I can think of a few ways to do that. The shortest is probably File -> Open Images as Layers, open your images, drag the top layer off to one side of the image, Image -> Fit Canvas to Layers. The best is to use something like ImageMagick's 'montage' command.
Why do you imply that union-mandated dead weight at the bottom (and, I claim, at every level) is mutually exclusive with neoptistic dead weight at the top?
Better bots than glider can heal on raids more efficiently than a human (player, not character race) healer, interrupt in PVP more effectively than a human, travel while the human is AFK, etc.
Vitalcheck will refuse to send your birth certificate for any of dozens of reasons. I can't recall which ones I ran up against, but there were more than two.
And what if you can't prove it? At one point, for a period of about 6 months, I was unable to get a state ID in either of the states that I lived and worked in, because the state I was born in would not give me a copy of my birth certificate without my already having an ID issued by a state or the federal govt.
A "first level CS representatives in Bangalore working off a script" is enough of a representative of Apple that their mistakes ("sure it's safe to microwave your iphone to dry it off!") could put Apple on the hook for millions of dollars in product/liability lawsuits. They can't make mistakes that cost Apple a few hundred dollars?
Based on the information in the linked story, Apple is claiming to be the owner of the phone. He not only located the supposed owner, but spoke to them on the phone (hooray corporate personhood, where any minimum wage employee can make mistakes that cost your company millions. Apple got off easy here) and they disclaimed knowledge / ownership of the device.
Apple is a corporation. It has personhood, and if any part of the company disclaimed ownership of the device then the whole company did so. The fact that its left hand doesn't know what its right hand is doing is their fault, not his.
He didn't TRY to contact the owner, he DID contact the owner. Apple refused to arrange for him to return the phone. Corporate personhood sucks sometimes.
Why do there need to be any privacy implications at all? This could involve one-way communication. The power company licenses a radio band and broadcasts a data pulse every 30 minutes to the effect of "all thermostats that haven't been reset in the last four hours, whose serial numbers end in an even digit, turn off for the next 30 minutes" (even/odd for a relatively well balanced 50% reduction, other schemes are obviously possible)
Would be more like 50 cents, assuming the $10/mo rebates mentioned by other commenters is typical for a 1 hour interruption 2-3 times per week. Do you really want to get bothered every couple of days for fifty cents 'profit'?
I occasionally watch older movies at movie-night parties with friends.
Bootleg DVDs (and [S]VCDs before them) are illegal to make, import, or sell. They are (IANAL. Read the copyright statutes yourself. My interpretation applies only to the USA.) not illegal to buy, possess, or watch. A lot of stealing/IP analogies break down when you get tho details like this, because there is no IP equivalent to laws about buying or possessing stolen property.
I don't use any of the things you listed, and yet I watch 10-15 movies per month. Legally in theaters and on bootleg DVDs, illegally by downloading via bittorrent. Keep an open mind.
I mostly don't buy software that runs on Windows only.
Steam currently falls into both of those categories, putting it in absolutely-won't-buy land. If it ever comes to Linux, I will probably buy at least a few games through it, but only when they are cheaper than otherwise.
You can prove you did 95% of the work via source control logs, or code/performance reviews for the weeks/months in question, or with your own 30 second pitch to that VP, or probably a few other ways I haven't thought of. If none of those work, it's obviously a poorly managed company. Be glad to part ways.
Yes, yes, and yes. What is the problem? If they are racing, there is obviously something worth racing TO. If both teams have all the data, that goal will be reached no later, probably sooner.
OK, I'll bite. Let's assume that those passwords are intellectual property of some sort (they aren't trade secrets, or copyrighted works, or trademarked names, or patented designs, or any other *recognized* form of IP), with some sort of protections that you know about but I don't. If they are anything like all the other forms of IP then that means you can't give them to anyone without the company's permission. In no existing case of IP does it mean you have to give them to the company.
Analogy to copyright: If you paint a portrait, you own the copyright to that work. If you give the portrait to me I now own the copy (physical property) and you still own the copyright (intellectual property). It would be illegal for me to sell copies of the portrait, that is what your intellectual property accomplishes. But there is no situation in which you could compel me to produce a copy of the portrait to give to you.
