So how about those strong net neutrality laws in the Netherlands then? Or the 'home copy' rights in Belgium and Netherlands? Or the tax on profits realized by religious "non-profits" in France?
They were removed by the EU because they had different laws and corporations spoke up. Same goes for immigration, various law enforcement and copyright laws.
If it's fabricated, there should be no need for concern, every party involved has its propaganda, people will choose who they choose regardless of opponent propaganda.
There was also a PS1 emulator called Bleem in the late 90s (Windows 95/98 era).
They've come a long way since, back in the day I could barely get one to work and required sometimes hardware and software hacks as well as the original disks to make them work and were often slower than the console. Now they're prepackaged and you can download ISOs and ROMs anywhere.
And how many damning stories haven't you read about LePen? If one camp plays the holier than thou card for weeks on end they should make sure that their picks are outstanding citizens that have no dirt whatsoever. It seems to me they tried hard with Trump, releasing 20 year old footage 'strategically' even going as far as using NSA collected data and they couldn't find anything but what we already knew, that he's a ruthless, abrasive business person. We peek at a single mailbox of associates of these 'better candidates' and it's like opening the entrance to a sewage system. The same with LePen, the worst they can find is that her dad was a Nazi sympathizer which she summarily dismissed from the party.
The entire EU has been on the brink of collapse since it began. Now the people are sick of the defacto German occupation of their countries destabilizing their sovereignty through forced trade and immigration.
Unlike the US individual states have a strong form of nationalism towards their states and the European Union has tried hard to erase that culture even going as far as ruling that local laws are trumped even when they don't cross the border.
Anyone that has a beef with Macron which after the revelations of offshore accounts to accept bribes and evade taxes should be: every French voter benefits.
One man's offense is the others defense. We know the NSA and CIA have been trying to get rid of Putin and both the official US and EU channels have called for 'fair elections' and oversight in Russia which both of those have long histories of removing and installing their own friendly governments, including dictators through influencing or outright rigging elections.
Even if Russia did it (again, no evidence), shouldn't we be the example of democracy? Then why are we afraid of having a little oversight on corrupt politicians in our elections?
The backlash is from the left (hint: it's on Twitter). The right could care less about Colbert, it's not his audience. The problem is that everything is scrutinized and has to be politically correct even in comedy. I am a typical left-leaning person with very liberal sexual proclivities but the PC crowd, SJW and Feminists of the era do not represent my or most LGBTQ values, they are bordering on Nazism in regards their ideology and are a leader away from repealing the constitution in their quest.
In the US they are being sold at Walmart and shopping malls, selling a "replace your cable" subscription for $15/mo which includes all your channels, HBO, Starz etc etc
Walmart even carries the recharge cards for them so you don't even need a credit card.
Those type of products have to compete with the high-demand, high-margin, low cost products.
A device charger for example - Samsung's charger design isn't much better than the knock-off Chinese but the knock off is a magnitude cheaper because Samsung has a huge markup and they found out you will still buy them even for Apple products where the charger is twice as expensive as Samsung's OEM but significantly better designed.
On the other hand, Large LED panels, various SBC not only are done cheaper you can often get higher quality from the factory than buying it from a reseller in the US.
This "attack" was so obvious I didn't even consider it a serious attempt until multiple people started getting it.
The mail was sent with the From as one of your contacts' plain e-mail addresses (it didn't even have the full name of the user which Gmail contacts usually have) and To as hhhhhh@mailinator.com
The thing then said this person shared a document, not even an official Google logo, image or disclosure with a link to "Open in Docs". If then took you to a site that asked whether you wanted to give a "Google Docs" website with the wrong logo access to your Contacts.
The "attacker" didn't even attempt to obfuscate this at any point. If anyone fell for this, they deserve to have their computers and internet access taken from them.
It's not quite that cut and dry. You CAN stop talking to the police, but in court you can be compelled to continue with the line of inquiry that was started by police if they have a reliable record that you actually started testifying against yourself. It is a very murky situation so most judges and even prosecutors will avoid it because they cannot ask you a DIFFERENT question and compel you to answer so usually you've already answered the question and it's too late.
But regardless of what you do or do not testify about, it doesn't really matter whether it's in court or with the police, both are admissible as testimony and you cannot plead the fifth about something you testified about with the police or in court. The police just don't have to keep track of anything you say in your defense.
