By definition, a "corporation" is a legal entity that is for all intents and purposes a person in the buisness realm. Just because the entity is controlled by a board and not a brain makes no difference to the law.
As an example, that's why they say paychecks of people paid by corporations are double taxed. First, when the corporation recieves money, it pays tax. Then, when the corporation pays it's employees, that money is taxed.
So the short of it is; a corporation is technically a "person" in the legal rights sense.
I think that the main point of most non-compete clauses and the heart of the M$oft argument is that he left the company to take a job that put himself in a postion in DIRECT competetion with M$oft. Also he was armed with trade secrets and such. Not that I fault him for jumping ship, but he did SIGN a contract and that's legally binding in the State he was Hired.
If you want to get into the interstate side of this, there is a general principle guiding legal documents in cross border disputes. One State recognizes the Legal Documents of another State as Legal. (That's why your drivers licenses are valid in every US state).
The view you see outside your office window while your computer switches from Blue Screen of Death to Red Screen of Death, reboots, crashes, pours water on itself, ignites and then explodes.
Oh, and then customer service asks if you have plugged in your computer.
Wow, lovely little bug there. Hopefully my stuff on auction will go up alot since people will have a boat load of gold now. Noooo... we couldn't just earn the gold.....
Of course if I wasn't working a real job in real life, I'd have my happy a$$ down there duping as well.
Hey, maybe someone can dupe me a bunch of sour grapes for my return to Windrunner!
Ok, how bout a little analogy.
The rich man and his wife were riding in a nice cart with 4 well bred horses. They were going along delivering goods, minding the horses, maintaining the wagon. The rest of the town sees this and thinks: "wow, thats nice. I like that." Then as time goes on, the city council likes the way the man and his wife are doing things, espescially since everyone is clammoring for their goods. So the City council says "Hey, why don't you let us drive the cart. Oh, and we'll tax everyone who uses it."
The man replies that he wouldn't like that at all. So the City council meets and decideds on a course of action. One day they attack. The turn over the cart, burn it, kill the horses, rape the woman, and drown the man. Now they build a cart with about 25 people conversing on how to build it and it works. However, it takes 10 million to repair and if it fails once.... everyone in the town has to have a meeting to talk babout how to fix it.
On the contrary. Many of the Citizens in the US are decendts of the ENGLISH. We didn't STEAL a freaking language. We brought it with us. In fact, when the US was originally being formed there were nearly as many people of German decent as any other. It was a simple democratic vote that decided we would use English as a working language. People please, this gets away from a very important point:
We're not say that you can't go off and make your own TLD. In fact, we can't stop you. But why do you want to go and screw with, politicize, and wrench control away from an effective system? I think Bush is right in not wanting to relinquish the TLD. But we also can't stop you from making your own.
I personally don't like the UN telling us how to handle our creation. And we also thank ya'll for your contribution of extentions to the Internet. But the Internet is running fine as it is; why dump the cart, set it on fire, shoot the horses, rape the women, and drown the man.... all because you think you can drive the cart better?
However..... TV is a non-discriminatory push technology. It sends everything out into the open for anyone with the technology to listen in. It also is geographically limited by nature. It doesn't require that you "find" a transmitter by a unique ID. It's just that a tuneable resistor and capacitor are required to recieve it. Oh, I believe that technology was licensed from him.
The Internet is, conversly, a discriminatory pull technology. You have to go out, locate your target, talk to it so it can be sure to trust you, exchange info about who you are, then get the information you want. I don't see these as good comparisons. Also, the TLD servers are the glue of the Internet; fragmenting those will do one of two things. Also, what the UN would effectively be doing is stealing the technology and by definition, not compensating it's creators.
1.) Completely destroy the structure since the "glue" has "failed"(fractured).
2.) Cause the rise of two distinct Internets; thereby causing either one or even both to be incredibly less useful.
