Last I heard, prostitution was legal in the US only in certain counties in Nevada, not in California. She's in an illegal occupation, and probably doesn't want that linked with her secret identity.
The ban isn't working. Banning prostitution never works.
Human trafficking for sex is a serious issue, but legalizing and regulating prostitution would likely help some. (We know it doesn't stop it.) If there are legal and regulated brothels, they'll tend to attract most of the customers. People working in them would have legal recourse against abuse, including being forced into prostitution. That would leave trafficking to illegal brothels, which would stand out more.
Which is why the Windows desktop will become more of a corporate thing. IBM built mainframes, and they still do it. They tried to capture the personal computer market, and failed. They waned as the stuff they were traditionally good at became less important.
Microsoft makes operating systems for laptops and desktops, and will for the foreseeable future. They tried to capture the mobile market, and were blown away. Tablets and phones can come with their own little office suites, which people will use, so Microsoft Office will stay largely irrelevant in mobile space. They will wane as Windows and Office become less important.
That doesn't mean Microsoft is going to go away, but it's going to have to work to retain a dwindling market share.
Microsoft does have its own store. To be a success, developers have to write for it, and computer users have to buy from it. If it's to be the revenue stream you say, Microsoft is going to be taking a significant cut. Most computer users want to be able to run whatever their friends are using, and for a long, long time to come that won't generally be from the Windows Store. Therefore, they won't in general want a computer that can only use apps from it. This means that they'll still get applications from elsewhere. Therefore, developers will be able to sell their apps on the open market, so almost everyone can get them, or in a restricted store where MS takes a cut. Guess which they'll prefer. The Microsoft store is going to need some serious bootstrapping through the chicken-and-egg process, and even then it is nowhere near a sure thing.
The App Store came along with iOS. Before that, there was no way of getting apps onto an iPhone or iPad Touch, so there were no developers writing apps not through the App Store. Android's more open, but the Google store opened long before there would have been a large developer network outside the company store framework.
The Wii game library appealed to casual gamers, and that's why the Wii became so popular. My mother-in-law got one to bowl on and do other things. She'd never be interested in a first-person shooter.
My current car is controlled by two eyes, two cameras, and some internal sensors. That particular array doesn't work in all weather and situations, but they allow me onto the road with it. Sensors aren't the problem.
What is the problem is the software. That's not going to be cheap to develop, and whoever does it is going to want to get the maximum money out of it. That's likely to include mass-marketing it. The hardware will be quite affordable relative to the price of the car, and the software can be duplicated and installed at approximately no cost to the manufacturer.
Sure. Then an application pops up a authentication screen that doesn't say anything, and lots of users type in their password anyway. I have to type my password not only on Windows login, but when accessing other areas of the intranet. Therefore, I'm trained to enter my username and password on a prompt that doesn't follow the three-finger salute.
The corporate death penalty doesn't change liability limitation. The limitation is that I can lose no more money than I invest in a company. If I buy $10K of it, I can't wind up $20K poorer if it tanks. I can take bigger paper losses, but only if there's paper gains beforehand.
If it were treated as automatic bankruptcy, there's likely to be assets left for the shareholders. Normally, bankruptcy is because a company owes more than it can pay, and so all the assets are taken by categories of higher priority than shareholders (like lenders).
Voting history is public where I live. It's possible to get copies of the signature logs, so people will know whether you voted in a particular election. No records are kept of how you voted. I don't see how people knowing that I voted or not is going to cause any problems.
You're talking about measuring ability to pay. That misses the point that two people with the same base financials might have different ideas on paying what they owe. Some people are a lot more careless with their money than others.
The idea is that the creditor wants to know how likely you are to pay what you owe, and therefore the credit agency looks at how well you have paid. The past performance is almost certainly a better guide than simple rules based on salary and assumed expenses.
Equality isn't when a competent women can get hired on the same basis as a man. It's when an incompetent woman can get hired on the same basis as an incompetent man.
lets companies know they have to offer a significant premium
Which means they're basing their initial offer on your earlier salary, which means if you were underpaid in your last job they'll offer you less than if you were paid fairly.
You're assuming an awful lot of rationality there. If I'm worth* $100K, but my previous salary history make it look like $90K would be a significant raise, I'm likely to have to fight my way up to where I should be. Instead of starting with $100K and talking about other things, we're talking about salary right up front.
