If the students grades are relevant (not saying they are) then the orginal and current prosecutors, judges, witnesses and cops grades, grading criteria, student evaluations, and private notes and and off-the-record interviews are 10000 times more relevant as they were all part of the original case
So if i was the students i would just issue a counter subpoena
$10 the prosecutor drops their subpoena 10 mins after receiving the counter
"They did... you just ignored it. Some ridiculous percentage of kids would rather get sued than lose their internet connection. Fear, being the biggest motivator for the human race, would push them to maybe go the legal route."
Fear does not get them "interested in buying music", it might get them to stop sharing music (but highly unlikely, people have been sharing music since the cassette tape at the very least, long before internet file sharing) but it does not entice them to go out and "buy it"
Those who want to and are able to buy music already do, nothing short of laws telling people they must buy X amount of albums per month or go to jail will force the rest to go out and buy it
After a weekend of non stop calls from friends and family related to stupid computer problems/difficulties (PC locked up = reboot / Cannot print = plug printer into pc / cannot find an email I received = use search) I would like to see compulsory training for everyone before they are allowed near a PC. Once they pass they get their licence
"So, what you are saying is that the American management of that company is stupid, lacks foresight and are not noticing or quite accepting that they are building an inferior product?"
Truth? Probably. Sadly, as the current recession has proven, most business no longer care about the long term or quality, it's all about short term saving and profit. Who cares about the long term? That does not affect this years bonus's/shareholder profits.
Why would current management care if actions/savings done now have negative effect 3 to 4 years down the road when the people who made those decisions will be long gone
Current place I am working is a prime example, they got into the outsourcing craze big time back in early days and made huge savings, initially.
Now though they are getting ripped off left and right by outsourcers because they know they have them over the proverbial barrel because the company no longer have the internal expertise so they cannot bring stuff back in house and it would be way to complicated to move outsourcers for very little benefit. And guess what? Ones responsible for jumping on that outsourcing bandwagon to such an extent collected their bonus's long ago and are now long gone
"If a $80,000 job can be done by someone for $50,000 then why should ANYONE be paid more to do it? As a customer, why would I want to pay more for an equivalent product that could be produced cheaper?"
It can be done for $50,000 because that guy has no intension in remaining long term in the county and building a life there, thus is not looking at paying out for mortgage, kids collage, savings so forth, he will be doing those things back home where the purchasing power of the $50,000 probably buys him the equivalent of $120,000 life style
Really depends on the "skilled foreigners" and who is bringing them in and even more importantly why
Take the UK with the ICT (Intra Company Transfers) "visas", initially these were put in place so companies could move their high level skilled staff around the world, say skilled project manager from India who has been with company X for 10 years, so not only skilled in his chosen profession but also very familiar with the inner workings of the company.
That's how things were meant to work, the reality though has been very different, basically companies setting up subsidiaries in places like India, hiring staff though those subsidiaries and bringing them straight over to the UK, where the staff in the UK have to train them in their job's so they can replace the UK staff.
And why are companies doing this? Because they are vastly cheaper (not only because of lower salaries but also by combining it with fiddles so those staff don't have to pay UK tax's).
Last year alone, nearly 30,000 IT workers were imported via these methods, during a period with the highest unemployment seen in IT for nearly a decade, and most of them were not filling new roles, but rather directly replacing UK/European staff. Big abusers of this have been the like's of BT and the financial sector
Ability to bring in skilled staff is good and needed, but if you create a system that is to open or that can be abused you can bet your last dollar it will be abused by companies, to the extream detriment of your local skilled workforce and a local workforce that is not working is not good for the economy, no matter how many start up's the foreigners might create
And Shawn, that is exactly what the politicians are hoping for, what people hearing about this are as ignorant about the sex offenders register as you are.
Currently there are over half a million people in the US on the registries, put on there for things ranging from serial rapists, violent kidnap and sexual molestation on children, parents abusing their children, men caught with prostitutes, 16 year olds having oral sex with their 15 year old BF/GF, people caught urinating in public, even flashers/strekers at public events and in many/most states once you are on that list you are on it for life
Reason premier league "don't do internet" is simple, it would greatly devalue their existing business model, which mainly consists of selling game transmission rights to the main TV/Sat stations.
