simply being a monopoly is not illegal. if that were true then any business that doesn't have competitors for whatever reason is operating illegally. apple was convicted of price fixing, not being a monopoly. and you don't have to be a monopoly to coerce publishers.
Wasting money to kill others (who disagree with you) is spiritually retarded.
war is about spending money to kill others you are preventing you from making more money. it's never anything more or less than that. violence is most certainly the solution to keeping the 0.1% on top.
even if syria isn't strategically important, it will serve nicely as a justification for military spending and a training exercise.
Did you also expect that he would read the text while driving?
so now you are going to prove what i expected?
Do you text them about something non-critical at 17:15 and if you did and they had an accident would you feel at all guilty?
that's like asking if i feel guilty that my spouse was run over by a drunk driver because i asked her to pick up some milk from the store. ya, i'd probably feel guilty, but no i don't think i should be held accountable in the eyes of the law.
unfortunately, laws aren't written to such specific situations. pointing out an obvious corporation-pushing-around-the-worker example doesn't make the vast majority of murky examples any clearer. how about this? i text you at 5.30pm, and you read it and get in an accident. i know you typically commute at this time and are probably driving. am i at fault?
IANAL, but if the truck driver is being coerced to act illegally, they ought to address that coercion before it causes them to plow into that minivan full of kids on their way to soccer practice. i don't know the law, but i'm pretty sure your employer cannot expect you to perform illegal activities to maintain your job. all things being equal, it's better to address it at this point then after the damage is done, and lo and behold, we don't need any new laws or rulings to solve the problem.
Yep, and his 'free will' choice is now 'ignore the text and lose my job, or look at the text and maybe be in an accident'. I'm guess that one of those outcomes is much more likely than the other - so much for his 'free will'.
Which is commonsense. You don't get an out for something you initiate simply because the mechanism you're relying upon involves someone else being irresponsible. And the court's not making you solely responsible, but it isn't letting you off the hook either.
this is nothing but lawyer food. perp doesn't have deep enough pockets? let's look through their text log to see if anyone rich was texting them. book some more hours researching whether people had "special reason to believe" the perp was driving. call some witnesses. tie up the courts (more),
we simply don't need this ruling because if everyone simply obeys the *existing* law / ruling, then the problem is prevented. i don't read texts when i'm driving, and you don't read texts when you are driving. it doesn't need to be any more complicated than that.
do you have special reason to know that they don't own a hands-free device, or do you have special reason to know that their hands free device needs to be charded?
I'm sure it wasn't their most popular service, but then again, there probably didn't cost them much to run.
it's just math. google exists to make money. if they were making $ with reader, it'd still be around. they aren't a non-profit, so argument like "it didn't cost that much" are irrelevant. google may allow some losing services to exist, but it's because they see future potential in them. RSS readership has been on a downward trend for some time.
The iPads will cost $475, saving students up to 50% of what a semester's worth of textbooks would cost
i wonder how they magically get the same texts, in digital form, for so much cheaper? last time i checked, publishers weren't offering discounts on digital media.
well, i'm certainly not going to feel bad about myself because TSA hired some monkeys and didn't train them well. what's that got to do with me?
anyone who has nationalistic sentiments about their govt is misguided. it's just where you live. the inner-workings of the US or any nation don't give two sh*ts about you or what you think (excluding the very few elite officials / power brokers). they don't give a crap about what you DO either, so long as it doesn't get in the way of them making money and being powerful.
it's not about a real name as much as a verified, bannable account.
to sign up, you usually need to provide a real email address for verification. i'm sure you will in this case. sure, you can fake your name, but your account can also be banned if you are trolling. okay, nothing stops a real determined troll from signing up with another email address and another fake name... but in reality almost no one is that determined. so you eliminate 98% (or whatever) of the tards. that's a very good thing.
and, names not being unique doesn't prevent me from identifying someone. i've searched for people i've known with common names and somehow located their online presences. i did that by knowing just a little about them beyond their name.
