B. The legal frameworks in the country are extremely poor. This is a plus if you ware a bootlegger ripping off your competition's product, its not so good if your IP and products are the ones being ripped off.
There you have it, my friend - the reason, in a nutshell, why the American (and to a lesser extent European) belief in Invisible Property is doomed to failure.
While the Occident continues to believe that IP laws protect their corporations, we have in China a striking example of why, with a large enough and scary enough scofflaw, those laws act against the countries that implement them.
Nationally, the US would be far better off with every invention being public domain, and US companies being able to get the jump on the Chinese copyists.
I'd especially recommend the essays - Politics and the English Language is a classic, and as a rabid anti-Zionist, AntiSemitism in Britain always helps to bring a sense of proportion to any outrage I feel when Israeli misdemeanours~ are reported on the news.
Which is why they cannot allow porn to be broadcast over the air either.
So?
A wireless internet connection cannot in any way be described as a broadcast - the packets have a single destination which is well defined. Add some simle encryption, and not even the Holy Packet Sniffers of the Latter Day AllSaints are liable to be offended by this 'broadcast' porn.
Just because it's wireless doesn't mean it's broadcast.
Which means you will need to explain why those files were publically shared.
Only if the court accepts the premise that 'making available' is a violation of the copyright holder's distribution rights, which is still a moot point.
Oh, and it's "publicly", not "publically". The latter is a bastard variant only used by ignnoramuses.
You're working - most of the layabouts in Werneth (the area that sparked the Oldham riots) who are willing to attack white people just for walking down 'their' streets aren't, and aren't ever likely to be.
I've lived round there too, and haven't a racist bone in my body - it's just the attitude of the second generation unemployables which gets my goat.
So no - you shouldn't be sent "back", but there are plenty of youngsters of Pakistani origin that the country could well do without.
Having said that, we could happily lose most of the unemployable white folks from Hattersley or Reddish too.
Well, since Cornish orthography is such a mess (though I did hear that there may be some agreement on a common standard soon), it's pot luck whether a Cornish speaker could understand them:o)
The oil wasn't actually all that important after WWI - the main purpose of troops in what became Iraq was part of the 'great game' of controlling the routes to the East.
The great mistake that the British made was to try to unite the Kurdish, Sunni and Shia regions into a single political entity - under rigorous Ottoman rule (and later, under Baathist rule) this was possible, but the internal tensions were too great for the British-imposed Hashemite monarchy.
Try asking the white people in Oldham, Bury, Blackburn, Bradford or any other ghettoised British town where Muslims get a better deal than the indigenous population what they believe is the problem - the answer may not be what you would like to hear.
The BNP is actually to the left of New Labour (or Neues Arbeit as I prefer to call them) on many issues, including the war in Iraq and the adventure in Afghanistan, and would not be the 'far right' regime that you fear.
I don't read the Mail, or the Sun, or the Express - in fact I'm an Independent reader, but I see the problems caused by the second generation Muslim underclass in our towns and cities as the most important issue to resolve if we are to continue to have a free and independent Britain.
It's not the threat of Sharia that worries me - it's the real possibility of more summers of Asian youths rioting in the streets of Oldham because they think this country owes them a living.
As the song from Phoenix Nights goes - Send the buggers back.
I agree with you, but I could make the same point about British Jews and immediately get shouted down for it.
I suppose that British Jews are less likely to blow up a tube train, but their dual loyalty is directly comparable to that of British Muslims.
So what is the solution to these fifth columnists in our midst?
Do we ban all religions, all political ideals that conflict with our way of life?
Or do we confront the proponents of Sharia and Zionism at every opportunity and argue them into oblivion?
It's pretty obvious to me that legislation is the wrong way to go - the story is about the possession of 'terrorist documents', ffs - so it has to be a sustained and commited effort on the part of British people to marginalise and ridicule these idiots who are not committed to making a life in this country.
I'm not sure there is an answer - the ghettoisation and separatism that caused the Oldham riots continues to this day, and no amount of effort directed at assimilating the disaffected second generation Muslims will eliminate the pernicious effect of Islamism on our country.