If they start transmitting online they undercut that market and set themselves as competitors to their existing clients.
Cannot really blame them for not wanting to take the risk of changing their business model when their current one is so successful and any alternative would have a huge impact on the existing one
Do hourly Employee's make sense? Really depends on the country and it's labour laws, even more so than the particular industry/job
If you look at the US, a country with one of the least amount of employee protections in the western world (outside of unionized industries, which go completely the other way), where it is common for permanent employee's to work overtime/weekends unpaid, where law mandated sick/holiday payments and benefits are minimal, then no I would say hourly does not make that much sense
But if you take rest of western world, with vastly greater employee protections/benefits in comparison to the US, lack of culture/expectation of the employee "working overtime for free" outside of most industries, then yes in many cases it makes sense for companies to hire hourly
I know you did not mean that, but actually you are 100% correct.
The content is not and has never been what was "valuable", it was the method/medium of distribution. Otherwise we all would have been happy with radio (or even further back, going to taverns and just listening to singers/bards) and no one would have ever bought tapes/CD's.
Now the world has moved on and we no longer need CD's as we can get digitally what we want when we want
Now that distribution is virtually unlimited and free the Industry needs to take a page out of retailers play book and realise the "content" is the loss leader, it get's people though your door (in this case into your "brand"), your profit comes from the other things they buy once you get them "in the door"
Only reason they even tried is they are virtually only ISP with a monopoly over their particular market in the UK (small geographic area in the north east).
Any other ISP in any other part of the country would not even try something so draconic as all their banned customers could move to any of the 100 possible competitors within a few days
"This is totally blown out of proportion and misconstrued. Apple made fairly accurate statements that jailbroken phones may not function properly and can cause issues to OTHER consumers on the network. (page 11, last paragraph)."
Even that's still an stupid and inaccurate statement, if this was a real issue we would have all the non apple phones (and jail broken iphone) causing problems to the networks for years and guess what? Does not happen
The whole iPhone lock down is about one thing and one thing only, apple controlling what you can and cannot do with your purchase after the point of sale, anything else is an excuse trying to justify something that non apple product users would find totally unacceptable
Did the suits matter? No but not because they reasons behind them were wrong, rather because they not only took way way to long to reach a conclusion (some are still going as you pointed out) but also because in some cases MS were pretty much allowed to bribe themselves out of them (USA ones)
If they had been short and stuck to their stated chosen aims (stop MS using their OS dominance to try to take over the web interface) we would probably be at least 5 years ahead of where we stand in regards to online tech
Only reason we now have the likes of Firefox now is because MS won the browser wars and then did absolutely nothing for years in that area except sit on their collective ass's congratulating themselves.
If they had not done this Mozilla/Firefox would probably never been even started never mind successful, only thing that got them moving again was once Firefox started to take off and started threatening the control of their market
"talk about a waste of resources and a gathering of the stupidest people ever"
And this is a good, could you imagine if they had no "home" anymore, they would spread everywhere else
Actually they are following common sense, problem is you are misunderstanding their objectives.
Reducing prostitution is not the objective (Politicos are the working girl/guy best customers after all), getting in the headlines looking proactive is
hmm according to to wiki now moot's (site owner) own isp (Cogent Communications) is blocking 4chan
If this is true got feeling this whole thing will be related to the DDos attacks, if you look at 4chan status page they were under DDoS attack themselves just over a week ago
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Re: Grades are VERY Relevant (as JackSombra)
If the students grades are relevant (not saying they are) then the orginal and current prosecutors, judges, witnesses and cops grades, grading criteria, student evaluations, and private notes and and off-the-record interviews are 10000 times more relevant as they were all part of the original case
So if i was the students i would just issue a counter subpoena
$10 the prosecutor drops their subpoena 10 mins after receiving the counter
Re: ... (as JackSombra)
"They did... you just ignored it. Some ridiculous percentage of kids would rather get sued than lose their internet connection. Fear, being the biggest motivator for the human race, would push them to maybe go the legal route."
