A better analogy: Lexmark (and perhaps other brand) printers have chips in their ink cartridges which are used to prevent you from purchasing non-Lexmark ink for your printer.
Since when do people need 'authorization' to use their products how they see fit?
Since DVDs with CSS encryption and region locking forced you to play your purchased disc on a particular set of devices sold in a particular part of the world - perhaps sooner. Things have been going downhill from there.
The mass surveillance apparatus which is unquestionably a violation of 4th amendment protections requires just a few more than 1 in 10,000 agents to carry out. There may very well be a large group of perfectly honest and upstanding agents in the NSA, but the corruption goes much deeper than a few rogue individuals. It goes to the very top, with the head of the NSA perjuring himself to Congress only very shortly before Snowden's documents started trickling out in the news.
No, but they can make an electronic display that brings in extra profit for the company giving the largest campaign contributions (and thus, landing the contract) when you are forced to buy a new one.
I'm not quite sure what your point is. If you gave away $325 to individuals, how many people would you be able to be able to reach? Keep in mind that the $3m is less than one fourth his compensation this year.
That isn't to stray from the point that giving away personal benefits to his workers is something to encourage, no matter what the motivation was.
People are increasingly that allergic to all sorts of things. Are you saying that if I have some communicable disease that you could die from, you should live in a bubble? Because allergies are just the immune system reacting to a perceived hostile substance.
A better analogy would be a case where everyone but you was a carrier of a disease and you were the only person in the area who could suffer severe adverse affects from it... like if your immune system was destroyed.
You may note that in that case, you would be put in a bubble.
If Bob has a deadly allergy to peanuts and even the slightest contact is enough to trigger a lethal attack and (this is the important part) the employees in the office have been notified of the problem and that they are not to bring peanut butter onto the premises, you can be held accountable.
According to the CPI Inflation Calculator, Wrath of Khan adjusted is about $191,023,056 (had to fiddle with a decimal point to stay within the odd $10m bounds)
As it turns out, they were pretty close, with the new one edging out the original.
Not necessarily. A new group of reporters/bloggers would probably pop up to mull through the raw data and produce easily-digestible material from it. Think something like Groklaw but for general news rather than legal cases.
You're ignoring that a lifespan-tripling technology would be expensive enough that only a very small fraction would be able to use it. If someone came up with a magical pill or even a life-long regimen, they could sell it for whatever price they wanted, because the richest of the rich would buy it up regardless.
Whether it is deliberate or through incompetence is irrelevant. The NSA is still depriving US citizens of their rights on a frighteningly large scale. In addition, the director lied directly to Congress while under inquiry. Nothing is happening to the agency or its members as a result. There's plenty of reason to be upset.
If the individual is so desperate to take off that they use sick time to get away, I don't want them anywhere near my project during crunch time. They are far more likely to make mistakes that will cost more time than we would lose if they left. If there was no good reason for them to ditch like that, then I would imagine said individual would also have a long trail of behavioral and performance issues that could be used to defend the decision to fire them.
Also, a large fraction of both bacteria and wall street investors are parasites that should be eradicated for the greater good of the larger organism they reside in.
I said nothing about where the products are manufactured, whether the company pays a fair wage to its employees, what (if any) taxes Apple pays, or anything of the sort. The only important fact is that Apple is incorporated in the US, so it makes for a nice political sound byte to show that a candidate and/or party supports US businesses. Supporting Samsung would have done the opposite, as an opponent would have a shining example of an act which harms US business. Whether the action was right or wrong rarely is sadly irrelevant on the campaign trail.
$10.50-$11.50 per hour works out to be around $21k-$24k a year on average, given a full 40-hour work-week. That's hardly middle class. It's actually much closer to the Census Bureau's defined poverty threshold. If the worker is the head of a traditional 4-person family, it actually puts him/her at or below the poverty line.
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The guy is entitled to his opinion and to run the company as he wishes. If you don't like it don't buy it. Enough with the stupid fucking boycotts...
Boycott - this word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Some languages are akin to using the hole in a beehive.
A better analogy: Lexmark (and perhaps other brand) printers have chips in their ink cartridges which are used to prevent you from purchasing non-Lexmark ink for your printer.
Since when do people need 'authorization' to use their products how they see fit?
