Well, they're doing the labor, but then again they're not the ones planning the routes, negotiating gate fees, or bargaining on new aircraft. Compare upthread to those who argue that the UAW aren't responsible for bad designs (which were, in that argument, what killed GM/Ford/Chrysler). Either you're responsible for profitability, or you're not.
if I needed business attire as part of running my business, I could have my business buy it and get a tax write-off
That's not legal, and just because the IRS hasn't audited them yet doesn't mean it would be cool with that. You can't use incorporation to avoid personal taxes.
Red states are subsidized by military bases, federal land ownership (huge in the West), and welfare payments.
And why on earth would the South worry about the decline of heavy industry? It's not as though many of them were located there (exception: textiles in the upstate Carolinas). It makes no more sense than Wisconsin fretting about the boll weevil.
Well, the easy way would be to outfit every police car with a camera and record all stops. A field sobriety test is pretty clear - ever watched an episode of COPS? People who are actually drunk, or high, or whatever - they fail, they do it badly, and it's totally apparent. People who aren't? They don't.
Cocaine is schedule 2 because it is the oldest local anesthetic known - it has had a clear medical use since the 1800s. It's almost never used because we're afraid of the DEA, but it's the only local anesthetic that also constricts blood vessels - an ideal combination for surgery on the nose.
Scheduling is about legit medical use, not solely about abuse potential. There are a lot of Schedule I drugs that have relatively lower abuse potential than Schedule II drugs, but they have no clear medical usage at all.
I can't speak for the high maintenance aspect, but the cheap bastard? Absolutely. A big corporation makes money, it gives it out to employees and vendors and shareholders, everybody gets a piece. A small business makes money, every single nickel of it belongs to the boss - except he has to pay the employees, vendors, and tax man himself. OF COURSE they're cheap - $50K is nothing to a big corporation, but it's the difference between driving a Honda Accord and a BMW 7-series to a small businessman.
IANAL, but reasonable expectation of privacy is a legal term of art that bears strikingly little resemblance to the average person's comprehension thereof. A potentially relevant case to this is that called-number logs are considered not private because, originally, you had to tell the operator which number you wanted to call - so you voluntarily gave up the privacy of who you called, even though the content was private. A good friend of mine who IS a lawyer mentioned in explaining the whole thing that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in another person's home, even if they're not there.
From a physician's point of view, this is fairly simple: if a patient emails you, you send back an email requesting them to come into the office - any time, no appointment needed - and sign this little form acknowledging that unencrypted email is completely insecure and that anyone with an interest could easily eavesdrop on any email conversation, and that they are accepting that any such disclosure would be permissible.
HIPAA only keeps you from sharing protected health information WITHOUT CONSENT.
You'll note that I limited that superiority to straight-up war, which we win quite handily. We don't do as well with prolonged low-level conflict - then again, nobody does.
Yes, the Korean War is still technically in action, but I think that - unless Kim Jong-Il has stepped things up quite a bit overnight - it's very much a cold war. The Vietnam War was the war that we won until we decided it would be better to lose, and then even more embarrassingly decided that the South Vietnamese needed to lose too.
Then we got rid of conscript soldiers. The Gulf Wars - I and II - pretty clearly showed that we can wipe any standard force off the map.
Afghanistan is going badly, and will end worse. Unfortunately our government is a bit too respectful of Pakistan's sovereignty - something it doesn't even exercise itself in those areas - to run down the Taliban. I'm pretty certain that the way to do Afghanistan is the way we started it - don't try to run the place, don't try to fix it, just make sure that the Taliban can't use it. Anything else is overreaching.
As for Iraq, it's done quite well for itself. While not forgetting all the bad things that have happened there lately, let's not pretend it was sunshine and rainbows around every corner in 2002.
Of course they do some of that - as others point out in this thread, you have to learn to work within a large, hierarchical organization where lives are at stake all the time. But that's not the same as being a dumb piece of meat that is marched forth into blazing enemy fire on the assumption that going over the top will work this time.
People join the military for all sorts of reasons. Some really do just want to be allowed to kill people. Some feel that it's a great way to contribute to their country. Some are from military families and are keeping up a family tradition. The success of the American military - and it's enormously successful at fighting wars, to the point that nobody tries to fight straight-up wars with us anymore - depends heavily on being full of intelligent soldiers who can improvise.
And they've probably never met anyone who was. Military knowledge in this crowd usually stops somewhere around the US Civil War or WWI, because they really do think of those guys as cannon fodder.
Hint to the/. crowd at large: the military has really, really cool toys, and when you work for them you can break into systems without worrying about going to jail. I knew a guy who did ROTC and joined the Army solely to be able to fly combat helicopters - if you want to fly high-performance aircraft, military's the only game in town. Hacking is not terribly different in that regard.
This is a correct understanding - the Kindle appears as a USB drive to the computer. Drag and drop. Certainly, if the wireless were off, you would be able to put it back on the Kindle and read it. Not sure if it would re-delete it. If you stripped the DRM, certainly you could keep it.
