that really is also a country by country thing and depends on who the contract is intended for and many such clauses have in the past also been ruled invalid.
I actually prefer items like that remain in the agreements/EULA's etc as it makes them completely invalid and easy to argue in a court should you ever need to that they have created an illegal agreement that violates consumer rights and hence nothing in it can be enforced.
I partly agree, if I was them I would happily spend that amount too, it isn't even a lot for them to spend. What I find disheartening is that spending that on lobbying works and works very well otherwise they would not do it, which in itself is the problem and is probably more a problem that the Pollies on the receiving end are too easily swayed by it. yes this story is absolute bullshit with the writers twisting facts and combining numbers trying to create public outrage (worse than the lobbying in my eyes as they are trying to claim to be on the moral high ground) .
The total lobbying bill when you work it out on a average per year for each of the companies isn't even a particularly obscene or unusual amount, they probably would have spent similar even without net neutrality. I really wish news articles would stick to the facts, it isn't like these are squeaky clean companies with shining reputations, the facts alone are pretty damning for much of their behaviour over the years without having to resort to lies.
I know this is Slashdot but for fucks sake "3 ISPs Have Spent $572 Million To Kill Net Neutrality Since 2008" NO THEY HAVEN'T. They have spent 572 million on lobbying part of which was spent on net neutrality, the amount spent on lobbying is disgusting, but slashdots inability to present basic fakes without twisting them is almost as sickening.
many countries actually don't work that way at all, the US for instance bases it on citizenship, other countries base it on residency or whether you have spent 3 or 6 months in the country. some have tax treaties between countries and others don't. Their is no specific way that income tax is treated by country though yes largest amount do seem to go by time spent in country.
Not sure about google, but many large companies have absolute policies on ensuring that paid researchers declare funding too as it not only looks bad for the researcher but also bad for the company when things like this are discovered (e.g. current story) so saying it isn't googles fault too is absolutely WRONG. It shows they are not doing their own due diligence when involving these researchers.
I don't underestimate the premium people will pay for stupid stuff at all, many fanboys would pay twice the cost for a slightly lower spec if it came with sparkly colours. I am very much aware of it, The question the poster asked was not do I think their are people that would part with their money for it, it is would I purchase it. No matter how ridiculous a price their will always be someone that will justify it to themselves or for whom money is immaterial.
Not a hope in hell. being locked down in their ecosystem negates the value of any significant premium hardware increases. besides which unless they have worked out something amazing in battery, holographics or such I personally can't think of much that could even be all that interesting hardware wise, gimmicky 3D or VR maybe but that would be a death sentence just like it was for 3D TV's and looking that way for VR headsets too . I don't need smaller or lighter, CPU, memory, storage, graphics are all more than adequate in most top end phones, really getting like PC's a little now where you can work quite happily on older hardware as long as it is still supported with updates.
CC has insurance, consumer protections and the advantage of you aren't walking around with a wad of cash that can be stolen. nothing wrong with carrying a little cash, but you are definitely NOT safer by using cash.
Unless you live in some weird arse country that has no rights to dispute payments on a credit card then your CC is probably far safer than using cash. Seems the poster either lives in a very unsafe country or is ignorant of the reality.
Find it interesting that this is claimed as some victory for him, before he was whining about not being able to use his name for a company or security products and how unjust it was (because he sold the rights to it), nothing much in this settlement seems to change that or am I missing something?
when I said select few I was not specifically aiming at the execs, the bigger problem is the excesses in the various actors and actresses pay packets across both film and TV, those pay packets make the $83 million paid to execs seem like chump change.
It isn't peak load they are struggling with and the main issue isn't households. What they have created is a system that doesn't handle disasters or unexpected conditions well as they have lost a lot of the stable base load from shutting down more traditional generation which causes massive problems for large manufacturing businesses that require stable consistent power. the home scenario is the lesser issue though also a political problem and regardless a power-wall install is a really bad choice in Australia as the cost is too high for what you get.
only people that fail high school maths are stupid enough to have bought a power-wall in Australia.....So that definitely could be anyone in the South Australian government:-(
technically battery is actually the correct definition as a battery is not a single cell, it is a collection of cells which together are a battery, assuming they are all connected then this would indeed be a single battery.