Analogy to patents: If you invent a device (and patent it), you own the rights to produce that device. If you give me the only machine capable of producing that device then your IP rights legally prevent me from using the machine on my own. But again, you cannot compel me to use the machine on your behalf.
I can't think of a way to equate this to a trademark.
Laws of this sort rarely allow for that sort of buck-passing. Amazon sold the product, the product became defective/not-as-advertised, Amazon owes you a refund. You have no consumer relationship with Sony.
Well, funny story on that first one, what's your response when they moved the courthouse without telling you? Happened to me, spent a week in jail because of it.
But, aside from that, how is the origin of the situation at all relevant? By that logic, "you should avoid that situation" is going to be a counter-argument to any potential contradiction I point out. As applies to the premise of this story, they could avoid the contradicting situation by not becoming teachers.
Why would you assume they are to be tried as adults? Two children committing statutory rape could be tried as children, in whatever the appropriate court is in Wisconsin.
You are 61 miles away from the courthouse, are due in court in 1 hour, and the speed limit is 60 miles per hour. You are either going to break the law by speeding, or break the law by missing your appointed court time.
A person who has taken out a restraining order on you is standing in the only exit from a private building from which you have been asked to leave. Remaining inside is trespassing. Walking past that person is a violation of the restraining order.
You discover that a bag you recently picked up is full of cocaine. Continuing to hold onto it is a felony. Dropping it is anywhere from a weak misdemeanor (littering) to a felony (various unlikely scenarios).
These are silly contrived examples, but they illustrate how laws can conflict in even simple situations. There is nothing inherent in most western legal systems that precludes such a situation.
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I can think of a few ways to do that. The shortest is probably File -> Open Images as Layers, open your images, drag the top layer off to one side of the image, Image -> Fit Canvas to Layers. The best is to use something like ImageMagick's 'montage' command.
Why do you imply that union-mandated dead weight at the bottom (and, I claim, at every level) is mutually exclusive with neoptistic dead weight at the top?
Better bots than glider can heal on raids more efficiently than a human (player, not character race) healer, interrupt in PVP more effectively than a human, travel while the human is AFK, etc.
TAEB is getting there. It already plays better than I do about 10% of the time.
You realize that the Pirate Party has won a seat on the EU Parliament, right? We are not a joke.
Vitalcheck will refuse to send your birth certificate for any of dozens of reasons. I can't recall which ones I ran up against, but there were more than two.
And what if you can't prove it? At one point, for a period of about 6 months, I was unable to get a state ID in either of the states that I lived and worked in, because the state I was born in would not give me a copy of my birth certificate without my already having an ID issued by a state or the federal govt.
A "first level CS representatives in Bangalore working off a script" is enough of a representative of Apple that their mistakes ("sure it's safe to microwave your iphone to dry it off!") could put Apple on the hook for millions of dollars in product/liability lawsuits. They can't make mistakes that cost Apple a few hundred dollars?
You think it's common knowledge that AppleCare techs dont work for Apple? I say that's farfetched.
I also think it's unlikely they told him to call anyone else at Apple, even without him having said they didn't.
I think your final point is also unlikely, but that's for a CA judge to decide.
Give it to Apple.
Or call Apple, get told it's not theirs and/or they don't want it and/or to stop prank calling.
If I find a wallet on the ground and ask you if it's yours, and you tell me no, you can't come back later saying I stole your wallet.
if he could not locate the owner.
Based on the information in the linked story, Apple is claiming to be the owner of the phone. He not only located the supposed owner, but spoke to them on the phone (hooray corporate personhood, where any minimum wage employee can make mistakes that cost your company millions. Apple got off easy here) and they disclaimed knowledge / ownership of the device.
Apple is a corporation. It has personhood, and if any part of the company disclaimed ownership of the device then the whole company did so. The fact that its left hand doesn't know what its right hand is doing is their fault, not his.
He didn't TRY to contact the owner, he DID contact the owner. Apple refused to arrange for him to return the phone. Corporate personhood sucks sometimes.
