If BP is fined $10bn (as is the current estimate), it doesn't come out of the CEO's paycheck. BP is a public company (owned by shareholders), and when BP pays a fine, it's money that the shareholders lose (because the value of the company is lowered, and therefore its stock price).
You're talking about criminal responsibility when you speak of "jail time". Shareholders are protected from personal liability (beyond their investment in the company). The lowest grade of a corporation is LLC "limited-liability corporation", and S-Corps are just more expensive/stringent versions of the same. This means that if BP declares bankruptcy, creditors cannot chase after its shareholders beyond their stake in the company. That is, the stock price goes to $0, wiping out all the investment value shareholders have in the company, but creditors cannot go after shareholders beyond that.
Corporations cannot be jailed, so criminal charges against them are a lot like civil charges, meaning only a monetary punishment. The plaintiff would have to file separate grievances addressing individual employees by name for individuals to be jailed. A judgment against a company does not translate into a judgment against any individuals; separate judgments on the individuals are needed.
Regarding bankruptcy, wholly-owned subsidiaries of a larger corporation cannot always insulate the larger corporation from debt obligations. That is, if someone sues subsidiary XYZ of Google for $10 billion, and wins, then Google cannot merely make XYZ declare bankruptcy and continue on with itself protected from creditors. Google is not plural, so I don't know what you mean by "This does not mean THEY direct its day to day operation". If you mean the Sergey Brin and staff, sure, _they_ don't, but then again, _they_ are not liable anyways. Google is singular in the eyes of the law; the law couldn't care less who the CEO is or what he does with is time. If XYZ is a wholly owned subsidiary of Google, and XYZ is liable for $10 bn, and cannot meet its obligation to pay, creditors are entitled to chase after Google. Can creditors chase after Sergey Brin? No. Creditors chase after Google and property owned by Google. This is ultimately paid for by shareholders (of which Sergey Brin is one).
An inner city kid is not playing "World of Goo". They're sexting with other teens in an abomination of the english language, playing FPS, pirating music, watching movie trailers, and finding porn.
"This is great news because this could help wipe out Afghanistan's poverty"
Um.. how on earth are you coming to that conclusion? Their total deposits are worth $1T, and clearly they can't mine all of that in one year. It probably will take them well over 70 years to deplete their natural resources, but let's just say 70 to boost the per-year numbers. Every year they could mine 1/70th of their resources, thereby adding $14Bn to their GDP of $14Bn (not $10Bn as the OP said, see https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/af.html). Okay, so say their GDP will go up 2x. Do you realize how poor they are? The per-capita income there is $800. By doubling their GDP, their per-capita income becomes $1,600. Comparatively, Saudi Arabia's per-capita income is $20,400 (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sa.html). Afghanistan's GDP will have to improve by a factor of 25.5x to catch up to Saudi Arabia.
Closed source software has similar problems with disgruntled employees. Only difference is that the company when finding the backdoor quietly fixes it and gags anyone from going to the media about it.
market cap != gdp. GDP is revenue per year. No company makes 460 billion revenue per year. The market cap of Spain and Brazil is much higher than 460 billion. Market caps are often at 20 P/E (20 times annual earnings).
American ideals are more aligned with the Roman Empire nowadays than the frontiers of colonial wilderness. I usually don't get into trouble by asking the question, "how would I behave if this were to happen to me in China?" The chinese police aren't there to punish you for just being you; but they will punish you if they don't think you respect their authority. So kiss ass, say "yes sir", and usually they'll let you go. Then go home and write online about you hate f@#ck!ng pigs, or some such comment.
I don't know, I think newborns should be exposed to the free market system. If they cannot offer goods and services, they must not receive them. Providing free food, free shelter, and free healthcare to newborns is a slippery slope to a welfare state./s
Also, the civilized world tends to believe a person is innocent until proven guilty. There are no crimes Lucifer can be proven to be guilty of. Actually, he can't be proven to be exist let alone guilty of anything.
Blame high schools. Universities are not responsible for teaching people basic algebra, geometry, reading/writing, or logic. If someone doesn't know the difference between converse and contrapositive, they should be a freshman in high school not a freshman in college. Logic is just "pseudo-code" and everyone should know logic before entering a university.
