Even when you add the small winners together, Google still wins. Lot's of outstanding brainpower for dirt cheap. You're right, but it's not only brainpower Googles getting. The publicity itself would be worth the money, with the headhunting opportunities a distant second.
Try again. The picture wasn't used on a website, it was used for an advertisement in the front cover of the local phone directory. It had a very direct commercial value for the people using it, as the picture attracted people to the ad and therefore to the company involved. The company would have had an advertising budget but instead of paying their dues they decided to take his work and profit from it without any compensation. Also, he didn't begin legal proceedings, he merely filed a countersuit when they tried to 'exploit the legal system' and sue him for defamation. They falsified evidence and perjured themselves while all the photographer wanted was just compensation for his work. He asked for the standard industry prices for using the pictures (around 4k), the judge awarded more. You keep saying the picture had no tangible worth, yet it was used for an advertising campaign which is obviously worth something to the company. You're an idiot if you think this is an example of how the copyright system is broken.
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The Mac global market share is around two and a half percent, while AMD is around twenty five percent. With an order of magnitude difference, I don't care if market share != computers shipped, your statement is absurdly nonsensical.
It's nice to see that some dude pocketed $20,000 because he took a picture of a public building that was of professional quality and looked good enough to be used in commercial advertising and sued someone. There, fixed. If they had simply paid for them in the first place they would have cost substantially less. Indeed, he deserved every penny.
I'd say Google won, and will continue to win, simply due to their corporate culture. Something like the MS-Yahoo merger would be a step backward in trying to compete with this, having two weaker conflicting cultures to deal with.
Say a bunch of heavy metal fans beat up some ravers because they hate their music, is that a hate crime? A bunch of kids graffitis 'school sux', hate crime? Someone jaywalks because they hate traffic lights. Hate crime? Someone litters because they hate the local council. Hate crime? Where do you draw the line on personal motivation? A nihilist who hates the world commits a crime, is that automatically hate crime? An emo who hates everything as a fashion statement commits a crime, hate crime? Everyone hates something. Vegans hate meat. Pacifists hate violence. Everyone is guilty of hate crime, that is why it should never be law.
Equality under the eyes of the law does not mean repealing civil rights, just the opposite, it mean enforcing them equally regardless of citizens personal opinions or status as a member of some group.
No, it's a pity that it's only made of moonrocks, which Sotheby's sold some of back in '93, at a price equivalent to about $2.2 million per gram. Seeing it cost NASA a little over $50,000 per gram to collect, I'd say it's worth the trip. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/fl_moonrocks_030806.html
Conspiring to commit a crime is illegal. Nice Godwin by the way, all that talk of racism I'm surprised it took that long. Look, all this talk is meaningless. I don't subscribe to the mentality that police and courts can solve social problems such as racism and other hatred of minorities. I guess you do. Let's just call it a day huh?
It isn't illegal to be a racist, nor to be an asshole. So why should the penalty for crimes involving racism be harsher if racism is not illegal?
How do you seek to prosecute these hate crimes, in the extreme case everyone is in a minority of one and could legitimately cry persecution. Who do we cover, racism by the race of the victim (everyone has a race), sexism (we all have a sex), ageism (we are all relatively young or old), sexuality (we all have one). Face it, every crime ever committed could be construed as a hate crime.
I'd assume when you cut the rubber, you probably break some of the long chains of molecule. IANAC, but I doubt any other molecular bonds are broken, the long chains are only held by hydrogen bonds which would give way far sooner than other bonds. The tear will be along the path of least resistance unless it was exceptionally violent. Perhaps explosives could break it *rubs hands together while eyes gleam*
This must be their master plan to get Linux on the desktop. Yeah, can't believe I'd forgotten how purely evil that whole encrypted bus/tiltbit/clusterfuck was. It's sad to see the hardware companies squeezed between Redmond and Hollywood. Seriously, they're off the planet with that plan, trying to encrypt against the intended recipient.. nevermind all similar systems have been cracked within weeks. I guess it keeps both the brainless moron & bedroom hacker industries going, so it can't be all bad. Glass half full and all that.
They are both thoughtcrimes. You're just artificially putting more weight on being a racist over being an arsehole. Courts and cops aren't going to solve racism by becoming thought police, but it won't stop them trying. We have to be equally intolerant of racists and plain vanilla arseholes if we value freedom of speech and thought.
I think he was alluding to the fact that there is a new fundamental force in action that makes gravity insignificant at those scales. In other words, why are we so certain dark matter is responsible, and not some fundamental force such as the MOND premise.
