I thought it was not not allowed to use the aparatus at all. This would mean that you are now allowed to use it to at least receive calls. So the proposal becomes less strict.
I am also interested, as will be the rest of the world, how they will know the difference between the driver, the passenger. I am not talking about the owner of the device, I talk about the user of the device.
I often hand over my phone to the person next in shotgun to find some music they want to listen to, search a restaurant or call friends we are going to pick up. (Most of the time because I am too drunk to handle the phone and driving a get-away car takes up all my concentration, so I don' spill any meth.)
Well, I guess in this case, you should do an internet search for the report and check whether your chosen product has been found to be legit or not.
I did that last month and I did not find it. I did a search for products this month and they are not on the list NOW.
Frankly, I'd say if you trust the ingredients list "at face value" for almost any product, you're likely to be deceived.
You can remove the almost as long as companies are not getting punished in a serious way. That means to me: 1) Remval of the product from the market for a month for the first time, a year for the secons time and indefinatly for the third time. This will include similar products that are the replacement of said product. 2) Payment of 25% sales price since the product came out. 100% for the secons time and 250% for the third time. Sales price to the customer, not their sales price. 3) Criminal charges to the directors starting with the second time.
I buy it from WalMart, so I sue WalMart. The fact that Wallmart was duped as well does not matter to me. The loss they have because they have to do a payback could be something they ask at their supplier who might even have bought ingredients that said it was Aloe Vera, but in reality wasn't. One does not exclude the other.
If I buy lousy Coke, I complain to my local dealer, not to some guy in Colombia.
Allowing competition is not enough. Company A will take the North of the city and company B will take the south. They both raise their prices 300% and make more money than if they would have had the whole city.
What you need is to almost competition. No idea how that would work.
American politics is like a family of 5 where the kids vote to have candy and the parents vote to eat healthy every day. Then when they are all having diabetis, they blame the people selling them the candy.
What politics should do is look at to what is best for all and that should result in having healthy food and some sweets now and then.
To me the definition of politics is to find a compromise to benefit the people.
Rumours can not be prevented. They will reflect mostly the fear of change. People do not like change. How do they start? Because people will learn that you are talking to other companies. How do they know? That depends. I know that some people asked to book a beetingroom in a hotel. As this was not standard, it started rumours. I know where people had a folder named after the other company. Even people from the other company calling the wroong number and asked to be transfered can be enough. And it does not even have to be your company that leaks. It is a small world and it could be that the other company has a different policy and are very open about what they do, or are less secrative and somebody at your company knows somebody at their company directly or indirectly.
So what to take away from it? You will not be able to prevent rumours, so the best thing is to be as honest as legally possible.
And revealing too much? That is what NDAs are for. It depends also on who contacyed who. Unless there is something very secretive going on or you are trying to hide your real numbers, there should not really be an issue. They will not start to know the process just toknow your numbers. They will already know your numbers. They will know who your customers are and have a rough idea on how you operate.
So what you need to do is talk and see WHY they are buying your company and is that something you are selling. e.g. are they interested in your customers, in your products or in your staff. And in what combination? What do they think buying your company will bring them. Does it seem logical what they are saying or not.
And even if they don't buydoes not mean they where after your numbers. It just did not work out. And if the reasons seem to be stupid to you, it does not mean they won't buy at the price you like.
The first contacts will not be genuine contacts to buy. It is interest. Windowshopping and that is what everybody does.
Depending on how scared you are, you could let them look at the numbers indirectly by a third party. I also have known that a company opened their books for 5 potential buyers of the company and gave them a fixed amount of tile to look at the data. They where able to see what they were looking at and thus understood how to geotiate with each of them. That was a company that already had informed its employees they were going to close. Living in Belgium, people got a very nice bonus out of that.
And as always YMMV. Sales is much more social, so you have to deal with people, not just numbers. One company getting sold was so close to getting a great deal, but it did not work out because the CEOs of the companies could not stand each other.
So in short: You can't prevent ru,ours and you will never know if they are really interested in buying or just curious.
