Ellen Pao is turning into a shake-down artist. Did she study at the school of Al Sharpton?!
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Let's put this all into perspective shall we?
Apple is drowning in cash yet takes a 30% cut from developers and charges developers $99 to join the iOS developer program. You also have to pay $99 to join the Mac developer program, even if you don't want to sell in the Mac App Store, because you need to codesign your application with an Apple certificate so that GateKeeper doesn't scare users away from your software.
Yes, Apple, business, shareholders, not a charity, blah blah blah. So what happened to "THINK DIFFERENT"?
[1] http://www.apple.com/live/
Live streaming video requires Safari 6.0.5 or later on OS X v10.8.5 or later; Safari on iOS 6.0 or later. Streaming via Apple TV requires second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 6.2 or later.
Translation: "Sick man of Asia is a cheat"
Except when it comes to stealing land, right?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3099839/Clinton-Foun...
"Clinton Foundation took at least $1,250,000 from Qatar and its World Cup committee implicated in FIFA bribery scandal"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3099839/Clinton-Foun...
"Clinton Foundation took at least $1,250,000 from Qatar and its World Cup committee implicated in FIFA bribery scandal
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3099839/Clinton-Foun... Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3099839/Clinton-Foun...
However Qatar are solely responsible for the slave labor and worker deaths. They own that.
Can't believe Blatter and his cronies would be so stupid, but perhaps some of the weaker and greedier executives were, so Blatter is happy to serve them up?
Your second point about "false flag" makes no sense whatsoever.
EDIT: This is why HackerNews is going to the dogs. This perfectly reasonable comment has been downvoted numerous times.
Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department (26 May 2015)
Under Clinton's leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation... nearly double the value of American arms sales made to the those countries and approved by the State Department during the same period of President George W. Bush’s second term.
Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar all donated to the Clinton Foundation and also gained State Department clearance to buy caches of American-made weapons even as the department singled them out for a range of alleged ills, from corruption to restrictions on civil liberties to violent crackdowns against political opponents.
...the Algerian government donated $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation and its lobbyists met with the State Department officials who oversee enforcement of human rights policies. Clinton’s State Department the next year approved a one-year 70 percent increase in military export authorizations to the country. The increase included authorizations of almost 50,000 items classified as “toxicological agents, including chemical agents, biological agents and associated equipment” after the State Department did not authorize the export of any of such items to Algeria in the prior year.
...Goldman Sachs paid Bill Clinton $200,000 to speak to “approximately 250 high level clients and investors” in New York, according to State Department records obtained by Judicial Watch. Two months later, the State Department approved a $675 million foreign military sale involving Hawker Beechcraft -- a company that was then part-owned by Goldman Sachs. As part of the deal, Hawker Beechcraft would provide support to the government of Iraq to maintain a fleet of aircraft used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Goldman Sachs has also contributed at least $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to donation records.
Stephen Walt, a Harvard University professor of international affairs, told IBTimes that the intertwining financial relationships between the Clintons, defense contractors and foreign governments seeking weapons approvals is “a vivid example of a very big problem -- the degree to which conflicts of interest have become endemic.”
http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons...
Did anybody tell 21 that pure proof-of-work hashing was just an experiment and could go the way of the dinosaur?
Ethereum, Nxt and other cryptocurrencies are already using proof-of-stake or some other hybrid process...
It should not be the job of human resources to resolve social issues.
"As an applicant to medical school. On the day of my interview at my state school, a director basically told everybody that the school favored Hispanics/Latinos because the school is given state/federal? money if they churn out a lot of Hispanic/Latino doctors. My stomach dropped when I heard that. As other have pointed out, medical schools clearly hold Asians to a higher standard than any other race."
Reddit CEO Ellen Pao says she is hiring for diversity. Google and IBM are putting hundreds of millions into diversity programmes for hiring and training. Twitter is publishing employee diversity reports.
So if you're a coding genius but you're white or Asian, straight, male, not disabled, guess what?
You're not going to be hired by tech start-ups and companies who are obsessed about showing how "diverse" they are rather than hiring the best candidate for the job.
Have you considered getting the Blackberry Passport which features a physical keyboard which is also touch sensitive for swiping. I find the Passport quite interesting and it can also run Android apps.
California Supreme Court:
"the employer either intentionally created or knowingly permitted working conditions that were so intolerable or aggravated at the time of the employee's resignation that a reasonable employer would realize that a reasonable person in the employee's position would be compelled to resign"
Wikipedia:
"In employment law, constructive dismissal, also called constructive discharge, occurs when an employee resigns as a result of the employer creating a hostile work environment. Since the resignation was not truly voluntary, it is in effect a termination. For example, when an employer makes life extremely difficult for an employee, to attempt to have the employee resign, rather than outright firing the employee, the employer is trying to effect a constructive discharge."
Bigotry? What are you smoking?
Brendan did not like what the W3C was doing with DRM and was quite vocal about it. His prop 8 donation was public knowledge for years and nobody had a problem with it... but then suddenly the board, the employees and the community were outraged.
As soon as he was forced out the other execs at Mozilla announced they would be implementing DRM and EME. Coincidence?
I think it's about opportunism. A situation developed and by simply stoking the fires of social media outrage, a major obstacle to adoption of DRM in a popular browser could be eliminated.
Consider the Mozilla position as soon as Brendan had been forced out - coincidence?
>"With most competing browsers and the content industry embracing the W3C EME specification, Mozilla has little choice but to implement EME as well so our users can continue to access all content they want to enjoy. Read on for some background on how we got here, and details of our implementation." - Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal, 14 May 2014
"Mozilla will be adding a way to integrate Adobe Access DRM technology for video and audio into Firefox, via a common specification called Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)." - The Mozilla Blog, 14 May 2014
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2014/05/why-brendan-eich-had-to-g...
Perhaps the real reason Brendan Eich was thrown out of Mozilla was because he didn't embrace DRM and EME? Given his stature as founder of Mozilla and creator of Javascript, he could have posed a significant roadblock if he had decided to reject EME's inclusion in Firefox.
If you put on your tinfoil hat, recall that Brendan's donation to Prop 8 was public information for several years... before it suddenly became an issue.
>"So long as people want Hollywood movies, and Hollywood is used to getting its way, and DRM vendors are pushing to perpetuate this and codify it, and put it under a fig leaf from the W3C, we have a real problem.".
http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/brendan...
However Apple has found a way to repatriate the money without paying tax whilst still claiming its money is offshore.
Look up 'Braeburn Hedge Fund' based in Nevada. They manage Apple's money by way of shell corporations and invest the cash in US stocks, bonds and other financial instruments.
The law should be tightened so that this kind of scenario is not allowed. Tricky to do but surely some clever lawyer can figure it out.
>Research on exposure to television and movie violence suggests that playing violent video games will increase aggressive behavior. A meta-analytic review of the video-game research literature reveals that violent video games increase aggressive behavior in children and young adults. Experimental and nonexperimental studies with males and females in laboratory and field settings support this conclusion. Analyses also reveal that exposure to violent video games increases physiological arousal and aggression-related thoughts and feelings. Playing violent video games also decreases prosocial behavior.
>Porn and video game addiction are leading to 'masculinity crisis', says Stanford prison experiment psychologist
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/porn-and-video-gam...