They were selling the books below cost. That is a predatory practice, designed to force other sellers (with less money) out of the market. Then once there was no competition and all their customers were expecting new releases at $10, they could go back to the publishers demand a lower price.
I don't see why software developers, generally, would want to unionize. On the other hand it seems like I hear a lot of horror stories from video game developers, which makes sense since it's such a small market and so many developers want make games. So I could see why game developers might want to. Although it might be easier to just switch to a more profitable market like databases, since the real problem is a surplus of developers willing to take abuse to work in games.
For example: hey changed the way their Facebook and other social networking logins work so that it's a lot easer to integrate into an iOS 6 app than it was before. That means if you're developing a social networking app for iOS, you're going to have a much easier time if you make it for version 6 rather than version 5. With iOS, you can take advantage of new features right away. When Google makes things better for the android developers, they have to wait 2 years or so before they can implement them if they want their app to be accessible to most users.
When Apple releases a new version, like 7, they release a developer preview. If I started an app for iOS 7 today, and planned to release it when apple releases iOS 7, I could expect that most iOS users would be able to use the app within a month of it's release. That's impossible with android.
He didn't forget corn, it's right there in his second paragraph!
There are several major crops where Monsanto has a lot of competition, and others where Monsanto doesn't even offer products. Corn, which is Monsanto's biggest product has a 40% market share.
The problem is that you haven't accurately defined what you mean when you say "market share." If you go by acres planted, monsanto only provides 35% and like he said, that is by far their biggest seller.
So how do you two have such wildly different numbers? You are counting seeds with patented genes licensed by other companies from Monsanto as having been sold by Monsanto. Who is right? One thing is for certain, Monsanto is not going to achieve global dominance as long as they license their patents to competitors.
Monsanto is aiming for complete control of global food production through its extremely controversial genetically modified crops. These GM crops not only pose unknown risks to human lives, but also threaten the human existence at large.
Really? How can you say for certain that something poses "unknown" risks? And if the risks are unknown, how can you say for certain they threaten all of human existence? And given the expiratory nature of the patents monsanto uses to enforce their intellectual property, isn't it impossible for them to actually achieve "complete control of global food production through its extremely controversial genetically modified crops?" Wouldn't they need the political clout to extend patents to an unlimited timeframe and require use of their GMO crops in all cases before they could have complete control, or even dominance.
Microsoft is in decline. Between Windows 8 and the Xbox One, few if any consumers are interested in their products for the sake of their products anymore.
Ok, Windows 8 was a definite flop, but shouldn't we at lease wait to see how the Xbox One is released before we declare it dead?
Linux is far from "write once, works 3 years from now" and neither is OS X. You'll find greater stability in running a Windows app via WINE that you will a native OS X or Linux app several years down the road.
Ok, that's just total nonsense. Microsoft operating system and applications are, simply put, not known for their stability. I can't even imagine you typing that with a straight face.
Microsoft isn't in decline, however much people like you and I would like to imagine them to be.
Yeah, sure. They just haven't been able to break into the mobile device market while that market is in the process of devouring their core business. No big deal, right?
Hollywood can’t seem to believe that software is made with logic, precision and concentration
Most software leaves users with the feeling it was slapped together by a rowdy group of inebriated teenagers, so it's not surprising hollywood feels that way. Of course, the problem is usually poor management practices and not alcohol, so truth is more boring than fiction in this case.
a scale that would dwarf anything that all but the most paranoid would imagine
I've known this was going on since the late '90s with ECHELON. And even before that, the government was already involved with large scale warrantless information gathering with COINTELPRO. It's not that I'm paranoid, I just looked at the evidence and accepted reality. Perhaps it's just more "normal" for most people to be in denial about this kind of thing?
There are no natural strains of corn that are roundup resistant. The farmer knew that and was attempting to exploit what he saw as a loophole in the patent system. The court, however, ruled that he knowingly infringed on the patent (which he obviously did). He was required to abide by the terms of sale in order to compensate Monsanto for their monetary losses (the loss of the sale to the farmer). That's how patents work.
The guy knowingly cultivated the patented seeds. You're making an absurd argument saying that you'd have to send in every seed for testing. The court wouldn't accept such a foolish argument.
once it's on my property, I should have the right to do whatever I want with it -- including harvesting and re-planting the seeds, because I never agreed not to.
No. You may be surprised to learn this, but patents apply to you and do not require your explicit consent. All government requirements apply to you without your consent. That includes the requirements that allow you to "own" land in the first place. You are just picking and choosing which ones you like and which ones you don't.
