Though Corporations are just as evil, they don't currently have the ability to TAX you for things you don't need or want, nor JAIL you for whatever "laws" they choose to write and (selectively) enforce.
Also note that corporations are a form of VOLUNTARY association, you don't have to take part if you don't want.
Though they can get big enough to influence you in bad ways, there are generally alternatives in the marketplace.
Yep, just see Disney, RIAA, MPAA, Monsanto or Halliburton for starters.
Not really, current employment has some benefits. A gig economy only works if the gigs pay enough to cover your long term. I doubt anything on gigster is going to pay that well. At best, you'll be getting $2/hr or something like that, by the time all is said and done. I really love the clause on gigster retaining code ownership. That just means you're a short term hack for gigster. Wouldn't surprise me if gigster also hides who you are, so there's 0 benefit to doing anything for them unless you're already in a hopeless situation.
I've had AT&T U-verse, Verizon FIOS, Comcast and TWC cable.
Comcast has always sucked, it's great when it works but is so flaky you can't even rely on it for home use, at least where I was. I think a finch landing on the cable would knock it out.
TWC was better, but when it rained, well, see Comcast's finch report.
U-verse in their FTTH (fiber all the way to the box on mounted to my house) was initially awesome in the days of DSL, but was so oversubscribed in my area after a few years that you could not get more than 1Mbps up, no matter what plan you wanted to buy. In fact they were happy to "upgrade" me to any plan so they could split my then current 2Mbps up between me and someone else, as they were not about to even give me a new plan with 2Mbps. To top it off, that area was not going to get upgraded in any form, at all, despite obviously being a money maker for them. And I'm 99% sure I only got 2Mbps up during certain hours. The "competition" there was the old Comcast cable network, which I don't believe had any significant investment since the 1990s.
FIOS is the only one that has truly delivered with 50/50 connections life is good network wise. TV wise, FIOS is better than U-verse or TWC, but still has significant short-comings in the consumer friendliness department. It's obvious it's a marketing platform to sell more services, and little else.
The way I understand the law to work in the US, that case would make such a task by Disney even more difficult since precedent has been set and the bar raised.
Absolutely - however it seems possible to interpret the results that happy people take better care of themselves, thus improving their probable lifespan.
In this case, while not the direct factor, happiness is causal for better health which is causal for longer life.
Would you rather live 76.72 years happy or miserable? I guess that depends upon whether you want your life to appear to be long or not.
Incorrect. When the copyright expires on the works that Mickey Mouse is in, those can be freely copied once those enter the public domain. Now, the interesting question would be, as a trademark, can Mickey Mouse be used under fair use? Obviously you cannot create a full blown Mickey Mouse cartoon, but what would be permissible?
I know, I know, I'm dreaming that Disney won't buy 1000 year copyright extensions every time that comes close to occurring.
As for RSI surgery, yes, any surgery can go wrong for any number of reasons no matter who does the surgery. Death is not unknown, for any number of reasons, including allergic reactions to anesthesia, infections from the surgery, possible bad reaction to the "correction". Not all bodies like having stuff disturbed, I know one that even the smallest paper cut leaves a noticeable scar. So yes, if surgery can be avoided, by all means avoid it. You should only undergo surgery if avoiding it will be worse than having it.
Who says the players change? I've had it installed on one device or another since I first found it (early 90s.....before that it was Rogue).
You missed "Hack" between NetHack and Rogue. Hack was allright, NetHack was originally a reasonably close follow up but has diverged with all the extras. Some will like those, others will miss the simplicity of Hack.
If your case is about defending your product's uniqueness against a second competitor, you better be familiar with those products and darn well be able to identify them, especially if you're the lawyer. The fact that they could not speaks volumes about how the average person, who you would expect to be less familiar with those products than the lawyers paid to defend them, would be able to tell them apart, especially if they're not seen side by side.
