terrorism, n. The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
In this case, the RIAA is using force (lawsuits), or threat of force, to intimidate companies and lawmakers for their own political and financial reasons.
The word was used correctly by the grandparent post. Just because *you* can't separate an appropriate word from it's current fad status doesn't mean everyone can't.
Is the RIAA's use or threatened use of force lawful or unlawful? You have to apply the whole of your definition.
Assuming that our production of greenhouse gases is responsible for all the problems, there's no point in just cutting down emissions. There needs to be a net decrease in the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We can keep emitting them, but we have to sink more than we source.
It may make no bloody difference at all, too. But if the hand-wringing about human greenhouse emission is right, then we need to work out how to get it out of the air.
Earbuds, though... ick. Get noise-cancelling headphones and keep the volume at a more reasonable level. That way you don't have to hear the inane drivel on the train/bus and the chatterers don't have to hear you. And you don't go deaf any time soon.
It's the same in many places: it's a two-party system because everyone thinks it's a two-party system. Many people don't even know the name of their representative, let alone any of the other candidates in their electorate, and will tell you that they voted for the Prime Minister / the President, when they did no such thing at all.
Copyright is not the issue here, but rather good taste.
Actually, I rather thought it was Trademark infringement that was supposed to be the issue. You can't legislate or protect "good taste", whereas you can legislate or protect Trademarks. All of which is beside the point, anyway, if parody, which this clearly is, is protected under the law. Mastercard need to stop being so bloody precious.
I'm glad that someone is finally fighting for the children.
Am I no longer entitled to have an opinion about a place where I used to work?
A good rule-of-thumb to apply here is that you probably oughtn't to say in public anything about a previous employer that you wouldn't be prepared to say to a prospective employer during a job interview.
I think it's supposed to be about statistics and risk management. There may also be the notion of fairly distributing the costs of insurance.
If, say, male drivers under the age of 25 are at most risk of motor accidents and have, as a group, had more motor accidents than any other group, why should other groups subsidise that?
On the other hand, if I were an under-25 male driver with a clean record I would be (and most certainly was) most peeved at having been tarred with the broad brush that seems to tar under-25 male drivers by having to pay higher insurance premiums.
The problem here, I think, is that for quite some time now insurance companies' primary responsibilities have been to their shareholders. As I understand it, there was once a time when insurance was purely a group collective activity, in which only the insured had any financial interest. That focus of responsibility has changed, any I believe that situations such as those this thread is about are a result of this change.
What I haven't figured out yet is whether this is good or bad. I suspect it isn't as simple as that.
1. Service
1.1. This contract is binding.
1.2. But not on us.
2. Your Obligations
2.1. You give us the right to know anything about you that takes our fancy.
2.2. Or about anyone else, for that matter.
2.3. You cough up any connection charges. Notice how we keep this separate from paragraph 2.5.
2.4. You agree to eat spam.
2.5. pH33r u5! w3 @re 1337 h4x0r5. We will make your PC dial our POPs. They might even be local calls. W3 0wn j00r 5cr33n 54v3r. We want your pr0n. We wish to use your computer in a distributed processing scheme for our company's purposes.
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3. Content
3.1. We can't possibly take any responsibility for or action over norty stuff floating about on the net. Unless you put it there. Or tried to.
3.2. If you're stealing stuff, we don't even want to know about it.
3.3. Oh, and we own your IP, too.
4. Software License
4.1. We'll even let you use the software by which we own you.
4.2. Hell, we'll even let you inf^Hstall it on other peoples' PCs!
4.3. Until you try to exercise your fair use rights.
4.4. Or even export it.
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4.6. We really do own you.
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5.1. You even enjoy the privilege of paying for all of this.
5.2. And there's just so many fun ways to do it!
5.3. And for us to collect it.
5.4. And, what's more, we'll just do it for you!
5.5. But you still get to pay for non-free (beer) stuff.
6. No Warranties
6.1. No kidding.
6.2. No, really!
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Nor responsibility, either.
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I hope they take the time to fully devlop this, just think if after everyone came together and created Cd's if they had steped back and look at it and devloped multilayerd cd's at the same time, we would have gigs in a cd, don't rush it boys get it right the first time. B/c the first time is what becomes the standard
Don't forget, IIS runs in kernal space, apache in user space. That gives IIS a boost, but also causes it to take the OS when it dies.
