 20% of the cost of a typical fast food item.
People have done the math and McD's would only need to raise the price of a bag of french fries about 4cents to cover a $15 minimum wage. That is not an increase that the majority of people would even notice.
And fewer people needed food stamps and supplemental money from the government to survive. Every single time the minimum wage was increased the number of people on food stamps fell, sometimes dramatically.
Libertarianism, like any other political term means whatever the speaker wants it to mean and whatever the listener wants it to mean. In other words its an absolutely inadequate method to describe any policy position because it can literally mean anything.
Just like any other political "position" it means absolutely nothing because English doesn't have a government agency that arbitrates the meanings of words like French.
The lawyers client is the one paying them. It's why you don't let lawyers you aren't paying represent you, because they have no obligation to serve your interests.
Free speech doesn't require a public "good". The standard for public figures, something Hogan arguably is, is "actual malice". It doesn't even need to be true. Actual malice is nearly impossible to prove (requires that you prove the person intended to harm, which requires knowledge of their state of mind), it's why public figures can almost never win lawsuits (they might win in a lower court but the case is usually tossed in an appeal) against the press.
I'm curious how they were in the wrong reporting the Hogan infidelity? He did what they claimed, they had a recording of it that was provided to them and Hogan is a public figure. I suspect that if they are willing to appeal they would win because Hogan IS a public figure and to sue them he'd have to show "actual malice" and not simply trying to get clicks. Actual malice is nearly impossible to prove.
Don't assume because Hogan won in a lower court that the judgement he received is valid. Only once all the appeals are finished can you make that claim. I personally don't like Gawker but I don't think they did anything wrong when they reported on the Hogan infidelity.
That is exactly what's going on. Right now McDonanlds, Walmart and others are using the government to subsidize their low wages because most of their employees qualify for food stamps and other assistance. Minimum wage should not be set based on jobs.
The other issue I have is this bagging Fries bullshit. Sure you spend $35k on a robotic arm but it's not like the guy you paying to bag fries is only bagging fries and that's what's so disingenuous about these bullshit coached comments from the Republicans.
Yea it only costs you the FBI having all your biometric information and putting it into their database forever. That is not a cost I'm willing to pay. When DNA sequencing gets cheap enough they'll probably start sequencing your entire genome and sticking that in the database as well.
The TSA has authority to VETO any airport pulling out of the screening program because the TSA must approve any screening program. They don't even need reasons. They've successfully threatened more than a dozen airports and prevented them from dropping out by threatening to not approve any screening program or to make it so arduous that it will cost 20x as much. They also let the airports know that if any of the private screeners fail the validation that they'll shut the airport down even though the TSA lets 95% of contraband through in the tests TSA does on itself.
The plan was to get their budget boosted by delaying travel at all airports. See congress cut their budget last time because they claimed their pre-approved thing would help cut the need for manual screening. Of course they didn't count on the fact that most people didn't want to submit biometrics and pay $80 a year to be able to save a minute or two and still have to do all the same screenings.
So in their brilliant plan to get the budget money back they decided to slow the lines down. I'm not sure how stupid you have to be to think that would actually work.
Hoover never left. His ghost roams the halls of the FBI and directs policy. This database is nothing more than an extension of the very files the Hoover built to build his own power but dramatically scaled to allow the blackmail of anyone in power or anyone that could ever be in power. None of us are safe when the FBI builds these databases.
Make no mistake, if you've ever submitted ANY biometric information to anyone for any reason it's been added to this database never to be deleted. And that is what they want, biometric information from everyone in the world that they link back to the CIA and homeland security databases with which they know every single thing about you including sequencing your entire DNA.
It wasn't that hard to predict. Microsoft is NOT agile. The phone market is, Android and iOS both have substantial changes every single year. Just look at the changes from early android version up to marshmellow and the number of years for those changes. I seriously doubt Microsoft could have done that even if they had prioritized phones (which they didn't).
Phones have always been an afterthought for Microsoft. They controlled the early smartphone market pre-android/iphone because there weren't any other real competitors. Once they experienced real competition they prioritized it for one generation then abandoned it, just like they'd done previously, that and the normal strategy of exploiting their existing monopoly. In the meantime Google and Apple didn't sit on their hand and as a result Microsoft's market-share isn't even a rounding error. They'll continue to try to rope up their desktop monopoly into the phone market to try to dominate but there's been a paradigm shift they still haven't acknowledged. That is people in their 20's and younger aren't locked to Microsoft like previous generations. They've grown up using iOS and Android and other systems and they are not afraid to use non-microsoft.
