What's so sad about repetitive hand labor like placing components on a PC board? I've done this sort of stuff, and it's some of the easiest, most absorbing and satisfying work possible. At the end of the day, I went home happy and energized, ready to tackle the real problems in my life, or play, or relax.
This is not physically strenuous work. It won't cause poisoning or RSI or heat stroke. There's no high likelihood of disease or injury. The main downside is that it doesn't pay well.
You need to stop kidding yourself. I've worked at McDonalds for a year. Nothing energizing or satisfying about doing your best for $5.50/hour only to be turned down a raise after a whole year of work. Why should they give me a raise? They can just get rid of me and hire the next person that applies for the same $5.50.
I've talked with some [engineering] friends who have worked the assembly line at GM. Open chassis, insert part, close chassis. For 8 hours. The only people I know that would call that absorbing and satisfying would be the very dumbest of people. And yes, if the process does not _exactly_ follow the natural movements of your body, you _will_ get repetitive strain injury.
But I'd be far more concerned about the psychological irritability caused by such a job than the physical strain. Clearly you never worked such a job for more than a few hours, let alone several weeks.
Never think yourself above any others. Of all the workers in the world, I probably have the most respect for these factory workers-- how they can endure the most mind numbing of tasks for hours, days, weeks, months, and years on end is far beyond my comprehension; not to mention my ability to replicate it...
When you abort the baby (er, "tissue") you're removing a person that would one day be in the world. There's simply no getting around it, and us lying to ourselves that since it's not in the shape of a baby, therefor it's not a person, is disgusting.
Guess what, using a condom can also prevent a person from being brought into the world. Lying to ourselves that just because it's in the shape of an egg and a sperm, therefor it's not a person, is disgusting.
As far as I'm concerned, it's not even close to being a person until the first thought or feeling crosses its mind. That should be the cutoff line. Until that point, it's all potential and nothing more. Difference between the condom and abortion is obvious. In one case life hasn't started. In the other you're taking away what has. Don't you see that?
I'm sure the girl that just got molested will be happy to know that you are disgusted by her because she didn't get the person who raped her to wear a condom.
You disgust me. And exactly how many women is this? So, for say 1000 women every year who are raped, assuming 1/4 get pregnant, how do you justify killing 4000x that many? Or, as this site puts it, those million rapes are from current or former male partners.
So we should allow the murder of 1.3m children because the one or so million women weren't mature enough to pick a good partner that isn't going to rape them during, or after, the relationship? Oh I remember. Two wrongs make a right, yes? You know how many families have considered the un-expected child a blessing, and are glad their daughter _didn't_ have the child aborted?
You're offtopic, but I'll respond anyway. I cited current trends in malware, that anyone who wants to research can easily find. If you disagree with my statements, challenge them, don't respond with an ad hominem attack based upon your presumption that the previous poster could not have been in error with regard to the breakdown of the numbers. I imagine I was modded up either by one of the people here who knows who I am, or who has seen the data I have posted on Slashdot in the past regarding the subject of malware. I'll give you a hint, the guy three offices down from me is quoted in a Slashdot article about worms about once a month.
Look, all I was asking for is a little proof. I thought people were supposed to provide sources alongside their opinions?
There are plenty of UNIX worms out there. Why stick to any publicly-available OS if there's such a perceived threat? It would be rather expensive to make an OS and the needed applications from scratch, but you can't attack something if you don't even know what it is. Besides, it looks like the US is putting some money into counter-attacking, so why not just use that money to make the other side's attacks do nothing at all (except frustrate the attackers)? Perhaps we should just have the OS encrypt all the data in the ram and assign it randomly (Vista does this I think). This way if you did manage to crack part of the OS, you'd have to hack the encryption service as well so that you could write something meaningful "execute this" that the OS could understand, and then you'd have to crack the part that does the random memory addressing. Basically tie 3 services together that the hacker has to break through before they can execute arbitrary code, and have them all checking the signatures of the data each is sending to the other.
This would be a great way to use all those new cores Intel/AMD is trying to sell to us.
You can tell a lot about a society when they're willing to kill living tissue that _will_ one day become a human being
Something like 50% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, usually without the woman's knowledge that she was ever pregnant.
There is also substantial disagreement as to when life begins. You obviously do not share the view that it begins at conception, as you said "will one day become a human being" (hint: Slashdot allows a subset of HTML and you can use underlines, you need not use the underscore character, this ain't 1990 and this ain't a BBS) so I am curious, after what date do you believe there is a person in there?