But the soul may be repentant of the actions the body is doing if the connection is truly degraded (or altogether severed). Judgement on the soul may therefore not be bad if it turns out the body carried forth evil _despite_ the wishes of the soul. I look at this as a software/hardware problem. You don't yell at the software programmer for a bug in his software when the memory stick goes bad or there's a cpu bug. Yes, the software may behave improperly, and, yes, the software may therefore do "bad" things (send cars hurling into brick walls, crash planes, meltdown nuclear reactors). But if the cause is faulty hardware, like a cpu bug, you don't judge the programmer as a nitwit.
P.S. I'm an agnostic who is interested in theology and mythology. (You can love reading and learning about Zeus, and contemplate his personality and powers, without believing he is real! I see religion as fanfiction.)
Yep, tethering with Palm Pre on Verizon is probably easiest to use implementation I've seen so far. I wish the app was available for Sprint's network too.
Your ISP will stop you from using a network card that doesn't follow the Ethernet protocol. If your device gives 00:00:00:00:00:00:00 as its MAC address, your ISP can reject all your packets. Now, of course, you can fake any MAC address. But the point is that your device must supply *some* MAC address, even if it is fake.
Also, we're mammals, and it's completely in our nature (and evolutionarily beneficial) to rear our young and protect them from harm's way. Had we been alligators, we'd lay eggs and let the kids fend for themselves as orphans. We shouldn't devolve from our rich history and culture of raising, taking care of, and protecting others into a "everyone for themselves" reptilian approach. If natural selection and evolution has taught us anything, the opposite is true - we are driven to grow our protective circle from parent-child to extended family to clan to city-state to empire. And this growth to help more people has conferred huge evolutionary advantages, which is why societies that lack the trait of helping their members have frequently been annexed and conquered.
Unfortunately, people mistake anarchy with darwin at its best. Anarchy is not a great breeding ground for evolution. The best military is hierarchical, and the inferior ones are defeated. The problem with most school systems is that there is no discipline and those truly in charge (school dean / staff) do not enforce the optimal hierarchy because they want to the students to "enjoy" their experience, and rarely realize the ensuing power vacuum of their hands-off approach lets ephemeral power solutions like the ones derived in junior high flourish. Anarchy is not capitalism, otherwise folks like Madoff would be a darwinian genius for stealing money instead of the darwinian dunce he is for violating established rules and codes of conduct established an enforced by a strong societal hierarchy.
The mistake people often make is they take the success of capitalism to mean anarchy is a successful model. Capitalism involves strict enforcement of patent rights, copyrights, and protection against slander, libel, frivolous lawsuits, and the other hundreds of thousands of pages on the lawbooks. When school systems employ anarchy, they'll get the same results prisons have had for years -- a new hierarchy that reflects a population large enough to have a hierarchy at all, but with a small enough population and in small enough time for any sort of good hierarchy to transpire. We can't expect students to evolve a hierarchy in their four years of university to match the great hierarchies of science, military, politics that have taken form after hundreds of years and many challenging wars, both foreign and domestic.
Why on earth are you typing out unwieldy constants and trying to do unit conversions by hand??? Haven't you ever heard of Google calculator ? Google: "c / 5 gigahertz in inches = 2.36057054 inches"
I think you meant to say astrology is 50% wrong, because if it were 100% wrong, it would have -1 correlation, which is perfect anti-correlation (akin to scoring a perfect zero on a T/F test, and is just as difficult as scoring a perfect 100). If astrology is 50% wrong, it therefore is 50% right, and depending on the brain chemistry of the person, happy memories may get weighted more than unhappy memories, and therefore the _weighted_ average of astrology working can be significantly higher than 50% - assuming a person who adheres to astrology derives happiness from when it is correct. In fact, for a such person whose happy memories are weighted more than unhappy memories, _any_ catalyst for increased variance will lead to a happier life, including a coin-toss on whether to drive or walk to work. If astrology is a method to higher variance in the day to day experiences of its adherents, then so be it, it results in a happier life among those humans who benefit from high variance. Conversely, for those whose brain chemistry weights unhappy memories more than happy memories, lowered variance in day to day experience is the best method for maximizing happiness. The world needs both people, those who enjoy variance and are willing to eat a mysterious berry, be it a sweet, tasty berry or a bitter, sour berry, and those who hate variance and will only eat the safe, known berry. The risk-takers help society learn about new, tasty berries, and the risk-averse help society helps continue the species in case it was a poisonous berry.