6 months ago the price was set. That means that the talks where ongoing before that. However that means not that much as everybody already talks with everybody anyway. This happens in all markets. At least once per year the question will be asked: 1) Are we for sale 2) Are we interested in buying others.
The real issue is that they are allowed to hide behind the "but it was in the AUP" and be able to change that AUP as they seem fit. What should happen is that you have a fixed set of rules, called the law. As long as you follow the standard rule, you do not need to let your customer click on "accept". The only way that is needed is if there are exceptions that have to be in favour of the customer. e.g. the company is obliged to never sell the data. It is not allowed to make exeption on it, even if you sign a contract. Prices cqn not be chqnged, even if the customer signs, unless the price will be lower and/or service is extended.
As these changes will be in disadvantage of the company, you will never see them happen. If there is a change that needs to be done (e.g. Google stops with a certain service) the customer,ust be informed 6 months in advance.
All this would most likely not have helped in this case, but it would solve a lot of issues.
I still use a paper notebook to write notes when I get a call. I still print out papers that I need for a meeting. Why? Because it is easier than to look through files and find the correct one. I often print out emails I want to discuss with a cow orker when I walk to his desk. Much easier than sending an email for most things where I do not need a trail.
Having the printout with be saves me time as I do not need to search for it or ask somebody else to look for it.
And I am not even talking about those parts where contracts are involved that have to be handled by paper as they are not valid by law and we are just starting to get all that in an electronic form. Technically it is possible, people are not yet completely used to it.
Will there be a lot less paper be used? Yes. Many times printing things out is not needed. e.g. to look up contracts that where scanned need only seldom be printed out. Not every time I need feedback, I need to go to a cow orker. An email wil be good enough.
You are complaining about things that are hard to find. Well, perhaps they don't want to sell it anymore. You can't blame them for loosing your physical music.
Just because they have it, they have no obligation to sell it.
A solution for you might be bandcamp. Often you pay what you like or a reasonable sum or nothing. You can verify pricing here http://bandcamp.com/pricing so you know how much goes to Bandcamp and the rest goes to the copyright holder. On Bandcamp that is often the band itself.
Not sure if you are able to re-download your music, but then YOU are responsible for your download that you bought, so take backups. I am not going to the store and ask for new stuff just because my old stuff got destroyed.
And quality? Download in Flac or Ogg Vorbis or anything else.
The downside for me is that they use Paypall and finding music is not easy. Filtering is not fine enough for the amount of music available.
Interesting to kread, because till now every defence of why people drove those cars was about how they needed to transport things all the time.
In Belgium a vehicle is commercial if it is owned by a company. Not sure if there are any advantages or not for that. I doubt it. You need a differnt drivers licence for cars above 3.5tonnes, so that is why the vans are used as they are below that. There are also some limitations in size. e.g. To drive the Hummer 1, you would have needed a different drivers licence.
Different countries will have different rules. But for the most part that's it: See that you stay below 3.5T and max 8 people+driver. Abover that you are a truk and need a different licence or a bus, that needs yet another licence. And getting those licenses is a tiny bit harder than it is in the US, or so friends have told me.
When I was in the US I thought it was amazing how many people where hauling 4x8 sheets when looking at the cars people drove. Whenever I need such a thing (once in a year) I rent a van and people who do trade here in Europe all drive a (white) van.
I find it ironic that some people want to turn the US into the kind of countries that our ancestors deliberately left.
Doing things because your ancestors did things a certain way is the worst reason to do something. That does not mean that what they did was bad (or good) just that now things are different and should be looked at on how the situation is now. The ancesters allowed slavery. They did not allow women to vote. They allowed smoking MaryJane and even allowed smoking tobacco inside of restaurants and at work.
If you think you must look at what the ancestors did, you are not allowed to pick and choose. Either take it all or nothing. I say take nothing and decide for yourself and build the country YOU want, not the country THEY wanted.
The majority of issues can be solved by a script monkey. The real good thing is that they are not reprimanded for forwarding tickets to second level. I have seen this and was able to say to third level: If we transfer things that should not be transfered, please train us, so we GET the knowledge.
