We have a lot of service and retail jobs...there's an ouroboros reference in here, but I'm afraid if I make it I'll be struck down by a bolt of reality.
Well, being unable to reduce home delivery to five days, unable to close branches, unable to remove drop boxes, unable to raise rates beyond the rate of inflation...things a private company could do without an Act of Congress to reduce costs...don't exactly help it stay afloat.
Occam's answer: the word 'Democrat' does not show up in the article. Slashdot editors are too lazy to jump through additional hoops and just copy/paste from the submitter's post which is just a copy/paste from the article.
No "-D" in the article, no "-D" in the submission.
I'm confused, how are they competing again? They're making people get private insurance... There's no government health care plan (a la Canada, UK, AU, Sweden, France, &c, &c...).
Never understood why Americans prefer the two-party system; sure, we get minority governments up here in Canada, but that's a good thing, because it forces compromise.
College answer: It's the way our country's been run for centuries and changing it would require overhauling of voting procedures on an unbelievable scale.
Pragmatic answer: We're too damn lazy and no one's invented a 3+ sided coin. (what, take my d6 in and divide by 2? what if there's more than 3 candidates?!)
But it could also be considered dumping, which is not looked fondly on by certain groups.
(Plus the price of helium was set by Congressional law, so the price is static and immune to market shifts.)
I suppose on a purely technical level, even one person can be considered a 'market' but this price was not set by NYMEX or any other traditional market exchange, so to say 'the market' set this price is at the least misleading.
Get the outlandish number out during trial, reduced on appeal. It'll probably go down to $30 mil, losses + statuatory damages. (With corporations, at least , the magic multiplyer is 9 I think. So if they cause $10 mil in damages, the most the statuatory can be is $90.)
Still, there's documentation that this person's on the hook for an absolute bare minimum of $3+ mil... Consider the rest of it an idiot tax. Seriously, you're charging for a server running a Blizzard game? And you don't expect to get caught/convicted?! What's the financial equivalent of a Darwin Award? The Lehman Award?
Erm, yes, actually. And this is exactly the sort of thing the law is intended to defend against.
Here we have a case of someone infringing Blizzard's work for the explicit case of making money off it without getting Blizzard's permission. You don't get a more clear cut case than that.
One can argue the statuatory damage claim is outlandish, and it'll likely be reduced on appeal (it always is...), but Alyson here is still going to be on the hook for a decent chunk if $3 mil was brought in.
So would you consider opening a simple 3-number combination lock 3 moves (left/right/left) or tens to hundreds of moves (left +1, left +1, left +1.... right +1 right +1....)?
(Or s/temp/right/g; s/right/left/g; s/left/temp/g;... i forget the details of direction)
Do you have a problem with the phrase 'man hours' too?
100 man hours = 1 man, 100 hours or 10 men, 10 hours or 100 men, 1 hour. 35 computer years = 1 computer, 35 years or 5 computers, 7 years or 35 computers, 1 year.
(although it's more likely 'processor hours,' but the theory still holds.)
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We have a lot of service and retail jobs...there's an ouroboros reference in here, but I'm afraid if I make it I'll be struck down by a bolt of reality.
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/05/04/1414201/State-Senator-Caught-Looking-At-Porn-On-Senate-Floor
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/10/23/0240207/FCC-Begins-Crafting-Net-Neutrality-Regulations
Counter summary example:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/03/27/1515245/Senator-Proposes-Nonprofit-Status-For-Newspapers
Well, being unable to reduce home delivery to five days, unable to close branches, unable to remove drop boxes, unable to raise rates beyond the rate of inflation...things a private company could do without an Act of Congress to reduce costs...don't exactly help it stay afloat.
Occam's answer: the word 'Democrat' does not show up in the article. Slashdot editors are too lazy to jump through additional hoops and just copy/paste from the submitter's post which is just a copy/paste from the article.
No "-D" in the article, no "-D" in the submission.
Q.E.D.