Being blind isn't an excuse for poor spelling either. It's "to the full extent of the law". And if your voice synthesizer didn't make it clear, it's extent with the the letter "T".
It's _Extremely_ easy to remove watermarking. Buy 2 mp3 files, decompress them to WAV, keep them sync'd, then average them, then compress them back to.MP3 (all these steps can be pipelined because they're all streaming operations). There, you've just completely obliterated whatever steganography was in it while having perfectly good audio. In fact, the audio will have BETTER quality because the manipulation done by the steganography was, on average, reversed.
And yes, I am a cryptography expert with experience in steganography.
The Phenom Rev B3 release (March '08) is supposed to fix the TLB issue in hardware. Until then, there's a microcode update (via a BIOS patch) that fixes stability issues (at the cost of 10-20% L3 performance).
She proposed 5 laptops but can infect 1, 2, 3, or 4 of them. The researchers have to get a PERFECT score to win. The probability of randomly being correct is low. What's the exact probability? Well, 5 bits, and 00000 and 11111 are illegal, so there are 2^5 - 2 outcomes = 30 outcomes, so randomly selecting the correct outcome is a minuscule 3.33%. Moreover, by being able to infect all but a single laptop, it makes it difficult for the researchers to calibrate what is "normal" and thus any attempt at blindly labeling deviation from the norm as a symptom of infection would be disastrous for the researchers.
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Then your stock spreads will be $2 instead of $0.01
If BP is fined $10bn (as is the current estimate), it doesn't come out of the CEO's paycheck. BP is a public company (owned by shareholders), and when BP pays a fine, it's money that the shareholders lose (because the value of the company is lowered, and therefore its stock price).
You're talking about criminal responsibility when you speak of "jail time". Shareholders are protected from personal liability (beyond their investment in the company). The lowest grade of a corporation is LLC "limited-liability corporation", and S-Corps are just more expensive/stringent versions of the same. This means that if BP declares bankruptcy, creditors cannot chase after its shareholders beyond their stake in the company. That is, the stock price goes to $0, wiping out all the investment value shareholders have in the company, but creditors cannot go after shareholders beyond that.
Corporations cannot be jailed, so criminal charges against them are a lot like civil charges, meaning only a monetary punishment. The plaintiff would have to file separate grievances addressing individual employees by name for individuals to be jailed. A judgment against a company does not translate into a judgment against any individuals; separate judgments on the individuals are needed.
Regarding bankruptcy, wholly-owned subsidiaries of a larger corporation cannot always insulate the larger corporation from debt obligations. That is, if someone sues subsidiary XYZ of Google for $10 billion, and wins, then Google cannot merely make XYZ declare bankruptcy and continue on with itself protected from creditors. Google is not plural, so I don't know what you mean by "This does not mean THEY direct its day to day operation". If you mean the Sergey Brin and staff, sure, _they_ don't, but then again, _they_ are not liable anyways. Google is singular in the eyes of the law; the law couldn't care less who the CEO is or what he does with is time. If XYZ is a wholly owned subsidiary of Google, and XYZ is liable for $10 bn, and cannot meet its obligation to pay, creditors are entitled to chase after Google. Can creditors chase after Sergey Brin? No. Creditors chase after Google and property owned by Google. This is ultimately paid for by shareholders (of which Sergey Brin is one).
An inner city kid is not playing "World of Goo". They're sexting with other teens in an abomination of the english language, playing FPS, pirating music, watching movie trailers, and finding porn.
