They could have pushed them right up to the point where the prosecutor says "You honour, I'd now like to play the contents of Exhibit A to the jury..."...at which point you counter sue;)
Do yourself a favour and replace every mention of America and Americans with France and French, or any other country for that matter. Then see if your comments sound nice and even handed.
eg.
. If they are offering their services to Americans and offering downloads to Americans, they have to expect that they might be sued by Americans in America.
becomes...
"If they are offering their services to the people of France and offering downloads to the people of France, they have to expect that they might be sued by the French in France."
I'd be thinking this is a good time for one of Southwest's competitors (are there any? NB: I'm not a yank) to do a quick hack and start offering a site accessible to the blind.....nice low cost media campaign for the duration of the lawsuit resulting in good press and potential customers - blind or otherwise.
Slightly OT question but...
on
Life on Pluto?
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...are there any articles or discussions around that talk about the possibility of us kicking of an evolutionary process merely by landing on a rock capable of sustaining life but currently dead ?
I know its all sci-fi, but with all the microbes etc. we seem to carry around with us, it'd be almost impossible to land somewhere (say Mars) and not leave something behind...
We won't mention the massive tariffs that the US places on imports like Australian lamb or Canadian timber or anything steel to subsidise poorly performing local industries...
or those wonderful pieces of *US* legislation like the DCMA and CDBTPA, which, regardless of their intended jurisdiction, have ramifications on software developers and technology providers worldwide.
The US doles out more shit like this SA crypto legislation than any other country in the world.
In other words, your laws shouldn't apply to us...but if they do, then *all* of your laws must apply and by those laws the charges are unconstitutional.
Err... whats your point?
You seem to be implying that not only has the US stepped over international borders to subject a foreign company to the US legal system... they're also not allowed to use the US legal system to defend themselves?
The *very* large problem with the US at the moment is the inability to engage in a bit of role reversal and see things from the other side of the fence.
Perfect case in point: "Why isn't America, the richest nation on Earth, doing something about the famine in Somalia?" So the U.S. starts shipping food over as fast as it can. The warlords steal the food from the people. So the U.S. sends troops in to protect the food/people. "Why is America interfering with poor little Somalia? Why is America hunting the muslim warlords? It must be because they're muslims. The infidels are attacking."
I wonder how many Somalis could be fed from the proceeds of "Blackhawk Down" and for how long?
This new Athlon XP 2100+ with 512 megs of ram 160 GIG HD, G-force 4, DVD rewritable will help you get laid!" It was a cruel lie! I will never believe salesman again
Obviously you've messed with the configuration... It should definitely work out of the box.
If you download the message, then you recieved the summons. If you don't read it and/or don't open it, its your problem.
Based on your thinking, if a spammer sends you some kiddie porn with a subject of "Hey", and you don't (have time to) read it/or open it/or delete it before the police break down your door, then you're automatically a paedophile - even though you don't know what is in the email prior to them arresting you...
"The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual."
I sincerely doubt the IETF would be looking after the interests of all parties, if they were considering the prioritisation of the data for a the government of a specific country, albeit the US, over and above everyone else.
If the functionality was built into routers for instance, would there be an option to turn that prioritisation off for routing technology exported to other countries?
This is nonsense. Sony broke the rule, they pay the price.
Were the situation reversed, I'm sure MS would have Sony, the CeBIT organisers and probably the DOJ, and the Attournies General of 34 states, hauled up in front of an appeals court by now (complete with an injunction to prevent CeBIT from closing the show until the case was resolved to their satisfaction...;-)
Pardon my ignorance, but can anyone explain the purpose of CeBIT if you can't actually play with the hardware? Particularly if the vendor is happy for you to take it for a test-drive... otherwise you may as well consider it as vapourware.
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Doesn't the US have some trademark or some other crap on the name "Galileo" relating to a spacecraft?
Can't Europe do something orginal. Sure copy GPS, but do you need to copy our mission/ship names too?
Err... just where do you think YOU got the name from?
Personally I would have taken it to court.
They could have pushed them right up to the point where the prosecutor says "You honour, I'd now like to play the contents of Exhibit A to the jury..."
I'd love to know where half the crap that appears in my daily newspaper and every other dead-tree rag was written...
eg.
"Why we must bomb Iraq" - Jim Sneddon (Baghdad 010420030700)
or
"Why we must bomb Iraq" - Jim Sneddon (Florida Keys 010420030700)
BTW, April fools !
