pfft. economic hub - what nonsense. I am European, and let me tell you this - Belgium is a piece of dirt on a map, an asylum of megalomaniac province idiots, and basically known in Europe for pralinees, corruption and pedophilia.
A few years ago the Belgian idiots tried to declare the world to be their colony by making lawas applying to the whole world - and trying to enforce them. Needless to mention that shit backfired... a little:-) Some years before that Belgioum shocked the rest of Europe by finding a pedophile ring - abducting and murdering little girls - that was so imbued and anchored in high circles of Belgian societey that Belgian police for years tried to fully uncover it, ultimately unsuccessfully (a few small fish went to prison). Apparently, pedohiles in belgium are about as powerful and entrenched as the mafia in southern Italy. Aside of those Brussels is the main seat of the European Comission and an incredible fertile ground for absurd levels of corruption.
But one has to remark that Belgian pralinees are excellent.
If I were Google, I would just remove any reference to the newspapers that sued from all Google systems. All of them.
but as long as they confirm to the $$305 ff BGB (the successor clauses of the formel AGB-Gesetz (law to regulate fine print in contracts)) they can - AFAIK - be perfectly valid.
On the other hand, the majority of EULAs is so outrageous they would not pass muster in most iurisdictions, including Germany and the EU.
what nonsense. These people were nmot computer savy, andf brought their syswtem to the shop to have its HD replaced. Of course they wanted their data on the new drive.
The duty to clean the old one lies with best buy - they promised destruction. Destruction is not sale.
this isnt about legal fees - if the lawyers suceed with their plan they (and they alone) will make a multi million dollar killing from the settlement with Apple.
not wanting to be involved in some extortion racket like case is very natural. You make it sound like a crime
it is very obvious that the only ones profiteering here are the lawyers. This in itself is abuse of the legal system. That you cheer it or at least consider it normal speaks volumes about you
your diction tells it all. You say "to use a person as a plaintiff". Where I come from, lawyers work for clients, they do nout "use them".
So, to make a long story short, you are part of the problem - a parasitic lawyer caste sucking the lifeblood out of the economy without contributing anything. I'll let others speculate about solutions. In my country, you would already have been disbarred, and probably held liable in some form.
Duke Nukem was the last FPS I really enjoyed, but I was hoping SC Ghost could pull it off. To be honest, I expected it to mediocre, like Matrix 2, or Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
Blizzard do their best to keep their fans happy, especially in this regard. I have it on good authority that the new release date for SC:Ghost is planned 4 weeks after Duke Nukem Forever comes out.
I tried to order around $550 worth of tees and caps (joined order with a couple of friends). First they cancelled the order for no reason. Mailed them, re-ordered, and got an email stating they didn't ship to the netherlands.
Funny thing is, they have no qualms to still bombard me with their promo material, even though my email is very obviously German. You would think they would have filtered my address out some time ago, since they don't sell to no bloody foreigners, but apparently not.
What's even more strange, some years ago, I bought some shit from them without any problem. Even with an earlier instance of the same f*** credit card. So this xenophobia policy apparently was instated more recently.
Hey, Taco, did you accidentally hire a few Klansmen or what ?
Thinkgeek are idiots, pure and simple. They basically refuse to sell to foreigners.
A few months ago ordered 10 or so of their T Shirts. My VISA card was perfectly valid. First, after a few days the put my order on hold. Then they sent me email demanding I send them photo id. So I scanned my Personalausweis and sent it to them. The next day they demanded I send them the backside of that as well. So I scanned the backside of my Personalausweis and sent it to them as well. Then they demanded I scan my credit card and send it to them, too. That was the point where I lost my patience and stopped replying.
I use this card for all kinds of shopping on the net, and never had problems with it. But those hillbilly hicks that run Thinkgeek apparently have a najor "we don't sell to bloody evil foreigners" chip on their shoulder. Well, I can take my business elsewhere, and so should you.
P.S. Yes, I asked for an escalation instance to find somebody with a rest of sanity. No go. I tried to contact them a few months later and asked if that particular policy had changed. Not even an nswer.
another plausible theory for not getting the warrants is that they would have been forced to show some degree of probable cause. Assuming they used a scattershot approach or were just randomly poking around, that would have been impossible. A hint that supports this theory is the mention of Echelon.
FISA can't take powers away from the president that he is granted under the constitution.
