Apple would merely be applying the precedent already set. If the EU is allowed to retroactively charge Apple taxes, Apple must be able to retroactively decide not to do business in Europe.
Oh, shit. I'm sorry, I forgot that Might makes right only applies when socialists do it.
Actually, that is exactly what happens now, and is the entire cause of the "problem".
Apple Ireland acquires an iphone for $x, then sells it to Apple France for $y, then the end user buys it for $z.
$x is close to the cost of production, including expenses for design, etc in the US. $y is close to $z, multiplied by the number of units sold, it covers the cost of operating in France, with a slight profit margin.
Since Apple beat them at their own game (they literally wrote the rules), now they want to change the rules, which is fine, but also to apply the new rules retroactively. If Apple had any balls, they'd pull out of Europe, push a firmware update to brick any devices there that they can reach, and literally burn to the ground any assets that they are unable to smuggle out.
But they won't. They'll pay the taxes and take the credit against their US taxes.
And this new precedent for ex post facto punishments will drag Europe another step closer to the impending dark age.
Negating the government-granted monopoly means that companies won't build infrastructure in areas, because it's not profitable enough.
Then why do I have two different competing fiber optic cable systems in my franchise-less region? I live a few miles outside of a small town in a semi-rural area and I've got three different fiber pedestals in my yard.
40 miles away in a bigger city, a second-tier cable provider has an exclusive franchise and people pay 50% more for lousy speeds over coax and shitty service. Both of the providers in my neighborhood have detailed plans and pre-approved financing to build their own plant right alongside the incumbent's cables in that city, should the city ever stop renewing that monopoly.
We aren't rich, and we don't have magic dirt that is unusually easy to lay fiber in.
At least we now have proof of anthropogenic global warming. After all, the current global warming must be unprecedented otherwise previous generations would have found the toys God hid under the glaciers when he was creating the world.
P.S. Only 6000 years old? What are you a caveman? Wake up and smell the 6020s dude.
Actually it is the owner of the trademark and/or copyright: Grumpy Cat, LLC. And, since we often drop the suffix of incorporation when speaking informally, "Grumpy Cat, LLC." becomes "Grumpy Cat".
Depends. How long ago was this hypothetical taking place? I don't recall saying anything like that lately, but back in the late 90s, I saw a story about a self-driving Linux car... That was an interesting news.
(For you 12 digit UID kids, back in the 90s, Linux was new and cool. Oh, and 90s cars wouldn't stop themselves to avoid a brick wall, much less cruise around town on their own.)
It isn't different dirt necessarily, but if land is flooded for thousands or millions of years, you'd best be wary about draining it and building there.
When a company as big as Dow does something like this and totally skips the implementation phase, I usually suspect either patent protection, PR stunt or regulator appeasement. Not that incompetence is unheard of.
It sounded to me like he was interested, but wasn't sure it would work for him. Since more than half the country deals with snow on our roofs either every year, or at least several times over the expected life of a solar panel, it is something that a lot of us are or should be wondering about.
We won't really know for sure until we see what they are making, and possibly until we gain a few years worth of experience on a few thousand homes in the upper midwest or New England.
Personally, I suspect, but don't know, that they will be better than shingles for two reasons. One, smoother easier sliding surface will allow snow to slide off easier. Two, metal and glass will allow better heat conduction, so any exposed area will cause more even melting in the area.
Also, I should point out that there are foam rubber snow rakes that are considered safe to use on cars without wrecking the paint finish. Those should be safe to use on solar panels as well.
(Note that several times here I make assumptions about what this product will be, which may not turn out to be correct. The linked articles are extremely light on details, so that is the best I can do. Sorry.)
My employer is on a state-wide network that connects, among other things, a ton of colleges and universities. After some recent BLM events, there were sympathy DDOS attacks from anonymous or whoever, so the state just spent millions on fancy new anti-DDOS gear on the external side of all of their POPs.
A few weeks ago, I had an opportunity to ask the state's Chief Information Security Officer what their plan was to handle internal attacks coming from the colleges, which are inside the perimeter, and typically have incredible switching and routing capacities (as part of I2), far in excess of anything our rural fiber rings could handle. It took him a few seconds to review the topology of the network in his head before he realized that we'd be screwed.
I have some sympathy for Australia. DDOS is a hard problem to solve, even if you've got millions to spend on the newest, shiniest gear.
You'll notice that Paul isn't telling the church elders in Thessaly to go out and perform this everlasting destruction themselves. He is, in fact, reminding them to stay strong because God will eventually triumph over those that persecute them.