I use both sets of products (Samsung and Apple) and I can tell you even knowing the collection of products I have on my desk, I have to take a second look at several of the devices to be sure I have the right brand, much less the right specific device. My personal belief is this: given how varied the market was prior to the iPhone, IMHO Apple has a strong case given how homogenous and iPhone like all smart phones are now. IOW, when the iPhone came out - it was unique. Now it is one among many with the same basic visual appeal. Granted, the Android eco system sucks rocks user friendliness wise, but the basic presentation is very close to iOS to the casual observer. Note that this is not to say iOS and its eco system is awesome, it has its own set of flaws, some of them darn exasperating. But from a casual user's standpoint, my personal feelings again are that iOS and apps are far superior in polish to Android and apps.
The thing you conveniently overlook is that the Apple and Samsung devices under discussion were DIFFERENT ASPECT RATIOS and had different buttons and so would be hard to mistake for each other..
I had no issue getting AppleCare reset to my purchase date for what otherwise would have been an out of warranty repair. Perhaps you didn't keep that receipt? Receipts are important.
How exactly did they "con" SCP? They made a deal and SCP made money on the deal. Should Microsoft have told SCP that it was for IBM's machine? Maybe, but that would have killed their business. SCP could certainly have come out better, but I don't believe they were misled by MS.
Once MS had the leverage, though, they littered the ground with the corpses of companies who made deals with them. Scorched earth was Bill Gates's approach to business.
They certainly misled IBM about the codebase, and they misled SPC about the purposes to which they wanted to use it. But then again, as you point out, "con" was the operative word afterwards for everyone they dealt with.
I bought three 4TB externals over 6 months ago at less than $100 each. I also have SSDs as the operating/user space on every computer I own. SSDs are not cost effective for mass store. HDs are not performance effective for regular use files. Until SSDs are less than 150% the price of HDs, HDs just are better suited for certain purposes at this time. IMNSHO tape is only effective for long term offline archival storage as in years. Each has their place and use for the next few years (maybe 5?).
Thanks to his parents, Bill could afford to move to Albuquerque without much risk, but he never used his parents' money to build Microsoft. He and Allen built their business by their own efforts.
So he did utilize his parents wealth, or didn't he? He and Allen built their business largely by conning quite a few folks regarding SPC's QDOS, repackaged as MSDOS 1.0. In fact, you'll note that conning people was a huge part of MS's strategy over the years.
I have seen some of those bills, and if usury laws applied to the medical services industry, they'd all be in jail, several lifetimes over, just for 1 week's worth of "billing". Here's the short story: multiple 30-40K bill, cash payout between 10 and 15K, insurance payout 5-5.5K. 150K bill, cash payout unknown, but expect it to be 75K, actual insurance billing: 22K.
There's 2 steps to the solution required:
1) posted rates (much like auto repair for you car analogy folks) because there should be no variance in providing a service depending upon who's paying
2) still winds up being universal healthcare.
The reason for posted rates is that I don't expect universal healthcare to address variances in all providers pricing, but I do expect to know what I pay when I go in for a service. Universal healthcare also does not mean all healthcare is covered, but some common baseline covers the entire population much like basic human rights only covers some common(ly viewed) rights.
I'd say the desire is to be closer to a blended set of components than tossed salad, although tossed salad is what we have (clumps). Clumps tend to segregate themselves from everyone else, and that's where the potential troubles start.
I love these morons. Here's the argument they might understand:
You get clipped by a car that keeps going while biking and you left your wallet at home. How do you get help? You're bleeding and have a head injury, IOW, you're going to die without care. No one knows if you can afford it, nor if you have insurance.
You can create numerous different scenarios where everyday activities result in similar situations where you need help and someone has to pick up the tab, at least initially, and that means it is likely that the tab will stay with that initial payer in more than some of the cases.
Given that the above is true, you rapidly come to the only plausible conclusion - universal health care. And the only really workable solution is a single payer system.
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Though Corporations are just as evil, they don't currently have the ability to TAX you for things you don't need or want, nor JAIL you for whatever "laws" they choose to write and (selectively) enforce. Also note that corporations are a form of VOLUNTARY association, you don't have to take part if you don't want. Though they can get big enough to influence you in bad ways, there are generally alternatives in the marketplace.
