Most of their users don't want Nazis there, believe it or not.
Most of their users don't want fuckwits that post #PunchANazi or #KillAllMen on there either, but those are the cunts Twitter chose to run their Trust and Safety Council.
if you want really good discussions and debates then there has to be some limit on the trolling and abuse
So why don't Twitter act to prevent it - from all sides on the political debates.
But lets say that a 2018 AAA game has a price point of £90. Fine, charge £90 for it.
I wont buy it, and you'll get shit sales, and you'll lose money. You're competing with GTAV which continues to sell at £15-40, with PBUG at £27, with Football Manager 2018 at £38.
So keep your budget low enough to compete on price, or provide a game worth £90. Just don't fucking sell me a game for £40 and try to charge me another £50 to play it. I'll buy something else instead.
the reverse ruling makes all corporations de-facto embassies
No, it does not. Embassies are not companies and companies are not embassies. A US ruling (or its reverse) does not change this.
Even if MS Ireland are subject to US law (which is debatable, even if the US Supreme Court rules in favour of the government) they very definitely remain subject to Irish law. That may leave them forced to break a law, but sure as fuck doesn't give them immunity if they break the law in Ireland.
I've worked for multinational companies, and I've never been afraid to tell my US based manager that I can't comply with his request because it would break UK law.
Microsoft Ireland can tell Microsoft US that they will not grant illegal access to data.
What are MS US going to do about that? Sack everyone in Ireland? They'd lose every single tribunal case.
The fact that a US court order directed toward a US entity violates a foreign countries laws does not absolve the US entity from being obligated to fulfil that court order, or suffer consequences.
Court orders MS to hand over data. MS says, "We don't have access to data, people in Ireland do. We've told them to hand it over" What consequences would you like?
Of course, we haven't even discussed whether the MS official demanding that MS Ireland break the law should be arrested on their next visit to the EU.
I'd suggest confirming with your local tax authorities. My interpretation matches yours but I'd call HMRC and ask them for the legal interpretation here in the UK before completing my tax return.
I have multiple bank accounts. Transferring $1000 into any of them is a complete non-event to the bank, to me and to the AML authorities.
Transferring $1000 into 20 accounts in the space of a week would be trivial, could be spread across multiple tax jurisdictions and could be subsequently used to buy goods or services without needing to repatriate to my home country.
the law requires this to be detected and reported exactly the same, and the penalty for not reporting this is
..utterly fucking irrelevant if I choose to break the law and can't be detected.
Please just shut up if you don't know what you are taking about.
I think the IRS have demonstrated that you just told yourself to shut up.
a Camera good enough for quality video work if needed
Ah, bullshit. I'll bet he had several kilos of other tech with him to go with the iPhone.
By the time you're carrying all that crap the choice of sensor is fairly interchangeable. Adding a gopro or a different mobile phone is fuck all difference.
If it did work multiple times, then I suspect it would be deemed contributory copyright infringement. Don't ask me which specific law though, I'm buggered if I know.
I did really upset a woman once because she had herpes. I didn't even say, "Get away from me you disease ridden hag", I just said, "This isn't going to work out."
I don't think I agree with you. Having sufficiently advanced technology to change gender at will and enhance mental and physical characteristics on the fly by its very nature forces a reevaluation of gender norms, but that doesn't make it progressive.
Hell, Use of Weapons explores the Culture's need for someone that is pretty fucking clearly not progressive.
Or are you arguing that the supreme benevolent communist utopia is reactionary?
harassment - this would require him still being on premence and/or in communications
No, it wouldn't. It would require him to provide evidence to the court that harassment occurred during the period in which he did work for Google.
The one single limitation to this is that google can't claim "out loud" that the reason is due to race, gender, age, or disability.
Or political views, which his lawsuit explicitly mentions as the reason.
Since google claimed the reason is due to the memo
No, that was Damore. This is a different engineer with a different lawsuit.
Otherwise he can only claim $0 in damages
He was sacked. That means he's lost earnings (and other employment benefits), and has been put in a disadvantageous position in the jobs market.
If the company mistreated him before sacking him, and sacked him illegally, then he can claim damages, and those will be non-zero. This is fairly straightforward case law.
I'm fairly sure a contract is unnecessary, although I'm also confused why the fuck anybody would take a professional grade job in America without one.
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Most of their users don't want Nazis there, believe it or not.
Most of their users don't want fuckwits that post #PunchANazi or #KillAllMen on there either, but those are the cunts Twitter chose to run their Trust and Safety Council.
if you want really good discussions and debates then there has to be some limit on the trolling and abuse
So why don't Twitter act to prevent it - from all sides on the political debates.
a company whose whole business model was ads for underage hookers
That's just hyperbole.
At which point Congress passed SESTA which stops people doing that.
Unfortunately it stops a lot of other things too. It's a shitty law, badly written, ill thought out and should not have been fucking passed.
See https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/... as a simple example.
Target sex traffickers and people fucking children but do so in a proportionate and sensible way. SESTA is not the answer.
as it happens, yeah, I do.
It's illegal because society deems it to be wrong. Sure, it's an arbitrary cut off but it's very clearly stated and extremely easy to remember.
Being attracted to a woman capable of bearing a child is biologically programmed. Choosing whether to fuck her is a conscious choice.
I don't. Game prices keep rising.
But lets say that a 2018 AAA game has a price point of £90. Fine, charge £90 for it.
I wont buy it, and you'll get shit sales, and you'll lose money. You're competing with GTAV which continues to sell at £15-40, with PBUG at £27, with Football Manager 2018 at £38.
