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because it affects companies in a sort of inverted U shape: small businesses owned by fewer than 500 shareholders are completely exempt
Perhaps by the letter of the law they are exempt but they still feel the pain. My small employer (60+ employees) is privately owned but our accounting costs almost doubled after SOx. I'm willing to bet the bottom line hit from this represents a higher percentage of our income than it does for random mega-corp.
What they don't realise though is that shit like this puts people off.
Who does this "put off" other than techno-geeks that read sites like/.? I don't think the average consumer is taking Apple's heavy-handed patent tactics into account when they are picking out their next smartphone. This is a win-win for Apple; they make it cumbersome for their competitors to have basic functionality on their devices and can use said cumbersomeness to argue that their products are more consumer friendly. Meanwhile nobody outside of communities like this one cares about the tactics they are using. Heck, even within this community we've got our share of apologists for Apple/Google/Microsoft/other-boogieman-of-the-day.
In the long term this argues in favor of patent reform. That will be an uphill battle though; most policymakers are woefully ignorant about this issue and even the ones who are well informed don't find it a sexy enough issue to spend political capital on. One can only hope this issue becomes more mainstream as the court system bogs down under the load of nonsense patent litigation.
To say nothing of the assets that will come available when T-Mobile declares bankruptcy
T-Mobile USA makes money. It just doesn't make enough money for the corporate overlords at DT. They don't view the United States as a growth market without billions of dollars in capital investment they've thus far been unwilling to make. Absent that investment T-Mobile USA will remain what it has always been: an urban focused value carrier.
T-Mobile will still get bought, or will go under.
Vodaphone is a possibility if they divest their 45% share of Verizon Wireless. Verizon would love to buy them out; the question is would they be willing to sell to jump into the US market with both feet or does it make more sense for them to keep cashing VZW dividend checks?
President's names don't make very good aircraft carrier names in my opinion
They also seem somewhat antithetical to our republican traditions. One can understand when a monarchical state starts to idolize its leaders but why should a democratic republic do the same?
By the way, I heard there's a petition to rename the second Gerald Ford-class carrier "Enterprise", since the old one (CVN-65) is supposed to be decommissioned by whenever the new one is finished
A lot of people will be ticked off if the Enterprise goes to the breakers without a new carrier being named after her. CV-6 was the most decorated US warship of all time. She fought in nearly every major Pacific engagement and stood ALONE against the Japanese towards the end of the Guadalcanal campaign when every other US carrier was sunk or laid up for repairs. Her accomplishments were such that she was the only non-British ship ever awarded the British Admiralty Pennant.
Anybody with any sense of history really needs to be writing letters to their Congressman and the Secretary of the Navy on this subject. Seriously, they'd better not replace the Enterprise with a ship named after another politician that hasn't even been dead long enough for history to render a judgment. Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush weren't even dead when their namesake ships were commissioned. How pathetic that we idolize politicians in such a manner.
It's funny you should mention buses because by the sounds of things in TFA it was shared negligence on the part of bus drivers that caused the accident used to justify this recommendation:
The board made the recommendation in connection with a deadly highway pileup in Missouri last year. The board said the initial collision in the accident near Gray Summit, Mo., was caused by the inattention of a 19 year-old-pickup driver who sent or received 11 texts in the 11 minutes immediately before the crash.
The pickup, traveling at 55 mph, collided into the back of a tractor truck that had slowed for highway construction. The pickup was rear-ended by a school bus that overrode the smaller vehicle. A second school bus rammed into the back of the first bus.
Sounds to me like the bus drivers were following too closely, not paying attention or the school districts failed to properly maintain the braking systems on the buses. Perhaps a combination of all three. The initial accident may well have been the fault of texting but the subsequent involvement of the school buses could easily have been avoided. Properly attentive drivers maintain sufficient following distance to avoid becoming involved in an accident that happens ahead of them.
The three second rule would likely have prevented the buses from becoming involved in this accident. Why are there not any suggestions for improved school bus driver training attached to this recommendation?
Not an option; we have a web developer who uses some retarded development environment that just barely supports scp. It will do scp but not with certificates or non-standard ports. Since my boss tells me I have to make it work and scp > ftp I'm stuck using the default port.
Besides, I don't regard changing the port as effective security. I would still want it rate limited and if I'm going to have a rate limit why not use the standard port?
