Saturday, March 28, 2020

The Rose Law Group Reports Their News The Way They Want It Read ...Nothing Wrong With That

The Rose Law Group says that they are " honored to represent the top homebuilders, developers, solar companies, schools, businesses and cannabis companies in the country. We are attracted to successful companies, and they to us because we know our role – to use the law and our creativity . . ." OK
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Here's some of the latest:
1 Businesses can’t pay rent. That’s a threat to the $3 trillion commercial mortgage market.
Here’s what RLG transactional department director Cameron Carter recommends
2 How AI can help pinpoint Opportunity Zones’ true opportunities; Dan Gauthier, RLG
transactional attorney handling many O-Zone investments, comments.

> Belfiore: Caution and then a surge for housing market after coronavirus subsides

> Builders already feeling pandemic pinch; real estate consultant Jim Belfiore provides Arizona perspective.

> RTA tax appealed to Arizona Supreme Court.
(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents a coalition of property and business owners throughout Pinal County who have worked to bring new transportation infrastructure to the county.)

> Salt Lake City homebuilder has big plans for Phoenix region. (Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Woodside Homes.)

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Belfiore: When the housing market will recover from coronavirus

Pollack: The world has changed

Governor Ducey Issues Executive Order Detailing “Essential Services,” RLG Founder Jordan Rose Says It’s “Good Balancing – Keeps Businesses Open and Protects Health.”

The doctor who helped defeat smallpox explains what’s coming

Major builder: Coronavirus won’t kill new construction

Rose Law Group’s New (Virtual) Power Lunch…The New Economy

Arizona hotels and resorts closed for coronavirus; RLG corporate attorney Shruti Gurudanti says owners and operators must ‘take urgent steps.’

Homebuilders face the effects of coronavirus

Verizon: Not Worth The Hype > Higher Prices On The Horizon

Over-Hyped to an almost comical degree

Verizon Is The Only US Wireless Carrier Charging Extra For 5G

Wireless

from the not-worth-the-hype dept

Fri, Mar 27th 2020 6:14am — Karl Bode

"By now we've established that while fifth-generation (5G) wireless will result in faster, more resilient networks, the technology has been over-hyped to an almost comical degree.
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"Yes, faster, lower latency networks are a good thing, but 5G is not as paradigm-rattling as most wireless carriers and hardware vendors have led many in the press to believe. 5G is more of a useful evolution than a revolution, but it has become the equivalent of magic pixie dust in tech policy circles, wherein if you simply say "it will lead to faster deployment of 5G!" you'll immediately add gravitas to your otherwise underwhelming K Street policy pitch.

The other major problem?
Americans already pay some of the highest prices for mobile data in the developed world. Now they're being asked to shell out a lot of cash for pricey new handsets with worse battery life, but more expensive data plans. It was already a difficult, pre-pandemic proposition to explain why users happy with 4G speeds need to pay even more.

Many carriers appear to have understood this. AT&T includes 5G for free on the company's two most expensive unlimited plans. T-Mobile has been offering 5G for no additional cost (though that could change post Sprint merger) on all of its unlimited plans. Verizon, in contrast, has been eager to charge users an extra $10 per month for 5G. Initially the company backed off this surcharge after some negative early press, but seems intent on imposing these surcharges, it claims, because 5G offers a "differentiated experience":

"When you deliver a differentiated service, you can get a differentiated price point," Verizon CFO Matt Ellis explained during a recent investor event. Ellis pointed to Verizon's recent demonstration of 4.2Gbit/s speeds on its commercial 5G network, noting such speeds are dramatically faster than what Verizon offers even on its wired Fios network."

There are several problems here. . .

> One, Verizon's "launched" 5G markets have been repeatedly ridiculed for being spotty at best. . .

> The other problem: while Verizon's best case 5G can theoretically offer speeds that rival fiber, "5G" as a standard behaves very differently depending on what kind of spectrum is being used to fuel it. . .

Granted, with the T-Mobile Sprint merger reducing wireless competition by 25%, that will likely result in less serious pricing competition and more expensive plans. In turn that could result in AT&T and T-Mobile following Verizon's lead, and charging already cash-strapped American consumers even more in the years to come."

Permission Culture Gone Bad: A Story From TechDirt About A Kindergarten Teacher Reading a Book To Students Online

This excerpt will start you off > Let's go there!

. . . just the fact that we're in this situation in the first place should demonstrate the fundamental broken nature of copyright law. A few people pointed me to certain "solutions" to this -- including a special Pandemic License and a more official Education Continuity License -- both of which have been designed to specifically deal with this situation. But both of those are still based on the fundamentally flawed idea that we should need licenses and permission to read aloud.

That's messed up. . .

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Copyright Is Broken: COVID-19 Pandemic Revealing Just How Messed Up Our Permission-Based Culture Is

Culture

from the let's-fix-it dept

Fri, Mar 27th 2020 10:45am — Mike Masnick

"Like large parts of the world right now, I'm stuck at home these days, and figuring out how to work and be a distance learning proctor to children. A week and a half into this forced educational experiment, my kid's kindergarten teacher decided to post a (private) video of her reading a children's book to the students. Why did it take so long before reading time arrived to distance learning? Copyright, of course. She needed to wait for permission from Random House, apparently, and that also meant that in posting the video to the distance learning platform the school is using, she noted in both text, and prior to reading, "with permission from Random House."

Now let's think about how silly this is. No one would ever expect that if you walked into a kindergarten classroom that a teacher would first need to (a) get permission to read aloud a book and (b) state before reading that he or she had "permission" from the copyright holder. This is permission culture gone mad. But it's the way things are, especially since copyright holders have spent the past two decades blaming platforms for hosting any "infringing" material. . .

I doubt that the teacher in this case was directly concerned about her own liability (though, she might be), but it very likely had to do with the distance learning platform the school is using requiring her "properly license" anything uploaded. Indeed, when I tweeted about this, a copyright lawyer insisted that this was "better for everyone" to make sure that no one had liability. I question how it's better for teachers, students, or culture in general, however.

Marathon Asset Management Reviews Risks - Every Sector

Buying at distressed levels
This may be nerdy, but take the time to listen
(it's about 20 minutes and definitely worth the time)

Mar.26 -- Bruce Richards, Marathon Asset Management's chairman and chief executive officer, talks about stress in credit markets, how a federal stimulus bill could impact the market and Federal Reserve monetary policy. He speaks during an interview with Bloomberg's Vonnie Quinn on "Bloomberg Markets."

OVERSIGHT: Bubble-Up or Trickle-Down

Back up for just a couple of minutes - why was that just a "Voice Vote"?

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Saturday, March 28, 2020

The Rose Law Group Reports Their News The Way They Want It Read ...Nothing Wrong With That

Verizon: Not Worth The Hype > Higher Prices On The Horizon

Verizon Is The Only US Wireless Carrier Charging Extra For 5G

Permission Culture Gone Bad: A Story From TechDirt About A Kindergarten Teacher Reading a Book To Students Online

Copyright Is Broken: COVID-19 Pandemic Revealing Just How Messed Up Our Permission-Based Culture Is

from the let's-fix-it dept

Marathon Asset Management Reviews Risks - Every Sector

Category

OVERSIGHT: Bubble-Up or Trickle-Down

We believe in science not rumors, we cooperate instead of playing the blame game.

MELLO AFTER DARK (LIVE FROM QUARANTINE) House Music

GREGORY BOVINO: Nazi Cosplay Time in Mineeapolis...Trump's ICE Enforcer