Damn, man, project much? All Republicans are shills for the corporations, while all Democrats are honest folk who just listen to the guys that put them in office? A 2-to-1 moneyraising advantage makes no difference at all? In response to a guy who expresses amusement that the Republican candidate for president LOST?
No, it will show 120 minutes of usage. US carriers bill in 1-minute increments. The point is that while 120 calls of 0:59 duration bill as 120 minutes of usage, 120 calls of 1:01 duration (that's four minutes' more total airtime) will bill as 240 minutes of usage.
Nevertheless, you said that a refund system is impossible without remote deletion, as a defense for it. That statement is decidedly false, and doesn't justify that they have such control over customers devices.
In the interests of truth, you are right, and I was wrong. Sorry.
And the incentive to do such an incredibly complicated - and expensive - thing is what? To sell to a couple of geeks that would appreciate strong crypto, but who wouldn't object to DRM-laced books on their face?
Look, this isn't a bad idea in general, but it's much, much easier to do it the way they did, and until they accidentally triggered a refund by deleting from the store nobody could tell the difference. More importantly, the people who cared were almost certainly never going to become customers anyway.
As I pointed out elsewhere, the easiest solution is to say "We can't and won't delete anything ever again, and by the way, don't ask for a refund. All sales final. Be sure to get a sample first."
The cord would be a nightmare, but 4 HP is plenty for cutting. I used to cut my parents' lawn in the late 80s with a 2 HP motor; you either cut more often or go a bit slower when cruising through tall grass.
They also produce an enormous number of products for an unbelievably large number of uses. As others have pointed out, our policy of burning fossil fuels is insane in no small part because they're such damned good chemical feedstocks.
So you dislike the precise method used, but understand the utility of remote delete. Good idea. Now take it a step further, and put yourself in the programmer's mind:
Programmer #1 thinks sure, you could write a multi-step verification process, but really - the only way to trigger this is if the customer asks for a refund. It's much easier to do it server-side, plus you don't have to worry about putting the verify code in each device which you make software for (which, currently, is four: Kindle 1, Kindle 2, Kindle DX, and iPhone).
Programmer #2 is writing the code to pull a book from the store. He says, y'know, if they won't be able to redownload it, I should be a nice guy and give them a refund.
Programmers 1 and 2 never actually chat about this. Management never discusses it.
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Well, they're doing the labor, but then again they're not the ones planning the routes, negotiating gate fees, or bargaining on new aircraft. Compare upthread to those who argue that the UAW aren't responsible for bad designs (which were, in that argument, what killed GM/Ford/Chrysler). Either you're responsible for profitability, or you're not.
Minimum wage is over $14k a year. Are you serious? A guy with a bad work ethic, a fifth-grade education, and no experience is worth $14k a year?
That's not legal, and just because the IRS hasn't audited them yet doesn't mean it would be cool with that. You can't use incorporation to avoid personal taxes.
Red states are subsidized by military bases, federal land ownership (huge in the West), and welfare payments.
And why on earth would the South worry about the decline of heavy industry? It's not as though many of them were located there (exception: textiles in the upstate Carolinas). It makes no more sense than Wisconsin fretting about the boll weevil.
Well, the easy way would be to outfit every police car with a camera and record all stops. A field sobriety test is pretty clear - ever watched an episode of COPS? People who are actually drunk, or high, or whatever - they fail, they do it badly, and it's totally apparent. People who aren't? They don't.
Cocaine is schedule 2 because it is the oldest local anesthetic known - it has had a clear medical use since the 1800s. It's almost never used because we're afraid of the DEA, but it's the only local anesthetic that also constricts blood vessels - an ideal combination for surgery on the nose.
Scheduling is about legit medical use, not solely about abuse potential. There are a lot of Schedule I drugs that have relatively lower abuse potential than Schedule II drugs, but they have no clear medical usage at all.
I can't speak for the high maintenance aspect, but the cheap bastard? Absolutely. A big corporation makes money, it gives it out to employees and vendors and shareholders, everybody gets a piece. A small business makes money, every single nickel of it belongs to the boss - except he has to pay the employees, vendors, and tax man himself. OF COURSE they're cheap - $50K is nothing to a big corporation, but it's the difference between driving a Honda Accord and a BMW 7-series to a small businessman.
IANAL, but reasonable expectation of privacy is a legal term of art that bears strikingly little resemblance to the average person's comprehension thereof. A potentially relevant case to this is that called-number logs are considered not private because, originally, you had to tell the operator which number you wanted to call - so you voluntarily gave up the privacy of who you called, even though the content was private. A good friend of mine who IS a lawyer mentioned in explaining the whole thing that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in another person's home, even if they're not there.
From a physician's point of view, this is fairly simple: if a patient emails you, you send back an email requesting them to come into the office - any time, no appointment needed - and sign this little form acknowledging that unencrypted email is completely insecure and that anyone with an interest could easily eavesdrop on any email conversation, and that they are accepting that any such disclosure would be permissible.
