BS. Valve is just proving they're as evil as anyone else. Fast downloads of games does not grant them a holy indulgence.
As far as arbitration goes, arbitration _always_ means that the rich side of a dispute wins. In normal suits the the rich side usually wins but there remains a chance to have actual justice. What matters in arbitration are the clauses that say what happens if either side disagrees with a ruling, and they usually say something like redo the arbitration with expenses split evenly, or the person disagreeing with the output pays for the new arbitration, etc.
What is the Valve Product? Is it an implanted medical pump? Is it a logic chip for your new vehicle? It is not a pacemaker, but just a game. Suppose you discover a flaw in the game, how will it endanger your life?
You Americans, are you bored with life that you need to sue to "Get the other guy?". I bet you that if there was a latent defect in the software, that like every other software company, Valve would be working on its corrective.
Not so much state run, more chartered by the state to fulfill a public service role. Outside the chartered requirements, the BBC can put on what they want, regardless of what the government may say.
I watch BBC reporting nightly. I do it for unbiased reporting of US news. Its not pro democrat or pro republican. I sometimes get a feeling of embarrassment for the USA as they show recorded interviews with congressmen or senators.
I'd say, ask you boss what is required for you to wear. If he's ok with jeans and tshirts, go for it.
No. If you boss recommends jeans and t-shirts, because that's a company culture thing, then and only then go for it. Otherwise dress at least one step up from those you supervise, or better yet at an equivalent step to what your new supervisors are wearing.
People are visual animals and a very large portion of behavioral queues are completely sub-conscious. The phrase "clothes make the man" may be disturbing from an intellectual standpoint, but it's entirely accurate from a human-reality standpoint. Do some experimentation - attend various service locations in differing levels of dress and pay attention to the body language and other sub-conscious queues you're given.* You should want those you supervise to unconsciously look up to you, and you may also want your new supervisors to think of you as one of their peers. It's the uniform of the professional - it's not very different than the blue coveralls a mechanic wears in the shop. Sorry, but the days of this are gone.
* You might want to check your jurisdiction's laws before experimenting much with a negative control.
If you and your staff meet the public, in that you do house calls, then a service uniform would show professionalism and would be reasonable. Look at the uniforms of other trades ( electric company, meter readers, etc.). If your staff is always backroom and do not meet the public, then genes and tee shirt is appropriate, unless safety clothing is absolutely a priority.
Yes, but the cheapness of the Chinese panels was due to price fixing. Once all the Americans were put out of business, the Chineese would have raised prices on their own to make back their investment, and the US would be closed out of the market. Not imposing those terrifs would have been short-sighted.
Yes, but the cheapness of the Chinese panels was due to price fixing. Once all the Americans were put out of business, the Chineese would have raised prices on their own to make back their investment, and the US would be closed out of the market. Not imposing those tarrifs would have been short-sighted.
Isn`t the Chinese practice learned from the Americans? Microsoft did it with Netscape, WordPerfect, and you can probably find non-IT situations where this occurred. Why am I always posting the contrary? My wife keeps asking me that question? Because a business must act in an honorable way, The perfect examples are the lawsuits against all those companies that violated patents and a good example of ethics in business is Apple.
That's what will eventually happen. The internet will be balkanized along national boundaries, every country will control their slice however they see fit, and everyone will be happy.
Except the users.
Actually, they will start their own internet, and eventually, the USA will be alone. Noone wants 1 nation to conrol the Internet/www.
Suppose the Internet was controlled by a non -USA country, that does not agree with USA policies? How would the US feel?
We would have simply built our own. Oh, wait, we did!
We would never have simply waited for somebody to build it for us, and then asked for an equal stake in controlling it. The stake in control comes from having built it, it doesn't just float down on your head as a reward for having been born on planet Earth. US control certainly didn't originate from our arrogance or manifest destiny. We didn't invade anybody and steal plunder their interwebs and bring them home.
Our military asked for it, our research universities and telecom companies built it for them, and then our elected representatives allocated resources to make it public. The only reason it is international is because it improves trade, and we happen to like trade. If somebody doesn't like to play by our rules, they're certainly not going to take our ball and go home. They're welcome to go home and buy their own ball, though.
In this regard I agreewith you. It may very well be that the status quo remains for another 20 years or so..
The world has always been able to create a parallel Internet. The reason they haven't done that is the same reason no one has created a completely parallel Linux kernel, there's no need.
Given the US's policies on free speech, it makes a good standard for the operation of the internet, which is one reason it actually exists now and is popular.
