The problem is that people with a propensity to irrational violence read the Koran and use it to validate their propensity. It works for the Bible too - progressive Christians and Jews regard the glorification of Philistine-bashing in Chronicles as evidence that the Bible is a story of the progress of the Israelites from barbarism to Jesus, backward fundamentalists, both Christian and Jewish, take it as leave to maltreat the Palestinians ("King David did it and he was beloved of God - taking their land is OK").
Political affiliation is no guide to intelligence. Many years ago I quit Mensa because it was full of right-wing loonies with 4-sigma-plus IQs. And Boris Johnson (London mayor) was an Eton scholar, which puts him in the top 0.1% IQ-wise.
No, the difference is more subtle. Right-wingers tend, inter pares, to have less intellectual curiosity and are less likely to challenge the status quo. But then, that is more or less a definition of "right wing".
This proposal falls into the beyond-belief-stupid category. Its result will be to prevent public debate; paradoxically it would make it much easier for, say, the Roman Catholic Church to cover up its activities because newspapers would not be allowed to report on what was going on. Most of the public has no idea what child abuse is, and this proposal would prevent them from being educated. This is important because some of the practices of immigrant communities may amount in British law to child abuse, but now you wouldn't be able to tell them that doing such-and-such is illegal. The effect of this proposal would be that it would be illegal to tell Mrs. Patel that female genital mutilation is illegal in language she would understand (hint: she probably doesn't know Latin). By the way, I notice you created a straw man by referring only to sexual abuse. There are plenty of other kinds.
I'd just like to point out that the MP in question is not English - he is from New Zealand - and his qualification to have an opinion on the subject is that he is a dentist (true). It really isn't the fault of the rest of us that Mole Valley is full of people so stupid they would elect a New Zealand dentist to represent them so long as he was a Conservative. It's in Surrey, where former civil servants and bankers are released into the community.
That's why RIM is in trouble. I stupidly dropped my 9810 today, nearly 5 feet. Not a scratch; just kept working. Now if that had been an iPhone, that would have been another sale for Apple.
Still, Thorsten Heins at RIM is probably breathing huge sighs of relief. I don't know what the CEO of Nokia does, as I've never really studied vampires.
Yes, you are missing something (though I have slight reservations about the 16 cores to a die CPUs you claim to be using). There's this thing called education...your large server running loads of VMs is not going to be nearly as useful or informative at getting the ideas across as a rig like this. There is a big difference between working with virtual networks and seeing the hardware of a real network, as well as being able to program the thing with "small" languages without monster frameworks just to make anything happen.
However, you do win a "Miserable git" award for being unpleasant about Prof. Cox.
He seems to be trying to extend the scope of Section 16 to titles, rather than trademarks in the way of businesses that produce paper. Scope creep - it's the enemy of progress.
Look carefully at class IC 016. Although in his description he includes "Novels", it's clear that the scope of 016 is "Goods made of cardboard or paper", and the IC merely references "printed matter". Although printed materials are in scope, it is a stretch of the imagination to extend this to include the title of a novel, or even a series of novels. It relates to publication or printing. One can, for instance, publish a series of books under the imprimatur of "Oxford University Press", because that is applying a trademark to the printing of books. But OUP can't then claim that Oxford University cannot publish its yearbook without their permission, because of the risk of confusion with their copyright. I suspect that you can write a book called "The unofficial history of Oxford University Press" and you will still be in the clear.
As for online reviews, they certainly aren't included in the scope because (a) they aren't made of paper and (b) they are not multimedia.
Oddly the class also includes paper knives. And duplicators. But that does help to show what the framers of the section were thinking about.
He lost me at "we have been very blessed". Protestants who conveniently forget the bit about not serving God and Money, and confuse worldly success with God's approval, are part of the reason we need the likes of Richard Dawkins.