All-Powerful CIA/FBI from 'Snow Crash' - Patriot Act enchanced federal bureaus.
er... which version of Snow Crash did YOU read ?
In my version the FBI was a piss-ant remnant of a previous era.
Good old Uncle Enzo had more power than all of the FBI put together..
M@T
Sounds to me like their employees' email addresses aren't hanging around that long.
My email address has been public domain for
8 years now... makes all the difference in the
world as far as spam goes.
Nice spiel...
Do yourself a favour and replace every mention of America and Americans with France and French, or any other country for that matter. Then see if your comments sound nice and even handed.
eg.
. If they are offering their services to Americans and offering downloads to Americans, they have to expect that they might be sued by Americans in America.
becomes...
"If they are offering their services to the people of France and offering downloads to the people of France, they have to expect that they might be sued by the French in France."
Case in point: Yahoo
I'd be thinking this is a good time for one of Southwest's competitors (are there any? NB: I'm not a yank) to do a quick hack and start offering a site accessible to the blind...
I know its all sci-fi, but with all the microbes etc. we seem to carry around with us, it'd be almost impossible to land somewhere (say Mars) and not leave something behind...
We won't mention the massive tariffs that the US places on imports like Australian lamb or Canadian timber or anything steel to subsidise poorly performing local industries...
or those wonderful pieces of *US* legislation like the DCMA and CDBTPA, which, regardless of their intended jurisdiction, have ramifications on software developers and technology providers worldwide.
The US doles out more shit like this SA crypto legislation than any other country in the world.
I would have thought their use would have preceded computers via typewriters or doesn't that count?
Crossroads is a good package for converting object formats..
I've always wanted to use Blender's "Render daemon" button...
Seriously though, does anyone know what kind of modelling and render tools these guys are using ?
...Take with as large a grain of salt as you think appropriate.
Isn't this the problem ?
..."The WinAMD duopoly" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
In other words, your laws shouldn't apply to us...but if they do, then *all* of your laws must apply and by those laws the charges are unconstitutional.
Err... whats your point?
You seem to be implying that not only has the US stepped over international borders to subject a foreign company to the US legal system... they're also not allowed to use the US legal system to defend themselves?
The *very* large problem with the US at the moment is the inability to engage in a bit of role reversal and see things from the other side of the fence.
Perfect case in point: "Why isn't America, the richest nation on Earth, doing something about the famine in Somalia?" So the U.S. starts shipping food over as fast as it can. The warlords steal the food from the people. So the U.S. sends troops in to protect the food/people. "Why is America interfering with poor little Somalia?
Why is America hunting the muslim warlords? It must be because they're muslims. The infidels are attacking."
I wonder how many Somalis could be fed from the proceeds of "Blackhawk Down" and for how long?
This new Athlon XP 2100+ with 512 megs of ram 160 GIG HD, G-force 4, DVD rewritable will help you get laid!" It was a cruel lie! I will never believe salesman again
Obviously you've messed with the configuration...
It should definitely work out of the box.
If you download the message, then you recieved the summons. If you don't read it and/or don't open it, its your problem.
Based on your thinking, if a spammer sends you some kiddie porn with a subject of "Hey", and you don't (have time to) read it/or open it/or delete it before the police break down your door, then you're automatically a paedophile - even though you don't know what is in the email prior to them arresting you...
No... that proves that someone with access to your machine/account opened it... is that really enough?
"The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual."
I sincerely doubt the IETF would be looking after the interests of all parties, if they were considering the prioritisation of the data for a the government of a specific country, albeit the US, over and above everyone else.
If the functionality was built into routers for instance, would there be an option to turn that prioritisation off for routing technology exported to other countries?
Prioritising traffic for whose government precisely?
This is nonsense. Sony broke the rule, they pay the price.
;-)
Were the situation reversed, I'm sure MS would have Sony, the CeBIT organisers and probably the DOJ, and the Attournies General of 34 states, hauled up in front of an appeals court by now (complete with an injunction to prevent CeBIT from closing the show until the case was resolved to their satisfaction...
Pardon my ignorance, but can anyone explain the purpose of CeBIT if you can't actually play with the hardware? Particularly if the vendor is happy for you to take it for a test-drive... otherwise you may as well consider it as vapourware.
And in this case, they had an employee in the US, servers in the US, and were going after customers in the US.
Like Yahoo in France ?