Same problem non-name in a different language. ""The moon is a moon" in English is "La luna es una luna" in Spanish. (I trust Google translate is good enough not to mess up the spanish in this simple sentence).
But, "Luna es una luna" is not just Spanish, "Luna" is latin, it just happens to be spelt the same way as a Spanish word.
It's a standard term. It means that several components in the chain are all controlled by one company. Pretty much all smartphones are vertically integrated - Apple make the iPhone and the OS and control both. Samsung make the Galaxy and also control distribution of the Android software on it. If they also make the components, or just exert close control over the production of them, then it's even more vertically integrated.
Books don't make hundreds of millions of dollars. Movies do. Big targets are easier to hit, and targets that are currently in the news make for better publicity for an anti-Card platform.
"Pleading" can be over-interpreted. It doesn't necessarily mean on-his-knees-begging. Asking is pleading, pleading is asking, the words are essentially synonyms, "pleading for tolerance" is just an idiomatic phrase, like "lurching to the right" doesn't involve actual lurching, or "running for office" doesn't involve athletic activity.
I think the theory goes like this: They are profiting from the work of pro-nazis. If we boycott them, then no other company will want to associate themselves with such unsavoury characters in future for fear of long-lasting consumer backlash. If we don't boycott them, then such companies will work with nasty people and play the long game on the basis that the public will soon forget once the perpetrator is gone. Never forget, never forgive, and the message will eventually get through. It might take generations, but making the world a better place is something worth investing time in.
I have no idea whether this theory holds water or not.
I don't really know, but I don't see any evidence that Gray was not interested in patenting his inventions. He seems to have been using the patent system as much as anyone else, so I assume that potential for patent protection of his inventions was a factor in spurring on his research.
That's not necessarily a problem. If innovation was boosted because of the potential rewards for being the first to invent a telephone, then the patent system did its job.
And, where's the data? At least with laffer, there are some dots that you can kind of see could justify a curve if you close one eye and tilt your head. With this, it's just an arbitrary line and a cross. It is pure prejudice in the original definition of the term. I wish it were true, though, I really do, because it makes sense and would probably lead to better laws. But until I see some data, this is pure nonsense. And even with data, working out the direction of causality isn't easy.
I thought this was an interesting idea, until I looked at the web site and all those things in that animated slideshow at the top say "Tea Party" to me. Guns, low taxes, no seatbelts, no state schools, that sounds like a nightmare to me. If you're going to go around with no seatbelt on, whose taxes are going to pay to clean up the mess when you spread your brains on the pavement? Or when you blow someone's head off?
If these foreign subsidiaries aren't "tax resident in any nation", are they protected by the laws of any nation? It seems odd that a company can exist and be recognized as an entity that can hold property without being incorporated in a recognized nation. Can't we just take their stuff and see who they turn to for the protection of law?
Yes, absolutely. However, it needs to be made clear that this is still the case despite the DMCA, hence the bill "makes clear that it is not a violation".
You're putting your words into my mouth. I've said no such thing.
No, I'm interpreting your implications. Any reasonable person would pick up the same implication from your words and it is disingenuous to so heavily imply something in the form of a loaded question and then feign innocence by protesting that your words should only be interpreted exactly and literally. Communication doesn't work that way.
By asking the question "What's so magical and special about Activesync", you are implicitly stating that the alternatives are so good that ActiveSync has to actually use magic in order to be better than them. Putting a question mark at the end of an outrageous implication doesn't get you off the hook for implying outrageous claims.
Most abandonware is still under copyright, and it's not that hard to trace the ownership. Most defunct game studios were acquired by bigger studios, and they own the copyright.
Imagine if a photon travels not much faster than an electron (a few cms a second)...
Electrons can and often do travel much faster than that, but they go round and round in tiny circles and only drift through a conductor at an aggregate speed of a few cm per second. An electron's actual speed is, as with all physical things, based on its energy. You might as well imagine how fast rocks travel.
The second law of thermodynamics applies within our universe. Who knows what laws governed the creation of that universe in which that law applies? Maybe there's something outside what we naively call "the universe" from which the energy came?
My theory is, that matter and antimatter did exist in equal amounts. Matter travels one direction in time, antimatter travels the other direction. So the two forms of matter headed of in different temporal directions, and the original matter and antimatter will never meet. Antimatter can be created in high energy interactions though, which explains why there is some around, but that isn't the original antimatter.
Really? I'm genuinely surprised. It wasn't intended to be obnoxious. What, specifically? Do you find USians offensive? I used it merely as a more specific term than "Americans" since the US is part of the Americas. Sorry if it's got some connotation of which I was unaware.
Diesel is a sub-type of gasoline. In France, they are labelled "Essence" and "Gazole" - "Essence" is what we in the UK call "petrol" and what you call "gas", "gazole" is diesel. So you USians use "gas" as a shortcut for "regular non-diesel gasoline" and "diesel" for "diesel gasoline".
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Same problem non-name in a different language.
""The moon is a moon" in English is "La luna es una luna" in Spanish.
(I trust Google translate is good enough not to mess up the spanish in this simple sentence).