It would just make you demand that everybody recognise your right to impose semantics on everybody. Or perhaps Symantec. This is our last territorial demand on your computer! Install Norton or the Tigers roll at dawn!
This is Slashdot and nobody seems to have done a simple USPTO search!
He has not (and I think cannot) trademarked a comic title. He has trademarked a trademark for sources of downloadable media content. From a read of the grant, this does not cover books or reviews. He cannot landgrab his trademark to cover areas outside its applicability. Much as I personally dislike HarperCollins, I suspect that the response of their lawyers will be (correctly) the same as in the famous Arkell v Pressdram.
The USPTO search should be compulsory reading before commenting on these issues. It quickly shows whether someone has a case, may have a case, or doesn't understand how trademarks work. IANAL, this does not constitute legal advice or opinion etc., but in this case I suspect he falls into my last class.
Viol8, you really do come over like a childish Daily Mail reader. I guess that you didn't actually work in industry, you just read about it in the Mail. I did. For a "lefty" I didn't do too badly either - they don't usually make blinkered lefties technical directors, nor do they get funded by the DTI to represent the UK abroad - but I digress a little.
Yes there were major union problems in the 70s and 80s. They were almost all caused by underqualified, poor quality managements who didn't understand the first thing about negotiation, many of them accountant-led. A friend of mine who went to work for Leyland post-graduation soon left, citing the utter incompetence of his bosses. In the US, in my experience at the time, manufacturing was product-led and the job of the bean counters was to count beans. Successful companies like Thorn EMI tended to have high quality managements. Funny that.
The early 70s power cuts were the result of the poor management of the coal industry and the excessively combative approach of civil servants. It's interesting that Ted Heath actually sympathised with the miners, as did a couple of his more forward thinking ministers, and wanted to negotiate. He was sabotaged by Wilson and his own civil servants. Have you ever met a miner? Thought not.
The recession was caused by a sudden policy change to "strict monetarism" , an economic policy so disastrous that it hasn't been applied in this depression, in which an increase in the money supply is being managed by central banks. As a result, instead of using North Sea Oil money to pay for a transition from lower tech to higher tech industry, it was frittered away on giving sweeteners to high earners and friends of the Conservative Party. That notorious purveyor of left wing nonsense Michael Heseltine got it. Thatcher and her cronies didn't. I still feel, as someone who attended a few meetings with Heseltine and his policy makers at the DTI, that he was the best Conservative Prime Minister we never had. A Heseltine/Clark government could have seen off Blair.
Mind you, Blair and Brown weren't in the room when the SEC allowed the banks to deregulate in 2004, which led to the present crisis. It's funny how in the UK people like you blame Labour, when US economists actually point to the the precise meeting at which the second disastrous deregulation step allowed Lehmann and Bear Sterns, aided and abetted by S&P and Goldman Sachs, to create the housing bubble. Blinkers? Yup, you have them.
The English canals had icebreaker boats which worked exactly the same way, except that they were human powered. the crew moved around on the deck to get the bow onto the ice then moved forward to break it, then rocked from side to side to clear the passage. So this solution has probably been around for several hundred years of testing. I imagine that the experience and knowledge of everybody from the canal builders to PhD-level marine architects somewhat exceeds that of xenobyte.
I keep seeing this meme. It's based on a misreading of, ffs, a 19th century Irish judgement!
You would have enormous trouble claiming against a company for "not making as much money as they could have". It was hard enough to get Conrad Black locked up, and he was treating his company as a personal piggy bank.
Every company in it for the long haul turns down the opportunity to make money today by investing for tomorrow. Making "the best product they can" and selling at a loss - that's building the brand image to ensure future revenues, or helping raise the perceived value of the rest of the product range. Been there, done that.
You don't like the Board's policies, you try to get elected to the Board. If you were ill advised enough to try to sue, you would almost certainly get squashed in the circumstances you describe.
