If you were running Apple and had a fiduciary responsibility to maximize returns to stockholders, would you do anything differently? Apple urges its customers to "think different", not its executives.
Certainly our little excursions into Afghanistan and Iraq haven't helped the Federal Budget, but these are considered anomalies, not continuous spending. I think you really need to look at is Federal Spending as a percentage of GDP. Currently, it appears to be at about 45%, a level it hasn't been at since WWII. I think we need a constitutional amendment capping spending as a percentage of GDP, with an exception for war-time spending. But what percentage is reasonable limit? 10%? 25%? 50%? I'd like to see a maximum of 10% of GDP, but it hasn't been that low in a very long time.
The Internet is just a glorified digital telephone line. If the FTC takes over regulation of the 'net, it should also take over regulation of phone and cable TV. Which sort of makes sense -- the FCC should only be regulating information transmitted via RF in free air, including WiFi, Bluetooth, citizen's band, broadcast TV, HAM, wireless handsets, mobile phones, radiation from all electronic devices... uh, since the FCC regulates practically everything having to do with computers, why don't they just regulate the internet too?
Over what network connection? Use of devices that transmit on an airplane is forbidden by FAA regulations. Surfing the web is out of the question; they have to rely on the porn they have cached on their hard drive.
Yeah, if I'd bothered to read the agreement, I would have noticed that I had agreed they could have sex with my wife anytime they wanted, and my wife was required to submit... boy is my face red!
If it is an unconscionable contract, you cannot be legally held to it. The best thing to do is to guarantee the customer has adequate choices available, then the customers who care about the ISP butt-raping them will eventually gravitate to an ISP that doesn't -- or at least to one that uses lubricant.
I'm not familiar with that case, but I assume they would have at least been forced to sign a consent agreement with the FDA and come under increased scrutiny for at least 3 years. Yes, the problem with allowing firms to become "too big to fail" applies here to -- is it really in the best interest of all people to see Pfizer bankrupt and out of business? The Viagra users alone would be rioting in the streets about that one!
Just one problem with the upfront fee agreement: all the really competent lawyers at the firm long ago distanced themselves from this cluster-fuck and passed the responsibility for the case onto the most junior lawyers. So yes, SCO is still getting representation, but it is inexperienced, fresh-out-of-law-school representation... which explains a lot of what you see in their filings.
Also the kickback to the doctor aren't allowed here also. I work for a medical device company. I assure you that kickbacks to the doctor are expressly forbidden in the US. In fact, even buying a doctor a really expensive meal is considered an ethics violation.
A better strategy would have been to simply say "I forgot!", and claim he had destroyed any written copies of the password he had before he left. Really, it is exceedingly stupid for the city to not have any backup plan for recovering the passwords should something happen to the only person that knew them! And yes, Terry Childs had a responsibility to ensure that the passwords could be recovered no matter what as well -- which doesn't make him a very good sysadmin.
Seeing as how all you have to do to get out of jury duty is to simply ignore the summons to jury duty, then claim you never received it, not being smart enough to avoid it does not speak well for them.
My bad... yes, I was thinking of Schwarzenegger, not Reagan. Reagan ran up record deficits both as Governor of California and as POTUS, and yet "fiscal conservatives" still claim him as their patron saint... go figure. Yes, he was a really likable guy, but his presidency appears to have been rather overrated.
I agree that the warranty that was in place at the time and place of first sale should apply; the warranty should not get automatically upgraded to an US warranty because it was (re)imported to the US. Also, Costco should be required to inform customer that the watches are not covered by a US warranty, or if the warranty is non-transferable, they should say it is not covered by any warranty. But again, if I buy the watch in Europe, move to the US, and later it breaks, can Omega force me to ship it back to Europe for repair under warranty?
The cited section appears to apply only to "phonorecords". A watch manufactured under license from Omega cannot be considered a "copy" of an Omega watch; it IS an Omega watch!
If the drug companies couldn't make a profit selling the drugs at that price point in Canada, they wouldn't be selling the drugs in Canada. Ergo, they could still make a profit selling the drugs at that same price point and allowing them to be (re)imported into the US. I fail to see why ALL of the R&D costs should be amortized by soaking US citizens, while every other country gets a free ride.
Wrong, wrong, wrong! The planet already has a global currency, it's called "gold". Ask yourself this: would the disparities in pricing still exist if all contracts were payed in gold? The different prices for each country are driven by marketers trying to charge whatever cost the market will bear, this has little or no connection to currency exchange rates. Manufacturing is cheaper where the labor costs are cheaper; again, this has nothing to do with exchange rates. Also, the Euro is an ongoing experiment in a multinational currency which is about to fail due to being dragged down by Greece.
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disinfecting my phone would be far worse. Douglas Adams was right again: lack of telephone sanitizers will doom the planet!
If you were running Apple and had a fiduciary responsibility to maximize returns to stockholders, would you do anything differently? Apple urges its customers to "think different", not its executives.
