Yes, many implamentations of CCTV do not reduce crime, they increase prosecutions, but don't prevent people from committing the crime. CCTV is a very difficult thing to get right, however if it is done right it has been shown to have a desirable effect on crime in some areas. It is very difficult to get right, and the police are the biggest perpetrators of installing and using it in the wrong way, it has to be said. They tend to use it purely as a method of catching the criminal (which it is good at doing) and not stopping the criminal before he commits the crime. They do this by not placing cameras in obvious places etc... And you can see why they do this, unfortunately officers performance is judged by how many people they catch, if they go out stopping everybody from committing crime, they wont have anyone to catch. But I don't have any problem with CCTV; I wouldn't want it in my house, or observing me in a private place, but if I am in a public space I think that if having CCTV cameras watching me isn't going to cause me any harm at all, in fact it may well protect me. If people want to abuse it and watch me wherever I go (in public) then fine, they can, they are going to have a very boring time.
I am English, and have spent a large amount of time living in Germany and the US. I would say that Germany is very similar to the US in many ways, definitely a lot more like the US than the UK is. You share a lot of sentiments, such as you fighting to preserve the right of the individual, something that we pay far less attention to in the UK (thank god). Something that I admire about your two peoples is that you are both very friendly. Travelling around the US and Germany you are made to feel similarly welcome. Places like some of the more closed off small US towns deep in the country also have parallels in Germany, although admittedly it is far less obvious.
OK, yeah, not sure why I put them in quote marks, I wasn't quoting you, just making a point. However that does not make my point any less true, and it does address what you talk about.
civil laws do prohibit things. That's why you get penalised if you break them.
This is just not true, it is not how civil laws work. So civil law applies to one party suing another. What it does is outline whether a plaintiff has right to compensation. So if someone walks into a bank and slips on a wet floor, civil law says that they have a right to sue the bank. The bank did not break the law by leaving the floor wet, they just opened themselves up for being sued. This is much the same as a recording industry suing someone for downloading their songs. The downloader did not break the law by downloading the song, he just opened himself up to being sued for compensation from the owner of the copyright.
AHHHHH. Why have YOU been given (+5, Informative)? There are many posts that clearly explain that it is not possible to "break" or "violate" a civl law. It does not prohibit anything, just gives someone else the right to sue you if you use their copyrighted material without their consent.
There is no law that prohibits file-sharing. There are civil laws that allow someone to sue you if you infringe their copyright. This is not breaking a law, there is nothing to break, the law does not say that you are not allowed to infringe their copyright, it just grants someone else the right to sue you if you do. This is how civil law works, it does not prohibit anything, meerly grants rights to a third party. As Kjella said, their are some specific criminal laws that don't tend to exist anywhere but the US.
You missed his point. And your examples are not even slightly parallel. The percentage of people that are murderers is absolutely tiny! The percentage of people that violate someone's copyright is huge. As long as the population is big enough you can point at any law and say that "many" people break it, its not a valid point, its weather a large proportion of people break it. Laws that are stupid or pointless tend to be ignored. These laws are very dangerous because you are training people to break laws. If all laws were sensible then the majority of people would stay within the law, but they are not, honest, well meaning people are forced to break laws, and this gives them the notion that it is OK to break laws. At which point they are on the ladder and are far more likely to climb up and start breaking some laws that are not stupid or pointless. Whereas if they hadn't been forced to break the law they would respect boundary of illegality a lot more. So yes, there are a lot of laws that are stupid and pointless which people refuse to abide by, and they need to be reconsidered.
You should listen to some of Ryan Gordon's podcasts (really do, he is very knowledgeable of this subject). Wine will never be able to successfully emulate a windows platform. It is so far behind, and Windows is accelerating off into the distance and Wine is getting further and further behind. Windows is going 64bit, while Wine is still struggling to get many 16bit elements to function properly. Also, if you setup a decent team of coders (it does not have to be big, just a good mix) then it is very simple to get a program to run natively of Windows, mac and linux. Wine is just not the way forward, and it can never be. The only way forward is to entice companies to start coding more native cross platform apps (and this is happening, many small app companies have started releasing linux software, games developers are doing the same) and this can be done.
Ha, yes, that's like saying "Well if you want a single file why don't you just RAR all the output files together once its done!" I don't think he wanted any old archive of a load of files, I think he wants a video file.