Not to mention that there are lots of things that can end a pregnancy in progress and prevent a live birth from ever occurring - and I'm talking "natural" causes here (man-made toxins unintentionally introduced into the body must be counted as "natural" for the purposes of this conversation.)
simply because of a minor inconvenience
Minor to you. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you're male...
This inconvenience I'm talking about is her using a condom or making the guy use a condom, or, God forbid, her waiting to have sex until she's in a stable relationship that can handle a third party. But no, she should be allowed to have sex and murder the person-in-development at a whim if she wasn't prepared (no condom) and she gets pregnant.
As for life, saying it starts any time but conception is a non-sequitor. What else do you call tissue developing on the way to become a [what society calls] human being? Just tissue? When you abort the baby (er, "tissue") you're removing a person that would one day be in the world. There's simply no getting around it, and us lying to ourselves that since it's not in the shape of a baby, therefor it's not a person, is disgusting. Even more-so that people _actually_ believe it.
Not to mention all the problems that would be solved if it weren't for abortions. We wouldn't have a Social Security crisis or need illegal immigrants if there were an extra 1.3 million people entering the workforce every year.
I'm sure you'll say something to the effect of "ya that's great, we'll have an extra 1.3 million unloved, unwanted children coming into the world every year". So we should just murder them instead? You better be glad your mother wanted you. It's a shame we can't ask all those children whether or not they wanted a chance at life. And don't even begin to presume you are allowed to speak for them: "I know I'd rather be killed than not loved or wanted by one or two people in the world". If you seriously would say that about your own life then you and anyone else that says that is either lying to themselves or a lunatic (I think we've already established the latter in your case). Never mind the other 6 billion people you could find love among. Or hey, maybe some of those 1.3m new others every year would be looking for love too.
What this boils down to is the disgusting fact that we kill 1.3m children every year because it's too inconvenient for us to use condoms. And that we let ourselves off the hook by telling ourselves they're not human. And that we defend these 1.3m homicides under the guise of "rape victims" or "incest".
Whether intentional or just a result of all those pirated copies of Winderz, the sheer number of bot-net/zombie attacks coming from China is staggering.
Actually, the US is quite a bit ahead on the botnet/zombie attack category. China is more making up for it with other scans and attempted worm propagation from non-zombied (just infected) machines. More attacks are coming out of China than anywhere else, but the US is still hosting more botnets/zombies than China.
How do these things get modded informative? We seriously need to tighten up moderation procedures. Some random guy on the internet can be called "informative" when his rhetoric and general knowledge makes it clearly apparent that he knows what he's talking about. This Dave Schroeder that started off our thread is such a poster. This parent is not.
People that can't wow us with their supreme intellect can still inform us effectively if they would simply cite their research and the sources for their opinion. The last thing/. needs more of is random noobs expressing their opinion on a topic, and being modded informative.
American politics has been stripped of the shades of gray enough as it is - how would a moderate republican who supports abortion in cases of rape, incest or the health of the mother respond to an "Abortion: Yes or no?" question adequately? Fine, require a "straight" answer of yes or no, but don't prohibit explanations of why they hold that position. You can tell a lot about a society when they're willing to kill living tissue that _will_ one day become a human being, simply because of a minor inconvenience. "It's the womans body, she has the right to do with it what she wants"--> nevermind a). using a condom.
So, now more than ever would be the time for the government to switch to Linux. Goodness knows they've got Windows by the balls; there are ~32 legal copies of XP over there. Security through obscurity is clearly working for Microsoft.
If we get into a "cyber war" you can bet your McDonalds toys we'd be safer running an open source solution.
Does anyone else get hungry when they smell biodiesel exhaust? Reminds me of McDonald's. That's the great thing about these cars and other DIY modifications. Half the time it IS McDonalds. And $20 says they'll give it to you free for the reason you just gave.
Starbucks isn't part of a megacorp that sells weapons
Starbucks had a little get together called 'bowling for Israel', to raise funds for Israel.
you'd never guess who the Israeli side of things was organised by, yes the very same person who organises fund raising for Israel's troops.
maybe not a megacorp that sells weapons but certainly one that supports oppressive regimes. Nice troll OP. If my country were 50 miles wide and I were in danger of losing my life every time I left my house, I'd be making weapons too. How can you be so insensitive?
If you stand by what you say then that very same logic will tell you to stop buying gas because you're indirectly funding the people invading Israel and causing all the problems in the first place. You should probably stop buying Happy Meals too since those little toys say "Made in China" on the bottom. Can't be supporting Communist China now can we?
