It's important for non-Canadians to realize that Parliment Hill is not the White House or US Senate. Parliment in Canada is a public commons. There is no security at all on the ground of Parliment and the space is routinely used for large scale public protests and demonstrations, less than a couple of dozen yards of Parliment itself. It's a different ball game.
I didn't say they "dominate in the cloud", I said they were one of the largest companies in cloud. I never even said they were the largest.
The largest players in general compute cloud are Amazon, Oracle, ATT, Verizon, IBM, Microsoft, Google. Any one of these players could compete for a 100 million dollar deal.
You could also group Salesforce, Concur and some other very large cloud-specific companies in there.
Enterprise Software - IBM is still the kingpin in this
Cloud - Since they bought SoftLayer and combined them in with their existing portfolio, IBM is one of the largest companies in cloud today
Security - Taken as a standalone unit, IBM Security software & services is the second largest company in security today, second only to Symantec. It's bigger than McAfee now.
The thing I loved about Arrow is how real it is. It's the only superhero movie or show I have seen in which the hero comes right out of the gate killing everyone he battles. None of this "letting them live" nonsense. This changes in the later seasons but it gave the character a much more realistic story arc, and made the show a lot more gritty.
- Smallville was a huge success, very long run - Arrow has been renewed twice, has a good audience and is doing very well - The Flash looks like it has legs - Gotham is getting rave reviews and looks like it has legs as well
Now let's look at their last couple of films:
- Man of Steel - OK this wasn't that bad - Green Lantern - horrible - Watchmen - Good movie but flopped - Jonah Hex - Did anyone even know this movie came out? - Superman Returns - horrible
The only saving grace has been the Nolan Batman films.
The thing people seem to forget is the Apple is a corperation and thus cares about profit over all else.
If the government asks Apple to do something outside it's legal bounds, that will cost Apple a lot of money, Apple will tell the government to F off. They won't just bend over and spend hundreds of millions of dollars installing backdoors on phones because the FBI asked nice.
This is the main reason Microsoft, Apple, and Google fight NSLs so much and it is the hidden motive behind recent moves to always-on encryption - it will be a huge cost saver to them.
a) A national security letter is not a "warrant". It is not even close to the same thing
b) Even a national security letter can't be used to tell Apple or anyone else to install some kind of backdoor on a device. The most a national security letter could do is authorize a wiretap on the device and all it's communication flows inbound and outbound. This is not even close to the same thing. An NSL can be sent to Apple telling it to give the FBI all information it has. If Apple does not have any information, that is the end of the scope of an NSL.
No matter how strong the encryption algorithms are themselves, there's nothing to stop the FBI from planting a malicious app (a keylogger for instance). They could even serve Apple with a warrant to require them to install this app as a software update.
Capitalism is based around the drive to accumulate. If you introduce a tax on anything that is accumulated, that constantly eats away at it, then what drive do you have to accumulate anymore.
I didn't come up with that number and I don't know the math behind it.
Anyway, I am not trying to argue the semantics of the numbers. Feel free to shift the percentage around and the thresholds around until it works.
I am trying to argue that there are very clear and obvious ways to make a consumption tax progressive, while everyone on here keeps yammering on about how it is not. Even above you do this! How does such a system "excise taxes from the poor to the rich", when the poor are paying ZERO TAXES with this system? You don't even make any sense with that argument.
A lot of people here are attacking consumption tax in a very misinformed way and clearly did not RTFA or do any kind of background research on it.
Nearly all advocates for consumption tax, or "flat tax" systems, advocate to make it progressive through a rebate system.
In plain english:
- We ditch the income tax. - We give everything a 17% sales tax (this is the rough number I have seen thrown around as what would be required) - People who make under 30K / year get an annual rebate of 100% of their consumption taxes. They thus pay NO TAX AT ALL - People who make 30K to 60K or some other number gets a 50% rebate - Everyone else gets no rebate.
The problem with your "wealth tax" is that if you had a 5% tax on "wealth", then no one would want to own ANYTHING, because the tax on everything you accumulate would outpace inflation. It would just make everyone want to rent every single thing, always. This would be HORRIBLE for the economy.