I suppose if we offered to pay them all their dole for five years if they buggered off to Pakistan they might go, but for the moment we are stuck with a disaffected, undereducated, unemployable underclass that dominates large areas of our cities and is a fertile territory for Islamist extremism.
I remember seeing Leo McKern and Max Wall performing it in Manchester several decades ago - one of the best plays I ever saw (Pinter's The Birthday Party may have trumped it, but it's a close call).
I'm sure I could hazard a guess as to the annual death rates caused by the two factors - as of 1997, it was estimated that Communism had caused 97 million deaths - so around 1 million per year on average.There's not much Communism around anymore, so we'll take 1 million per year as a reasonable figure.
AIDS currently kills about 2.1 million people a year (as of 2007). If AIDS carries on for another 30 years, it will overtake Communism and then some.
Excuse me, mods, but how the fuck is this a troll?
OK - there's the snidey 'Evolution at work' part, but the fact is that if you indulge in unprotected sex as part of a promiscuous sex life, you're odds-on to catch something sooner or later - doesn't matter whether you're straight, gay or into bestiality.
What about divvies, spacks, gimps, Joeys and retards then?
After spending the day yesterday with my severely autistic, quadriplegic and learning disabled stepson, I can assure you that my level of knowledge on these matters is entireley current.
No, I'm not offended, and neither would Josh be, but I'm sure you've pissed off some liberal dickheads with your excellent troll.
OK - the OP phrased it badly, but the first 24 bits of the MAC address do give vendor information - some drivers allow you to override that, but allowing for some terminological inexactitude, the OP made sense.
Slashdot Mirror
Then we can start getting the buggers through the courts.
There is absolutely no way that a DDOS on this scale, where the source can be identified, can be accepted as legal.
What got me was the quote from the FBI source that this was a 'legal gray area'.
Intentional sabotage of a service? How the hell is that 'gray'?
Terror?
I don't think you really mean that, or if you do, then you're quite wrong.
Anyway, mi plantain's fine, so fi no way!
Yay!
The Grocers' apostrophe strikes!
Sorry - your post was otherwise insightful, but those bloody Grocer's piss me right off :P
There you have it, my friend - the reason, in a nutshell, why the American (and to a lesser extent European) belief in Invisible Property is doomed to failure.
While the Occident continues to believe that IP laws protect their corporations, we have in China a striking example of why, with a large enough and scary enough scofflaw, those laws act against the countries that implement them.
Nationally, the US would be far better off with every invention being public domain, and US companies being able to get the jump on the Chinese copyists.
I'd especially recommend the essays - Politics and the English Language is a classic, and as a rabid anti-Zionist, AntiSemitism in Britain always helps to bring a sense of proportion to any outrage I feel when Israeli misdemeanours~ are reported on the news.
Blue Moon?
Under the Moon of Love?
Paper Moon?
The list goes on...
Dom Joly did a similar thing in his last series, IIRC.
Useless, inaccurate summary, as per usual :P
So?
A wireless internet connection cannot in any way be described as a broadcast - the packets have a single destination which is well defined. Add some simle encryption, and not even the Holy Packet Sniffers of the Latter Day AllSaints are liable to be offended by this 'broadcast' porn.
Just because it's wireless doesn't mean it's broadcast.
Only if the court accepts the premise that 'making available' is a violation of the copyright holder's distribution rights, which is still a moot point.
Oh, and it's "publicly", not "publically". The latter is a bastard variant only used by ignnoramuses.
Er...
Wouldn't you have to be doing the speech reco in the first place to identify the keyword?
That's a lot of processing unless the surveillance is fairly tightly targeted.
I don't see it as a threat - Hawkin seems to be a touch overhyped from what I read.
I've lived round there too, and haven't a racist bone in my body - it's just the attitude of the second generation unemployables which gets my goat.
So no - you shouldn't be sent "back", but there are plenty of youngsters of Pakistani origin that the country could well do without.