Actually, it's strange that the farmer took any action against the wheat at all. Around here they just let it grow, and I can't really think of a reason not to. Maybe he was worried about the wheat depleting the soil, but it would have to be a pretty big patch of wheat.
The US gov't wants to tax this money a second time, at the full tax rate, as if the money had never been taxed before, as if it had been made in the US.
The IRC actually allows you to deduct foreign taxes from the taxes you owe. The thing is, corporate taxes are much lower in other parts of the world, so what you said is practically true even though it's not actually true at all.
1) Fill out the forms. A Civil Cases Cover Sheet, a Summons, and a Complaint all must be filled out in order to file a lawsuit. You must include facts concerning the case and a legally recognizable cause of action in order for the suit to proceed. It is best to have an attorney help you do this to make sure the forms are filled out correctly. See USCourtForms.com for sample forms you can use.
2) File the complaint. Make two copies of your forms, go to the courthouse, and file the originals with the court according to their instructions. Make sure you provide the forms in the format specified by the court, to prevent delays from occurring. In most cases you will have to pay a filing fee, but this can be waived if you show you can't afford it. Keep the two extra copies.
3) Have the defendant served. The next step is to notify the defendant that he or she is being sued by serving him or her with a copy of the court documents. The case cannot move forward until this happens. Documents must be served by someone over 18 who is not part of the case. You cannot serve your own documents. Ask for help at the courthouse if you aren't sure who should serve your documents.
4) Wait for a hearing. After the defendant has been served, the court will review the lawsuit and instruct you on how it will move forward.
His statements seem more figurative in nature. I doubt he was claiming to literally sharpen an axe. But then it's hard to know what someone else is thinking. In the grand scheme of things, revolutions happen all the time, and it's not at all unreasonable or delusional to think that one is coming or that you should start one. And of course, depending on how you go about it, starting a revolution need not be violent or illegal either. It's hard to look at this case and not see the parallels between it and COINTELPRO. I understand the desire to prevent violence, but if that comes at the cost of living with the thought police, maybe it isn't worth it?
Bear in mind that Timothy McVeigh was a veteran. Serving in Iraq, he learned that civilian casualties are a natural part of armed conflict, so when he saw the federal government going after innocent citizen's guns he reasoned that they were the enemy, and the result wasn't pretty.
You shouldn't ever cripple the user interface, but that doesn't mean that it should be easy to make dramatic irreversible changes to what the user is working on. It's also a matter of space optimization. Simple tasks that your users will do often should appear on the main user interface, other features that will be used less frequently should still be easy to find, but they shouldn't be accomplished by simply clicking a button.
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They were selling the books below cost. That is a predatory practice, designed to force other sellers (with less money) out of the market. Then once there was no competition and all their customers were expecting new releases at $10, they could go back to the publishers demand a lower price.
I don't see why software developers, generally, would want to unionize. On the other hand it seems like I hear a lot of horror stories from video game developers, which makes sense since it's such a small market and so many developers want make games. So I could see why game developers might want to. Although it might be easier to just switch to a more profitable market like databases, since the real problem is a surplus of developers willing to take abuse to work in games.
For example: hey changed the way their Facebook and other social networking logins work so that it's a lot easer to integrate into an iOS 6 app than it was before. That means if you're developing a social networking app for iOS, you're going to have a much easier time if you make it for version 6 rather than version 5. With iOS, you can take advantage of new features right away. When Google makes things better for the android developers, they have to wait 2 years or so before they can implement them if they want their app to be accessible to most users.
When Apple releases a new version, like 7, they release a developer preview. If I started an app for iOS 7 today, and planned to release it when apple releases iOS 7, I could expect that most iOS users would be able to use the app within a month of it's release. That's impossible with android.
He didn't forget corn, it's right there in his second paragraph!
The problem is that you haven't accurately defined what you mean when you say "market share." If you go by acres planted, monsanto only provides 35% and like he said, that is by far their biggest seller.
So how do you two have such wildly different numbers? You are counting seeds with patented genes licensed by other companies from Monsanto as having been sold by Monsanto. Who is right? One thing is for certain, Monsanto is not going to achieve global dominance as long as they license their patents to competitors.
Really? How can you say for certain that something poses "unknown" risks? And if the risks are unknown, how can you say for certain they threaten all of human existence? And given the expiratory nature of the patents monsanto uses to enforce their intellectual property, isn't it impossible for them to actually achieve "complete control of global food production through its extremely controversial genetically modified crops?" Wouldn't they need the political clout to extend patents to an unlimited timeframe and require use of their GMO crops in all cases before they could have complete control, or even dominance.
Ok, Windows 8 was a definite flop, but shouldn't we at lease wait to see how the Xbox One is released before we declare it dead?
