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by newbusox 15y ago
I feel like the outrage against Foxconn and Apple (and others) is particularly heightened by the fact that we're talking about an iPhone, as opposed to a piece of industrial machinery, or even, say, a car, the production of which is probabl
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by newbusox 15y ago
You may know this already, but I wonder if Epic Systems ( http://www.epic.com/ ), a big healthcare tech company out of Wisconsin, has something like this as part of their bundled software for hospitals/medical professionals. If not, they ma
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by newbusox 15y ago
I feel like one of the major changes in a Steve Jobs-less Apple is going to be an increased emphasis on the corporate market. This was historically one of the major differences between Apple (focused on end-users) and Microsoft (primarily f
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by newbusox 15y ago
I know that "public comment" (like whitehouse.gov petitions or wherever) gets a lot of flack, but administrative agencies are legally required to consider your comments on pending rule changes and the like. The Copyright Office is such an e
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by newbusox 15y ago
As others have mentioned, if you don't have an attorney helping you with election law matters, I'd recommend hiring one or consulting with one. You really want to make sure you don't run afoul of election and campaign finance laws (there mi
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by newbusox 15y ago
In addition to the comments before me, it's also because the rules are not as simple as they may seem, and the rules change with practice over time. Unless you believe that the U.S. Constitution and laws are absolutely inflexible (which not
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by newbusox 15y ago
I don't have any inside knowledge, but it seems like RIM has some deep structural or managerial issues that are going to hamper any initiative they have in the near-term. Their recent quotes, as reported on in the New York Times and elsewhe
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by newbusox 15y ago
Right, well that underlies the exact problem--things change faster that law makers and/or the jurisprudence can accommodate to.
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by newbusox 15y ago
The jurisprudence in this area has to evolve. In a house, for example, the police might be able to search your house because they have a warrant, or they might be able to search your house because of any other exception to the warrant requi
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by newbusox 15y ago
In my mind, an underlying problem hindering any bill that purports to enforce IP rights on the internet is the judiciary. Almost be definition, laws such as SOPA/PIPA and whatever else will be evaluated by judges, therefore changing (or, ra
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by newbusox 15y ago
I think that's a really interesting point and, to some extent, it's an argument that extends back to the idea of representation in a republic in general. You can either think of your representative as functioning as your agent in all matter
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by newbusox 15y ago
I don't know if publishing companies (or even book sellers, like Borders) have attempted this in the past, but this article (and the article it links to) lays out a pretty fair case for predatory pricing (sometimes referred to as "dumping")