The recent development and widespread deployment of the World Wide Web has brought with it a new community, as many of the people working on the WWW have not thought of themselves as primarily network researchers and developers. A new coordination organization was formed, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Initially led from MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science by Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the WWW) and Al Vezza, W3C has taken on the responsibility for evolving the various protocols and standards associated with the Web.
Internet: Development of the DARPA Labs (USA)
Internet: PHYSICALLY constructed by the US
WWW: later addon from MIT
email: created by the US
ftp: created in the US
TCP/IP: created in the US
Feel free to add on. The point of this is that the internet, as it started, was wholly concieved and created by the US. Yes other countries added to and by more people connecting, you get more content. However, the fact remains that the US created it.
Now, the UN is coming in after this wonderfully useful thing has been constructed out of many years of research, development, and deployment. They are in essence saying, "Wow! This is great work! Even though you invented and developed it, We don't think you're good enough to run it, so w're going to. Oh, you want to run it? Go ahead; we'll just setup our own stuff and hijack everything you've done. Don't like that? Oh, too bad. Have a good day!"
I can't tell you how much this infuriates me. It's like all our work was for nothing. Honestly, my gut reaction to this is "Go fsck off." This would be the same as all your customers(who aren't paying you anything) say, "ohhhh, this is nice! We'll just take it. bye bye now." GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!
Can't the UN leave the US alone for once? Jeeze, just cause you want to control something that just happens to span countries doesn't mean you are ABLE, or that you SHOULD. Once again I say, "Go fsck yourself, a$$hole."
Of course I'm talking about the ever popular NT Offline Password Reset Utility ??? I mean who hasn't cracked a box with this? I used it all the time as a computer tech when people brought in their computers(verified they were theirs) and had to have fixed what little Johnny had done. Of course, little Johnny always thought he was a leet hacker on a Walmart special HP with a whopping 28.8kbs modem.... Whoo hooo.... ahhhhh memories. They usually found good porn though!
Ahem.... WWI, WWI.... k... done. And the war on terror could have stopped this if everyone would get off their self important America-is-evil-and-they-get-what-they-deserve asses and do something about these evil people who don't care who they kill...
Heh... sure... get your pitchfork/shotgun and go run down an Ahbram's.... I'll applaud your bravery and laugh at your stupidity. But seriously, just about everything the government has ever touched ended in heartache and millions of dollars in the pocket of the guy who can talk the fastest.
I think if they would have given the anime to a series like MST3K for anime, they would have had a much grander audience..... of course it would probably have ended up on something like the Spice Channel for G33KS.
Actually, I think it's an elegantly simple solution to a complex problem. To detect "lakes" by other means would likely require a device that performs many varied tasks consistantly and have the ability to survive a space trip. Also, it would most likely be a highly dedicated piece of equipment taking up valuable space. Not to mention, how do you detect if something is liquid from orbit??? If you have an easy answer, I'm sure NASA would LOVE to hear it. Also, they were going to have cameras anyway for pictures and such. So being the physics/flight path calculating gods that they are, they were able to tell that in some of the flybys they were going to be at a 90 degree angle and can just point a camera at the object and quickly know if it was a lake. A secondary use for a relatively small piece of equipment is a much more desirable approach to another piece of equiment that may or may not even be used...... I think it's pretty obviuos that they chose the right equipment.
Have we learned nothing from the new Battlestar Galactica? If you have everything networked then the Cylons we will build in the future will throw the Super-Robot equivalent of a temper tantrum and turn all our devices against us. Honey, I don't think we need the i-Tron equipped vibrator.
Maybe if you didn't play games at work:) But seriously, the only game I play is WoW, but my fiancee' is pretty much afraid of computers and only wants something that she already knows how to use.... So I'm stuck in Winders at home, but I get to tinker with linux at work
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By definition, a "corporation" is a legal entity that is for all intents and purposes a person in the buisness realm. Just because the entity is controlled by a board and not a brain makes no difference to the law.