Depends on how you define "retaliation"; I'd say that she does since she hasn't been involved in a conventional war since 1973. If you define "retaliation" as terrorist attacks/asymmetrical warfare then you might have a better argument; of course such a definition would have to include the 9/11 attacks, the USS Cole, the Saudi Arabia barracks bombing and other such incidents, thereby disproving your claim that the United States "gets away with it"
Well; in fairness you can carry more 5.56mm with you than 7.62 for the same weight, so it's not completely without advantage. I don't think the adoption of the 9x19 was driven by recoil concerns either; many shooters (myself included) find the.45 easier to handle in this department than the 9x19. The nine has a much snappier recoil in my experience; probably has to do with the fact that it's a supersonic round and operates at higher pressures than the.45
As far as I know the SEALs don't use 1911s as standard equipment. Delta Force does (or used to) and so does Marine Force Recon if I recall correctly. The SEALs use H&K USPs as their sidearm; not sure which caliber though.
And the Japanese who did not surrender on December 8, 1941 deserved summary execution on the battlefield. TAKE NO PRISONERS!
The Japanese tended to get summary executions on the battlefield because they had a nasty habit of using white flags and other gestures of surrender to get close enough to our troops to kill them. I would not go out of my way to take prisoners either if I was fighting an enemy that regularly committed perfidy.
Same as OBL's ilk now that you mention it. You do realize that they are also willing to die if it means they get to take a few Westerners out with them, right?
Well, we're not sure yet if the special ops team had to shoot Bin Laden for their own safety
Unless he was stark naked they had every right to shoot him for their own safety; did you forget that we are dealing with people that are willing to strap bombs to their chests and blow themselves up if it means they get to take a few Westerners out with them?
Excuse me, but I didn't say it made you "irresponsible". All I said was that a company has valid reasons not to want to extend you post-pay service after you have demonstrated a pattern of not paying your bills on time. It's not their job to ask why you failed to pay them on time or their problem that you didn't. I went through bankruptcy a few years ago -- you don't see me bellyaching about Citi not wanting to do business with me because of this fact.
Being poor doesn't negate the ability to have post-paid service. Having bad credit does. If you've demonstrated that you don't pay your bills why would they want to extend you the option of paying for your service after you use it?
It's hard to argue against the impact on crime that the cameras have
Actually it's very easy to argue that. Many studies suggest that cameras don't do anything to deter crime. They may assist in the subsequent investigation and occasionally even provide the evidence that wins a criminal conviction but there is a bit of a difference between that and deterring/preventing crime.
Yeah:'( I am starting to wonder whether I'll find one I want to be with before I'm 60
Stop despairing and get out there and date. Even Geeks can find true love. With 6.7 billion people on this rock there is literally somebody for everybody. Do you doubt what I say? Head over to your local Wal-Mart sometime and observe how many of less than desirable natives are holding hands or wearing wedding bands. You are going to lay down and accept a world wherein those people get to reproduce and you don't? Rest assured there are plenty of geek chicks on this planet. Do you think they would rather wind up with one of those Wally World men or a fellow geek like yourself?
*shrug*, I don't see how it's any of our business and it seems rather hypocritical that we've chosen to intervene in a country with oil reverses over a threatened massacre that hadn't yet occurred while ignoring ongoing massacres in other parts of the world that aren't so rich in resources. BHO has now taken us into our third war and couldn't even be bothered to seek the approval of the US Congress before doing so. The same man that said a few years ago that the President lacked the authority to commit the US Military to battle without Congressional approval absent an imminent or actual attack on the United States of America.
Only if they accept medicare/medicaid dollars. A medical practice is perfectly free to decline to participate in this system at which point the mandate no longer applies. Either way it's still not a justification for ass fucking the constitution and trying to twist the commerce clause into regulating economic inactivity.
Their citizenship is irrelevant. Saudi Arabia was not the country allowing them to use it's soil as a base of operations. The Saudi Government was not the one that refused to turn them over to face justice. Which Government was that I wonder?
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because it affects companies in a sort of inverted U shape: small businesses owned by fewer than 500 shareholders are completely exempt
Perhaps by the letter of the law they are exempt but they still feel the pain. My small employer (60+ employees) is privately owned but our accounting costs almost doubled after SOx. I'm willing to bet the bottom line hit from this represents a higher percentage of our income than it does for random mega-corp.
What they don't realise though is that shit like this puts people off.
Who does this "put off" other than techno-geeks that read sites like /.? I don't think the average consumer is taking Apple's heavy-handed patent tactics into account when they are picking out their next smartphone. This is a win-win for Apple; they make it cumbersome for their competitors to have basic functionality on their devices and can use said cumbersomeness to argue that their products are more consumer friendly. Meanwhile nobody outside of communities like this one cares about the tactics they are using. Heck, even within this community we've got our share of apologists for Apple/Google/Microsoft/other-boogieman-of-the-day.
