Don't be angry with Google for following laws that allow them to pay less in taxes than you think they should, be angry at the lawmakers that craft the laws that allow them to do so.
There is plenty of anger for them both and then some. Your argument is specious because those same corporations are buying those same politicians specifically to favor them with laws written by the corporation lobbyists. Of course the tax system favors them since they wrote the tax loopholes this dumb ass CEO is espousing as virtuous.
First,you post an inflammatory statement that is absurd on its face regarding West Viriginia's water. Second, even if you do believe that the water there is substandard, you might want to look at something called 'Coal Mining' as a much more likely source for groundwater contamination. Does that mean that there aren't areas where the water can be screwed up? Of course not, but you can't just declare the latest cause du jour to be the culprit just because it is the latest potential polluter.
Living in West Virginia, I can answer this... In the southern coalfields where they are doing mountaintop removal (surface mining to use the exact phrasing) there are way higher levels of selenium and other cancer causing agents in the local water:
They're making moves you or someone else find's questionable. But I do not believe a businessperson would find their latest moves questionable; in fact, I think a businessperson might find their latest moves to be brilliant.
And we all know what is good for businessmen != what is good for the consumer. In fact, I argue just the opposite. It would be excellent for the businessmen if they could get your money without offering anything in return. Doesn't make that option good for the consumer.
The only question will be, if the community tolerates their latest moves. Will you still recommend Ubuntu?
For now yes since this can be uninstalled. The moment they make it that it can't, then no I will not recommend it since it constitutes spyware in my mind.
What exactly are your objections to their latest moves, and are they really 'valid' objections; or are they just fears, that Canonical is losing sight of Linux community principals?
As I said above, I see it as spyware. They are indexing searches and transmitting that to Amazon. That is the very definition of spyware behavior.
Certainly, there is nothing wrong with offering an open source product, that allows users to buy things from you.
As long as the technology and connection standards on client and communication protocols are open source, and i'm free to take the code, and can easily make changes, so my app store is what things will be bought from instead of Canonicals, on my special build of Ubuntu..
And as long as I can remove it I am fine with whatever marketing BS they throw in. The question is why should people have to disable / uninstall crapware that venders throw on? This is getting almost as bad as the Windows world where new machines are loaded with crap nobody wants or uses.
It should be less than for deliberate perjury, but lesser the same way running over someone accidentally is less of a penalty than deliberately.
Why? They deliberately submitted to Google an unverified list claiming it was infringing under "penalty of perjury". They can do this simply because they know they won't be charged with perjury. Quick, name just one case where a major studio was so charged... Won't happen because the system is and always has been rigged in their favor.
Just so you know, to make a cellphone you have to license a lot of patents from Ericsson, RIM, ex-Nortel (now Apple), Google/Motorola, Samsung, and the list goes on and on and on and on...
That is because of the standards being reliant on patent technology. FRAND be damned. That whole concept needs to go away in standards. It isn't a standard if the barrier to entry is that minefield.
There are two reasons I ran the test. First, as I said, for shits and giggles. To see what it would break if I was forced to update like the poor sods stuck on XP for whatever reason. Second, because we are already seeing things for Windows 7 beginning to die. An example is the gadgets. Going to: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/personalize/gadgets reveals what we will see more and more.
Who said I skipped 7? That is what I am running. 64 bit to be exact. The thing came with Vista and I upgraded to 7 for stability issues. Besides, 7 handles multi-gesture better than Vista.
I wonder if win8 will ever pass the xp market share
Microsoft's biggest competitor has always been itself. This is an effect of having the software pre-installed and aiming for the unwashed masses who don't go beyond what they got with the machines.
As a side note, for shits and giggles I just ran the Windows 8 upgrade assistant and it informs me I will have to dump almost a quarter of the applications I use daily and that my screen resolution was too low for snap (whatever that is). It also informs me the touchscreen I have (HP Tx2Z) isn't compatible and that gestures won't work right. Now the question is why I should update and lose perfectly good software I purchased and is working right now as well as system functionality that is working right now just to have the "latest" version of an OS? Why should I go through the pain of the update when I don't need to? That will always be the Microsoft fight and why XP is hanging in there for so long.