They have also bought The Independent, and as The Guardian slowly goes down the tubes and loses all its principles, The Independent seems to be emerging as the last British newspaper with any credibility. Some at least of the oligarchs seem to have the ambition to become English gentlemen, just as those English gentlemen turn out to be pretty obnoxious themselves.
Just before I joined the R&D department of one UK company in the early 1980s, one of the engineers left to go and live in the Soviet Union. The Thatcher recession had just started (a recession deliberately started by her government to justify a reduction in worker rights), the future of British industry looked bleak, and while installing equipment for the company at a Russian research institute he was offered a job. He also fell in love with his translator, to be fair. But the conditions of life for a research engineer obviously looked more attractive than prospects in the UK at the time. Before anyone asks, during his original stint there (several months) he was living in a standard engineer's apartment in a housing block, under their normal conditions, and was actually paid by the USSR government. So he knew exactly what he was going into.
That things have changed dramatically since, for a variety of reasons, shouldn't negate the fact that there were good parts of the Soviet Union, and under some conditions socialism worked quite well. It is equally possible, and equally misleading, to create a dystopic version of both the USA and the UK simply by focussing on the rust belt, inner cities, areas of house price collapse and places with a large incidence of extremists of one persuasion or another.
The point about Putin for the average Russian is that Eltsine let his mates steal virtually the entire wealth of the country, and Putin has got a significant amount of it back. He has doubtless enriched himself in the process, but at least he has prevented the "last one out turn off the lights, if no-one has stolen them" end game of his predecessor.
Is hitting the ground. So all that crash investigation has been wasted: the answer is to prevent the aircraft from hitting the ground as soon as possible.[/sarcasm]
I find this a bit amazing. The idea seems to be that a private organisation can hijack the terms "Republican" or "Democratic", when we know that only the most dubious third world hellholes have the words in their country names or one party political organisations. The People's Republic of China and the Democratic Republic of North Korea, spring to mind. Perhaps there's a rule here: the names of countries mean exactly the opposite of what they say, so that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (to give it its full title) is disunited, in practice an elective dictatorship, not at all great, and the bit to the West is really more about Southern Scots that Northern Irish.
If you look at their actual logo, the letter in the middle is a backwards R - the Cyrillic symbol for "Ya". It's obviously a Commie plot to destroy American competitiveness by addicting children to made-in-People's Republic of China plastic.
It isn't really "building" but plugging bits together. Are you going to get him/her involved in the intricacies of RAM types, cpu sockets, HD interfaces and the like? If not you are going to have to buy all the bits and it is about as interesting as building one of those Lego kits that makes one thing. I'm afraid that, faced with those,
My grandchildren are in the target age group, both their fathers are developers, I am a software architect who was once a hardware designer - I mean as in industrial and military computers built from components up - and my advice is this. Spend the $300 on a ukelele, a kayak, or whatever looks like floating his or her boat, literally or metaphorically. Something practical that you can do or learn together. Computers are what most people do when they are not in a position to do something more interesting, and children deserve something more interesting. When peer pressure demands electronic gadgets, get the right one. No good buying Android if all the class communicate with BBM, or buying BB if that will result in being laughed at.
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The problem is that people with a propensity to irrational violence read the Koran and use it to validate their propensity. It works for the Bible too - progressive Christians and Jews regard the glorification of Philistine-bashing in Chronicles as evidence that the Bible is a story of the progress of the Israelites from barbarism to Jesus, backward fundamentalists, both Christian and Jewish, take it as leave to maltreat the Palestinians ("King David did it and he was beloved of God - taking their land is OK").
No, the difference is more subtle. Right-wingers tend, inter pares, to have less intellectual curiosity and are less likely to challenge the status quo. But then, that is more or less a definition of "right wing".