Fear does not get them "interested in buying music", it might get them to stop sharing music (but highly unlikely, people have been sharing music since the cassette tape at the very least, long before internet file sharing) but it does not entice them to go out and "buy it"
Those who want to and are able to buy music already do, nothing short of laws telling people they must buy X amount of albums per month or go to jail will force the rest to go out and buy it
Like this idea!! (as JackSombra)
But probably for totally different reasons.
After a weekend of non stop calls from friends and family related to stupid computer problems/difficulties (PC locked up = reboot / Cannot print = plug printer into pc / cannot find an email I received = use search) I would like to see compulsory training for everyone before they are allowed near a PC. Once they pass they get their licence
(as JackSombra)
This had never anything to do with her being "upset". The real reason can be found on her profile, or more accurately her current job description
"Manage financial and marketing aspects of Stayart Law Offices."
It was all about raising the profile of her family law firmRe: Re: Fewer Foreigners Coming To US Grad Schools: This Is A Problem (as JackSombra)
"So, what you are saying is that the American management of that company is stupid, lacks foresight and are not noticing or quite accepting that they are building an inferior product?"
Truth? Probably. Sadly, as the current recession has proven, most business no longer care about the long term or quality, it's all about short term saving and profit. Who cares about the long term? That does not affect this years bonus's/shareholder profits.
Why would current management care if actions/savings done now have negative effect 3 to 4 years down the road when the people who made those decisions will be long gone
Current place I am working is a prime example, they got into the outsourcing craze big time back in early days and made huge savings, initially.
Now though they are getting ripped off left and right by outsourcers because they know they have them over the proverbial barrel because the company no longer have the internal expertise so they cannot bring stuff back in house and it would be way to complicated to move outsourcers for very little benefit. And guess what? Ones responsible for jumping on that outsourcing bandwagon to such an extent collected their bonus's long ago and are now long gone
"If a $80,000 job can be done by someone for $50,000 then why should ANYONE be paid more to do it? As a customer, why would I want to pay more for an equivalent product that could be produced cheaper?"
It can be done for $50,000 because that guy has no intension in remaining long term in the county and building a life there, thus is not looking at paying out for mortgage, kids collage, savings so forth, he will be doing those things back home where the purchasing power of the $50,000 probably buys him the equivalent of $120,000 life style
(as JackSombra)
Really depends on the "skilled foreigners" and who is bringing them in and even more importantly why
Take the UK with the ICT (Intra Company Transfers) "visas", initially these were put in place so companies could move their high level skilled staff around the world, say skilled project manager from India who has been with company X for 10 years, so not only skilled in his chosen profession but also very familiar with the inner workings of the company.
That's how things were meant to work, the reality though has been very different, basically companies setting up subsidiaries in places like India, hiring staff though those subsidiaries and bringing them straight over to the UK, where the staff in the UK have to train them in their job's so they can replace the UK staff.
And why are companies doing this? Because they are vastly cheaper (not only because of lower salaries but also by combining it with fiddles so those staff don't have to pay UK tax's).
Last year alone, nearly 30,000 IT workers were imported via these methods, during a period with the highest unemployment seen in IT for nearly a decade, and most of them were not filling new roles, but rather directly replacing UK/European staff. Big abusers of this have been the like's of BT and the financial sector
Ability to bring in skilled staff is good and needed, but if you create a system that is to open or that can be abused you can bet your last dollar it will be abused by companies, to the extream detriment of your local skilled workforce and a local workforce that is not working is not good for the economy, no matter how many start up's the foreigners might create
Re: Good. (as JackSombra)
And Shawn, that is exactly what the politicians are hoping for, what people hearing about this are as ignorant about the sex offenders register as you are.
Currently there are over half a million people in the US on the registries, put on there for things ranging from serial rapists, violent kidnap and sexual molestation on children, parents abusing their children, men caught with prostitutes, 16 year olds having oral sex with their 15 year old BF/GF, people caught urinating in public, even flashers/strekers at public events and in many/most states once you are on that list you are on it for life
(as JackSombra)
Reason premier league "don't do internet" is simple, it would greatly devalue their existing business model, which mainly consists of selling game transmission rights to the main TV/Sat stations.
If they start transmitting online they undercut that market and set themselves as competitors to their existing clients.
