Hmm, that's interesting... I would think that if ICANN knowingly continues to conduct business with a partner known to employ fraud then ICANN is a co-conspirator to fraud.
Hence, it would be illegal for ICANN to honor its contract, forcing them to terminate it. Regardless, of what the contract states.

I mean, no judge in his right mind will convict ICANN of contract breach, if the other party is abusing the powers delegated to them for criminal activities.
At least that was my two cents (I'm just applying common sense here)...

Nobody, says the militants aren't at fault... Only that the US isn't much better in it's own.... And no, we don't have to get decades back to find examples of civilians more or less deliberately killed by the US in non-combat zones (well, unless you're delusional enough to declare the entire middle east for a combat zone).

That said, I think it would be reasonable for Ukraine to request UN peacekeeping forces to guard and investigate the accident.

True, until civilians are targed... Although this was supposedly a mistake.
Anyways, there was absolute no reason to be using anti aircraft missile systems... it's not like the rebels have been bombed or anything. Which would be of doubtful legality... something about proportionality...

True... if only they could make computers that we're slow and stupid touch screens you can't type on...
Anyways, if you're late or there is some complication... Humans are nice...

So everybody agrees that they are deliberately trying to trick you; by giving their offer the graphical appearance of a bill. IMO that's fraud.
It's certainly not honest business conduct.

I am in the that habit... In most cases the bill is probably legitimate, and it's a lot of work for me to validate that everything is correct. Even more work and cost, if I decide to fight a bill. Often the cheapest way out is to pay.
You right that failure to pay a "fake" bill, like have no consequences, but failure to pay a legitimate bill on time, because I could validate it, will cost me late payment fee, etc...

Sure you can treat that as a contract breach, but it seems more like a criminal matter to me... Why do you even put that in the contract, it's needless to say that criminal conduct will not be tolerated.

Indeed, this is embarrassing... America never fails to deliver on the crazy...

Seriously, if you're afraid of self-driving cars being used to deliver explosives... Then it takes a special kind of crazy to worry about self-driving cars, as opposed to be worried about ease of access to guns and explosives.

This requires two main components:
1) An automatic assault rifle, and
2) A self driving car.

Which one of the two, do you think Americans would prefer to regulate/restrict access to? :)
Lol, my money is on self-driving car regulation... Long live status quo!

Seriously, though... How crazy do you have to be to be more concerned about self-driving cars being useful for delivering explosives, as opposed to be worried about access to explosives in the first place... America never disappoints to deliver a laugh :)

Really, you think they are allowed to carry in cell phones? :)
That's like the number one thing not allowed... then followed by USB keys, cameras, etc...

Yeah, this smells like NSA trying to hide that Snowden did in fact try to bring up the issue through official channels, before he leaked documents to the public.

It's not in Germanys interest to weaken the American economy... That would hurt them just as bad...

I'm pretty sure no European country even wants to indicate that they want to mess with the US economy... Not because they are scared of a US response. But because they don't want to weaken the world economy, upon which many European countries depend.

If Germany made thebUS dollar fall even more. That would hurt the European economy and weak EURO economies would need further bail outs...

This is an appropriate and proportional response... It's not enough, I agree, but it's pretty good start! A European country deporting US officials is a big thing.

It sadness me that American politicians can't see that this inhibits competitions as employers use healthcare benefits to retain employees... It's very close to a lock-in, which hinders the powers of the free markets. Seriously, when you read ads for employers to provide healthcare, the ad is all about how the employer can retain his employees... Tsk tsk...

Compared to other countries, this is also a major blocker for start-ups, etc... Long term these things are going to keep the US behind.

I'm an H1B worker here... and I get paid enough - just don't tell my manager :)
But a fact is that without H1B I would be working from Toronto, London or home somewhere else in Europe... For the same company, doing the same thing.


All you're going to change is the location of the worlds largest tech cluster... without immigration silicon valley is nothing.

I don't dispute that this is the case under US law... My problem is with this practice of doing this... In the US the same happens to taxi drivers and pizza delivery drivers.
I find it distasteful to cut costs on people who have very little income. Sometimes these people makes below minimum wage. It seems to me like they are trying to exploit the little man. Because people do drive taxies, uber and deliver pizzas for a living, making them contractors is a distasteful way to cut money from people who make very little.