The new CEO seems to recognize that they've lost smartphones and are losing the desktop by positioning MS on the cloud and services front rather than focusing everything on the desktop. Honestly MS would do well to just abandon the smartphone and focus on offering services and software on the existing platforms. Android is going to dominate for a long time because underneath it's all FOSS licensed and the hardware manufacturers can focus on what they are good at and not worry about the OS.
At some point I suspect Google will combine Android and ChromeOS and basically takeover a significant chunk of the non-specialized computing market. You already see it in the schools and "light" computing venues where computers are primarily used to write memos and letters. It won't take much to flip most of the office work onto the equivalent of a chromebook. Probably all it will take is one big virus/ransomware outbreak and a bunch of the fortune 500 will shift all their "office" computers to web based zero administration platforms (chromebook). If MS was smart they'd be targeting this market heavily so they are on the front edge when it happens and can still sell Office365 subscriptions. Time will tell if Nadella is smart enough to pull this off.
I can make up numbers too. No one cares what you think because you're only 5 or 10 years old. Try pulling some more numbers out of your ass about battery life. You'll still be wrong just like the bullshit numbers you just listed.
And what exactly does that have to do with ANYTHING I just said? Are you trying to fill a car with lithium at 3000psi? Are you trying to electrolysize lithium from another reactive and explosive substance? Is lithium so small it can pass through solid steel such that storing it so difficult you will lose hydrogen and destroy the storage medium?
The answer to any of those questions is NO. Lithium used in a battery is a relatively stable alloy suspended in a electrolyte that involves the transfer of electrons back and forth from anode to cathode. At no point is this reaction at ALL similar to that use to electrolysisize hydrogen from water and then oxidizing the hydrogen in a fuel cell.
Hydrogen is an AWFUL energy storage mechanism. The efficiency of producing and reacting it are terrible and they always will be unless you can change the laws of physics. It will ALWAYS be better to store the electricity in a battery rather than try to store it in raw hydrogen. Hell it would be better to take that energy and make hydrocarbons rather than produce hydrogen because the efficiency is going to be higher than raw hydrogen production and you don't see anyone running around trying to make hydrocarbons because just like hydrogen it's better just to use the electricity directly.
There are hard physical limits to the round trip on Hydrogen that are not going anywhere unless you think they are going to find a way to make hydrogen that's 99% efficient. Your attempt to argue that this is only a limit of current technology disregards the hard chemical fact of Hydrogen, and that is significant chemical energy is needed to shear it from whatever molecule you are trying to remove it from due to it's high reactivity. Not only that but to keep it from reacting with things you need to spend additional energy just to keep it from reacting.
We aren't going to develop miracle technologies that breach physical limits of the universe. Given that constraint batteries are always going to use less electricity than converting power to hydrogen gas.
I see the comment a lot, but not all GDP is worth the same. European GDP figures suffer from many complications such that the total worth of that GDP for a multinational is less than elsewhere. These include the language problem, the lack of judicial cohesive, significantly different costs of living, market bureaucracies, different tax jurisdictions and many many other things that make the EU market nothing like a real common market. In fact there is a significant chunk of the EU market that's almost worthless due to corruption and pay to play that make it nearly impossible for multinational to operate fairly.
Were the EU to implement a real common market with cohesive taxes and regulations the GDP would rival that of the US but this lack of commonality will continue to hurt the EU and if current events are any indicator this will get worse before it gets better. Regulations such as this hamper multi-nationals (one of the intents of the law). This law is structured to harm Netflix a the behalf of local cable companies. Why do I say that? Because they will require Netflix to license European content but they won't give them a mandatory licensing clause allowing the content holder to charge whatever they want because Netflix will be obligated to purchase it. As much content is owned by the local cable monopolies they will charge whatever is necessary to displace Netflix from the market or raise their price to be equivalent to the the local video monopoly.
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They don't actually read the bills. That's why the FBI buries the clause deep in the bill. Thank god for Ron Wyden, that man has protected the public numerous times and I hope he's able to block this.
Judges used to routinely overrule juries but the Supreme court mostly stopped this a few years ago. Current Supreme court precedent on this is that the Juries ruling is sacrosanct. About the only appeal Oracle can make at this point that has any chance is that the Jury instructions were wrong. They've announced plans for this appeal already but it's a major uphill battle on that, especially if they didn't challenge the instructions originally.
In court it's not over until all the appeals are exhausted. Oracle will appeal this.
Guilty of what?
People keep saying that but I've not heard a single person quote a law she appears to be guilty of other than being a bitch. (which isn't against the law). It was stupid, it violated department policy and in my opinion nothing bad came of it, she was technically in charge of state and could set whatever policy she wanted. It would be like accusing the president of releasing classified information when he can at his will classify/unclassify anything he wants and the very act of releasing the information would be official declassification. Sometimes the boss does stupid stuff, but that's one of the advantages of being the boss.