I think this regresses to the whole issue of tax status of educational institutions. Even if they are supported by tax dollars and even spend tax dollars on athletes, they also make a profit from these revenues. Huge profits. Why should these be exempt from regular taxes on profits, simply because they teach students on the side? I don't have a problem with it. Presumably that's simply more money they can put towards paying the professors, which is something I'm always for.
The complaint is about the fact that you can't even turn off the Windows Live search, causing any competitor's search software (e.g. Google's) to slow down significantly.
Are people really this retarded, cause I see this repeated?
Click Control Panel - Indexing - Uncheck the locations it searches.
Method two: Set the Windows Search to 'Manual' or 'Disabled'.
Both of these are EASY for the user, and something EVEN a Google Installer could do automatically for a user if the user chose to do it.
This is not Something that can't be turned off and doesn't run all the time if you don't want it to.
I can't believe people read the Google crap and are so retarded they think it is accurate or even a legitimate complaint. How many people are going to know this? Or even know that this is the problem? You give far too much credit to the average user.
They're going to see a link on google's homepage for the newest greatest google program they can download. They're going to click through install as fast as they can not reading anything like they always do. Then they're going to notice that their computer is going a whole lot slower. They're going to think "hm, the only thing that's changed since it's been going slow is I installed the google desktop thing. Must be that." So they uninstall the google program and then tell their coworkers how bad it is, and to stay away from it, etc.
All I want is to be able to middle-click a link into the 8th tab and be able to scroll down on the current page (either normal scroll or auto-scroll) at the same time without waiting for the page in the background to render. If you want to keep it single-threaded that's fine, just tell it to wait until I'm not scrolling to render that page I just opened in the background.
Shrug. Then how come nobody can come up with a single example? Mod parent up.
I've been wondering if Slashdot has completely gone bonkers. For about as long as I can remember I've read nothing but vague references to horrendous lies the Bush administration has spouted about 9-11, and the call for impeachment. Every single one of these posts gets modded up in spite of an underwhelming pool of evidence and citations. The replies to those posts asking for such never do. Looks like we're turning into Digg where you mod up if you agree and down if you don't. Fortunately we don't exactly have a "-1, Wrong" option so the discerning eye can quickly see through the smoke. However, the dissidents pushing their agenda get around by modding the insightful replies (such as yours have been) "Overrated" or "Flamebait", of which they are neither. A simple request for citations and links backing up a poster's comments should never be modded flamebait. Just go look at the moderation on any not-necessarily-pro-right-comment-but-simply-quest ioning-of-the-ZOMGASM-love-for-lefties the parent espoused, and you'll see the moderation abuse all over the place. If it's so terribly obvious why can't anyone just take the time to post an answer? Nobody ever does, which means the only logical conclusion is that the OP has no proof and is just spewing hot air, and thus is the real flamebait; and yet there are enough people here that agree with the faulty "conclusion, therefore conclusion" argument style that the child asking for verification of the OP's claims is the one modded down.
Disgusting, really. Methinks there is a severely unhealthy, illogical political bias on Slashdot. Similar problem like Wikipedia's (in relation to political discussion), just different implementation. Nearly everyone has an agenda, and they'll do anything in their power to promote it and, in this case, bash the Bush administration using completely fallacious, erronious, and most importantly, _empty_ claims. *Sigh*.
I'd like to see a good analysis of why MS is doing this. That they are doing a bunch of these deals in rapid succession indicates that they've got a plan - but what is it?
Perhaps all these deals are to give an aura of legitimacy to their patent claims, enabling them to spread FUD more effectively.
Perhaps they want to get enough people to continue Linux support under GPLv2.
Perhaps it's an attempt to tie Linux to some actual companies, which they can later undercut and drive out of business (which is how they've dealt with their traditional competitors until now, but which hasn't worked against open source.)
Honestly, I haven't been able to figure out what this is about.
My thinking is they'll use it as a pressuring technique to get other, larger Linux distributors to buckle under the pressure: "8/10 Linux Distributors have cross-licensed patents with Microsoft. Have _you_ secured _your_ future yet?"
Or perhaps (and this is a big perhaps; IANAL and don't know what I'm talking about here) they're interested in cross-licensing so they can use all these companies' patents in their own software and then pull the rug out from underneath them, for the purpose of increasing the count of software patents infringed upon.
IANAL. In civil cases all the plaintiff has to do is convince the judge that their claims are "probably" true. In a criminal case you have to prove a lot more. As far as I am aware screen shots, log files, etc. aren't considered any real evidence in a criminal case since they are so easily forged, but they are allowed in a civil case.
