In fact, there's no legal definition of religions in France. Besides some vestigal compromises with the Catholic Church dating back to the separation of Church and State in 1905, religious organisations are treated, in legal terms, like any other organisation.
Yeah, I was in doubt that this discovery was useful, too. Here's what was my reasoning, feel free to bash it if necessary: OK, so prime numbers obey Benford's law, doesn't that imply that their distribution is random?
The power of French unions is also far greater than their Anglo-Saxon counterparts
In what version of France do you live, I want to install it right now!
More seriously, unions are pretty weak in France (for a wide range of reasons). Employment laws are strict, which gives them some leverage, but overall they are far weaker than, say, German ones or, I suspect, US ones.
That would need his e-mail to have been unusually lyric for such a document. By French law can only be copyrighted (well, the term "copyrighted" doesn't quite fit French law either, but that will do as a simplification) a piece of work sufficiently elaborate to be considered original.
For example, a simple SMS stating "Don't forget to buy some rice" (or for a reference probably only other Frenchies will get "Si tu reviens, j'annule tout":D) won't be considered original enough to be "copyrightable". If you manage to state it in rhymes, however...
Just a technical point FYI: punitive damages don't exist in French law. But this case may have penal repercussions besides the work law process, I'm not quite sure.
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Niccolo Machiavelli stated it a long time ago: the Prince doesn't need to have all virtues, the only virtues that matter are the aptitudes to recognize virtues in others, and to make the best use of them.
Now, if you replace the Prince with elected representatives, the first aptitude is taken care of by various academic mechanisms to select experts (well, ideally, that is). The second one... is certainly more problematic. YMMV.
I'd add that, even without having a proper statewise IT department, there's no shortage of IT experts a senate can consult, like professors in tech institutes or people like that.
Jokes aside, I agree that this bill is stupid. Why have an I.T. department if they need the state politicians to tell them what software to use?
Because ultimately it's not the IT department's job to decide which policy should be followed: no matter what organisation is involved, their only part in policy-making is to provide their expertise to the people in charge of deciding (in this case, elected representatives - in the case of a company it would be appointed managers).
By the way, how do you know if it isn't precisely the IT department's advice that made Texas Senate decide for this policy? Something like "This OS is too unstable, we advise avoiding to upgrade to it for now unless there are imperative reasons to do so."
I am no astrophysicist, but you forgot to factor in several elements in your reasoning. First, the travel is not instantaneous. Second, both planets orbit. Third, if we are ever to make a manned trip to Mars, it will probably be set to be the shortest possible (well, you had factored that one, but follow me).
The idea is to send a ship from a point A0 on Earth's orbit, where the Earth would be at time 0, to a point Bt on Mars' orbit, where Mars would be at the time t. Obviously, neither at time 0 nor at time t nor anytime in between would Earth and Mars be at their closest. And if the trip takes three months, the Earth goes for one quarter of its full orbit.
So, as you can see, 40 minutes is far from a stretch, considering it's the time necessary for getting an answer, i.e. the double of the time the initial message takes to reach its destination.
Astrophysicists, please forgive me for stepping in unqualified, and for assuming, in my explanation, that the trajectory would be a straight line from A0 to Bt (which I'm not sure it would).
More simply than the others who reacted to your post, I'd say you should link to the Wikipedia article you're quoting, so anyone can see how it is sourced.
And his laptop and an external HD were taken. Police in Europe (at least in Germany and here in Austria) are allowed to raid your house when they believe there is imminent danger to the security of the state or other citizens ("Gefahr im Verzug"). They don't need a judge's permission/order for this. If they don't find anything, they can just file a simple 2 page report and be done with it.
What, not even the possibility of an a posteriori examination?
I blissfully thought Germany was more strict than that about due process.
I personally have no problem with the executive branch (like the police is part of) taking quick action in case of an emergency: it's part of its role. Yes, even wiretapping, under certain conditions. But I find it disturbing when it goes unsupervised by the other branches, first and foremost the judicial one. Even if it's a posteriori, the relevance, proportions, and actual emergency of the actions taken should be examinated as soon as possible.
In the case at hand, if the police really invoked "Gefahr im Verzug" (which is not mentioned in TFA nor anywhere I've read of the story), they are at fault, at the very least on the emergency part.
That's not what the OP said. He said "investment". In your GM example, sale of the adapter kits could be considered "investment".
Except that to sell them, you need to have them manufactured, and unless you own a factory, in many cases, you can't, because without a patent nothing prevents the contract manufacturer from stealing your inventions.
That's an important part of what the patent system had initially been designed for: to protect inventors from manufacturers.
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In fact, there's no legal definition of religions in France. Besides some vestigal compromises with the Catholic Church dating back to the separation of Church and State in 1905, religious organisations are treated, in legal terms, like any other organisation.
Yeah, but imagine how many people we could rickroll! We could even send the data in space and rickroll the entire galaxy!
And for some reason, the overall tone of the image will be blue.
Yeah, I was in doubt that this discovery was useful, too. Here's what was my reasoning, feel free to bash it if necessary: OK, so prime numbers obey Benford's law, doesn't that imply that their distribution is random?
