I am not, nor have ever been, affiliated with Uber or any other ride-share company in any way. In fact, my girlfriend's dad is a taxi driver and I've heard all of the industry arguments. The taxi drivers are scared because their paycheck is on the line, potentially. Nobody thinks clearly when their livelihood is on the line, just ask the coal miners. The real rip-off with taxis is the rich medallion holders who are wailing because their "guaranteed investment" has devalued by half in the last ten years due to Uber. Do I think Uber and the like need to be reigned in? Yes. But, at the same time, the taxi medallion monopolies need to be broken. So, as my original post said, they will likely both end up somewhere in the middle.
Now you're just being a pain in the ass but, I'll answer anyway. Slavery, specifically, is something that humanity decided in the 1800s was something that we were not going to socially support and it's been declared illegal worldwide and there's no sign we're going to reverse that anytime soon. Unlike drugs, there's really no organized group advocating the social benefits of resuming a legal slave trade.
Sorry to reply to my own post. The DEA alone is in jeopardy of losing over 100 billion dollars in marijuana prohibition enforcement alone if it is legalized nationally.
It may not apply to crack (yet) but, if you look at the infant marijuana industry in the US, your example does work. This process of change is not often fast and industries involved in narcotics prohibition are slower than most. When it comes to marijuana in the US, it spans decades because of the sheer number of industries that it threatens to disrupt, including clothing, pharmaceutical, law enforcement, farming, and recreational mood alteration (alcohol, tobacco, etc.), just to name a few.
Anytime you have an organization that is truly disruptive to industry, you'll end up with problems like this. Uber and all similar companies that are disrupting their respective industries are having to fight an uphill battle with established industries, regulators and a whole host of organizations that have a vested interest in the way things currently work, such as insurance providers and licensing agencies. It's going to be messy with laws and organization eventually adapting until they become part of the establishment; usually with a compromise between the business models of the establishment and the disruptive group.
Yea, he's not my favorite but, the vitriol that he gets from the Republicans is just stupid. Overall, he's done a decent job given the pile of crap he had to start with.
I could see this as having been a much bigger problem before broadband being common. To download dependencies that you need could take forever on dial-up when you try to apply something you took the time to download from work. Instead of working with the new software/game/whatever, you spend all night downloading.
There's a few reasons why Obama will not be on any money any time soon. One, not all the people currently on money were sitting presidents; the $10 bill is a former treasury secretary. Two, it's been considered really bad form to place still living presidents on money or most US monuments, with exception of the presidential library. Three, the Republicans really hate Obama and will stop at nothing to erase any possible positive legacy.
The laws in play change significantly if there's a weapon attached to the drone in some way as there is a reasonable expectation that the pilot intends you harm if it is flying low on your property. Now, if you claim there was a weapon but, none was found by the police after, a jury isn't likely to buy it.
Even if your paranoid assumption is correct, your girls would grow up with their father in prison. Is that what you want? Committing a crime in response to a crime does not get you out of the consequences of your actions. As the old saying goes, two wrongs do not make a right.
They may be trespassing but, as far as I am aware, no state gives you permission to cause property damage to any trespasser on your property. So, this would make damaging any drone on your property a crime. And with current FCC rules, any interference with radio signals is a crime, period. It doesn't leave many options other than locating the drone operator and calling the police.
One of the earliest things we pushed for on international human rights treaties was a ban of collective punishment. Which was exactly the actions that the UC Davis campus police did. One protester got out of line and they used that as an excuse to punish every protester there. Pepper spray is extremely painful and when used in this manner, could be considered as a form of torture, another practice banned by international treaty and most US laws. When the actions of the police came out, the campus head's response was to cover it up and cover her ass to protect her job. It's no surprise that she is under investigation again when she doesn't care about rules or laws, only her own self-interest.
Flash is being depreciated and Adobe has already given a timeline for the discontinuation of the product so that companies that currently rely on it will be able to migrate to a different product with a minimum of hassle. Of course, many will still wait until after it is discontinued and they get hit by a horrendous attack to try and migrate. I have no sympathy for them.
They were available but, there was no commands or binaries to manipulate them supplied. They still don't have those commands; you have to use 3rd party tools.
