w.r.t. government debt, if a collapse comes, America and Europe will still be on top of it.
If you owe the bank $100,000 then they have you by the balls. If you owe the bank $100,000,000,000 then you have them by the balls.
Worth mentioning that the US government alone has defaulted twice in the last century on their debt (under Roosevelt seizing gold, and under Nixon saying money isn't worth gold anymore).
In that case, it can be a winning strategy to buy ALL of the possible combinations.
It's a great strategy until someone else also chooses the winning ticket, and you have to share the winnings (happens a lot). Then the government takes a huge portion as taxes..........
Just picking on what I regard as the two biggies, though if Microsoft does reach the trillion-dollar market cap, it will largely depend on stealing Apple's business models (more effectively than the google can steal them).
No. They will make it based on their cloud offerings, Azure is their growth right now. Windows isn't a big deal for Microsoft anymore, just a small portion of revenue. That is why they are willing to move so much to Linux.
No, there won't be another bank collapse, because the federal reserve and central banks of the world have figured out how to give free money to banks without bothering the voters. Check out the balance sheet. All those 'mortgage backed securities,' and a lot of the 'other' are basically payouts to banks. The 'notes and bonds' can be a tricky way to help banks, too.
In short, there won't be another financial crisis like the last one, because we know how to avoid it (ie, give free money to banks). There might be a crisis because of inflation or something, but I think it's rare in history when the previous crisis is like the next crisis.
SQL Server now runs on Linux (it can even run in Docker containers!) and this is going to make a serious dent in Oracle's market share, as many organizations have been waiting to escape the Oracle life-sucking contracts for a long time.
Wow, going from Oracle to MS SQL?
Thus demonstrating that people who make bad decisions make bad decisions, I guess.......
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World changed my view of Mongolia......Genghis Khan was actually kind of a good leader (which makes sense, since people were willing to follow him), and the book kind of changed how I saw history. That is, it helped me understand the broad trends and why things happened, all across the world, in the first half of the last millennium. Things aren't isolated, and the Mongols were the catalyst for communication throughout the world (including spreading plague, probably).
Also, wasn't there a Supreme Court case where a company offered to censor your movies if (say) you wanted all the swearing bleeped out? The studios sued saying they hadn't authorized this alteration of their copyrighted work, and the SCotUS agreed.
The primary difference here is that VidAngel is not editing anything. They send you an EDL, and you fast-forward automatically through the parts you don't want. VidAngel still sends all the bits to you.
Where I see them running into problems is that buying a DVD doesn't give you streaming rights.
Buying a DVD does give you rights to format-shift from DVD to something else. So VidAngel is selling the DVD to people, and format-shifting it to digital for people, and then delivering it to them. The end-user has the option to take physical delivery of the DVD, have VidAngel store it forever, or sell it back as a 'used' copy for slightly cheaper.
That's their way of attempting to get around the legal problems. Presumably if they lose this case, they (or someone else) will try to find yet more loopholes in the law until they finally find something that gets through a court. Maybe a supreme court stacked by Trump will be more amenable to censorship? I don't know.
Are you saying that they aren't reusing the same DVD for streaming? Because that's the only way it could be legal.
They re-use the DVD when someone 'sells' it back to them. As long as they are 'storing it for a customer who bought it,' they don't sell it to anyone else. Result is you can't always get the movie you want, but that's the tradeoff, I guess.
Again, I don't see how buying one physical disk allows you to stream that movie to an infinite amount of people,
They don't. It's an attempt to streamline the (older) Netflix model. They buy multiple DVDs, and send them out. When you are done, you send them back.
Except, they realize a lot of people (basically, everyone) don't want the physical DVD, so they also offer the option to stream the video for you, and keep the physical copy in a 'vault' until you want it. As an added service, they also ship you an EDL file of your choosing, which the user can apply at their home in their personal player (I believe they do this automatically if desired as well, but it's a standard feature: mplayer supports EDL, for example).
So basically all the parts of their plan, selling DVDs, re-buying, ripping for personal use, personally using an EDL, etc are all legal. No one has ever combined them together, though.
From a moral standpoint, I don't think people should be forced to watch things they don't want. From a practical standpoint, the movie studios are more than happy to offer censored movies to airlines. It's not about 'censorship', it's about money.
why is the pan evaporation rate a more reliable measure than temperature? If you want to measure warming, why not just measure the temperature directly?
all it takes is for this guy to write a letter to Carnival and tell them that he and the 200 others will do the work for less than what Capgemini is charging since
it's true, but it would take someone with the experience and capability to start up that kind of company, and the know-how to start a price war. My guess is that in the ~200 people who are getting laid off, there isn't anyone who knows how to do that. It's not normal expertise among IT people.
When was the last time Christmas was a strictly christian celebration, with Christians going to church to pray for a whole day and night
I'm not sure that ever happened. In Austria (and I assume a lot of other places in Europe) people go to mass, but that's not all day and night. The Christmas markets are great, delicious food.
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w.r.t. government debt, if a collapse comes, America and Europe will still be on top of it. If you owe the bank $100,000 then they have you by the balls. If you owe the bank $100,000,000,000 then you have them by the balls.
Worth mentioning that the US government alone has defaulted twice in the last century on their debt (under Roosevelt seizing gold, and under Nixon saying money isn't worth gold anymore).
If a single seed blows over from another field and sprouts in your field, this company can (and does) sue the farmer down to his toenail lint.
A single seed? [Citation needed]
I use it to find jobs.
