You can't trump government inspections with Terms and Conditions.
I really do wonder what fucking world a bunch of people here live in - "hey, why not just make up our own terms and conditions and circumvent all requirements to follow any laws?! Hah local government, take that!" Really? Are you high all the time or something?
Company terms and conditions do not negate local laws and requirements for inspection officers or legal bodies to carry out inspections under those laws, or affect the ability for those inspection officers or legal bodies to carry out said inspections. No matter how much you want to argue it.
"Government officers are not allowed access to this system" is a fantasy land bullshit thing which was laughed out of court in the 1980s when BBSes attempted to use it to stop police from gathering information on illegal activities. Your assertion is no different.
Oh, and Chelsea Manning was tried under espionage and treason laws - were you trying to equate government inspections with the activities of Aaron Swartz perhaps? Because the two are not equatable, regardless of how overboard you think the prosecutor went in the Swartz case.
Taxi licensing works here in the UK, and it seems to work in Australia as well - don't assume that just because your American system is completely broken that all systems everywhere in the world are broken.
See my comment elsewhere in these comments which show that its easy to get a full, proper taxi license for less than £1500 in the UK - so arguments about the "medallion system" and how you have to pay six figure sums to get into the game are invalid almost everywhere outside America.
And, believe it or not, that system works perfectly well in the UK. And we still have regular inspections of taxis.
Yeah, another bullshit argument - government inspectors doing their job is not seen in legal terms as the same as someone deliberately blocking business. You cannot get out of inspections because they stop you from doing your business for a period of time.
Heh, laughable - they were caught doing something illegal and that ruined their lives, but its somehow the polices fault that being caught ruined their lives.
And in turn, that reminds me of the Zorro PC bridge card you could get for the Amiga - turning an Amiga into an Apple Mac was easy, same hardware etc, but you could also turn it into a 286 PC if you stuck a Zorro expansion card into the computer (it basically came with all the PC guts you needed for it to work). Pretty amazing stuff back in the day.
Back then I, along with pretty much everyone else on Freenode or Arcnet, didn't care about pirating things. Thankfully I have matured somewhat in my opinions on the matter.
It is in-fact obstruction of justice, because you are purposefully obstructing the ability of the inspector to do their job *because* they are an inspector. If you were banning them for any other reason it would be fine, but to specifically ban them for conducting inspections - yeah, thats a cut and dried case of obstruction of justice.
Restaurants have the ability to ban customers and refuse them entry to the premises (it is private property) but they don't get to simply ban health inspectors - that gets them shut down pretty damn quickly.
Building sites are private property, you can't trespass on them, but you can't also ban government safety inspectors from coming onto the land through claiming trespass.
Oh, and you do realise that your constitution isn't in force outside the borders and territories of the US, right? So the examples you give don't count.
We don't have a medallion system here in the UK, so explain why there are people against here here...
Here, a 3 year license to operate a taxi will typically set you back £355 for the drivers license, £600 for the vehicle license (vehicle under 3 years old) and £460 for the operator license (covers up to 5 vehicles). Private hire vehicles are slightly cheaper.
£1,500 for a 3 year license to operate a taxi - that's not exactly a massive investment nor is it a huge barrier to entry. Pay that money, pass the tests and you have yourself the ability to start earning money by operating a taxi.
Taxi fares are also fixed in the UK by the local councils, so there is no gouging or "surge pricing". You can calculate how much your fare is going to be before you even get into the taxi.
The year before it imploded in dramatic fashion, Enron was worth, according to its Market Capitalisation, $60Billion - when infact it was worth nothing like that.
Uber's "worth" of $40Billion comes from investor interest, nothing more. There's no huge bank of assets in there that underpins that valuation, its how much money it could potentially earn in the markets it exists in.
Bugger me, when I first got hold of VMWare as a teenager then heavily into Linux, I went mad. And I mean maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
My home server was a simple affair - 6GB hard disk, 512MB ram.
So what did I do? Bring up as many Redhat VMs as I could - all with 4MB ram:D It was like a drug, 10 wasn't enough, so I did more. I got to 50 and just knew I had to do 100. I eventually ran out of free ram, but hell, I had more than 100 servers at my disposal!
What did I do with them? Uhm, nothing. Apart from sshing into a few just because I could.
Dude, you really need to look into an ORM such as Entity Framework (at the top end, does all the work for you but is heftier to boot) or Dapper (at the bottom end, much lighter but you do more work like write the SQL queries yourself) which will do the database to object mappings for you. I haven't seen a DataSet or DataTable in years. Instead I get a nice bunch of POCOs, tables are depicted as collections, and relationships between objects in different tables all exist just fine.
I can have a new database defined, configured and generated, populated with seed data and displaying stuff on a website within 10 minutes of creating the new project, without any database-specific stuff being exposed to the UI layer.
