This will be the second time my credit card gets replaced this year. The third time in 3 years.
I've tried to order stuff online and been forced to call in because the retailer subscribes to a service that considers me a 10/10 fraud risk. And not because of anything I've ever done or any charges that have shown up on my bill.
Look at what Michael Phelps ate. Something like three pizzas a day or something. And he was in great health at the time. Won Olympic gold medals and everything.
As a 10-mile-a-day runner, Dave McGillivray thought he could eat whatever he wanted without worrying about his heart. "I figured if the furnace was hot enough, it would burn everything," said McGillivray, who is 59.
But a diagnosis six months ago of coronary artery disease shocked McGillivray, a finisher of 130 marathons and several Ironman-distance triathlons. Suddenly he regretted including a chocolate-chip-cookie recipe in his memoir about endurance athletics.
TLDR: Being in insanely good shape can mask (but not prevent) the health consequences of eating three pizzas a day for years.
This seems to explain how the pictures were acquired and that it wasn't just one guy stealing them and it isn't just one guy distributing them: http://i.imgur.com/vnd0H9J.jpg
Or maintaining a launch oligopoly funded on the public dollar through to the last decade?
It took two world wars and one cold war to get us to where we are today. Feel free to complain about the oligopoly, but don't pretend like Boeing, North American, and Douglas were going to build the Saturn V rocket on their own dime.
Or paying a few tens of billions to develop a huge rocket while not paying a few billion to get someone like SpaceX to develop said rocket.
"Or paying a few tens of billions to develop a huge rocket " to who?
Will the U.S. allow some other country to violate U.S. laws because the subsidiary is present, in say, Aman and thus, by extension, the entire organization is subject to Aman's Law?
Microsoft is headquartered and incorporated in the US and thus subject to US law.
The data in dispute is not subject to US law. Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited leases and operates the data center in question. A US judge has no jurisdiction. QED
Microsoft's actions might seem "customer-centric," but really they're fighting for their lives.
If MS can be forced to give up European data, stored on European servers, that's game over for them. Lawsuits and investigations will flourish in Europe, because their data protection laws are much stronger/stricter than ours.
This is how the tobacco companies were able to refute connections to smoking and cancer for so long and probably why they weren't just shut down completely after losing court battle after court battle.
No. Just no. The tobacco companies kept the law off them by running a FUD campaign of epic proportions.
They created and paid for think tanks to do research and write papers that refuted scientific fact. They had an impressive lobbying organization that aggressively lobbied in Washington. Books have been written about it based on everything that came out in court.
Once the Master Settlement Agreement was made, the tobacco lobbying and FUD money dried up. The portions of the tobacco FUD machine that weren't dissolved, looked for other sources of income. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out who they're shilling for now.
The technology is in it's infancy stages. Why the media keeps hounding Google on all these issues seems immature.
Google successfully lobbied California for new laws regarding autonomous cars and they keep putting out press releases. Google put themselves in the spotlight.
only if intricate preparations have been made beforehand, with the carâ(TM)s exact route, including driveways, extensively mapped. Data from multiple passes by a special sensor vehicle must later be pored over, meter by meter, by both computers and humans.
That's more prep than a rally driver gets before he barrels down a 1-lane dirt road at highway speeds. That's certainly not what Google has been selling the public and State governments.
A State should not have to the power to force a separate product.
Why not? They're not forcing a separate product, only product + California Requirements. Don't want to manufacture the California Requirements? Don't sell in California.
The Feds can overrule this because it does come under the Commerce Clause.
That's not how the commerce clause works. In this situation, the commerce clause can only come into play if State and Federal law conflict. You would need to point to a Federal law that preempts or invalidates the California law.
but the State should NOT have the capability of shutting off my phone.
Most of us agree on this. Our legislators have been convinced otherwise.
There isn't much we can do to stop government surveillance, the best we can hope for is being able to surveil back at them.
After 9/11, State/local governments began to understand that police communications were a hodge podge of frequencies. Since then, there's been a slow, but concerted, push to move all State/local police to a more coherent system.
Unfortunately, many police forces are upgrading to encrypted systems at the same time. We will never really be able to surveil "them" to the same extent as they can surveil us, if for no other reason than they'll make it illegal.
Every time I see a story like this or the problems Tesla has in NY, I can't help but think of the "New York is open for business" commercials flooded on the TV news channels.
New York is well known for its tradition of aggressive Attorney Generals and that State has done more for consumer protection than most States' AGs combined.
Your complaints (Tesla, Airbnb) are with the existing laws, not the AG who makes sure they are enforced.
'Free' is not a business model." - Aaron Levie (Dropbox) Yes, something music artists know all to well...
Even the biggest artists make most of their money from touring, merchandising, and product endorsements, In Asia, where large scale commercial piracy is a fact of life, music artists only make money from non-album sales.
