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Comment SensitiveMale doesn't understand motivators (Score 1) 348

Your logic doesn't make sense. If Apple was posting a $10 billion per year loss, I wouldn't maintain their stock unless I thought there was a reasonable chance that they could recover. However, whether they are using green energy or coating their walls with baby seal skins wouldn't be the motivator for me to sell their stock. The fact that that they are losing money is the motivator. However, that hypothetical scenario is just that: hypothetical. They are not losing money. They are making money for themselves and for their investors. And a majority of their shareholders agree with the tactics they are taking. If I were purely motivated by a company thinking solely of profits, I would invest in Walmart, but I don't because I don't like what they stand for. On the contrary, I do like what Apple stands for. Are they perfect? No, not even remotely. But I believe, as do many others, that they are heading in the right direction.

Comment Re:Tim Cook doesn't understand the Law (Score 4, Insightful) 348

Are you familiar with the law? It doesn't define best interest. Not all shareholders a motivated purely by profit. Those that are motivated as such had an opportunity to vote him out of power (the law is on their side for that), but they couldn't garner enough interest.

Comment Re:What's wrong with it? (Score 1) 112

After posting some useful corrections, Wikipedia crapped all over it, you know, because there are no citations for stuff that happened before the WWW was open for general public use. And a lot of it happened offline in meatspace. Even if there were online elements, all the early stuff was on servers that no longer exist.

Publish an article on the org's website. Then you can cite that article. Done. Finito. Have a nice day.

Comment Paid editing is fine (Score 1) 112

I have am email from a Wikipedia employee that stated paid editing is not prohibited:

Paid editing is not prohibited but it is certainly not encouraged. At the moment the best I can do is to post a message on the Conflict of Interest Noticeboard alerting the regulars there to the request so that they can check whether those articles have been created and review them closely if and when they are. We do not usually block the creation of articles. However if an article that does not comply with policy and guidelines is repeatedly created, we do prevent further creation. Thanks for contacting us. I hope this helps.

Comment Re:Why not? (Score 0) 398

As for Swedish law, there are no provisions preventing prosecutors from interrogating suspects abroad. Doing so is, in fact, a routine matter. An example: In late 2010, at roughly the same time that Ms. Ny decided to issue a European Arrest Warrant for Assange, Swedish police officers went to Serbia to interview a well-known gangster suspected of involvement in an armed robbery.

In a radio interview last Friday, a Swedish professor emeritus of international law, Ove Bring, confirmed that there are no legal obstacles whatsoever preventing Ms. Ny from questioning Assange in London. When asked why the prosecutor would not do so, Professor Bring responded that "it's a matter of prestige not only for prosecutors, but for the Swedish legal system

If he's in the Ecuadorian Embassy, then the Swedes have no entry rights unless granted to them by the Ecuadorian ambassador. Therefore, it's not Swedish law preventing them from interrogating/questioning Assange, but the legal right of the Ecuadorian government to prevent him from being questioned on their sovereign property.

Comment Re:Good Lord (Score 1) 285

Having people who know nothing about technology make case law about technology is like having a Capuchin monkey fix the brakes on your car: cute and funny at first, but ultimately a bad idea that is also highly dangerous.

I fail to understand how this is a technology case. Just because technology was involved doesn't make it a technology case. What makes an electrical engineer or software engineer better equipped to understand copyright law?

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