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It happens all the time, in nearly every case involving wealthy defendants (and especially in cases between or involving corporations). It's the SOP for large-scale litigation firms; indeed, most litigation firms don't know how to practice
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Poor people are quite frequently the targets of ungodly amounts of government resources personally targeted at them, especially in Texas and certain counties in Southern California. I also suggest reading up on the history of Joe Arpaio an
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Gerrymandering = a political party draws the borders of the district to give itself an overwhelming majority such that no challenger from another party has a serious chance of winning in the election. Thus, an open primary is useless withou
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The company is "importing" and re-"exporting" the same fuel over and over again, collecting a credit each time. The credit is only intended for fuel that is imported into the US. Under international laws, import has a very specific meaning
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It is sci-fi in the sense that it involves speculation as to future interefence in various scientific endeavors on a industry-wide scale (i.e., soft sci-fi) by extending numerous historical examples of such practices. Also...it takes place
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Apple doesn't have to work with OEMs, resellers, retailers, or (generally speaking) enterprises. Basically, all of Apple's customers are the consumers themselves, so Apple has a single consumer price. Microsoft has various groups of custo
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C# is a dominant language for indie games: Unity, and almost all games using the Unity engine; Magicka, Terraria, Breath of Death, Weapon of Choice, and Sol Survivor, which use the XNA framework; Eufloria, which was originally written in C#
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The chart shows that you are both right. The marginal rate was 39.5%, then dropped as part of Clinton's deal with the House Republicans in his second term.
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If you want to avoid double taxation, you are certainly free to choose a pass-through form of entity. If you choose to create/invest in a corporation, you accept double-taxation as the cost of the benefits afforded by the corporate form.
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I would argue that Android users generally have more important/interesting things to do than surfing on their phone all day.
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I see Windows 8, like Vista before it, as the trial run for the OS that Microsoft intends to sell to enterprises. Work out the UI kinks, etc., and have a battle-tested version 2 they can ship to businesses with long-term support. It also p
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It's one thing to port a specific application and work out all of the kinks. It's another thing entirely to claim that millions of different applications will be able to make the transition. Even the article points this out: Winulator is
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Stop spreading FUD. That "thinly veiled promise not to sue" is backed by the full force of a legally binding promise recognized by the combined weight of the US and Euro legal systems. Microsoft is, by centuries of established law and cour
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Because unlike Firefox or Chrome, Microsoft has thousands of enterprise customers who use IE to host intranet applications that depend on specific behaviors of the browser. Thus, Microsoft is essentially required to freeze development on a
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The solution to the SV problem is not to lobby the government or to try to set up some libertarian outpost in the desert. Just move out of SV . The air is different outside of SV. People don't care about apps, or financing rounds, or VCs.
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* I'd bet teenagers are over-represented from a few years ago.* Teenagers are a smaller portion of the moviegoing market than they were 10 years ago. Smartphones, videogames, and various other distractions have cut down on their numbers.
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That's not how marketing works, now or ever. The sole purpose of marketing is to drive sales of a product or service. Marketing is profitable to the seller if (a) it yields more customers/clients than in the absence of marketing expenditu
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You are definitely living in a bubble. $40,000 [edit: $50,000k] a year plus benefits straight out of high school, with no experience or education requirements is an awesome job. Sure, these guys have to work occasional 15 hour days, a
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For each of the barriers you brought up, have you got any ideas on how Cherry could've addressed them? One trick I've learnt in the past couple of years is that solutions don't need to be 100%. If Cherry had found solutions that worked 80
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Agreed; it's always annoying when people with no experience in an industry claim that sketchy startup logic will somehow overcome real-world problems that have vexed businesses for decades (or longer). Employment, fraud, and customer devel
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HPB buys books from the first-sellers, so someone pays the appropriate price on the books. HPB doesn't care who. They key distinction is that their business isn't structured around circumventing treaty-supported geography-based pricing
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Apple refuses to license any product which combines the Lightning connector with any older Apple connector. Thus, buyers would have had to use the 30-pin to USB (or USB to Lightning connector, which is apparently not available in the US?).
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This would apply to Guantanamo but not to the drone strikes. The difference is that we are alleging crimes against the Guantannamo detainees, but not against drone targets. The drone targets are regarded as military targets, so the interna
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If you want to be completely literal and pedantic about it, " in the land and naval forces" refers to persons serving in the Army, Navy, and Marines (or their historical equivalents).
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The Bill of Rights, when originally written, was not intended to apply to all men. Slaves, for example, were not entitled to any of these protections. The Amendments abolishing slavery and extending the BOR to the states does not contain
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A startup is, by definition, a newly formed business venture that is in the process of "starting up" its permanent business operations. Thus, a food truck, a taco stand, a shop, a web app...those are all startups if they are new business
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Interest rates on investments take into account estimated inflation, so the $30k already takes into account likely inflation (but would not take into account higher-than-expected inflation).
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All those fantastic public K12 schools in red states are made possible with federal education spending that is made possible by California (and to a lesser extent other blue states like New York and Massachussetts). California receives back
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Use the phones that all intelligence agencies use: Blackberry. Give a CIA tech an iPhone, Android, or WinPho, and he'll have access to all of your data (on the phone) before you've finished putting the phone down. Comparing the security on
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Pretty much everything about that statement in inaccurate. The vast majority of them have parental funding. Most MBAs are self-funding; almost every MBA I met at the Berkeley, Stanford, Case, Loyola, USC, and UCLA business schools was. A

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