Cannot really blame them for not wanting to take the risk of changing their business model when their current one is so successful and any alternative would have a huge impact on the existing one
(as JackSombra)
Do hourly Employee's make sense? Really depends on the country and it's labour laws, even more so than the particular industry/job
If you look at the US, a country with one of the least amount of employee protections in the western world (outside of unionized industries, which go completely the other way), where it is common for permanent employee's to work overtime/weekends unpaid, where law mandated sick/holiday payments and benefits are minimal, then no I would say hourly does not make that much sense
But if you take rest of western world, with vastly greater employee protections/benefits in comparison to the US, lack of culture/expectation of the employee "working overtime for free" outside of most industries, then yes in many cases it makes sense for companies to hire hourly
Re: Re: Re: Backend Payment (as JackSombra)
I know you did not mean that, but actually you are 100% correct.
The content is not and has never been what was "valuable", it was the method/medium of distribution. Otherwise we all would have been happy with radio (or even further back, going to taverns and just listening to singers/bards) and no one would have ever bought tapes/CD's.
Now the world has moved on and we no longer need CD's as we can get digitally what we want when we want
Now that distribution is virtually unlimited and free the Industry needs to take a page out of retailers play book and realise the "content" is the loss leader, it get's people though your door (in this case into your "brand"), your profit comes from the other things they buy once you get them "in the door"
(as JackSombra)
Only reason they even tried is they are virtually only ISP with a monopoly over their particular market in the UK (small geographic area in the north east).
Any other ISP in any other part of the country would not even try something so draconic as all their banned customers could move to any of the 100 possible competitors within a few days
(as JackSombra)
Hmm what does it say about me when in only one of the images did i see what i was meant to see?
Re: You are off base (as JackSombra)
"This is totally blown out of proportion and misconstrued. Apple made fairly accurate statements that jailbroken phones may not function properly and can cause issues to OTHER consumers on the network. (page 11, last paragraph)."
Even that's still an stupid and inaccurate statement, if this was a real issue we would have all the non apple phones (and jail broken iphone) causing problems to the networks for years and guess what? Does not happen
The whole iPhone lock down is about one thing and one thing only, apple controlling what you can and cannot do with your purchase after the point of sale, anything else is an excuse trying to justify something that non apple product users would find totally unacceptable
(as JackSombra)
Did the suits matter? No but not because they reasons behind them were wrong, rather because they not only took way way to long to reach a conclusion (some are still going as you pointed out) but also because in some cases MS were pretty much allowed to bribe themselves out of them (USA ones)
If they had been short and stuck to their stated chosen aims (stop MS using their OS dominance to try to take over the web interface) we would probably be at least 5 years ahead of where we stand in regards to online tech
Only reason we now have the likes of Firefox now is because MS won the browser wars and then did absolutely nothing for years in that area except sit on their collective ass's congratulating themselves.
If they had not done this Mozilla/Firefox would probably never been even started never mind successful, only thing that got them moving again was once Firefox started to take off and started threatening the control of their market
Re: cha-ching (as JackSombra)
Good luck with sueing a school board, you would be amazed at some of the protections they have in some states
Re: (as JackSombra)
You don't blame apple, where i do. They need to decide if the are a phone maker/retailer or a cell providers bi*tch
This is number one why i don't like apple, i buy a product i want to do what i want with it, i paid for it after all, i did not rent it
Re: (as JackSombra)
"talk about a waste of resources and a gathering of the stupidest people ever"
And this is a good, could you imagine if they had no "home" anymore, they would spread everywhere else
My 4chan live forever
Misunderstanding their objectives (as JackSombra)
Actually they are following common sense, problem is you are misunderstanding their objectives.
Reducing prostitution is not the objective (Politicos are the working girl/guy best customers after all), getting in the headlines looking proactive is
Thus common sense says: Sue Craiglist
Now owners own ISP blocking him (as JackSombra)
hmm according to to wiki now moot's (site owner) own isp (Cogent Communications) is blocking 4chan
If this is true got feeling this whole thing will be related to the DDos attacks, if you look at 4chan status page they were under DDoS attack themselves just over a week ago
(as JackSombra)
Is anyone even using TPB anymore since they announced they were selling out?