BTW - it's not vaporware until it doesn't happen, and they're not planning on even having a production phone for year - which they have been completely up front about.
by that definition nothing is vaporware since everything could still happen in the future.
the problem is that in a year, the state of the art in software and hardware will have progressed radically. the designs they are showing today will be outdated in a year. it's more like a PR campaign, "see all of the people we have working on this? see the mockups we've posted in the conference rooms? we can build a smartphone OS. invest in us." basically, they want to be in the mobile OS business, but they need cash.
it's a hard sell to the carriers. android succeeded because they were scared of apple dominating the world. that's not a threat anymore.
the software (mockups) look compelling, but outing a design today for something that may ship in 2014 is not much more than an exercise in PR (and fundraising). that goes doubly for the hardware mockup. it's sort of like saying: "if we had funding a year ago, this is what we could have produced have produced today."
i can't hold the phone to my ear, but i can talk hands free... because driving with one hand is impossible? why isn't one-handed driving in general illegal?
i can use my stand alone GPS system, but not my phone that's running a navigation?
why can i mess with an overly complicated in-dash entertainment system, but not my phone? if i mount my phone, is it now legal to interact w/ it while driving?
the whole point of TFA is that our university system is overpriced. if TFA post says "the nation of blah has free universities!", what point do YOU think they are making? do you think they are saying "the nation of blah's system is better than ours?" or do you think it's just pointing out that in general, everything is equal and things are all the same everywhere you go?
The desk next to mine has a Chinese graduate student moving in next week. My supervisor is Romanian (ex-Soviet bloc). My former officemate's girlfriend is another graduate student, a wonderful Chinese woman. Next office over is biophysics -- one Indian and a bunch of Chinese folks. Over half of the grad students are Chinese, and another of the new ones is Russian.
so only the chinese woman is wonderful? what's wrong with the others?
If your working ~35 hours/week, you're really not applying your full attention to a university education. The idea is to go there, full-time, and invest your effort and intellect in learning.
if you are working full time, you're really not applying your full attention to $NON_MONEYEARNING_TASK...
like is full of compromises. if you are rich and your parents are paying for your education and living expenses, then there you go. otherwise, you might have to settle for something less. lack of sleep. lack of parties. lack of sitting around at the hub with your friends. lackluster grades.
if you were a parent of a kid looking to get an education, you'd much rather they be studying full time (and sufficiently challenged to do so) rather than washing dishes, installing modems, laying cable, minding the circulation desk, whatever kids do for money
right, if you have a choice,
1. work full time for no reason while your parent's are paying for your education anyway 2. concentrate 100% on your studies
pick #2. however, that's not the issue, this is,
1. work full time to avoid crippling debt and get something less than the 100% university experience 2. concentrate 100% on your studies, and walk out of university with debt that will haunt you for decades to come
if you pick #2, you are a fool and deserve your fate.
25k is an expensive tuition. Most tech schools have programs for 3k/yr or less, and many states have perfectly acceptable schools with tuitions 6-10k/yr for instate. The whole "100k in student debt" story is completely ridiculous. Unless you now go by Dr, if you paid 100k for your education you got fleeced.
+1. there are ways to get a budget education. start by staying in-state, public. from there you can look at the less prestigious state schools, and from there you can look at community colleges, and city colleges, and trade schools. if you went to stanford and took out student loans to pay for most all your expenses and wound up with $100k+ in debt, i don't feel sorry for you. you lived outside your means. now live w/ the consequences.
Federal and state taxes will eat up 33% of that $40
ummm, no. the average tax rate for the wealthiest %0.1 of americans doesn't even reach 33%. consider you get tax breaks when going to school (unless you are counted as a dependent), you'd be paying single digit taxes at most.
For this story, I interviewed people who developed crippling mental and physical conditions, who considered suicide, who had to give up hope of having children, who were forced to leave the country, or who even entered a life of crime because of their student debts
it'd be a much stronger statement if he was interviewing responsible people who looked at the tuition costs and made the tough decision not to attend. am i supposed to feel bad for people who spent way, way more money than they had then did things like skip the country to avoid paying back their loans, or turn to a life a crime?
Friends and family plans are generally substantially cheaper than buying your own phone and paying off-contract, you have to go through a provider to do that of course.
if you buy a $650 samsung galaxy 4, yes. if you buy a $350 nexus 4, no.
In the US, all the major carriers and a great number of smaller ones will let you use an unlocked phone off-contract, and no it's not the same price.
yes it is the same price. my spouse and i have separate plans. i came in with my own phone off contract. she has an on-contract iphone. same monthly cost.
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this MBP is used daily for heavy development tasks. there's a reason why they are so popular.
also, do you really think that hardware produced over 20 years ago has any bearing on what is being produced today, good or bad, wintel or apple?