In the long term this argues in favor of patent reform. That will be an uphill battle though; most policymakers are woefully ignorant about this issue and even the ones who are well informed don't find it a sexy enough issue to spend political capital on. One can only hope this issue becomes more mainstream as the court system bogs down under the load of nonsense patent litigation.
T-Mobile will still get bought, or will go under.
To say nothing of the assets that will come available when T-Mobile declares bankruptcy
T-Mobile USA makes money. It just doesn't make enough money for the corporate overlords at DT. They don't view the United States as a growth market without billions of dollars in capital investment they've thus far been unwilling to make. Absent that investment T-Mobile USA will remain what it has always been: an urban focused value carrier.
T-Mobile will still get bought, or will go under.
Vodaphone is a possibility if they divest their 45% share of Verizon Wireless. Verizon would love to buy them out; the question is would they be willing to sell to jump into the US market with both feet or does it make more sense for them to keep cashing VZW dividend checks?
I'm so Ronery.
President's names don't make very good aircraft carrier names in my opinion
They also seem somewhat antithetical to our republican traditions. One can understand when a monarchical state starts to idolize its leaders but why should a democratic republic do the same?
By the way, I heard there's a petition to rename the second Gerald Ford-class carrier "Enterprise", since the old one (CVN-65) is supposed to be decommissioned by whenever the new one is finished
A lot of people will be ticked off if the Enterprise goes to the breakers without a new carrier being named after her. CV-6 was the most decorated US warship of all time. She fought in nearly every major Pacific engagement and stood ALONE against the Japanese towards the end of the Guadalcanal campaign when every other US carrier was sunk or laid up for repairs. Her accomplishments were such that she was the only non-British ship ever awarded the British Admiralty Pennant.
Anybody with any sense of history really needs to be writing letters to their Congressman and the Secretary of the Navy on this subject. Seriously, they'd better not replace the Enterprise with a ship named after another politician that hasn't even been dead long enough for history to render a judgment. Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush weren't even dead when their namesake ships were commissioned. How pathetic that we idolize politicians in such a manner.
My mom has had sex. They sell Sex For Dummies books. Those two criteria right there are reason enough to never have sex.
It's funny you should mention buses because by the sounds of things in TFA it was shared negligence on the part of bus drivers that caused the accident used to justify this recommendation:
The board made the recommendation in connection with a deadly highway pileup in Missouri last year. The board said the initial collision in the accident near Gray Summit, Mo., was caused by the inattention of a 19 year-old-pickup driver who sent or received 11 texts in the 11 minutes immediately before the crash.
The pickup, traveling at 55 mph, collided into the back of a tractor truck that had slowed for highway construction. The pickup was rear-ended by a school bus that overrode the smaller vehicle. A second school bus rammed into the back of the first bus.
Sounds to me like the bus drivers were following too closely, not paying attention or the school districts failed to properly maintain the braking systems on the buses. Perhaps a combination of all three. The initial accident may well have been the fault of texting but the subsequent involvement of the school buses could easily have been avoided. Properly attentive drivers maintain sufficient following distance to avoid becoming involved in an accident that happens ahead of them.
The three second rule would likely have prevented the buses from becoming involved in this accident. Why are there not any suggestions for improved school bus driver training attached to this recommendation?
Not an option; we have a web developer who uses some retarded development environment that just barely supports scp. It will do scp but not with certificates or non-standard ports. Since my boss tells me I have to make it work and scp > ftp I'm stuck using the default port.
Besides, I don't regard changing the port as effective security. I would still want it rate limited and if I'm going to have a rate limit why not use the standard port?
Easier than banning every overseas IP, IMHO anyway. This is what I do for SSH:
# Allow SSH with a rate limit
iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p tcp --syn --dport 22 -m hashlimit --hashlimit 15/hour --hashlimit-burst 3 --hashlimit-htable-expire 600000 --hashlimit-mode srcip --hashlimit-name ssh -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p tcp --syn --dport 22 -j LOG --log-prefix "[DROPPED SSH]: "
iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p tcp --syn --dport 22 -j DROP
There may be a more eloquent way to do this but it gets the job done.
a head blown apart with assault rifle rounds.
Most Americans would have volunteered to squeeze the trigger that fired those rounds.
