Amazon doesn't want to pay state taxes not because paying them would make them unprofitable, but because working out the taxes for 50 US states plus all the other countries they ship to (who would probably start demanding tax collection if Amazon caved to the states) is an unholy nightmare.
Aww, that's too bad, maybe their business model doesn't work then.
I see your point that book shops should quit whining and do something instead. You're absolutely right. But why should Amazon get a free pass when it comes to sales tax? That it's complicated because they are a centralised organisation shipping to multiple destinations, then it's really a case of taken the good with the bad. Otherwise they must split out their warehouses according to where they ship if it makes it easier for them.
What's to stop you from backing up their sensitive data and creating your back doors before you hand in your letter of resignation?
If you treat your employees well, and create an atmosphere of mutual respect, when the time does come to part ways, the last month or two of employment can be constructively used to tie up loose ends and easing the transition to the next guy.
If you, as an employer, have a policy of escorting someone from their workstation the moment they hand in their resignation, you're basically paying someone to twiddle their thumbs while your remaining employees scramble to cover for the guy who now is suddenly gone with no warning, while they must be thinking whether it's really worth it, just to get the same treatment when they are leaving.
The "Perp walk" is just as petty a show of revenge as the guy in TFA and as damaging to the future your remaining employees to do their job. The only difference is that it is unfortunately not illegal.
You probably wouldn't say that if you loved in a remote location. For some people connecting to the internet means driving to a wifi-enabled cafe or buying a satellite connection, i.e. the majority of situations they can't connect.
Perhaps those people are not the target market for this game, then?
Yeah fuck them! How dare they play games when they don't even have internet.
Since we are for some reason going back to the mainframe doctrine of computing (with cloud computing), X, which were originally designed with mainframes, and centralised processing in mind, actually makes sense again.
The question is, how about the rest of us who wants something optimized for the desktop?
I personally don't believe (or hope) that we're not going to get rid of the X codebase overnight, certainly it has its place, but there are limitations where you can either choose to fix it, or decide that the application is not suitable for your purposes, and replace it with something that's better. I think for what a lot of people want to do with Linux, Wayland is better than X.
That is very very true.
However if this makes people face the fact that the direction the US economy has going for the last 10 years is not healthy, then I'd say they have finally served their purpose.
China already had their protests, and the protesters got more or less what they wanted, although over a longer time frame.
I'm not saying there couldn't be isolated protests, for instance in some of the oppressed rural areas, in fact there often are, but most Chinese are content enough to leave the government alone.
Well, lucky then that the Chinese possess an excellent infrastructure for blocking services that they don't like, nobody will ever have to be thrown into jail.
Even if the ISS was not generating a single item of scientific value, which is frankly a ridiculous notion, it's still 100 Billion not spend on a war against some impoverished nation somewhere no body have ever heard of.
qTorrent which is, I believe in the repositories, looks very much like uTorrent, if you like that interface.
I have previously recommended to people who migrated from Windows to Linux with success.
I think an annual growth of 2.7% is quite impressive when you have a huge neighbour desperately trying to embargo you out of existence, and bullying everybody else to do the same.
This is sadly true, the one thing that is preventing the passing of some truly horrific laws is a body of unelected upperclass twits, and they do a surprisingly good job. Makes you wonder about democracy when we have to be protected from our elected officials by people who gained their power through birth.
Of course, as you say, Labour has done their very best to chip away their power, by using a combination of popularist issues (foxhunting) and the very obvious fact that they are not Democratic.
The logical conclusion of all this (including that EU law that is being looked at at the moment, where you have to be able to prove ownership of all media on your laptop/mp3player when crossing the border) is that private ownership cease to exist, and only corporations can own anything, and then allow the rest of us a peak once in a while, for a fee of course.
My only comfort is that when (if) the revolution comes it will no longer be the politicians who are first against the wall, but the copyright lobbyists...
Well, isn't the issue here that like many other things, Silverlight is not a standard (same with Flash I guess) and that using a product on a website that is not standard compliant and does not work for everybody goes against the whole idea of the Internet.
The idea should be to create an Internet that behaves the same way for everybody regardless of what client they use, as long as that client is standard compliant.
Now Microsoft may not have been directly involved in this deal, but nobody can deny that they have a long history of trying to create a them and us Internet where those on MS systems using MS browsers had a different (fuller?) experience than those on non-MS platforms. They only just got IE reasonable standard compliant, and then they launch Silverlight which, even though they have pledged Linux support, and is actually doing a decent job of it, still have it trailing after Windows. This would be ok if Silverlight 2 could be seen as a sort of preview version so developers knew what was to come, and have the products ready to be rolled out when version 2 launches across all platforms, but the moment you have major websites depending on SL 2, without there being versions for Linux, Mac, etc that's when you have the problem.
Adobe was slow too, and they were being dicks about it for a long time before they finally woke up and realised they needed to treat everybody equally. The difference between MS and Adobe though is that Adobe is not a major OS and Internet browser developer.
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Amazon doesn't want to pay state taxes not because paying them would make them unprofitable, but because working out the taxes for 50 US states plus all the other countries they ship to (who would probably start demanding tax collection if Amazon caved to the states) is an unholy nightmare.
Aww, that's too bad, maybe their business model doesn't work then.