The junior edition contains expanded, simpler explanations for words, which take up more space, so they only include a subset of the currently recognised english langauge - its not as if this is the first time they have omitted words, they've done it ever since the first junior edition was released.
You might want to take a longer look at C# because there is no reason you can't just use Entity Framework to do exactly what you find it easier to do - create the model, creates readers and writers, abstract the database stuff away and just get to use plain C# objects, lists, collections and other things instead of cumbersome DataTables or Datasets etc.
Yeah, I just use the stuff built into Windows these days - works a treat, and due to the past behaviour of projects like PDFCreator I have no sympathy for them.
Some times you only have to get it from the authors intended source for it to be an issue - the reason I dropped PDFCreator as a tool was the bundled crap from the Sourceforge download.
Firstly, no whoosh needed, I understood the meme but just think its horrifically overused and just plain shit. But then I am tiring of all of the memes that call Slashdot their home these days, people tend to use them for a quick laugh or a "I'm in the group!" stamp rather than putting forward actual enticing arguments for their views.
Secondly, MS does have a history - so does all large long lived companies. I was on the anti-MS band wagon back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but then I grew up and watched as MS changed along the years. If you are going to avoid MS on the basis of its history, then you also have to avoid Ford, Boeing, IBM and a tonne of other companies.
On the technical side of things, everything I have learned while coding on the.Net platform is eminently transferable to other languages - the concepts and patterns are no different, the language is ahead of where Java is currently so it would be a step back to make the move, but the move could be made easily enough.
Yes, MS platforms have their specifics, but then so does Linux and Mac - there is a reason the Linux kernel is so hard to compile on anything other than GCC.
The idea that you are forever locked into MS is one which has long been untrue. Hence my question stands unanswered - why is it a trap?
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You can't trump government inspections with Terms and Conditions.
I really do wonder what fucking world a bunch of people here live in - "hey, why not just make up our own terms and conditions and circumvent all requirements to follow any laws?! Hah local government, take that!" Really? Are you high all the time or something?
Company terms and conditions do not negate local laws and requirements for inspection officers or legal bodies to carry out inspections under those laws, or affect the ability for those inspection officers or legal bodies to carry out said inspections. No matter how much you want to argue it.
"Government officers are not allowed access to this system" is a fantasy land bullshit thing which was laughed out of court in the 1980s when BBSes attempted to use it to stop police from gathering information on illegal activities. Your assertion is no different.
Oh, and Chelsea Manning was tried under espionage and treason laws - were you trying to equate government inspections with the activities of Aaron Swartz perhaps? Because the two are not equatable, regardless of how overboard you think the prosecutor went in the Swartz case.
Yay, more bullshit arguments which mean fuck all.
Taxi licensing works here in the UK, and it seems to work in Australia as well - don't assume that just because your American system is completely broken that all systems everywhere in the world are broken.
See my comment elsewhere in these comments which show that its easy to get a full, proper taxi license for less than £1500 in the UK - so arguments about the "medallion system" and how you have to pay six figure sums to get into the game are invalid almost everywhere outside America.
And, believe it or not, that system works perfectly well in the UK. And we still have regular inspections of taxis.
Yeah, another bullshit argument - government inspectors doing their job is not seen in legal terms as the same as someone deliberately blocking business. You cannot get out of inspections because they stop you from doing your business for a period of time.
Heh, laughable - they were caught doing something illegal and that ruined their lives, but its somehow the polices fault that being caught ruined their lives.
And in turn, that reminds me of the Zorro PC bridge card you could get for the Amiga - turning an Amiga into an Apple Mac was easy, same hardware etc, but you could also turn it into a 286 PC if you stuck a Zorro expansion card into the computer (it basically came with all the PC guts you needed for it to work). Pretty amazing stuff back in the day.
Back then I, along with pretty much everyone else on Freenode or Arcnet, didn't care about pirating things. Thankfully I have matured somewhat in my opinions on the matter.
It is in-fact obstruction of justice, because you are purposefully obstructing the ability of the inspector to do their job *because* they are an inspector. If you were banning them for any other reason it would be fine, but to specifically ban them for conducting inspections - yeah, thats a cut and dried case of obstruction of justice.
Restaurants have the ability to ban customers and refuse them entry to the premises (it is private property) but they don't get to simply ban health inspectors - that gets them shut down pretty damn quickly.
Building sites are private property, you can't trespass on them, but you can't also ban government safety inspectors from coming onto the land through claiming trespass.
Oh, and you do realise that your constitution isn't in force outside the borders and territories of the US, right? So the examples you give don't count.
We don't have a medallion system here in the UK, so explain why there are people against here here...
Here, a 3 year license to operate a taxi will typically set you back £355 for the drivers license, £600 for the vehicle license (vehicle under 3 years old) and £460 for the operator license (covers up to 5 vehicles). Private hire vehicles are slightly cheaper.
