own the House, Senate, POTUS and most of the judiciary (we like to forget everything below the Supreme court, but they don't). They also have repeatably stated they're in favor of minimal regulation and a hands off approach. There will be no governance. It's going to be a free for all. The question is will that be a good thing. A lot of Americans think so as they voted for the party that supports it. We're about to see how well it works in practice.
You start by saying yes in your subject line but then spend 4 paragraphs explaining why the merger will help consumers.
And the answer is yes, this will hurt consumers. T-Mobile stopped charging overage fees for data use because they were about to get swallowed up and needed something to compete. It worked, but they only did it to compete. The cell phone market is completely saturated and they're not competing for the same pool of users. The point of the merger is to eliminate that competition by eliminating one of the options you have for lower rates. I saw this with the Safeway/Albertson's merger and now my grocery bills are slightly higher because the two no longer compete.
unless you're an idiot. My buddy bought one for $15k, but 200,000 miles on it, got hit, decided he wanted a Prius and got $10k from the settlement _just_for_the_truck.
Americans are leaders in light Trucks because they're incredibly well made, cheap and hold their value. Tariffs made that possible because our industry wasn't crushed by the cheap labor of a country willing to abuse it's workers.
if those foreign solar panels were made with workers that had an equivalent standard of living as the same American? If they breathed clean air, didn't want for clean water and worked 40 hours a week?
Tariffs can have another effect: forcing countries to compete _fairly_. This isn't a question of one country doing better than another. This is one country willing to abuse it's workers more (China, I'm lookin' at you especially).
I don't want their cheap panels because they're made with borderline slave labor. We can make more than enough panels here just fine while supporting good middle class jobs and doing it without a heavily abused workforce.
or most of Michigan? Hell, I remember seeing a report where a charity that specialized in medical aid to developing nations was down in Alabama.
If you live in one of the successful cities (New York, Dallas, Phoenix, Los Angelos, etc) it's easy to forget and ignore what a hell hole large swaths of the US became when the manufacturing jobs went overseas. That's also exactly why Trump won. He didn't forget that. He capitalized on it.
out of business. I think the trouble is they're doing it in one of two ways: a. The "Sharing Economy" way where you bypass minimum wage laws and shift your costs to desperate employees or b. the AI way where you automate everything.
and no just the ones in Detroit. I can buy a nice 2 bedroom in Surprise, Az for that. If you're spending that kind of money on a car you're probably not buying the lowest spec.
I could imagine they'd want to question them around possible money laundering concerns. I'd like to think they'll get due process, but, well, not a lot of faith in China on that front. Still, I've got mixed feelings here. China _does_ have a legitimate interest in preventing money laundering. And so long as they receive real due process there's nothing much to see here.
just as the ex-CSO of Equifax. She did pretty well for herself until something major blew up on her watch. And I've known lots of PMs making 6 figures with liberal arts degrees. Often being good at talking your way into a job is worth more than being able to do the job.
so I'm gonna ask: If we know a CS degree is a poor return on investment doesn't that put it in the same boat as a liberal arts degree? e.g. something you do for fun that you probably shouldn't have?
you can even use Pepe to do it. What you _can't_ do is borrow a completely unrelated piece of art to do it. e.g. you couldn't do a comic of Mickey mouse talking about how much you hate the Pepe take down notices. Disney can and will sue you and win. That's because Mickey Mouse has nothing to do with the parody, and you would have used it just to get attention for your parody.
I think a 20, maybe 30 year tops copyright would solve the problem while letting artists control their creation. In the absense of our current copyright law I could easily see, for example, a big video game company like EA or Activision co-opting Gabe & Tycho's characters and essentially stealing them without credit. That said, I don't think their great-great-great grandchildren (or the folks who bought the rights along the way) should have perpetual rights to their vast back catalog of John Romero's Daikatana and Sega 32x jokes.
Looks spot on to me. Matt Furie's an amateur, so he doesn't always draw his characters perfectly, but the overall design of the character is surprisingly easy to recognize. Which is probably why the alt-right jumped on him. Making an easy to recognize character that's not also generic is surprisingly hard.
when they tried it with "American McGee's Strawberry Shortcake" and it won't work here. The thing is you can Parody Pepe the Frog all day long if you want. But that's not what you're doing. You're parodying the Anti-Fa movement _using_ Pepe.
