Most of those contracts are unenforceable in most states. Unless you are compenstated for the off-hours, a contract cannot infringe on your legal right to work for someone else. (Including yourself.) They can fire you for working for someone else, but they cannot claim ownership of another companies work-for-hire copyright of your work.
High-end graphics and discrete cards are making up a smaller and smaller percentage of the market. It is quickly getting to the point that the only people who are buying discrete GPUs are gamers and graphics professionals. Most people just don't see the need for the added expense.
The "mid to high-end gaming market" is fairly small on the PC, relative to the entire PC market.
What did they think would happen? They released documents that put Afghan civilians and US troops at risk. This isn't protecting democracy, it's treason. Wikileaks is giving aid to the enemy. The founder should be in prison, and slashdot is whining about the donation page getting shut down?
As someone who has Seasonal Affective Disorder, switching back to Standard Time can be hell. This fall I will have to sit in front of a special lamp so my body thinks it's still daylight outside. At least I live in the South, and we have longer days in the winter than people in the northern states.
Businesses like keeping the same hours regardless of season, and it's a lot easier to program in daylight savings time than to have to change your hours every season.
Which is easier, changing the clocks or asking the whole world to adjust every few months and "get up an hour earlier"?
Never overestimate the power of the psychological.
Not his only veto, I can name at least one other Bill he vetoed. He vetoed the Partial Birth Abortion Bill. That's just one example. How this got modded up is beyond me...blatantly propagandic and biased. Chrysler was bailed out nearly two decades before the Dymler buyout. Check your facts.
The "South" typically includes the southeast, and often times you aren't in the "South" if you aren't in a state that fought with the Confederacy.
I think you are nitpicking here, as the definition of a word is determined by its usage. People are not going to think Arizona when they here the "South". It is strange though, that Arizona is in the "Southwest" but Georgia is just in the "South."
When it gets confusing is when you try to determine where a state like Oklahoma fits. We could be part of the "South", but most southerners don't consider it to be, because it was not a state during the civil war. (Regardless of the fact many indian tribes were split down the middle: half the Cherokee nation fought for the Confederacy; half fought for the union.)
Midwesterners don't count Oklahoma as "Midwest" because we aren't north enough or in some cases, east enough.
If you say "South-central", which is what many geography books call it, people just look at you funny.
If the contract explicitly states "partner is in breach of contract when they reach out of stock levels above X%" (again, speculation) then it is not simply bad business decisions. If you promise to meet a quota and fail to deliver, you are in breach of contract.
Don't sign a contract for which you can't meet your obligations. It doesn't matter WHY you are failing to meet your obligations if you guarantee in a contract that says you are.
If I take money from you and I contractualy guarantee you I will always have Furbies, I better meet that promise.
Again, this depends on the language of the contract. As sympathetic as your argument may seem, it is irrelevent if Toys-R-Us didn't meet its obligations.
Exclusive is just one part of the contract. If Toys-R-US is required to maintain stock and avoid out of stock percentages above a certain figure, they violated the contract first. The linked article states that Toys-R-Us kept out of stock levels at above 10% on many popular toys.
Since I haven't seen the contract, I don't know for sure, but this is what it is sounding like.
Correct. He wrote a kernel, which is an essential part of an operating system. You can't have an OS without a kernel, but in general an operating system contains more than just a kernel
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The operating system has the kernel and the userland utilities. Any operating systems course will explain the OS is
1) Kernel 2) Resource allocator 3) an interface to the hardware via utilities and programs
among many other things. To say that the kernel is separate from the operating systems is just wrong.
Tort reform isn't a loser pays system, at least in all the forms I have seen proposed. For example, in Oklahoma, a tort reform bill is up for debate. The majority of tort reform comes from limiting punitive damages , not actual damages. For example, if you are injured on the job, and the judge / jury found the employer negligent, there is NO limit on medical bills, lost wages, or pain-and-suffering benefits. The only restrictions are on punitive damages.
Punitive damages were initialy designed to punish the liable and serve as a deterrent to future abuse. Unfortunately, present-day juries have awarded outrageous punitive awards.
I repeat, the vast majority of tort reform does NOT limit actual damages!