If the machine is really only supposed to be serving html, this may not be a deciding factor. If the machine also has to, say, serve up database requests or something, then you don't want the web server taking the OS with it if it goes belly-up. If web-serving is all it does, then it may not really matter.
If you have to delegate control of an OU to someone outside of your control, then you need to make sure that you still have control over the partitioning. That way, if the admin of the OU goes "rogue" on you, you can just cut them out of the tree as a worst-case option.
This shows one of the main limitations of the laissez-faire capitalism that USia endorses over the more rational policies implemented in the rest of the world. When corporations are as unfettered as they are in USia, getting them to agree on things like standards is a herculean task - each corporation is assured that it has the One True path.
Fine: I leave it to you.
In Europe OTOH they're more used to being told what to do by more socialist governments, and the idea of a standard is more easily applicable to the way they work within regulations anyway.
I understand that some mobos let you increase the FBS frequency; some in smaller, useful increments and others in large, not-so-useful increments. Combining these uppages with the 10.5x multiplier, you should be able to go over 1.05GHz, unless I've got my MHz confused somewhere!
The catch here is that you may also need to increase the voltage, for system stability (clearer signals and all that).
The thing is, AMD already increased the voltage to 1.8V or whatever it is, and I don't know what the operating range is for the Athlon. 1.8V is within spec., but by how much? Then you've got to keep the bugger cool. Not to mention that the mobos may not support higher voltages.
You'd have to check out the tech specs of the relevant hardware, though, as this is just a generalisation.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow, is IBM still making those?
Its electrifying stories like this that keep me reading slashdot.
Awww! I know it's the current joke, but that's revolting!
terrorism, n.
The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
In this case, the RIAA is using force (lawsuits), or threat of force, to intimidate companies and lawmakers for their own political and financial reasons.
The word was used correctly by the grandparent post. Just because *you* can't separate an appropriate word from it's current fad status doesn't mean everyone can't.
Is the RIAA's use or threatened use of force lawful or unlawful? You have to apply the whole of your definition.
Assuming that our production of greenhouse gases is responsible for all the problems, there's no point in just cutting down emissions. There needs to be a net decrease in the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We can keep emitting them, but we have to sink more than we source.
It may make no bloody difference at all, too. But if the hand-wringing about human greenhouse emission is right, then we need to work out how to get it out of the air.
Earbuds, though... ick. Get noise-cancelling headphones and keep the volume at a more reasonable level. That way you don't have to hear the inane drivel on the train/bus and the chatterers don't have to hear you. And you don't go deaf any time soon.
If you want reasonable-to-cheap broadband, you don't come to Australia for it.
It's the same in many places: it's a two-party system because everyone thinks it's a two-party system. Many people don't even know the name of their representative, let alone any of the other candidates in their electorate, and will tell you that they voted for the Prime Minister / the President, when they did no such thing at all.
Actually, I rather thought it was Trademark infringement that was supposed to be the issue. You can't legislate or protect "good taste", whereas you can legislate or protect Trademarks. All of which is beside the point, anyway, if parody, which this clearly is, is protected under the law. Mastercard need to stop being so bloody precious.
Oh! You were trolling! Sorry.
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A good rule-of-thumb to apply here is that you probably oughtn't to say in public anything about a previous employer that you wouldn't be prepared to say to a prospective employer during a job interview.
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If, say, male drivers under the age of 25 are at most risk of motor accidents and have, as a group, had more motor accidents than any other group, why should other groups subsidise that?
On the other hand, if I were an under-25 male driver with a clean record I would be (and most certainly was) most peeved at having been tarred with the broad brush that seems to tar under-25 male drivers by having to pay higher insurance premiums.
The problem here, I think, is that for quite some time now insurance companies' primary responsibilities have been to their shareholders. As I understand it, there was once a time when insurance was purely a group collective activity, in which only the insured had any financial interest. That focus of responsibility has changed, any I believe that situations such as those this thread is about are a result of this change.
What I haven't figured out yet is whether this is good or bad. I suspect it isn't as simple as that.
