if you sheets have round corners then there will be at least one company that would like to have some royalties paid on that idea.... so better leave all the spherical round etc and go for sharp edges - they will sue your arse for all the cuts and bruises but chances are their lawyers are not as well paid as this one bullying company ones are....
If it is really so that nobody picks the work after other people leave then I would seriously considering leaving too because they are just burning money.
As replaceability goes - everybody is replaceable that is true. Of course there are differences. If difference between you leaving and another one coming and moving along is small i.e. small cost then you were working in call center and being fired is not the way to think of it - you just got a new opportunity. Higher you go in salary and position more difficult it is to replace you but then hey - sometime they downsize sometimes you do not fit no more. Sometimes it costs lot if you live but company just deals with it.
So the actual lesson from this may be that marketing people are a waste of bandwidth and the articles about them are that too. TFA confirms this quite nicely.
You can think of it this way: change in power structure of the world esp on top are always dangerous as bullies that they are tend to overreact and wrongly estimate own and other side capabilities. Sizes of these opponents and their military power means that there is lots of damage if they make a mistake.
Original concept was indeed to deal with the liabilities of corporations which before considering them a legal persons could kill or cause losses but could not be held liable thus causing trouble so they have been made liable by declaring them persons in law for dealing with debt. It was back then but It is different in US now (and possibly in Germany if you believe this but I guess that depends what courts will find) where corporations are now granted much more rights than needed to deal with liabilities. It is one of those things that simple in principle make your mind boiling and have a raising set of unintended/not predicted consequences.
they are not idiots - they make a pretty rational decision. See when I have a choice to pay and know that in need and/or emergency I will be treated anyway I could imagine that I will not pay - why should I? This is pretty rational decision. It is immoral and asocial but it is reasonable. That is also the reason why health insurance must be mandatory if your health system is to survive. I guess health system is a perfect example for tragedy of the commons. There are different ways to handle this but as this is insurance case we can just borrow from car insurance only this time as long as you have life needing saving you must be insured as with a car being registered and used. You stop using it then you are free not to be insured only in this particular case you are dead... Now they way to organize the system is another thing - some may chose one tier system or private enterprise or combination of different systems as in Holland but I think majority of Tea Partiers and Republicans in general fail at understanding what is the main problem here.
One can reason that an intelligent criminal would research potential targets and your house is probably not on the list and if it were the criminal would investigate ways to disable the protection systems before going to work. The less intelligent ones would see the lights and seek their luck elsewhere because small chance that they are mistaken about 'fake' system is coupled with huge inconveniences of taking a shower in prison. So no the argument about silly criminals is probably wrong. as the only ones you have to protect against are the/.ers because when they see it they 'know' it is a fake...
The value of a company on the market at particular time is not what it earns these are two different things. Third different thing is how much a company having all the nice income is going to spend and actually spending. It is yet another thing how much spending by one such company affects local and not so local economy. I have serious doubt that a company like Apple does make a huge difference for economy of US not only if it did spend what it earned in a country where its HQ is located but also because none of huge corporations actually does that. It is not only Apple that is like this.
nnot sure when did you watch your streams or what sports you like but German TV did (from my perspective) the same crap as always on air and their streaming sucked big time. So what was on air was a big show of doped athletes - in fact I had impression any time I turn it on it is either heavy weights lifting or swimming and such. Their streaming was crap and besides opening ceremony and one basketball game I never managed to see anything in most of the cases I got empty page saying 'try later' or some such so even their main web sides were overwhelmed. You could watch late at nite of course but German TV did not provide full coverage archive except some highlights from the day. Crap and crap. After some searching I found out European Broadcasting Union site and I found at least something to watch. Their streams were not so good quality and had no comments but there were 12 main streams covering each day. You could watch all games you wanted. There were no commentary except from what one could hear from the venues but that is something an advantage:) The browsing and random access was abit difficult so when I wanted to see particular judo fight that was a problem but then people in the arena had to watch it all too:) On top of this you could find EBU members streams there - Germans were not available for legal reasons but BBC did nicely at least for closing ceremony.
Generally I find German approach - fees paid by GEZ not bad but the methods used are just wrong and the effects on public TV at least terrible. GEZ is violating privacy of people and there are some reports of them selling data that they got trough their 'legal' methods for profit. Add to this really bad quality of broadcasting in Germany - I mean how many TATORT or CSI are you going to watch? ARD (made with french broadcaster) and niche ZDF broadcasts (ZDF Kultur etc) are less terrible though. It is still better that the crap presented on private channels. Quite frankly I stopped watching regularly long time ago.