Certainly our little excursions into Afghanistan and Iraq haven't helped the Federal Budget, but these are considered anomalies, not continuous spending. I think you really need to look at is Federal Spending as a percentage of GDP. Currently, it appears to be at about 45%, a level it hasn't been at since WWII. I think we need a constitutional amendment capping spending as a percentage of GDP, with an exception for war-time spending. But what percentage is reasonable limit? 10%? 25%? 50%? I'd like to see a maximum of 10% of GDP, but it hasn't been that low in a very long time.
The Internet is just a glorified digital telephone line. If the FTC takes over regulation of the 'net, it should also take over regulation of phone and cable TV. Which sort of makes sense -- the FCC should only be regulating information transmitted via RF in free air, including WiFi, Bluetooth, citizen's band, broadcast TV, HAM, wireless handsets, mobile phones, radiation from all electronic devices... uh, since the FCC regulates practically everything having to do with computers, why don't they just regulate the internet too?
If double D's flap in the breeze and nobody sees them, do they still cause an earthquake?
On the bright side, it saves the airlines the cost of cleaning the sticky mess off of the controls after every flight.
Over what network connection? Use of devices that transmit on an airplane is forbidden by FAA regulations. Surfing the web is out of the question; they have to rely on the porn they have cached on their hard drive.
Yeah, if I'd bothered to read the agreement, I would have noticed that I had agreed they could have sex with my wife anytime they wanted, and my wife was required to submit... boy is my face red!
If it is an unconscionable contract, you cannot be legally held to it. The best thing to do is to guarantee the customer has adequate choices available, then the customers who care about the ISP butt-raping them will eventually gravitate to an ISP that doesn't -- or at least to one that uses lubricant.
Fortunately, amazon is smart enough to typo-squat their own name! amaz0n.com and arnazon.com simply redirect to amazon.com.
I'm not familiar with that case, but I assume they would have at least been forced to sign a consent agreement with the FDA and come under increased scrutiny for at least 3 years. Yes, the problem with allowing firms to become "too big to fail" applies here to -- is it really in the best interest of all people to see Pfizer bankrupt and out of business? The Viagra users alone would be rioting in the streets about that one!
Just one problem with the upfront fee agreement: all the really competent lawyers at the firm long ago distanced themselves from this cluster-fuck and passed the responsibility for the case onto the most junior lawyers. So yes, SCO is still getting representation, but it is inexperienced, fresh-out-of-law-school representation... which explains a lot of what you see in their filings.
Also the kickback to the doctor aren't allowed here also. I work for a medical device company. I assure you that kickbacks to the doctor are expressly forbidden in the US. In fact, even buying a doctor a really expensive meal is considered an ethics violation.
A better strategy would have been to simply say "I forgot!", and claim he had destroyed any written copies of the password he had before he left. Really, it is exceedingly stupid for the city to not have any backup plan for recovering the passwords should something happen to the only person that knew them! And yes, Terry Childs had a responsibility to ensure that the passwords could be recovered no matter what as well -- which doesn't make him a very good sysadmin.
Seeing as how all you have to do to get out of jury duty is to simply ignore the summons to jury duty, then claim you never received it, not being smart enough to avoid it does not speak well for them.
My bad... yes, I was thinking of Schwarzenegger, not Reagan. Reagan ran up record deficits both as Governor of California and as POTUS, and yet "fiscal conservatives" still claim him as their patron saint... go figure. Yes, he was a really likable guy, but his presidency appears to have been rather overrated.
I agree that the warranty that was in place at the time and place of first sale should apply; the warranty should not get automatically upgraded to an US warranty because it was (re)imported to the US. Also, Costco should be required to inform customer that the watches are not covered by a US warranty, or if the warranty is non-transferable, they should say it is not covered by any warranty. But again, if I buy the watch in Europe, move to the US, and later it breaks, can Omega force me to ship it back to Europe for repair under warranty?
Well, for one thing, it won't star Mark Hamill!
Right... so how would a common currency fix the problem of disparate pricing in different countries?
The cited section appears to apply only to "phonorecords". A watch manufactured under license from Omega cannot be considered a "copy" of an Omega watch; it IS an Omega watch!
Would that be bovine-curious, or ovine-curious?
So Henley needs to re-register as a Republican, at which point it becomes illegal for them to steal his music? My head hurts...
If the drug companies couldn't make a profit selling the drugs at that price point in Canada, they wouldn't be selling the drugs in Canada. Ergo, they could still make a profit selling the drugs at that same price point and allowing them to be (re)imported into the US. I fail to see why ALL of the R&D costs should be amortized by soaking US citizens, while every other country gets a free ride.
I have no problem with that, as long as I'm one of the owners that everybody else is paying a monthly stipend to.
Wrong, wrong, wrong! The planet already has a global currency, it's called "gold". Ask yourself this: would the disparities in pricing still exist if all contracts were payed in gold? The different prices for each country are driven by marketers trying to charge whatever cost the market will bear, this has little or no connection to currency exchange rates. Manufacturing is cheaper where the labor costs are cheaper; again, this has nothing to do with exchange rates. Also, the Euro is an ongoing experiment in a multinational currency which is about to fail due to being dragged down by Greece.
The asterisk would be much more appropriate next to the name of our 43rd president.