There's a delicate balance to be found. In general, a public figure like a politician is less protected by courts than average citizens, because of the notion of public interest.
It makes sense. The Right To Be Forgotten is one of those things that just can't be enforced well, which also runs counter to most other countries' ideas about fundamental rights.
Reminds me of a French Jewish comedian, Michel Boujenah, who had a scene about a devout Jew who repeatedly prayed to God for having him win the lottery.
"Oh Lord, make me win the lottery, make me win the lottery, make me win the lottery, make me win the lottery, make me win the lottery, make me win the lottery, make me win the lottery, make me win the lottery, make me win the lottery!"
In the end God can't bear it anymore, and tells him "Look, I'm okay with making you win the lottery, but play it, at least!"
No shit. I once was interrogated by a shop's security, accused of shoplifting. I had an audio cassette in my jacket that I had bought the day before, along with its wrapper that had a piece of metal for detectors to, well, detect (I don't think it was actually RF chips, but it was their ancestor, at least functionally). And unfortunately I didn't have the ticket, I had put it in my pants and I had changed pants in the mean time.
So here I was, knowing perfectly well that I was in the right. I kept a cool facade, I methodically countered their arguments, including the classic bluff "you've been seen on the cameras", but internally I was very stressed. Come to think of it, I'm not sure what's more stressful between being rightly accused or wrongly so. I suppose it may depend on your personality and values, but I don't really know.
Ultimately, I convinced them that I hadn't stolen the cassette and they let me go. But I still remember it vividly, twenty-seven years later.
After the battle of Bir Hakeim, some retreating French soldiers were caught prisoners by Rommel's forces. Hitler directly ordered that said prisoners be all executed, which Rommel refused. I think it's this kind of orders that pushed Rommel and others to conspire against Hitler.
The Bolsheviks, being born of urban intelligentsia, had deep-rooted despise for the peasants. As a result they treated them like shit. There's a reason why Gorbachev tried to reform the USSR: he was from a peasant family (quite a novelty for his position) and had a new perspective on the state of affairs.
Very different on paper. Mein Kampf was pretty much followed to the letter. Marx's writings, not so much. In his correspondence with Engels, Marx himself warned against a communist revolution in Tsarist Russia, lest it would lead to a new Prussia (i.e. an aggressive imperialist power).
Actually it did. My bad. I need to get some sleep, somehow I read it totally wrong. I read it as if the evacuation alarm was rung after his clock was found. D'oh!
In my opinion the real problem with The Gimp is the limited overlap between its target user base and people with the skills to create useful add-ons. Photoshop is developed by teams of people of various backgrounds: programmers, artists and writers, mainly. They are brought together by the company they work for. This doesn't happen on a sufficient scale with The Gimp. Programmers and artists don't communicate enough with each other in the Free Software community. As a result, The Gimp lags behind. As for writers, well, let me put it bluntly: Free Software hackers seem to be allergic to documentation.
If you want to prevail in a case of so-called "intellectual property" you should have to prove that having you prevailing goes in the direction of promoting "the Progress of Science and useful Arts", because any decision in your favor that wouldn't stand this test would be a blatant violation of the COTUS, and an abuse of power by whatever entity that made this decision.
Disclaimers: IANAL IANAUSC
Claimer: "intellectual property" isn't a fundamental right
I mean, I know that good whiskey tasters can make an expository appreciation of a drink with just a sip, but precisely, the articles say it was a vial of scotch that was sent. I understand that there are payload issues at play, but a vial is too small a sample to set up a significant blind-test, that would neutralize both the biases, and the styles of the tasters. Not enough sips in a vial.
You completely missed the point of the GP. It's about testing protocols, not the results. The results are totally unreliable and therefore completely uninteresting without some amount of blind-testing.
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VW is investigated in the EU too, and Germany in particular.
There's a delicate balance to be found. In general, a public figure like a politician is less protected by courts than average citizens, because of the notion of public interest.
Because Google has activities and even assets in the EU, and must comply with the EU's data policy.
It makes sense. The Right To Be Forgotten is one of those things that just can't be enforced well, which also runs counter to most other countries' ideas about fundamental rights.
Citation needed.
It's a EU-wide policy that the CNIL is merely spearheading.
Specifically, Russian doesn't have the nonsense where the letter 'c' can sometimes make an 's' sound, and sometimes a 'k' sound.
Yeah, sorry about that, it's something English borrowed from French.
