This same country allowed an American wife to abduct a child, and then after the wife died in Brazil, the country continued to hold the man's son for another ~5 years, rather than return the son to his rightful home in the U.S. and genetic father. There are around 100 similar U.S. children being illegally held by Brazil, and the courts/government refuse to do anything about it. Brazil is more akin to Mexico in its corruption of the courts.
So do I find this ruling that corporations like Google or Walmart are liable for the actions of their anonymous customers? Not at all. Seems par for the course.
Personally I think it's refreshing. Most of the Slashdot posts over the last 1-2 years have been "America sucks". While America/the U.S. is far from perfect it's no worse than say, the European Union as a whole. Watch the movie "Latya 4-Ever" as example. I found this movie shocking because I didn't think such thing could happen within the EU Socialist Paradise (people without homes or jobs are supposed to be cared for). It's a bit like the kettle calling the pot dirty.
BTW in America:
It's not enough to say, "He said bad things about me." You also have to show financial harm has been caused, and if you can't do that then the anonymous poster, or google.com which allowed the post, would be held blameless and protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the 50 State Constitutions. The right to free speech is considered more important by the law.
And floppies still have some limited use in the PC world. I just used a floppy to install Kolibri OS onto an old Windows 3 machine. Also used a floppy to copy my resume from my PC to my laptop, and viceversa to copy my Netscape ISP software and Bookmarks from the laptop to the PC.
Now one could argue "Use a USB keydrive instead" but since my laptop's USB port died, that wasn't an option. The floppy drive simply works, even if you have nothing more than a MSDOS command line interface.
- Turn-off the AC and spend $5 to replace the melted candles when you get home.
I'd choose the second option since it's cheaper. As for electronics, they can handle upto 212F (boiling) when turned-off, and 155F even while operating, so I'd not worry about them. I'd turn off both the AC & my electronics to save myself some money while on vacation.
>>>And how much to replace the failed home server?
What part of "I'd turn of the electronics" or "they can handle upto 155F" did you not understand, you illiterate shit???
>>>An X.Org Server update that was pushed into the Lucid repository last week has resulted in the system being slower and slower as it is left on, until it reaches a point where the system is no longer usable >>>
Thanks for the link. I was going to move from 8.1 to 10.0 next week, but I will wait another month 'til they fix it. I hate memory leaks. I remember when Firefox had that problem and gradually grew from ~100,000 to 600,000 KB until my computer became slow as a snail (drive swapping) or crashed. Opera 10 seems to have a similar problem. I hate leaks.
>>>OK. Go back to Windows if you believe it's a better solutio
You didn't even read what I wrote, did you??? Or if you did, you didn't understand it. My point was that Ubuntu was a ~$150 cheaper upgrade for me. BUT if they start charging for it, then that advantage disappears.
The *only* reason I switched my laptop to Ubuntu Linux is because it was a cheaper upgrade path than Windows 6.1 (seven) or OS X. If they start charging to get Ubuntu, then the balance tips back in favor of the defacto "standard" OS that everyone else uses.
I'm using Ubuntu right now, but a coworker told me he prefers Fedora (quote: "Any OS that fits on a single CD can't be any good."). Meanwhile my company is using Red Hat for their development.
"We must all hang together, or we will surely hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin. They proudly scrawled their names across that document. Sometimes it's more important to stand-up for what is right, than to be anonymous.
BTW I prefer the word "liberal". I want people to have the right to carry guns for self-defense, to marry whomever they please, worship whatever deity they desire, eliminate income tax for everyone below $100,000 (as was the case in the 1920s), and amend the constitution to give Member States the power to nullify the central government's acts (via a 25 majority vote). There is nothing "conservative" about these ideas, so it makes little sense to keep using that label on me.
Well this is why most of my facebook "data" is blank. I provided my real name, and my high school graduation date to reconnect with old friends, and that's about it. They don't need to know anything else about me.
Ya know there is a solution to both your problems:
- Get a single room air conditioner that sits in the window.
