How about a Strategic Lawsuit Against Government Participation next time they get out of hand? Having to field a lawsuit every time they seize something illegally might make the county more careful...
Sadly there are no checks and balances in the system.
Of course there are! IANAL. Just sue the city/county/whatever for the value of your stuff. If they won't reimburse you/you can't sue them/whatever, whine to the newspapers until they do (otherwise they (the politicians) risk not getting reelected, though that works best if they're not democrats since ~all media outlets other than Fox are in bed with the dems).
Me:(calls 911) Officer, my TV is broken! Dispatcher:Not my problem Me:Some hacker did it! Disp.:OMG! (picks up radio) Calling all cars!
Time passes
Officer:So a hacker did this? Me:Yeah, look at that static! That's totally unnatural for this TV, it's magic! Off.:OMG! Who could have done this! Me:My next-door-neighbor (the same neighbor who acts like a dick all the time) Off.:(goes next door) You're under arrest! ??:Profit!
While I don't always agree with MS's practices, having a competition hearing at a time when the regional experts are unavailable is stupid.
Actually, none of the people Microsoft claimed to be worried about not attending never attend these hearings anyway. Hearings are usually attended by staff level personell in the first place. The hearing would also be attended by the European Commissioner for Competition.
Please remove that triple negative so I can understand WTF you're trying to say
Don't blame Nader, blame your lousy voting system that discourages a third party from forming. Your voting party system is only one party better than the Communism your country hates.
There's a lot more than 2 implementations. Besides OpenOffice and MS Office there's AbiWord, KOffice, Google Docs, WordPerfect Office X4, IBM's Lotus Symphony, the Sun ODF plug-in for MS Word and the BSD-licensed ODF plug-in for Word that Microsoft funded and hosted on SourceForge. That last is important, BTW. Not only is Office 2007's implementation of ODF incompatible with OpenOffice, it's incompatible with Microsoft's own other implementation of ODF.
Well duh it's incompatible with that! The plugin (Microsoft's) works well with other OpenDocument programs, so it therefore must never see the light of day (from Microsoft's point of view).
Yes, a little, but do you expect them to break down how OpenOffice does it? Could cause legal issues. "How did you (Microsoft) know to save the formulas at X? It's not in the standard, only we (OpenOffice) save there.."
[snip]
Microsoft:Well, we just created a file in OOo Calc (the spreadsheet thingie) and then unarchived it, examined its pieces, etc.
Statistics. Also, scroll down and note the % of people who actually proceed to search.live.com, and then look at this. (note that the last two statistics probably overlap gratuitously, so if you want to do any math, ignore the third, because the second is more precise.) And if you want some laughs, put google and yahoo into the compare boxes.
By the same token, if a prosecutor loses many cases, you have to wonder about his/her skill.
Frankly - I think this is a major problem in criminal justice. Prosecutors are interested in convictions - not prosecuting those who have actually committed crimes. A prosecutor with a weak case doesn't wonder if the guy might be innocent - he just hedges his bets by levelling a nasty charge and then bargaining for a minor one. Sounds nice on paper - a person with a 20% chance of being guilty gets 20% of the punishment, but justice would be 20% of those people getting 100% of the punishment and 80% getting released as expediently as possible.
IANAL. But you're wrong. In a criminal trial (civil trials don't involve prosecutors at all, just plaintiffs and defendants), the person must be proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. In other words, if the person is 20% likely to be guilty, he goes free.
Downloads are not profitable. They have never been profitable. The internet exists to link people and computers together. It is not designed to make money, and it is not going to contort itself into some bizarre shape involving DRM and other nonsense just because you want some cash. If you need the money, make it on concert swag and CDs (yes, people actually do still buy those, if you sell them!) like people used to. You don't need the internet to make money. The only reason you have for using the internet is buzzword-compliance. I'm sorry that you're unable to make money on the internet, but pre-internet indie bands were facing much tougher challenges (more expensive equipment, no internet to sell their mp3s on, etc.) and still did fine.
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How about a Strategic Lawsuit Against Government Participation next time they get out of hand? Having to field a lawsuit every time they seize something illegally might make the county more careful...
Sadly there are no checks and balances in the system.
Of course there are! IANAL. Just sue the city/county/whatever for the value of your stuff. If they won't reimburse you/you can't sue them/whatever, whine to the newspapers until they do (otherwise they (the politicians) risk not getting reelected, though that works best if they're not democrats since ~all media outlets other than Fox are in bed with the dems).
Me:(calls 911) Officer, my TV is broken!
Dispatcher:Not my problem
Me:Some hacker did it!
Disp.:OMG! (picks up radio) Calling all cars!