If you look to the old Testament, you'll see that God often gave the jews that were alive at the time direct orders, including things like genocide. If you read carefully, you'll notice that he doesn't ever say that those orders are permanent and binding on all believers in the future. Ever hear a Christian tell you to go forth and kill Amalekites? No?
By contrast, the Koran conveys many orders directly from God's mouth to the ears of all Muslims to come. For example, they are to take control of the entire planet by force and kill anyone that doesn't convert. And if that wasn't enough, all Muslims are instructed to view the prophet as the perfect man, and to live their own lives according to his example.
I think you are misunderstanding. If a corporation is the author of the work, the term is a flat, fixed 25 years from date of first publishing. No trickery works to extend that. Selling it, or the rights, to a different corporation does not change the first date of publication.
But, of course no works are authored by corporations. Instead, corporations pay people to author things and transfer copyright rights to the corporation. That means that the individual terms apply to the work.
The Doctor and Clara find themselves under attack by a robot/computer/whatever still fighting a war that was lost thousands of years ago.
Actually, I think I saw that on Gilligan's Island too, but with a Japanese submarine.
Anyhow, the Brexit vote is in the past, but parts of Project Fear were damaged in the fighting and are now unable to comprehend that the war is over. Meanwhile, reality is turning out to be the exact opposite of most of the doom and gloom predictions.
Part of the cell phone security model was that it was expensive and difficult to build the radio gear necessary to spoof a cell tower. Fast forward to the last few years, and you can get an excellent board for SDR for like $500. The guidelines list steps you can take to reduce the risk of SS7 routing shenanigans, but there isn't much you can do about a highschool kid (or an organized crime outfit) playing MITM with a cheap radio, which is why it will be deprecated soon.
If you are in IT, and your environment demands security compliance, this will reach you eventually. It might take a few years if your structure is slow.
I'm not using secondary device auth anywhere because I believe that dedicated hardware is more secure, but many of my peers are.using this. They will be switching off the SMS option and pressing on with online OOB methods, at least until their next cycle. We suspect that online OOB will go away entirely soon as tablet/phone malware matures and starts emptying phone-2FA-protected bank accounts.
That case has absolutely zero bearing on this, but emails do appear to provide the basis for "actual malice" if he wanted to sue for the craigslist ads
We all knew the news media was biased, and to some extent we had all made peace with that. But, like a PAC, they were supposed to cover their shame by holding out the fig leaf of nominal independence.
Did you notice that every news organization on the left picked the same key word to describe Trump's speech? Given what you know now, do you think that the next volume of the email dump would show an email from the DNC describing how they want that speech spun? Still trust the news?
You assigned yourself. You do know that your name is attached to your comments, right? And people can check your post history if they don't recall what you've said before?
You may live in a bubble where you can imagine yourself to be on the neutral ground between your socialist friends (your right) and your communist friends (your left), but that's not the middle of the scale.
P.S. It would be news to me if BLM actually protested a scenario like you described. Link it up if you know one.
You do know that everything in your post is a lie, right? Not necessarily your lie, if you are just a useful idiot.
The Republicans said things that you lefties have interpreted as admissions, but they were just statements of fact, and occasionally of fortuitous joy.
Pull some videos and read the actual words that were said, not the words that were reported.
Hillary ran obstruction on the investigation from day one. And now she's complaining that it took 5 years. Hmm. If only there had been some way to get this over with before the election year...
And you do know that the whole email thing came from this investigation, right? You may have heard the FBI director on TV recently where he described what a prosecutor needed to prove to secure convictions for several sections of US code relating to espionage and state secrets, and then he described that the FBI had found evidence sufficient to prove all of those elements. He also told Congress that she perjured herself, but since they hadn't specifically asked for that investigation, they are going to sit on it for another year.
That sounds like something new, and also something that incriminated Hillary.
You sound like Black Lives Matter, bitching that a conspiracy of cops is making the streets unsafe for criminals to ply their trades.
You must be using the newfangled definition of corruption, popular with people that aren't familiar with the word graft, that only includes actual cash bribes for services or lenience.
Sorry to say that graft is only one type of corruption. Corruption is a broad thing. So broad that it is hard to pin down a concrete definition that includes everything and excludes nothing.that people consider to be corruption. The basic idea is that if a person is in an office or position of authority, and that authority is intended to be used for the benefit of some person or group, corruption is any time that person secretly uses their authority for their own benefit, or for the benefit of anyone other than the intended beneficiary, particularly when the intended is harmed or neglected in some way.
Seen in that light, it is hard to pretend that the DNC isn't riddled with corruption from top to bottom. They had a duty to the nation's democrats to run the primary process in a manner specified by the rules, which included neutrality, transparency, etc. What happened instead?