There are two advantages to this. First you can turn-up your whole house unit to ~85 and only cool that one or two rooms which you use most frequently. This has lowered my bill by about $100. And second if PGE turns-off your main thermostat, you will still have that window unit which you can use to keep cool.
BTW your wife sounds spoiled. (And not just her, but Americans in general.) She ought to try living in Pakistan sometime. They are having an energy crisis where they can't turn-on office air conditioning before 11am! And I grew-up in the 1980s without any AC whatsoever and survived just fine. It won't hurt us Americans to cut back a little bit.
- About $100 to keep you house cool and not melt your candles while on vacation versus - Turn-off the AC and spend $5 to replace the melted candles when you get home.
I'd choose the second option since it's cheaper. As for electronics, they can handle upto 212F (boiling) when turned-off, and 155F even while operating, so I'd not worry about them. I'd turn off both the AC & my electronics to save myself some money while on vacation.
>>Good government helps people. It's why we have government. It protects the weak from the strong.
True.
And bad government is government that acts like a mafioso, sucking money out of your neighbors' wallets (at the point of a gun, or threat of jail), and giving that money to other people, even if said people are already well-off. That is a violation of individual rights, just as surely as slavery was. It's theft of property and theft of labor, using the government as the instrument.
>>>>>.Everyone who voted for him should feel mortified by their choices..... >> >>I think in the past 18 months, the Bush voters have proven how much respect they have for the "office of the presidency".
First off, I saw plenty of "Bush is a Nazi" and "Bush is a chimp" and "Bush is a retard" posters during the years 2004-8. Liberals have not shown any respect for the office of president either, so it's a bit hypocritical for them to say, "Ignore how we acted."
Likewise Liberals have demonstrated their *stupidity* by ass-uming everyone who dislikes Obama was a Bush voter. I don't like Obama, because I consider him a communist (or possibly corporatist) trying to take-away individual liberty. For example: fining me because I exercise my pro-choice right not to buy a product. However that doesn't mean I cast a vote for Bush either. And yet here you are, presuming I did. Bad assumption. ---- Oh, and please stop referring to me as "racist". Thank you.
Helen Thomas said the same thing about Ronald Reagan ("horrible president") during the 90s. Her opinion is pro-D, pro-big-government, and anti-individual-liberty biased. Her opinion holds about as much weight as Dickhead Beck's opinion.
No but one can argue that porn is not really important. In the same way that they exaggerate women's ages as "18" when they are actually 30, or men as "12 inches" when they are actually just 7, the porn industry has exaggerated their own impact on the net economy, which is less than 1% total revenue.
How much power did the SEC really have to stop this 2007-8 collapse? None.
The Clinton-era HUD has already mandated that banks *must* give loans to poor people, and that was the root cause of the housing bubble, followed by its collapse when the poor people defaulted on the loans. There was little the SEC could have done to stop that bubble, because the root cause came from a managerial decision at the top.
In other words even if the SEC had been run by Puritans who never touched the internet, the collapse would still have occurred.
>>>I personally warned the rest of the company about the McAfee problem earlier this week because I was goofing off on Slashdot.
I just lost my job due to the following reasons:
- Reports that I eat too much food at the lunch buffet - Fellow engineer reported I was reading slashdot "during work hours"
The first reason is so funny I almost laughed-out loud when my boss told me. I weigh just 140 pounds - hardly a food addict. And if anybody cared, they could have just asked me to stop eating so much. Reason #1 amounts to just hearsay & gossip, and is most likely about somebody else not me. ----- The second reason I tried to explain away by saying, "Not during work hours. I read slashdot during my lunch break to keep up with the news. That is what the engineer noticed." But she said she didn't believe me, besides she already "made-up her mind and will not reverse it, even if I made a mistake."
I later learned that my position is not being replaced, so I suspect she was just looking for a reason to cut staff & her budget, now that two departments have merged into one. So she accepted whatever BS gossip/excuses she could cling to. In other words, if you're doing something like surfing/. or eating too much food, and the management wants to get rid of you, they WILL use it as justification.
