First of all, RTFA. You'll notice that it prohibits only in-uniform fraternization.
Secondly, and more importantly, it's illegal to ban labor unions: we have lots of actual case law (note that NLRB isn't a court, it's just an arbitration society) stating this, and-- most importantly-- the 1st amendment guarantees freedom of assembly and association. Last time my city attempted to violate this-- Billings, Montana, by the way-- they were completely shut down by a labor strike until they had learned what the Constitution means.
Frankly, it's much more likely that it was done by MI-5 or MI-6, the domestic or foreign intelligence services, respectively. TFA *does* point out that evidence points to the British government, even though it doesn't disclose methods. The advantage of the MI groups, just like our NSA and CIA (respectively the equivalents) is that they really don't need pesky little things like the "law" on their side. That's why the government set them up; to have a nice little veil of "reasonable deniability."
No, obviously I don't have a problem with competition, free market capitalism, etc.-- except the problem that many small good ideas can't get off the ground fast enough, because they have to develop too many nearly-unrelated things themselves. Which seems to me, to be a problem. If I am really good at, say, lightbulb design, and I want to sell on the internet, why is it a bad thing for someone to provide a service to help me do so?
You know, every time I read something along the lines "Amazon Does Something That Slashdot Users Are Going to Hate," I think of the EPIC 2014 flash, talking about Amazon and Google merging to control the 'net. Yeah, yeah, bad patents, etc.-- but the real question is, who else will do this work? Who else is going to handle the e-business for those too lazy to do it themselves? They have a valid point, that businesses want someone else to do collection and authentication.
And, of course, they aren't making some kind of patent requiring exclusivity. So anybody who *does* want to do it themselves, still can.
So, my question to/.: Do we actually resent companies who do things well, doing them? If not, then what's our collective problem?
The problem for me was that I needed to upgrade to Quicktime 7. That done, my problems went away. I have an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro with 128MB on a laptop, so nothing *too* big.
"I forgot it."
Seriously. This is what we do in the U.S., and even if they hold you in contempt-- it's a darn sight better than letting them have access, and seeing what you were up to.
This seems unlikely to me, simply from a conservation-of-energy perspective. Every first-semester Physics course teaches that even 100% efficiency is unattainable in the real world; there will always be losses due to friction or whatever.
But if you've seen an air conditioner with 400% efficiency-- then why are we working for better energy sources? This would be the magical Infinite Energy Box! Let us all dance and celebrate!
That's what Bluetooth was for, I thought. Why do we need this (hideously expensive) box to be a PAN when we have the (slightly less expensive and not needing an additional box) Bluetooth to di it already?
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First of all, RTFA. You'll notice that it prohibits only in-uniform fraternization.
Secondly, and more importantly, it's illegal to ban labor unions: we have lots of actual case law (note that NLRB isn't a court, it's just an arbitration society) stating this, and-- most importantly-- the 1st amendment guarantees freedom of assembly and association. Last time my city attempted to violate this-- Billings, Montana, by the way-- they were completely shut down by a labor strike until they had learned what the Constitution means.
Frankly, it's much more likely that it was done by MI-5 or MI-6, the domestic or foreign intelligence services, respectively. TFA *does* point out that evidence points to the British government, even though it doesn't disclose methods. The advantage of the MI groups, just like our NSA and CIA (respectively the equivalents) is that they really don't need pesky little things like the "law" on their side. That's why the government set them up; to have a nice little veil of "reasonable deniability."
No, obviously I don't have a problem with competition, free market capitalism, etc.-- except the problem that many small good ideas can't get off the ground fast enough, because they have to develop too many nearly-unrelated things themselves. Which seems to me, to be a problem. If I am really good at, say, lightbulb design, and I want to sell on the internet, why is it a bad thing for someone to provide a service to help me do so?
You know, every time I read something along the lines "Amazon Does Something That Slashdot Users Are Going to Hate," I think of the EPIC 2014 flash, talking about Amazon and Google merging to control the 'net. Yeah, yeah, bad patents, etc.-- but the real question is, who else will do this work? Who else is going to handle the e-business for those too lazy to do it themselves? They have a valid point, that businesses want someone else to do collection and authentication.
/.: Do we actually resent companies who do things well, doing them? If not, then what's our collective problem?
And, of course, they aren't making some kind of patent requiring exclusivity. So anybody who *does* want to do it themselves, still can.
So, my question to
The problem for me was that I needed to upgrade to Quicktime 7. That done, my problems went away. I have an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro with 128MB on a laptop, so nothing *too* big.
"I forgot it." Seriously. This is what we do in the U.S., and even if they hold you in contempt-- it's a darn sight better than letting them have access, and seeing what you were up to.
400% efficiency?
This seems unlikely to me, simply from a conservation-of-energy perspective. Every first-semester Physics course teaches that even 100% efficiency is unattainable in the real world; there will always be losses due to friction or whatever.
But if you've seen an air conditioner with 400% efficiency-- then why are we working for better energy sources? This would be the magical Infinite Energy Box! Let us all dance and celebrate!
That's what Bluetooth was for, I thought. Why do we need this (hideously expensive) box to be a PAN when we have the (slightly less expensive and not needing an additional box) Bluetooth to di it already?
Well, if it takes 4-6 hours (from TFbackpack) to charge a cell phone, is the box going to be charged in real time from this backpack?
I guess I think that you wouldn't need the backpack to provide Wi-Fi to a caravan, as mentioned in TFA, and if you can't charge while hiking....