One of the reasons the Nazis are pulled into every discussion is that they are a "good" example of "bad". If your boss was a neo-Nazi, and he donated to anti-minority groups, would that matter to you?
The issue is simple to some people. Do you believe in human rights, or are you a bigot? That is something some people can't handle. Just because you can doesn't mean they are wrong. It just means you have no empathy.
That said, I'm absolutely 100% for Eich's right to have an opinion I disagree with. If he were acting on his opinion in an official capacity, sure, release the dogs of PR war. But if he maintains a nondiscriminatory policy, even if he may personally not like it, then that's about all you have the right to ask of him..
And what about the right of the workers at his company to voice their disapproval over his actions? Don't they have at least the same right to speak about the CEO's actions?
The CEO has the right to think and say whatever he likes. The employees have the right to think and say whatever they like about the CEO's actions. I'm still not clear where the issue is.
At last check... gay individuals had the same rights as straight ones... and while sometimes those rights may not line up with preferences (ie right to marry someone of the opposite sex where desire is to marry someone of the same sex), the right remains the same regardless... you purposely try to pain the issue as something more than its not.
So if the law was changed so that you could only marry someone of the same sex, you'd be ok with that, because it's not discriminatory?
The "distrimination" is that a straight person can marry anyone they want (if they are straight, the won't "want" to marry anyone of the same gender), and a gay person can not marry anyone they want. How is that equal?
The left wing is conservative. The right wing is liberal. The parties have flipped-flopped so many times, it doesn't make sense to use "liberal" or "conservative" to apply to either, as often it depends on the specific issue.
And nobody needs to try to make the conservatives look bad, they do plenty good of that on their own.
Perhaps they will try to sue Nortel for infringement of their patents, and reduce them to a smoking hole in the ground before they can actually collect anything from Cisco.
Someone else already pointed out that the party after the bankruptcy that ended up buying the patents, is unlikely to have liability for the infringements, so that tactic probably won't work. And it's possible that the bankruptcy discharge will have eliminated all previous liability, and if Nortel was infringing Cisco, Cisco lost on the ability to sue when they didn't list as a creditor for the bankruptcy.
If we could buy anything available somewhere in the world for a reasonable price, we wouldn't pirate anything. The artificial restrictions and rent seeking drive discontent. At least Disney figured it out. Releasing Disney movies on VHS once every 10-15 years in special limited editions stopped when every release now is ripped and preserved for posterity.
I rent lots of movies, and "steal" only what isn't available locally at any price.
So, anything discovered by "natives" is holistic? Cocaine is "holistic", but pennicilin isn't. Doesn't give a useful definition of "holistic" for dealing with efficacy and safety.
not many at all, actually. Some? yes. Those do get found out with time.
Like Vioxx, where they discovered that the results were fraudulent when people died mcuh more often than the "science" indicated. I was prescribed Vioxx during the time it was not known. I didn't take it, and about a month later, the scandal erupted. I threw away my boxes, unopened. But I could have been killed by Big Pharma fraud.
Took a growing pile of dead people to discover it.
That's because the big companies almost always win. When one of these gets to where the big company loses, and people start buying up failing little companies for the sole purpose of suing the big guys, it will cause a rapid and massive change.
I've seen it happen where "someone" ended up with the "leftover" credits and liabilities. It doesn't always go one way or the other. But it's structured so that you can't restructure yourself out of past liabilities (a car company can't dodge an impending lawsuit by declaring bankruptcy), so sometimes the new owners do get unknown and undisclosed liabilities.
And if you note my wording, I didn't indicate Cisco could get the liability assigned to the new company, but that they could try. How successful that is would be a question for better lawyers than me (as I'm not one).
But if it's easy for a NPE to buy patents and sue with them, then I expect theses cases will be on the rise, and the practicing entities will try to get some change in the system to fight such behavior.
Proof that patent chests don't work. If some non-practicing entity acquires the patents, your war chest doesn't help. What is Cisco going to do, sue Nortel for infringement (since there is apparently no formal cross-licensing agreement), and try to get those debts applied to the current patent holders, to cancel out their suit?
This is a good thing, as it will help prove the downfall of the current patent system. When you can get the big patent holders scared of other patent holders, we can get some progress in trimming the power of the vague and obvious patent.
Someone has to put the meat in, and (in a restaurant), someone will have to move the burger from the machine to the buyer. If deployed as a vending machine, one can expect the buyer to remove it themselves. And I've never seen anything that replaces a janitor. A collection of technology and change in behavior could, but that's a different issue. Where's the robot that scrubs toilets and fetches wastepaper baskets from under desks to empty? When you require people walk to a central depository to dispose of rubbish, then you can get a more practial automated system. But until AI is in, most of the "lower" jobs will still be labor intensive.
