rprasad

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2 weeks notice is only required by either side if the employment agreement requires it. (2 weeks = 2 weeks before the intended departure date, not the actual departure date.) Otherwise, the standard is that either party can terminate t
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That's not what a right-to-work law is. Right to work laws are related to union workforces; they allow non-union employees to work in otherwise unionized workforces without requiring them to join the union (and thus be forced to pay union d
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Being fired generally means you were terminated for cause. Being laid off generally means you were terminated for business reasons.
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Infrastructure is/was the easy part of cable (due to the monopoly grants). Content is, and always was, the hard part. Without the proper licenses to stream Video over IP, you're DOA. But it has been done before, many times, successfully...
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The books are still very much copyrighted, but I am not so sure that means much. That means everything. The audio recordings are a derivative work, so the audio"ness" of it is a separate copyrightable/copyrighted work (but the underly
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Except, you know, for the remaining 99% of colonial Americans, who came from multiple nations (i.e., Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, and France) primarily to exploit the vast natural resources for sale back in Europe. Let's not forget that th
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You're not. When I was living in an unfortunate area of the country only served by Time Warner Cable, DNS lookup throttling was their sole means of capping heavy downloaders.
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Heavens forbid that someone try to make a living providing cost-efficient technical solutions like a website and email to non-tech-saavy small businesses!
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What the CA Privacy Act requires: 1) type of information gathered by your website/app 2) if and how the information may be shared with third parties 3) the process by which a user can review and make changes to their stored information 4) y
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Donations does not automatically mean a for-profit venture, nor does it has any affect on the legality of the use of the work in regard to fair use. Donations do not mean a for-profit venture, but collecting cash for distributing someone
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The PWC report includes time spent determining state and local taxes, which can be quite complex in the U.S. (for companies operating in many states) but which are nonexistent in other nations.
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That's not how copyright works. Copyright is specific to the manifestation. EA gave its blessing for sites to host the game install files as part of its promotion. EA does not appear to have given its permission to host this game. As lo
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* They're simply helping those drivers fill their excess capacity. Limo drivers have been driving legally, under as much or more regulation than taxi drivers for years. * Not all Uber drivers are licensed limo drivers or hold taxicab medall
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I say this as someone who has been in the unfortunate position of defending a pedophile in court, please stop defending child pornography and pedophiles. Child pornagraphy is not an abstract concept. Child pornography isn't outlawed simpl
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I do. I use Calibre to remove DRM and convert. The Nook is a superior device for reading (though haven't compared it to the Paperwhite yet.)
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If California got back from the federal government all the federal taxes paid by its citizens, California would have a surplus every year despite its outsized pension obligations. Instead, large chunks of California-source taxes that shoul
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You can't create a crisis simply by refusing to raise taxes (which were already near the highest in the nation). Sure you can. Spending increases are very predicable, and generally increase with the size of the governed populace. There i
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The unfunded liability will last out most another 50 years (when the last of the employees covered by these generous pensions dies). New employees receive far less favorable pensions: either significant reduced defined-benefit pensions, or
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The point of the comment, I believe, was that it is unlikely that the railway will ever actually connect LA and Frisco b/c current levels of public funding are insufficient to build out the entire length. The full project will require sign
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IP created by an employee is "work for hire" because it is assumed that all of the employee's work is specific to the employer. A contractor may perform the same task for many different clients, so a contractor's work is not the IP of the
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Sampling is a different type of use subject to mandatory licensing laws peculiar to the music industry. There are analogous laws in the Europe, but they are not as permissive as the U.S. laws.
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In the US and the UK, income is income however earned in whatever currency or form transacted (i.e., whether cash, sex, goats, or blessings). The IRS does not accept payment in goats. They could secure a court order requiring you to sell t
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Fundraising, or managing the primadonna tenured professors.
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Yes, schools will survive in the age of the web. Most people learn via interaction, not passive observation. That's the reason we have homework, and labs, and (at the K12 level) all sorts of silly in-class activities. College education wi
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*The things that are completely stupid with current car rental companies: 1) lengthy checkout process, 2) inability to choose car and 3) anti-customer gas policies. I suggest you patronize different car rental companies. Discount car renta
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Join any "Gold" or "Executive" level offering from any car rental company. They've offered these plans for years--paperwork is handled when you join, and thereafter your wait time for a car is usually the amount of time it takes you to pul
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The issues FlightCar faces are very different from those AirBNB faces. For starters, auto insurance is mandatory in the U.S.; homeowner's insurance is not. Strict laws govern auto insurance coverage, liability, and claims. These laws vary
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The IRS does not treat a sole proprietorship as a "single-member". It ignores the existence of the sole proprietorship for tax purposes, as do the states (generally). In other words, you and the business are the same in the eyes of the
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Despite the assertions of tptacek, there is no requirement for any fraud to occur for a crime to have occurred. This is a pretty important thing for computer people to understand, and it's really unfortunate that one knucklehead vehemently
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Every government regulatory agency already does this. This is why we have millions of pages of regulations. For example (not exhaustive), the IRS, Immigration, and Labor departments lay out exactly how to follow the statutes, and set ju

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