So keep your budget low enough to compete on price, or provide a game worth £90. Just don't fucking sell me a game for £40 and try to charge me another £50 to play it. I'll buy something else instead.
the reverse ruling makes all corporations de-facto embassies
No, it does not. Embassies are not companies and companies are not embassies. A US ruling (or its reverse) does not change this.
Even if MS Ireland are subject to US law (which is debatable, even if the US Supreme Court rules in favour of the government) they very definitely remain subject to Irish law. That may leave them forced to break a law, but sure as fuck doesn't give them immunity if they break the law in Ireland.
which is likely accessible to them remotely anyway
Only if the employees in Ireland are horrifically negligent.
They've had years to assure that data can't be accessed from the US, and every reason to do so.
should be able and required to force MS EU
How?
I've worked for multinational companies, and I've never been afraid to tell my US based manager that I can't comply with his request because it would break UK law.
Just how would MS force someone to break the law?
That's not true.
Microsoft Ireland can tell Microsoft US that they will not grant illegal access to data.
What are MS US going to do about that? Sack everyone in Ireland? They'd lose every single tribunal case.
The fact that a US court order directed toward a US entity violates a foreign countries laws does not absolve the US entity from being obligated to fulfil that court order, or suffer consequences.
Court orders MS to hand over data. MS says, "We don't have access to data, people in Ireland do. We've told them to hand it over" What consequences would you like?
Of course, we haven't even discussed whether the MS official demanding that MS Ireland break the law should be arrested on their next visit to the EU.
wtf? Black holes are hard core science, and you're saying that's not news for nerds?
This isn't Tom's fucking Hardware.
the skill to hold a pen isn't particular useful
Frequently heard question, "Does anybody have a pen I can borrow?" or (the variant when they know who has a pen,) "Can I borrow your pen?"
Far far too common an occurrence to even remotely believe that pens aren't useful.
You never use a whiteboard at work?
Never draw someone a diagram on a piece of paper?
Haven't ever scribbled your name and phone number on a napkin?
I will continue to pity any poor fucker that can't write.
Or, you could pay your fucking taxes.
That's got to be bloody confusing. How does it work? Treat it as at taxable sale at the market price followed by a subsequent new investment?
Going to be a lot of people fucked if that's the case.
I'd suggest confirming with your local tax authorities. My interpretation matches yours but I'd call HMRC and ask them for the legal interpretation here in the UK before completing my tax return.
I have multiple bank accounts. Transferring $1000 into any of them is a complete non-event to the bank, to me and to the AML authorities.
Transferring $1000 into 20 accounts in the space of a week would be trivial, could be spread across multiple tax jurisdictions and could be subsequently used to buy goods or services without needing to repatriate to my home country.
the law requires this to be detected and reported exactly the same, and the penalty for not reporting this is
..utterly fucking irrelevant if I choose to break the law and can't be detected.
Please just shut up if you don't know what you are taking about.
I think the IRS have demonstrated that you just told yourself to shut up.
You carry your phone in your hands all the time?
I put mine in my pocket, and use my hands to do manly things, like chopping down trees, eating large steaks and fondling attractive women.
This phone is too fucking big to put in a pocket.
Well, they can mount the phone on gimbals and use other stabilising devices.
They can post-process to standardise colour tones.
They can add after market lenses to provide telephoto or other perspectives.
They have the advantage of having an accomplished film director involved.
So I don't know if it's any good, but I'm willing to believe it's better than your average Youtube upload.
a Camera good enough for quality video work if needed
Ah, bullshit. I'll bet he had several kilos of other tech with him to go with the iPhone.
By the time you're carrying all that crap the choice of sensor is fairly interchangeable. Adding a gopro or a different mobile phone is fuck all difference.
What the fuck is an assault weapon?
I can assault you with harsh words - indeed, in the UK I can prosecuted for it.
Oh no! Words are weapons! Quick, confiscate them. All of them. You fuckwit.
If it did work multiple times, then I suspect it would be deemed contributory copyright infringement. Don't ask me which specific law though, I'm buggered if I know.
You're so very very close..
I did really upset a woman once because she had herpes. I didn't even say, "Get away from me you disease ridden hag", I just said, "This isn't going to work out."
If you think I have a problem with the circumstances, that reveals your own biases, not mine.
Actually no, it's based on yours.
using "he" because that's how it was born
Your use of 'it' demonstrates that you have a problem. You should seek help, or at least education.
I don't think I agree with you. Having sufficiently advanced technology to change gender at will and enhance mental and physical characteristics on the fly by its very nature forces a reevaluation of gender norms, but that doesn't make it progressive.
Hell, Use of Weapons explores the Culture's need for someone that is pretty fucking clearly not progressive.
Or are you arguing that the supreme benevolent communist utopia is reactionary?
all my pay deductions to worthy causes, and political parties are hereby cancelled
You may want to keep quiet about that, as failing to contribute to the 'correct' cause is de facto opposition to it, you cis nazi scum*.
*not my views, I'm roleplaying an idiot here. I mean, a woke west coast gender fluid otherkin
harassment - this would require him still being on premence and/or in communications
No, it wouldn't. It would require him to provide evidence to the court that harassment occurred during the period in which he did work for Google.
The one single limitation to this is that google can't claim "out loud" that the reason is due to race, gender, age, or disability.
Or political views, which his lawsuit explicitly mentions as the reason.
Since google claimed the reason is due to the memo
No, that was Damore. This is a different engineer with a different lawsuit.
Otherwise he can only claim $0 in damages
He was sacked. That means he's lost earnings (and other employment benefits), and has been put in a disadvantageous position in the jobs market.
If the company mistreated him before sacking him, and sacked him illegally, then he can claim damages, and those will be non-zero. This is fairly straightforward case law.
I'm fairly sure a contract is unnecessary, although I'm also confused why the fuck anybody would take a professional grade job in America without one.