Forget the long lines and other more viable targets. How many people choose to drive now, rather than fly? I will take a 7 hour drive over a 1 hr flight, just cause of security. Before I would do up to a 3hr drive, due to cost. How many times more dangerious (1000+) is driving than flying on commercial airlines? The drive to the airport is many times more dangerious than the international flight out and back.
The TSA failed its mission upon inception. The general US public is most certainly less safe now directly due to the TSA policies than before.
Don't lump all of us plastic users into being dumber than you, especially when you don't know how to keep track of your spending via credit. I found the CC companies do a better job at exchange rates than most foreign banks (a 8% spread, wtf). I am not saying I don't ever use cash (taxi, perfect example), but for the big stuff (hotel), CC works great. I only had a 3% fee and the exchange rate seems to have only lost me another 1%. That's as good if not better than the enchange centers I ran across. Much better when you consider that if you have cash, you have securit risk, people either beg for it, charge you more, or target you for bribes.
And thank you for making the local stuff I buy cheaper for me (in most places). I get atleast 1% cash back on all my CC purchases. I am sure the CC fees end up being 3-6% for the store, which just goes into the product prices. Atleast I get 1% back, but the cash users get nothing. So they are basically subsidizing my purchase.
For the first problem you ask where you can swipe the plastic.
On the second... I already do free* ACH with my family and friends. In places like India, they can transact via mobile banking services!
* =Not really, I am sure I am paying for it somewhere by low interest rates and all. But that is far cheaper than the hidden fees we all pay for physical cash
Wait, what? Why was this marked interesting? That's not how money actually works. Ideally, you borrow from the future (debt) so that your value growth is increased today. Eventually the additional growth increase produces enough value to offset the amount of value you took into the past. A very simple example: A farmer in a poor country spends a day walking to a market to sell his goods. The trip ruins 40% of his goods (say milk). Now he takes a small loan, buys a cart, reduces his trip, and thus only loses 10% of his goods to waste. Say he makes 20% more profit due to demand. That cart increased his effciency enough to pay for itself and then some.
Always increasing debt is when you borrow w/o enough of a increased value growth. You keep hoping that your continued borrowing will provide enough additional growth today to offset the already there debt and this one too. Crashes only happen when there is no one left to believe in your investment. Also, unlike European and American economies, some cultures such as middle eastern, Indian, and the Japanese do belive in over saving. The opposite problem... little investment is like lending to the future, but results in little growth that means more and more inefficiency... stagnation.
And the next day that guy came back to sell that Oblivion to the next guy for $20. The store owner, popcorn in hand, looked on at the daily scene and remembered the happy day 2 weeks prior when he finally got rid of that game.
I disagree. Unless you consider vegetables as equal to non-meat and state that there is more variety of taste in the former.
Various meats taste quite differently. And I am not even talking about the cooked kind. Various sushi taste quite differently. Heck the same fish has a different taste based upon where it grew up and how old it is. Same applies for oysters. Even going into boiled, fired, fried, baked, salted, and smoked changes based upon age, feed, location, cooking medium, and type of prepwork (cuts). And this is in the same meat. Lets drop medium and prepwork cause that doesn't directly tie to the taste of "meat". But age, feed, and location do.
I would say there is a distinct flavor of meat, but there is no "protein" undertone. What about chickpeas, beans, pulses, and nuts? There is no protein undertone to them.
Fruits & Herbs/Spices, have a massive variety of tastes. But what is actually considered a vegetable doesn't have any more or less of a variety than meat. Remember, vegetables, herbs/spices, & nuts weren't naturally designed to be killed and consumed anymore than meat.
Actually this was a big fear. The US as a whole did not support independence. There were many powerful companies and individuals involved that profited heavily from their connections to England. Some of the founding fathers just put those benefits aside. This is why John Hancock is famous. The guy didn't do anything but be brave (or stupid) enough to say "I am willing to fight you for what I believe in" first. Everyone else just followed.
I think it would come under fair use. I am basically satiring the character, by saying that this psuedo individual is the one signing it as if it were real.
