Before the iPhone was first unveiled(January 2007) there was a phone (LG Prada) that actually did look a lot like an iPhone
LG Electronics has claimed the iPhone's design was copied from the LG Prada. Woo-Young Kwak, head of LG Mobile Handset R&D Center, said at a press conference, “We consider that Apple copied the Prada phone after the design was unveiled when it was presented in the iF Design Award and won the prize in September 2006.”[8]
Note: While the LG Prada was not released until after the iPhone, the design and concept were released before we saw any of this from Apple.
Yet, none of you libertards seem to want to move there. Maybe because the fantasy really is just a fantasy?
Becuase the problems of Somalia have a lot more to do with the land, resources, general instability of the region, and mostly their history (You don't go from being an incredibly poor country to a fully developed one overnight)
Also Somalia hasn't had a centeral government in over 10 years. some parts of the country(Somaliland) are well governed, fairly stable, and actually doing quite well considering the region they are in.
You're thinking of civil contempt vs criminal contempt - which does not depend on whether the case is a civil case or a criminal one.
Civil Contempt is used used to get you to comply with a court order (such as reveal the password). This is for an indefinate period until either you comply with the order (reveal password) or a judge decides to let you free.
Criminal Contempt is a punishment for something you have done (Generally interfereing with the courtroom process, which could be anything from repeatedly yelling in court to trying to bribe jurors.) this has a set time before sentencing
i dont understand how you start with "No. Wrong. Very bad wrong." and then provide an example proving what he is saying by using the exact same example he was talking about (looking through car windows) and stating that it's Police policy????
For some reason your style of writing reminds me of someone who's been up for a week without sleep smoking meth and is thus entering early stages of psychosis
when the DNS servers that global ISPs use are based in Sweden and thus under their jurisdiction, yes. unfortunately i can see no way of them leaving US.
from the top of page 42 of the indictment (69. jjj.)
jjj. Starting as early as August 9, 2009, a member of the Mega Conspiracymade multiple transfers in and affecting interstate and foreign commerce through PayPal, Inc. toCW, a resident of Moseley, Virginia, which is in the Eastern District of Virginia, as part of theMega Conspiracy’s “Uploader Rewards” program. CW received total payments from theConspiracy of $2,900, including payments of $100 and $600 on August 9, 2009; a payment of $500 on October 8, 2009; a transfer of $1,500 on December 23, 2009; and a payment of $200 on June 21, 2010.
from the bottom of page 4
7. Megaupload.com advertises itself as a “cyberlocker,” which is a private data storage provider. However, as part of the design of the service, the vast majority of Megaupload.com users do not have significant capabilities to store private content long-term.Unregistered anonymous users (referred to as “Non-Members” by the Conspiracy) are allowed to upload and download content files, but any Non-Member-uploaded content that is not downloaded within 21 days is permanently deleted. Similarly, registered free users (or “Members”) are allowed to upload and download content files, but each uploaded file must be downloaded every 90 days in order to remain on the system. Only premium users have a realistic chance of having any private long-term storage,...
(i never used the service so can't say how it was, but this is the allegation)
22. When a file is being uploaded to Megaupload.com, the Conspiracy’s automatedsystem calculates a unique identifier for the file (called a “MD5 hash”) that is generated using amathematical algorithm. If, after the MD5 hash calculation, the system determines that theuploading file already exists on a server controlled by the Mega Conspiracy, Megaupload.comdoes not reproduce a second copy of the file on that server. Instead, the system provides a newand unique URL link to the new user that is pointed to the original file already present on theserver. If there is more than one URL link to a file, then any attempt by the copyright holder toterminate access to the file using the Abuse Tool or other DMCA takedown request will failbecause the additional access links will continue to be available.