As an example, that's why they say paychecks of people paid by corporations are double taxed. First, when the corporation recieves money, it pays tax. Then, when the corporation pays it's employees, that money is taxed.
So the short of it is; a corporation is technically a "person" in the legal rights sense.
Because you're transporting firearms across state lines and that is a wholly Federal Issue.
80% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
only in my mind's eye..... only.......
I think that the main point of most non-compete clauses and the heart of the M$oft argument is that he left the company to take a job that put himself in a postion in DIRECT competetion with M$oft. Also he was armed with trade secrets and such. Not that I fault him for jumping ship, but he did SIGN a contract and that's legally binding in the State he was Hired.
If you want to get into the interstate side of this, there is a general principle guiding legal documents in cross border disputes. One State recognizes the Legal Documents of another State as Legal. (That's why your drivers licenses are valid in every US state).
The view you see outside your office window while your computer switches from Blue Screen of Death to Red Screen of Death, reboots, crashes, pours water on itself, ignites and then explodes.
Oh, and then customer service asks if you have plugged in your computer.
Wow, lovely little bug there. Hopefully my stuff on auction will go up alot since people will have a boat load of gold now. Noooo... we couldn't just earn the gold..... Of course if I wasn't working a real job in real life, I'd have my happy a$$ down there duping as well. Hey, maybe someone can dupe me a bunch of sour grapes for my return to Windrunner!
Ok, how bout a little analogy. The rich man and his wife were riding in a nice cart with 4 well bred horses. They were going along delivering goods, minding the horses, maintaining the wagon. The rest of the town sees this and thinks: "wow, thats nice. I like that." Then as time goes on, the city council likes the way the man and his wife are doing things, espescially since everyone is clammoring for their goods. So the City council says "Hey, why don't you let us drive the cart. Oh, and we'll tax everyone who uses it." The man replies that he wouldn't like that at all. So the City council meets and decideds on a course of action. One day they attack. The turn over the cart, burn it, kill the horses, rape the woman, and drown the man. Now they build a cart with about 25 people conversing on how to build it and it works. However, it takes 10 million to repair and if it fails once.... everyone in the town has to have a meeting to talk babout how to fix it.
On the contrary. Many of the Citizens in the US are decendts of the ENGLISH. We didn't STEAL a freaking language. We brought it with us. In fact, when the US was originally being formed there were nearly as many people of German decent as any other. It was a simple democratic vote that decided we would use English as a working language. People please, this gets away from a very important point:
We're not say that you can't go off and make your own TLD. In fact, we can't stop you. But why do you want to go and screw with, politicize, and wrench control away from an effective system? I think Bush is right in not wanting to relinquish the TLD. But we also can't stop you from making your own.
I personally don't like the UN telling us how to handle our creation. And we also thank ya'll for your contribution of extentions to the Internet. But the Internet is running fine as it is; why dump the cart, set it on fire, shoot the horses, rape the women, and drown the man.... all because you think you can drive the cart better?
However..... TV is a non-discriminatory push technology. It sends everything out into the open for anyone with the technology to listen in. It also is geographically limited by nature. It doesn't require that you "find" a transmitter by a unique ID. It's just that a tuneable resistor and capacitor are required to recieve it. Oh, I believe that technology was licensed from him.
The Internet is, conversly, a discriminatory pull technology. You have to go out, locate your target, talk to it so it can be sure to trust you, exchange info about who you are, then get the information you want. I don't see these as good comparisons. Also, the TLD servers are the glue of the Internet; fragmenting those will do one of two things. Also, what the UN would effectively be doing is stealing the technology and by definition, not compensating it's creators.
1.) Completely destroy the structure since the "glue" has "failed"(fractured).
2.) Cause the rise of two distinct Internets; thereby causing either one or even both to be incredibly less useful.
Let's see....