This proposal falls into the beyond-belief-stupid category. Its result will be to prevent public debate; paradoxically it would make it much easier for, say, the Roman Catholic Church to cover up its activities because newspapers would not be allowed to report on what was going on. Most of the public has no idea what child abuse is, and this proposal would prevent them from being educated. This is important because some of the practices of immigrant communities may amount in British law to child abuse, but now you wouldn't be able to tell them that doing such-and-such is illegal. The effect of this proposal would be that it would be illegal to tell Mrs. Patel that female genital mutilation is illegal in language she would understand (hint: she probably doesn't know Latin). By the way, I notice you created a straw man by referring only to sexual abuse. There are plenty of other kinds.
I'd just like to point out that the MP in question is not English - he is from New Zealand - and his qualification to have an opinion on the subject is that he is a dentist (true). It really isn't the fault of the rest of us that Mole Valley is full of people so stupid they would elect a New Zealand dentist to represent them so long as he was a Conservative. It's in Surrey, where former civil servants and bankers are released into the community.
That's why RIM is in trouble. I stupidly dropped my 9810 today, nearly 5 feet. Not a scratch; just kept working. Now if that had been an iPhone, that would have been another sale for Apple.
Lame. But lots and lots of people will buy it.
Still, Thorsten Heins at RIM is probably breathing huge sighs of relief. I don't know what the CEO of Nokia does, as I've never really studied vampires.
However, you do win a "Miserable git" award for being unpleasant about Prof. Cox.
He seems to be trying to extend the scope of Section 16 to titles, rather than trademarks in the way of businesses that produce paper. Scope creep - it's the enemy of progress.
As for online reviews, they certainly aren't included in the scope because (a) they aren't made of paper and (b) they are not multimedia.
Oddly the class also includes paper knives. And duplicators. But that does help to show what the framers of the section were thinking about.
He lost me at "we have been very blessed". Protestants who conveniently forget the bit about not serving God and Money, and confuse worldly success with God's approval, are part of the reason we need the likes of Richard Dawkins.
See my post above. The trademark applicability is very restricted (and does not seem to include books, or reviews of books.)
It would just make you demand that everybody recognise your right to impose semantics on everybody. Or perhaps Symantec. This is our last territorial demand on your computer! Install Norton or the Tigers roll at dawn!
He has not (and I think cannot) trademarked a comic title. He has trademarked a trademark for sources of downloadable media content. From a read of the grant, this does not cover books or reviews. He cannot landgrab his trademark to cover areas outside its applicability. Much as I personally dislike HarperCollins, I suspect that the response of their lawyers will be (correctly) the same as in the famous Arkell v Pressdram.
The USPTO search should be compulsory reading before commenting on these issues. It quickly shows whether someone has a case, may have a case, or doesn't understand how trademarks work. IANAL, this does not constitute legal advice or opinion etc., but in this case I suspect he falls into my last class.
Yes there were major union problems in the 70s and 80s. They were almost all caused by underqualified, poor quality managements who didn't understand the first thing about negotiation, many of them accountant-led. A friend of mine who went to work for Leyland post-graduation soon left, citing the utter incompetence of his bosses. In the US, in my experience at the time, manufacturing was product-led and the job of the bean counters was to count beans. Successful companies like Thorn EMI tended to have high quality managements. Funny that.
The early 70s power cuts were the result of the poor management of the coal industry and the excessively combative approach of civil servants. It's interesting that Ted Heath actually sympathised with the miners, as did a couple of his more forward thinking ministers, and wanted to negotiate. He was sabotaged by Wilson and his own civil servants. Have you ever met a miner? Thought not.
The recession was caused by a sudden policy change to "strict monetarism" , an economic policy so disastrous that it hasn't been applied in this depression, in which an increase in the money supply is being managed by central banks. As a result, instead of using North Sea Oil money to pay for a transition from lower tech to higher tech industry, it was frittered away on giving sweeteners to high earners and friends of the Conservative Party. That notorious purveyor of left wing nonsense Michael Heseltine got it. Thatcher and her cronies didn't. I still feel, as someone who attended a few meetings with Heseltine and his policy makers at the DTI, that he was the best Conservative Prime Minister we never had. A Heseltine/Clark government could have seen off Blair.