You're right, parallel networks can certainly pop up any time. However, unless they pop up because US policy directly affected the usability or freedom of the Internet, you can actually expect those networks that are being set up will leak users back to the "old" internet faster than East Germans scooted through the broken Berlin Wall.
You're looking at this as some sort of national pride issue, but in reality, most people could give a shit about that. Who needs a "global marketplace" when there already is one? And what makes you think the purportedly "extreme" rules of the US will not similarly crop up in networks managed by groups of countries who don't even give lip service to free speech or free trade?
It has already. Freedom or free speech, RIAA, SOPA, and other attacks, such as sudden lawsuits by American Law-firms asking $$$ because your web-design or website action (kind of mouse click, etc), is patented. Amazon is the example in a severe way that attempts to maintain marketing supremacy applies as well to the web.
We don't believe that algorithms, example such as a simple conversion from Centigrade to Farenheit should be patentable. Once control is passed to a global institution outside of the USA, creativity will be restored.
Us Linux folks have been waiting 10 years for this. The day that Microsoft started eating the OEM's lunch. At some point they will have to compete against Microsoft. Since Microsoft gets Windows for "free" the only way to match the price point on the hardware will be to load an OS that costs them less than Windows.
With the Windows 8 App store it looks like Valve has figured out they had better have an exit strategy for leaving the Windows PC Market. Hopefully the OEMs like Dell, HP and Lenovo will figure this out soon as well.
I believe that OEMS like DELL, HP and Lenova have figured out that the MS days are over. MS is now just another player, a minor one at that. In some areas MS will find support, such as integrating the tablet with their ERP system or with Sharepoint, or with their other locked in software.
Do NOT handle ANY control to the brazilian government . The first thing they will do is take down everything that will speak against their major corrupt politicianS (with big Plural) . And the Brazilian LAW FORBIDS anonymity.
Brazil govt: PLEASE GO AWAY
There is several reasons why we buy: iphone (designed in US), use Facebook (made in US) and use Google (made in us).
And one of the reasons is that the US law and business way is more 'clear'. (if you think I am wrong..do business in Brazil and you are going to see the red-tape/bribe Hell)
Russia and China?? Serious?? the same homies that are supporting the crazy lunatics?
The US president can be 'bad' but they are not MEAN like others.
Keep US control is the LESSER evil.
Today in the news, Brazil made Canadian Headlines by an announcement of major criminal charges against politicians, and friends. Bribes in the millions of dollars and scandals. Almost 50% of the opposition politicians were part of the corruption charges. More news at 11pm.
UN control of the Internet would kill the Internet as we know it. Long distance fees, requirements that you respect censorship laws in other countries, unique identification requirements, different regulatory classes for "service providers" and "consumers" are all on the table for the UN. Sure, they would do a great job of ensuring that everyone is happy -- everyone being defined as the governments that are represented in the UN, which include several powerful governments with strong and pervasive censorship campaigns.
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The idea that some single country controls a global resource is not acceptable to countries that are not congruent with USA political policy. Suppose the Internet was controlled by a non -USA country, that does not agree with USA policies? How would the US feel? How would the the USA control its utilities, since many use the web for managing their infrastructure. The USA has already wrongly turned off the switch on at least one service company, putting the company at a major financial disadvantage in its trying to regain operations.
The extreme set of rules that you listed are rules that the USA already has in place via the US's largest private ISPs, only they are imposed on you and you shrug them off as the cost or rules on how you may use the net.
What eventually will happen is that a parallel internet will be created, which will contain a majority of the worlds countries and populations. The USA will have to decide to go it alone or merge with it. Most countries will switch over because of the desire to be part of a global marketplace. I am not in the know, but do the rules governing the internet respect International Law?
Yes, change is coming, albeit slowly.
A switch over will be a few wiring changes, and the data will now be available in the new globally owned internet. Most end-users will not notice any difference.
For people who like their desktop to have familiar features rather than being dumbed down for touch screens?
There is no way Gnome 3 is designed for touch screens. Or at least, not for touchscreen-only computers. I use Fedora 17 on a pen-based computer (fujitsu stylistic) and I can tell you that if it were not for the fingerprint reader on it, Fedora would be *UNUSABLE*. Whenever Gnome 3 needs a password to connect to WiFi or to unlock the screen or unlock following suspend, THERE IS NO WAY TO ENTER THE PASSWORD! The password windows captures all mouse input so it is NOT possible to bring up an onscreen keyboard.
So lets stop pretending Gnome 3 shell is for tablet-type computers. It CANNOT BE USED ON A COMPUTER WITHOUT A KEYBOARD.