£1,500 for a 3 year license to operate a taxi - that's not exactly a massive investment nor is it a huge barrier to entry. Pay that money, pass the tests and you have yourself the ability to start earning money by operating a taxi.
Taxi fares are also fixed in the UK by the local councils, so there is no gouging or "surge pricing". You can calculate how much your fare is going to be before you even get into the taxi.
http://www.london24.com/news/u...
http://www.citylab.com/commute...
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/...
The year before it imploded in dramatic fashion, Enron was worth, according to its Market Capitalisation, $60Billion - when infact it was worth nothing like that.
Uber's "worth" of $40Billion comes from investor interest, nothing more. There's no huge bank of assets in there that underpins that valuation, its how much money it could potentially earn in the markets it exists in.
Yeah, thats going to get thrown out of court with prejudice, and potentially fines or jail time for contempt.
Its as ridiculous as those notices on piracy bulletin boards thats said "if you are a member of law enforcement you do not have permission to enter".
Bugger me, when I first got hold of VMWare as a teenager then heavily into Linux, I went mad. And I mean maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
My home server was a simple affair - 6GB hard disk, 512MB ram.
So what did I do? Bring up as many Redhat VMs as I could - all with 4MB ram :D It was like a drug, 10 wasn't enough, so I did more. I got to 50 and just knew I had to do 100. I eventually ran out of free ram, but hell, I had more than 100 servers at my disposal!
What did I do with them? Uhm, nothing. Apart from sshing into a few just because I could.
*sigh* Thems were the days....
And weigh a shit load more...
because we've decided the spectrum shall be privately owned (which is absurd)
Not privately owned, licensed to private entities - subtle but huge difference.
Do you really want to live in a world where there are no limits on spectrum usage? Loudest device wins? We wouldn't even have wifi...
Dude, you really need to look into an ORM such as Entity Framework (at the top end, does all the work for you but is heftier to boot) or Dapper (at the bottom end, much lighter but you do more work like write the SQL queries yourself) which will do the database to object mappings for you. I haven't seen a DataSet or DataTable in years. Instead I get a nice bunch of POCOs, tables are depicted as collections, and relationships between objects in different tables all exist just fine.
I can have a new database defined, configured and generated, populated with seed data and displaying stuff on a website within 10 minutes of creating the new project, without any database-specific stuff being exposed to the UI layer.
And yet Mozilla receive north of $100 Million a year in income - just how large a budget do you need to write a web browser full time?
Here are the stats for a general insurance website, so it should be visited by a good range of users:
1. Internet Explorer 34.73%
2. Chrome 28.93%
3. Safari 24.33%
4. Firefox 8.90%
5. Android Browser 1.57%
The junior edition contains expanded, simpler explanations for words, which take up more space, so they only include a subset of the currently recognised english langauge - its not as if this is the first time they have omitted words, they've done it ever since the first junior edition was released.
Why do I hear so many cases of eminent domain being used to build malls and WalMarts, or indeed to *block* Walmarts?
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Indu...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.denverpost.com/head...
http://bizwest.com/eminent-dom...
Not so sure the US is all that different to China in that regard...
Bullshit, software doesn't want anything - *you* want it to be free so you aren't burdened with the problem of paying someone for it.
You might want to take a longer look at C# because there is no reason you can't just use Entity Framework to do exactly what you find it easier to do - create the model, creates readers and writers, abstract the database stuff away and just get to use plain C# objects, lists, collections and other things instead of cumbersome DataTables or Datasets etc.
Yeah, I just use the stuff built into Windows these days - works a treat, and due to the past behaviour of projects like PDFCreator I have no sympathy for them.
Some times you only have to get it from the authors intended source for it to be an issue - the reason I dropped PDFCreator as a tool was the bundled crap from the Sourceforge download.
Why does Windows keep this antiquated process around?
Chocolatey.
https://chocolatey.org/
Firstly, no whoosh needed, I understood the meme but just think its horrifically overused and just plain shit. But then I am tiring of all of the memes that call Slashdot their home these days, people tend to use them for a quick laugh or a "I'm in the group!" stamp rather than putting forward actual enticing arguments for their views.
Secondly, MS does have a history - so does all large long lived companies. I was on the anti-MS band wagon back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but then I grew up and watched as MS changed along the years. If you are going to avoid MS on the basis of its history, then you also have to avoid Ford, Boeing, IBM and a tonne of other companies.
On the technical side of things, everything I have learned while coding on the .Net platform is eminently transferable to other languages - the concepts and patterns are no different, the language is ahead of where Java is currently so it would be a step back to make the move, but the move could be made easily enough.
Yes, MS platforms have their specifics, but then so does Linux and Mac - there is a reason the Linux kernel is so hard to compile on anything other than GCC.
The idea that you are forever locked into MS is one which has long been untrue. Hence my question stands unanswered - why is it a trap?