Your arguments are complete BS. The film industry has always had films that lose money; long before the age of piracy. This is nothing new. What is new is that they can no longer produce a bad film and make their money back before the public gets wise to the fact that it is a bad film (the Ewe Boll business model). If your film is garbage, you're going to lose money on it, period. And your DVD argument is complete apples and oranges. Your example is theft, removing property from someone's possession without compensation. Copyright infringement is not theft by any legal system in the world because the original is still in the original owner's possession, no matter what the media industry tries to tell us. Even with that in mind, your DVD argument is still bogus because that is what every retailer who sells DVDs does. As long as they make money overall, they continue to sell DVDs and call it a success. Do they try to minimize the theft? Sure. But, they don't say DVDs sales are a bust because they had a small percentage of their copies stolen.
What the media industry is doing is looking at all the piracy numbers and saying to themselves "if we can turn all these numbers into sales, look at all the money we can make!" This is complete fallacy and their own internal studies have proved it. The most prolific pirates are also their highest-paying customers. What does this mean? That means they purchase a legitimate copy as well and they use piracy either as previews or for convenience. What they industry wants is for everyone to purchase multiple copies of the same content. No one in the world is going to go for this, regardless of what laws or actions taken by the industry or the governments that support them. Do all pirates own legitimate copies as well? No. But, the ones that don't are almost impossible to turn into legitimate sales, again, according to the industry's own studies. They either don't have the money or have some ideological issue with paying (even if it's selfish miserliness).
There's places in the world for both and both are needed. I'm not trying to devalue either skillset. Most programmers are either built to be a cog in a team or a solo developer. The ones that can comfortably jump between both skillsets are the unicorns of the industry. Usually where you have the teams break down like that is because of poor product management or management in general. This is doubly backed by the fact you stated this happens repeatedly. If teams fail over and over again, the problem is always those in charge. (Even if it is caused by bad employees, it's still management's fault for not removing said problem people.)
From what I've read, not all those lapses are on accident. Phishers and money scammers make more money on the stupid and greedy who are willing to overlook glaring logic errors either because they don't understand them or they want a payoff so badly they ignore them. It cuts down the amount of effort wasted on the non-gullible.
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I am not, nor have ever been, affiliated with Uber or any other ride-share company in any way. In fact, my girlfriend's dad is a taxi driver and I've heard all of the industry arguments. The taxi drivers are scared because their paycheck is on the line, potentially. Nobody thinks clearly when their livelihood is on the line, just ask the coal miners. The real rip-off with taxis is the rich medallion holders who are wailing because their "guaranteed investment" has devalued by half in the last ten years due to Uber. Do I think Uber and the like need to be reigned in? Yes. But, at the same time, the taxi medallion monopolies need to be broken. So, as my original post said, they will likely both end up somewhere in the middle.
Now you're just being a pain in the ass but, I'll answer anyway. Slavery, specifically, is something that humanity decided in the 1800s was something that we were not going to socially support and it's been declared illegal worldwide and there's no sign we're going to reverse that anytime soon. Unlike drugs, there's really no organized group advocating the social benefits of resuming a legal slave trade.
Sorry to reply to my own post. The DEA alone is in jeopardy of losing over 100 billion dollars in marijuana prohibition enforcement alone if it is legalized nationally.
It may not apply to crack (yet) but, if you look at the infant marijuana industry in the US, your example does work. This process of change is not often fast and industries involved in narcotics prohibition are slower than most. When it comes to marijuana in the US, it spans decades because of the sheer number of industries that it threatens to disrupt, including clothing, pharmaceutical, law enforcement, farming, and recreational mood alteration (alcohol, tobacco, etc.), just to name a few.
Anytime you have an organization that is truly disruptive to industry, you'll end up with problems like this. Uber and all similar companies that are disrupting their respective industries are having to fight an uphill battle with established industries, regulators and a whole host of organizations that have a vested interest in the way things currently work, such as insurance providers and licensing agencies. It's going to be messy with laws and organization eventually adapting until they become part of the establishment; usually with a compromise between the business models of the establishment and the disruptive group.
Yea, I just cited one example off of the top of my head. There have been many more in recent history.
Yea, he's not my favorite but, the vitriol that he gets from the Republicans is just stupid. Overall, he's done a decent job given the pile of crap he had to start with.
I could see this as having been a much bigger problem before broadband being common. To download dependencies that you need could take forever on dial-up when you try to apply something you took the time to download from work. Instead of working with the new software/game/whatever, you spend all night downloading.
That actually would be funny for three releases from now.
