since the 80s. It always amazes me when people are surprised that laws aren't enforced when we've been slashing the budgets of these 'evil bureaucratic' for 30 years. Funny how the bureaucratic ain't evil when he's doing something you want done, ain't it? Buddy of mine is getting screwed over in the only job he could find. Starts life as an ardent anti-bureaucratic guy until he goes looking for the labor board to seek redress and finds out there isn't one.
Slashing budgets of border control agencies? What planet do you live on cause it sure ain't Earth?
I live in Finland, where Amazon does not have a "local" presence and I've sometimes ordered stuff from UK, Germany and US Amazon. You'd think that international shipping would kill the idea, but you would be very mistaken regarding how bad the local retailers (and sometimes even local online stores) are.
I recently purchased a Mac Mini and wanted a DP-miniDP cable to connect it to my monitor. I looked the cable up in various finnish retail and online stores. Not a single retail store I visited had it, not even one. I looked up the local online stores and the cable + postage within 3-4 business days was 35-40 euro. I ended up ordering it from UK Amazon, with express international delivery (I literally had it delivered to my workplace in Finland by DHL in 2 business days) and paid 26 euro total.
The clueless retailers can die in a fire for all I care.
Why is it that it's precisely in times where upholding the constitution is at it's most important (in times of turmoil), that so many countries do away with the constitution entirely and suspend it?!
(or did you miss the revelations about how much money various European politicians were discovered to have received from that government after its fall?).
Why should a company located in the USA obey german law? The fact that a service is avaiable to germans via the internet is NOT akin to "doing business in Germany". We've been over this hundreds of times. How would you like it if you had some service running in your country and accessible to the internet and I'd sue you because you don't comply with laws of MY country?
Hopefully EA will learn from the experience and buff up its servers ahead of the game's official European launch on Friday.
As nice as that would be, it's the wrong lesson. The lesson EA needs to learn here is the same one that every other video game publisher has to learn: don't build inherently single-player games with always-on requirements! There was no reason for this in SimCity.
How naive. Of course there is a reason. It's called planned obsolescence.
Except, of course, that nominal price doesnt say ANYTHING about whether a stock is cheap or expensive. A 1000$ stock can be cheap and a 5$ stock can be outrageously expensive.
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Serious question. I thought that this part of the DMCA takedown notice exists precisely to prevent abuse. Why haven't I *EVER* heard of it being enforced?
"Amazon.com's latest earnings report showed that the company makes about $10.8 billion per quarter, or about $118 million per day and $4.9 million per hour."
No they don't, Amazon makes barely any profit at all. They do have high (and growing) revenues though.
your answer was to install VLC rather than take it back and complain to the shop what a PoS is was and demand a Windows 7 laptop. And when they refuse (as they won't have any W7 machines) return it, nip round the corner and got her a iPad or a macbook.
What on Earth would make you think that "I don't like it" is a valid reason for returning a product in most of the world? You would get laughed out of the store.
As someone who knows many drug addicts and used to be one himself over 15 years ago: John McAfee's blog is not the writing of a drug addict. Either he is as clear from drugs as he says he is or he has someone else write the stuff for him.
I dislike the whole mechanism of the stock market as much as the next guy; but theoretically, at least, it DOES serve a social purpose: The shareholder invests in a company, giving it the capital to expand its business. This is presumably good for the economy, and society as a whole.
In practice, of course, the "day trader phenomenon" does make the whole thing look like money for nothing. I've been told I'm completely insane by people active in the stock market, but I think it would be worth experimenting with a minimum holding time for stocks you "invest in". If you had to hold your shares for six months, you'd be more interested in the usefulness of the company and its products, and less in how some stupid statement on the morning news made them dip 2%.
It wouldn't even need to be a 6 month period. If everybody was forced to hold shares for a single day, that would outright kill High-Frequency and Algo-based Trading. Hell, a mandatory holding period of 1 hour would probably do that.