Having said that, we could happily lose most of the unemployable white folks from Hattersley or Reddish too.
Well, since Cornish orthography is such a mess (though I did hear that there may be some agreement on a common standard soon), it's pot luck whether a Cornish speaker could understand them :o)
Itth a thore point with the Greeks that Zeuth was overtaken by thothe bloody Northe godth!
The great mistake that the British made was to try to unite the Kurdish, Sunni and Shia regions into a single political entity - under rigorous Ottoman rule (and later, under Baathist rule) this was possible, but the internal tensions were too great for the British-imposed Hashemite monarchy.
The oil was actually only discovered in 1927 :o)
The BNP is actually to the left of New Labour (or Neues Arbeit as I prefer to call them) on many issues, including the war in Iraq and the adventure in Afghanistan, and would not be the 'far right' regime that you fear.
I don't read the Mail, or the Sun, or the Express - in fact I'm an Independent reader, but I see the problems caused by the second generation Muslim underclass in our towns and cities as the most important issue to resolve if we are to continue to have a free and independent Britain.
It's not the threat of Sharia that worries me - it's the real possibility of more summers of Asian youths rioting in the streets of Oldham because they think this country owes them a living.
As the song from Phoenix Nights goes - Send the buggers back.
I suppose that British Jews are less likely to blow up a tube train, but their dual loyalty is directly comparable to that of British Muslims.
So what is the solution to these fifth columnists in our midst?
Do we ban all religions, all political ideals that conflict with our way of life?
Or do we confront the proponents of Sharia and Zionism at every opportunity and argue them into oblivion?
It's pretty obvious to me that legislation is the wrong way to go - the story is about the possession of 'terrorist documents', ffs - so it has to be a sustained and commited effort on the part of British people to marginalise and ridicule these idiots who are not committed to making a life in this country.
I'm not sure there is an answer - the ghettoisation and separatism that caused the Oldham riots continues to this day, and no amount of effort directed at assimilating the disaffected second generation Muslims will eliminate the pernicious effect of Islamism on our country.
I suppose if we offered to pay them all their dole for five years if they buggered off to Pakistan they might go, but for the moment we are stuck with a disaffected, undereducated, unemployable underclass that dominates large areas of our cities and is a fertile territory for Islamist extremism.
I remember seeing Leo McKern and Max Wall performing it in Manchester several decades ago - one of the best plays I ever saw (Pinter's The Birthday Party may have trumped it, but it's a close call).
Very good bad analogy, though :o)
I'm sure I could hazard a guess as to the annual death rates caused by the two factors - as of 1997, it was estimated that Communism had caused 97 million deaths - so around 1 million per year on average.There's not much Communism around anymore, so we'll take 1 million per year as a reasonable figure.
AIDS currently kills about 2.1 million people a year (as of 2007). If AIDS carries on for another 30 years, it will overtake Communism and then some.
So who's the partisan hack now, fuckwit?
OK - there's the snidey 'Evolution at work' part, but the fact is that if you indulge in unprotected sex as part of a promiscuous sex life, you're odds-on to catch something sooner or later - doesn't matter whether you're straight, gay or into bestiality.
Must be some Mac users modding this today~
Is Ballmer monitoring me?
(ducks chair)
After spending the day yesterday with my severely autistic, quadriplegic and learning disabled stepson, I can assure you that my level of knowledge on these matters is entireley current.
No, I'm not offended, and neither would Josh be, but I'm sure you've pissed off some liberal dickheads with your excellent troll.
Thanks :o)
OK - the OP phrased it badly, but the first 24 bits of the MAC address do give vendor information - some drivers allow you to override that, but allowing for some terminological inexactitude, the OP made sense.
But my Mac-10 can spray lead faster than your Glock, so my machismo is quite fine, thank you :P
That's obvious - it should all revert to the Disney Corporation, to be renewed in perpetuity by Acts of Congress.~
Actually, I had an act of congress with my partner this morning - but the only people we fucked were each other :o)