Meaningless of course til it's ratified, but that won't stop the lobbyists in the US from pushing through all kinds of nasty shit like SOPA and PIPA. Gotta keep up with the Euros, ya know. And if the member-states of the EU don't ratify this, oh, well, at least American copyrights are safe the world over now. Send in the Marines & the lawyers, there's money to loot!
Not much terrorism in Vegas the last hundred years or so. Course, that little fact didn't stop them from using the Patriot Act to prosecute them for corruption. It was easier for them to go that way than it was to use the RICO Act like they should have. Course, I haven't met a cop or a judge yet that wouldn't take the easy way out of any situation...
The BSA wasn't as strong as it is today. If the Apple GUI and Windows came out tomorrow, Apple would win and everybody would be cheering on Microsoft as the underdog.
Usually, they do go 'overseas' overseas. This time, they just went North for a change. Course, with Harper in office, one could almost claim they went offplanet this time.
Typical MAFIAA tactics. If you get stepped on at home, go overseas and push your laws through, then come back to the US and push again, with the added excuse of 'This just gets us parity with $COUNTRY_X's laws. We need this to stay on parity with our treaties with them' and it goes through.
The SOPA war is far from over. Hell, we're just now seeing the openning skirmishes. Why doesn't the MAFIAA just come out and say 'All yer IP is belong to us' already and be done with it?
Actually seems like the opposite situation to me. If you are introducing such a far reaching goal you probably want as much time to work on it as possible and an LTS would give you that time.
Yeah, by making the users into betatesters for this 'new tech'. The whole point of the LTS releases was to provide the users with solid working applications, not 3 meters in front of the sharp edge features.
If we'd gone with the original plan for space exploration, we'dve had a (small) colony on the moon, an orbital transfer/construction station in HEO, and a manned landing or 3 on Mars by 1985. Problem was, there just wasn't any way to put a man on the moon by 1970 if we'd done it that way. Upside is, we'dve had a reuseable lunar lander, just refuel, preflight, and go. We went with Apollo instead because it was the quick and dirty solution.
What about that $400k they scammed from loose change? All they gotta do is kick it up a notch or 6, actively start soliciting bribes, etc, and they're funded again.
Of course they'd be a damned sight more concerned with the Federal Reserve than with corruption. The Federal Reserve is a private bank that only deals with other banks. It usurped the Constitutional monopoly of the Federal government to mint and print money and put that in the hands of the banks. Look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money fiat money for the definition of what we have here. With fractional reserve banking as well, the banks 'create' money every time they write a check or float a loan. The money comes out of thin air, the very definition of fiat money.
If the government took back control of its money, they could wipe out a good percentage of the corruption in this country.
While apple may save money by manufacturing overseas, they can take every penny they save and spend it on things like research and design. That creates high paying R&D jobs, which are much more attractive than the $10 an hour pay they would probably pay to a non union worker in a factory in the US.
Have you looked at what it costs to go to college these days in the US? Unless you're part of the 1%, the student loans needed to get in on the ground floor of those 'high-paying R&D jobs' will take decades to pay off. Don't think you can default on them, either. Student loans can't be protected by bankruptcy, they stay on your credit report forever.
What gets me is, 8000 workers producing 10,000 iPhones a day. That's 1.2 phones a day per worker. Sounds efficient as hell to me.
If Apple relocated their iPhone line back to the States, they'd probably automate the line to the max, employ about 75-100 people, and crank out those same 10,000 iPhones a day. Most of those 75-100 people would be in the office, not on the floor.
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And yet 22 EU countries signed the damned thing.
Meaningless of course til it's ratified, but that won't stop the lobbyists in the US from pushing through all kinds of nasty shit like SOPA and PIPA. Gotta keep up with the Euros, ya know. And if the member-states of the EU don't ratify this, oh, well, at least American copyrights are safe the world over now. Send in the Marines & the lawyers, there's money to loot!
Ack. Prosecute a couple Vegas politicians under the Patriot Act. Not enough coffee, outhought my fingers this morning.
Not much terrorism in Vegas the last hundred years or so. Course, that little fact didn't stop them from using the Patriot Act to prosecute them for corruption. It was easier for them to go that way than it was to use the RICO Act like they should have. Course, I haven't met a cop or a judge yet that wouldn't take the easy way out of any situation...