Been there, done that. At one company, I agreed on a percent increase over my initial salary (definitely too low) given a promise that my salary would be re-evaluated the next year instead of a percentage applied. I had to remind them of the promise the next year. Least pleasant salary negotiations I've ever been involved in.
And my point was that whenever there is a conflict between what he thinks is the right thing to do and what the law says, he needs to obey the law.
Does he? The Constitutionally specified oath says that the President will faithfully execute the office of the President, and will adhere to the Constitution. That's not quite the same thing.
GP AC never mentioned Hillary. You appear to be the one who doesn't believe the election results.
Trump won. Get over it. That means that Trump is responsible for all the idiotic crap coming out of the White House. Clinton is politically irrelevant now, and Trumpistas blaming anything on her is pathetic.
No, this discovery is evidence for our theories that the Universe is 4% baryonic matter, and these theories predict there's about six times that much dark matter. We knew about half of the predicted baryonic matter, and found the other half. The newly found baryonic matter doesn't do what we've observed dark matter to do in any case.
The ways we've detected dark matter are from concentrations of the stuff, so what gravity does at intergalactic distances really doesn't have anything to do with it. What we know we've got is something that creates a gravitational field and doesn't interact with the electromagnetic force. People have tried making different gravitational theories to explain galactic rotation, but I haven't heard of alternative explanations for gravitational lensing.
Neutrinos are dark matter, in the sense that they don't interact electromagnetically. Neutrinos can't explain observed dark matter, so there has to be another form. If we have hot dark matter (neutrinos) and not-that-hot dark matter (the stuff that holds galaxies together and forms gravitational lenses), I see no reason why we couldn't have warm and cold. (There's also no reason I know of to think neutrinos are necessarily related to ordinary dark matter, since they're forms of matter that share a single property.)
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Last I heard, prostitution was legal in the US only in certain counties in Nevada, not in California. She's in an illegal occupation, and probably doesn't want that linked with her secret identity.
The ban isn't working. Banning prostitution never works.
Human trafficking for sex is a serious issue, but legalizing and regulating prostitution would likely help some. (We know it doesn't stop it.) If there are legal and regulated brothels, they'll tend to attract most of the customers. People working in them would have legal recourse against abuse, including being forced into prostitution. That would leave trafficking to illegal brothels, which would stand out more.
Apple and Google are firmly entrenched in the mobile market. Microsoft isn't. Microsoft is in the old IBM position of dominating a dwindling market.
The majority of personal computing devices sold at retail come with Android on them. Seriously. Microsoft Office is not popular in the mobile space.
You can buy a keyboard for a tablet, and then you're in the Microsoft Surface category, only a whole lot cheaper and not running Windows.
The enterprise will be running Windows and Office for considerably longer than they'll stay popular in the consumer market.
Which is why the Windows desktop will become more of a corporate thing. IBM built mainframes, and they still do it. They tried to capture the personal computer market, and failed. They waned as the stuff they were traditionally good at became less important.
Microsoft makes operating systems for laptops and desktops, and will for the foreseeable future. They tried to capture the mobile market, and were blown away. Tablets and phones can come with their own little office suites, which people will use, so Microsoft Office will stay largely irrelevant in mobile space. They will wane as Windows and Office become less important.
That doesn't mean Microsoft is going to go away, but it's going to have to work to retain a dwindling market share.
Microsoft does have its own store. To be a success, developers have to write for it, and computer users have to buy from it. If it's to be the revenue stream you say, Microsoft is going to be taking a significant cut. Most computer users want to be able to run whatever their friends are using, and for a long, long time to come that won't generally be from the Windows Store. Therefore, they won't in general want a computer that can only use apps from it. This means that they'll still get applications from elsewhere. Therefore, developers will be able to sell their apps on the open market, so almost everyone can get them, or in a restricted store where MS takes a cut. Guess which they'll prefer. The Microsoft store is going to need some serious bootstrapping through the chicken-and-egg process, and even then it is nowhere near a sure thing.
The App Store came along with iOS. Before that, there was no way of getting apps onto an iPhone or iPad Touch, so there were no developers writing apps not through the App Store. Android's more open, but the Google store opened long before there would have been a large developer network outside the company store framework.
The Wii game library appealed to casual gamers, and that's why the Wii became so popular. My mother-in-law got one to bowl on and do other things. She'd never be interested in a first-person shooter.
