RICO? Who did they conspire with? What organization are they a part of?
Allegedly, the executives of Getty Images, Inc., who directed their subordinates to engage in criminal intimidation and racketeering based on false claims of copyright, are part of the criminal organization Getty Images, Inc.
Since they did this for commercial purposes, what should happen is criminal prosecution.
Maybe charge them not only with criminal copyright infringement, but RICO Act violations too if it turns out to be part of a pattern (which OverlordQ's allusion upthread to a "previous lawsuit" implies there might be).
Trump: "Oh yeah, let's just support the terrorists by pretending they don't exist."
Headline on CNN 20 minutes later: "Trump Supports Ignoring Terrorism"
The stupid part is that ignoring terrorists is what we actually should be doing! Freaking out about terrorism is the only thing that makes it effective.
Reading my 30-random-character password off my cellphone and manually typing it in to my desktop is not my idea of a good time. Therefore, I use keepass and store the database on a cloud drive sync'd between systems so I can copy-paste on each.
The difference is that using KeePass I can choose where I want to store the vault (in any random vendor's cloud or in no cloud at all), which means not only that I can pick the place with the security I prefer, but also that an attacker has a lot more places to look for it.
The problem is that areas had record cold this past winter, and "deniers" get slammed for correlating a weather event to global climate change
Record cold can be evidence for global warming. The key is to understand what "warming" actually is: adding energy to the system. Consider a glass of water. What happens when you add energy to it by shaking it? The answer is, it sloshes around -- the maximum height of the water surface gets higher, and the minimum height gets lower. Or consider the refrigeration thermodynamic cycle: one part of the system gets colder even though the total energy of the system is increasing.
That's not to say that record cold is always evidence of global warming, or indeed that it could never be evidence of an oncoming ice age. I'm just pointing out that the issue is more complicated than "record cold = cooling" or "record heat = heating" considered in isolation. We only know that record heat actually is evidence for heating because it's been observed as part of a larger pattern and was predicted by climate models and such (i.e., all the actual science that climatologists do that a Fox News sound bite is inadequate to explain).
LOL, the anti-ownership/anti-freedom shills have modpoints today. Keep modding me down, you pitiful fuckwads -- all it does is prove you can't actually refute my claims!
Nintendo was abusing its customers back when Microsoft was still busy making Flight Simulator for DOS. There is no "nice" gaming console maker, especially since Sega left the market.
The only 'negative' things I can see about it are the Microsoft connection..and that it'll eventually RROD on me.
It's also violating your privacy (especially if instead of a 360 it were an Xbone, as this topic is actually about). By using it, you are also tacitly signalling your support for Microsoft's continuing assault on property rights (by attempting to subordinate them to copyright law run amok). Those costs may not be measured in dollars, yet they are real.
Quit trolling. I am also an employed adult and I don't spend my time "chasing down the latest drivers or spec-ing a new video card" either. This isn't 1995 anymore; PCs "just work."
They are fulfilling the contracts, only the ones with the word 'unlimited' are not longer valid.
Exactly. Verizon needs to make it clear that they are no longer valid for everyone who has them, including the people not yet using more than 100GB/month.
Verizon has ZERO obligation to do anything for you if you're off plan, not thing one.
Verizon has lots of obligations, including some to society in general (i.e., people who aren't even Verizon customers at all). Operating with good faith and fair dealing is one of those obligations.
I'm not saying this tool will completely block all of the data collected but, it does block the vast majority of it and is simple to install and it's from a company I find reliable: Spybot Anti-Beacon.
And they also are under no obligation to allow out-of-contract users from continuing to use the old plan - which is exactly what they are doing here, telling the heaviest out-of-contract users to let up, move plan or Verizon will no longer do business with you.
So? That doesn't change the fact that other users are still on the plan, and Verizon is still describing it as "unlimited" to them, which is false advertising.
Why don't those who aren't working, work, so that they can get some wealth of their own?
Because people don't get to work just because they want to; they work because a company was willing to hire them. Companies don't hire unless they need to -- and they don't need to, because we still have a shortage of aggregate demand
"But what about entrepreneurs" you're about to ask. That requires having a profitable idea and the capital to implement it, and frankly, most people are too stupid and/or poor for that.
Furthermore, your question is ill-posed: wealth is not produced through work. Wealth is produced through owning productive assets. Even if you're earning a six-figure income, if you are spending it instead of acquiring productive assets (e.g. stock in the companies listed above) you're still a pauper.
Why would those who you claim are hoarding money keep it, instead of investing it in some productive enterprise?
Ask Apple; they're the ones hoarding the biggest chunk of it ($203 billion, according to the most recent source I could find).
But the article states that their earnings will be less "over the course of their working lives" than the previous generation.
In other words, this new study has not only corroborated the other study I cited, but has found that the effect is even worse than they thought before. So no, "the next upturn in the economy" will not "go a long ways towards evening that out" because both the TFA and the study I cited directly contradicts that -- even before considering my previous point that "evening out" the salary does not even out the wealth.
I really don't understand what you think your point is. Are you trying to say "this must not be true because I don't want it to be?" Because nothing in either study supports your fact-free, wishful assertion that it somehow evens out.
4) Some new technology that creates such wealth and comfort that average people no longer have to work and capitalism is transformed into something completely different.
The first half of that is happening, but doesn't lead to the second half because the wealth gets hoarded at the top.