>>>That is because it isn't a browser, it is a viewer for compressed web pages
By that logic, even the full-sized Opera Browser with Turbo is "just a viewer". Of course, you would be wrong. Opera Turbo or Opera Mini are not just viewers. The former receives compressed HTML/JPGs from Opera's servers, while the latter uses a text language called Opera Binary Markup that is about 1/5th as large as a regular page.
Opera Mini is not just a glorified JPEG viewer as many slashdotters keep repeating. That's simply false.
>>>freshman business student could tell you the Apps are blades and Apple's model is clearly to make money on the razor
First off you have that backwards. Typically the razor (or printer) is given away for free or near-free, and then the money is made on the backend from blades (ink).
Second I don't think Apple is following that model. They appear to be trying to make money on Both the razor and the blades - both the hardware and the software. Apple's view is that if you control both, then you can profit off both. It's similar to how the videogame console makers operate, earning profit on both the hardware and the software.
Vice-versa: Lose control and you end-up like IBM (they lost control of both the hardware and software).
I've heard this "Opera browser isn't very good" refrain for awhile now, but what it really boils down to is: "I am used to using XYZ therefore if it doesn't use the same menu as XYZ, it must be inferior." When I first started using Opera it un-nerved me too, but now I'm used to it, and apparently 100 million other Opera users are too.
There's no simple way of transferring you Safari bookmarks to the new Mini browser
True however you can transfer bookmarks from your desktop PC to your iPhone, and viceversa, by using features like MyOpera (online home page). Safari cannot.
Yeah but the problem with ANY survey is the simple fact that many citizens say, "No I don't have insurance" even though they do. They are *already* insured by previous government programs like Medicare or SCHIP (all citizens under 18) or SSI (disability), and therefore would not have to pay a dime when they visit the hospital.
Once you take into account those citizens that are insured by Government, the number drops to 20 million.
Once you subtract non-Americans (intruders that entered without permission), it drops even further to 10 million (approximately).
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Well this IS Brazil.
This same country allowed an American wife to abduct a child, and then after the wife died in Brazil, the country continued to hold the man's son for another ~5 years, rather than return the son to his rightful home in the U.S. and genetic father. There are around 100 similar U.S. children being illegally held by Brazil, and the courts/government refuse to do anything about it. Brazil is more akin to Mexico in its corruption of the courts.
So do I find this ruling that corporations like Google or Walmart are liable for the actions of their anonymous customers? Not at all. Seems par for the course.
>>>"Yay America"
Personally I think it's refreshing. Most of the Slashdot posts over the last 1-2 years have been "America sucks". While America/the U.S. is far from perfect it's no worse than say, the European Union as a whole. Watch the movie "Latya 4-Ever" as example. I found this movie shocking because I didn't think such thing could happen within the EU Socialist Paradise (people without homes or jobs are supposed to be cared for). It's a bit like the kettle calling the pot dirty.
BTW in America:
It's not enough to say, "He said bad things about me." You also have to show financial harm has been caused, and if you can't do that then the anonymous poster, or google.com which allowed the post, would be held blameless and protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the 50 State Constitutions. The right to free speech is considered more important by the law.
And floppies still have some limited use in the PC world. I just used a floppy to install Kolibri OS onto an old Windows 3 machine. Also used a floppy to copy my resume from my PC to my laptop, and viceversa to copy my Netscape ISP software and Bookmarks from the laptop to the PC.
Now one could argue "Use a USB keydrive instead" but since my laptop's USB port died, that wasn't an option. The floppy drive simply works, even if you have nothing more than a MSDOS command line interface.
- Turn-off the AC and spend $5 to replace the melted candles when you get home.
I'd choose the second option since it's cheaper. As for electronics, they can handle upto 212F (boiling) when turned-off, and 155F even while operating, so I'd not worry about them. I'd turn off both the AC & my electronics to save myself some money while on vacation.
>>>And how much to replace the failed home server?
What part of "I'd turn of the electronics" or "they can handle upto 155F" did you not understand, you illiterate shit???
>>>They aren't charging for Ubuntu, they're charging for some services that relate to Ubuntu.
Oh good.