23.The infringing copy of the copyrighted work, therefore, remains on theConspiracy’s systems (and accessible to at least one member of the public) as long as a single link remains unknown to the copyright holder. The Conspiracy’s internal reference databasetracks the links that have been generated by the system, but duplicative links to infringingmaterials are neither disclosed to copyright holders, nor are they automatically deleted when acopyright holder either uses the Abuse Tool or makes a standard DMCA copyright infringementtakedown request. During the course of the Conspiracy, the Mega Conspiracy has receivedmany millions of requests (through the Abuse Tool and otherwise) to remove infringing copiesof copyrighted works and yet the Conspiracy has, at best, only deleted the particular URL of which the copyright holder complained, and purposefully left the actual infringing copy of thecopyrighted work on the Mega Conspiracy-controlled server and any other access linkscompletely intact.
24. In addition to copyrighted files, other types of illicit content have been uploadedonto the Megaupload.com servers, including child pornography and terrorism propagandavideos. Members of the Conspiracy have indicated to each other that they can automaticallyidentify and delete such materials on all of their servers by calculating MD5 hash values of known child pornography or other illicit content, searching the system for these values, andeliminating them; in fact, such files with matching hash values have been deleted from the MegaConspiracy’s servers. Members of the Mega Conspiracy have failed to implement a similarprogram to actually delete or terminate access to copyright infringing content.
25. On or about June 24, 2010, members of the Mega Conspiracy were informed,pursuant to a criminal search warrant from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, that thirty-nine infringing copies of copyrighted motion pictures were present on theirleased servers at Carpathia Hosting, a hosting company headquartered in the Eastern District of Virginia. A member of the Mega Conspiracy informed several of his co-conspirators at that time that he located the named files using internal searches of their systems. As of November 18,2011, more than a year later, thirty-six of the thirty-nine infringing motion pictures were stillbeing stored on the servers controlled by the Mega Conspiracy
if you're particularly lazy just read 22 and 25.
although none of this is proof of anything i would assume the had evidence to back this up.
there's other stuff in there regarding their business model about how they profit of files but there's a lot of it. and it's all advertising/subscription based and would also cover legitimate files. so no single dollar would come from infringing files alone (according to indictment their advertising is sold at an upfront cost not a per click/view basis)
there are 4 scenarios(that i can think of) that are relevant to this situation.
1. Person A purchases a new game. They re-sell games or trade old games for a new one.
- There are more new sales to this person in a system with used game sales due to them having more disposable income that they assign to purchasing games. ignoring what happens to the games he trades in or re-sells there is a positive effect on new game sales
2. Person A doesnt trade in old games for newer games, and doesn't really re-sell them. they are short on cash or just clearing up space and decide they might as well sell their old games they dont play.
- this increases the pool of used games with no new sales (if they were to use this money to buy new games they should really be in category 1)
3. Person B goes into a purchase a game and when offered a used copy at 10% discount he opts for that.
- There are less new sales to this type of person as they may just buy the used game over the new game. ignoring purchasing decisions of the games before they were originally returned this has a negative effect on new game sales.
4. Person B has $X they like to spend on games a month. they generally look in the used games bin because they are cheaper.
- this has a negative effect on new game sales.
Your economic theory on used games and their effect on the new games market seems to only take into account Scenario 1. I'm not trying to argue that publishers deserve these extra sales. I dont plan on doing the reasearch to figure out the net effect of all these scenarios. but you'r argument that used game sales does not hurt publishers is weak and most likely incorrect.
It's incredibly arrogant of people to block ads simply because they dislike advertisements on an idealogical basis.
It's incredibly retarded to not stop and correct your spelling when your browser puts a squiggly red line under a word.
it's incredibly presumptuous of you to assume how his browser works.
They want free websites, but they don't want them to be able to make any money to pay for all the work that goes into it.
Wrong. I just don't want to see ads.
so don't visit websites that have ads.
Like it or not, advertising is the primary way websites fund themselves, and punishing all of them instead of targeting specific misbehavior (like Flash advertisements that destroy usability of a site or consume lots of system resources, or ad networks that track cross-site) they decide to cut off all advertisements for all sites.
Yes, that's how it works. I don't want to see any advertisements, ever. EVER.
good luck with that.