Internet: Development of the DARPA Labs (USA)
Internet: PHYSICALLY constructed by the US
WWW: later addon from MIT
email: created by the US
ftp: created in the US
TCP/IP: created in the US
Feel free to add on. The point of this is that the internet, as it started, was wholly concieved and created by the US. Yes other countries added to and by more people connecting, you get more content. However, the fact remains that the US created it.
Now, the UN is coming in after this wonderfully useful thing has been constructed out of many years of research, development, and deployment. They are in essence saying, "Wow! This is great work! Even though you invented and developed it, We don't think you're good enough to run it, so w're going to. Oh, you want to run it? Go ahead; we'll just setup our own stuff and hijack everything you've done. Don't like that? Oh, too bad. Have a good day!"
I can't tell you how much this infuriates me. It's like all our work was for nothing. Honestly, my gut reaction to this is "Go fsck off." This would be the same as all your customers(who aren't paying you anything) say, "ohhhh, this is nice! We'll just take it. bye bye now." GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!
Can't the UN leave the US alone for once? Jeeze, just cause you want to control something that just happens to span countries doesn't mean you are ABLE, or that you SHOULD. Once again I say, "Go fsck yourself, a$$hole."
*saddly wags his head*
*scratches head*
*hands the canadian parliment a can of what-the-fsck*
Of course I'm talking about the ever popular NT Offline Password Reset Utility ??? I mean who hasn't cracked a box with this? I used it all the time as a computer tech when people brought in their computers(verified they were theirs) and had to have fixed what little Johnny had done. Of course, little Johnny always thought he was a leet hacker on a Walmart special HP with a whopping 28.8kbs modem.... Whoo hooo.... ahhhhh memories. They usually found good porn though!
Death of the floppy indeed!
When have any governments really and totally played nicely with each other when one has something that everyone else wants?
At least ya'll aren't dissing mississippi for once. just once....
Ahem.... WWI, WWI.... k... done. And the war on terror could have stopped this if everyone would get off their self important America-is-evil-and-they-get-what-they-deserve asses and do something about these evil people who don't care who they kill...
Heh... sure... get your pitchfork/shotgun and go run down an Ahbram's.... I'll applaud your bravery and laugh at your stupidity. But seriously, just about everything the government has ever touched ended in heartache and millions of dollars in the pocket of the guy who can talk the fastest.
I think if they would have given the anime to a series like MST3K for anime, they would have had a much grander audience..... of course it would probably have ended up on something like the Spice Channel for G33KS.
has the UI and software down? The only way the could have put it down is with a shotgun or a bomb... how else do you explain all the holes?
Actually, I think it's an elegantly simple solution to a complex problem. To detect "lakes" by other means would likely require a device that performs many varied tasks consistantly and have the ability to survive a space trip. Also, it would most likely be a highly dedicated piece of equipment taking up valuable space. Not to mention, how do you detect if something is liquid from orbit??? If you have an easy answer, I'm sure NASA would LOVE to hear it. Also, they were going to have cameras anyway for pictures and such. So being the physics/flight path calculating gods that they are, they were able to tell that in some of the flybys they were going to be at a 90 degree angle and can just point a camera at the object and quickly know if it was a lake. A secondary use for a relatively small piece of equipment is a much more desirable approach to another piece of equiment that may or may not even be used...... I think it's pretty obviuos that they chose the right equipment.
Have we learned nothing from the new Battlestar Galactica? If you have everything networked then the Cylons we will build in the future will throw the Super-Robot equivalent of a temper tantrum and turn all our devices against us. Honey, I don't think we need the i-Tron equipped vibrator.
Yummy... I always wanted a nice vinegrette based on 0w-30 oil...
Maybe if you didn't play games at work :) But seriously, the only game I play is WoW, but my fiancee' is pretty much afraid of computers and only wants something that she already knows how to use.... So I'm stuck in Winders at home, but I get to tinker with linux at work
"Locks only keep honest people honest." Such is the same with all security measures. Anything that is created by man can be defeated by man.