But, "Luna es una luna" is not just Spanish, "Luna" is latin, it just happens to be spelt the same way as a Spanish word.
It's a standard term. It means that several components in the chain are all controlled by one company. Pretty much all smartphones are vertically integrated - Apple make the iPhone and the OS and control both. Samsung make the Galaxy and also control distribution of the Android software on it. If they also make the components, or just exert close control over the production of them, then it's even more vertically integrated.
Books don't make hundreds of millions of dollars. Movies do. Big targets are easier to hit, and targets that are currently in the news make for better publicity for an anti-Card platform.
He's boycotting the movie, he's not trying to make it a federal offence to go see Ender's Game. Big difference.
"Pleading" can be over-interpreted. It doesn't necessarily mean on-his-knees-begging. Asking is pleading, pleading is asking, the words are essentially synonyms, "pleading for tolerance" is just an idiomatic phrase, like "lurching to the right" doesn't involve actual lurching, or "running for office" doesn't involve athletic activity.
I think the theory goes like this: They are profiting from the work of pro-nazis. If we boycott them, then no other company will want to associate themselves with such unsavoury characters in future for fear of long-lasting consumer backlash. If we don't boycott them, then such companies will work with nasty people and play the long game on the basis that the public will soon forget once the perpetrator is gone. Never forget, never forgive, and the message will eventually get through. It might take generations, but making the world a better place is something worth investing time in.
I have no idea whether this theory holds water or not.
I'll bet infinity dollars at those odds.
This is about as invasive as reading the letters pages in all the newspapers.
I don't really know, but I don't see any evidence that Gray was not interested in patenting his inventions. He seems to have been using the patent system as much as anyone else, so I assume that potential for patent protection of his inventions was a factor in spurring on his research.
That's not necessarily a problem. If innovation was boosted because of the potential rewards for being the first to invent a telephone, then the patent system did its job.
And, where's the data? At least with laffer, there are some dots that you can kind of see could justify a curve if you close one eye and tilt your head. With this, it's just an arbitrary line and a cross. It is pure prejudice in the original definition of the term. I wish it were true, though, I really do, because it makes sense and would probably lead to better laws. But until I see some data, this is pure nonsense. And even with data, working out the direction of causality isn't easy.
I thought this was an interesting idea, until I looked at the web site and all those things in that animated slideshow at the top say "Tea Party" to me. Guns, low taxes, no seatbelts, no state schools, that sounds like a nightmare to me. If you're going to go around with no seatbelt on, whose taxes are going to pay to clean up the mess when you spread your brains on the pavement? Or when you blow someone's head off?
Except that governments freely admit that they have lots to hide. State secrets, official secrets act, "top secret" documents, etc.
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If these foreign subsidiaries aren't "tax resident in any nation", are they protected by the laws of any nation? It seems odd that a company can exist and be recognized as an entity that can hold property without being incorporated in a recognized nation. Can't we just take their stuff and see who they turn to for the protection of law?
Yes, absolutely. However, it needs to be made clear that this is still the case despite the DMCA, hence the bill "makes clear that it is not a violation".
You're putting your words into my mouth. I've said no such thing.
No, I'm interpreting your implications. Any reasonable person would pick up the same implication from your words and it is disingenuous to so heavily imply something in the form of a loaded question and then feign innocence by protesting that your words should only be interpreted exactly and literally. Communication doesn't work that way.
By asking the question "What's so magical and special about Activesync", you are implicitly stating that the alternatives are so good that ActiveSync has to actually use magic in order to be better than them. Putting a question mark at the end of an outrageous implication doesn't get you off the hook for implying outrageous claims.
Most abandonware is still under copyright, and it's not that hard to trace the ownership. Most defunct game studios were acquired by bigger studios, and they own the copyright.
Imagine if a photon travels not much faster than an electron (a few cms a second)...
Electrons can and often do travel much faster than that, but they go round and round in tiny circles and only drift through a conductor at an aggregate speed of a few cm per second. An electron's actual speed is, as with all physical things, based on its energy. You might as well imagine how fast rocks travel.
The second law of thermodynamics applies within our universe. Who knows what laws governed the creation of that universe in which that law applies? Maybe there's something outside what we naively call "the universe" from which the energy came?
My theory is, that matter and antimatter did exist in equal amounts. Matter travels one direction in time, antimatter travels the other direction. So the two forms of matter headed of in different temporal directions, and the original matter and antimatter will never meet. Antimatter can be created in high energy interactions though, which explains why there is some around, but that isn't the original antimatter.
it too makes you look like an obnoxious douche.
Really? I'm genuinely surprised. It wasn't intended to be obnoxious. What, specifically? Do you find USians offensive? I used it merely as a more specific term than "Americans" since the US is part of the Americas. Sorry if it's got some connotation of which I was unaware.
Diesel is a sub-type of gasoline. In France, they are labelled "Essence" and "Gazole" - "Essence" is what we in the UK call "petrol" and what you call "gas", "gazole" is diesel. So you USians use "gas" as a shortcut for "regular non-diesel gasoline" and "diesel" for "diesel gasoline".
Agreed. iGoogle is my home page.