You may want to check out this TED talk and the corresponding site. I think its basically what you are talking about.
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The problem isn't that there isn't enough water for Vegas passing through Lake Mead. Its that legally they are obligated to send it downstream. Nevada gets a meager 4% of the lower basin of the river, while California gets 58.7% [1]
If the film is popular (and therefore does more damage), the filmmaker will probably have the means to adequately compensate the farmer. If it isn't popular, it probably won't do much damage to the farmer.
Limiting free speech isn't a good solution.
- Prices of products or services increase to compensate for the increase in salary.
- Higher paid employees don't get raises since the money that was previously allocated for that is being used to pay for the minimum wage increase. (This seems to be happening in this case, where more experienced workers received little to no increase in compensation).
- Other benefits are removed or reduced to cover the additional cost (health insurance, vacation, sick leave, etc)
- The company can no longer be profitable with the additional costs and reduces the size of their workforce or shuts down completely.
Which of these side effects (if any) occur, depends on the company and its current profits, management and/or investors, as well as how much they are already paying employees.
Suggestion: It would be nice to have some sort of search box at the top that would instantly filter the list of articles as you type. Instead of having to dig through the "more articles" links to find what you are looking for, you could just type "oil", "air filter", or other terms and see the corresponding articles immediately.
Also, sometimes the ads cover page content and when this happens sometimes you can't close them. I'm using Chrome on a Mac.
https://github.com/blog/1365-a-more-transparent-clipboard-bu...
I like the general idea though. It seems that if the general public no longer associate a work of art with the artist or company that holds the IP, it should go into public domain.
In this case, Happy Birthday probably never would have been popular in the first place had the copyright been aggressively enforced in the 1920's. In my opinion, the lack of defense of broad copyright infringement from 1920-1980 should be grounds for copyright invalidation.
Generally copyright has lost its original intent of providing value and protection to the original creator, while encouraging people to create something that will eventually become part of the public domain.
What really matters, in my opinion, is whether having a long line during certain peak times generates more revenue for the business (by being able to charge more, or by gaining attention due to its long queues) or whether providing a faster and better customer experience with shorter wait times does (and perhaps more customers during non-peak times)
Whether one is better than the other may depend completely on your business. Also, I'm not sure this technology forces you to publish your current density information. You could simply use the information for business intelligence gathering and for providing promotions during non-peak times.
Does the company get some additional value from having their employees live in a big city? Is there some other factor I'm missing?
Its telling that App Store sales are a significant source of revenue for Apple. One that could possibly justify not making improvements to Safari that could make it better compete with native applications.
As others have mentioned, there are other benefits from native applications, like vendor lock-in, which Apple isn't going to get with web-based applications.
[1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/28/investing/apple-cash-178-bil...
[2] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/10/20Apple-Reports-Four...
All without manufacturing logistics and hardware production costs. Obviously the computing infrastructure, payment processing and software engineering of the app store has a cost, but I'd imagine much less than those involved with building, distributing and selling a computer or mobile device.
It may not generate as much as hardware sales do, but billions of dollars hardly seems like spare change.
[1] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/01/08App-Store-Rings-in...
It is in their interest to have it be a very nice looking document viewing platform, which is where I imagine most of their developer resources are going towards.
- If you are doing project-based work with specific deliverables, delay delivery of the project until payment is received.
- Ask for a deposit from the client up front to cover such an eventuality. Depending on how much you want to cover your risk, this could be somewhere between 1/2 to a full month's worth of pay. To the client, if they ever want to terminate your consulting agreement, this becomes part of the last month's pay.
- Ask to be paid in advance for your work, stop working if payment isn't made in advance.
- Setup your consulting agreements so you are paid more frequently and stop working if you aren't paid when agreed. This limits the amount of money that could be owed to you.
If you are going to seek legal options for compensation in your current situation, you should try to do it before they shut down and still have assets. Of course you should consult a lawyer and get real legal advice from someone who knows the law before pursuing this option.
Could a radar based camera be mounted on a helicopter, or could land-based tracking devices work in conjunction with a helicopter mounted camera to achieve the tracking?
Also, I'd love to know when these launches are going to happen further in advance. The Launch Manifest page just shows the next launch as happening in June[1]. Is there a better place to get more exact planned launch dates further in advance?
If you want to add a law to consider prohibiting same-sex marriage as discriminatory, then go through the process to add a law through the legislative process. Changing the meaning and intent of the current laws through the judicial process seems like the wrong way to go about it. It just isn't currently part of the constitution.
What's in question here is whether its discriminatory to not allow same-sex marriages to occur and whether states should be able to determine what marriage means and restrict it accordingly. Marriage has traditionally been between a man and a woman and certainly wasn't intended to be part of the 14th amendment when it was added to the constitution in 1868.
To add it more than 100 years later seems like a case of the judicial branch legislating and adding to the law, more than interpreting existing law in the context and intent of which it was passed.
If the constitution and the its amendments, which protect minority rights (and people's rights in general) aren't the result of a democratic legislative process, what are they a result of?
The question is whether the current constitutional legislation provides these minority rights. The court's role is to interpret existing laws, not add to them because it thinks its the right thing to do. That's the legislature's role.
In my mind, the correct solution to this issue should have been legislative (that is, add an amendment to the constitution), not judicial.
Creating a system that processes payments can be an involved process, requiring significant development effort, even when using API and libraries like Stripe provides. It seems like Stripe should only be shutting people down as a last resort, after repeated warnings with a clear way on how to fix the problem. This is also just good business practice. No one wants to be shut down without a good reason and without any recourses for appeal or reconciliation.
For the Hyperloop to make any sense in a shorter distance metro setting, you'd probably want to have no stops between where you start and your destination. (So you might go directly from Anaheim to Santa Monica, for example) With smaller cars/trains, this may be possible (since you might be able to fill trains quickly enough to not make people wait too long), but potentially very expensive to build enough lanes to manage that amount of traffic with greatly varying speeds efficiently.
Without that sort of system, however, I think the additional stops would delay you so much that the gain over a traditional metro train would be small and not worth the extra expense of building it.
It seems like the strength of the Hyperloop is extremely fast travel over long distances. Personally, I think having a line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles would be awesome, as the traffic can be horrible on that route, especially on weekends and probably significantly affects traffic in LA in general. Its also around 100 miles less than the LA to SF route, through mostly undeveloped desert, so it could be a lot cheaper to build.
Instead of being able to share a place with a few people (maybe even sharing a room) and sharing utilities, internet, cable and so on, you are paying significantly more for housing, food, utilities, transportation (bigger car), clothes and insurance/medical costs. Those costs could easily be 3-4 times as much as a single person.
If you are a dual income family, you may also be paying for child care and have the extra responsibilities of getting your children to and from child care and/or school (let alone actually spending some quality time with them). Working late has a much higher cost and being out of a job has much greater consequences.