Myself, I block ads selectively when they disrupt the usability of a site in one way or another.
So then you block all ads, since they add distracting content to the page that adds nothing to the actual page content?
kind of like how picking on spelling mistakes adds nothing of value to the discussion at hand?
Kudos to others who aren't selfish and self-righteous.
Unlike yourself.
that's almost as relevant and usefull as your first counter-argument regarding spelling. you know what you've really changed my mind on this one. i think i might just start hating all ads regardless.
adding his own site to the whitelist of ad-block plus a 3rd party extension unrelated to him or his extension without asking or even advising the user and trying to hide it is what makes him an asshole.
No, the funny part is that you actually believe what you just posted.
A - I want to impose a Democratic government. B - There is a country that is formally labeleed as democratic that set's up military bases outside their own country(so as to circumvent their own laws) for the purpouse of detaining without charge for indefinate amounts of time people they have deemed 'enemies' C - I really wish my governemnt would set up something like This
Essentually you are saying C logically follows from A&B. It does not.
That is nearly the first thing one learns when studying logic.
what i dont get is why you would tell me that i don't understand......and then post the same thing i did?
or did you not read this part of my post?
that's just how it is with all designer products. some people really care a lot about labels and owning products/clothing from said labels fills them with joy and they are perfectly happy to pay a higher price for the same product without the label.
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as per my reply to your comment somewhere else, the LG Prada's design was unveiled 4 months before the first iPhone was unveiled.
you've posted that link at least four times in this thread.
Before the iPhone was first unveiled(January 2007) there was a phone (LG Prada) that actually did look a lot like an iPhone
LG Electronics has claimed the iPhone's design was copied from the LG Prada. Woo-Young Kwak, head of LG Mobile Handset R&D Center, said at a press conference, “We consider that Apple copied the Prada phone after the design was unveiled when it was presented in the iF Design Award and won the prize in September 2006.”[8]
Note: While the LG Prada was not released until after the iPhone, the design and concept were released before we saw any of this from Apple.
Yet, none of you libertards seem to want to move there. Maybe because the fantasy really is just a fantasy?
Becuase the problems of Somalia have a lot more to do with the land, resources, general instability of the region, and mostly their history (You don't go from being an incredibly poor country to a fully developed one overnight)
Also Somalia hasn't had a centeral government in over 10 years. some parts of the country(Somaliland) are well governed, fairly stable, and actually doing quite well considering the region they are in.
You're thinking of civil contempt vs criminal contempt - which does not depend on whether the case is a civil case or a criminal one.
Civil Contempt is used used to get you to comply with a court order (such as reveal the password). This is for an indefinate period until either you comply with the order (reveal password) or a judge decides to let you free.
Criminal Contempt is a punishment for something you have done (Generally interfereing with the courtroom process, which could be anything from repeatedly yelling in court to trying to bribe jurors.) this has a set time before sentencing
this would be civil contempt
i dont understand how you start with "No. Wrong. Very bad wrong." and then provide an example proving what he is saying by using the exact same example he was talking about (looking through car windows) and stating that it's Police policy????
For some reason your style of writing reminds me of someone who's been up for a week without sleep smoking meth and is thus entering early stages of psychosis
when the DNS servers that global ISPs use are based in Sweden and thus under their jurisdiction, yes. unfortunately i can see no way of them leaving US.
if you can explain to me how the US is going to make NZ not exist anymore i would agree with you
you're forgetting the license plates.
way to rebut all the trivial shit and completely ignore the horrendous crime of personalised plates. shill
VPN/Private trackers
I don't know anyone who is "pro abortion", but plenty who are "pro choice".
you'd change your mind if you came to one of my parties.
except he didn;t mention anything about the app store in his post. he spoke of writing software for his OWN phone not selling it.