Since DVDs with CSS encryption and region locking forced you to play your purchased disc on a particular set of devices sold in a particular part of the world - perhaps sooner. Things have been going downhill from there.
The mass surveillance apparatus which is unquestionably a violation of 4th amendment protections requires just a few more than 1 in 10,000 agents to carry out. There may very well be a large group of perfectly honest and upstanding agents in the NSA, but the corruption goes much deeper than a few rogue individuals. It goes to the very top, with the head of the NSA perjuring himself to Congress only very shortly before Snowden's documents started trickling out in the news.
Checked implies the oversight actually has teeth for enforcing policy/law. The token oversight given to the NSA reports to... the NSA.
It goes further than that. Even without the three-strikes laws, no one takes copyright law very seriously, for several reasons:
No, but they can make an electronic display that brings in extra profit for the company giving the largest campaign contributions (and thus, landing the contract) when you are forced to buy a new one.
I'm not quite sure what your point is. If you gave away $325 to individuals, how many people would you be able to be able to reach? Keep in mind that the $3m is less than one fourth his compensation this year.
That isn't to stray from the point that giving away personal benefits to his workers is something to encourage, no matter what the motivation was.
One can expect the 1% to simply send their robots out to eliminate the 99% without robots, looting whatever resources are left in the aftermath.
People are increasingly that allergic to all sorts of things. Are you saying that if I have some communicable disease that you could die from, you should live in a bubble? Because allergies are just the immune system reacting to a perceived hostile substance.
A better analogy would be a case where everyone but you was a carrier of a disease and you were the only person in the area who could suffer severe adverse affects from it... like if your immune system was destroyed.
You may note that in that case, you would be put in a bubble.
If Bob has a deadly allergy to peanuts and even the slightest contact is enough to trigger a lethal attack and (this is the important part) the employees in the office have been notified of the problem and that they are not to bring peanut butter onto the premises, you can be held accountable.
Why can't Bob telecommute?
According to the CPI Inflation Calculator, Wrath of Khan adjusted is about $191,023,056 (had to fiddle with a decimal point to stay within the odd $10m bounds)
As it turns out, they were pretty close, with the new one edging out the original.
Not necessarily. A new group of reporters/bloggers would probably pop up to mull through the raw data and produce easily-digestible material from it. Think something like Groklaw but for general news rather than legal cases.
*sigh* undoing a mis-clicked mod :|
You're ignoring that a lifespan-tripling technology would be expensive enough that only a very small fraction would be able to use it. If someone came up with a magical pill or even a life-long regimen, they could sell it for whatever price they wanted, because the richest of the rich would buy it up regardless.
Whether it is deliberate or through incompetence is irrelevant. The NSA is still depriving US citizens of their rights on a frighteningly large scale. In addition, the director lied directly to Congress while under inquiry. Nothing is happening to the agency or its members as a result. There's plenty of reason to be upset.
We have been able to vaporize a human target from space since 1985.
If the individual is so desperate to take off that they use sick time to get away, I don't want them anywhere near my project during crunch time. They are far more likely to make mistakes that will cost more time than we would lose if they left. If there was no good reason for them to ditch like that, then I would imagine said individual would also have a long trail of behavioral and performance issues that could be used to defend the decision to fire them.
Also, a large fraction of both bacteria and wall street investors are parasites that should be eradicated for the greater good of the larger organism they reside in.
John Whale Gacy?
I said nothing about where the products are manufactured, whether the company pays a fair wage to its employees, what (if any) taxes Apple pays, or anything of the sort. The only important fact is that Apple is incorporated in the US, so it makes for a nice political sound byte to show that a candidate and/or party supports US businesses. Supporting Samsung would have done the opposite, as an opponent would have a shining example of an act which harms US business. Whether the action was right or wrong rarely is sadly irrelevant on the campaign trail.
True, though it is worth pointing out the self-interest angle: Apple is a US-based corporation, while Samsung is not.
It's ironic that the biggest threat to freedom in the US is the US government and the US citizens who keep voting in these types of people.
$10.50-$11.50 per hour works out to be around $21k-$24k a year on average, given a full 40-hour work-week. That's hardly middle class. It's actually much closer to the Census Bureau's defined poverty threshold. If the worker is the head of a traditional 4-person family, it actually puts him/her at or below the poverty line.