And the Iraqis (twice!), the Afghans, the Chileans...
I could go on, but why bother?
The BSA wasn't as strong as it is today. If the Apple GUI and Windows came out tomorrow, Apple would win and everybody would be cheering on Microsoft as the underdog.
You mean, like Firefox back in the day?
Um, you realise there's this big scary yellow thing in the sky, right? I ain't goin out til somebody shoots it down.
And don't ask me to do it, they're making it illegal to own weapons down here.
Hate to say, this is American stupidity, shipped North for your (non-)viewing pleasure.
Sorry bout that, but I didn't send them North.
Usually, they do go 'overseas' overseas. This time, they just went North for a change. Course, with Harper in office, one could almost claim they went offplanet this time.
Typical MAFIAA tactics. If you get stepped on at home, go overseas and push your laws through, then come back to the US and push again, with the added excuse of 'This just gets us parity with $COUNTRY_X's laws. We need this to stay on parity with our treaties with them' and it goes through.
The SOPA war is far from over. Hell, we're just now seeing the openning skirmishes. Why doesn't the MAFIAA just come out and say 'All yer IP is belong to us' already and be done with it?
Also, Hunter S Thompson. That man could write.
You sound like one of those evil evil filesharing pirates. Naughty, naughty.
Now give me the address of a couple good proxies so I can get some more bootlegged Canadian TV shows or I'll turn you in!
Only if it flies. What could possibly go wrong?
I've tried it. Hell, I've tried all of 'em, KDE/KDE2/KDE3/KDE4/Gnome/Afterstep/Wmanager/Rat/FVWM2/all of them. I keep coming back to Fluxbox.
Yeah, by making the users into betatesters for this 'new tech'. The whole point of the LTS releases was to provide the users with solid working applications, not 3 meters in front of the sharp edge features.
Looks like Ubuntu has finally become Windows...
So they're billing the government 139K/per & paying the lot minimum wage? When'd minimum wage start paying 139K???
If we'd gone with the original plan for space exploration, we'dve had a (small) colony on the moon, an orbital transfer/construction station in HEO, and a manned landing or 3 on Mars by 1985. Problem was, there just wasn't any way to put a man on the moon by 1970 if we'd done it that way. Upside is, we'dve had a reuseable lunar lander, just refuel, preflight, and go. We went with Apollo instead because it was the quick and dirty solution.
Bad acid. We'd already eaten up all the good stuff in the early 70's, all that was left was Orange Barrel.
What about that $400k they scammed from loose change? All they gotta do is kick it up a notch or 6, actively start soliciting bribes, etc, and they're funded again.
I'd be more worried about some of the shit I've seen on the net. You seen some of the weird shit comin outta Japan these days????
Of course they'd be a damned sight more concerned with the Federal Reserve than with corruption. The Federal Reserve is a private bank that only deals with other banks. It usurped the Constitutional monopoly of the Federal government to mint and print money and put that in the hands of the banks. Look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money fiat money for the definition of what we have here. With fractional reserve banking as well, the banks 'create' money every time they write a check or float a loan. The money comes out of thin air, the very definition of fiat money.
If the government took back control of its money, they could wipe out a good percentage of the corruption in this country.
Wasn't there a chart someplace that talked about the correlation between pirates and climate change? If so, the weather patterns are gonna get VSF.
They don't need to extradite him, just deport him. When US Marshalls are standing there at the jetway of a plane getting ready to fly to the US.
Most countries deport non-citizen criminals with warrants on them when they're arrested.
Have you looked at what it costs to go to college these days in the US? Unless you're part of the 1%, the student loans needed to get in on the ground floor of those 'high-paying R&D jobs' will take decades to pay off. Don't think you can default on them, either. Student loans can't be protected by bankruptcy, they stay on your credit report forever.
What gets me is, 8000 workers producing 10,000 iPhones a day. That's 1.2 phones a day per worker. Sounds efficient as hell to me.
If Apple relocated their iPhone line back to the States, they'd probably automate the line to the max, employ about 75-100 people, and crank out those same 10,000 iPhones a day. Most of those 75-100 people would be in the office, not on the floor.