"This is great news because this could help wipe out Afghanistan's poverty"
Um.. how on earth are you coming to that conclusion? Their total deposits are worth $1T, and clearly they can't mine all of that in one year. It probably will take them well over 70 years to deplete their natural resources, but let's just say 70 to boost the per-year numbers. Every year they could mine 1/70th of their resources, thereby adding $14Bn to their GDP of $14Bn (not $10Bn as the OP said, see https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/af.html). Okay, so say their GDP will go up 2x. Do you realize how poor they are? The per-capita income there is $800. By doubling their GDP, their per-capita income becomes $1,600. Comparatively, Saudi Arabia's per-capita income is $20,400 (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sa.html). Afghanistan's GDP will have to improve by a factor of 25.5x to catch up to Saudi Arabia.
Closed source software has similar problems with disgruntled employees. Only difference is that the company when finding the backdoor quietly fixes it and gags anyone from going to the media about it.
market cap != gdp. GDP is revenue per year. No company makes 460 billion revenue per year. The market cap of Spain and Brazil is much higher than 460 billion. Market caps are often at 20 P/E (20 times annual earnings).
American ideals are more aligned with the Roman Empire nowadays than the frontiers of colonial wilderness. I usually don't get into trouble by asking the question, "how would I behave if this were to happen to me in China?" The chinese police aren't there to punish you for just being you; but they will punish you if they don't think you respect their authority. So kiss ass, say "yes sir", and usually they'll let you go. Then go home and write online about you hate f@#ck!ng pigs, or some such comment.
I don't know, I think newborns should be exposed to the free market system. If they cannot offer goods and services, they must not receive them. Providing free food, free shelter, and free healthcare to newborns is a slippery slope to a welfare state. /s
Also, the civilized world tends to believe a person is innocent until proven guilty. There are no crimes Lucifer can be proven to be guilty of. Actually, he can't be proven to be exist let alone guilty of anything.
It's just the church trying to demonize, erm, demons.
Palm ditched PalmOS a long time ago. Their new OS is WebOS, which is Linux based, with a UI layer called Luna.
I always do ++i.
Blame high schools. Universities are not responsible for teaching people basic algebra, geometry, reading/writing, or logic. If someone doesn't know the difference between converse and contrapositive, they should be a freshman in high school not a freshman in college. Logic is just "pseudo-code" and everyone should know logic before entering a university.
But the soul may be repentant of the actions the body is doing if the connection is truly degraded (or altogether severed). Judgement on the soul may therefore not be bad if it turns out the body carried forth evil _despite_ the wishes of the soul. I look at this as a software/hardware problem. You don't yell at the software programmer for a bug in his software when the memory stick goes bad or there's a cpu bug. Yes, the software may behave improperly, and, yes, the software may therefore do "bad" things (send cars hurling into brick walls, crash planes, meltdown nuclear reactors). But if the cause is faulty hardware, like a cpu bug, you don't judge the programmer as a nitwit.
P.S. I'm an agnostic who is interested in theology and mythology. (You can love reading and learning about Zeus, and contemplate his personality and powers, without believing he is real! I see religion as fanfiction.)
The CEO of one single bank can do more damage (and get rewarded for it, too).
Yep, tethering with Palm Pre on Verizon is probably easiest to use implementation I've seen so far. I wish the app was available for Sprint's network too.
Your ISP will stop you from using a network card that doesn't follow the Ethernet protocol. If your device gives 00:00:00:00:00:00:00 as its MAC address, your ISP can reject all your packets. Now, of course, you can fake any MAC address. But the point is that your device must supply *some* MAC address, even if it is fake.
Also, we're mammals, and it's completely in our nature (and evolutionarily beneficial) to rear our young and protect them from harm's way. Had we been alligators, we'd lay eggs and let the kids fend for themselves as orphans. We shouldn't devolve from our rich history and culture of raising, taking care of, and protecting others into a "everyone for themselves" reptilian approach. If natural selection and evolution has taught us anything, the opposite is true - we are driven to grow our protective circle from parent-child to extended family to clan to city-state to empire. And this growth to help more people has conferred huge evolutionary advantages, which is why societies that lack the trait of helping their members have frequently been annexed and conquered.