The original title still stands for itself. Yours is just more detailed, no more accurate. I am confused and to why the video games have to be violent! Surely it just needs to be fast paced, and require the ability to pick out objects. Not necessarily violent.
I realise that texting on the iPhone is impossible, I am certainly not a fan of the product. I was just explaining their reasoning behind the decision.
Why would you want to lose a lot of the screen to a touch keybpad when you can get a phone that has a separate screen and keypad?
Is this not obvious? So that you can fill the surface of the phone with screen, therefore having a bigger screen. You use the keypad when you need it, but then if you wana watch something for example, the keypad goes and you have a nice large screen to watch stuff on.
hehe, wow, I don't think that you have quite figured out irony yet, or are you schizophrenic? I would try to argue with you, however you seem so confused I'm not sure its worth it.
But the people buying the music are in Wisconsin and are being served by the state, they need to pay them for that! this is a perfectly sensible, fair and rational way of doing it.
Can someone point to one good reason why digital download sales should be tax exempt? Seems ridiculous to me. Quit whining and pay your darned taxes! its only fair.
interesting. I have tried to get a friends install working before, and found it incredibly frustrating. I also tried installing it myself but I could never get it to boot after install. Tried various discs, assumed that it didn't like some of my hardware. You may be lucky and have a computer which it is fine with. I have met many people who have had similar experiences as I, but I suppose my friends and I could just be unlucky.
Ha, I can't believe that you could be so biased against Microsoft that you would even turn an example of them doing well into an insult. And yes, I have many a Linux obsessed friend that have argued with me saying: Vista's 64 bit support is terrible and it is unable to utilise more than one core. Fact is that it does so very well, and I am very glad of this article as it is a great thing to cite when I get told bulls**t again.
hahahahahahahaha
funny!
right wing twaddle, everyone would be in a far worse position without fiscal stimulus, or did you like the collapse of lehman brothers? how about if it happened to your bank? do you realise how much the collapse of lehman brothers has cost america?
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Yes, many implamentations of CCTV do not reduce crime, they increase prosecutions, but don't prevent people from committing the crime. CCTV is a very difficult thing to get right, however if it is done right it has been shown to have a desirable effect on crime in some areas. It is very difficult to get right, and the police are the biggest perpetrators of installing and using it in the wrong way, it has to be said. They tend to use it purely as a method of catching the criminal (which it is good at doing) and not stopping the criminal before he commits the crime. They do this by not placing cameras in obvious places etc... And you can see why they do this, unfortunately officers performance is judged by how many people they catch, if they go out stopping everybody from committing crime, they wont have anyone to catch.
But I don't have any problem with CCTV; I wouldn't want it in my house, or observing me in a private place, but if I am in a public space I think that if having CCTV cameras watching me isn't going to cause me any harm at all, in fact it may well protect me. If people want to abuse it and watch me wherever I go (in public) then fine, they can, they are going to have a very boring time.
Maybe that's why, in the UK, there are CCTV cameras watching your every move.
...and much safety and security is had by all. Plus there is the added bonus that we get loads of hilarious clips that can go on youtube.
I am English, and have spent a large amount of time living in Germany and the US. I would say that Germany is very similar to the US in many ways, definitely a lot more like the US than the UK is. You share a lot of sentiments, such as you fighting to preserve the right of the individual, something that we pay far less attention to in the UK (thank god). Something that I admire about your two peoples is that you are both very friendly. Travelling around the US and Germany you are made to feel similarly welcome. Places like some of the more closed off small US towns deep in the country also have parallels in Germany, although admittedly it is far less obvious.
civil laws do prohibit things. That's why you get penalised if you break them.
This is just not true, it is not how civil laws work. So civil law applies to one party suing another. What it does is outline whether a plaintiff has right to compensation. So if someone walks into a bank and slips on a wet floor, civil law says that they have a right to sue the bank. The bank did not break the law by leaving the floor wet, they just opened themselves up for being sued. This is much the same as a recording industry suing someone for downloading their songs. The downloader did not break the law by downloading the song, he just opened himself up to being sued for compensation from the owner of the copyright.
AHHHHH. Why have YOU been given (+5, Informative)? There are many posts that clearly explain that it is not possible to "break" or "violate" a civl law. It does not prohibit anything, just gives someone else the right to sue you if you use their copyrighted material without their consent.