Wages across the world are equalizing to a point where it no longer makes sense to do manufacturing abroad and shipping things all over. The wages in the US on the other hand aren't raising nearly as quickly as they do in China or India. I think this is just a bet on manufacturing jobs becoming cheaper in the Americas again, the people that invest now and if/when the economy supports it, they'll make a huge profit.
Another line of thought, just like they started designing their own chips, they may want to shift manufacturing from Foxconn-type factories that are just stealing their ideas, patents and IP to a line of Apple-manufacturers they can tightly control with US courts on their side. Imagine a US-based electronic chip manufacturer the size of Apple, Apple could easily eclipse all current small US-based chipmakers (they do exist primarily for companies involved with military contracts) and with a bit of lobbying pretty much every government and military contract would be required to use Apple factories for every single system just on the back of a single "rogue Chinese chip" threat.
They did pay the taxes they were obligated to pay (sales taxes, wage taxes etc). Why would you want to pay an extra 35% if you don't have to? You don't take the standard $9-12k deduction on your Federal taxes?
A judge CAN compel you to testify if you already started testifying about the case. I haven't read the details but this may be the case here.
You have to plead the Fifth from the very beginning (you don't talk to the cops, you don't talk during trial) and you have to plead it for every line of inquiry.
Microsoft tried the same tactic as well, giving away Windows systems. It didn't work because even when you give Windows away for free, it's still more expensive than anything else.
Linux has Wine, it's pretty compatible and in Ubuntu, Windows programs can launch simply with a double click. Most important productivity programs are open source and available for Linux (Blender, Gimp, OpenOffice,...) Most important "crappy big-name Windows Apps" (Adobe, Autodesk etc) have Mac versions if not Linux versions.
Yes, most people have BT headphones or keyboards/mice these days. On a Mac and high-end laptops the antenna's are split and well designed (eg. along the display). In cheap devices (including many of Dell's lineup) they are an add-on card with either a circuit-board antenna or the antenna's are just laying parallel to the motherboard.
But if you wanted the $1000 cheaper devices, that's what you end up with. There is a reason Mac's have a certain expense to them, it's not just a $2000 markup.
Lol rabid much. I was comparing the average computer on the shelves these days (eg. the $500 HP from NewEgg/WalMart) that people compare brand new MacBook Pro's with.
Once you configure an XPS 15 with similar specs and software on their business site, I come out to ~$2500 compared to a $2300 MBP but even taking out all the 'upgrades', you're within $200. Sure, their front page has cheaper computers but at that point you're comparing Apples to lemons.
Regards the BT/WiFi adapters, many, many laptops I've seen have combo chipsets that use the same, tiny antenna for both BT and WiFi, using both together causes severe reduction in range for both if it doesn't lock up the driver/chip altogether. Some others skimp on the technology altogether and still sell 802.11b or n chipsets, low res camera's or even some non-standard display resolution like 1200x1050.
They seem to be changing the UI every 2 weeks it seems like. Every time I go to YouTube, the location of the "add to Watch Later" button has changed. In less than one year it went from the top right corner to the bottom left corner, then to the bottom right corner, for about a week it was moved to a separate dropdown, then back to the bottom right corner but now you had to hover over it, now it's moved to the top right corner. Pretty much every button I use has to be hunted down again on every visit.
Come up with a UI design that doesn't suck and stick to it. Changing it for the sake of change is disruptive. I'd hope you have UI designers in your team.
Also, 5MB of JavaScript and HTML (not counting the preview images or Ajax calls and with AdBlock enabled) before you even render a single page is a bit excessive. That's 5MB of "framework" before you even load data.
You're comparing an "average PC" with a 3 generations older CPU/GPU with a cheap BT/WiFi card with the "average Mac" which typically has a current-gen CPU/GPU.
Compare your "average Mac" to a Dell or HP that has the same features and specifications - suddenly Mac's are $500 cheaper.
Not every user has their stuff in/home. Root is typically/root and many companies have their home directories in NFS (so it is often/deptUsers or/deptHomes). BSD has/usr/home and back in the day Unix systems had home directories in/usr.
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So how about those strong net neutrality laws in the Netherlands then? Or the 'home copy' rights in Belgium and Netherlands? Or the tax on profits realized by religious "non-profits" in France?