>>>An X.Org Server update that was pushed into the Lucid repository last week has resulted in the system being slower and slower as it is left on, until it reaches a point where the system is no longer usable
>>>
Thanks for the link. I was going to move from 8.1 to 10.0 next week, but I will wait another month 'til they fix it. I hate memory leaks. I remember when Firefox had that problem and gradually grew from ~100,000 to 600,000 KB until my computer became slow as a snail (drive swapping) or crashed. Opera 10 seems to have a similar problem. I hate leaks.
>>>OK. Go back to Windows if you believe it's a better solutio
You didn't even read what I wrote, did you??? Or if you did, you didn't understand it. My point was that Ubuntu was a ~$150 cheaper upgrade for me. BUT if they start charging for it, then that advantage disappears.
Well I'm not paying.
The *only* reason I switched my laptop to Ubuntu Linux is because it was a cheaper upgrade path than Windows 6.1 (seven) or OS X. If they start charging to get Ubuntu, then the balance tips back in favor of the defacto "standard" OS that everyone else uses.
I'm using Ubuntu right now, but a coworker told me he prefers Fedora (quote: "Any OS that fits on a single CD can't be any good."). Meanwhile my company is using Red Hat for their development.
What makes one Linux better than another?
Ditto here. But.....
"We must all hang together, or we will surely hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin. They proudly scrawled their names across that document. Sometimes it's more important to stand-up for what is right, than to be anonymous.
BTW I prefer the word "liberal". I want people to have the right to carry guns for self-defense, to marry whomever they please, worship whatever deity they desire, eliminate income tax for everyone below $100,000 (as was the case in the 1920s), and amend the constitution to give Member States the power to nullify the central government's acts (via a 25 majority vote). There is nothing "conservative" about these ideas, so it makes little sense to keep using that label on me.
Well this is why most of my facebook "data" is blank. I provided my real name, and my high school graduation date to reconnect with old friends, and that's about it. They don't need to know anything else about me.
Playboy did do a pictorial of the Girls of Washington DC. It was quite nice.
Ya know there is a solution to both your problems:
- Get a single room air conditioner that sits in the window.
There are two advantages to this. First you can turn-up your whole house unit to ~85 and only cool that one or two rooms which you use most frequently. This has lowered my bill by about $100. And second if PGE turns-off your main thermostat, you will still have that window unit which you can use to keep cool.
BTW your wife sounds spoiled. (And not just her, but Americans in general.) She ought to try living in Pakistan sometime. They are having an energy crisis where they can't turn-on office air conditioning before 11am! And I grew-up in the 1980s without any AC whatsoever and survived just fine. It won't hurt us Americans to cut back a little bit.
I would do a cost-benefit analysis:
- About $100 to keep you house cool and not melt your candles while on vacation
versus
- Turn-off the AC and spend $5 to replace the melted candles when you get home.
I'd choose the second option since it's cheaper. As for electronics, they can handle upto 212F (boiling) when turned-off, and 155F even while operating, so I'd not worry about them. I'd turn off both the AC & my electronics to save myself some money while on vacation.
>>Good government helps people. It's why we have government. It protects the weak from the strong.
True.
And bad government is government that acts like a mafioso, sucking money out of your neighbors' wallets (at the point of a gun, or threat of jail), and giving that money to other people, even if said people are already well-off. That is a violation of individual rights, just as surely as slavery was. It's theft of property and theft of labor, using the government as the instrument.
>>>>>.Everyone who voted for him should feel mortified by their choices.....
>>
>>I think in the past 18 months, the Bush voters have proven how much respect they have for the "office of the presidency".
First off, I saw plenty of "Bush is a Nazi" and "Bush is a chimp" and "Bush is a retard" posters during the years 2004-8. Liberals have not shown any respect for the office of president either, so it's a bit hypocritical for them to say, "Ignore how we acted."
Likewise Liberals have demonstrated their *stupidity* by ass-uming everyone who dislikes Obama was a Bush voter. I don't like Obama, because I consider him a communist (or possibly corporatist) trying to take-away individual liberty. For example: fining me because I exercise my pro-choice right not to buy a product. However that doesn't mean I cast a vote for Bush either. And yet here you are, presuming I did. Bad assumption. ---- Oh, and please stop referring to me as "racist". Thank you.