Bottom line is : BBC seems to have done things right. EBU as a backup solution did well albeit quality should be much better. The service for which you pay (in Germany at least) was dreadful and there is no improvement in sight - I complained to ZDF and they just 'did not know' what disturbance would they be having and I am pretty sure this is not my last mile or home network that was at fault as I did try to access from different locations/ISPs. So shit as usuall and sheopple happy as usual.
This is OT but I find all these doped robots appalling - only few sports actually are enjoyable - teams sports are good (albeit football is just plain boring and without alco not enjoyable) - at least there is a chance that actual ability is not made up in a drug store. Archery was good. Judo and taekwondo is good to watch too and I do not believe they enhance their ability in drug store too much. Fencing was interesting too. Badminton was interesting also albeit for different reasons - I would not think there could be teams not willing to win the match for tactical reasons - good that they were disqualified. In fact after all the reports about the doping scandals and I had temptation to follow snooker only. These sportpeople are professionals of course and this is their job but then what do I as a amatour sportsman have in common with these robots? The feeling that with a bit of luck and hard work you can reach high level is gone after you look at results the professionals have.
It is also so funny to observe the discussion in German media about the 'targets' I did not know but apparently Germany set some targets for their athletes - this many medals in particular discipline etc I guess they should stop giving money away (to Greece, to the banks and football associations etc) and instead start funding schools instead then maybe they will have material on which they can work on. Having Germans doing efficient doping controls does not help of course.... Come to think about schools and what I see there - ha
That is already more logic than a normal indi-h-vidual can take without overheating his/her brains or going directly into hit the interlocutor in the face mode.
It is also in direct contradiction with "if I have a hammer then everything is nail" approach
this is of course ot but must say this: I am shocked - a post that is written with brains and calm seemingly based on real information and actual thinking. Not a common feat on/. and in general population!!!
this is funny somehow it is always US gov that is corrupt and guilty.I think they are guilty of number of evil things and a lots of misery is caused by silly but systematic actions of US authorities yet claiming they are guilty of any silly thing is just - well - silly.I think Iran would end up this way w/o involvement of US authorities - it just lies in the nature of authoritarian regimes that they do not trust anybody and this often enuff results in paranoia. This will have negative effect mostly on them alone as this will increase cost of doing things. We could see what happened to Soviet Russia and its satellites when the isolated themselves from the west - great things were still possible but more difficult. There are good things about this happening right now. It shows that Iranian Gov is not as stable as it seems. The other is that it will weaken them in long run. Yet another one - more restrictions it puts on its own people more will be convinced that the gov is not representing their interest. This is not a small thing as contrary of what some hotheads in the west might have thought last time there were riots in cities of Iran it was a minority that rioted and wanted the gov gone, the majority still seems to be OK with the maniac at head of head.
One more thing seems to need setting straight. You do not have to do everything in open and it is often unreasonable to do so. Openness has advantages though - it allows for faster correction of wrong course usually so it makes an open society more efficient in combating negative changes in env. This openness has its problems with it - this much is clear - but in normal circumstances it is beneficial. This in some sense is also a message one may see after studying the reasons why Europe or generally so called West made such a rapid progress over last few centuries: openness and stealing of ideas to apply them in a different env. etc. This goes quite against what current IIP nazis are doing but the battle here is also not lost.
Huawei told them that
I think of all concerns backdooring is one but I think they should worry not about backdoors now but about falling china independent vendors of vital equipment. Huwaei is as evil as other chinese companies - they do not have to bribe themselves if target is strategic enuff then chinese banks will start giving the govs around the target loans etc. This is not always so but it's been long time practice. Once your industry is gone it is difficult to get it back so you are dependent on sw/hw from others - back doored or not and this is the problem not whatever crap HW is selling now.
It would be also nice to see where TE got the info about high quality etc SW from HW - I have not seen any yet and I work in industry for quite some years.
Cheap it is however
these are big ifs you know. I have a friend lawyer here in Germany and he told me this - it is no chance that you win. The court and thus the friendly judge is chosen by the attacker which may incur additional travelling costs etc. but is just setting enviornment against you as they can chose whole country to press charges. This means you have to fight at least two stages as the first one is almost set. Add to this the fact that almost certainly somebody from your household did download some stuff illegally. Thepr0n issue is not even that frequent but that happens too which just adds to embarrassment of being seen as a criminal. There are two other points here: the ignorance of judges which makes a complex arguments difficult to be made (how can you be sure that it is your IP address and that it has been used at this particular time - the time data is often not correct enuff to invalidate the charges but how to get hold of it and then how to convince the judge?) as well as you need to have access to data and experts that can invalidate the arguments of the oher side. Interestingly the morons fail often enuff (seeing the ods skewed so much their side) and lawyers that do this rocket in an automatic and indiscriminate way risk being disbarred here in Germany. Still this is your problem so you may just decide to pay and many do.
and if routine identity control on the street finds an abstainer then a deep cavity search should performed - who knows what such abstainer can hide there...