Reminds me of a French Jewish comedian, Michel Boujenah, who had a scene about a devout Jew who repeatedly prayed to God for having him win the lottery.
"Oh Lord, make me win the lottery, make me win the lottery, make me win the lottery, make me win the lottery, make me win the lottery, make me win the lottery, make me win the lottery, make me win the lottery, make me win the lottery!"
In the end God can't bear it anymore, and tells him "Look, I'm okay with making you win the lottery, but play it, at least!"
I know it's off-topic, but I'm fond of that joke.
No shit. I once was interrogated by a shop's security, accused of shoplifting. I had an audio cassette in my jacket that I had bought the day before, along with its wrapper that had a piece of metal for detectors to, well, detect (I don't think it was actually RF chips, but it was their ancestor, at least functionally). And unfortunately I didn't have the ticket, I had put it in my pants and I had changed pants in the mean time.
So here I was, knowing perfectly well that I was in the right. I kept a cool facade, I methodically countered their arguments, including the classic bluff "you've been seen on the cameras", but internally I was very stressed. Come to think of it, I'm not sure what's more stressful between being rightly accused or wrongly so. I suppose it may depend on your personality and values, but I don't really know.
Ultimately, I convinced them that I hadn't stolen the cassette and they let me go. But I still remember it vividly, twenty-seven years later.
You have to wonder if it's actually about detecting treachery, or to foster mindless docility.
After the battle of Bir Hakeim, some retreating French soldiers were caught prisoners by Rommel's forces. Hitler directly ordered that said prisoners be all executed, which Rommel refused. I think it's this kind of orders that pushed Rommel and others to conspire against Hitler.
Things were terrible for the peasants.
The Bolsheviks, being born of urban intelligentsia, had deep-rooted despise for the peasants. As a result they treated them like shit. There's a reason why Gorbachev tried to reform the USSR: he was from a peasant family (quite a novelty for his position) and had a new perspective on the state of affairs.
Very different on paper. Mein Kampf was pretty much followed to the letter. Marx's writings, not so much. In his correspondence with Engels, Marx himself warned against a communist revolution in Tsarist Russia, lest it would lead to a new Prussia (i.e. an aggressive imperialist power).
There's a reason why the Allies abstained from attempting to assassinate Hitler: they didn't want to risk him being replaced by someone competent.
Glad my stupid comment incited a pertinent one like yours. I feel a bit less bad now.
Actually it did. My bad. I need to get some sleep, somehow I read it totally wrong. I read it as if the evacuation alarm was rung after his clock was found. D'oh!
The alarm didn't come from the clock, learn to RTFS you dumbass!
In my opinion the real problem with The Gimp is the limited overlap between its target user base and people with the skills to create useful add-ons. Photoshop is developed by teams of people of various backgrounds: programmers, artists and writers, mainly. They are brought together by the company they work for. This doesn't happen on a sufficient scale with The Gimp. Programmers and artists don't communicate enough with each other in the Free Software community. As a result, The Gimp lags behind. As for writers, well, let me put it bluntly: Free Software hackers seem to be allergic to documentation.
If you want to prevail in a case of so-called "intellectual property" you should have to prove that having you prevailing goes in the direction of promoting "the Progress of Science and useful Arts", because any decision in your favor that wouldn't stand this test would be a blatant violation of the COTUS, and an abuse of power by whatever entity that made this decision.
Disclaimers: IANAL IANAUSC
Claimer: "intellectual property" isn't a fundamental right
I prefer "Funky" when I want to use the "F" in RTF* and still be polite, but I commend you for your restraint anyway.
Okay please someone with mod point skyrocket this to +5 funny.
Having tasted kimchi recently, I'll stand with sauerkraut personally. Although the kimchi I tasted was exceedingly spicy. For my taste anyway.
Your sarcasm isn't biting enough. They didn't even bother to have a protocol! At least according to TFA.
I mean, I know that good whiskey tasters can make an expository appreciation of a drink with just a sip, but precisely, the articles say it was a vial of scotch that was sent. I understand that there are payload issues at play, but a vial is too small a sample to set up a significant blind-test, that would neutralize both the biases, and the styles of the tasters. Not enough sips in a vial.
I concur. There's no mention of any attempt to neutralize bias, which is the most important thing to expose in such an article.
You completely missed the point of the GP. It's about testing protocols, not the results. The results are totally unreliable and therefore completely uninteresting without some amount of blind-testing.