Yep, just see Disney, RIAA, MPAA, Monsanto or Halliburton for starters.
In that case AT&Ts u-verse is not broadband in my last area. Max I had was 2Mbps up, and any new connections were capped at 1Mbps.
I pick up jobs through gigster and make around $288/hr. Seriously.
There's always got to be someone hawking the product or no one else will try the "get rich quick" scheme.
Not really, current employment has some benefits. A gig economy only works if the gigs pay enough to cover your long term. I doubt anything on gigster is going to pay that well. At best, you'll be getting $2/hr or something like that, by the time all is said and done. I really love the clause on gigster retaining code ownership. That just means you're a short term hack for gigster. Wouldn't surprise me if gigster also hides who you are, so there's 0 benefit to doing anything for them unless you're already in a hopeless situation.
If you have POTS, we're not talking about modern networking.
And they wonder why I won't give them my credit card number.
I don't give anyone online my real CC, virtual numbers only, thank you.
I've had AT&T U-verse, Verizon FIOS, Comcast and TWC cable.
Comcast has always sucked, it's great when it works but is so flaky you can't even rely on it for home use, at least where I was. I think a finch landing on the cable would knock it out.
TWC was better, but when it rained, well, see Comcast's finch report.
U-verse in their FTTH (fiber all the way to the box on mounted to my house) was initially awesome in the days of DSL, but was so oversubscribed in my area after a few years that you could not get more than 1Mbps up, no matter what plan you wanted to buy. In fact they were happy to "upgrade" me to any plan so they could split my then current 2Mbps up between me and someone else, as they were not about to even give me a new plan with 2Mbps. To top it off, that area was not going to get upgraded in any form, at all, despite obviously being a money maker for them. And I'm 99% sure I only got 2Mbps up during certain hours. The "competition" there was the old Comcast cable network, which I don't believe had any significant investment since the 1990s.
FIOS is the only one that has truly delivered with 50/50 connections life is good network wise. TV wise, FIOS is better than U-verse or TWC, but still has significant short-comings in the consumer friendliness department. It's obvious it's a marketing platform to sell more services, and little else.
You can get 10Gbps over twisted pair.
The way I understand the law to work in the US, that case would make such a task by Disney even more difficult since precedent has been set and the bar raised.
... correlation is not causation!
Absolutely - however it seems possible to interpret the results that happy people take better care of themselves, thus improving their probable lifespan.
In this case, while not the direct factor, happiness is causal for better health which is causal for longer life.
Would you rather live 76.72 years happy or miserable? I guess that depends upon whether you want your life to appear to be long or not.
Incorrect. When the copyright expires on the works that Mickey Mouse is in, those can be freely copied once those enter the public domain. Now, the interesting question would be, as a trademark, can Mickey Mouse be used under fair use? Obviously you cannot create a full blown Mickey Mouse cartoon, but what would be permissible?
I know, I know, I'm dreaming that Disney won't buy 1000 year copyright extensions every time that comes close to occurring.
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+1 for the touchpad etc options.
As for RSI surgery, yes, any surgery can go wrong for any number of reasons no matter who does the surgery. Death is not unknown, for any number of reasons, including allergic reactions to anesthesia, infections from the surgery, possible bad reaction to the "correction". Not all bodies like having stuff disturbed, I know one that even the smallest paper cut leaves a noticeable scar. So yes, if surgery can be avoided, by all means avoid it. You should only undergo surgery if avoiding it will be worse than having it.
Sounds like if the great volcano god was displeased, he'd blow his top and resolve the issue?
Macs
Dell Ubuntu
I imagine more options will start appearing soon enough, at least for Linux/BSD given the nonsense MS is pulling with Win10.
Who says the players change? I've had it installed on one device or another since I first found it (early 90s.....before that it was Rogue).
You missed "Hack" between NetHack and Rogue. Hack was allright, NetHack was originally a reasonably close follow up but has diverged with all the extras. Some will like those, others will miss the simplicity of Hack.