Think about it: that 10% is at the margin. It's the difference between being able to save for a down payment on a house (which in turn would lead to building wealth by accumulating equity) versus being condemned to being a long-term renter. Or the difference between starting to save for retirement in your 20s versus starting in your 30s. Or the difference between having an emergency fund versus having an unexpected emergency cause a spiral of debt leading to bankruptcy.
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Allegedly, the executives of Getty Images, Inc., who directed their subordinates to engage in criminal intimidation and racketeering based on false claims of copyright, are part of the criminal organization Getty Images, Inc.
Maybe charge them not only with criminal copyright infringement, but RICO Act violations too if it turns out to be part of a pattern (which OverlordQ's allusion upthread to a "previous lawsuit" implies there might be).
In that case, you should start with yourself.
The stupid part is that ignoring terrorists is what we actually should be doing! Freaking out about terrorism is the only thing that makes it effective.
Reading my 30-random-character password off my cellphone and manually typing it in to my desktop is not my idea of a good time. Therefore, I use keepass and store the database on a cloud drive sync'd between systems so I can copy-paste on each.
The difference is that using KeePass I can choose where I want to store the vault (in any random vendor's cloud or in no cloud at all), which means not only that I can pick the place with the security I prefer, but also that an attacker has a lot more places to look for it.
Record cold can be evidence for global warming. The key is to understand what "warming" actually is: adding energy to the system. Consider a glass of water. What happens when you add energy to it by shaking it? The answer is, it sloshes around -- the maximum height of the water surface gets higher, and the minimum height gets lower. Or consider the refrigeration thermodynamic cycle: one part of the system gets colder even though the total energy of the system is increasing.
That's not to say that record cold is always evidence of global warming, or indeed that it could never be evidence of an oncoming ice age. I'm just pointing out that the issue is more complicated than "record cold = cooling" or "record heat = heating" considered in isolation. We only know that record heat actually is evidence for heating because it's been observed as part of a larger pattern and was predicted by climate models and such (i.e., all the actual science that climatologists do that a Fox News sound bite is inadequate to explain).
LOL, the anti-ownership/anti-freedom shills have modpoints today. Keep modding me down, you pitiful fuckwads -- all it does is prove you can't actually refute my claims!
Nintendo was abusing its customers back when Microsoft was still busy making Flight Simulator for DOS. There is no "nice" gaming console maker, especially since Sega left the market.
It's also violating your privacy (especially if instead of a 360 it were an Xbone, as this topic is actually about). By using it, you are also tacitly signalling your support for Microsoft's continuing assault on property rights (by attempting to subordinate them to copyright law run amok). Those costs may not be measured in dollars, yet they are real.
Quit trolling. I am also an employed adult and I don't spend my time "chasing down the latest drivers or spec-ing a new video card" either. This isn't 1995 anymore; PCs "just work."
Xboxes (like all other gaming consoles) have negative value.
Better would be to explicitly test for failure or success:
or
(I'm also not a big fan of auto... I like to know what my types are.)
Exactly. Verizon needs to make it clear that they are no longer valid for everyone who has them, including the people not yet using more than 100GB/month.
Verizon has lots of obligations, including some to society in general (i.e., people who aren't even Verizon customers at all). Operating with good faith and fair dealing is one of those obligations.
Your link was wrong. I fixed it.
So? That doesn't change the fact that other users are still on the plan, and Verizon is still describing it as "unlimited" to them, which is false advertising.
Given that the maximum penalty for copyright infringement in the US is $150,000 per instance, the Navy is about to be fined $83.7 trillion!
Good!
Here's the list.
Because people don't get to work just because they want to; they work because a company was willing to hire them. Companies don't hire unless they need to -- and they don't need to, because we still have a shortage of aggregate demand
"But what about entrepreneurs" you're about to ask. That requires having a profitable idea and the capital to implement it, and frankly, most people are too stupid and/or poor for that.
Furthermore, your question is ill-posed: wealth is not produced through work. Wealth is produced through owning productive assets. Even if you're earning a six-figure income, if you are spending it instead of acquiring productive assets (e.g. stock in the companies listed above) you're still a pauper.
Ask Apple; they're the ones hoarding the biggest chunk of it ($203 billion, according to the most recent source I could find).
Copyright abuse is a bipartisan issue.
In other words, this new study has not only corroborated the other study I cited, but has found that the effect is even worse than they thought before. So no, "the next upturn in the economy" will not "go a long ways towards evening that out" because both the TFA and the study I cited directly contradicts that -- even before considering my previous point that "evening out" the salary does not even out the wealth.
I really don't understand what you think your point is. Are you trying to say "this must not be true because I don't want it to be?" Because nothing in either study supports your fact-free, wishful assertion that it somehow evens out.
The first half of that is happening, but doesn't lead to the second half because the wealth gets hoarded at the top.
Some subsidies are for banks; some subsidies are for the health care industry. Same difference!
It does, though. College students who graduate into a recession earn 10% less starting out and their salaries don't recover to "normal" salary levels for a decade or more, at which point they're at a huge standard of living disadvantage because of the time value of money.
Think about it: that 10% is at the margin. It's the difference between being able to save for a down payment on a house (which in turn would lead to building wealth by accumulating equity) versus being condemned to being a long-term renter. Or the difference between starting to save for retirement in your 20s versus starting in your 30s. Or the difference between having an emergency fund versus having an unexpected emergency cause a spiral of debt leading to bankruptcy.