If you want to shock children about the Vietnam war, there are plenty of other photos to choose from. The summary execution of the Viet Cong partisan is a very good example.
Out of curiosity, why do you find that picture shocking? It was a very common occurrence that is authorized by the Geneva convention and the rules of war.
No it isn't.
The Geneva convension is rather big on the rights of prisoners of war, you could in fact say it is the largest part of it, because it is. I am amazed you could get yourself to even believe that.
You're talking about a country where the latest trend is for audiophiles to install their own utility poles with custom transformers to isolate their equipment from noise generated from neighboring houses.
So a country full of retarded audiophiles who have no idea what they are doing, and have never heard of a AC->DC transformers that are in all electronics.
Flash is dying and i cannot wait to witness its rotten, fly-ridden corpse.
I would rather not see that, the miasma puts me in a bad mood. Would be better if it just vanished as if it had never existed. Then again EME and its CDM plugins that has replaced Flash for encrypted media are not much of an improvement.
Perhaps when you use it, but it didn't start of as sarcasm, it started of with dropping the already weak "n't" sound from the sentence "I couldn't care less".
As annoying as mosquitos are, they also serve as a food source for other species. Might be a good idea to figure out where that thread leads before you pull it...
It has been investigated. Turns out they are not important for any other species, everything that eats mosquitos mainly eat other things.
"Don't look at the product name to know what you are buying, look at that tiny ass number on the bottom of the box! Duh!"
Well, to be fair. The core i5 and i7 processors ending in U, are not real mobile i7 or i5s either and should have been labelled at most mobile i3, since the i7U is 2 core 4 threads like a proper mobile i3H is
I know they never update their hardware anymore, but will they adjust OSX to the processors as well, or what? This is interesting and, while promising for efficiency, bothersome in several ways.
No need. Kaby Lake is identical to Skylake in everything except a few process improvements and the advertised id.
data:text/html;-peak.us/banking_interface/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20
+ more crap like that
Retroactive tax code changes that cause huge bills aren't punitive?
The tax code is not changed. It wasn't even changed for Apple in the first place. Ireland just promised to look the other way on an obviously illegal paper construct (an office with no employees that is responsible for all taxes but doesn't have to pay taxes because it doesn't really exist)..
They did pay what they owed Ireland. Determining what they owed is Ireland's sovereign right, and Ireland decided it wasn't that much. Apple didn't get a competitive advantage from it - that is, they didn't sell more iPhones because Ireland subsidized lower prices, Apple's prices are effectively uniform worldwide. The other EU nations are just bitter because Ireland out-competes them in terms of attractiveness to multinational corporations, because they aren't willing to compete.
It is Ireland's right to set any tax level they like, but they are bound by international contracts to set it evenly for all companies and not engage in state subsidies of specific companies.
Is still Skylake Refresh. Slightly tweaked GPU (software mostly, I suspect) slight clock boost, and new chipset. My expectations for IPC increases are 0%, or maybe 3% if they bothered to create a new wafer. Trust me, Kaby Lake will underwhelm.
IPC changes are none. Because the architecture is the same. They can get 5-10% higher frequencies on the same power envelope, but MHz to MHz it is CPU wise identical to Skylake.
Not sure why you think those are related. Operationally, Apple has only 5,000 employees in Ireland and a lot more in other places, so money needs to be pushed around. From a tax perspective, the cash in the Irish subsidiary are retained earnings, and repatriating them is necessary in order to distribute to shareholders... who are subject to US taxes.
Apple Ireland is not the subsidiary, Apple US is a subsidiary of Apple Ireland. Apple is on paper an Irish company for the discussed tax benefits, not American.
But if Ireland broke its treaty with the EU, why punish Apple for following the law as it stood at the time? Punishing Ireland would seem fairer.
They are not punishing Apple, there is absolutely no punishment levied against Apple. Apple is just asked to pay what they owe Ireland with no damages or punishment added on top.
Irish tax officials showed the company's tax treatment had been "motivated by employment considerations."
So, low taxes attract jobs after all? And the European Commission admits it?
No, they didn't, but that was the Irish movitation behind the move. The gave Apple a tax deduction of 10 billion euros, and Apple created at most 100 jobs in return.
nobody is shocked... well except for the part where they may actually be forced to pay some of what they legitimately owe, but I am sure Ireland and Apple will appeal as the last thing Ireland wants is to upset the money trees they have imported.
Ireland has no money trees, they are pisspoor and have been draged out of bancruptcy by the EU. A state of affairs they got themselves in by thinking they could get rich by not collecting taxes.
