It seems to me, looking at the world through my cynical-coloured spectacles, that the motivation for speed cameras is revenue-generation and that the safety aspect is the means used to allow us to persuade ourselves to accept them.
Speed cameras cause motorists to move their attention away from safe driving, paying attention to children crossing the road, cars exiting intersections etc. in favour of looking for hidden speed-cameras so that they are able to avoid penalties. No doubt this is clear to those who profit from their installation and operation.
What we should be concerning ourselves with is how to remove the multi-layer corruption that allows them to be placed there.
> Too bad for them, then. Please tell us which company you work for so we can start boycotting your products - if that's how you feel about your paying customers.
> I believe that stupidity (or claiming you don't have enough time) is a terrible defense. If I were to write this reply in Arabic, would you read it? Would you say something along the lines of "I don't have time to learn Arabic just to read your reply?" I think that you would. If failure to understand my reply put you at a legal disadvantage, would you consider that to be fair?
> That isn't the companies' fault, after all. Uhh yeah. It is. When writing a document that will be read by their users (most of whom are not legal experts) that explains the legal relationship that user has with aspects of the company policy, they choose to write it in a language which they know will not be understood by those same non-legal expert users.
Let's start a pool and take bets on who the perpetrator is. I'll take Iran (just because it's a longshot) and the US government (just for the conspiracy factor).
OK. I'll take Sony themselves. What better way to say "this nicely demonstrates the extent to which the environment is dangerous and how we made the right choice in freaking-out and pulling OtherOS." Eclipse a self-imposed PR-fuckup with one that's been 'externally'-imposed.
FWIW: I also took the US government in the similar pool "who blew up the WTC" - for similar reasons.
[Not wearing an aluminium-foil hat because aluminium causes Alzheimer's zomg!]
...Just ask my last boss if I deserved to be paid for the Saturdays that I had to work, or be dismissed.
I understand your point but your boss was saying "Work for free on Saturday OTHERWISE! I'll be forced to find someone else to work for free". Don't be a sucker - abusers have power because their victims relinquish it.
One of the dozens of task manager applications that allow processes to be abruptly killed, offering them no opportunity to gracefully shut-down and write any cached changes to persistent storage, thereby potentially risking the integrity/completeness of your data?
A big-media spokesman was quoted earlier as saying....
The stranglehold we once held on distribution of music and film meant that we could artificially inflate the apparent worth as well as the cost of our product. That we could push our vision of entertainment to the passive masses who would be offered the choice of 'consume or be bored'.
Now that the masses have their own distribution channel, they are becoming creators rather than passive consumers. We cannot compete, in terms of quality or quantity therefore we seek to have our competition removed from the field and stop this disturbing trend in its early stages - at all costs.
We'll start by promoting the idea that piracy is the root cause of our failing business model. Then we'll gradually erode people's ability to engage in file-sharing of any kind and simultaneously buy new laws which enable us to tax everyone on the planet for their unwillingness to be our customers. Our friends entrenched deeply within the system will ensure that we prevail.
Would it kill them to allow the app to be shut down without restarting the phone? It SUCKS battery life so it's nice to be able to jump in and out as needed.
But under the current law Sony has a legal expectation that users not modify their software. If we don't like that we should work on modifying IP law.
The legal fallacy. The idea that all are heard equally before the law and that right will triumph. Isn't it a case of one David vs a team of Goliaths? Isn't it the case Corporate interests gain far more expression under the law than those of the masses due corporate interests being politically represented? Under such circumstances, it seems that convincing the common man to abide by laws over which he had absolutely no control, to self-censor so as to spare Goliath the trouble of breaking a sweat is the coup of the age. Those in power are to be applauded if not heeded.
Really, the USA has fallen a long way, and I somewhat suspect the idealists who started the American war of Independence would be spinning in their graves.
It makes be wonder if some of those in power haven't got some kind of dynamo gizmo hooked-up to the founding fathers' corpses.
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It seems to me, looking at the world through my cynical-coloured spectacles, that the motivation for speed cameras is revenue-generation and that the safety aspect is the means used to allow us to persuade ourselves to accept them.
Speed cameras cause motorists to move their attention away from safe driving, paying attention to children crossing the road, cars exiting intersections etc. in favour of looking for hidden speed-cameras so that they are able to avoid penalties. No doubt this is clear to those who profit from their installation and operation.
What we should be concerning ourselves with is how to remove the multi-layer corruption that allows them to be placed there.
> Too bad for them, then.
Please tell us which company you work for so we can start boycotting your products - if that's how you feel about your paying customers.
> I believe that stupidity (or claiming you don't have enough time) is a terrible defense.
If I were to write this reply in Arabic, would you read it? Would you say something along the lines of "I don't have time to learn Arabic just to read your reply?" I think that you would. If failure to understand my reply put you at a legal disadvantage, would you consider that to be fair?
> That isn't the companies' fault, after all.
Uhh yeah. It is. When writing a document that will be read by their users (most of whom are not legal experts) that explains the legal relationship that user has with aspects of the company policy, they choose to write it in a language which they know will not be understood by those same non-legal expert users.
I'm getting a serious case of déjà vu...
OK. I'll take Sony themselves. What better way to say "this nicely demonstrates the extent to which the environment is dangerous and how we made the right choice in freaking-out and pulling OtherOS." Eclipse a self-imposed PR-fuckup with one that's been 'externally'-imposed.
FWIW: I also took the US government in the similar pool "who blew up the WTC" - for similar reasons.
[Not wearing an aluminium-foil hat because aluminium causes Alzheimer's zomg!]
Ye be walking the plank afore the day's out JimLad. Aaaaarrrrrrrgh!
Nope. I'm going to need to recommend an iPad - they have magical properties.
I'm all out of paper but my company makes e-notebooks. I'll sell your school 10,000 at £600 each. Do you have the dean's home phone number?
It allows Apple to charge 800 times more than if they sold you a notebook?
Yes, I have a set. They're just great.
Thanks for the tip.
I understand your point but your boss was saying "Work for free on Saturday OTHERWISE! I'll be forced to find someone else to work for free". Don't be a sucker - abusers have power because their victims relinquish it.
One of the dozens of task manager applications that allow processes to be abruptly killed, offering them no opportunity to gracefully shut-down and write any cached changes to persistent storage, thereby potentially risking the integrity/completeness of your data?
Thanks for the tip.
Thanks for the tip.
A big-media spokesman was quoted earlier as saying....
Would it kill them to allow the app to be shut down without restarting the phone? It SUCKS battery life so it's nice to be able to jump in and out as needed.
** Apple-police dispatched. Please remain at your current location **
It's just a jump to the left...
Uhh... it looks as though the GP has directly responded to your previous post.
Pray, tell us more about this 'article' thing. What else does it say?
'Rebel' n.
Term indicating a CIA operative wearing location-appropriate clothing. Generally the clothing will cover an oversized Hawaiian shirt.
I can assure you that goatse won't be staring back at you :-)
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The legal fallacy. The idea that all are heard equally before the law and that right will triumph.
Isn't it a case of one David vs a team of Goliaths?
Isn't it the case Corporate interests gain far more expression under the law than those of the masses due corporate interests being politically represented?
Under such circumstances, it seems that convincing the common man to abide by laws over which he had absolutely no control, to self-censor so as to spare Goliath the trouble of breaking a sweat is the coup of the age. Those in power are to be applauded if not heeded.
Didn't you get the memo? In Idle, it's GroundHog^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HApril Fool's day, every day of the year.
It makes be wonder if some of those in power haven't got some kind of dynamo gizmo hooked-up to the founding fathers' corpses.