Not only he's a troll, he's a flamebait too! :D
As a Frog, reading the word "ethics" in a post about TF1 makes me giggle, like a Brit would giggle meeting the same word in a post about the Sun.
The power of French unions is also far greater than their Anglo-Saxon counterparts
In what version of France do you live, I want to install it right now!
More seriously, unions are pretty weak in France (for a wide range of reasons). Employment laws are strict, which gives them some leverage, but overall they are far weaker than, say, German ones or, I suspect, US ones.
That would need his e-mail to have been unusually lyric for such a document. By French law can only be copyrighted (well, the term "copyrighted" doesn't quite fit French law either, but that will do as a simplification) a piece of work sufficiently elaborate to be considered original.
For example, a simple SMS stating "Don't forget to buy some rice" (or for a reference probably only other Frenchies will get "Si tu reviens, j'annule tout" :D) won't be considered original enough to be "copyrightable". If you manage to state it in rhymes, however...
Just a technical point FYI: punitive damages don't exist in French law. But this case may have penal repercussions besides the work law process, I'm not quite sure.
It made me instantly think of this strip.
Haha, yeah, in France we call this the Corsican virus.
I could consider paying for better comments. Seriously, most commments on Youtube are so stupid it hurts. A premium account with access to a premium comment section could be interesting.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
By this standard, a buckyball sounds like a very tasteful present.
Niccolo Machiavelli stated it a long time ago: the Prince doesn't need to have all virtues, the only virtues that matter are the aptitudes to recognize virtues in others, and to make the best use of them.
Now, if you replace the Prince with elected representatives, the first aptitude is taken care of by various academic mechanisms to select experts (well, ideally, that is). The second one... is certainly more problematic. YMMV.
I'd add that, even without having a proper statewise IT department, there's no shortage of IT experts a senate can consult, like professors in tech institutes or people like that.
No system should be upgraded to an unstable version?
Jokes aside, I agree that this bill is stupid. Why have an I.T. department if they need the state politicians to tell them what software to use?
Because ultimately it's not the IT department's job to decide which policy should be followed: no matter what organisation is involved, their only part in policy-making is to provide their expertise to the people in charge of deciding (in this case, elected representatives - in the case of a company it would be appointed managers).
By the way, how do you know if it isn't precisely the IT department's advice that made Texas Senate decide for this policy? Something like "This OS is too unstable, we advise avoiding to upgrade to it for now unless there are imperative reasons to do so."
Unfortunately, the typo at hand was in the original Telegraph article so, if anything, it's a case of copy-and-past being a typo propagator.
Nope, they'll have tasks to accomplish, to make the experiment more realist. And to keep them sane, I guess.
I am no astrophysicist, but you forgot to factor in several elements in your reasoning. First, the travel is not instantaneous. Second, both planets orbit. Third, if we are ever to make a manned trip to Mars, it will probably be set to be the shortest possible (well, you had factored that one, but follow me).
The idea is to send a ship from a point A0 on Earth's orbit, where the Earth would be at time 0, to a point Bt on Mars' orbit, where Mars would be at the time t. Obviously, neither at time 0 nor at time t nor anytime in between would Earth and Mars be at their closest. And if the trip takes three months, the Earth goes for one quarter of its full orbit.
So, as you can see, 40 minutes is far from a stretch, considering it's the time necessary for getting an answer, i.e. the double of the time the initial message takes to reach its destination.
Astrophysicists, please forgive me for stepping in unqualified, and for assuming, in my explanation, that the trajectory would be a straight line from A0 to Bt (which I'm not sure it would).
More simply than the others who reacted to your post, I'd say you should link to the Wikipedia article you're quoting, so anyone can see how it is sourced.
And his laptop and an external HD were taken. Police in Europe (at least in Germany and here in Austria) are allowed to raid your house when they believe there is imminent danger to the security of the state or other citizens ("Gefahr im Verzug"). They don't need a judge's permission/order for this. If they don't find anything, they can just file a simple 2 page report and be done with it.
What, not even the possibility of an a posteriori examination?
I blissfully thought Germany was more strict than that about due process.
I personally have no problem with the executive branch (like the police is part of) taking quick action in case of an emergency: it's part of its role. Yes, even wiretapping, under certain conditions. But I find it disturbing when it goes unsupervised by the other branches, first and foremost the judicial one. Even if it's a posteriori, the relevance, proportions, and actual emergency of the actions taken should be examinated as soon as possible.
In the case at hand, if the police really invoked "Gefahr im Verzug" (which is not mentioned in TFA nor anywhere I've read of the story), they are at fault, at the very least on the emergency part.
That's not what the OP said. He said "investment". In your GM example, sale of the adapter kits could be considered "investment".
Except that to sell them, you need to have them manufactured, and unless you own a factory, in many cases, you can't, because without a patent nothing prevents the contract manufacturer from stealing your inventions.
That's an important part of what the patent system had initially been designed for: to protect inventors from manufacturers.
Oh yeaaah, It would have made the other modules crash!
Actually, George de Mestral did.
But yeah, NASA did much to popularize it.