Depends on how you define "retaliation"; I'd say that she does since she hasn't been involved in a conventional war since 1973. If you define "retaliation" as terrorist attacks/asymmetrical warfare then you might have a better argument; of course such a definition would have to include the 9/11 attacks, the USS Cole, the Saudi Arabia barracks bombing and other such incidents, thereby disproving your claim that the United States "gets away with it"
Even with your qualification your statement is still inaccurate. Israel regularly violates her neighbors to capture or kill her enemies.
Well; in fairness you can carry more 5.56mm with you than 7.62 for the same weight, so it's not completely without advantage. I don't think the adoption of the 9x19 was driven by recoil concerns either; many shooters (myself included) find the .45 easier to handle in this department than the 9x19. The nine has a much snappier recoil in my experience; probably has to do with the fact that it's a supersonic round and operates at higher pressures than the .45
As far as I know the SEALs don't use 1911s as standard equipment. Delta Force does (or used to) and so does Marine Force Recon if I recall correctly. The SEALs use H&K USPs as their sidearm; not sure which caliber though.
And the Japanese who did not surrender on December 8, 1941 deserved summary execution on the battlefield. TAKE NO PRISONERS!
The Japanese tended to get summary executions on the battlefield because they had a nasty habit of using white flags and other gestures of surrender to get close enough to our troops to kill them. I would not go out of my way to take prisoners either if I was fighting an enemy that regularly committed perfidy.
Same as OBL's ilk now that you mention it. You do realize that they are also willing to die if it means they get to take a few Westerners out with them, right?
The USA is the only nation which can send their troops into foreign territory
False. Other Great Powers do it as well; I presume you followed the events in Georgia a few years ago?
You know, the proposal that was most likely 5.56 mm wide and delivered at about 3500 feet per second by a SEAL "negotiation team."
I heard it was a 7.62mm NATO; might explain why the photos were considered "too gruesome" to release.
Well, we're not sure yet if the special ops team had to shoot Bin Laden for their own safety
Unless he was stark naked they had every right to shoot him for their own safety; did you forget that we are dealing with people that are willing to strap bombs to their chests and blow themselves up if it means they get to take a few Westerners out with them?
Excuse me, but I didn't say it made you "irresponsible". All I said was that a company has valid reasons not to want to extend you post-pay service after you have demonstrated a pattern of not paying your bills on time. It's not their job to ask why you failed to pay them on time or their problem that you didn't. I went through bankruptcy a few years ago -- you don't see me bellyaching about Citi not wanting to do business with me because of this fact.
Being poor doesn't negate the ability to have post-paid service. Having bad credit does. If you've demonstrated that you don't pay your bills why would they want to extend you the option of paying for your service after you use it?
It's hard to argue against the impact on crime that the cameras have
Actually it's very easy to argue that. Many studies suggest that cameras don't do anything to deter crime. They may assist in the subsequent investigation and occasionally even provide the evidence that wins a criminal conviction but there is a bit of a difference between that and deterring/preventing crime.
Yeah :'( I am starting to wonder whether I'll find one I want to be with before I'm 60
Stop despairing and get out there and date. Even Geeks can find true love. With 6.7 billion people on this rock there is literally somebody for everybody. Do you doubt what I say? Head over to your local Wal-Mart sometime and observe how many of less than desirable natives are holding hands or wearing wedding bands. You are going to lay down and accept a world wherein those people get to reproduce and you don't? Rest assured there are plenty of geek chicks on this planet. Do you think they would rather wind up with one of those Wally World men or a fellow geek like yourself?
No one time pad. Less space than a TrueCrypt container. Lame.
*shrug*, I don't see how it's any of our business and it seems rather hypocritical that we've chosen to intervene in a country with oil reverses over a threatened massacre that hadn't yet occurred while ignoring ongoing massacres in other parts of the world that aren't so rich in resources. BHO has now taken us into our third war and couldn't even be bothered to seek the approval of the US Congress before doing so. The same man that said a few years ago that the President lacked the authority to commit the US Military to battle without Congressional approval absent an imminent or actual attack on the United States of America.
Only if they accept medicare/medicaid dollars. A medical practice is perfectly free to decline to participate in this system at which point the mandate no longer applies. Either way it's still not a justification for ass fucking the constitution and trying to twist the commerce clause into regulating economic inactivity.
Their citizenship is irrelevant. Saudi Arabia was not the country allowing them to use it's soil as a base of operations. The Saudi Government was not the one that refused to turn them over to face justice. Which Government was that I wonder?