They were removed by the EU because they had different laws and corporations spoke up. Same goes for immigration, various law enforcement and copyright laws.
If it's fabricated, there should be no need for concern, every party involved has its propaganda, people will choose who they choose regardless of opponent propaganda.
Why are you against transparency at any cost?
There was also a PS1 emulator called Bleem in the late 90s (Windows 95/98 era).
They've come a long way since, back in the day I could barely get one to work and required sometimes hardware and software hacks as well as the original disks to make them work and were often slower than the console. Now they're prepackaged and you can download ISOs and ROMs anywhere.
And how many damning stories haven't you read about LePen? If one camp plays the holier than thou card for weeks on end they should make sure that their picks are outstanding citizens that have no dirt whatsoever. It seems to me they tried hard with Trump, releasing 20 year old footage 'strategically' even going as far as using NSA collected data and they couldn't find anything but what we already knew, that he's a ruthless, abrasive business person. We peek at a single mailbox of associates of these 'better candidates' and it's like opening the entrance to a sewage system. The same with LePen, the worst they can find is that her dad was a Nazi sympathizer which she summarily dismissed from the party.
The entire EU has been on the brink of collapse since it began. Now the people are sick of the defacto German occupation of their countries destabilizing their sovereignty through forced trade and immigration.
Unlike the US individual states have a strong form of nationalism towards their states and the European Union has tried hard to erase that culture even going as far as ruling that local laws are trumped even when they don't cross the border.
Anyone that has a beef with Macron which after the revelations of offshore accounts to accept bribes and evade taxes should be: every French voter benefits.
One man's offense is the others defense. We know the NSA and CIA have been trying to get rid of Putin and both the official US and EU channels have called for 'fair elections' and oversight in Russia which both of those have long histories of removing and installing their own friendly governments, including dictators through influencing or outright rigging elections.
Even if Russia did it (again, no evidence), shouldn't we be the example of democracy? Then why are we afraid of having a little oversight on corrupt politicians in our elections?
The backlash is from the left (hint: it's on Twitter). The right could care less about Colbert, it's not his audience. The problem is that everything is scrutinized and has to be politically correct even in comedy. I am a typical left-leaning person with very liberal sexual proclivities but the PC crowd, SJW and Feminists of the era do not represent my or most LGBTQ values, they are bordering on Nazism in regards their ideology and are a leader away from repealing the constitution in their quest.
In the US they are being sold at Walmart and shopping malls, selling a "replace your cable" subscription for $15/mo which includes all your channels, HBO, Starz etc etc
Walmart even carries the recharge cards for them so you don't even need a credit card.
Those type of products have to compete with the high-demand, high-margin, low cost products.
A device charger for example - Samsung's charger design isn't much better than the knock-off Chinese but the knock off is a magnitude cheaper because Samsung has a huge markup and they found out you will still buy them even for Apple products where the charger is twice as expensive as Samsung's OEM but significantly better designed.
On the other hand, Large LED panels, various SBC not only are done cheaper you can often get higher quality from the factory than buying it from a reseller in the US.
This "attack" was so obvious I didn't even consider it a serious attempt until multiple people started getting it.
The mail was sent with the From as one of your contacts' plain e-mail addresses (it didn't even have the full name of the user which Gmail contacts usually have) and To as hhhhhh@mailinator.com
The thing then said this person shared a document, not even an official Google logo, image or disclosure with a link to "Open in Docs". If then took you to a site that asked whether you wanted to give a "Google Docs" website with the wrong logo access to your Contacts.
The "attacker" didn't even attempt to obfuscate this at any point. If anyone fell for this, they deserve to have their computers and internet access taken from them.
It's not quite that cut and dry. You CAN stop talking to the police, but in court you can be compelled to continue with the line of inquiry that was started by police if they have a reliable record that you actually started testifying against yourself. It is a very murky situation so most judges and even prosecutors will avoid it because they cannot ask you a DIFFERENT question and compel you to answer so usually you've already answered the question and it's too late.
But regardless of what you do or do not testify about, it doesn't really matter whether it's in court or with the police, both are admissible as testimony and you cannot plead the fifth about something you testified about with the police or in court. The police just don't have to keep track of anything you say in your defense.
And I'm sure you don't use an accountant to review your taxes every year so you get a better return?
