In their defense, if they don't work to protect their trademark, then everyone will be getting their children murdered to put DC's logos on their headstones...
Yeah, and that is going to be soooo terrible for their businesses </seriously?>
... first world problems
There. FTFY. I am not a fan of the TSA, but the amount of wining when it comes to personal inconvenience when there are a lot more fundamental issues against the way the TSA operates gets tired very quickly.
but GitHub has complied with Qualcomm's DMCA request.
Comply first. Litigate later. This is the smart thing to do most of the time. For GitHub, it is not like they are being forced to give the keys to the kingdom or to hand over sensitive data customers entrusted to it. No no data is lost or compromised. It is simply inaccessible while GitHub tries to litigate hopefully with sponsorship by those GitHub users that are being affected.
> As opposed to all of those other companies that love spending money and hate making it?
Low UID completely missing the point. You must be in your 40s at least by now. Too bad your mental development is still stuck at the level of a dumbass teenager.
That's an invective, not a counter argument.
If they notice. Have you talked to a HR drone lately? They aren't exactly strong on perception and smarts.
You are talking bullshit here and waving your hands at a hypothetical based on a biased perception towards HR workers. Granted a lot aren't bright, but that is true in all professions, even among STEM workers.
People actually go through the pages in the contracts to see everything has been filled. In 18 years, I have not seen a one HR worker that has not done so meticulously. Scrawling "me no like it" like that will not fly either during review or in court should the near impossible (they not catching it) were to happen.
Toyoda for example has done this repeatedly and been able to produce cars more cheaply in the US then many of their American competitors using the same labor.
Toyota has been building new factories in depressed areas, low wage areas, and union free areas. Their American competitors aren't quite so free to do so.
Many large companies should go through a serious reorganization top to bottom including the renegotiation of all contracts to take into consideration new opportunities and concerns.
That is... not nearly so simple as you imagine. Especially if unions are involved.
Yes, they are. They are free to open factories in at-will states just like Toyota, BMW and several others have done so.
Obviously you've never seen an A10 really working it, when they pop up above treetop level and your a badguy, your in for a world of whoop-ass.
I'm all for eliminating waste, but if the net effect is that we're removing plastic from landfills and emitting it as CO2, that's not terribly different from digging up crude oil and emitting it as CO2.
Now, I'm sure there's some sort of multiplier here that makes it a bit better - perhaps the plastics are a cleaner source and less energy will be used to process it - but currently this carbon is sequestered in an inert if unattractive form whose dangers are mostly localized.
It is terribly different in that unusable non-biodegradable material is removed, and as we develop new combustion systems and CO2 sequestration techniques, we know (should know) what to do with the CO2 exhaust.
There are no perfect solutions. Just alternatives, and it is up to us in being sufficiently smart (or at least in not being callously stupid) to string multiple alternatives into acceptable solutions.
Here's another theory that I will probably be flamed for -- maybe girls don't get into programming as often for the same reason that female deer don't bash heads against each other as often as the males do. Maybe it boils down to testosterone. Males of many species have an impulsive drive to accomplish certain things, and in humans' case this is largely independent of intellectual aptitude. Yes, girls are smart. Many could be good programmers. But do they want to? Are they driven to? Am I (at least partially) driven to my peculiar lifestyle of being glued to a screen and eschewing much social interaction because of testosterone? ("Yeah, you'd like to _think_ so" I can hear my naysayer naysaying.) But these are questions I honestly ask.
Yes, you should get flamed for it. Your theory does not hold water when we compare the proportion of women going into engineering in general, and software in particular, in India and China. Those proportions are greater than ours, so this is obviously a cultural issue, and not an innate female avoid-locking-horns issue.
I also find it laughable to compare software programmer's competitiveness with male horn-locking. Out of all the activities to compare, software development is the Peewee Herman of activities. If you want to discuss activities that evoke horn-locking and competitiveness then look into being a professional athlete or a member of the military.
But software development/IT? YOU. GOT. TO. BE. KIDDING.
There is a lot of misogyny in software development, specially in the US, and in particular in Silicon Valley circuits that cater to the young and brass unwashed man-boy masses. But misogyny =/= male competitiveness.
Nor does software engineering has a strange-hold on competitive behavior. There is competitiveness in law, business, sports and politics where women participate in great numbers. So the competitive drive as a factor is also a bad, flawed theory.
For all the cultural advances that our society has made, the reality is that our society pigeonholes men and women into these roles from infancy which leads to the participation % of genders in specific industries, %s that you do not see in other cultures.
Furthermore, sexism is rampant in software development, and STEM in general. So of course women do not come on board. And that so many juvenile beta-male responses are made on this forum to deny the existence of sexism, or to decry some fabled "female agenda", that simply proves that sexism is indeed rampant and entrenched.
Who knows if there's something genetic but there's obviously something cultural. Most women don't strive to immerse themselves in a culture that is predominated by socially awkward beta males. I don't understand why nobody accepts this obvious explanation for the lack of women.
Gawd, I'm going to steal that one and make it a sig.
If he'd lost Yakuza money presumably he'd already be dead. On the other hand if he is Yakuza...
Yakuza or no Yakuza, you DO NOT want to lose Yakuza money. Jokes aside, some people think the Yakuza are just some film-generated form of fiction. Been in Japan a few times, I've seen them. They are real, and you can just tell you don't want to mess with them, their property or their money.
"Depends. Can you guarantee that the emissions are limited only to your home and will in no way inconvenience others around you?" Perhaps someone should have asked the broadcasters that question before allowing them to transmit through my person and property?
Common good right to broadcast >> faux right to insulate your organs from faux transgressions. Damn, I should have a right to block someone's anus before he/she releases a silent fart that might contaminate the atmosphere near my own personal space
I read that as enchanted skin, which would have been entirely appropriate for Achilles, as well. And that's what we don't have when we use a bunch of funky cleaners on our skin, removing its natural acidity. Even our washing habits impinge on our body's ability to protect itself.
I rather deal with bacteria than with rancid-smelly people. YMMV
US House of Representatives Votes To Cut Funding To NSA
Not sure if this a solution to... what? One can cut to one's heart content, but without structural reforms, the problems that plague NSA will remain there. So, we cut funding, and all we get is to cripple a vital organization that needs to function well, without fixing the things that makes it not function well. Funding is not the root cause. It is not a monetary problem, but a political one.
If you're in the world, since the beginning of time, a lot of you are not worth what you're paid.
FTFY
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