Ok, that's just total nonsense. Microsoft operating system and applications are, simply put, not known for their stability. I can't even imagine you typing that with a straight face.
Yeah, sure. They just haven't been able to break into the mobile device market while that market is in the process of devouring their core business. No big deal, right?
I would be less not ok with this if it were actually possible to purchase HBO Go, which it isn't.
Most software leaves users with the feeling it was slapped together by a rowdy group of inebriated teenagers, so it's not surprising hollywood feels that way. Of course, the problem is usually poor management practices and not alcohol, so truth is more boring than fiction in this case.
I've known this was going on since the late '90s with ECHELON. And even before that, the government was already involved with large scale warrantless information gathering with COINTELPRO. It's not that I'm paranoid, I just looked at the evidence and accepted reality. Perhaps it's just more "normal" for most people to be in denial about this kind of thing?
That's the stupidest thing I've read on /. today. Of course the TSA is the problem. Taking peoples pocket knives is a pointless knee-jerk reaction.
That's a pretty big problem too, but then no one said there was only one problem.
There are no natural strains of corn that are roundup resistant. The farmer knew that and was attempting to exploit what he saw as a loophole in the patent system. The court, however, ruled that he knowingly infringed on the patent (which he obviously did). He was required to abide by the terms of sale in order to compensate Monsanto for their monetary losses (the loss of the sale to the farmer). That's how patents work.
The guy knowingly cultivated the patented seeds. You're making an absurd argument saying that you'd have to send in every seed for testing. The court wouldn't accept such a foolish argument.
You know some people work on computers, right?
Wishing something weren't true isn't a valid refutation.
No. You may be surprised to learn this, but patents apply to you and do not require your explicit consent. All government requirements apply to you without your consent. That includes the requirements that allow you to "own" land in the first place. You are just picking and choosing which ones you like and which ones you don't.
Actually, it's strange that the farmer took any action against the wheat at all. Around here they just let it grow, and I can't really think of a reason not to. Maybe he was worried about the wheat depleting the soil, but it would have to be a pretty big patch of wheat.
The IRC actually allows you to deduct foreign taxes from the taxes you owe. The thing is, corporate taxes are much lower in other parts of the world, so what you said is practically true even though it's not actually true at all.
1) Fill out the forms. A Civil Cases Cover Sheet, a Summons, and a Complaint all must be filled out in order to file a lawsuit. You must include facts concerning the case and a legally recognizable cause of action in order for the suit to proceed. It is best to have an attorney help you do this to make sure the forms are filled out correctly. See USCourtForms.com for sample forms you can use.
2) File the complaint. Make two copies of your forms, go to the courthouse, and file the originals with the court according to their instructions. Make sure you provide the forms in the format specified by the court, to prevent delays from occurring. In most cases you will have to pay a filing fee, but this can be waived if you show you can't afford it. Keep the two extra copies.
3) Have the defendant served. The next step is to notify the defendant that he or she is being sued by serving him or her with a copy of the court documents. The case cannot move forward until this happens. Documents must be served by someone over 18 who is not part of the case. You cannot serve your own documents.
Ask for help at the courthouse if you aren't sure who should serve your documents.
4) Wait for a hearing. After the defendant has been served, the court will review the lawsuit and instruct you on how it will move forward.
But you wouldn't know anything about that, would you?
His statements seem more figurative in nature. I doubt he was claiming to literally sharpen an axe. But then it's hard to know what someone else is thinking. In the grand scheme of things, revolutions happen all the time, and it's not at all unreasonable or delusional to think that one is coming or that you should start one. And of course, depending on how you go about it, starting a revolution need not be violent or illegal either. It's hard to look at this case and not see the parallels between it and COINTELPRO. I understand the desire to prevent violence, but if that comes at the cost of living with the thought police, maybe it isn't worth it?
Bear in mind that Timothy McVeigh was a veteran. Serving in Iraq, he learned that civilian casualties are a natural part of armed conflict, so when he saw the federal government going after innocent citizen's guns he reasoned that they were the enemy, and the result wasn't pretty.
That said, this case is totally despicable.
You shouldn't ever cripple the user interface, but that doesn't mean that it should be easy to make dramatic irreversible changes to what the user is working on. It's also a matter of space optimization. Simple tasks that your users will do often should appear on the main user interface, other features that will be used less frequently should still be easy to find, but they shouldn't be accomplished by simply clicking a button.
Yeah, I already googled it. I feel like an idiot.
Then may I suggest links to some legitimate press coverage, rather than a link to an obscure blog no one goes to with a low resolution photo?