You forgot the part of your argument where you compare today's generally non-partisan bureaucracy with that of the Romans who gave themselves military rank.
And I'm not sure how you expect to have a government (or even a large corporation) without bureaucrats. What's your alternative?
Instead they have double taxation treaties so if money is earned abroad and you pay taxes there, you can spend the money back home at your HQ without it being taxed a second time. America doesn't,
Why should they repatriate it? What's wrong with keeping money earned abroad, abroad?
The tax law, as originally written, once required companies to remit the difference between local taxes and US taxes. So if Irish taxes are 10% and US taxes are 25%, Ireland gets its 10% and the USA gets 15%.
Then the law was changed so that as long as the money stays overseas, [Company] can defer having to pay that 15%.
Instead of actual business being conducted overseas, the majority of those deferred earnings are the result of transfer pricing. US Company will give its I.P. to an overseas subsidiary and then license the I.P. back in order to shift profits to the low tax country.
Transfer pricing is legal, but the USA and Europe are looking into it, as it shifts taxable income out of their jurisdiction. There's also questions about how corporations (fraudulently) value the assets being transferred and licensed.
And it's been parroted sans critical thought ever since. Unless you think that we should all be free to randomly assault one another, you are trading the freedom to assault for the security from assault.
What a load of crap. There was a functional legal system at the time Benjamin Franklin wrote those words.
Far too many people try to interpret the words and documents of America's Founding Fathers in a complete vacuum.
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This will be the second time my credit card gets replaced this year.
The third time in 3 years.
I've tried to order stuff online and been forced to call in because the retailer subscribes to a service that considers me a 10/10 fraud risk.
And not because of anything I've ever done or any charges that have shown up on my bill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_of_deliberate_ambiguity
Look at what Michael Phelps ate. Something like three pizzas a day or something. And he was in great health at the time. Won Olympic gold medals and everything.
Why Runners Can't Eat Whatever They Want
Studies Show There Are Heart Risks to Devil-May-Care Dietsâ"No Matter How Much You Run
As a 10-mile-a-day runner, Dave McGillivray thought he could eat whatever he wanted without worrying about his heart. "I figured if the furnace was hot enough, it would burn everything," said McGillivray, who is 59.
But a diagnosis six months ago of coronary artery disease shocked McGillivray, a finisher of 130 marathons and several Ironman-distance triathlons. Suddenly he regretted including a chocolate-chip-cookie recipe in his memoir about endurance athletics.
TLDR: Being in insanely good shape can mask (but not prevent) the health consequences of eating three pizzas a day for years.
This seems to explain how the pictures were acquired and that it wasn't just one guy stealing them and it isn't just one guy distributing them:
http://i.imgur.com/vnd0H9J.jpg
Or maintaining a launch oligopoly funded on the public dollar through to the last decade?
It took two world wars and one cold war to get us to where we are today.
Feel free to complain about the oligopoly, but don't pretend like Boeing, North American, and Douglas were going to build the Saturn V rocket on their own dime.
Or paying a few tens of billions to develop a huge rocket while not paying a few billion to get someone like SpaceX to develop said rocket.
"Or paying a few tens of billions to develop a huge rocket " to who?
Boeing is the prime contractor for the design, development, test and production of the launch vehicle cryogenic stages, as well as development of the avionics suite.
You had a three sentence post and two of them were full of ignorance.
Will the U.S. allow some other country to violate U.S. laws because the subsidiary is present, in say, Aman and thus, by extension, the entire organization is subject to Aman's Law?
Unless this is an obscure Lord of the Rings reference, I think you might have meant Oman?
Microsoft is headquartered and incorporated in the US and thus subject to US law.
The data in dispute is not subject to US law.
Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited leases and operates the data center in question.
A US judge has no jurisdiction.
QED
Microsoft's actions might seem "customer-centric," but really they're fighting for their lives.
If MS can be forced to give up European data, stored on European servers, that's game over for them.
Lawsuits and investigations will flourish in Europe, because their data protection laws are much stronger/stricter than ours.
This could kill MS's European business.
This is how the tobacco companies were able to refute connections to smoking and cancer for so long and probably why they weren't just shut down completely after losing court battle after court battle.
No. Just no.
The tobacco companies kept the law off them by running a FUD campaign of epic proportions.
They created and paid for think tanks to do research and write papers that refuted scientific fact.
They had an impressive lobbying organization that aggressively lobbied in Washington.
Books have been written about it based on everything that came out in court.
Once the Master Settlement Agreement was made, the tobacco lobbying and FUD money dried up.
The portions of the tobacco FUD machine that weren't dissolved, looked for other sources of income.
I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out who they're shilling for now.
That would be the killer app.
The technology is in it's infancy stages. Why the media keeps hounding Google on all these issues seems immature.
Google successfully lobbied California for new laws regarding autonomous cars and they keep putting out press releases.