That's not my point.... the simple fact that he would even mention it as a contributing factor to not bother with AV software *IS* evidence that it is lulling him into the exact same sense of security that might happen with AV software.
I run Linux, and I don't bother with AV software either, but it's not because I run Linux, it's because AV software is shit.
No I think he mentions it because there ARE no anti-virus software FOR Linux, there AV software running on Linux but they are all against viruses targetting other platforms, primarily because while Linux get targetted by many different types of exploits, so far there haven't been any traditionally viruses.
If you really think you're underpaid compared to your co-workers, then yes, you should ask for a raise (not simply "expect" one).
It is not a matter of being underpaid. Women in IT are paid better than men because they are more desirable because they are rare, and gender quotas that doesn't match availablilty is desired by all the top players. So they have to pay women better to vacuum up all the women available on the market.
There is no negotiating a better pay, because as man he is just not as qualified for the higher pay because he is not a woman...
This also makes the selecition of companies odd, because the IT is the industry where women of the same qualifications are always paid than men of the same qualifications.
Do they really think that if some ISIS guy flies in, he's going to fill out the customs form honestly and say "Yep, my Twitter handle is @jihad4lyfe!" It's preposterous to think this would be effective at gathering any sort of reasonable intelligence.
Some of the current questions you have to answer and they apparently expect people to answer truthfully are: Are you are terrorist: [Yes] [No] Do you plan to detonate any bombs while visiting the US: [Yes] [No] Have you ever commited a crime: [Yes] [No] Are you planning to commit a crime while visting the US [Yes] [No] Etc. etc..
So whoever is in charge of the questions asked of vistitors to the US... REALLY ARE THAT STUPID
Slashdot Mirror
If you want to shock children about the Vietnam war, there are plenty of other photos to choose from. The summary execution of the Viet Cong partisan is a very good example.
Out of curiosity, why do you find that picture shocking? It was a very common occurrence that is authorized by the Geneva convention and the rules of war.
No it isn't.
The Geneva convension is rather big on the rights of prisoners of war, you could in fact say it is the largest part of it, because it is. I am amazed you could get yourself to even believe that.
You're talking about a country where the latest trend is for audiophiles to install their own utility poles with custom transformers to isolate their equipment from noise generated from neighboring houses.
So a country full of retarded audiophiles who have no idea what they are doing, and have never heard of a AC->DC transformers that are in all electronics.
Flash is dying and i cannot wait to witness its rotten, fly-ridden corpse.
I would rather not see that, the miasma puts me in a bad mood. Would be better if it just vanished as if it had never existed. Then again EME and its CDM plugins that has replaced Flash for encrypted media are not much of an improvement.
Didn't Google claim Microsoft was wrong and Edge was not better than Chrome, and now they have closed the gap?
Lovely mismatch of messages from PR and from actual engineers.
I could care less is sarcasm.
Perhaps when you use it, but it didn't start of as sarcasm, it started of with dropping the already weak "n't" sound from the sentence "I couldn't care less".
As annoying as mosquitos are, they also serve as a food source for other species. Might be a good idea to figure out where that thread leads before you pull it...
It has been investigated. Turns out they are not important for any other species, everything that eats mosquitos mainly eat other things.
How in the world is that less confusing?
"Don't look at the product name to know what you are buying, look at that tiny ass number on the bottom of the box! Duh!"
Well, to be fair. The core i5 and i7 processors ending in U, are not real mobile i7 or i5s either and should have been labelled at most mobile i3, since the i7U is 2 core 4 threads like a proper mobile i3H is
I know they never update their hardware anymore, but will they adjust OSX to the processors as well, or what? This is interesting and, while promising for efficiency, bothersome in several ways.
No need. Kaby Lake is identical to Skylake in everything except a few process improvements and the advertised id.
And if we're going to go there: you can't be "among one of the victims", you' could be either among the victims or one of the victims.
Well, one of the victims could be spread out over a large area, and could be among it.
An example of a similar/better attack: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/swi...
That says in my address bar:
data:text/html;-peak.us/banking_interface/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20
+ more crap like that
Not sure I would trust that URL
Retroactive tax code changes that cause huge bills aren't punitive?
The tax code is not changed. It wasn't even changed for Apple in the first place. Ireland just promised to look the other way on an obviously illegal paper construct (an office with no employees that is responsible for all taxes but doesn't have to pay taxes because it doesn't really exist)..