Sounds like incompetent IT staff were hired.
OMG we're being hacked by all these scans! Better shut the server down! Just goes to show how many incompetent IT people are out there.
The claim that the server was hacked has never been validated, nor has any evidence ever been provided. The claim stands as no more significant than the claim that the guy in Australia created Bitcoin. In other words without evidence it's not at all believable. The people that have made these claims are not exactly trustworthy sources.
The government routinely reverse classifies anything, particularly anything that will embarass anyone in a prominent government position or in an elected office. This is SOP.
Labor costs only account for about 20% of the cost of a typical fast food item.
People have done the math and McD's would only need to raise the price of a bag of french fries about 4cents to cover a $15 minimum wage. That is not an increase that the majority of people would even notice.
And fewer people needed food stamps and supplemental money from the government to survive. Every single time the minimum wage was increased the number of people on food stamps fell, sometimes dramatically.
Libertarianism, like any other political term means whatever the speaker wants it to mean and whatever the listener wants it to mean. In other words its an absolutely inadequate method to describe any policy position because it can literally mean anything.
Just like any other political "position" it means absolutely nothing because English doesn't have a government agency that arbitrates the meanings of words like French.
The lawyers client is the one paying them. It's why you don't let lawyers you aren't paying represent you, because they have no obligation to serve your interests.
Free speech doesn't require a public "good". The standard for public figures, something Hogan arguably is, is "actual malice". It doesn't even need to be true. Actual malice is nearly impossible to prove (requires that you prove the person intended to harm, which requires knowledge of their state of mind), it's why public figures can almost never win lawsuits (they might win in a lower court but the case is usually tossed in an appeal) against the press.
I'm curious how they were in the wrong reporting the Hogan infidelity? He did what they claimed, they had a recording of it that was provided to them and Hogan is a public figure. I suspect that if they are willing to appeal they would win because Hogan IS a public figure and to sue them he'd have to show "actual malice" and not simply trying to get clicks. Actual malice is nearly impossible to prove.
Don't assume because Hogan won in a lower court that the judgement he received is valid. Only once all the appeals are finished can you make that claim. I personally don't like Gawker but I don't think they did anything wrong when they reported on the Hogan infidelity.
That is exactly what's going on. Right now McDonanlds, Walmart and others are using the government to subsidize their low wages because most of their employees qualify for food stamps and other assistance. Minimum wage should not be set based on jobs.
The other issue I have is this bagging Fries bullshit. Sure you spend $35k on a robotic arm but it's not like the guy you paying to bag fries is only bagging fries and that's what's so disingenuous about these bullshit coached comments from the Republicans.
Yea it only costs you the FBI having all your biometric information and putting it into their database forever. That is not a cost I'm willing to pay. When DNA sequencing gets cheap enough they'll probably start sequencing your entire genome and sticking that in the database as well.
The TSA has authority to VETO any airport pulling out of the screening program because the TSA must approve any screening program. They don't even need reasons. They've successfully threatened more than a dozen airports and prevented them from dropping out by threatening to not approve any screening program or to make it so arduous that it will cost 20x as much. They also let the airports know that if any of the private screeners fail the validation that they'll shut the airport down even though the TSA lets 95% of contraband through in the tests TSA does on itself.
The plan was to get their budget boosted by delaying travel at all airports. See congress cut their budget last time because they claimed their pre-approved thing would help cut the need for manual screening. Of course they didn't count on the fact that most people didn't want to submit biometrics and pay $80 a year to be able to save a minute or two and still have to do all the same screenings.
So in their brilliant plan to get the budget money back they decided to slow the lines down. I'm not sure how stupid you have to be to think that would actually work.
Hoover never left. His ghost roams the halls of the FBI and directs policy. This database is nothing more than an extension of the very files the Hoover built to build his own power but dramatically scaled to allow the blackmail of anyone in power or anyone that could ever be in power. None of us are safe when the FBI builds these databases.
Make no mistake, if you've ever submitted ANY biometric information to anyone for any reason it's been added to this database never to be deleted. And that is what they want, biometric information from everyone in the world that they link back to the CIA and homeland security databases with which they know every single thing about you including sequencing your entire DNA.
It wasn't that hard to predict. Microsoft is NOT agile. The phone market is, Android and iOS both have substantial changes every single year. Just look at the changes from early android version up to marshmellow and the number of years for those changes. I seriously doubt Microsoft could have done that even if they had prioritized phones (which they didn't).