Google put themselves in the spotlight.
only if intricate preparations have been made beforehand, with the carâ(TM)s exact route, including driveways, extensively mapped. Data from multiple passes by a special sensor vehicle must later be pored over, meter by meter, by both computers and humans.
That's more prep than a rally driver gets before he barrels down a 1-lane dirt road at highway speeds.
That's certainly not what Google has been selling the public and State governments.
But of course that info should be right there on the windows update window.
It was there in WinXp.
Microsoft seems to think that dumbing down all their user interfaces = the future of computing.
is bad they should remember that Valve can and does sometimes revoke accounts - that can mean the loss of dozens of games and software in one go.
That sounds like an argument for stronger consumer protection laws.
A State should not have to the power to force a separate product.
Why not?
They're not forcing a separate product, only product + California Requirements.
Don't want to manufacture the California Requirements? Don't sell in California.
The Feds can overrule this because it does come under the Commerce Clause.
That's not how the commerce clause works.
In this situation, the commerce clause can only come into play if State and Federal law conflict.
You would need to point to a Federal law that preempts or invalidates the California law.
but the State should NOT have the capability of shutting off my phone.
Most of us agree on this. Our legislators have been convinced otherwise.
There's no requirement for manufacturers to give anyone but the user the ability to lock the phone.
There's no requirement that they don't.
Hence the problem.
There isn't much we can do to stop government surveillance, the best we can hope for is being able to surveil back at them.
After 9/11, State/local governments began to understand that police communications were a hodge podge of frequencies.
Since then, there's been a slow, but concerted, push to move all State/local police to a more coherent system.
Unfortunately, many police forces are upgrading to encrypted systems at the same time.
We will never really be able to surveil "them" to the same extent as they can surveil us, if for no other reason than they'll make it illegal.
Look how well banning Nazi memorabilia has worked out in France where they now have a HUGE uptick in the amount of anti-semitism.
The world wide uptick in antisemitism (and antizionism) is a direct response to Israel's treatment of Palestine.
In Europe, that's on top of xenophobia that has been exacerbated by the protracted recovery from the great recession.
Every time I see a story like this or the problems Tesla has in NY, I can't help but think of the "New York is open for business" commercials flooded on the TV news channels.
New York is well known for its tradition of aggressive Attorney Generals and
that State has done more for consumer protection than most States' AGs combined.
Your complaints (Tesla, Airbnb) are with the existing laws, not the AG who makes sure they are enforced.
'Free' is not a business model." - Aaron Levie (Dropbox)
Yes, something music artists know all to well...
Even the biggest artists make most of their money from touring, merchandising, and product endorsements,
In Asia, where large scale commercial piracy is a fact of life, music artists only make money from non-album sales.
Try to buy something for a gift? Well, idiot algorithm thinks you're going to buy the same thing for the next six months....
IIRC, Netflix recently added an option for you to watch movies without them being added to the Netflix recommendation algorithm.
You'd think companies like Facebook and Amazon would be so smart as to offer you an option to remove items from their profile of you.
Bureaucracy is a cancer.
You forgot the part of your argument where you compare today's generally non-partisan bureaucracy with that of the Romans who gave themselves military rank.
And I'm not sure how you expect to have a government (or even a large corporation) without bureaucrats.
What's your alternative?
Instead they have double taxation treaties so if money is earned abroad and you pay taxes there, you can spend the money back home at your HQ without it being taxed a second time. America doesn't,
[Citation Needed]
Rebuttal: The US system works by requiring Corporations to pay the difference between the foreign and US taxes.
Citation: http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/International-Businesses/United-States-Income-Tax-Treaties---A-to-Z
/Personal income is likely to get double taxed, but that's not what we're talking about.
Why should they repatriate it? What's wrong with keeping money earned abroad, abroad?
The tax law, as originally written, once required companies to remit the difference between local taxes and US taxes.
So if Irish taxes are 10% and US taxes are 25%, Ireland gets its 10% and the USA gets 15%.
Then the law was changed so that as long as the money stays overseas, [Company] can defer having to pay that 15%.
Instead of actual business being conducted overseas, the majority of those deferred earnings are the result of transfer pricing.
US Company will give its I.P. to an overseas subsidiary and then license the I.P. back in order to shift profits to the low tax country.
Transfer pricing is legal, but the USA and Europe are looking into it, as it shifts taxable income out of their jurisdiction.
There's also questions about how corporations (fraudulently) value the assets being transferred and licensed.
And it's been parroted sans critical thought ever since. Unless you think that we should all be free to randomly assault one another, you are trading the freedom to assault for the security from assault.
What a load of crap.
There was a functional legal system at the time Benjamin Franklin wrote those words.
Far too many people try to interpret the words and documents of America's Founding Fathers in a complete vacuum.
But it would contradict some of the fundamental assumptions of most of those models.
Which assumptions?
All climate models assume a lag between a cause and the observed results.
This just means the lag might be 30+ years.