This is basically a renewed version of the theory of "Divine Grace". Absolute Monarchs in the 16th and 17th century argued that God had made them rulers by His Divine Grace, and therfore considered their power to be absolute and without limits. They were above all laws. Enlightenment and civil revolution finally did away with this nonsense.
Now you just substitute "divine grace" by "the founding fathers"
It is pretty embarassing that a sizeable part of the population in an enlightened country like the US whith a long democratic tradition suddenly adheres to such theories. If you want to know where such lunacy can end, look uzp terms like "Ermächtigungsgesetz"....
Perhaps Chirac can win part of the popularity contest in France
Forget it. I'm a European myself, and I've seen that kind of projects. Plenty of them. They all fails, especially the French ones. There is a whole scene of companies that do nothing than burning through European subsidies, project after project after project. They complete them, boast about them, and then bury them. That works especially well when you add in that Gallic talent for just accidently and by chance always hiring well connected french companies only in European projects.
Look who's in the boat here - that reads like a who is who of the Public Fundinds Burning Society. Deutsche Telekom, France Telekom, both fornmer state monopolists, Thomson, french electronics giant and perpetual receiver of ample state subsidies. The rest is probably of similar calibre.
and usually bureaucratic fiat produces things like bureaucrats and Fiats
While your intent here is right and the wordplay is cute, that's deeply offensive to a great Italian car tradition that is way more succesfull and receptive to their customers needs than any EU buerocrats pet project ever could be.
I heartily dislike this verdict, mainly for the fact that damage is exaggerated where is not much.
Lessons learned ? How about those: - when they piss you off, don't just play a little, make sure you don't get caught at all. Do whatever that takes. - don't just fool around with someones account, kill the company outright. If they fight for their life or are dead, there is less incentive to play games with you. You have the inside knowledge, so there is plenty of shit you can do. Be hard, swift and merciless.
I'm not really sure that's what we want to teach, though.
We use both HP and Sun, and HP's former Compaq Proliant servers are way better engineered than the Sun stuff. And their HW support processes work.
A SunFire V240 is a joke on wheels compared to a HP DL380. Heck, that even starts when rackmountinmg them. Mounting a HP s a 40 seconds click click click click affair, while the Sun is the old fashioned screwdriver gymnastics with standard 19'' rack screws etc.
The HP iLo is in a class of itself alone. Sun LOM doesn't even come close.
Granted, HPs old Netserver line was mediocre, but there's a reason they bought Compaq.
Example - Dual processor HP Proliant Intel servers come (at least here in Europe, I suppose it's somewhat cheaper over there) with a 2 year next business day on site warranty support package included.
A simple extension of that support to 5 years will cost < 1 k$ (one time).
A very expensive 4 Years 24x7 4 hours is < 2 k$ (one time)
And 4 years 24x7 with 8 hours guaranteed hardware repair time is 2.8 k$ (one time)
As for coding.... well, big names like IBM are always really fucking obscenely expensive. Daily fees of 3k and more per person are not unheard of. Hiring them only makes sense when you have large scale projects that smaller comapanies just can't handle. In theory, you pay their organizational competennce, too (in practice, you sometimes get none of this delivered)
I'd recommend those above. Basically all large vendors offer taylored support contracts for large accounts, and standardised suzpport for smaller shops.
HP for instance has quite a number of different options available as seperately purchaseable support packs, including a pretty expemsive one with guaranteed time back so service (most vanilla support contracts only guarantee reaction time or appearnace time on site, leaving you with a residual though small risk that the necessary part may take longer to arrive).
You do plan your systems for a well defined service level, do you ? Else, someone should maybe start doing his job. Often a spare server is a cheaper alternative to high level support contracts - we often go this route. But keep that spare a spare - if you live in the kind of shop that happens to find its spare server miracolously doing mission critical work after a few months, you'd be better off to buy support from professionals.
Had the US staid out of European wars alltogether, Londoners might have learned a bit more accurate better marching habits, but aside from that nothing much would have happened. Ah well, a certain Austrian painter's apprentice had stayed out of politics, roughly five million Jewsih Europeans had lived their natural livespans, and we all would regard the swastika as an obscure nordic symbol.
By their intervention in WW1 and determination of its outcome, the US basically created Hitler and his movement and made WW2 and everything around it possible. A strong neutral position in WW1 (i.e. no support for either side, both economically as well as militarily) had resulted in a victory for Germany, probably a repeat of the 1871 treaty and that's it.
Some of those countries were too disorganized to manage their TLD, and allowed commercial companies to do it. Now the ICANN is givng those TLDs BACK to their RIGHTFULL OWNERS.
