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So, not to be a troll, but can anyone actually vouch for the legitimacy of this? I don't really doubt it's legitimacy, and it's nice to think that gender is not just a psychological spectrum but a biological one too, but this article is completely devoid of sources.

I was a tortoise until age 7. Being a reptile is a bummer, and my tutle penis didn't develop until age 45. Most people born in CA are like this... Just sayin'.

Okay so first off, the educated people in this country don't care about this stuff. I stopped reading a few sentences in because it was clear the author had some vendetta against the company. People don't just attempt to crucify businesses for no reason. And just to be clear: most of America has no idea what's going on in SV. We're not all wearing google glass to order Uber delivered Big Macs despite what you might think.

Secondly, a lot of Americans are behaviorally conditioned by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Roger Ailes. They elected our President, but they don't represent America (as I assume you don't support Mussolini's ideals because you're from Italy - also check out "The Brainwashing of my Dad" on Amazon Prime to understand the plight of many young Americans dealing with this insanity)

Some people live off emotional editorials. Not to be confrontational, but how worked up you seem to be upon reading this fluff piece in Italy makes me think you're not that far off from a middle-america pleb.

Our media system has been developed to evoke emotion because emotions sell... don't buy into it unless you want to be pissed off.

Also, what don't you like about the Olive Garden specifically? While I was in the process of becoming an engineer, I was a OG waiter trying to pay my college bills. Nobody is calling it Italian... It was developed as an American company. I really don't understand the argument. Americans should just eat wheat, corn and chicken? Sounds a lot like cultural appropriation which is the first sign of fascism.

My curries are not Indian, they're American. My Mole isn't Mexican, it's American. My paella isn't Spanish, my fried rice isn't Chinese, my panang curry isn't really Thai, and yeah, I make a grilled cheese macaroni that might blow your mind. Deal with it.

Food is the common denominator between cultures. It doesn't matter where you're from or who you were raised by, if you enjoy food: you love everyone, because we all have our secrets of deliciousness. Please don't try to make it a dividing factor.

To add insult to injury, people from your country came here, incorporated what they loved about your culture with ours and to you they're 'portrayed as "pizza, mafia, gobbledygook mamma mia".' I don't think this way, and I don't believe anyone I know in this country feels that way.

If you want to generalize, I will too which means as an Italian, you're a Mussolini supporting fascist. However, if you're willing to be an empathetic human being, I will too, and maybe you'll understand generalizations are one of the main sources of hatred that you should avoid.

The author here either has an agenda against someone at this company or an issue with gentrification (an issue all major American metropolises are dealing with). Don't assume some wacko's point of view defines America's situation because Silicon Valley was name dropped. Again: Nobody wears google glass in this country aside from the diluted.

All this and I still can't use Screenhero on Ubuntu? Way to destroy a useful platform for the open source community, Slack.

So what? I still got a 500 error while trying to process an order and when I refreshed - sold out. "60% of the time - it works every time" is only good for Panther scented cologne.

12,900,000 / second - WOW. Too bad the request rate was probably closer to 15,000,000 / second and you just abandoned everyone else.

When you're responsible for everything, the weight of the world is on your shoulders at all times. When you're a cog in an accepted system, you aren't singled our for your inefficiencies . Perhaps less gratitude for being a baller, but a lot more comfort in knowing you aren't going to be wrongfully terminated because the CEO has a personality disorder.

I think you hit the heart of my concern, even with access to the law, most people need a lawyer to translate the laws into something that can be understood.

Not to mention that the comments to the article prove that when many see one case where the defendant was quite obviously being an asshole and see a law like, "prosecute people for posting nude images to hurt a person without their consent" would just say, "Hey yeah, screw those assholes!"

But there is no mention of the civil and constitution rights quagmire that a law like this can create. Not to mention that most people would likely read this and think it only applies to revenge porn and doesn't have implications to content published in a mutually consensual nature, where the consent was later revoked. Or where a person has their data hacked and leaked and the ex jumps to the conclusion that the content was posted by the creator to hurt them.