- Why should I invest in the stock market if I have to pay 5% tax on everything I accumulate when I would be fairly lucky to have 5% annual gains long term? I am more likely to lose money than make any. Might as well just sit it out and lose only 2% to inflation vs. 5% taxation.
- Why should I buy a home if I have to pay 5% tax on it's value every year? Might as well rent everything.
Click to Play is great for the public web but it is important to remember that there is a huge darknet of private intranet sites as well. Click to play breaks a lot of Java intranet applications that assumed that the applet would load at page load time without any user interaction.
What may end up happening is HBO might actually start issuing DMCA takedowns en-masse now, whereas previously they basically said they were happy to turn a blind eye to the pirated content.
The type of people who would have the know-how to, and be willing to, download and install beta copies of windows are not typical windows users, and this is reflected in the types of requests.
Configurable wallpapers for virtual desktops? A better multi-boot menu? Give me a break. What percentage of Windows users do you suppose even know what a virtual desktop is? I am pretty sure if I asked my wife or mother their eyes would glaze over.
It's kind of embarrassing almost to see these types of things in the Top 10 issues, while I am sure there are many more worse problems that the average users will run into often. Is the VPN setup and wireless configuration in Windows 10 as horribly crippled as it was in Windows 8 for example?
Written notice required before LOA start date at least three weeks
Parental LOA for birth mother and natural father 52 weeks* Combined Pregnancy/Parental LOA for birth mother 70 weeks* Combined Paternity/Parental LOA for natural father 57 weeks* Parental LOA for adoptive parents 52 weeks * Earliest date Parental LOA can begin The week of the child's birth or placement in adoption. Required start or End date of Parental LOA Must be completed no later 70 weeks after child's birth or adoption
And your comment "however in almost all cases I've seen, the mother refuses to give up any of her 12 months" is quite false, at least nowadays. Many people are taking concurrent 6 months, and many others are taking 6 and 6 so that both the mother and the father get lots of time with the child during the first year, while neither needs to take a full year off work, because of course it affects your career, regardless of how you frame it taking 6 months off of work is going to affect you. But, this is a tradeoff you make as a parent.
You need to relocate from the USA to a country with less draconian policies around parental leave... which would actually be pretty much any other country seeing how the USA is as usual backward with the rest of the world on this subject
Example, up here in Canada parents get 12 months of paid leave, and the mother and father can divide this as they see fit... either both take 6 months at the same time, or one does 6 then the other does 6, whatever they want. Note this DOES NOT include the mother's additional pregnancy leave which is another 6 weeks on top of that.
In this case, Security is indeed not optional, since you have no option to have it whatsoever - you are handing all your security over to Chrome and the website operator's good intentions.
Too bad Google removed the options to enable or disable SSL versions from Chrome some time ago, in an effort to further dumb down the browser. The options used to be under "advanced, but they aren't anymore. Not even available under about:flags.
A long-term study of a trap-neuter-return (TNR) program in Central Florida found that despite widespread concern about the welfare of free-roaming cats, 83% of the cats studied had been present for over six years, with almost half first observed as adults of unknown age. These time spans compared favourably to the average lifespan of 7.1 years for pet cats reported in a 1984 study,[8]:45 and to the finding that only 42% of the pet cat population in the U.S. is more than 5 years old.[9]:1358
Adult feral cats without human assistance have been found in surprisingly good condition. In Florida, a study of feral cats admitted to a trap-neuter-return (TNR) program concluded that "euthanasia for debilitated cats for humane reasons is rarely necessary".[10] A further study of over 100,000 community cats (feral and stray) admitted to TNR programs in diverse locations of the U.S. resulted in the same 0.4% rate of euthanasia for debilitating conditions.
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It's important for non-Canadians to realize that Parliment Hill is not the White House or US Senate. Parliment in Canada is a public commons. There is no security at all on the ground of Parliment and the space is routinely used for large scale public protests and demonstrations, less than a couple of dozen yards of Parliment itself. It's a different ball game.
All I care about is if users that are stuck with the never-ending train-wreck that is Windows 8/8.1 going to get a free upgrade to Windows 10.