Wages across the world are equalizing to a point where it no longer makes sense to do manufacturing abroad and shipping things all over. The wages in the US on the other hand aren't raising nearly as quickly as they do in China or India. I think this is just a bet on manufacturing jobs becoming cheaper in the Americas again, the people that invest now and if/when the economy supports it, they'll make a huge profit.
Another line of thought, just like they started designing their own chips, they may want to shift manufacturing from Foxconn-type factories that are just stealing their ideas, patents and IP to a line of Apple-manufacturers they can tightly control with US courts on their side. Imagine a US-based electronic chip manufacturer the size of Apple, Apple could easily eclipse all current small US-based chipmakers (they do exist primarily for companies involved with military contracts) and with a bit of lobbying pretty much every government and military contract would be required to use Apple factories for every single system just on the back of a single "rogue Chinese chip" threat.
They did pay the taxes they were obligated to pay (sales taxes, wage taxes etc). Why would you want to pay an extra 35% if you don't have to? You don't take the standard $9-12k deduction on your Federal taxes?
A judge CAN compel you to testify if you already started testifying about the case. I haven't read the details but this may be the case here.
You have to plead the Fifth from the very beginning (you don't talk to the cops, you don't talk during trial) and you have to plead it for every line of inquiry.
Microsoft tried the same tactic as well, giving away Windows systems. It didn't work because even when you give Windows away for free, it's still more expensive than anything else.
You mean like Linux or Mac?
Linux has Wine, it's pretty compatible and in Ubuntu, Windows programs can launch simply with a double click. ...)
Most important productivity programs are open source and available for Linux (Blender, Gimp, OpenOffice,
Most important "crappy big-name Windows Apps" (Adobe, Autodesk etc) have Mac versions if not Linux versions.
I run Firefox and Opera on a Chromebook, you can buy them in the Google App Store. Even the Apple App Store has Firefox, Opera etc
The problem is that Microsoft actively banned Firefox from their App Store and currently does not have any browser build on the Windows Store.
Yes, most people have BT headphones or keyboards/mice these days. On a Mac and high-end laptops the antenna's are split and well designed (eg. along the display). In cheap devices (including many of Dell's lineup) they are an add-on card with either a circuit-board antenna or the antenna's are just laying parallel to the motherboard.
But if you wanted the $1000 cheaper devices, that's what you end up with. There is a reason Mac's have a certain expense to them, it's not just a $2000 markup.
Lol rabid much. I was comparing the average computer on the shelves these days (eg. the $500 HP from NewEgg/WalMart) that people compare brand new MacBook Pro's with.
Once you configure an XPS 15 with similar specs and software on their business site, I come out to ~$2500 compared to a $2300 MBP but even taking out all the 'upgrades', you're within $200. Sure, their front page has cheaper computers but at that point you're comparing Apples to lemons.
Regards the BT/WiFi adapters, many, many laptops I've seen have combo chipsets that use the same, tiny antenna for both BT and WiFi, using both together causes severe reduction in range for both if it doesn't lock up the driver/chip altogether. Some others skimp on the technology altogether and still sell 802.11b or n chipsets, low res camera's or even some non-standard display resolution like 1200x1050.
They seem to be changing the UI every 2 weeks it seems like. Every time I go to YouTube, the location of the "add to Watch Later" button has changed. In less than one year it went from the top right corner to the bottom left corner, then to the bottom right corner, for about a week it was moved to a separate dropdown, then back to the bottom right corner but now you had to hover over it, now it's moved to the top right corner. Pretty much every button I use has to be hunted down again on every visit.
Come up with a UI design that doesn't suck and stick to it. Changing it for the sake of change is disruptive. I'd hope you have UI designers in your team.
Also, 5MB of JavaScript and HTML (not counting the preview images or Ajax calls and with AdBlock enabled) before you even render a single page is a bit excessive. That's 5MB of "framework" before you even load data.
You're comparing an "average PC" with a 3 generations older CPU/GPU with a cheap BT/WiFi card with the "average Mac" which typically has a current-gen CPU/GPU.
Compare your "average Mac" to a Dell or HP that has the same features and specifications - suddenly Mac's are $500 cheaper.
Not every user has their stuff in /home. Root is typically /root and many companies have their home directories in NFS (so it is often /deptUsers or /deptHomes). BSD has /usr/home and back in the day Unix systems had home directories in /usr.
This is why we have $HOME and ~.