They will be processed and released in order to be home in time for dinner.
In point of fact the whole thing will likely be arranged between Microsoft and government lawyers ahead of time, including managment of the press. It's the way the game is played.
. ..a lot of entirely innocent people could end up going to jail.
The people who would be arrested are paid to take that risk, like any good samurai. They are not going to abandon an entire continental market in order to save a few retainers a bit of inconvenience.
The reason they don't want to have their people arrested is because it would signal a loss of power. If, on the other hand, they believe they can get those people a "Get out of jail free" card they may well send them to jail for the demonstration of power.
The lives of the people do not matter. They are foot soldiers who will march to their own deaths, as foot soldiers always have.
What about the 3 million euros per day fine if they don't comply after July 31st? Will that make them blink?
If you fine Microsoft 3 million euros a day they will run out of money in. ..never; even if they never sell another piece of software. Money already in the bank is power.
MS is a US-based company so it's difficult for the UK to shut them down if they don't comply.
I am not unaware that if I am not careful my biographer is going to have a field day with the shit I post here, much of it rather embaressing from a legacy perspective.
Your jibe has a legitimate barb to it. We are being "immortalized" in ways never before and it will have an affect on the way history is done in the future.
look at the slang word 'fanny' for an English example. It means a person's butt in Britain, but a woman's genitalia in America
An American friend of mine wrote a humourous song called "L.A.F.F.", Ladies Against Fanny Floss. It's an anti-thong bathing suit song. It made it onto Dr. Demento and was far more popular in Australia than in her native America, because:
In America 'fanny' means butt, but in Australia it means a woman's genitalia.
However, there are areas in America's southeast where it does mean a woman's genitalia (maybe it has something to do with old, ummmmmmm, penal colonies), although this meaning is dying out to match the rest of American usage.
Even if you ask a native speaker it can still be very hard to get right, because "right" may have regional variations, as well as time variations.
Only on my mother's side. On my father's I'm a Capetian, but then they had something of a reputation for being pig headed bastards in their day as well.
. ..there's no way in hell that august body is gonna rule against Prez.
Not really true, at the moment, as the recent ruling on the tribunals shows; however. . .
To show close you are to the truth compare and contrast C. Thomas' minority opinion in the imminent domain case, where he was both legally sound and right, with his minority opinion in the tribunal case, where he completely ignores his own legal philosophy in order to favor absolute powers for the president.
The cognitive disonance is scarey, as is the fact that these fundamental issues of American legal philosophy are coming down to single vote majorities.
I'm a baby boomer. I should have been dead a long, long time ago. As it is I'm well above the current median survival age, just a click off beating my childhood survival prognosis by a factor of ten and in no acute danger. I don't have much cause for complaint under the circustances. Healthier people die younger every day.
I was two years old before I was even diagnosed and shouldn't have made it anywhere near that far untreated.
The body is weak but the spirit is willing. Sometimes that makes all the difference.
Would you get in line for some genetic engineering, say a viral spray, if it actually worked and was safe enough?
Seems likely; if it had a positive effect on the secondary issues that are actually the things likely to kill me (lung infections and such. I expect pneumonia to be my proximate cause of death).
What would be safe enough?
I drive in Boston without giving it much thought. I don't worry much about anything less risky than that.
Slashdot Mirror
If the Matrix tells you you are not in the Matrix you are obviously not in the Matrix, because the Matrix said so and the Matrix is reality.
KFG
Open the hatch. Step out. Same as always.
KFG
It's not about running out of money.
Of course it isn't. That's why that amount of money was chosen.
KFG
They will be processed and released in order to be home in time for dinner.
In point of fact the whole thing will likely be arranged between Microsoft and government lawyers ahead of time, including managment of the press. It's the way the game is played.
KFG
Is it really such a difficult concept that generals issue orders and soldiers march to battle?
KFG
When we do screw up this planet for good, there's only one way to go and that's up.
Because at that point the lush forests of Mars and the pristine atmosphere of Venus will prove irresistable targets.
KFG
I would have offered my first born if I had any kids.
Yes, it's proven a wise strategy to send a monkey up first to see if it's safe.
BOOM!
"Uh, guys, can I interest you in my second born?"
KFG
. . .a lot of entirely innocent people could end up going to jail.
The people who would be arrested are paid to take that risk, like any good samurai. They are not going to abandon an entire continental market in order to save a few retainers a bit of inconvenience.
The reason they don't want to have their people arrested is because it would signal a loss of power. If, on the other hand, they believe they can get those people a "Get out of jail free" card they may well send them to jail for the demonstration of power.
