Because they disagree with you? No, that's perfectly democratic. you write back and say "My vote takes the opposite view from you" and then vote for some other party. If no party does what you want, you can start your own. If enough people agree with you, you will get what you want. the only thing undemocratic about the UK is the voting system, which is, frankly, toilet.
Re:Prosecuting corporations for crimes is asinine.
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I disagree, because it puts people between getting paid money to feed their children and walking out and getting nothing. Since corporations are "owned" in the sense that they have shareholders, I think that any corporation that commits a crime just gets partiallt or totally claimed by the state. For small infractions, say, take 20% ownership(equally from shareholders), which is a fine of millions/billions depending on the size of the company. For more serious things, the govt should just take complete ownership of the company. Also make it so that the govt has to then auction off the company, and the previous owners cannot buy any shares in that company ever again. This has three major benefits, firstly, the employees just trying to feed their families don't get shafted. secondly, it punishes those ultimately responsible. Thirdly, people know they can lose everything if they invest in dodgy companies.
Why shareholders aren't punished for the actions of a corporation is completely beyond me. They decide who the CEO/CTO is, the majority shareholders decide what the corp does. why not hold them all responsible? and even give them jail time, etc etc for more serious things.
if a websites TOS is binding, why not just put what's in the robots.txt file in the TOS in legalese, or just state in the TOS that the robots.txt file must be obeyed or whatever?
On installing Ubuntu 10.40 rc 3 alpha or some such rc I was in fact offered migration from my windows partition, I didn't use it though, as I use windows for google voice/video chat and gaming only and have no docs on windows, so YMMV.
maybe make it a fun game, where the error message will only go away if clicked more than 10 seconds after it appeared, otherwise it just instantly pops up again somewhere else on the screen so they have to move the mouse, just like whack-a-mole. Wonder how long it will take before people figure it out...
I think this might be naive of me, so anyone who wants to can correct my foolishness, but surely if you buy the game and also crack it(after you've bought it) all you're doing is violating the EULA?
Perhaps restricting the legitimate purchasers is the new reason for adding DRM. I'm sure game publishers like wiping out second hand sales, making people buy the same game twice for different computers, forced obsoletion, etc etc. They probably just use piracy as a cover, write off the 'losses' from piracy, then make money from well and truly shafting the purchasers.
Tibet has swapped hands between india and china for hundreds of years now. the british took it when they decided they liked india. China didn't want to fuck with britain on that scale back then. when Britain gave india independence the chinese took tibet in a surprise attack. the indians could have held onto tibet but their leaders didn't believe that china invaded(they _were_ friends) and thus didn't give the order to rally or whatever until it was too late. I don't think they see it as imperialism, more as reclaiming their territory. which sucks for taiwan. but isn't, in their mentality, imperialism.
...what the AJAX request was every time I selected something
I have a habit of selecting each line as I read it, and when I saw the request, I wondered what they could possible do with the knowledge that i'd selected a specific line. so I re-read(and re-selected each line as I went) just to fuck with them. My habit hopefully makes any data they collect about me worthless, but i'll still be blocking the script's domain
I think the idea is to disable communications at a critical moment while the ground troops/navy/air force fight it out. presumably this won't be a first strike weapon, it's more likely to be used after hostilities begin and before escalation to all out nuclear clusterfuck.
Have a look at linode.com too if it's the VPS options you're going for. they're now in london too, so unless you want the australian datacenter of that rimuhosting you mentioned they might be worth considering.:)
You know what to do. Form the IIAA(Ice Industry Association of America) and lobby politicians for FMIA(Fridge Millenium Icing Act) and start sending letters to everyone suspected of having fridges but not paying you, then use the money most of them pony up to avoid a court case to sue the ones that don't pony up, so that everyone sees that you mean business. don't forget ridiculous sums($50,000 for each ice cube you could fit in the defendants fridge). start displaying "FRIDGES ARE A CRIME AND WE WILL FIND YOU" signs all over shops that sell them, much like the movies.
You could also set up fake shops, giving away fridges, then when people accept the fridge, you take them to court.
Use the money you gain to open similar Associations in other countries and start the whole process again. Don't let those bastard fridgemaking communists cut into your revenue, fight back!
Then you can get your new puppets to start secret treaties with your puppets in other nations...
My point was more that the people who are told they haven't done enough to become a member might not want to keep contributing, especially if they feel they've worked very hard for the last 4 months or 6 months or whatever. It may not be a serious concern, depending on how they handle it, but it could, if handled badly, drive people away from ubuntu. I didn't RTFA so didn't know what members actually get.
Please specifically exclude the dearly beloved New Labour Party of my nation(UK) when you state things like 'European welfare states" and "carefully manage the economy", it will give the wrong impression of what it is they actually do.
Also, and totally unrelated to my pointless previous point, but more related to the topic of this discussion, wouldn't such a membership have an adverse effect if they don't make most contributors they interview members? Someone contributing 4 months of their meagre spare time, and then being told they haven't done enough to earn a free t-shirt? How many people would be happy with that?
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if that's what the money ended up being used for, I'd be quite happy to pay for it. Better than many other things they do with tax money.
Because they disagree with you? No, that's perfectly democratic. you write back and say "My vote takes the opposite view from you" and then vote for some other party. If no party does what you want, you can start your own. If enough people agree with you, you will get what you want. the only thing undemocratic about the UK is the voting system, which is, frankly, toilet.