I am not a lawyer. But then neither are you. Your prediction is worth no more than mine.
did you notice that the court already found apple guilty? that's a decision by people who's opinion is worth something.
simply being a monopoly is not illegal. if that were true then any business that doesn't have competitors for whatever reason is operating illegally. apple was convicted of price fixing, not being a monopoly. and you don't have to be a monopoly to coerce publishers.
yes you are right. that's not price fixing, it's extortion.
Wasting money to kill others (who disagree with you) is spiritually retarded.
war is about spending money to kill others you are preventing you from making more money. it's never anything more or less than that. violence is most certainly the solution to keeping the 0.1% on top.
even if syria isn't strategically important, it will serve nicely as a justification for military spending and a training exercise.
Did you also expect that he would read the text while driving?
so now you are going to prove what i expected?
Do you text them about something non-critical at 17:15 and if you did and they had an accident would you feel at all guilty?
that's like asking if i feel guilty that my spouse was run over by a drunk driver because i asked her to pick up some milk from the store. ya, i'd probably feel guilty, but no i don't think i should be held accountable in the eyes of the law.
unfortunately, laws aren't written to such specific situations. pointing out an obvious corporation-pushing-around-the-worker example doesn't make the vast majority of murky examples any clearer. how about this? i text you at 5.30pm, and you read it and get in an accident. i know you typically commute at this time and are probably driving. am i at fault?
IANAL, but if the truck driver is being coerced to act illegally, they ought to address that coercion before it causes them to plow into that minivan full of kids on their way to soccer practice. i don't know the law, but i'm pretty sure your employer cannot expect you to perform illegal activities to maintain your job. all things being equal, it's better to address it at this point then after the damage is done, and lo and behold, we don't need any new laws or rulings to solve the problem.
Yep, and his 'free will' choice is now 'ignore the text and lose my job, or look at the text and maybe be in an accident'. I'm guess that one of those outcomes is much more likely than the other - so much for his 'free will'.
... or pull over?
Which is commonsense. You don't get an out for something you initiate simply because the mechanism you're relying upon involves someone else being irresponsible. And the court's not making you solely responsible, but it isn't letting you off the hook either.
this is nothing but lawyer food. perp doesn't have deep enough pockets? let's look through their text log to see if anyone rich was texting them. book some more hours researching whether people had "special reason to believe" the perp was driving. call some witnesses. tie up the courts (more),
we simply don't need this ruling because if everyone simply obeys the *existing* law / ruling, then the problem is prevented. i don't read texts when i'm driving, and you don't read texts when you are driving. it doesn't need to be any more complicated than that.
do you have special reason to know that they don't own a hands-free device, or do you have special reason to know that their hands free device needs to be charded?
I'm sure it wasn't their most popular service, but then again, there probably didn't cost them much to run.
it's just math. google exists to make money. if they were making $ with reader, it'd still be around. they aren't a non-profit, so argument like "it didn't cost that much" are irrelevant. google may allow some losing services to exist, but it's because they see future potential in them. RSS readership has been on a downward trend for some time.
The iPads will cost $475, saving students up to 50% of what a semester's worth of textbooks would cost
i wonder how they magically get the same texts, in digital form, for so much cheaper? last time i checked, publishers weren't offering discounts on digital media.
Are you proud of yourself yet?
well, i'm certainly not going to feel bad about myself because TSA hired some monkeys and didn't train them well. what's that got to do with me?
anyone who has nationalistic sentiments about their govt is misguided. it's just where you live. the inner-workings of the US or any nation don't give two sh*ts about you or what you think (excluding the very few elite officials / power brokers). they don't give a crap about what you DO either, so long as it doesn't get in the way of them making money and being powerful.
In short, a real name adds nothing but confusion
it's not about a real name as much as a verified, bannable account.
to sign up, you usually need to provide a real email address for verification. i'm sure you will in this case. sure, you can fake your name, but your account can also be banned if you are trolling. okay, nothing stops a real determined troll from signing up with another email address and another fake name ... but in reality almost no one is that determined. so you eliminate 98% (or whatever) of the tards. that's a very good thing.
and, names not being unique doesn't prevent me from identifying someone. i've searched for people i've known with common names and somehow located their online presences. i did that by knowing just a little about them beyond their name.
Sony electronic products in the US: 3 months.
