The difference is that a non accredited "Joe's College" degree is a misrepresentation of the facts - the person with that degree has not completed the learning or training to actually deserve the degree. At best, this is a lie, and at worst, if it's a medical or engineering degree, it represents a danger to society.
How does permitting the existance of a state of marriage between two people who have chosen each other affect anyone other than those two people, in any way that could be considered a misrepresentation or a danger to society?
(Also, taking your argument to an extreme would mean that the gvmt. would investigate the 'fitness' of the two people to decide if it's ok to marry... What's next? Childbearing certificiation?)
By this 'logic', heterosexual married couples who don't have children are also murderers. Did you consider that
Murder is not 'negation of life'. It's the willful distruction of another human being. Not having kids is not murder. (I'll going to completly avoid discussion abortion here, becaues that's a completly different subject)
Oddly enough, as soon as this happens, complying with the law suddenly becomes more important than even thinking about what the Right Thing might be, and Doing The Right Thing falls completely off the radar. Funny, that.
Privacy: It's dead. You have none. Get over it.
In America.
As it points out in the article, in Canada we have a privacy act that does define legally what the private can and cannot do regarding personal data.
And yet, contrary to your theory, the Canadian companies surveyed are the ones doing the right thing, and the US ones are the ones who are worried about what they can get sued for.
They could just release the same version of the DVD simultaneously in all regions?
After all, if they simply junked region codes, we'd have Studios complaining about people importing foreign versions of movies for which the hold "exclusive North American rights"
Actually, for the next election to be replaced by:
I elect: [ ] The New Liberal guy, who hopes to get actually elected Prime Minister for real [ ] The New Conservative guy, who hopes that no one notices either that they're really the same as the old Alliance guy, or that they're an old PC guy who lied about not wanting to join with the old Alliance [ ] The Bloc, still running for Canadian parliament on the platform of breaking up Canada [ ] The NDP, bringing together union rednecks and the transgendered since 1935 (But not a real party either)
Notes isn't really painful to use for email - it is different though, which does throw off people that are used to other email clients... (I find Outlook to be much more painful)
On the other hand, Notes/Domino is exceeding painful to program, especially being as it claims to be a great environment to develop web groupware apps in.
I'm pessimistic on the idea that Lotus will port the Notes Client or Smartsuite to Linux; especially since they dumped client support for Unixen in Domino R5... And the idea that a petiton might change there minds is (sadly) unlikely - Lotus isn't really good at listening to that kind of input from users...
Or even from their business partners, like the one I work for; Lotus has a partner forum, which is available to Lotus Certified Business Partner companies. Various requests have been made at times for improvements in certain Notes features (like printing, or report generation); many of the these request meet very little response or support from Lotus.
As far as the server Linux port goes, and speaking from several years of familiarity with Notes/Domino, I'm not really that interested. Lotus' track record for Unix versions hasn't been great; the AIX and Solaris version have been buggy, slow, or they require a _very_ specific set of OS patches/configuration to run efficiently... By analogy, that would mean that the Linux version may run on the 2.2.7 kernel (for example), but not, say, 2.2.9 . (And don't dare try putting it on a development kernal)
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The difference is that a non accredited "Joe's College" degree is a misrepresentation of the facts - the person with that degree has not completed the learning or training to actually deserve the degree. At best, this is a lie, and at worst, if it's a medical or engineering degree, it represents a danger to society.
How does permitting the existance of a state of marriage between two people who have chosen each other affect anyone other than those two people, in any way that could be considered a misrepresentation or a danger to society?
(Also, taking your argument to an extreme would mean that the gvmt. would investigate the 'fitness' of the two people to decide if it's ok to marry... What's next? Childbearing certificiation?)
By this 'logic', heterosexual married couples who don't have children are also murderers. Did you consider that
Murder is not 'negation of life'. It's the willful distruction of another human being. Not having kids is not murder. (I'll going to completly avoid discussion abortion here, becaues that's a completly different subject)
Anybody want a peanut?
Oddly enough, as soon as this happens, complying with the law suddenly becomes more important than even thinking about what the Right Thing might be, and Doing The Right Thing falls completely off the radar. Funny, that.
:)
Privacy: It's dead. You have none. Get over it.
In America.
As it points out in the article, in Canada we have a privacy act that does define legally what the private can and cannot do regarding personal data.
And yet, contrary to your theory, the Canadian companies surveyed are the ones doing the right thing, and the US ones are the ones who are worried about what they can get sued for.
So I guess we are just nicer up here
Maybe people with poor grammer should be hanged?
They could just release the same version of the DVD simultaneously in all regions?
After all, if they simply junked region codes, we'd have Studios complaining about people importing foreign versions of movies for which the hold "exclusive North American rights"
Actually, for the next election to be replaced by:
I elect:
[ ] The New Liberal guy, who hopes to get actually elected Prime Minister for real
[ ] The New Conservative guy, who hopes that no one notices either that they're really the same as the old Alliance guy, or that they're an old PC guy who lied about not wanting to join with the old Alliance
[ ] The Bloc, still running for Canadian parliament on the platform of breaking up Canada
[ ] The NDP, bringing together union rednecks and the transgendered since 1935 (But not a real party either)
Notes isn't really painful to use for email - it is different though, which does throw off people that are used to other email clients... (I find Outlook to be much more painful)
On the other hand, Notes/Domino is exceeding painful to program, especially being as it claims to be a great environment to develop web groupware apps in.
Really no problem with that, since we know that Idaho does not exist.
Funny, other countries (like Canada) manage to use letters in their postal codes & have automated mail sorting equipment too...
Of course, to be fair, Canadian Postal codes don't use several letters, including IJO & Q.
Just because you don't have a car doesen't mean you aren't allowed to use your brain to solve a problem :-D
And using an Internet grocery delivery service to solve this isn't using your brain?
I just bought some 60mm Vantec Stealth fans from:
www.e-compuvision.com
No problems at all, & they shipped in a couple of days.
Generation Y?
Nah.
It's Generation 'Why?'
I'm pessimistic on the idea that Lotus will port the Notes Client or Smartsuite to Linux; especially since they dumped client support for Unixen in Domino R5... And the idea that a petiton might change there minds is (sadly) unlikely - Lotus isn't really good at listening to that kind of input from users...
Or even from their business partners, like the one I work for; Lotus has a partner forum, which is available to Lotus Certified Business Partner companies. Various requests have been made at times for improvements in certain Notes features (like printing, or report generation); many of the these request meet very little response or support from Lotus.
As far as the server Linux port goes, and speaking from several years of familiarity with Notes/Domino, I'm not really that interested. Lotus' track record for Unix versions hasn't been great; the AIX and Solaris version have been buggy, slow, or they require a _very_ specific set of OS patches/configuration to run efficiently... By analogy, that would mean that the Linux version may run on the 2.2.7 kernel (for example), but not, say, 2.2.9 . (And don't dare try putting it on a development kernal)
Umm, could we have a vote against that?