I don't hate apple, I was just pointing out to the AC that OS X was not a free hobby OS and it was impacted, too.

I think you meant "What is dead can never die". Not only is it a point of view, but it's actually a prayer of the Iron Islanders in GoT.

And yes, they can be killed, too. Just not all at once, it appears.

You can read it in more detail here - http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

And that factory isn't where they are saving the money.

They have a company called Apple Operations International. It is registered in Ireland, and all the staff that work for that company are based in Texas. Under Irish law, the company does not pay any tax because it doesn't do any business or employ any people in Ireland. Under US Federal and Texas State law, it doesn't pay any tax in the US or Texas because the company is registered in Ireland. That company makes a huge amount of money, two thirds of all the profits the Apple Group makes, and doesn't pay tax on it anywhere in the world. Not the very low 12.5% Irish tax rate, not a specially reduced rate. Absolutely no tax whatsoever.

Ireland doesn't actually get that many employees out of these deals, maybe one person to sign official documents, and another person to answer the phone / email and open the mail.

The legal basis is EU State Aid regulations, which prevent governments doing this sort of thing without permission from the EU.

First, nothing is "completely safe." Everything has a limit beyond which it exceeds the capacity of a human to absorb it. On top of that, no injection or vaccination is ever 100% risk free. There is risk of infection, of allergens, of tainted products, etc. And there are also the risks of adverse side effects in some measure of the population.

People don't really understand statistics. They certainly don't understand a "one in a million" chance, as evinced by the profitability of the lottery. They also don't understand the consequences that result from these decisions.

I think a lot of that comes from a pile of numbers that people can't easily relate. Consider that a vaccine may have a 1:1,000,000 chance of causing the disease it was intended to prevent or causing a debilitating side effect. It may also have a 1:100 chance of causing an inconveniencing side effect. Its primary effect is to confer a 98% level of protection against a disease. The disease has a 20% chance of causing a debilitating condition. Unvaccinated people have a 10% chance of catching the disease. Herd immunity kicks in at an 80% immunization rate, and reduces my chance of getting the disease to 5%. Even though they're all based on probabilities, they're not even using the same units of measure for display. How does a layperson put all those numbers together to make a decision whether or not to immunize their child?

The flip answer is "they don't." Too many people lack the education needed to understand the numbers, to combine them, and to compare them; so they turn to experts. But how do they trust an expert? A few people are willing to claim to be an expert to drive their personal profit or agenda, instead of to serve the truth. And some people will cherry pick their list of experts to align with their agenda. It's the latter that are the corrupting influence, and those are the ones that need to be stopped.

How do you know? CP/M had a shorter market life than it took to discover this bug.

Nobody actually said that Linux is more secure. What has been said that security flaws are more likely to be reported and patched before they are exploited. The reason Windows doesn't have problems like this is because they really do. However, Microsoft is very good about non-disclosure agreements and the like. But, security by obscurity isn't really security. It's just marketing and wishful thinking.

As for being burned by this, it hasn't happened. The flaw has been there for 22 years and yet not one exploit has been noted. Nobody has been burned by this because of the difficulty in actually exploiting it (without have physical access to the machine). Should this bug be there? No, of course not. But it is the open source nature of linux that led to this even being reported.

Tesla isn't wanting to set up their own Tesla owned dealerships. They are wanting to skip the dealership all together. Given the volume of vehicles they are planning on producing, that makes sense from a business perspective. Delorean tried the same thing, which is one of the reasons states without automobile dealer franchise laws added them and those with them, strengthen them.

Yes, people could take their Delorean to a regular mechanic to work on it (and had to in many states). However, that same mechanic can refuse to work on it. A dealer's mechanic can't and they must service the car. Like it or not, those laws were put into place for consumer protection and to protect the franchise owner from the manufacture. Whether they are still needed or not today, is open for debate. However, Tesla could easily get around the law by selling franchises for $1 each. The fact that they are willing to spend a lot of money on attorney fees to challenge the laws probably means there is some other reason they don't want to do that. That's the question people should be asking.

Make it on your own.

Wikis let anybody add and edit data. That is there strength and their weakness. That might be good in some situations, but probably not with business policies and the like. In a business setting, maybe something like Wordpress would suit your needs better as you can imbed multimedia in it. If you have more advanced needs, then maybe Drupal would work.

What makes you think Windows doesn't have problems like this? The difference is that being open source third parties can review the code and find problems. There is no way to keep them secret and from the public. Also, fixes were pushed out within hours of notification.

Look at it this way. BASH has had this problem evidently for years and there haven't been any exploits. It was discovered by researchers analyzing the code. In an MSoft world, where nobody has access to the code but MSoft, the public finds out about security holes after they have been exploited. So I agree, Caveat Emptor.

Some would argue that Mac OS X isn't a totally free hobbyist OS and yet, with all of their paid professionals, they have yet to patch the bug. On the other hand, Linux being a free hobbyist OS means that researchers have the ability to scan the code and discover these types of holes. Something that is impossible for closed systems.

That is because for the other 49 states, it applies. It wouldn't be a good business model to piss off your other dealers by selling direct in California. Effectively you would be in competition with them. Then, if they changed to other brands, you'd be without a network and the other states don't allow direct sales.

However, as you point out, CA doesn't have this requirement and yet, how many dealerships are franchises versus factory owned and is the level of service significantly different. I would guess not, but the manufactures still use franchised dealerships because it is a much more efficient model for delivering product, produces franchise revenues and it is less costly, in the long run, than owning the dealership itself.