And still required the proprietary database to be updated before the files would be available to play - you couldn't just dump the files on the disk and have them work.
It took 2 years of searching before the black boxes from Air France flight AF447 were found, and during that period there was a massive amount of speculation and doubt about what happened, leading to total uncertainty about how to prevent another crash. Airbus took a beating as everyone assumed it was an aircraft fault which led to the crash.
When they found the black boxes, the real problem turned out to not be a systems fault (although there was a momentary loss of air speed data due to icing, it didn't cause the crash) but a crew training problem so spending the time and money to find and recover them after 2 years has lead to small systems changes but significant pilot training changes.
So while everyone assumes that MH370 crashed due to the pilot committing suicide, there is always that element of doubt because we really don't know what transpired until we have evidence - so what happens if that assumed 0.001% chance of this particular crash being caused by something else, something mechanical or systems related, comes real and it causes another crash?
Right, I can buy audiobooks from many different sources, so Amazon is hardly dominating the market, and also are you saying a company is never, ever, ever allowed to vary anything?
Amazon has as much monopoly position in eBooks as Apple has in smartphone apps - they have their own ecosystems but thats it. I can buy eBooks elsewhere, and publishers can even create their own apps and distribute their own products without Amazons involvement at all. EBooks is possibly the easiest market to break into.
The fact that you see nothing wrong with Apples requirements says loads - so its ok to set prices across your ecosystem and everyone else ecosystems (which is what Apple was doing) but setting prices on just your own ecosystem is completely wrong...?
In this case, I'd rather have Amazon than Apple - I can read my Amazon Kindle books on the Kindle, iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows, Windows Phone and a whole host of other places, while I can read my Apple iBooks on... an iOS device.
And you forget that authors and publishers also had to take whatever Apple was willing to give them - don't even start to kid yourself that Apple is the altruistic good guy in this, they required publishers and authors to not sell their ebooks cheaper anywhere else when they were sold through iBooks. Thats bad enough in my book.
Roaming is something the carrier can allow on your current sim, what you really mean is "what about using another carriers sim at any time, ostensibly for use overseas"...
The problem is that this isn't the US piercing the EU rules, its the US judicial system saying the EU rules do not apply to it, which is entirely correct.
This is the US judicial system putting US companies between a rock and a hard place - the company has to comply with EU laws or face penalties, while also complying with a US court order or face penalties.
This is, however, actually how it should be - EU rules do not apply to the US judicial system, they only apply to those entities operating within the EU, and the US judicial system should not care about other countries or jurisdictions laws it is not bound by.
That doesn't mean its not a difficult situation, but it does mean its an interesting case to watch.
There's nothing stopping Jewish or Christian candidates standing for other seats, which is exactly the same as Congress. The only difference is that there will be at least one Jewish or Christian member (among all the other reserved seats) in any Iranian Parliamentary session due to the reserved seat, unlike Congress which does not reserve any seat for minorities.
Since thats exactly what a large number of Palestinians did when the Gaza-Israeli border crossings were open (find work in Israel and go shopping in Israel), I see no reason why the tunnels into Israel are not also for the same purpose - food is freely available across the border in Israel, its getting it back across the border which is the issue.
The Gaza-Egypt border is managed by Egypt under an agreement initiated in 1979 and then amended by Israel in 2005 - the opening and closing of the borders is, under those agreements, managed by Israel even if they are policed by Egyptian officers.
So even though its a Gaza-Egypt border, its still controlled by Israel.
Its only since the uprising in Egypt that Egypt has unilaterally closed the Gaza-Egyptian border, and for this they should be in the international spotlight, but even then the Egyptian closing of the border and prior blockade is not comparable to the Israeli blockade which extends to Gaza ports and international trade into Gaza which does not cross Israeli territory.
Ahh right, because there was no blockade or violence prior to the Palestinian people electing Hamas as its government. Oh, wait a moment, there has been violence and blockades in Gaza for 50+ years...
Hamas is just the current excuse for the Israeli pressure, not the underlying reason. But its an excuse everyone buys and that's enough.
Before the current rash of violence on both sides, Israel was more than happy to deal with the PLO, whom it handed over "power" in Gaza to in 1994 despite the PLO being responsible for as much anti-Israeli violence as Hamas ever has.