Seriously, if you can't even figure out the meaning of a post before you troll back then maybe you need to find a better way to spend your time.
from the top of page 42 of the indictment (69. jjj.)
jjj. Starting as early as August 9, 2009, a member of the Mega Conspiracymade multiple transfers in and affecting interstate and foreign commerce through PayPal, Inc. toCW, a resident of Moseley, Virginia, which is in the Eastern District of Virginia, as part of theMega Conspiracy’s “Uploader Rewards” program. CW received total payments from theConspiracy of $2,900, including payments of $100 and $600 on August 9, 2009; a payment of $500 on October 8, 2009; a transfer of $1,500 on December 23, 2009; and a payment of $200 on June 21, 2010.
from the bottom of page 4
7. Megaupload.com advertises itself as a “cyberlocker,” which is a private data storage provider. However, as part of the design of the service, the vast majority of Megaupload.com users do not have significant capabilities to store private content long-term .Unregistered anonymous users (referred to as “Non-Members” by the Conspiracy) are allowed to upload and download content files, but any Non-Member-uploaded content that is not downloaded within 21 days is permanently deleted. Similarly, registered free users (or “Members”) are allowed to upload and download content files, but each uploaded file must be downloaded every 90 days in order to remain on the system. Only premium users have a realistic chance of having any private long-term storage, ...
(i never used the service so can't say how it was, but this is the allegation)
Pepsi's Aquafina and Coca-Cola Co's Dasani are both made from purified water sourced from public reservoirs
i'm gonna say you - for not even reading the article you're linking to.
From the indictment:
22. When a file is being uploaded to Megaupload.com, the Conspiracy’s automatedsystem calculates a unique identifier for the file (called a “MD5 hash”) that is generated using amathematical algorithm. If, after the MD5 hash calculation, the system determines that theuploading file already exists on a server controlled by the Mega Conspiracy, Megaupload.comdoes not reproduce a second copy of the file on that server. Instead, the system provides a newand unique URL link to the new user that is pointed to the original file already present on theserver. If there is more than one URL link to a file, then any attempt by the copyright holder toterminate access to the file using the Abuse Tool or other DMCA takedown request will failbecause the additional access links will continue to be available.
23.The infringing copy of the copyrighted work, therefore, remains on theConspiracy’s systems (and accessible to at least one member of the public) as long as a single link remains unknown to the copyright holder. The Conspiracy’s internal reference databasetracks the links that have been generated by the system, but duplicative links to infringingmaterials are neither disclosed to copyright holders, nor are they automatically deleted when acopyright holder either uses the Abuse Tool or makes a standard DMCA copyright infringementtakedown request. During the course of the Conspiracy, the Mega Conspiracy has receivedmany millions of requests (through the Abuse Tool and otherwise) to remove infringing copiesof copyrighted works and yet the Conspiracy has, at best, only deleted the particular URL of which the copyright holder complained, and purposefully left the actual infringing copy of thecopyrighted work on the Mega Conspiracy-controlled server and any other access linkscompletely intact.
24. In addition to copyrighted files, other types of illicit content have been uploadedonto the Megaupload.com servers, including child pornography and terrorism propagandavideos. Members of the Conspiracy have indicated to each other that they can automaticallyidentify and delete such materials on all of their servers by calculating MD5 hash values of known child pornography or other illicit content, searching the system for these values, andeliminating them; in fact, such files with matching hash values have been deleted from the MegaConspiracy’s servers. Members of the Mega Conspiracy have failed to implement a similarprogram to actually delete or terminate access to copyright infringing content.
25. On or about June 24, 2010, members of the Mega Conspiracy were informed,pursuant to a criminal search warrant from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, that thirty-nine infringing copies of copyrighted motion pictures were present on theirleased servers at Carpathia Hosting, a hosting company headquartered in the Eastern District of Virginia. A member of the Mega Conspiracy informed several of his co-conspirators at that time that he located the named files using internal searches of their systems. As of November 18,2011, more than a year later, thirty-six of the thirty-nine infringing motion pictures were stillbeing stored on the servers controlled by the Mega Conspiracy
if you're particularly lazy just read 22 and 25.
although none of this is proof of anything i would assume the had evidence to back this up.
there's other stuff in there regarding their business model about how they profit of files but there's a lot of it. and it's all advertising/subscription based and would also cover legitimate files. so no single dollar would come from infringing files alone (according to indictment their advertising is sold at an upfront cost not a per click/view basis)
I dont know how many times he needs to tell you that he's not just believeing some random list.
