When I worked for UC part time as a dish washer in the cafeteria I had to sign paperwork to the effect that the university owned whatever IP I produced, even if it was done on my own time. If I'd developed a cure for cancer in my off hours the University of California would own it today. It's hard to imagine TAs and RAs don't work under the same conditions.
They have trip planning software that figures out how long you need to charge. One of the car magazines had a guy drive his Model S down the East Coast, and he chronicled the trip. He got directions like "Go to this charging station and charge for 23 minutes, then drive to that charge station and charge for 31 minutes." Presumably for shorter trips you just add enough electrons to get you home, where you can plug it in for the night.
Japan's military is constrained in that it can't have nuclear weapons and can't build "offensive" weapons, which has always been read to mean "no aircraft carriers". But it does have helicopter carrying destroyers, which in the US would be assault carriers. There were constitutional provisions against deploying Japanese forces abroad, but those were, quite recently, effectively removed by the Abe government.
So yes, technically, Japan does have a military. They just don't spend much on it as it's sole purpose is to defend against invasion and for internal security. In short, their military is the equivalent to the US's National Guard.
Japan has a big advantage in that it's an island nation, so it doesn't need to spend much on ground forces. Even with China's growing strength, Japan still has the most powerful navy in the Far East and enough air power to defend the home islands. Japan lacks logistics capability, so it can't project power like the US or Russia. But that's okay; the Japanese people don't seem to have much interest in rebuilding the empire.
Whether or not this is actually extortion depends on whether or not the hackers release the data if the company decides not to pay. If the company says no and that's the end of it I can't get too excited, though the act of breaking in is itself illegal in most places.
No, not really. There are places that allow criminals to prey on the population, and there are places that just kill you if you're inconvenient. The US is neither of those.
The people behind bars in the US belong there. In California we ran out of jail space years ago, so someone who'd been drinking the Kool-aid had the idea we could free up a bunch of beds by letting out all the nonviolent criminals. When they actually went through the paperwork they couldn't find enough people to materially affect the shortage, which is why they're letting out violent offenders now.
Why are we doing things like this? They're a waste of time and money, which could be spent on things like curing HIV and cancer, ending world hunger, or finding a solution to global warming.
What do you mean "we"? We are not doing things like this. A communications company in Thailand is doing this because it has the odd idea that people in Thailand deserve to have a modern communications infrastructure and will be willing to support it financially.
Which is why I'm calling you on this one. That's not right. There are plenty of women who have done nothing wrong at all and they don't deserve to be put down because of the crazy ones.
You mean... like men? Why do men deserve to walk on eggshells?
I'm not blaming all women for this, I just want to give them some motivation to fix it.
They really did have one foot over the edge for a few years. If not for the bet-the-company iTunes and the iPod, Apple would have joined Wang, Dec, Sun, and Compaq in the brand graveyard.
At this point Apple has more money than God, so it's hard to see them actually going out of business, but they may become irrelevant in the smartphone market.
No. Google is required to take down videos they have been notified infringe on the holder's copyright. They are under no legal obligation to proactively try to clean copyrighted material from the site.
My grandfather didn't see a car until he was full grown, and before he died we had transistors, nuclear weapons, antibiotics, and had landed a man on the moon. It's not even close. People in the 1950s and 1960s thought we'd have ray guns and FTL ships by now because they were projecting from the state of innovation in their time.
The Republicans need to shed the gay-hating, woman-hating, black-hating, hispanic-hating, muslim-hating, atheist-hating CORE of their party if they ever want to be relevant again.
This is just projection. In any event, to claim the party that holds both houses of Congress and the vast majority of governorships needs to do this or that to ever be "relevant again" is pretty delusional when you think about it.
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It's pretty easy to spot people from other countries by the accent. It's not proof the people are H-1Bs, but that's the way to bet.
When I worked for UC part time as a dish washer in the cafeteria I had to sign paperwork to the effect that the university owned whatever IP I produced, even if it was done on my own time. If I'd developed a cure for cancer in my off hours the University of California would own it today. It's hard to imagine TAs and RAs don't work under the same conditions.
This is why I never, you know, cured cancer.
We can't do worse than Justin Trudeau.
They have trip planning software that figures out how long you need to charge. One of the car magazines had a guy drive his Model S down the East Coast, and he chronicled the trip. He got directions like "Go to this charging station and charge for 23 minutes, then drive to that charge station and charge for 31 minutes." Presumably for shorter trips you just add enough electrons to get you home, where you can plug it in for the night.
Japan's military is constrained in that it can't have nuclear weapons and can't build "offensive" weapons, which has always been read to mean "no aircraft carriers". But it does have helicopter carrying destroyers, which in the US would be assault carriers. There were constitutional provisions against deploying Japanese forces abroad, but those were, quite recently, effectively removed by the Abe government.
Yes, the US is effectively in the same position, and historically it's been a huge advantage.
Japan has a big advantage in that it's an island nation, so it doesn't need to spend much on ground forces. Even with China's growing strength, Japan still has the most powerful navy in the Far East and enough air power to defend the home islands. Japan lacks logistics capability, so it can't project power like the US or Russia. But that's okay; the Japanese people don't seem to have much interest in rebuilding the empire.
Whether or not this is actually extortion depends on whether or not the hackers release the data if the company decides not to pay. If the company says no and that's the end of it I can't get too excited, though the act of breaking in is itself illegal in most places.
No, not really. There are places that allow criminals to prey on the population, and there are places that just kill you if you're inconvenient. The US is neither of those.
The people behind bars in the US belong there. In California we ran out of jail space years ago, so someone who'd been drinking the Kool-aid had the idea we could free up a bunch of beds by letting out all the nonviolent criminals. When they actually went through the paperwork they couldn't find enough people to materially affect the shortage, which is why they're letting out violent offenders now.
It's projection.
Oh, the human toll from AIDS is large. But those economies are still growing strongly.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Africa has been growing quite strongly over the last few decades.
What do you mean "we"? We are not doing things like this. A communications company in Thailand is doing this because it has the odd idea that people in Thailand deserve to have a modern communications infrastructure and will be willing to support it financially.
No, that's not the answer at all. Just because they haven't done something yet doesn't mean it cannot be done.
You mean... like men? Why do men deserve to walk on eggshells?
I'm not blaming all women for this, I just want to give them some motivation to fix it.
None of what you've written here is true.
I do. The only way this is going to "end, from both sides" is if women pay some kind of price for the monster they've created.
They really did have one foot over the edge for a few years. If not for the bet-the-company iTunes and the iPod, Apple would have joined Wang, Dec, Sun, and Compaq in the brand graveyard.
At this point Apple has more money than God, so it's hard to see them actually going out of business, but they may become irrelevant in the smartphone market.
No. Google is required to take down videos they have been notified infringe on the holder's copyright. They are under no legal obligation to proactively try to clean copyrighted material from the site.
My grandfather didn't see a car until he was full grown, and before he died we had transistors, nuclear weapons, antibiotics, and had landed a man on the moon. It's not even close. People in the 1950s and 1960s thought we'd have ray guns and FTL ships by now because they were projecting from the state of innovation in their time.
This is just projection. In any event, to claim the party that holds both houses of Congress and the vast majority of governorships needs to do this or that to ever be "relevant again" is pretty delusional when you think about it.
This. A colonoscopy has a bigger statistical impact on your longevity than any other screening test.
Heh. He'd probably let you go - the state doesn't want to pay to treat your cancer, which it's on the hook for if you're in jail.
Not in the real world, no. It's not like insurance companies would rather pay hundreds of dollars for an X-ray, which is the alternative.