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10y ago
the funny thing about this is if he filled pro se it reveals that he does not have a corporation because you can not represent a corporation pro se. A corporation is considered its own person by law and the CEO is just an employee and only
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10y ago
Think about this where have the most controversial comments from Trump come from in the past few months? Almost all of them have come from twitter. Twitter is were people go to make daily comments and air their thoughts and plans to the wor
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10y ago
if you think this is about terrorism you have not been paying attention. It is to catch money launderers. It has been shown time and time again that people are stupid and post pics of cash, cars, jewelry, etc to social media
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10y ago
allow them to rollover leftover budget to the next year and never lower their budget. If you do this departments will just carry huge surpluses over every year and not spend money then when something big comes along they will just use their
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10y ago
which is exactly the reason he should be allowed to see the full details of the cap table to see what makes those shares more valuable than his and estimate his stocks value based on that info plus other financial info. It is exactly why th
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10y ago
They funny thing it is not that they dont have e-statements it is that they dont allow you to opt out of the paper statement. Any other bank would force you to paperless only the first time they saw the bill for shipping you an giant box wi
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10y ago
Terrible name there is already a popular security auth app called Duo with a similarly named mobile app. https://duo.com/ This is likely trademark infringement because they are both on the app store and it is easy to confus
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10y ago
there is still some ambiguity over whether all these kinds of contracts need to be revealed to the public. If nike pays a basketball player to only wear nike shoes but never asks him to speak or post anything about nike does he have to reve
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10y ago
it is not tax fraud, it is fraud on the employees and investors. What they did was allowed by the IRS but they lied to the employees and investors about doing it. If a company forces you to buy a uniform with your own money that is legal, i
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10y ago
this wont really help much because they will still ask how much do you expect to make and people who have low salaries currently will say a low number that is just slightly higher than their current salary. They need to make it illegal to a
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10y ago
people dont understand how much this was happening to uber. Police were actively stop uber drivers and fining them for operating as illegal taxi while not stoping any didi kuaidi drivers. In some cities they even had uber banned by the loca
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10y ago
it is being named after him due to his civil rights work but it is the navy choosing to name something after him because he was a navy man. Robert Kennedy also served in the navy. Had they served in the army the navy would be less likely to
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10y ago
the bigger concern is the possibility of violating a trademark. If a McDonalds is a pokestop and the image is the golden arches logo that is a trademarked logo that you are now associating with your game. The average person can be confused
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10y ago
this is the way chinese negotiate in all business deals. First the seller quotes an absurd price like ten times the value of what they are selling then the buying offers an absurd low price maybe 10% or even 1% the value of the item then th
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10y ago
They almost certainly do this to detect bots trying to change passwords. If the bot tries to change passwords for hundreds of accounts at once they will end up sending thousands of requests to the password checker and be ip banned and it ca
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10y ago
the reason people ask this is because in america there are some cities that have outlawed gardens and types of plants you can plant in your front yard, it is insane. So the question is not that ridiculous but i am sure it seems ridiculous t
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10y ago
MS bought skype just to stop google from buying they. Google made a big for skype and MS swooped in and outbid them. They never had any real plans for skype they just dont want to allow google to gain near monopoly in the consumer VOIP mark
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10y ago
it makes frivolous lawsuits even worse. It means if i bring a lawsuit against a major corporation the either have to put up a very cheap defense so that i dont get much money for my lawyer or if they go all out then i have the money to hire
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10y ago
i refuse to install the mobile app because there is no way to stop people from calling you on messenger. There is no way to turn it off or have some kind of do not disturb. If someone wants to mess with you they can just keep calling you an
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10y ago
I love that he put "leaving the next" in quotes. He was leading that company down the drain and got fired, they just dont want to make it look that way. They have had so much bad press the past year, from nest employees complainin
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10y ago
this is actually not always ideal. If you have visibility to the company books SEC rules about insider trading apply to you even if you have no advantage by looking at the books. For public companies any employee who can see any financial o
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10y ago
the community is the largest in the city and is at the far southwestern edge of the city, i think i heard there are over 3,500 units in parkmerced. The only real neighbors would be SFSU campus so mostly student and there is a muni stop dire
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10y ago
the title on lendup's homepage is "LendUp: Payday Loan Alternative - Online Loans & Credit Cards 24/7"
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10y ago
the big problem that stuck out for me is that it is an unsigned pgp key hosted on another site. Which means someone could easily replace the key with something else and man in the middle the communication. At least have a couple trust worth
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10y ago
Steel in china is produced by SOEs, by definition an SOE is not capitalistic it is communist. If a communist entity wants to export subsidized steel at or below cost why should the US stop them? buy all their steel and then laugh when you s
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10y ago
I find it funny how many people dont realize the "your next interviewer is out of office so we are going to end early" is code for were have already decided to reject you so we dont want to waste any more of our employees time int
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10y ago
wechat first gather a lot of users by building a great chat app. Starting by copying whatsapp then extending it to be much more while seamlessly linking to other tencent social media accounts which includes qq one the largest instant messag
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10y ago
they have a value because the IRS requires the company to value the shares at fair market value and you pay tax on that value as regular income at the end of the year
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10y ago
read this story and realize who the real terrorist is. Even if this man was a member of the taliban does that give anyone the right to make his children afraid to sleep in their bed at night? this whole situation reminds me of the ending of
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11y ago
amazon is very profitable but they plow back all profits into new business ventures so they pay 0 taxes because they can report no profit. If you make a billion dollars profit and then immediately spend that building a new datacenter or war
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