The lives of the people do not matter. They are foot soldiers who will march to their own deaths, as foot soldiers always have.
KFG
Microsoft's finacial tentacles run far deeper than a few bits of software. Can you say "tentacle rape?"
Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes
Have you tried putting a naked woman in front of your monitor? Works for me.
KFG
How could the UK actually do any of that to a US-based company?
By sending the cops to Microsoft's base in Reading. Is it really such a difficult concept that multinational corporations have international bases?
KFG
I do not agree that paying up the money is a big deal for M$.
It's not about money. It's about power. A territorial pissing contest to determine who the alpha dog really is.
KFG
who is getting all this money
The EU, of course.
and what are they gonna do with it?
Hookers and beer, just like always.
The more important question is where is the money going to come from?
Got a mirror?
KFG
What about the 3 million euros per day fine if they don't comply after July 31st? Will that make them blink?
.never; even if they never sell another piece of software. Money already in the bank is power.
If you fine Microsoft 3 million euros a day they will run out of money in. .
MS is a US-based company so it's difficult for the UK to shut them down if they don't comply.
Microsoft UK is based in Reading.
KFG
The budget's size will remain the same . . .
I see you took the blue pill.
KFG
I am not unaware that if I am not careful my biographer is going to have a field day with the shit I post here, much of it rather embaressing from a legacy perspective.
Your jibe has a legitimate barb to it. We are being "immortalized" in ways never before and it will have an affect on the way history is done in the future.
KFG
look at the slang word 'fanny' for an English example. It means a person's butt in Britain, but a woman's genitalia in America
An American friend of mine wrote a humourous song called "L.A.F.F.", Ladies Against Fanny Floss. It's an anti-thong bathing suit song. It made it onto Dr. Demento and was far more popular in Australia than in her native America, because:
In America 'fanny' means butt, but in Australia it means a woman's genitalia.
However, there are areas in America's southeast where it does mean a woman's genitalia (maybe it has something to do with old, ummmmmmm, penal colonies), although this meaning is dying out to match the rest of American usage.
Even if you ask a native speaker it can still be very hard to get right, because "right" may have regional variations, as well as time variations.
Zounds!
KFG
Yes, but the device to enable you to see it won't.
KFG
Stubborn jews. ;-)
Only on my mother's side. On my father's I'm a Capetian, but then they had something of a reputation for being pig headed bastards in their day as well.
KFG
Bad Idea: Having tennis balls served to you in bed.
I'll bet Bobby Riggs would have taken that bet.
KFG
2) we have a general populous that is ignorant of that which makes our society great.
Girls Gone Wild?
KFG
. . .there's no way in hell that august body is gonna rule against Prez.
Not really true, at the moment, as the recent ruling on the tribunals shows; however. . .
To show close you are to the truth compare and contrast C. Thomas' minority opinion in the imminent domain case, where he was both legally sound and right, with his minority opinion in the tribunal case, where he completely ignores his own legal philosophy in order to favor absolute powers for the president.
The cognitive disonance is scarey, as is the fact that these fundamental issues of American legal philosophy are coming down to single vote majorities.
KFG
if we had superior beings in our society, then what would happen to us
regular jacks, and joes, jills, and janes?
Oh you poor, poor ignorant fool.
we would be obsolete, and
used only for manditory labor (sharpening pencils, licking envelopes and such)
What do you think you're used for now?
KFG - President of the Grand Council and COO; Illuminati Unlimited
no idea about the CF. Sorry about that dude. . .
I'm a baby boomer. I should have been dead a long, long time ago. As it is I'm well above the current median survival age, just a click off beating my childhood survival prognosis by a factor of ten and in no acute danger. I don't have much cause for complaint under the circustances. Healthier people die younger every day.
I was two years old before I was even diagnosed and shouldn't have made it anywhere near that far untreated.
The body is weak but the spirit is willing. Sometimes that makes all the difference.
KFG
Would you get in line for some genetic engineering, say a viral spray, if it actually worked and was safe enough?
Seems likely; if it had a positive effect on the secondary issues that are actually the things likely to kill me (lung infections and such. I expect pneumonia to be my proximate cause of death).
What would be safe enough?
I drive in Boston without giving it much thought. I don't worry much about anything less risky than that.
KFG
I have CF. Sucks for me, but my relatives carry a resistence to typhoid (and my cat can use me as a salt lick).
Not everything is as it appears on the surface (well, except for that salt lick thingy).
KFG