And it isn't enough that the DNC is corrupt, it is also corrupting. You read the exchanges with the press? Surprise, CNN and MSNBC see themselves are the propaganda wing of the democrat party. Is that what they told the FCC and the American people they were going to be doing?
What is always step one when dealing with a whistleblower? Try to distract the press by yammering nonstop about the whistleblower, and deflect every question about the leaked documents back to the leaker's motivations, integrity, etc.
Of course, given the content of the emails, I suspect that DWS has already given the marching orders to CNN and MSNBC so that the party doesn't have to dirty their hands by acting all shifty and evasive on TV.
The Democratic National Committee is an organization of and for the Democratic Party (aka, the voters), and should be neutral until the party members have selected their candidate. I think a lot of Sanders supporters are going to be disgusted to see how "their" party plotted and schemed to defeat their candidate, and also how "their" party stole their money and handed it to Hillary. Well, now that Bernie has ripped his mask off, I'm not so sure. But they should be pissed.
Also, did you see how the allegedly objective and neutral news organizations colluded with Hillary? I didn't think it was possible for the approval ratings of the mainstream media to get any lower, but they are working hard to shed those last few percent.
How about the soft bribery of the delegates going on? Think any of them are going to have some explaining to do after this?
I'm not sure that the EU counts. It is more than just trade today. We also have to consider trade tomorrow, which means ensuring that western civilization remains globally dominant tomorrow too.
The governments of the core EU countries long ago planted the seeds of a future Eurabia, and today they are watering those seeds, and fertilizing them with the blood of their own people.
The previous dark ages were literally caused by centuries of Islamic assault on Europe. I find it hard to believe that the next wave (currently in progress by both womb and sword) is going to turn out any differently.
The US isn't doing a whole lot better in this regard, but we are considerably less far down the path, and appear to be turning around faster. Plus, we (the people) are armed to the teeth, so our worst case scenario is civil war, instead of waiting to die.
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Apple would merely be applying the precedent already set. If the EU is allowed to retroactively charge Apple taxes, Apple must be able to retroactively decide not to do business in Europe.
Oh, shit. I'm sorry, I forgot that Might makes right only applies when socialists do it.
Actually, that is exactly what happens now, and is the entire cause of the "problem".
Apple Ireland acquires an iphone for $x, then sells it to Apple France for $y, then the end user buys it for $z.
$x is close to the cost of production, including expenses for design, etc in the US. $y is close to $z, multiplied by the number of units sold, it covers the cost of operating in France, with a slight profit margin.
Since Apple beat them at their own game (they literally wrote the rules), now they want to change the rules, which is fine, but also to apply the new rules retroactively. If Apple had any balls, they'd pull out of Europe, push a firmware update to brick any devices there that they can reach, and literally burn to the ground any assets that they are unable to smuggle out.
But they won't. They'll pay the taxes and take the credit against their US taxes.
And this new precedent for ex post facto punishments will drag Europe another step closer to the impending dark age.
Everyone always talks about extinction, but no one ever does anything about it. If you want us to take you seriously, show some leadership.
Negating the government-granted monopoly means that companies won't build infrastructure in areas, because it's not profitable enough.
Then why do I have two different competing fiber optic cable systems in my franchise-less region? I live a few miles outside of a small town in a semi-rural area and I've got three different fiber pedestals in my yard.
40 miles away in a bigger city, a second-tier cable provider has an exclusive franchise and people pay 50% more for lousy speeds over coax and shitty service. Both of the providers in my neighborhood have detailed plans and pre-approved financing to build their own plant right alongside the incumbent's cables in that city, should the city ever stop renewing that monopoly.
We aren't rich, and we don't have magic dirt that is unusually easy to lay fiber in.
At least we now have proof of anthropogenic global warming. After all, the current global warming must be unprecedented otherwise previous generations would have found the toys God hid under the glaciers when he was creating the world.
P.S. Only 6000 years old? What are you a caveman? Wake up and smell the 6020s dude.
Actually it is the owner of the trademark and/or copyright: Grumpy Cat, LLC. And, since we often drop the suffix of incorporation when speaking informally, "Grumpy Cat, LLC." becomes "Grumpy Cat".
Depends. How long ago was this hypothetical taking place? I don't recall saying anything like that lately, but back in the late 90s, I saw a story about a self-driving Linux car... That was an interesting news.
(For you 12 digit UID kids, back in the 90s, Linux was new and cool. Oh, and 90s cars wouldn't stop themselves to avoid a brick wall, much less cruise around town on their own.)