Just because you are insane doesn't mean anyone who shares a trait with you is. Others hoard on a HD. I store my movies on a shelf. Still much smaller in area and weight than many VHS collections I've seen.
DVDs are "good" because you own them. You can "stream" them from your DVD player to your TV any time you want. Internet out? Grab a DVD off the shelf.
They are also low-barrier. Any granny can pay $100 for a DVD player (likely less) and have someone plug it in if they don't want to, but most RCA DVD players come with all the cabling, and it's all color coded. Granny doesn't need to figure out how to "stream" or anything. Doesn't have to buy a special Smart TV, or media device or computer. DVDs just work. You pick the one you want, put it in, and it starts playing (after 20 minutes of warning and advertisements).
It has the Skyactiv tag, and efficient engines, but not regenerative braking like the Mazda6 Skyactiv. So there's still room for improvement. I can't keep up with who's got a CVT these days, but that's also a good improvement for economy.
Home improvement stores seem like the worst place for self-checkout
So many times I want an L-bracket or other small widget where it's marked on the box, but not the individual items (under $1 each). So I write or remember the code to give at the checkout. Having to manually enter bar codes on self-check usually triggers a call to the person to verify your item, so it really slows down the process.
As for self-checkout, most places I saw experiment with those in the past two years (grocery stores and Costco) has ripped them out and gone back to using human cashiers. The reasons? Fraud/theft and speed (trained cashiers are faster, who would have thought?). Walmart and big box home improvement stores are the outliers still offering self-checkout in my area.
Grocery stores are pushing these. There's one near work that has 20 of the self-check and two regular. The lines for the self-check are huge, and move very fast because there are so many machines (one line feeding all 20, and one employee handling exceptions and problems and directing people to empty machines in busy times, as it can be hard to see them all from the line). People love it. Much faster than the previous setup of 8 humans. This particular chain has had in self-checkers for 5+ years, so they apparently don't mind the theft, if any. It's the super-fast "12 or fewer" line. Some in other stores have no limits on items, and took the place of a regular checkout line
If they used their standard pricing model, they'd sell battery "upgrades" on a regular basis for 10x their cost. Of course, people would have generic replacements, and then they'd add more circuitry to their batteries for "safety" and encrypt it and sue anyone that breaks encryption for DMCA violations.
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One of the reasons the Nazis are pulled into every discussion is that they are a "good" example of "bad". If your boss was a neo-Nazi, and he donated to anti-minority groups, would that matter to you?
The issue is simple to some people. Do you believe in human rights, or are you a bigot? That is something some people can't handle. Just because you can doesn't mean they are wrong. It just means you have no empathy.
That said, I'm absolutely 100% for Eich's right to have an opinion I disagree with. If he were acting on his opinion in an official capacity, sure, release the dogs of PR war. But if he maintains a nondiscriminatory policy, even if he may personally not like it, then that's about all you have the right to ask of him..
And what about the right of the workers at his company to voice their disapproval over his actions? Don't they have at least the same right to speak about the CEO's actions?
The CEO has the right to think and say whatever he likes. The employees have the right to think and say whatever they like about the CEO's actions. I'm still not clear where the issue is.
At last check... gay individuals had the same rights as straight ones... and while sometimes those rights may not line up with preferences (ie right to marry someone of the opposite sex where desire is to marry someone of the same sex), the right remains the same regardless... you purposely try to pain the issue as something more than its not.
So if the law was changed so that you could only marry someone of the same sex, you'd be ok with that, because it's not discriminatory?
The "distrimination" is that a straight person can marry anyone they want (if they are straight, the won't "want" to marry anyone of the same gender), and a gay person can not marry anyone they want. How is that equal?
The left wing is conservative. The right wing is liberal. The parties have flipped-flopped so many times, it doesn't make sense to use "liberal" or "conservative" to apply to either, as often it depends on the specific issue.
And nobody needs to try to make the conservatives look bad, they do plenty good of that on their own.
Perhaps they will try to sue Nortel for infringement of their patents, and reduce them to a smoking hole in the ground before they can actually collect anything from Cisco.
Someone else already pointed out that the party after the bankruptcy that ended up buying the patents, is unlikely to have liability for the infringements, so that tactic probably won't work. And it's possible that the bankruptcy discharge will have eliminated all previous liability, and if Nortel was infringing Cisco, Cisco lost on the ability to sue when they didn't list as a creditor for the bankruptcy.
If we could buy anything available somewhere in the world for a reasonable price, we wouldn't pirate anything. The artificial restrictions and rent seeking drive discontent. At least Disney figured it out. Releasing Disney movies on VHS once every 10-15 years in special limited editions stopped when every release now is ripped and preserved for posterity.
I rent lots of movies, and "steal" only what isn't available locally at any price.
So, anything discovered by "natives" is holistic? Cocaine is "holistic", but pennicilin isn't. Doesn't give a useful definition of "holistic" for dealing with efficacy and safety.