In that case, it can be a winning strategy to buy ALL of the possible combinations.
It's a great strategy until someone else also chooses the winning ticket, and you have to share the winnings (happens a lot). Then the government takes a huge portion as taxes..........
Just picking on what I regard as the two biggies, though if Microsoft does reach the trillion-dollar market cap, it will largely depend on stealing Apple's business models (more effectively than the google can steal them).
No. They will make it based on their cloud offerings, Azure is their growth right now. Windows isn't a big deal for Microsoft anymore, just a small portion of revenue. That is why they are willing to move so much to Linux.
No, there won't be another bank collapse, because the federal reserve and central banks of the world have figured out how to give free money to banks without bothering the voters. Check out the balance sheet. All those 'mortgage backed securities,' and a lot of the 'other' are basically payouts to banks. The 'notes and bonds' can be a tricky way to help banks, too.
In short, there won't be another financial crisis like the last one, because we know how to avoid it (ie, give free money to banks). There might be a crisis because of inflation or something, but I think it's rare in history when the previous crisis is like the next crisis.
SQL Server now runs on Linux (it can even run in Docker containers!) and this is going to make a serious dent in Oracle's market share, as many organizations have been waiting to escape the Oracle life-sucking contracts for a long time.
Wow, going from Oracle to MS SQL?
Thus demonstrating that people who make bad decisions make bad decisions, I guess.......
Ah, Stoicism, what a great way to have fun.
I'm pretty suree I didn't understand the vast majority of it. Isaiah, what is that about? Ezekiel? At least Daniel was readable.....
wtf is a jebbie
You literally read the whole Bible every year? Or just sections? That's a lot of reading.
Here is their full legal argument. It seems they are depending on a law written by congress to specifically allow filtering.
Maybe they are literally playing the DVD in a dvd player behind the scenes, and streaming the output to the end user. That is an authorized use case.
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World changed my view of Mongolia......Genghis Khan was actually kind of a good leader (which makes sense, since people were willing to follow him), and the book kind of changed how I saw history. That is, it helped me understand the broad trends and why things happened, all across the world, in the first half of the last millennium. Things aren't isolated, and the Mongols were the catalyst for communication throughout the world (including spreading plague, probably).
It's really hard to guess how this court case will go. Copyright law is vague enough that it could go any way.
Or......watch the movie and skip the parts you don't want to see. Why are you so uptight when people want to do that? What's wrong with you?
They already have that, EDL files. I don't know if there is a collection of them available online, though.
Also, wasn't there a Supreme Court case where a company offered to censor your movies if (say) you wanted all the swearing bleeped out? The studios sued saying they hadn't authorized this alteration of their copyrighted work, and the SCotUS agreed.
The primary difference here is that VidAngel is not editing anything. They send you an EDL, and you fast-forward automatically through the parts you don't want. VidAngel still sends all the bits to you.
Where I see them running into problems is that buying a DVD doesn't give you streaming rights.
Buying a DVD does give you rights to format-shift from DVD to something else. So VidAngel is selling the DVD to people, and format-shifting it to digital for people, and then delivering it to them. The end-user has the option to take physical delivery of the DVD, have VidAngel store it forever, or sell it back as a 'used' copy for slightly cheaper.
That's their way of attempting to get around the legal problems. Presumably if they lose this case, they (or someone else) will try to find yet more loopholes in the law until they finally find something that gets through a court. Maybe a supreme court stacked by Trump will be more amenable to censorship? I don't know.
Are you saying that they aren't reusing the same DVD for streaming? Because that's the only way it could be legal.
They re-use the DVD when someone 'sells' it back to them. As long as they are 'storing it for a customer who bought it,' they don't sell it to anyone else. Result is you can't always get the movie you want, but that's the tradeoff, I guess.
Again, I don't see how buying one physical disk allows you to stream that movie to an infinite amount of people,
They don't. It's an attempt to streamline the (older) Netflix model. They buy multiple DVDs, and send them out. When you are done, you send them back.
Except, they realize a lot of people (basically, everyone) don't want the physical DVD, so they also offer the option to stream the video for you, and keep the physical copy in a 'vault' until you want it. As an added service, they also ship you an EDL file of your choosing, which the user can apply at their home in their personal player (I believe they do this automatically if desired as well, but it's a standard feature: mplayer supports EDL, for example).
So basically all the parts of their plan, selling DVDs, re-buying, ripping for personal use, personally using an EDL, etc are all legal. No one has ever combined them together, though.
From a moral standpoint, I don't think people should be forced to watch things they don't want. From a practical standpoint, the movie studios are more than happy to offer censored movies to airlines. It's not about 'censorship', it's about money.
why is the pan evaporation rate a more reliable measure than temperature? If you want to measure warming, why not just measure the temperature directly?
all it takes is for this guy to write a letter to Carnival and tell them that he and the 200 others will do the work for less than what Capgemini is charging since
No that's not all, it also has to be credible.
it's true, but it would take someone with the experience and capability to start up that kind of company, and the know-how to start a price war. My guess is that in the ~200 people who are getting laid off, there isn't anyone who knows how to do that. It's not normal expertise among IT people.
What leverage does this guy have? He hasn't threatened to sue. You need to back up your 'offer' with something substantial.
When was the last time Christmas was a strictly christian celebration, with Christians going to church to pray for a whole day and night
I'm not sure that ever happened. In Austria (and I assume a lot of other places in Europe) people go to mass, but that's not all day and night. The Christmas markets are great, delicious food.