THANK YOU. My god so many people do not understand this point. I think this is the best post made on this topic! Petitions and Voting are _completely_ different things and aren't even in the same league!
I think most of us don't have problems with limits, but rather the lies. No, they aren't usually lying legally, but rather the spirit is that all customers are theives and should never be told the flat truth!
I hated the word unlimited* ever since it came out. It never made any sense. In our generation, marketing has spend most of its time redefining words with a star (*) rather than just say the value proposition. WHY? Cause most of the time the companies are utter crap compared to what they think they are. God forbid even the simple minded folks figure it out and point that the emperor has no clothes.
Except for T-Mobile and Nextel (Sprint sucks too), NONE of the US telecoms know what their actual cost breakdown is. You ask any of these other guys to break down the bill and do a direct profit analysis and you quickly see that they basically guess at percent allocations. None know the direct cost of each service. Some don't even know how to break down the overall service offering! And that's with not complicating it with all the stupid discounts that they can never seem to keep track of (every season a sales / marketing droid comes up with some other new name for something similar to the last)!
The worst part is that they do forecasting based on these flip of the coin allocations. The only thing that keeps these companies in business is the ignorance or acceptance of its customers, and being the only show in town. It's a sad and unfortunate reality that we must all just put up with.
I think you are arguing on terms and definitions. For all practical purposes, your specific code is your own, but the the "derived" work overall is auto-GPLed. Cause in order to create your part, you need the GPL original. In order to use the GPLed original, you need a license that covers and allows you to use the original work. That GPL license for the original has severe restrictions, primarily on distribution and attribution of itself AND its derivatives. In the case of BSD, GPL, and others, the derivatives automatically have the licensing terms of the original applied to them. In some cases, the license doesn't restrict you from relicensing. Default US copyright law does restrict you (considers it equal to private property), public domain doesn't, and the GPL does only a little less so than default.
If the derivative wasn't covered under the GPL, then what exactly are you in violation of when you distribute it? The license of utility is a precursor to the utility of the work. Not the other way around. You could argue that you changed a variable name, and you can do whatever you want with that specific string of characters, but to say that you can do whatever you want (legally) with the entire new work is an entirely different matter. The former is nothing but getting pedantic and immaterial to the reality at hand.
I think India isn't doing the restrictions for Trust or Security reasons. Their politicians couldn't care less. For the right price, they will sell you a state or two.
It probably has more to do with keeping knock off China phones off the markets to keep the big corps happy. In India, there is rampant import of Chinese knockoff phones. An HTC becomes a HIC. They add a little line at the bottom and cut the price from $400 to $50. I kid you not. Quality control is an issue, but if you have the right connections, that won't be a problem. The phone is from the same factory that makes the name brand, its the same materials, same machines, and same people. Just the 3rd shift of lineman and it doesn't go through QC before shipment.
So for sometime, the India government has been pressured to put a stop to this import. They haven't been very successful but that doesn't mean they don't look like they are trying. Exactly how do you stop 50 individually owned stores stuffed into an area the size of a CVS from selling the same stuff to a population that creates a massive amount of demand but isn't willing to pay like credit based Americans are. Not to mention your enforcement divisions are willing to look the other way for a dollar of that $50 sale. Additionally, the worst offenders are the politicians and those connected to them.
So, if your boss said give me access to erase all the fraud I been doing, you are ok with that, cause the policy said so? Wait till shareholders get a bead on that and you end up in the same boat as this guy. That's pretty much what Fastow did in the Enron case.
The city of San Fran was luck to get someone that has a backbone and some moral fiber. He was protecting the citizens of the city against complete IT ignoramuses who happened to hold positions of authority and leadership. If they were even a quarter as competent as him, his actions would have posed no threats what so ever.
The situation is kind of like you closing the front door of your apartment and the landlord can't figure out how to turn the door knob. Why did you close the front door? Cause the landlord wants to store your neighbors' valuables with the door open for all to see. So now the landlord sues you for holding the house and its contents hostage! Oh and btw, if anything gets stolen, its your fault! _You_ should have closed and locked the door!