There is no law that prohibits file-sharing. There are civil laws that allow someone to sue you if you infringe their copyright. This is not breaking a law, there is nothing to break, the law does not say that you are not allowed to infringe their copyright, it just grants someone else the right to sue you if you do. This is how civil law works, it does not prohibit anything, meerly grants rights to a third party. As Kjella said, their are some specific criminal laws that don't tend to exist anywhere but the US.
You missed his point. And your examples are not even slightly parallel. The percentage of people that are murderers is absolutely tiny! The percentage of people that violate someone's copyright is huge. As long as the population is big enough you can point at any law and say that "many" people break it, its not a valid point, its weather a large proportion of people break it.
Laws that are stupid or pointless tend to be ignored. These laws are very dangerous because you are training people to break laws. If all laws were sensible then the majority of people would stay within the law, but they are not, honest, well meaning people are forced to break laws, and this gives them the notion that it is OK to break laws. At which point they are on the ladder and are far more likely to climb up and start breaking some laws that are not stupid or pointless. Whereas if they hadn't been forced to break the law they would respect boundary of illegality a lot more. So yes, there are a lot of laws that are stupid and pointless which people refuse to abide by, and they need to be reconsidered.
well at least he is being honest
um......Bill O'Reilly
nuff said
cost including both monetary value as well as time and incidental costs (like training)
that is complete bollocks! Matrix Reloaded was far worse than Revolutions!
Much of windows is still 16bit. Even Vista64 has many 16bit parts of the OS. XP still has 8bit in it!
You should listen to some of Ryan Gordon's podcasts (really do, he is very knowledgeable of this subject). Wine will never be able to successfully emulate a windows platform. It is so far behind, and Windows is accelerating off into the distance and Wine is getting further and further behind. Windows is going 64bit, while Wine is still struggling to get many 16bit elements to function properly. Also, if you setup a decent team of coders (it does not have to be big, just a good mix) then it is very simple to get a program to run natively of Windows, mac and linux. Wine is just not the way forward, and it can never be. The only way forward is to entice companies to start coding more native cross platform apps (and this is happening, many small app companies have started releasing linux software, games developers are doing the same) and this can be done.
Ha, yes, that's like saying "Well if you want a single file why don't you just RAR all the output files together once its done!" I don't think he wanted any old archive of a load of files, I think he wants a video file.
The original title still stands for itself. Yours is just more detailed, no more accurate. I am confused and to why the video games have to be violent! Surely it just needs to be fast paced, and require the ability to pick out objects. Not necessarily violent.
ah man, the google gravity one is awesome fun!
I realise that texting on the iPhone is impossible, I am certainly not a fan of the product. I was just explaining their reasoning behind the decision.
Why would you want to lose a lot of the screen to a touch keybpad when you can get a phone that has a separate screen and keypad?
Is this not obvious? So that you can fill the surface of the phone with screen, therefore having a bigger screen. You use the keypad when you need it, but then if you wana watch something for example, the keypad goes and you have a nice large screen to watch stuff on.
hehe, wow, I don't think that you have quite figured out irony yet, or are you schizophrenic?
I would try to argue with you, however you seem so confused I'm not sure its worth it.
But the people buying the music are in Wisconsin and are being served by the state, they need to pay them for that! this is a perfectly sensible, fair and rational way of doing it.
Can someone point to one good reason why digital download sales should be tax exempt? Seems ridiculous to me. Quit whining and pay your darned taxes! its only fair.
interesting. I have tried to get a friends install working before, and found it incredibly frustrating. I also tried installing it myself but I could never get it to boot after install. Tried various discs, assumed that it didn't like some of my hardware. You may be lucky and have a computer which it is fine with. I have met many people who have had similar experiences as I, but I suppose my friends and I could just be unlucky.
if Windows XP 64bit actually worked then this would be useful, but it doesn't it is completely useless as an OS because it is so unstable.
Ha, I can't believe that you could be so biased against Microsoft that you would even turn an example of them doing well into an insult. And yes, I have many a Linux obsessed friend that have argued with me saying: Vista's 64 bit support is terrible and it is unable to utilise more than one core. Fact is that it does so very well, and I am very glad of this article as it is a great thing to cite when I get told bulls**t again.
hahahahahahahaha
funny!
right wing twaddle, everyone would be in a far worse position without fiscal stimulus, or did you like the collapse of lehman brothers? how about if it happened to your bank? do you realise how much the collapse of lehman brothers has cost america?