I didn't say they "dominate in the cloud", I said they were one of the largest companies in cloud. I never even said they were the largest.
The largest players in general compute cloud are Amazon, Oracle, ATT, Verizon, IBM, Microsoft, Google. Any one of these players could compete for a 100 million dollar deal.
You could also group Salesforce, Concur and some other very large cloud-specific companies in there.
The main reason is it costs A LOT of money to lay people off due to severance payments and things like having to pay out retirement benefits etc.
Enterprise Software - IBM is still the kingpin in this
Cloud - Since they bought SoftLayer and combined them in with their existing portfolio, IBM is one of the largest companies in cloud today
Security - Taken as a standalone unit, IBM Security software & services is the second largest company in security today, second only to Symantec. It's bigger than McAfee now.
It gets better in Season 2.
The thing I loved about Arrow is how real it is. It's the only superhero movie or show I have seen in which the hero comes right out of the gate killing everyone he battles. None of this "letting them live" nonsense. This changes in the later seasons but it gave the character a much more realistic story arc, and made the show a lot more gritty.
DC does a lot better with TV than film. Consider
- Smallville was a huge success, very long run
- Arrow has been renewed twice, has a good audience and is doing very well
- The Flash looks like it has legs
- Gotham is getting rave reviews and looks like it has legs as well
Now let's look at their last couple of films:
- Man of Steel - OK this wasn't that bad
- Green Lantern - horrible
- Watchmen - Good movie but flopped
- Jonah Hex - Did anyone even know this movie came out?
- Superman Returns - horrible
The only saving grace has been the Nolan Batman films.
The thing people seem to forget is the Apple is a corperation and thus cares about profit over all else.
If the government asks Apple to do something outside it's legal bounds, that will cost Apple a lot of money, Apple will tell the government to F off. They won't just bend over and spend hundreds of millions of dollars installing backdoors on phones because the FBI asked nice.
This is the main reason Microsoft, Apple, and Google fight NSLs so much and it is the hidden motive behind recent moves to always-on encryption - it will be a huge cost saver to them.
Couple of things
a) A national security letter is not a "warrant". It is not even close to the same thing
b) Even a national security letter can't be used to tell Apple or anyone else to install some kind of backdoor on a device. The most a national security letter could do is authorize a wiretap on the device and all it's communication flows inbound and outbound. This is not even close to the same thing. An NSL can be sent to Apple telling it to give the FBI all information it has. If Apple does not have any information, that is the end of the scope of an NSL.
No matter how strong the encryption algorithms are themselves, there's nothing to stop the FBI from planting a malicious app (a keylogger for instance). They could even serve Apple with a warrant to require them to install this app as a software update.
Umm... you need to learn how warrants work.
This comment got modded to 3???
.... this is Michigan you are talking about. Ford, Chrysler, and GM country.
You can be it is them and their dollars doing this, and it would be happening regardless of what party was in power.
Explain please because your statement makes literally zero sense based on the rebate system.
Your understanding of capitalism is flawed.
Capitalism is based around the drive to accumulate. If you introduce a tax on anything that is accumulated, that constantly eats away at it, then what drive do you have to accumulate anymore.
I didn't come up with that number and I don't know the math behind it.
Anyway, I am not trying to argue the semantics of the numbers. Feel free to shift the percentage around and the thresholds around until it works.
I am trying to argue that there are very clear and obvious ways to make a consumption tax progressive, while everyone on here keeps yammering on about how it is not. Even above you do this! How does such a system "excise taxes from the poor to the rich", when the poor are paying ZERO TAXES with this system? You don't even make any sense with that argument.
A lot of people here are attacking consumption tax in a very misinformed way and clearly did not RTFA or do any kind of background research on it.
Nearly all advocates for consumption tax, or "flat tax" systems, advocate to make it progressive through a rebate system.
In plain english:
- We ditch the income tax.
- We give everything a 17% sales tax (this is the rough number I have seen thrown around as what would be required)
- People who make under 30K / year get an annual rebate of 100% of their consumption taxes. They thus pay NO TAX AT ALL
- People who make 30K to 60K or some other number gets a 50% rebate
- Everyone else gets no rebate.
