... if they started their own "lamest of facebook" section. One of the most popular parts of Craigslist is the "best of craigslist" section, so it's been done and proven.
On facebooks' trademarks: Prior use would be easy to establish. "The phone book" has been in use way longer than facebook has been existing. Remarkably, it is also a directory that enables people to communicate with each other and is also widely used as a data mine by advertisers as well. The thumbs sign was documented to be "invented" by the Romans. Just because Facebook uses these, doesn't mean anybody else can't in a logo. Facebook will have a lot less to bring to the courtroom with these arguments dealt with.
The H1B system is there to be abused by people with no criminal record, wanting to work hard for a living for little money? The USA has plenty of those living in Oakland for instance. Every street corner is filled with them? Florida has the highest rate of young people going there to get a job, despite the terrible weather?
Young, (semi) intelligent people wanting to work, pay taxes and not make a mess of their life and neighborhood are a treasure for every nation. Sure, you'll need the nannies and maids too, but for those people, it's impossible to get a legal status so they'll remain illegal Mexicans and don't pay taxes. Stop complaining when people come into your country wanting to work. It's happened up to the great depression and was considered beneficial for the economy and the country.
There's over 3 billion people living in China, India, Pakistan and Indonesia. Even if only 20 percent of them are willing to work hard and are intelligent, they still outnumber the total population of the USA. You are heavily outnumbered by people that want to work harder, longer and cheaper. There are plenty of them that are smarter and fast on their way to become better educated. Look at the level of the students leaving prestigious US Universities now, and compare them to the H1B applicants you are complaining about. I don't think the level in knowledge isn't all that different. Maybe the US students fit in easier in a US cultured work environment, but I doubt their output will be as cost efficient as that of the H1B applicant. You'll need replacement for all the baby boomers that are migrating to Florida to die, and you won't get it in your trailer parks or ghetto streets. If you wouldn't have the H1B visas, you'd be in a lot more trouble as a nation than with them. Sure, wages are lower because there's competition from young and eager people, but the real problem you have, is that your own culture fails to bread them locally. Wages are determined in a global economy these days. You are competing with people that don't have a white picket fence, 401Ks and an iPhone. Shut off your communist union-managed economy and be left behind by the rest of the planet, just like the Russians were left behind when they shut off theirs.
I doubt you ever did consider trade amongst Spanish speaking nations, China with these nations, or Japan and Korea for instance. A lot of oil trade will be done in for instance Arabic or Russian. Maybe you should look abroad first, instead of thinking that because the USA does it's international business in English, the rest of the world does too. I wouldn't be surprised if the trade between non-english speaking countries would be much larger than the English speaking ones.
You still need an inverter (or other switching power supply) to control the charging current and required voltage. It's not as if all DC voltage appliances are equal and don't require current control. To convert from high to low voltage, you can get away with just the secondary electronics, but to convert up, you'll need the full switching power supply, with the losses.
Having said this, using local energy sources for trickle charge will probably become more popular once we will have more battery powered devices and there will be a standard for these batteries. Since you usually are away with your car during the time that the solar panels will generate power, a hot-swap system will be mandatory for trickle chargers to succeed.
Hot swapping for service stations, like we do with gas powered cars, won't work. Batteries are prone to aging and you wouldn't want to swap your brand new battery for one that's 2 years old and barely holds a charge anymore. Grading batteries is labor intensive or will be a magnet to everyone that wants to fraud the system by getting good money for old batteries by artificially grading them higher. You'll have to make so much checks before you'll know the real condition of a battery that it will take too much time for the customer and cost too much money per exchange in labor to be viable. I still see more future in a hot-swap for high capacity hydrogen storage containers. Even tho those will be a hazard for fire and explosives, they won't wear as much chemically. You can convert the hydrogen to electricity with a fuel cell, so you can still run your electric battery car on these.
He already escaped death once when he climbed the high voltage pylon. Chances are, he was driving reckless and thus caused his own car crash. Unfortunately, it is one of the major causes of death for young men his age and he has already proven he has the mindset for it.
Then you "only" had the motor of the cassette drive to guzzle power. These days you need to power a CPU that does Fourier transformations and a few flash memory chips. Take a good guess which consumes more?
I do agree, my cell phone 5 years ago had a battery life of a week, these days, you have to charge it every day. It still is a phone, it's still the same size and I don't use the camera, GPS or music player on it. It seems so many people are prepared to trade in battery life for gimmick features and size, that manufacturers have stopped extending battery life in favor of features.
Given the fact that he has patented the combination of a cell-phone with a music player, he will probably be a billionaire soon under current copyright law. I wonder when those big corporations will realize that this whole IP/copyright thing will blow up in their face if the laws aren't changed.
Now put ten million files on it and try again. This is about actually used filesystems, not your stash of 500 ISO DVD rips, your bookmarks and your resume.
