If the British system were to be imposed it would have a chilling effect on these types of cases such as malpractice, employee being illegally fired, and class action such as health damage due to materials, such as the asbetos or silicon implants,etc.
Except, of course, we Brits have already noticed this, and set up a process to avoid it. Firstly, the awarding of costs is always at the discretion of the judge, and they rarely, if ever, force a personal litigant to pay the entire costs of a corporate defendant, except when they feel the case is malicious.
Secondly, the government Legal Aid scheme exists to fund such actions, if the Legal Aid Service's lawyers think you have a good case. Like a State Defender, but for prosecutions and civil cases.
I don't find it that depressing, but I have a fairly high (to the point of "ludicrously optimistic") opinion of human nature. I believe most people try to do the right thing most of the time. Like many facets of democracy, it may not work in theory, but it does pretty well in practice.
How does the BBC remain independent? Usually, the fact that the government disburses funds generally translates into control, explicit or otherwise.
Because the level of BBC funding is not really subject to government control. There's a flat-rate levy on television ownership (the TV licence), and the BBC gets everything raised from the that, and nothing from any other government source. The licence fee is set by Parliament, but mainly all they do is put it up by in line with inflation every now and then.
The government used to have a say in the appointment of the Chairman and Board of Governors, but this is now done mainly by an independent selection committee.
Before releasing details of your hack to your adoring/. public, how about researching how to use lighting when taking photographs so that the subject is better illuminated than the curtains in the background...
Well, thats the second thing that's baffled me. This new complaint may enable them to win some or all of their court case about misappropriating SVR4 into AIX, but as far as I can tell, has absolutely no bearing on the Linux related parts.
and I'm not familiar with laws on discovery... but if I'd found the "smoking gun" that was going to win me my case, I'd keep it under my hat, and then reveal it (in true John Grisham style) just when it looks like my case was going down the pan.
Since the.com domain is US centric, in many situations the US would be argued as pre-eminent in disputes. Why would this be any different?
Because its only US-centric by tradition rather than design. ICANN say
"In the 1980s, seven gTLDs (.com,.edu,.gov,.int,.mil,.net, and.org) were created. Domain names may be registered in three of these (.com,.net, and.org) without restriction; the other four have limited purposes.
On having driven in this country for the best part of twenty years. The drop in driving standards in the last three or four years alone has been marked.
Ahh, an utterly worthless evaluation, then.
So, at least, in 2001 road deaths went up by 1%, whereas pretty much every other year since the car was invented, traffic has gone up and deaths have gone down. You were saying?
Road mileage went up by more than 1%. Road deaths went up by 1%. So the average deaths / mile travelled fell (surely the only worthwhile measure). You were saying?
The end result is that the standard of driving in this country has gone from quite decent to absolutely appalling,
I'd be interested to see on what metric you base this assertion.
and the death rate, which had been dropping for decades, has started to go up.
No, it hasn't. Not even the most vociferous anti-speedcam campaigners have claimed that. What has happened, is that the rate of falling has slowed, and then they've made some (spurious) assertions that speed cameras are the reason.
Christ, I remember playing that on my school's BBC Model B's in the mid-80s, then rushing out to buy the Spectrum version when it came out. Cracking fun (though I never got above "Deadly").
Someone attempted to port this to the PC recently, but one of the original authors (Braben, IIRC) slapped him down with a lawsuit.
I'm still searching for the provenance for this quote, but in the 1960's, Senator Kennedy is supposed to have issued a press release saying that literacy rates in Massachusetts had fallen with the introduction of public schooling.
So, you're basing your opinion on a single, unprovenanced press release? Real smart.
while black literacy tracked black school enrolment fairly closely.
I really don't understand that point? Did black schools teach phonics? If not, how did so many of them learn to read by going to school?
Sure, and there's no reason to mistrust literacy statistics where the result of literacy is to be drafted to fight in Europe or Vietnam.