Most of the times it is that you can only transfer X% and that means people are focussed on getting that number right and not solving issues.
Used to work for a company that sold mainly "insurance" for a product. For the outside we solde the product. In reality the profit margins where so low that we could not survive on the product alone. So the focus was on selling the insurance. It became so bad that when a person came in and they were unwilling to buy the insurance, they would not even get the product.
When some CxO mentioned this, it was ignored by the CEO, because the numbers where good and who cares, right? So CEO gets fired, new policy and within 1 week the problem was solved. Unfortunately too to save the company.
Tell me how your bonus or incentive or rating system works and you will see that people work towards that and ignore all the rest.
Starts i school where understanding is less important than getting the grades, so people cheat to get those grades. You see it in sports where people will do anything to get that one goal. So why would it be any different in the business world?
And if people like deregulation so much, try it out in sports. Remove all the rules and see what happens.
They will start selling the YPhone and Chinese cars made in the identical same factories. Remember how the Japanese only sold cheap copies of western products? The Chinese already have the knowledge and the plants and the production and even the polulation to sell it to. They do not care if people buyan iPhone or not. The margin they will be making on their own phone will be at least the same. Don't forget where the majority of the profit goes to. Hint: It ain't China. So they rather sell a lot of their own phones to e.g. Africa (or why do you think they are building roads there for free?) A lot more people living there than in the US. I can imagine they rather sell 100 phones with a profit of 1 than 25 with the profit of 2.
I believe he also said he never said he never said those things. I think he will soon say that he denies having said that he said he did not deny not saying any of the things he not never said.
It's one of those times where they should just call it something else rather than name it after a famous work.
They should have done that with "I am legend". They took it, burned the story and then raped the corpse. The only thing that aws left was the title that they used as a trophy to show their power over copyright.
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I thought it was not not allowed to use the aparatus at all. This would mean that you are now allowed to use it to at least receive calls. So the proposal becomes less strict.
I am also interested, as will be the rest of the world, how they will know the difference between the driver, the passenger. I am not talking about the owner of the device, I talk about the user of the device.
I often hand over my phone to the person next in shotgun to find some music they want to listen to, search a restaurant or call friends we are going to pick up. (Most of the time because I am too drunk to handle the phone and driving a get-away car takes up all my concentration, so I don' spill any meth.)
I did that last month and I did not find it. I did a search for products this month and they are not on the list NOW.
You can remove the almost as long as companies are not getting punished in a serious way. That means to me:
1) Remval of the product from the market for a month for the first time, a year for the secons time and indefinatly for the third time. This will include similar products that are the replacement of said product.
2) Payment of 25% sales price since the product came out. 100% for the secons time and 250% for the third time. Sales price to the customer, not their sales price.
3) Criminal charges to the directors starting with the second time.
I buy it from WalMart, so I sue WalMart.
The fact that Wallmart was duped as well does not matter to me. The loss they have because they have to do a payback could be something they ask at their supplier who might even have bought ingredients that said it was Aloe Vera, but in reality wasn't.
One does not exclude the other.
If I buy lousy Coke, I complain to my local dealer, not to some guy in Colombia.
His mouth might be useless, but it is what he has to do because his hands are really, really tiny.
Allowing competition is not enough. Company A will take the North of the city and company B will take the south. They both raise their prices 300% and make more money than if they would have had the whole city.
What you need is to almost competition. No idea how that would work.
American politics is like a family of 5 where the kids vote to have candy and the parents vote to eat healthy every day. Then when they are all having diabetis, they blame the people selling them the candy.
What politics should do is look at to what is best for all and that should result in having healthy food and some sweets now and then.
To me the definition of politics is to find a compromise to benefit the people.
Rumours can not be prevented. They will reflect mostly the fear of change. People do not like change. How do they start? Because people will learn that you are talking to other companies. How do they know? That depends.
I know that some people asked to book a beetingroom in a hotel. As this was not standard, it started rumours. I know where people had a folder named after the other company.