The problem with your "wealth tax" is that if you had a 5% tax on "wealth", then no one would want to own ANYTHING, because the tax on everything you accumulate would outpace inflation. It would just make everyone want to rent every single thing, always. This would be HORRIBLE for the economy.
- Why should I invest in the stock market if I have to pay 5% tax on everything I accumulate when I would be fairly lucky to have 5% annual gains long term? I am more likely to lose money than make any. Might as well just sit it out and lose only 2% to inflation vs. 5% taxation.
- Why should I buy a home if I have to pay 5% tax on it's value every year? Might as well rent everything.
Sounds great. So are you going to volunteer the 10 million dollars to re-write the applications?
Click to Play is great for the public web but it is important to remember that there is a huge darknet of private intranet sites as well. Click to play breaks a lot of Java intranet applications that assumed that the applet would load at page load time without any user interaction.
What may end up happening is HBO might actually start issuing DMCA takedowns en-masse now, whereas previously they basically said they were happy to turn a blind eye to the pirated content.
The type of people who would have the know-how to, and be willing to, download and install beta copies of windows are not typical windows users, and this is reflected in the types of requests.
Configurable wallpapers for virtual desktops? A better multi-boot menu? Give me a break. What percentage of Windows users do you suppose even know what a virtual desktop is? I am pretty sure if I asked my wife or mother their eyes would glaze over.
It's kind of embarrassing almost to see these types of things in the Top 10 issues, while I am sure there are many more worse problems that the average users will run into often. Is the VPN setup and wireless configuration in Windows 10 as horribly crippled as it was in Windows 8 for example?
No they don't. Not in my province anyway.
This is straight from my companys HR database:
Written notice required before LOA start date at least three weeks
Parental LOA for birth mother and natural father 52 weeks*
Combined Pregnancy/Parental LOA for birth mother 70 weeks*
Combined Paternity/Parental LOA for natural father 57 weeks*
Parental LOA for adoptive parents 52 weeks *
Earliest date Parental LOA can begin The week of the child's birth or placement in adoption.
Required start or End date of Parental LOA Must be completed no later 70 weeks after child's birth or adoption
And your comment "however in almost all cases I've seen, the mother refuses to give up any of her 12 months" is quite false, at least nowadays. Many people are taking concurrent 6 months, and many others are taking 6 and 6 so that both the mother and the father get lots of time with the child during the first year, while neither needs to take a full year off work, because of course it affects your career, regardless of how you frame it taking 6 months off of work is going to affect you. But, this is a tradeoff you make as a parent.
You need to relocate from the USA to a country with less draconian policies around parental leave... which would actually be pretty much any other country seeing how the USA is as usual backward with the rest of the world on this subject
http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
Example, up here in Canada parents get 12 months of paid leave, and the mother and father can divide this as they see fit... either both take 6 months at the same time, or one does 6 then the other does 6, whatever they want. Note this DOES NOT include the mother's additional pregnancy leave which is another 6 weeks on top of that.
In this case, Security is indeed not optional, since you have no option to have it whatsoever - you are handing all your security over to Chrome and the website operator's good intentions.
Too bad Google removed the options to enable or disable SSL versions from Chrome some time ago, in an effort to further dumb down the browser. The options used to be under "advanced, but they aren't anymore. Not even available under about:flags.
What you say above is absolutely not backed up from what I read. Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
A long-term study of a trap-neuter-return (TNR) program in Central Florida found that despite widespread concern about the welfare of free-roaming cats, 83% of the cats studied had been present for over six years, with almost half first observed as adults of unknown age. These time spans compared favourably to the average lifespan of 7.1 years for pet cats reported in a 1984 study,[8]:45 and to the finding that only 42% of the pet cat population in the U.S. is more than 5 years old.[9]:1358
Adult feral cats without human assistance have been found in surprisingly good condition. In Florida, a study of feral cats admitted to a trap-neuter-return (TNR) program concluded that "euthanasia for debilitated cats for humane reasons is rarely necessary".[10] A further study of over 100,000 community cats (feral and stray) admitted to TNR programs in diverse locations of the U.S. resulted in the same 0.4% rate of euthanasia for debilitating conditions.