If you think American workers are getting screwed as opposed ot other countries, you are seriously mistaken. European countries with generous labor laws have stagnating economies. France is in deep recession. The German economy is shrinking. The once glorious Swedish economy isn't growing either.
Your work is only as valuable as the MARKET determines. Unions distort this principle by inflating wages and benefits.
The 40 hour work week etc are now all protected by law. Unions are unnecessary, as all basic worker protections are protected via laws.
Oh, and where do people get off on bashing corporations for maximizing profit? That is EXACTLY what they are supposed to do! They have a moral obligation to their shareholders, no one else.
Read the statutes. The statutes only apply to USPS mail. What I said about federal government CAN make a law regulating UPS/Fedex, but that Mail Fraud Statutes only apply to USPS Mail is a fact. Did you even read the link?
The point being that using a private shipper is enough for federal jurisdiction if it crosses state lines becuase of the commerce clause.
Actually that is NOT the question. Just because the Feds have technical jurisdiction, does NOT mean the Mail Fraud statues apply. The US Constitution grants powers of regulation, but that does not mean the government will excercise specific statutes over specific commerce.
In fact, they used to not only punish both the aggressor and the victim, but also anyone else in the area who "should have stopped the fight".
Now I know you are trolling, because students who try to break up a fight are guilty of fighting themselves. Only a school representative is allowed to break up a fight. Such a policy you claim to remember would bring utter chaos, turning a fight between two people into a mob brawl on the playground. Students would feel obligated to join in to "break up the fight" to avoid punishment. Any school district with this policy should rightfully be sued and have their administration replaced.
Collective punishment is legal...to a point. Collective punishment has to be, by definition, less severe than individualized punishment. You can't suspend the assaulter and the asaultee and every witness. If the two persons fighting actively participated, ie, the one picked on fights back, then both can be suspended.
You are claiming that the penalty for fighting and assault would carry over to every witness? That may be true in a private military academy, but not in a public school.
And again, under such a system, a girl (or boy) who was sexually assaulted would be punished as well. Total nonsense. Such a school would be sued six ways from Sunday.
My school had a policy that anyone involved in a fight/assault was suspended, even if you didn't hit back you were gone. And yes, that was enforced. I got a 3 day vacation for being on the receiving end once.
This sounds very, very wrong. If you do not fight back, it isn't a fight; it's assault. My parents were schoolteachers and one thing I had to learn was if/when someone actually picked a fight with me on school property, I had to put my hands behind my back and take it to avoid suspension. The victim had to be completely passive. It wasn't fair, but that was sufficient proof of assault rather than fighting.
I doubt this policy would stand up to due process standards. By the same logic, a girl who is sexually assaulted wouldn't a victim, but a "willing participant in conscentual behavior". A ludicrous notion indeed.
Considering my parents and their friends and families have been in education a very long time, and have never seen a policy where assault was classified as "fighting". Either your school policy was blatantly illegal, or you aren't remembering/telling things the way they actually were.
IANAL, but mail fraud statues only apply if you put a stamp on a letter / parcel and send it through the US Postal Service.
Most scammers use Fedex, UPS, and other shipping methods precisely to avoid mail fraud laws. Shipping through USPS is a completely different animal than "private" shippers, with a host of regulations (including old decency regulations) that don't apply to UPS/Fedex.
(Not sure if this is an urban legend or not, but some adult products cannot be shipped via the US Postal Service for this reason.)
You might have him on fraud, but not mail fraud or mail fraud conspiracy.
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Most of those contracts are unenforceable in most states. Unless you are compenstated for the off-hours, a contract cannot infringe on your legal right to work for someone else. (Including yourself.) They can fire you for working for someone else, but they cannot claim ownership of another companies work-for-hire copyright of your work.
High-end graphics and discrete cards are making up a smaller and smaller percentage of the market. It is quickly getting to the point that the only people who are buying discrete GPUs are gamers and graphics professionals. Most people just don't see the need for the added expense.
The "mid to high-end gaming market" is fairly small on the PC, relative to the entire PC market.
What did they think would happen? They released documents that put Afghan civilians and US troops at risk. This isn't protecting democracy, it's treason. Wikileaks is giving aid to the enemy. The founder should be in prison, and slashdot is whining about the donation page getting shut down?