For your reference - too much gold (or silver or whatever) is not good either which goes to prove that binding currency to anything 'real' makes a real difference. Go to Spanish Empire in wikipedia and search for 1516–1700 - looks familiar or? Neglecting own economy because you could get things cheaper elsewhere is not always good idea even if some uneducated bastards (economist) tell you something different.
These "state level departments of environmental resources (or equivalent)" are better than one EPA because they just create 51 different sets of rules together with 51 sets of loopholes right? I suppose this may be better only if you take that one agency takes less bribes in total from EXXON and the likes than all state agencies would have done. That may or not be true of course. If I were a citizen with as well as a citizen without allegiance to energy industry I would still prefer to have one sets of rules - it makes life easier and in total saves some taxes as you do not have to have so many 'experts' to be paid. Me thinks.
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if you sheets have round corners then there will be at least one company that would like to have some royalties paid on that idea.... so better leave all the spherical round etc and go for sharp edges - they will sue your arse for all the cuts and bruises but chances are their lawyers are not as well paid as this one bullying company ones are....
As replaceability goes - everybody is replaceable that is true. Of course there are differences. If difference between you leaving and another one coming and moving along is small i.e. small cost then you were working in call center and being fired is not the way to think of it - you just got a new opportunity. Higher you go in salary and position more difficult it is to replace you but then hey - sometime they downsize sometimes you do not fit no more. Sometimes it costs lot if you live but company just deals with it.
So the actual lesson from this may be that marketing people are a waste of bandwidth and the articles about them are that too. TFA confirms this quite nicely.
You can think of it this way: change in power structure of the world esp on top are always dangerous as bullies that they are tend to overreact and wrongly estimate own and other side capabilities. Sizes of these opponents and their military power means that there is lots of damage if they make a mistake.
Original concept was indeed to deal with the liabilities of corporations which before considering them a legal persons could kill or cause losses but could not be held liable thus causing trouble so they have been made liable by declaring them persons in law for dealing with debt. It was back then but It is different in US now (and possibly in Germany if you believe this but I guess that depends what courts will find) where corporations are now granted much more rights than needed to deal with liabilities. It is one of those things that simple in principle make your mind boiling and have a raising set of unintended/not predicted consequences.
they are not idiots - they make a pretty rational decision. See when I have a choice to pay and know that in need and/or emergency I will be treated anyway I could imagine that I will not pay - why should I? This is pretty rational decision. It is immoral and asocial but it is reasonable. That is also the reason why health insurance must be mandatory if your health system is to survive. I guess health system is a perfect example for tragedy of the commons. There are different ways to handle this but as this is insurance case we can just borrow from car insurance only this time as long as you have life needing saving you must be insured as with a car being registered and used. You stop using it then you are free not to be insured only in this particular case you are dead... Now they way to organize the system is another thing - some may chose one tier system or private enterprise or combination of different systems as in Holland but I think majority of Tea Partiers and Republicans in general fail at understanding what is the main problem here.
One can reason that an intelligent criminal would research potential targets and your house is probably not on the list and if it were the criminal would investigate ways to disable the protection systems before going to work. The less intelligent ones would see the lights and seek their luck elsewhere because small chance that they are mistaken about 'fake' system is coupled with huge inconveniences of taking a shower in prison. So no the argument about silly criminals is probably wrong. as the only ones you have to protect against are the /.ers because when they see it they 'know' it is a fake ...
Some of entities included on ISO list do not have such a thing as GDP.
The value of a company on the market at particular time is not what it earns these are two different things. Third different thing is how much a company having all the nice income is going to spend and actually spending. It is yet another thing how much spending by one such company affects local and not so local economy. I have serious doubt that a company like Apple does make a huge difference for economy of US not only if it did spend what it earned in a country where its HQ is located but also because none of huge corporations actually does that. It is not only Apple that is like this.
Bottom line is : BBC seems to have done things right. EBU as a backup solution did well albeit quality should be much better. The service for which you pay (in Germany at least) was dreadful and there is no improvement in sight - I complained to ZDF and they just 'did not know' what disturbance would they be having and I am pretty sure this is not my last mile or home network that was at fault as I did try to access from different locations/ISPs. So shit as usuall and sheopple happy as usual.