Oh, and when one IS able to use the on-screen keyboard, it has is no tilda (~) character. Not that you would ever need to type a tilda on a unix-like operating system.
I've filed bugs on all these complaints, but there has been no action.
Are you listening Gnome team?
Gee, "What am I to do without a Ñ or a ñ?" How will I do a ls ~ or the accented characters such as ôï or é or É or even â
Yeah pretty interesting view there huh? Not only are they saying that they're above the law. But they're saying that the highest law in the land, is no longer the constitution and bill of rights. But the DOJ, and the whim of whoever is in charge. Yeah... now that's going to go over very well, especially about the time it starts hitting appeal courts.
The United States is not a democracy, and has not been one since the time of Reganomics. The rulers are not congress, but the Global enterprises, and the 1% corporations that pay to have "Their guy" elected. "Their guy" knows on which side his bread is buttered (funding). They respond to big business, not to massive numbers of middle and lower class citizens. And the sad part is that if the USA goes to war, the top 1% seem to get exempt.
Something is really wrong if there appears to be a personal vendetta against Megaupload and Kim Dotcom. Eventually, the Internet will have a twin that is not USA managed, and we must encourage that to happen asap.
I suppose it was inevitable that someone would ask this question, although I would have thought it would be pretty worn out at this point. The phrasing of your question implies that one side has to be right and the other wrong, which is a false dichotomy. Provocative dress, either male or female, is not appropriate in many workplaces, especially professional cube-farms. The offender should be told to be more moderate. But provocative dress does not green-light ape-ish behavior, either. Discipline is appropriate in both cases. And I don't think one should have any bearing on the other, mostly in the sense that, for example, how a woman is dressed should have no bearing on how serious sexually harassing remarks from a male coworker might be taken.
I guess you have not worked in as many environments as I have. Over 35 years. I've seen everything from harassement begining with no underwear under the skirt to skintight blouses with no bras to provide modesty to cases of he after she and she after he. Rarely has a person continued when the target said stop, I don't like your harassment, I am not interested. Men with testosterone to women with hormonal peaks at mid-month.
The better plan is to sue Microsoft for abuse of their monopoly.
You mean, so that they can be found guilty again and let go without so much as a hand-slap again? Yes, that would be a wonderfully immense waste of taxpayer dollars.
On the desktop, W7 will remain, as W8 will be a poor reason to upgrade. In fact, it will mean that independent software developers will all have to pay a MS tax, and suffer from poor profit margins. When these developers move to Linux, because no such tax exists, the trickle of migrations starts to happen, as it will, and MS will have to reconsider it's position on the desktop and in corporate world. As for tablets, Apple is number one, Samsung is number two, or vice-versa outside of the USA, and MS will fall below RIM in sales. RIM will come out of its slump with something very interesting and worthwhile new offerings.
Says the guy who's obviously never been in the minority position in an uncomfortable environment.
I've always felt like I had a reasonable understanding of what it might feel like to be in such a minority position, at least in an intellectual sense, but it wasn't until I worked in a fairly large team that was >60% Indian and 20% Chinese (myself being white) that I truly understood it. So unless you've "walked a mile in her shoes", you're in no position to criticise a woman who feels uncomfortable in a group of men who act like crude sexist jerks (while claiming not to be). I'm not a big fan of zero-tolerance PC policies, but I do strongly believe in having respect for others, and if that means no sexual innuendo or whatever, I'm fine with that.
And note that in the OP's case, it may very well be that the woman that joins the group is perfectly comfortable in that environment, but that's a decision she gets to make, like it or not. Where I work now, there are women who can dish it out just as well as the guys (and seem to enjoy doing so), but we're all aware of what others are comfortable with. It's a natural part of simply being respectful.
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What about women who are provocatively dressed, such as wearing skin tight clothing and headlight style foundation uppers? Who is the lure, and who is the fish that gets into trouble?
Tell the boss how good they are even tho they are the worst type of asshole in the universe
Thanks the co-workers for their generous help and guidance even tho they are clumsy back-stabbers
Give great praises the company even tho they are giving you the pink slip
That will make them happy, and happy people (often) do not find time to do more harm to you, leaving you plenty of peaceful time to look for new jobs
Say nothing but good things -
Tell the boss how good they are even tho they are the worst type of asshole in the universe
Thanks the co-workers for their generous help and guidance even tho they are clumsy back-stabbers
Give great praises the company even tho they are giving you the pink slip
That will make them happy, and happy people (often) do not find time to do more harm to you, leaving you plenty of peaceful time to look for new jobs
In a few years, or if the next job does not work out, and the company still exists, ask them for a reference. For the exit interview, ask for a reference letter. It can do no harm.