If your case is about defending your product's uniqueness against a second competitor, you better be familiar with those products and darn well be able to identify them, especially if you're the lawyer. The fact that they could not speaks volumes about how the average person, who you would expect to be less familiar with those products than the lawyers paid to defend them, would be able to tell them apart, especially if they're not seen side by side.
I use both sets of products (Samsung and Apple) and I can tell you even knowing the collection of products I have on my desk, I have to take a second look at several of the devices to be sure I have the right brand, much less the right specific device. My personal belief is this: given how varied the market was prior to the iPhone, IMHO Apple has a strong case given how homogenous and iPhone like all smart phones are now. IOW, when the iPhone came out - it was unique. Now it is one among many with the same basic visual appeal. Granted, the Android eco system sucks rocks user friendliness wise, but the basic presentation is very close to iOS to the casual observer. Note that this is not to say iOS and its eco system is awesome, it has its own set of flaws, some of them darn exasperating. But from a casual user's standpoint, my personal feelings again are that iOS and apps are far superior in polish to Android and apps.
The thing you conveniently overlook is that the Apple and Samsung devices under discussion were DIFFERENT ASPECT RATIOS and had different buttons and so would be hard to mistake for each other. .
Yep, because you say so.
I had no issue getting AppleCare reset to my purchase date for what otherwise would have been an out of warranty repair. Perhaps you didn't keep that receipt? Receipts are important.
Wrong universe. Google is well on its way to becoming Omni Corp.
More like Umbrella Corp.
How exactly did they "con" SCP? They made a deal and SCP made money on the deal. Should Microsoft have told SCP that it was for IBM's machine? Maybe, but that would have killed their business. SCP could certainly have come out better, but I don't believe they were misled by MS.
Once MS had the leverage, though, they littered the ground with the corpses of companies who made deals with them. Scorched earth was Bill Gates's approach to business.
They certainly misled IBM about the codebase, and they misled SPC about the purposes to which they wanted to use it. But then again, as you point out, "con" was the operative word afterwards for everyone they dealt with.
I bought three 4TB externals over 6 months ago at less than $100 each. I also have SSDs as the operating/user space on every computer I own. SSDs are not cost effective for mass store. HDs are not performance effective for regular use files. Until SSDs are less than 150% the price of HDs, HDs just are better suited for certain purposes at this time. IMNSHO tape is only effective for long term offline archival storage as in years. Each has their place and use for the next few years (maybe 5?).
Thanks to his parents, Bill could afford to move to Albuquerque without much risk, but he never used his parents' money to build Microsoft. He and Allen built their business by their own efforts.
So he did utilize his parents wealth, or didn't he? He and Allen built their business largely by conning quite a few folks regarding SPC's QDOS, repackaged as MSDOS 1.0. In fact, you'll note that conning people was a huge part of MS's strategy over the years.
I have seen some of those bills, and if usury laws applied to the medical services industry, they'd all be in jail, several lifetimes over, just for 1 week's worth of "billing". Here's the short story: multiple 30-40K bill, cash payout between 10 and 15K, insurance payout 5-5.5K. 150K bill, cash payout unknown, but expect it to be 75K, actual insurance billing: 22K.
There's 2 steps to the solution required:
The reason for posted rates is that I don't expect universal healthcare to address variances in all providers pricing, but I do expect to know what I pay when I go in for a service. Universal healthcare also does not mean all healthcare is covered, but some common baseline covers the entire population much like basic human rights only covers some common(ly viewed) rights.
I'd say the desire is to be closer to a blended set of components than tossed salad, although tossed salad is what we have (clumps). Clumps tend to segregate themselves from everyone else, and that's where the potential troubles start.
I love these morons. Here's the argument they might understand:
You get clipped by a car that keeps going while biking and you left your wallet at home. How do you get help? You're bleeding and have a head injury, IOW, you're going to die without care. No one knows if you can afford it, nor if you have insurance.
You can create numerous different scenarios where everyday activities result in similar situations where you need help and someone has to pick up the tab, at least initially, and that means it is likely that the tab will stay with that initial payer in more than some of the cases.
Given that the above is true, you rapidly come to the only plausible conclusion - universal health care. And the only really workable solution is a single payer system.