Let's say my kids are out playing in my yard and they throw a ball and it breaks a window of your car. If you sued me you wouldn't have to prove they did it, just that it's likely that they did. Perhaps we need to revise how things work then. Nowadays anyone can get out of a criminal case if they can pay enough for the lawyer; but it seems nobody can get out of a civil case.
Besides, losing the criminal case means life in prison; losing the civil case to one of these MAFIAA predators often means life in hell (forced bankruptcy).
Actually the one Molly can't see she called "worse than the boogieman". The boogieman was Sylar, whom she could see, and in fact did She could see him, she just didn't like to, because he knew she was there.
for false dichotomy. The GP said "the less tax the better". To me that included these brackets "the less tax [we can get away with] the better". Of course you can't just get rid of all taxes. That's why he didn't say it.
if Russia attempted to deploy similar ICBM countermeasures at Cuban or Venezuelan territory, all hell would break loose.
What would we do? Sanction Cube to even less sugar exports to the US?
One day I'm going to "lol" when the other countries realize our economic sanctions mean nothing, because we don't have a middle class anymore and all the money is with the upper elite. In their greed to be rich they've killed their very future. The other countries will laugh at us and our sanctions and do whatever they darn well please; and we'll be able to do nothing about it.
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You need to stop kidding yourself. I've worked at McDonalds for a year. Nothing energizing or satisfying about doing your best for $5.50/hour only to be turned down a raise after a whole year of work. Why should they give me a raise? They can just get rid of me and hire the next person that applies for the same $5.50.This is not physically strenuous work. It won't cause poisoning or RSI or heat stroke. There's no high likelihood of disease or injury. The main downside is that it doesn't pay well.
I've talked with some [engineering] friends who have worked the assembly line at GM. Open chassis, insert part, close chassis. For 8 hours. The only people I know that would call that absorbing and satisfying would be the very dumbest of people. And yes, if the process does not _exactly_ follow the natural movements of your body, you _will_ get repetitive strain injury.
But I'd be far more concerned about the psychological irritability caused by such a job than the physical strain. Clearly you never worked such a job for more than a few hours, let alone several weeks.
Never think yourself above any others. Of all the workers in the world, I probably have the most respect for these factory workers-- how they can endure the most mind numbing of tasks for hours, days, weeks, months, and years on end is far beyond my comprehension; not to mention my ability to replicate it...
Guess what, using a condom can also prevent a person from being brought into the world. Lying to ourselves that just because it's in the shape of an egg and a sperm, therefor it's not a person, is disgusting.
As far as I'm concerned, it's not even close to being a person until the first thought or feeling crosses its mind. That should be the cutoff line. Until that point, it's all potential and nothing more. Difference between the condom and abortion is obvious. In one case life hasn't started. In the other you're taking away what has. Don't you see that?
I'm sure the girl that just got molested will be happy to know that you are disgusted by her because she didn't get the person who raped her to wear a condom.
You disgust me. And exactly how many women is this? So, for say 1000 women every year who are raped, assuming 1/4 get pregnant, how do you justify killing 4000x that many? Or, as this site puts it, those million rapes are from current or former male partners.
So we should allow the murder of 1.3m children because the one or so million women weren't mature enough to pick a good partner that isn't going to rape them during, or after, the relationship? Oh I remember. Two wrongs make a right, yes? You know how many families have considered the un-expected child a blessing, and are glad their daughter _didn't_ have the child aborted?
You have no one to be disgusted at but yourself.
You're offtopic, but I'll respond anyway. I cited current trends in malware, that anyone who wants to research can easily find. If you disagree with my statements, challenge them, don't respond with an ad hominem attack based upon your presumption that the previous poster could not have been in error with regard to the breakdown of the numbers. I imagine I was modded up either by one of the people here who knows who I am, or who has seen the data I have posted on Slashdot in the past regarding the subject of malware. I'll give you a hint, the guy three offices down from me is quoted in a Slashdot article about worms about once a month.
Look, all I was asking for is a little proof. I thought people were supposed to provide sources alongside their opinions?Besides, it looks like the US is putting some money into counter-attacking, so why not just use that money to make the other side's attacks do nothing at all (except frustrate the attackers)? Perhaps we should just have the OS encrypt all the data in the ram and assign it randomly (Vista does this I think). This way if you did manage to crack part of the OS, you'd have to hack the encryption service as well so that you could write something meaningful "execute this" that the OS could understand, and then you'd have to crack the part that does the random memory addressing. Basically tie 3 services together that the hacker has to break through before they can execute arbitrary code, and have them all checking the signatures of the data each is sending to the other.
