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It's pretty sad when someone can't even work up the reading comprehension to grasp the story from a short summary.
In total, if you play the cracked version of the game, the simulator will ramp up the rate of piracy for your simulated company's games, so you will lose. It stacks the odds against you.
It's not just lawyers. I had a telemarketer call me once at work to pitch some ridiculous SEO 'get on the front page of Google' service, and when he figured out that I wasn't listening to him he just went into a rant about how unprofessional "I" was and how if I worked for him he'd fire me. I was laughing my ass off when I hung up on the idiot.
You're not considering the other issues such as having to go through multiple state audits when they want to challenge if you're sending them enough of the revenue that you're collecting for them. Finding out that oops, this country in this state raised their tax rate and you didn't know but now they're taking you to court for not paying the right fees is not how you want to run a business.
In the end, the big chains that can afford it (Amazon) will have distribution centers in each state and completely dodge the issue, while all the added burden will go to their smaller competitors.
I'm glad you have 5 or 10 years for an anti-trust suit to wind it's way through the courts to fix something that should never have been broken dude, but most of us just want to get our work done and move on.
You must be unaware of the fact that there are very clear instances where bending over for a customer is the worst thing a company can do. This "customer" is in the wrong, regardless if Musk has the personality of a rabid wolverine on PMS.
Because 99.99999% of the world who are not Tesla engineers won't have a fracking clue what the data means, so in the interest if making their explanation understandable they interpreted the data for us.
Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing also made this important point: 'Amazon didn't have to honor the takedown notice. Takedown notices are a copyright thing, a creature of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. They don't apply to trademark claims. This is Amazon taking voluntary steps that are in no way required in law.'"
Yet, either way Amazon will be the one getting sued by one or both of these people.
You know, some other thoughts:
The Chinese did not steal American workers jobs. American businesses threw jobs at them because "lazy" Americans don't like working for free, the lazy bastards!
There is far too much editorializing in this submission. "Lazy" college kids? Sure, if your definition of refusing to work at a grueling pointless job for less money every year equates to "laziness".
It is perfectly financially sound to take the option of removing yourself from the work pool if you have the support to do so, rather than work for diminishing returns simply to work. Viewing these students decisions through your Puritan work ethics lens and judging them "lazy" is quite offensive.
I've been an Apple fan of its peripheral devices for a few years now. I got in on the original Iphone and ever since then have bought quite a few of the products that Apple puts out. The problem in almost all of their launches is that they have initial problems, clean them up, and then things work out great for those who like their products. The only real part of the problem is that people want the next thing right now rather than waiting a month or so and figuring out if the device is everything they hoped it would be. Because of that, I don't really have a lot of sympathy for buyers until after the warming period has ended. I'll probably buy an Iphone 5 myself, but I'll buy it AFTER they've worked out the kinks, making it the phone I want rather than the phone that I MUST HAVE.
There is a flaw in your argument. If everyone is "smart" and waits for the bugs to shake out, then nobody will buy a product when it releases, the bugs won't be discovered before you feel it's safe enough to buy one and quite likely, with dismal initial sales the product will disappear from shelves, ie HP's WebOS tablet or they'll decide it's not worth investing more money into fixing a troubled product.
So shut your mouth and have some sympathy for the suckers paying up to be beta testers to ensure you get a nice finished product.
Perhaps because a citizen of a foreign country, a country that might in all other ways be a friend or neutral to the US, might form a group for the purposes of directing weapons at the United States intended to do physical harm to it's citizens or it's government.
Such is not the case with Assange.
Yet Assange has made it his business to disseminate classified documents to anyone and everyone. Information that can get people killed.
Nothing in this article even says the US is targeting him for death. It's more about letting US Service people know that giving him documents will have some very serious blowback. Which it should.
They still have to back those threats in court. And given that other people and groups with that classification have been targeted for death, there is an implicit threat here for Assange and Wikileaks.
Assange knew he was going to be targeted the day he bought the wikileaks domain name. Not just by the US, but every government in the world wants his head on a plate. Britain is fighting to have him extradited as we sit here.
The USA does what it wants to do and as often as it wants to do it. You don't 'have' to have all the oil in the middle east, but your life is better for it.
That would be more poignant if we actually depended on Middle Eastern oil as much as Europe & China do.
As someone else pointed out, if the US was behaving so reprehensibly one would think the leaders of Europe, Russia and China would get together and form a coalition to make us knock it off. But that isn't going to happen because despite all public posturing to the contrary, they all rely on the relative stability we've maintained for the last 70 odd years.
The chances of a person being killed by a terrorist attack are by far lower than the chances of dying from a traffic accident or a heart attack. Actually they are far less than the chances of an innocent person to die accidentally shot by a police officer..
When the government starts staging drone attacks against drunk drivers that statement might begin to have a purpose. But I suspect it will be hopeless nonetheless.
Taking extreme actions against vaporous threats is the best way of turning a democracy into an authoritarian regimen, and if you feed enough fear to the population you may even have general support in the process, until it is too late.
So we should wait until our citizens are killed by an otherwise preventable terrorist attack to make you feel better in our justifications? No thanks. And frankly screw you.
Taking extreme actions against vaporous threats is the best way of turning a democracy into an authoritarian regimen, and if you feed enough fear to the population you may even have general support in the process, until it is too late.
Perhaps. Hugging it out wasn't ever going to work either though.
You say "vaporous threats" as though it's some magic word. I suppose it helps you sleep at night. 9/11 was not a vaporous threat, and I think my nation is entitled to our period of paranoia due to it. Paranoia doesn't mean the enemies aren't real.
Basically though, Americans are pretty reasonable people. As much as it's in vogue to call us Imperialists or Fascists, we are 180 degrees from either of those things. I hope you never have to see a real Fascist or live under such a regime.
We're that guy that you know you can always go to when you need help, but you hate it because he'll never let you forget it, sure. The guy that runs the neighborhood watch that you like to mock but still kind of happy knowing he's around. But ruling the world? Not our style. We took a big kick to the balls not long ago though, and the guys who did it won't stand up like men, they hide and screw with us from the dark and they've got us swinging wildly. So how about you help us out for a change instead of standing there watching it with that little schadenfreude grin on your faces.
I've never really understood that argument as a response to somebody pointing out an evil: "Well, but others are even worse, so that makes what we're doing OK."
Perhaps it's because certain people will focus solely on actions of the US, while completely ignoring or downplaying similar actions of their own or other governments. It's not so much a "it's fine if we're doing it too" as much as a "shut up and deal with your own hypocrisy first, before you point fingers at us".
We are a nation and a government. Although we began with lofty ideals, we didn't even meet those ideals from the start. Ideals are a guide post, something to strive for, they are not a mandate to ignore reality.
The article claims (and that's TFA not the summary), that technically any military personnel communicating with Wikileaks/Assange may be charged with a crime that goes all the way to death as penalty. That does seem alarming.
Yes, because we all know the military should promote sharing & caring. Why they should tell enemies.. no that's much to harsh.. frenemies! They should tell frenemies a week in advance before dropping a sternly worded scolding on them! Then the world will be so much better.
Idiot
Divulging military information can get people killed. Yes it's a crime that deserves the death penalty.
Someone is speaking well of you. How unusual!