Time passes
Officer:So a hacker did this?
Me:Yeah, look at that static! That's totally unnatural for this TV, it's magic!
Off.:OMG! Who could have done this!
Me:My next-door-neighbor (the same neighbor who acts like a dick all the time)
Off.:(goes next door) You're under arrest!
??:Profit!
He's saying "that's life" rather than "that's a good thing". Or maybe he is just trolling...
Well, such a beast does exist, but it only runs on Linux (i.e. it's made for Wine). It's called "Wine-doors"
Microsoft has the dominant position in the OS market, hence the antitrust laws apply to it a lot more than to Linux, Apple, etc.
Actually, none of the people Microsoft claimed to be worried about not attending never attend these hearings anyway. Hearings are usually attended by staff level personell in the first place. The hearing would also be attended by the European Commissioner for Competition.
Please remove that triple negative so I can understand WTF you're trying to say
Who the fuck invented fashion anyway? They should be shot! It is such a waste of energy and time.
Without bothering to Google, I'd guess the Nokia thing is cheaper than the iPhone. The only disadvantage it has is it's a little larger.
Probably the same people they've got doing customer service.
[from his sig]
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I completely disagree with every word of the above post.
I completely disagree with every word of the above post, including the sig at the end.
Good God! He has an account!
Obviously not secure enough.
C'mon. There was a sign on the door saying "beware of the leopard".
...At the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory... In the basement, where the lights and stairs had gone out...
I'm not quite enough of a geek to quote it verbatim, though.
Don't blame Nader, blame your lousy voting system that discourages a third party from forming. Your voting party system is only one party better than the Communism your country hates.
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What more do you want?
i can haz cheezberger?
There's a lot more than 2 implementations. Besides OpenOffice and MS Office there's AbiWord, KOffice, Google Docs, WordPerfect Office X4, IBM's Lotus Symphony, the Sun ODF plug-in for MS Word and the BSD-licensed ODF plug-in for Word that Microsoft funded and hosted on SourceForge. That last is important, BTW. Not only is Office 2007's implementation of ODF incompatible with OpenOffice, it's incompatible with Microsoft's own other implementation of ODF.
Well duh it's incompatible with that! The plugin (Microsoft's) works well with other OpenDocument programs, so it therefore must never see the light of day (from Microsoft's point of view).
Do you really think Microsoft wants perfect compatibility? Sun/etc. will have to pay MS to use such code (and MS is too rich for that to work anyway).
Yes, a little, but do you expect them to break down how OpenOffice does it? Could cause legal issues. "How did you (Microsoft) know to save the formulas at X? It's not in the standard, only we (OpenOffice) save there.."
[snip]
Microsoft:Well, we just created a file in OOo Calc (the spreadsheet thingie) and then unarchived it, examined its pieces, etc.
Statistics. Also, scroll down and note the % of people who actually proceed to search.live.com, and then look at this. (note that the last two statistics probably overlap gratuitously, so if you want to do any math, ignore the third, because the second is more precise.) And if you want some laughs, put google and yahoo into the compare boxes.
By the same token, if a prosecutor loses many cases, you have to wonder about his/her skill.
Frankly - I think this is a major problem in criminal justice. Prosecutors are interested in convictions - not prosecuting those who have actually committed crimes. A prosecutor with a weak case doesn't wonder if the guy might be innocent - he just hedges his bets by levelling a nasty charge and then bargaining for a minor one. Sounds nice on paper - a person with a 20% chance of being guilty gets 20% of the punishment, but justice would be 20% of those people getting 100% of the punishment and 80% getting released as expediently as possible.
IANAL. But you're wrong. In a criminal trial (civil trials don't involve prosecutors at all, just plaintiffs and defendants), the person must be proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. In other words, if the person is 20% likely to be guilty, he goes free.
S?
No, the belt is much better; the iPhone is confined to a poor medium for expressing directionality compared to the belt.
Shut up! If you can't think of something witty, don't say anything at all.
Downloads are not profitable. They have never been profitable. The internet exists to link people and computers together. It is not designed to make money, and it is not going to contort itself into some bizarre shape involving DRM and other nonsense just because you want some cash. If you need the money, make it on concert swag and CDs (yes, people actually do still buy those, if you sell them!) like people used to. You don't need the internet to make money. The only reason you have for using the internet is buzzword-compliance. I'm sorry that you're unable to make money on the internet, but pre-internet indie bands were facing much tougher challenges (more expensive equipment, no internet to sell their mp3s on, etc.) and still did fine.
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Fixed your wording and added back in a comma that belongs there. All of those words are describing the word "pronoun," thus they all belong.
It isn't a serial comma -- there's no conjunction in the list.