There's a few reasons why Obama will not be on any money any time soon. One, not all the people currently on money were sitting presidents; the $10 bill is a former treasury secretary. Two, it's been considered really bad form to place still living presidents on money or most US monuments, with exception of the presidential library. Three, the Republicans really hate Obama and will stop at nothing to erase any possible positive legacy.
I wouldn't be shocked if he was Utah's #1 subscriber of gay porn.
Especially in Utah!
The laws in play change significantly if there's a weapon attached to the drone in some way as there is a reasonable expectation that the pilot intends you harm if it is flying low on your property. Now, if you claim there was a weapon but, none was found by the police after, a jury isn't likely to buy it.
Even if your paranoid assumption is correct, your girls would grow up with their father in prison. Is that what you want? Committing a crime in response to a crime does not get you out of the consequences of your actions. As the old saying goes, two wrongs do not make a right.
They may be trespassing but, as far as I am aware, no state gives you permission to cause property damage to any trespasser on your property. So, this would make damaging any drone on your property a crime. And with current FCC rules, any interference with radio signals is a crime, period. It doesn't leave many options other than locating the drone operator and calling the police.
One of the earliest things we pushed for on international human rights treaties was a ban of collective punishment. Which was exactly the actions that the UC Davis campus police did. One protester got out of line and they used that as an excuse to punish every protester there. Pepper spray is extremely painful and when used in this manner, could be considered as a form of torture, another practice banned by international treaty and most US laws. When the actions of the police came out, the campus head's response was to cover it up and cover her ass to protect her job. It's no surprise that she is under investigation again when she doesn't care about rules or laws, only her own self-interest.
Flash is being depreciated and Adobe has already given a timeline for the discontinuation of the product so that companies that currently rely on it will be able to migrate to a different product with a minimum of hassle. Of course, many will still wait until after it is discontinued and they get hit by a horrendous attack to try and migrate. I have no sympathy for them.
They were available but, there was no commands or binaries to manipulate them supplied. They still don't have those commands; you have to use 3rd party tools.
Your arguments are complete BS. The film industry has always had films that lose money; long before the age of piracy. This is nothing new. What is new is that they can no longer produce a bad film and make their money back before the public gets wise to the fact that it is a bad film (the Ewe Boll business model). If your film is garbage, you're going to lose money on it, period. And your DVD argument is complete apples and oranges. Your example is theft, removing property from someone's possession without compensation. Copyright infringement is not theft by any legal system in the world because the original is still in the original owner's possession, no matter what the media industry tries to tell us. Even with that in mind, your DVD argument is still bogus because that is what every retailer who sells DVDs does. As long as they make money overall, they continue to sell DVDs and call it a success. Do they try to minimize the theft? Sure. But, they don't say DVDs sales are a bust because they had a small percentage of their copies stolen.
What the media industry is doing is looking at all the piracy numbers and saying to themselves "if we can turn all these numbers into sales, look at all the money we can make!" This is complete fallacy and their own internal studies have proved it. The most prolific pirates are also their highest-paying customers. What does this mean? That means they purchase a legitimate copy as well and they use piracy either as previews or for convenience. What they industry wants is for everyone to purchase multiple copies of the same content. No one in the world is going to go for this, regardless of what laws or actions taken by the industry or the governments that support them. Do all pirates own legitimate copies as well? No. But, the ones that don't are almost impossible to turn into legitimate sales, again, according to the industry's own studies. They either don't have the money or have some ideological issue with paying (even if it's selfish miserliness).
That's what I get for typing on no sleep. *sigh*
There's places in the world for both and both are needed. I'm not trying to devalue either skillset. Most programmers are either built to be a cog in a team or a solo developer. The ones that can comfortably jump between both skillsets are the unicorns of the industry. Usually where you have the teams break down like that is because of poor product management or management in general. This is doubly backed by the fact you stated this happens repeatedly. If teams fail over and over again, the problem is always those in charge. (Even if it is caused by bad employees, it's still management's fault for not removing said problem people.)
I work in software for the marijuana industry, and everyone leaves at 4:20. First tech job I've ever had like that.
FTFY
From what I've read, not all those lapses are on accident. Phishers and money scammers make more money on the stupid and greedy who are willing to overlook glaring logic errors either because they don't understand them or they want a payoff so badly they ignore them. It cuts down the amount of effort wasted on the non-gullible.
Yea, they actually wan't to provide good service to their "customers," unlike Comcast.
It'll be easy to tell the difference: Who pays their brib.. er.. campaign contributions to the politicians and who doesn't.