Phones have always been an afterthought for Microsoft. They controlled the early smartphone market pre-android/iphone because there weren't any other real competitors. Once they experienced real competition they prioritized it for one generation then abandoned it, just like they'd done previously, that and the normal strategy of exploiting their existing monopoly. In the meantime Google and Apple didn't sit on their hand and as a result Microsoft's market-share isn't even a rounding error. They'll continue to try to rope up their desktop monopoly into the phone market to try to dominate but there's been a paradigm shift they still haven't acknowledged. That is people in their 20's and younger aren't locked to Microsoft like previous generations. They've grown up using iOS and Android and other systems and they are not afraid to use non-microsoft.
The new CEO seems to recognize that they've lost smartphones and are losing the desktop by positioning MS on the cloud and services front rather than focusing everything on the desktop. Honestly MS would do well to just abandon the smartphone and focus on offering services and software on the existing platforms. Android is going to dominate for a long time because underneath it's all FOSS licensed and the hardware manufacturers can focus on what they are good at and not worry about the OS.
At some point I suspect Google will combine Android and ChromeOS and basically takeover a significant chunk of the non-specialized computing market. You already see it in the schools and "light" computing venues where computers are primarily used to write memos and letters. It won't take much to flip most of the office work onto the equivalent of a chromebook. Probably all it will take is one big virus/ransomware outbreak and a bunch of the fortune 500 will shift all their "office" computers to web based zero administration platforms (chromebook). If MS was smart they'd be targeting this market heavily so they are on the front edge when it happens and can still sell Office365 subscriptions. Time will tell if Nadella is smart enough to pull this off.
Mimeograph's use ammonia. Very little will get you as wasted as a nice bit of ammonia being aired out as it dries.
You forgot, only about 0.0000000000001% of the suns energy strikes the earth to begin with so the efficiency isn't even a rounding error above zero.
Oh wait, rereading that post you might have actually been trying to be serious by comparing completely unrelated things.
I can make up numbers too. No one cares what you think because you're only 5 or 10 years old. Try pulling some more numbers out of your ass about battery life. You'll still be wrong just like the bullshit numbers you just listed.
And what exactly does that have to do with ANYTHING I just said?
Are you trying to fill a car with lithium at 3000psi?
Are you trying to electrolysize lithium from another reactive and explosive substance?
Is lithium so small it can pass through solid steel such that storing it so difficult you will lose hydrogen and destroy the storage medium?
The answer to any of those questions is NO. Lithium used in a battery is a relatively stable alloy suspended in a electrolyte that involves the transfer of electrons back and forth from anode to cathode. At no point is this reaction at ALL similar to that use to electrolysisize hydrogen from water and then oxidizing the hydrogen in a fuel cell.
Hydrogen is an AWFUL energy storage mechanism. The efficiency of producing and reacting it are terrible and they always will be unless you can change the laws of physics. It will ALWAYS be better to store the electricity in a battery rather than try to store it in raw hydrogen. Hell it would be better to take that energy and make hydrocarbons rather than produce hydrogen because the efficiency is going to be higher than raw hydrogen production and you don't see anyone running around trying to make hydrocarbons because just like hydrogen it's better just to use the electricity directly.
There are hard physical limits to the round trip on Hydrogen that are not going anywhere unless you think they are going to find a way to make hydrogen that's 99% efficient. Your attempt to argue that this is only a limit of current technology disregards the hard chemical fact of Hydrogen, and that is significant chemical energy is needed to shear it from whatever molecule you are trying to remove it from due to it's high reactivity. Not only that but to keep it from reacting with things you need to spend additional energy just to keep it from reacting.
We aren't going to develop miracle technologies that breach physical limits of the universe. Given that constraint batteries are always going to use less electricity than converting power to hydrogen gas.
I see the comment a lot, but not all GDP is worth the same. European GDP figures suffer from many complications such that the total worth of that GDP for a multinational is less than elsewhere. These include the language problem, the lack of judicial cohesive, significantly different costs of living, market bureaucracies, different tax jurisdictions and many many other things that make the EU market nothing like a real common market. In fact there is a significant chunk of the EU market that's almost worthless due to corruption and pay to play that make it nearly impossible for multinational to operate fairly.
Were the EU to implement a real common market with cohesive taxes and regulations the GDP would rival that of the US but this lack of commonality will continue to hurt the EU and if current events are any indicator this will get worse before it gets better. Regulations such as this hamper multi-nationals (one of the intents of the law). This law is structured to harm Netflix a the behalf of local cable companies. Why do I say that? Because they will require Netflix to license European content but they won't give them a mandatory licensing clause allowing the content holder to charge whatever they want because Netflix will be obligated to purchase it. As much content is owned by the local cable monopolies they will charge whatever is necessary to displace Netflix from the market or raise their price to be equivalent to the the local video monopoly.