Parody is only fair use when the thing you're using is what you're making fun of. Otherwise you're just borrowing other folks work/art/ideas because you couldn't get your point across with your own. Either try harder or come to terms with the thought that your ideas don't have a strong enough foundation to stand on their own.
if I freehand copy an X-Men comic book that doesn't give me copyright to it.
As for the funding, thanks to the DMCA it's trivial to send take down notices. And yes, the artist probably does have an Ax to grind. His character's been made into a symbol for a group of at best Nazi sympathizers and at worst actual Swastika flag flying Nazi's. A character he intended for childrend's books. Any sane person would be furious.
If they'd done it to the Coca-Cola polar bear or Mickey mouse what do you think the reaction would be? Would you still be writing the phrase "an axe to grind" or questioning the artist's motives?
you're thinking of Trademark, this is copyright. He can grant license to and take license from pretty much anyone he damn well pleases. The rules are a little hazy for music because of radio, but print media's pretty cut & dry.
If you can write that sentence you were probably never bullied to any significant degree. e.g. you're teachers didn't join in. I've known people who had that happen. Repeatedly. I suppose you can say, well, if it keeps happening something must just be wrong with them, but, well, no shit Sherlock. There's a lot of broken people out there. Do you suggest we start rounding them up and gassing them? Because if you're only other response to them is to say "suck it up" then you might as well. It'd be the merciful thing to do.
When people complain that corporations don't pay their fair share, this is precisely the sort of thing that needs to be stopped. Instead of passing legislation to grant amazon incentives, there should be federal law banning the practice outright.
Bravo sir. If ever there was a legitimate use of the commerce clause that wasn't immediately obvious it is this. When States are pitted against each other it becomes interstate trade.
are more or even the same as the employees salaries. At that point all you've really done is have your city borrow a few billion dollars and give it to a corporation. Heck, it's worse than that, since they got labor on top of that. That's exactly what's going down with Wisconson's Foxconn deal. The question is will another city/state do the same (and stick the tax payer with the bill for their business expenses, which will eventually have to be paid when the bonds come due).
Marx talked about this in his books but all anyone ever seems to remember about him is Stalin & Mao put his name on their Pamphlets... Not saying he was right about everything, but I think this one's a given.
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own the House, Senate, POTUS and most of the judiciary (we like to forget everything below the Supreme court, but they don't). They also have repeatably stated they're in favor of minimal regulation and a hands off approach. There will be no governance. It's going to be a free for all. The question is will that be a good thing. A lot of Americans think so as they voted for the party that supports it. We're about to see how well it works in practice.
You start by saying yes in your subject line but then spend 4 paragraphs explaining why the merger will help consumers.
And the answer is yes, this will hurt consumers. T-Mobile stopped charging overage fees for data use because they were about to get swallowed up and needed something to compete. It worked, but they only did it to compete. The cell phone market is completely saturated and they're not competing for the same pool of users. The point of the merger is to eliminate that competition by eliminating one of the options you have for lower rates. I saw this with the Safeway/Albertson's merger and now my grocery bills are slightly higher because the two no longer compete.
unless you're an idiot. My buddy bought one for $15k, but 200,000 miles on it, got hit, decided he wanted a Prius and got $10k from the settlement _just_for_the_truck.
Americans are leaders in light Trucks because they're incredibly well made, cheap and hold their value. Tariffs made that possible because our industry wasn't crushed by the cheap labor of a country willing to abuse it's workers.
if those foreign solar panels were made with workers that had an equivalent standard of living as the same American? If they breathed clean air, didn't want for clean water and worked 40 hours a week?
Tariffs can have another effect: forcing countries to compete _fairly_. This isn't a question of one country doing better than another. This is one country willing to abuse it's workers more (China, I'm lookin' at you especially).
I don't want their cheap panels because they're made with borderline slave labor. We can make more than enough panels here just fine while supporting good middle class jobs and doing it without a heavily abused workforce.
or most of Michigan? Hell, I remember seeing a report where a charity that specialized in medical aid to developing nations was down in Alabama.
If you live in one of the successful cities (New York, Dallas, Phoenix, Los Angelos, etc) it's easy to forget and ignore what a hell hole large swaths of the US became when the manufacturing jobs went overseas. That's also exactly why Trump won. He didn't forget that. He capitalized on it.
It's knowing they need to be changed. This is why Bernie Sanders is pushing a Medicare for All bill he knows won't pass. You have to start somewhere.
you're saying that high school kids are making Bombs. My God, it's worse than we thought! Think of the (bomb making) children!