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RTFA and you just might change your mind about that.
Unless you're a drunken master that is!
Try again. The picture wasn't used on a website, it was used for an advertisement in the front cover of the local phone directory. It had a very direct commercial value for the people using it, as the picture attracted people to the ad and therefore to the company involved. The company would have had an advertising budget but instead of paying their dues they decided to take his work and profit from it without any compensation. Also, he didn't begin legal proceedings, he merely filed a countersuit when they tried to 'exploit the legal system' and sue him for defamation. They falsified evidence and perjured themselves while all the photographer wanted was just compensation for his work. He asked for the standard industry prices for using the pictures (around 4k), the judge awarded more. You keep saying the picture had no tangible worth, yet it was used for an advertising campaign which is obviously worth something to the company. You're an idiot if you think this is an example of how the copyright system is broken.
The Mac global market share is around two and a half percent, while AMD is around twenty five percent. With an order of magnitude difference, I don't care if market share != computers shipped, your statement is absurdly nonsensical.
Not much, but apart from the fact that nobody knows if she's dead or not, you did compare his intelligence to that of a naughty child.
There are in fact hundreds of thousands of Jedi worshipers around the world wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon
Sure, most were joking, but I doubt they all were.
Translation: When in doubt, favor the accused.
I'm having flashbacks!
I'd say Google won, and will continue to win, simply due to their corporate culture. Something like the MS-Yahoo merger would be a step backward in trying to compete with this, having two weaker conflicting cultures to deal with.
Say a bunch of heavy metal fans beat up some ravers because they hate their music, is that a hate crime? A bunch of kids graffitis 'school sux', hate crime? Someone jaywalks because they hate traffic lights. Hate crime? Someone litters because they hate the local council. Hate crime? Where do you draw the line on personal motivation? A nihilist who hates the world commits a crime, is that automatically hate crime? An emo who hates everything as a fashion statement commits a crime, hate crime? Everyone hates something. Vegans hate meat. Pacifists hate violence. Everyone is guilty of hate crime, that is why it should never be law.
Equality under the eyes of the law does not mean repealing civil rights, just the opposite, it mean enforcing them equally regardless of citizens personal opinions or status as a member of some group.
No, it's a pity that it's only made of moonrocks, which Sotheby's sold some of back in '93, at a price equivalent to about $2.2 million per gram. Seeing it cost NASA a little over $50,000 per gram to collect, I'd say it's worth the trip. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/fl_moonrocks_030806.html
Under the terms of the Galactic Confederacy, all these worlds are ours except Europa. Attempt no landing there.
Conspiring to commit a crime is illegal. Nice Godwin by the way, all that talk of racism I'm surprised it took that long. Look, all this talk is meaningless. I don't subscribe to the mentality that police and courts can solve social problems such as racism and other hatred of minorities. I guess you do. Let's just call it a day huh?
How do you seek to prosecute these hate crimes, in the extreme case everyone is in a minority of one and could legitimately cry persecution. Who do we cover, racism by the race of the victim (everyone has a race), sexism (we all have a sex), ageism (we are all relatively young or old), sexuality (we all have one). Face it, every crime ever committed could be construed as a hate crime.
We should all be equal under the eyes of the law.
The ideal number would be zero, though it's a little late for that.
This must be their master plan to get Linux on the desktop. Yeah, can't believe I'd forgotten how purely evil that whole encrypted bus/tiltbit/clusterfuck was. It's sad to see the hardware companies squeezed between Redmond and Hollywood. Seriously, they're off the planet with that plan, trying to encrypt against the intended recipient.. nevermind all similar systems have been cracked within weeks. I guess it keeps both the brainless moron & bedroom hacker industries going, so it can't be all bad. Glass half full and all that.
They are both thoughtcrimes. You're just artificially putting more weight on being a racist over being an arsehole. Courts and cops aren't going to solve racism by becoming thought police, but it won't stop them trying. We have to be equally intolerant of racists and plain vanilla arseholes if we value freedom of speech and thought.
I think he was alluding to the fact that there is a new fundamental force in action that makes gravity insignificant at those scales. In other words, why are we so certain dark matter is responsible, and not some fundamental force such as the MOND premise.
Well, not quite a dupe, but they've been at this for years.
Pardon? How does trusted computing plug the analogue hole, and what has 64 bits got to do with it?
7.Never run any antivirus software so there is nothing to report an infection.