Its called the 3rd shift. You have Chinese factories that just keep the assembly line running for a third unoffical shift. The local assembler, nor the US company really cares enough to stop them. Not to mention the incentives from the under the table dealings.
Why doesn't the US company stop them? Cause the markets that they really care about and make profit in (US and Europe) have heavy enough disincentives to make bootlegging insignificant in comparison to the costs of further stopping them. Plus, the majority of the bootlegging sector can't or won't afford your product anyway. They aren't a customer to begin with, so why stop them from subsidizing your purchasing costs to the 3 shift vendor.
Now when politics hits the fan or someone gets greedy under the table, all Ell breaks loose.... for a week and then freezes over again. As to address gmack's post further down, most mass produced hardware is like lego blocks. You just need a smart enough individual in electrical engineering to put things together in the right order (trust me, that's not a scarcity in most of the world). So its not too hard to put an extra solid disk chip, sim reader, flash light, or even add a FM component when you are already the assembler who has access to the _expensive_ specs, the assemblers, AND the manufactures behind them. Not to mention, most hardware will automatically support the additional stuff as its already built in, but for high, profitable yield ratios, those features are disabled or not used (See AMD Phenom II X series for an excellent example). This is why the third shift stuff is such a hit or miss, its doesn't have proper QC to minimize the defects. If they did, it would be VERY expensive... more so than the original.
To add to this, it is FAR more difficult to write and MANAGE complex code than it is to crack it once. ONCE is all you need and the cost of the later is magnitudes smaller than the former.
Most things come down to opportunity costs. No one hides $1 in a $1000 dollar safe. No one will hack that safe (to get at the $1), but lets see anyone sell that package for less than $1001 (whose inherent value is $1). Game companies do more like $1000 in a $1 dollar safe (and this is the best of the best safeguards), but it costs 1 cent to crack it.
Cause this is considered very straight forward, has enough incidents to warrant a well established conclusion, and has been beaten to death and then some in decades of relevant case law.
When you talk about insurance, you are talking about a risk assessment that law barely understands, and although deals with well defined assets, has fudgy liability.
Whoa there FCC, lets not set the bar too high here. We don't want to even look like we are trying to catch up to the other countries in this race. I think most of are quite happy with the delusion that we are not in last place.
100 Mbps for 100 Million homes in 10 years. That's like giving Tokyo, with half their density, 100 Mbps in 5 years. What are our telcos supposed to do? Crawl to the finish line?
In case people missed my sarcasm, Tokyo has had the ability for years to provide 100 Mbps speeds to consumers at American 10 Mbps prices. I say the US gov just eminent domains the telco's (actually paid for by us) infrastructure and hires the Japanese companies to run things.
Deficit spending as you used in your 1st paragraph is what the US, UK, and Germany do on a regular basis. It should really have been used as you posted, but it's ok as long as the government leverages its buying capacity just a little less than the private sector does its. The US just happens to have managed it well a bit longer.
What the US and the rest are doing to getting us out of the economic crisis is closer to double and triple deficit spending. It's an extreme that normally would have resulted in the funds losing confidence in the US government (that "In god we trust" thing on the dollar). However, funders have stuck around only cause all the other options are worse (even gold).
It's like seeing who sucks least. I guess you could say it is working in the sense that we haven't failed yet.
True, true. The best tech is the stuff that stitches into the fabric of our lives, feels as if its always been there, and we hardly notice, let alone contemplate life without it.
I agree with what you said in both posts. It basically comes down to value addition (now a days a totally butchered term). Too many checks and you are chasing pennies with dollars, too little, and you are buying dirt instead of rice.
BUT, I got to disagree with your sig! Build a system that even a fool can use, and only fools will use it.;-P
No you are not. Your people may see the US gov as an enemy, but your government has basically become a test bed / R&D facility for seeing what a populace is willing to put up with in terms of censorship and loss of rights.
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He is obviously American, you non-American insensitive clod!