I see your point that book shops should quit whining and do something instead. You're absolutely right. But why should Amazon get a free pass when it comes to sales tax? That it's complicated because they are a centralised organisation shipping to multiple destinations, then it's really a case of taken the good with the bad. Otherwise they must split out their warehouses according to where they ship if it makes it easier for them.
Their laptops suck. We for some reason have them at my company and they keep breaking. They make nice servers though a bit overpriced.
What's to stop you from backing up their sensitive data and creating your back doors before you hand in your letter of resignation? If you treat your employees well, and create an atmosphere of mutual respect, when the time does come to part ways, the last month or two of employment can be constructively used to tie up loose ends and easing the transition to the next guy. If you, as an employer, have a policy of escorting someone from their workstation the moment they hand in their resignation, you're basically paying someone to twiddle their thumbs while your remaining employees scramble to cover for the guy who now is suddenly gone with no warning, while they must be thinking whether it's really worth it, just to get the same treatment when they are leaving. The "Perp walk" is just as petty a show of revenge as the guy in TFA and as damaging to the future your remaining employees to do their job. The only difference is that it is unfortunately not illegal.
If they can delude the word enough, they will have won (or they'll think they have won).
Perhaps those people are not the target market for this game, then?
Yeah fuck them! How dare they play games when they don't even have internet.
You kinda have a point.
Since we are for some reason going back to the mainframe doctrine of computing (with cloud computing), X, which were originally designed with mainframes, and centralised processing in mind, actually makes sense again.
The question is, how about the rest of us who wants something optimized for the desktop?
I personally don't believe (or hope) that we're not going to get rid of the X codebase overnight, certainly it has its place, but there are limitations where you can either choose to fix it, or decide that the application is not suitable for your purposes, and replace it with something that's better. I think for what a lot of people want to do with Linux, Wayland is better than X.
I stand corrected.
That is very very true. However if this makes people face the fact that the direction the US economy has going for the last 10 years is not healthy, then I'd say they have finally served their purpose.
I take it you missed the 98th birthday commemoration last year?
Probably because too many people have bought too expensively, so house prices are artificially inflated.
But what about my genes? Won't anybody think of the GENES?!?!
Except when it crashes every couple of hours.
You know you're awesome when IANA have to develop a transitioning strategy when you retire.
The Tolkien estate that is.
China already had their protests, and the protesters got more or less what they wanted, although over a longer time frame. I'm not saying there couldn't be isolated protests, for instance in some of the oppressed rural areas, in fact there often are, but most Chinese are content enough to leave the government alone.
Well, lucky then that the Chinese possess an excellent infrastructure for blocking services that they don't like, nobody will ever have to be thrown into jail.
Even if the ISS was not generating a single item of scientific value, which is frankly a ridiculous notion, it's still 100 Billion not spend on a war against some impoverished nation somewhere no body have ever heard of.
qTorrent which is, I believe in the repositories, looks very much like uTorrent, if you like that interface. I have previously recommended to people who migrated from Windows to Linux with success.
None of those are necessarily bad things, and every society on earth that I am aware of implements all three at least to some extend.
Uhmm... no?
I think an annual growth of 2.7% is quite impressive when you have a huge neighbour desperately trying to embargo you out of existence, and bullying everybody else to do the same.
This is sadly true, the one thing that is preventing the passing of some truly horrific laws is a body of unelected upperclass twits, and they do a surprisingly good job. Makes you wonder about democracy when we have to be protected from our elected officials by people who gained their power through birth. Of course, as you say, Labour has done their very best to chip away their power, by using a combination of popularist issues (foxhunting) and the very obvious fact that they are not Democratic.
Somebody is smelling blood here...
The logical conclusion of all this (including that EU law that is being looked at at the moment, where you have to be able to prove ownership of all media on your laptop/mp3player when crossing the border) is that private ownership cease to exist, and only corporations can own anything, and then allow the rest of us a peak once in a while, for a fee of course.
My only comfort is that when (if) the revolution comes it will no longer be the politicians who are first against the wall, but the copyright lobbyists...
Well, isn't the issue here that like many other things, Silverlight is not a standard (same with Flash I guess) and that using a product on a website that is not standard compliant and does not work for everybody goes against the whole idea of the Internet. The idea should be to create an Internet that behaves the same way for everybody regardless of what client they use, as long as that client is standard compliant. Now Microsoft may not have been directly involved in this deal, but nobody can deny that they have a long history of trying to create a them and us Internet where those on MS systems using MS browsers had a different (fuller?) experience than those on non-MS platforms. They only just got IE reasonable standard compliant, and then they launch Silverlight which, even though they have pledged Linux support, and is actually doing a decent job of it, still have it trailing after Windows. This would be ok if Silverlight 2 could be seen as a sort of preview version so developers knew what was to come, and have the products ready to be rolled out when version 2 launches across all platforms, but the moment you have major websites depending on SL 2, without there being versions for Linux, Mac, etc that's when you have the problem. Adobe was slow too, and they were being dicks about it for a long time before they finally woke up and realised they needed to treat everybody equally. The difference between MS and Adobe though is that Adobe is not a major OS and Internet browser developer.
Enta net (and their partners) is one (I know because when that whole Wikipedia thing happened, I had no problems accessing the site in question.