From my Canadian view, the top 1% of the wealth is in the Republican hands. The Republicans were in power prior to the Democrats, and they took the USA from being number one in the world to somewhere near the bottom of the top five. Obama has tried to increase taxes against the superwealthy, so that there would be money for roads, highways, better education, and even for a pension that would be just just enough to be able to be livable with. What have the republicans done? They put up obstacles with No! No! No! Do not tax the wealthy.
BUT THE WEALTHY ARE NOT CREATING JOBS OR BUSINESSES in the USA, They do engineering and manufacturing elsewhere and only do product importation. Your great tablets, cellphones, laptops, desktops, TVs cars etc. Eventually your consumer dollars will run out. Your poverty levels as published this week in our press indicate that poverty is up by 7% over the Republican era. It is almost at a 2 in 3 level.
I am only learning 2nd hand what many Latin American Countries are doing. They have currency export controls, and they insist that any product sold in their country must have 50% local manufacturing content. For electronics, the final assemblies and Quality Control are to be done in the Latin American country. Cars to be final assembled in Latin America. Otherwise, tax the outflow of money. The USA could insist on at least 40% local content. That imposition should bring back manufacturing, call centres, and many many other non-Walmart type jobs.
My son, formerly of Florida, lived in Riga for 3 years in 2004. He downloaded a DVD equivalent in 3-4 minutes. Watched movies from the web, and had about 10x the speed of what cable provided, for about $15/mo US$
Riga Latvia has mostly fibre connectivity to apartment blocks, as they could not afford to lay copper (which would later be stolen).
Imagine if thieves started stealing copper wiring in your area? Would they replace it with fibre?
The troll lawsuit describes the same process as many vendors do and will be doing. UEFI for Windows 8 uses a certificate authority to validate that the software is not corrupted, and legal.
Ditto for many security softwares which follows very very closely the process described in the filed papers. The backup or authorization to function using pki and secure server would be illegal for Microsoft if this troll has a slightest chance of proving his method comes first.
Professor Bruce Schneier, my favorite encryptologist described similar methods in 1993. Just get a copy of his textbook.
Say goodbye to a whole lot more mid-level jobs. This is the path we are going down, labor is expensive.
But what is the cost of a large unemployed population ?
What will happen is that we will stay in school longer, we will work 4 day work weeks, and we will continue with consumption. Consumption of adult electronic and mechanical toys.
As the Canadian outsider looking in, Obama was faced with a few major problems. The bank frauds by the directors who siphoned off major amounts of money, and the car industry that had gone belly up. Restoring confidence in the banking industry was not a decision that was to let the banks die, as the domino effect would have had world wide consequences.
The similar problem regarding the car industry. The foreign companies were making better products and were selling at lower costs.
You must also realize the legacy problems created by and left to him by the former president, who shall remain nameless.
Then you have the Republicans acting in selfish interest. (They know from where their funding originates). Instead of working as a team with the Democrats to get the economy back in step, it was a 3 year period of do nothing, block everything, and persistent attack ads.
You will only appreciate how hard and how intelligently Obama worked to correct the political (Iran/Iraci war) problems, the military overspending, and the compete writeoff of the middle and lower classes. While I wish he could do more, you will appreciate the universal medical coverage that got approved. By the way, the insurance companies will be able to refuse to insure an ill or chronically ill person, with the result that they will have major savings to improve their company bottom line. So, with universal medicare, the insurers will not reinsure losses (citizens whose private insurance ran out). A person on dyalisis will not go bancrupt.
And with constant attacks from Republicans, responding and negotiating with adversaries takes it's toll. In my opinion the Republican attacks on Obama's (Democrats) attempts to rejunerate the economy is the cause for the horrible poverty statistics that are being presented.
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BS. Valve is just proving they're as evil as anyone else. Fast downloads of games does not grant them a holy indulgence.
As far as arbitration goes, arbitration _always_ means that the rich side of a dispute wins. In normal suits the the rich side usually wins but there remains a chance to have actual justice. What matters in arbitration are the clauses that say what happens if either side disagrees with a ruling, and they usually say something like redo the arbitration with expenses split evenly, or the person disagreeing with the output pays for the new arbitration, etc.
What is the Valve Product? Is it an implanted medical pump? Is it a logic chip for your new vehicle? It is not a pacemaker, but just a game. Suppose you discover a flaw in the game, how will it endanger your life?
