Why don't the anti-virus companies just use some of their revenue to advertise or to provide private subsidies to home users (or schools etc)? Same effect on AV adoption as the government subsidies, without the need for taxation or the need for the government to subsidize any paticular product (and all the corruption and bribes - sorry lobbying and 'campaign contributions' that go with government pork).
Gardening leave is time where a company pays you your wage without you doing any work for them, on the condition that you don't do work for anyone else either. You still get paid.
It's not an entirely spurious (oir 'funny' if you're modding) comment - Australian and Kiwi schools typically have their longest vacation in their summer, not ours.
*unless you tried to blackmail someone over the internet and they call in the FBI, who then - with the authority of a warrant - use a Trojan to find out where you are.
Seriously, how stupid is this guy?
Those statistics can't be trusted - most advanced cultures no longer monitor literacy rates; it's become customary to record literacy rates for these countries at 99%. This means that any country that does monitor literacy and records a value higher than 99% looks more literate than the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and all of western Europe even though there's no data to support that conclusion.
In a traditional Ponzi scheme people are tricked into investing. In the Social Security Ponzi scheme, people are forced into investing. So traditional Ponzi schemes collapse when the fraud is discovered - but Social Security will collapse when the people being forced to invest can't afford to.
It's not bullshit and it's not conservative. It's just good economic sense.
Social Security is a fund that uses new money to pay older commitments instead of investing it. A textbook definition of a Ponzi scheme.
If Madoff does it it's a Ponzi scheme. If the federal government does it then it's still a Ponzi scheme.
I didn't suggest that we let people die in the streets. I only pointed out that social security is a pyramid scheme; money paid in isn't invested - it's used to pay people who invested previously.
He might be talking about Social Security - which relies on more people paying in than taking out and will crash and burn horribly if the population stops growing fast enough.
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That's definitely something criminals could exploit - knock out 1 in 1000 laptops, then "pay us $X thousand dollars, or all the laptops you gave away brick". A physical DOS attack. Think how much that could cost a company in terms of reputation and lost buisness, not to mention the inevitable lawsuits.
For that reason alone I think this is an amazingly stupid idea.
No it doesn't.
Its control is people playing The Sims. In order to say anything meaningful about violence, the control would have to be a non-violent FPS.
Someone just stuck the word violent in there to get people's attention.
The actual wording of Article 10 is (entire text, emphasis mine):
Article 10 - Freedom of expression
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.
Depending on exactly what he meant by 'delivered accidentally' and on what jurisdiction he lives in (not everyone lives in the USA with you 'Federal' laws) he may have been the legal owner of the gift certificate.
"God damn America!" Yep, really open minded there.
Nice unintentional irony there - you're so closed minded that you assume anyone who dislikes the behaviour of the US government over the past 8 years must be closed minded.
"If you're a business and you've spent 100 hours installing a piece of software across a network only to find updates and support drops a week later, that can work out to be very expensive."
If you're a business and you've spent 100 hours installing a piece of software - OSS or otherwise - across a network before securing a method of support for that software then you've already made your mistake.
McCain picking a woefully under-qualified running mate, apparently without even bothering to vet her, is a big story. It has nothing to do with 'liberal bias'.
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Why don't the anti-virus companies just use some of their revenue to advertise or to provide private subsidies to home users (or schools etc)? Same effect on AV adoption as the government subsidies, without the need for taxation or the need for the government to subsidize any paticular product (and all the corruption and bribes - sorry lobbying and 'campaign contributions' that go with government pork).
Gardening leave is time where a company pays you your wage without you doing any work for them, on the condition that you don't do work for anyone else either. You still get paid.
It also is illegal in Brazil.
It's not an entirely spurious (oir 'funny' if you're modding) comment - Australian and Kiwi schools typically have their longest vacation in their summer, not ours.
*unless you tried to blackmail someone over the internet and they call in the FBI, who then - with the authority of a warrant - use a Trojan to find out where you are. Seriously, how stupid is this guy?
Those statistics can't be trusted - most advanced cultures no longer monitor literacy rates; it's become customary to record literacy rates for these countries at 99%. This means that any country that does monitor literacy and records a value higher than 99% looks more literate than the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and all of western Europe even though there's no data to support that conclusion.
Last time I checked, its illegal to take something that is not yours and you didn't pay for. And it has been that way for thousands of years.
What's that got to do with copying though?
What does 'the Government' mean? State? Federal? Does it give residents of Florida the right to petition the state senate of Utah for anything?
In a traditional Ponzi scheme people are tricked into investing. In the Social Security Ponzi scheme, people are forced into investing. So traditional Ponzi schemes collapse when the fraud is discovered - but Social Security will collapse when the people being forced to invest can't afford to.
It's not bullshit and it's not conservative. It's just good economic sense. Social Security is a fund that uses new money to pay older commitments instead of investing it. A textbook definition of a Ponzi scheme. If Madoff does it it's a Ponzi scheme. If the federal government does it then it's still a Ponzi scheme.
I didn't suggest that we let people die in the streets. I only pointed out that social security is a pyramid scheme; money paid in isn't invested - it's used to pay people who invested previously.
It's a tad off-topic, but maybe the OP should consider that if Hamas vanished, the violence would end; if the IDF vanished, so would Israel.
If Hamas vanished, would Isreali settlers stop building homes on Palestinian land?
He might be talking about Social Security - which relies on more people paying in than taking out and will crash and burn horribly if the population stops growing fast enough.
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That's definitely something criminals could exploit - knock out 1 in 1000 laptops, then "pay us $X thousand dollars, or all the laptops you gave away brick". A physical DOS attack. Think how much that could cost a company in terms of reputation and lost buisness, not to mention the inevitable lawsuits. For that reason alone I think this is an amazingly stupid idea.
No it doesn't. Its control is people playing The Sims. In order to say anything meaningful about violence, the control would have to be a non-violent FPS. Someone just stuck the word violent in there to get people's attention.
Article 10 - Freedom of expression
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.
They're gonna have first ammendment problems with this.
Depending on exactly what he meant by 'delivered accidentally' and on what jurisdiction he lives in (not everyone lives in the USA with you 'Federal' laws) he may have been the legal owner of the gift certificate.
The prosecutor was being a dick - TPB guy was just highlighting that fact.
"God damn America!" Yep, really open minded there.
Nice unintentional irony there - you're so closed minded that you assume anyone who dislikes the behaviour of the US government over the past 8 years must be closed minded.
"If you're a business and you've spent 100 hours installing a piece of software across a network only to find updates and support drops a week later, that can work out to be very expensive." If you're a business and you've spent 100 hours installing a piece of software - OSS or otherwise - across a network before securing a method of support for that software then you've already made your mistake.
McCain picking a woefully under-qualified running mate, apparently without even bothering to vet her, is a big story. It has nothing to do with 'liberal bias'.
To be fair, Sarah Palin's email wouldn't have been published if she hadn't been conducting government business off the record.