Do you really believe, for example, that the sample for those 1950s statistics really included kids educated in the substandard black schools that predated Brown vs. Board of Education?
by 1840 the incidence of complex literacy in the United States was between 93 and 100 percent wherever such a thing mattered.
"Wherever such a thing mattered". Meaning "excluding the poor and the negros", who don't really count. The fact is, no-one has reliable literacy data predating the late 1960s.
the other factor is obviously the lower level of intelligence of adults in our society
Nice troll. In the UK, even in 1954, people regularly left school at 13 or 14, with few or no qualifications and barely incapable of basic literacy. These days, literacy rates are massively higher.
No. In fact, completely the opposite. If the reviewer felt juvenile == trash, they'd have been able to leave out one of the words (and, being a pedantic literary critic, would have).
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Bad example.
Well, maybe. But the point is, its a completely general example. Konq lets you convert to PNG, command lines let you perform arbitrary actions (set as wallpaper, mail them to my friends, upload them to my webpage, or any combination of the lot).
Also, find gives me even more flexibility. I want to select only those jpgs with a "2" in the filename, that are bigger than 173k, and convert those to.eps files, I could do that to.
Or I could use the batch job to make thumbnails called thumbnails/img0001_thumb.png or whatever. KDE (and GUI's in general) lets you things the developer thinks you might want to do. Command lines, cryptic syntax and all, enable me to do *exactly* what I want to do.
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Not quite the same. If there's a file called img0001.jpg.jpg, the results will differ.
${i%.png}.jpg will do it tho' (% only matches trailing patterns)
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Secondly, the government Legal Aid scheme exists to fund such actions, if the Legal Aid Service's lawyers think you have a good case. Like a State Defender, but for prosecutions and civil cases.
Make your voice known, as hopefully a return will prevent him releasing any more terrible cover versions of good songs.
The government used to have a say in the appointment of the Chairman and Board of Governors, but this is now done mainly by an independent selection committee.
Before releasing details of your hack to your adoring /. public, how about researching how to use lighting when taking photographs so that the subject is better illuminated than the curtains in the background...
Well, thats the second thing that's baffled me. This new complaint may enable them to win some or all of their court case about misappropriating SVR4 into AIX, but as far as I can tell, has absolutely no bearing on the Linux related parts.
Weird.
and I'm not familiar with laws on discovery ... but if I'd found the "smoking gun" that was going to win me my case, I'd keep it under my hat, and then reveal it (in true John Grisham style) just when it looks like my case was going down the pan.
Random, uninteresting Americans engage in pointless, expensive litigation. Film at 11.
Really, I find this bald zealot much scarier than this hairy one.
And Eric, that combover is fooling nobody. You're bald. Deal with it.
Christ, I remember playing that on my school's BBC Model B's in the mid-80s, then rushing out to buy the Spectrum version when it came out. Cracking fun (though I never got above "Deadly").
Someone attempted to port this to the PC recently, but one of the original authors (Braben, IIRC) slapped him down with a lawsuit.
Hey, bad programmers (and anyone who's seen slashcode knows who I'm talking about) can write bad code using any paradigm.
Thats only for renaming tho'. My one-liner actually converts the file format from jpeg to PNG.
Really? Care to back that up with even one fact?
Do you really believe, for example, that the sample for those 1950s statistics really included kids educated in the substandard black schools that predated Brown vs. Board of Education?
"Wherever such a thing mattered". Meaning "excluding the poor and the negros", who don't really count. The fact is, no-one has reliable literacy data predating the late 1960s.
Also, find gives me even more flexibility. I want to select only those jpgs with a "2" in the filename, that are bigger than 173k, and convert those to
Or I could use the batch job to make thumbnails called thumbnails/img0001_thumb.png or whatever. KDE (and GUI's in general) lets you things the developer thinks you might want to do. Command lines, cryptic syntax and all, enable me to do *exactly* what I want to do.
Not quite the same. If there's a file called img0001.jpg.jpg, the results will differ.
${i%.png}.jpg will do it tho' (% only matches trailing patterns)