You Americans, are you bored with life that you need to sue to "Get the other guy?". I bet you that if there was a latent defect in the software, that like every other software company, Valve would be working on its corrective.
state run (nominally) broadcaster
Not so much state run, more chartered by the state to fulfill a public service role. Outside the chartered requirements, the BBC can put on what they want, regardless of what the government may say.
I watch BBC reporting nightly. I do it for unbiased reporting of US news. Its not pro democrat or pro republican. I sometimes get a feeling of embarrassment for the USA as they show recorded interviews with congressmen or senators.
I'd say, ask you boss what is required for you to wear. If he's ok with jeans and tshirts, go for it.
No. If you boss recommends jeans and t-shirts, because that's a company culture thing, then and only then go for it. Otherwise dress at least one step up from those you supervise, or better yet at an equivalent step to what your new supervisors are wearing.
People are visual animals and a very large portion of behavioral queues are completely sub-conscious. The phrase "clothes make the man" may be disturbing from an intellectual standpoint, but it's entirely accurate from a human-reality standpoint. Do some experimentation - attend various service locations in differing levels of dress and pay attention to the body language and other sub-conscious queues you're given.* You should want those you supervise to unconsciously look up to you, and you may also want your new supervisors to think of you as one of their peers. It's the uniform of the professional - it's not very different than the blue coveralls a mechanic wears in the shop. Sorry, but the days of this are gone.
* You might want to check your jurisdiction's laws before experimenting much with a negative control.
If you and your staff meet the public, in that you do house calls, then a service uniform would show professionalism and would be reasonable. Look at the uniforms of other trades ( electric company, meter readers, etc.). If your staff is always backroom and do not meet the public, then genes and tee shirt is appropriate, unless safety clothing is absolutely a priority.
Yes, but the cheapness of the Chinese panels was due to price fixing. Once all the Americans were put out of business, the Chineese would have raised prices on their own to make back their investment, and the US would be closed out of the market. Not imposing those terrifs would have been short-sighted.
Yes, but the cheapness of the Chinese panels was due to price fixing. Once all the Americans were put out of business, the Chineese would have raised prices on their own to make back their investment, and the US would be closed out of the market. Not imposing those tarrifs would have been short-sighted.
Isn`t the Chinese practice learned from the Americans? Microsoft did it with Netscape, WordPerfect, and you can probably find non-IT situations where this occurred.
Why am I always posting the contrary? My wife keeps asking me that question? Because a business must act in an honorable way, The perfect examples are the lawsuits against all those companies that violated patents and a good example of ethics in business is Apple.
...they should start their own Internet.
That's what will eventually happen. The internet will be balkanized along national boundaries, every country will control their slice however they see fit, and everyone will be happy.
Except the users.
Actually, they will start their own internet, and eventually, the USA will be alone. Noone wants 1 nation to conrol the Internet/www.
It is amazing that the USA is NOT investing more into getting Hawaii moved onto AE for energy and tesla is not pushing their car there.
The reason why is because right now, nearly ALL of Hawaii's energy is from oil.
Tesla could jump the production line to an easy 30K or even 40K for the model S and would still sell 100% of those cars on Hawaii.
Oddly, Hawaii is setting up free electrical charging posts.
If you are an oil provider, would you want Hawaii to go OFF-OIL? What lobbying would you do to combat the change?
Suppose the Internet was controlled by a non -USA country, that does not agree with USA policies? How would the US feel?
We would have simply built our own. Oh, wait, we did!
We would never have simply waited for somebody to build it for us, and then asked for an equal stake in controlling it. The stake in control comes from having built it, it doesn't just float down on your head as a reward for having been born on planet Earth. US control certainly didn't originate from our arrogance or manifest destiny. We didn't invade anybody and steal plunder their interwebs and bring them home.
Our military asked for it, our research universities and telecom companies built it for them, and then our elected representatives allocated resources to make it public. The only reason it is international is because it improves trade, and we happen to like trade. If somebody doesn't like to play by our rules, they're certainly not going to take our ball and go home. They're welcome to go home and buy their own ball, though.
In this regard I agreewith you. It may very well be that the status quo remains for another 20 years or so..
The world has always been able to create a parallel Internet. The reason they haven't done that is the same reason no one has created a completely parallel Linux kernel, there's no need.
Given the US's policies on free speech, it makes a good standard for the operation of the internet, which is one reason it actually exists now and is popular.
You're right, parallel networks can certainly pop up any time. However, unless they pop up because US policy directly affected the usability or freedom of the Internet, you can actually expect those networks that are being set up will leak users back to the "old" internet faster than East Germans scooted through the broken Berlin Wall.