I disagree, because it puts people between getting paid money to feed their children and walking out and getting nothing. Since corporations are "owned" in the sense that they have shareholders, I think that any corporation that commits a crime just gets partiallt or totally claimed by the state. For small infractions, say, take 20% ownership(equally from shareholders), which is a fine of millions/billions depending on the size of the company. For more serious things, the govt should just take complete ownership of the company. Also make it so that the govt has to then auction off the company, and the previous owners cannot buy any shares in that company ever again. This has three major benefits, firstly, the employees just trying to feed their families don't get shafted. secondly, it punishes those ultimately responsible. Thirdly, people know they can lose everything if they invest in dodgy companies.
Why shareholders aren't punished for the actions of a corporation is completely beyond me. They decide who the CEO/CTO is, the majority shareholders decide what the corp does. why not hold them all responsible? and even give them jail time, etc etc for more serious things.
Install dictators in foreign nations with lots of oil, then replace them when they get uppity?
I thought something similar.. "and they want to JOIN that list?"
if a websites TOS is binding, why not just put what's in the robots.txt file in the TOS in legalese, or just state in the TOS that the robots.txt file must be obeyed or whatever?
heh. 10.04. *kills myself*.
On installing Ubuntu 10.40 rc 3 alpha or some such rc I was in fact offered migration from my windows partition, I didn't use it though, as I use windows for google voice/video chat and gaming only and have no docs on windows, so YMMV.
maybe make it a fun game, where the error message will only go away if clicked more than 10 seconds after it appeared, otherwise it just instantly pops up again somewhere else on the screen so they have to move the mouse, just like whack-a-mole. Wonder how long it will take before people figure it out...
I think this might be naive of me, so anyone who wants to can correct my foolishness, but surely if you buy the game and also crack it(after you've bought it) all you're doing is violating the EULA?
Here you go:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3173
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/TrackMeNot/
I don't actually use it, I just googled it.. oh the irony.
You're getting a lot of shit on /. so let me just say "good luck" and I hope you get there and moon all the dissenters ;)
Can't be much help as I know nothing of CAD though..
Well thank god we don't have to worry about that then, we can win the war by trapping the little fucker in IE6.
Perhaps restricting the legitimate purchasers is the new reason for adding DRM. I'm sure game publishers like wiping out second hand sales, making people buy the same game twice for different computers, forced obsoletion, etc etc. They probably just use piracy as a cover, write off the 'losses' from piracy, then make money from well and truly shafting the purchasers.
Tibet has swapped hands between india and china for hundreds of years now. the british took it when they decided they liked india. China didn't want to fuck with britain on that scale back then. when Britain gave india independence the chinese took tibet in a surprise attack. the indians could have held onto tibet but their leaders didn't believe that china invaded(they _were_ friends) and thus didn't give the order to rally or whatever until it was too late. I don't think they see it as imperialism, more as reclaiming their territory. which sucks for taiwan. but isn't, in their mentality, imperialism.
I love both games, and still play them. I wish more games like them would come out. Without ruining the company, of course.
Oh, right, I didn't actually look, I just saw the silly firefox loading image spin around on the left of the tab and assumed. My bad.
...what the AJAX request was every time I selected something
I have a habit of selecting each line as I read it, and when I saw the request, I wondered what they could possible do with the knowledge that i'd selected a specific line. so I re-read(and re-selected each line as I went) just to fuck with them. My habit hopefully makes any data they collect about me worthless, but i'll still be blocking the script's domain
maybe they used google translator to get the summary from chinese?
I think the idea is to disable communications at a critical moment while the ground troops/navy/air force fight it out. presumably this won't be a first strike weapon, it's more likely to be used after hostilities begin and before escalation to all out nuclear clusterfuck.
It's an inanimate carbon rod!
...you insensitive clod?
Have a look at linode.com too if it's the VPS options you're going for. they're now in london too, so unless you want the australian datacenter of that rimuhosting you mentioned they might be worth considering. :)
You know what to do. Form the IIAA(Ice Industry Association of America) and lobby politicians for FMIA(Fridge Millenium Icing Act) and start sending letters to everyone suspected of having fridges but not paying you, then use the money most of them pony up to avoid a court case to sue the ones that don't pony up, so that everyone sees that you mean business. don't forget ridiculous sums($50,000 for each ice cube you could fit in the defendants fridge). start displaying "FRIDGES ARE A CRIME AND WE WILL FIND YOU" signs all over shops that sell them, much like the movies.
You could also set up fake shops, giving away fridges, then when people accept the fridge, you take them to court.
Use the money you gain to open similar Associations in other countries and start the whole process again. Don't let those bastard fridgemaking communists cut into your revenue, fight back!
Then you can get your new puppets to start secret treaties with your puppets in other nations...
My point was more that the people who are told they haven't done enough to become a member might not want to keep contributing, especially if they feel they've worked very hard for the last 4 months or 6 months or whatever. It may not be a serious concern, depending on how they handle it, but it could, if handled badly, drive people away from ubuntu. I didn't RTFA so didn't know what members actually get.
Please specifically exclude the dearly beloved New Labour Party of my nation(UK) when you state things like 'European welfare states" and "carefully manage the economy", it will give the wrong impression of what it is they actually do.
Also, and totally unrelated to my pointless previous point, but more related to the topic of this discussion, wouldn't such a membership have an adverse effect if they don't make most contributors they interview members? Someone contributing 4 months of their meagre spare time, and then being told they haven't done enough to earn a free t-shirt? How many people would be happy with that?