BTW - it's not vaporware until it doesn't happen, and they're not planning on even having a production phone for year - which they have been completely up front about.
by that definition nothing is vaporware since everything could still happen in the future.
the problem is that in a year, the state of the art in software and hardware will have progressed radically. the designs they are showing today will be outdated in a year. it's more like a PR campaign, "see all of the people we have working on this? see the mockups we've posted in the conference rooms? we can build a smartphone OS. invest in us." basically, they want to be in the mobile OS business, but they need cash.
it's a hard sell to the carriers. android succeeded because they were scared of apple dominating the world. that's not a threat anymore.
the software (mockups) look compelling, but outing a design today for something that may ship in 2014 is not much more than an exercise in PR (and fundraising). that goes doubly for the hardware mockup. it's sort of like saying: "if we had funding a year ago, this is what we could have produced have produced today."
the first problem is that the law is not clear.
i can't hold the phone to my ear, but i can talk hands free ... because driving with one hand is impossible? why isn't one-handed driving in general illegal?
i can use my stand alone GPS system, but not my phone that's running a navigation?
why can i mess with an overly complicated in-dash entertainment system, but not my phone? if i mount my phone, is it now legal to interact w/ it while driving?
the whole point of TFA is that our university system is overpriced. if TFA post says "the nation of blah has free universities!", what point do YOU think they are making? do you think they are saying "the nation of blah's system is better than ours?" or do you think it's just pointing out that in general, everything is equal and things are all the same everywhere you go?
duh.
The desk next to mine has a Chinese graduate student moving in next week. My supervisor is Romanian (ex-Soviet bloc). My former officemate's girlfriend is another graduate student, a wonderful Chinese woman. Next office over is biophysics -- one Indian and a bunch of Chinese folks. Over half of the grad students are Chinese, and another of the new ones is Russian.
so only the chinese woman is wonderful? what's wrong with the others?
If your working ~35 hours/week, you're really not applying your full attention to a university education. The idea is to go there, full-time, and invest your effort and intellect in learning.
if you are working full time, you're really not applying your full attention to $NON_MONEYEARNING_TASK ...
like is full of compromises. if you are rich and your parents are paying for your education and living expenses, then there you go. otherwise, you might have to settle for something less. lack of sleep. lack of parties. lack of sitting around at the hub with your friends. lackluster grades.
if you were a parent of a kid looking to get an education, you'd much rather they be studying full time (and sufficiently challenged to do so) rather than washing dishes, installing modems, laying cable, minding the circulation desk, whatever kids do for money
right, if you have a choice,
1. work full time for no reason while your parent's are paying for your education anyway
2. concentrate 100% on your studies
pick #2. however, that's not the issue, this is,
1. work full time to avoid crippling debt and get something less than the 100% university experience
2. concentrate 100% on your studies, and walk out of university with debt that will haunt you for decades to come
if you pick #2, you are a fool and deserve your fate.
25k is an expensive tuition. Most tech schools have programs for 3k/yr or less, and many states have perfectly acceptable schools with tuitions 6-10k/yr for instate. The whole "100k in student debt" story is completely ridiculous. Unless you now go by Dr, if you paid 100k for your education you got fleeced.
+1. there are ways to get a budget education. start by staying in-state, public. from there you can look at the less prestigious state schools, and from there you can look at community colleges, and city colleges, and trade schools. if you went to stanford and took out student loans to pay for most all your expenses and wound up with $100k+ in debt, i don't feel sorry for you. you lived outside your means. now live w/ the consequences.
Federal and state taxes will eat up 33% of that $40
ummm, no. the average tax rate for the wealthiest %0.1 of americans doesn't even reach 33%. consider you get tax breaks when going to school (unless you are counted as a dependent), you'd be paying single digit taxes at most.
http://taxfoundation.org/sites/taxfoundation.org/files/docs/ff285.pdf
For this story, I interviewed people who developed crippling mental and physical conditions, who considered suicide, who had to give up hope of having children, who were forced to leave the country, or who even entered a life of crime because of their student debts
it'd be a much stronger statement if he was interviewing responsible people who looked at the tuition costs and made the tough decision not to attend. am i supposed to feel bad for people who spent way, way more money than they had then did things like skip the country to avoid paying back their loans, or turn to a life a crime?
Friends and family plans are generally substantially cheaper than buying your own phone and paying off-contract, you have to go through a provider to do that of course.
if you buy a $650 samsung galaxy 4, yes. if you buy a $350 nexus 4, no.
In the US, all the major carriers and a great number of smaller ones will let you use an unlocked phone off-contract, and no it's not the same price.
yes it is the same price. my spouse and i have separate plans. i came in with my own phone off contract. she has an on-contract iphone. same monthly cost.