Forget the long lines and other more viable targets. How many people choose to drive now, rather than fly? I will take a 7 hour drive over a 1 hr flight, just cause of security. Before I would do up to a 3hr drive, due to cost. How many times more dangerious (1000+) is driving than flying on commercial airlines? The drive to the airport is many times more dangerious than the international flight out and back.
The TSA failed its mission upon inception. The general US public is most certainly less safe now directly due to the TSA policies than before.
Don't lump all of us plastic users into being dumber than you, especially when you don't know how to keep track of your spending via credit. I found the CC companies do a better job at exchange rates than most foreign banks (a 8% spread, wtf). I am not saying I don't ever use cash (taxi, perfect example), but for the big stuff (hotel), CC works great. I only had a 3% fee and the exchange rate seems to have only lost me another 1%. That's as good if not better than the enchange centers I ran across. Much better when you consider that if you have cash, you have securit risk, people either beg for it, charge you more, or target you for bribes.
And thank you for making the local stuff I buy cheaper for me (in most places). I get atleast 1% cash back on all my CC purchases. I am sure the CC fees end up being 3-6% for the store, which just goes into the product prices. Atleast I get 1% back, but the cash users get nothing. So they are basically subsidizing my purchase.
For the first problem you ask where you can swipe the plastic.
On the second... I already do free* ACH with my family and friends. In places like India, they can transact via mobile banking services!
* =Not really, I am sure I am paying for it somewhere by low interest rates and all. But that is far cheaper than the hidden fees we all pay for physical cash
Wait, what? Why was this marked interesting? That's not how money actually works. Ideally, you borrow from the future (debt) so that your value growth is increased today. Eventually the additional growth increase produces enough value to offset the amount of value you took into the past. A very simple example: A farmer in a poor country spends a day walking to a market to sell his goods. The trip ruins 40% of his goods (say milk). Now he takes a small loan, buys a cart, reduces his trip, and thus only loses 10% of his goods to waste. Say he makes 20% more profit due to demand. That cart increased his effciency enough to pay for itself and then some.
Always increasing debt is when you borrow w/o enough of a increased value growth. You keep hoping that your continued borrowing will provide enough additional growth today to offset the already there debt and this one too. Crashes only happen when there is no one left to believe in your investment. Also, unlike European and American economies, some cultures such as middle eastern, Indian, and the Japanese do belive in over saving. The opposite problem... little investment is like lending to the future, but results in little growth that means more and more inefficiency... stagnation.
And the next day that guy came back to sell that Oblivion to the next guy for $20. The store owner, popcorn in hand, looked on at the daily scene and remembered the happy day 2 weeks prior when he finally got rid of that game.
jus sayin.
I disagree. Unless you consider vegetables as equal to non-meat and state that there is more variety of taste in the former.
Various meats taste quite differently. And I am not even talking about the cooked kind. Various sushi taste quite differently. Heck the same fish has a different taste based upon where it grew up and how old it is. Same applies for oysters. Even going into boiled, fired, fried, baked, salted, and smoked changes based upon age, feed, location, cooking medium, and type of prepwork (cuts). And this is in the same meat. Lets drop medium and prepwork cause that doesn't directly tie to the taste of "meat". But age, feed, and location do.
I would say there is a distinct flavor of meat, but there is no "protein" undertone. What about chickpeas, beans, pulses, and nuts? There is no protein undertone to them.
Fruits & Herbs/Spices, have a massive variety of tastes. But what is actually considered a vegetable doesn't have any more or less of a variety than meat. Remember, vegetables, herbs/spices, & nuts weren't naturally designed to be killed and consumed anymore than meat.
The cost of not knowing who wants to alter my and my kids' way of life in a way I do not want it altered is a steeper slope.
Actually this was a big fear. The US as a whole did not support independence. There were many powerful companies and individuals involved that profited heavily from their connections to England. Some of the founding fathers just put those benefits aside. This is why John Hancock is famous. The guy didn't do anything but be brave (or stupid) enough to say "I am willing to fight you for what I believe in" first. Everyone else just followed.
I think it would come under fair use. I am basically satiring the character, by saying that this psuedo individual is the one signing it as if it were real.