How about we just close the loopholes? If you have a US based company that is clearly operating a subsidiary, that subsidiary (even foreign) will be subject to US taxation. Far simpler strategy.
You miss the whole point of the story. This story isn't JUST about US tax being avoided.
paid Irish taxes of about $4.64 million on its entire non-U.S. profits of $1.344 billion
The problem here is that Ireland offers ridiculously low tax rates to attract investment and employment.
Somehow when employees are forced to compete for jobs, its okay, when companies are forced to compete for marketshare, thats okay too, but when goverments/countries are forced to compete to attract international business, politicians scream bloody murder.
I can say with certainty that the tablet revolution is just beginning. The simple truth is that a huge amount of home users don't REALLY want a PC. They think they want a PC, but they really don't. They want a machine that is cheap, gets them on Facebook, has a video/audio player, a web browser, email and Skype and is as low maintainance as possible. It's true that tablets are spectacularly bad productivity devices, they are mostly consumption devices. The thing is, the vast majority of home users are pure consumers and couldn't give 2 shits about productivity applications.
Would you rather have double the detail at 30 FPS, or half the detail at 60 FPS? Considering most people can't perceive frame rates faster than 30, it makes a bit of sense to push more polygons instead.
Stop with this misinformation. Most people definately CAN percieve framerates faster than 30.
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Steve Jobs was an asshole.
So was Bill Gates.
So is Larry Ellison.
So is Linus Torvalds.
See the pattern yet?
Yep, I'll take my chances with the brilliant asshole.
Only cable companies would think that they can serve ads on a premium pay-for video streaming service.
In what universe is 8$/month a "premium" service?
since the 80s. It always amazes me when people are surprised that laws aren't enforced when we've been slashing the budgets of these 'evil bureaucratic' for 30 years. Funny how the bureaucratic ain't evil when he's doing something you want done, ain't it? Buddy of mine is getting screwed over in the only job he could find. Starts life as an ardent anti-bureaucratic guy until he goes looking for the labor board to seek redress and finds out there isn't one.
Slashing budgets of border control agencies? What planet do you live on cause it sure ain't Earth?
I live in Finland, where Amazon does not have a "local" presence and I've sometimes ordered stuff from UK, Germany and US Amazon. You'd think that international shipping would kill the idea, but you would be very mistaken regarding how bad the local retailers (and sometimes even local online stores) are.
I recently purchased a Mac Mini and wanted a DP-miniDP cable to connect it to my monitor. I looked the cable up in various finnish retail and online stores. Not a single retail store I visited had it, not even one. I looked up the local online stores and the cable + postage within 3-4 business days was 35-40 euro. I ended up ordering it from UK Amazon, with express international delivery (I literally had it delivered to my workplace in Finland by DHL in 2 business days) and paid 26 euro total.
The clueless retailers can die in a fire for all I care.
Hm, so all ebooks are sold for free then? Because the supply is basically infinite (up to the bandwidth of the internet).
If you intend to actually obey the law, supply is not infinite, supply is set by the publishers.
Why is it that it's precisely in times where upholding the constitution is at it's most important (in times of turmoil), that so many countries do away with the constitution entirely and suspend it?!
FALSE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasectomy_reversal
Judge: Why aren't the required API's available?
Google: Ummmm....
More like:
Judge: Why aren't the required API's available?
Google: Ummmm....because we don't have to provide them to anybody?
(or did you miss the revelations about how much money various European politicians were discovered to have received from that government after its fall?).
Raises hand.
Sources please?
So basically, you want to outright kill every single big company that has a net profit margin of less than 5%?
Companies don't get big by having a net profit margin of less than 5%
Tell that to Wal-Mart, Amazon, Glencore, etc etc
So basically, you want to outright kill every single big company that has a net profit margin of less than 5%?
Why should a company located in the USA obey german law? The fact that a service is avaiable to germans via the internet is NOT akin to "doing business in Germany". We've been over this hundreds of times. How would you like it if you had some service running in your country and accessible to the internet and I'd sue you because you don't comply with laws of MY country?