Helen Thomas said the same thing about Ronald Reagan ("horrible president") during the 90s. Her opinion is pro-D, pro-big-government, and anti-individual-liberty biased. Her opinion holds about as much weight as Dickhead Beck's opinion.
No but one can argue that porn is not really important. In the same way that they exaggerate women's ages as "18" when they are actually 30, or men as "12 inches" when they are actually just 7, the porn industry has exaggerated their own impact on the net economy, which is less than 1% total revenue.
How much power did the SEC really have to stop this 2007-8 collapse? None.
The Clinton-era HUD has already mandated that banks *must* give loans to poor people, and that was the root cause of the housing bubble, followed by its collapse when the poor people defaulted on the loans. There was little the SEC could have done to stop that bubble, because the root cause came from a managerial decision at the top.
In other words even if the SEC had been run by Puritans who never touched the internet, the collapse would still have occurred.
>>>Not only did you waste money and develop poor ethics, but the skills and growth over the year could [have] helped land the next great job.
Irony.
>>>I personally warned the rest of the company about the McAfee problem earlier this week because I was goofing off on Slashdot.
I just lost my job due to the following reasons:
- Reports that I eat too much food at the lunch buffet
- Fellow engineer reported I was reading slashdot "during work hours"
The first reason is so funny I almost laughed-out loud when my boss told me. I weigh just 140 pounds - hardly a food addict. And if anybody cared, they could have just asked me to stop eating so much. Reason #1 amounts to just hearsay & gossip, and is most likely about somebody else not me. ----- The second reason I tried to explain away by saying, "Not during work hours. I read slashdot during my lunch break to keep up with the news. That is what the engineer noticed." But she said she didn't believe me, besides she already "made-up her mind and will not reverse it, even if I made a mistake."
I later learned that my position is not being replaced, so I suspect she was just looking for a reason to cut staff & her budget, now that two departments have merged into one. So she accepted whatever BS gossip/excuses she could cling to. In other words, if you're doing something like surfing /. or eating too much food, and the management wants to get rid of you, they WILL use it as justification.
>>>That is because it isn't a browser, it is a viewer for compressed web pages
By that logic, even the full-sized Opera Browser with Turbo is "just a viewer". Of course, you would be wrong. Opera Turbo or Opera Mini are not just viewers. The former receives compressed HTML/JPGs from Opera's servers, while the latter uses a text language called Opera Binary Markup that is about 1/5th as large as a regular page.
Opera Mini is not just a glorified JPEG viewer as many slashdotters keep repeating. That's simply false.
>>>freshman business student could tell you the Apps are blades and Apple's model is clearly to make money on the razor
First off you have that backwards. Typically the razor (or printer) is given away for free or near-free, and then the money is made on the backend from blades (ink).
Second I don't think Apple is following that model. They appear to be trying to make money on Both the razor and the blades - both the hardware and the software. Apple's view is that if you control both, then you can profit off both. It's similar to how the videogame console makers operate, earning profit on both the hardware and the software.
Vice-versa: Lose control and you end-up like IBM (they lost control of both the hardware and software).
Bah.
I've heard this "Opera browser isn't very good" refrain for awhile now, but what it really boils down to is: "I am used to using XYZ therefore if it doesn't use the same menu as XYZ, it must be inferior." When I first started using Opera it un-nerved me too, but now I'm used to it, and apparently 100 million other Opera users are too.
There's no simple way of transferring you Safari bookmarks to the new Mini browser
True however you can transfer bookmarks from your desktop PC to your iPhone, and viceversa, by using features like MyOpera (online home page). Safari cannot.
Yeah but the problem with ANY survey is the simple fact that many citizens say, "No I don't have insurance" even though they do. They are *already* insured by previous government programs like Medicare or SCHIP (all citizens under 18) or SSI (disability), and therefore would not have to pay a dime when they visit the hospital.
Once you take into account those citizens that are insured by Government, the number drops to 20 million.
Once you subtract non-Americans (intruders that entered without permission), it drops even further to 10 million (approximately).