It's nice that they protected minors by only including people over the age of 18 in the definition, but to me, the issue is that laws like this allow for potential abuse by former romantic partners and prosecutorial abuse if charges are ever pressed and that isn't at all clear in the way the law is written.

And the article also doesn't stipulate that the damages guaranteed by this law are not only the fines of up to a $10,000 which just goes to the court but also the right of the victim to file a civil suit with a minimum $10,000 + legal fees. So basically, they have created a major incentive for unscrupulous people to turn former lovers in regardless of whether or not they have actually been harmed in any way or had given consent to post the content or whether or not the person charged was even involved with the distribution.

In this case, yeah, the guy needs some reform. But in any other case, all that would likely be needed for a conviction is a sexually explicit video that features both parties with a profile with the picture of one party and the other as the crying victim.

Sir William Blackstone said, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." I believe laws like this are designed to harass innocent people, whether intentionally or not.

In regards to Beats' profits, I believe Beats, much like Apple, is a brand who's value is pinned largely to the guy who's at the head of the ship. With Apple, people knew that Steve Jobs had amazing stylistic and functional taste in products. Because nothing was produced while he was at the helm without first being approved by him, people could trust that each iteration of product line was something they would want by nature, the only question would be whether or not they wanted it enough to pay the premium.

When Steve passed(RIP), Apple took a large hit to their product appeal (which I don't believe has yet been fully realized) because while Apple can still make high quality products, they don't have Steve Jobs, the guru of computer style, there to give his stamp of approval that not only is this the high quality product you've come to expect from Apple but it is also designed for use by humans and "cool".

Next, Apple brought its tastes/decisions into question with the changes to the iPhone design and iOS, the introduction of the iPad mini... a lot of things that beg the question, "Would Steve have really gone for this?"

Enter Beats by Dre, another brand that seems to have its value pegged to the guy who appears to be giving final approval to the products, so much so that he put his name is on all of his products. It has been confirmed that Beats makes great products, so people now trust the brand. They can go into the store and pick up the newest whatever by Beats and can rest assured that it's going to be not only very high quality audio, but it also has Dre's signature that the component ain't nuthin' but a G thang.

Like you said, Beats has profits. There is no real reason for them to want to sell except that they want to get out while they're in a strong position. My guess would be that Dre feels that he's done enough good work and he wants to get out for a boat-load of money so he can start another venture or focus on making music.

There's no real reason for Dre to stay with Beats if its acquired unless it's part of the deal, but if that was the case one would again wonder why the good doctor would be selling the company in the first place. But for Dre, even if he was to retire from the audio component game, his claim to fame would remain untarnished for producing nothing but ultra high quality products. I would imagine the stuff that was produced under him could become collectors items like vintage Nike sneakers. Without him at the head, I see the Beats profits going way down.

It's also funny you bring up the PC/Apple grudge match as I see this acquisition as a deliberate play by Apple against its PC/Android rivals.

Beats by Dre is/was a major feature for companies like HP(computer) and HTC(android). Beats bought out HTC's share of the company to end their partnership, but I'm sure Apple wants to include Beats to their feature list for iPhone and iPad. And HP is one of Apple's most direct competitors on the PC market. Beats is something that HP had that Apple didn't, it was one feature that could be better than Apple's comparative feature for all people knew.

Well that's probably enough ranting so I'm just going to cut myself off. It's 9AM now, must work.

Yeah, honopu and kilburn got it right. My understanding is that transfer measurements are the maximum amount of data your instance can serve up in a month, while bandwidth is the speed at which it can do it.

Its like downloading a 1 GB file to your computer using a 56k modem or a cable modem... the transfer amount will be 1 GB either way, but the cable modem will be a hell of a lot faster due to the increase in its bandwidth. As you upgrade your plan with Linode, your "modem" gets faster, however DO doesn't mention the speed of their "modem" or if its speed is affected by the price level you select.