Google is a private company with no obligation to list anything. It would serve these people right if they were totally black holed on Google after a ruling like this. Both the things they want listed as well as the things they don't. A search of this individual returning zero results would be just great and would fit the ruling to the max.
So are you now making the claim that medical science has never been wrong? How about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_misuse or how about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide ? Just because a drug is effective doesn't make its application or use for a particular purpose correct. And yes, vaccines are drugs. And like all drugs big pharma has an interest in seeing as much use (=sales) of those drugs as it possibly can. In the case of Thalidomide it took years for the effects to be revealed then many more to be corrected. Meanwhile I don't see you calling the doctors who applied it as directed or the pharma company pushing it "killers with blood on their hands" like is being said here about those that choose to disbelieve a particular claim.
Skepticism of scientific claims is a good thing. It forces those making those claims to look deeper into them. Not too long ago it was scientifically accepted that the Earth was the center of the universe. It took skeptics and a large amount of time to disprove that claim.
A legal attack on what grounds? That "we're not getting the profits we have a God-given right to"?
It wouldn't be the first time a spammer thought they were entitled to have their garbage in your face. I remember this case in 2003 against Spamhaus. IIRC the spammers lost that case resoundingly in the end.
One man's "terrorist" is another man's "freedom fighter". You will never have peace there until both sides can objectively see the other sides issues. Hamas has a definite beef with Israel and Israel has a definite beef with Hamas. Neither side is willing to admit that doing an eye for an eye, a tit for tat is the wrong way to achieve their goals. All the finger pointing and blame assigning isn't going to stop the religious war going on there. Meanwhile, people who have nothing to do with either beef are on the receiving end of missiles. All this does is create more animosity and another reason to lob rockets at each other.
The difference being that the phones back then weren't available all the time and the advent of the answering machine meant you no longer had to answer a loud ringing device that was interrupting your life.
Attention span and situational awareness are most definitely affected by the constant use of these devices. There are many news accounts of idiots walking along with their face buried in their phones instead of being aware of their surroundings. Everything from walking out in front of cars to walking out in front of trains to driving accidents occur because of the amount of attention these devices are getting. That is one reason (besides the amount of money they can generate) that many states in the US are banning non-hands free cell phone use while driving.
I have backups of everything, but still... that shit that you can look at through your browser, accessed via domain name, is mine, and mine alone.
Not if the government gets their way on this motion. That is the point of this whole argument. One guy has stuff on the servers the government confiscated. He is trying to get it back and they are saying, "prove it is legally yours because what we have shows you don't own it." So if your stuff is on a server you don't own you stand just as much chance of that server falling victim to the same fate. Can you prove you own 100% of the stuff you have on that site?
The problem is that this shit is popular with the general populace because most people don't have enough empathy or foresight to realize how it can be misused. They hear that it is all about keeping them safe from teh terrorists and that's good enough for them. If anything, Obama's been pandering to the majority of the population with this shit.
Which is what he did in his 2008 campaign. It always amazed me why the Romney camp has never once mentioned President (yes, he is the president and deserves the title) Obama's broken campaign promise of closing Guantanamo prison camp. Probably because a Romney presidency would double down on its use...
What utter crap... If you haven't noticed, the Congress is made up of people elected at the State level. A person from Vermont doesn't vote for a representative from Virginia. The only branch of the federal government where all the people have somewhat of a say is the executive branch. The people have every opportunity to replace their representatives just as much as they have to replace their local representatives.
In my opinion it would be better if the parliament had to read trough the complete law at the beginning of every year.
Let me tell you why that good idea won't work....
The US does have that rule for new legislation. They also have a rule that allows them to dispense with the reading of the law in question if everyone agrees. Every so often a legislator will object to the dispensing of the reading and the reading will continue. They use it as a delaying tactic because the reading blocks any further business from being conducted. The same will occur with your proposed law. It will give them a reason to not get anything at all done (like they need another reason).