You're looking at this as some sort of national pride issue, but in reality, most people could give a shit about that. Who needs a "global marketplace" when there already is one? And what makes you think the purportedly "extreme" rules of the US will not similarly crop up in networks managed by groups of countries who don't even give lip service to free speech or free trade?
It has already. Freedom or free speech, RIAA, SOPA, and other attacks, such as sudden lawsuits by American Law-firms asking $$$ because your web-design or website action (kind of mouse click, etc), is patented. Amazon is the example in a severe way that attempts to maintain marketing supremacy applies as well to the web.
We don't believe that algorithms, example such as a simple conversion from Centigrade to Farenheit should be patentable. Once control is passed to a global institution outside of the USA, creativity will be restored.
Us Linux folks have been waiting 10 years for this. The day that Microsoft started eating the OEM's lunch. At some point they will have to compete against Microsoft. Since Microsoft gets Windows for "free" the only way to match the price point on the hardware will be to load an OS that costs them less than Windows.
With the Windows 8 App store it looks like Valve has figured out they had better have an exit strategy for leaving the Windows PC Market. Hopefully the OEMs like Dell, HP and Lenovo will figure this out soon as well.
I believe that OEMS like DELL, HP and Lenova have figured out that the MS days are over. MS is now just another player, a minor one at that. In some areas MS will find support, such as integrating the tablet with their ERP system or with Sharepoint, or with their other locked in software.
I said. Fuck 'em. Corrupt organization run and used by tyrants. Fuck them.
It is possible that the USA has its own form of UN veto and hence corruption.
Do NOT handle ANY control to the brazilian government .
The first thing they will do is take down everything that will speak against their major corrupt politicianS (with big Plural) .
And the Brazilian LAW FORBIDS anonymity.
Brazil govt: PLEASE GO AWAY
There is several reasons why we buy: iphone (designed in US), use Facebook (made in US) and use Google (made in us).
And one of the reasons is that the US law and business way is more 'clear'.
(if you think I am wrong..do business in Brazil and you are going to see the red-tape/bribe Hell)
Russia and China?? Serious?? the same homies that are supporting the crazy lunatics?
The US president can be 'bad' but they are not MEAN like others.
Keep US control is the LESSER evil.
Today in the news, Brazil made Canadian Headlines by an announcement of major criminal charges against politicians, and friends. Bribes in the millions of dollars and scandals. Almost 50% of the opposition politicians were part of the corruption charges. More news at 11pm.
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UN control of the Internet would kill the Internet as we know it. Long distance fees, requirements that you respect censorship laws in other countries, unique identification requirements, different regulatory classes for "service providers" and "consumers" are all on the table for the UN. Sure, they would do a great job of ensuring that everyone is happy -- everyone being defined as the governments that are represented in the UN, which include several powerful governments with strong and pervasive censorship campaigns.
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The idea that some single country controls a global resource is not acceptable to countries that are not congruent with USA political policy. Suppose the Internet was controlled by a non -USA country, that does not agree with USA policies? How would the US feel? How would the the USA control its utilities, since many use the web for managing their infrastructure. The USA has already wrongly turned off the switch on at least one service company, putting the company at a major financial disadvantage in its trying to regain operations.
The extreme set of rules that you listed are rules that the USA already has in place via the US's largest private ISPs, only they are imposed on you and you shrug them off as the cost or rules on how you may use the net.
What eventually will happen is that a parallel internet will be created, which will contain a majority of the worlds countries and populations. The USA will have to decide to go it alone or merge with it. Most countries will switch over because of the desire to be part of a global marketplace.
I am not in the know, but do the rules governing the internet respect International Law?
Yes, change is coming, albeit slowly.
A switch over will be a few wiring changes, and the data will now be available in the new globally owned internet. Most end-users will not notice any difference.
For people who like their desktop to have familiar features rather than being dumbed down for touch screens?
There is no way Gnome 3 is designed for touch screens. Or at least, not for touchscreen-only computers. I use Fedora 17 on a pen-based computer (fujitsu stylistic) and I can tell you that if it were not for the fingerprint reader on it, Fedora would be *UNUSABLE*. Whenever Gnome 3 needs a password to connect to WiFi or to unlock the screen or unlock following suspend, THERE IS NO WAY TO ENTER THE PASSWORD! The password windows captures all mouse input so it is NOT possible to bring up an onscreen keyboard.
So lets stop pretending Gnome 3 shell is for tablet-type computers. It CANNOT BE USED ON A COMPUTER WITHOUT A KEYBOARD.