That claim is stupid and just plain wrong. Neither Germany nor the United Kingdom nor Australia were "disorganized" in any way, but the TLDs were managed by orgnizations of their major Internet using entities from the beginning (first University associations, later private sector companies or coops)
Pffft! Germany disorganized.... never been overe here, have you ?
Thank you for the reasonable and well stated post.
I had already started to believe slashdot had overnight mutated into a kind of techno freerepublic clone, based on the kneejerk amerika-über-alles reactions of the majority of the posters.
When did the majority opf geeks start to believe that government influence was good in the general case ?
You are exactly the person they are complaining about, an unaccountable slanderer. What the fuck do you not understand about the edit button ?? What the fuck are you trying to tell us by using the term "wiki fiddler" ? Why on earth should there be somebody to go to when all you need is correcting the information ?
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pfft. economic hub - what nonsense. I am European, and let me tell you this - Belgium is a piece of dirt on a map, an asylum of megalomaniac province idiots, and basically known in Europe for pralinees, corruption and pedophilia.
... a little :-)
A few years ago the Belgian idiots tried to declare the world to be their colony by making lawas applying to the whole world - and trying to enforce them. Needless to mention that shit backfired
Some years before that Belgioum shocked the rest of Europe by finding a pedophile ring - abducting and murdering little girls - that was so imbued and anchored in high circles of Belgian societey that Belgian police for years tried to fully uncover it, ultimately unsuccessfully (a few small fish went to prison). Apparently, pedohiles in belgium are about as powerful and entrenched as the mafia in southern Italy.
Aside of those Brussels is the main seat of the European Comission and an incredible fertile ground for absurd levels of corruption.
But one has to remark that Belgian pralinees are excellent.
If I were Google, I would just remove any reference to the newspapers that sued from all Google systems. All of them.
hmmm... IANAL
but as long as they confirm to the $$305 ff BGB (the successor clauses of the formel AGB-Gesetz (law to regulate fine print in contracts)) they can - AFAIK - be perfectly valid.
On the other hand, the majority of EULAs is so outrageous they would not pass muster in most iurisdictions, including Germany and the EU.
what nonsense. These people were nmot computer savy, andf brought their syswtem to the shop to have its HD replaced. Of course they wanted their data on the new drive.
The duty to clean the old one lies with best buy - they promised destruction. Destruction is not sale.
I have yet to see a single lawyer plying D & D .
Your troll is a bit lacking.
this isnt about legal fees - if the lawyers suceed with their plan they (and they alone) will make a multi million dollar killing from the settlement with Apple.
He wants his name out of this.
So, to make a long story short, you are part of the problem - a parasitic lawyer caste sucking the lifeblood out of the economy without contributing anything. I'll let others speculate about solutions. In my country, you would already have been disbarred, and probably held liable in some form.
0 or 40 what ?
.. you are using SI units, are you ? )
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nonsense.
The Red Cross movement was basically a Swiss invention, and it adapted the reverse colured Swiss flag as a symbol.
What's even more strange, some years ago, I bought some shit from them without any problem. Even with an earlier instance of the same f*** credit card. So this xenophobia policy apparently was instated more recently.
Hey, Taco, did you accidentally hire a few Klansmen or what ?
Thinkgeek are idiots, pure and simple. They basically refuse to sell to foreigners.
A few months ago ordered 10 or so of their T Shirts. My VISA card was perfectly valid. First, after a few days the put my order on hold. Then they sent me email demanding I send them photo id. So I scanned my Personalausweis and sent it to them. The next day they demanded I send them the backside of that as well. So I scanned the backside of my Personalausweis and sent it to them as well. Then they demanded I scan my credit card and send it to them, too. That was the point where I lost my patience and stopped replying.
I use this card for all kinds of shopping on the net, and never had problems with it. But those hillbilly hicks that run Thinkgeek apparently have a najor "we don't sell to bloody evil foreigners" chip on their shoulder. Well, I can take my business elsewhere, and so should you.
P.S. Yes, I asked for an escalation instance to find somebody with a rest of sanity. No go. I tried to contact them a few months later and asked if that particular policy had changed. Not even an nswer.
another plausible theory for not getting the warrants is that they would have been forced to show some degree of probable cause. Assuming they used a scattershot approach or were just randomly poking around, that would have been impossible. A hint that supports this theory is the mention of Echelon.
Well said !