I have a 20 kW whole house generator with ATS wired in. 30 seconds after the power goes out the generator kicks on. 30 seconds after that the house is powered again. I live in the boonies where it can take days to fix power outages for regular thunderstorms so it benefits me to do so.
Florida has no income tax, and had great government support when 4 hurricanes hit that one year (I was living there at the time). They even had a Republican governer that stood up against insurance companies and forced the to continue offering insurance that covered hurricane damage.
I couldn't let this one slide since I was in FEMA during that time...
Florida gets far, far, far more federal dollars than it contributes especially in disaster response. Hell, there are still about 2,500 federal employees still deployed there for those hurricanes. Just because the Florida governor can push the cost of the disaster to the federal government instead of passing it off to you directly doesn't mean we all aren't still paying for it.
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There is plenty of anger for them both and then some. Your argument is specious because those same corporations are buying those same politicians specifically to favor them with laws written by the corporation lobbyists. Of course the tax system favors them since they wrote the tax loopholes this dumb ass CEO is espousing as virtuous.
Turn right now!
Calibrating.....
And to finish that for you...
But B may contribute to A making it worse....
Living in West Virginia, I can answer this... In the southern coalfields where they are doing mountaintop removal (surface mining to use the exact phrasing) there are way higher levels of selenium and other cancer causing agents in the local water:
http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/category/selenium/
http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/category/water-pollution/
And we all know what is good for businessmen != what is good for the consumer. In fact, I argue just the opposite. It would be excellent for the businessmen if they could get your money without offering anything in return. Doesn't make that option good for the consumer.
For now yes since this can be uninstalled. The moment they make it that it can't, then no I will not recommend it since it constitutes spyware in my mind.
As I said above, I see it as spyware. They are indexing searches and transmitting that to Amazon. That is the very definition of spyware behavior.
And as long as I can remove it I am fine with whatever marketing BS they throw in. The question is why should people have to disable / uninstall crapware that venders throw on? This is getting almost as bad as the Windows world where new machines are loaded with crap nobody wants or uses.
Ummm... No... See these words:
Electronic signatures can be attached to electronic (automated) take-down requests just as automatically.
Why? They deliberately submitted to Google an unverified list claiming it was infringing under "penalty of perjury". They can do this simply because they know they won't be charged with perjury. Quick, name just one case where a major studio was so charged... Won't happen because the system is and always has been rigged in their favor.
That is because of the standards being reliant on patent technology. FRAND be damned. That whole concept needs to go away in standards. It isn't a standard if the barrier to entry is that minefield.
There are two reasons I ran the test. First, as I said, for shits and giggles. To see what it would break if I was forced to update like the poor sods stuck on XP for whatever reason. Second, because we are already seeing things for Windows 7 beginning to die. An example is the gadgets. Going to: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/personalize/gadgets reveals what we will see more and more.
Who said I skipped 7? That is what I am running. 64 bit to be exact. The thing came with Vista and I upgraded to 7 for stability issues. Besides, 7 handles multi-gesture better than Vista.
Microsoft's biggest competitor has always been itself. This is an effect of having the software pre-installed and aiming for the unwashed masses who don't go beyond what they got with the machines.
As a side note, for shits and giggles I just ran the Windows 8 upgrade assistant and it informs me I will have to dump almost a quarter of the applications I use daily and that my screen resolution was too low for snap (whatever that is). It also informs me the touchscreen I have (HP Tx2Z) isn't compatible and that gestures won't work right. Now the question is why I should update and lose perfectly good software I purchased and is working right now as well as system functionality that is working right now just to have the "latest" version of an OS? Why should I go through the pain of the update when I don't need to? That will always be the Microsoft fight and why XP is hanging in there for so long.
Google is a private company with no obligation to list anything. It would serve these people right if they were totally black holed on Google after a ruling like this. Both the things they want listed as well as the things they don't. A search of this individual returning zero results would be just great and would fit the ruling to the max.