They did pay what they owed Ireland. Determining what they owed is Ireland's sovereign right, and Ireland decided it wasn't that much. Apple didn't get a competitive advantage from it - that is, they didn't sell more iPhones because Ireland subsidized lower prices, Apple's prices are effectively uniform worldwide. The other EU nations are just bitter because Ireland out-competes them in terms of attractiveness to multinational corporations, because they aren't willing to compete.
It is Ireland's right to set any tax level they like, but they are bound by international contracts to set it evenly for all companies and not engage in state subsidies of specific companies.
Sounds like the standard self-defense clause would cover it then. No point in adding bullshit on top.
Is still Skylake Refresh. Slightly tweaked GPU (software mostly, I suspect) slight clock boost, and new chipset. My expectations for IPC increases are 0%, or maybe 3% if they bothered to create a new wafer. Trust me, Kaby Lake will underwhelm.
IPC changes are none. Because the architecture is the same. They can get 5-10% higher frequencies on the same power envelope, but MHz to MHz it is CPU wise identical to Skylake.
The Irish subsidiary is (supposedly) the largest tax payer in Ireland. They have roughly 5,000 employees and are growing in Ireland.
5000 jobs created for just €10 billion euros? What a bargain, only 2 million euros for each dead-end low paying job.
Not sure why you think those are related. Operationally, Apple has only 5,000 employees in Ireland and a lot more in other places, so money needs to be pushed around. From a tax perspective, the cash in the Irish subsidiary are retained earnings, and repatriating them is necessary in order to distribute to shareholders... who are subject to US taxes.
Apple Ireland is not the subsidiary, Apple US is a subsidiary of Apple Ireland. Apple is on paper an Irish company for the discussed tax benefits, not American.
But if Ireland broke its treaty with the EU, why punish Apple for following the law as it stood at the time? Punishing Ireland would seem fairer.
They are not punishing Apple, there is absolutely no punishment levied against Apple. Apple is just asked to pay what they owe Ireland with no damages or punishment added on top.
So, low taxes attract jobs after all? And the European Commission admits it?
No, they didn't, but that was the Irish movitation behind the move. The gave Apple a tax deduction of 10 billion euros, and Apple created at most 100 jobs in return.
Apple has shittons of money, and this number is too lax.
Apparently the latest number in other articles is €13 billion, see BBC.
nobody is shocked... well except for the part where they may actually be forced to pay some of what they legitimately owe, but I am sure Ireland and Apple will appeal as the last thing Ireland wants is to upset the money trees they have imported.
Ireland has no money trees, they are pisspoor and have been draged out of bancruptcy by the EU. A state of affairs they got themselves in by thinking they could get rich by not collecting taxes.
Sounds more like he's using the old "security through obscurity" fallacy.
You mean passwords?
I am afraid you don't understand what "security through obscurity" means.
That's not my point.... the simple fact that he would even mention it as a contributing factor to not bother with AV software *IS* evidence that it is lulling him into the exact same sense of security that might happen with AV software.
I run Linux, and I don't bother with AV software either, but it's not because I run Linux, it's because AV software is shit.
No I think he mentions it because there ARE no anti-virus software FOR Linux, there AV software running on Linux but they are all against viruses targetting other platforms, primarily because while Linux get targetted by many different types of exploits, so far there haven't been any traditionally viruses.
If you really think you're underpaid compared to your co-workers, then yes, you should ask for a raise (not simply "expect" one).
It is not a matter of being underpaid. Women in IT are paid better than men because they are more desirable because they are rare, and gender quotas that doesn't match availablilty is desired by all the top players. So they have to pay women better to vacuum up all the women available on the market.
There is no negotiating a better pay, because as man he is just not as qualified for the higher pay because he is not a woman...
This also makes the selecition of companies odd, because the IT is the industry where women of the same qualifications are always paid than men of the same qualifications.
Do they really think that if some ISIS guy flies in, he's going to fill out the customs form honestly and say "Yep, my Twitter handle is @jihad4lyfe!" It's preposterous to think this would be effective at gathering any sort of reasonable intelligence.
Some of the current questions you have to answer and they apparently expect people to answer truthfully are:
Are you are terrorist: [Yes] [No]
Do you plan to detonate any bombs while visiting the US: [Yes] [No]
Have you ever commited a crime: [Yes] [No]
Are you planning to commit a crime while visting the US [Yes] [No]
Etc.
etc..
So whoever is in charge of the questions asked of vistitors to the US ... REALLY ARE THAT STUPID
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones... and buy some damn shades because seriously, nobody wants to see that!
Cheaters think everybody cheats. In this case they might be right.