THANK YOU. My god so many people do not understand this point. I think this is the best post made on this topic! Petitions and Voting are _completely_ different things and aren't even in the same league!
Its all fun and games until the geeks realize that the lasers don't stop each other in midswing and version 2 lops off limbs.
I think most of us don't have problems with limits, but rather the lies. No, they aren't usually lying legally, but rather the spirit is that all customers are theives and should never be told the flat truth!
I hated the word unlimited* ever since it came out. It never made any sense. In our generation, marketing has spend most of its time redefining words with a star (*) rather than just say the value proposition. WHY? Cause most of the time the companies are utter crap compared to what they think they are. God forbid even the simple minded folks figure it out and point that the emperor has no clothes.
Except for T-Mobile and Nextel (Sprint sucks too), NONE of the US telecoms know what their actual cost breakdown is. You ask any of these other guys to break down the bill and do a direct profit analysis and you quickly see that they basically guess at percent allocations. None know the direct cost of each service. Some don't even know how to break down the overall service offering! And that's with not complicating it with all the stupid discounts that they can never seem to keep track of (every season a sales / marketing droid comes up with some other new name for something similar to the last)!
The worst part is that they do forecasting based on these flip of the coin allocations. The only thing that keeps these companies in business is the ignorance or acceptance of its customers, and being the only show in town. It's a sad and unfortunate reality that we must all just put up with.
I think you are arguing on terms and definitions. For all practical purposes, your specific code is your own, but the the "derived" work overall is auto-GPLed. Cause in order to create your part, you need the GPL original. In order to use the GPLed original, you need a license that covers and allows you to use the original work. That GPL license for the original has severe restrictions, primarily on distribution and attribution of itself AND its derivatives. In the case of BSD, GPL, and others, the derivatives automatically have the licensing terms of the original applied to them. In some cases, the license doesn't restrict you from relicensing. Default US copyright law does restrict you (considers it equal to private property), public domain doesn't, and the GPL does only a little less so than default.
If the derivative wasn't covered under the GPL, then what exactly are you in violation of when you distribute it? The license of utility is a precursor to the utility of the work. Not the other way around. You could argue that you changed a variable name, and you can do whatever you want with that specific string of characters, but to say that you can do whatever you want (legally) with the entire new work is an entirely different matter. The former is nothing but getting pedantic and immaterial to the reality at hand.
I think India isn't doing the restrictions for Trust or Security reasons. Their politicians couldn't care less. For the right price, they will sell you a state or two.
It probably has more to do with keeping knock off China phones off the markets to keep the big corps happy. In India, there is rampant import of Chinese knockoff phones. An HTC becomes a HIC. They add a little line at the bottom and cut the price from $400 to $50. I kid you not. Quality control is an issue, but if you have the right connections, that won't be a problem. The phone is from the same factory that makes the name brand, its the same materials, same machines, and same people. Just the 3rd shift of lineman and it doesn't go through QC before shipment.
So for sometime, the India government has been pressured to put a stop to this import. They haven't been very successful but that doesn't mean they don't look like they are trying. Exactly how do you stop 50 individually owned stores stuffed into an area the size of a CVS from selling the same stuff to a population that creates a massive amount of demand but isn't willing to pay like credit based Americans are. Not to mention your enforcement divisions are willing to look the other way for a dollar of that $50 sale. Additionally, the worst offenders are the politicians and those connected to them.
So, if your boss said give me access to erase all the fraud I been doing, you are ok with that, cause the policy said so? Wait till shareholders get a bead on that and you end up in the same boat as this guy. That's pretty much what Fastow did in the Enron case.
The city of San Fran was luck to get someone that has a backbone and some moral fiber. He was protecting the citizens of the city against complete IT ignoramuses who happened to hold positions of authority and leadership. If they were even a quarter as competent as him, his actions would have posed no threats what so ever.
The situation is kind of like you closing the front door of your apartment and the landlord can't figure out how to turn the door knob. Why did you close the front door? Cause the landlord wants to store your neighbors' valuables with the door open for all to see. So now the landlord sues you for holding the house and its contents hostage! Oh and btw, if anything gets stolen, its your fault! _You_ should have closed and locked the door!