Why do there need to be any privacy implications at all? This could involve one-way communication. The power company licenses a radio band and broadcasts a data pulse every 30 minutes to the effect of "all thermostats that haven't been reset in the last four hours, whose serial numbers end in an even digit, turn off for the next 30 minutes" (even/odd for a relatively well balanced 50% reduction, other schemes are obviously possible)
Would be more like 50 cents, assuming the $10/mo rebates mentioned by other commenters is typical for a 1 hour interruption 2-3 times per week. Do you really want to get bothered every couple of days for fifty cents 'profit'?
I occasionally watch older movies at movie-night parties with friends.
Bootleg DVDs (and [S]VCDs before them) are illegal to make, import, or sell. They are (IANAL. Read the copyright statutes yourself. My interpretation applies only to the USA.) not illegal to buy, possess, or watch. A lot of stealing/IP analogies break down when you get tho details like this, because there is no IP equivalent to laws about buying or possessing stolen property.
I don't use any of the things you listed, and yet I watch 10-15 movies per month. Legally in theaters and on bootleg DVDs, illegally by downloading via bittorrent. Keep an open mind.
I mostly don't buy software or hardware with DRM.
I mostly don't buy software that runs on Windows only.
Steam currently falls into both of those categories, putting it in absolutely-won't-buy land. If it ever comes to Linux, I will probably buy at least a few games through it, but only when they are cheaper than otherwise.
You can prove you did 95% of the work via source control logs, or code/performance reviews for the weeks/months in question, or with your own 30 second pitch to that VP, or probably a few other ways I haven't thought of. If none of those work, it's obviously a poorly managed company. Be glad to part ways.
Yes, yes, and yes. What is the problem? If they are racing, there is obviously something worth racing TO. If both teams have all the data, that goal will be reached no later, probably sooner.
OK, I'll bite. Let's assume that those passwords are intellectual property of some sort (they aren't trade secrets, or copyrighted works, or trademarked names, or patented designs, or any other *recognized* form of IP), with some sort of protections that you know about but I don't. If they are anything like all the other forms of IP then that means you can't give them to anyone without the company's permission. In no existing case of IP does it mean you have to give them to the company.
Analogy to copyright: If you paint a portrait, you own the copyright to that work. If you give the portrait to me I now own the copy (physical property) and you still own the copyright (intellectual property). It would be illegal for me to sell copies of the portrait, that is what your intellectual property accomplishes. But there is no situation in which you could compel me to produce a copy of the portrait to give to you.
Analogy to patents: If you invent a device (and patent it), you own the rights to produce that device. If you give me the only machine capable of producing that device then your IP rights legally prevent me from using the machine on my own. But again, you cannot compel me to use the machine on your behalf.
I can't think of a way to equate this to a trademark.
Laws of this sort rarely allow for that sort of buck-passing. Amazon sold the product, the product became defective/not-as-advertised, Amazon owes you a refund. You have no consumer relationship with Sony.
Well, funny story on that first one, what's your response when they moved the courthouse without telling you? Happened to me, spent a week in jail because of it.
But, aside from that, how is the origin of the situation at all relevant? By that logic, "you should avoid that situation" is going to be a counter-argument to any potential contradiction I point out. As applies to the premise of this story, they could avoid the contradicting situation by not becoming teachers.
Why would you assume they are to be tried as adults? Two children committing statutory rape could be tried as children, in whatever the appropriate court is in Wisconsin.
You are 61 miles away from the courthouse, are due in court in 1 hour, and the speed limit is 60 miles per hour. You are either going to break the law by speeding, or break the law by missing your appointed court time.
A person who has taken out a restraining order on you is standing in the only exit from a private building from which you have been asked to leave. Remaining inside is trespassing. Walking past that person is a violation of the restraining order.
You discover that a bag you recently picked up is full of cocaine. Continuing to hold onto it is a felony. Dropping it is anywhere from a weak misdemeanor (littering) to a felony (various unlikely scenarios).
These are silly contrived examples, but they illustrate how laws can conflict in even simple situations. There is nothing inherent in most western legal systems that precludes such a situation.