This would be a great way to use all those new cores Intel/AMD is trying to sell to us.
Something like 50% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, usually without the woman's knowledge that she was ever pregnant.
There is also substantial disagreement as to when life begins. You obviously do not share the view that it begins at conception, as you said "will one day become a human being" (hint: Slashdot allows a subset of HTML and you can use underlines, you need not use the underscore character, this ain't 1990 and this ain't a BBS) so I am curious, after what date do you believe there is a person in there?
Not to mention that there are lots of things that can end a pregnancy in progress and prevent a live birth from ever occurring - and I'm talking "natural" causes here (man-made toxins unintentionally introduced into the body must be counted as "natural" for the purposes of this conversation.)
Minor to you. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you're male...
This inconvenience I'm talking about is her using a condom or making the guy use a condom, or, God forbid, her waiting to have sex until she's in a stable relationship that can handle a third party. But no, she should be allowed to have sex and murder the person-in-development at a whim if she wasn't prepared (no condom) and she gets pregnant.As for life, saying it starts any time but conception is a non-sequitor. What else do you call tissue developing on the way to become a [what society calls] human being? Just tissue? When you abort the baby (er, "tissue") you're removing a person that would one day be in the world. There's simply no getting around it, and us lying to ourselves that since it's not in the shape of a baby, therefor it's not a person, is disgusting. Even more-so that people _actually_ believe it.
Not to mention all the problems that would be solved if it weren't for abortions. We wouldn't have a Social Security crisis or need illegal immigrants if there were an extra 1.3 million people entering the workforce every year.
I'm sure you'll say something to the effect of "ya that's great, we'll have an extra 1.3 million unloved, unwanted children coming into the world every year". So we should just murder them instead? You better be glad your mother wanted you. It's a shame we can't ask all those children whether or not they wanted a chance at life. And don't even begin to presume you are allowed to speak for them: "I know I'd rather be killed than not loved or wanted by one or two people in the world". If you seriously would say that about your own life then you and anyone else that says that is either lying to themselves or a lunatic (I think we've already established the latter in your case). Never mind the other 6 billion people you could find love among. Or hey, maybe some of those 1.3m new others every year would be looking for love too.
What this boils down to is the disgusting fact that we kill 1.3m children every year because it's too inconvenient for us to use condoms. And that we let ourselves off the hook by telling ourselves they're not human. And that we defend these 1.3m homicides under the guise of "rape victims" or "incest".
You disgust me.
Actually, the US is quite a bit ahead on the botnet/zombie attack category. China is more making up for it with other scans and attempted worm propagation from non-zombied (just infected) machines. More attacks are coming out of China than anywhere else, but the US is still hosting more botnets/zombies than China.
How do these things get modded informative? We seriously need to tighten up moderation procedures. Some random guy on the internet can be called "informative" when his rhetoric and general knowledge makes it clearly apparent that he knows what he's talking about. This Dave Schroeder that started off our thread is such a poster. This parent is not.People that can't wow us with their supreme intellect can still inform us effectively if they would simply cite their research and the sources for their opinion. The last thing
So, now more than ever would be the time for the government to switch to Linux. Goodness knows they've got Windows by the balls; there are ~32 legal copies of XP over there. Security through obscurity is clearly working for Microsoft.
If we get into a "cyber war" you can bet your McDonalds toys we'd be safer running an open source solution.
Damn Yankees.
3. PROFIT! No no no that comes afterwords. Here's how it reads:
3. ???
This is implied in the OP's post because, obviously, it is missing.
Starbucks had a little get together called 'bowling for Israel', to raise funds for Israel.
you'd never guess who the Israeli side of things was organised by, yes the very same person who organises fund raising for Israel's troops.
maybe not a megacorp that sells weapons but certainly one that supports oppressive regimes. Nice troll OP. If my country were 50 miles wide and I were in danger of losing my life every time I left my house, I'd be making weapons too. How can you be so insensitive?
If you stand by what you say then that very same logic will tell you to stop buying gas because you're indirectly funding the people invading Israel and causing all the problems in the first place. You should probably stop buying Happy Meals too since those little toys say "Made in China" on the bottom. Can't be supporting Communist China now can we?
Which is good. I like my fish without mercury, thank you very much.
Are people really this retarded, cause I see this repeated?
Click Control Panel - Indexing - Uncheck the locations it searches.