Unfortunately, people mistake anarchy with darwin at its best. Anarchy is not a great breeding ground for evolution. The best military is hierarchical, and the inferior ones are defeated. The problem with most school systems is that there is no discipline and those truly in charge (school dean / staff) do not enforce the optimal hierarchy because they want to the students to "enjoy" their experience, and rarely realize the ensuing power vacuum of their hands-off approach lets ephemeral power solutions like the ones derived in junior high flourish. Anarchy is not capitalism, otherwise folks like Madoff would be a darwinian genius for stealing money instead of the darwinian dunce he is for violating established rules and codes of conduct established an enforced by a strong societal hierarchy.
The mistake people often make is they take the success of capitalism to mean anarchy is a successful model. Capitalism involves strict enforcement of patent rights, copyrights, and protection against slander, libel, frivolous lawsuits, and the other hundreds of thousands of pages on the lawbooks. When school systems employ anarchy, they'll get the same results prisons have had for years -- a new hierarchy that reflects a population large enough to have a hierarchy at all, but with a small enough population and in small enough time for any sort of good hierarchy to transpire. We can't expect students to evolve a hierarchy in their four years of university to match the great hierarchies of science, military, politics that have taken form after hundreds of years and many challenging wars, both foreign and domestic.
Why on earth are you typing out unwieldy constants and trying to do unit conversions by hand??? Haven't you ever heard of Google calculator ? Google: "c / 5 gigahertz in inches = 2.36057054 inches"
I think you meant to say astrology is 50% wrong, because if it were 100% wrong, it would have -1 correlation, which is perfect anti-correlation (akin to scoring a perfect zero on a T/F test, and is just as difficult as scoring a perfect 100). If astrology is 50% wrong, it therefore is 50% right, and depending on the brain chemistry of the person, happy memories may get weighted more than unhappy memories, and therefore the _weighted_ average of astrology working can be significantly higher than 50% - assuming a person who adheres to astrology derives happiness from when it is correct. In fact, for a such person whose happy memories are weighted more than unhappy memories, _any_ catalyst for increased variance will lead to a happier life, including a coin-toss on whether to drive or walk to work. If astrology is a method to higher variance in the day to day experiences of its adherents, then so be it, it results in a happier life among those humans who benefit from high variance. Conversely, for those whose brain chemistry weights unhappy memories more than happy memories, lowered variance in day to day experience is the best method for maximizing happiness. The world needs both people, those who enjoy variance and are willing to eat a mysterious berry, be it a sweet, tasty berry or a bitter, sour berry, and those who hate variance and will only eat the safe, known berry. The risk-takers help society learn about new, tasty berries, and the risk-averse help society helps continue the species in case it was a poisonous berry.
Being blind isn't an excuse for poor spelling either. It's "to the full extent of the law". And if your voice synthesizer didn't make it clear, it's extent with the the letter "T".
It's _Extremely_ easy to remove watermarking. Buy 2 mp3 files, decompress them to WAV, keep them sync'd, then average them, then compress them back to .MP3 (all these steps can be pipelined because they're all streaming operations). There, you've just completely obliterated whatever steganography was in it while having perfectly good audio. In fact, the audio will have BETTER quality because the manipulation done by the steganography was, on average, reversed.
And yes, I am a cryptography expert with experience in steganography.
You do realize that rather than do the calculations by hand, you could've just used Google calculator?
30 horsepower / (2500 pounds force*tan(7 degrees)) in miles per hour
The Phenom Rev B3 release (March '08) is supposed to fix the TLB issue in hardware. Until then, there's a microcode update (via a BIOS patch) that fixes stability issues (at the cost of 10-20% L3 performance).
She proposed 5 laptops but can infect 1, 2, 3, or 4 of them. The researchers have to get a PERFECT score to win. The probability of randomly being correct is low. What's the exact probability? Well, 5 bits, and 00000 and 11111 are illegal, so there are 2^5 - 2 outcomes = 30 outcomes, so randomly selecting the correct outcome is a minuscule 3.33%. Moreover, by being able to infect all but a single laptop, it makes it difficult for the researchers to calibrate what is "normal" and thus any attempt at blindly labeling deviation from the norm as a symptom of infection would be disastrous for the researchers.