Mind you, Blair and Brown weren't in the room when the SEC allowed the banks to deregulate in 2004, which led to the present crisis. It's funny how in the UK people like you blame Labour, when US economists actually point to the the precise meeting at which the second disastrous deregulation step allowed Lehmann and Bear Sterns, aided and abetted by S&P and Goldman Sachs, to create the housing bubble. Blinkers? Yup, you have them.
The English canals had icebreaker boats which worked exactly the same way, except that they were human powered. the crew moved around on the deck to get the bow onto the ice then moved forward to break it, then rocked from side to side to clear the passage. So this solution has probably been around for several hundred years of testing. I imagine that the experience and knowledge of everybody from the canal builders to PhD-level marine architects somewhat exceeds that of xenobyte.
You would have enormous trouble claiming against a company for "not making as much money as they could have". It was hard enough to get Conrad Black locked up, and he was treating his company as a personal piggy bank.
Every company in it for the long haul turns down the opportunity to make money today by investing for tomorrow. Making "the best product they can" and selling at a loss - that's building the brand image to ensure future revenues, or helping raise the perceived value of the rest of the product range. Been there, done that.
You don't like the Board's policies, you try to get elected to the Board. If you were ill advised enough to try to sue, you would almost certainly get squashed in the circumstances you describe.
They have also bought The Independent, and as The Guardian slowly goes down the tubes and loses all its principles, The Independent seems to be emerging as the last British newspaper with any credibility. Some at least of the oligarchs seem to have the ambition to become English gentlemen, just as those English gentlemen turn out to be pretty obnoxious themselves.
Paul Chambers, Bradley Manning. We really need to start working on the plank in our eye before removing Mr. Putin's.
That things have changed dramatically since, for a variety of reasons, shouldn't negate the fact that there were good parts of the Soviet Union, and under some conditions socialism worked quite well. It is equally possible, and equally misleading, to create a dystopic version of both the USA and the UK simply by focussing on the rust belt, inner cities, areas of house price collapse and places with a large incidence of extremists of one persuasion or another.
The point about Putin for the average Russian is that Eltsine let his mates steal virtually the entire wealth of the country, and Putin has got a significant amount of it back. He has doubtless enriched himself in the process, but at least he has prevented the "last one out turn off the lights, if no-one has stolen them" end game of his predecessor.
It isn't a record unless the lawyers were trying to remember ethics. Just remembering doesn't count.
Is hitting the ground. So all that crash investigation has been wasted: the answer is to prevent the aircraft from hitting the ground as soon as possible.[/sarcasm]
I find this a bit amazing. The idea seems to be that a private organisation can hijack the terms "Republican" or "Democratic", when we know that only the most dubious third world hellholes have the words in their country names or one party political organisations. The People's Republic of China and the Democratic Republic of North Korea, spring to mind. Perhaps there's a rule here: the names of countries mean exactly the opposite of what they say, so that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (to give it its full title) is disunited, in practice an elective dictatorship, not at all great, and the bit to the West is really more about Southern Scots that Northern Irish.
Removes tinfoil hat
On second thoughts, forget that.
There will be an app for that. The ad-supported version will just slow them down, the pro version will use the camera LED to blow their heads off.
My grandchildren are in the target age group, both their fathers are developers, I am a software architect who was once a hardware designer - I mean as in industrial and military computers built from components up - and my advice is this. Spend the $300 on a ukelele, a kayak, or whatever looks like floating his or her boat, literally or metaphorically. Something practical that you can do or learn together. Computers are what most people do when they are not in a position to do something more interesting, and children deserve something more interesting. When peer pressure demands electronic gadgets, get the right one. No good buying Android if all the class communicate with BBM, or buying BB if that will result in being laughed at.