As an aside, some of your friends are assholes. Our general rule is that those of us who made it into the higher paying roles, or have fewer expenses (no kids, etc.) pay for more of the drinks than the others. That way we all still get to hang out, be we plumbers, geeks or bankers.
As a result, we're a more diverse group than many other circles of friends that I've interacted with and we have some great times.
Well, to be fair, I don't believe it's at all possible to take pictures of Big Ben from public ground. I'm pretty sure it's entirely enclosed in the clock tower.
People in the UK have been afraid to defend themselves and their property for years because they perceive that the law is on the side of the criminal in such matters
Perceive? Gimme a break - it flat out is. Persistent offenders keep getting given community sentences and never see jail time. How can you get to 50 separate convictions without spending life in jail?
And yet more and more people are arrested for assault for defending themselves. Sure, mostly the charges are eventually dropped, but in many cases a simple arrest is enough to destroy your career or life. So why risk it? Let the kids kill the little old lady - as long as I make my train on time:(
And yet, that's never worked as far as I can tell.
You only have a chance of succeeding with a laches defense if the target of your claim can show that you maliciously waited for the patent to become widespread with a view to suing at that time.
As it stands here, the litigator hasn't owned the patent for very long, and sued almost as soon as getting it. No problems there.
The only surefire piece of the 'IP' pie that you have to actively protect is trademarks. Everything else can submarine to your heart's content.
In London recently, there was a case where an automated train skipped something like 6 red signals and caused passenger trains to have to stop and wait until someone could get control back.
This is a train, that goes on rails and can't get into too much trouble. There are limited variables to deal with, and we can't get it right yet. I don't even want to think about doing this with cars in populated areas!
How is that affecting you in your personal life? My boss tells me exactly what tools I have to use to do my job. I don't like all of them, but I use them because it's my job. But I don't use them at home, so my personal life is unaffected:)
(If you had a full-tower machine, you're probably not going to want a Mac mini or an iMac.)
I'm not so sure about that - I went from an old G5 tower to an iMac and it's orders of magnitude faster than the G5 was in the end. Sure, it's not as fast as a new Mac Pro, but it's faster than what I had, and comes with a gorgeous screen.
No worries - I understand. I've actually tried to upload the books that I've gone through the Amazon schlepp with to somewhere, but I couldn't find anywhere to upload to either:D
In the UK, it seems very, very hard to find eBooks, and that can't be helping sales. I have a Sony PRS-505, and I have to visit 5 - 10 sites to find a book, and only if that is available. Some books have dismal sales because they only release books 1, 3 and 4 of a series as eBooks. If I can't get book 2, I'm not buying the others.
For a number of reasons, I can't buy paper books any more. It's mostly a space thing.
At the moment, it takes 30 - 60 minutes to buy many popular books. First, I have to buy an Amazon.com gift card with my real account. Then I have to use a proxy to hide my location and use a second account to use that gift card to buy a book on Amazon.com. Then I have to strip the DRM and then finally I can load it onto my reader. What a pain - If I could find the content, I'd pirate it!
Where are you finding the books to torrent them? I've looked on dozens of places and can't find any. Many books are not available in my country, and the process of buying a single book from Amazon.com takes around 20 minutes (hide my country, buy a gift card for a different account, buy the book, strip the DRM, then finally load it onto my reader)
But at least with GPS they will be able to find my house. When I first moved to this country and didn't know my way around, it was really annoying to be paying a cab by the minute / mile and HE didn't know where he was going either.
Over the past decade I've got 5 people into the UK. 3 of those were on Work visas and 2 were on HSMPs (now Tier 1 work visas). It's trivial. All you need is the right qualifications and it's a doddle.
I'm not sure I understand. Are you under the impression that the parent meant that people should do this? Or that he meant that companies can't find people dumb enough to do this ?
I always chuckle when I hear the idea that aussies are descended from criminals. No-one seems to worry about the even worse seeds of the population - prison wardens!
Because he annoyed the US does not automatically mean he MUST be innocent.
No, the fact that he has not been convicted of anything at this point means that he IS innocent. Let's talk about guilt if and when a conviction is secured.
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As an aside, some of your friends are assholes. Our general rule is that those of us who made it into the higher paying roles, or have fewer expenses (no kids, etc.) pay for more of the drinks than the others. That way we all still get to hang out, be we plumbers, geeks or bankers.
As a result, we're a more diverse group than many other circles of friends that I've interacted with and we have some great times.
So the news is that they're moving away from something that doesn't exist yet?