So are you now making the claim that medical science has never been wrong? How about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_misuse or how about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide ? Just because a drug is effective doesn't make its application or use for a particular purpose correct. And yes, vaccines are drugs. And like all drugs big pharma has an interest in seeing as much use (=sales) of those drugs as it possibly can. In the case of Thalidomide it took years for the effects to be revealed then many more to be corrected. Meanwhile I don't see you calling the doctors who applied it as directed or the pharma company pushing it "killers with blood on their hands" like is being said here about those that choose to disbelieve a particular claim.
Skepticism of scientific claims is a good thing. It forces those making those claims to look deeper into them. Not too long ago it was scientifically accepted that the Earth was the center of the universe. It took skeptics and a large amount of time to disprove that claim.
So by your logic putting everyone in prison solves the issue of where people are. And people shouldn't complain because it is for their safety right?
It wouldn't be the first time a spammer thought they were entitled to have their garbage in your face. I remember this case in 2003 against Spamhaus. IIRC the spammers lost that case resoundingly in the end.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/04/23/florida_spammers_sue_antispam_groups/
One man's "terrorist" is another man's "freedom fighter". You will never have peace there until both sides can objectively see the other sides issues. Hamas has a definite beef with Israel and Israel has a definite beef with Hamas. Neither side is willing to admit that doing an eye for an eye, a tit for tat is the wrong way to achieve their goals. All the finger pointing and blame assigning isn't going to stop the religious war going on there. Meanwhile, people who have nothing to do with either beef are on the receiving end of missiles. All this does is create more animosity and another reason to lob rockets at each other.
Which is why you can get a stand-alone usenet provider relatively cheap. Luckily my provider does still provide NNTP.
Just remember, the horns go on the OUTSIDE of the helmet.
The difference being that the phones back then weren't available all the time and the advent of the answering machine meant you no longer had to answer a loud ringing device that was interrupting your life.
Attention span and situational awareness are most definitely affected by the constant use of these devices. There are many news accounts of idiots walking along with their face buried in their phones instead of being aware of their surroundings. Everything from walking out in front of cars to walking out in front of trains to driving accidents occur because of the amount of attention these devices are getting. That is one reason (besides the amount of money they can generate) that many states in the US are banning non-hands free cell phone use while driving.
Not if the government gets their way on this motion. That is the point of this whole argument. One guy has stuff on the servers the government confiscated. He is trying to get it back and they are saying, "prove it is legally yours because what we have shows you don't own it." So if your stuff is on a server you don't own you stand just as much chance of that server falling victim to the same fate. Can you prove you own 100% of the stuff you have on that site?
Which is what he did in his 2008 campaign. It always amazed me why the Romney camp has never once mentioned President (yes, he is the president and deserves the title) Obama's broken campaign promise of closing Guantanamo prison camp. Probably because a Romney presidency would double down on its use...
What utter crap... If you haven't noticed, the Congress is made up of people elected at the State level. A person from Vermont doesn't vote for a representative from Virginia. The only branch of the federal government where all the people have somewhat of a say is the executive branch. The people have every opportunity to replace their representatives just as much as they have to replace their local representatives.
Let me tell you why that good idea won't work....
The US does have that rule for new legislation. They also have a rule that allows them to dispense with the reading of the law in question if everyone agrees. Every so often a legislator will object to the dispensing of the reading and the reading will continue. They use it as a delaying tactic because the reading blocks any further business from being conducted. The same will occur with your proposed law. It will give them a reason to not get anything at all done (like they need another reason).
I have a 20 kW whole house generator with ATS wired in. 30 seconds after the power goes out the generator kicks on. 30 seconds after that the house is powered again. I live in the boonies where it can take days to fix power outages for regular thunderstorms so it benefits me to do so.
I couldn't let this one slide since I was in FEMA during that time...
Florida gets far, far, far more federal dollars than it contributes especially in disaster response. Hell, there are still about 2,500 federal employees still deployed there for those hurricanes. Just because the Florida governor can push the cost of the disaster to the federal government instead of passing it off to you directly doesn't mean we all aren't still paying for it.