As you ad no facts, we can only assume you fail your own test. Your case isn't helped by your ignorance, either.
not many at all, actually. Some? yes. Those do get found out with time.
Like Vioxx, where they discovered that the results were fraudulent when people died mcuh more often than the "science" indicated. I was prescribed Vioxx during the time it was not known. I didn't take it, and about a month later, the scandal erupted. I threw away my boxes, unopened. But I could have been killed by Big Pharma fraud.
Took a growing pile of dead people to discover it.
That's because the big companies almost always win. When one of these gets to where the big company loses, and people start buying up failing little companies for the sole purpose of suing the big guys, it will cause a rapid and massive change.
I've seen it happen where "someone" ended up with the "leftover" credits and liabilities. It doesn't always go one way or the other. But it's structured so that you can't restructure yourself out of past liabilities (a car company can't dodge an impending lawsuit by declaring bankruptcy), so sometimes the new owners do get unknown and undisclosed liabilities.
And if you note my wording, I didn't indicate Cisco could get the liability assigned to the new company, but that they could try. How successful that is would be a question for better lawyers than me (as I'm not one).
But if it's easy for a NPE to buy patents and sue with them, then I expect theses cases will be on the rise, and the practicing entities will try to get some change in the system to fight such behavior.
Proof that patent chests don't work. If some non-practicing entity acquires the patents, your war chest doesn't help. What is Cisco going to do, sue Nortel for infringement (since there is apparently no formal cross-licensing agreement), and try to get those debts applied to the current patent holders, to cancel out their suit?
This is a good thing, as it will help prove the downfall of the current patent system. When you can get the big patent holders scared of other patent holders, we can get some progress in trimming the power of the vague and obvious patent.
Someone has to put the meat in, and (in a restaurant), someone will have to move the burger from the machine to the buyer. If deployed as a vending machine, one can expect the buyer to remove it themselves. And I've never seen anything that replaces a janitor. A collection of technology and change in behavior could, but that's a different issue. Where's the robot that scrubs toilets and fetches wastepaper baskets from under desks to empty? When you require people walk to a central depository to dispose of rubbish, then you can get a more practial automated system. But until AI is in, most of the "lower" jobs will still be labor intensive.
Just because you are insane doesn't mean anyone who shares a trait with you is. Others hoard on a HD. I store my movies on a shelf. Still much smaller in area and weight than many VHS collections I've seen.
I can pack 300 DVDs (in cases) in a book box. Easily liftable by one person. Not too big, not too heavy.
DVDs are "good" because you own them. You can "stream" them from your DVD player to your TV any time you want. Internet out? Grab a DVD off the shelf.
They are also low-barrier. Any granny can pay $100 for a DVD player (likely less) and have someone plug it in if they don't want to, but most RCA DVD players come with all the cabling, and it's all color coded. Granny doesn't need to figure out how to "stream" or anything. Doesn't have to buy a special Smart TV, or media device or computer. DVDs just work. You pick the one you want, put it in, and it starts playing (after 20 minutes of warning and advertisements).
What's wrong with "permanent" and "just works"?
The reader can only infer. The writer can only imply. So you did the right thing, don't feel bad.
It has the Skyactiv tag, and efficient engines, but not regenerative braking like the Mazda6 Skyactiv. So there's still room for improvement. I can't keep up with who's got a CVT these days, but that's also a good improvement for economy.
"heaps" What are you, an Aussie?
Home improvement stores seem like the worst place for self-checkout
So many times I want an L-bracket or other small widget where it's marked on the box, but not the individual items (under $1 each). So I write or remember the code to give at the checkout. Having to manually enter bar codes on self-check usually triggers a call to the person to verify your item, so it really slows down the process.
As for self-checkout, most places I saw experiment with those in the past two years (grocery stores and Costco) has ripped them out and gone back to using human cashiers. The reasons? Fraud/theft and speed (trained cashiers are faster, who would have thought?). Walmart and big box home improvement stores are the outliers still offering self-checkout in my area.
Grocery stores are pushing these. There's one near work that has 20 of the self-check and two regular. The lines for the self-check are huge, and move very fast because there are so many machines (one line feeding all 20, and one employee handling exceptions and problems and directing people to empty machines in busy times, as it can be hard to see them all from the line). People love it. Much faster than the previous setup of 8 humans. This particular chain has had in self-checkers for 5+ years, so they apparently don't mind the theft, if any. It's the super-fast "12 or fewer" line. Some in other stores have no limits on items, and took the place of a regular checkout line
If they used their standard pricing model, they'd sell battery "upgrades" on a regular basis for 10x their cost. Of course, people would have generic replacements, and then they'd add more circuitry to their batteries for "safety" and encrypt it and sue anyone that breaks encryption for DMCA violations.
Many families operate communistically, rather than fascistly, though fascistly is the American default.
It's implied.