Does your registrar get a higher margin on.fr domains?
I'm not saying the US jursidiction thing isn't an issue, just that it seems your registrar is really exaggerating the risks and maybe they have another reason for that.
Why is this shady? If McDonalds allowed the use of their franchise in GTA, wouldn't they want a say in how it is used?
Can't speak to the shadiness, but I would expect that McDonald's would pay for the privilege of in game advertising like that, rather than the reverse. OK, maybe that speaks a little to the shadiness - these guys get paid to get their wares advertised.
In fact, it is so freakin huge that it makes me doubt the veracity of the story. 10% of gross is going to be at least 20% of net. I just don't see anyone thinking that including trademarked gun designs is worth 20% of the profit of a video grame.
I agree with the other response - that guy was outsourcing his parenting problems on to you. Does he expect the librarians to limit what books his kids can borrow from the public library too?
On the other hand, he could have made life difficult for you being a neighbor and all. I would have suggested a compromise - block his kid's MAC address. If the kid figures out that he is being blocked by MAC address and is smart enough to change it, then (A) good for him and (b) it is now up to the parent to do some parenting of their own.
For a tech news website, there are an astonishing lack of tech solutions in the comments here.
It is because the people writing these simple-minded objections don't really believe in what they are writing - they just have an unsupported opinion that the idea of free wifi is bad and are trying to rationalize it. They don't want to make free wifi work, they want to see it fail.
This sort of scenario plays out here all of the time - just replace "free wifi" with any other change in the status quo and you get the same phenomenon of people tearing it down on the flimsiest excuse rather than looking for ways to make it work.
Frankly, I don't give a damn if no one's been *successfully* prosecuted. Getting involved in a court case--even successfully--is a nightmare timesink, and I won't risk it.
Some cops have a saying for that, "you might beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride." It is a despicable way to run a so-called justice system.
Unfortunately, the only way to reduce abuse like that is for enough people either courageous or stupid enough to do exactly what you are afraid to do.
I think it is not helpful to assume the worst case scenario. The oversubscription model itself specifically igmores the worst case scenario, so why does a different model have to be more rigid?
the entire civilized world will hang its head in shame over how long this abomination has been allowed to exist.
I agree. And it isn't just a case of china backing them or seoul being vulnerable. Why aren't we pushing for a full peace treaty - like we've ended every other official war - instead of just an armistice? The whole "the war is not over" thing is the main pillar of NK's pathology. I'm not so naive as to believe a peace treaty would magically make things all lovey-dovey. But it would be progress that does not require military force.
Incidentally, Shirly Sherrod lasted how long when that deceptively edited video of her was released, compared to how long Ortiz has lasted after an egregious miscarriage of Justice that she was responsible for was shown?
On one hand you have a video purportedly showing someone admitting to a crime (racial discrimination in applying government resources) and on the other hand you have someone acting completely within the bounds of the law, even if that law is morally bankrupt, it is still the law.
I don't see any use in making that comparison beyond scoring low-information political points.
For starters - no shunning of former members, no billion year contracts, no charging money for access to scripture, no such thing as a "suppressive person," no using information given during an "audit" to blackmail members. Stuff like that, all of which seem to be official church policy.
(A) The catholic church does not consider the bible to be the literal word of god, that's only some of the crazier protestants (B) What the catholic church did centuries ago has nothing to do with what it does today. Which was the entire point of my post. Too much kiddie video games must have rotted your ability to focus beyond a single sentence.
If you read the news you can find plenty examples of long established, "legitimate religions" still doing shitty things to people.
For the most part, those shitty things aren't officially sanctioned parts of the religion. Some of the things (I'm thinking of the handling of catholic pedo priests) are widespread enough that you could make a reasonable argument that they are instuitional, but they are not doctrine To the best of my knowledge, Scientology has not had any sort of reformation yet.
I do have one question for our lurking lawyers. Does this mean other companies who have previously settled automatically get their settlements refunded? Does Victoria's Secret get their $18 million back?
IANAL although my GF loves it. Anyways... the way it works is that any settlements are subject to the terms of the settlement which could be anything - so it could go either way, usually it goes the way of the troll getting to keep the money. Any court rulings are based on the validity of the patents, so those go away when the patent goes away,
Prepaid credit/debit cards. Available (for cash, even), everywhere. I use them for my online purchases.
You can't get them in denominations of more than $500 and still remain anonymous - money laundering laws mean they require id and SS# for anything more than $500. Plus most of them have a surcharge - put in $500 get $475 work of spending.
In Vegas they don't even have to post both prices. So inevitably they post the cash price and you get a surprise at the pump (or if you aren't paying close attention, at the end of the month when you get your credit card bill).