Oh, and when one IS able to use the on-screen keyboard, it has is no tilda (~) character. Not that you would ever need to type a tilda on a unix-like operating system.
I've filed bugs on all these complaints, but there has been no action.
Are you listening Gnome team?
Gee, "What am I to do without a Ñ or a ñ?" How will I do a ls ~ or the accented characters such as
ôï or é or É or even â
Yes!
substitute in his thesis,
Algebra is an onerous stumbling block for all kinds of students: disadvantaged and affluent, black and white.
and substitute to:
History is an onerous stumbling block for all kinds of students: disadvantaged and affluent, black and white.
Just getting up to go to class is onerous and impedes learning
and you have a perfect argument for me and the school system not requiring History.
Even better,
$yourWorstSubject is an onerous stumbling block for all kinds of students: disadvantaged and affluent, black and white.
and we've eliminated the need for any required subjects.
"I am not good at", or "I don't want to" are not good arguments for not requiring learnin'.
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Yeah pretty interesting view there huh? Not only are they saying that they're above the law. But they're saying that the highest law in the land, is no longer the constitution and bill of rights. But the DOJ, and the whim of whoever is in charge. Yeah ... now that's going to go over very well, especially about the time it starts hitting appeal courts.
The United States is not a democracy, and has not been one since the time of Reganomics. The rulers are not congress, but the Global enterprises, and the 1% corporations that pay to have "Their guy" elected. "Their guy" knows on which side his bread is buttered (funding). They respond to big business, not to massive numbers of middle and lower class citizens. And the sad part is that if the USA goes to war, the top 1% seem to get exempt.
Something is really wrong if there appears to be a personal vendetta against Megaupload and Kim Dotcom. Eventually, the Internet will have a twin that is not USA managed, and we must encourage that to happen asap.
I suppose it was inevitable that someone would ask this question, although I would have thought it would be pretty worn out at this point. The phrasing of your question implies that one side has to be right and the other wrong, which is a false dichotomy. Provocative dress, either male or female, is not appropriate in many workplaces, especially professional cube-farms. The offender should be told to be more moderate. But provocative dress does not green-light ape-ish behavior, either. Discipline is appropriate in both cases. And I don't think one should have any bearing on the other, mostly in the sense that, for example, how a woman is dressed should have no bearing on how serious sexually harassing remarks from a male coworker might be taken.
I guess you have not worked in as many environments as I have. Over 35 years. I've seen everything from harassement begining with no underwear under the skirt to skintight blouses with no bras to provide modesty to cases of he after she and she after he. Rarely has a person continued when the target said stop, I don't like your harassment, I am not interested. Men with testosterone to women with hormonal peaks at mid-month.
The better plan is to sue Microsoft for abuse of their monopoly.
You mean, so that they can be found guilty again and let go without so much as a hand-slap again? Yes, that would be a wonderfully immense waste of taxpayer dollars.
On the desktop, W7 will remain, as W8 will be a poor reason to upgrade. In fact, it will mean that independent software developers will all have to pay a MS tax, and suffer from poor profit margins. When these developers move to Linux, because no such tax exists, the trickle of migrations starts to happen, as it will, and MS will have to reconsider it's position on the desktop and in corporate world. As for tablets, Apple is number one, Samsung is number two, or vice-versa outside of the USA, and MS will fall below RIM in sales. RIM will come out of its slump with something very interesting and worthwhile new offerings.
Says the guy who's obviously never been in the minority position in an uncomfortable environment.
I've always felt like I had a reasonable understanding of what it might feel like to be in such a minority position, at least in an intellectual sense, but it wasn't until I worked in a fairly large team that was >60% Indian and 20% Chinese (myself being white) that I truly understood it. So unless you've "walked a mile in her shoes", you're in no position to criticise a woman who feels uncomfortable in a group of men who act like crude sexist jerks (while claiming not to be). I'm not a big fan of zero-tolerance PC policies, but I do strongly believe in having respect for others, and if that means no sexual innuendo or whatever, I'm fine with that.
And note that in the OP's case, it may very well be that the woman that joins the group is perfectly comfortable in that environment, but that's a decision she gets to make, like it or not. Where I work now, there are women who can dish it out just as well as the guys (and seem to enjoy doing so), but we're all aware of what others are comfortable with. It's a natural part of simply being respectful.
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What about women who are provocatively dressed, such as wearing skin tight clothing and headlight style foundation uppers? Who is the lure, and who is the fish that gets into trouble?