As someone who has Seasonal Affective Disorder, switching back to Standard Time can be hell. This fall I will have to sit in front of a special lamp so my body thinks it's still daylight outside. At least I live in the South, and we have longer days in the winter than people in the northern states.
Businesses like keeping the same hours regardless of season, and it's a lot easier to program in daylight savings time than to have to change your hours every season.
Which is easier, changing the clocks or asking the whole world to adjust every few months and "get up an hour earlier"?
Never overestimate the power of the psychological.
I so wish I could moderate this up....but no mod points so...
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And this is Virginia, not the deep south.
Might I remind you the capital of the confederacy was Richmond, Virginia from May 29, 1861, to April 9th, 1865?
I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty deep in the South to me.
One more thing, when you are referring to "the South" use a capital "S".
Not his only veto, I can name at least one other Bill he vetoed. He vetoed the Partial Birth Abortion Bill. That's just one example. How this got modded up is beyond me...blatantly propagandic and biased. Chrysler was bailed out nearly two decades before the Dymler buyout. Check your facts.
And I thought I was the only one to see those movies...
Best part of Escape from LA: Insane Plastic Surgeons
The "South" typically includes the southeast, and often times you aren't in the "South" if you aren't in a state that fought with the Confederacy.
I think you are nitpicking here, as the definition of a word is determined by its usage. People are not going to think Arizona when they here the "South". It is strange though, that Arizona is in the "Southwest" but Georgia is just in the "South."
When it gets confusing is when you try to determine where a state like Oklahoma fits. We could be part of the "South", but most southerners don't consider it to be, because it was not a state during the civil war. (Regardless of the fact many indian tribes were split down the middle: half the Cherokee nation fought for the Confederacy; half fought for the union.)
Midwesterners don't count Oklahoma as "Midwest" because we aren't north enough or in some cases, east enough.
If you say "South-central", which is what many geography books call it, people just look at you funny.
Yes, but with proper punctuation that sentence is:
"Helping your uncle, Jack, off a horse."
Bill O'reilly has invited Moore on his program publicly. Moore has declined the invitation.
Yet Moore lies in the LA Times saying he is not allowed back on Bill's program. Even though weekly Bill invites Moore onto the program.
Moore simply cannot tell the truth.
If the contract explicitly states "partner is in breach of contract when they reach out of stock levels above X%" (again, speculation) then it is not simply bad business decisions. If you promise to meet a quota and fail to deliver, you are in breach of contract.
Don't sign a contract for which you can't meet your obligations. It doesn't matter WHY you are failing to meet your obligations if you guarantee in a contract that says you are.
If I take money from you and I contractualy guarantee you I will always have Furbies, I better meet that promise.
Again, this depends on the language of the contract. As sympathetic as your argument may seem, it is irrelevent if Toys-R-Us didn't meet its obligations.
Exclusive is just one part of the contract. If Toys-R-US is required to maintain stock and avoid out of stock percentages above a certain figure, they violated the contract first. The linked article states that Toys-R-Us kept out of stock levels at above 10% on many popular toys.
Since I haven't seen the contract, I don't know for sure, but this is what it is sounding like.
PS: Since when is X unable to autoconfigure a monitor? I've never had this problem.. I conclude that you're trolling.
Just because you have never had this problem (I have had this problem more than once) doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
One anectdote doesn't provide evidence of something _never_ happening. Who is the troll now?
Linus could be considered a "public" person due to his public exposure.
When someone is in the public light, libel must meet a standard of malice. Without malice, even if the story is untrue libel does not apply.
As for defamation, I don't know.
Correct. He wrote a kernel, which is an essential part of an operating system. You can't have an OS without a kernel, but in general an operating system contains more than just a kernel
The operating system has the kernel and the userland utilities. Any operating systems course will explain the OS is
1) Kernel
2) Resource allocator
3) an interface to the hardware via utilities and programs
among many other things. To say that the kernel is separate from the operating systems is just wrong.