Swampland is code for "permanently flooded".
It isn't different dirt necessarily, but if land is flooded for thousands or millions of years, you'd best be wary about draining it and building there.
When a company as big as Dow does something like this and totally skips the implementation phase, I usually suspect either patent protection, PR stunt or regulator appeasement. Not that incompetence is unheard of.
It sounded to me like he was interested, but wasn't sure it would work for him. Since more than half the country deals with snow on our roofs either every year, or at least several times over the expected life of a solar panel, it is something that a lot of us are or should be wondering about.
We won't really know for sure until we see what they are making, and possibly until we gain a few years worth of experience on a few thousand homes in the upper midwest or New England.
Personally, I suspect, but don't know, that they will be better than shingles for two reasons. One, smoother easier sliding surface will allow snow to slide off easier. Two, metal and glass will allow better heat conduction, so any exposed area will cause more even melting in the area.
Also, I should point out that there are foam rubber snow rakes that are considered safe to use on cars without wrecking the paint finish. Those should be safe to use on solar panels as well.
(Note that several times here I make assumptions about what this product will be, which may not turn out to be correct. The linked articles are extremely light on details, so that is the best I can do. Sorry.)
It is all about location, location, location...
My employer is on a state-wide network that connects, among other things, a ton of colleges and universities. After some recent BLM events, there were sympathy DDOS attacks from anonymous or whoever, so the state just spent millions on fancy new anti-DDOS gear on the external side of all of their POPs.
A few weeks ago, I had an opportunity to ask the state's Chief Information Security Officer what their plan was to handle internal attacks coming from the colleges, which are inside the perimeter, and typically have incredible switching and routing capacities (as part of I2), far in excess of anything our rural fiber rings could handle. It took him a few seconds to review the topology of the network in his head before he realized that we'd be screwed.
I have some sympathy for Australia. DDOS is a hard problem to solve, even if you've got millions to spend on the newest, shiniest gear.
You'll notice that Paul isn't telling the church elders in Thessaly to go out and perform this everlasting destruction themselves. He is, in fact, reminding them to stay strong because God will eventually triumph over those that persecute them.
If you look to the old Testament, you'll see that God often gave the jews that were alive at the time direct orders, including things like genocide. If you read carefully, you'll notice that he doesn't ever say that those orders are permanent and binding on all believers in the future. Ever hear a Christian tell you to go forth and kill Amalekites? No?
By contrast, the Koran conveys many orders directly from God's mouth to the ears of all Muslims to come. For example, they are to take control of the entire planet by force and kill anyone that doesn't convert. And if that wasn't enough, all Muslims are instructed to view the prophet as the perfect man, and to live their own lives according to his example.
I have a better solution. Stop importing terrorists, then eject the ones that are already there.
There would be no fu@#!ng need to spy on your citizens if you weren't intentionally stirring terrorists into their midst.
I think you are misunderstanding. If a corporation is the author of the work, the term is a flat, fixed 25 years from date of first publishing. No trickery works to extend that. Selling it, or the rights, to a different corporation does not change the first date of publication.
But, of course no works are authored by corporations. Instead, corporations pay people to author things and transfer copyright rights to the corporation. That means that the individual terms apply to the work.
The Doctor and Clara find themselves under attack by a robot/computer/whatever still fighting a war that was lost thousands of years ago.
Actually, I think I saw that on Gilligan's Island too, but with a Japanese submarine.
Anyhow, the Brexit vote is in the past, but parts of Project Fear were damaged in the fighting and are now unable to comprehend that the war is over. Meanwhile, reality is turning out to be the exact opposite of most of the doom and gloom predictions.
Part of the cell phone security model was that it was expensive and difficult to build the radio gear necessary to spoof a cell tower. Fast forward to the last few years, and you can get an excellent board for SDR for like $500. The guidelines list steps you can take to reduce the risk of SS7 routing shenanigans, but there isn't much you can do about a highschool kid (or an organized crime outfit) playing MITM with a cheap radio, which is why it will be deprecated soon.
If you are in IT, and your environment demands security compliance, this will reach you eventually. It might take a few years if your structure is slow.
I'm not using secondary device auth anywhere because I believe that dedicated hardware is more secure, but many of my peers are.using this. They will be switching off the SMS option and pressing on with online OOB methods, at least until their next cycle. We suspect that online OOB will go away entirely soon as tablet/phone malware matures and starts emptying phone-2FA-protected bank accounts.
That case has absolutely zero bearing on this, but emails do appear to provide the basis for "actual malice" if he wanted to sue for the craigslist ads
We all knew the news media was biased, and to some extent we had all made peace with that. But, like a PAC, they were supposed to cover their shame by holding out the fig leaf of nominal independence.