Now you just substitute "divine grace" by "the founding fathers"
It is pretty embarassing that a sizeable part of the population in an enlightened country like the US whith a long democratic tradition suddenly adheres to such theories. If you want to know where such lunacy can end, look uzp terms like "Ermächtigungsgesetz"....
Look who's in the boat here - that reads like a who is who of the Public Fundinds Burning Society. Deutsche Telekom, France Telekom, both fornmer state monopolists, Thomson, french electronics giant and perpetual receiver of ample state subsidies. The rest is probably of similar calibre.
While your intent here is right and the wordplay is cute, that's deeply offensive to a great Italian car tradition that is way more succesfull and receptive to their customers needs than any EU buerocrats pet project ever could be.
I heartily dislike this verdict, mainly for the fact that damage is exaggerated where is not much.
Lessons learned ? How about those:
- when they piss you off, don't just play a little, make sure you don't get caught at all. Do whatever that takes.
- don't just fool around with someones account, kill the company outright. If they fight for their life or are dead, there is less incentive to play games with you. You have the inside knowledge, so there is plenty of shit you can do. Be hard, swift and merciless.
I'm not really sure that's what we want to teach, though.
We use both HP and Sun, and HP's former Compaq Proliant servers are way better engineered than the Sun stuff. And their HW support processes work.
A SunFire V240 is a joke on wheels compared to a HP DL380. Heck, that even starts when rackmountinmg them. Mounting a HP s a 40 seconds click click click click affair, while the Sun is the old fashioned screwdriver gymnastics with standard 19'' rack screws etc.
The HP iLo is in a class of itself alone. Sun LOM doesn't even come close.
Granted, HPs old Netserver line was mediocre, but there's a reason they bought Compaq.
No, I meant less than. Numbers are a rough estimates based on 1US$ ~ 1
Example - Dual processor HP Proliant Intel servers come (at least here in Europe, I suppose it's somewhat cheaper over there) with a 2 year next business day on site warranty support package included.
A simple extension of that support to 5 years will cost < 1 k$ (one time).
A very expensive 4 Years 24x7 4 hours is < 2 k$ (one time)
And 4 years 24x7 with 8 hours guaranteed hardware repair time is 2.8 k$ (one time)
As for coding.... well, big names like IBM are always really fucking obscenely expensive. Daily fees of 3k and more per person are not unheard of. Hiring them only makes sense when you have large scale projects that smaller comapanies just can't handle. In theory, you pay their organizational competennce, too (in practice, you sometimes get none of this delivered)
I'd recommend those above. Basically all large vendors offer taylored support contracts for large accounts, and standardised suzpport for smaller shops.
HP for instance has quite a number of different options available as seperately purchaseable support packs, including a pretty expemsive one with guaranteed time back so service (most vanilla support contracts only guarantee reaction time or appearnace time on site, leaving you with a residual though small risk that the necessary part may take longer to arrive).
You do plan your systems for a well defined service level, do you ? Else, someone should maybe start doing his job. Often a spare server is a cheaper alternative to high level support contracts - we often go this route. But keep that spare a spare - if you live in the kind of shop that happens to find its spare server miracolously doing mission critical work after a few months, you'd be better off to buy support from professionals.
Go read your hostory books again.
Had the US staid out of European wars alltogether, Londoners might have learned a bit more accurate better marching habits, but aside from that nothing much would have happened. Ah well, a certain Austrian painter's apprentice had stayed out of politics, roughly five million Jewsih Europeans had lived their natural livespans, and we all would regard the swastika as an obscure nordic symbol.
By their intervention in WW1 and determination of its outcome, the US basically created Hitler and his movement and made WW2 and everything around it possible. A strong neutral position in WW1 (i.e. no support for either side, both economically as well as militarily) had resulted in a victory for Germany, probably a repeat of the 1871 treaty and that's it.
Pffft! Germany disorganized
Thank you for the reasonable and well stated post.
I had already started to believe slashdot had overnight mutated into a kind of techno freerepublic clone, based on the kneejerk amerika-über-alles reactions of the majority of the posters.
When did the majority opf geeks start to believe that government influence was good in the general case ?
that is utter nonsense
You are exactly the person they are complaining about, an unaccountable slanderer. What the fuck do you not understand about the edit button ?? What the fuck are you trying to tell us by using the term "wiki fiddler" ? Why on earth should there be somebody to go to when all you need is correcting the information ?
Popularity has nothing to do with that.