Internet of Dogs? With Bees? And when they bark they shoot bees at you? Well go ahead! Do your worst.
out of business. I think the trouble is they're doing it in one of two ways: a. The "Sharing Economy" way where you bypass minimum wage laws and shift your costs to desperate employees or b. the AI way where you automate everything.
and no just the ones in Detroit. I can buy a nice 2 bedroom in Surprise, Az for that. If you're spending that kind of money on a car you're probably not buying the lowest spec.
I could imagine they'd want to question them around possible money laundering concerns. I'd like to think they'll get due process, but, well, not a lot of faith in China on that front. Still, I've got mixed feelings here. China _does_ have a legitimate interest in preventing money laundering. And so long as they receive real due process there's nothing much to see here.
just as the ex-CSO of Equifax. She did pretty well for herself until something major blew up on her watch. And I've known lots of PMs making 6 figures with liberal arts degrees. Often being good at talking your way into a job is worth more than being able to do the job.
so I'm gonna ask: If we know a CS degree is a poor return on investment doesn't that put it in the same boat as a liberal arts degree? e.g. something you do for fun that you probably shouldn't have?
No.
you can even use Pepe to do it. What you _can't_ do is borrow a completely unrelated piece of art to do it. e.g. you couldn't do a comic of Mickey mouse talking about how much you hate the Pepe take down notices. Disney can and will sue you and win. That's because Mickey Mouse has nothing to do with the parody, and you would have used it just to get attention for your parody.
I think a 20, maybe 30 year tops copyright would solve the problem while letting artists control their creation. In the absense of our current copyright law I could easily see, for example, a big video game company like EA or Activision co-opting Gabe & Tycho's characters and essentially stealing them without credit. That said, I don't think their great-great-great grandchildren (or the folks who bought the rights along the way) should have perpetual rights to their vast back catalog of John Romero's Daikatana and Sega 32x jokes.
Looks spot on to me. Matt Furie's an amateur, so he doesn't always draw his characters perfectly, but the overall design of the character is surprisingly easy to recognize. Which is probably why the alt-right jumped on him. Making an easy to recognize character that's not also generic is surprisingly hard.
when they tried it with "American McGee's Strawberry Shortcake" and it won't work here. The thing is you can Parody Pepe the Frog all day long if you want. But that's not what you're doing. You're parodying the Anti-Fa movement _using_ Pepe.
Parody is only fair use when the thing you're using is what you're making fun of. Otherwise you're just borrowing other folks work/art/ideas because you couldn't get your point across with your own. Either try harder or come to terms with the thought that your ideas don't have a strong enough foundation to stand on their own.
if I freehand copy an X-Men comic book that doesn't give me copyright to it.
As for the funding, thanks to the DMCA it's trivial to send take down notices. And yes, the artist probably does have an Ax to grind. His character's been made into a symbol for a group of at best Nazi sympathizers and at worst actual Swastika flag flying Nazi's. A character he intended for childrend's books. Any sane person would be furious.
If they'd done it to the Coca-Cola polar bear or Mickey mouse what do you think the reaction would be? Would you still be writing the phrase "an axe to grind" or questioning the artist's motives?
you're thinking of Trademark, this is copyright. He can grant license to and take license from pretty much anyone he damn well pleases. The rules are a little hazy for music because of radio, but print media's pretty cut & dry.
If you can write that sentence you were probably never bullied to any significant degree. e.g. you're teachers didn't join in. I've known people who had that happen. Repeatedly. I suppose you can say, well, if it keeps happening something must just be wrong with them, but, well, no shit Sherlock. There's a lot of broken people out there. Do you suggest we start rounding them up and gassing them? Because if you're only other response to them is to say "suck it up" then you might as well. It'd be the merciful thing to do.
Bravo sir. If ever there was a legitimate use of the commerce clause that wasn't immediately obvious it is this. When States are pitted against each other it becomes interstate trade.
are more or even the same as the employees salaries. At that point all you've really done is have your city borrow a few billion dollars and give it to a corporation. Heck, it's worse than that, since they got labor on top of that. That's exactly what's going down with Wisconson's Foxconn deal. The question is will another city/state do the same (and stick the tax payer with the bill for their business expenses, which will eventually have to be paid when the bonds come due).
Marx talked about this in his books but all anyone ever seems to remember about him is Stalin & Mao put his name on their Pamphlets... Not saying he was right about everything, but I think this one's a given.