Say nothing but good things -
Tell the boss how good they are even tho they are the worst type of asshole in the universe
Thanks the co-workers for their generous help and guidance even tho they are clumsy back-stabbers
Give great praises the company even tho they are giving you the pink slip
That will make them happy, and happy people (often) do not find time to do more harm to you, leaving you plenty of peaceful time to look for new jobs
Say nothing but good things -
Tell the boss how good they are even tho they are the worst type of asshole in the universe
Thanks the co-workers for their generous help and guidance even tho they are clumsy back-stabbers
Give great praises the company even tho they are giving you the pink slip
That will make them happy, and happy people (often) do not find time to do more harm to you, leaving you plenty of peaceful time to look for new jobs
In a few years, or if the next job does not work out, and the company still exists, ask them for a reference. For the exit interview, ask for a reference letter. It can do no harm.
From my Canadian view, the top 1% of the wealth is in the Republican hands. The Republicans were in power prior to the Democrats, and they took the USA from being number one in the world to somewhere near the bottom of the top five. Obama has tried to increase taxes against the superwealthy, so that there would be money for roads, highways, better education, and even for a pension that would be just just enough to be able to be livable with. What have the republicans done? They put up obstacles with No! No! No! Do not tax the wealthy.
BUT THE WEALTHY ARE NOT CREATING JOBS OR BUSINESSES in the USA, They do engineering and manufacturing elsewhere and only do product importation. Your great tablets, cellphones, laptops, desktops, TVs cars etc. Eventually your consumer dollars will run out. Your poverty levels as published this week in our press indicate that poverty is up by 7% over the Republican era. It is almost at a 2 in 3 level.
I am only learning 2nd hand what many Latin American Countries are doing. They have currency export controls, and they insist that any product sold in their country must have 50% local manufacturing content. For electronics, the final assemblies and Quality Control are to be done in the Latin American country. Cars to be final assembled in Latin America. Otherwise, tax the outflow of money. The USA could insist on at least 40% local content. That imposition should bring back manufacturing, call centres, and many many other non-Walmart type jobs.
My son, formerly of Florida, lived in Riga for 3 years in 2004. He downloaded a DVD equivalent in 3-4 minutes. Watched movies from the web, and had about 10x the speed of what cable provided, for about $15/mo US$
Riga Latvia has mostly fibre connectivity to apartment blocks, as they could not afford to lay copper (which would later be stolen).
Imagine if thieves started stealing copper wiring in your area? Would they replace it with fibre?
The troll lawsuit describes the same process as many vendors do and will be doing. UEFI for Windows 8 uses a certificate authority to validate that the software is not corrupted, and legal.
Ditto for many security softwares which follows very very closely the process described in the filed papers. The backup or authorization to function using pki and secure server would be illegal for Microsoft if this troll has a slightest chance of proving his method comes first.
Professor Bruce Schneier, my favorite encryptologist described similar methods in 1993. Just get a copy of his textbook.
Apple could learn from this example. By the way, J.D. is a very popular in Canada and matches our tastes in booz.
Say goodbye to a whole lot more mid-level jobs. This is the path we are going down, labor is expensive.
But what is the cost of a large unemployed population ?
What will happen is that we will stay in school longer, we will work 4 day work weeks, and we will continue with consumption. Consumption of adult electronic and mechanical toys.
As the Canadian outsider looking in, Obama was faced with a few major problems. The bank frauds by the directors who siphoned off major amounts of money, and the car industry that had gone belly up. Restoring confidence in the banking industry was not a decision that was to let the banks die, as the domino effect would have had world wide consequences.
The similar problem regarding the car industry. The foreign companies were making better products and were selling at lower costs.
You must also realize the legacy problems created by and left to him by the former president, who shall remain nameless.
Then you have the Republicans acting in selfish interest. (They know from where their funding originates). Instead of working as a team with the Democrats to get the economy back in step, it was a 3 year period of do nothing, block everything, and persistent attack ads.
You will only appreciate how hard and how intelligently Obama worked to correct the political (Iran/Iraci war) problems, the military overspending, and the compete writeoff of the middle and lower classes. While I wish he could do more, you will appreciate the universal medical coverage that got approved. By the way, the insurance companies will be able to refuse to insure an ill or chronically ill person, with the result that they will have major savings to improve their company bottom line. So, with universal medicare, the insurers will not reinsure losses (citizens whose private insurance ran out). A person on dyalisis will not go bancrupt.
And with constant attacks from Republicans, responding and negotiating with adversaries takes it's toll. In my opinion the Republican attacks on Obama's (Democrats) attempts to rejunerate the economy is the cause for the horrible poverty statistics that are being presented.