Tort reform isn't a loser pays system, at least in all the forms I have seen proposed. For example, in Oklahoma, a tort reform bill is up for debate. The majority of tort reform comes from limiting punitive damages , not actual damages. For example, if you are injured on the job, and the judge / jury found the employer negligent, there is NO limit on medical bills, lost wages, or pain-and-suffering benefits. The only restrictions are on punitive damages.
Punitive damages were initialy designed to punish the liable and serve as a deterrent to future abuse. Unfortunately, present-day juries have awarded outrageous punitive awards.
I repeat, the vast majority of tort reform does NOT limit actual damages!
If you think American workers are getting screwed as opposed ot other countries, you are seriously mistaken. European countries with generous labor laws have stagnating economies. France is in deep recession. The German economy is shrinking. The once glorious Swedish economy isn't growing either.
Your work is only as valuable as the MARKET determines. Unions distort this principle by inflating wages and benefits.
The 40 hour work week etc are now all protected by law. Unions are unnecessary, as all basic worker protections are protected via laws.
Oh, and where do people get off on bashing corporations for maximizing profit? That is EXACTLY what they are supposed to do! They have a moral obligation to their shareholders, no one else.
SBC is no longer Southwestern Bell Company...they changed to Southwestern Bell Communications but are now simply "SBC".
Just as Kentucky Fried Chicken is simply now "KFC".
They advertised this heavily here.
Read the statutes. The statutes only apply to USPS mail. What I said about federal government CAN make a law regulating UPS/Fedex, but that Mail Fraud Statutes only apply to USPS Mail is a fact. Did you even read the link?
Or were you too lazy?
The point being that using a private shipper is enough for federal jurisdiction if it crosses state lines becuase of the commerce clause.
Actually that is NOT the question. Just because the Feds have technical jurisdiction, does NOT mean the Mail Fraud statues apply. The US Constitution grants powers of regulation, but that does not mean the government will excercise specific statutes over specific commerce.
Here is a link defining mail fraud.
In fact, they used to not only punish both the aggressor and the victim, but also anyone else in the area who "should have stopped the fight".
Now I know you are trolling, because students who try to break up a fight are guilty of fighting themselves. Only a school representative is allowed to break up a fight. Such a policy you claim to remember would bring utter chaos, turning a fight between two people into a mob brawl on the playground. Students would feel obligated to join in to "break up the fight" to avoid punishment. Any school district with this policy should rightfully be sued and have their administration replaced.
Collective punishment is legal...to a point. Collective punishment has to be, by definition, less severe than individualized punishment. You can't suspend the assaulter and the asaultee and every witness. If the two persons fighting actively participated, ie, the one picked on fights back, then both can be suspended.
You are claiming that the penalty for fighting and assault would carry over to every witness? That may be true in a private military academy, but not in a public school.
And again, under such a system, a girl (or boy) who was sexually assaulted would be punished as well. Total nonsense. Such a school would be sued six ways from Sunday.
My school had a policy that anyone involved in a fight/assault was suspended, even if you didn't hit back you were gone. And yes, that was enforced. I got a 3 day vacation for being on the receiving end once.
This sounds very, very wrong. If you do not fight back, it isn't a fight; it's assault. My parents were schoolteachers and one thing I had to learn was if/when someone actually picked a fight with me on school property, I had to put my hands behind my back and take it to avoid suspension. The victim had to be completely passive. It wasn't fair, but that was sufficient proof of assault rather than fighting.
I doubt this policy would stand up to due process standards. By the same logic, a girl who is sexually assaulted wouldn't a victim, but a "willing participant in conscentual behavior". A ludicrous notion indeed.
Considering my parents and their friends and families have been in education a very long time, and have never seen a policy where assault was classified as "fighting". Either your school policy was blatantly illegal, or you aren't remembering/telling things the way they actually were.
IANAL, but mail fraud statues only apply if you put a stamp on a letter / parcel and send it through the US Postal Service.
Most scammers use Fedex, UPS, and other shipping methods precisely to avoid mail fraud laws. Shipping through USPS is a completely different animal than "private" shippers, with a host of regulations (including old decency regulations) that don't apply to UPS/Fedex.
(Not sure if this is an urban legend or not, but some adult products cannot be shipped via the US Postal Service for this reason.)
You might have him on fraud, but not mail fraud or mail fraud conspiracy.