And since the current rash of violence on both sides, Israel is still more than happy to deal with Fatah, which is the continuation of the PLO, and has been merrily firing rockets into Israel alongside Hamas and other groups for the past decade, but we never hear about that...
So what's so bad about Hamas? Oh, its in power and thus can be used as a whipping boy to justify the continued pressure on Gaza and the West Bank.
Not at all, except no country on this planet gives completely equal rights to all fellow citizens - hows that gay marriage thing coming in the US?
So in the context of the point raised by disposable60, Iran has both Christians and Jews in office, and your post is nothing more than an attempt to sideline that fact.
You realise that those rockets Hamas has it was probably getting for free, and those tunnels it built were actually the main way to get food and supplies into Gaza due to Israels blockade on imports, as they limited total food shipments to just 136 truck loads a day, for the entire Gaza population of 1.8million...
Hamas are far from blameless, but they also aren't anywhere near 100% of the problem.
Iran specifically has one Parliament seat reserved each for both a Jewish member and a Christian member (as well as a number of other minority groups) as part of its religious minority group policy.
Again, cite some things he can be sued for - where is your argument for breach of fiduciary duty? Yes, Elop may have done X, Y and Z, but just because you do not agree with X, Y or Z doesn't make that a breach of any duty of his position.
Uh, you do realise all those things you mention about cash having a paper trail has nothing inherently to do with the cash and everything to do with the regulations surrounding the financial system - they would all equally apply to bitcoins the moment the government says so. If your employer pays you in bitcoins, that would appear on your payslips, and your bitcoin exchange transactions would be subject to scrutiny just as bank account transactions are...
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Huh? The Epub format was released in 2007, while the Mobi format was released in 2000, and the Mobipocket company was purchased by Amazon in 2005.
Hell, I was reading purchased eBooks in PDB format back in 2002, from ereader.com.
And still required the proprietary database to be updated before the files would be available to play - you couldn't just dump the files on the disk and have them work.
It took 2 years of searching before the black boxes from Air France flight AF447 were found, and during that period there was a massive amount of speculation and doubt about what happened, leading to total uncertainty about how to prevent another crash. Airbus took a beating as everyone assumed it was an aircraft fault which led to the crash.
When they found the black boxes, the real problem turned out to not be a systems fault (although there was a momentary loss of air speed data due to icing, it didn't cause the crash) but a crew training problem so spending the time and money to find and recover them after 2 years has lead to small systems changes but significant pilot training changes.
So while everyone assumes that MH370 crashed due to the pilot committing suicide, there is always that element of doubt because we really don't know what transpired until we have evidence - so what happens if that assumed 0.001% chance of this particular crash being caused by something else, something mechanical or systems related, comes real and it causes another crash?
Right, I can buy audiobooks from many different sources, so Amazon is hardly dominating the market, and also are you saying a company is never, ever, ever allowed to vary anything?
Amazon has as much monopoly position in eBooks as Apple has in smartphone apps - they have their own ecosystems but thats it. I can buy eBooks elsewhere, and publishers can even create their own apps and distribute their own products without Amazons involvement at all. EBooks is possibly the easiest market to break into.
The fact that you see nothing wrong with Apples requirements says loads - so its ok to set prices across your ecosystem and everyone else ecosystems (which is what Apple was doing) but setting prices on just your own ecosystem is completely wrong...?
Lets not forget that Yeltsin came to power off the back of a semi-failed military coup against Gorbachev.
In this case, I'd rather have Amazon than Apple - I can read my Amazon Kindle books on the Kindle, iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows, Windows Phone and a whole host of other places, while I can read my Apple iBooks on ... an iOS device.
And you forget that authors and publishers also had to take whatever Apple was willing to give them - don't even start to kid yourself that Apple is the altruistic good guy in this, they required publishers and authors to not sell their ebooks cheaper anywhere else when they were sold through iBooks. Thats bad enough in my book.
Releasing all the "summer blockbusters" at the same time is an even worse business model...
Roaming is something the carrier can allow on your current sim, what you really mean is "what about using another carriers sim at any time, ostensibly for use overseas"...
The problem is that this isn't the US piercing the EU rules, its the US judicial system saying the EU rules do not apply to it, which is entirely correct.
This is the US judicial system putting US companies between a rock and a hard place - the company has to comply with EU laws or face penalties, while also complying with a US court order or face penalties.
