Depends which lawyers you speak to I guess. How about this opinion from another employment lawyer:
I wonder how many billable hours that partner charged for that opinion. It's interesting to note that high value professional workers (attorneys, engineers, doctors) tend to want to be sole proprietors, partners, etc. Anything but employees. It's the bottom tiers of the labor force that want to be classified as employees.
Solution: Make sure you have more then one client. This may be a problem if one of your customers needs you for a critical project. But that trigger is creeping up and you've got to take 6 months and go work for his competitor. Too bad. We'll just see who gets their product to the market first.
This would prompt employers to hire fewer employees and work them full time. To keep the benefits cost down. This is good if you want to be an employee, but bad if you wanted short hours, flexible work.
after they spend $$$ sequencing genes and coming up with a novel use for that genetic material.
First of all, gene sequencing has become pretty cheap over the last few decades. And I didn't see where they came up with a novel use and based a patent on that. It appears that they are taking an entire genome and sitting on it to block others from developing products.
Now here's an interesting idea: When I patent some gizmo, I have to describe what each part does in the patent claims. Does BASF have to describe the function of each part of the DNA sequence? If not, how is the patent claim valid?
But that's my point. With no net neutrality, the big ISPs will look for any club they can to beat down their competition. And the biggest one they have is to turn of the spigot on their competitor's content. They are collecting eyeballs and the best way they can do that is to offer the best package of content to those eyeballs. That means their own studio's content plus the third party stuff (Netflix, etc.). Since everyone can deliver Netflix there is no upside to screwing with it. They can throttle competing ISP's studio content to their own customers. Specifically because there is no net neutrality to stop them.
... might actually come out of this better than AT&T and Comcast. The last mile carriers aren't free of net neutrality yet. The next administration might just throw out Tweedie Pai and reverse his policies if enough people get pissed off. On the other hand, there might be a battle between AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and other carriers to convince customers that they are better ISPs, by not screwing with third party content. On the other hand, they might use their own content as leverage to gain market share over the competing ISPs with strategies like zero rating.
Owning content might be a really bad business move for an ISP. It makes them competitors. Being an ISP with only customers/viewers is better. Everyone wants to be your buddy because you aren't a threat.
the slow but progressive removal of keyboard shortcuts that no longer work
More this than anything else. Back when I developed some moderate proficiency with Autocad, I transitioned from using the menu system to command line (keyboard) operations. As do almost all of the power users. And that's true of many applications that have a well thought out and stable keyboard command option.
Menus and ribbons are what sell the app to the PHB.
This was an end run around Washington States constitutional restrictions on income taxes. It starts out as a fixed fee per employee applicable only to large corporations. Next, it creeps down scale and applies to more companies. Also, it develops a tiered structure, based on income. Pretty soon the city is taking a percentage with all the tax brackets and other features of a plain old income tax.
The $50 million it was supposed to raise could easily have been found someplace else. Perhaps a little belt-tightening and more efficient city operations. You can't dig a hole in Seattle without blowing millions on bureaucracy and public hearings. The city probably blew millions on this (now failed) attempt to expand taxing authority.
... has been sponsored by the specialty plastic bag manufacturing industry. Who were not seeing sufficient sales of their product due to the second use of grocery bags for trash can liners, pet poop and homeless peoples' storage needs.
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If you give it a solved cube
And you give it a scrambled cube. The AI shouts "Hey look! Haley's comet!" And while you are looking up, it switches them.
Turing test: Passed.
This is what I was thinking of as well (putting my 37 year old copy of The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence back on the shelf).
If ever you've traveled, you know that Montezuma's Revenge is no game!
But nuclear plants can't compete with the subsidies that wind and solar receive in the form of exemptions from onerous environmental regulations.
And yet, Windows soldiers on.
The harder you smack things together, the more and smaller the pieces will be that fly off.
Hemp and Marijuana are not the same thing.
Industrial hemp crops are great cover for growing some of the more psychoactive varieties in between the rows.
Make everything out of hemp. You stoners need to get a life.
NKOM's decision has guaranteed that for now, .bv will remain an unused resource.
Damn! I was all set to register starkweather-moore.bv
Depends which lawyers you speak to I guess. How about this opinion from another employment lawyer:
I wonder how many billable hours that partner charged for that opinion. It's interesting to note that high value professional workers (attorneys, engineers, doctors) tend to want to be sole proprietors, partners, etc. Anything but employees. It's the bottom tiers of the labor force that want to be classified as employees.
AND all the tax liabilities of an employee
But I'm incorporated overseas. In a country with very low employee tax liabilities.
if someone works full time for a year
For a single employer.
Solution: Make sure you have more then one client. This may be a problem if one of your customers needs you for a critical project. But that trigger is creeping up and you've got to take 6 months and go work for his competitor. Too bad. We'll just see who gets their product to the market first.
This would prompt employers to hire fewer employees and work them full time. To keep the benefits cost down. This is good if you want to be an employee, but bad if you wanted short hours, flexible work.
Adobe macht frei.
after they spend $$$ sequencing genes and coming up with a novel use for that genetic material.
First of all, gene sequencing has become pretty cheap over the last few decades. And I didn't see where they came up with a novel use and based a patent on that. It appears that they are taking an entire genome and sitting on it to block others from developing products.
Now here's an interesting idea: When I patent some gizmo, I have to describe what each part does in the patent claims. Does BASF have to describe the function of each part of the DNA sequence? If not, how is the patent claim valid?
With NN gone and nothing taking it's place
But that's my point. With no net neutrality, the big ISPs will look for any club they can to beat down their competition. And the biggest one they have is to turn of the spigot on their competitor's content. They are collecting eyeballs and the best way they can do that is to offer the best package of content to those eyeballs. That means their own studio's content plus the third party stuff (Netflix, etc.). Since everyone can deliver Netflix there is no upside to screwing with it. They can throttle competing ISP's studio content to their own customers. Specifically because there is no net neutrality to stop them.
Owning content might be a really bad business move for an ISP. It makes them competitors. Being an ISP with only customers/viewers is better. Everyone wants to be your buddy because you aren't a threat.
Fairbanks, Alaska.
All you homeless people, just try coming up here and pitching tents. We dare ya.
On the other hand, data center cooling is a cinch.
the slow but progressive removal of keyboard shortcuts that no longer work
More this than anything else. Back when I developed some moderate proficiency with Autocad, I transitioned from using the menu system to command line (keyboard) operations. As do almost all of the power users. And that's true of many applications that have a well thought out and stable keyboard command option.
Menus and ribbons are what sell the app to the PHB.
This was an end run around Washington States constitutional restrictions on income taxes. It starts out as a fixed fee per employee applicable only to large corporations. Next, it creeps down scale and applies to more companies. Also, it develops a tiered structure, based on income. Pretty soon the city is taking a percentage with all the tax brackets and other features of a plain old income tax.
The $50 million it was supposed to raise could easily have been found someplace else. Perhaps a little belt-tightening and more efficient city operations. You can't dig a hole in Seattle without blowing millions on bureaucracy and public hearings. The city probably blew millions on this (now failed) attempt to expand taxing authority.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
- J.K. Galbraith
Just have AT&T divest its wireless and broadband services as a condition of the merger.
Personally, I blame the UK for starting this.