I'm assuming it's something that you'll just never understand.
there are 4 scenarios(that i can think of) that are relevant to this situation.
1. Person A purchases a new game. They re-sell games or trade old games for a new one.
- There are more new sales to this person in a system with used game sales due to them having more disposable income that they assign to purchasing games. ignoring what happens to the games he trades in or re-sells there is a positive effect on new game sales
2. Person A doesnt trade in old games for newer games, and doesn't really re-sell them. they are short on cash or just clearing up space and decide they might as well sell their old games they dont play.
- this increases the pool of used games with no new sales (if they were to use this money to buy new games they should really be in category 1)
3. Person B goes into a purchase a game and when offered a used copy at 10% discount he opts for that.
- There are less new sales to this type of person as they may just buy the used game over the new game. ignoring purchasing decisions of the games before they were originally returned this has a negative effect on new game sales.
4. Person B has $X they like to spend on games a month. they generally look in the used games bin because they are cheaper.
- this has a negative effect on new game sales.
Your economic theory on used games and their effect on the new games market seems to only take into account Scenario 1.
I'm not trying to argue that publishers deserve these extra sales. I dont plan on doing the reasearch to figure out the net effect of all these scenarios. but you'r argument that used game sales does not hurt publishers is weak and most likely incorrect.
a paper printout of the bit sequence of a flower is about as useful as the drawing of a penicillin molecule.
It's incredibly arrogant of people to block ads simply because they dislike advertisements on an idealogical basis.
It's incredibly retarded to not stop and correct your spelling when your browser puts a squiggly red line under a word.
it's incredibly presumptuous of you to assume how his browser works.
They want free websites, but they don't want them to be able to make any money to pay for all the work that goes into it.
Wrong. I just don't want to see ads.
so don't visit websites that have ads.
Like it or not, advertising is the primary way websites fund themselves, and punishing all of them instead of targeting specific misbehavior (like Flash advertisements that destroy usability of a site or consume lots of system resources, or ad networks that track cross-site) they decide to cut off all advertisements for all sites.
Yes, that's how it works. I don't want to see any advertisements, ever. EVER.
good luck with that.
Myself, I block ads selectively when they disrupt the usability of a site in one way or another.
So then you block all ads, since they add distracting content to the page that adds nothing to the actual page content?
kind of like how picking on spelling mistakes adds nothing of value to the discussion at hand?
Kudos to others who aren't selfish and self-righteous.
Unlike yourself.
that's almost as relevant and usefull as your first counter-argument regarding spelling. you know what you've really changed my mind on this one. i think i might just start hating all ads regardless.
adding his own site to the whitelist of ad-block plus a 3rd party extension unrelated to him or his extension without asking or even advising the user and trying to hide it is what makes him an asshole.
No, the funny part is that you actually believe what you just posted.
A - I want to impose a Democratic government.
B - There is a country that is formally labeleed as democratic that set's up military bases outside their own country(so as to circumvent their own laws) for the purpouse of detaining without charge for indefinate amounts of time people they have deemed 'enemies'
C - I really wish my governemnt would set up something like This
Essentually you are saying C logically follows from A&B. It does not.
That is nearly the first thing one learns when studying logic.
in that they'd be making their adversaries lives harder by doing to them exactly what they're complaining about.
i believe the irony referred to is in that print media newspaper is dying out as people are using the web to get their news instead.
so: the web is killing off newspapers, and is now using newspapers to try and save itself.
what i dont get is why you would tell me that i don't understand......and then post the same thing i did?
or did you not read this part of my post?
that's just how it is with all designer products. some people really care a lot about labels and owning products/clothing from said labels fills them with joy and they are perfectly happy to pay a higher price for the same product without the label.