Did you notice that every news organization on the left picked the same key word to describe Trump's speech? Given what you know now, do you think that the next volume of the email dump would show an email from the DNC describing how they want that speech spun? Still trust the news?
You assigned yourself. You do know that your name is attached to your comments, right? And people can check your post history if they don't recall what you've said before?
You may live in a bubble where you can imagine yourself to be on the neutral ground between your socialist friends (your right) and your communist friends (your left), but that's not the middle of the scale.
P.S. It would be news to me if BLM actually protested a scenario like you described. Link it up if you know one.
You do know that everything in your post is a lie, right? Not necessarily your lie, if you are just a useful idiot.
The Republicans said things that you lefties have interpreted as admissions, but they were just statements of fact, and occasionally of fortuitous joy.
Pull some videos and read the actual words that were said, not the words that were reported.
Hillary ran obstruction on the investigation from day one. And now she's complaining that it took 5 years. Hmm. If only there had been some way to get this over with before the election year...
And you do know that the whole email thing came from this investigation, right? You may have heard the FBI director on TV recently where he described what a prosecutor needed to prove to secure convictions for several sections of US code relating to espionage and state secrets, and then he described that the FBI had found evidence sufficient to prove all of those elements. He also told Congress that she perjured herself, but since they hadn't specifically asked for that investigation, they are going to sit on it for another year.
That sounds like something new, and also something that incriminated Hillary.
You sound like Black Lives Matter, bitching that a conspiracy of cops is making the streets unsafe for criminals to ply their trades.
You must be using the newfangled definition of corruption, popular with people that aren't familiar with the word graft, that only includes actual cash bribes for services or lenience.
Sorry to say that graft is only one type of corruption. Corruption is a broad thing. So broad that it is hard to pin down a concrete definition that includes everything and excludes nothing.that people consider to be corruption. The basic idea is that if a person is in an office or position of authority, and that authority is intended to be used for the benefit of some person or group, corruption is any time that person secretly uses their authority for their own benefit, or for the benefit of anyone other than the intended beneficiary, particularly when the intended is harmed or neglected in some way.
Seen in that light, it is hard to pretend that the DNC isn't riddled with corruption from top to bottom. They had a duty to the nation's democrats to run the primary process in a manner specified by the rules, which included neutrality, transparency, etc. What happened instead?
And it isn't enough that the DNC is corrupt, it is also corrupting. You read the exchanges with the press? Surprise, CNN and MSNBC see themselves are the propaganda wing of the democrat party. Is that what they told the FCC and the American people they were going to be doing?
What is always step one when dealing with a whistleblower? Try to distract the press by yammering nonstop about the whistleblower, and deflect every question about the leaked documents back to the leaker's motivations, integrity, etc.
Of course, given the content of the emails, I suspect that DWS has already given the marching orders to CNN and MSNBC so that the party doesn't have to dirty their hands by acting all shifty and evasive on TV.
You are completely correct. No court would ever uphold a copyright claim on these emails.
CFAA? yes
Espionage act (if any are classified)? yes
Copyright? no
Think wider.
The Democratic National Committee is an organization of and for the Democratic Party (aka, the voters), and should be neutral until the party members have selected their candidate. I think a lot of Sanders supporters are going to be disgusted to see how "their" party plotted and schemed to defeat their candidate, and also how "their" party stole their money and handed it to Hillary. Well, now that Bernie has ripped his mask off, I'm not so sure. But they should be pissed.
Also, did you see how the allegedly objective and neutral news organizations colluded with Hillary? I didn't think it was possible for the approval ratings of the mainstream media to get any lower, but they are working hard to shed those last few percent.
How about the soft bribery of the delegates going on? Think any of them are going to have some explaining to do after this?
Wrongdoing is not a synonym for illegal, and whistleblowers often reveal things that, while technically legal, are disgusting and wrong.
I'm not sure that the EU counts. It is more than just trade today. We also have to consider trade tomorrow, which means ensuring that western civilization remains globally dominant tomorrow too.
The governments of the core EU countries long ago planted the seeds of a future Eurabia, and today they are watering those seeds, and fertilizing them with the blood of their own people.
The previous dark ages were literally caused by centuries of Islamic assault on Europe. I find it hard to believe that the next wave (currently in progress by both womb and sword) is going to turn out any differently.
The US isn't doing a whole lot better in this regard, but we are considerably less far down the path, and appear to be turning around faster. Plus, we (the people) are armed to the teeth, so our worst case scenario is civil war, instead of waiting to die.