Maybe they just want to wait for it to exist and test it and shake the bugs out before they decide to use it ?
Well, to be fair, I don't believe it's at all possible to take pictures of Big Ben from public ground. I'm pretty sure it's entirely enclosed in the clock tower.
People in the UK have been afraid to defend themselves and their property for years because they perceive that the law is on the side of the criminal in such matters
Perceive? Gimme a break - it flat out is. Persistent offenders keep getting given community sentences and never see jail time. How can you get to 50 separate convictions without spending life in jail?
And yet more and more people are arrested for assault for defending themselves. Sure, mostly the charges are eventually dropped, but in many cases a simple arrest is enough to destroy your career or life. So why risk it? Let the kids kill the little old lady - as long as I make my train on time :(
Once it dries, it doesn't spread like you seem to think.
And yet, that's never worked as far as I can tell.
You only have a chance of succeeding with a laches defense if the target of your claim can show that you maliciously waited for the patent to become widespread with a view to suing at that time.
As it stands here, the litigator hasn't owned the patent for very long, and sued almost as soon as getting it. No problems there.
The only surefire piece of the 'IP' pie that you have to actively protect is trademarks. Everything else can submarine to your heart's content.
So what ? They're not legally obliged to.
In London recently, there was a case where an automated train skipped something like 6 red signals and caused passenger trains to have to stop and wait until someone could get control back.
This is a train, that goes on rails and can't get into too much trouble. There are limited variables to deal with, and we can't get it right yet. I don't even want to think about doing this with cars in populated areas!
How is that affecting you in your personal life? My boss tells me exactly what tools I have to use to do my job. I don't like all of them, but I use them because it's my job. But I don't use them at home, so my personal life is unaffected :)
I guarantee you that it's not considering forcing to use them in their private lives, so what exactly are these teachers losing ?
(If you had a full-tower machine, you're probably not going to want a Mac mini or an iMac.)
I'm not so sure about that - I went from an old G5 tower to an iMac and it's orders of magnitude faster than the G5 was in the end. Sure, it's not as fast as a new Mac Pro, but it's faster than what I had, and comes with a gorgeous screen.
No worries - I understand. I've actually tried to upload the books that I've gone through the Amazon schlepp with to somewhere, but I couldn't find anywhere to upload to either :D
In the UK, it seems very, very hard to find eBooks, and that can't be helping sales. I have a Sony PRS-505, and I have to visit 5 - 10 sites to find a book, and only if that is available. Some books have dismal sales because they only release books 1, 3 and 4 of a series as eBooks. If I can't get book 2, I'm not buying the others.
For a number of reasons, I can't buy paper books any more. It's mostly a space thing.
At the moment, it takes 30 - 60 minutes to buy many popular books. First, I have to buy an Amazon.com gift card with my real account. Then I have to use a proxy to hide my location and use a second account to use that gift card to buy a book on Amazon.com. Then I have to strip the DRM and then finally I can load it onto my reader. What a pain - If I could find the content, I'd pirate it!
Where are you finding the books to torrent them? I've looked on dozens of places and can't find any. Many books are not available in my country, and the process of buying a single book from Amazon.com takes around 20 minutes (hide my country, buy a gift card for a different account, buy the book, strip the DRM, then finally load it onto my reader)
Dude, you're missing a closing ) there and it's driving me mad :(
Thank you. Come again.
But at least with GPS they will be able to find my house. When I first moved to this country and didn't know my way around, it was really annoying to be paying a cab by the minute / mile and HE didn't know where he was going either.
Thieving bastards.
Over the past decade I've got 5 people into the UK. 3 of those were on Work visas and 2 were on HSMPs (now Tier 1 work visas). It's trivial. All you need is the right qualifications and it's a doddle.
I'm not sure I understand. Are you under the impression that the parent meant that people should do this? Or that he meant that companies can't find people dumb enough to do this ?
If you didn't pay to use the stairs, you'll have to fecking jump!
I have a feeling that they're certainly smarter then you ;)
There have been more than a few cases in the UK recently (and Greece I see) where women have been found to be crying wolf. Just have a look at this list:
http://thylacosmilus.blogspot.com/search/label/lying%20about%20rape
I always chuckle when I hear the idea that aussies are descended from criminals. No-one seems to worry about the even worse seeds of the population - prison wardens!
I can't see anything that the TFA is escaping or hiding from.... ? Ohhhhh.... allude ;)
Because he annoyed the US does not automatically mean he MUST be innocent.
No, the fact that he has not been convicted of anything at this point means that he IS innocent. Let's talk about guilt if and when a conviction is secured.