Everything the Mac is, came from Apple engineers. Not Jobs.
At least one mac engineer has a strongly different view than you.
Not only did he know and love product engineering, it's all he really wanted to do. He told me once that part of the reason he wanted to be CEO was so that nobody could tell him that he wasn't allowed to participate in the nitty-gritty of product design. He was right there in the middle of it. All of it. As a team member, not as CEO. He quietly left his CEO hat by the door, and collaborated with us.
I dislike the guy as much as anyone -- I believe that he is directly responsible for apple becoming exactly what their 1984 Mac commercial parodied and I think he was a giant prick for abandoning his daughter for the first two years of her life, making her mother live on welfare while apple was booming -- but I believe it is entirely possible for a person to have more than one side to their personality.
I was probably about 7 years old when I found that book on my parent's bookshelf. I can't tell you how disappointed I was when I read it and there were no klingons or spaceships or even mind-melds.
I dont think the workers from poorer countries think they are being screwed. I mean, from the standpoint of what they could be making, maybe, but from the standpoint of what they were making, not really.
That's why we need to stand up for them. I don't mean keep them out, I mean make the H1B program less about indentured servitude and more about citizenship.
Right now, H1B is used as an unofficial visa on the green-card/citizenship path. It takes about 5 years of continuous residence to get a green card if you are in the country on an H1B. But an H1B is only good for 6 years. You can only get a green-card if you are sponsored by your current employer. If you change employers, the process starts over. So if you want a green card you are effectively a hostage of your current employer.
I say modify the H1B visa program to be an official citizenship-seeking visa. Require H1B visa holders also apply for a green-card starting as soon as they are on US soil and make that application the visa holder's responsibility and take the employer completely out of the loop.
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Not only can your domain name be taken away from you
True. But super rare.
it grants the US certain jurisdictional rights over you as it can be considered that you are doing business in the US because you own said domain.
False.
Feather that broke the camel's back.
Does your registrar get a higher margin on .fr domains?
I'm not saying the US jursidiction thing isn't an issue, just that it seems your registrar is really exaggerating the risks and maybe they have another reason for that.
That point will probably be when the cops bust down the wrong door, and a firefight ensues.
Nearly already happened. But it was for kiddee porn so, it was ok.
Why is this shady? If McDonalds allowed the use of their franchise in GTA, wouldn't they want a say in how it is used?
Can't speak to the shadiness, but I would expect that McDonald's would pay for the privilege of in game advertising like that, rather than the reverse. OK, maybe that speaks a little to the shadiness - these guys get paid to get their wares advertised.
5-10% of retail sales is a *lot*.
In fact, it is so freakin huge that it makes me doubt the veracity of the story.
10% of gross is going to be at least 20% of net. I just don't see anyone thinking that including trademarked gun designs is worth 20% of the profit of a video grame.
Yet another story that highlights how prosecutors are given entirely too much power and there's no way to hold them accountable.
Responsibility without accountability - it is the zeitgeist of the modern era.
I agree with the other response - that guy was outsourcing his parenting problems on to you. Does he expect the librarians to limit what books his kids can borrow from the public library too?
On the other hand, he could have made life difficult for you being a neighbor and all. I would have suggested a compromise - block his kid's MAC address. If the kid figures out that he is being blocked by MAC address and is smart enough to change it, then (A) good for him and (b) it is now up to the parent to do some parenting of their own.
For a tech news website, there are an astonishing lack of tech solutions in the comments here.
It is because the people writing these simple-minded objections don't really believe in what they are writing - they just have an unsupported opinion that the idea of free wifi is bad and are trying to rationalize it. They don't want to make free wifi work, they want to see it fail.
This sort of scenario plays out here all of the time - just replace "free wifi" with any other change in the status quo and you get the same phenomenon of people tearing it down on the flimsiest excuse rather than looking for ways to make it work.
Frankly, I don't give a damn if no one's been *successfully* prosecuted. Getting involved in a court case--even successfully--is a nightmare timesink, and I won't risk it.
Some cops have a saying for that, "you might beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride." It is a despicable way to run a so-called justice system.
Unfortunately, the only way to reduce abuse like that is for enough people either courageous or stupid enough to do exactly what you are afraid to do.
I think it is not helpful to assume the worst case scenario. The oversubscription model itself specifically igmores the worst case scenario, so why does a different model have to be more rigid?
When NK falls and the full extent to which its people have been oppressed is revealed,
Here is a start - from the only person known to have been born in and escape from one of these prison camps.
the entire civilized world will hang its head in shame over how long this abomination has been allowed to exist.