The costs are somewhat artificial and are based on insanely high licensing costs for a small portion of content which in turn is due to insanely high wages for a select few. A single package with everything would allow that insanity to be moderated as they would not be using them as ratings sledgehammers that you must buy whatever the price in order to secure both viewers and other content.
cutting out the weeds or in this case those focused on the more traditional models allows for better focus on the growth area. This is a business reality, when cuts are made for the "right" reasons it can be very positive for the business as it frees up funds and positions for those with the right focus.
financially speaking it is a crisis, most modern economies are not geared to cope well with the large population that moves into old age without an underlying younger population to support it.
In all fairness Tesla are in a position of either the Model 3 is a success or Tesla go broke. a recall or significant failure while awkward in the previous tesla's would be a bank busting disaster in the Model 3. I have no idea how likely either scenario is but a misstep here would definitely be a death sentence.
While family feuds or problems aren't an issue for any of my direct family or extended family, you need to think about the issues of divorce, separations, family dysfunction etc otherwise you can end up in the same situation as you have with an ISP. No one in my family is so poor that $10 a year is any sort of imposition, by default I look after all my direct families domains but they could easily take them with them should something happen. I use my domains for many things apart from just my email, my brother owns a business so maybe if it grows he might want some other person to manage it etc etc. for such a tiny price I consider owning my domain names as cheap insurance (and tax deductible). back in the mid 2000's I learnt the importance of this the hard way when I changed ISP's, it took weeks to change my Address everywhere and even a year or so later I kept finding places I had the old address, The sheer number of places that have my email as a primary method of communication or authentication/userid nowadays is mind bogglingly huge, it would take months to sort it all out, I value my time far more than $10 a year.
Not sure why you got modded up. Regionally written software, especially when it deals with specific laws and localisation issues like Taxation and accounting is nearly always better sourced locally and hence it gets huge market share, this is not something unique to Ukraine.
personally I use namesilo.com (cheap with free privacy and with built in templates for routing your mail for no extra charge) I would say most don't understand the benefits, that doesn't make it any less important. Most simply aren't aware of how cheap and easy it is but many will tell you the agony of going through a house move or ISP change and having to get access to everything again. everyone in my family has their own domain and I am the only one that is technical but after explaining it to parents, brothers etc I walked them through setting up their own years ago.
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that really is also a country by country thing and depends on who the contract is intended for and many such clauses have in the past also been ruled invalid.
I actually prefer items like that remain in the agreements/EULA's etc as it makes them completely invalid and easy to argue in a court should you ever need to that they have created an illegal agreement that violates consumer rights and hence nothing in it can be enforced.
deadmouth is far safer for anyone else involved. Especially for someone so young regardless of how guarded he was with his mouth.
I partly agree, if I was them I would happily spend that amount too, it isn't even a lot for them to spend. What I find disheartening is that spending that on lobbying works and works very well otherwise they would not do it, which in itself is the problem and is probably more a problem that the Pollies on the receiving end are too easily swayed by it. yes this story is absolute bullshit with the writers twisting facts and combining numbers trying to create public outrage (worse than the lobbying in my eyes as they are trying to claim to be on the moral high ground) .
The total lobbying bill when you work it out on a average per year for each of the companies isn't even a particularly obscene or unusual amount, they probably would have spent similar even without net neutrality. I really wish news articles would stick to the facts, it isn't like these are squeaky clean companies with shining reputations, the facts alone are pretty damning for much of their behaviour over the years without having to resort to lies.
I know this is Slashdot but for fucks sake "3 ISPs Have Spent $572 Million To Kill Net Neutrality Since 2008" NO THEY HAVEN'T. They have spent 572 million on lobbying part of which was spent on net neutrality, the amount spent on lobbying is disgusting, but slashdots inability to present basic fakes without twisting them is almost as sickening.
many countries actually don't work that way at all, the US for instance bases it on citizenship, other countries base it on residency or whether you have spent 3 or 6 months in the country. some have tax treaties between countries and others don't. Their is no specific way that income tax is treated by country though yes largest amount do seem to go by time spent in country.
Not sure about google, but many large companies have absolute policies on ensuring that paid researchers declare funding too as it not only looks bad for the researcher but also bad for the company when things like this are discovered (e.g. current story) so saying it isn't googles fault too is absolutely WRONG. It shows they are not doing their own due diligence when involving these researchers.
I don't underestimate the premium people will pay for stupid stuff at all, many fanboys would pay twice the cost for a slightly lower spec if it came with sparkly colours. I am very much aware of it, The question the poster asked was not do I think their are people that would part with their money for it, it is would I purchase it. No matter how ridiculous a price their will always be someone that will justify it to themselves or for whom money is immaterial.