This is OT but I find all these doped robots appalling - only few sports actually are enjoyable - teams sports are good (albeit football is just plain boring and without alco not enjoyable) - at least there is a chance that actual ability is not made up in a drug store. Archery was good. Judo and taekwondo is good to watch too and I do not believe they enhance their ability in drug store too much. Fencing was interesting too. Badminton was interesting also albeit for different reasons - I would not think there could be teams not willing to win the match for tactical reasons - good that they were disqualified. In fact after all the reports about the doping scandals and I had temptation to follow snooker only. These sportpeople are professionals of course and this is their job but then what do I as a amatour sportsman have in common with these robots? The feeling that with a bit of luck and hard work you can reach high level is gone after you look at results the professionals have.
It is also so funny to observe the discussion in German media about the 'targets' I did not know but apparently Germany set some targets for their athletes - this many medals in particular discipline etc I guess they should stop giving money away (to Greece, to the banks and football associations etc) and instead start funding schools instead then maybe they will have material on which they can work on. Having Germans doing efficient doping controls does not help of course.... Come to think about schools and what I see there - ha
It is also in direct contradiction with "if I have a hammer then everything is nail" approach
this is of course ot but must say this: I am shocked - a post that is written with brains and calm seemingly based on real information and actual thinking. Not a common feat on /. and in general population!!!
One more thing seems to need setting straight. You do not have to do everything in open and it is often unreasonable to do so. Openness has advantages though - it allows for faster correction of wrong course usually so it makes an open society more efficient in combating negative changes in env. This openness has its problems with it - this much is clear - but in normal circumstances it is beneficial. This in some sense is also a message one may see after studying the reasons why Europe or generally so called West made such a rapid progress over last few centuries: openness and stealing of ideas to apply them in a different env. etc. This goes quite against what current IIP nazis are doing but the battle here is also not lost.
Huawei told them that I think of all concerns backdooring is one but I think they should worry not about backdoors now but about falling china independent vendors of vital equipment. Huwaei is as evil as other chinese companies - they do not have to bribe themselves if target is strategic enuff then chinese banks will start giving the govs around the target loans etc. This is not always so but it's been long time practice. Once your industry is gone it is difficult to get it back so you are dependent on sw/hw from others - back doored or not and this is the problem not whatever crap HW is selling now. It would be also nice to see where TE got the info about high quality etc SW from HW - I have not seen any yet and I work in industry for quite some years. Cheap it is however
hanged in front of their office is sufficient
these are big ifs you know. I have a friend lawyer here in Germany and he told me this - it is no chance that you win. The court and thus the friendly judge is chosen by the attacker which may incur additional travelling costs etc. but is just setting enviornment against you as they can chose whole country to press charges. This means you have to fight at least two stages as the first one is almost set. Add to this the fact that almost certainly somebody from your household did download some stuff illegally. Thepr0n issue is not even that frequent but that happens too which just adds to embarrassment of being seen as a criminal. There are two other points here: the ignorance of judges which makes a complex arguments difficult to be made (how can you be sure that it is your IP address and that it has been used at this particular time - the time data is often not correct enuff to invalidate the charges but how to get hold of it and then how to convince the judge?) as well as you need to have access to data and experts that can invalidate the arguments of the oher side. Interestingly the morons fail often enuff (seeing the ods skewed so much their side) and lawyers that do this rocket in an automatic and indiscriminate way risk being disbarred here in Germany. Still this is your problem so you may just decide to pay and many do.
I cannot even see if it is not me because as I have no account on FB.
and if routine identity control on the street finds an abstainer then a deep cavity search should performed - who knows what such abstainer can hide there...
I agree cocaine is not so good but what is wrong with hookers?
how is parents post rated funny? that is insightful (or sad but true however there is no such rating) at the least but not funny.
For your reference - too much gold (or silver or whatever) is not good either which goes to prove that binding currency to anything 'real' makes a real difference. Go to Spanish Empire in wikipedia and search for 1516–1700 - looks familiar or? Neglecting own economy because you could get things cheaper elsewhere is not always good idea even if some uneducated bastards (economist) tell you something different.
I do not like marshmallows double or single, now and in the future. I'd have eaten them if my life were depending on me eating them.
These "state level departments of environmental resources (or equivalent)" are better than one EPA because they just create 51 different sets of rules together with 51 sets of loopholes right? I suppose this may be better only if you take that one agency takes less bribes in total from EXXON and the likes than all state agencies would have done. That may or not be true of course. If I were a citizen with as well as a citizen without allegiance to energy industry I would still prefer to have one sets of rules - it makes life easier and in total saves some taxes as you do not have to have so many 'experts' to be paid. Me thinks.
tell me you have patented that already. That seems to be fitting so well with business patents that it would be a pity if it did not get patented
dismembered with a piano wire - hmmm, that is actually a good idea