The super anachronistic output makes this really difficult. One of the examples was the battle in the war of the roses but all the imagery suggests over a hundred years later.
Yeah fair point. The game still has an issue with details creeping in that are not correct. I believe we can get these types of errors down quite a bit though.
Maybe I am missing a point, but both Amazon and Microsoft have devices that they manufacture and distribute. While they may not be profitable at the price they are sold they provide value to customers that isn't conjured from air. Additionally they also sell access to data services, while the data may not by physical, the data centers are physical objects that are designed and built by both AWS and Microsoft.
The main thing is that WhatsApp changed some processing from relying on Consent to relying on "Contractual Agreement" (contrary to popular opinion, GDPR does not always require consent). The fine is based on two things: 1) this change and its ramifications were not communicated to users 2) you can't actually use "Contractual Agreement" for some of that processing.
1) is important because consent can be withdrawn. If users still believe that processing is based on their consent, they believe they have the ability to withdraw consent and processing must stop, but that doesn't apply to Contractual Agreement. In other words, this lack-of-clarity means users believed they had more control over they data, but they didn't.
2) requires reading deeper into the decision to see what matters. From background, Facebook has argued in the past that personalized advertising is a contractually-provided service, and that's probably what got rejected.
This is a recurring theme by now: American company decides to look at the law in the narrowest way possible and to try to find a loophole to keep doing what they were doing, European legislators insist that you take the intent to heart and try to do your best to comply with that. This will probably happen many more times before the coin will finally drop.
The GDPR absolutely has the capability to provide that motivation. Especially when you get hit several times for different instances of the same infraction it can really add up, potentially even a large player could be put out of business. I think that at some point in time one of these regulators is going to get angry enough that they may want to set an example.
If the cookie law is anything to go by, the real question is enforcement rather than the letter of the law.
The cookie law is quite well written and makes it clear that the obvious dark patterns are verboten.
You aren't allowed to use intentionally deceptive toggles, or to make it much harder to say no than to say yes. The law is very rarely enforced though, so such dark patterns are rife.
I suspect something similar may happen with other Internet-governing regulation.
Keep a very good eye on your local elections and get technically competent people (and hopefully the ones that are not for sale by lobbyists) into the seats of power. The best bit: it's free. I'm pretty happy with the way the GDPR so far has worked out and as far as I'm concerned they're welcome to ratchet up the pressure a notch, or even two.
Why is legal reporting in Europe so ambiguous? There are always articles with a summary but it seems like you can never read any deeper unless it reaches the ECJ or ECHR. In America we have PACER and anyone with a few dollars can read everything besides sealed documents,
There are no personalised ads or no ads at all in WhatsApp, are there?
What got rejected is using the data for "service improvement" and "security" - in particular how WhatsApp used personal data for these purposes, and how in the opinion of Europea data protection authorities this was not necessary for Meta to perform the contract.
Seems to just be Seattle tax, I had to get a water line replaced in my home and the quotes were $2-7k higher than I've seen suggested in other regions. Tradework here is inflated likely by the salaries of tech workers in the city.
In my locale, trades like plumbing (including gas & hvac), drywall, roofing etc range from 1 to 1.5 what contract developers from NTT, IBM et al are billed at. In absolute terms - 110 - 140 for contract devs and trades are often "to busy" at 170.
Oof that hits a sore spot. I was the 2016 Winner of the Ugliest Shirts Award at one of the first technology companies I worked at. Being singled out in front of all your peers for poor fashion sense and then the ensuing obligatory laugh ruined my opinion of that company's leadership. I would strongly encourage anyone in a professional environment
(especially those in leadership roles) to keep comments on appearance to yourself.
I'm sorry to remind you of a bad time. I would like to point out that "2016 Ugliest Shirts" is a pretty different concept from "Person who wore the ugliest shirt this week" with a picture of you in a ratty beloved tee. It sounds like those were year end remarks, which means instead of judging an act they were judging your long term taste. Also it implies the most memorable thing about you was your shirt choice. And lastly, you weren't anticipating it, so you found out everyone was secretly judging you on something.
If, during orientation you were told a trophy gets given out every week for it, and some people wear really ugly shirts each Friday to try to win it, it would have felt very different.
But yeah, year end humorous awards like that probably belong confined to episodes of The Office.
At least anecdotally this push was the final push I needed to stop using reddit. I went from probably browsing for a few hours a day to maybe once or twice a month when a friend links me a post.
This was my experience in schooling two decades ago. I had the same teacher for Grades 1, 4 and 7. This teacher and I did not work well together and I noticeably got worse grades in grades 4 and 7 than I had in the surrounding years.
I am sure the teacher was sick of me by the third year as well.
The latter group can unionize like the tenants union of Washington[1]. Unions can lobby on the behalf of their members and make campaign donations based on their dues. While their power may not be as great as the amount of individual homeowners who can independently donate a union is a good mechanism here for renters to advocate for affordable housing. Here in Seattle there are multiple unions that have lobbied to local city council members for increased tenants rights such as 6 month notice for increase in rent[2]. _Things_ are being done about the problem at the local level across the country through unionization of renters and workers.
No, it's not. The most you can charge for a soda is $3 around here. Even if you make 95% profit ($2.85), pretty much every single food item will make far more profit. A $12 salad will net you $9, a $15 dollar pasta will probably net you $12, a $40 steak will net you $20, and so on.
Gross profit matters far more than profit margin. Also the best way to be profitable is to increase sales relative to fixed costs, rather than trying to squeeze every dime out of limited sales.