Not a hope in hell. being locked down in their ecosystem negates the value of any significant premium hardware increases. besides which unless they have worked out something amazing in battery, holographics or such I personally can't think of much that could even be all that interesting hardware wise, gimmicky 3D or VR maybe but that would be a death sentence just like it was for 3D TV's and looking that way for VR headsets too . I don't need smaller or lighter, CPU, memory, storage, graphics are all more than adequate in most top end phones, really getting like PC's a little now where you can work quite happily on older hardware as long as it is still supported with updates.
CC has insurance, consumer protections and the advantage of you aren't walking around with a wad of cash that can be stolen. nothing wrong with carrying a little cash, but you are definitely NOT safer by using cash.
Unless you live in some weird arse country that has no rights to dispute payments on a credit card then your CC is probably far safer than using cash. Seems the poster either lives in a very unsafe country or is ignorant of the reality.
Find it interesting that this is claimed as some victory for him, before he was whining about not being able to use his name for a company or security products and how unjust it was (because he sold the rights to it), nothing much in this settlement seems to change that or am I missing something?
when I said select few I was not specifically aiming at the execs, the bigger problem is the excesses in the various actors and actresses pay packets across both film and TV, those pay packets make the $83 million paid to execs seem like chump change.
It isn't peak load they are struggling with and the main issue isn't households. What they have created is a system that doesn't handle disasters or unexpected conditions well as they have lost a lot of the stable base load from shutting down more traditional generation which causes massive problems for large manufacturing businesses that require stable consistent power. the home scenario is the lesser issue though also a political problem and regardless a power-wall install is a really bad choice in Australia as the cost is too high for what you get.
only people that fail high school maths are stupid enough to have bought a power-wall in Australia.....So that definitely could be anyone in the South Australian government :-(
technically battery is actually the correct definition as a battery is not a single cell, it is a collection of cells which together are a battery, assuming they are all connected then this would indeed be a single battery.
twitter statements were news months ago, the deal actually being signed is new.
The costs are somewhat artificial and are based on insanely high licensing costs for a small portion of content which in turn is due to insanely high wages for a select few. A single package with everything would allow that insanity to be moderated as they would not be using them as ratings sledgehammers that you must buy whatever the price in order to secure both viewers and other content.
cutting out the weeds or in this case those focused on the more traditional models allows for better focus on the growth area. This is a business reality, when cuts are made for the "right" reasons it can be very positive for the business as it frees up funds and positions for those with the right focus.
financially speaking it is a crisis, most modern economies are not geared to cope well with the large population that moves into old age without an underlying younger population to support it.
In all fairness Tesla are in a position of either the Model 3 is a success or Tesla go broke. a recall or significant failure while awkward in the previous tesla's would be a bank busting disaster in the Model 3. I have no idea how likely either scenario is but a misstep here would definitely be a death sentence.
While family feuds or problems aren't an issue for any of my direct family or extended family, you need to think about the issues of divorce, separations, family dysfunction etc otherwise you can end up in the same situation as you have with an ISP. No one in my family is so poor that $10 a year is any sort of imposition, by default I look after all my direct families domains but they could easily take them with them should something happen. I use my domains for many things apart from just my email, my brother owns a business so maybe if it grows he might want some other person to manage it etc etc. for such a tiny price I consider owning my domain names as cheap insurance (and tax deductible). back in the mid 2000's I learnt the importance of this the hard way when I changed ISP's, it took weeks to change my Address everywhere and even a year or so later I kept finding places I had the old address, The sheer number of places that have my email as a primary method of communication or authentication/userid nowadays is mind bogglingly huge, it would take months to sort it all out, I value my time far more than $10 a year.
Not sure why you got modded up. Regionally written software, especially when it deals with specific laws and localisation issues like Taxation and accounting is nearly always better sourced locally and hence it gets huge market share, this is not something unique to Ukraine.
personally I use namesilo.com (cheap with free privacy and with built in templates for routing your mail for no extra charge) I would say most don't understand the benefits, that doesn't make it any less important. Most simply aren't aware of how cheap and easy it is but many will tell you the agony of going through a house move or ISP change and having to get access to everything again. everyone in my family has their own domain and I am the only one that is technical but after explaining it to parents, brothers etc I walked them through setting up their own years ago.