> I would say if the tenant is renting it out and able to make a profit it is only possible if the landlord is renting below market value.

Not at all. A short-term stay at a furnished apartment is always going to cost a lot more than a long-term lease of an unfurnished one. What the tenants are doing is renting out their place while they are away (vacation, trip, etc.). Of course that still violates the no-subleasing rule found in most contracts. But I think the only thing landlord can do in this case is evict the tenant.

You listed several cases of genocide and civil war. None of them support your "slippery slope" thesis that gun registration leads to genocide. Try again.

> 1911 - Turkey, 1935 - China, 1938 - Germany, 1964 - Guatemala, 1970 - Uganda. I'm sure these come up a lot, without any background info. This [mercyseat.net] seems to have actual supporting documentation.

None of these cases had anything to do with gun registration. Stop parroting bullshit. Any *actual* examples where gun registration lead to genocide?

> Well, for one reason, the government has absolutely NO reason to know how many or what weapons I have. I"m law abiding, not committing crimes with them, and therefore they have no need to know.

Does the government have any reason to know how many cars you have? How many houses? How many businesses? etc. Lots of things require registration & licensing.

> But mostly, in many cases around the world, the FIRST step in confiscation of weapons, was registration of them. First they learn who has what, then they know where to come to take them away.

Name those cases.

> The government really has VERY LITTLE need to know much about my personal life, what I own or what I do. They should stay as much out of my life as possible. That's they way is it supposed to be set up here in the US.

The people who scream most loudly about government staying out of their lives are also the ones who want to impose their version of religion on others, restrict access to contraception, criminalize homosexuality, etc. What's a greater invasion of personal life: gun registration or "trans-vaginal ultrasound"?

I think just removing the requirement that a H1B visa is tied to a specific job would go a long way towards solving the issue and would, in effect, be self-regulating. If an employee is underpaid or mistreated he can vote with his feet -- unless of course the company can keep him on a leash via H1B visa. Remove the leash and situation self-corrects. Suddenly, it's no longer cheaper to hire H1B workers.

I also like the idea of a H1B tariff, or making the cost of the visa substantial, say 10% of the prevailing salary. That would still allow companies to hire foreign workers if there is truly a shortage (you know, the problem that H1B program is supposed to address), but would make it unprofitable to abuse the system.

How did you get 40k? A 10kW system costs about 16k in parts (http://www.wholesalesolar.com/grid-tie-packages). Are you seriously saying installation is another 24k?

Yes, and I used to walk to school in the snow. Uphill. In both directions. While being chased by werewolves.

Countries should make a treaty creating a global tax on corporations. X% would be withheld and then apportioned to each country according to the percentage of revenue. A corporation would have little incentive to play games with profit shifting because X% of global profits would be withheld no matter what. The tricky part would be to distribute the tax fairly among the different countries and to agree on this treaty in the first place. So I'm not holding my breath.

Microsoft took Sun's JVM and extended it, without complying with Sun's license.

Google used *none* of Sun/Oracle code, but Oracle is still trying to claim some kind of copyright over the code that Google wrote. This contradicts statements that Sun itself made before it died and was sold to Oracle.

> the only thing that comes even close is DB2 with postGres running a close third and depending on your POV, catching up fairly quickly.

But PostgreSQL is enough for 90% of the installations and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

> the first ones used threads, semaphores through python's multiprocessing.Pipe implementation. the performance was beyond dreadful, it was deeply alarming. after a few seconds performance would drop to zero. strace investigations showed that at heavy load the OS call futex was maxed out near 100%.

uhhm... wait what?

You are aware that python has global interpreter lock, right? And because of that multi-threaded performance in python is actually *worse* than single-threaded? But this is an inherent flaw in python interpreter and has nothing to do with Linux. It also has nothing to do with the topic of this article.

Just as with Nostradamus, bible, etc. "predictions" they kinda sorta came true if you squint at them the right way. And there are enough true believers to parrot praise in unison. However, a more objective look reveals that these "predictions" are way off.

That is NOT guaranteed income. Welfare (in US at least) has existed since 1935, so that's hardly a prediction.

Not to the level that was predicted, and certainly not to the level afforded by guaranteed income.

Precisely. *One* country has a problem with overpopulation. And their solution is NOT strict population controls, but economic disincentives for families that have more than one child (so it costs more, but rich families can afford it).

Because it fucking didn't. Quit trying to see things that are not there.

Because US patent system effectively legalizes extortion. Some manufacturers rolled over and paid "licencing", but others, like Infineon decided to fight. The jury in Infineon v. Rambus ruled in favor of Infineon, but then Rambus appealed to the federal circuit and got that decision overturned. PJ, of groklaw fame, put it thusly: "federal circuit has never seen a patent it didn't like".

This is just a short summary, you can find more info if you like. Rambus extorted money from pretty much everyone who has so much as touched RAM.

This is absolutely disgusting. Rambus is the ultimate patent troll. For those not familiar, here is some history.

Back in the 90's, Rambus became a member of JEDEC, an industry consortium of RAM manufacturers. JEDEC rules require members to disclose any patents that are relevant to the technology being discussed. Rambus didn't. It sat in on the meetings, listened, and modified its pending patent applications to cover DDR RAM. After the new RAM standard was adopted, Rambus surfaced its submarine patents and started suing everyone left and right.

Add to that the fact is that Rambus itself does not manufacture anything -- it's a technology licencing house that has a few engineers and an army of lawyers -- and you get a perfect example of a patent troll.

In other words, do they get to print their own money?