This is, however, actually how it should be - EU rules do not apply to the US judicial system, they only apply to those entities operating within the EU, and the US judicial system should not care about other countries or jurisdictions laws it is not bound by.
That doesn't mean its not a difficult situation, but it does mean its an interesting case to watch.
There's nothing stopping Jewish or Christian candidates standing for other seats, which is exactly the same as Congress. The only difference is that there will be at least one Jewish or Christian member (among all the other reserved seats) in any Iranian Parliamentary session due to the reserved seat, unlike Congress which does not reserve any seat for minorities.
So its far from tokenism.
Since thats exactly what a large number of Palestinians did when the Gaza-Israeli border crossings were open (find work in Israel and go shopping in Israel), I see no reason why the tunnels into Israel are not also for the same purpose - food is freely available across the border in Israel, its getting it back across the border which is the issue.
The Gaza-Egypt border is managed by Egypt under an agreement initiated in 1979 and then amended by Israel in 2005 - the opening and closing of the borders is, under those agreements, managed by Israel even if they are policed by Egyptian officers.
So even though its a Gaza-Egypt border, its still controlled by Israel.
Its only since the uprising in Egypt that Egypt has unilaterally closed the Gaza-Egyptian border, and for this they should be in the international spotlight, but even then the Egyptian closing of the border and prior blockade is not comparable to the Israeli blockade which extends to Gaza ports and international trade into Gaza which does not cross Israeli territory.
If security fixes take up significant amount of additional space, then something's being done wrong. Very very wrong.
Ice is 100% water, but isn't at all liquid.
Ahh, look, he insults me three times in his first sentence and then expects me to treat his comment with anything approaching giving a damn.
And to top it off, he insults me in the final sentence as well.
Meh.
Come back when you can have a civilised, adult discussion on the topic.
I'm not side lining anything, however strongly you wish to push it its got fuck all to do with the question asked.
Right, do you have anything other than your own feelings that actually indicates that he did something illegal, either in criminal or civil law?
Because I'm still with "no" on that.
Ahh right, because there was no blockade or violence prior to the Palestinian people electing Hamas as its government. Oh, wait a moment, there has been violence and blockades in Gaza for 50+ years...
Hamas is just the current excuse for the Israeli pressure, not the underlying reason. But its an excuse everyone buys and that's enough.
Before the current rash of violence on both sides, Israel was more than happy to deal with the PLO, whom it handed over "power" in Gaza to in 1994 despite the PLO being responsible for as much anti-Israeli violence as Hamas ever has.
And since the current rash of violence on both sides, Israel is still more than happy to deal with Fatah, which is the continuation of the PLO, and has been merrily firing rockets into Israel alongside Hamas and other groups for the past decade, but we never hear about that...
So what's so bad about Hamas? Oh, its in power and thus can be used as a whipping boy to justify the continued pressure on Gaza and the West Bank.
Not at all, except no country on this planet gives completely equal rights to all fellow citizens - hows that gay marriage thing coming in the US?
So in the context of the point raised by disposable60, Iran has both Christians and Jews in office, and your post is nothing more than an attempt to sideline that fact.
(Please don't give Iran as an example for anything relating to democracy or human rights)
Why not? Because Iran doesn't 100% conform to your standards across the board?
You realise that those rockets Hamas has it was probably getting for free, and those tunnels it built were actually the main way to get food and supplies into Gaza due to Israels blockade on imports, as they limited total food shipments to just 136 truck loads a day, for the entire Gaza population of 1.8million...
Hamas are far from blameless, but they also aren't anywhere near 100% of the problem.
Iran specifically has one Parliament seat reserved each for both a Jewish member and a Christian member (as well as a number of other minority groups) as part of its religious minority group policy.
Again, cite some things he can be sued for - where is your argument for breach of fiduciary duty? Yes, Elop may have done X, Y and Z, but just because you do not agree with X, Y or Z doesn't make that a breach of any duty of his position.
Uh, you do realise all those things you mention about cash having a paper trail has nothing inherently to do with the cash and everything to do with the regulations surrounding the financial system - they would all equally apply to bitcoins the moment the government says so. If your employer pays you in bitcoins, that would appear on your payslips, and your bitcoin exchange transactions would be subject to scrutiny just as bank account transactions are...