You can rent like that today. Have your normal car for commuting, rent something to take a vacation with. It doesn't seem to be a popular option.
My current car is controlled by two eyes, two cameras, and some internal sensors. That particular array doesn't work in all weather and situations, but they allow me onto the road with it. Sensors aren't the problem.
What is the problem is the software. That's not going to be cheap to develop, and whoever does it is going to want to get the maximum money out of it. That's likely to include mass-marketing it. The hardware will be quite affordable relative to the price of the car, and the software can be duplicated and installed at approximately no cost to the manufacturer.
I never get prompted for my iCloud password. I'm prompted for my iTunes/Apple/whatever password at the times I'd expect to be prompted.
Sure. Then an application pops up a authentication screen that doesn't say anything, and lots of users type in their password anyway. I have to type my password not only on Windows login, but when accessing other areas of the intranet. Therefore, I'm trained to enter my username and password on a prompt that doesn't follow the three-finger salute.
The corporate death penalty doesn't change liability limitation. The limitation is that I can lose no more money than I invest in a company. If I buy $10K of it, I can't wind up $20K poorer if it tanks. I can take bigger paper losses, but only if there's paper gains beforehand.
If it were treated as automatic bankruptcy, there's likely to be assets left for the shareholders. Normally, bankruptcy is because a company owes more than it can pay, and so all the assets are taken by categories of higher priority than shareholders (like lenders).
Voting history is public where I live. It's possible to get copies of the signature logs, so people will know whether you voted in a particular election. No records are kept of how you voted. I don't see how people knowing that I voted or not is going to cause any problems.
You're talking about measuring ability to pay. That misses the point that two people with the same base financials might have different ideas on paying what they owe. Some people are a lot more careless with their money than others.
The idea is that the creditor wants to know how likely you are to pay what you owe, and therefore the credit agency looks at how well you have paid. The past performance is almost certainly a better guide than simple rules based on salary and assumed expenses.
It's almost as if ACs didn't know any history, and had no clue that things change over time.
Equality isn't when a competent women can get hired on the same basis as a man. It's when an incompetent woman can get hired on the same basis as an incompetent man.
Which means they're basing their initial offer on your earlier salary, which means if you were underpaid in your last job they'll offer you less than if you were paid fairly.
You're assuming an awful lot of rationality there. If I'm worth* $100K, but my previous salary history make it look like $90K would be a significant raise, I'm likely to have to fight my way up to where I should be. Instead of starting with $100K and talking about other things, we're talking about salary right up front.
*Worth is a fuzzy concept here. Just go with me.
Been there, done that. At one company, I agreed on a percent increase over my initial salary (definitely too low) given a promise that my salary would be re-evaluated the next year instead of a percentage applied. I had to remind them of the promise the next year. Least pleasant salary negotiations I've ever been involved in.
Does he? The Constitutionally specified oath says that the President will faithfully execute the office of the President, and will adhere to the Constitution. That's not quite the same thing.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics being what it is, the full cycle loses energy. No reason to bring humans into it at all.
GP AC never mentioned Hillary. You appear to be the one who doesn't believe the election results.
Trump won. Get over it. That means that Trump is responsible for all the idiotic crap coming out of the White House. Clinton is politically irrelevant now, and Trumpistas blaming anything on her is pathetic.
No, this discovery is evidence for our theories that the Universe is 4% baryonic matter, and these theories predict there's about six times that much dark matter. We knew about half of the predicted baryonic matter, and found the other half. The newly found baryonic matter doesn't do what we've observed dark matter to do in any case.
The ways we've detected dark matter are from concentrations of the stuff, so what gravity does at intergalactic distances really doesn't have anything to do with it. What we know we've got is something that creates a gravitational field and doesn't interact with the electromagnetic force. People have tried making different gravitational theories to explain galactic rotation, but I haven't heard of alternative explanations for gravitational lensing.
Neutrinos are dark matter, in the sense that they don't interact electromagnetically. Neutrinos can't explain observed dark matter, so there has to be another form. If we have hot dark matter (neutrinos) and not-that-hot dark matter (the stuff that holds galaxies together and forms gravitational lenses), I see no reason why we couldn't have warm and cold. (There's also no reason I know of to think neutrinos are necessarily related to ordinary dark matter, since they're forms of matter that share a single property.)