I agree. And it isn't just a case of china backing them or seoul being vulnerable. Why aren't we pushing for a full peace treaty - like we've ended every other official war - instead of just an armistice? The whole "the war is not over" thing is the main pillar of NK's pathology. I'm not so naive as to believe a peace treaty would magically make things all lovey-dovey. But it would be progress that does not require military force.
Incidentally, Shirly Sherrod lasted how long when that deceptively edited video of her was released, compared to how long Ortiz has lasted after an egregious miscarriage of Justice that she was responsible for was shown?
On one hand you have a video purportedly showing someone admitting to a crime (racial discrimination in applying government resources) and on the other hand you have someone acting completely within the bounds of the law, even if that law is morally bankrupt, it is still the law.
I don't see any use in making that comparison beyond scoring low-information political points.
What would reformed Scientology look like...
For starters - no shunning of former members, no billion year contracts, no charging money for access to scripture, no such thing as a "suppressive person," no using information given during an "audit" to blackmail members. Stuff like that, all of which seem to be official church policy.
That's absolutely correct, except for alter boys they've completely cleaned up their act... uh yeah./p
Oh, you got me. Totally, clearly the 11th commandment says, "thou must molest altar boys."
(A) The catholic church does not consider the bible to be the literal word of god, that's only some of the crazier protestants
(B) What the catholic church did centuries ago has nothing to do with what it does today. Which was the entire point of my post. Too much kiddie video games must have rotted your ability to focus beyond a single sentence.
If you read the news you can find plenty examples of long established, "legitimate religions" still doing shitty things to people.
For the most part, those shitty things aren't officially sanctioned parts of the religion. Some of the things (I'm thinking of the handling of catholic pedo priests) are widespread enough that you could make a reasonable argument that they are instuitional, but they are not doctrine To the best of my knowledge, Scientology has not had any sort of reformation yet.
I do have one question for our lurking lawyers. Does this mean other companies who have previously settled automatically get their settlements refunded? Does Victoria's Secret get their $18 million back?
IANAL although my GF loves it. Anyways... the way it works is that any settlements are subject to the terms of the settlement which could be anything - so it could go either way, usually it goes the way of the troll getting to keep the money. Any court rulings are based on the validity of the patents, so those go away when the patent goes away,
Many people on H1Bs actually do only want to work for a little while, and not get a green card.
I'm sure there are. But it ain't in the interest of the US as a whole to cater to them.
Prepaid credit/debit cards. Available (for cash, even), everywhere. I use them for my online purchases.
You can't get them in denominations of more than $500 and still remain anonymous - money laundering laws mean they require id and SS# for anything more than $500. Plus most of them have a surcharge - put in $500 get $475 work of spending.
In Vegas they don't even have to post both prices. So inevitably they post the cash price and you get a surprise at the pump (or if you aren't paying close attention, at the end of the month when you get your credit card bill).
Everything the Mac is, came from Apple engineers. Not Jobs.
At least one mac engineer has a strongly different view than you.
Not only did he know and love product engineering, it's all he really wanted to do. He told me once that part of the reason he wanted to be CEO was so that nobody could tell him that he wasn't allowed to participate in the nitty-gritty of product design. He was right there in the middle of it. All of it. As a team member, not as CEO. He quietly left his CEO hat by the door, and collaborated with us.I dislike the guy as much as anyone -- I believe that he is directly responsible for apple becoming exactly what their 1984 Mac commercial parodied and I think he was a giant prick for abandoning his daughter for the first two years of her life, making her mother live on welfare while apple was booming -- but I believe it is entirely possible for a person to have more than one side to their personality.
I was probably about 7 years old when I found that book on my parent's bookshelf. I can't tell you how disappointed I was when I read it and there were no klingons or spaceships or even mind-melds.
He's printing Arab Noses? Aren't they big enough already?
I dont think the workers from poorer countries think they are being screwed. I mean, from the standpoint of what they could be making, maybe, but from the standpoint of what they were making, not really.
That's why we need to stand up for them. I don't mean keep them out, I mean make the H1B program less about indentured servitude and more about citizenship.
Right now, H1B is used as an unofficial visa on the green-card/citizenship path. It takes about 5 years of continuous residence to get a green card if you are in the country on an H1B. But an H1B is only good for 6 years. You can only get a green-card if you are sponsored by your current employer. If you change employers, the process starts over. So if you want a green card you are effectively a hostage of your current employer.
I say modify the H1B visa program to be an official citizenship-seeking visa. Require H1B visa holders also apply for a green-card starting as soon as they are on US soil and make that application the visa holder's responsibility and take the employer completely out of the loop.