They have to buy the USA public debt. If they didn't, the USA economy would collapse to a point where they wouldn't have any money left to buy Chinese products anymore. That would seriously hamper the Chinese economy, so in fact, there is a nice codependency going on here. Since the USA primarily depends on China here and China has other markets it's providing, the USA would get hurt much harder if trade stopped. This makes the USA the one in the most vulnerable position here and that's all that counts on these scales.
If the USA would stop making war and weapons their primary export product, and not spend over half of it's federal budget on "defense" and similar items, they might actually recover their economy. Foreign wars don't make money, unless the trade you get out of them are more profitable than the weapons and (dead) soldiers cost you. Trade with Iraq or Afghanistan isn't going to make a lot of money and the wars so far have been multiple times more expensive than anyone predicted before they were started. If just for the economy, the USA should pull out of war and get into manufacturing again. Not cars tho, unless they will first look at what the rest of the world wants to buy and not only produce trucks for the domestic market....
Two nuclear plant meltdowns, no risk of nuclear explosions. Two plane crashes with unarmed nuclear weapons on board. One case where the USA almost nuked another country and not itself. I want my 5 minutes back.
I don't think that's part of free, open software. I think the community should choose their own council and Oracle will have to deal with it, for better or for worse.
Just make the ECU cut injection on hitting the brake switch with the car still running. It takes some programming not to make the car stall so you can't just use a mechanical switch, but it's trivial.
You are forgetting the fact that in the last independant survey about freedom of press (which is in my opinion a form of speech) the USA rated amongst several totalitarian 3rd world regimes, not unlike the former Soviet Union. Freedom of speech should not be controlled by a single nation, especially not a nation that can't even let their journalists say what they want and has a legal system that fines organisations like spamhouse for listing an IP address. It's spamhouse's freedom of speech to list that IP address, if others decide to use that address in an e-mail blocking configuration, spamhouse is not to blame.
username@gmail.com is equal to username.googlepages.com. By running a search on google.com for the item you want to send SPAM around for, limited to
the subdomains of googlepages.com, you can easily find a target audience to send spam to, since you can derive their e-mail address from the hostnames
you get hits on your search from.
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... if they started their own "lamest of facebook" section. One of the most popular parts of Craigslist is the "best of craigslist" section, so it's been done and proven.
On facebooks' trademarks: Prior use would be easy to establish. "The phone book" has been in use way longer than facebook has been existing. Remarkably, it is also a directory that enables people to communicate with each other and is also widely used as a data mine by advertisers as well.
The thumbs sign was documented to be "invented" by the Romans. Just because Facebook uses these, doesn't mean anybody else can't in a logo. Facebook will have a lot less to bring to the courtroom with these arguments dealt with.
The H1B system is there to be abused by people with no criminal record, wanting to work hard for a living for little money?
The USA has plenty of those living in Oakland for instance. Every street corner is filled with them? Florida has the highest rate of young people going there to get a job, despite the terrible weather?
Young, (semi) intelligent people wanting to work, pay taxes and not make a mess of their life and neighborhood are a treasure for every nation. Sure, you'll need the nannies and maids too, but for those people, it's impossible to get a legal status so they'll remain illegal Mexicans and don't pay taxes. Stop complaining when people come into your country wanting to work. It's happened up to the great depression and was considered beneficial for the economy and the country.
There's over 3 billion people living in China, India, Pakistan and Indonesia. Even if only 20 percent of them are willing to work hard and are intelligent, they still outnumber the total population of the USA. You are heavily outnumbered by people that want to work harder, longer and cheaper. There are plenty of them that are smarter and fast on their way to become better educated. Look at the level of the students leaving prestigious US Universities now, and compare them to the H1B applicants you are complaining about. I don't think the level in knowledge isn't all that different. Maybe the US students fit in easier in a US cultured work environment, but I doubt their output will be as cost efficient as that of the H1B applicant. You'll need replacement for all the baby boomers that are migrating to Florida to die, and you won't get it in your trailer parks or ghetto streets. If you wouldn't have the H1B visas, you'd be in a lot more trouble as a nation than with them. Sure, wages are lower because there's competition from young and eager people, but the real problem you have, is that your own culture fails to bread them locally. Wages are determined in a global economy these days. You are competing with people that don't have a white picket fence, 401Ks and an iPhone. Shut off your communist union-managed economy and be left behind by the rest of the planet, just like the Russians were left behind when they shut off theirs.
I doubt you ever did consider trade amongst Spanish speaking nations, China with these nations, or Japan and Korea for instance. A lot of oil trade will be done in for instance Arabic or Russian. Maybe you should look abroad first, instead of thinking that because the USA does it's international business in English, the rest of the world does too. I wouldn't be surprised if the trade between non-english speaking countries would be much larger than the English speaking ones.