From the Ars Technica story:
Hopefully EA will learn from the experience and buff up its servers ahead of the game's official European launch on Friday.
As nice as that would be, it's the wrong lesson. The lesson EA needs to learn here is the same one that every other video game publisher has to learn: don't build inherently single-player games with always-on requirements! There was no reason for this in SimCity.
How naive. Of course there is a reason. It's called planned obsolescence.
I'd use something like Keepass but I need to be able to log in from non-home computers.
Do use Keypass and install it on your phone as well.
This wouldn't have happened if Steve was alive!
Except, of course, that nominal price doesnt say ANYTHING about whether a stock is cheap or expensive. A 1000$ stock can be cheap and a 5$ stock can be outrageously expensive.
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Serious question. I thought that this part of the DMCA takedown notice exists precisely to prevent abuse. Why haven't I *EVER* heard of it being enforced?
"Amazon.com's latest earnings report showed that the company makes about $10.8 billion per quarter, or about $118 million per day and $4.9 million per hour."
No they don't, Amazon makes barely any profit at all. They do have high (and growing) revenues though.
your answer was to install VLC rather than take it back and complain to the shop what a PoS is was and demand a Windows 7 laptop. And when they refuse (as they won't have any W7 machines) return it, nip round the corner and got her a iPad or a macbook.
What on Earth would make you think that "I don't like it" is a valid reason for returning a product in most of the world? You would get laughed out of the store.
the world has gone full-retard.
Why the fuck would I want to play Windows games, on a tablet, and pay 999$ to do so with horrible battery life?
As someone who knows many drug addicts and used to be one himself over 15 years ago: John McAfee's blog is not the writing of a drug addict. Either he is as clear from drugs as he says he is or he has someone else write the stuff for him.
I dislike the whole mechanism of the stock market as much as the next guy; but theoretically, at least, it DOES serve a social purpose: The shareholder invests in a company, giving it the capital to expand its business. This is presumably good for the economy, and society as a whole.
In practice, of course, the "day trader phenomenon" does make the whole thing look like money for nothing. I've been told I'm completely insane by people active in the stock market, but I think it would be worth experimenting with a minimum holding time for stocks you "invest in". If you had to hold your shares for six months, you'd be more interested in the usefulness of the company and its products, and less in how some stupid statement on the morning news made them dip 2%.
It wouldn't even need to be a 6 month period. If everybody was forced to hold shares for a single day, that would outright kill High-Frequency and Algo-based Trading. Hell, a mandatory holding period of 1 hour would probably do that.
How about we just close the loopholes? If you have a US based company that is clearly operating a subsidiary, that subsidiary (even foreign) will be subject to US taxation. Far simpler strategy.
You miss the whole point of the story. This story isn't JUST about US tax being avoided.
paid Irish taxes of about $4.64 million on its entire non-U.S. profits of $1.344 billion
The problem here is that Ireland offers ridiculously low tax rates to attract investment and employment.
Somehow when employees are forced to compete for jobs, its okay, when companies are forced to compete for marketshare, thats okay too, but when goverments/countries are forced to compete to attract international business, politicians scream bloody murder.
I can say with certainty that the tablet revolution is just beginning. The simple truth is that a huge amount of home users don't REALLY want a PC. They think they want a PC, but they really don't. They want a machine that is cheap, gets them on Facebook, has a video/audio player, a web browser, email and Skype and is as low maintainance as possible. It's true that tablets are spectacularly bad productivity devices, they are mostly consumption devices. The thing is, the vast majority of home users are pure consumers and couldn't give 2 shits about productivity applications.
Would you rather have double the detail at 30 FPS, or half the detail at 60 FPS? Considering most people can't perceive frame rates faster than 30, it makes a bit of sense to push more polygons instead.
Stop with this misinformation. Most people definately CAN percieve framerates faster than 30.
http://boallen.com/fps-compare.html
If you honestly cant tell the difference between 30 and 60 in the above link, you might want to have yourself checked.