HIPAA only keeps you from sharing protected health information WITHOUT CONSENT.
You'll note that I limited that superiority to straight-up war, which we win quite handily. We don't do as well with prolonged low-level conflict - then again, nobody does.
Yes, the Korean War is still technically in action, but I think that - unless Kim Jong-Il has stepped things up quite a bit overnight - it's very much a cold war. The Vietnam War was the war that we won until we decided it would be better to lose, and then even more embarrassingly decided that the South Vietnamese needed to lose too.
Then we got rid of conscript soldiers. The Gulf Wars - I and II - pretty clearly showed that we can wipe any standard force off the map.
Afghanistan is going badly, and will end worse. Unfortunately our government is a bit too respectful of Pakistan's sovereignty - something it doesn't even exercise itself in those areas - to run down the Taliban. I'm pretty certain that the way to do Afghanistan is the way we started it - don't try to run the place, don't try to fix it, just make sure that the Taliban can't use it. Anything else is overreaching.
As for Iraq, it's done quite well for itself. While not forgetting all the bad things that have happened there lately, let's not pretend it was sunshine and rainbows around every corner in 2002.
Of course they do some of that - as others point out in this thread, you have to learn to work within a large, hierarchical organization where lives are at stake all the time. But that's not the same as being a dumb piece of meat that is marched forth into blazing enemy fire on the assumption that going over the top will work this time.
People join the military for all sorts of reasons. Some really do just want to be allowed to kill people. Some feel that it's a great way to contribute to their country. Some are from military families and are keeping up a family tradition. The success of the American military - and it's enormously successful at fighting wars, to the point that nobody tries to fight straight-up wars with us anymore - depends heavily on being full of intelligent soldiers who can improvise.
And they've probably never met anyone who was. Military knowledge in this crowd usually stops somewhere around the US Civil War or WWI, because they really do think of those guys as cannon fodder.
/. crowd at large: the military has really, really cool toys, and when you work for them you can break into systems without worrying about going to jail. I knew a guy who did ROTC and joined the Army solely to be able to fly combat helicopters - if you want to fly high-performance aircraft, military's the only game in town. Hacking is not terribly different in that regard.
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He most likely declined joining the class action in order to pursue an individual lawsuit.
This is a correct understanding - the Kindle appears as a USB drive to the computer. Drag and drop. Certainly, if the wireless were off, you would be able to put it back on the Kindle and read it. Not sure if it would re-delete it. If you stripped the DRM, certainly you could keep it.
Damn, man, project much? All Republicans are shills for the corporations, while all Democrats are honest folk who just listen to the guys that put them in office? A 2-to-1 moneyraising advantage makes no difference at all? In response to a guy who expresses amusement that the Republican candidate for president LOST?
No, it will show 120 minutes of usage. US carriers bill in 1-minute increments. The point is that while 120 calls of 0:59 duration bill as 120 minutes of usage, 120 calls of 1:01 duration (that's four minutes' more total airtime) will bill as 240 minutes of usage.
Yes.
The really, really funny bit is that the #1 crusader of all time for "campaign finance reform" - John McCain - got buried by it.
In the interests of truth, you are right, and I was wrong. Sorry.
And the incentive to do such an incredibly complicated - and expensive - thing is what? To sell to a couple of geeks that would appreciate strong crypto, but who wouldn't object to DRM-laced books on their face?
Look, this isn't a bad idea in general, but it's much, much easier to do it the way they did, and until they accidentally triggered a refund by deleting from the store nobody could tell the difference. More importantly, the people who cared were almost certainly never going to become customers anyway.
As I pointed out elsewhere, the easiest solution is to say "We can't and won't delete anything ever again, and by the way, don't ask for a refund. All sales final. Be sure to get a sample first."
Not that I'm aware of, anymore - parents generally either buy unlimited texting or disable it completely.
The cord would be a nightmare, but 4 HP is plenty for cutting. I used to cut my parents' lawn in the late 80s with a 2 HP motor; you either cut more often or go a bit slower when cruising through tall grass.
16000000 acres in sq mi: 25000
Area of New Mexico: over 120000 sq mi.
There are many sunny places in the US.
Oh, and add 25% to that, because a standard barrel of oil is 55 gallons.
They also produce an enormous number of products for an unbelievably large number of uses. As others have pointed out, our policy of burning fossil fuels is insane in no small part because they're such damned good chemical feedstocks.
Programmer #1 thinks sure, you could write a multi-step verification process, but really - the only way to trigger this is if the customer asks for a refund. It's much easier to do it server-side, plus you don't have to worry about putting the verify code in each device which you make software for (which, currently, is four: Kindle 1, Kindle 2, Kindle DX, and iPhone).
Programmer #2 is writing the code to pull a book from the store. He says, y'know, if they won't be able to redownload it, I should be a nice guy and give them a refund.
Programmers 1 and 2 never actually chat about this. Management never discusses it.
Be cautious attributing to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity or incompetence.