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...they don't give them Juno accounts.
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And, yes, I do see the irony in mis-spelling the Subject text. :(
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You agree to the following:
1. Service
1.1. This contract is binding.
1.2. But not on us.
2. Your Obligations
2.1. You give us the right to know anything about you that takes our fancy.
2.2. Or about anyone else, for that matter.
2.3. You cough up any connection charges. Notice how we keep this separate from paragraph 2.5.
2.4. You agree to eat spam.
2.5. pH33r u5! w3 @re 1337 h4x0r5. We will make your PC dial our POPs. They might even be local calls. W3 0wn j00r 5cr33n 54v3r. We want your pr0n. We wish to use your computer in a distributed processing scheme for our company's purposes.
2.6. You acknowledge that the Service is provided only for personal use by you and members of your household, and not for corporate or excessive commercial use or for use by organizations or other groups of users. Unless they're us.
2.7. You may or not get your email, our distributed processing requirements notwithstanding. We cannot plan or manage our servers, so there's no telling how long your mail's going to sit on our server.
3. Content
3.1. We can't possibly take any responsibility for or action over norty stuff floating about on the net. Unless you put it there. Or tried to.
3.2. If you're stealing stuff, we don't even want to know about it.
3.3. Oh, and we own your IP, too.
4. Software License
4.1. We'll even let you use the software by which we own you.
4.2. Hell, we'll even let you inf^Hstall it on other peoples' PCs!
4.3. Until you try to exercise your fair use rights.
4.4. Or even export it.
4.5. Or work for the guv'mint.
4.6. We really do own you.
5. Fees
5.1. You even enjoy the privilege of paying for all of this.
5.2. And there's just so many fun ways to do it!
5.3. And for us to collect it.
5.4. And, what's more, we'll just do it for you!
5.5. But you still get to pay for non-free (beer) stuff.
6. No Warranties
6.1. No kidding.
6.2. No, really!
6.3. No warranties here.
6.4. None here, either, no siree!
7. Indemnification
Nor responsibility, either.
8. Termination
8.1. We can cut you off at any time we like. Anything you put on our servers can no longer be accessed by you. Not that you ever owned it, anyway.
8.2. If you don't like it, you can always leave. After you pay us.
9. Miscellaneous
9.1. Don't even think of trying to slime out of this contract.
9.2. Put your lawyers away. If any part of this agreement is held to be unenforceable, we're going to enforce it anyway. We have more money than you.
9.3. And bought the laws to protect us.
10. For Quebec Residents Only
Our legal staff can't speak French.
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I hope they take the time to fully devlop this, just think if after everyone came together and created Cd's if they had steped back and look at it and devloped multilayerd cd's at the same time, we would have gigs in a cd, don't rush it boys get it right the first time. B/c the first time is what becomes the standard
Just like Betamax, eh?
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Holographic storage measured in bits per square inch?
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If the machine is really only supposed to be serving html, this may not be a deciding factor. If the machine also has to, say, serve up database requests or something, then you don't want the web server taking the OS with it if it goes belly-up. If web-serving is all it does, then it may not really matter.
If you have to delegate control of an OU to someone outside of your control, then you need to make sure that you still have control over the partitioning. That way, if the admin of the OU goes "rogue" on you, you can just cut them out of the tree as a worst-case option.
...or Natalie Portman
Fine: I leave it to you.
In Europe OTOH they're more used to being told what to do by more socialist governments, and the idea of a standard is more easily applicable to the way they work within regulations anyway.
Then again...
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A bit warm for that, yet, yes? (In your hemisphere, I mean.)
-agl-
Pardon my ignorance, but WTF is Moody? You lot make it seem as though he's important or something.
The catch here is that you may also need to increase the voltage, for system stability (clearer signals and all that).
The thing is, AMD already increased the voltage to 1.8V or whatever it is, and I don't know what the operating range is for the Athlon. 1.8V is within spec., but by how much? Then you've got to keep the bugger cool. Not to mention that the mobos may not support higher voltages.
You'd have to check out the tech specs of the relevant hardware, though, as this is just a generalisation.
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Nature abhors a vaccuum, as they say, and what power do you think will rush in to take the place of the power you're taking away?
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