Method two: Set the Windows Search to 'Manual' or 'Disabled'.
Both of these are EASY for the user, and something EVEN a Google Installer could do automatically for a user if the user chose to do it.
This is not Something that can't be turned off and doesn't run all the time if you don't want it to.
I can't believe people read the Google crap and are so retarded they think it is accurate or even a legitimate complaint. How many people are going to know this? Or even know that this is the problem? You give far too much credit to the average user.
They're going to see a link on google's homepage for the newest greatest google program they can download. They're going to click through install as fast as they can not reading anything like they always do. Then they're going to notice that their computer is going a whole lot slower. They're going to think "hm, the only thing that's changed since it's been going slow is I installed the google desktop thing. Must be that." So they uninstall the google program and then tell their coworkers how bad it is, and to stay away from it, etc.
This is how it is anti-competitive.
All I want is to be able to middle-click a link into the 8th tab and be able to scroll down on the current page (either normal scroll or auto-scroll) at the same time without waiting for the page in the background to render. If you want to keep it single-threaded that's fine, just tell it to wait until I'm not scrolling to render that page I just opened in the background.
I've been wondering if Slashdot has completely gone bonkers. For about as long as I can remember I've read nothing but vague references to horrendous lies the Bush administration has spouted about 9-11, and the call for impeachment. Every single one of these posts gets modded up in spite of an underwhelming pool of evidence and citations. The replies to those posts asking for such never do. Looks like we're turning into Digg where you mod up if you agree and down if you don't. Fortunately we don't exactly have a "-1, Wrong" option so the discerning eye can quickly see through the smoke. However, the dissidents pushing their agenda get around by modding the insightful replies (such as yours have been) "Overrated" or "Flamebait", of which they are neither. A simple request for citations and links backing up a poster's comments should never be modded flamebait. Just go look at the moderation on any not-necessarily-pro-right-comment-but-simply-ques
Disgusting, really. Methinks there is a severely unhealthy, illogical political bias on Slashdot. Similar problem like Wikipedia's (in relation to political discussion), just different implementation. Nearly everyone has an agenda, and they'll do anything in their power to promote it and, in this case, bash the Bush administration using completely fallacious, erronious, and most importantly, _empty_ claims. *Sigh*.
Perhaps all these deals are to give an aura of legitimacy to their patent claims, enabling them to spread FUD more effectively.
Perhaps they want to get enough people to continue Linux support under GPLv2.
Perhaps it's an attempt to tie Linux to some actual companies, which they can later undercut and drive out of business (which is how they've dealt with their traditional competitors until now, but which hasn't worked against open source.)
My thinking is they'll use it as a pressuring technique to get other, larger Linux distributors to buckle under the pressure: "8/10 Linux Distributors have cross-licensed patents with Microsoft. Have _you_ secured _your_ future yet?"Honestly, I haven't been able to figure out what this is about.
Or perhaps (and this is a big perhaps; IANAL and don't know what I'm talking about here) they're interested in cross-licensing so they can use all these companies' patents in their own software and then pull the rug out from underneath them, for the purpose of increasing the count of software patents infringed upon.
Let's say my kids are out playing in my yard and they throw a ball and it breaks a window of your car. If you sued me you wouldn't have to prove they did it, just that it's likely that they did. Perhaps we need to revise how things work then. Nowadays anyone can get out of a criminal case if they can pay enough for the lawyer; but it seems nobody can get out of a civil case.
Besides, losing the criminal case means life in prison; losing the civil case to one of these MAFIAA predators often means life in hell (forced bankruptcy).
I think $750 per day is a reasonable amount tho.
Surely a day of a person's life is worth as much as a copy of a song.
So 547,500 for two years. No, make that $750 every 4 minutes. So, $547,000 * 24 * 15 = $196,920,000. Much more reasonable.
Bye Bye server! This would be perfect for a torrent.
for false dichotomy. The GP said "the less tax the better". To me that included these brackets "the less tax [we can get away with] the better". Of course you can't just get rid of all taxes. That's why he didn't say it.
if Russia attempted to deploy similar ICBM countermeasures at Cuban or Venezuelan territory, all hell would break loose.
What would we do? Sanction Cube to even less sugar exports to the US?One day I'm going to "lol" when the other countries realize our economic sanctions mean nothing, because we don't have a middle class anymore and all the money is with the upper elite. In their greed to be rich they've killed their very future. The other countries will laugh at us and our sanctions and do whatever they darn well please; and we'll be able to do nothing about it.