Even people from the other company calling the wroong number and asked to be transfered can be enough.
And it does not even have to be your company that leaks. It is a small world and it could be that the other company has a different policy and are very open about what they do, or are less secrative and somebody at your company knows somebody at their company directly or indirectly.
So what to take away from it? You will not be able to prevent rumours, so the best thing is to be as honest as legally possible.
And revealing too much? That is what NDAs are for. It depends also on who contacyed who. Unless there is something very secretive going on or you are trying to hide your real numbers, there should not really be an issue.
They will not start to know the process just toknow your numbers. They will already know your numbers. They will know who your customers are and have a rough idea on how you operate.
So what you need to do is talk and see WHY they are buying your company and is that something you are selling. e.g. are they interested in your customers, in your products or in your staff. And in what combination? What do they think buying your company will bring them. Does it seem logical what they are saying or not.
And even if they don't buydoes not mean they where after your numbers. It just did not work out. And if the reasons seem to be stupid to you, it does not mean they won't buy at the price you like.
The first contacts will not be genuine contacts to buy. It is interest. Windowshopping and that is what everybody does.
Depending on how scared you are, you could let them look at the numbers indirectly by a third party. I also have known that a company opened their books for 5 potential buyers of the company and gave them a fixed amount of tile to look at the data. They where able to see what they were looking at and thus understood how to geotiate with each of them. That was a company that already had informed its employees they were going to close. Living in Belgium, people got a very nice bonus out of that.
And as always YMMV. Sales is much more social, so you have to deal with people, not just numbers. One company getting sold was so close to getting a great deal, but it did not work out because the CEOs of the companies could not stand each other.
So in short: You can't prevent ru,ours and you will never know if they are really interested in buying or just curious.
Yes, but I will never admid it in public. I will defend it till the end how others are wrong.
6 months ago the price was set. That means that the talks where ongoing before that. However that means not that much as everybody already talks with everybody anyway.
This happens in all markets. At least once per year the question will be asked:
1) Are we for sale
2) Are we interested in buying others.
And they are not exclusive.
The real issue is that they are allowed to hide behind the "but it was in the AUP" and be able to change that AUP as they seem fit.
What should happen is that you have a fixed set of rules, called the law. As long as you follow the standard rule, you do not need to let your customer click on "accept". The only way that is needed is if there are exceptions that have to be in favour of the customer. e.g. the company is obliged to never sell the data. It is not allowed to make exeption on it, even if you sign a contract.
Prices cqn not be chqnged, even if the customer signs, unless the price will be lower and/or service is extended.
As these changes will be in disadvantage of the company, you will never see them happen. If there is a change that needs to be done (e.g. Google stops with a certain service) the customer ,ust be informed 6 months in advance.
All this would most likely not have helped in this case, but it would solve a lot of issues.
I am going to support them financially by buying as much almonds as I can.
I still use a paper notebook to write notes when I get a call. I still print out papers that I need for a meeting. Why? Because it is easier than to look through files and find the correct one.
I often print out emails I want to discuss with a cow orker when I walk to his desk. Much easier than sending an email for most things where I do not need a trail.
Having the printout with be saves me time as I do not need to search for it or ask somebody else to look for it.
And I am not even talking about those parts where contracts are involved that have to be handled by paper as they are not valid by law and we are just starting to get all that in an electronic form. Technically it is possible, people are not yet completely used to it.
Will there be a lot less paper be used? Yes. Many times printing things out is not needed. e.g. to look up contracts that where scanned need only seldom be printed out. Not every time I need feedback, I need to go to a cow orker. An email wil be good enough.
So less paper? Yes! Paperless? No!
You are complaining about things that are hard to find. Well, perhaps they don't want to sell it anymore.
You can't blame them for loosing your physical music.
Just because they have it, they have no obligation to sell it.
A solution for you might be bandcamp. Often you pay what you like or a reasonable sum or nothing. You can verify pricing here http://bandcamp.com/pricing so you know how much goes to Bandcamp and the rest goes to the copyright holder. On Bandcamp that is often the band itself.
