well if you for some stupid reason decide to make clickable/touchable elements look like everything else, I guess it makes sense to make them upper case. or perhaps they were too small for fingers so somebody just uppercased them to make them bigger in 10 secs.

which actually is the real problem with their zune derived ui style. it's not immediately obvious from screen to screen what is clickable and what is not and in some cases(in windows 8.1 install sequence of all places!) it's not immediately obvious that a hyperlink style button will actually take you to next alternate screen in the flow(it should be a bordered button like the other choice in the flow).

this is even worse on touch displays where you can't even mouseover.

its like they fired their ui experts after windows 2K, really, and hired some photoshopper guys after that, without giving the guidelines to them. those guys completely started ignoring the guidelines in their quest for changing everything for no reason at all - and ballmer went ahead with the win8 debacle of zunefest proportions because he thought he could get 30% of every photoshop license sold.

look man,

the blurb already says it's illegal.

and that the employer said that the employee should "tolerate the illegal". no laws help against that. suing the fuck out of the employers who do that does help.

of course, the state should be doing policing of illegal activity so there should actually be no need for suing by the employee... prosecuting the employer in a case like this should not be optional!

because some software expects it and doesn't run without it.
shit software, but software anyways.

that's whats bad about it, really. it's just not a startup replacement but one that aims to turn developers into developing software that can't work without it,, without trouble.

why would startup utility provide user authentication? to conquer everything of course.

if taxing taxi driving as a service is dumb, then australians must be pretty dumb.

yeah and how is gst/vat not a tax on what the company sells? that's what I meant.

like, if you're paying vat on your bought google adwords.. then that wasn't dodged. any other tax would increase pricing accordingly as well.

..waittaminute..

what's up with paying extra for INSURING the goods when using postal or courier services in most of the world..

with most places, you wait for the shit to arrive, maybe it doesn't, and you're fucked, and when sending you can put a price on the contents and pay extra to get it insured.

well, vat/sales/whatever tax is a company tax.

it's just easier to see that you're paying it and much harder for the company to dodge as a result.

how uber drivers were not paying it so far sounds like fraud though. it's like claiming that since you're using a credit card to pay (digitally!) that you could skip the sales tax..

if they could train their replacements then they were overqualified as workers.

should just have not trained them, like, cite that training people is not in you skillset since you're just doing a peon job that can be done anyone trained in a few weeks.

and if they needed training, how were they highly skilled h1b workers to begin with anyways?

if you're in neither USA or Russia, it's far more likely to get "double tapped" by an american drone though.

and nsa/cia can spy on you "legally" too. they don't have to even lie to the congress, because breaking local/global laws is what fsb/cia are meant to do, which makes them fucked up organizations in the first place and it's amazing how other countries haven't yet put nsa,cia and fsb related personnel all on black lists and quit extraditing persons to usa/russia
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yeah.. the prison administrator should be sent for some solitary time because he thinks he is a judge. enforcing copyrights of the prison vendor via punishing measures? is the dude getting money from the jpay to be a jpay thug?(sure does. he should be doing time for that though).

just start selling mp3's, videos and all warez then as well.

the reasonable thing would be to screen the sellers - and if they get dmca notices, take out the entire seller.

or heres another, if a seller gets more than 100 bucks in revenue, check just what the fuck he is selling.

plenty of people..
but comparable how? speed?(unlikely?)
it runs the same software? more likely.

why would you build a datacenter out of them though? to get arond hw backdoors and import restrictions? sounds like the only reason. then again, if they're getting fabbed in taiwan the backdoor reason goes out of the door.

and now they want to do away with that. they're already sort of going there with metro. no longevity.

also thats what they experimented with in mobile. 3 years, 3 sdks? 3 ways you're supposed to write your apps windows phone apps? yup, pretty much - and still they haven't released the one thing that was supposed to fix("one platform" approach). also, don't even think of getting new apps for winpho 7.1.

now on the other hand look at the decade of windows mobile before that. fairly good compatibility, even if the phones were overpriced and lacked good phone functionalities - but at least you could depend on the platform if you ran out a business solution for your corporation that needed the platform to stay alive and compatible! that is, until their revolution. that didn't make the sales.

it actually isn't hypothetical.
it's perfectly legal in USA to sell gun plans. to my knowledge also legal to make a personal firearm in almost all states.

patent office has shitloads of gun plans available as well.

you can even sell a book about HOW TO MAKE A FUCKING PROPER GUN, so it's pretty petty and seemingly illegal for the state department to ban them from distributing some stl files..

well, it turns out that they evaluated the ioccc repository.