You still need an inverter (or other switching power supply) to control the charging current and required voltage. It's not as if all DC voltage appliances are equal and don't require current control. To convert from high to low voltage, you can get away with just the secondary electronics, but to convert up, you'll need the full switching power supply, with the losses. Having said this, using local energy sources for trickle charge will probably become more popular once we will have more battery powered devices and there will be a standard for these batteries. Since you usually are away with your car during the time that the solar panels will generate power, a hot-swap system will be mandatory for trickle chargers to succeed. Hot swapping for service stations, like we do with gas powered cars, won't work. Batteries are prone to aging and you wouldn't want to swap your brand new battery for one that's 2 years old and barely holds a charge anymore. Grading batteries is labor intensive or will be a magnet to everyone that wants to fraud the system by getting good money for old batteries by artificially grading them higher. You'll have to make so much checks before you'll know the real condition of a battery that it will take too much time for the customer and cost too much money per exchange in labor to be viable. I still see more future in a hot-swap for high capacity hydrogen storage containers. Even tho those will be a hazard for fire and explosives, they won't wear as much chemically. You can convert the hydrogen to electricity with a fuel cell, so you can still run your electric battery car on these.
...is more expensive than a finger print scanner? Pay peanuts, get gummi bears.
If it does, you can at least estimate what amount of money is being printed secretly by the USA to keep the economy going.
I wonder if it's the bitter taste, or the caffeine that is effective. Or is it both?
He already escaped death once when he climbed the high voltage pylon. Chances are, he was driving reckless and thus caused his own car crash. Unfortunately, it is one of the major causes of death for young men his age and he has already proven he has the mindset for it.
Then you "only" had the motor of the cassette drive to guzzle power. These days you need to power a CPU that does Fourier transformations and a few flash memory chips. Take a good guess which consumes more? I do agree, my cell phone 5 years ago had a battery life of a week, these days, you have to charge it every day. It still is a phone, it's still the same size and I don't use the camera, GPS or music player on it. It seems so many people are prepared to trade in battery life for gimmick features and size, that manufacturers have stopped extending battery life in favor of features.
Given the fact that he has patented the combination of a cell-phone with a music player, he will probably be a billionaire soon under current copyright law. I wonder when those big corporations will realize that this whole IP/copyright thing will blow up in their face if the laws aren't changed.
That's a USB problem, not a Linux problem.
Now put ten million files on it and try again. This is about actually used filesystems, not your stash of 500 ISO DVD rips, your bookmarks and your resume.
They have to buy the USA public debt. If they didn't, the USA economy would collapse to a point where they wouldn't have any money left to buy Chinese products anymore. That would seriously hamper the Chinese economy, so in fact, there is a nice codependency going on here. Since the USA primarily depends on China here and China has other markets it's providing, the USA would get hurt much harder if trade stopped. This makes the USA the one in the most vulnerable position here and that's all that counts on these scales. If the USA would stop making war and weapons their primary export product, and not spend over half of it's federal budget on "defense" and similar items, they might actually recover their economy. Foreign wars don't make money, unless the trade you get out of them are more profitable than the weapons and (dead) soldiers cost you. Trade with Iraq or Afghanistan isn't going to make a lot of money and the wars so far have been multiple times more expensive than anyone predicted before they were started. If just for the economy, the USA should pull out of war and get into manufacturing again. Not cars tho, unless they will first look at what the rest of the world wants to buy and not only produce trucks for the domestic market....
Wait until someone uses it to pirate a movie. They won't know how fast to make that unforeseen use impossible.
Two nuclear plant meltdowns, no risk of nuclear explosions. Two plane crashes with unarmed nuclear weapons on board. One case where the USA almost nuked another country and not itself. I want my 5 minutes back.
I don't think that's part of free, open software. I think the community should choose their own council and Oracle will have to deal with it, for better or for worse.
Just make the ECU cut injection on hitting the brake switch with the car still running. It takes some programming not to make the car stall so you can't just use a mechanical switch, but it's trivial.
You are forgetting the fact that in the last independant survey about freedom of press (which is in my opinion a form of speech) the USA rated amongst several totalitarian 3rd world regimes, not unlike the former Soviet Union. Freedom of speech should not be controlled by a single nation, especially not a nation that can't even let their journalists say what they want and has a legal system that fines organisations like spamhouse for listing an IP address. It's spamhouse's freedom of speech to list that IP address, if others decide to use that address in an e-mail blocking configuration, spamhouse is not to blame.
username@gmail.com is equal to username.googlepages.com. By running a search on google.com for the item you want to send SPAM around for, limited to the subdomains of googlepages.com, you can easily find a target audience to send spam to, since you can derive their e-mail address from the hostnames you get hits on your search from.