It's impossible to be sure because there are too many unknowns including the affect of large amounts of salt in the atmosphere and raining down on land.
Also, consider that the two companies mentioned have operations in Europe. The overall cost of doing business in most European countries is much higher than in the US. I would expect that cost to be passed on to the European consumers.
I didn't bother to RTFA, I just RTFL(aw). The offending part is:
(b) For purposes of Subsection (a)(1), obtaining or
furnishing information includes information obtained or furnished
through the review and analysis of, and the investigation into the
content of, computer-based data not available to the public.
The section of the law to which this applies is included below. Please, take note of the sections I have bolded. If you read only the bolded sections you will understand the meaning of the change to the law.
Sec. 1702.104. INVESTIGATIONS COMPANY. (a) A person acts
as an investigations company for the purposes of this chapter if the
person:
(1) engages in the business of obtaining or
furnishing, or accepts employment to obtain or furnish, information
related to:
(A) crime or wrongs done or threatened against a
state or the United States;
(B) the identity, habits, business, occupation,
knowledge, efficiency, loyalty, movement, location, affiliations,
associations, transactions, acts, reputation, or character of a
person;
(C) the location, disposition, or recovery of
lost or stolen property; or
(D) the cause or responsibility for a fire,
libel, loss, accident, damage, or injury to a person or to property;
If anything I'd say TFA is too narrow minded in its interpretation of this law. This could, to someone who does not give any regard to the original intent, be viewed as applying to virtually anyone who interacts with non-public data in a professional capacity.
To be fair, most of this was already part of the law which this bill amended. So it's not so much that the recently passed bill was poorly written, but that it amended an already flawed law.
This is one of the core reasons the founders left so much to the states, instead of the federal government (well they tried). If Texas manages to kill its IT industry, with this kind of idiocy, companies will seek out friendlier environments and people will move where the jobs are. If this is as bad as it seems, not having RTFA, the government of Texas stands to lose more in sales/income tax revenues than it will gain in licensing fees.
What better way to create a backdoor into every computer network in the world. Now that all of the US companies involved have been assured they will have immunity.
Actually things will get better for we Verizon people. I live in one of the great tracts of 100-year, government sanctioned, Alltel monopoly territory. Verizon's data services never quite work right here. But, it's a company phone so I'm stuck.
Congratulations whoever you are. You've just set the all time/. record for proving the OP correct through vulgarity and ignorance. FYI, Al Gore signed the Kyoto Protocol on behalf of the United States in 1998. Both the Clinton and Bush administrations have declined to submit the treaty to the United States Senate for ratification. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol
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Give this AC a business to run!
He did a few times in the 60s. That was enough.
...they were stashing samples in freezers...
You mean that wasn't double chunk chocolate ice cream?
How long until Amazon's lawyers realize that this is a blatant infringement of the patents that underlie their Mechanical Turk system?
No, it's the sharks.
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Good point, so where do you park?
That's the sound of 100,000 /.ers trying to come up with the perfect obscure movie reference. We'd better get out of here before it gets ugly.
Too late...
In other news, welfare checks shall hereafter be referred to as "dividend payments".
It's impossible to be sure because there are too many unknowns including the affect of large amounts of salt in the atmosphere and raining down on land.
It's what plants crave!
We need to do enough research to make sure it won't cause a hurricane / tsunami first
You don't actually know what a tsunami is, do you?
She is quite the looker isn't she.
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Also, consider that the two companies mentioned have operations in Europe. The overall cost of doing business in most European countries is much higher than in the US. I would expect that cost to be passed on to the European consumers.
I, for one, never welcomed our road to hell paving overlords.
I didn't bother to RTFA, I just RTFL(aw). The offending part is:
(b) For purposes of Subsection (a)(1), obtaining or
furnishing information includes information obtained or furnished
through the review and analysis of, and the investigation into the
content of, computer-based data not available to the public.
The section of the law to which this applies is included below. Please, take note of the sections I have bolded. If you read only the bolded sections you will understand the meaning of the change to the law.
Sec. 1702.104. INVESTIGATIONS COMPANY. (a) A person acts
as an investigations company for the purposes of this chapter if the
person:
(1) engages in the business of obtaining or
furnishing, or accepts employment to obtain or furnish, information
related to:
(A) crime or wrongs done or threatened against a
state or the United States;
(B) the identity, habits, business, occupation,
knowledge, efficiency, loyalty, movement, location, affiliations,
associations, transactions, acts, reputation, or character of a
person;
(C) the location, disposition, or recovery of
lost or stolen property; or
(D) the cause or responsibility for a fire,
libel, loss, accident, damage, or injury to a person or to property;
If anything I'd say TFA is too narrow minded in its interpretation of this law. This could, to someone who does not give any regard to the original intent, be viewed as applying to virtually anyone who interacts with non-public data in a professional capacity.
To be fair, most of this was already part of the law which this bill amended. So it's not so much that the recently passed bill was poorly written, but that it amended an already flawed law.
This is one of the core reasons the founders left so much to the states, instead of the federal government (well they tried). If Texas manages to kill its IT industry, with this kind of idiocy, companies will seek out friendlier environments and people will move where the jobs are. If this is as bad as it seems, not having RTFA, the government of Texas stands to lose more in sales/income tax revenues than it will gain in licensing fees.
What better way to create a backdoor into every computer network in the world. Now that all of the US companies involved have been assured they will have immunity.
The TLA's will never take me ali
Or, if things really go bad, move the entire town.
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Actually things will get better for we Verizon people. I live in one of the great tracts of 100-year, government sanctioned, Alltel monopoly territory. Verizon's data services never quite work right here. But, it's a company phone so I'm stuck.
I'll get right on that.
In Soviet Russia, government reincarnates you!
Congratulations whoever you are. You've just set the all time /. record for proving the OP correct through vulgarity and ignorance. FYI, Al Gore signed the Kyoto Protocol on behalf of the United States in 1998. Both the Clinton and Bush administrations have declined to submit the treaty to the United States Senate for ratification. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol
Well ain't that a shot in the head!!!
Actually I think everyone is missing the point. It's not modern medicine, but modern transportation that would have made the difference.