Lets see, wanting to enforce Federal law is being a dick. ya, sure.
I think i hear your mother calling you. Come back when you are old enough to understand why we have laws like this and why its important to enforce them.
Knowingly selling to a person with an intent to export would be the same as exporting it yourself. Its really no different if you sold them a gun, knowing they would go and commit a crime. Or selling a chemical to a known illegal drug maker.
Now, if you can argue to the court you did due diligence and didn't know, then you might be OK..
In this case the sales rep felt that this was going to be exported against Federal law, and took the safer route, and should be commended for doing the right thing.
And for the record if you are too stupid to realize its a problem, why should anyone bother to find the actual text of the laws for you? you wouldn't understand it anyway. Or is it that you just supportive of giving out restricted technology to terrorist states and you are trying to make excuses?
An American company, a company that does business in America, ( perhaps ones that just work with as well, but i cant say i know for sure ) or an individual American citizen cant export restricted items outside of the country to 'restricted' ones.
Well Iranian isn't a race, so you fail on that part, and sure, if there is ANY suspicion with the customer, refuse them and tell them to leave the store. And if they don't leave, they are trespassing and have them arrested.
If Apple is found to be exporting by being negligent, that is a much larger deal then refusing to sell to some loser that cant speak English properly. One is a lost sale, the other is a huge fine and perhaps being audited by the DoJ.
Its illegal to export many products from the US, and selling to someone who could be easily mistaken as a 'foreign nation' could get you into hot water too.
I cannot think of any situation where I need to both communicate verbally and have excessive noise.
Never used siri while on the street corner looking for someplace to eat? How about in a car? Just a simple example of what we have TODAY that would be used in a noisy environment.
Only if they allow personal devices in the building. Some don't. But yes, if they do allow it, its the correct solution. ( and keep it off their network, do NOT plug it in.. )
Id also get permission first, in writing, so it doesn't come back and bite him in the ass later. "doing personal work on company time" can be considered ghost employment. Learning a non-job related skill could fall under that rule.
I'm glad you don't work where i do, as you are trying to cheat the system. Just because its not technically being "installed", its still a bad security practice to run software that hasn't been approved by IT.
I hope they lock your PC down so you cant even breathe and have to ask permission to even reboot.. I know i would...
You really think so? You are sadly mistaken, as others will license it too. Its not like it comes out of their pocket, they just pass the cost along down to your bill.
I would tend to agree, but who has a Democracy? Not us here in the USA, we never did.. We here have had a ( now somewhat perverted ) representative republic
Nook and kindle exist due to their ecosystem and true brand recognition outside of the 'geek' community. I don't know if what Google has would unseat either of them.
8" would just be the start, for people ( like me ) that feel 7 is too small, but don't want a 9.x to lug around ( unless its color e-ink, then id love 9.x ), but could do like Samsung and have many choices, but still not starting out in the e-book market.
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Lets see, wanting to enforce Federal law is being a dick. ya, sure.
I think i hear your mother calling you. Come back when you are old enough to understand why we have laws like this and why its important to enforce them.
Idiot.
Or the current one accepted by genetic scientists..
Knowingly selling to a person with an intent to export would be the same as exporting it yourself. Its really no different if you sold them a gun, knowing they would go and commit a crime. Or selling a chemical to a known illegal drug maker.
Now, if you can argue to the court you did due diligence and didn't know, then you might be OK..
In this case the sales rep felt that this was going to be exported against Federal law, and took the safer route, and should be commended for doing the right thing.
And for the record if you are too stupid to realize its a problem, why should anyone bother to find the actual text of the laws for you? you wouldn't understand it anyway. Or is it that you just supportive of giving out restricted technology to terrorist states and you are trying to make excuses?
An American company, a company that does business in America, ( perhaps ones that just work with as well, but i cant say i know for sure ) or an individual American citizen cant export restricted items outside of the country to 'restricted' ones.
( or import........... )
sshhhhh stop making sense, people want to be irrational instead.
To avoid bad press due to mistakes. In general you never want untrained people representing your company on camera.
I know a lot of companies that wont allow the media on the premises.
Well Iranian isn't a race, so you fail on that part, and sure, if there is ANY suspicion with the customer, refuse them and tell them to leave the store. And if they don't leave, they are trespassing and have them arrested.
If Apple is found to be exporting by being negligent, that is a much larger deal then refusing to sell to some loser that cant speak English properly. One is a lost sale, the other is a huge fine and perhaps being audited by the DoJ.
They should have kicked the news crew out .It IS private property after all
Its illegal to export many products from the US, and selling to someone who could be easily mistaken as a 'foreign nation' could get you into hot water too.
No, there are people who do care about personal ownership and are doing their best to stop it, using garbage stories like this.
Some of those people hold some of the highest and most influential offices there are.
I vote accident myself, but with lack of true evidence i can see why they might say it was intentional.
Not seen such a blatant anti-gun story that pretends not to be in a long time.
screw you.
I cannot think of any situation where I need to both communicate verbally and have excessive noise.
Never used siri while on the street corner looking for someplace to eat? How about in a car? Just a simple example of what we have TODAY that would be used in a noisy environment.
Ethics are relative.
Incumbent qualifies for another term... Need i say more?
Only if they allow personal devices in the building. Some don't. But yes, if they do allow it, its the correct solution. ( and keep it off their network, do NOT plug it in .. )
Id also get permission first, in writing, so it doesn't come back and bite him in the ass later. "doing personal work on company time" can be considered ghost employment. Learning a non-job related skill could fall under that rule.
Should also be prohibited and blocked.
I'm glad you don't work where i do, as you are trying to cheat the system. Just because its not technically being "installed", its still a bad security practice to run software that hasn't been approved by IT.
I hope they lock your PC down so you cant even breathe and have to ask permission to even reboot.. I know i would...
"We are so big we don't need you guys anymore, go away and bother someone else"
Lets hope they are militant about this, so that they will hasten their extinction.
Which is their goal.
Not everyone. The average guy would have no clue it even exists once its removed from search engines too.
You really think so? You are sadly mistaken, as others will license it too. Its not like it comes out of their pocket, they just pass the cost along down to your bill.
its going to need it..
oppresses its citizens..
news at *yawn* 6...
I would tend to agree, but who has a Democracy? Not us here in the USA, we never did.. We here have had a ( now somewhat perverted ) representative republic
Nook and kindle exist due to their ecosystem and true brand recognition outside of the 'geek' community. I don't know if what Google has would unseat either of them.
8" would just be the start, for people ( like me ) that feel 7 is too small, but don't want a 9.x to lug around ( unless its color e-ink, then id love 9.x ), but could do like Samsung and have many choices, but still not starting out in the e-book market.