I'm confused, how are they competing again? They're making people get private insurance... There's no government health care plan (a la Canada, UK, AU, Sweden, France, &c, &c...).
Never understood why Americans prefer the two-party system; sure, we get minority governments up here in Canada, but that's a good thing, because it forces compromise.
College answer: It's the way our country's been run for centuries and changing it would require overhauling of voting procedures on an unbelievable scale.
Pragmatic answer: We're too damn lazy and no one's invented a 3+ sided coin. (what, take my d6 in and divide by 2? what if there's more than 3 candidates?!)
How many jobs would be returned to the US if we made the US a corporate tax haven and instituted some sane liability laws?
Depends what you mean by jobs. Labor is still cheap as dirt overseas, so we still won't get manufacturing back.
Then the corporations should not bill me additionally for those taxes and pay it themselves. Duh.
I mean how hard could it be to write an app that detected fake app reviews
Probably as hard as it is to detect fake email...
But it could also be considered dumping, which is not looked fondly on by certain groups.
(Plus the price of helium was set by Congressional law, so the price is static and immune to market shifts.)
I suppose on a purely technical level, even one person can be considered a 'market' but this price was not set by NYMEX or any other traditional market exchange, so to say 'the market' set this price is at the least misleading.
Helium is stable enough in the atmosphere that it lasted 4 billion years,
That's the flaw in your thought process.
We mine for helium and capture it as it escapes from the crust. We don't (can't, infact) pluck it out of the air.
Clearly someone hasn't seen how fuel efficient airplanes, especially the 747, are.
Some points to keep in mind comparing a blimp to a 747:
Weight of cargo. Number of passengers. Speed of travel.
When you can carry 50 tons of cargo halfway around the world in 15 hours in a BLIMP, get back to us.
Gold is currently going for $1225 US / oz according to NYMEX.
If someone decided to dump pounds of gold for $600 US / oz, would that be considered 'market value'?
If I make $50 from a garage sale, should I have to get a business licence?
Oregon. (key words: this month)
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/08/girl_at_the_center_of_lemonade.html
These days people NOT looking at smartphones constantly are the suspicious ones
He might be able to get away with 'God Squad' but he still needs a new logo.
Except this isn't a parody. A parody would be like "Jock squad."
Get the outlandish number out during trial, reduced on appeal. It'll probably go down to $30 mil, losses + statuatory damages. (With corporations, at least , the magic multiplyer is 9 I think. So if they cause $10 mil in damages, the most the statuatory can be is $90.)
Still, there's documentation that this person's on the hook for an absolute bare minimum of $3+ mil... Consider the rest of it an idiot tax. Seriously, you're charging for a server running a Blizzard game? And you don't expect to get caught/convicted?! What's the financial equivalent of a Darwin Award? The Lehman Award?
Erm, yes, actually. And this is exactly the sort of thing the law is intended to defend against.
Here we have a case of someone infringing Blizzard's work for the explicit case of making money off it without getting Blizzard's permission. You don't get a more clear cut case than that.
One can argue the statuatory damage claim is outlandish, and it'll likely be reduced on appeal (it always is...), but Alyson here is still going to be on the hook for a decent chunk if $3 mil was brought in.
Somewhere along the chain, you have to pay for the hosting. Plus if you're getting money, there's another paper trail.
You didn't read the article, did you?
So would you consider opening a simple 3-number combination lock 3 moves (left/right/left) or tens to hundreds of moves (left +1, left +1, left +1.... right +1 right +1....)?
(Or s/temp/right/g; s/right/left/g; s/left/temp/g; ... i forget the details of direction)
Do you have a problem with the phrase 'man hours' too?
100 man hours = 1 man, 100 hours or 10 men, 10 hours or 100 men, 1 hour.
35 computer years = 1 computer, 35 years or 5 computers, 7 years or 35 computers, 1 year.
(although it's more likely 'processor hours,' but the theory still holds.)
You're assuming they called. If these people didnt go through channels for permits, what makes you think they'd do that?