YES, the case is really that stupid!
Its called the 3rd shift. You have Chinese factories that just keep the assembly line running for a third unoffical shift. The local assembler, nor the US company really cares enough to stop them. Not to mention the incentives from the under the table dealings.
Why doesn't the US company stop them? Cause the markets that they really care about and make profit in (US and Europe) have heavy enough disincentives to make bootlegging insignificant in comparison to the costs of further stopping them. Plus, the majority of the bootlegging sector can't or won't afford your product anyway. They aren't a customer to begin with, so why stop them from subsidizing your purchasing costs to the 3 shift vendor.
Now when politics hits the fan or someone gets greedy under the table, all Ell breaks loose.... for a week and then freezes over again. As to address gmack's post further down, most mass produced hardware is like lego blocks. You just need a smart enough individual in electrical engineering to put things together in the right order (trust me, that's not a scarcity in most of the world). So its not too hard to put an extra solid disk chip, sim reader, flash light, or even add a FM component when you are already the assembler who has access to the _expensive_ specs, the assemblers, AND the manufactures behind them. Not to mention, most hardware will automatically support the additional stuff as its already built in, but for high, profitable yield ratios, those features are disabled or not used (See AMD Phenom II X series for an excellent example). This is why the third shift stuff is such a hit or miss, its doesn't have proper QC to minimize the defects. If they did, it would be VERY expensive... more so than the original.
To add to this, it is FAR more difficult to write and MANAGE complex code than it is to crack it once. ONCE is all you need and the cost of the later is magnitudes smaller than the former.
Most things come down to opportunity costs. No one hides $1 in a $1000 dollar safe. No one will hack that safe (to get at the $1), but lets see anyone sell that package for less than $1001 (whose inherent value is $1). Game companies do more like $1000 in a $1 dollar safe (and this is the best of the best safeguards), but it costs 1 cent to crack it.
Cause this is considered very straight forward, has enough incidents to warrant a well established conclusion, and has been beaten to death and then some in decades of relevant case law.
When you talk about insurance, you are talking about a risk assessment that law barely understands, and although deals with well defined assets, has fudgy liability.
Whoa there FCC, lets not set the bar too high here. We don't want to even look like we are trying to catch up to the other countries in this race. I think most of are quite happy with the delusion that we are not in last place.
100 Mbps for 100 Million homes in 10 years. That's like giving Tokyo, with half their density, 100 Mbps in 5 years. What are our telcos supposed to do? Crawl to the finish line?
In case people missed my sarcasm, Tokyo has had the ability for years to provide 100 Mbps speeds to consumers at American 10 Mbps prices. I say the US gov just eminent domains the telco's (actually paid for by us) infrastructure and hires the Japanese companies to run things.
Deficit spending as you used in your 1st paragraph is what the US, UK, and Germany do on a regular basis. It should really have been used as you posted, but it's ok as long as the government leverages its buying capacity just a little less than the private sector does its. The US just happens to have managed it well a bit longer.
What the US and the rest are doing to getting us out of the economic crisis is closer to double and triple deficit spending. It's an extreme that normally would have resulted in the funds losing confidence in the US government (that "In god we trust" thing on the dollar). However, funders have stuck around only cause all the other options are worse (even gold).
It's like seeing who sucks least. I guess you could say it is working in the sense that we haven't failed yet.
True, true. The best tech is the stuff that stitches into the fabric of our lives, feels as if its always been there, and we hardly notice, let alone contemplate life without it.
I agree with what you said in both posts. It basically comes down to value addition (now a days a totally butchered term). Too many checks and you are chasing pennies with dollars, too little, and you are buying dirt instead of rice.
BUT, I got to disagree with your sig! Build a system that even a fool can use, and only fools will use it. ;-P
No you are not. Your people may see the US gov as an enemy, but your government has basically become a test bed / R&D facility for seeing what a populace is willing to put up with in terms of censorship and loss of rights.