Not sure if you are able to re-download your music, but then YOU are responsible for your download that you bought, so take backups. I am not going to the store and ask for new stuff just because my old stuff got destroyed.
And quality? Download in Flac or Ogg Vorbis or anything else.
The downside for me is that they use Paypall and finding music is not easy. Filtering is not fine enough for the amount of music available.
Interesting to kread, because till now every defence of why people drove those cars was about how they needed to transport things all the time.
In Belgium a vehicle is commercial if it is owned by a company. Not sure if there are any advantages or not for that. I doubt it.
You need a differnt drivers licence for cars above 3.5tonnes, so that is why the vans are used as they are below that. There are also some limitations in size. e.g. To drive the Hummer 1, you would have needed a different drivers licence.
Different countries will have different rules. But for the most part that's it: See that you stay below 3.5T and max 8 people+driver. Abover that you are a truk and need a different licence or a bus, that needs yet another licence.
And getting those licenses is a tiny bit harder than it is in the US, or so friends have told me.
When I was in the US I thought it was amazing how many people where hauling 4x8 sheets when looking at the cars people drove.
Whenever I need such a thing (once in a year) I rent a van and people who do trade here in Europe all drive a (white) van.
Doing things because your ancestors did things a certain way is the worst reason to do something.
That does not mean that what they did was bad (or good) just that now things are different and should be looked at on how the situation is now.
The ancesters allowed slavery. They did not allow women to vote. They allowed smoking MaryJane and even allowed smoking tobacco inside of restaurants and at work.
If you think you must look at what the ancestors did, you are not allowed to pick and choose. Either take it all or nothing. I say take nothing and decide for yourself and build the country YOU want, not the country THEY wanted.
If people don't like it, they could go to a higher court, like Strassbourg. Oh, wait ...
The majority of issues can be solved by a script monkey. The real good thing is that they are not reprimanded for forwarding tickets to second level.
I have seen this and was able to say to third level: If we transfer things that should not be transfered, please train us, so we GET the knowledge.
Most of the times it is that you can only transfer X% and that means people are focussed on getting that number right and not solving issues.
Used to work for a company that sold mainly "insurance" for a product. For the outside we solde the product. In reality the profit margins where so low that we could not survive on the product alone.
So the focus was on selling the insurance. It became so bad that when a person came in and they were unwilling to buy the insurance, they would not even get the product.
When some CxO mentioned this, it was ignored by the CEO, because the numbers where good and who cares, right? So CEO gets fired, new policy and within 1 week the problem was solved. Unfortunately too to save the company.
Tell me how your bonus or incentive or rating system works and you will see that people work towards that and ignore all the rest.
Starts i school where understanding is less important than getting the grades, so people cheat to get those grades. You see it in sports where people will do anything to get that one goal. So why would it be any different in the business world?
And if people like deregulation so much, try it out in sports. Remove all the rules and see what happens.
They will do it like any American Company: they will change the guidelines by lobbywork.
Yes, but that would up the price to 104.99USD.
I think in the Netherlands Email is regarded with the same privacy as a postcard. i.e. none.
They will start selling the YPhone and Chinese cars made in the identical same factories.
Remember how the Japanese only sold cheap copies of western products? The Chinese already have the knowledge and the plants and the production and even the polulation to sell it to.
They do not care if people buyan iPhone or not. The margin they will be making on their own phone will be at least the same. Don't forget where the majority of the profit goes to. Hint: It ain't China.
So they rather sell a lot of their own phones to e.g. Africa (or why do you think they are building roads there for free?)
A lot more people living there than in the US. I can imagine they rather sell 100 phones with a profit of 1 than 25 with the profit of 2.
I believe he also said he never said he never said those things. I think he will soon say that he denies having said that he said he did not deny not saying any of the things he not never said.
They should have done that with "I am legend". They took it, burned the story and then raped the corpse.
The only thing that aws left was the title that they used as a trophy to show their power over copyright.